SULLIVAN «NFISFFTJ REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. Statistics show that trade does not (decline in Presidential years. The United States spend $125,000,- 000 a year for public charities and char itable institutions. Within the borders of the State of Maine are wild lands of a total estimated Value of $32,000,000. A queer illustration of British back wardness is found by the San Francisco Examiner in the fact that this year sees election returns exhibited to street crowds by the stereopticon for the first time iu London. The English Hackney horse, which is rapidly coming into favor in this coun try, is in England superceding the Cleve land bay stallion as a sire for carriage horses. The Hackney is a thoroughbred of the hunter type, with more bone, stoutness and action thau the Cleveland bay. In Japan a play called the "Extermin ation ot Christianity" is on the boards. In the slaughter of make-believe mis sionaries to the shrieks of the orchestra is wildly applauded. However displeas ing this circumstance may be, the San Francisco Examiner thinks it is less to be deplored than the more practical method of China, in which real mission aries arc used. In view of the recent complaints aboat the "injurious action" of tiuned gaods on the humau economy, it is interesting to note in the New York Recorder that recent experiments by Lunge and other well-known German chemists have de monstrated the fact that aluminum is practically uuattackeJ by fruit juices, condensed milk, and the various con stituents of preserved meats and vege tables. There is a patient and industriou? man named Rila Kittridge, of Belfast, Me., who is putting Mr. Gladstone's great speeches oa postal c ir.ls, which he sends to the "Grand Old Man." On some of the cards he manages to get 20,000 words. Mr. Gladstone is himself ad dicted to the postal card habit; but when lie gets some of these missive?, he must feel that he has the disease in a very mild form. Mr. George Bird Grinnell, of the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, an enthusiastic hunter of wide experi ence, gives, in Scribner, a graphic nar rative of a now extinct sport, ancl writes with force and feeling respecting the shameless slaughter that has made the title of this article, "The Last of the Buffalo," so appropriate. He says:"Of the millions of butfalo which even in our own time ranged the plains in freedom, none now remain. From the prairies which they used to darken, the wild herds, down to the last straggling bull, have tlisappeared." The American hog is still engaged in pushing his nose into other countries, anuounces the Chicago Sun. Persecu tion, proscription, libel, infamous slan ders, and even bayonets cannot keep him from inserting his savory snout into a foreign land, and when once he lifts his small, twinkling eyes upon a people they immediately become charmed with his toothsome possibilities and are the will ing slaves of his porkship. The latest conquest which the Yankee hog has achieved is that of Mexico. According to a dispatch from Kansas City, Scnoi Enrique Torez, a Mexican merchant, has been in that city making arrangements for shipping hogs to Mexico for slaugh ter. What the New York Pos; considers a fraud of a peculiarly abominable char acter has come to light in Germany, where a number of workmeu and en gineers employed at the great Bochum Association for Mining aud Steel Foun dry have been arrested on a charge of selling defective rails, wheels, axles, etc., by means of a system of forgery. This material was supplied to the Ger man State Railway, and then some for eign corporations. It appears that the State Railway employed an inspector to stamp such goods as had withstood the regular tests. The incrimiuated work men are accused of having made false stamps, with which they marked mater ial which bad not been examined; with repairing holes, cracks, and other de fects in the rails with a particular cement, and so giving the inferior and useless material the sippe irance of fin ished work, and with substituting re jected rails for tnose which the officials had handed oyer to be stamped as sat isfactory, and marking the good rails with the forced stamps. The incentive to the frauds was the fact that the work men are paid a premium on the amount of work passed by the inspector. How long they have been indulging in these dishonest practices, how general the distribution of defective material has been, is still as uncertain as the possible consequences of the rascality. BEST. Water the roots of a rose when the sun that has scorched eaoh petal Sinks beyond distant hills, a circle of burning gold; Give to the steed a stall when the flight that has proved his mettle Is past, like the cyclone's breath, or the spell of a tale that's told. Nourish the roots of a life when the hope that lured it dieth Slow beyond hills that rise all darksome, and far, and grim; Give to the soul that flew, more lofty than eagle-wing flieth, A rest when the plumes droop tired—a rest in life's twilight dim. —Mary C. Preston, in New York News. ZULEIKA'S WILD RIDE. A TALE Of THE DESERT. tHO can the horse man be who crosses the market-place of Mirouan, sitting erect in his saddle, with lance at rest? As soon as he came merchants pointed him out to one another and spoke together in low tones. It is the invincible El-Malek, chieftain of a fierce mountain tribe, who venerate him as a saint Since he lost his eldest son, two years ago, El-Malek speaks but little and ne ver smiles. His beard has become al most white, but his arm has lost nothing of its power; he handles his deadly lance as if ft were a reed, and when he urges his faithful horse Yc*3uf across the desert terror follows as his shadow. Yussuf, like all the hoises of the South, has a strong back, slender legs, and large hoofs; like the five favorite mares of the prophet, he is descended from Solomon's famous stables; his coat is snow white, and his long, flowing tail is soft as silk. Yussuf understands and obeys his mas ter's lightest wish. Erect in his saddle, El-Malek follows with a keen glance among the motley crowd a man iu a gold embroidered bur noose, who has just came to Mirouan. The tradesmen, also, point at this man with their finger, but with a scornful air, as though indicating one stricken with the plague. This man is Hassan Bey, the insolent chief of the Ouled-Nayls, who, jealou-. of his brother Ahmed, killed him with arrows shot from afar; be boasts of this deed, and laughs when he sees the crowd move away from him. He had built upon the D'jelefa plateau, in the centre of his tented village, a stone house, which was also a fortress. For many years he had passed his nights watching the Arab girls dance to the sounds of the derboukas; but, one evening, passing near the fountain, he had stopped to look at the young girls filling their copper urns. And now he has come to Mirouan to buy bridal ornairents, for Hassan Bey, chief of the Ouled-Nayls, is to marry the beautiful Zuleika. Zuleika is only a weaver's daughter, but she is very beautiful. The poor child wept, but she wept in vain, for the weaver is a miser, and the chief of the Ouled-Nayls is not the man to allow himself to be thwarted in his wishes. She must marry Hassan Bey, the fratri cide. Who would prevent it, since God per mits it? El-Malek had heard this story only au hour before he reached Mirouan, and he had said to himself: "God will not per mit it, for I will prevent it." Zuleika had placed her urn upon the ledge of the fountain, but had not thought of tilling it. Her companions, one after the other, had gone away, but she still remaiued. it was the last time that she would come to the fountain, for to-morrow Ilaasan Bey would carry her away to his battlemented house, which was sombre as a tomb. She lifted up her little bronzed hands to heaven imploring that death might be sent to her. But from the leaden sky no consolatiou came. Instead, Hassan Bey appeared, riding upon his flame colored horse, and escorted by his warriors. He knew that she was at the fouutain, and wished to see her there where he had met her for the first time. She was compelled to hear his lying words. The young girl turned her eyes away, and, as she began to fill her urn, her tears mingled with the water. "Zuleika!" Who calls? Certainly Hassan Bey cannot have disguised his voice with such a grave and tnanly tone. Who is this man, wi:h the white beard, sitting erect in his saddle, lanco in hand, look iug at her so compassionately? "Zuleika!" he called once more, pointing to Hassan Bey, who was ap proaching. She looked up, and suddenly her eyes flashed with a new light, for she lelt that this man had been sent by God. "Save me!" she cried; "save me!" El-Malek held out his hand and aided the young girl to mount before him. Gently holding her frail form, he mui mured: "Do not be afraid." Then, as though calling upon a brother, El-Malek said: "Yussuf!" The noble animal neighed, and started olf like the wind. After Yussuf rushed Hassan Bey, with furious clamor, followed by his warriors. Some of them made as if to draw their bows. "No!" cried Hassan Bey, "do not shoot. 1 want them both alive!" Urged on by sjentle caresses, Yussuf fiew faster and jet more fast. Wi:b loud yells Hassan 15cy spurred his hor.sc on, riding ahead of his escort. "They shall not escape ine!"ho cries, trembling with rage and anxiety. "Couiane, Yussuf," murmurs El- Malek; "you are called the wind of the desert. Show that you deserve your name, my beauty." The day advance?, the sky seems to be on fire, but Y utsuf does not faltor. SulTtcattiU. at firs ~ by thU furious flight, LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1892. Zuleika now began to breathe more freely; so much ground already gained in the direetion of El-Malek's mountain tribe meant possible deliverance. The child added her gentle exhortations to El-Matek's encouragements- Hassan Bey's cries seemed to grow more faint. Had he given up the chase? But whence come these clamors that seem to start from the heights above them? Have his followers climbed the rocks and found a shorter way? It is not the chief's escjrt that utters these cries. They como from a cabin high up in the mountain; the occupants are watching the exciting chase. Will El-Malek find allies among these people, or will he meet new enemies? J lis tribe is not far away; if he is recognized the fugitives are saved. Arms are raised; they are called! No, the bows send forth the if arrows! Yussuf utters a painful neigh and El- Malek responds with a cry of anguish. An arrow has struck the horse's flank and another has pierced the rider's shoulder. "Faster, Yussuf! Faster!" beseeches El-Malek. With a desperate effort, Yussuf straightens himself out and flies under the whizzing arrows. He bounds like a gazelle that feels that the lion is on her track. "Well done, Yussuf" Now there are uo more arrows to fear; a wall of rocks crowns this height. But death is only staved oil blood is streaming from the side of the noble beast; he begins to slacken his pace. El-Malek plies his spurs in vaiu and Zu leika wastes her caresses and praise, for the poor animal's hoofs slip in the nar row path and he staggers. El-Malek's arm trembles; he is beset vrith fever; the cool of the filling night does not suf fice to refresh his brow; the profile of the violet mountain and the confuse 1 shape of the turpcutine trees, with their blood-red clusters suspended over the abyss, are mingled before his eyes. He is blinded by vertigo. He cannot stop to drink at the brook which flows in the ravine, though a swallow of water would, perhaps, save him. Hassan Bey has seen traces of blood upon the rocks, and his cries of hate have become cries of joy. "We have them," he cries; "they arc ours 1" And \et his voice trembles; he fears the final struggle and El-Malok's terrible lance. Night has again passed and the light of morning chases the jackals th»t > fcave come, scenting their prey fram afar. Yussuf still runs, but much more slowly. Two days' journey separates him from the tribe of which his master is chief. Two days! and Yussuf has but a few hours to live! He feels that with his last breath his beloved master, too, will die. The path becomes narrower. Yus suf reaches the ridge, and, reeling, stops. "The end has come!"' murmured Zu leika, terrified, and for the hundredth time she besought El-Malek: "Do not remain with me. Your horse can still save you alone. Fly I" "Yussuf can save neither you nor me." "Then kill me." "I have promised to save you!" "God has not wished it to be so. Save me from this man I" "That is what I am going to do. Alight." "Ah, yes; I understand you—death is at the bottom of this abyss. I shall seek it." "You do not understand mo. Look!" and, with his hand, El-Malek pointed to the north, to the other slope of the mountains, which could be seen through the hollow of the rocks. "You see," he said, "that mirror that shines down there? It is Lake Zahrez. The mountain on the other side of the lake is the Djebel Sahari. There is the tribe of my fathers, there are camped my people. Hasten with all your strength. Order the herdsman you 11 ect to call in my name to his nearest neighbor, so that, from summit to sum mit, ray name may wake my warriors. Cry to all the echoes of the mountains: 'EI-Malek shall not dio unavenged 1' Go!" "But it will take two days, at least." "God be with you I" She kissed the hand of the chief who had saved her life; then she ran down the road as quickly as her failing strength would Jet bar. El-Malek planted his lance in the ground aud supported himself against it, erect in his saddle. He talked for a long time to Yussuf, and the animal shook his bleeding head. "Halt ("ordered Hassan Boy. Reach ing a turn in the road, he had seen El- Malek planted across the defile, and this new attitude astonished and disturbed him. "Does he pretend to oppose us now? Let us wait, and in the meantime breathe a little." The advice was good, aud no one gainsaid it. Men and horses sought a spring. Hassan Bey, however, did not take his eves off the redoubtable man who sat there motionless upon his horse between the two walls of rock. "And now that all have rested enough, forward!" No one stirred. So long as it was a questiou of purouing El-Malek, the chief's followers felt brave enough. Now that they were called upon to at tack him fftto to face, the boldest were afraid. Jlassau Bey himself trembled. "Let him begin," said one, "lot him come on." "Very well," growled the chief. The day declined; the redoubtable 3cntinel, who had gleamed white in the burnius; suu. now stood out io black silhouette against the starry sky. Neither horse nor master stirred, and the lance still stood planted in the ground. The moon rose, and it was an awe some sight to sec tliis motionless warrior under the pale light; he watched the enemy with .us steady oyes still open | like diamonds. "He is covering Zuieika's retreat!" | Hassan Boy had sal ■ lo himself at the | very first. He felt iu»t it would soon be too late to continue the pursuit. And yet he remained in his place, changed into a statue, powerless to conquer the fear that emanated from this gr&uu guardian. After the rosy dawn, the leaden sky; after the red twilight, the blue night; then the aurora again; and the sentinel, still motionless, as well as those whose way he bars. Sometimes the shadow of an eaglo makes a fleeting spot on the rocks; then the shadows increase, and great birds como from all corners of the heavens, tlrawing closer their rapid circles; now it is no longer eagles, but vultures. They almost touch the lance of the cavalier, but he did not appear to see them. One of them perched upon his shoulder. El-Malek did not stir. "He is dead!" cried Hassan Bey, mad with anger and spite; and, turning to ward his men who still hesitated, he gave the order: "Forward!" Neither Hassan Bey nor his men ad vanced twenty paces. The noise that pul the vultures to flight was the the gallop ing of the Bedouin horses that had com* from the Djebel-Sahari. The threati that Hassan Bey uttered to keep up hi» courage were never finished; an arrow pierced his throat, and, falling from hit horse, he rolled into the abyss. "Each one for himself!" cried th« Oulde-Nayls. And while they rushed down the path at full speed, without daring to look back, Zuleika, sobbing, kissed the icy hand of the chieftain who had protected her in death as in life.—From the French in Argonaut. A Cloud of Swallows. Two days after leiving Port Said, Ejypt, says a correspondent of the New castle (Eng.) Chronicle, we had some very unsettled weather. Date, April 30, at ti p. m., latitude thirty degrees north, longitude twenty-three degrees east. Looking southward, I observed what ap peared to be a small black cloud, rising ami coming steadily toward our steamer. When I looked again a few minutes later, instead of seeing the cloud I saw some hundreds of swallows. They flew around our steamer several times, as though undecided whether to stay until the storm passed away or not. At last, just before elark, several of them alighted on the stay rim of our main funnel, which was soon one black mass of birds. The rain came down in torrents, and it was pitiful to see those frail creatures struggling with the wind and rain. Those of them that could not find a roosting place soon commenced to fall on deck quite helpless. I picked up all those that fell on the bridge deck and lodged them in the chart room. Those birds that fell ou the fore deck were sheltered in the forecastle by the crew. The next day came iu bright and clear, with a light westerly breeze, and all the swallows took flight just at sunrise, fly ing in a northwesterly direction. The captive birds were soon set free, and they followed in the wake of the others. I may say all the birds we had were able to fly, except one, and it died during the day. Several dead ones were found on the decks at daylight. These birds had beautiful plumage, and I fancy thoy looked rather smaller than the swallows I have teen in England. The captivo birds had golden-brown feathers just above and below the beak and white breast ; back black feathers with a bluish tinge; wings and tail brown, and four round white spots across. Prodigious Memory in a Child. An iufant phenomenon has been dis covered at Plaisauce, a suburb of Paris, in the person of a little girl called Jeanne Eugenie Moreau, aged only Ave, but endowed with a most extraordinary memory. She is a walking encyclopedia OD all matters appertaining to the history of France, and especially of the great Re volution; is an adept also iu natural history, and at the same time answers without hesitation or error practical questions about cooking, gardening, and household management. The youthful prodigv was born in Paris in January, 1887, her father, Phillipe Moreau, being an humble labor er, but descended from a revolutionary hero whose name figures in the aunals of 1789, and who was decorated by Gen. Lafayette after the taking of the bastile. Owing to the poverty of her progenitor, Eugenie Moreau was adopted by a widow —Madam Calley—who, noticing the re tentive faculties of the child, cultivated and developed them with assiduity until the phenomenon has become capable of passing a stiff competitive examination and of putting to shame many a school boy and school-girl of maturot years and more expensive education. The fate of Eugenie Moreau will no doubt be that reserved for all intellec tual prodigies of tender years. She-will be exhibited to scientific men aiyl re ;><>rtsd upon, sue will probably receive an oiler from an enterprising showman, and in all likelihood Eugenie, should she survive academical testings and [public examinations, will eventually settle down to the life of a schoolmistress—a calling for which her marvelous memory will pre-eminently tit her.—London Tele graph. Matching Teeth. Perhap3 the greatest difficulty that dentists meet with is the matching of false teeth with the natural teeth of their customers. The tooth factories supply dentists with rings upon which ara strung thin metal bars, each carrying a tooth at its extremity. There are twenty five of these sample teeth, that run all the way from nearly white to a shade that is almost olive. Some of the twenty five usually almost matches the patient's teeth, and, at any rate, enables the den tist to match the teeth by application at the factory. Lamplighters to the Queen. The "waxfitter" in Queen Victoria's I household arranges the candles ou the ! dinner table, for which he draws S3OO a | year, but he does not light them. That I duty is performed bv two lamplighters, drawing a salary of SSOO each. SCIENTIFIC ANI) INDUSTRIAL. A storm travels at the average rate of fifty miles an hour. In ten years the descendants of two rabbits will number 70,000. A typewriting machine which will print on the leaves of a blank book of any thickness is the latest invention. A French artist has succeeded in photographing a flying insect. The time of exposure was but l-250th of a second. A plant for the manufacture of hand grenades has been erected in connection with the National Artillery foundry of Mexico. African travelers tell us that the white rhinoceros frequently dies from eating poisonous plants which have no effect on the black one, probably because the tine scent of the latter tells him it is dangerous. Aluminum is found combined with 195 other minerals, and therefore con stitutes a large part of the crust of the earth, but until recently has been very expensive because of the difficulty in separating it. A company in Louisville is manufac turing watering carts driven by electric ity. A long pipe pierced with small holes diffuses the water, and in case of meeting other vehicles the nipe can be swung alongside of the cart. Observations at thirty.eight stations in the Adriatic, Mediterranean, Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic, have shown, ac cording to Dr. A. Supan, that all the seas of Europe, contrary to an ol 1 hypothesis, have practically the same level. In order to prevent persons under standing telegraphy from reading the messages in offices and hotels, as they are received by the sounder, a secret telegraph receiver lias been devised, fitted with a resonator ot aluminum of extreme sonorousness. A Tennessee inventor has patented a gauge for determining the age of horses. The device consists of a steel plate, hav ing a tapered body portion, one of its longitudiual edge* being marked by lines and figures. By applying the scale to the teeth of a horse, its approximate age is said to be determined. Dr. Dareste has demonstrated that monsters and monstrocities during ani mal development are not the results of pathological changes in the embryo, as hitherto supposed, but modifications of the processes of organic evolution, such as bring about the difference between individuals and races in mankind. A new fly trap is run by an electric motor, and consists of a belt of sweet ened paper, about fourteen inches long, passing over two pulleys, ona of which is covered by a cone containing a brush. The paper moves slowly, and as it passes under the brush the flies are swept into the cone, from which they can tind no exit. Currents of water serve to a vast ex tent the purpose of distributing seeds. Walnut, butternut and pecan trees are found close to streams, where they drop their nuts into the passing flood, to be carried far away and start other groves perhaps hundredsof miles distant. Tree seeds of many sorts are carried by oceanic currents. Among marine architect* it is be ginning to bo a serious question if iron is not better than steel for shipbuilding purposes; and the cases of the old Sarah Sands, Great Britain and Great Eastern are quoted as proving that irdn-plated ships, with their increased thickness and better riveting are much stronger and more lasting than any steel-constructed vessel yet put to a breaking up test. The Delaware Indian as an Artist. Much might be said of the skill of the Delaware Indian in all of the mauy phases of his industry, but I propose only to speak of him as an artist. A love of bright colors was always, and is, a promiuent characteristic, and probably the first attempt at personal adornment was the attachment to the person of feathers and small stones of bright huos. Mica and quartz crystals are common in graves. The glitter and glistening ol these would be sure to attract. But what of the next step, that of shaking from formless masses objects that strike the fancy of the wearer? To shape a pebble that it might better meet the needs of a club-head or hatchet called for little skill, and the labor of making an axe h«s recently been shown to be but slight I but the idea of symmetry was developed and cultivated until a weapon was finally produced that can not be im proved upon. The same is true of chip ping from flint points for arrow-shafts. A mere splinter of stone, if sharp aud narrow, would be as effective as any shape that could be devised; but such chance splinters do not appear to have been used, except directly after the in vention of the bow and arrow; aad, so far as is now discoverable, a series of artistically designed patterns have been in use for hundreds of years. —Popular Science Monthly. A Grain Pipe Line. A Chicago woman, Mrs. N. E. Bens ley, has invented a scheme for carrying small grains through pipe lines. Hei scheme is to lay pipes from Chicago to thß Atlantic coast through which grain is to forced by pneumatic pressure at the rate of twelve miles nn hour. The powei stations aro to be placed twenty-tivt miles apart. Sho says that the grain will be subject to no friction, and that the cost of transporting it from Chicago to New York would bo unilc three cents a bushel. A working lundi of the contrivance ia to be erected . Chicago this fall. Portable Electric Lanterns. In trying to solvo the difficulties ol searching for the wounded at night after a great battle the experiment has been tried with fair success at Gratz of send ing out men armed witU portable elec tric lanterns, which were fod by accu mulators contained in their kuap6&cks. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; $1.25 after Three Months. A GREAT NAVAL REVIEW. PREPARING FOR A BIG GATHER ING AT HAMPTON ROADS. The Different Governments That Wilt Send War Vessels—Grandest Display ot Modern Times. TC LREADY the naval authorities /\ are beginning to prepare for the great naval review that is 6 to inaugurate the celebrations in honor of the Columbian year, next April. The appropriation made by Congress ($50,000) will not cover the expenses of mobilizing the fleet, let alone the ex penses of maintaining it for several months, on our coast, so Secretary Tracy will have to draw liberally from the regular naval appropriation for the running expenses of the navy. Invita tions have been prepared for all the countries of the world to be represented at the international review. It is ex pected that all the maritime powers of the Southern Continent will accept. "Over on the other side" the nations will watch each other. Of course Rus sia and Germany will send a fleet out of good feeling toward the United States, and if Italy properly honors the mem ory of her son Columbus she will send some of her ten-thousand-ton battle ships. The English navy, large as it is, is very well divided over the world, so it is not probable that she will send a very large fleet, and upon her action in the matter depends largely the action of France. It is understood that Japan is to send a cruiser, of which she has some fine ones, acretss the Pacific and around the horn to take part in the first interna tional review held in the country that first visited Japan to secure a mercantile treaty, and that Turkey will unbend from her religious rigor enough to send over one of her fine war ships. This vessel will have a distinguishing feature that may be new to many Americans. As an article of the Mohammedan religion makes the bell sacred it cannot be used ou board Turkish ships, as it is upon others, for striking the hours and sound ing fog signals, and by a special suspen sion of the navigating rules a drum is used instead. Of our own warships all the new steel ships will be in the review except the lit tle Petrel, which is out iu China, probably to spsnd the rest of her life there. Sev eral of the ships now under construction will be in commission by that time, but it is doubtful if the big cruiser New York will be finished in time to partici pate. In case the Cramps tlo get her completed by iMarch she will probably be Admiral Gherardi's flagship during the review. The Montgomery, Detroit and Machias will in commission by that time. The other ships taking part will bo the Baltimore, Philadelphia, Charleston, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Miantonomoh, Concord, Yorktown, Ben nington, Vesuvius and Kearsarge. If the regulation fleet formation is con formed with the sixteen vessels will form a fleet, with Admiral Gherardi as commander-in-chief; then there will be a division of the fleet into two squadons, with a commodore or rear admiral in command of each; the subdivisions of the squadrons go under technical name of division and are composed of four ves sels, then the divison is again divided into two sections. When all the ships anchor in Hampton Roads next April it will be a grand array, and the visiting and wining and dining, the balls, parties and receptions will be something for officers to remem ber and tell of for years, while the din when all the ships salute some new comer will dwarf a large-sized bombard ment. Anel an "officer of tue deck" on any one of the ships will have to keep his eyes open for commanding officers' pennapte, signals and all the routine of a warship if he does not wish to receive the angry "benediction" of his captain. After the mobilizition of the fleets at Hampton Roads they will proceed in company to New York harbor. In column at cruising distance, 400 yards, fifty ships, which number seeins quite probable, will make a parade twelve miles loug, and by the time the lust one has passed, the leader will be "hull down," only a patch of smoke or a light network of rigging. It is to be earnestly hoped that the review will be the grandest naval display of modern times, all calculated to increase the friendship of the nations.—Washington Star. •'Sick" Pearls In a Submerged Casre. At the foot of a cliff under the win dows of the Castle of Miramar, formerly the resideuce of the Mexican Emperor Maximilian, at a depth of eighty feet below the surface of the cle ir waters of the Adriatic, is n kind of cage fashioned by divers in the face of the rock. In that cage are some of the most magnifi cent pearls in existence. They belong to the Archduchess Raiuer. Having been left unworn for a long time, the gems lost their color and became "sick," and the experts were unanimous in de claring that the only means by which they could bo restored to their original brilliancy was by submitting them to a prolonged immersion in the depths of the sea. They have been lying there for a numbor of years, and are gradually but very slowly regaining their former un rivalled brilliancy. Statistics on Growth. The year of the greatest growth in boys is the seventeenth; in girls, the fourteenth. While girls reach full height in their fifteenth year, they acquire full weight at the age of twenty. Boys are stronger than girls from birth to the eleventh year; then girls become su perior physically to the seventeenth year, when the tables are again turned and remain so. From November to April children grow very little and gain no weight; from April to July they gain in height, but lose in weight, and from •Tuly to November they increase greatly in weight, but not io height.—British Medical Monthly. NO. 52. THE NIOHT HATH A THOUSAND EYES. N. _ /"•iji night hath a thousand eyes, Au<J the day but one; Yet the light of a bright world die# With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of the whole world diet, When love is done. —F. W. Bourdillon. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Knights of labor—When the baby's teething.—New York News. "Every man has his price." "What is Jobson's!" "He gives himself away." —Puck. When a grain field has got about all it can hold it is ready for some mower.— Texas Siftiugs. The aeionaut loves his balloon, In fact, he's completely taken up witL it.— Bingbamton Leader. "How's trade!" inquired Chumplefrgh of his tailor. "Oh, just sew sew."— Kate Field's Washington. After the pickpocket has succeeded iu getting his hind in he takes things eas ily.—Binghamton Leader. Before Marriage: He—"Kiss me, Car rie." Alter marriage: She—"Kiss me, Harry."—Boston Transcript. A girl may not want to wear her love on her sleeve, but she usually likes to bive her lover there.—Statesman. There is a fat man down in the Neck who is so close listed that he even hates to perspire freely—Philadelphia Record. Amenities in Wyoming. Bella—"How old is Miss Simpson?" Stella—''Old enough to vote."—Chicago News-Re card. •'How are you getting along?" asked the farmer of the miller. "Same old grind," was the latter's reply.—Detroit Free Press. A late- fad is to make ice cream in the shape of billiard halls. The boys are ex pected to take the cue at once.—Chicago Inter-Oceau. Clara—"l want something to match my head to-night. What would you wear?" Maude—"Something light."— Detroit Free Press. The stoiy that the brewers throughout the country are purchasing grasshoppers to get their hops for making beer is said to be incorrect.—Carlisle Herald. "Does a man have to be a Christian to get through college, nowadays?" "Not at all, but he must be a muscle man, without doubt."—Boston Courier. "Do you refuse me on account of my age? 1 am only lifty-Qve." "That's just it. You may live fifteen or twenty years yet."—lndianapolis Journal. He—"Congratulate me. I hare just resisted a temptation." She—"What was the temptation ?" He—-"To pro pose to you."—New York Herald. The gentleman, so ofteu mentioned in novels, who riveted people with the gaze, has now obtained permanent employment ut a boiler manufactory.—New Moon. Bella (explaining with difficulty)— "Er—do you follow me, Mr. Masher?" Masher—"Um! I'm after you, Miss Fadds, it that's wha; you mean?''—Tid Bits. "Mercy!" cried Juliet. "This glove is tight." "I, too, should be intoxica ted," rapturously responded Romeo, "were I a glove upon that haud."—Har per's Buzar. The tenor who attempted to whip the editor ot the Dramatic Gazette for a sharp criticism, when he got through had no car for music. The editor had both of them.—New York News. Mr. Bullion—"You are far too young to marry my daughter. You are only eighteen." Tom—"Yes, sir, but .Miss Julia is thirty-four, so the two of us would average about right."—Jester. A barrister observed to a learned brother in court that he thought his whiskers very unprofessional. "You are right," replied his friend; "a lawyer cannot be too barefaced."—Tit-Bits. Mike—"lt's like owld times to see you again, Pat. Why did you niver wroito me a letther since last we met!" Pat—"Oi didn't know yer adOress, Moike." Mike—"Thiu why in the namo o' sinse, did yc not wroite fur it?"— Harper's Bazar. Always pass the fruit to everybody else before helping yourself. Common politeness will induce your compauy to leave the choicest specimens upon too plate, and when it comes to your turn you can cat then without exciting re mark.—Boston Transcript. Papa—"Well, Tommy, and how did you like it?" Tommy (who has been taken to church for the first time)- "Very much, indeed. Everybody had to keep veiy quiet, but one man stood up and talked the whole time, aud at last we all had to get up and sing to keep him quiet."—Pick-Me-Up. Mudgo—"Judge Billigus is a remark ably easy man to get acquainted with, don't you think?" Vabsley—"l never noticed it." Mudge—"He is, though. I hadn't known him for over an hour be fore I borrowed a dollar of him, and in side of the next hour we got so well acquainted that he refused to lend me another one."—lndianapolis Journal^ Mother Goose. Mother Goose was a real character, and was not an imaginary personage, as we used to suppose. Her maidou name was Elizabeth Foster, and she was torn u 16t>5. She married Isaac Goose in 1K93, and a few years afterward became a member of the Old South Church. Sho died in 1757, aged ninety-two years. The first edition of her sougs win pub lished in Boston (1716), by her son-in law, Thomas Fleer. The house in which a great part of her life was speut was a low, one-story building, with dormer windows and a red tiled roof, looking something like an old English country cottage.
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