SULLIVAN JMk REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. •There are 7,500,000 young men intho ' United States. Chicago has begun a canal to cost $30,00.),000, which will carry large vessels from the lakes to the Mississippi. It is said, by the New York Mail and Express, that the wealth of the Russian Church is almost incalculable; it could pay the Russian National debt (some $3,500,000,000), and would thon be enormously wealthy. A Fiji missionary says that ninety per cent of the Fiji Island population, which is 110,000, is found in church on Sun day. That is much better than many civilized Nations can boast, comments the New York Mail and Express. The average duration of lives in the United States is: 41.8 years for store keepers; 13.0 years for teamsters; H.<> years for seamen; 47.3 years for mechanics; 48.4 years for merchants; 52.5 years for lawyers, and 64.2 year s for farmers. The postal telegraph system of Great Britain and Ireland is now the most gigantic aid complete organization for the transmission of messages iu the world, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. The stall numbers 3153; the annual amount expended m salaries and wages is $322,96.1, aud the total number of telegrams passing through the office per annum, 32,537,779. Mex'co is now iu an era of economies, declares the Boston Transcript, and the first step will be the reduction of the army, aud probably there will also be a reduction in the number of officers now on the pension rolls. The all-absorbing topic is the high price of provisions, due to drouth, which causes great suffering among the poor, though no actual cases of starvation have occurred iu the city. Business continues very dull. The cus toms receipts have fallen off consider ably, as merchants arc not importing anything. One of the most familiar objects in Wall street office? is the stock ticker with its eadless convolutions of tape. It has long been supposed that this thin tape was a necessary evil, and '.fiat therecord of the little type wheels could not be're ceived on auy other medium; but Amer ican ingenuity, aiinouu;es the New York Post, has, as usual, grappled with the problem, seeiug that there would be a good market for a machine capable of delivering the message upon a sheet of paper rather than upon the objectionable band, which is difficult to read, liable to kink, ready to snap in several pieces under the slightest straiu, and not an easy thing to tile. In Europe, dispatches received by printing telegraph are torn into short lengths aud paste I clumsily on ordinary delivery blanks, but the labor aud delay caused by such an op eration offset the advantages of legibility and speed in sending. In a machine recently brought out in this country, the idea of securing a type written page, by telegraph, appears to have been carried to practical perfection. The message is received in the form of a printed page, eight inches wide, by an instrument that is automatic in its action and is under the control of the operator at the dis patching end. The practioc involved may be said to correspond to that of the every-day typewriting machine. A speed of over forty words a minute on a 200-mile circuit is said to have been reached. No stronger evidence of the safety of electric lighting installations can bo afforded than the fact that a great many explosives factories are now being lit by electricity. It is obvious that a build ing wherein the preparation of inflam mable or highly explosive substances is carried on very special care should be taken in order to avoid even the small est risk, and powder manufactuiers now find that the electric light adds a con siderable percentage over gas to tho chances of safe operatiou. While elec tricity increases the safety of this brauch of industry iu one way it lessens it in another. There is a great deal of free electricity thrown off iu various stagos of manufacture, and tho disposition of this, so far as it can be removed out of harm's way, is a serious question. The charge of a powder cake press with ebonite plates may practically be con sidered as au electric pile, aud a large amount of friction or electric influence from outside may cause a sufficient elec tric charge to give off sparks. Several undisputed cases of this kind have been known. Another source ol danger from friction occurs during the glazing, rounding eud sieving off gunpowder. The powder is subjected to a constant rubbing of its particles agaiust each other, and during the glazing especially there is danger of electricity accumula ting. Therefore precautions should ba taken .in order to convey away any charge that may accumulate in the glaz ing barrels. HIGH-TIDE. The high-tide of the year has come at last; From their mysterious deap* the waves of white And pink and gresn are breaking on our sight; The airy cloud-ship?, slowly sailing past. Light shadows on the shimmering orchards cast: The breezi seems to repel thetr flight, And on t'ae outspread tr rolling-pin. It is an ideal adjunct to the pieinakinjr outfit, not even yielding first place to the marble slab, which has beeu adopted by the house keeper who keeps abreast of tho time, in lieu of the old-fashioned wooden mold ing board. By simply unscrewing tho handle of the glass rolling piu tho re volving cylinder may be kept filled with cracked ice, thereby insuring the re duced temperature necessary for making puff paste or good pie crust of any kind. It may be a consolation also to the heart of tho good housewife that the new rol ling-pin—so easily kept sweet and clean and so desiiable in every way—costs less than half a dollar and may be obtained iu the house furnishing department of auy of the big stores.— Chicago Herald. There are 140,000 Chinese in the ! Uuitcd States, FISH REGARDED ASA FOODi THERE AHE ONE THOUSAND VA RIETIES TO CHOOSE FROM. The Mjth Aboat Its Bein<* a Drain StreiiKthener Less Nntrative Than Flesh—lts Ileal Value. TIIE housekeeper in each family will do well to remember the fact that there are 1000 differ ent species of edible fish in this country. Not that she need expect to be called upon to choose from this be wildering lot each time she goes to the fish market, but only because the men tion of possible fish in such large quanti ties as this makes the mere fact of selec tion for dinner a more important and awe-inspiring achievement. Professor Atwater, in the recent re port issued by the Fish Commission, has settled the number of edible fish at no less than that, and Professor Atwater's authority is not to be disputed. The food value of fish is a matter of great interest to anybody who eats fish. It would be worth while to trace back the legend about ihe value of fish as a brain food and discover, if possible, whether the'originator of the idea ate fish in large quantities, for the idea is a brilliant fraud. In the first place there is no proof of the fact that fish contains phosphorous in larger quantities than any meat docs. In fact, the analysis of fish has proved that it does not. And, in tlio second place, there is no proof that phosphorus is any more of a brain food than any other substance. The real value of the commoner kiuds of fisli as food is about as follows: In all fish there is a larger per cent, of water and unless per cent, of fat than there is it. a like quantity of the flesh of fowl and domestic animals. There is therefore less nutritive material, pound for pound, in fish than in flesh. In the flesh of the flounder there is sixteen per cent, of nutritive material and eigl' 11 per cent, in the fresh cod. In the -.iter fish, the herring, the shad, the whitefish, the mackerel and others, the per cent, of nutrition is somewhat higher and near the value of beef, which ranges from twenty-five to thirty-three per cant. Curiously enough dried and salt fish are more nutritious than the same fish when fresh. Salt codfish contains twen ty-eight per cent.of nutrition, salt mack erel forty-seven and dessicated codfish as high as eighty-two per cent. Part of this increase in nutrition per pound is U> be accounted for by the fact that the waste materials, the bone, skin and re fuse, are more or less removed from dried and salt fish; the removal of the moisturt also has considerable wflu nee. Because of the presence of so much water the juicy shellfish, such as oysters, clams, lobsters and crabs, have a low per cent, of nutrition—the oyster being rated as low as from seven to ten pel cent., with the lobster about on a par at eighteen. Nearly all of the oyster—at much as 87.3 per cent.—l 3 water, in 0 quart of oysters the solid portior weighing but two to five ounces. This, of course, makes oysters a cosily food, since, in order to be properly nourished by oysters, one would need not only tc buy, but to eat them in extremely large quantities. The nutritive value of any kind of food is proportioned to the amount a given quantity contains of three thing? —protein, carbo-hydrates and fats. Of these three the protein, containing nitrogen, seems to be the most essential to human well-being. The A.ncrican fault in eating is eating too much fat and carbo-hydrates—and not enough protein. "This," said Pro fessor At water recently, "is a natural result of our agricultural conditions, which have led to the production of large quantities of maize, which is rela tively deficient in protein and of ex cessively fat beef and por!f. Our agri cultural production is in this sense, one sided."—New York World. .Mr. Armour and Ills Clerk. Philip D. Armour, the millionaire pork packer of Chicago makes it a practice every year to make the clerks in his office the piesent of a good business suit of clothes. There is an unwrirten law that this suit shall not exceed iu cost forty dollars, for which sum, it is rightly considered, a very handsome everyday outfit can bo purchased. But one new clerk, upon being told togo to a tailor, make his selection aud have the bill sent to Mr. Armour, determined not to be hampered by any forty dollar limit. lie accordingly ordered a suit costing eighty-five dollars. Indue time the bill was presented to Mr. Armour, lie called for the young man who had con tracted it, act! that worthy appeared, n confident smile overspreading his face. He bad 110 thought of impending danger. "You're Sir. So and so?" inquired Mr. Armour, with great apparent affability. "Yes, sir." "Y'ou had the suit made?" "Ye 3, sir." "Fits you well, eh?" very blandly. "Exceedingly well, sir," replied the clerk, rather surprised by this line of questioning. "Well," said Mr. Armour slowly, in that 3tcrn, crushing manner of his, "I've seen :i great many hogs in my day, but you are tbo biggest one I have ever came across." Aud that day the clerk with the eighty-five dollar suit begau to hunt a new job.—New York News. Artificial Pearls. Artificial pearls are merely small blown-glass balls, liuect with the color ing matter obtaine 1 from the inside ol the scales of a small fish called the "bleak" that is plentiful in Europe. They are filled with wax to make t'nem strong and keep the lining from scaling off.— Washington Star. London's six principal railway lines carry annually over 5500,000,000 people, aud the trauiwa/a about 160,000,000. Terms—Sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A patent has been issued for a lock which can be operated only by a magnet ized key. A Berlin inventor has invented an in strument which measures the 1000 th part of a second. At ordinary temperature mercury in an equal quantity in bulk weighs about two-thirds more than gold. At an ordinary temperature mercury in an equal quantity in bulk weighs about two-thirds more than gold. Electric accumulator lamp", weighing four pounds and giving light seven hours, are now used by London police men. "Masrium" is the name of the new chemical element which has been dis covered in the bed of an ancient Egyptian river. The latest of phctography's triumphs is a snap shot of a flying insect. The negative was exposed for only the 125 th part of a second. Sage-brush, hitherto supposed to be useless, and which covers millions of acres of the AVestern plains, can be con verted into a superior grade of coarse paper. A scheme is now being developed in Scotland by which a high grade of brick is being made from chipped granite and clay. The experiments are said to have been successful. A "porous plaster" for building purposes is formed, according to a re cent patent, by adding bicarbonate of soda alone, or with a limited amount of dilute acid to ordinary plaster of paris. 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 fine scent of the latter tells him it is danger ous. The famous Khajah tunnel of India pierces tho IChwaja Amrau Mountains about sixty miles north of Inetta at an elevation of 6400 feet. It is 12,800 feet long and was constructed broad enough to carry a double line of rails. It appears that a colored or dark pig ment in the olfactory regions is esseutial to perfect smell. In cases where ani mals are pure white they are usually totally devoid of both smell aud taste; and some, the white cat for instance, are almost invariably deaf. Two English naturalists have recorded a remarkable instance of the decalcifi cation of bones iu water. The bones— those of a fallow deer discovered last summer in a Yorkshire peat-beg—arc quite pliable and elastic, and of a dark brown color; and the teeth also are so light as to float on water. A striking reminder of the gap 3 yet to be filled in our maps of the earth's surface is Dr. O. Baumann's discovery in Eastern Africa of a hitherto unkuowu lake eighty miles long. This great lake, to be called Eliasi, is between the Man yara Salt Lake and the Victoria Nyanza, and receives tho Wambere River, supposed by Stanley to be the southernmost tributary of the Nile. How De Mores Bought C.ittlo. "The way the Marquis de Mores was tkinned, buncoed and generally done up out in Dakota was pretty tough," said A. L. Dowler to a Chicago Times repor ter. "I have just returned from Medora, Montana, where the Marquis lived," con tinued Air. Dowler, "aud I guess the Frenchman doesn't owe the Medora peo ple anything. "He ran a bank there, and the cashier, bookkeepers, discount clerks, paying teller, and in fact the entire staff ot the establishment consisted of De Mores's English valet and a big Newfoundland dog. When this valet was not engaged in his menial duties he attended to tho financial affairs of the bank. "While Curran was there the Marquis bought 10,000 head of cattle from two Englishmen. They were first-class cattle and cost S4O a head. Wheu these two Britons delivered the cows they worked one of the neatest skin games that I've ever heard of. Medora, you know, sits in a valley, with table lands on each side. Well, the Englishmen ran 5000 head of cattle in on the Marquis and collected for 10,0001 The way they did it was by running the same 5000 twice around the hill. Do Mores ncvo£ -nbled ■"— .iad paid hiss49o,ooo anh » — J ...crry cockneys were bound for South America. It was a clear steal of $200,000, but the Mar quis didn't make much bones about it. He had plenty of money aud didn't care. "He was the game of everybody in that section of the country. He paid four prices for everything and was theoret ically, if not literally, held up upon every occasion." A Boon for l'oor Sailors. A method has beeu devised by Mr. Thornycroft,'the Euglish builder of tor pedo boats, boilers, etc., for checking the rolling of a vessel at sea, namely, by moviug a weight, under striat control from side to side of a vessel, so as to continually balance, or subtract from, the heeling movement of the wave slope. It consists of a large mass of iron in the form,of a quadrant of a circle, which is placed horizontally, with tho center on the middle line of tho vessel, being there connected with a vertical shaft; the latter is turned by a hydraulic engine, which is very ingeniously controlled by an automatic arraugemeut, and the heavy iron quadrant is swept round from side to side, revolving about its center, to the extent that is required to counter act the heeling movement. This device is claimed to meet a growing need—the tendency at the present day, it is thought, being rather in the direction of increased than diminished rolling, as the steadying influence of sails, which ren ders the motion easy and agreeable iu sailing, is fast disappearing in steamers. —St. Louis Republic. The slaughter of cattle by electricity is practiced m Scotland. NO. 1. MY OIFT3. Give not to me life's splendors—they won'd blind The eyes that now have light to tee the way; Only a little sunlight for my day. And for my night the shadows soft and kind; And for my wealth the quiet of the mind. Oentle and Sweet; and lips that sing or say In kindness, and are answered when they pray. And for my glory, duty, love defined. And give to me the love of her whose kiss Is recompense for toil; whose smiles await My coming, brightening with expected blis<- In some sweet spot where twilight lingeretli late; And yet one other blessing crowning thlp, In little footsteps pattering to the gate! —Prank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. HUMOR OF THE DAT. A salt-seller—The vendor of cod-fish. The criminal always wants more time until he is convicted. It is always best to insure. In fact, it's a matter of policy. "I am banking on you," as the farmer said as he proceeded to hill up his po tatoes.—Dallas News. As for putting the screws down on » man, there is no one can do it so effect ively as the undertaker. Riggs—"How long has your wife kept servants?" Jiggs—"Two weeks, some times."—Eltnira Gazette. "Your cousin is wedded to charity, is she not?" "Oh, no; she has only promised to be a sister to it."—Harper's Bazar. Ethel—"What a faultless dresser Mr. Lightcoinis." Etta—"Yes; Victor says that e en his bills are tailor made."— Cbicag - Inter-Ocean. New barber—"Excuse me, sir; have you got mug here?" Mr. Mulligan —"Yis, roight in this chair, on top av me neck."—National Barber. Most of us like to hear ourselves talk, tut after we have wrestled with the tele phone we are content if we can hear the other fellow.—New York Sun. Miss Blossom—"I didn't see you at the Barclay ball." Miss Budd—"lt was probably because I was surrounded by men all the time."—Brooklyn Life. "Don't you think Widgely is distress ingly boisterous?" "Well, yes; he wears such loud trousers he has to shout to make himself heard."—Chicago News. Boarder—"lt seeras to me that every morning the past week the cakes have grown smaller." Landlady—"You probably forget that these are llannel cakes."—Chicago Inter-Ocean. Johnny (reading)—" Say, pa, what is a debt of honor?" Pa (who has had ex perience)—"lt is where a dear friend borrows SSO till the next morning, and you never see him again."—Brooklyn Life. "I think," said Willie Wishington, "that Miss Pepperton is a typical guhl of the perwiod, you kuow." "Why?" "Because she puts a full stop to all my pwoposals ot marwiagc."—Washington Star. Jess—"l thought you hated Jack and yet you have accepted him." Bess—"l did hate him, but ho proposed under an umbrella, and said if I refused him ho would let the rain drop on my new hat." —Boston Post. Didn't Stop to Think: Miss Elbsrbv —"You have never met my eldest sister, have you?" Clevcrton—"Why, no, Miss Eldcrby. I didn't suppose it was possible that you had an elder sister."— Detroit Free Pres». Neighbor—"And you errpect to sup port my daughter on $lO a week?" Clarklets—"Yes, sir.' Neighbor— "Well, go ahead; my heart refuses, but my pockctboo'.; consents. She costs me SSO." —New Yor