SULLIVAN JUSSk REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. One-third of the deaths among Ameri can Indians aro due to consumption. , A plant is being cultivated in Fiance which bears a white blossom in the morning, a red one at noon and a blue one at night. Tho Boston Transcript thinks this flower should be very popular «mong patriotic Americans abroad. A useful innovation has been intro duced into the public schools of Balti more, in the shape of sewing lessons for the girls. A directress of sowing in the public schools has been appointed, under whose direction weekly lessons will be given iu all the schools. Fine samples of work are provided for the pupils, who aro required to imitate them. Famine and cholera have made war upoa Russia and prevented Russia from making war upon her neighbors. But pestilence as a peace-promoter is worse, t'ne Washington Star adaaita, than the war which it obviates. The forces of destruction now issuing from Russia move far more rapidly than an army, theft attack is far less avoidable and far more deadly, and they threaten the new world as well as the old. A few manufacturers recently offered a prize for the best origiual motto for a pen. The New \ork Tribune avers that a man in a backwoods county of lowa promptly sent him the old stand by, "The pen is mightier than the sword," with the request to send the prize by the next mail. Tho manu facturer jokingly wrote to him asking if he could prove his claim to be tho author of the saying. And he got the following reply. "Well I've read Mc- Guffey's reader and Kidd's elocution and the Proverbs in the Bible, so I can't say whether I read it or just thought it. If it is not in these books I'tn sure it's original." It may not be generally known, thinks the Chicago Times, that Nebraska has one-third of all the beet-sugar iactories in the Unitod States. Hero is the list: The Alvarado Sugar Company, at Al varado, Cal., was the first, built in 1879, and is still operated by B. H. Dyer; the second is that of Ciaus Spreckles, at Watsonville, Cal., built in 1887; the third was built by Henry T. Oxnard, at Grand Island, Neb., and worked its first crop in 1890; the fourth one was also built by Mr. Oxnard in 1891, at Nor folk, Neb.; the fifth is at Chino, Cal., and tho sixth has just been completed thig year by local capitalists at Lchi, Utah. Thus it will be seen that there are at this timo but six beet-sugar fac tories in tht United States. A statistician of the German Govern ment has come to the rescue of those persons who do not share tho wide spread superstition that Friday is the most unlucky day of the weak. A short timo ago he determined to make a scientific investigation of this question, using for tho purpose, among other things, the records of the Doparment of Compulsory Insurance. The most fatal or unfortunate week-day, according to the investigator, is not Friday, but Mon day. Sixteen and seventy-four hun dredths per cent, of all accidents, it seems, occurred on that day; 15.51 per cent, on Tuesday, 16.31 per cent, on Wednesday, 15.47 per cent, on Thurs day, 10.38 per cent, on Friday, the same per cent, on Saturday, and 2.69 per cent, on Sunday. Comment upon tho small percentage of accidents on the first day of the week is unnecessary. The compiler of the table, however, at tributes the large relative number of ac cidents on Monday "to the excessive amount of liquor consumed on Sunday." P. D. Armour, of Chicago, is said by the New York Post, to be interested in a project to establish a zoological garden in Lincoln Park. The idea was sug gested «by the proposal of Carl Ilagen bcck, of Hamburg, Germany, to exhibit animals from his gardens in Berlin and Hamburg at the World's Fair. Mr. j Hagenbeck and Mr. Armour believe that the exhibition could be male permanent with advantage to the city. The former savs: "I have nevor known a batter lo cation for a public garden of the kind than Lincoln Park. The great lako with its fine, refreshing breeze, the beautiful flower beds, and other features mako it an ideal spot for the purpose which I have in inind. I shall be back in Chicago again in January, and Mr. Armour is thon to have a consultation with me upon the matter. He is deeply interested In tho project. I a:n of opin ion that a z oological garden would add immensely to the attrac'. ions of Chicago. We have one of some kind or other in every city in Europe. A sura of $500,- 000 would be sufficient for the co.nplete establishment of the gardons, while one fifth of that amouut would make a very good beginning. I am not personally interested, but I have simply promised my aid and advice when the matter has matured." WORDS AND DEEDS OF HEROEO. The hero true will speak for you When cowards' lips are sealed with fear; He pleads your cause when comes the pause That ctxills with doubt the eager ear. H» dares defend The absent friend. And he will bare His heart to share The threat'ning, poised and pointed spear. How brave his deeds, when fashion pleads For gorgeous gilt and trappings gay I He will not wear the feathers fair For which he has no means to pay. He dare* to meet Upon the street, In garments old, Men decked with gold. Who dream not of the debtor's day How brave is he who fearlessly In battle dangers dares t» meat, And share the blows of anzry foes In storms ot flame and leaden sleet. True oourage high It* flag will fly In front of wrongs. When shouting throngs Trample the eight beneath their feet. His word a bond, he looks beyon I Tbe courts to keep him just and true; And wo can trace upon his face The honest courage shining; through. Hail, heroes just, All men can trust, Whose words and doeds, Like scattered see Ik, Spring up like roses wet with dew I —George W. Bungay, in New York Ledger. WHY SHE SENT ME DOWN. ✓a* O W J i ramie, what is wrong? I You look shock- If/lB I ingly blue, and | when I've such }, Air Ik K4. 1 a morsel for you, * Will V <o ° * ou * iear nn< * Bee AM / Anc * Lady Glossop gave a little squeak,full pleasant mys cup of tea. I felt in an infernal temper, too. 'Never had such a day in my life. 'Drew a fox in one of the most unlikely covers in ten counties; then my brute of a rncunt went dog lame, when I'd barely managed to keep on tbe tail of tbe field, over a few miles of the beastliest fallow-laud (just after a severe thaw, too) in the shires I did feel blue, even though it was the women's hour and dinner was in the near future. "H'rnl" I rather crossly replied to pretty Blanche Glossop's sweetly uttered remark. "You'll have to turnout some thing big to soothe me just now, Blanche, I'm in a pretty hole, and here's one of the beasts on which I have been banking, as my chief mainstay during the rest of the season, utterly broken down. Gad! it's hard lines." "Abominable!" she murmured sympa thetically. "You poor boy;, never mind, I have your remedy, and I know she is worth at least 500,000. Then she is quiet a presentable—indeed, really a very pretty little barbarian." "American?" I inquired briefly. Blanche nodded. "Mrs. Chumley met her at Nice in the autumn and trotted her out a little; she introduced her to me. She says she is traveling for amusement aud to improve herself. I think she is looking about to buy up a suitable parti." And Blanche's lids drooped over her big blue eyes in an amused smile. Lady Glossop had always stood me a bright good frieud; she had out a Man chester girl for me all through that win ter; a big girl with a corresponding big purse; Manchester straight through, she reeked of cotton. And the worst of it all was the creature insisted on riding, or trying to. She had half a dozjn clean thoroughbreds down at Glossop during her stay—cost five hundred each and up to twelve stone—she rode them on a curb, too. It was the very dickens to see her tugging at thoso beauties, while I pounded along on a forty or fifty guinea Irish beast; it was a severe win ter. Under tho circumstances, you can understand how relieved I was to hear of an American; anything but a bumma gem Englishwoman. "Blanche!" I cried enthusiastically, "you're a trump. Half the men I know would be colonizing now but for you're saving help; you're our only refjge, God bless you! Where is she?" "Oh, she will be here directly, she's quite decent looking, very chick, and that you know—why, here she is!" I looked up as there entered quite a smart-looking body—very pretty, too, just my style, all big gray eyes and fuzzy hair, very correctly dressed. {Jlanche introduced her all round, skill fully steering her up to me. "Ina," she said said sweotly, "let me introduce to you ono of my nicest boys, Mr. Hallett. Now you must be very gracious to him, as he irives the best things about here. But I must run; I see Captain and Mrs. Uundnl are coming in." Soon we wero chatting away, and I was the happiest and most sanguine of fishers. She had excellent points and was really very fetching—in any case she was a tromondous improvement on Miss Morton, the awful cotton hoiress. Now there was 9taying at Glossop just thon in tho character of Blanche Glos sop's favorite tame cat, tho Bay Middle ton of the North country; his name was Arthur Frfarton, we called him "Beauty." I'll grant him ho could ride crocks and unknown animals to better advantage than any other man in the Shires. He certainly was at that time the very surest thing between the flags, and he was really the handsomest man under eleven stone in our set. Briarton, as we all knew, never did own any cat tle, but yet he was always ono of the best mounted man out; truth was, Beauty of a diplomatic turn, and kept in with the "tailors," who affectod LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1892. to ride, and who we afraid to ride a gentlemen's beast when they did own one. To all it was obvious the one thing which floated him was his rid ing and Lady Glcssop's regards. When Briarton noticed my little American be went in for hor hot and heavy. Blanche was furious, and keen as mustard in pushing the tflair in my direction, She threw us together on every possible occasion. I liVed the child, too, 'pon my word I did; did my level best to please her; even allowed her to ruin a ripping polo pony trying to teach her to ride, you know. ''Miss O'Brien," Jat last I ventured one evening, "I want to speak to you most seriously, may I?" Such confused astonishment was never seen on any young woman's face. What an actress the little sinner was to be sure. "Seriously I Whit can you be going to say 1 Why, Mr. Hallett, you almost frighten me to death," and she smiled till her face was a regular bed of dim ples. "Ina," I remonstrated, "you know, you must know how I—" "Hero Hallet, old man, sorry to dis turb you and all that, but Lady Qlossop wants you to give us a banjo perform ance; cut along now, there's a good fel low," said Briarton over our backs. I scowled «t him, but he was beautifully imperturbable, and I needs must obey my hostess's commands; she was angrily observing "Beauty" take my place. "Well?" she interrogated crossly. "Briarton said you wanted me!" I re plied shortly. She almost stamped, really she did. "Wanted youl" cried Blanche. "Why, Jim, you surely knew better than to think I'd call you away from her— Oh cfear! Go back to her at ouce—no, I w.inthim to sing a«d Miss O'Brien to play." But, impatient, she went herself. So for the present the danger was over. For a few weeks "Beauty" and Iran neck and neck. Then Blanche and I counseled to gether; I hid either togo to the wall or flave the girl, and, ns I told Blanche, there was uo sense in proposing only to be sent down. Blanche scolded me like a good 'un. "Think of so:ne plan," she calmly demanded. "Have you no brains, man?" I said "Yes," pensively, "but what is there to think of I I have no title to offer her; they always want a title, you kuow. .Nothing but half a dozen platers, a hunting box, and the far-famed tame of Hatlet. Briarton has nearly as much." "Why, I have it; you can invent a coming title. Coniston must be going to die! Do you understand? Telegraph for him to-day, now! He's to have hopeless consumption; doctors give him up and all that. He can be going away to his place in Italy for this horrible consumption. He must bo going to die soon; then you will be Lord Coniston. She'll never refuse the future Lord Con iston for penniless Arthur Briaiton. Coniston will agree to helping you out; he's such a goodnatured fellow, you know." I was delighted with the plan, so was Con when he arrived; wo laughed no eud over it—in fact, he was strangely amused at my attempts to se cure a rich wife; admired her Hiber nian name, too. Well, we took that girl into see Con. They acted tbe whole business through like professionals. He gasped like con sumption, and coughed, and breathlessly begged her to excuse his not rising from the midst of the shawls and blankets in which he had enveloped himself on a sofa in a darkened room; and Blanche had his eyes doue up with some black counoction, till he really did bol low-eyed aud cousuiuptivc. but Con was so energetic in his acting wo had to remove Ina, as his gasping brought on a tit of genuine choking, with which same complaint, to our extreme surprise, lua was affected. When wo got her outside the door she said "it was because she felt so sad to seo a great big man lying there weak and ill, dying, perhaps. And Blanche and I were touched bj hor tender little heart, and then I told her of my grief and how I loved ray brother, aud would mourn bis death even though it benedted mo. Would you believe it, the little sin ner let me warble on but never gave me a chance to get right down to business? Then Con and I went to Paris—and had, well we thoroughly enjoyed our selves. Alter a week of paradise, I returned to the classic shades of Qlossop, and my heiress. I found Briarton goue north. I also, to ray intense discomfort, met many inquiries after my brother's health, and, to ray delight, much sympathy from Ina. So I resolved to propose. I began by seekiug sympathy fcr my coming be reavement. She gave it Ireely, etc., etc. In fact. I gave her a preliminary canter to warm her to what was expected of her —then I told her I loved her. "Could she, could she, be my wife?" She really was embarrassed —I'll say that much for her. I pressed her for an answer, rather approving what I con sidered hor maidenly coyness. Sho tid- j died with her fan; sho twisted her baud kerchief into wild, grotesque enough shapes even to decorate a German cake. She sniffed, cleared her throat, and went through awful facial gymnastics; so I put my arm about hor, and brushed my mustache across her cheek, just to s c her though, you know. "Oh, Jitnl" she burst out, "didn't Lord Coniston tell you I met hina at Mrs. Chumloy's in the fall, and—oh, well we're engaged, so there." I didn't quite take in her meaning. "What?" I demanded, but she was la ighing, in a net vons kind of way. "Ah, really, it was all his fault, you know," sho said between her giggles. "He wouldn't let me tell you after all that joke about the consumption; said it was too good to spoil." Then I comprehended! All a beauti ful little cover for Con to slip off to Paris under. Joke, indeed! It's all serene, though, as the money's coming into the family, and you may be quite assured Cou will see me through, or Lady Coniston will hear of that week we spent in Paris, when I had him dying of coutuuaption.—San Francisco i Wave. WISE WORDS. Faith makes men work. Dollars dominate their owners. A good mother is a beautiful woman. Newspapers find all faults except their own. A verse may find him whom a sermon flies. Cooks more than kings have mads men better. Man's ambition is the teterboard of hope and fear. Opportunity makes more men than men make opportunity. The brain compounds the healing balm, the heart administers it. When a person loses respect for hinc self nobody ever finds it for him. Those who are bound by their animal desires have no conception of real free dom. The spirit is crucified within them. The despotism of custom is on the wane; we are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be. In the lottery of life there are more prizes* drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in. Almost every one in his turn has la mented over something which afterward turned out to be the very best thing for him that could have happened, or re joiced at an erent which became the source of his greatest sufferings. On with your mission, .. _ . ver a summing of results in baud, nor thirst for prospects, nor counting upon bar vests; lor seed sown in faith day by day is the nightly harvest of the soul, and with the soul we work, with the soul we see. Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning and goes to rest with us at night. It is coextensive with the ac tion of OUF intelligence. It is the shad ow which cleaves to us, go whsrs wa will, and which only leaves us whan wo leave the light of day. It is a cowardly soul that shrinks or grows faint and despondent its soon as tho storm begins to gather, or even when the first cloud appears or. the horizon. Our motto should be, "No Surrender," and, far from yielding to the ills of life, let us take fresh courage from misfor. tune. Perfumed I'ekoo Tea. The tea that is always drunk in nov els, orange pekoe, js a tea perfumed by laying orange flowers among the tendor young leaf buds, but not produced in near sufficient quantities lor the de mands made upon it by the lady novel ists. A new perfumed tea, however, is being introduced billed Fayhatn tea, and is __ ~«ecl to soon have the vogue in literature of orange pekoe. It is even more valuable in life, because it is described as agreeable cold as hot, and can pe used to flavor custards, ices, while in punch its own aroma is even more fragrantly distilled by the other in gredients. Fayhom tea,it seems, is mado of the flat-dried leaves of a white or chid that grows as a parasito in tho forests of Mauritius. It botanical nams is Angrtecum fragrans. The plant has long been known, but only recently or chid tea has been introduced in Paris, wheroit has since become an article of commerae. But it is not only as a tea that this parasite is making itself re putation, Cigars have also been made of the leaves, and the vanilla-like odor they emit is described as worthy the end of the century. The orchid of all plants has been hitherto regarded as the most purely ornamental, as it not [even sup ports itself. The discovery of a variety that rivals both tea and tobacco on their own grounds is regarded of economic importance, and the probability is that the orchid which belongs to the very highest botanical circles, will yet be cul tivated and numbered with the crops. —New York Sun. Dust Storms Here and Abroad. Baud and dust whirls occur in nrid regions i hot weather. They may bo anywhr j from a rod to several rods in diame.er and trom twenty to a thousand feet high. They are sometimes com pound, a score or more small whirls forming a whirling ciicle around a com mon centre. They are very common in India. They sometimes carry ups 6 much sard in the Sahara and Arabia that thoie on whom the sand falls are overwhelmed. They occur also in the arid regions of the United States. In theMagdalena Valley, across the mountains westward from Socorro, in New Mexico, during a hot day in summer they form at the head of the valley in a long, slender, vertical column, perhaps six hundred feet high, nnd then travel down the valley toward the village of Magdalcna, over which they burst sometimes, bringing little puffs of contrary winds and a shower of fine dust. In some places a group of stationary whirls of tho same general character as the preceding aro tied down to one point. Such arc the whirls which form sometimes over volcanoes. —Chicago News. A Pretty Auccdotc. Here is A pretty anecdoto from Romo. "I am too old to wear white gowns any longer"—a wistful asseveration of the Queen of Italy. "Let us tako a fort night to think over the matter"—the answer of her devoted husband. At the end of a fortnight's time arrives a large packing case containing white gowns of every description, addressed to the Queen, with the words, "The King's decision." Another story of the Royal couple is equally characteristic. The King's hair, us we all know, turned almost suddenly white. The Queen, much concerned, ns a gentle hint placed a bottle of hair dye upon her husbanrt'9 table. The follow ing morning at breakfast the Kiag ap peared with their favorite white poodle under his arm, wit'i his coat dyed a fine black. His own locks remained as be fore.—New York Journal. ASIATIC CHOLERA GERMS, THEY LOOK LIKE THE COKXAS USED IK PBINT. A Physician Who Has Some of the Tiny Germs Furnishes a Descrip tion ot Them. PR. SILAS MOUSER, of San Francisco, has been entertain ing a newspaper reportei with a view of the wonderful lab oratory wherein he is said to cultivate disease germs after the manner of Dr. Koch. From the reporter's interview we quote as follows: "The cholera germ," said Dr. Mouser, "cannot only survive cold, but the dis ease has raged m Russia during the depths ot winter. Dry heat kills the germ. It is well to remember this. No substance subjected to 160 degrees centi grade will shelter even such tenacious life as the comma bacillus possesses. Le me show you." Dr. Mouser escorted his visitor down stairs, across a rear yard to a plain frame structure, which he opened. "This is my laboratory," toe explained. He took from a shelf a tiny tin tray that held up right an array of glass tubes. Each tube contained a gelatine-like substance, fill ing about a quarter of the space, and ench tube was corked by a wad of cot ton. There was death in almost anyone ot them. The gelatine was covered by a scum,.or partly covered by a splotch that bad not spread over the entire sur face. This indefinite scum is made up in every instance of germs of some mal ady. Here is the very essence of fever, of phthisis; here are atoms which, in troduced into the purest blocd, would turn it to corruption and clog the arter ies of life. And here, innocent to the eyes, is the common bacillus, the inhab itant of India, that at irregular intervals finds its way abroad and scourges the world. Cholera in a bottle, and the cork cot ton! It may console the timid reader to know that the germs are dead. Dr. Mouser experimented with them until he had ascertained all he desired to know about them, and then turned his attention in other directions. The poor germs, neglected, subjected to unseemly temperatures, allowed no filth upon which to thrive, gave up their several ghosts, and all that the tube now con tains is their inanimate remains. To the naked eye the comma conveys no impression, being individually invis ible. Magnified 700 times it assumes the size of the ordinary comma used in newspaper print, and a glance at its image shows why it is known by its peculiar title. One naturally htlJlos the tubes with some care, as a splinter of glasi convey ing into a chance wouud a speck of the virus would, in regard to most of tho specimens on the day, be fatal. The malignity of the comma bacillus has been shown in experiments. A small animal inoculated with it dies in a short time in all the agony of cholera, and is so charged with the germs that inocula tion from the first victom to a second is as certain and speedy in its fatal results. A man so treated would have no more hope of suviving than the guinea pig, who is usually chosen as a subject for the trial. A pin thrust into the pig and then into a man would kill the man. And yet the actual germ has not been louud in the muscular tissues or in the blood. It concentrates its malign force along the Rlimcntnry canal and in the intestinal membranes. Science has been studying it for several years. In a general way science has determined its actual deriva tion and its effect—it kills. But just how, just why, science, led by the great Koch, caunot tell. The theory is that it sets up a poison. E»en this theory is denied in some quarters, and opponents of Koch assert that the comma bacillus is only such during a siege of its develop ment, and other germs are also present in cholera. Hut Koch's doctrine i9 standiug the test, and thoughtful and learned men are glad to learn of him. Dr. Mouser is such a uiau. "Koch," said he, holding a tube with a carmine coatiu,' over its deposit of gelatino up to the light, "Koch is the greatest man in this line in the world. Next after hiui comes Sternberg, an American, now in Brooklyn. Sternberg, by the way, sent me this tube. He thought he had found the yellow-fever f, er,u > but he hadn't. Nobody has. Sternberg has been hunting this germ ten years, going as far as Cuba and South America." The doctor displayed the delicate ap paratus with which the laboratory abounds. There are oveus for dry heat, use:! to sterilize the tubes and cotton. Other ovens are for tho purpose of main taining a temperature at which the germs develop "Since Koch discovered the comma bacillus has any specific been designed to meet it?" asked the reporter. "There is no specific. Of course we arc enabled to meet the disease in a more intelligent manner," the doctor replied. "What would you advise a person discovering symptoms of cholera in him self to do? What should he taket" The germ experimenter smiled rather grimly. "I would advise him to con sult a doctor without losing time," he replied, "the best one he knows." The "Yellonr Day." Septomber 6, ISBI, is well remembered in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and parts of New York and Pennsylvania as the "Yellow Day." Cacada also took on some of the characteristics noted in the States above mentioned, only that tho yellow was of a dull, greenish cast, which accounts for the fact that the Canucks refer to it as the"Green Day." In the morning the sky had the appear ance of being clouded, but as the sun rose it was plainly visible, and ol the color of tarnished brass. About midday the intenso yellow was most apparent; everything except leaves and grass was of a well tinted dark yellow color. The cause of the phenomena has never been satisfactorily explained.—Philadelphia PMM, Terms—Sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. There are fifty species of electric flsh. A year on Mars is two years and 49} days long, earth time. Harvard's now star photographing in strument has been tested, and the results are satisfactorily. If cork is sunk 200 feet in the ocean it will not rise again on account of the pressure of the water. Divers in deep water are hereafter to use telephones to talk to the serface with, and to hear talk from it. The new German army tent is divisible into two |*)rtions, each of which can be converted into an overcoat in case of rain. The most recent trustworthy investiga tion is that of M. De Chatelier, who fixes the effective temperature of the sun at 12,600 degrees Fahenheit. A single glass eye can rarely be worn more than a year without being polished, for the surface becomes roughened by the action of the tears, etc., and irritates the lids as they rub over it. A project is at present on foot to con struct a railway to the summit of Ben Nevis, Scotland. It is intended to make it like to the Righi Railway in Switzer land, on the cog-wheel system. When nearly asphyxiated by drowning, the patient's head should be held down wards. Rub the stomach and back freely,and apply ammonia to the nostrils. Give plenty of warmth and friction. Sudden prolonged and violent hic coughs can often be checked by acid drinks, cold douches, musk opium and finally if the others fail an administration of ether or chloroform internally, or by inhalation. A new method of quickly rendering glass transparent during the process of manufacture consists in forcing into the melted materials a stream of oxygen gas, the enormous heat generated oxidizing all deleterious materials. A small observatory is to be erected soon on the very summit of Monte Rosa, which has an altitude of 15,581 feet, and is, next to Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps. The station will be named the "Queen Margaret," after the Italian queen, and will consistof a throe roomed hut containing the necessary scientific instruments aud a bedroom and kitchen. As the summit of the peak is frequently struck by lightning the life of tho observers will not lack variety. Swedish iron, which if soft, yet strong and ductile, is almost free from phos phorus and sulphur. It is held to be practically inexhaustible, though taken out at a rato of about a million of tons a year. It is found all through the coun try, though mined chielly in central Sweden, in the Dauuemora district. Several of tho heights as truly deserve to be called iron mountains as those in Missouri, and there is one ia Gellivare, in Swee#isfe»Lapland, beyond the Artie Circle, where the ore occurs in four gi gantic strata, that would supply nearly all the iron that the country would require in a century. There is a curious snako (hydraci yeti) in South Africa that lives wholly upon birds' eggs. It lias no teeth or signs of teeth in the mouth,the dental array being lccated in the stomach. Buckland says that they are not true teeth, but that they serve all tbo purposes. They grow from the centre of each vetebra;. They pass through ,the walls of the stomach and are covered with enamel, just like true teeth. This is nature's provision for breaking eggs without runniug the risk of losing the precious contents, as would be the case if this egg-eating ser pent had its teeth in the proper place. When the egg is safe inside the abdom inal walls contract and crush it against the long row of vertebral ti eth. America's [Many Names. In these quadro-centennial days it is worth while to recall the fact that the continent now named America has gone at one time or another by a great many names. The notion that Columbus held of finding a westward passage to India by way of the Atlantic is recorded in the names. New India and India Occiden tal, found upon old maps as indicating the land discovered by Columbus. Amer ica Mexicana was an old name of North America, as America Peruviana was of South America. Then Brazil was for a time the name applied to the Southern Continent, Finally, the origin "of the name America has been gravely disputed, though tho weight of testimony leaves practically.no doubt that it comes from the Christian name of Amerigo Ves pucci. Some eArly authorities, however, gravely contend that tbe name came from the Peruvian word Armaru, mean ing the sacred symbol of tbo cross, made of a serpent and stick, and the suffixes, meaning country. Thus derived, Amer ica means tho land of the holy animal.— New York Sun. Tbo Governor Was Trespassing. Governor Pattison, ot Pennsylvania, during a walk in the suburbs of Phila delphia recently, sat down to rest on a rustic seat beneath a tree which was on private ground, although he did not know it. He was soon informed of the fact by a little girl, who, approaching him, said: "Do you know that this is private property, and that my father will prosecuto trespassers?" And there upon the Governor, who wast' .uch amused by the situation to make any protest, was escorted off tho giounds by the little girl.—Picayune. An Air Tight Watch. A recent English invention of great importance to navigators is a hermetical ly sealed chronometer to prevent the de trimental effects of tho atmosphere and moisture on the mechanism. The irven tion consists in hermetically closing the casing of tbe chronometer, doing away with tbe keyhole through which the air and tbe moisture gained access to the wcrks, and effecting the winding up of the chronometer by providing a flexible or elastic diaphragm.—Chicago Herald. NO. 2. MOTHER'S POSIES.' Kind o' party, don't yah think? Green an' red an* yeller < Bloomln' In th' winder there Sort o' makes a feller Think't summer's back agin,' Even though he knows hi* Eyes V on'y caught the shin* There tiT mother's posies I In th' ol' tomater cans An' th' pots an' boxes. There they bloom as big as life— Pinks an' hotlyhockses. Creepin' things an' vi'lets, toq Purty colors showin', Peekin' through the winder-pan* Ont whur it's a-snowln'. There's a grea' big fnzie there Weth some ferns aside it, An' a primrose with some moss Tryin' fer tub hide it, An' geraniums an' sich Cluttered all together, Bloomln' there like sixty arf Leughin' at th' weather. , Tots o' green an' pots o' red Make up lights an' shudders, Weth th' ivy an' th' vines Climbin' up th' ladders ( Whut I whittled out m'salf Jes fer them to grow on— An' the'r' banterln' th' snow An' th' wind a-blowin'. Yes, sirree, it's purty an' Soothin' like an' cheerio' To set here on days like this' An' see mother clear in' Out th' dead leaves an' sich things Frum tli* vines an' phloxes In th' ol' tomater cans An' th' pots an' boxes. —Carl Smith, in Harper's Weekly. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The spectacles most admired by ladies are gold beaux.—Binghamton Republi cai. The cow sets us an admirable examp'.j —she never blows her own horn.— Statesman. "Mamma," said little Johnny, "if I swallowed a thermometer would I die by degrees?"— Boston Post. Professor—"What animal is most faithful toman?" Lovesick Student (enthusiastically)—' 'Women !' —Pick Me Up. "I declare," said the new baby in its mind, "I shan't try to talk any more. I am always being misunderstood."— Washington Star. "I like to hear a baby cry," said a crusty old bachelor. "Why?" " Because then the little nuisance is taken out of the room."—Tit-Bits. Mistress—"You knaw how to make bread,l presume?" Ns«v Girl—"No mum. No use learnin' such things till after I gets married."—Puck. "This is anun-read letter day for me," said the young woman as she tossed the slighted missive unopened into the waste basket.—Washington Star. "Is it not very exciting to see the anchor weighed aboard ship?" "Not half so exciting as it would be to see one wade ashore."—King's Je3ter. Mrs. Punc-Tual~"Your clock is al ways on timet Pray how do you manage it?" Mrs. Slopay—"Why, my husband got it that way."—Jewelers' Weekly. Young Slow boy—"Oh, no, Miss Smilax, I assure you I was not attempting to kiss you; I should not dare do such a thing."Miss Smiiax—"lhatea coward." —Boston Courier. What the belated husband needs is a keyhole us large as a horse-collar, so that he can stick his head through it and call his wife to come down and opea the door.—Dallas News. When an old bachelor gets married there is always great curiosity to see his bride. The people want to see what kind of a woman ho has spent so many years looking for.—Chicago Times. Drawing-Teacher (despondently) "That thing you havo drawn looks tnoie like a cow than it doos like a horse." Fair Pupil (brightly)—" Why, of course, Professor, it is a cow."—Tid- Bits. "Politics ate decidedly mixed in our family," said Mr. Jungepapp. "My wife is a Democrat; I am a Republican, and the baby, as near as I can make out, is a calamity howler."—Jndiauapolis Journal. "I hope you appreciate tho fact, sir, that in marrying my daughter you marry a large-hearted, generous girl." "I do, sir (with emotion), and I hope slio in herits thoso qualities from her father." —Brooklyn Life. Younghusband—"lf I were you, my dear, I wouldn't tell my friends I had trimmed that hat myself." Mrs. Young husband—"Why, love, would it bo con ceited?" Younghusband—"No; super fluous."—Life's Calendar. "Why, hello, old man! I thought you intended to mako your European trip last a year?" "I did, but my wife found ane ar fashion in gowns in Puris and hurried home to be the first to wear it."T—lndianapolis Journal. Minister—"Johnnie, I suppose you save all your pennies to help make com fortable the poor, benighted heathen?" Little Johnnie (proudly)—" Yes, sir; I do. Mamma took everything out of my bank this raoruiug to help get a present for you."—Chicago Inter-Ocean. Her heart is a returning bill, W itb an elastic string! It never flies lieyond recall e At her most careless fling; Auu when slie sends it out to :no 1 grasp at it iu vaiu. For, with a smilo of girlish glee, Sne draws it baci again! —Pno>. Mrs. Velox—"The landlord was hero today for his rent." Mr. Ve!ox— "Well?" Mrs. Velox—"Well, I paid him tho money and showed him the baby." Mr. Velox (who is rather weary of the fuss made about the infant)— "Bah! Why didn't you give him the baby and show hi u the money? You women have no sense." More tears.— Drake's Magaxine.
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