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.