SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. Ma CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. An observer says that man's dress from head to ankles consists of a col lection of stove funnels made of cloth. The pension ageucy in Topeka, Kan., is the largest in the country. It pays out annually fifteen million dollars to the veterans of K-msas, Missouri and Col orado. It is estimated that during the busy season in London, when the fashionable set aro not away, SIO,OOO worth of cream and 6150,000 worth of milk are consumed daily. Says the New York World: Con gratulations are due to our sister Repub lic of Mexico on the completion of its eighty-second year of independence; also on the condition of prosperity which President Diaz recognizes in his address to the Congress. It is estimated that in the United States the anuual expenditure for public charitable institutions is fijly $125,000,- 000, and not less than $500,000,000 is invested in buildings and equipments for carrying on the work of these insti tutions. In this estimate no account is taken of penitentiaries and jails. The New York Post states that the Russian language is to be taught in two of the Paris colleges, and that if the ex periment succeeds, Russian will be placed on the same footing as German and Eng lish in secondary education. The appar ent iutention is that if one day French men and Russians fight side by side they shall be able- to understand eacH other. There is a good deal of profit in the prophet business in Java. A prophet of that island has been paid §4OO a year for the last fifteen years "for uot predicting a tidal wave which will sweep clear over the island." But, after all, he caunot be very enterprising, concludes the New York Tribune. With the amount of credulity ready at hand to work upon, he could get £IOOO a year as easily as not. An American biologist, who returned recently from a year's study in the Ger man laboratories, declares that the Wood's Hall (Mass.) Laboratory is now doing more research work than any other institution of its kind in the world, the Naples Station alone excepted. There is certainly no doubt that the most etui nent of foreign biologists aro taking a profound interest in it, as their letters to Dr. Whitman, the specialist in charge, testify. The little house in which Benedict Arnold is said to have planned his trea son has just been demolished to make room for a laiger building. It stood in Market street, Philadelphia, and was over 125 years old. It was to this spot that Arnold invited Clinton's agent to be sent from New York to meet him; it was here that he lived. A mob chased him to this house once on account of some unpopular measures with which he ■was supposed to be identified, and from its windows certain celebrities of the city saw him hanged in efligy in 1780. Washington met Jefferson and Hamilton in this cottage in later years, separately, in an endeavor to patch up a truce be tween these two statesmen. A tunnel, the longest in the world, has been projected and begun, practic ally, uuder Simpiou, to supersede the famous road over the inouutain con structed by Napoleon. The "Route of the Simpion" is thirty-eight miles in length; the tunuel will be a triflo less than twelve miles and a half. The wagon road is 6592 feet above sea level, is twenty-five to thirty feet wide, crosses 611 bridges, and passes through several tunnels. It takes eight or nine hours to cross the mountain by the wagon road; the tunnel can be traversed in three quarters of an hour. The power to run the drills, light the workings and venti late the tunnel is to be derived from the River Marsa. The cost is estimated at about $1,240,000 a mile. Btifia'.o, N.Y., seems to be the magnet for Poles who come to this couutry. No other city of its size, the New York Post avers, has so large and pr isperous a Polish colony. Parties of between one and two hundred are coutinually arriv ing; and although they bring no money with them, or at best a trifle with which to make a new start in life, it is not long before they find some «nplpymeut and manage to save something out of their earnings. Their versatility often excites surprise. One P.»le who appeared in Buffalo with SIOO tive years ago is now worth $50,000, which he made as a steamboat ticket seller and real estate agent. The business of selling tickets to Polish immigrants, by the way, is done for the most part on this side of the water, and furnishes means of sup port to many a shrewd exile with a large acquaiutanee in his native land. The Polish population of Buffalo at the pres ent time is said to be 50,000. THE TIMES. The times are not degenerate! Man's faith Mounts higher than of old. No crumb ling creed Can take from the tmraertal soul Its need Of something greater than itsalf. The wraith Of dead beliefs we cherished in our youth Fades but to let us welcome now-born truth. Man may not worship at the ancient shrine Prone on his face in self-accusing scorn That night is passed; hi hails a fairer morn. And knows himself a something half divine: No humble worm whose heritage is sin, But part of God —he feels the Christ within! No fierce Jehovah with a frowning mieu He worships. Nay, through love and not through fear He seeks the truth, and finds its source is near, And feels and owns the power of things un seen Where once he scoffed. God's great pri meval plan Is fast unfolding In thj of man. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in the Cosmopolitan. SIDE DY SIDE. BY L. H. BICKFORD. to discover a jfj 'mine. Second, to JOifU know that you have something to base i your hopes on, and VfIEES last, to get into a law s'' nr suit and evenually the w/ | Supreme Court by L'ml II * litigating with your neighbor in under ground adventure. \ a. This, I believe, is the \JjL-j Aspen method. With out entering upon a discussion scientific and chemistic as to apex and side lines, I can tell you of an Aspen exception. It had, at the outset, all the elements of a good case on both sides, from a lawyer's point of view, and might now be enjoy ing its mustv run in the Circuit Chambers with others o? its class. It almost seems a pity that it isn't, if you look at it from what the newspapers call ; a "legal aspect." The case ia point is that of Boulder j Trampenning, a prospector. One of his i claims was in the Woody district; no j matter where; it is enough that it was and is. Boulder usually spent the mouth of September at this particular claim, i and frequently did more of his assess- ! ment than the law required. It was an j issolated place, half way up a hill, and [ Trampenning seemed to fit in with it, being rather of the rocks and burnt j 6tumps than apart from the in. He was j very like a middle-nsed tree anyway, he | was as silent. There were four reasons j for this; the first was that he was dumb; I no matter about the others; if there were ! four hundred it would be, under the j •ircumstances, useless to tell them. The claim adjoining belonged to one j Asechiga. It was said that he was j a Mexican, but Boulder and he got along very well considering everything that was likely to cause trouble, from wind lass to bedrock. They met during two Septembers. AVlien the third came Boulder reached the ground first. Asechiga's cabin was closed when he got there. It was closed for two days. When Boulder woke up on the morning j of the third, he looked across the little ' ravine and saw the door open. A woman came out. There is no questioning Boulder's sur- | prise. He was not much for women. I He had seen them during the winter at 1 the restaurants and in the vandevilles at j Aspen, but he never had to do with j them. And in the summer he was too far away. His ideas of them were uu- ' substantial. This woman was not much for looks, \ so far as he could judge. Her hair was i whispy and like streaked talc. Her [ complexion was patchy, like riflle blocks, i and in carriage she was not graceful. At I this time she was fetching water from j the spring, and the sleeves of her dress I were ioiled up, showing bit; arms, with firm muscles. Seeing Boulder, she stopped an instant and regarded him with a speculative stare. Boulder bowed, principally because he could think of nothing else just then to do. She did not return the salutation, but walked on into the cabin. A little while later she came out again, this time with pick and shovel and her feet encased in boots. She wore a red shirt of some thick material and a miner's cap. The effect was wholly sanguinary. One would guess that she either in- \ tended to rob an express train or to lead a frenzied mob of revolutionists against the bastile—assuming that there were exprebs trains aud bastiles in the Woody district, which there are not. She walked over toward Asechiga's little shaft and paused on the dump to contemplate Boulder. It has been mentioned that this mine, which has been named the Cheetah —not that there were cheetahs thereabout, but because the Mexican had once seen such an animal in India--was but thirty feet above Boulder's own modest prospect, the elevation being abrupt. Boulder, restive under this deliber ate obsctvatiori of the person in skirts, bowed once mote, with results equally as unsatisfactory. The womau turned toward the windlass, lowered the bucket and shortly afterward disappeared down the shaft. Boulder shook his head and went to work himself. It was not just clear to him as to what course he should pursue. The Cheetah was Asechiga's claim; what manner of right had a woman to work it? He could come to but one theory. Sie was trying to jump it. If it had been a man in the matter, Boilldrr's course would have been instantly plain; but a woman? Midway between the claims, and serving as a boundary post, there was i email blackboard, securely nailed to an old tree. This had been provided by Boulder as a convenient method of in tercouiao between Asechiga aud himself LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1892. when they were "on top" during the day. It was his custom to write his question and answers on the black sur face witn a piece of chalk which he kept hanging by a string ftom the top of the board. When he came up, an hour latter, he noticed that the woman was just leaving the tree, and, further more, that she had written something. Boulder went up to the lice. lie re id: •'i know you. you are dum. i am Asechegas widow, ho got kiled in a snow slide, i am here to worke his clame." She was standing on a knoll, a little way off, and Boulder nodded again. This time she returned recognition. Carefully rubbing out her words, the man replied: "i am pleased to make your acquain tance i am not deef you kan tak to me all rite but ill hare to write to you." She came down to the board again and took the chalk: "i dont care wether you are pleased or not. I dont talk because I am in your fix only worse—l am def and dum." Boulder looked at hensympathhsingly; a look that met with a cold return. The roply shocked him. "goto grass with your sympathy i dont want eny more to say to you. just wanted you to now I aint here to jump." With this she went to her cabin. Boulder returned to his prospect. If he had known anything about women he would, probably, have considered her a queer one but, as I have said, he didn't, and was merely puzzled. He went about his work in his usual, methodical way, ignoring his neighbor just as suc cessfully as she ignored him. In this way au uneventful month passed. Finally Boulder struck a vein in his prospect und prepared to follow it up. It led northward, and in s.he eccentric way some veins have, trended up instead of down On the seventh day he was in a aood ten teet when he met with a sur prise. He could distincty hear the un steady and yielding thump of a pick almost in front of him. Now,iby all reasonable calculations, Boulder's! claim extended twenty feet to the no*th; the stump blackboard proved this; tiiat was mainly what it was there for. It was plain to him that the woman, striking the evidence of a vein at its upper ena, was, with a true mtneir's instinct, fol lowing it up, or, in this, case, down, and had, in her ambition overstepped the bounds. Making this discovery Boulder-paused a while, nud in the cool blackxess at tempted to decide what course to» pursue. F.nally the sound above him became more and more distinct. Suddemlythero was a crns'i. The yielding inwss came down and with it a red petticoat in which floundered a very geeatly .excited, not to say frightened woman. Sitting theie on the mass of mineral debijis she blinked in a dazed manner at Boulder's candle and then at Boulder. In an in stant she was up again and cßmbing through the aperture she had uncon sciously made. Boulder also started for the surface through his own property. They arrived at the blackboard by a common impulse almostraj tho sameitime. Boulder seized the chalkj •'Your on my ground.' Her fingers were still yesllowiand gray from the mass of stud sha had struck in her fall, but she found them useful enough to write: "Your a lire." Boulder did not hesitatetthis time. He wrote: "Your a lady." Perhaps this appeasedlher somewhat. Perhaps the modest and indisputably manlike attitude of the miner took her fancy. She was certainly less vehement in her useof the chtalk whenishe replied: " Whare is the line." Boulder indie iteil. the tree and. board and, taking a stick, traced a mark in the grouud for several feet between the claim?. Cominou sense was enough to show the creature in the petticoat that the man was right. She did not trust herself to reply, but walked away. Fif teen minutes later Boulder saw a blanket flying, without any visible means of lo comotion, from the doorway of her cabin. It was followed by another and then another. Thcre.was no doubt of it, Mrs. Asechiga was preparing to leave, and that suddenly. Boulder, looking himself over, hesi tatiugly walked timidly toward the door and beckoned her to come out. She did so and walked behind him ungraciously toward the blackboard. She followed him with interest as he formed the fol lowing: "I don't like to givctyou the wurst of it. Tharc is one way out of this: Tak J iutrest in my clame and I'll takt J in yours." She nodded "no," and wrote: "No, that woldn't be fare to- you, you haf the vane." But she was wavering in the , offer, even after she had declined it. They looked steadily at one another for some time; finally, seized with an idea/and growing bolder, the man ventured this: "i am 45 yrs. old and want a part ner, and haf a littlo money and we mite get ritch. Will ycu axcept a proposle of marage?' Mrs. Asechiga looked at him'doubtfully for a second, and then e*"u'. became coy as she took the chalk: "Asechiga sed he mared me because I was deef and dum and couldn't talk him blind." This time, she handed the bit of white over to him, and their hands met for the first time. I believe there was some blushing, and Boulder inscribed .his final message: i know a Jjustice of the pece in aspin who will marry us for $2, we can go over to-morrow; will you? And she decided: "Very well." I believe they are working the Chee- I t ill Tiger together now.—New York ! Press. The entire Salt River Valley of Ken tucky is said to be honeycombed with cave*. WISE WORDS. Matrimony is hard work. Love is material pantheism. Women are great in small things. Most men outlive their usefulness. Occasional defeat has a tonic effect. A good laugh is sunshine in a house. A bath is often times a great moralizer. The man who can't tell a lie is dead. A man will get fat quicker on paid-for board. If a family has no skeleton gossip will give it one. It is almost as difficult to stay there as to get there. A rose would not be half a rose with out a thorn. Cupid does not care whother he pays house rent or not. In this world a man must be either a hammer or an anvil. A good deed is better than gold, but not nearly so negotiable. Before a man has begun to think a woman has begun to talk. Lifo is a campaign, not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories. A woman with pretty teeth finds many things in this vale of tears to laugh at. The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instruct ing them. The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorauce, the deeper tho chasm appears. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their de ficiencies. Language is the memory of the human race. It is as a thread or nerve of life running through all tho ages, connecting them into one common, prolonged and advancing existence. There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning: "I shall bo subject to the decision of no unwiso judge to-day." Oil From Corn. It will probably be a surprise to many to know that there is a company which purchases corn solely to extract the oil from it. This is precisely what a sugar refining company in Chicago is doing, This company is the only one which has the secret of obtaining the oil, and em ploys it alter the corn has been converted into a starch or glucose so that nothing will be wasted. The oil is a soft yellow liquid, and resembles linseed oil in ap pearance. Dr. Aruo Behr discovered the process of separating the oil from the corn, and the doctor says this iu regurd to the oil: "It has been known for a long time that maiz j contained an oily property, remaining for some ono to turn the idea to account. There is no dan ger of corn oil ever taking the place of linseed oil. In the first place, it will be too scarce. The amount of oil contained in corn is only four per cent, of its total weight, and we lose almost half of it in tho process of abstraction, so that we get a very small amount of oil after all. The assertion has been made that corn oil can be put to little use—that it can not be employed in making either soap or paint. The great value of linseed oil paints is that it dries readily, and it has been asserted that corn oil will not dry. Now, this is a mistake, and as a matter of fact, corn oil can be used in making paint or varnish, and also in soaps. It makes a splendid soft soap. That there are valuable uses to which it can be put is shown by the fact that there is a de mand for it in foreign markets."—Amer ican Farmer. A Mooted (Question. Why some seals sink and are lost after being shot and others float, is a mooted question not likely soon to bo decided. Wnere they are struck or whether they have much oi littlo blub ber, all of which have been utged to ac count for the anomaly, seeuis to have little or no influence. It has been often observed that a seal falling head down on being shot will come up and float, while if the head is up he sinks and is lost. It may be that in the latter case he more readily tills. With weak seals or pups it has been seen that they, too, are often uot recovered. Of those that are killed, discarding pups, tho chances seem to be about equal as to whether they will sink or float. Sometimes a considerable interval elapses before tho dead body rises to the surface and haste or carelessness may loose it. The great damage to the sealing industry lies uu doubtedly in the indiscriminate killing which lays low so many cows on their way to the islands, heavy with young, whereby two lives are lost. It is impos sible to distinguish the female iu the water, and she would not be spared were it possible to do so. —Detroit Free Press. A Fly Killing Brigade. The la»t Siam Free Press says that an order has just been issued from Siameso military headquarters directing that the troops in garrison at Koh-si-chang should be employed in killing flie3. Each man, said the older, must exert himself to the utmost and capture each day at least a match box full of blue-bottle flies, or bo punished in default. Says the paper: "Though the order reads exceedingly ridiculous there is no small need foi thinning down the myriads "of imperti nent blue-bottles that bask in the smile of royalty at Koh-si-chang. The Siamese warriors will have their hands full, and are not to be envied. The pity is that the troops were uot exercised in some evolution by which the nimble enemy may be annihilated at one stroke. How ever, with our new colonels wo have sufficient military talent to guirantet the success of some strategy by which tho (jrand army of blue-bottles might bo destroyed, and at the same time u very coveted decoration well earned—com mander of the fly catchers iu ordinary to his Siamese Majesty may yet be eag edy competed for among Siamese military men."^ SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Mars is five times as bright now as he will be when on the far side of the sun. The average duration of life in the cold climate of Norway is said to lie greater than in any other land. The number of stars visible to average eyesight on an oidinary night does not much exceed 4000 for both hemi spheres. After considerable study a Connecticut scientist calculates that there arc 43, 560,000 mosquito larva: to an acre of swamp land. An astronomer has figured it out that it would take a can Don-ball 3,000,000 years, moving at its ordinary rate of speed, to reach Alpha Centauri, the nearest fixed star. Dr. Koch has expressed himself strongly against excessive watering of the streets during a caolera epidemic, on the ground that the bacili thrive un der the influence of moisture. Corrosive sublimate, in the strength of sixty-four grains to the gallon of water, is found by the Health Depart ment of New York City to be the most effective of the germ-destroying agents. The new sub-treasury building at San Francisco, Cal , has an electric burglar alarm installed between the rows of bricks so that any interference with cither the bricks or cement will cause an alarm to sound. A fendsr for eleclric car 3 is made of sheet iron attached directly to tho trucks, the lower plates coming within an inch of the rails, springs of great stiffness enabling tho fender to throw aside any object before it. The difficulty of making an indelible marking on ivory push buttons has be3n, it is said, overcome by a London con cern. The procss employed is called endolithic printing, and the markings are claimed to be indelible in any climate. The Swedish Government has adopted a new smokeless powder, which is said to have the following advantages: It is easy of manufacture, produces no flames and does not heat the rifle. It gives the ball an initial velocity of 2100 feet, with a pressure of 2i60 atmos pheres. Jacques Inandi, tho French lightning calculator, says that it is sound which guides hfls mind in its process, and not the memory of or imagination how figures look. Ho was born with a gift for figures; long before he could read or writo he solved the moit intricate arithmetical problems. The bones of the h'jad of some large prehistoric animal wer» ta'».eu out ot too ground at Kuby Creek, Washington, the other week, at a depth of 25'J feet. The great mastodon, judging from the depth at whicn the bones were found, must have lived in an early period aud is at present extinct. The shape of the head resembles that of a cow, only it is much larger. The three siugle eyes of bees have been a puzzle as to their use. Mr. Grim shaw, of England, starts the theory that they are not eyes at all, but bull's-eye lanterns that emit a very feeble light to guide the bees in their work at night. Such production of light is quite com mon among insects, and tho source of the theory gives it some title of respect, for Mr. Grinishaw is an able observer. Mr. Romanes is experimenting in breeding rats and rabbits, with reference to heredity. Those now bred aro the re sults of experiments intendel to dis prove what Mr. Romanes believes to be certain errors made by some writers on heredity. In the particular cases experi mented on by him the progeny have certainly taken cither wholly after the father or wholly after the mother. Mr. Uomanes does show certain cases of commingling, or rather reversion, which are highly suggestive. Tlie Lnngs of a Plant. One of the prettiest microscopical studies is the examination of the lungs of a plant. Most people do not know a plant has lungs, but it has,and its lungs are iu its leaves. Examined through a high-power microscope, every leaf will show thousands upon thousands of openings, infinitely small, of course, but each provided with lips which, in many species, are continually opening nnd closing. These openings lead to tiny cavities in the body ot the leaf, aud by the opening and closing of the cavity air is continually passing in and out, so that the act of respiration is continually going on. The sap of the plant is tliu3 purified, just as the blood of an animal is cleared of impurities by passing through the lungs, and the average sized tree will, therefore, in the course of a day, do as much breathing as a man.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Gronth of the l'oetry Habit. "When I began writing verse," said Mr. Whittier once to the writer, "it was considered a great gift to ba able to make a rhyme with any facility. Pcrcival and Bryant were the active poets then. Now almost any one can turn a couplet or stanza and many write poetry which in a less voluminous time would bo re garded as remarkable." Nothing so emphasizes the advance in goneral cul ture in this country as tho fact indi cated by Mr. Whittier iu that remark. It is a more difficult thing to achieve a reputation as a poet now thau a half century ago, and tliero is no occasion to grieve because wo have so many "verse writers'' and no "poets."—Boston Jour nal. A Simple Test for Milk. The following test for watered milk is simplicity itself. A well polished knit ting needle it dipped into a deep vessel of milk and immediately withdrawn in an upright position. If the sample is pure some of the fluid will hau<* to the ueedle, but if water has been added to tho milk, even in small proportions, the fluid will not adhere to the needle.—- Boston Commercial. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. KILLED BY ELECTRICITY. HOW MILLIONS OF BUGS, BEE TLES AND BIBDS PEBISH. Their Vain Flutterings Around the Arc Lights—Destruction of Birds by the Goddess ot Liberty Beacon. T "T cTTT'II EN a person meets death \/\ ' from contact with an elec- V V trie current the news is heralded far and near, but of the millions of the lower forms of animals life which are daily sacrificed, we rarely hear a word. The employe of the electric light company who goes about supplying the lamps with fresh carbon sticks each morning learns more ot the damage to animal life than is even dreamed of by others, but he is not an entomologist generally, and only cares to trim the lamps and removes the accu mulation of dead insects which are fouud in every globe in the summer months, lie carries a brush with which he quick ly whisks out from a gill to a pint of charred bodies and singed wings. Now and then a struggling insect is found in the mass, minus a wing, a pair of legs or so, and occasionally a lace wing or moth takes wing and escapes from the gen erally dead collection. As these fall to the ground they are scattered to the points of the compass, and in half an hour not a vestige of a bug or a fly can be found, so quickly are the light bodies blown about, or ground into the load by passing men and teams. In a round made with the carbon sup plyer in the month of July or August, it is safe to count on 500 insects to be found iu each globe visited, and some times as high as 1500, but of course an accurate estimate cannot be made, as many bodies, wings and legs are sadly mixed in the mass. This collection in cludes members of all the orders of in sect life, and about every well-known fly and beetle may be collected during a morning's search, and many rare ones, seldom found in other situations, are taken. On a favorable night, when it is very dark, and there is no wind to drive the giddy insects away from their death at traction, a great many may be seen flying close to the globe, where their ranks are often invaded by shadow-like bats, who dash dangerously near the globe in chasing their prey. The bats are never injured by the lights and avoid it mo3t adroitly in their evolutions. No one who is an observer has failed to note the change übeut our residences in the summer evenings. Once the rooms were tilled with several varieties of moths, bugs (so-called) and beetles, and if windows were lowered to prevent their entrance, numbers of them could be heard bumping ayniust tho panes and humming about. All of this is now done away with, for if the electric light is burning neat your home, the bugs and moths visit it and leave you in peace. The difference in the persecutions of tho mosquitoes is a favorable theme for dis cussion, and all are willing to give the electric light the credit of performing an agreeable change. However, if we arc so free to ignore the destructions of the insects we are constrained to resent the devastation upon our birds, for there are fortunately very few who are possessed of so little sentiment as to abide ill to our feathered friends. It is impossible to secure sta tistics on the extent of the danger, but enough is known to convince all that elevated lights of any kind are a sad menace to the birds during migration. Some years ago the Government investi gated in relation to the destruction by light houses, and the datuage was found to be very heavy, and a list of 1(50 spe cies was received, many being valued game birds and nearly all others well known insect destroyers. Thousands of birds are killed each sea son by the light in the Goddess of Lib erty in the harbor, as they migrate to or from the North, and all tower lights throughout the country arc more or less destructive, according to their location. But these greater dangers in a few cases are as nothing compared to the generally dispersed, combined lesser dangers of the innumerable city electric lights.— New York Advertiser. On -Eyed People. The most onc-cyed people are found in Germany, and in some portions of the United States. In the former country this is probably owing to the sword duels so common among German stu dents when the faces of the combatants get terribly scarred. In the United States, which contains the rough ele ments from almost every other country, quarrelling is frequent, and the gouging out of an opponent's eye is too common an incident amongst the brutal portion of the population to attract much notice when it occurs. An eye-maker calculates that there are 336,000 persons with only one eye in the Republic. In proportion to the population, there are more one eyed people iu Paterson, N. Y., than in any other town in America or any other country. Apart from eyes lost in duels or rowdy fights, the great majority of artificial eyes are used by workmen, es pecially those engaged in iron toundnes, where many eyes are put out by the sparks which fly about in all directions. It is a very rare occurrence to meet a woman having a glass eye.—Yankee Blade. A Lily-like Cnenmb r. The Indian cucumber is a sort of lily, which grows in great abundance in almost every part of this country, and is said to be an excel lent remedy for tho dropsy. The bedt part of the cucumber is tho root, which grows in the size of two inches in length by one iu thickness, and was formerly eaten raw by the Indiaus just as we eat cucumbers. Its medicinal virtues were discovered by some old woman in Penn sylvania, and afterwards admitted by tho doctors, which is not the only case of the efficacy of an old womin's remedy being acknowledged by the medical pro ftuion Chicago Herald, NO. 3. RECOMPENSE. When the haze of autumn day* Settles over dale and hill, And tho notes from wood-birds' throat* Break the silence deep and still- When the breezes bring a chilL Then we feel over us steal Something of sadness and dread, Bweet regret and yearnings yet For the summer that is dead, For the sunshine that is fled. But we know every woe Has a joy—not wholly sigh 3 Is our life, not wholly strife, Though we miss the sun we prize, It Is farewell to the flie?. —Detroit Tribune. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A double chin—A dialogue.—Life. When a man is hopelessly in love it greatly increases his sighs.—Sittings. Even an all-rouud man ought to be square in his dealing).—Lowell Courier. Little Johnny thinks it a good deal nicer to be tanned at the seashore than to be tanned in school.—Boston Tran script. They have "potato socials" in Kansas. The name may be from the fact that young folks go there to pare.—Texas Sittings. "Do you enjoy good health, Mr. Testy?'' asked McQueary. "Yes, when I get any,'* snapped the old dyspeptic. —Pu3k. Jake—"l presume you love animals?" Cora—"Oh, yes; a girl of my age is usually in love with some man."—Yan kee Blade. "A man may be drove to drink," said Officer McCobb, "but to git 'ira away from it I find he has to be pulled."— Indianapolis Journal. "Charles is too timid to propose, and she is too timid to help him on.""I should think such a timid pair could easily shrink to one."—Harper's Bazaar. He—"ls this the first time you've ever been in love, darling?" She (thoughtlessly)—" Yes, but it's so nice that I hope it won't be the last."—Tid- Bits. Manufacturer—"What makes you think electric clocks should sell so freely?" Drummer—"They're all to be charged, are they not?"— Jeweler's Weekly. Shrewd Girl: Jennie—"Do you be lieve in fate?" Bessie--"Yes, but I believe in giving fate a helping hand by doing a little judicious flirting."—New York Herald. Secretary Nibbes—"Did you discover any irregularities in the Red Tapo Bureau?" Inspector Sharp-—"Yes. Four of the employes were hard at work."— New York Herald. Lovell—"This marrying a rich wife is of no use." Markham—"Why not?" Lovell—"Because even after she's asleep you can't find her pocket."— New York Herald. Teacher—"What are you doing there, Johnny, acting like a monkey?" Johnny Bellows—"Please let me off this time, teacher, and I won't never mock you no more."—Yankee Blade. Mamie (aged six) —"Mamma, was Mr. Gourmand born with a silver spoon in his mouth?" Matnma—"l gue.?s so, dear, and maybe with a knife and fork, too."—Jewelers' Weekly. It is not always the man who looks the wisest who knows the most, but most people don't know this, so that it will pay you to look ju3t as wise as you pos sibly can.—Texas Sittings. Cora—"l'm much pleased with my new acquaintance, Mr. Jiinpsou. I hope to know him better." Dora— "Well, it would be impossible to know him worse."—Yankee Blade. Brown (who very proud of his argumentative powers)—"l always carry my p'int." Gray—"l think I have seen you when you were carrying a good deal more than that.' - —Boston Transcript. Miss Young—"Have you seen Miss Waite's engagement ring?" Miss Green —"Yes, I think it is a horrid insult. The idea of a man giving a spinster'of her years a ring of old gold."—Jewel ers' Weekly. "They say he is a literary man, and perhaps he is. lit talks rapidly, but, upon my word, I cau't make head nor tail of what he talks about." "H#! Perhaps he is a magazine poet."—New York Press. "Her taste in music is improving wonderfully," said one young woman. "\Vhy?" replied the other, "she never plays or sings now." '"Yes," was the rejoinder, "that is how I know.' Washington Post. The Rev. Dr. Fourthly—"l shall see you at church next Sunday morning, as usual, Mrs. McSwat, I presume?" Mrs. McSwat—"l—l am afraid not Dr. Fourthly. Bridget has just got a new bonnet."—Chicago Tribune. "Don't you' think Mr. Twiddles is very absent-minded?" said a young woman. "No," replied Miss Pepper ton. "He displays admirablo caution. What little he has he always brings with him."—Washington Star. Mrs. Keene —"There are times when I wish I were a man." Mr. Iveene— "For instance?" Mrs. Keene—"When I pass a miUinet's window and think how happy I could make my wife by giv ing her a new bonnet."—Texas lifting*. Mamma (enthusiastically)—" How I wish we could afford to send Neliic abroad for a few finishing touches to her musical education!" Papa (no ear for music)—"lf I could buy the finish with out the touches, I'd pawn the furni ture."— Lippincott's Magazine. The Professor —"ln some respects Miss Whackster is a highly gifted young woman. At school, I remember, she excelled in mathematics. In a large class in geometry she was easily the first." Miss Laura Kajones— "Yes, the dear girl was always to—so aogular, jou know.''---Chicago Tribune,
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