SULLIVAN <JHLH REPUBLICAN W. M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. Vessel owners on the great lakes say that they represent $50,000,000. It is stated by statisticians that 40,• 000,000 of ljucen Victoria's subjects in India never know what it is to get enough to eat. Canning factories are springing up in various parts of the South. This is, in the estimation of the American Farmer, a hopeful sign. The South, it declares, should supply the world with canned vegetables. The total number of lunatics in Eng. land and Wales increases by 1700 a year. Fifteen hundred people go mad every year, or five out of every 10,000 people alive in that couutry euter an asylum as inmates every year. Invention is still busy with providing transpoitntion over the billows. The whaleback vessels were now, but the lat est form of steamship propellor is an English invention. It is designed so that when in motion there is no weight / of water on the blades on the rise and fall of the propellor, due to the pitching of the vessel. It was the volcano of Awu that de * stroyed hundreds of people in the island of Great Saugir by one ot its terrific out bursts recently. After the great erup tion of Awu in 1711 a large lake formed in the crater, and natives of the official class were permitted, once in three or four months, to visit the crater for the purpose of testing the water. If the water were hot enough to cook rice, an eruption was expected. In 18SS the waters of the lake began to boil, burst their banks and rush down the mountain. Many of the people, taking warning from - ; the increasing temperature of the water, escaped, but hundreds were killed. Ac cording to dispatches which have reached the Hague, about 2300 people fell vic tims to the latest eruption. Most of the victims were Malays, about 12,000 of whom live on the island. A telegraph company is not excused from using care because a message is un grammatical aud a Georgia beef dealer has recovered a verdict because the West ern Union Telegraph Company did not deliver to a cattle dealer the message, "How is cattle? Answer »t once?" Th 3 sender of the message had about fifteen head of cattle on hand when he sent the message and waited several days for an answer. It cost him several dollars a day to care for the cattle, and when he sold them the prices had declined and he lost thirty or forty dollars more. These amounts and tho penalty of SIOO he, recovered from the telegraph com pany. The Supreme Court of Georgia ' 'has also just sustained a verdict against the telegraph company for failure to de ■ liver a mes-agc from a traveling salesman making an appointment with a customer. The salesmau had to uinke a loader trip because the message was not delivered and he obtained $l5O for his expense* besides the statutory penalty of *1)0. Pittsburg first steel coal w,n . launched recently, and the owner pre dicts that in a few ye.in none of the larger carrying craft, on the O.iio will be constructed of any other material. Tin . -near, barge is 135 feet long and twenty, four feet wide, aud an ex tot reproduc tion -of a wooden barge. The latter type of vessel cost SI4OO and lasts ten year 3, with repairs that coma to as much again. A. steel bargo, it is estimated, will cost SI2OO and last, perhaps, fifty year?, without needing much renovation. Moreover, in a wreck, the wooden carrier oftsn goes to pieces aud the cargo is lost. Some of the "operators" have Beets of between 3JO and 400 barges, no that the item of repairs alone is u for midable ODe. As to this, too, there is another and a weighty consideration— the advancing price of timber. The firm that has built the new proposes to replace their woodea with steel barge*, if tuc experiment succeeds A conspicuous London newspaper fc>reshadows serious financial disaster in. England. It poiuts to the failure of the Baring', two years ago, as the visible begiuning of trouble, and asserts that ever since that failure "artificial efforts have been made to postpone the inevit able." Such a result would not be sur prising, says tho New York News. Snglish capitalists have within the last few years been lured into the wildest schemes, involving enormous invest ments. The English "syndicate" busi ness has been worked by American and English "promoters" to the extent of massing millions upon million* of dol lars in investments that urn more than hazardous. In South America wo find the same English syndicate fever lauuoh ing money in all sorts of colossal specula tions. It was in Argentina that tho -Barings suuk a larje part of their colossal capital, and it is known that many other English bankers are flovi!.- deringin the same mire, barely able to keep beads above the surfac*. LOVS, Strange are his moods, and strange Is b«, A child of divers ways; He leads you on through flowery paths. Through bright and golden dayej And guided by his gentle hand. And listening to hii song. And gazing in his lovely eyes, You walk for ever on. And many pass you by, and they Stretch out their bands in vain; Some go with Death and Sorro-v some Walk hand in hand with Pain; And some with Scorn go laughing by, And some who weep and moan, But all of them young Love ignores, And on they pass alone. And through the pathways where they go No ray of light appears; No gleam of sunshine ever comes, The way is wet with tears. Sad for a mo nent, too, you grow, And beg Love take them, too; He smiles and shakes bis golden curls-* "They cannot oome with you." —F. M. Liveaux, in Chambers's Journal. PAUL AND M'LISS, BV THOMAS P. MONTFORT. a j 'LISS, hain't I time rS« an ' er £' n ferbid : jffla JM ■ yer havin' aught « /PR ter do with Paul Jj'wn /[Js 11 Jennings?" |P Jjj "Yes, pap, yer Ip I "Then I wnnt il « ter k now how it ® J comes yer don't <Bl / 4H l ,ay 110 ' tention t" 'A> (112 what I hev' so T ]1 often said." v » M'liss Hopkins T. hung her pretty head and the blushes suffused her lovely face and neck, but instead of answering her father's question she stood idly fingering the strings of her bonnet. Once or twice she tried to speak, but though she did not look up she knew that her father's cold, sharp eyes were gazing steadily at her, and the words were lost in a trem bling whisper. "Why don't yer speak out, M'liss, in stid o' stnndin' there as if you'd lost your tongue? Why is it I see you an' Paul Jennings tcrgethei last night?" "Pap,"and the soft, sweet voice is scarcely audible, "I can't see why you hold anything aginst Paul. No matter what others have done, I know he hain't never harmed a hair of yer head, an' he i couldn't be hired to do anything agin' ! yer fer the world." "M'liss, I'm s'prised at yer. Jiat ter I think that a child o' mine should stan' | up right in my face an' un'ertake ter hoi' up fer one o'them Jenningses, arter all i I've suffered at their han's. It's er hard i thing ter bear, M'liss, er hard thiug to j know that my own child is willin' ter , fergit 'cr pap's wrongs an' take up fer them as has alters been his enemies. ]t was bad ernuff fer 'em to beat me outen ther claim arter I'd improved it, but now fer my child, ther only being in ther worl' as is likely to keer fer me, ter go an' hoi' up fer oue of 'em, is a hundred times worse. I never thought afore that i I'd evei live to see ther day when you'd ' turn ergin me." "Pap, you know I hain't turned ergin you, an' that 112 wouldn't take up fer no- 1 body, even to Paul hisself, who was er enemy to you. But Paul hain't done nothin' fer you to condemn him fer. It wasn't him that took the claim." "No, it wasn't him as took ther claim, but it wu» his father, au' the Jenningses air all alike." "Has Paul ever held up fer his fa'.her in the matter?" "I donuo a3 he has an' I don't know as he hain't, but I know he's one of ther family an'that's ernuff." "Pap, you do Paul wrong. He ain't nowise ter blame fer what was done years ergo, an' ef you'd get to know him you'd say he wasn't bad." "I don't want ter know him, an' I don't want you to hev nothin' more ter do with 'im. I said years ergo that me an* mine 'ud never mi* er mingle in any way with ole Joel Jennings's family; an' fer my part I've kep' to that promise, an' so did yer poor mother while she lived, an' I hoped you would." "It ain't Christian, pap, ter hold er grudge so long, an 1 ergin ther iunocent, too." "It may not be Christian, M'liss, but it ain't likely I'll fergit my wrongs while the Jenningses live on my land an' hev all ther comforts o' life, an' me an' mine has ter giterlong ther best we kin on this poor forty; an' it ain't likely so we'll hev this long, fer Smith's goin' to close ther mortgage less'n I raise ther money ter pay int'rust, an' I kaint do tbet fer I've tried hieh an" low. No, it ain't likely that I'm a goin' ter fergit an' fergive at sich er time." M'liss's face blanched at bearing these words, for they were the first intimation she had received of the closing of the mortgage on the little home. As she looked at her father's aged and bent form and careworn features, and recalled all the hardships and sufferings he had passed through, and pictured out in her imagin ation what the future would be, she could not find it in her heart to blame him for the bitter grudge he hold against Joel Jennings. But Paul was sa unlike his father—so kind and gentle, and al ways mindful of the welfare of others. She knew that her father had no right to blame him. They were both a long time silent, then M'lijs came and put her arms about her father's neck and kissed him. "I don't want you to think, pap, that I'd ever take sides agin you, not even fer Paul. I've tried fer be faithful to you all my life, an' I intend togo on so." "Yes, I know M'iisa, what you've been ter me, and I know you mean well. But lovin' Paul as you do, it's hard to be to ward me what you've alius been." "Paul's so good an'kind, an' I do love him, pap, an' it hurts me t/> think o' never hevln' nothin' ter do with 'im no mare." LA PORTE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1892. "You needn't try to persuade me, fer I're said I never fergive an' I won't. The little farm'll be sold to pay the mortgage an' we'll be set out in the world to live where we kin, an* I reckon Paul won't keer no more than hia pap does. Let 'em enjoy what they got frum me by dishon esty, if they kin, but they'll never hev my friendship." Daniel Hopkins got up and went out and a few minutes later rode away to town to make another effort to raise the interest money and save his home. M'liss watched him as he rode off down the long lane and her eyes filled with tears. "Poorppap,l' 1 she Mid, "it's hard to have to give up your home alter all these years an' become a homeless wan derer. I don't blame you fer feelin' bitter an' unfergivin'. But I do wish you'd be fair toward Paul." Then laying her arms on the window casement she pillowed her head on them and gave way -to her grief. "M'liss," spoke a soft voice behind her. "Paul," she cried, ard in an instant she was in his arms, and for one brief minute all her troubles and sorrows dis appeared. Then recollecting herself she drew away from him, and holding up her hand to stop him from approaching, she said: "Paul, we must forget the past, an' never be to each other again what we have been." "Do you wish it so, M'liss?" She looked down at the floor but did not reply. "I know what you mean," Paul went on,"for I heard what your father said." M'liss looked up quickly and a blush of shame spread over her face. "I heiiul what you said, M'liss, and it's nothin' to be ashamed of, Pm sure. You don't know what joy it was to me to hear you say you loved me." "But we must never think of such er thing ergin, Paul. Pap forbids it." "1 know he ferblds it, bat he Las no grounds fer it." "No, he has nothin' justly ergin you, it's true, but you know the ole trouble." The young mnn frowned and paced the floor for a minute. Stopping near M'liss he said: "I thought enough trouble and sor row hed come out o' that ole misunder standing without our lives being weighed down with it. I wish the whole farm would be sunk out of sight an' all recol lections of it be blotted out forever." "So do I, Paul, but as it can't be so, there's no use er wishin'. All we kin do ' is ter submit au' bid good-bye to our happiness," "112 do not blame yer pop," Paul con tinued, "ler he is in the right, an' ort to have the land, as I've told pap many a time. But he has his way o' lookin' at it an' thinks he's aright, an' nothin' I kin say or do is goin' ter change him. I'd be a friend to yer pap ef he'd let me, an' though I couldn't make his wrongs right, I could let 'im hev money ernuff, ter pay up on tfie mortgage, but I dasn't offer it to him." "No, he'd go out doors fer the bal ance of his days before he'd accept of it." Then a long silence followed, in which' both appeared to be intently thinking. Paul was the first to speak. "M'liss, I'm goin' away," he said. "Wnere to?" and M'iiss's trembling voice betrayed her anxiety. "I dunno, yit, but I'm goin' some whc:e. I can't stan' to stay here an' see you au' never hev the privilege of speak iu' one word no more then if you wus er stranger. lam goin' away to git my own start in life, an' sometime we'll be happy yit. That ole trouble's got to die out soouer or later, an' when it does we kin be happy. Will you wait fer me till then, M'liss?" "Paul, I'll never marry no other man." A little later Paul went away and M'liss was loft to live through the long est and darkest day of her existence. It was late in the afternoon when Dauiel Hopkins returned from town, and M'liss knew by the disappointed,worried look in his face, that his mission had been unsuccessful. She asked him uo questions, feeling that it would only augment his sorrow. After supper he sat down before the fire and smoked his pipe in silence while M'liss cleaned away the table, and | brought her work-box and took up her sewing. I An hour probably passed and then j there came the sound of footsteps out side, and a moment later the door i opened and Smithentered. Daniel's face j darkened and the Jittle remaining cour age he had broughtlback with him from town disappeared. Smith was very cordial and greeted his poor neighbors with an unwonted friendliness, at which both Daniel and M'liss were greatly surprised. They taked of the weather, of the crops and | ot various items of local news, and finally Daniel said: "I'm sorry, Smith, but so far I've not i been able to raise that interest money. I've putin the whole day in town, but I nobody don't seem willin' to let me hev it." "Then I've done better than you," Smith replied, as a smile stole over his face, "fer I got it 'thout goin' anywhere to try fer it. There's the notes, all of 'em, paid up principal an' interust." Daniel took the notes into his hand and looked at them intently for a whole minute. Then rubbing his eyes he looked at Smith, but the latter said nothing. "Whatdoes this mean?'* Daniel asked at last. "II simply means that the mortgage is paid off. Bat as to who done it I am not at liberty to say, any more than thet it was a friend of yourn." M'iisa had an idea who that friend was, but Daniel was far from suspecting the right person. Six months passed and though M'iim never mentioned Paul's name her father knew that it was on his account that his daughter looked forword so anxiously for tbe cotring of #ach weekly mail. Yet no letter ever came, and fiually (litap pointment began to tell on the poor girl, and the father could see that she was growing thinner and paler every day. lie loved his child and would have done almost anything to make her happy, but he could not, even for her nke, consent to become reconciled to any member of the Jennings family. 8o be saw her droop and fade, and while his heart ached for her, his pride and hatred held him back from doing that which he knew would bring her happiness and health. It was late one evening when Joel Jennings came riding by, and when just opposite Daniel Hopkins's front gate his horse shied and threw him off. Daniel and M'liss saw him fall, but supposing he was not hurt they waited fer him to rise. They waited for some time, and as he did not move they went to him. He did not breathe, and M'liss brought water and bathed his face. All of the hatred that had rankled in Daniel's heart for twenty years died out in a second when he saw the object of it lying helpless at his feet, and his only thought was of how he could relieve him. Joel revived a little after a time, and Daniel and M'liss carried him into the house. "Shall we seud for a doctor?" Daniel asked. "No, it's no use. I'm hurt past any doctor's help." "But it 'ud be best to fetch 'im any how," Daniel persisted, and so M'liss started off to briog him. For some time after she had gone the two men were silent. Then Joel reached out hia hand, saying; "Daniel, the eend's nigh, an' I can't think o' goin' with that old trouble 'bout ther claim wcighin' me down. I may hev wronged you, an' I'm willin' to acknowledge I did, envhow. We've been miserable fer twenty years on ac count of it, an' now we're makin' our children miserable, too. I'm willin' to muke up and let the children marry an' have this lan' between 'em. They'll be er comfoit to you an' you'll be happy in seein' them happy. Air you willin' ter fergit on' fergive?" "Yee," Daniel said, clasping the out stretched hand, "I am willin' to let ther post go an' begin over agio. Whoever's in the wrong, wc no right to make the children's lives as raiseiable as our own has been." When M'liss came back her quick eye told her what had taken place, and her heart bounded with joy. The doctor gravely shook his head after making au examination, and said Joel could not last long. Paul was sent for at once, and arrived in time to see his father and l>ecome M'iiss's husband before death came to Joei. The youug couplo weut to live on the troublesome old claim, and they made of it one of the happiest homes in all the settlement. D.iniel lired long enough to learn to love Paul as he did M'liss, but he never knew that it was Paul who paid off the mortgage to Smith.—Detroit Free Press. Ten Dollar* Buys A Man's Life. At Monte Carlo a few days ago, writes Henry Hague, I was witness of the fol lowing peculiar incident: I was seated at a table in the cafe of the Paris hotel, which adjoins the caiiuo, with a group of tourists, when a haggard and dis heveled Freuchman entered hurriedly, called for a glass of absinthe, and seat ing himself proceeded to write vigorously on a sheet of note paper in front of him. My attention was Attracted by his ap pearance and evident nervousness, and my ittcrest was deepened when I saw him take from his pocket a gold-plated revolver. He examined the weapon very carefully, as though he contemplated using it and wanted to see that it w.is in proper order, then hastily put it back in his pocket and resumed his writing. By this time the attention of the whole group had been attracted to the especially as they saw him remove the re volver from his pocket and toy with it nervously. A stout, florid Englishman sat near me. He leaned over and whis pered to me: "My deah fellah, the chap means to do away ■with himself, I take it." Then, before I could reply, he quickly turned to the Frenchman and said: 4, You wish to sell that weapon, sir?" The Frenchman drew back in aston ishment. He gazed in amazement at the Englishman and hesitated as if he had been insulted. Then there apparently ensued a revulsion of feeling, for a imile overspread his haggard face as he ex claimed, with a shrug of the shoulders: "If you wish, sir." He placed the revolver mechanically upon the table and picked up the gold $lO piece laid down by the Englishman. Then he drank his absinthe with teem ing satisfaction. He brightened up. His entire manner underwent a change. A few minutes later he walked leisurely out of the cafe and we saw him again ent«r the casino. The Englishman and mys'clf concluded to follow him. We were sur prised to find on entering that luck was. evidently with him, for a small pile of gold and silver lay before hici on the roulette table. We learned later from one of the attendants that he had won $240. Tripe Leather. Leather is now made from tripe, and a very superior quality of sole leather at that, which has the additional recom mendation of being cheap. The follow ing story is told of its first introduction: Some year or so ago a tanner employed in a Cincinnati establishment, requested to have his wages raised from $1.50 to $2 a day. He quit and went to another tannery asking for employment. He was told that there wag no vacancy, but be persisted and said that he could teach them how to make a new kind ot leather that would make their fortunes. They laughed, but when he explained how tripe could be turned into leather, they stopped laughing and employed him at $5 a day. Now tripe leather is quoted in the trade journals and brings a good price.—Picayune. The regular army of Brazil constats ol only 12,000 soldiers, but the Govern ment can raiae a military force of 100,- 000 men by conscription. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Five volume* of air contain one volume tf oxygen. Onyx has been found in Rockingham County, Virginia. An artesian well in Petaluma, Cat., •pouts 30,000 gallons of water every hour. Life is shorter in the valleys and low lands than amoi » the hills and moun tains. On a clear nigh a red light can be seen at a greater d 'stance than a white light; but on a dark night the reverse Is the case. A medical authority states that the voices of singers and actors can be much better preserved if used in theatres lighted with electricity rather than gas. At the head of the Gulf of Bothnia there is a mountain on the summit of which the sun shines perpetually during the five days of June—l 9, 20, 21, 22 and 23. The trolley bears such an important relation to the general operation of the overhead railroad system that attempts are constantly being made to increase its efficiency. A Frenchman has discovered by means of a recently improved pyrometer that the temperature of the average in candescent electric lamp is about 3300 degrees Fahrenheit. Banana juico makes a first-class in delible ink. A spot on a white shirt from a dead ripe banana is marked for ever, and the juice from bananas thoroughly decayed is a bright, clear carmine. The results of experiments ou hasten ing the germination of seed show that camphor aud oxygenated water appear to be the most energetic excitants, not only as regards tho acceleration of germi nations, but as affecting the vigor of the plants. Volcanic ashes often travel a longdis tance. A remarkable shower of volcanic ashes has occurred recently in several parts of Finland. Tho ground in some places has been covered to the depth of nearly an inch. The phenomenon is attributed to volca'iic eruptions in Ice land. A teaspoonful of boiled water three or four times a day should be given to babies, says an experienced and success ful doctor. Milk is a food and does not quench thirst, and a great deal of an in fant's uneasiness is due to it. The water should be boiled tifteeu minutes and prepared fresh daily. It has always been gonerally believed, by the way, that Bnow keeps the ground warm, but no very accurate data o:i the subject has hitherto been forthcoming. Accordingly, it is interesting to learn, from observations recently made at Katherinburg, that at a depth of four teen inches the soil, when covered witti two feet of snow, was ten degrees warmer than at the surface. The new system of electric street lighting which is to be introduced on Fifth Avenue, New York City, will em ploy two instead of one arc lamp on each post. In this way more effective light and better diffusion are expectel, so that shadows will not be as notice able. The wires are to be concealed from view and connected underground to the low voltage mains of the Edison Company. Each lamp will take abo.it fifty volts and the "pain will be con nected up in series and the system if multiple, so that no wire will carry over 110 volts electric pressure. The Kin; of Locomotive?. A new monster locomotive belonging to the New York Central lluilroad is considered by the officials of that, road the most powerful locomotive engine iu the world. The engine is two-fifths larger than the ordinary locomotive, its mighty driving wheels being a full seven feet in diameter; the largest ever used in regular railway service. Tie newcomer is called "No. 903," and surpasses in every particulur its rival, "No. 870," which has hitherto drawn the "Empire State Express," the fastest train in the world. It weighs, when ready for work, 100 tons, or forty tons more than the ordinary locomotive; measures fourteen feet, inches from track to top of smoke stack, and has 11,000 horse power, while the ordinary locomotives has between six and seven thousand. The engine was built two years ago, and was originally fitted with five foot eight inch wheels, but this last change has been made in an endeavor to lower by a half hour the time of the express in the trip from New York to Albany. It is now made in two hours and lorty flve minutes, and if the change is suc cessful '-No. 903" will run the 143 miles in 135 minutes, and in her "spurts" will be able to break her predecessor's record of seventy-eight miles an hour.— New York Commercial Advertiser. A Jealous Hon**. While Miss Mabel Valentine was exer cising on a bicycle on the Columbus pike a short distance north of Circle ville, Ohio, she met a stray horse. The horse's indignation was arouse J by the bicycle and he gave chase. Miss Valen tine was thoroughly frighteued by the animal's actions, and did her best to get away from the brute, but to no purpose. He stuck to the task with bulldog de termination, and wben she increased her speed he also let out a link. Realising the chase was becoming more desperate, and that she was suc cumbing to the severe efforts to keep away from her tormentor, she abandoned the machine and attempted to climb a fence. She succeeded, but fell over and Injured herself quite severely. The horse made an onslaught on the machine with bis fore feet, and doubtless would have broken it all to pieces bad not some farm hands appeared and driven him off. This is the third time horses have tried to destroy bicycles in this county, seem ingly regarding them as an invasion on their rights, which they propose to de fend.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months, (JOKGEOITS DINING-KOOMF. SOME OF THOSE IN NEW YORK SWELL HOTELS. Small Fortunes Invented In Their Or namentation Alone —t'lne Apart ments lor Eating Purpose*. THE money lavished on the dec orations of the dinin;;-rooms of New York's new swell ho tels is something remarkable. Fortunes are expended on some of these apartments. The most conspicuous features of the American dining-room in the Plaza Ho tel, on whic'.i the sum of $30,000 was spent in decorations aloue, arc the ela borate panel paintings of an allegorical character and representing the "Five Senses." These paintings, which are the work of George W. Mayuard,of this city, are exceedingly graceful and beau tiful in character. The electric lighting fixtures with two immense chandeliers cost Proprietor Hammond $12,000. The cut glass used on the tables was purchased at a cost of SIO,OOO, the china sls, . .Oand the silver ware in use is valued - *35,000. Ou either side of the entr, to the dining-room are waving 112 .ins on bronze standards, lit at their Jkea by electric lights. Near one of the big columns, ornamented with figured leaves, is the painting of a lovely female figure, over whose low forehead ber brown hair falls in a tou sled \>ang and whose lap is filled with red roses. .The dining room of the Hotel Savoy was designed by I)«incau, the architect of the Grant Monument; the artist was Tojetti, and the modelling was done by Carl Bitter, the prize-winner of the Co lumbian Exposition. The marble is jasper and sienna marble, inlaid with Irish and Galway marble. The wood work is of paneled satin wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl. There are at least 450 electric lights concealed in the ceil ing, and. their clear, mild radiance gives to the room a most charming effect. There ate also opalescent globes of sev enty-live candle power distributed in domes around the room, and which are mouuted on bronze figures representing Atlas holding up the world. In the rear a fountain of jasper and Mexican onyx plays. The orchestru is situated on the mezzanine floor. There also four femqle figures are conspicuous, and between them are flower pots filled with natural flowers. Frescoes represent delightful landscapes, and on the north aide is an exceedingly beautiful painting of the "Four Seasons." The total cost of the decorations in the diniug room are placed at $75,000. ' The chairs are of white mahogany, hand-carved, and French plush, and cost S6O apiece. The tables are also elaborately hand carved order, and the floor are fashioned of mosaic tiles in color. On all the cut glass ware it etched the crest of the House of Savoy. The crest in burn ished gold also appears on the Mintou china ware. In the restaurant is a tine painting, representing the twelve months of the year. The paneled side walls are of pink satin, hand-painted. On each table is a candelbra of Parisian design, with silk shades. The cafe is of antique oak, hand-caived, with panels of leather on the walls. A high leather-cushioned sofa invites the lounger to bis case. Up stairs is an old Euglish breakfast room in green oak. The chairs in this room cost SSO apiece. The buffet and the paueling of the ceiling are all of carved oak, and the windows are of stained glass. In the uew dining-room of tho Hotel Imperial, which has just been finished, the side walls, nine feet high, are of Vienua marble, and the ceiling is finished in cream audgold. The style of design throughout the room is that ot the Italian renaissance. The novel electric features are each fashioned of three Cupids holding a laurel wreath, from which the lights come out. The total cost of the decorations was $38,000. The main dining-room of the Holland House is palatial enough to suit the taste of the most fastidious priucc. It is composed of relief work in salmon, pink and gold, mostly in rococo, and the rest in the style of Louis XV. It is 118 feet long, forty-four feet wide, and will seat 325 guests. The floor is mosaic and is covered in winter with Axininister carpet. The chairs are made of natural mahogany. The draperies arc in rich damask and the curtains real Brussels. Proprietor Baumann estimates the cost of decorating the main dining-room at $">1,000; the cost of the silverware, $45,000; the china $28,000, and the linen, $19,000. New York News. Queer Foxi. The hedgehog figures frequently in sylvan repasts, though he is hardly big enough to be sent to table as a piece de resistance. The primitive manner of cooking it supersedes the most costly re finements of elaborate batteries de cuis ine. Tte elephant's foot, or rather the slice below the pastern, which is a famous dainty in eastern hunting camps, is treated on precisely similar principles, which shows that the simplest cookery of all Nations has much in common, like the'r folk-lore. Shakespeare's British hedge pig, like its cousin the porcupine, is ihrouded in a plastic tenement of flay. Then he is laid to temporary rest in a bed of smouldering cinders. When supposed to be done to a turn, the dwarf pig is dug up, and then the prickly skin is de tached with the splitting of the case of clay. All the generous juices, with their bouquet, have been confined and trans fused.—Saturday Review. Famous Sapphires. One famous sapphire was found In Bengal by a poor mau who sold wooden spoons, says the Jewelers' Review. It was taken to Europe and was bought by the house of lias poll, at Rome. Later it became tho property of a German prince, who sold it to Perret, a Parisian jeweler, for $31,620. It was absolutely without A blemish, and weighed 176 carats. NO. 5. THE JJUHNEV OK LIFB. We are wandering hither and thither. Along through the journey of life. And we pauie in the valley of pleasure And climb the steep mountain of atrife; We are basking betimes in the sunlight, With hearts and with faoas aglow; But the day becomes ipute with the even, And streams have a musical flow.* There are lessons to learn while we journey Be sunny or cloudy the way; And 'tis oft what we gain in the morning We lose ere the close of the day; So the days come and go, and the shadows Still wear the same mantles of gloom; Yet the joys are as bright tho' life's dial Be pointing beyond the fair noon. 0' the days and the years change so little; The scenes so unvaried in hue; Though we question the why and the where fore, ' We change not our standpoint of -view; If we'll look from the mount ef forbearance Across the fair valley of love, We will see just before us a pathway. Illumined by smiles from above. —L. S. Webster, in Atlanta Constitution. HL'XOK OF THE DAY. Hot wether—A lamb stew.—Puck. A ward healer—The hospital doctor. —Puck. The deer never goes faster than when served as venison.—Puck. In the race or life, it isn't the fast men who come out ahead.—Texas Sittings. The ferry companies seem to believe ia "small sails and large profits."—Truth. Derdita—"Did you kiss him?" Pene lope (ambiguously)—" Not much."—Life The lazy laundress, as well as the flauncl-shirt, shrinks from washing.— Puck. Marriage isn't so much a failure as it is a sort of compromise on both sides.— Puck. Some people's idea of being religious is to eat cold dinners on Sunday.—At chison Globe. JuJge—"What isyouruamet" Tramp —"Allow me to exchange cards with your honor."—Texas Sittings. "So you have a new servant girl," said one housewife toanother. "Yes." "How dees she like youf"—Washington Star. That was a pretty hard story to swal low, said the cellar when the upper part of the house fell into it.—Texas Sifting. The local thermometers have bad but little rest lately, as they have been rising early and staying up late. —Philadelphia Record. You no longer "take the wind out of a man's sail." If you are au fait you take it out of his pneumatic tires.—Washing ton Star. The man who is always yielding to temptation seldom fiuds any difficulty iu finding temptations to bo yielded to.— Sotnerville Journal. "Always use small words, my son," said Mr. Wbeman. "Then if you hivo to swallow them you will be likely to choke" —Black aud White. Jack—"Many a happy marriage has been spoiled by mouev." Tom—"Yes; it spoiled mine. She refused me because I didn't have enough.''—Puck. "Just see how that stake yield* .to the pile driver." "No wonder," replied the Western man."The pile driver has the drop on it."—Washington Star. Sweet "Patience on a >lonum3iif,'' Hounds very pretty, we'll admit,— But unsuccessful doctors see More oft their patients under it. —PncU. "Tam often qi'ite self-satisfied," said Willie Wellington. "Ah," replied Miss Pepperton, "yon deserve commendation for your modest tastes."—Washington Star. Choosiug a wife is very mueli like or dering a meal in a Paris restaurant when you don't understand French. You may not get what you want, but you will get something.—Colorado Sun. \ Fannie—"l wonder why Miss Oldgirl went into a telephone office to work." Will—"She probably thought it wis her only chance to get a riugund become en gaged."— Chicago Inter-Oceau. She sat on the sto as the eveninj-tiite Enjoying the bai.ny air. He came an* asked: "May I sit by your side?' And she gave hina a vacant stare. —'Jape Code Item. "They say the child looks like me," said Gargoyle, displaying his first born. "He does—a good deal," replied Glan ders. "Still, I don't think I ttould drown him on that account."—Harper's Ba/.ir. "Papa," asked little Ethel, after a season of deep though, "dixit you have any idea that I would go right along liv ing with you and being your daughter the first time we were introduced?"—ln dianapolis Journal. Editor's Son—"l asked papa when the millennium was comin', an' if Mars was inhabited, an' if it was going to rain next Fourth of July; an' he said he didn't know. I don't see bow he ever got to be an editor."—Good News. Mrs. Struckile—"Are these the very best diamond rings you have?" Jeweler "Yes, madam, they are diamonds of the very first water." Mrs. Struckile— "l will take them if you are sure the water was boiled first."—Chicago Inter- Ocean . A Tree droning Around a Knife. Ashley White, of Salem, Qregou, ha* a relic that is a rare curiosity. It con sists ot an old Hudson Bay Company knife, around which au oak tree, has grown. The tree was felled and in be ing chopped up the woodman's as came in contact with the knife. The tree has entirely around the knife, which was hidden from sight until discovered by the blade of the ax. The knife, which is badly rusted, was a very long one. Its blades arc closed and one end of the handle is seen from either side of the stump. This knife must have been brought to Oregon and laid in the forks of an oak tree in Polk County as early as 1649.
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