SULLIVAN J&ffo REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. Every Northern State west of the Al leghaoies has a State university. London publishers are said not to relish the increasing sale in that city of tho American magazines and periodi cals. According to the New York Indepen dent "business is growing more active at nearly every important point, whether in the East, West or South." A well-informed statistician has stated that more Hebrew synagogues have been set up in this country during the past ten years than in all previous years of American history. The popular subscription of #13,000 raised in New York City to provide for sick babies did a great work. Over 116,000 families were visited and over 10,000 sick were prescribed for. The Boston Transcript laments that whales are gettiug almost as scarce as sea serpents, and that whalebone is get ting to cost so much that dressmakers' bills are just about half "for trim mings. " The Kalmucks have an original method of treating cholera. Whenever one of them is attacked by the epidemic he mounts a horse and gallops as long as he has strength to stay on the animal's back. A Russian journalist tried this remedy recently and is said to have found it ef fectual. Columbus is everywhere, the Now York Journal exclaims, and tho very winds seem to shout his name. Even the yacht clubs talk of having lectures on the voyage of Columbus, and beforo tho winter is over some of them may be debating the question "Was Columbus much of a sailor?" It was lately quoted in British shipping circles as a proof of the depression affect ing tho shipping trade that a splendid four-masted irou bark of 2000 tons reg ister, owned on the Clyde, came into port from Australia in ballast, was tin able to get a car;o, and sailed back for the antipodes again with tho same ballast she brought with her. Tho Azores arc to be connected with Europe by cable and European weather prophets are indulging in the hope that the islands so eligibly situated ia mid- Atlantic ocean may be utilized as meteo rological stations. As most of tho Euro pean storms come from that quarter the Chicago Herald thinks that a station in the Azores would be of the utmost value to science as well as to the world's com-> mercial marine. The railroad building of 1892 in tho United States is eJtrnatod by tho New York Independent at a littlo less than 4000 miles. This 40JO miles will bring the railroad mileage of the country up to an aggregate of 175,000 miles. Only 10,000 miles of railroad were built from 1830 to 1851; duiing the next five years as many more were built, and then tho increase was greater until 1837, when 12,800 miles were built, the largest num ber of new mileage roc; r led in any one year. Capitalists aro preparing to establish ft line of steamers between Portland, Ore gon, and the Sandwich Islands to obtain a share of the trade which San Francisco now monopolizes. The islands last year paid to San Francisco iirms $37.1,000 for flour and $405,000 for grain and feed. Portlaud can supply these staples cheaper than its rival, and in return for them expects to brine: bananas, pineapoles, mangoes, and other fruits to its own door. As a locil merchant puts it: "There is no reason why Portland should pay San Francisco a commission on our fruits, and no reason why the islands should pay San Francisco a commission on Oregon flour and feed. Closer com mercial relations must prove profitable both to Portland and the islands, and I see no reason why the enterprise should not be a success." In an Eastern paper appears a lament over the departure of tho typical grand mother. A pretty picture is drawn ot the gray haired old lady that is a mem ory of childhood, with her sweet and patient face and gentle manners. Then it is affirmed that she is no more. In her place has come a woman who uses rouge and has her children's children call her "Aunty 1 " There would be reasons for lamentation had tho grand mother really vanished, admits tho Sau Francisco Examiner, but she hasn't. The Eastern writer may have been deprived of one, and may have seen a specimen or two of the bogus aunty. But the grandmother is a fixture. In many a household she is the central object of af fection, as sweet and gentle as ever. Manners of living change, and not al ways for the better, but they have never changed so radically aud badly as to eliminate the grandmother, and when they do the time will have come to write civilisation a failure. WHERE THE ROUCSH ROAD TURNS. Where the rough road turns and the valley sweet Smiles soft with Its balm and bloom, We'll forget the thorns that have pieroed the feet And the nights with their grief and gloom. And the skies will smile and the stars will beam And we'll lay us down in the light to dream. We shall lay us down in the bloom and light With a prayer and a teor for rest, As tired children who creep at night To the love of a mother's breast; And for nil tho grief of the stormy past Rest shall be sweeter at last—at last! Sweeter because of the weary way And the lonesome night and long, While the darkness drifts to the perfect day With its splendor of light and song; The light that shall bless us and kiss us and love us Ann sprinkle the roses of heaven above usl —F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. A SWISS LOVE STORY. BY ANNA FIERPONT BIVITER. j N a pretty chalet ' that nestled high IjttS against tho shaggy Kjj breast of Mount Ob _ H| gadin lived the widow Neurand her , -P" "wji daughter Marie, 112. *~-'M A lonely home you hF-'JSrJH, =%■ would have thought WWwm but tbe troes ftf J-sjrAMB ( itlißt wailed so in hlh 'II 'VB'.;!7 our ears whispered nBM¥ "lii 'Upgood cheer to Marie. When fierce winds «.rir- came rushing down the mountain side, she knew the trees would bend their tall heads together and twine their stroDg arms arouud her home, until, robbed of his victim, tho baffled storm rushed by. When morning broke, the tame friends stood erect and stately, drawing aside their leaves and branches, that the sunbeams might not linger in their soft embraces, but hasten down to awaken their favorite, Marie. Very lovely was the little Swiss maid, with violet eyes that now danced and sparkled and then grew soft and tender as a little child's. Two rose red lips shut In her pearly teeth, and when she smiled a tiny dimple danced foi a mo ment on her peachy cheek. Her hair clung in caressing curls around her low whito forehead, and fell in ripples of golden sunshine far below her slender waist. And her voice I Ah I that was Marie's greatest charm. Soft and clear, not a discordant note marred its sweet, pure harmony. Sometimes as she sang at her evening devotions the herdsmen far below in the valley, catching faint notes of her song, looked up and crossed themselves, half believing they heard the echo of an ange' choir. But very few knew of Mario's beauty. For when she went with her mother on one ot her rare visits to the hamlet be low, she brushed her wavy hair straight and smooth back from her forehead, and braided it in long stiff plaits which fell j down her bock. Her eyelids, with their curtains of long silky lashes, drooped over her danc ing eyes until one looked in vain for a glimpse of their beauty. Her red lips shut firmly over her pearly teeth, while I the dimple liid itself resolutely away from j sight. And her sweet voice, frightened at its own sound so far from home, grew ! faint and husky, until, in this shrink- ! ing, sober damsel, walking so timidly beside the Widow Neur, you would have found it hard to recognize the beautiful Marie of the mountain. So it happened that only her mother and one other person knew hew good and sweet and how fair Marie was. This other was a stranger who came from a far away country and spent his summers in a little house on the moun tain's very top. The simple villagers called him "the wizard," and told strange tales of how he spent wholo nights gazing at the heavens through a long tube; that ho could foretell to an hour when the sun would cover itself with darkness; but, strangest of all, ho had a little wire stretched for miles over hills and valleys to the great city I This wire talked to him in a queer language which no one els J could understand. "Vick, tick, tickety tick," it said, and it told him things that happened miles and miles away. Marie did not know how wise the wizard was when he came to her home one morning and asked for a drink of water. He followed her to the spring wheu she went for it and stopped by the way to break open a curious stone. He showed Marie how queerly marked it was inside, and then tcld her a story about it. The usually timid maiden was so inter ested sho forgot to be frightened, and thus a strong friendship between the two was begun. After this the wizard often came to the widow's chalet for rest and refresh ment on his long rambles, and Marie un consciously revealed her charms to him, one by one, until, long before the first summer was ended, the stranger knew that no girl in all the canton could be compared with Marie. On the other side of the mountain from the Widow Nour's home lived another widow. Shi, too, had but one child, a son, who was tho pride and delight of her life. This nas the brave young hunter and guide Gustavus Friel. Every one knew and liked Gustavus. He was tall, straight, and handsome, with flashing brown eyes, and a laugh as frank as a child's; he was the favorite of the canton, and there was not a girl within its bounds who would not have been proud to plight her troth with him. Gustavus, however, cared little for the LAPORTE. PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1892. Obgadin maidens. He would far rather chase the chamois up the mountainside or guide travelers through its dangerous passes than spend his time with the finest of the maids of the hamlet. His mother often said, "My son, when wilt thou bring me home a daughter and thyself a wife!" And Gustavus, smiling and and press ing a kiss on her forehead, would an swer: "\Tben I find a maid as good as thee, mother; but I want no idle, shrill-voiced wife to disturb our quiet home." But one day his mother said more sadly and seriously than ever before: "Gustavus, I am growing old and feeble. I can no longer make and mend thy clothes and keep our home. Thou must have a wife. Promise me at the fete next week thou wilt choose one from among the maidens there." Gustavus reluctantly gave her the de sired promise, but i* weighed heavily upon him. He could think of nothing else, and the more he pondered the heavier his heart grew. At last he seized his gun and went out on the mountain, but the perplexing questions followed him, until at last be threw himself on the ground groaning, "Ob, that some wise man would make this choice for me!" A moment after he looked up and saw, as if in answer to his wish, the wizard approaching him. "Why," he exclaimed to himself, "did I not think of him before? Surely he, if any one, can help me." Then, with a throbbing heart, Gustavas sprang up to meet him. The wizird greeted Gustavus warmly, for he felt a strong friendship for the young guide who had taken him safely through many a dangerous mountain excursion. And now bis sympathetic question, "Why, what's troubling you, my boy?" opened the way for Qustavus to pour out all his perplexity, ending his recital with the question; ''Const thou not help me choose a good wife who will make my life hap py? For now I hove given my mother my promise to find a wife at the fete next week." The wizard smiled sympathetically ■ and then thought in silence a little while before he answered. "If a pure, true heart is united to a true, pure heart, both lives must be happy." "Alas!" answered Qustavus, "but I know not which maiden among them all has the purest, truest heart 1" "There will be one such heart at the fete," answered tho wizard, "but you may fail to recognise it. However, if you will come to me to-morrow I will give you a charm that will show you this heart." Here was comfort, iodoed, and with a light heart Qustavus thanked his friend and bounded forward. Left alone, the wixard continued down the mountain-side until he came in sight of the Widow Neur's chalet, where he found Marie sitting by the spring. In stead of her usual sunshiny smile, tiny tear-drops stood in her eyes, and there was a grieved look about her rosy lips that made him wish to comfort her. "What is the matter little one!" he asked gently. "Oh, sir," she said, "I want to see the great fete next week, but I have no pretty ornaments to wear, and then—" The long curtains drooped over her shining eyes and the sweet voice sank aiiuodt to a whisper. "The good mother says none of the young men will care to dance with me." "But why?" asked the wizard in sur prise. "Because I cannot talk and laugh with them as other maidens do. My heart beats fast if they do but glance toward me, and 1 know not what to say, and so," —here a tear slipped from under the long eyelashes—"my mother says I had better not go." "Courage, little one," the wizard an swered. "Tell your mother," he added suddenly, "that I am going to lend you a silver belt to wear, and that my knowl edge tells me that the bravest, hand somest youth in all the land will dance with you quite joyfully." The happy Marie thanked the wizard as Gustavus had done, and ran off to tell the wonderful news to her mother. Early next morning Gustavus went for his charm. He found the wizard waiting for him, and taking him into his strange room, the wise man said, smiling, as he had the day before, half quizzically, half sympathetically: "Here's the charm, my good fellow. You see it is a magic ring. Put it on before you goto the fete, and be sure you dance with every maiden there. When you place your arm about the waist of the one whose heart is true and good a strange foeling will run through you and your hand will cling toiler. But you must bo sure that you dance with alll" Gustavus, greatly wondering, thanked the wizard and slipped on the ring. It was a curious circlet of iron, with a flat extension, which the wizard bade him wear pointing toward his palm. When the fete day cauie Gustavus was there among tho other young men, eager to try his charm. All the maidens of Obgadin wore there also, and on the outskirts of one of the gay crowds little Marie hovered timldiy beside her mother. "Why didst thou come, Marie 1' askod one of the girls. "Didst thou think any youth would want to dance with a mouse to-day t" asked another. Then seeing the quick tears trembling on Marie's lashes, she added more kind. iy; "Ah, well, thou canst at least see our good times." "What a lovely bolt thou hast, Marie!" cried another maiden. "Where didst thou get it!" " The wizard gave it to her," tho Widow Neur answered shortly, for she did not relish the girl's tone, and she drew her daughter away. "Come, Marie, let us lit here tinder the trees and watch the«dance." Marie nestled close to her mother> side, and as the hours fled and no youth asked her to dance, her head dropped lower, and she wondered if the wise man had made a mistake. In the mgan time Gustavus danced with one after another of the maids, but though he watched with intense eager ness, not once did he feel the strange thrill for which he waited. "I have danced with them all," he said at last to himself, "accept that shy one over there: surely she is not the girl I" He asked her name of one of the girls, and then going to her, said aim ply: "Marie, wilt thou dance with me?" Astonishment and delight made Marie for a moment forget her shyness. The wizard's words had come true I Rising quickly, she said, smiling upon him, and showing her beautiful eyes already dancing with delight, and the dear little dimple in her cheek: "Art thou come?" "She is not so plain, after all," thought Gustavus, as he answered: "Wast thou looking for me, Marie?" Marie hung her head without answer ing, and Gustavus, wondering a little at her words, led her to the dance. As he placed his arm around her his band touched her shining belt. Instantly a strange thrill ran through them both,and Gustavus's arm seemed to cling to Marie's waist. "Marie, didst thou feel that?" he asked earnestly. And Marie smilingly answered) "Yes." So they began dancing, and as they danced it seemed to those watching them that a wonderful transformation came over Marie. Her hair, shaken loose from its long, stiff braids, hung like a glittering gol den veil all around her, her beautiful eyes shone like stars, and the dimpled cheeks and pearly teeth formed a fit hid ing-place for the laughing voice that now and then rang sweet and clear from her rosy lips. Not one of the village maid ens was half so fair as shot "Surely," said the amazed villagers, "there was never such a handsome couple." "But is not Marie under a charm," cried others, ' 'she has suddealy grown so lovely?" "Love's witchery, if it is true ami pue, will transform all of us and bring 011 all that is loveliest and boat within us,'? I.i for Gustavus, he thought rightly that he never seen so good and beautiful a creature, and he blessed the wizard for the charm which had led his heart to hers. Long before tho summer enrled, Gus tavxs took home Maria to be hia own and his mother's greatest joy and hap piness. When M. le Wizard returned to Paris that winter, he read a scientific paper before the savants of tho Academy, In it he detailed many of his wonder ful discoveries and his work during the summer. But he did not speak of tho most interesting of all—how, by the aid ot a little magnet, concealed in a steel belt, and a rude ring, he had brought together two loving human hearts, and by so doing had caught some of the happiness of Paradise and imprisoned it in a chalet on old Obgadin Mountain.—Pittsburg Bulletin. An Extinct Monster. The steamer City of Topeka, which anived from Alaskan ports early the other morning, brought a mammoth skeleton that was the center ot attraction to a large number of sight-seerera at Pacific wharf, states the Port Townsead (Washington) Leader. Tho skeleton is is that of a rhamphoreates, or whale liz ard, only the second one known to be in existence. The other, a much smaller specimen than this, was found some years ago near Oxford, England, and is oue of the most valued specimens now on exhibition in the British Museum. J. L. Buck, of Everett, claims the honor of having brought this valuable relic to light, although it was discovered four years ago by a prospector named Frank Wi'.loughby. The spot where the skeleton was found by Buck, who went north for that pur pose, was nearly a mile from where the original location was reported. The skeleton was finally located by Buck and his Indian assistant on top of tho cele brated Muir glacier, six miles inland and SOU feet above the sea level, securely im bedded in a large cake of ice, requiring the service of the entire party for two days to dislodge it. At some time dur ing its existence the skeleton was badly shattered, presumably by a fall or by being crushed, and was somewhat dam aged when taken ont. The rhamphoreates, or whale-lizard, has been extinct for over five conturies, and is described in natural history u the "king of the land and tho sea," this cog nomon being undoubted ly a based on the fact that it was equally at home in the water, on land or in the air. In the first instance tho rate of speed was something terrific, the raomeutum being produced with the legs, while the enormous wings served to keep the body out of tho water, the operation bordering upon the impos sible feat of walking on the water. The great size of the whale-lizard can be judged from the fact that a single bone weighad 794 pounds, while the entire skeleton tipped the scales at 2400 pounds. The bones will be put together by Buck at his home in Everett, and after being exhibited will be sent to the 3mlthsonian Institution. The specimen is valued at $30,000. The lace bark tree grows in the West Indies. It is a lofty tree, with ovate, entire smooth leaves and white flowers. It is remarkable for the tenacity of its inner bark and the readiness with which the inner bark may be separated after maceration in watpr into layera re sembling lace. Two land grants, said to bear the signatures of John Adams and Martin Van Buren, were recently found in a lot of waste paper at the paper mill rn , Palmyra, Mich, THE SAVAGES OF BRAZIL. CTTBIOUS TBIBBI OF INDIANS WHICH INHABIT THB OOUNTBY. Habits ot the Botoondoa—Pleaaant People Who Parlor Orna ments of Their Enemies' Heads. OF the 12,000,000 people now occupying Brazil not quite one third, say* Fannie B. Ward in the Washington Star, are '[Caucasians," and in the majority of individual cases they are so largely •'mixed" as hardly to deserve the name. Another third are negroes; less than one tenth are Indians, and the rest come un der the general head of Metis, or mixed beyond classification. The first, the ed ucated, generally wealthy and compar atively white Portuguese, Brazilians, Spanish-Brazilians and Saxon-Brazilians, whether planters, politicians, merchants or gentlemen of leisure, are naturally the ruling class; as in all Nations of mixed races the whitest, though in ever so small a minority, are the controlling ele ment. To these should be added the soldiers, for though the rank and file shade from black and tan to ebony they are officered by white men of command ing talent and infiaence. It was they who wrought the recent revolution which overthrew an Empire (really against the wishes of the majority of Brazilians out side the capital;, who ousted the first President in the beginning of his term, and are capable at any time of any sort of political overturning. Brazilian Indians are said to bs about the ugliest human beings on the face of the earth, not excepting the "Diggers" of lower California and the tribes of Tierra del Fuego. The Botocudos, who are most noted, have advanced far enough to till small patches of land, live in huts, raise cattle and weave mats for sale. The Portuguese gave them their singular name frort the word potogue, meaning a barrel bung—from their habit of wearing large, round disks of wood in their ears and under lips. This fashion used togo so far that in middle life many of them had stiff under lips pro jecting five or six inches, holding a plug as big as the top of a coffee cup. Of late years the custom is mostly discontinued. The men varnish themselves all over with bright yellow paint made from the bark and gum of a species of palm; and the women ''dress up" as some civilized ladies do, by applying a few streaks of white and red to their fuces and arms. Though many of the Bjtocudos arc now partially civilized, we are assured that those of the far interior are yet cannibals to the extent of bating their captives taken in war. Like the Greeks of the Homeric age, they consider it the great est of evils to lie unburied after death; so tbey delight in making flutes and trumpets of their enemies' bones. I have the questionable pleasure of own ing one of theso gbastly trophies, which has five holes, and is ornamented with tufts of red and yellow feathers attached to the bone by strings; but it requires somebody moie courageous than your correspondent to test its value as a musical instrument by personal experi ment. There is another Brazilian tribe, ' whose name I do not remomber, who are an almost exact counterpart of the Pue blos of Mexico and Arizona—simple, peaceful and industrious. They live near the coast and are doubtless descendants of those Pinzon and other early voyagers first encountered. But unfortunately they are few in number and rapidly dying out, for among their fierce neigh bor* the "turn unto him the other cheek also" principle is disastrous to life and property. 'I here are many scat tered tribes of unreclaimed savages, most of whom are wandering cannibals and all implacably hostile. Perhaps the most interesting among theso (at a saf«s distance) are Mundrucus or "Be headers," who, with their allies, are said to nudiber between twenty aud thirty thousand. They live up the Ma dura Tapajos, Kio Negro and other trib utaries of the Auiaxou, in palm leaf huts set around a central malocca; the latter not the dwelling of a Chief, as might be supposed, but rather a grand council chamber, fortress, arsenal and geueral pow- wow room. In it arc deposited those horrible trophies, the preserved heads of their enemies, which have given to the Mundrucus their title of "Bo headers." Unlike the Jiveros of South eastern Ecuador, tbey do not extract the skull, but by some savage process of embalming keep the cranial relic as nearly entire a; possible, inserting false eyes (made of bits of shell or polished quartz), the long hair combed carefully Out and decorated with strings of> rockcock and macaw feathers, feather earrings in the ears and dyed strings passed through the tongue by which to suspend it to' the rafters. In peaceful times hundreds of these arc ranged around the walls of the malocca or set in rows around the mandioca fields to keep the ghosts away that might otherwise injure the growing food, and on warlike and'festive occasions they are trotted out on the points of the warriors' spears. Strange to say the Dyaks of Borneo have a similar custom of preserv ing their enemies' heads, and are pro vided with blowguns, almost identical with those of South Americans. Like most other Amn7.onian Indians, the Mundrucus cultivate a little mandioca, corn and plantains. They know how to prepare farinha meal from the mandioca, and also to brew a sort of intoxicant re sembling chica. They have gourd ves sels, some df tnem quaintly carved, rude pots of baked elay aud utensils of wood and stone. Their .canoes are hollowed tree trunks, aud besides the blowguns for killing birds, they have bamboo spears with poisoned points nnd arrows tipped with the deadly curare. By the way, the • latter is now gene(at!y conceded to be neither a vegetable poison nor the venom of serpents, as was formerly supposed, but the p«trid matter from decayed human bodies, the arrows being stuck into a festering corpse and left until aoaked full of the deadliest poison known. Term*—Sl.oo in Advance; 51.26 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A door-closer is operated by gravity. * A machine is made for grooving horse shoes. Plowing by electricity is in contempla tion for a large property in Spain. At the present time the average height of the tides tbe world over is only about three feet. An incorrodible metal, which is like wise very hard, is made by amalgamating nickel with steel. A French chemist has succeeded in making imitation diamonds that cost more than the genuine. It is believed that diphtheria is some times contracted by little children while playing near the sewers when the latter are open for repairs or other purposes. Tbe use of minute quantities of chro mium in steel to give it exceptional hard ness was probably lirst carried out on a commercial scale by Julius Bauer, of New York. The life of a locomotive crank pin, which is almost the first thing about an engine to wear out, is 60,000 miles, and the life of a thirty-tbree-inch wheel is 66,733 miles. A California company makes a splendid article of toilet soap from the froth skimmed from a boiling compound. It is supposed to be A mixture of borax, alkali and mineral oil. At Baku, Russia, there it an immense oil well that "ebbs and flows" with the same regularity as do the ocean tides. It is believed to have some mysterious connection with the sea. The lower grade of molasses sells for such a poor price (two cents a gallon), that some of tho Louisiana sugar houses use it for fuel. Several of the Cuban sugar houses thus use It. Sir John Lubbock, who probably knows more about bees than any other man in the world, living or dead, says that there is strong evidence that the queen bee has the power of control ing the sex of the egg. It appears that a colored or dark pig ment in the olfactory region is essential to perfect smell. In cases where ani mals are pure white they are usually totally devoid of both smell and taste, and some, the white cat for instance, are almost invariably deaf. A Boston dentist advocated hypnotism as a local antithetic in a paper read be fore the New England Dental Society and hypnotized a patient there and then as an object lesson in the practise, per forming a dental cutting without elicit ing from the patient any manifestation of feeling. The paper was unaccom panied by drawings. The gall of a gall-fly produced on an oak attracts, states Dr. Rathay, by their viscid secretion, a number of small ants, which he believes to be advantageous to the tree in killing quantities of caterpil lars and other insects which are its natural enemies. He illustrates the value of this protection by the statement that the inhabitants of a single ant's nest may destroy in a single day upward of 100,000 insects. It is found that masonry may be ren dered impervious to water, especially in positions oxposed to direct contact to that element, by the application of coal tar. The latter is employed in a boiling state, in one or more layers, or it may be made to flame up before being used, the first being suitable for surfaces ex posed ts tbe air, while the second is ap propriate in tbe case of parts intended to be covered up. This method of treat ing foundations is declared to be of special utility in all public buildings, particularly those designed for the pres ervation of works of art, preventing as it does exudations of water charged with lime salts from tbe mortar. Mosaic of Thirteen Furs. A rug, ten by fifteen feet, made up the fur of thirteen wild animals is now in the possession of W. 11. Wallenbar, who has an office on Dearborn street. Mr. Wal lenbar keeps his rug, which cost him SISOO, locked up in the vault in his of fice and takes it out only occasionally to exhibit it to particular friends. The rug was made in Moscow and took one man two years to put the pioces to gether. Finished the rug has tho ap pearance ot a rich mosaic, the deep yeU low of the tiger woven into the coal black of the South sea seal in diamond shaped blocks. The center is made up of three rings of a diameter of twenty inches, the patch-like diamond pieces radiating from a circular tuft of monkey skin and bordered by a rim of otter. The ground wotk of the entire piece is in monkey skin. Outside tho large cen ter pieces are two rows of circles. The outside contains fourteen circles, six inches in diameter, made of mink, an gora and otter. The inner rows contain sixteen circles of Russia sab'.e and monkey skin. At either end and on the aides is a six-inch selvage of Russian silver fox hide and twenty silver-gray fox tails adorn the ends. In tho make-up pieces of the furs from the Russia sable, Per sian lamb, Angora goat, China goat, mink, otter, South sea seals, monkey, Thibet lamb, muak rat, weazel, leopard and the Russia silver-gray fox are used —Chicago News Record. English Fruit Markets. There is a prevalent notion that our markets are richer in fruits and vegeta bles than those of England, yet a woman writing home of the great Covent Garden market in London says:"Of the lovli ncss and variety of fruits here «exposed Americans have no adequate idea. I saw scaros of varieties ot Eoglish and foreigu grapes, peaches as large as cricket balls, glossy nectarines, scarlet and brown, downy apricots, freckled by the sun, monster plums, luscious green gaa;es, Orleans plums and swans' egga, glowing magnum bonums, pears from the Cbaii net Islands aud the south of France, mul berries, melons, the nmbergris, and late strawberries big as eggs, in tempting bouquets, bringing from tenpence to a •hilUng apiece."— New York Pott. NO. 8. THE ORIGIN OP SIN. He talked about tbe origin Of sin, Bat present sin, I must confess, He never tried to render less. But used to add, so people talk. His share unto the general stock- But grieved about the origin Of sin. He mourned about the origin' Of siD, But never struggled very long To rout contemporaneous wrong, And never lost his sleep, they say, About the evils of to-day But wept about tbe origin Of sin. He sighed about the origin Of sin; But showed no fear you could detect About its ultimate effect; He deemed it best to use no force, Bnt let it run its natural course- But moaned about the origin Of sin. —Bam W. Foss, in Yankee Blade. HUMOR OF THE DAT. Of course a young woman expects to be killing when sho puts on a kilt.— Pun. It takes a master stroke to smooth down a rebellious schoolboy.—Texas Sittings. About all some people want with re lipioti is to make them feel good.— Ram's Horn. When the head of a mortal gets turned it is always turned the wrong way.— Galveston News. Many a wiso man has picked up a good suggestion where some fool dropped it. —Galveston News. Figures wont lie, but they arc as clay to the potter in the hands of an expert.— Boston Transcript. "She's a very upright young lady." "Yes, but she's bent on matrimony."— Philadelphia Record. A man who lives fast cannot expect that enjoyment will keep up with him.— Binghamton Republican. "Was the pug dog mad that the po liceman shot?" "Gee, whiz! no; but the woman that owned him was."—lnter- Ocean. Forrester—"How time does fly." Lancaster—"l don't blame it. Think how many people there are trying to kill it.''—Brooklyn Life. At Home: Jack Dashing (angrily)— "Pen, I have found you out!" Penelope Peachblow (yawning)—"l really wish you had, Jack."—New York Herald. When on his bobby once he mounts, He'll chatter by the hour. His eloquence is not what counts; It is iiis staying power. —Washington Star. As a rule, a m&n who has a moustache he can twist, or whiskera he can stroke, is three times as long making up hi; mind as one who hasn't.—Atchison Globe. "Was your sou graduated at the head of his claesil' "No, indeed. He was in a much more responsible position—at the very foundation of it."—Black and White. Walking is said to bo the bent exer cise for brain workers, and it is worthy of note that brain workers can seldom afford to do anything else.—Boston Globe. Mrs. Coldwater —"I wonder why he doesn't try holding his breath wheu he has hiccoughs." Jaglets—"l guess it's 'most too strong for him."—Chicago Inter-Ocean. •'Well, this «s tough I" exclaimed Jack Frost. "What is?" asked the man in the moon. "Here is a newspaper allud ing to me as Jack the Nipper."—lndian apolis Journal. "Why is it that Mr. Hardy proved such a flat failure in society?" "That's easy enough to answer, lie talked sense when out at social functions."—Chicago News Record. lie—"A woman can't conceal het feelings." She—"Can't, eh? She cau kiss a woman she hates." He—"Yes, but she doesn't fool tho woman any."— Brandon Banner. "Do you think it is a symptom of in sanity for a man to talk to himself?" "Not necessarily. It may be merely a good-natured toleration of poor society." —Washington Star. Wife (excitedly)—"lf you goon like this I shall certainly loso my temper." Husband-—"No danger, my dear. A thing of that size is not easily lost."— Commercial Bulletin. It does not follow that a man is super ior to his fellows because he makes an impression in society. The dull razor is most successful in making its presence known.—Bostou Transcript. "Do you see double?" asked the oculis> who was examining Farmer Fodder's eyes. "Of course I do," replied the farmer. "I have two eyes, haven't 1;" —Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Van Arndt—"She told me it was het first year out." Maid Msriau—"Why, she's been out four seasons." Van A.— "Ah, well, she counts four seasons the year, I suppose."—Kate Field's Wash ington. A Jersey City official who is in tho coal business, and has been underselling his neighbors, has bceu put under arrest for selling light tons, and is now likely to learn something about the famous weigh of the transgressor.—Philadelphia Ledger. Jimmy—"Can you talk, Mr. Ftypp?" Mr. Flypp—"Yes, of course I can. Why did you ask?" Jimtnie—"Why, 'cauno 1 beard mamma say that your voice Was drowned last night at the concert, and that abe was just awful glati of it.''— Chicago Inter-Ocean. Mrs. Ooodluck—"I don't l>elieve I ever missed any one as I do Mrs. Hi tone." Mrs. Dasher—"l didn't kuow that you were acquainted with her." Mrs. Ooodluck—"I wasn't exactly, but we had the same washerwoman and we have been exchanging handke chiefs for a lone time."—lnter-Ocean-
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers