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-