SULLIVAN JBSIFE REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. Chicago is to have ' 'the biggest tele s-cope in the world. llair-dye is considered so detrimental to long life that a Paris insurance com pany refuses to insure the livc3 of those who use it. The New York Commercial Advertiser is convinced that "poetry pays when it really is poetry, and the Whittier copy rights brin<{ iu as much as SBSOO a year." The New York Boaru of Health sent T)r. Seibert to Hamburg to investigate the cholera. He reports that America must expect a visitation from the plague next summer unless immigration is stopped. The National orgauizstion just formed in Chicago under the title of the "Coun try Road Improvement League" has a gigautic programme, covering tho half million miles of country roads which need to be improved. People who have wondered why 110 woman has ever composed a grand opera or a great symphony will wonder no more. The London Lancet tells all about it. It is because "woinati is de ficient in the physiological conditions of ideoplastic power." The number of schoolhouses iu the United Stnte3 is 216,330. The esti mated value of il'l public school prop erty is $323,565,532. The total reve nues of the public schools are • From permanent endowments, §9,825,127; j from taxes, State, $25,177,067; local, | #88,328,385 $113,505,412; from other i sources, 98,791,431. Total revenue, 5*135,125,010. A curious industry has arisen as the result of the establishment of tho Paris- London telephone. Skilled talkers are employed by the news agencies to do all the telephoning for theso enterprises be cause of their rapidity and distinctness of utterance. As telephoning is expen sive, these experts talk at tho rate of 190 words per minute. French only is employed because of the absence of the hissing sound that render telephoue tails in English frequently uuintelli giblc. An electric railroad to run 100 miles an hour between Chicago and St. Louis is projected. "This soands big," com ments the New York Tribune, "but the range of electrical possibilities has by no means beeu reached. The successful operation of such a road would doubtless point to important changes in our methods of transportation. A speed of 100 miles an hour, however, will require an almost perfectly straight track, aud ou the great majority of the railroads of the East it would be entirely out of the question. One most excellent thing about the proposed new road is that it will have no grade crossings." One good result which the Illustrated Ameritau thinks is likely to follow Eng land's, seizure of the Gilbert Islands is the stoppage of the "contract labor" business. The supply of labor for the coffee plantations in Mexico is small, dear and unreliable. The planters, there fore, turned to the natives of the South Sea Islands to obtain the workmen need ed. Two years ago a cargo of 300 Gil bert Islanders was landed. Tho natives 1 were under contract to work on tho coffee plantations for three years at from §7 to $lO a month. At the expiration of that period they woro to bo returned to their homes. Notwithstanding the contracts the laboreis were virtually slaves. How many will ever reach home again remains to be seen. Prcsideut D. W. Fisher, of Hruover College, Ind., gives the New York Inde pendent information which throws some light on the possible origin of American races. He says: One of the recent grad uates of Hanover College, W. T. Lopp, for tfce past two years has been in charge of tho Mission School for the Eskimos, at Port Clarence, Alaska, on the Amer ican side of Bering Strait. A letter under date of August 31st, 1892, to my self, says of last winter: "No thaws during the winter, and ice blocked in the Strait. This has always been doubted by whalers. Eskimos have told them that they sometimes crossed the strait 011 ice, but they have never believed them. Last February and March our Eskimos had a tobacco famine. Two parties (five men) went with dog sleds to East Cape, on the Siberian coast, and traded some beaver, otter and marten skins for Rus sian tobacco, and returned safely. It is only during an occasional winter that they can do this. But every summer 'they make several trips in their big wolves skin boats—forty feet long. These observations may throw some light Upon the origin of the Prehistoric Races ©f America." Mr. Lopp ia iu every way • reliable man, and it would seem to be % pity not to give to the public the im portant fact which he has narrated above. HAPPY LIVES. She towed the curia from her blushing fac : She softly sighed with a girlish grao.\ "I'm weary of life—it's no commonplace ••Weary of music, forever sweet; Sick of rose leaves beneath my feet; Tired of the days that themselves repeat." Faded the roses, the music stilled; Change has come, as the maiden willed; Sorrow the pulse of her life has thrilled— Sorrow too deep to be sighed away, Where is that wearisome yesterday, Bright with beauty too fair to stay. Into the silence that sits apart, Keeping watch o'er the aching heart, Steals a thought like an arrow dart. "Through the swift cycles of time and space One is the fate that befalls the race- Happy lives ouly are commonplace." —Hattie Fay Townley. (UTHERINFAPPLES. BY HELEN FOR KENT GRAVES. LOWERING sun '"fSP®' Dto n bright day iPT' ilsilli I after all; a brisk Ihß 1 urta October wind was [ -'JhSbem sbiikiiix down the iV' PafirWS® VIIf/I rec ' l eavcs on W'iwvllWll® vl'/l kill, :m< ' Lisbeth <»1/ Lockwood stood at 1 t ' lt * ' oor, '°°' c ' n S boiled the break fast coffee on the stove. "So," said she, with a curve of her lip, "thisis the baronial hall—this tum ble-down old farmhouse, with a few acres of stony soil!" "And this," crisply retorted Barbara, •'is the banquet—a baker's loaf a week old, a pipkin of oatmeal and a pot of llio coffee! But you'd better como in and partake of it." "Bab," cried Lisbcth, flinging back her tawny yellow tresses, "I never was so disappointed in my life!" Bab shrugged her shoulders. "My opinion exactly, Tib I" said she. "Here, all our school-lives-long," tragically uttered Lisbcth, "we've heard of our Uncle Hopkins and Hopkins Hall 1 We've looked forward to coming home to an elegant place, to dwell in luxury. Well! We got a telegram on gradua tion day that our Uncle Hopkins has paid the debt of nature, and we hasten to take possession—" "Of our inheritance!'' laughed Bab, serving out a blue-edged saucer of coarse oatmeal and deluging it with milk. "The tumble-down farmhouse and the stony acres, the old red liorse that we neither of us know!.<>«' to drive, and the cow that we're both afraid of." '•Bab," cried the elder sister, "what are we to do?" "Tib," solemnly responded the younger, "I haven't the least idea," Lisbcth reflectively sipped her coffee. "If we hadn't put on such airs about being heiresses," groaued she, "and boasted of going home to Hopkins Hall to lead a life of luxurious ease, we might have secured one of those nice situations to teach, that Miss Primrose got for the other girls." "It's too late for thrit now!" sighed Bab. "We've got to do something," said Lisbcth. "Yes," admitted Bab; "but what?'' "We used to rave about art," said Tib; "but who would buy the sort of pictures we could paint?" "Tlieu," added Bab, "there was your examination composition. Miss Primrose said it showed great talent. If one could take up literature—" "I sent that to three different oditore," interrupted Tib, sardonically smiting. "Not one of 'em would have a word to say to it. It's up stairs in my trunk now, in case we should need kindling paper." Bab wliistlod—a soft little whistle of dismay. "Evidently," said she, "we're not calculated for a careev. If we were boys instead of girls, we could lun this farm." "Oh, if! Don't let's have any more •ifs,'" impatiently ciied Tib. "What can we do? There's the question." Bab passed her pretty pink finger around the blue edge of the plate before her, with downcast eyei and just a tinge of lising color. "Well, since you ask the question," said she, half smiling, "I think one of us could perhaps—marry." ' For a living?" scornfully demanded Tib. "Not that, of course," said Bab. "Merely in the course of human events." "You incau Holf Woburn?" "I do." "He's a nice fellow enough," said Tib, indifferently. "If he really means business I'' "Lisbeth!" cried indignant Bab; "how can you speak so coarsely?" "I'm only regarding things from the career point of view," said provoking Tib. "To-be-sure, the fact that he has followed us out here might be construed to mean something. At first he natu rally supposed us to be the heiresses that wo supposed ourselves. But," with a comprelientive wave of her hand, "he has seen Hopkins Hall. He is undeceived by this time. If ever there was a dis interested passion his is one." "Tlbl" Bab's eyes sparkle! wrsthfuily. "Have some more coffee, Barbara? Not a drop? Well, I don't biame you; it's poor stuff." "Tib," almost sobbed poor Barbara, "if you don't like Rolf, I'll give up the idea." Lisbeth rushed around the edge ol the table to give Bab a hug and a kiss. "You darling!" she cried. "Do you suppose I'm such a jealous monster as all that? Ido like Holf Woburn as well as I can like any one who wants to take my Bab away from me. But as for thinking him good enough for you, why, the President's son wouldn't be thatl" LAPORTE. PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1892. "Of course," faltered Bab, wiping lier eyes, "I've 110 reason to suppose—" "No, to-be-sure not," nodded Tib. "That's one of the disabilities of woman. She's got to wait until she's asked. Well, wait, Bab, dear. But in the mean time, I've an idea that I picked up in my before-dinner walk." "A money-making idea?" said Bab, her blue eyes shining wistfully through their scarcely-dry mist of tears. "Yes, a money-making idea. There are those big sweet apples up in the or chard dropping down like a red rain— nice table-apples, too; not the poor stuff they pick up to make cider of feed to the pigs. Why shouldn't we put 'em in bar rels—thrre are lots in the barn—and Bell 'em at Baker's Falls? Miss Primrose used to pay three dollars a barrel for apples no better ihan those." "Arc there many there, Tib?" "Thousands of 'em!" responded san guine Lisbeth. "Aud picking up apples is easy work—work that women can do. We'll pack them so c ireful ly that we shall be able to commaud the very best market price. They're not common, cheap fruit, but round and rosy and full of rare, sweet juices. Oct your hat, Bab, we'll go right to work." In the cool, frost-touched air of the old orchard, gathering the lovely red spheres of sweetness into crimson heaps, both girls soon forgot all but their occu pation. Their eyes shone, their cheeks were rosier than the apples, and the wind blew the silky tendrils of their hair to and fro as if bent on a frolic. "You're never goiug to climb the tree, Bab?" "I must?"cried Barbara, lightly swing ing herself into the forks, "or else I must lose those beauties up at the very top. Reach me the basket, Tib. Oh, you can't imagine how perfectly lovely it is up here?" Tib laughed. "You'd have made your fortune as one of Baruum's acrobats," said she. "But it you are going to take our only haudled basket. I've just got to ruu to the barn for another." Light as Atalanta's self she sped over the hilly slopes, down the bowery lane, across the plank bridge which spanned the little brook, to the dreary old stone baru behind the cedar trees. "How provoking I" she cried. "Not a basket here! Well, it's only a step i across the sheep pasture to Mrs. Haw ley's, and she'll lend me one, I'm sure. Mrs. Ilanlcy is always ready to lend everything." While Bab, up in the breezy tree-top, was forgetting her task in a sort of day dream, she overheard those words: "Just exactly here!" said a deep, and not unmelodious voice. "See that old stone sti!e? An-l t K <> well-curb beyond? Well, that's where the line is project ed." Bab's heart began to flutter. Would she not have known Itolf Wo burn's accents, had it been in the Desert of Sahara? "You—don't—tell—me so!" drawled an unctuous tone. "And the station— they'll have to put it pretty neir here, of course?" Woburn laughed lightly. "They can't put it anywhere else," said he. "Whew!" whistled the other man. "In that case, we must somehow manage to get hold of the o'd place—" "A farm!" ii. jrrupted Woburu. "Seventy acres!' ! "What is it valved at?" "At pretty much nothing," chuckled Woburu. "It belongs to two women, and they've no idea what it is worth. Nobody has, and nobody will have, until the new railway is heard from. We can buy at our own terms, for a month or two at least—aud I cau buy cheaper than any one else." "llow's that, eh?" The oily voiced man was lighting a cigar. "Young women, are they? Oh, you sly dog! You're at your old tricks, eh—making love to the girls? Is it one of them or | both—hey? And what will Miss Vate ! mar say?" Woburn laughed a low, amused laugh, j "Miss Vatemar will never know," 1 said he. "All this, old fellow, is in the ■ way of business. The Lockwood girls ! are very pretty and agreeable, and if they choose to draw false interferences, I can't help it, can I? You don't need your measuring liuo, Ilale. I can tell you the number of feet to a nicety. Just, here, you see, and—" *.The voices died away, under tho slope of the hill. Barbara Lockwood, nestling up among the boug'is like some fair human bird- I ling, drew a quick breath. Her eyos shone like stars; her cheeks blazed hot scarlet. "If we choose to draw falso infer ences," she murmured, under her breath. "But I don't think we shall choo3c to do anything of the sort, Tib and I. So wc 1 are to be used to help on a speculation, | are we? Perhaps there may be two j opinions on that subject." And to the last day of her life, Barbnra Lockwood never knew quite | how she drifted down from that tree among the red apples that covered the short grass below. She was there. That was all she could tell. "I've brought the basket!" called Tib, from the stile beyond. "Never mind the basket," said Bar bara. "I've something else to think of just now." 1 And two conspirators in the days of the Ouelphs and Qhibellines could not have held their beads closer together than did Bab and Tib on the way back to the old farmhouse that day. When Mr. Woburu sauntered in, on , the edge ot the evening, the sisters were ' packing red apples carefully into a row of barrels on the kitchen floor. He smiled that soft, caressing smile ol his, and proffered assistance at once. "No," said Bab, iu a business-lik< I way; "we're just through now. Mr. Adams is to take the into town for us to " j morrow. It will probably be tho lasl , money we shall ever ui:;ke out of tbi ! Hopkins Farm." 1 "Keullyl" Mr. Woburn lifted his brows. "We have sold it," said Bab, "to old Doctor Russell for twenty thousand dol lars. It seoms that a new railway is to run right through the old sheep pasture" —she eyed him keenly as she spoke— "and they're thinking of locating the depot at the north end of the orchard. Doctor Russell is a good business man, and thinks he can make a fair financial arrangement out of it. And we are quite satisfied with the terms. Don't look so amazed, Mr. Woburn. You see you were mistaken when you believed that you could get this place for 'pretty much nothing' because it belonged to two wo men who didn't know what it was worth." "Eh?" gasped poor Woburn, in sore amazement. "Yes, "wickedly added Tib; "and now the best thing you can do is togo back to Miss Vatemar, whomever she may be, and tell her that the Lockwood girls are not in any danger of drawing false in ferences from your agreeable attentions. A shallow knave, Mr. Woburn, is the silliest sort of a knave. Oh, no ex planations, please! We wish you a very good evening!" And so Rolf Woburn's great railway land speculation fell through, and Bab Lockwood escaped heart!roe. "And if we're not heiresses, after all,' said cheerful Tib, "we're independent, and that's quite as good."—Saturday Night. Strange Ejes of Bees. The directness of tho bee's flight is proverbial. The shortest distance be tween any two given points is called a bee-line. Many observers think that the immeuse eyes with which the insect is furnished greatly assist, do not en tirely account for, the arrowy stiaight ness of its passage through the air. Every bee has two kinds of eyes, the two large compound ones, looking like hemispheres, on either side, and the three simple ones which crown the top of the head. Each compound eye is composed of 3500 facets —that is to say, an object is reflected 3500 times on its surface. Every one of these facets U the base of a hexagonal pyramid, whose apex is fitted to the head. Each pyra mid may be termed an eye, for each has its own iris and optic nerve. How these insect* manage this mar velous number of eyes is not known. They are immovable, but mobility is un necessary because the range of vision afforded by the position and the number of the facets. They have no lids, but are protected from dust and injury by rows of hairs growing alongjthe lines at the junction of the facets. The simple eyes ara suppose to l ave been given the bee to enable it to see above its held when intent upon gatheriuglhoney from the cups of flowers. Probably this may be one reason, but it is likely there aro other uses for them not yet ascertained. A bee flies much in the same way as a pigeoni—that is to say, it first takes an upward spiral flight into the air, and then dartsistraight for the object in view. Now an experi menter on insect nature covered a bees simple eve with paint and sent it int'o the air; instead of darting straight off after rising, it continued to ascend. Apparently, then, these eyes are used in some measure to direct'tbe flight.—Pear son's Weekly. Inventions of the Hour. A machine for imbeddingnviro netting in glass. A tailor's measuring square > with a plumb bob attachment. A printing press operated by an elec tro-magnetic mechanism. A pneumatic cushion to be placed on the ends of telephone receivers. A process for making artificial mica sheets for electrical insulation. A paper knife that is especialljpadapt ed to cutting the wrappers on rolled papers. A stop for window shutter blinds, so that they may be arranged at any>desired augle. An electric branding stamp, the type being kept red hot bv moans of an elec trical resistance. An electrical light hanger that iis ad justable to any angle by moans ofia uni versal joint. A door lock so constructed that when the key is turned it switches on the | lights in the room. A mat formed of sections, each section having a loop of rigid material with i rings of rope surrounding it, tho sections 1 being clamped together. A gravity motor for pumping pur poses, the weight being lifted to the top ;of a derrick, whence, by a clockwork system, it operates a pump as it slowly descends. An automatic medicine stand fop the j liomocpathically inclined, consisting of two cups, two spoons and an indox that automatically marks tho next cup from 1 which medicine is to be taken. — Onr Continent's Many Names. In these quadro-centennial day* it is I worth while to recall the fact that the 1 continent now named America has gone at one time or another by a great many 1 names. The notion that Columbus held , of finding a westward passage to India i by way of the Atlantic is recorded by . the name New India and India Occi ' dental, found upon old maps as indicat- I ing the land discovered by Columbus, i America Mexicana was an old name of j North America, as America Peruviana was of South America. Then Brazil was 1 for a time the name applied to the ; Southern continent. Finally the origin of the name America has been gravely disputed, though the weight of testimony leaves practically no doubt that it comes from the Christian name of Amerigo Vespucci. Home early authorities, however, gravely contended that the name came from the Peruvian word Amaru, meaning the sacred symbol of the cross, made ot a serpent and a stick, and the suffix ca, meaning country. Thus derived, I America means the laud of the holy ani mal.—New York Advertiser. A "ROUND-UP' OF CATTLE. ) A PECULIAR PALL CEREMONY ON WESTERN RANCHES. The Operation ot Branding the Cat tle —Curiosities ot Brands—Steal ing Cattle by Changing Marks. THROUGH the months of Octo ber and November n peculiar ceremony is going on at the hundreds of cattle ranches of the Northwest. It is the fall "round-up, ' when the stock is driven to the "home ranch" or headquarters for "cutting out" the marketable steers and branding any animals that may have escaped the iron in their days of calfhood. Long days of riding on the part of the ranch assistants precede the gathering, and when the thousand or more head of cat tle that have been feeding all summer on the plains are collected in the big corral it is a splendid sight. On the hip ol every grown animal there is a series of scars, showing their healed surfaces through the sleek hair. It is the trademark of the praries. By its perfect system the cattlo can be iden tified as if by name, and the buyer in Chicago, Omaha or Kausas City knows exactly as he sends a mixed carload off to the packing houses fram which ranch each came. Branding requires one or two men with lariats and one man with the brand ing iron. With skillful hands the lassos are thrown, catching the steer or cow by horns and hind foot. Perhaps the victim is tumbled on its back, per haps not. At any rate, in a moment the assistant has run from the fire with the red-hot iron in his hand, pressed it a moment on the shrinking fl.ink; there is a litt t >ufl ol smoke, a smell of burn ing flesh, aud beneath is a mark that will remain until the creature's death. It seems cruel, but it is a necessary plan of identification. Hard as it is to capture and hold the animal it is almost equally difficult to let go. At the instant the ropes are loosened the frightened beast, never before touched by human hands, leaps to his feet eager for an object upon which to wreck ven geance. For a man on horseback the steer has the utmost respect, but for man or horse separately absolutely no fear. Either is helpless in a herd of Texas steers. The marking system is based upon registration of brands. Every man who owns stock 011 the great prairies where fences are unknown must select a brand —letter, figure, fanciful design or com bination and register it with the county aad State officers as well as with cattle associations. His brand must be distinct from nil others, hence the steer that lias strayed during the summer from Southern Wyoming over into Ne braska or Northern Kansas is quickly identified at the annual round-up. In spectors arc stationed at the shippirg points to intercept aud seize for the ben efit of the cattle associations any animal not described in the bill of sale. The old-time brands are note 1 for their intricacy and fancifulness. Some of them almost cover the flank of the cattle and make the hide worthless. Letter brands are common, maty stock men using their own initials. The diffi culty of securing a brand not previously used has led to bars over and under the letters, half circles, letters written hor izontally—known as "lazy" letters.—and similar devices. Flying letters are written with red hot pokeis and continue the letter proper into long, straggling flourishes. Of late years the figure brands have become the favorites. Out lines of axes, shears, boots, eggs, arrows, etc., are likely to be found on the stock of small owners, though the brand of the Sidney Dillon ranches is a rude mit ten. The thousands of cattle owned by the Earl of Freund are marked "70," and the brand is almost as familiar in Europe among cattle owners as on the ranges of Nebraska and Wyoming. Sen ator Carey brands his herds "C. Y." The Oelrich ranches have the "bar II," or this, " —H." Occasionally a man with a short name will put it in full on his stock, but it is needless cruelty. A few years ago it was not uncommon for poor, but energetic, young mcu to start in life on the plains with no capital but a branding iron and soon retire well fixed in the world's goods. By patiently lassooing one unmarked animal after another aud leaving a trademark on its flank, a respectable herd was soon ac quired. A violent attack of hetnp fever was also acquired if the "rustler" was caught. Changing brands was also a favorite pursuit with the rustler. Adding a let ter, figure or device, or by some means obliterating the mark already on was common. The story is still told in Ne braska of the Napoleon of Cattledom, who invented the spade brand, formed by heating a spade red hot and slapping it on the creature's flanks, obliterating all previous brands. He was invited to a necktie party and never returned. Changing O G cattle into B O C was reported by the papers last year, and the Three Ones Rauche found that its brand "HI" was being transformed by some unknown depredator into "H 1." The only method by which a brand can be legally wiped out is by "venting" it, which means placing the original brand upside down under the oue first burned. A steer that has changed hands several times thus often comes to present a crazy patchwork appearance. At the fall round-up there are found many cattle without a mark. They were missed when calves or were born after the spring branding and are termed "mavericks." The word is one peculiar to the West and has come to mean any lonesome individual owned by nobody and claimed by none. The mavericks are gathered by themselves aud sold at 1 auction, the proceeds going to the cattle 1 associations to help pay for inspectors ' and registration.—Detroit Free Press. An ordinary day coach weighs about 50,000 pounds; Pullman sleepers weigh •bout 75,000 pound*. Terms—tl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Fifty-one metals are now known to exist. The dragon-fly can devour its own body aud the head still live. The bleaching of one piece of linen requires forty-four distinct operations. Fish are thought to be very cold, yet their normal temperature is seventy-seven degrees. The astronomers say there are at least 18,000,000 suns, each as large and many larger than ours, in the Milky Way. There are seventeen different railroad gauges in this country, varying from two feet to five feet seven inches in width. Hypodermic injections of percedate is said to be the new cholera remedy which checked the disease in Hamburg, Ger many. The moth has a fur jacket and the butterfly none because the nocturnal habits of the moth require it, the diur nal movements of the butterfly do not. From a Japanese fruit a German chem ist has obtained agreeu coloring matter, trickosanthine, which is interesting as being the first vegetable green differing decidedly from chlorophyll. It can be proven by a simple calcula tion that the number of people which have existed on the globe during the past 6000 years approximates the grand total of 66,000,000,000,000,000. It is proposed to construct a railway to the top of Ben Nevis, the highest moun tain in the British Islands, where a me teorological observatory has been main tained for years, connected with the lower world by a telegraph wire. Calculations deducted "by a newly in vented "electric measuring and flash light photographic apparatus" prove that cannon balls move through the air at the rate of 1626 feet per second, the average being about three seconds to the mile. Recent astronomical calculations have caused the "star-gazers" to annoucce that the surface of the moon is about as great as that of Africa and Australia combined, or about equal to the area of North and South America, without the islands. Mars is in opposition about once in two years, but, owing to the eccentricity of his orbit, his distanco from the earth varies greatly at different oppositions. The most favorable ones—like those of the past summer and 1877—ocour at in tervals of about fifteen years. A man in Columbus, Ohio, has pat ented an electrical device intended to automatically lower and raiso railroad gates at grade crossings at the approach and after tho passing of trains. The ap paratus is expected to entirely supplant the flagmen am' g*'e tenders. Heat-lightning is simply the reflection of the lightning of distant storms, too far away for the noise cf the thunder to roach us. These storms often draw nearer and develop iuto the ordinary type of thunder-showers, or they may pass away in another direction. A steam dynamo is the latest combina tion noted. In this the steam engine— an upright one—is attached to the dynamo, instead of, as f»t first, the dy namo being attached to the engine. The floor space required is no larger than if tho dynamo had a pulley for belt driv ing. The Muses. The Muses were demi-gods, or, rather, deuii-goddesses, the patrons of litera ture, music, poetry, dancing ami the fine arts generally. They dwelt upon the three sacred mountains, Helikon, Parnassus and Pindus, in Greece, and there were nine of them. Clio was the muse of history. She is generally represented carrying a roll of mauuscript. Melpomene was the muse of tragedy and is made to wear a mask and sometimes carry a sword or club. Thalia was the muse of comedy and bur lesque. She wore a mask aud carried a shepherd's crook. Then came Calliope, the muse of heroic poems, sometimes called tho chief of the Muses. She carried a writing tablet and a stylus. Urania presided over the study of as tronomy. In the lupresontations she sits besido a globe, holds a compass with one hand, while with the other she points upward to the stars. Euterpe presided over music. She was figured as playing the flute. The muse of song and oratory was I'oljhymnia, 01; Polyui nia, generally pictured in an attitude of contemplation and wearing a laurel wreath. Love aud marriage songs bad Erato for their inspiiation. Erato wore a wreath and played on a large lyre with many strings. Terpsichore was the last of the muses. She presided over danc ing, and is represented as wreath crowned and carrying a lyre. Mnemosyne, mean ing "memory," was the "mother of the muses." The muses occupied a prominent place in the later mythology of Greece and Rome, and are the subject of very fre quent allusion in literature.—New York Voice. •'Compressed Ton." A novelty for travelers who enjoy the cup that cheers is "compressed tea." This is put up by certain Russian firms resident in China. It is made of the fine dust of tea-leaves, but is none the less expensive for all that, for it is com pressed by the powerful force of steam machinery into compact tablets which take up about one-sixth the space which the same amouut of loose tea-leaves would occupy. Tneso tablets are iu turn enclosed in tinfoil, then in fancy paper wrappers, and finally packed in metal lined cases. Put up in this way, the tea is considerably easier to carry, aud the fine dust of the tea which is usually sold at a low price is made use of to good profit. Tueae tablets of tea have been extensively used for some time in Russia, for every Russian on joys bis cup of tea and knows but little about coffee, though the Turk, who is at his very doors, makes the very best coffee in the world. Thus far these tablets of tea have not been imported to any extent Into our country.—New York Tribune. NO. 9. HER NAME. "I'm 1 oateal Could you find me, pleeesf* Poor little frightened baby 1 The wind had tossed her golden lleeoe. The stone had scratched her dimpled knee*. I stooped and lifted her with ease, And softly whispered "May be." "Tell me your name, my little maid, I can't find you without it." "My name is Shiney-oyes," the said. "Yes, but you last?" She shook bar head; "Up to the house 'ey never said A single fing about it." "But, dear," I said, "what is your name?" "Why, didn't you hear me tell you? Dust Shioey-eyes." A bright thought came; Yee, when you're good; but when they blame You, little one—it's Just the same When mamma has to scold you?" "My mamma never scolds," she moans, A little blushing ensuing. "Cept when I've been a-frowing stones. And then she says" (the culprit owns), "Mehetable Sapphira Jones, What has you been a doing?" —Anna F. Burnham. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Parts of speech—Hyphens.—Truth. Goes through without change—The shopper.—Puck. The indispensible servant is master of the situation.—Judge. Clothes may not make thi man, but suits make the lawyer.—Elmira Gazette. Fame is a bright robe; but it soon wears out at the elbows.—Hum's Horn. "Eirly to bed an l early to rise" Makes of a man what most people despise. —Judge. When one woman praises another, folks think she is sarcastic. Ham's Horn. What is done cunnotbc undone, especi ally if it is a hard-boileJ egg.—Texas Sittings. Success shows off our good qualities; lack of success shows oil our defects.— Texas Sittings. A man has to be puffed up well be fore he can blow his own horn with proper vigor.—Puck. The sign-painter may make a dolUr ■while the steeple-painter is waking ascent.—Boston Courier. If fou want to get ahead in the world, don't lio abed in the morning thinking about it.—Atchison Globe. A great many "gentlemen of the old school" do not seem quite to have fin ished their education.—Puck. It is noticeable that a little man is always very nnld in his testimony against a big man in court. —Atchison Glob. It's a queer thing, but the course of true love runs all the smoother the more it is studded with rocks.—Southron. Had Her There: Mistress—"You're the biggest fool I ewer knew." Maid— •'You forget yourself, ma'am."—Fudge. Every man who gets whipped for a sin complains that other people ha\c done more and been whipped less.— Atchison Globe. "I think Charles the First was crazy," said Professor Bungleton. "He certainly lost his head," observed Professor Sin gleberry.—Southron. It does not fo'low that all women arc purscproud simply because they invari ably carry their pocket-books in their hands.—Boston Trauscript. Notwithstanding the precautions taken by attendants at a circus tent to swell the treasury, the rain will sometimes beat its way in.—Statesman. North Side Mother—"Oscar, why can't you be a good boy?" Wayward Four-Year Old—"Mamma, it makes me so tired I"—Chicago Tribune. "That is Miss Sharp singing. Her father is having her voice cultivated." "Yon cau easily tell that." "Howl" "It's harrowing."—Cape Cod Item. A London woman advocates the use of dynamite in securing "women's rights." This is darryiug a disposition to blow the men up to an extreme. —Washington Star. Nellie—"Mamma, Geordie's swallowed a quarter an'he's chokin'!" "Oh, my child, why did you do itt Now I havea't enough for car fare."—Chicago News. Priscilla—"But don't you think it's a girl's duty to #3k the consent of her parents?" Prunelia—"Oh, yes; unless she thinks they won't grant it."—Neff York Herald. "Lightning never strike twice in the same place," they say. "No?" "No.'* "Well, how do you account for it?* "Must be minipulated by a woman, I suppose."—Chicago Tribune. "Sraiggins appears to grow more stupid every day." "Yes. Somebody told him that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and he is trying to forget all he knows."—Washington Star. When the city man on a farm begins to talk at the breakfast table about "speckled beauties" he wants to make it plain at the very start that he doesn't mean the horny-handed farmer's daugh ters.—Somervillc Journal. "Now, wife, you have Again given me too much tea. 1 asked you for a cup half full. Don't you know what half full is?" "Well, John, I ought to. You have endeavored to illustrate many times what it means."—Buffalo Enquirer. "What a sight you are!" "Just as I was leaving the house to come t-o the club my wife pelted me with flowers." "But that doesn't account for your bruised and battered appearance." "You see, she forgot to take them out of the pots."—Fliegende Blaetter. White-Tie Races. Race meetings in India generally in clude some comic features, and the latest novelty is a "white-tie race," in troduced at Kirkee. The competitors ride a certain distance, dismount, and kneel before ;i lady while she ties a white tie round their neck in a neat bow, then they remount and start for the winning poet. Much depends on the 'adj's deftness.—Chicago Times.
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