SULLIVAN JGGFO REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XI.
The seal catch has been so small tbia
season that the sealers have lost money.
It hardly seems possible, yet figure*
are said to prove that the world's entire
population could find standing room on
a field ten miles square.
Oladstone makes the calculation that
if the ratio of increase of population
continues for a century the same as in
the last decade, our population in one
hundred years will amount to 600,000,-
000. ,
We learn now that the famous jubilee
shot fired from a twenty-two ton gun in
Queen Victoria's jubilee year, to ascer
tain how far a shot could be carried, re
mained in the air sixty-nine and one-half
seconds, and the highest point reached
in its flight of twelve miles was 17,000
feet.
The establishment of railway hospitals
and ambulance cars, to be stationed at
round-houses ready for emergencies, is,
in the opinion of the New York World,
a good idea in some ways, but it is not
very reassuring to the nervous passenger
to have the thought constantly with him
that the services of surgeons may bo
needed at any minute.
According to the Irish Times the
future of the cow looks dark. It is uow
proposed—patent applied for—to milk
her by means of "two pairs of elastic
and feather roller segments, having
rocking, approaching and receding
movement." The description of the
machine adds that "it rests in a self
adjusting frame suspended ou the
cow."
Tho Sailors' and Firemen's Union of
England has issued a manifesto warning
the public to avoid steamers that arc
manned by Lascars or East Indians. The
manifesto says that recent disasters,
notably the wrecks of the Peninsula and
Oriental steamer Bokhara, in the Straits
of Formosa, and the Anchor line steamer
Koumania on the coast of Partugal, have
shown that Lascars are unable to stand
rough weather. If British seamen had
been employed on these vessels, the loss
of life would have been less.
The Emperor of Japan, according fo
foreign papers, will, visit Europe in
1893, and may be induced to extend his
journey to the Uuited States. The Em
peror is an extremely intelligent and
enlighteucd monarch, and the possi
bility of his visit does ~<ot alarm Euro
pean courts as much as favors on the
part of the Oriental rulers usually do.
A nephew of the Emperor is serving as
a Lieutenant in the German Navy at
present, and several other members of
his family have studied in Europe. Ilis
Majesty has never visited the countries
of the Occident.
Among the questions with which Mr,
G'adstone's government has to deal,
says Frank Leslie't Weekly, is that of
the evicted tenants iu Ireland. The de
mands of the Irish people as to this
question have recently been formulated
by John Dillon, who iusists that all
tenants "who can show to the new
''commission that they have been unjustly
evicted during the past thirteen years
must be reinstated in their holdings."
Ho expects furthermore "that these
tenants will be reinstated on terms that
will euahle them to live und thrive in
their homes."
In a recent report the Minister of
Public Instruction of Chile says that
thero were 1174 public sc'iools open to
scholars in that republic last year. At
present there arc in all 1193 schools
open. The total number of scholars en
rolled last year was 95,450. The num
ber of teachers was 1911 last year, while
to-day it Is 2043. The number of private
schools in 1891 was 413. Of these 161
were* for boys, 108 for girls and 140
mixed. The number of scholars en
rolled was 24,344. Of these 13,366
were boys and 10,978 wore girls. Tho
total nu nbor of scholars in public and
private schools was 119,800.
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The adoption by California of an
amendment to the State Constitution
providing a way for the ascertainment
of the popular choice for United States
Senator is, thinks thj Washington Star,
a significant step in the direction of the
-election of Senators by the direct voto
of the people, which would only be
possible through an amendment of the
Federal Constitution, There is so little
known in the East as yet of the machinery
of the new fundamental law that nothing
can be predicated upon the popular
action in California further than tho
obvious assumption that the amendment
merely provides a manner of submitting
to the Legislature the choice .of the
people, ascertained probably through
the üßuial party channels. "The action
of Illinois in Senator Palmor's case,
seconded by California in the recent
election,is," concludes the Star, "a straw
pointing to the ultimate change of mode
of senatorial elections."
AS DIES THE YEAR,
The Old Year knocks at the farmhouse door,
October, oome with your matron gaz?,
From the fruit you are storing for writer
days.
And prop him in on the granary floor,
Where the straw lies threshed and the
corn stands heaps;
Let him eat of the bread he reaped;
He is feeble and faint, and can work no
more.
Weaker he wanetb, and weaker yet,
November shower your harvest down.
Chestnut, and mast, and acorn brown;
For you he labored, so pay the debt,
Make him a pallet—he cannot speak—
Anl a pillow of moss for his pale, pinche l
cheek,
With your golden leaves for coverlet.
He is numb to touch, he is deaf to call,
December, hither with muffled tread.
And gaze on the Year, for the Year is
dead,
A d over him lay a wan white pall.
Take down tha mattock and ply the spade.
And deep in the clay let clay be laid,
Atpi snowflakes fall at his funeral.
My wage well earned and my work-days
done.
And the seasons following one by one,
To the slow sweet end that tho wise foresee;
Fed from the store of my ripened sheaves,
I>aid to rest on fallen leaves.
And with snow-white souls to weep for me.
—Alfred Auitin, in London World,
[A LEAP-YEAR STORY,
BY ANNA SHIELDS.
fELDON PARK,
Eloisel" said Mr.
Luttrcll, as the
carriage in which
he and his daugh
ter had been driv
en from Fontenoy
entered a broad
avenue leading to a
stately mansion.
Eloise looked with
languid interest ai
the house, the
broad sweep of
lawn, the grand
trees, representing
the estate of Frank
Weldon.
"Yes, papa,'' she said quietly. «'l
remember the place quiet well, although
I was only about twelve years when we
were here last. I suppose the lady on
the porch is Mrs. Weldon."
"Yes—yes—and Frank is here too.
Dear me, Eloise, I wish you would not
look as if you were half asleep."
Thus admonished, Eloise sat more
erect, and put some animation into her
greeting as the carriage stopped at the
foot of the flight of broad stairs leading
to the porch, where Mrs. Weldon and
her son waited to welcome their guests.
It had been understood in the families
of Weldon and Luttrell for years that
Frank and Eloise would oue day unite
the fortunes and estates by a marriage.
Tho young people did not consider
themselves to be formally betrothed, but
when old Mr. Weldon died and left his
chum and life long friend Mr. Luttrell
as one of the trustees for the property
his son would inherit when he came of ,
age, he certainly expected that Eloise
would reign at Weldon Park when Mrs.
Weldon, Frank's mother, died; ana
when Mrs. Luttrell died in Paris, she
urged her husband's return to America
with the conviction that it would be bet
ter now for Eloise to marry Frank,
since she had devoted much of her life
to her mother's state of invalidism.
It was eight years since the Luttrells"
had left America to travel for the bene
fit of Mrs. Luttrell's health, when she
died. In that time Eloise bad been un
der the care of a German governess in
Germany, a French governess in Paris
and an English governess in London and
in Italy. She had studied music under
the best ma-.ters, had dabbled in art,had
gone into society at fifteen to "keep
papa company" when her mother was ill.
Early developed, she had never yet had
auy love-affair, and when Frank Weldon
was sent abroad to finish his education,
and joined the Luttrells, Eloise gavehim
a cool but friendly reception, quite pre
pared to marry him on the 'oreign plat
form, to "please papa."
They were together in many foreign
cities, but their love making was of the
most languid description, each giving
the other cordial liking and thinking
ardent feeling quite superfluous under
the circumstances. They parted in
Paris, and l'rank had been at home
nearly two years when he welcomed the
Luttrells to America and to Weldon
Park.
"You must make us a long visit before
you go home," Mr?. Weldon had written
to Eloise, "it is so long since your house
was opened that it will not be habitable
for months, and you will be so near that
you can easily superintend all the clean
ing or re f«rn'.shiug."
So, af:era few days' rest in NewTork
the LuttreJ* telegraphed to Weldon
F»rk aud were met at the station by the
carriage.
it must bo confessed that Mrs. Wel
don was not pleasantly impressed by the
entire coolness of her daughter-In-law
elect. She was a warm-heartet impul
sive little woman, who idolized her only
son, and she nude little allowance for
the early maturity into which Eloise had
been forced. It chiliad her to sea how
calm antf self-possessed this girl of
twenty was, and even the statuesque
character of her superb beauty rather
app&lled her. She gave Frank a half
frightened look as tho guests swept up
the s tail case to the rooms prepared for
them, and l'rank, ns soon as they were
out of hearing, broke into a boyish
laughter. Nearly five years older than
Kloise he looked younger, being blond
and boyish, while she was brunette and
stately. I think in her heart of hearts
Eloise rather despised his merry, light
hearted nature, but she never expressed
any such opinions.
When the guest* joined mother and
son in tho drawing room, before dinner,
tiiey were both surprised to meet a gen
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1893.
tlemnn who was introduced by Mrs.
Weldou as "my brother. Doctor Ger
rish," and to find this member of the 1
family a cripple aod invalid. lie was a
tall, slight-built man ot thirty-seven or
eight, with a delicate, refined face, and
with one shoulder deformed, while there
was a decided halt in his gait. Shrink
ing evidently from notice, he yet made
an effort to aid in entertaining his sister's
guests, and conversed in a low, sweet
voice, almost womanly in its delicate
modulations.
It was not until the next day that
Frank, sauntering through the garden
with Eloise. spoke of his uncle.
"No," he said, in auswer to her ques
tion, "he did not here before you
weut abroad. He was practicing medi
cine then in Boston, but he was injured
by a fall, and he lost his property in
some unfortunate investments; so mother
insisted upon his coming bere, to take
care of her while I was in Europe. Since
then it has been easy to persuade him to
stay. He enjoys the seclusion, and he is
a close student, contributing largely to
medical literature, though he has ceased
to practice. He cannot trust his nerves
since his accident, and a doctor dare not
be nervous."
"Does he suffer much?"
"Not physically, but I think ho doe*
mentally. He was ambitious and an en
thusiast in his profession. It was hard
to be cut short in what promised to be
an unusually successful career."
"Very hard," said Eloise, with a great
sigh, "It is as bad as being a woman
with no great object to live for."
Frank looked slightly bewildered, but
made no reply. Eloise had never con
fided to him the longings of her heart
to be a great artist or a great singer, nor
the weary disgust to her that it was to
know she must be only a fashionable
young lady, with plenty of money ot her
own and a fortune of her father's in
prospect.
"1 cannot oven bo Lady Bountiful,"
thought this disgusted young lady, "for
there are no very poor people about here
that I know of, and papa would not let
me go near them if there were."
But Frank's account of his uncle
roused her interest, twd she longed to
let him know how keenly sho sympa
thized with him.
It was not easy to break through his
reserve, but certainly no better oppor
tunities could be found than those af
forded by a summer sojourn in the same
country-house; and scarcely knowing
how the intimacy commenced, Doctor
Gerrish aod Eloise became friends.
Eloise would have indignantly denied
the possibility of her flattering any one,
and yet there was the moat delicate flat
tery in her respectful deference to
Doctor Gerrish's opinions, her habit of
turning to him for sympathy in her
opinions, her evident- pleasure in his so
ciety. She sang his favorite song and
wore his favorite colors; and when he
would talk to her of his pursuits, his
book in progress, she felt a strange sense
of elation at being thought worthy of
his confidence.
Alterations were being made at Luttrell
Place, where Mr. Luttrell talked of es
tablishing himself for the future; but
they were not urged forward very rapidly.
The house und grounds belonged to
Eloise, being a portion of her mother's
property bequeathed to her; and Mr.
Luttrell of'-cn spoke of going abroad
again, as if the settling down at Luttrell
Place was not entirely decided upon.
••It is as well to have the place in or
der," he told Eloise. "You and Frank
may object to living here, you know,
though Mrs. Weldon would be a model
mother-in-law."
And Eloise had answered only by a
burning blusli and drooping eyes.
More than once she had met any refer
ence to that tacit engagement in the same
way, but Mr. Luttrell had asked no
questions.
In the fall they went to their own
home, and Frank became a daily visitor,
while there was seldom a week passsd
when Eloise did not drive orer in her
pony-carriage to eall on Mr*. Weldon.
She was unlike the calm, self-possessed
woman who had returned from Europe,
in those days. She was restless and pre
occupied, neglecting her usual pursuits,
and often shuttiug herself up in her
room for hours together, coming out
with red eyes and pale cheeks, but never
speaking of illness or sorrow.
Christmas came, and there was a ball
at Weldon Park, which would be fol
lowed, it was understood, by a similar
entertainment at Luttrell Place on New
Year's Eve. It was between these two
festivities that Mrs. Weldon came, one
day, to visit Eloise. '
The dear little woman was terribly
troubled and took her grief to headquar
ters. Quite by accideut, she had dis
covered that her crippled brother had
given his heart to the beautiful girl who
had so gently won his confidence, and
I the hopelessness of his attachment was
appalling to his warm-hearted sister. It
! was the strangest thing to ask, but she
did ask Eloise to stay away from Weldou
Park until after her marriage.
"Thon my brother and I will go
abroad until he is himself again," she
said, "and I know you will keep his se
cret. You will never let him know I
betrayed his confidence, Eloise?"' she
pleaded.
"I will never let him know."
"He feels the fact of his poverty and
his deformity so keenly," said Mrs. Wel
don, "that he would never dream of
speaking of his love; but he has a true,
noble heart, and it will not be easy for
him to conquer the passion be feels.
Poor Stephen I He has had a hard life."
Eloise echoed the sigh, but made no
comment, and Mrs. Weldon departed,
only half satisfied with herself. She
might have been less so had she heard
a question Eloise asked Frank a few
hours later. They were discussing the
ball in prospect, when Eloise said:
"Frank, don't you think this farce of
our engagement had better end? You
will never care half as much for me as
you do for that pretty May Hilton."
And Frank blushingly assented.
The night of the ball was clear, bril
liant moonlight, and Doctor Gerrish,
who seldom left home, astonished his
s'ster by appearing in full dtess just be
fore the carriage started.
"I am going with you," he said, but
did not explain that there had reached
him a little note from Eloise.
"I have a New Year's gift for you, and beg
you will come for it on Wednesday even
ing."
She had never seemed to him so win
ning as on that evening when, in one of
her exquisite Parisian toilets, she re
ceived her friends. Stately as ever,
there was yet a soft light in her eyes he
had never seen there before, and her
voice was low and musical as she gave
him cordial greeting.
Just before midnight, she took his arm
and led him to the conservatory, to ask
his opinion of somo new arrangement
there. They were standing quite alone
among the flowers'when the church clock
struck twelve. Silently they counted
the strokes, and ns the last one died away,
Doctor Gerrish took Eloise's hand in his
own, saying, in a low, tender tone:
"May I wish you a happy New Year?"
She was very pale as she looked into
his face and answered;
"You alone can make it so. This is
tho first hour of 1892—leap-year—and I
—l—you ought to know, stupid !"
Nobody else was very much astonished,
but Mr. Luttrell went abroad when Doc
tor and Mrs. Gerrish took up their abode
at Luttrell Place just one week after
Frank \Yeldon brought pretty May Wel
don, nee Hilton, to Weldon Park.
"He never would have asked me,
papa," Eloise said, when she confessed
the truth of her proposal to her father;
"and yet he loved ine! Was I very
dreadful—indiscreet—or unmaidenlv, do
you think, papa?"
And Mr. Luttrell, laughing heartily,
only said:
"Very! But if ho is please< * nit
see why any one else should objo>.-.
And there was no doubt that Doctor
Gerrish was more than pleased with his
lately acquired treasure.—The Ledger.
The Long: IMslnnoa Telephone.
"Strange," remarked a gentleman who
was present at the New York end of the
telephone wiro between New York and
Chicago, at the opening ceremonies,
"that a sentence can bo dropped in Chi
cago and be heard in New York."
"Oh, that's nothing," replied a wit,
"by and by you will be able to hoar n
London cockney drop his h's in Trafal
gar Square."
Professor Bell says it is only tho ques
tion of a very short timo when all tho
civilized world will be in tolepl)onic com
munication.
The wires in use between New York
and Pittsburg ni c about an eighth of an
inch iu diameter. They weigh 180
pounds to the mile. - It was concluded
to put up a wire between New York aud
Chicago twice as large as tho one in use
on the SOO mile circuit. Tho new cir
cuit is therefore made of wires one-fourth
of an inch in diameter, and tho wire
weighs 435 pounds to tho mile. The
circuit is what is known as a double
metalic circuit, containing two wires for
tho entire distance. To mako the wire
826,500 pounds of wire were uied. The
circuit runs west through Easton, Har
risburg and Pittsburg, Peun., You up
town and Toledo, Ohio, and South
Bond, Ind.
Thero is no difference in tho appear
ance of the transmitter. It is the same
littie instrument, undoubtedly one of the
greatest inventions of modern times.
Like all long distauce 'phones, it is ar
ranged on an oak table. The working
apparatus is enclosed in glass to promote
the sound, aud the arm of the speaking
tube is longer and arranged so as to bo
on a level with the face. If tho lino to
Chicago is profitable it will be extended
to San Francisco.—Detroit Free Press.
Kit Canon's Family.
Christopher Carson, the famous pio
neer, guide, aud Indian fighter, was
married at Taos, N. M., ou the 2d of
February, 1843. His first child, Char
ley, was born May 1, 1850, and died
April 1, 1851. His second child, Julian
(Billy), was born October 1, 1852. He
was four years Sheriff of Costilla County,
and died thero several years ago. His
third child, Teresina, was born June 83,
1855, and is now living at Romerville,
near Las Vegas, N. M. His fourth ohild,
Curistoval, was born Juno 12, 1858, and
is now living at Las Animas, Col., and
is commonly known as Kit Carson, Jr.
His fifth child, Charles, was bom
August 2, 1861, and is now residing at
La Junta, Col., and pososses more nearly
all the noble chat cteristics of his fa*
mom father thau any of tho rest of Tit
Carson's children. His sixth child, Re
becca, was boru April 13, 1864, and
died at Springer, N. M., April 13, 1885.
His seventh child, Estefanita, was born
December 23, 1866, and is now the wifo
of Thomas Wood, residing at La Junta,
Col. His eighth child, Josefita, was
l>«rn April 14, 1868, and is now tho wifo
of William Squires, residing at Glad
stone, N. M. All of Kit Carson's chil
dren wero raised till of age by Thomas
O. Boggs, who resides near Clayton, N.
M. Mrs. Boggs IB a neice of Mrs. Kit
Carson, Sr. Mrs. Jesse Nelson, resid
ing in Otero County, is a sister of tho
pioneer. Thero are no bi others or sisters
of Mrs. Kit Carson now living.—Trini
dad, (N. M.) Advertiser.
Ciuv for Ivy Poisoning.
Dr. T. B. Stanley reports that he had
some timo ago a levero case of ivy poi
soning which was not relieved by the or
dinary remedies. As a last resort a
strong decoction of chestnut leaves was
used, bathing tho inflamed parts every
three or four hours. In twenty-four
hour* all the distressing symptoms had
subsided, and tho patient was discharged
cured. Since this experiment Dr. Stan
ley has prescribed the castanca treat
ment for all case 3of rims and ivy poi
soning, and in all stages at the inflamma
tion, with the single result in every
case of perfect relief from all symptoms
in from tweotyfour to seventy-two
hours.—Boston Cultivator.
; CRUEI, BUT PICTURESQUE.
MURDER NOT REGARDED AS A
ORIfeB BT THE AFGHANS,
Bat Smoking and Drinking Looked
Upon as Great Vines—V I'astoral
and Pugnacious People.
TC KABULI or Afghau always
/ \ presents a picturesque appear-
M ance, despite the dirtiness of
£ his clothing, for a clean Kabuli
is as rare as a white crow, and half the
sentiment connected with an Afghan
would be gone if he were forced to look
trim, neat and clean. Their bearing is
utterly distinct from that of the timid
Hindustani, anl every movement shows
that they consider themselves inferior to
none. Independence is ingrained in
them, and even their Ameer is often
made to remember that he is simply pri
mus inter pares. They are jealous of
their rights, and the clanship feeling is
very strong. 80 powerful is this spirit
as to cause deadly feuds, and though
joining together to oppose the natural
foe it is not uncommon for one tribe to
attack another ere the public enemy is
thoroughly defeated.
They are brave and vindictive, and
being Mohammedans are therefore fatal
ists. They expose their lives freely, and
believe that he who dies fighting is in
sured in paradiso a grossly sensual after
existence. Notwithstanding their con
tempt of danger, the Afghans showed
much military skill in the late war with
England, and, being excellent marks
men, did considerable execution from
behind the vantage of rocks.
The Afghans are to be found all over
India, but only during the cold weather,
-"hen they leave their mountain fast
<w for the plains of India, bringing
with them the produce of their farms
and the cloths which their women weave.
In Afghanistan apples aro grown to per
fection, and these they sell in India at
good, round prices. The fruit when
plucked ripe is tasteful and juicy, but
the long journey does not improve the
flavor, aud though it makes a handsome
appearance, is as sawdusty as the Ca
nadian apple solri in England. Grapes,
too, are raised in the valleys, and aro
largely exported. In Kashmir the grape
did so well that, some years ago, a
company backed by English capital un
dertook the manufacture of champagne,
but with poor success. Beer, too, is made
on the slopes of the Himalayas, though
the man who has once tasted the bever
age would be indeed plucky if 110 re
peated his venture.
The Afghan has an extraordinarily
sweet tooth, and it is most amusing to
see these great hulking, shambling fol
lows patronizing the sweetmeat shops.
The Ilindoostam is a great consumer of
sugar, and his tastes in this direction aro
the grossest. T.ieir candies arc simply
lumps of unrefined sugar formed into
fantastic images or made to crudely re
semble animals and human beings." The
Mohammedan, however, through his
hatred of idolatry, would not purchase
a piece of caudy which bore likeuess to
living thiug, nor would a Hindoo who
had respect for his person be bold as
to oiler an image to an Afghan. Tho
deadly insult would be followed with
the exclamation: "Ilut jao' 1 ("Get
hence"), and a blow sufficiently power
ful to tell an ox aud kill weakly Hin
doo.
The picture an Afghan presents with
his bunds and mouth full of sweetmeats
as assuredly excites a smile as does the
spectacle of two stout, unwieldy French
men falling upon each other's neck and
weeping and kissing an affectionate
adieu. You fee) morally certain this
huge, innocent looking Afghan has re
morselessly killed several oi his friends
who have made themselves objectionablo
to him, and you are equally as certaiu
that in the folds of his voluminous
chapkan several deadly woapons are
stowed away, while his loose, bagiy
trowsers, tied fast at the ankle, also
cover slaughtering steel.
The average Kaluli docs not regard
murder as a crime. It is kill or bo killed
in his own country, and he therefore re
gards the matter of the taking off of a
friend most philosophically. "There is
nothing to worry about; he is dead, and
I killed him," be will tell you if you
should iuquire about a companion with
whom he was on the best of terms the
preceding winter. I have heard an
Afghan, while purchasing a weapon,
speak with evident gusto of the occasion
when he would use the gun to murder a
friend. It caused him as little concern,
this contemplated crime, as if he had
said, "Shall kill a chicken, if God so
wills it, to-morrow for my pillau." And
yet there is something childish and
affectionate about these men. They
never seem to forgot a favor and repay
it to the best of their ability. Unlike
other Mohammendans, they do not ob
servo tbe Khoran with blind obstinacy,
but occasionally stretch its precepts to
accord with their ideas of religion. They
do not drink, for that is directly against
the law, nor do they smoke. Palgrave,
in his interesting book describing his
journey to the sacred city of Mecca,
gives an amusing accouut of his conver
sation with a Mollah.
On asking the reverend gentleman
which ho considered the most deadly of
all sins, the holy man replied:
•'Smoking the Shameful."
"And next, oh, son of the Prophet!"
"Drinking."
"Are these the two greatest sins,
father?"
"Verily, my son."
"And murder I"
"Ah, that's nothing—nothing. It's
forgivable."
"And stealing?"
"Ah! that's forgivable, too,"
"But smoking?"
"It is the unforgivable crime," replied
the Mollah sternly and locking koonly
at the fictitious Mohammedan.
And this, I think, is the Afghan's
creed. Murder and theft are forgivable
crimes, but for smoking and drinking
there is no redemption.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
Terms—sl.oo in Advanee; 51.25 after Three Months.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
In sheep and hogs the average cardiac
pulsations are seventy-six per minute.
Alkali lands can be reclaimed. On
the black alkali lands gypsum should be
applied.
T he salts of sodium are more soluble
and of less value in agriculture than
those of potassium.
A gallon of water would only cover a
space of two feet square if spread out in
a layer an inch thick.
Bees never store honey in the light be
cause honey so exposed granulates and is
thus useless to the bees.
It requires about twice as mucti power
to propel a steamship twenty-one miles
an hour as it does to move along the same
vessel at the rate of sixteen miles an
hour.
The animals which die in the gardens
of the London Zoological Society are
rarely of much use for dissection, as they
so commonly suffer from tumors of bones
and viscera.
A sewing machine for use on cotton
belting that has been constructed at
Leeds, England, weighs five and a quar
ter tons and is probably the giant of all
sewing machines.
In consequence of the growing diffi
culty of procuring wood suitable for tbe
manufacture of matches, Oerman factor
ies are making them of compressed peat,
which is said to be an excellent sub
stitute.
It has long been known that diamonds
—especially the class known as "rose
diamonds"—are likely to explode if sub
jected only to what would seem a very
ordinary degree of heat, such as strong
rays from the sun.
A PortsD- nth (N. n.) man has put
his bicvcl' jn a boat. It is connected
with a/ .ing which turns a propeller
set in m >tion by treading the pedals,
and the boat is said to move swiftly
through the water.
A new u?e for aluminium is mentioned
which consists in intercalating a very
thin plate of this metal between the two
soles of a boot, with the object of pre
venting the penetration of damp while
retaining the warmth of the foot.
It is almost certain that the increa«o
of brain ond nervous diseases among
smokers and their children, and increased
disturbances of circulation known as
heart failure, etc., are in no small meas
ure attributable to the free use of tobacco
by the American people.
A powerful lamp, which distinctly il
luminates objects over half a mile dis
tant, by means of a great reflector, is to
be adopted in the French Army. It is
carried Oil a light wagon, behind the
soldiers, aid they will be iu obscurity
while the\ eneroj and all objects in
front will b • made conspicuous.
M. Marey,\tlie French scientist, whose
investigations of animal movements by
means of instantaneous photography aud
the zoetrope arc well known, has now
succeeded in rendering the beating of a
living heart visible to the eye. It is
said to be possible by this new method
to follow and properly examine all the
phases of the heart's movement.
"The richness of the ores found 111 Tas
mania is marvelous. Recently some
Zeehau chloride was twice tested by
private analyses and found to assay
nearly 20,000 ounces of silver to the
ton. The accuracy of these tests
doubted, two specimeus were submitted
to the Governrcent analyst for trial in
his laboratory, with the result that in
both samples he found over 20,000
ounces to the ton.
Wild Horses Only Walk or Gallop.
"Speaking of gaits," said a cattleman
to a Cincinnati Times-Star writer, ''did
you know that in its native state the
horse has but two gaits—the walk and
the gallop? All others—such as the
trot, pace, canter, fox-trot, rack and
single-foot—are acquired and artificial.
True, a colt will be born that may paco
on the day of its birth, but you will find
some of its ancestors have been taught
to pace. I have chased and captured
wild horses in their native wilds, and
know this from observation. I never
saw a wild horse trot. A queer differ
ence between wild horses and domestic
is exhibited in breaking them. Now a
wild horse tries to dismount his rider by
pitchiug and bucking, and it is the aim
of the trainers to make him run. Oct a
wild horse to run straight ahead, and he
is conquered and will in a short time be
come docile. But with domestic stock
just the opposite Is the case. A tame
horse does not buck, as a rule, but
wants to run. Let him run and he is
ruined. The philosophy of the business
is plain. The idea in both cases is to
bend the will of the horse to the rider's
desire. The wild horso runs straight
ahead because he is cowed and afraid of
his rider and has despaired of throwing
him. The tamo horse runs because he
has no foar of the tider and imagines he
la escaping. lie is made togo slow
quietly only through fear and rospect.
Thus, you sec, the wild horse runs to
slavery, while the tame horse runs to
freedom."
Why Mountain Air is a Ton'c.
It is the atmospheric depression which,
In conjunction with good hygienic con
ditions, acts on invalids who goto
mountain resorts, and promotes in their
blood the formation of now sanguineous
globules fit for the assimilation of oxy
gen. The more abundant nutrition an"!
the augmentation of the appetite observ
able in a sojourn in the mountains are
not the cause but the consequence of the
improvement which such sojourn brings.
Indeed, even admitting that the action
of elevated sites on the blood may owe
something to other causes, it is difficult
to resist the induction that climatic es
tablishments are m geueral to be pre
ferred to mineral-water reports—certain
ly to those whoso reputation is c liefly
built on fashion, on entertainments or
on the ensemble of adventitious attrac
tions, from which health pure and sim
ple has little to gain.—Boston Cultiva
tor.
NO. 13.
\ -WINTER.
m frigid is the weather, '■«■«»
• sheep out ia the heather
Are huddled close together
In the storm;
The leaden skies are snowing
The coldest waves are Mowing—
We don't know how we're going
To keep warm.
It's taking all we're earning
To keep the fire burning—
Milk on the stove is turning
Into ice.
In spite of blankets heaping
We shiver when we're sleeping,
And frozen while they're creepin<
Are the mice.
With colds the coughing shakes ur
Jack Frost's sharp biting aches
And rheumatism makes us
Merely wrecks.
If out we show our noses
Boys, looking meek as Moses,
Throw snowballs in big doses
Down our necks.
The merry sleighbells jingle
• But those who aren't single
Can in tbe frolic mingle
Never more;
The snow which makes the sappy
Young lads and lassiei happy
Is to the older chappie
But a bore.
We're tired out with lugging
Coal scuttles up and hugging
Hot stoves and snowball slugging
We despise.
And we don't think it's funny
To shovel snow—for money,
O, won't we hail the sunny
Summer skies.
This poom may be pleasing
To weather growlers wheetfnx.
But winter bright and freezing
Is sublime.
With health our bodies tiugle,
Our heart's glad sleighbells jingle
And Cbrismas brings Kriss Kringle
Every time.
—H. C. Dodge, iu Chicago Hun.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Under the weather—The earth.
Generally speaking—The ladies.
A trim figure—The milliner's bill.
The best material for a dress—Money
or unlimited credit.
As paradoxical as it may appear, the
oarsman gets ahead by going backwards.
—Puck.
The man who has confidence in him
self is often taken in by that kind of a
game.—Puck.
A man no sooner gets a pair of shoes
broken in than they begin to break out.
—Atchison Globe.
A successful chase of the ideal often
helps us amazingly in catching up with
the material.—Puck.
Merchants studying poetry should re
member that advertiser rhymes with
wiser.—Texas Siftings.
"So old Skinner is dead and buried, I
hear." "Yes; he was always wanting
the earth and now he has it."—Puck.
A weather bureau might not be paying
business in Africa, yet the natives might
live on the prophets.—Boston Courier.
"What did Miss Morcll say when you
proposed." "Said she wasn't under
taking kindergarten work just now."
Chicago News Record.
Pastor—' 'ls everything goin<r smoothly
with you now?" Farmer—"Yes, every
thing except some hauling I've got to do
over a rough road."—Detroit Free Press.
I wrote upon the last pige in her book
A tender wor«l of love, beciuse I knew
That she would ljok upon the last leaf llrst
Ere she had read the title of it through.
—Puck.
"I used to be well acquainted with
this man," said the doctor as he pre
pared for the autopsy, "but new I will
be obliged to cut him dead."—Buffalo
Express.
"Hotel clerks are human beings,"
says an inn-keeper's journal. This ia
important, if true. Wo had supposed
them demigods, at least—Boston
Transcript.
"I'll have tp put a check to your pro
ceedings," said the father. "Yes, sir,"
replied the son, genially. "It will have
to have three figures tJ it, though."—
Washington Star.
Lancaster—"Are you nmking as much
fuss over your baby now as you were two
months ago?" Forrester—"Oh, no;
I've quit all that. Tic b3by is making
all the fuss now." —New York Mercury.
"If map-makers nre justified in selling
maps on a scale of two inches to the
mile," said the grocer, "I don't see why
-1 ain't justified in selliug sugar on a
a scale of seven ounces to the pound."—
Truth.
Cawkcr— "Did you ever try a Cincin
nati sandwich?" Lirkin—"No. How
do they make them?" Cawker—"They
are made of two slices of water with a
thin piece of boiled ham between."—
Judge.
"I tell you," exclaimed Mr. Blossom,
of St. L mis, debating with a Chicago
man."l tell you that St\ Liuis is the
banner town 1" "Yes," admitted Mr.
Livewaytc, of Chicago. "I understand
it is a flag station."
Docior (to patient who has come two
miles to the doctor's office iu order to
sitve the extra cost of a visiting foe) —
"Good gracictis, man, you are net fit to
be out of the house! Go home at once
and I will call in a couple of hours and
prescribe foi you."—Life.
Eight years ago, while a Philadelphia
man was tryiug on a new suit of clothes
in a clothing store, some one stole his
watch. Tne suit he bought was worn
out years ago, but the suit ho brought
against the pr«prwtew for the value of
his watch is still as go<»d as new.—New
York Tribune.
The hop yield of Ne.v York last sea
son is given at about 115,000 bales, that
of Washington at 2),000 hales, Oregon
17,000 bales and California protobly
about 10,000 bales.