SULLIVAN JSB&6& REPUBLICAN. wl M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. Bowling bns become a fashionable to eon* of physical exercise. | | Six tobacco plantations within the Berlin city limits yielded 1300 pounds of tobacco in 1892. • The people of California want to elect their United States Senators by popuUr vote. They said so at tho recent election by 174,000 majority. i The present French Republic has spent two hundred million dollars in improv* ing the waterways of the country, which reach a total length of 7456 miles. All these canals are free. The Toronto Globe makes the sugges tion that, in view of the approach ol cholera, the milkmen should resolve to boil the water with which they propose to adulterate their milk this year. ' Wideawake little Jaj.an is having an English firm build her a cruiser that may tarn out the fastest afloat, that is capa ble of nearly twenty-three knots. She will be oalled the Yoshino, and bo ol 4150 tons. There are now 670 Osages and they have to their credit in the United Btate* Treasury about $10,000,000,0wn 1,500,- 000 acres of excellent land and do not owe a cent. Their income per capita i9 fifty-five dollars per quarter. 1 Prom 1500 to 2000 Americans arc studying in Paris. The majority of these are etudying painting; some few, architecture or sculpture; some singing, while still others are taking what Public Opinion calls "this wise method" of learning French. The growth of Denver, Col., has been phenomenal. The appraised value in 1886 was $33,156,515. In 1892 it was over $74,000,000. Its output of manu facturing industries for the yeai 1892 was nearly $50,000,000, and the trans actions in real estate exceeded $40,000,- 000. Rome is losing its aucient charm very rapidly as modern buildings spring up and many monuments are being restored or cleared away altogether. The famous Bridge of St. Angelo is under repair, and is replaced by an ugly irou viaduct. A society for the preservation of ancient monuments is sorely wanted in the Eter nal City to check the zeal of her mu nicipality for modern improvements. The whole number of the victims of lynching for the past year was 266, of whom 221 were men and live women. This increase was disproportionate to the increase in population, the number for 1891 having been 195, or forty-one less. "The preponderance of colored victims,"' re narks the Chicago Tribune, "was not as large as might be supposed, though it was quite large enough. Of tho whole number 156 were colored and eighty white." According to the Textile Manufactur ing World, 272 new mills employing some 31,500 persons, were added in 1892 to the number of textile mills in the country. Of these seventy-three were cotton, forty-nine woolen, ninety, three knitting and twenty-one silk mills, leaving thirty-six distributed among other branches, In cotton Massachu setts leads with nineteen new mills, North Carolina follows with sixteen and South Carolina stands third with eleven. Illinois and IndianA boast of only one each. In woolen, also, Massachusetts leads with eight new mills, Maine follows with seven and Pennsylvania with six. But Maine stands first and Pennsylvania second In number of hands employed. In knitting Pennsylvania leads with thirty-two mills, and New York follows with twenty. The most of these estab lishments are small, and are engaged in producing seamless cotton hosiery. Dr. Nansen's late lecture before the British Geographical Society bristled with ingenious devices for passing away | the time during which be expects to be j ice-bound and to drift with the floes to ward the much-sought pole. So many of these devices are dependent on the supply of electric current that henceforth no well-equipped Arctic expedition will be considered complete without its dynamo. It is easy to imagine how cheering will be the effect of the electric light on those whose perilous task will subject them for some months to almost total darkness. Dr. Nansen's proposed method of generating electricity is at all events original, although somewhat de ficient in the quality of reliability. He proposes to have a windmill on deck to drive the dynamo, and when the wind falls to let bis men take turn about at a "walk-mill," in order to afford them such sal-itary exercise as might oe in volved in heaving imaginary anchors. If this method of generating current should prove effective it is but natural to be lieve that it will hasten the general adaptation of treadmills in prisons to the generation of electricity. HOME. The prince rides up to the palaoe gate* And his eyee with tear* are dtm. For he thinka of the beggar maiden sweet Who never may weJ with him. For home is where the heart is, In dwelling great or small, An .l there's many a splendid palace That's never a home at all. The yeoman comes to his little cot With a song wheaday is done. For his dearie is standing in the door And hit children to meet him run. For home is where the heart is, In dwelling great or small, And there's many a stately mansion That's never a home at all. Could I but live with my own sweetheart In a hut with san led floor, I'd be richer far than a loveless man With fame and a golden store. For home is where the heart is, In dwelling great or small. And a cottage lighted by lovelight Is the dearest home of all. •—George Horton, in Chicago Herald. TERRIBLY 1 ACCUSED, BY T. C. H\RBACGH. HRREE more pies went last night. t This is getting a little provoking," and Aunt Jessamine K. sat down and looked Jack who was 1 mending some har t A neBS * n one corner i; mJ/ SME the room. muflf/A V IWvft "Bears!" said 112 rvAi \ \m Jack > without took- MWVV i KKR IQ B up. "I tell \ \\ y° u . mother, the \Vlr V varmints are gittin' too numerous for me, anil we'll have to lock the larder o' nights if we want to keep things in safety there." "It ain't bears—not of the kind that walk on four legs," determinedly replied Aunt Jessamine. "I tell you, Jack, it's the other kind, and, while I name no one, I believe I could, if I would, tell you where the pies go." "Don't be suspicious, mother, I'll watch to-morrow night." "Oh, he's not coming back that soon. I heard him say that he wouldn't be back for a week." "Then you suspect some one?" "I do." At that moment the door opened and Rachel came in, a sweet backwoods girl, the belle of the settlement and the fa vorite of all. She stopped at the door and swep*. the room with her blue eyes which finally sottled on her mother, whose perturbed countenance seeined to tell Uer that something was wrong. "What's the matter, mother!" she asked, gently. "Three more pie« went last night— the three I baked for the preacher who will be here to-morrow." "I thought some one was in the larder last night, for when I went in a while ago there were crumbs on the floor—" "Yes, he ate them there—there's ap parent room to believe this. Ue must have been very hungry." •'Bears are cute animals—" "Bears?" and Aunt Jessamine glanced at Jack, about whose lips lurked a smile which she did not seem to catch. "You remember that Billy saw tracks down in the ravine and that the Wilson girls were chased by a bear in the berry patch last week. I shouldn't be sur prised it bears had found out your larder—" "I think they have. There, we won't argut this question any longer," and Aunt Jessamine rose and swept out of the room leaving Rauiel to look at Jack for an explanation. "Do you know whom she suspicions?" asked Jack, stopping in his work and fixing his eyes on his handsome sister. "Mother is of the opinion that Josh ate the pies." In an instant the face of the backwoods beauty colored and she gave utterance to a cry of astonishment. "Impossible, Jack I She can't have such a terrible suspicion. It is nonsense," and then she laughed, but presently con tinued- "lt is a good joke on Josh, anyhow, but I don't like mother's suspicion. What if it should get abroad—" "Which it is quite likely to do unless we disabuse mother's mind of it. She really believes that Josh, your beau, stole into the outhouse and ate the pies, i Strange to say pies have vanished on the nights of his visits; I have noticed that myself, Rachie, and, as mother has heard that Josh is a good hand at a feast, you should not blame her so very much." "But he didn't eat them, no, he never went to the larder, and all this talk about his eating the pies is unjust." I "Of course, it is. I don't believe Josh would do that, but the pies have vanished; you will admit this. Mother is convinced that he is the deprecator and—and—" Rachel, unable to control herself, had fled from the room and Jack went back to bis task. "It's queer," he said to himself. "Don't I know that Josh likes pies, es pecially pumpkin pies like mother bakes, aod there is just the slightest doubt in my mind that he didn't come back after be bade Bachie good-night and tackled the ones in the larder." Meanwhile Rachel Palmer was walk ing across the meadow toward the ravine that ran through the farm some distance from the house. It was a rich autumn day and the sun was painting the west with his most glowing colors. She was still indignant, and now and then ber white bands shut, and her eyes filled with a look whioh told the feeling tugging at her heart. She made her way down the ravine till she came to a creek, the banks oi which were clayey and soft. "Hero they are, just where I saw them a week ago," she said aloud, as sh< stopped and looked at certain imprea- I sions in the yieluing ground. "They art bear tracks, but they wouldn't tel LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 3. 1893. mother anything in her present state of mind. Bears visit larders and play havoc there, and a feast of pumpkin pies would tempt them. But I'll write Josh not to come to see me till 1 send for him, for I don't want him to meet mother very soon." Rachel did that that very day. In the solitude of lier little chamber she wrote a letter to her sweetheart, telling him that he might postpone his regular visit for a fortnight, and ended by saying that she would explain all when they met again. This letter she entrusted to btr brother Jack, who went to town es pecially to post it, and Rachel felt that she had done her duty. In anticipation of the traveling par son's visit, more pies were baked and closely guarded. When the parson came they were set before him, and received the praise they so well deserved. "You never have trouble with your pies, Mrs. Palmer," said the shepherd of the backwoods flock, as he helped him self to a second piece. • •Yes, but we have, Brother Linton. We miss them from the larder before we are ready to eat them. I regret to say that we have some unregenerate people in this neighborhood who are so fond of pumpkin pies that they are not particu lar where they find them when they are hungry," and Aunt Jessamine glanced at Rachel, who blushed, and for a mo ment hung her head. "I would like to have these people come under the droppings of the sanctu ary," replied the parson; but the next moment he was surprised at Rachel's re marks. "You would want a gun to deal with them, I'm thinking," said the resolute girl. "You can't convert a bear with soft words and—" •'Rachie, Rachie, what are you say ing?" broke in Aunt Jessamine. Accustomed to obey her mother, the fair girl subsided and in a little while had passed from the house, leaving the parson and his host to continue the sub ject they were on. Night seemed to come soon after that meal. The long, soft autumn shadows stoie over the farm house and Rachel lighted the lamp and carried it to the sitting room where the parso'i was dis cussing the needs of his flock. As for Rachel, she retired to her room in the gable and sat at the window. Across the clearing in front of the house lay the shadows of night; but by and bye the silvery disk of the moon ap peared over the horizon's rim. It was a beautiful sight and one which she had seen a hundred times from that very window, and now she watched it as it seemed to grow in beauty and the whole earth became a bed of silver in the light of the moon. All at once there appeared on the ground toward the ravine something that came forward, and Rachel watched it as it grew larger. Now and then it stopped and for some time stood in outline for her inspection, and the more sho watched it, the surer she became that it was an animal. Presently Rachel Palmer sprang up, and leaning on the sill, gazed at the ob ject with eyes that seemed to start from her head. "It is a bear," she exclaimed. "What it it is mother's thief?" And as the thing moved on, showing the hugh hulk of its long body, the tjirl ran to a corner and took from it a rifle, which she knew how to handle with deadly effect. When she came back to the window the bear was gone, and for a moment a feeling of disappointment took possestion of her, and she feared she bad missed her opportunity. But suddenly the animal came into view again, and this time in the vicinity ot the spring-house, where the larder was. Rachel looked to the priming of the gun and again the bear vanished. She was now almost certain the prowler in tended a raid, and eager to encounter him and bring his schemes to naught, she slipped downstairs and out into the night. As she passed from the house she could hear the voice of Parson Linton in conversation in the little parlor, and thought of Jack, who was paying his nightly visit to town three miles away. The backwoods beauty stopped near the spring-house and watcheid it with anxious eyes. The door was reached by a descent of several steps, and it was common to fasten it with a chain, which could be unloosed without much trouble. "Why, the door is open!" exclaimed Rachel as she neared the spring-house and ventured to look down the steps. "Islipped the chain over the staple with my own hands; but it is off now." The next moment a noise startled Rachel aud she fell back a pace, for it seemed to come from the spring-house. Posting herself, however, with de termined face, she waited for other proof that the larder was being attacked at that moment, and it was not long de layed. All at once the huge, dark figure of something came out of the spring-house and as it rose in front of the girl, she felt an involuntary thrill, for it was a bear and he was standing on his hinder feet as if masquerading as a man. In all her life she had never seen a bear of such proportions. He looked as tall as Jack, and as he tottered up the steps and the next moment stood in the moonlight a splendid target for Rachel's rifle, he was seen to have a face ludic rously daubed with the sweets of the spring-house. Rachel summoned her norveto her as sistance and leveled the rifle at the in vader. At that moment she heard a door be liiud her open, and her mother's voice rang out: "Rachie, Rachle, where are you?" The answer was the clear, ringing re port of the family rifle, and there tot tered from th» fair girl an animal, which dropped upon all fours, only to fall to the ground and roll over in his agony. Mrs. Palmer stood spell-bound in the door, and behind her was visible the • white face of the parson. "The other gun! quick, mother! the bear will get away!" cried Rachel, rush- I | ing toward the house. •'The bear! the bear! Heaven help us all I" and Parson Linton discovered that he was safer inside than at the door, and he rushed back to be pawed by Rachel, who snatched Jack'* rifle from its pegs and turned again toward the yard. Aa she crossed the threshold she saw tbe black form of the bear lumbering off toward the ravine, and taking deliberate aim, she sent a bullet after him which checked his career and stretched him on the leaves dead. •'There! I guess yo»'re satisfied now, mother!" said Rachol, when the larder bad been examined and the remains of two pies had been found on the floor. "You must recollect that bears as well as men can tell good baking when they see it. I think you ought to apologize to Joah." "But I named no names," persisted Mrs. Palmer. "I didn't say that Joah ate the pies; but to tell the truth, Rachie, I didn't know who else would do it." Three days later when the tall, hand some figure of Josh came over the clear ing it was met at the gate by Raohel, and the two came into the house, together. "I guess it's got to be done!" said Aunt Jessamine, as aha watched the couple. "There'll be a wedding here before he goes back, and to please Rachie I'll apologize." And when Josh had shaken hands with Aunt Jessamine, she looked up to his honest face and said? "I beg your pardon, Mr. Jobnson, 1 thought you ate the pies, but I was mis taken; it was the other bear!"— Yankee Blade. _________ A Feathered Winter Friend. A writer in the Contributors' Club in the February Atlantic writes pleasantly of the chickadee as a winter friend: Bet forth a feast of suet on the window sill, and he will need no bid ding to come and partake of it. How daintily he helps himself to the tiniest morsels, never cramming his bill with gross mouthfuls as do his comrades at tbe board, the nuthatch and the downy woodpecker 1 They, like unbidden guests, doubtful of welcome or of suffer ance, even, make the most of time that may prove all too brief, and gorge themselves as greedily as hungry tramps; while he, unscared by your face at the window, tarries at his repast, pecking his crumbs with leisurely satisfaction. You Half expect to see him swept from your sight like a thistle-down by the gusty blast, but he holds bravely to his perch, unruffled in spirit if not in feathers, and defies his fierce assailant with his oft-repeated challenge. As often as you spread the simple (east for him he wiU come and sit at your board, a confiding guest, well assured of welcome, and will repay you with an example of cheerful life in the midst of dreariness and desolation. In the still, bright days, his cheery voice rings through the frosty air, and when the thick veil of the snow falls in a wavering slant from the low sky its muffled cadence still heartens > you. What an intense spark of vitality must it be that warms such a mite in such an immensity of cold; that floats;his little life in this deluge of frigid air, and keeps him in song while we are dumb with shivering! If our huge hulks were endowed with proportionate vitality, how easily we might solve the mysteries of the frozen north! The Tonefal Harp. Harp playing is again in vogue. Fash ionable young women are hanging their banjoes on the willow tree; they are tak ing lessons in harp manipulation. The light airs of the instrument so long held sacred are forgotten in the deeper and more dignified notes of the harp. We suspect that the decorative qualities of the barp have considerable to do with this revival of that ancient instrument. A harp is a pretty thing. A curiously carved cabinet from Venice or an oddly fashioned table from France cannot be more effective in a drawing room. The barp has a noble ancestry. Skill in bringing forth music from its chords won praise and honor in the day of King David. Kings and Queens have enjoyed its music through hundreds of yeara. Its addition to the orchestra, however, does not date back many years. A Chicago musician has made a study of the instru ment, and he says its possibilities are not yet fully understood; that the semitones of the harp can be regulated with a nicety heretofore unknown. No doubt Tannhauser and Orpheus would not recognise the harp if they were to see it, with the Chicago modifi cations, standing in a white and gold parlor and responding to the graceful touch of a Michigan avenue belle's slen der fingers.—lndianapolis News. Norel Decoration for a Boom. A novel plan for the decoration of an invalid's room has been successfully car ried out in a house in New York City. The upper floor, which was not par titioned off into rooms or finished with a plaster ceiling, is fitted up to resemble the upper deck of a river steamboat. Some round holes are placed in a slight curve a short distance from the front and back windows, and these uprights support horizontal rods on which cur tains are hunif, by rings, allowing light or securing darkness, according to the mood of the invalid. On the walls are window suggesting frames of light oak, and the wall is painted to suggest wood work. The wooden rafters overhead are painted in gray and blue, soft blue mellowed with yellow ochre, and Indian red, and "flatted" with a little, very little, zinc white, not white lead. In the oakeu frames, pictures with a large pro portion of sky we fitted, and are changed four times a year. In deep win ter the pictures are of Soutn American scenery; in spiing, they are all Italian landscapes; in summer, cool Canada views, painted from nature, suggest the pleasures of travel to the helpless invalid; and autumn brings California's luxuriant vegetation on canvas, to brighten the sick room.—Demoiest's Magaain*. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Aluminum horseshoes are now made for record breakers. If sneering be induced it wilt stop a disagreeable hiccough. Some of the stars move with a velocity of nearly fifty miles a second. Flash light pictures of dinner parties are quite in order all along the line. The weight required to crush a square inch of brick varies from 1200 to 4500 pounds. Place 500 earths like ours side by side and Saturn's outermost ring could easily incloae them. No living germ of disease can resist the antispeptic power of essence of cin namon for more than a few hours. The spectroscope has demonstrated that all the so called fixed stars are in motion—some in one direction, some in another. Electricity is being applied to the dry ing of tea in Ceylon, the process having proved more economical than the old method. Newton, in his day. believed that the earth was gradually becoming dry, and later scientists hare recently confirmed the opinion. Dr. W. A. Wells has written to the London Lancet about a new source of lead poisoning, the manufacture, clean ing and recoating of the plates of storage batteries. Physicians have at last decided that the small toe of the human foot must go that civilization gradually tends to crowd it out of existence, and to depend more than ever for locomotion on the big toe. A valve whose movement is so deli cate as to be under the control of a hy grometer is the invention of a Chicago man. Any change in the humidity of the atmosphere alters the opening of the valve. A lasting machine that enables one operator to last 3000 pairs of shoes a week is one of the latest things in labor saving machinery. It tackles anything from light feminine foot gear to the heaviest brogans. Incandescent electric lamps, it is said, have been adopted in Madras, India, as an ornament to the heads of the horses driven in harness by the Jaghidar of Arni. Two lamps provided with power ful reflectors,are attached to the harness between the ears of the horses,the lamps being connected to a battery placed in the body of the carriage. The novelty of the arrangement attracts groat atten tion. Calculations, based on the observation of the refraction of light, have caused it to be suppoeod thi# the air becomes so rare at the height of about sixty miles that the distance may be regarded as the limit to its sensible extent, but other calculations, made during the present century, of the distance from the earth at which meteors ignite indicato that the atmosphere extends to upward of 100 miles. Eight or ten days before the appear ance of cholera in Hamburg, Germauy, last summer, all the sparrows and other birds left the town and suburbs and did not return until the plague had com pletely disappeared. The same thing happened in Marseilles and Toulon in 1884 a day or two bctore the cholera visited those towns. Similar migrations have been noticed in different parts of Italy, Austria and Russia, always soma days before the appearance of cholera. Strange Sense of Direction. When living near Neosho Falls, Kan., a neighbor, who was a market bird hunter, went from there to Western Mis souri for the purpose of hunting quails and prairie chickens in the fall of the year, says a writer in Science. He took with him a favorite pointer dog. The route taken was southward some fifty miles to Parsons, Kan., by railroad, thence northeastward to Fort Scott and on into Missouri, nearly due east from the latter point. All went very well for a few days after ho began hunting, but by some means the dog became lost from him. He spent two days hunting for it, and as it was no use to try to hunt with out the dog, he went home and there found the dog all right. According to the report of hi* family, the dog had reached there within two days from the time he had lost him, and aa the distance was more than seventy-five miles, it is quite certain that the dog took a near cut for home. Now, if this dog bad no sense of direction, what had he that led him to take what we may confidently believe to be the straight and true course for home, when he had passed over the other two aides of the triangle by rail) Who does not know that a cat, or even a half-grown kitten, taken a -long way from home in a bag, nearly always flnda its back! When living in Northern Michigan I had a cat we tired of, I took her in a boat directly across the lake, about two miles, and turned her loose. Although it was about six miles around the end of the lake, a circuitous course and certainly one unknown to her by sight, the next morning she waa back at the old place. Another case is just stated to me of a cat that was taken by rail fully twenty miles in Southwest Missouri, and the next day he walked in all right at his former home. Making Change by Catling Cola*. Until recently, when the practice was forbidden by law, the Mexicans cut their silver coins into pieces for small change. The same practice was followed in the United States early in the present cen tury, and in Virginia it was customary to make five quarters out of each dollar by hammering it out piolimicarily to chopping it into segments with a hat chet or other instrument. The "reed ing*' or currogation on the edges of mod ern coins, commonly but incorrectly termed "milling," was originally adopted as a protection against the clipping of metal money, which formerly was a source of profit to many diahoneat per sou*. Ter ms—S 1.00 in Advance; 11.25 after Three Months, THE DURATION OF LIFE. HOW nrSTTBAITOB COMPANIES CLASSIFY OCCUPATIONS. Odsmmen Considered in A1 Iltak— The Farmer 1 ! Occupation Very Favorable to IJOTIJT Lite. ~V" <TT"HAT class of people live the \ A j longest? Not only is the \ V question of vital importance to insurance companies; it ia also of general interest as everybody wants to know to what extent longevity is effected by different pursuits and oc cupations. Experts maintain that the lowest mortality, among professional men, is enjoyed by clergymen, while the mor tality of schoolmasters is below that of lawyers and still more below that of doctors. Tbe higher mortality of agri cultural laborers over that of gardeners and farmers is largely due to their great liability to consumption and respiratory or throat disease. The farmer, however, has a higher mortality so far as gout, alcoholism and liver disease are con cerned. As to fishermen, while it is possible that some of them escape both tbe census and death registration, a very low mor tality from diseases of the nervous and respirator; systems and from consump tion, but then they have a high mortal ity from accidents. So far as cabmen, truckmen and barge men are concerned, it does not appear that an open air life in itself is sufficient to insure healthfulness. They have a high mortality from alcoholic diseases, and from accident, lung and throat dis eases. A large proportion of the mor talitjvof commercial travelers is due to intemperance, which is also the cause of the excessive mortality among brewers, inn keepers and men employed in and about saloons. Grocers do not suffer so much as mer chant tailors from lung and throat dis eases, but somewhat mare from alcohol ism and suicide. The mortality from phthisis among grocers is one of the lowest, while the mortality of merchant tailors from that cause is one of the highest. The death rate among butchers is de clared to be due largely to excessive indulgence, their mortality from alco holism, livtr and other diseases being almost identical with that of the brew ers. The death-rate of bakers and con fectioners is about the same as that of millers, whose mortality from alcoholism and suicide is very high, but from con sumption is hardly above tbe average in spite of their exposure to dust. Tbe occupation of batters subject them to great changes of temperature and, like hair dressers, they i&ve a high mortality from consumption and the effects of al coholism. Journeymen tailors and shoe makers have a high death-rate from con sumption, diseases of the nervous system, alcoholism and suicide. Tbe high mortality of printers and bookbinders is due to consumption. Only among persons whose occupations sub ject them to dust inhalations is the death rate from consumption so high as among printers. Contrary to what might bo expected, their mortality from lead poi soning is but slight. Lead poisoning especially produces a high death-rate among plumbers. Cut lers and filemakers inhale metallic dust mixed with stone dusl. The latter are also exposed to lead poisoning on ac count of ibe use of a cushion of lead on which to strike their files. It is estimated that one in every nine teen males m tbe industrial community, between the ages of twenty-five and sixty-live, is a miner. As the death re turns do not always distinguish between the different kinds of mines, it is impos sible to ascertain separately the mortality of e9ch kind of miners, but at least one fifth of their total mortality is due to ac cidents. If accidents were excluded for all miners, their death-rate would be only slightly higher than that of farmers. Medical examiners consider the coun try doctor, on account of necessary hard ships, a less favorable risk than the city doctor, and that as to the other profes sions, the general standard of health is about tbe same in the city as in the coun try, although the latter undoubtedly offers greater natural advantages for the enjoyment of health. It is considered that what the city lacks in certain re spects is made up by the more general observance of sanitary requirements in the matter of dwellings, sewage, exer cise, personal cleanliness, the timely heeding of professional advice, etc. In regard to the effects of occupation on mortality and longevity Dr. Marsh said to a News reporter that the investi gations by sanatarians and statisticians showed conclusively that the occupations most unfavorable to life generally were those of miners, workers in glass and earthenware, publicans and butchers, and the most favorable were those of the clergy, farmers and agricultural labor ers. Tbe medical profession did not stand high in the general list and tbe mortality was great in comparison with that of other professions. The hard physical work, the exposure to vicissi tudes of weather and the contagion of disease, the disturbance of regular hours for sleep and food, the mental strain and anxiety were all prolific causes of sick ness or of premature decay.—New York News. A Remarkable Funeral Procession. When Tsching Tschu, the Grand Chamberlain and brother-in-law of Prince Kung of China, died, he was followed and preceded by a remarkable proces sion. The bier was carried by eighty men, each pair of whom had poles of different lengths under it. These eighty men were preceded by forty-six flag bearers, eight camels and twenty four milk-white hurses. Behind the pall bearers came 160 men,each bearing their portion of sixteen long planks. These planks or boards were paiuted red, and | over this in yellow letters were the names and titles of tbe deceased nobleuiau.— Bt. Louis Republic. NO. 16. ••BE KINO TO HER." "Be kind to her, be kind/ they aid. When from their clinging arm* I tod My bride in tears and addles away And youth and age at parting toy Their bands in blessing on her head. The old eimi with their wealth of May. Tall, grim and nodding seemed to say. With patriarchal arms outspread, "Be kind to her." A score of years has oversped Since you And I, dear wife wera wed; A changing scene of gold and gray. But love is whispering to-day Along the paths we yet shall tread, "Be kind to her." —P. W. Hutt, in New York Herald. HUMOR OF THE DAT. A fixed star—The wealthy actor. No man can tell how much it would take to make him rich.—Ram's Horn. What the college freshman doean't know he talks about.—Elmira Gazette. A horse, strange to say, feeds beat when he hasn't a bit in his mouth.— Truth. It doesn't always follow that shaking au acquaintance rattles him.—Philadel phia Times. A slay belle—One o( the King of Da homey's Amazonian warriors. —New York Journal. It does seem a little odd that a good ••trusty" grocer rarely succeeds.—Cleve land Plain Dealer. Lecturer —"What is dearer to a man than his wife?" Bachelor—"Her jew elry."—Jeweler's Weekly. When* an old crank spoils the slide, the small boy doesn't feel like saying peace to his ashes.—Pack. What the solar system needs now is a good stringent law for the punishment of vagrancy.—Kansas City Star. One of the hardest times to love an enemy is when he seems to be prosper ing like a green bay tree.—Rim's Horn. No charge to florists for this advice: If you would have your plants start early put them in spring beds.—Lowell Courier. "How can I become a ready conversa tionalist?" "Persuade yourself that you have a chronic disease of some kind."— Buffalo Express. "You are beneath my notice," as the land owner remarked when he lound the tramp asleep under his sign "No tres passing."—Comic Cuts. First Thief—"What do you do when you can't pull the wool over a jeweler's eyes?" Second Thief—"Throw pepper in 'em."—Jeweler's Weekly. Tommy—"Say. paw?" Mr. Pigg— "Well?" "When a hole in the ground is filled up with dirt what becomes of the hole?"—lndianapolis Journal. Jagson says there are two reasons why his servant girl cannot succeed in this world and they are because she hates to get up and dust.—Elmira Gazette. Martin—"How well Miss Oreenbough keeps her age I" Mrs. Grinder—"Why, of course; nothing would induce her to give it away."—Chicago Inter-Ocean. Reggie—"Van Harding has been ex pelled from the club." Ferdie— "Why?" Reggie—"He was getting too beastly bwainj."—New York Herald. Ob, take the telophone away, Its trials greater grow. For all you hear and all you say Is that one word "Hello!" —Washington Star. Judge—"Have you anything to say before I pass sentence on you?" Prisoner - "No, I ain't got any time ter waste talkin' 'ere. I want ter go I"—Pick-Me- Up. A man who is rough and awkward at everything else will show a delicacy and skill greater than any woman's when he has to patch a torn ten-dollar bill.— Atchison Globe. The Brilliant Spirit of Repartee: She—"lt is reported around town that we are engaged." Ho—"I have heard worse things than that." She—"l never have."—Life's Calendar. Miss Ann Gulaw—"l wish you would tell me how you manage to keep your dresses in such pretty shape." Miss Plumpette —"Simply by wearing them, dear."--Indianapolis Journal. "Don't you think," the mother said proudly, "that her playing shows a re markable finish?" "Yes," replied the young mtn absently; "but she was a long time getting to it.' ; —The Jury. Watts—"Did you ever cat any 'pos sum?" Grogan—"Oi niver did an' I niver will. Oi hov no use for a baste that wud dhrop the O from the name of him as the 'possum has."—lndianapolis Journal. "Mrs. Migg's children look so neg lected, poor things; is she away?" "No; she is spending her time writing those beautiful articles, 'How to Make Home Attractive for the Children.' " —Chicago Inter-Ocean. Tuff Muggs—"So you got clear o' that larceny charge, eh? Must 'a' bad a purty smart lawyer." Barry I Howes— "Naw. He was a regular chump. Only charged $25 for clearin' me."—lndian apolis Journal. Importunate Borrower—"But I have a family to support, ray dear fellow." Unwilling Victim—"All the more reason, my de.tr fellow, for your not try ing to hold up all your fricndi."—Kate Field's Washiugton. "Ullol" said the messenger boy. "Ain't yon workin' no more, kid?" "Naw," said the ex-officeboy, "I ain't. I'm on a strike. Der walkin' deligit came arouud an' said we win to double price fer lickin' dese new stamps, or go out. An'l went out.'"—lndian apolis Journal. Little Flory—"Would you mind let ting me put your ring in the bath tub a few minutes?" Mr. Pridee—"What for!" Little Flory—"Sister Madge said last week she knew you'd put your ring in soak to gel the flowers you sent her, and I wanted to try it and see if I could get some." —lnter-Ocean. <.
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