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. <.