SULLIVAN JSBb& REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. During the last ninety-six years 348,- 915,000 pounds of gold wore coined in France. There are now 7000 loan associations in this country, with a membership of 2,000,000 persons. The population of the Sandwich Islands is about 85,000, of whom 35,- 000 are natives, 15,000 Chinese and 20,- 000 Japanese. Wong Chin Foo, the New York jour nalist, is authority, for the statement that the next Chinese Minister to the United States, if the peoplo ol this country do not object, will bo a genuine, simon pure Tartar. Working expenses are increasing upon the French railroads. The ratio of working charges upon the Northern of France Railway in 1891 was 49.43 per cent, as compared with 47.46 per cent, in 1890, 48.01 per cent, in 1889 and 45.8 per cent, in 1888. So alarming has been the increase in tho ivory trade that if it continues much longer at the presjnt rate the elephant will soon become extinct. One firm alone in Sheffield, England, last year re ceived the tusks of 1280 elephants. A few years ago 800 pairs of tusks were sufficient for them. Socialists and anarchists might have their opinions of mi'.lionaires changed somewhat, the Chicago Herald thiuks, by learning of the act of Moses Loria, born in Mantua in 1814. Loria died lately in Milan, Italy, leaving 83,000,000 to the city to establish an international homo for laboring people out of employ ment. It is reported that Indian Commission er Morgan has received a letter signed by Lewis Miller, and fifteen other Indians, Cbeyennes and Arapahoes, members of Troop L, Fifth United States Cavalry, asking him to take steps to procure their discharge from tho array. Tney say that they arc tired of military life, and can do much better for themselves by working on their farms. The letter has been leferrcd to the Secretary of War for such action as he may deem proper. Military life is a little tiresome,but white men that enlist arc not therefore dis charged whenever they desiro it; and to dischargo these Indiaus now would be to destroy the, to them, most valuable part of their military lesson. Tho degree of poverty existing ill the city of London is not expressed by the figures of the census of pauper?, al though,admits the San Francisco Chron icle, they are formidable enough. It is appalling to think of 105,000 publicly registered paupers in one city, but if the assertions ol missionaries and others who are familiar with tho subject are to be credited, that number is scarcely a tithe of the whole. A writer in an English review, nearly two years ago, declared that there were a million persons in London always hovering on the verge of starvation and another million whose condition, while not so precariou«, was always menaced by tho wolf of want. Since these unchallenged assertions were made, the depression of business in Eng land has been greatly Increased, so there is good reason for believiug that the conditions are much wor.-:e now. What ever may be the cause of this extra ordinary state of affairs, it is no credit to Nineteenth Century civiliz ition, and there is little wonder that the contem plation of it drives sympathetic men into all sorts of vagaries of opinion. Suicide is increasing as rapidly as murder in this country, according to the statistics gathered by the Chicago Tri bune. There were 3860 last year as compare with 3331 iu 1891, 2640 in 1890 and 2224 in 1889. The causes for this large number of self-murders arc given us follows: Despondency 146 Unknown OS4 Insanity 53( Domestic infelicity 2fK' Liquor 3l« Disappointed love "S4*J 111 health Business lomes.: 56 According to this total a man had about one chance in about 16»820 of commit ting suicide in 1892, calculating the pop ulation at 65,000,000. In hurrying themselves into eternity 1300 of these suicides sought death by shooting, 1010 by poison, 608 by hauging, 396 by drowning, 319 by throat cutting, ninety one by throwing themselves before loco motives, flfty-six by jumping from win dows, fifty bv stabbing, fifteen by burn ing, six preferred starving and the same number took the dynamite route, while one each chose freezing, a trip hammer or beating his head against a stone wall. It is not honorable to men to have to say that 2555 of these suicides were males and only 805 females, and that medicine heads the list of the professions whoso members sought an untimely death, with thirty-seven physician sui •idM. LOVE'o SEASON In sad sweet days when hectic flushes Burn red on maple and sumach leaf, When sorrowful winds wail through the rusher, And all things whisper of loss and grief, When close and closer bold Frost ap proaches To snatch the blossoms from Nature's breast. When night forever on day encroaches— Oh, then I think that I love you best. And yet when winter, that tyrant master, Has buried autumn in walls of snow. And bound and fettered where bold Frost cast her Lies outrage 1 Nature in helpless woe. When all earth's p'eatures in four walls cen tre. And side by side in the snug home nest We list the tempests which cannot enter— Oh, then I say that I love you best. But later on, when the Siren Season Betray.- the trust of the senile King, And glad Earth laughs at the act of treason, And winter dies in t' ■» arms of Spring, When bu Is and birds all push and flutter To free fair Nature so long oppressed, I thrill with feelings I oannot utter, And then I am csrtain I love you best. But when in splendor the queenly summer Reigns over the earth and the skies above, When Nature kneels to the royal oomer. And even the Sun flames hot with Love, When Pleasure basks in the luscious weather, And Care lies out on the sward to rest— Ob, whether apart or whether together, It is then I know that I love you best. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Lippincott. PRISCILLA'S MANAGEMENT. BY MABAH CROSSE FARLEY. EACON DODGE "it /V* felt "blue" enough, n\ /* 'J 88 k® Ba * down to « 7iy/fj m his six o'clock tea, 1. I/ fi J/J his humble home vti | jj on Forest Hill. It was not that the il tca was e 'ther badly 'if T served or poor in jJ quality, for he in variably purchased th " best groceries SSwii3B& the market afforded, and nothing Miss Prissy ever tried to do or make ever resulted in fail ure. It WAS neither the eatables nor yet the drinkables that caused the cloud on the deacon's brow. As he expressed it, he "felt blue as a whetstone," and the cause arose from the tightness in money circles. Miss Prissy, the deacon's strong minded daughter, perceived the lower ing countenance, and wishing to con ciliate the old gentleman a little, put an additional lumo of sugar in his tea. "Third, and lastly," he said, in an abstracted manner, as he passed the cup for refillment. Prissy smiled almost involuntarily at this "power of habit - ' exemplified. The worthy deacon, busy with his bread and butter, did not see his listener's face. "I'll tell you what," said he, carefully adjusting his knife and fork, "unless something happens in our favor pretty soon, we are gone to smash completely." Even the lingering shadow of the smile that had played round the corners of Prissy's mouth died out, and she looked anxiously at her lather as he went on: "There is a four-hundred-dollar mort gage on the house, with interest at seven per cent., and no man can stand such a per cent, as that. There is that one hundred-dollar note, and two of fifty dollars each, besides one hundred and sixty dollars yet unpaid on the lumber, seventy-five dollars—got to come some how—for the carpenters, twenty-five for the mason, twenty-five more for the painting. Besides, that leaves us with the house not yet half finished, the ground yet to be grubbed and laid out and fenced, and not a cent, mind you— not a single cent—to do it with." The deacon leaned back in his chair and fairly growed. The strong minded Priscilla got up, and walking round to his side of the table, laid her hand on his arm. "Listen to me, deacon," said she, thoughtfully—she always called him that when she felt particularly in earnest— "listen to me, now, and I'll tell you the plan I have for extricating our affairs from financial aunihilation." "Talk away," growled the bear. "Talk, at any rate, is cheap enough; even in these hard times." Prissy declined to nctice the slight put upon her tongue, and continued, bravely: "You know you have always refused to keep a cow, pig, or chickens. Now, then, let us have all three, and I will show you this fail that your interest money shall be forthcoming, besides having our grocery bill footed as it is made." "Pshaw, Prissl" ejaculated he, with a groau of dirapproval, "how could you do it? Besides, my credit isn't worth a blue bean. I haven't the money to pay lor a cow, nor a pig, nor even the chick ens, so there's an end of that." In no wiso discouraged, the strong minded young woman coolly continued : "I have ways and means for all of'em, deacon. And if you will solemnly agree to do in all things as I suggest and ad vise, I in turn will promise and ratity it, too, to take these debts and the unfin ished house on my shoulders, metaphori cally speaking, and in three years' timo we will owe no man, and our house and ground shall compare favorably with any in the country." The deacon considered a moment. "Show me your ways and means, Prias." "Well," a little reluctantly, "you know the Laurels? Mrs. Laurel wants to trade a young new milch cow, with the calf, for twenty-four yards of that new ingrain carpet of our, and as I have already carpet enough, !>esides that to cover all the floor we ahall use for a year LAPORTE. PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 10.1893. or so, I have accepted the offer. That ii cow No. 1, eh?" J "Cow No. I— yea." "Uncle Bemus has taken a fancy to I my gold watch, and wanta to trade me a cow and a hog of the female persuasion for it, and aa the watch is useless to me in our present circumstances, I have made up my mind to close with him. So there is cow No. 2, and aforesaid pif?-" The deacon opened his eye). " 'Pon my word, Priss, you're a born trader. But what about the chickens?" "I have bought live—four hens and one rooster—of the Bowers, on 'tick,' as they say. The hens are wanting to set, and I shall send you to Neighbor Tootle for eggs to set them with. Too tle charges fifty cents per dozen for eggs, but his are an extra kind of large fowl that can be made to bring four dollars per dozen as early spring chickens by the first of June. I can have at least thirty or forty chicks for the June mar ket and the proceeds therefrom will take up a certain note of yours. In the meantime the butter shall pay our house hold expenses as we go along. There shall be no butcher's bill, nor any other kind of a bill, run up for future settle ment. The calves we will fatten and sell this fall, the hog ditto. Uncle Be mus advises me to keep the litter oi pigs until next year, when they will fetch us something over a hundred dollars. The eight acres of ground, for the use of which we pay forty dollars, must be planted with corn, and I have already selected the seed. As the land is partic ularly clean and of uncommon good soil, the yield should be not less than sev enty-five bushels to the acre, which, if corn comes down to an unprecedentedly low figure, will still pay all expenses for seed, rent, tillage, and leave us enough to fatten our hogs after all." The deacon was silent from astonish ment. "I shall raise as many chickens as possible through the heat of the coming summer; so that the next spring I shall have eggs by the quantity, when tho market reports quote a good price, with supply less than the demand." "You talk like a farmer, Priss," ejac ulated,the dazed deacon. "When did you learn so much, I wonder?" "Don't ask me questions, but promise me," giving him a tight squeeze. "I promise." She shook herself loose from him, and poured out for herself a cup of hot tea. "Very well; goto work and make me some chicken coops and a hen house, and fetch home my hens to-morrow, and this fall I will show square accounts with some folks I know of." In the course of time the cows wero driven home, the chickens roosted in the deacon's hen house, and the "female hog, with her seven children, occupied the attention of the deacon's daughter. Of a morning Prissy went into the cellar and skimmed, and strained,and churned, and outside the deacon himself, with the spade and ax made good time among the stumps, thereby saving hired help and the additional cost of a wood pile. The deacon had lived all his life under a lazy cloud. lie couldn't cut wood, he said, because it made him so tired. He couldn't work at farming, because the weather was either too hot or too cold, or too wet or too dry. He couldn't stay all the while at his place of business (be was a photographer) and wait for cus tomers, because he "wanted to get out and stretch bis legs." But suggest the idea of an impossible enterprise to him, or ask him to invest in a lottery ticket, or tallc travel, and directly the deacon was your man. He was utterly and abominably lazy and selfish. He forced Prissy to pinch and save a dollar, while he would squander fifty, and have nothiug to stiow for what he had paid out. Such is man —that is, so much of it as went by the name of Deacon Dodge. One of the things the strong-minded girl got him to do was to make a fence, which she insisted should be hedge. A hawthorne hedge, she declared, was both beautiful and attractive, besides just as useful as any other. So, under her vigilant generalship, he delivered some trees lor tho nursery men and took his pay in hedge plants, which she made him set out and attend to. Little by little sho put the deacon on his mettle, unfil at last she herself was surprised to find how much she had made him accomplish. At the eud of the first year he had grubbed their one and a half acres, put the first coat of paint on the house, made the fence, dug tho cel lar, built outhouses, cut all the fire wood and made five dollars a week besides. At the end of their first year Prissy found she has sold six dozen chickens at four dollars per dozeu, and had as many more to winter over. She had sold six hundred pounds of butter, at an average of thirty cents a pound. The two calves fetched twelve dollars readily, and the fatted hog twenty-seven more. Their household experses had been just one hundred dollars, aside from what she had raised in She garden, and the butter and eggs were of home manufacture, also. She spent not a penny for cloth ing. Together they checked off accounts one evening, and to his intense surprise the deacon found a little matter of four hundred and fifty dollars to his credit, besides having a much better start tor the next year. He paid the balance due on his lum ber, and thankfully took up three other notes, after which he breathed more freely. The next year the invincible Prissy sold two hundred dollars' worth of bogs, sixty dollars' worth of eggs, and ten dozen chickens, still keeping house hold and personal expenses at tho lowest possible point. The deacon, too, had better luck, or perhaps attended more strictly to his business, and tho end of the second year was also the death knell of the insatiable mortgage. As this is no fancy sketch, but, on the contrary, is a veritable "leaf from life," I cannot state what the result was for the third year of Miss Prissv's manage* ment. But I saw the deacon the . other day trimming his hedge, which was all white and sweet with bloom, and he tells me that the carpenters are busy at hit house, and that be shall have enough produce to dispose of in the fall to take him com pletely out of debt. He certainly has the handsomest place in the country, and by far the most stylish house. As foi Prissy, her face is tanned a light brown, and her hands are not quite so white and small as they once were—not "so useless by half," she says, turning them over carefully, and showing the little cal loused lumps on the palms. "But we are out of debt anyway," she added, triumphantly. "This thing of being dunned by every other person one sees is anything but funny." May Forrest Hill long outshine its neighbors, and stand as a striking me mento of one woman's will.—New York Weekly. An Old Settler. Geologists agree that many thousands of years ago—they do not agree on the number of thousands—great ice fields, like immense glaciers, moved slowly out of the north over a large part of the United States and Europe. These glac icers were so thick that they have left on the top of tho White Mountains bowl ders which they had carried hundreds of miles, and they had much to do with shaping the hills and valleys of New York, Pennsylvania, and New England. The marks made by these glaciers as they ground and crushed their way over the rocks are still plainly visible in many places, and it is easy to trace the large bowlders they carried northward to regions where such stone occurs in large quantities. Those were days of great things, and among the bage creatures that roamed about in the region of the advancing glacier was the Etephas Americanus, or American elephant. Part of the skele ton of one of these animals has just been unearthed at Carl J unction, Missouri, and sent to the Washington University. These bones show this animal to have been from twenty-five to thirty feet long, and fifteen feet tall. It fed on trees and bushes, and a wagon-load of pine branches and cones would have made a light sup per for this monster. Its molar teeth had grinding surfaces nine by tour inches in size, and its tusks were nine feet long. Coarse long hair covered the big fellow from head to toes, and a drove of such animals must have been an imposing sight, even in the presence of the mighty glaciors. In a cave in France, has been found, scratched on a bit of, ivory tusk, a rude picture of one of theae prehistoric mam moths. This picture us supposed to be the oldest known, and'was made by some man or boy who was more clever than his fellows, but who lived in a cave, ate raw meat, and wore scanty clothing made from untanned skins of wild beasts which the filthy and savugo men of those far-olf times killed with clubs and.stones. It may be, therefore, that human beings saw the living animal, pieces of whose skeleton were dug the other day from beneath twenty feet of soil out in Mis souri.—Harper's Young People. How Deaf Mutes Dunce. "I never felt so lonesomotin my life," said a gentleman recently, "as when I chanced to be thrown one iday with a picnic party of deaf mutes. They could understand each other, laughed and carried on and had a good time gener ally, while I sat like a mummy, apart, looking on, but unable torpaiticipate in any of the fun. "One thing that surprised me greatly," he continued, "was to see them indulge in dancing. I had always supposed that it was absolutely essential to hear the rhythm of the music in order to keep the time of a waltz or a polka. To be sure they bad an orchestra on the dancing barge, and for a time I regarded that as peculiar, for few if any of the party could hear the strains. "After a little thought I solved the mystery. The mutes could not hear the music, but they felt it, which was just as effectual. To be sure of the matter I spoke to the leader of tbe orchestra and he assured me that my surmise was cor rect, and that when he was employed by the party it was expressly stipulated that he should * bring his biggest bass drum and bass viols. The deep tones were more vibratory than the others and the mutes kept excellent waltz time by feel ing the vibration of the wood floori_ e upon which they danced."—New York Herald. A Tamo Mountain Lion. The author of "A Ride Through Won derland,says that she was invited, when in Colorado, to visit a hunter's store and see a mountain lion; the only one, as its owner asserted, which had ever been tamed. It was in a little back room, chained to an iron staple in the floor, round which it was pacing, utter ing low growls. It appeared very much like a small pan ther, and seemed anything but tame, snarling at us as if it longed to spring. It was in awe of its master, however, and cowed down every time he cracked his whip. He made it do seveial tricks with a retriever dog, which did not seem to like the tosk very well. "Come and kiss Miss Pussy," said the man, and the dog went up to it, laid a ! paw upon its neck, and licked its face. The master then put a piece of meat on its nose, and told the dog to fetch it away. "He doesn't care for this part," was his comment. "She has had him by the throat once or twice. Just look at her iron |iawsl One blow would lay you dead as mutton. What, you brute, you would, would you I" Miss Pussy had tried to gnaw his boot, ; and needed to be lashed off. "Did you ever take her out!" "Oh, yes, she goes walking with me in the mountains, sometimes. I take her chain off when we're out of the town, but I'm precious careful to follow h er and never let her step behiud me 1" ' SETTING BOTTLES AFLOAT. room SAM TAXBB A HINT FROM BHIPWBBOKBD MARINEBS. Studying Ocean Current by Putting Messages tn Bottles and Throw ing Them Overboard. SETTING afloat messages in bot tles, writes Bene Bache in the Boston Transcript, has been an experiment resorted to by ship wrecked mariners for many centuries. Often has a writing thus consigned to the waves been the happy means of res cuing castaways, bringing succor to those whom hope had well-nigh forsaken. More frequently such a document, picked up years later perhaps, has relieved sus pense by making certain the fate of miss ing voyagers. It seems odd that this idea should have been recently adopted by science for the practical and unro mantic purpose of finding out about the surface currents of the ocean. The work is the newost that has been undertaken by the Hydrographlc Office of the United States Navy. Within the last two years it has distributed tens of thousands of "bottle papers" among the 2500 skippers of sea-going vessels, from sailing craft to Atlantic liners, who con tribute reports as voluntary observers in exchange for supplios of pilot charts, etc., given by the Government. These bottle papers are printed forms which the observers are requested to enclose in bottles and throw overboard, after mark ing upon each of them the latitude, longitude and date. On each paper is a separate space in which the person who may find the bottle is asked to write the date and locality, afterwards forwarding the paper to the nearest United States consul or to tie Hydrographlc Office in Washington. Directions as to these matters are printed on the paper in sev eral languages. Up to the present time 261 of the bottle papers thus scattered broadcast have bsen returned, but thou sands of them are still afloat, and of those a considerable percentage will be picked up sooner or later. Of course, it is impossible to know how many of those placed in the hands of observers have been duly bottled and launched. The courses taken by the bottles tell the story of the ocean currents, and knowledge of these is of the utmost importance to mariners. Chiefly is it valuable for enabling vessels to seek such routes across the seas as will make it possible for them to take advantage of favoring streams and to avoid unfavora ble ones. Columbus knew nothing about the currents of the Atlantic, and so he made his way to the New World by tbe path which the surface drift laid out for him. Thus, after being driven far to the southward, he finally brought up at San Salvador. Knowing where he started from and the point at which he finally arrived, hydrographers to-day can draw a curved line on the map show* ing exactly the course which he must have followed. Just at this time such a fact possess no little interest. Only a few months ago the Hydrographic Office was called upon to determine the proba ble location of a Pacific Mail steamship which was lost in the Pacific Ocean. Her machinery having broken down, as was reported l>y a vessel which had sig nalled her, she had drifted oil and nothing had been heard of her fcr weekf, The Pacific M'lil Company, be ing unable to find her, appealed to tho experts at Washington, who promptly pointed out the exact spot where she would be discovered. And she was found there, six hundred miles west of whero the owners had been looking for her. This was figured out from kuown facts respecting the direction and velocity of the currents in that great waste of wateis. Some of the bottled papers set afloat by the Prince of Monaco floated for more than five years before they were picked up. His Serene Highness, who is an en thusiast in such matters, has devoted much attention to experiments of this kind. For tbe purpose of studying the surface currents of tho Atlantic, he launched from his sailing yacht in 1885 and 188 C a great number of floats con sisting of wooden casks, capper globes and glass bottles. All of thom were weighed to prevent any part of them from being out of tho water tj catch the wind, the object being to determine the drift. He finally determined that the best float for the purpose was a thick srlns* bottle coated with pitch and cov ~i-ed ov9r this with copper. Of such bottles he launched 931 in the year 1887, in a line stretching from the Azores to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Each of them contained a document in nine languages, asking the finder to re cord on it the locality and date of dis covery and to forward it to the nearest maritime authorities. Of all the bottle papers thus distribed he got back 227, some of them bringing up in Iceland, others on the west coast of Africa, others on the shores of America, and fourteen as far away as Japan. The prince has published charts which show most inter estingly the courses taken by the Atlan tic currents as proved by the bottles. A Marvellous Escape From Doatli. Geary R. Griffith, of Jenner Town ship, Somerset County, had a remarkable experience last Wednesday. While out hunting with a shot gun he "let drive" at a covey of partridges. The gun ex ploded, leaving only a small piece of the butt in his hands. He was uninjured, but the charge of the gun got to tho mark and killed seven of the birds.— Philadelphia Times. A startling headgear is worn by Frank Sanborn, the well-known writer, trav eler and sage of Concord. It is a round crown affair, just like half of a musk melon stuck on top of an immense circle of felt which stanas out as straight as a Diece of board. Crisfield, Md., is iaterested in tho op erations of a stranger who has bought seven islands to raise delicacies for mar ket—fish, soft-shell crabs and perhaps terrapin among the poesibilities. Terms—ll.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTBIAL. There are 235 varieties of dynamos. An invalid's chair is electrically pro pelled. Whaleback boats are lighted by elec tricity. One.fi(th of the coal mined is lost in culm and refuse. The longevity of trees is much influ enced by climate. The flesh of the oyster contains about ninety per cent, of water. A body weighing 10,000 pounds at the equator would weigh 10,031 pounds in London. For the destruction of microbes cinna mon is said to be as effective, if not as quick, as corrosive sublimate. At Cherbourg, Prance, an electrical canoe is in successful operation. It will run for twelve hours at the rate of nearly eight knots an hour. Genuine volcanic dust has been found in Kansas and the Indian Territory. There is a deposit near Galena, in the Territory, which is said to be many feat in thickness. A fossil elephant has been found ten kilometres from Brioude, in France, on the slope of an old volcano, the Seneze. It is the skeleton of an elepbas meridion alis, and is nearly entire. The latest method of decorating metals makes the working out of most beautiful and artistic designs possible. The means by which this is effected are the etching and oxidation of the metal. Some experiments have lately been made by the Northern Pacific car build ers at Tacoma, Washington, to test the strength of oak and fir timber. The latter proved one-third stronger than eastern oak, and more than one-half stronger than eastern white pine. The officer who will command the United States cruiser New York, now nearing completion, will have the use of as fine a gig as ever commander sat in. The Secretary of the Navy has author ized the construction of an electric launch twenty feet long and capable of going through the water at an eight-knot speed for at least five hours. The little craft will cost $3500, and ij expected to be ready for the cruiser when her pen nant is hoisted in February. A cleverly constructed little machine has been designed for the purpose of af fixing stamps to letters and circulars, and by its means the process can be car ried out with extraordinary rapidity. The motions of detaching, damping and fixing are all performed by one revolu tion of a small wheel attached to the machine. From four to five thousand letters an hour can be stamped, and one of the most advantages of the machine is that it will register the num ber of letters thus treated. A useful guard has been put on tho market for the protection of incandescent lamps. In its construction care has been taken to eliminate the disadvantages of guards hitherto in use, and it not only requires no clips or catches, but secures itself firmly on the socket almost auto matically. It has, moreover, a very firm hold on the socket, having a bearing contact longitudinally on the shell of over half an inch, so that it is almost im possible for any but the severest blow to force it against the lamp. In appearance the guard is light and symmetrical. A Very Clever Dog. "Is it a fact that the Scotch collie is the most intelligent dog in the world!" If innumerable anecdotes of tho intelli gence displayed by the Scotch shepherd's most faithful companion are to be trusted, the collie is hard to beat. But we can tell a story of a Mexican sheepdog that ought to make his Scotch brother sit up. The Mexicans educate them to tend their flocks and herds, and they perform the duty with moro fidelity and satisfac tion than a man. They will take a flock of sheep or herd of goats out in the morning, drive them to tho feeding grounds, defend them from the attacks of predatory "varmints," and bring them back to the bedding place at night with out losing a single animal. Up in New Mexico there was an iso lated ranch, which was one of a system controlled by a wealthy sheep owner. He, or one of his agents, usually visited it twice a year to shear the sheep and take provisions to the pastors, or herder. On one of these semi-annual visits he found the herder dead in his cabin, and Imbody nearly decomposed. The sheep were quietly feeding in a fertile canyon near by, jealously guarded by the dog. In the rear of the corral, into which the sheep were driven every night, lay the skeletons of a dozen or more sheep. Astonished at the sagacity of the dog, the ranchman secreted himself and waited until night. As the sun began to sink the sheep rame trooping in with the dog in the rear. They crowded into the corral through a narrow opening, and as the last one pushed forward the dog seized and killed him and dragged the lifeless body to the rear of the corral, where he made a comfortable supper off a portion of the carcass, leaving the balance for future meals. He had been doing this ever since the death of his master, and would probably have continued his guardianship over the flock until he died.—Yankee Blade. Curiosities About Snow. The pure white lustre of snow is due to the fact that all the elementary colors of light are blended together in the ra diance that is thrown off from the sur face of the various crystals. More than a thousand distinct and perfect fcrms of snow crystals have been enumerated and figured by the various investigators in that line. One hundred and fifty-one different forms were once observed by the English scientist, Glashier, who care fully made engravings of each and printed them in a paper attached to the report of the British Meteorological So ciety far the year 1855.—5t. Louis Re public. NO. 17. WOMEN'S RIGHTS. A right to tread so softly Beside the couch of pain; V , To smooth with gentle Angers ? The tangled looks again; V. - To wmtoh beside the dying - In wee,'small hours of night, And breathe a consecrating prayer When the spirit takes its flight. A right to cheer the weary On the battlefields of life; To give the word of sympathy Amid the toil and strife; \ To lift the burden gently From the sore and tired hearts, And never weary of the task Till gloomy care departs, A right to be a woman In truest woman's work 1 If life should be a hard one, ' j No duties ever shirk; -y j A right to show to others A How strong a woman grows, When skies are darkening and lowering An life bears not a rose. A right to love one truly And be loved back again; A right to shire his fortunes * Through sunlight and through rain; A right to be protected Prom life's most cruel lights By manly love and courage— Sure these are women's rights! —Boston Globe. HCMOB OF THE DAY. _____ . Indian meal—Government rations. Short intervals—The periods between pay days. A bald headed man may yet be a hare brained fellow. A no-account fellow—The man who never asks credit.—Life. On the roll of fame—The champion wheelman.—Galveston News. An all-round man—A fat freak in a museum—New York Journal. Onions are healthy. Plumbers get fat on leaks.—Philadelphia Times. A high-binder—The publisher of ornamental books.—Washington Star. It is very convenient for a rapid writer to have a good train of thought. —Troy Press. There is no help for the ca9e of the woman who can't get a servant.—Phila delphia Record. ••What you need," said the aeronaut to the balloon, "is a good blowing up." —Washington Star. No one can know the value of a little scratch on a red wagon until ho offers it for sale.—Atchison Globe. Ob, roses, go and nestle Next the roses 'neath her locks, That were made with a mortar and pestle And cost one-fifty a box. * —Chicago News Record. "Did you ever goto Bins, the tailor!" "Yes. Got two suits from him. One dress suit. One lawsuit. Very expensive man."—Waif. A boy never looks in the glass to see if his face is clean after he has washed it; he looks at the dirt on the towel.— Atchison Globe. . . "How long can a man live without air!" "It depends on the air. Forever if it's 'Ta-ra-ra boom-de-aye.'"—Kate Field's Washington. Ccnsidering the fact that coal bills are presented every month, it's a wonder that more people don't die of heart fail ure.—Washington News. The best wishes one can offer tho im provment-of-roads crusaders is that thoir chosen walk in life may be ovor smooth ways.—Baltimore American. An Irish carpenter fell from the roof to the ground, and when picked up re marked: "I was coming down after nails anyway."—Harvard Lampoon. Breathing through, the nose is the only proper way to sleep. If you awake f the night and find your mouth open get up and shut it.—Taiuaqua Recorder. A fashion journal asserts that "the hoop skirt is coming in again." Queer that a thing that stands out so should come in, too.—Philadelphia Lodger. A servant girt puzzled a Chestnut Street druggist's elerk yesterday for a moment by asking for a dozen three grain Queen Ann pills.—Philadelphia Record. "My first offonsej" the footpad oried, His victim hung his head. "To think that I was held up by "An amateur I" he said. —Washington Star. Clerk—"l advise you to try these socks, sir. We call 'em the messenger boy." Customer—"Why!" Clerk— "Because they don't run."—Clothier and Furnisher. "Are those shirts of Wigby's ready!" asked the laundryman of his assistant. "No, sir," she replied, "I haven't had time to tear off the neckbands yet."— Buffalo Express. . "I love you," he with ardor said; "At last I'll show it." She smiled and gayly tossed her head And said, "I know it." —Washington Star. Guest (angrily)—"Soe here, you've upset half that soup on my ooatl" Wait er (soothingly) "Never mind, sir; we've got a lot more in the kitchen."— New York Journal. "I have one advantage over you," said the Gifted Liar. "Do you know what it is!" •'! can't imagine," replied the Truthful Citizen. "Exactly. That's it."—Chicago Tribune. Spellman—"Are you going South on business or—" Mr. Setrich—"Well, business and pleasure combined. It's to attend th 9 funeral of the uncle who left me a fortune."—lnter-Ocean. Teacher—"What part of speech i* phonograph?'' Big Boy—"A noun of the feminine gender." Teacher—"Why feminine!" Big Boy— "Because It al ways talks back."—New York Journal. Tommy—"Paw, I heard a man say that Mr. Watts was a self made man. Whai is a selt made man!" Mr. Figg— "A man who knows how to buy a dol lar's worth of work for fifty cents."—ln dianapolis Journal.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers