SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W./M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. Professors in some colleges in Sp&ii are said to be paid only SI2OO a year France has 422 fighting ships, and th number will be increased to 515 b 1897. Virchow, the celebrate! German mai of science, regards diphtheria as the mo 3 dangerous of all contagious diseases, no excepting cholera. Lunatics and epileptics abound in thi Imperial family of Austria. It is stat6< that, with the sole exception of the Em peror himself, almost every one of thi archdukes and archduchesses belonging thereto is subject, in a greater or less degree, to fits of epilepsy. The Sshool-Mauagement Co nmittee of the Chicago Board of Education has decided to recommend to the Board that, after the present school year, clay modelling studies be discontinued, and that unmarried women take precedence of those who arc married when appoint ments as teachers are made. . The salaries paid to persons in tht Civil Servico of the United States amount to $90,000,000 annually. This seems like a tremendous amount, says tlio Chicago Herald, but when it is borne in mind that this sum pays the wages of 180,000 persons it need not ap pall anyone. The average is only SSOO a year. Watting's Island, where Columbus first landed when he discovered America, has twelve white and six hundred colored residents. Tho blacks are very poor and the whites are not much better off. The crops failed last year and the people having little or no communication with the outside world find it a hard matter to live. They are in great need of a schooner to enable them to communicate withleighboring islands. A noteworthy example of the vast agricultural resources of our country is found :n the official report of the cereal harvest for the ye.'ir 1892. The yield of three cereals—wheat, corn and oats reached the enormous aggregate of 2,311,450,000 bushels. Assuming that the population of the United States is 05,000,000, tiiose three rrops would give au average of over thirty-six bushels to every man, woman and child in the whole country. The hospital work of our flower mis sions has always been recognized as most beneficent and helpful, observes the New York Press. In Loudon, musicians have formed an association known as "The Guild of St. Cecilia," to cheer and beguile the patients in the hospitals of that great city with good music. There is in this a suggestion for the young people in the conservatories of New York. Physicians and nurses agree that music is the most valuable agency for healing in the influeuce it has over the minds of the sick and suflering. Says the Atlanta Constitution: A story from San Domingo rivals in dram atic interest anything that has ever beeu told of the world's most famous tyrants. The President, Ilenreaux, had his brother-in-law arrested on a charge of conspiracy. The prisoner remained in confinement for some lime, when the President one day went to the prison to see him. Henreaux ordered a fine dinner aud during the meal was so cordial that the unsuspecting victim felt confident of his speedy release. At tho close of the dinner the President assumed a serious look, and asked his relative in solemn tones if he was prepared to die. The alleged conspirator could not believe that he was in any danger, but his every confidence was changed to surprise and terror a few minutes later when a file of soldiers appeared and escorted him to the prison yard, where he was promptly shot. The despot who could plan such a horror must have a nature akiu to that of Richard the Third. Doctor Nansen's late lectuie before the British Geographical Society con tained many ingenious devices suggested for the benefit of future arctic explor ers. So many of these devices are de pendent upon a supply of electricity, that the outfit of the comiug successlul explorer will not be considered complete without its dynatno. Djctor Nansen's proposed method of generating elec tricity is to some extent original, even if it be somewhat deficient in the quality of reliability. He proposes to have a wind mill on deck to drive the dynamo, and, when the wind fails, to have the men operate a "walkmill" by shifts, which would afford them such exercise as would be involved in heaving at anchor. The generation of electricity for lighting the darkness of tho arctic night is a good idea, and, if i( prove a success, why not suspend an imaginary arc lamp upon the hypotheti cal North Pole and thereby establish t station from which to signal the peopU om the planet Mars) THE COUNTRY FAITH. Here in the ooun try's heart, Where the grass la green, Life ii the same sweet life As it e'er hath been. Trust in God still II res, And the bell at morn Floats with a thought of Go* O'er the rising corn. Go J comes down in tho rain, And the crop grows tall— This is the country faith. And the best of all. —Norman Gale. AS BLUE AS HER EYES. Br MART KYLE DALLAS. ' . JT" 1 ' OOD gracious I yoi are loaded, Aun Jkrjl Jane," raid Patty running down U ) help her aunt witl 7J mJ the boxes an< > I C-oUbundles she wa r bringing up stairs. "Don't talk,' v^i/%sr Mid Mis ® jane "Madame Sprigen ' 1 aD heimer will have th( most she can out of every body, and wheu work was over she gave us eacb four bandboxes to leave as we cam< over in the morning. 'lt vill giff yoi an early valk,' she said; 'and you vil see some roses in your checks by that. Ido it for your healts.' Old screw—she does it to save errand girls' wages; and il means getting up at Ave o'clock. Poi wo are not to be late—she coaveyed thai idea to us very plainly." " What a shame 1" said Patty. '•I must say," said Miss Jane as she put the bandboxes upon the table, "thai I do not believe that there was ever s Paris bonnet lovelier than Mrs. Figgs's." "Mr?. Figgs?" queried Patty. "A retired grocer's young wife," said Miss Jane. "He's old himself. She's nervous but beautiful. They say she throws things at him and ha? hysterics, and then he forgives her and gives her diamonds. She is very vain. She or dered a bonnet 'just the color of her eyes—blue, you know,' and madame matched the silk to them. Well, it is lovely 1 Take it out of the box, the white one, and look at it." Patty obeyed, and went off into "oh'sl" and "ah'sl" as the children do over skyrockets on the Fourth of July. "I made that," said AuDt Jane. "If ever I get a little money I'll start a place of my own and call myself Madmoiselle Janette Smithette." With this she carried the boxes into the middle room, put them on the bed, * ♦— •"* do— suui lue uoor, anu me >»u etti. »u tea, which Patty had made ready. Rather a high tea, with eggs and bicon and fried potatoes, for neither got home to dinner. And while they ate and chatted a knock came at the door, and in bounced a small boy, Ben Brown's brother—Beu was a brakeman on the H. R. R. '' Why, Tom I" cried Patty. "Hullo 1" said Tom. "Ben sent me over to say he's off to-night, and is com ing to take you to the theatre—he's been given some tickets." "How nice," said Patty. "Have some supper, Tom?" queried Miss Smith. "No'm," said Tom; "I've got to tell Ben if she'll go." "Of course I will," said Patty. The boy was off. A moment after Patty cried: "Oh, I have got to wear that old felt turban!" "Lands!" exclaimed Aunt Jane, I've been trying to get time to make you a bat, for two weeks. What a shame but you can cover it up with a veil." Patty pouted. Aunt Jane had no bonnet to lend her, for she was in mourn ing. Invitations always came like that, she thought. "If I had a pretty bonnet, Ben would not have had the tickets."' She left Aunt Jane taking an extra cup of tea, and went out into the middle room to dress. "If I could wear it to-night," she thought, "I could put a handkerchief on my head under it, and it would not be soiled. Perhapa Aunt Jane would 6ay •Yes!' No, she would not, I know bet ter that that. I've a mind to do it. I can coyer it with a veil. She'll not open the boxes to -night; no one will ever find it out. Oh, it does so become me I" She dropped her own brown turban into the box and put the cover on. "What harm could it dof" she queried of some invisible familiar. At this instant the door dashed open and she ducked below the head-board. Her gray suit fitted well, and waa quite new—so were her gloves. Some one had given her a little bunch of blue flowers; the water she had put tbem in had kept them fresh. They looked well in her belt. Oh, if she had not bad to put on that old brown felt turban 1 Then it came into her mind to try on Mrß. Figgs's blue bonnet. "Blue as her eyes," she repeated, "or mine, for the matter of that!" And out of the bandbox it came. And when it was perched on her fair hair— oh, well, words will not suffice to describe the effect. Miss Jane had come in and rushed out again, and in a moment more she cried out: "Hurry up, Patty 1" called Ben,"we're none too early 1" And Patty covered the beautiful bon net with her veil, and went into the other room. "I'm saved one walk," said Miss Jane; "Mrs. Figgs's maid came for her bonn3t. She went to madaine's first, and madame sent her here. It seems Mrs. Figgs got one of her nervous spells, and danced on all her hats, and then burned them in the grate, so she had to have this at once—l just gave her the bandbox— saved me a walk, says I." *«Oh, you didn't give it to her!" cried Patty. "Why notf" cried Miss Jane. "If 1 had but known 1" gasped Patty. LAPORTE. PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1893. "You saw me come and get it," sale Jane. "But why—Ah, I see—you think it is a trick to steal it. But I know Eliza by sight, »nd she bad a note from madame." "Come along and don't stop talking of bonnets," said Ben, jocosely, hauling Patty off. Despair seized upon the poor girl's heart—it seemed to her that the end ol the world had come. What would be done to her—to hei dear Aunt Janet She was scarcely herself as Ben hur ried down the stairs to the avenue and hailed u trolley-car—she sat beside him, mutely. The pin came out of her veil and it dropped to her lap. "Patty, 1 declare you have got a pretty bonnet this time," said Ben. "It will cost me enough," muttered Patty, between her teeth. "Eh?" said he, wondering at hei frightened face. AM the next corner the car stopped— an old gentleman helped in a young lady. They took the seat before Ben and Patty. They were talking, fast and loud, the words came to the girl's ears: "But, my love, you could wait until to-morrow," said the old gentleman. "Mr. Figgs," said the lady, "I'd con sider myself a coward if I did. Eliza says that when Miss Smith opened the door of the inner room, she saw her niece there, with a blue bonnet on, and that she hid behind the bed-head, and in the bandbox was this old turban that I have on my head. The girl meant to wear it to-night and send it home to-morrow, no doubt. But I'll show this to madame first, and then get a wairant for the ar rest of both women—l'll punish them." Patty suddenly threw her veil over her head. Evidently this was Mrs. F«ggs. The poor girl felt very ill. "Did Ben hear?" she asked herself. "Did he guess the truth?" Ben, however, was interested in cer tain vagaries of the electric lights, which blinked and flared surprisingly. "Well, now, that's kinder hard on the poor women," said f he grocer. "I will have nvenge!" said Mrs. Figgs, gritting her teeth and becoming hysterical. "There! there! y»u shall, dearest," gasped Mr. Figgs. "Ain't we going as fast as we can?" "You're always thwarting me!" sobbed the lady. "I ain't," pleaded Figgs. "Why, wifey, I ain'£ no such thing. I always 3o what you want, only—" At this moment the electric lights blinked madly and went out altogether —mimic lightning began to play along the floor of the car, and cries were heard outside. ■ Th« cir stopped; Ben jumped up and Mk3d to the door, wu. - <i QO j j ~ "Lend us a hand, cue guard. "Ay," replied Ben. The car was in utter darkness. A sudden jerk overset Mr. Figgs, and he sprawled on the floor. Mrs. Figgs shrieked: "I'm struck by lightning 1 I'm deadl It's all your fault, Mr. Figgs, all your fault I" and went into hysterics. But Patty did not. She seized the op portunity. With one hand she pulled down the shades, so that not even the faint light of the street could betray her; with the other she whisked'her old 'tur ban from Mrs; Figgs's head,,and in an instant had pinned the blue bonnet to her golden braids. Then she seated herself, put her despised told hat, so precious no;v, upon her',own head and covered it well with her voU. "Oh, thank goodness!" she gasped, "thank goodness!'* The light flashed up again. "All aboard!" roared the guard. Ben was at her side explaining all that had been done—all the danger, all the value of the aid he had offered. She did not understand a word, but she beamed up<m Mm. "Seems to have cheered you up," he said. "Well," said Patty; "a little excite ment docs, now aud then." "Abominable things—these cars," said the passengers, in chorus; "fright ful accident some day—a mercy we were not all killed." "There's one gentleman struck," said an old lady. But Mr. Figgs had only been wedged between two seats—Bon extracted him safely, and he resumed his position be side his wife. "Better, lovef" he asked. "No, I shall never get over this," said Mrs. Figgs, "and you ought not to have taken a trolley car—l am sure you did it to be rid of me." "I didn't," said Mr. Figgs; "my dear, your hair is down and your hat askew." Mrs. Figgs put up her hands, took off her hat, and deftly twisted her beauti ful, golden hair. Then she looked at the blue bonnet, lying in her lap—lifted it—turned it about, gasped and glared. "What does this mean?" she said: "Mr. Figgs, that shock of lightning has driven me mad—what does this look like to you!" "As handsome a bonnet as I ever Baw you wear, dear," said Mr. Figgs, "and a lovely blue just like your eyes, pet." "This is the one I ordered to match my eyes," said Mrs. Figgs, "but when I left home I had on a greasy, brown tur ban. You saw it, Eliza saw it—why it's —supernatural work—spirits, or some thing!" "I guess," said Mr. Figgs; "somehow or other, electricity has done it." "I'm frightened to death; take me home," said Mrs. Figgs, and they alighted at the next corner. Ben and Patty arrived at the theatre a little late, but they enjoyed the per formance. In its midst, Ben said to Patty: "Why aon't you take off your veil and show us your pretty bonnet?" "It's rather ugly, and quite old, Beu," said Patty demurely. "Only my old brown turban." But she letnoved the veil. "Why, Patty, I'd have sworn you had a new blue bonnet on," said Ben. "Bright blue—as blue as your eyes." "You see I haven't," Mid Patty 4a murely. "I hope Pm not getting color-blind," said Ben, in a terrified tone. "That would be a bad job for a railroad man." "Oh, I suppose it must have been the electricity that made it look blue," .said Patty. And Ben nodded, but still looked be wildered. As for Aunt Jane, she never knew anything about all this. But before next Sunday she had made Patty a bonnet, as blue-as her eyes, she said, and as pretty, if not as costly, as that which hysterical Mrs. Figgs now refused to wear, "Be cause it was bewitched, and had turned into a greasy, brown turban, and then changed back again, all in an hour."—* Family Story Paper. A Country Doctor's Big Fee. In the summer of 1875, writes 0. B. Mason, I was sojourning with a friend for a few weeks in a little fishing vil lage on the coast of Maine. One night my friend was seized with a sudden and painful Illness which necessitated my summoning the only doctor in the vil lage, who lived on a farm a mile dis tant from our hotel and who combined agriculture with the practice of medicine. I aroused the sleeping physician with some difficulty and stated my errand, but despite my importunities he flatly refused to leave his home, as it was against an inflexible rule to leave his house at night, no matter urgent the call. However, he generously consented to compound a mixture, with which I hastened back to the hotel, where I found my friend racked with pain and pleading for medical assistance. I again traversed the road to the doc tor's house and thundered at the door, determined to force or bribe the pill compounder from his dotnicilo. When the identity of the intruder was dis covered the usually placid physician became irate and somewhat abusive. In vain I urged the necessity of the visit and pleaded the cause of humanity. Finally I offered any fe9, in or out of reason he might demand. This gradu ally softened him. and lookiag at me critically to see the full effect of his words, ho said: "Young man, if I go up there with you it will cost you a pretty penny." Apprehensive of a mammoth fee beyond the resources of a compara tively slender purse, I queried somewhat timidly, "What would you charge?" to which, with the same quizzical look fixed on bis face, the answer slowly came: "If Igo up there to-night it will cost you $1.50" Joyously consenting to the condition, while concealing my amusement, I has tened home, and by a recital of the story put the sufferer in such good hu mor that the doctor, orf* liia arrival, found the patient so far on the road to recovery" **** two visits completed the restoration. SubsequeJ?' v * loarned that the fees charged the vn ' a S ere dur ing the doctor's exclusive practice" amon g them of four decades had been cents for calls made after midnight ana . but half that sum for visits in the day time.—Detroit Free Press. Dng Up a Colonial Slifp. Maybe it is 15U years since the old ship whose remains have just been uncovered in Front street, New York City, sailed the seas. She was a ninety-footer and a three-master, and she may have been a ship-of-war, for an old bayonet was found on her, as well as a seven-pound cannon ball. The finders were workmen engaged under Superintendent J. A. Ileary in excavating for the Front street power-house of the Broadway cable road. One day the Italian cellar-dig gers reported to Superintendent Heary that they had struck a solid timber aud could go no further. Trenches were sunk along the mass and it proved to bo the hull of an old sailing vessel, buried almost twenty feet below the level of the street. The oak ribs were as solid as if they had just been turned out of a ship yard. The ribs were eight by ten inches and fastened together with wooden pins. There was not an iron nail found about the vessel. An old salt said that he had always known of a tradition that an Euglish vessel had been sunk by the colonists in New York harbor about thn time of the tea riots in Boston. He was convinced now that the tradition was founded in fact and this was the ship. Old maps of the city show that just where the vessel was found was at one time a dock fenced in by a breakwater. The old hulk maybe that of the ship Judith, a Nan tucket whaler, which was sunk off the Battery in July, 1740. Chibago Herald. Mulberries. The mulberry hat been a neglected tree ever since the passing of the "Multlcau lis craze" of the thirties, although it possesses decided value in ornamental planting, and some of the varieties, Pro fessor L. H. Bailey tells, are useful for ledges, shelter belts and small timber. Tae fruit has merit for dessert, is easily grown and is produced more or less continuously throughout a period of two to four months of every year. In a bulletin issued from the Cornell Uni versity Station at Ithaca, N. Y., Profes sor Bailey names sixteen varieties as trait bearing kinds, the new American boing recommended for the Northern States. Black Persian is occasionally (crown in the South and on the Pacific Coast. Hicks is a heavy bearer of indifferent fruit, but valuable for poultry. Stubbs is a profuse bearer of large fruit, of ex cellent quality. The Russian type is valuable for orna mental hedges, especially in the prairie States, for planting sparingly as single specimens or in groups and for small timber. The mulberry is easily grown upon ordinary soils. It is often tender in the North during the first two or three years. „ .The mulberry is propagated by cut tings of the mature wood of the roots, by root and crown grafting, and by bud ding with dormant buds in the spring.— New York World. WHY THE HAIR WHITENS' SUDDEN BLANCHING 18 DVB TO ▲IS BUBBLES. A Compositor's Startling Experi ence A Doctor's Experiments With Hairs in His Bear<f. THE blanching of the hair and beard of Ovide Musin, the vi olinist, following serions in juries in a train wreck, has ex cited much speculation and theorizing us to the causes of hair so suddenly turning whife. Some physiologists are of the opinion that the hair may become white in the course of a few hours, and this is the popular impression. Others assume that such sudden changes never take place, although it is certain that the hair fre quently turns gray in the course of a few weeks. It is difficult to find in the works of the older writers well authenti cated cases of these sudden changes, most of those quoted having been takeo on the loose authority of persons evi dently not in the habit of making scien tific observations. Buch instances un supported by analogous cases of a reli able character must necessarily be re jected as not fulfilling the rigid requirements demanded by scientific in quiry, in which all possible sources of error should be rigidly excluded. Regarding the subject, however, from a purely scientific point of view one must acknowledge that there are a few cases of comparatively recent date in which sudden blanching of the hair has been observed and carefully investigated by men trained to accurate scientific methods. One of the cases is reported in Vir chow's Archives for April, 1855, by Dr. Landois as occurring under the observa tion of himself and Dr. Lohmer. In this ease the blanching of the hair occurred in a hospital in a single night while the patient was under the daily observation of the visiting physicians. The patient, a compositor, thirty-four years of age, with light hair and blue eyes, was ad mitted into the hospital July 9, 1865, suffering from an acute attack of de lirium tremens. A marked peculiarity in the disease was excessive terror when ever any one approached the patient. He slept for twelve hours on the night of the 11th of July, after having taken thirty drops of laudanum. Up to this time nothing unusual had been observed regarding the hair. On the morning of July 12th it was evident to the medical attendants and to all who saw the patient that the hair of the head and beard had become gray. The patient himself remarked the change with intense astonishment. The hair re mained gray as long as the patient was undei observation, to September 17th. An interesting point connected with this case is that the fcair was subjected to careful microscopic examination. The color of the hair in general is due to the presence of pigment granules and of a fow air bubbles. In the case of the com posi?or l be white hairs were found to contain multitude of bubbles of air in the medulV." l an(l cortical substance of the shaft of tL' e hair, but the pigment granules were ever j vw here preserved un altered. The hair'tili"' l with bubbles of air is white for that samC , r eason that granulated sugar and the foam on the seashore are white. The individual granules of the sugar and the individual bubbles that form the foam are transpa rent. The reflection of light from gran ule to granule and from bubble to bub ble makes the mass of the sugar and of foam white. In a similar way the re flection of light from air bubble to air bubble makes the hair seem white. Dr. Landois quotes instances of blanching of the- hair in which there were alternate rings of white and brown. Another very curious case of sadden blanching of the hair is reported by Erasmus Wilson in the proceedings of the Royal Society, London, volume xv., No. 91, page 406. In these cases also the white portion presented on micro scopic examination great bubbles of air, but no diminution in the quautity of pigment matter. The possibility of sudden blanching of the hair is further illustrated by the curious observation made by the cele brated Brown-Sequard of elixir of life fame. He observed in bis own person four white hairs on one side of his beard and seven on the other. These he pulled out. Two days after he found two hairs on one side and three on the other that were white throughout their entire length. This observation he verified several times. The microscopic examinations made leave no doubt as to the cause of the white color of the hair in cases of sud den blanching. All are agreed that there is no diminution in the pigment, but that the greater part of the medulla be comes filled with air bubbles, small glo bules of air being found in the cortical substance. The hair in these cases pre sents a marked contrast to hair that has become gray gradually from old age. The change of color due to age is caused by an actual diminution in the quality of pigment. How the air finds its way into the hair in sudden blanching it is difficult to imagine. In all of the cases recorded the blanching of the hair was apparently dependent upon strong emotions, gen erally terror. This is all that can be said on the subject of its causation, the mechanism of the change not being un derstood.—San Francisco Chronicle. Thirteen Dollars for a Share. This story is told by the New York News about an old-established East-side barber shop: Some years ago Edward L. Carey and William H. Sheers came in both .simul taneously and both were in a hurry to get shaved. One asked the other how much he would pay for the privilege of getting first chance. The bidding began at $1 and before it stopped the price was raised to sl3, which Edward JU Carey paid. Terms—Bl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. ] SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. I Jupiter was known to the Chaldeans as a planet as early as B. C. 3000. It is said to be a geological fact that gold 3trata underlie Philadelphia. The planet Neptune has the longest year, consisting of more than 60,000 of our days. More than one-half of the street rail way-mileage in Massachusetts is now op erated in whole or part by electricity. The moon gives out heat enough to aflect the thermometer and makes a dif ference of two degrees or three degrees. The average weight of the Chinese brains is said to be heavier than the av erage weight of the brain in any other race. On the Royal Sovereign, the new Eng lish battleship, there arc 800 electric lights, connected by thirty miles of wire. Inventors are now turning their atten tion to devices for the utilization of electric heating, especially for domestic purposes. The largest pumping plant in the United States was that placed in a mine at Iron Mountain, Mich. It pumps 4,- 000,000 gallons in twenty.four hours. Genuine volcano dust has been lound in Kansas and the Indian Territory. There is a deposit near Galena, in the Territory, which is said to be many feet in thickness. To make glue water proof, dissolvo of gum sandarac and mastic each five and one-half drachms in one-half pint of alcohol, and add five and one-half drachms of turpentine. Seventy, five miles an hour is 110 feet a second, and the energy of 400 tons or a train of cars, moving at that rate is nearly twice as great as that of a 2000 pound shot fired from a 100 ton Arm strong gun. In the manufactures of Great Britain alone the power which steam exerts is estimated to be equal to the manual labor of 4,000,000,000 men, or more than double the number ot males sup posed to inhabit the globes. Prom a rift in a great rock at Santa Cruz (Cal.) water spouts to a height of sixty feet. The waves that beat on the shore near by have worn a tunnel through the rock coast, beaten through the roof of the tunnel r.nd formed this apparent geyser. A fine specimen of the egg of /Epyor nis, the extinct giant bird of Madagas car, &nd obtained from southern Mada gascar, was exhibited at a recent meet ing of the Zoological Society of Lon don. It will be remembered that this egg is about thirteen inches long aud of the capacity of 150 hens' eggs. The captains of ships which carry bricks have to be very carofui. An or dinary brick is capable of absorbiug a pint of water. So with a cargo of brick in the hold serious leakage may quite well goon undetected, for the water that enters is sucked up as fast as it gets in. If this should be the case, the con sequences arc bound to be most serious. Exploration is improving the popular knowledge of the Sahara. Instead of being largely below the sea, the greater part of it is from 6000 to 8000 feet above the level; instead of being rainless, showers make it bloom aud cover it with green grass for a lew weeks every year; large flocks and herds are maintained Upon its borders; the oases are depres sions -{vhere the water can be collected and stored .and are villainously unhealthy in hot weather because of this stagnaut water and the habit? of the inhabitants. Isle of Wight Samphire. Oar samphire gatherer in the Isle" of Wight, after ascending to a point at which his form was hardly discernible among the giant fragments of rocks,cast a great armful of pale green aromatic cliff herbs into the boat—samphire and sea poppy and wild mignonette. Of these the samphire is the strangest, with its thick, fleshy leaves like iceplant, its salt and pungent scent and taste, and pale, uncanny-looking flower. To gather it in any quantity it would be necessary to scale the most dangerous parts of the clifl, and it was while seek ing this and sea fowls' eggs that a crags man was engaged when his death oc curred. It was his practice togo alone on his perilous expeditions, and the ex act manner of his death will never be known. It is more usual for two or thre<> rock climbers to work together. A crowbar is planted in the turf above and two ropes are used. One goes round the body and the other is held in the hand. The first is wrapped around the crow bar, so as to be let out at pleasure; the second is fixed to it by a noose, and when the cragsman wishes to reascend he shakes this second rope as a signal and the men on the tcp of the cliff haul at the waist rope, while he assists by climbing up the second hand over hand. The greatest risk is run when the climber throws off his waist rope and clambers along the shelving ledges of slippery turf which seams the cliff, where the least slip is fatal.—London Spec tator. Queer Terrapin Cookinsr Contest. An intormunicipal terrapin contest took place the other day at Meadowbrook, near Philadelphia, Pcnu., the country place of Thomas B. Wauaraaker, son of John Wanamaker. It was the result of a discussion that ha 9 long becu in pro gress between some club men of Balti more and Philadelphia as to which method of preparing terrapin was the better. Arthur Padelford took up the gauntlet in behalf of the Baltimore rec ipe. Ho was represented by James Pot ter, also of that city, and accompanied by a Baltimore chef and a party of seven gentlemen to act as a jury. They brought with them a number of Maryland dia mond back "birds," which are quoted just now at $l5O per dozen. The ter rapin was prepared according to the forms in vogue in the two cities, and nine of the jurors decided in favor of the Baltimore recipe.—Chicago Herald, NO. 18. HE OIV&TH HIS BELOVED SLEEP, What would we give to our belovedf *\ The hero's heart, to be unmoved— *"*, The poet's star-tuned harp to sweep— : The senate's shout to patriot's vows— The monarch's crown to light the brows? "He givetb bis beloved sleep." , What do we give to our belovedf J A little faith all undisproved— : A little dust to overweep. And bitter memories, to make The whole earth blasted for our sake! "He giveth his beloved sleep." —Mrs. Browning, HUMOR OF THE DAT. With an emerald ring—The Irishman's voice.—Truth. Not a coumon bark—An ocean grey hound.—New York Journal. On the roll of fame—The champion wheelman.—Galveston News. A discarded official standing about is out of place.—New Orleans Picayune. The man who fancies he writes poetry frequently wrongs it.—New York Morn ing Journal. Old Diogenes would have had an anxious time of it in France.—Louisville Courier-Journal. It is certainty of continuance, not the present amount, that is the measure of kindness.—Puck. When there is a great falling off in a hod-carrier's business some one gets hurt. —New Orleans Picayune. The best cure for trouble is labor. Who ever heard of a wood-sawyer com mitting suicide?— Buffalo Euquirer. Law, physic or divinity— Which is the easiest of the three? Divinity; because the fact is Tis easier preaching than to practice. —Judge. Little Elsie—"Who was Shakespeare, pa?" Scribblems (the playwright)— "One of my predeccsaois, child."—Tit- Bits. Just as soon as a young man finds that he can't have a girl he begins to imagine that he can't do without her.—Dallas News. "This is a vano struggle," as the breeze said after trying and failing to turn the weathercock.—Philadelphia Record. No man can sleep well in cloudy weather wheu he knows that he has a sandy foundation under his house.— Ram's Horn. Most creatures are entirely harmless when they are asleep. But the moth does the most mischief when it is taking a nap.—Siftings. "What lam looking for," said Blig gins just after he had rented a telephone, "is the man who said tha£iplk is cheap." —Washington Star. He (painting)—"lf you were I, Miss Maud, I wonder how you'd treat this subject?" She (posing)—" Oysters. Kite Field's Washington. "It is an odd thing," mused Indigest icus, "that the same food which makes the brain so stupid by day, keeps it so ferociously active at night."—Puck. The Professor—"Ah, Miss Ins, it's very pretty, but it?s not the least like the model. I'm afraid you've painted the eyes out of yourowu head." —Punch. Ob, from that swell deliver us Of wtiom it may be sail The sweilness is most noted in The region of the tiea I. —Washiugton Star. "Maggie," called Mulligan to hi 3 ac complished daughter. "What do you want?'' "Is the pianny bruk or are you playin' classical music?"—Washington Star. "But why do you always hear them called etchings?" Father—"Um—3r— well, I suppose because it takes such hard scratching to pay for them."—lnter- Ocean. "The early bird gets the worm," mused the big fowl. "I'll just hang round in a leisurely way till ho doe?, and then I'll take it away from him."—Wash ington Star "On the Verge of the Unknown" is the title of an editorial in a recent issue of the Port Worth Gazette. So they have hash in Texas too, do they?— Chicago Mail. Mother (to her child, who has just had some sweets given her by the man opposite) —"What do you say to tho gentleman, Mabel?" Mabel—"Have you got any more, please?"— Judy. Diner—"Waiter, I find I have just money to pay for tho dinner; but it nothing in the way of a tip for yourself." Waiter—"Let mo add up the check again, sir."—New York Herald. Tommy Figg—"Sister's beau kicked my dog yesterday, but I go* even with him, you bet." Johnny Briggs—"How?" Tommy Figg—"l mixed quinine with her face-powder."—lndianapolis Sen tinel. While Mr. Donovan was watching an engine that was engaged in backing the other day he was "heard to remark, "Faith, that's the most roundabout way of goin' forr.ird Oi ivcr saw."—Wash ington Star. Caller—"So you meam to be an M. P. when you grow big, Tommy?" Politi cian's Youngest—"Yes; like pa." Caller "Then you've made up your mind to do a groat deal of talking?" Politician's Youngster "Yes; liko ma."—Funny Folk. Yabsley—"l tell you, when I see oue of these hard-working, patient school ma'ams I feel like taking off my hat to her in reverence." Mudge—"l tried that once and her brother kicked me clear across the street."—lndianapolis Journal. Miss G— met a beggar in the street and was moved to help him. "Here's my card," she said. "If you'll call at my house, I'll givo you some clothes." He failed to putin an appearance; but a day or two Inter she chanced to tee him again ami asked: "Why didn't you call?" "Indade, mum, but your card do say 'Thursdays!' "—•Brooklyn Life.
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