SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XI.
The four great ocean routes employ
1100 steamship;.
The output of the American
factories for the past year was $7,215,-
000,000.
Every State and Territory in the Unioh
has an organized rnilitia except the Ter
ritory of Utah.
The number of foreigners who took up
their residence in America last year was
543,4C7, of whom 118,278 came from
Germany.
What was once the heart of the Wiß
- pine region is now importing
thousands of feet of that timber from
Washington Stale.
General Schkopp, of the Gcrmau army,
6ays: "If his majesty draws his sword it
will never return to its scabbard until
his last enemy is crushed, or he, with his
people, is overthrown."
The increase of more than a million ot
sheep in this country during the post
year is more than matched by the in
creased use of wool in producing woolen
goods, which was 5'.), 000,000 pounds.
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The Chicago Mail estimates that the
8,000,000 people who are expected to
visit Chicago during the World's Fair
will expend while in that city not less
than $200,000,000. This is an average
of over $65 apiece.
The New York Sua figures that if six
men were to start on successive days from
six American cities, and travel in a
straight line around the world to the
point of starting, the Chicago man would
probably claim to have made the quick
est time, while the Ohio man, if there
was one,would be the first to arrive home;
» but the distance traveled by all six, if
added together, would fall 70,000 miles
short of the railroad mileage of the
United States, double tracks not counted.
Should the Sandwich Islands really
become part of the United States they
will be the most picturesque feature of
the Republic, d eel urea the Chicago
Herald. They deserve the title "Flow
ery Kingdom" perhaps even better than
Japan, since flowers bloom on the
islands all the year round, and are pecu
liarly beloved by all the inhabitants. The
foreign residents, and even transient
visitors, catch the native fondness foi
flowers, and at times people of all sorts
go about garlanded with abundant blos
soms.
It occurred to the long-headed, pub
lic-spirited citizens of Pennsylvania that
the time had come to devise measures
for the preservation of the forests of that
State. Accordingly they procured the i
introduction of a bill in the Legislature
which provided for the appointment of
a forestry commission whose duty it shall
be "to examine and report on the con
dition of the slopes and summits of the
State and the pressnce or absence of
forests thereon, for the purpose of de
termining the influence on the stage of
the water in the rivers, the amount of
timber remaining standing and how the
supply can be increased and maintained."
The American Library Association,
which has the co-operation of nearly all
the great libraries of the country, will
make a notable exhibit at the World's
Fair. It will include samples, models,
and photographs showing articles and
mechanical devices in actual print
ed matter, forms, blanks, constitutions,
by-laws, rules for subscribers; accession
departments and their management; cat
alogue, classification and reference de
partments; binding department, with
samples of binding, temporary covers
and receipts for restoring, mending and
cleaning, shelf and building depart
ments and an architectural exhibit show
ing plans, elevations, perspectives and
models of the best library buildings.
There will also be a model library of
5000 volumes, selected from lists pre
pared and sent in by the various librari
ans of the country.
It is related that a man who was writ
ing a history of New York employed an
expert to find out for him how many
speculators in Wall street succeeded in
the long run. After a laborious inves
tigation the expert reported that the
only Bingle instance which he could dis
cover was a man from Rhode Island,
named Smith, who had actually won
$30,000 in a speculation in the street
and carried the money away to specu
late no more. It was the single bright
instance in a long line of wrecks, adds
the New Orleans Picayune, and was
written down in the book to hand thi
name of Smith down to immortality.
Unluckily for his reputation, however,
hardly was the book published before
Smith turned up on the street and put
his $30,000 into another speculation. He
never heard of it again, and the sole in
stance of a successful speculator was
ruthlessly destroyed.
England continues to increaso her
,rmed forco in Egypt, and France is
.hereforc irate.
The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral,
3t. John the Divine, in New York City,
will cost 110,000,000.
Vegetarianism is making great pro*
rress in Berlin. The German capital
low contains twenty vegetarian restaur
ints which are largely patronized by the
working people, clerks and students.
In 1888 there were 43.94 square miles
in Chicago. Now there are 181.70, and
Rogers Park is soon to be annexed. The
New York Recorder estimates that this
will make as big an area as a Manhattan
Island a hundred miles long.
The police force of New York City
numbers 3966 men, including the rank
and file. The police force of Chicago is
about 2700. The area of New York
City is forty-six square miles. The area
of Chicago is four times as groat.
A long-suffering London journalist,
whose nerves were no longer able to bear
the noise made by putting fuel on the
fire from a coal-box, recently gave vent
to an earnest prayer that some inventor
might be mercifully disposed to provide
a silent coal-box for domestic sufferers
like himself. A response to this appeal
is now recorded by the Chicago News
Record in the shape of an ordinary coal
box lined with linoleum and falling on
projecting rubbers, so that no slamming
is possible. Even the shovel has its case
lined with felt, and is, therefore, lifted
out and replaced noiselessly.
The timber used in the construction
of the Chicago Exhibition buildings is
estimated to exceed 75,000,000 feet,
which represents the wood from ten
square miles of forest. All the buildings
are covered with a composition of
plaster, cement and hemp, and the
amount of this work is equal to covering
the wall of a four-story building fifteen
miles in length. The electric lighting
will require 5000 arc and 93,000 incan
descent lamps, which is about ten times
as much electric lighting as the Paris
Exhibition was provided with. The
electric lighting plant has cost over
$1,000,000.
The Philadelphia Times say»: The
growth of many of the textile industries
during 1892 was marked. The summary
of new mills for 1892 shows a total of
272, with a combined list of employes
of 31,500. In other words assuming
that none of the new textile mills were
erected to replace those destroyed by fife
or abandoned for other causes, 31,500
new employes were eet to work, and the
productive textile capacity of the coun
try was increased seven per cent. Au
examination of the statistics showing the
textile growth of the year reveal some
interesting fact?, the first of which is
that there were seventy-three new cotton
mills employing 15,000 hnnds. The
new cotton mills do not number one
half the total of new mills erected, but
the mills were of greater capacity than
in any other branch of the textile trade,
thus absorbing one-half of the new la
bor employed. Massachusetts erected
nineteen new cotton mills, employing
5775 hands. The next greatest in
crease was in the South, North Carolina
building sixteen new mills, employing
1835 new hands, South Carolina eleven
new nulls, with 2040 emplcyes, Georgia
five new mills, with 940 hands, and Ala
bama four, with 740. New York and
Pennsylvania built three new mills each.
Connecticut two, and Illinois, Indiana,
Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Ver
mont and West Virginia each one.
There were forty-nine new woolen and
ninety-three new knitting mills erected,
the first employing 2500 and the second
7500 new bands. Massachusetts leads
with eight, Maine follows with seven
and Pennsylvania third with six new
woolen mills. The South does not
figure much in the new woolen industry,
Kentucky with three and Missouri with
two mills being the only Southern States
represented. Of the ninety-three new
knitting mills Pennsylvania furnishes
thirty-two, or more than one-third; New
York, twenty, and the rest distributed
among twenty-two other States. Silk
figures fourth in the list of new plants
to the extent of twenty-one new mills,
the majority of which are in New York,
New Jeisey and Pennsylvania, with
Paterson, N. J., as the center of the in
dustry, both old and new. In the mis.
cellaneous'list are six new plush mills,
six making shoddy,seven cotton batting,
*hree linen, three lace, two upholstery
nd two gimp and dress trimming (all
four in Philadelphia), and a scattering
list, including dye, bleaching, jute,bag
ging and a few others. New England,
Pennsylvania and the South seem to be
the most prosperous manufacturing sec
tions, if the erection of new plants foi
manufactures can be accepted at an in
dex of prosperity.
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1893.
JfOMK,
The prince rides tip to the palace gates
And his eyes with tears are dim,
For be thinks of the beggar maiden sweet
Who may never wed with him.
For home is where the heart is.
In dwelling great or small.
And there's many a splendid palaoe
That'/' never a home at all.
The yeoman oomes to his little cot
With a song when day Is done,
For his dearie is standing in the door
And his children to meet him run.
For home is where the heart is,
In dwelling great or small.
An ! there's mauy a stately mansion
That's never a home at all.
Could I but live with my own sweetheart
In a hut with sanded 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 love light
Is the dearest home of all.
—George Horton.
CUPID IN THE KITCHEN.
BY MART KLYK DALLAS.
(§£gS£SHE cook has given
warning, and the
.Sa K chambermaid Bays
o I that, where Susan
\ goes she goes like
' ( 112 wise." said Mrs.
I Montgomery, in a
/ tone of despair,
il' "And as I have just
j '■ paid their wages
I *• ) »a i they are packing to
I ij" ij/ Wipjl go. What wicked,
!j wicked women. Not
a word of warning."
LJgjmr; "Why, mammal
what is the reason of
this sudden deser
tion?" queried Emily, the only daughter
of the house, aged eighteen—and she
laughed.
"Your papa found fault with the beef
last Sunday. Ah—there is nothiug to
giggle over, I am sure," said the matron,
dropping into a rocking chair "A
week at the intelligence office for mc,
while the house goes to wreck and ruin,
and your papa loses his temper over the
dinners, for old Mrs. Chump, the only
person I can send for, always ruins every
dish she touches."
"And wc cannot have Mrs. Chump
this time, mamma," said Emily. "She
is in bed with rheumatism. I met her
little niece iD the drug store buying
medicines and lotions for her, and she
said she was very bad.*
"Then the end has come I" sigh&'l
Mrs. Montgomery.
"Don't fret, mamma, I'll do the
work," said Emily. "I think it might
be fun for awhile."
"Do you?" Mrs. Montgomery tsked,
sarcastically. "Ah!"
Emily laughed again.
"It's the best you can do," she said,
"and I'll give papa a high tea; with ome
lette and chicken sandwich, and all the
little things he likes, and no doubt you
can find some one to come to-morrow."
"Oh, no doubt," said Mrs. Montgom
ery, in still more sarcastic tones." I wish
I had your sanguine temperament,
Emily."
"Good-bye, mum and miss," said cook,
looking in at the door. "Good-bye,
and I wish you luck suiting yourself, I'm
suro. No doubt there is them that might
if they had the patience of Job; not
else."
"Gooi-bye, ladies,"said the chamber
maid; "I'm sorry to leave you, but
Susan and me goes the two of us to
gethei, always, and if she is insulted, I
am likewise,"
"Good-bye," said Emily, calmly.
Mrs. Montgomery turned her back,
and muttered "Ungrateful wretches!"
between her teeth.
"And I actually made over my navy
blue Bedford cord dress for that
woman," she said, afterthedoor closed;
"and never has she had to buy an apron.
There, I'll go and begin my martyrdom
—and, Emily, if you do go into the kit
chen, put on my rubber gloves and my
mob cap, that I wear for dusting my
room—coal ashes are the ruin of the
hair—and a big apron—your looks are
my pride." *
Emily kissed her mother, saw that she
went off comfortably, and then obedient
ly donned cap, gloves and apron, and
descended to the kitchen.
Cook, in her wrath, had left the kit
chen in a state of chaos.
Dishes piled high in the sink, towels
on the floor, pots and kettles in sore
need of scouring, overflowing tubs, a
pan of potato peelings, a kettle of ashes
—all by the way of revenge for the in
sulting criticism of last Snnday's dinner.
The prospect was alarming, but Miss
Emily went to work with a will, finding
it rather more difficult than in her inex
perience she had supposed, and wishing
that her mother had not so carefully
guarded her delicacy at the expense of
her usefulness in kitchen affairs.
Just as she took her pots and kettles
in hand. Jack Spinner, the millionaire's
son, flying along upon his bicycle, came
▼ery near running into a young man who
sat upon u curbstone, moaning piteously,
and at once alighted.
"Good hcaveusl I haven't hurt youS"
he cried.
"No, sir," replied the person ad
dressed, who was enveloped in a mys
terious waterproof costume, and covered
lrom head to foot with ashes. "J. was
clane dead when you came up. I've got
the choleray or the typhus, I djnno
which, and I'll lose my job, for I am
able for it no longer, and there's no
mercy on you if you neglect a thing, if
it is ever so with you—no mercy."
"That is very cruel," said young Spin
ner, who had the tenderest heart in the
world. "Is it that ash cart you are
driving 1"
"It is indeed," said the unfortunate.
"And there is six bar'ls to empty yit,
and me not able for it. I could drive
back, but I couldn't lift the bar'ls."
At home they called .Tack Don Quix
pte, for he was always succoring some
forlorn being in distress, maid or man
it made no matter which. Now he in
stantly bethought him what to do for
this poor ash cart driver.
"Come along," he said, taking the
man by the arm and leading him into a
drug store hard by. "I'll tell the doctor
to see you, and cinpty the rest of the
barrels for you—jolly fun for me, you
know, and you'll keep your place, and
all that."
The man, petrified with astonishment,
could only lift his hands, aod in a mo
ment more a still more astonished drug
clerk had a patient—well paid for in
advance—and was dropping cholera mix
ture into a glass, and applying mustard
plasters, in the little back room behind
the store.
"Six more houses," said Jack, walk
ing beside the cart, "straight down, the
man said."
He shouldered the first barrel and
dumped it. A shower of ashes covered
him, but he only laughed. Next came
a sine can, quite elegant in appearance,
but filled with decaying vegetables, and
ornemented by the inanimate' forms of
three murdered kittens.
Mr. Jack gasped, but he intended to
finish his work of charity now that he
had begun it. And, with varied results,
new experiences to him, the young ath
iete emptied five barrels. On the sixth
pavement he found none.
What an ashman's duty was he did not
know, but he had his invalid's interests
at stake, and must do his best for him,
so he descended the areaway and rang
the bell. In a moment a girl in a mob
cap, a big apron, and rubber gloves,
opened the door.
"Beg pardon, I am sure," said Jack,
bowing, "but do you wish your ash
barrel emptied?''
He spoke in the .most elegant manner,
but he was covered'with ashes as with a
garment; his mnstache was whitened,
kis hands begrimed,.cinders adhered to
his hair and his face <was dirty.
The maiden before'him was not quite
free from marks of kitchen labor. It
was Emily, who had been washing the
pots and kettles for',the first time in her
life.
"What a beautiful manner be has,"
she thought; "he must be some one in
reduced circumstances."
And she smiled uponthim:
"You are the—the ash gentleman, I
suppose}'' she queried.
"I call in that capacity,"'said Jack.
"Then if it is notltoo much trouble,
the ash can stands iin this little ■ place
under the front saidjErcily.
"No trouble whatever," said Jack,
diving into tbe place indicated; "I'll
bring it back when it & emptied."
"You are tc? kind,"' i2id Emily, an
! aware of the pot-black ou(her chin.
"Not at all," said Jackl of the Cin
ders, and thoy bowed as fif they were
dancing the lanciers.
fin a moment Jack had\ dumped the
ashes, and returned with'the caji.
He was greeted with a great puff of
smoke, and Emily, blushing and cough
ing, came out into the area for»air.
"Beg pardon," said Jack; "but the
house is not on tire?"
"I hope not," said Emily; "the fire
went out, and I'm trying jto kindle it,
but it smokes so."
"Perhaps it is the pamper," said
Jack; "I'll look, if you dbn't mind."
"I shalUbe grateful," igaaped Emily.
"It is the damper," said Jack, "and
these things iu the if I may
have a bit of paper and socne wood?"
He found them himself, made a fire,
opened the windows'* and waited until
the smoke vanished Jrom the kitchen,
and then shut the windows.
"What a wonderfufV ashman," Emily
thought.
"What an elegant.girl(tO{be a cook,"
Jack said to himself.
"It is kind of you,"/said ) Emily; "so
stupid of me. But I did not know
about the dampers;il neverjmade a fire
before, but the servants'have taken
French leave."
"Oh!" said Jack(toihimself. "The
young lady* of the house doing amateur
kitchen housework. I{mighfhave known
it. And she k thinks me the ashman,"
and he sighed. "Good-day," he said,
bowing.
Before Emily could reply a head was
thrust in at the window—that of the
original ashman.
"An' here you air, said. "An',
sure, the medicine the >doctor did be
givin' me has made met a' new man, an'
I'm forever obligod. And sorry I am
you've spoiled the fitne«clothes you have
on ye. And you'll find\your boy-suckle
in the doctor's shop. iVe trounced the
rascal that was goin'\off wid it to a
jelly. I'll drive down, sir, and never
forget your kindness., May you be
Mayor of New York ydt."
"Oh, you are welcome," said Jack,
and now Emily wap staring at him.
"Not the ashman)!" she was saying un
der her breath, and\ Jack, laughing, an
swered her glance.
"My first ash-cart, >as this was your,
first fire," he said. "Thedriver was ill,
and I took his place. Itihas been great
fun, though rather dirty work. May I
introduce myself?"
He took a card from his pocket and
presented it.
"I am Miss Montgomery," said Emily;
"and I think my father must knowyours
very well, if you are Mr. WilliamiSpin
ner's son. They are in the same busi
ness."
80 it proved. For special occasions
who can say what the etiquette may be?
Emily said to herself that it would be
simply humane to help thisraartyr to his
kindly sympathies out of his coat of
ashes, and sent him to her brother's
room to find clothes brush and wash
basin.
When he met her again she wore
neither mob cap nor apron, but was at
tired ia a pretty morning dress, and her
hair curled bewitchingly on her fore
head.
And, since this was tbe son of her
father's old friend, it seemed but hos
pitable to ask him to lunch. Mamma
1 would not be at home, she waa quite
alone. It was awfully improper—but
i this latter point ueveroccurred to Emily,
nor to Jack, and these two were both
young and liked sweet things, and Jack
declared that he had never had so de
lightful a lunch before.
It was a romance—which is different
from a flirtation—that little episode, and
it always remained in the memory of
those two young people as the sweetest
moment of their lives.
When her mother returned, Emily
wore cap, apron and gloves. The high
tea was ready, and all the work accom
plished, after a fashion, and the girl
looked so pretty, so happy.
"Cooking must agree with you," Mrs.
Montgomery said.
But Emily did not speak of tbe ama
teur ashman, or her lunch party of two,
until long after—oh, long, long after—
for it was some days beforo Mr. Spinner
called on the father, bringing his son
with him—some weeks before they were
asked to an afternoon tea—some months
before Jack became an intimate friend of
the family—and quite a year before his
engagement to Miss Emily Montgomery
was announced to his friends.
And it was enly on the very eve of her
wedding that Emily told her mother that
Jack had fallen in love with her at first
sight, and how and when and where.
And Mrs. Montgomery declared that
it would have been very, very shocking
—frightfully imprudent—if it had been
any one but Jack; but that made all the
difference, Jack was such a nice fellow.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Rose diamonds are liable to explode.
Some of the stars move with s veloc
ity of nearly fifty miles a second.
There are estimated to be over sis
hundred deposits of iron ore in the State
of Missouri.
The origin of the geysers at Sonoma,
Cal., is supposed to be a volcanic crater
filled by a landslide.
The moon gives out heat enough to
affect the thermometer and make a dif
ference of two or three degrees.
If fish get beyond a certain depth in
the sea they die from the pressure of the
water, which they are unable to support.
The most important domestic sources
of potash are wood ashes, cotton seed
hull ashes, tobacco dust and tobacco
stems.
Professor C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold
Arboretum, Harvard University, has re
turned from Japan, where he has been
making a study of the botany of the
islands.
It is not an easy matter to freeze out
trichinae. After subjection to a tem
perature of twenty-five degrees below
zero for two hours they again became
active when exposed to light and heat.
A simple method of keeping iron and
steel from rusting is to coat them with a
solution of rubber in benzol, made about
the consistency of cream. It may be
applied with a brush, and is easily rubbed
off when desired.
In one of the Comstock mines a new
water wheel is to be placed which is to
run 1150 revolutions a minute, and have
a speed at its periphery of 10,805 feel
per minute. A greater head of water
than has ever before been applied to a
wheel will be used.
Interesting experiments on the sense
of taste in ants have been made by H.
Devaux. Among other results he has
found that Lasius flavs, while fond of
sugar, dislikes saccharine. The ants
swarmed around sugar laid out for them,
but turned away from saccharine as soon
as they had tasted it. Even sugar be
came unpleasant to them when it was
mixed with saccharine. It seems, there
fore, that sweetness is not the only
quality which attracts them to sugar.
It is very probable that, for health's
sake, there will, after a time, be uni
versal cremation of the dead in cities.
Burying in the earth is said to be very
inimical to the health of cities. Then
there will be no ground to spare tor
burial purposes in couise of time. It is
probable that the dead will be quickly
and effectually reduced to ashes by means
of electricity. The remains of a human
body that has been cremated weigh only
eight ounces—no matter how fleshy and
heavy the corpse may have been.
A Kiiid-Hearted Giant's Embargo.
A number of anecdotes have been told
of late of tho famous old Kennebec lum
berman, Bodfisb, whose stentorian voice
resembled reverberating thunder and
could be heard distinctly "from Ken
dall's Mills bridge to Ticonic Falls," a
distance of two miles. An old-timer says
Bodfish, who lived at Kendalls Mills,
though a rough man in his ways, had a
kind heart and gave aid to many poor
people he thought deserving. Once a
river driver was drowned at Kendall
Mills and Bodfish having subscribed s
handsome sum himself to aid his family,
mounted a barrel beside the street, from
which he harangued the people in aid
of the sufferers. He laid down the rule
that no man should pass that day until
he had contributed, and in that way held
up travelers all day long, securing a con
siderable amount by nightfall, when the
odd embargo was raised.—Lewiston
(Me.) Journal.
Test For tho Parity of Milk.
Whether it is worth while to know
exactly the degree to which one's milk
seller is watering his milk is an open
question which each must deoide for
himself. For those who do not consider
that ignorance is always bliss a simple
way of setting at rest any doubts ts to
the purity of the milkman's stock In
trade is provided in a new galactometer.
The instruments ordinarily used for this
purpose consist of a glass tube with a
graduated scale of paper inside, and
their record is not as a rule reliable. The
new instrument is said to be much more
accurate, and shows at a glance whether
the milk is pure or adulterated. The
instrument is a glass tube open at both
ends, along which a little ball of blue
glass acts as indicator. The density of
this ball is 1029, and it is so adjusted
that it can float only on pure milk.—
1 Chicago News Record.
Terms —11.00 in Advance; 11.25 after Three Month*.
THE BOOK OF ALL BOOKS.
NOTHING THAI'S PRINTED CIRCU
LATES LIKE THE BIBLE.
Millions ot Copies GolnfcOut Into Alt
Parts ot the World in Almost
Every Known Tongme.
SINCE 1804 the Bible societies
alone, here and abroad, have
distributed over 230,000,000
copies of the book.
The American Bible Society, which is
lext to the largest distributor of Bibles
n the world,during the seventy six years
>f its existence has issued over 55,000,-
)00 copies of all or a portion of the Bi
}le. The exact number is 55,531,908
The headquarters of the society and its
presses are in the Bible House, in this
jity.
Last year this society priuted 450,900
Bibles, 370,705 Testaments, 141,400
portions of the Bible, and 682 Bibles for
ihe blind, making a total of 713,687 vol
lmes. Of these volumes 72,622 copies
were sent to foreign lands. There were
printed abroad for the society 18,923
Bibles, 38,190 Testaments and 249,919
portions of the Bible. The foreign
presses of the American Bible Society are
it Beirut, Constantinople, Bangkok,
Bremen, Shanghai, Poo-chow and Yoko
hama.
The work of the foreign presses of the
lociety at the different places was as fol
lows.
At Beirut, 6000 Bibles, 5000 Testa
ments, and 22,000 portions in Arabic.
At Constantinople, 5000 Bibles in
Bulgarian, 5000 portions in Koordish,
4000 Testaments in ancient Armenian,
5000 Testaments and 3000 portions in
modern Armenian, 5000 Testaments and
2500 portions in Turkish.
At Bangkok, 39,509 portions in
Siamese, and 2000 copies of the Gospel
of Matthew in the Laos lauguage.
At Bremen, 5000 Bibles and 10,500
Testaments iu German.
At the China agency 189,398 volumes,
partly in Shanghai and partly at Foo-
Chow, including 1400 Mandarin Bibles,
5790 Testaments, and 156,000 portions
in Mandarin, 21,960 portions in Soo-
Chow colloquial, acd 1348 Bibles and
2900 Testaments in Foo-Chow col
loquial.
Enoch L. Fancher is President of the
American Bible Society. There are
auxiliary societies in almost every State
and Territory iuthe Union. The society
is unscetarian and sells all its publica
tions at cost. It receives from sub
scriptions and spends annually about
$500,000 in printing the Scriptures, and
through colporteurs and in every way in
its power it energetically the
Bible all over the earth.
The British and Foreign Bible Society
since 1804 has printed and distributed
127,855,581 volumes of the Scriptures;
the National Bible Society, of Scotland,
has distributed 12,710,390 copies; the
Hibernian Bible Society, 4,968,450
copies; the Prussian Bible Society,
6,059,801 copies, and a hundred other
Bible societies have for generations been
swelling the total annual output.
The American Bible Society has
printed the Bible in the following
tongues:
English, Syriae (ancient),
Welsh, Hyriac (modern).
French. Arabic. (Meaopjta-
French Basque (Pyr- mia),
enees), Eoon (Marshall Isl-
Spanish, ands),
Catalau (Eastern Kusaien (Strong's
Spain), Island),
Portuguese, Gilbert Islands,
Norwegian (In tier- fonape (Ascension
man type), Island),
Swedish (in German Mortiock,
type), Hawaiian,
Finnish (in German Zulu,
type), Beuga (West Africa),
Dutch, Urebo (West Africa),
German, Mpongwe (West
Polish, Africa).
Hungarian, Diltele (West Africa),
Bohemian (in Roman Atohawa,
type), Choctaw,
Italian, Cherokee,
Bulgarian, Seneca,
Esthonian (Russia), Dakota,
Esthonian (Dorpsat), Ojibway,
Armenian (ancient), Muskokee,
Armenian (modern), Delaware,
Mayan (Yucatan), NesPerces.
Arabic,
The British and Foreign Bible Society
has printed the Bible in 200 languages
and dialects other than those mentioned
in the above list, including two dozen
native African dialects, and including
every Nation in Europe, Asia, Africa
and Australasia.
Here is the first verse of the first
chapter of the Lamentations of Jeremiah
from the English Bible:
How doth the city sit solitary that was
full of people! How is she become a widow I
She that was great among the Nations and
Princess among the provinces, how is she
become tributary!
Translated phonetically into the lan
guage of the Gilbert Islands and set up in
Roman type, the above verse reads as
follows:
E a tekateka kana te kawa ni kamaroa, ae
on irouia aomata I
E a riki kana n aine ae e mate buna I
Neie kakanato i buakoia botanaomata, ae
te toka i buekon aba aika bura winti.
E a riki kana n te tia ananabai nakon te
neal
The verse in the Gilbert Island tongue
is printed after the manner of poetry.
The old King James veision of the
Scriptures treated tho Lamentations as
prose. The Gilbert Island word for
Jeremiah is leremia, and the word for
Lamentations is Balbaeti. The Book of
the Prophet Eaekiel becomes, in that
language, Ana Bokl te Burabeli Eteki
era. lehovah is the way they pronounce
Jehovah in the Gilbert Islands.
For the missions in the Pacific Ooean
which are under the care of the Ameri
can Board of the Congregational Church,
the American Bible Society has now in
the'press an edition of the Books of
and Exodus of tho Old Testa
ment in the Ruk language spelled pho
netically in English. Tha edition will
number 2000 copies.— New York
Time*.
Mrs." Adlai Stevenson is a petite,
fragile appearing woman of cultured
mind. She is the daughter of a college
President, and was reared in a literary
atmosphere.
NO. 25.
LAUQH AND OROTW
»L
Ay, laugh and grow (at I"i
Full often a chat
Proves mora potent than potion;
Laughter acts on the heart.
Gives the blood a fresh start
And a vigorous motion.
Tea, laugh and grow fatt
"Care," you know, "killed the calf-
It will you if you let it;
There'« no surer relief
For many a grief
Than to laugh and forget It
Yes, laugh and grow fat I
Though some sceptic hereat
Hay scoff, wholesome laughter
Doth body and sou).
Mind and morals, control;
They are all better after.
Then laugh and grow fat I
Don't be prim and "a' that;"
Why should features be lengthened?
Just smile till you've heard,
And I pledge you my word
You'll be gladdened and strengthened
—Yonkers Statesman.
HUMOR OF THE I»AY.
Dust-proof—A bank-book.
In at tbe death—The heirs.
A dog star—The prize setter.
Tough characters—Hieroglyphic!.—
Puck.
The crinoline is coming with a hoop
and a hurrah.—Washington Star.
"No, Maud, dear, Joan of Arc was
not Noab's wife."—Philadelphia Record.
The greatest part of a self-willed man's
estate usually goes to the lawyers.
Press.
The newspaper man is the great
writer of the people's wrongs.—Galves
ton News.
The pen enables a yonng man to give
his girl an inkling of his sentiments.—
Texas Sittings.
There is some hope that the fashion
magnates will stuve off the hoop-skirts.
—Lowell Courier.
To one traveling through the country
milestones are pretty good signs of pro
gress—Troy Press.
When you see a boy unable to behave
himself you should lend a helping hand.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Every dog ha*) his day, but the nights
bslong to the cats and the clubmen.—
Kate Field's Washington.
••Gee, that was a cold snap," as the
bulldog remarked after biting tho Bos
ton girl.—Philadelphia Record.
An Ohio physician proposes to abate
kissing, but the average pro
poses with a view to keeping it up.
•'lt is pretty hard to be shoved to the
wall this way," plaintively remarked the
bill to the bill poster.—Washington
Star.
The mother who starts to get a sleepy
boy out of bed these mornings may be
said to have a rousing time of it.—Phila
delphia Times.
Citticus—"l wonder how it is that so
few women stutter when they talk?"
Witticus—"Thej haven't got time."—
Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. New Lee Wed—"You are a fail
ure, John. You've never had any luck."
Mr. New Lee Wed—"Yes, once; I was
born single."—Brooklyn Life.
"You needn't assume that I am holier
than thou air," growled tho Rochcfort
to the Schweitzer; "everybody knows
you are not up to my tone."—Puck.
"Why did Columbus forgive tho mu
tineers?" asked the teacher. " 'Cause
they was half seas over when they
kicked," said Johnnie.—Broklyn Life.
"I'm a 'Jonah,'" said the urchiu,
With a most expressive wall;
"And 1 see by father's manner,
I'm about to meet a whale."
—Washington .Star.
"1 think," murmured tho handcuffed
convict, "that I must be a poor finan
cier, for I have more bonds on hand
than I can manage."—Baltimore Amer
ican.
The two most exciting periods in •
woman's life are when she is listening to
her first proposal ami bidding an a bas
ket of broken crockery at an auction.—
Sittings.
"Were you in perfect health when yon
were struck by the street car?" asked
the lawyer. "No, sir," said the plain
tiff, "I was a good deal run down."—
Boston Commercial Bulletiu.
Mrs. Qoodkind—"There's only one
trouble about poor Mr. Careless. He's
generous to a fault 1" Mr. Gruff—
"Humph 1 It's a pity that he isn't gen
erous to his family."—Black and White.
In' 9 - M'stress (to her maid of all
work) —"Miss Mulloney, the fire is get
ting low; will you be kind enough togo
to my room and bring me three pieces
of coal from my jewel case."—Elmira
Gazette.
Making the Best of It - "Good morn
ing, Uncle Charles. Did you sleep well?
I'm afraid /our bed was rather hard and
uneven; but—" "Oh, it was all right,
thanks. I got up now and then during
the night and rested a bit, you know."
—Punch.
"Could you give me something to eat,
ma'am?" humbly asked the tramp in the
suburbs of Boston of the stern visaged
woman who opened the kitchen door.
"Yes," said the stem visaged woman,
as she energetically closed the door in
his face and locked it with a jerk. "I
could."—Somerville Journal.
One of the richest specimens of a neat
Irish bull was perpetrated by the clever
and witty but blundering Irish knight,
Sir Richard Steele, when inviting an
English nobleman to visit him. "If,
sir," said he, "you ever come within ft
mile of my house, I hope you will stop
there."—lnsurance Economist.
Aboriginal America, in the person of
a Sioux squaw, is to show its ideas on
dress at the World's Fair. She lives
near San Diego, Cal., and has been at
work for two years making this gown of
deerskins embroidered with sixteen
pounds of beads.