SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. The United States contain more than 1700 distinct and separate railways. It is now held that there were twe distinct epidemics of cholera in Europe last year. Mortality is greater among the Alas kans than among any other citizens of the United States. The Congress of Colombia at its late session appropriated .$150,000 a year for the encouragement of foreign immigra tion. General Harrison is the only surviving ex-President of the United States; Mr. Morton is the only living person who has occupied the office of Vice-Presi dent. The Couriei-Journal learns that Pro lessor Wiggins lays the blame for the cold weather, the cholera and the rest of the ills with which the earth has recently been afflicted on the conjunction be tween Jupiter and Mars. Travel from the North to Florida has never been greater than during the pres ent season, declares the Chicago Herald, and the large sum? of money that have been invested in railroads and hotels to accommodate this travel are paying good dividends. The lalest legislative break in Missouri, recorded by the Detroit Free Press, is a bill req liring all the butterine sold in that market to be colored pink, this mark being evidence to the purchaser that he is not buying tlio genuine article. No special provision seems to have been made for the protection of those who are coloi blind. The St. Louis Star Sayings is con vinced that a little learning is not so dan gerous a thing after all. English insur ance statistics show that fifty per cent, of the authors and statesmen, forty-two per cent, of the clergymen, thirty per cent, of the lawyers, twenty-seven per cent, of the teachers aud tweoty-four per cent, of the doctors reaah the age of seventy. With France still in a fer.ucnt, Ger many looking for sorni one to trea lon the tail of its coat, Italy li lancially troubled aad the Czir of all the It'issias hiding in a bomb-proof cellar it was a great sight, exclaims the Washington Star, to see Prcs'dcnt Cleveland bow and smile to half a million repressnta tives of the happiest aud most loyal peo ple in the world. The Chicago Herald alleges that a French syndicate is buying up all the worn out pouies on the frontier for ex port to Paris, the inteution being to con vert them into food for the people of the gay metropolis. Hinpophagy in France has evidently become a disease, for a healthy sto.nach would hardly crave the flesh of spaviued horses in preference to the healthiul beef from the Chicago abat toirs. According to the Baltimore A'nerican Mr. Cleveland has a middle aged Cab inet. Their ages are thus giveu: Cleve land, fifty-six years; Steveosoa, fifty eight; Gres'.iam, sixty-one; Carlisle, fifty-eight; Bissell, forty-six; Limont, forty-one; Herbert, fifty; Olnee, fifty eight; Smith, thirty-eight; Morton, sixty. Secretary Herbert's shore arm can sympathize with Seeretaiy Gre sham's short ley. It was a Fedes*! buKet in the Wilderness that shortene I tlif- Cor nier and a Confederate btriiet near At lanta that shortene 1 the latter. Baron B'eicbroedcr, the millionaire Berlin banker, is dead. He was one of the syndicate w'.iich undertook the ad justment of Austriu's currency system for the purpose of restoring specie pay ments. He was the author of that por tion of the movement which so di rected the currency of foreign exchanges as to draw the flood of gold from the United States, which now has amounted to nearly $100,000,000 in two years. There is no reason, however, to suppose that gold shipments will cease on account of BleHhroeder's death. A inathamatician, who evidently has abundant leisure, hai been figuring, re lates the New York News, ou the size of the mortgage we should now bo carrying if Columbus had pledge i this country for the cost of his outfit. Starting with the assumption thit the expenditure cost Isabeile SIO,OOO, he adds interest com.>otindeu every six months. At the present time the amount foots up nearly 271 quadrillion dollars. Taking the population of the United States at *15,000,000, the little obligation reaches nearly 117 million dollars for each inhabitant. It is con sequently a great relief to know that Columbus never set foot ou North America. It would be very embarrass ing to have u musty mortgage for that dizzy figure preseate 1, with the cus tomary notice of foreclosure, EASTER. Easter, smile o' the year I Brlnger of music and flowers I Easter, whose skies are clear With spring days' lengthened hours! What shall we say that is new? What shall we sing that is oldf Sermon or sonnet or chant Gilding refinded gold. Yet, Oh ttrightness returned, Well may I glorify thee I Never the world again Sunless and chill shall I see. Quickened from clay, the reed Springs from the glow above; Up from my heart has leaped The shining lily of love. Peal, Oh carillon, peal Every change to bo hear.lt Sing in the chapel, choir! Trill in your meadow, birJl Thou who kneelest in church (Thy thought from earth apart) My Easter offering, love, — To the altar of thy heart t —E. Irenoeus St« venson. THE OLD WELL SWEEP. BY HELEN FORRRST GRAVES. It OU goin' to take that well sweep, away, Jot ha in—the well I "2? sweep that was there when I was a baby? Don't do it, Jotham— Squire Sedgick beckoned to his son to lay down the uplifted axe. Mrs. Sedgick stood in the doorway, with a fat, old-fashioned tumbler and a glass-towel in her hand. Elleq, the daughter, paused in the act of tying up an obstreperous young honey suckle shoot; and old Grandsir Sedgick, leaning on his staff, with his gray hairs blowing in the fresh spring wind, look ing not unlike one of the ancient Druids. "Why, father, we didn't know you'd care," said the squire. "It's a rickety old thing, anyhow—" "Well, so'm I a rickety old thing!'' quavered the octogenarian. "But you wouldn't go at ine with an axe and a mallet, would you? I used to draw water with that well sweep afore I stood as high as the curb." "Well, well," soothingly uttered the squire, "if you've any feelin' about it, it shan't be touched! Only, sence the pipes have been laid from the spring up on Savin Hill, Eunice, she thought —" "I don't keer what Eunice thinks!" said Grandsir Sedgick. "The pipes from Savin Spring ain't nothin' to me. I'd j ruther hev a glass o' clear water from the old well than all the springs in crea tion 1" "So you shall, father—so you shall I" said Mrs. Sedgick, picking up the knotted cane which the old man had dropped, and tenderly guiding his foot steps back to the cushioned chair on the porch, which he had just left. But Ellen tossed her much be-crimped head. "It's the only well sweep left in Ken- j dal,"muttered she. "Horrid old fashioned | thing! Everybody calls our home 'the ! place with the well sweep.' It's too I bad!" "Hush, dear!" said Mrs. Sedgick. I "Grandsir's a very old man, and he's never got over the shock of Dora's run ning away." Deaf though he was, the old man's ear caught a word here and there, wheu it was least expected that he would. He ' looked quickly around. "Dora," he repeated—"little Dora! My son Adam's daughter, with the black , eyes and the real Sedgick features! There ain't but a few things that I care ' for left in this world, and Dora was one of 'em. What have you done with : Adam's orphen gal—eh, Eunice? The gal that hadn't no one but mo to look after her?" A distressed look crept over Mrs. i Sedgick's kindly face. She hesitated visibly. "It wasn't our fault, father," said she. | "Dora was always a restless child, and t she somehow couldn't seeui to be con tented in this quiet place." The old man shook his leonine white | head. "I dunno nothin' about that," said he. "All I koow is I miss little Dora, and I want her. Jotham," turning ab ruptly to his stalwart son, "where's Dora?" "I don't know any more than you do, father," said the squire, leaning up against the porch pillar, and saying to wife in a lower tone: "What has set him off thinkin' of Dora just now?" "Thir.kin'! Ain't I always thinkin' of her?" piped up the old man. "Adam's gal, that was left to us to take care of; and Adam WAS always the best of the family! You nagged her, and you wor rited of her, and she was too hig'n speritcd to stand it, and now she's gone, an' you say you don't know nothin' about it. Eh"—and his voice grew thriller—"that was what Cain said, mind you, when the Lord asked him where his brother was I That's why I set here on the porch, where I can see half a mile down the road, to get a sight of Adam's gal, Dora, comin' back where she be longs I" The three lookers-on glanced un easily at each other. Martin Sedgick, the son, flung his axe emphatically on the ground. "Grandsir speaks the truth," said he. "The house ain't itself sinco Dora went away." And he stalked gloomily down the hill, to where his handsome four-year old colt was tied to the fence rail, await ing its daily exercise around the squars. "Eunice," said Squire Sedgick te his wife that afternoon, "Martin is getting restless again. He wants togo West." Mrs. Sedgick clasped her hands nerv ously. "Martin—our only son!" she cried. "He was just beginning to be recon ciled to life o» "lie farm, wh<tu Dora j LA PORTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 21,1893. went away," said the squire, dejectedly. "And it was aha that reconciled him. Eunice—if we could get Dora bock again? It's as my old father say*—she was the luck of the house." Mrs. Sedgick burst into tears* "It wasn't my fault, Jotham 1" she said. "I always liked the child, though she wasn't no more like our folks than a corn flower is like a squash blossom. But she and Ellen couldn't somehow agree. Ellen always wanted Martin to marry Miss Brownlee, and ahe up one day and accuaed Dora of settin' her cap for Martin, and Dora couldn't atand that; and when they appealed to me, I'm afraid I didn't take Dora's part quite so strong aa I might hev done." "I knowed a woman's tongue was at the bottom of it all," said the squire, with some bitterness. "Poor Dora I" That night the whole Sedgiok fam ily were aroused by a light blaze in the dooryard—the old fashioned well sweep burning up. Grandsir, in his flannel dressing gown and knotted atick, his leonine head well outlined in the scarlet glow, looking more Druid-like than ever. "You done it o' purpose," said he, feebly shaking the stick at the assembled family, who were trembling in the door way. "You know you did. Pirat Dora, and then the old well sweep. The only things I keered for in this world—and now they're both gone, an' I may as well lie down and die!" "I didn't mean any harml" hysteri cally sobbed poor Ellen. "I was light ing a taper to seal a letter—Marian Brownlee always uses the new-fashioned colored wax to seal her letters—and it burned up too quick, and I flung it out of the window, but I never dreamed it would fall among the dead leaves around the old well curb and set it ou tire! I didn't mean any harm!" "Don't fret, father," said the squire. "We'll build it up ag'in—me and Mur tin—jnst exactly like it was before." The old man shook his head. "It won't be the same," moaned he "it won't be the same! Nothin's the same in this world!" And he took to his bed from that day. Poor Ellen hung down her head like a drooping lily. In neither case had she intended any actual harm, but in both instances she felt acu'ely responsible. Martin was making preparations togo ojt West. Grandsir seemed to have lost all interest in the surrounding world. Her mother went about with swollon eyes and a pale face, and Squire Sed ; gick sat by the hour on the front porch, looking as if he had lost his last friend. One violet-scented April afternoon, ■ however, Martin came home from the ' city, whither he had been to purchase i some absoluto necessity for his travels, with a flat parcel under bis arm. "Look, mother!"he said. ''lt'ssomc thiug for grandsir. I don't know but ' what I've been extravagant, but I declare to goodness I couldn't help it. The minute I set eyes on it, I thought of the dear old man lyin' up Airs in his bed. i It's a picture," he added, as Ellen came : hurrying to his side—"an oil painting , with a floe gilt frame. Ex ictly like our , old woll sweep that was burned down, with the red barn in the distance, and I the sun settin' behind the woods, just as I've seen it go down times without end. You don't know how queer I felt when I saw it iu the store window, and I went in and paid twenty dollars for it. I'd do without them campin' blankets and the fur robe,' mother; but I wanted grandsir to have that picture." They hung it up on the wall opposite the head of his bead, and when the old man waked from a nap, just as the sun set beans shone over the mute canvas, he looked at with a smile. "It's our old well," said he, not evinc ing the least surprise. "Just like I was a-lookin' out of the window at it. I've got the well sweep back ag'in now, and p'raps Dora'll come next. Who knows?" And for the first time in a week, he got up and dressed himself, and deigned to give a sort of conditional approval to the repairs going on in the burned dis trict. "It looks too new now," said he, ad justing his "far-away" spectacles. "But p'raps in a year or' two it'll be more weather-beaten an' nat'raMike. I can allays look at the picter, though, when I want to see the old well sweep." Ellen pulled her brother's sleeve as he stood intently regarding the bright little oil painting on grandsir's wall. "Martin," said she, "nobody ever could have paiuted that picture by guess. It is our old well sweep, and there's the very butternut tree and the broken shingles on the barn roof. And don't you remember, Martin, how fond she used to be of painting?" He turned suddenly around with an ir ra "Why didn't I think of it before?" ho cried. ****** Mr. Solomon Feldinan, sitting behind his desk rail in the darkest corner of the dark little art store, was startled from an abstruse financial calculation by the ques tioning gleam of a pair of dark eyes close beside him. "Is it sold?" a solt voice timidly asked —"my 'O.d Well Sweep!' I see it is gone from the window. Oh, Is it possi ble that I can be so lucky as to have sold that picture?" Dora Sedgick was very plainly dressed, ner shoes and gloves were unmistably shabby; there was a certain pallor in her skin and sharpness in her features which told of a battle with the world, in which she had not as yet gained the advantage. But at that moment her face seemed transfigured with exultant joy. Mr. Feidman referred to his books. "Twenty dollars," said he, with lead pencil between his teeth. "Not a bad price for a beginner, and twenty-five per cent, commission. Price of frame, five dollars, and—and here is your ten dol lars. You might as well send something else." A shadow from without made the lit tle gas lighted cubby hole look a degree dingier than before at this inomeut. "Could you give me the name and ad- dress of the person Wbo painted the pic ture t purchase 1 yesterday—the 'Old Well Sweep?' " asked the Voice of Martin Sedgick» The Veiled and shawl wrapped figure turned suddenly around, so that the flickering gaslight shone full on the dark eyes and mobile lips. "Martin?" she cried out, with an in voluntary step forward. "Dora—my Dora! No, you shall not draw away your band!" he cried. "I've got you now, and I mean to keep you— yes, always, Dora?" ****** "Eh?" cried Grandsir Sedgick, rous ing himself from one of the frequent slumbers of extreme old age. "Dora, is it? Adam's little black-eyed gal? Well, I knowed she would come back before the Lord sent out a call tor me. Some thin' told me she would. They've fixed up the old woll sweep, Dora, and you're back again I I hain't nothin' left to wish for now." "And she's promised to be my wife," declared Martin, with his arm passed carelessly around the girl's slim waist. "And Martin's given up the Wostern plan," ecstatically cried Mrs. Sedgick, "and he's going to be content to settle down here for good and all." "And oh, I'm so glad!" gasped Ellen, while the squire slapped his son's back in an encouraging fashion. Old Grandsir Sedgick looked from one to the other with a serene smile. "I hain't nothin' left to wish for,"he repeated.—Saturday Night. Facts About the >k-leton Industry Paris is the head-centre of the skele ton trade. The mode of preparation is a very delicate operation. The scalpel is first called into requisition to remove the muscular tissues. Its work being done, the bones are boiled, being care fully watched meanwhile that they maj not be overdone. After this cannibalis tic procedure tbey are bleached in the sun. Even then spots of grease are sure to appear when they are exposed to heat. The French treat these with ether and benzine, securing thereby a dazzling whiteness, which is a distinguishing j mark of their skeletons. They are war ranted never to turn yellow and to stand the test of any climate. New York in midsummer is not too hot for them. They are put together by a master hand. A brass rod with all the proper curva lures support the spinal column. Deli cate brass wires hold the ribs in place. Hinges of the most perfect workmanship give to the joints a graceful and lifelike movement. Cleverly concealed hooks and eyes render disjunction at pleasu-e possible. The whole construction plainly indicates the care and skill of an artist snd connoisseur. Domestic skeletons arc generally the work of amateurs. Janitors in medical colleges rescue bones from the dissecting rooms and cure and articulate them. They find purchasers among the students, who on the completion of their studies resell the skeleton, if happily the market is not glutted. A second-hand skeleton may thus be had at quite a reasonable figure—occssionably as low as sls. The imported article, however, ranges from SSO to S4OO. The very high-priced ones are valued because of the preserva tion of the nervous an I circulatory sys tems. Of course, they are beyond the reach of modest purses, and, as a taste for medical and scientific research has not yet developed among the millionaires, very few | 0 skeletons are sold. They arealwayr special order. Avery fine French sic ,leton may be had for $l5O, and that is as high as tha general run of purchasers care to go. Skulls, hands, and feet may be pur chased separately, but to obtain a rib, an arm, or a collar bone, the whole affair must be bought. A skull and cross bones, suitable for decorative purposes, cost but $lO. Tae skull has but oae cut; it may be pretty, it is not artistic. For $22 a skull that wili unhinge and reveal its hidden contents is possible. The bones of the ear are co nprised in this treasure.—Boston Herald. % The Aouud City's Name. The city having been named in honor of St. Louis many suppose that tho pro nunciation should be "St. Looie," be cause that is the correct pronunciation of the name of the saint. Louis is not an English name, and Hume, in angli cizing it in his history, always writes it "Lewis." All the French kings of the name "Louis" are "Lewis" in Hume's writings. Those who say "St. Looie" in speaking of the city may think it is more honor to the sainted King of France, for whom it was named, to use the French pronunciation. On theothor hand, our language is English, and it is perfectly natural that there should be those who hold that the name of our cities should be as nearly English as possible. The"St. Looie" pronuncia tion will never cause any one to forget why the city was named St. Louis, and if it is the most popular it should be generally accepted. Doubtless the ear liest settlers never said "St. Loois," but it is a Kong time since they were here.— St. Louis Post-Dispatc'i. Aristocratic Indians. There are no people in Maine in whom the aristocratic instiuct is stronger or who have more pride of birth than some of those who live in Oldtown Island. At present the tribe is greatly agitated over the questiou whether an adopted child shall be admitted to the inner I circle of the island's Four Hundred. A year or two ago Mr. and Mrs. Sabatis Shea adopted a child from another tribe, the child being half white, as are many ot the Maine Indians. "Owing to the fact that the child is a half-breed and belonged to another tribe, "says an island correspondent, "there is a certain class on the island that is trying to prevent her from having her rights, while Mr. Shea claims she is entitled to all tho rights of the tribe, as she was legally adopted. There are other cases of simi lar nature, but no trouble was ever made before, and Mr. Shea proposes to fight it out in a legal way."—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. PRESIDENTS AI DINNER. HOW THE NATION'S CHIEF EX ECUTIVES HAVE DINED. Washington and the Shad—Enter* tainraents ot Early Dayt-*Liater President* Careless Enters. X <TT"HAT did the Presidents eat? \/\ ' is not so frivolous a ques- Y V tion as the light-minded and unscientific would im agine. Let us try to answer it with gravity and reverence. Washington had plain tastes. As President be was even inclined to be economical. He used to lecture his steward every week on the evils of ex travagance. But the steward, an ex cellent man named Frauncei, who wor shiped Washington and had a proper sense of the dignity of his position, would mutter at the end ot each weekly lecture; "Ay, he may discharge me if he will, but while he is President and I am steward hi* table will be supplied with the best the conntry can afford." Washington bad a special fondness for fish. One February an early Delaware shad, caught in advance of the season, was seized from the market by Fraunces and served up triumphantly at the Pres idential table. "What fish is that!" cried Washing ton, as the savory odor met bis nostrils. "A shad, sir," said Fraunces, glee fully. "The only one in the market, the first one of the season." "But the pricel" Washington's face grew stern. "Three—three dollars,"stammered the steward. Washington's sternness increased. "Take it away," he cried. "It shall never be said that I set such an example of extravagance." And the dish which was too great an extravagance for the President was carried off into the kitchen, where the servants ate it with no qualms of con science. Washington's immediate successors, Adams and Jefferson, were light caters in private, but the former gave stately and magnificent banquets, while the latter kept a generons table in the large free-handed Virginia style. Forty guests was no unusnal number, and it is said that the marketing for a single day fre quently amounted to as much as SSO. Madison revived the State dinners of Adams's time with a good deal of the attendant ceremonial, which Jefferson had discarded. Yet Mrs. William Winston Seaton in her diary rather slights one of the banquets at which she was present. "The diunsr," she says, was certainly fine, but still I was rather surprised, as it did not surpass some* I have eaten in Catolina. There were many French dishes, and exquisite wines, I presume, by the praises be stowed upon them; comment on the quality of the wine seems to form the chief topic after the removal of the cloth. Candles were introduced before the ladies left the table, and the gentle men continued half an hour longer to enioy a social glass." But Madison himself was a light drinker. When he had bard drinkers at his table he would invariably dilute his wine with water in order to keep up with them, or else merely touch the glass to his lips while the others took deep draughts. In strong contrast to Madison's ban quets were those given by Andrew Jack son. He hated conventional etiquette even mere than Jefferson did and set his face more sternly against ceremonial. He always used a steel fork himself and provided his guests with one steel fork and a silver one. After dinner he moked a long-handled corn-cob pipe. At his farewell reception Jackson intro duced a curious novelty. This was an enormous cheese a yard thick and as big as a barrel in circumference, which was cut into three-pound pieces and dis tributed among the guests. This proved such a great success that Van Buren was tempted to emulate the example. But the cirpets and the furniture suffered so severely from the greasy crumbs which fell upon them that the experiment was never again repeated, and indeed the custom of serving eatables at general receptions came to an end forever with Van Buren's lest term. It had grown to be such a glaring abuse that just prior to the election of 1840 hungry crowds had besieged the East ltoom, clamoring to be fed, and threatening to vote against Van Buren if they were not entertained. The deaths of two Presidents may be directly associated with the table. The first President Harrison caught a fatal cold while out marketing, his invariabla custom, before breakfast. Taylor died of cholera morbus, resulting froqi a hearty meal of cherries washed down with ice milk, which he partook of on his return from a Fourth of July cele bration. In an hour he was with cramps; in five days he was dead. With the exception of President Arthur, the later Presidents have alt been rathei careless eaters, paying small attention to the delights of ths table when they dined en famille, and allow ing their stewards or the ladies of the White House to take full supervision over the State banquets. President Arthur, however, though a light eater was essentially an epicure, who took a great interest in the affairs of the kitchen, and made the supervision of his dinners a mattei of earnest study. His private dinners are said to have cost as much as $5 a plate, his public ones over |lO. President Cleveland, on the other hand, during his first term, is said never to have entered the kitchens of the White House, and though blessed with a wholesome appetite and a stomach capable of digesting anything set before him, he has no epicurean tastes. Garfield, when be entered the White House, was tormented with dys pepsia, and was forced to confine him self to plain dinners. He and Ruther ford B. Hayes were the only Presidents who were not accustomed to serve wines with their meals. Like most abstsiners, Hayes had a sweet tooth, and was es pecially lond of cake and caudy.—New York World. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.26 after Three Month*. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Chinese botanist* can grow oaks in thimbles. Science announces that cholera bacilli do not live long in the body that has been properly buried. The University of Pennsylvania, Phil delphis, is to haw a building entirely devoted to chemistry. It is necessary to use high pressure m order to transmit the electric current economically to long distances. The Edinburgh Review says that the commonest form ot color-blindness is that which thinks green identical with red. Coal of an excellent quality and in large deposits has been discovered at Djebeli-Ebou-Feyaz, in the district of Zer, Asia Minor. There is a reptile common to the Sacramento Valley, California, known as the blowsnike. A full-grown blowsnake thinks nothing of swallowing a half dozen eggs at a time. The auger that bores a square hole consists of a screw auger in a square tube, the corners of which are sharpened from within, and as the auger advances, pressure on the tube cuts the round hole square. The modern lecturer relies greatly up on the projection of illustrations upon a screen, and the lanterns for this purpose have been so improved that effects and illusions of a most wonderful kind are now obtained in the lecture-room. M. Van Rysselberghe, who died re cently at Antwerp, was the inventor of the meteorgraph, an electric weather register, by means of which the con ditions prevailing in various localities may be shown at a central station. Much research and investigation war rant the assertion that man is not the only animal subject to dreams. Horses neigh and rear upon their hind feet while fast asleep; dogs birk and growl, and in many other ways exhibit all their characteristic passions. Electricians are now considering the feasibility of using potentials up to hun dreds of thousands of volts. With the potential of 100,000 volts the power of Niagara could be transmitted to Chicago, with a loss not exceeding twenty per cent., and it could be sold at that place in competition with steam power, prob ably to commercial advantage. A large dirigible balloon, intended to make headway against air currents of twenty-eight miles an hour, is being made in France. It will be similar in form to the La France of 1884-1885, but larger—23o feet in length and forty three feet in its greatest diameter. It will weigh sixty-six pounds per horse power, and will be propelled by a screw in front with a rudder, behind. The enameled iron of various colors which has become such a common ar ticle of electrical commerce is made, ac cording to a French industrial piper, by dipping the iron plates into an enamel ing liquid composed of: Borax 21 parts (by weight), soda salts 6, boric acid 15, washed sand 25, feldspar 12.5. saltpeter 3.5, flour spar 3 parts. The plates arc then dried and fired. Coloring is Ob tained by using metallic oxides. Change for ths Passen er".s §1). There is a conductor on the Eucli 1 avenue street car line who played a clever trick on a passenger the ot'ier morning, which has probably taught him to have his fare ready hereafter when he boards a car. The passenger lives away out at tho end of the line, and was so punctual that he ciught ths same car every morniug. About a week ago he tendered a $lO bill in payment for his fare. The conductor did not have so much money at the beginning of his trip and told the passeuger that he would pay the nickel out of his o*u pocket and be could return it the fol lowing morning. The next morning the business man agaiu presented a $lO bill. Again the conductor - paid the fare for him. This occurred four mornings in suc cession. The fifth morning the same $lO bill came around, but the conductor was prepared. He drew a heavy bag from beneath the seat and handed it to the passenger with the remark; ''Here's your change, sir. It's all right. l'v,e counted it." He bad secured 1030'pea nies the night before and kept twenty-' live of them for the fares he paid for tho business man. Tae bag contained' 975 copper coins. The passenger took the bag and rang for the car to stop. He now rides on another car. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Tree S(M>O Kiars Old. On the island of Teneriffe, one of the largest if not the very largest of the Canaries, about half way between the Porto Santo and the summit of the fa mous Pico de Tyde, the highest point of land on the island, stands the consider able town of Orotava, famous for its wonderful "Dragon Tree," the identical botanical specimen which Humboldt pronounced "the most ancient vegetable relic in the world." Humboldt made calculations on its age in several different ways, and declared that it was between 5000 and 6000 years old. Sir John Herschel often alludes to it as the oldest tree in the world. For at least twenty centuries the Guanches used the immense hollow of this ancient tree as a temple of worship. Its eventful career was sud denly terminated in the summer of 1367, when it was uprooted and almost entirely destroyed by a hurricane.—St. Lo iis Republic. Rais n; Swans. Swans are not hard to raise; they sell at S4O and $75 per pair. A farmer at Biddeford, Me , is making quite a suc cess at swan breeding, and his profits must be quite large each season. Tne average hatch yields from three to six young swans. They hatch usually about June and mature in fourteen months from birth. Tney are very cross when with a brood, and need watching con staufly unless pecned up closely. —New York Inde,pendeut. NO. 28. ' ; 7 THE PATIENT SEASONS. How patiently the seasons bide their timet No murmur from the bud that mootlii ago Wat ready, where the earth inclined, to blow; • • The4)4i At are liihj |l j iu their-ohoeen home. No doubt there are oommuoings 'neath the snow. And some bright eyes that never close In sleep. And some sharp ears that listen well and keep • ■» • • Sweet hope alive in little hearts below. • Then let the winter wesr itself away, • Borne thither on the breast of freighted rills; 112 ' A dream of spring has touched the con stant hill*, • And made the valleys patient of delajr, —Mary A. Mason, in Youth's Companion. HUMOR OP THE DAY.' . v Bright periodicals—Comets. The man with a long head is rerelj head-long.—Binghamton Leader. It's queer about shops—they're never shut up unless they're shut down.— Elmira Gazette. There never was so big a fool that he couldn't learn how to count money.— Atchison Globe. The figurehead of a collegers usually the professor of mathematics.—Phila delphia Record. ' Many a man who "starts off spoils everything hy coming back,— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Pew men who go into maple-sirup manufacturing make an unadulterated success of it.—Troy Press. Some men are like woodpeckers—they can't send in a bill without making a big noise about it.—Truth. Many a parachute jumper would lie' living to-day if be had never taken a drop.—Binghamton Leader* The man who waits for appreciation generally gets it in the shape of epitaph.—Milwaukee Journal. "Does she make a good wife?" "Well, it is doubtful. Her husband tiolongsto four clubs."—New York Press.. . . To harrow one's feeling* is not the most profitable way of cultivating an acquaintance.—Boston Transcript. * The picket fence was outtined B'iarp, r The moon was clear and pate. Her lover long ago had left, But thereby hangs a tail. • • , "The pleasantcst way to take cod Aver oil,'* says an oldgourraand, "is to fatten, pigeons, with it and then eat the pigeoas." —Tit-Bits! » The Professor—"What is happinjss!" The Philosopher—"Th» condition of forgetting that you Are ut»happy, Chicago News. A man whose tongue is his entirqg capital defies the exigencies of commence and succumbs to nothing less than a paralytic stroke. .«v • * » He's a dealer in rby .ues an i,in. '.'roc'is," « An exponent of both avocations, And cm furnish quotations of stoc <s, ' Or supply you with stoc is of quotations,. • —Trufei.' Dives—"l always share myself. l A ■ won't trust a barbftr on my Jace." f rus—"l always shave myself, too. .No. barber will trust mi on ray face.";— Ch icago Tribune. : Bluster—"l made a speech to-night the banquet which will make me immqr-. tal." Mrs. B—"And it was oaly last month that you got your life insured I'* —Boston Transcript. • * • "Charlie, didn't you promise to try • and break yoursetf of the habit of using;... slang?" Charlie—"Yes, tnammt, and you bet I'm gettin' there with both feetj don't you see."—lnter-Ojean. "Do play something, please, Mis*« Pianothump," said the hostess, aij vuac- , ing to her music loving guest; "it's getting prttty late," but not balf* the"' guests are gone yet.Cnicago Newg. ■ 112 Mr. Nuwife—"So this is cottage"pud-% ding, eh?'' Mrs. Nuwife (proudly) "Yesl Can you guess how it's made?" Mr. Nuwife—"Well—er I should thitrlcJt of pressed bricks, dear."—Chicago Inter- ■ Ocean. Johpson—"When I do.marry I intend., to 'marty a sensible girl, if I catj find one;" Toruson—"Notf, there's 'MTss l Sbarpe; she gave me i«p:" "Just the girl I want, Won'{ yoa j.in- troduce me?"—Tit-Bits. t . . No man hfls ever been able to explain so simple a problem as why the brilliant* sun should ltiviah its light in broad day-* light, while only a second hand luraj nary is vouchsafed Vo man in the nfgtif' time.—Boston Transcript. "Yeur trffvel so much oil the cars* I should think you would go armed*"- > "Armed 1" exclaimed the suburfranitQ. "I do. I never travel with less than fifteen or thirty pounds of heavy bundles '« that I could use in an emergency."— > Chicago Tribune. . • t Little. Mabel--"Mamma, don't y«u think I can teach Fido to talk?" ' Mam ha —"No, dear; what made you think you could?" Little Mtbel—":Wail, _ w£on I * gave him his dinner he growled just likq.. you say |>apa dobs when his meal doero't please him."—Chicago Inter-Oceaih/ v iJ * Mr. Billus—"Seems to meJ-.Marm;ttbio i children don't speak half as. good' Eng lish as they did before they began. to to school." Mrs. Billus—"For mercps , sake, John, how can you expect tbeia to *' learn everything at. scliodll.. i wished j you would quit harping on that language fad of yours."—Chicago Th buue. ... His Secret of Happiness. "Professor"' said a gentleman recently to the famous Professor Bltckie* of" Edinburgh, "may-lask the secret, of' your > happiness?" i , "Yes," replied the genial Professor, who, in his old age is as sprightly and merry as a- schoolboy. "KWbe Istha'* secret. I have no vain regret* for |h» c past, I look forward with to top ' tutute and I always strive to do' mj " duty."—New York iierald. *>
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