SULLIVAN JBKH REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XI. We spend $80,000,000 a year on our fences. The Chinese propose trying to dislodge tbe Russians from the Pamir, or that part of it to which China lays claim. Our navy will rank as the fifth iu the world when our new ships are afloat, be ing surpassed only by England, France, Russia and Italy. The Chicago Herald alleges that "our language is phonetically so difficult to for eigners that to lecture before an Eug lish-speaking audience in the English •tongue gives them an acute pain in the jaws.'' The statement that a woman could be implicated in every case of bomb throw ing which has taken place in Paris has beon pro Ted. The New York World facetiously asserts that women are em ployed almost exclusively in the dyna mite factories of France, and are equal upon provocation to blowing men up. A Chicago paper recently gathered the statistics for several years of murders, legal hangings and lynchings. In 1S8? the murders were 2335; in 1889, 3567; in 1890, 4290; iu 1891, 5906, and iu 1892, 6792. There were 123 legal hangings in 1891, or 1 legal hanging to 48 murders, and 107 legal hangings in 1892, or 1 to 63 murders. Science makes slow progress in aerial navigation, exclaims the Brooklyn Citi zen. The balloon of to-day is scarcely an improvement iu any sense ou the Montgolfier affair of a hundred years'ago, and the flying machines, though more complicated, are no better guarded against abrupt descent toward the center of gravity than that of the Scotchman who announced about a ceutury since that he was going to fly out of Edin burgh on a pair of big wings, aud broke his leg at the first attempt. In the latter part of October a good roads congress wiil be held uuder the auspices of the Agricultural Department of the Columbiau Exposition Road ma chinery, taxation, legislation, tolls, free roads, repairs, and material for construc tion, will be discussed. The object is to advanco the cause of good roads in ' America, and to dcvolop a more practi cal system of improving our highways, best methods of construction, and to en courage the public and private support for the same. The congress will be held in the permanent Memorial Art Palace in the Lake Front Park. T. Butter worth, of Chicago, is Chairman of the committee. The labor troubles in Lancashire, England, which ended by a compromise, take rank as the greatest struggle be tween capital aud labor which the world has seen. The campaign lasted cwenty weeks, involved directly and indirectly 125,000 employes, and cost in loss of wages alone $10,000,000. Each side was equally willing at the outset to engage in a test of strength, and at last they were just as glad to call a truce with the honors even. Great sacrifices have been endured, with no result, save that both parties to the conflict have had all desire for fight taken out of them, and the advantages of mutual compromise aro for the time bciug fully conceded. The operatives have iu the terms of peace conceded just a shade more than the masters, but there lias been really no victory for cither sido. The plans agreed upon for settling future disputes seem to bo the best ever devised thus far. They assure the necessary stability in the cotton market by limiting all future changes to five per cent, at intervals of not less than one year. The New York Financial Indicator says that railway construction will soon bo in full swing again, and prints a table showing 161 new lines in thirty-five States and Territories, with over 4800 miles of proposed mileage, on which some work has been done or is about to be begun. At the close of last year, or at the present time, we find the following new lines and mileage credited to the South' state. Linen. Miles. Alabama 6 ;>.» Arkansas.... 0 303 Florida 5 27-' Georgia 7 2f19 Louisiana 3 41 Mississippi 3 31 Tennessee 4 ]2!l Texas !) 30'J Virginia.. (i 9) West Virginia 13 337 Total 6) 1,730 Other lines will doubtless be piojected or started durirg the year, adds the At lanta Constitution, and the outlook is certainly full of promise. The figures quoted show that railway construction is fairly active in the South, and they in dicate a more prosperous state of af fairs than has been supposed to exist. If it be true that money talks, trie millions invested in these big enterprises should be regarded as positive ttStimouy of the most encouraging nature. THE QUIET HOUSE. O, mothers, worn and weary "With cares which never ceases ** With never time for pleasure, . With days that have no peaoa, With little hands to hinder And feeble steps to guard. With tasks that lie unfinished. Deem not your lot too hard. I know a house where childish things Are hidden out of sight; Where never sound of little feet Is heard from morn till night: No tiny hands that fast undo, That pull things all awry, No baby hurts to pity As the quiet days go by. The house is all in order And free from tiresome noise, ' No moments of confusion, No scattered, broken toys; And the children's little garments Are never soiled or torn. But are laid away foraver Just as they last were worn. Anil she, the sad-eyed mother— What would she give to-day To feel your cares and burdens, To walk your weary way! Ah! happiest on all this earth. Could she again but see The rooms all strewn with playthings And the children 'round her knee! —Alma fendexter Hayden. MISS MILLY'S ROMANCE, BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. (MISS REDWYN is behind again this week," said Miss Duluth. "What I again?" said Miss Milly. Miss Milly was seated at her desk, the big account book open before her, and a pen be tween her fingers. Milly Duluth had been a beauty in her day. She was not unpleas ant to look upon evou at forty-odd. Her blue eyes were as blue as ever, there was not a gray hair in her nut-brown tresses, and a fresh color still glowed in her cheek. Miss Martha, the elder sister, was tall and gaunt, with a Homau nose and a projecting ehin; but that signified little. Miss Duluth made no pretensions at all. Milly bad always been the family au thority, even when the old Judge was living, and they owned the pretty place on Lake Pontchartrain, and now that they were "reduced" and earned their living by letting rooms, she was the au thority still. "That won't do," said Miss Milly. "No," meekly acquiesced Miss Du luth, "it won't." "If she can't pay her ront," severely observed Miss Milly, "what was she doing with that new surah silk dress? Only a typewriter, at that!" "Well, she's young," said Miss Du luth. "Young lolks like to dress." Miss Milly compressed her lips. "Ycung folks ought to like to pay their debts," said she. "Tell her she must go." "But, Milly—" Miss Milly closed the big book. "Tell her," said she, in a very soft voice, "she must go." Miß9 Duluth came nearer to the tabic. "Sister," said she, "perhaps you haven't observed that Professor Mellen takes a good deal of notice of Miss Red wyn." Miss Milly colored. "No," said she, "I hadn't." "He's not so very young," said Miss Duluth. "But he's very handsome still. And then he's so talented. And when he has published that learned volume on 'The Languages of Christendom,' he'll be a very famous man. And he occupies the whole of our first floor. Sitting room, bedroom and bath room furnished beautifully. Think what it would be for Mary Redwyn—only a typewriter, who has the cold hall bedroom on the third floor, and gets her breakfast over a kerosene stove—to marry the profes sor!" Miss Milly tossed her head. "I didn't know you were such a matchmaker, Martha." "I'm not, sister." A bar of ssarlet came out on Miss Dulutil's high cheek bones. "But don't you think it would be a good thing?" "They can do as they like," said Miss Milly. "But if you send her away, you de stroy all her chances." Miss Milly tapped her foot impatiently on the floor. "Business is business, and she owes us a month's rent," said she. Miss Duluth said no more. It was rarely that she ventured to dispute her sister's reign. Late in the afternoon Miss Milly went up to see about a leak in the roof that had been reported to her, but she got no further than the little hall bedroom on the third floor. There, on her shabby little bed, lay Miss Redwyn, the typewriter, shaking with suppressed sobs. "Why, what's the matter?" Miss Milly asked, pausing on the threshold. "I've been discharged! ' said Miss Redwyn, defiantly, sitting up and look ing angrily at her questioner. "Isn't that matter enough?" Miss Redwyn was very pretty, indeed, with abundance of fantastically crimped red-gold hair, a complexion all snow and carmine, and hazul eyes, fringed with curly lashes. "Just the sort of face and figure that would become an actress," thought Miss Milly, with a sort of resentment. "I wonder what Professor Mellen can see to like in her?" But there was a great deal of the womanly in Miss Milly's nature, and she spoke kindly to the despairing girl, in ■uch sore straits. "Don't cry, Mary I" Mid she, stroking ISS REDWYN is behind again this week," said Miss Duluth. "What I again?" said Miss Milly. Miss Milly was seated at her desk, the big account book open before her, and a pen be tween her fingers. Milly Duluth had been a beauty in her day. She was not unpleas ant to look upon evcu at forty-odd. Her blue eyes were as blue as ever, there was not a gray hair in her nut-brown tresses, and a fresh color still glowed in her cheek. LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1893. t'ae red-golden hair, which had fallen down from its imitation shell pins. (Mary Redwyn was one of those girls who indulge a good deal in imitation.) ♦'Why did they discbarge you?" "Ob, I don't know! Old Fozall has been grumbling this long timet" sighed Mary. "And to-day, just because I happened tospell a word wrong— But I don't caret I wouldn't work another day for him, not if he'd pay me a thou sand dollars I Fd rather starve! And, for all I can see, I'm going to starve, too. You're going to turn me out." "No, I am not," said Miss Milly, melted by the utter childishness of the girl's despair. "You can stay here un til you get another situation. Only don't fret!" Mary lifted her big hazel eyes in a sudden revulsion of joy to Miss Milly's face. "Will yon be so good!" she cried. "Oh, I thought you were so old, you wouldn't sympathize with a girl like me!" Miss Milly winced. It was nonsense to notice a trifle like that, but she felt now that she likod Mary Redwyn le»3 than ever. "And now," added the Titianesque beauty, "I'll look out for another place at once. I wonder if old Mellen don't want a stenographer?" Again Miss Milly froze. "You mean the professor?" "Well, he is old, isn't he?" giggled Mary. "Ho writes a lot, I know, and he's very polite when he meets me on the stairs. Would you ask him forme, Miss Milly?" Ths elder lady drew herself up. "I never have exchanged a word with him since he has been in the house," said she. "My sister and I do not mingle with our lodgers. Hannah acts as our agent." Mary laughed. "You're so queer!" said she. "How ever, it don't matter; I'd as soon a9k him myself. I wonder what salary ho would pay?" The tears were dried on her carmine cheeks now, her eyes sparkled, and her enchanting lips wero wreathed in smiles. Mi3s Milly eyed her curiously. Yes, that was the face, those were the melting glances, that could not but fascinate any man alive I Did the professor really care for this beautiful, soulless Undine—the pro fessor, who had been Millicent's beau ideal, her chevalier sans peur et sans re procbe, when he and she were young, on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain? Yes, this was Miss Milly's secret—the one romance of her almost forgotten youth. Professor Mellen had been studying at . Heidelberg when her stepfather, Doctor Maurande, had died and left herself and Martha poor. They had counted their small possessions, considered every side of the question, and Anally decided on coming North to invest their little all iu a lodging house. They bad dropped the namo of their mother's second husband and became the Misses Duluth again in the new life which they faced so boldly. And when, by one of those strange coincidences which happen as often in real life as in novels. Professor Mellen engaged the tirst floor suit of rooms at 19 Murray Place, becauso it was suffi ciently near to the Astor Library to ena ble him to prosecute his literary work to good advantage, he never knew who his real landlady was. Milly he never saw. Martha wore spectacles, and looked ten years older than her actual age. "I don't care!" said Miss Milly to herself. "Let Mary Redwyn have him if she can win him!" That very evening, however, Miss Redwyn came home from the advertising bureau, where she had been to rogister her name, with a severe headache and a high fever. "I'm glad now wo didn't let her go," said Miss Milly. "The child has no one belonging to her." "Who is to take care of her?" asked Miss Duluth, wringing her hands. "I will," Miss Milly answered. This was in the early spring. The June roses were in blossom when Miss Milly herself, having been also ill, first sat up in her big cushioned chair and viewed herself in a looking-glass. "How funny I look," said she, "with my face so white and all my hair cut off! Oh, I must have been very sick 1" "You almost died," said Miss Redwyn. "And I was so glad when I got well enough to take care of you, because I knew you had risked your life for me." "And the lodgers?" Miss Milly roused herself once more to active interest in the affairs of the outside world. "They've all gone," said Miss Duluth. "Of course you couldn't expect them to stay in a house where typhoid fever was raging." "Except Professor Melleu," said Miss Redwyn, with a toas of the red gold rings which wero beginning to grow out where they had cut away her splendid coils and waves of hair. "He's a per. feet hero! Not afraid of anything! Look, Miss Milly, he sent these roses." Miss Milly glanced up at her sister. "Yes," said Martha, answering the look, "he has discovered who we were. I never saw a man so astonished as he was." "And, oh," cried Miss Redwyn, "I've such a secret to toll you! I'm en gaged—" Just then the doctor came in; but Miss Milly caught a moment to press Mary's velvet-soft hand and whisper to her: "I congratulate you, deal!" Later in the day there came a gentle tap at the door. "May I come in?" said the professor. Miss Milly smiled and held out her hand, while he gently reproached her for hiding herself away from him so long. ♦'Why did you do it, Millicentl" said he. "Could not you trust me?" "You were in Heidelberg," said she, coloring. "And we wanted to leave all the old life behind us. We—we didn't know bow people might feel 1" "But it seems," said the professor, with a smile, "that the old life has fol lowed you. Do you know, Milly, it seems as if it was only yesterday that I went away? Do you remember—" She interrupted him, quickly: "Oh, I forgot!" said she. "I have not yet congratulated you." "Upon what!" My new book! It isn't published yet," said he. a puzzled air. "No—upon your apprcaohiag tnw riage." "My marriage? To whom?" "To that pretty little Mary Redwyn, of course," said Miss Milly, trying to smile. "I've suspected it this long time." "Mary Kedwyn? Oh, the little type writer!" said he. "I've just secured a place for Iter at Dickendall's publishing house. But as for marrying her—Why, Milly, don't you know that there's only one woman in the world for me? Don't you know that I loved you before I went to Heidelberg, though I never had the courage to tell you so? Did you suppose 1 could care for a little doll like that, when I might hope to win your sweet heart?" Just then Miss Redwyn thrust in her curly head. "Good-by, Miss Milly!" said she. "I ta'.d you, didn't I, that I was engaged as stenographer at Dickendall & Co.'s? I'm going there now." Gcod Martha Duluth was close be hind. "Milly," said she, "you must not overtire yourself. You have told her, professor?" "Yes," said the professor, "I have told her." Miss Milly looked up with a smile. "I think I shall never be tired again," said she. "Oh, lam so happy I"—Sat urday Night. Quick Shooting iu Border Days. "Have you any idea how fast a man could shoot a pistol in the border days?" said J. W. Delany, a Montana ranch man. "A man who couldn't pull a trigger so fast that you couldn't distin guish between the successive shots was slow. When they emptied their guns it sounded like one long report. And pull! Why, I've seen men that could kill you before you could shoot if you had a gun leveled at them. Fact. Take the time wheu Doc Hamilton, tho notorious bad man of Colorado, killed Sheriff Harrity in Denver. Hamilton had been wanted for several killings and was dead shy. When he turned a corner he'd walk away round near the edge of the pave ment. Afraid somebody would get the drop on him if lie turned too sharp, you Know. One day he was in a hurry, however, and ran around a corner and looked square into iiTVihcheater held by Harrity. " 'Well, Doc, I got you,' says Harrity. " 'You've got too strong a hand, Har rity, and I can't call you,' says Hamil ton, taking it cool and easy as you please. " 'Yes, full house, Doc; guess you had better travel an in front.' "Hamilton was standing with his um brella on his hip, leaning on it. He looked the sheriff square in the eye. Miud you, the rifle wasn't four feet from him, and leveled straight for his head. Just as Doc started to move a runaway horse came down the street. Involun tarily Harrity glanced in that direction. Doc saw his eyes waver for an instant, pulled his gun—you see he had his hand on his hip—and shot Harrity stone dead before he could pull the trigger of his rifle."—Washington News. Singing to the Herd. Some cowboys and cattlemen laugh ingly assured me that they only sing on watch to keep themselves awake; others say they sing, talk loud or make a noise just to let the cattle know they are ap proaching so as not to frighten and stampede them, but the greater number hold—as I myself had read and been led to believe—that the sound of the human voioe, singing, talking or calling out cheerfully, quiets and reassures the ani mals. However it may bo, they all sing and talk or whistle to them, and among my most vivid and picture-like recollec tions is one of a certain night when an aching head and heavy heart held me awake, and, slipping from the house in the little hours, I went aimlessly across tho level plain towards whore a big herd was camped. When within threo or four hundred yards of the bunoh I could seo, under the white Texas moonlight, the dark mass of cattle and occasionally a sil houette, between me and the sky, of one of the guards on his pony, and in the in tense loneliness of the plain's night the singing of the one boyish voice holding his untaught, unconscious way through "A Fountain Filled With Blood," and the whistling of his companion on a lit tle harmonicum, "Home, Sweet Home," as they came round past me in turn, wero as lovely and touching sounds as I over heard.—Kansas City Times. Three Tall Brothers. "The life of a Maine woodsman and hunter is very healthy," said Charles E. Hayden, ot Auburn, "and it is not an unusual thing tha*. men who follow the life from boyhood develop into the verit able giants of old. While I was at Castle Hill, Aroostook, I made the ac quaintance of three brothers, who were said to be the tallest men in the county. Their names were Allie, Elihu and Elidad Frank. These three brothers, laid along in a line on the floor, would measure twenty-one feet to an inch in their stocking ieet, and without their caps on. Two of them were more than seven feet tall, and the other one was a little less. Old Mr. Frank, their father, was taller than any of them. Their oc cupation is that of woodsmen, farmers, hunters and horse swappers."—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Uncle Sam's salary list calls for the Nnnual payment of ab:>i)t $90,000,000, ( IMMIGRANTS WITH MONEY. A PROSPEROUS CLASS 18 NOW COMING TO AMERICA. How the Fresh Arrivals Hide Thetr Cash— Some Queer Receptacles lor Worldly Wealth. TT" FTER a long stoppage the / \ stream of immigrants is agaiq flowing into America through £ Uncle Sam's patent valve at Ellis Island. A strange feature of the renewal of immigration after the quaian tme embargo is that the newcomers bring more money with them on the average than they ever did before. Their cash comes from queer hiding places. Although gold is the standard of currency, yet the incominar wanderers prefer the big silver dollars of the United States to either gold or paper. Ten or twelve occasions each day Fran cis J. Scully, the expert of exchange at Ellis Island, has gold turned back, with the request in some jargon unknown to any but the initiated, from some rough shod, unkempt immigrant, with a shake of tbe head and a suggestive gesture to ward a shining heap of "cart wheels." This means that the man wants the American dollar. Gold doesn't please him. In every instance his wish is grat ified, and he goes away a happier but a heavier weighted man. Immigrants are always superstitious. Many of those who have money say they have none, while those who ate poorer than the proverbial church mouse say they have plenty of it. The Italian im migrant is the most deceptive. With his loaf of bread under one arm, a bottle of sweet oil and a bunch of garlic hang ing over his shoulder he is prepared to go out into the world. lie seldom has baggage. The only clothes he brings are those on his back, and in nine out of ten cases he could nat sell these as old rags. Every Italian carries a long tin tube in which his money and passport are kept. The popular coins of the Na tion aro lires; equal to nineteen cents American money. Sometimes one im migrant has as many as SOO lires, and on other occasions 1000 immigrants from that country will not exchange «• than 500. j English, German and French ». '$ grants carry the most money. Colonel Weber, several months ago, was standing in the registration department, where he noticed a Frenchman clothed almost in rags. The Colonel had some doubts as whether the man would be able to sup port himself, and was anxiously waiting for his turn togo and be registered, as he wanted to hear what was said. The half-dozen immigrants who were in front passed through, and the greasy French man presented himself. "Have you any money?" the man was asked. The immi grant looked up,"sani«fd a smite of con tentment, unwound a dirty neckcloth and brought to view s. pocketbook that looked as though it had gone through a threshing mill. From it he took a bag containing SSOOO in gold. To show that he was rich in the world's goods, the greasy old immigrant showed a letter of credit for S7OOO. He was allowed to land. Usually the giddy Frenchman carries his money in a short, brass tube. If ho is rich, the money is in NapoleoDS, or twenty franc gold pieces. If he is poor, his money to "five franc" silver pieces. When he gets change, he wants good American silver dollars, which fit into his coin tube and are always worth their face value. An immigrant, more than usually intelligent, who presented him self at the money counter one day, asked for silver dollars. After giving them to him, Scully inquired why it was that Frenchmen always wanted silver. The immigrant said that a tube full ot silver was pretty heavy, and when a man put it into his pocket he could always feel Its weight and know it was safe. English and Irish immigrants are seldom very heavily weighted with wealth on arriving here. The arrange ment they use for carrying their money is a sort of watch-shaped affair, which is made to hold twenty sovereigns. The Irishman, probably from native preju dice, changes what English money he has for that of the United States. But the Englishman has a pride in holding onto his sovereigns and £5 notes. He may leave England, but for all that ho likes her money, and if he has some with him it reminds him of "ome." It is not unusual for him to buy food at the land ing bureau and to hand in payment a coin of Her Britannic Majesty's realm. Arabs carry very little money. Some times they have a sovereign or a napoleon. They have room, though, for the wealth of Golconda in the capacious belts which they cany about their per son. When a son of the desert has money to exchange ho does so in a way which would make one who could only hear the rattle and not see the transfer of the coin believe that be had a million dollars. He seldom has a thousand cents, and for that reason he makes as much show as possible.. In getting his change he wants pennies, for five dollars worth of coppers makes quite a big bag full and feels heavy, which is the way tbe Arab seems to judge the amount of wealth. Swedes use pocketbooks, while the Germans and Hungarians carry leather pouches or linen bags. The krone, valued at twenty-six cents American money, is the money used by the Swede. Sometimes he has from ten to fifty pieces. The Hungarian comes here to work in the mines, and changes very little money, knowing that as soon as he goes to labor he can use the money he makes to purchase his necessities of life. —New York Press. Dew «nd Colors. D6w is a great respecter of colors. To prove this take pieces of glass or boards and paint them red, yellow, green and black. Expose them at.night and you will find that the yellow will be covered with moisture, that the green will be damp, but that the red and the black will be left perfectly dry. —Chicago Timet. Terms—sl.ooin Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The length of the alimentary canal is about thirty-two feet. A valuable discovery of a leucite-bear ing rock hat been made at Harden, New South Wales. The least distance determined for the fixed stars from the earth runs into bil lions of miles. The molten metal in a Bessemer con verter is 6000 times fainter than the light of the sun. Pound, traveling in air, from sun to earth, would require about fourteen years to accomplish the journoy. Platinum can now be drawn into wire strands so fine that twenty-seven twisted together can be inserted into the hollow of a hair. A new arc lamp has a pair of carbons which meet at a point like the strokes of the letter V. It is at this point that the light is produced. A mixture of two parts of pounded ice and one of common salt will reduce the temperature of a body surrounded by it from fifty degrees to 0 degrees. Professor L. H. Bailey, in his report to the Cornell University, formally es tablishes the commercial value of electro culture for certain winter crops, and es pecially for lettuce. An interesting invention is that of an incandescant lamp in which the plug carrying the leading-in wire is made up of a composition which unites with the glass to make an air-tight joint. Light, proceeding with 10,000 times the velocity of the earth in its orbit, gives us some idea of distance, when we learn that its flight from the sun to our globe occupies rather more than eight minutes. An excellent method for waterproofing the surface of a wall is to cover it with solution of soap. After twenty-four hours a coat of lime solution is applied. This process is repeated several times, and is claimed to make the wall perfectly water-tight. Sea serponts, flying dragons, birds with teeth, connecting links between vbirds, fishes and reptiles, animals so ' large and clumsy that a second brain, located near their tail, was necessary to properly direct their movements, all these have existed in past times, and have left the tracos of their bodies in the rocks for our instruction in these latter days. Tho wator spider, which spends most of its time under water, carries a bubble of air for breathing on the under side of its body; and when this air is exhausted, it comes to the surface for more. It is enabled to carry the air bubble becauss tho under side of its body is covered with tiny hairs set so close together that the surface film of J,i;e water doos not pass them. It is not land vegetation merely that is large in the Northwest, but the plant life of the sea. Among the shoal of the British Columbia coast tho algro and kelp, which on the Atlantic side of tho continent seldom grow to be more than six feet long, are found thirty feet in length, and at the ebb and flow of the tide their long, leathery leaves are often seen in parallels along the surface, like exaggerated lily puds. A Unique Industry. One of the uuique industries of Key West, Fla., is the catching and curing of sponges, and thore is not anything about this queer animal that one of the gray haired old colored sponge fishers cannot tell. The sponges grow in beds on the coral reefs from a nucleus very much as coral does, and the complete growth occupies but seven or eight months. The sponge fishing fleet of a score or more of small sloops go out over the beds and drag for the sponges with an iron claw at the end of a line. Then from the brown mass of oozy, sandy sponges the different kiuds are sorted out and, laid on racks in the sun to dry. Then the sand and coral and shell are worked out and the "trimmer" with a pair of shears trims the edges and irreg ularities off, after which the sponges are ready for shipment, unless they are to be bleached for bath sponges, for which purpose only a comparatively small num ber are used, for it is to the various arts and trades that most of them go. The coarsest grade is the rough brown "grass sponge," then comes a close fibred, tough variety called a "glove sponge," but the fine soft variety that make a man in a bath tub smile is tne "lamb's wool," and it is this kind that is bleached to a snowy whiteness and sent to the drug gist trade.—Washington Star. A Trick of the Eye. By cutting three strips of white paper of the samo length exactly, with one of them half as wide as tho others, one of neatest tricks of optical illusion can be produced. If those of the samo width are laid crosswise, the narrow strip placed in the centre, it will invariably seem as if the broad strips were con siderably shorter than the narrow ono. The illusion is enhanced by laying the pieces of paper on a black surface. By placing the three strips in the form of an in vert jd "N," and using tho narrow strip for the diagonal line, the latter in turn will appear much shorter than the other two. To an unpracticed eye the illusion will seem very remarkable in deed when it Is demonstrated that all the strips are of the same length.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. American Coal la Cheap Abroad. Within the past few years American coal has almost entirely replaced the English fuel used on the Island of Mar tinique, West Indies. The average con sumption there amounts to about 5000 tons a month, nearly all of which goes from Philadelphia. The price delivered is $5.00 per ton, against $3.38 for Eng lish coal. Within the last year or two quite a large trade in soft coal for Wosc Indian points lias beea built up at this port, and it keeps on increasing at a very satisfactory rate.—Philadelphia Re cord. NO. 31. "WAITI NO. Aa those who on some lonely mountain. height,' Watching through all the weary hours of night, Await the pale rose ot the morning I await for thee. A« one who, waking on a bed ot pain, „ And helpless in his azony, is fain To wait the sweet return ot sleep agaia, I wait for thee. As he who, in some vast cathedral, dim With shadows, silent waits, on bended limbt The music of the Eucharistic hymn, I wait for thee. As deaf men crave for song, and blind for sight. As weary sons of toil long for the night. And as the fettered spirit longs for flight; I long for thee. —Arthur T. Froggatt, in The Spectator. HUMOR OP THE DAT. Coming to time—The promissory note. An eavesdropper—The convict who escapes by way of the roof. The greatest circulating medium is the drummer. —Galveston News. A distinction without a difference—A unanimous nomination.—Puck. Dead men tell no tales, but the one* who write their obituaries often do.— Texas Sittings. The difference between tack and tact is that the tack has the big head.—West field Standard. Artistic cookery turns the plain grub into the butterfly of gastronomical beauty.—Puck. Making love is a game that two can play at. When there are three it li work.—Sittings. When a thing is whispered it travels faster than when it is shouted from the housetops.—New York Sun. The man who doesn't yell at a run away team has missed a great opportu nity.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Speaking of forcing an issue, that's just what the newsboys are trying to do when they are yelling an extra. The sore head is a fellow who gets jammed between his own ideas and pub lic sentiment.—West field Standard. "I wonder why he always has lady stenographers?" "lie probably believes in woman's writes."—Detroit Tribune. "Yes," said Mis. Beaconstreete, "my father made his fortune by the perspira tion of his forehead."—Harvard Lam poon. "What made Carter try dialect writ* ingf" "Because he has never been able to spell anything correctly."—New York Mercury. The sawmill sometimes in. 'esses the operator with the fact that\ ** an "off hand" way of doing thin\ •*»- ton Courier. \ Father (coming home) —"ls V. out?" Hopetul—"No but the That Spitkins feller's hore again."— Be, ton Transcript. Jason says, speaking of school disci pline, the hardest thing to keep in ordei at a cooking school is your stomach.— Eimira Gazette. When the crinoline comes there will still be plenty of room at the top. But men, unfortunately, can not walk on the ceiling.—Puck. Chappy—"You needn't try to put me in the soup." Maud—"l shouldn't think of it; noodles go in the gravy."— Kate Field's Washington. "I haven't auy of the liquid quality that musicians talk about," said the bass drum, "but I can drown out the rest of the band, just the same." "If a person is talented I can always tell it from his face." "So can I; one glauce at Miss Soluso's face would prove to tne that she paints."—Truth. A number of students at Yale have been found guilty of cribbing at exami nations. The faculty should have put a Yale lock on the cribs.—Philadelphia Record. He—"Remember that you have prom ised solemnly to be a sister to mo." She —"Yes; but you mustn't act as if you thought you were the ouly relative of that kind I have in the world."—Boston Beacon. "It is conducive to health to kee# the mouth closed, is it not, doctor?" "Gen erally speaking, yes. In fact, when one gets out in Arizona, it is the only sure way to avoid sudden death. I'——lndian apolis Journal. Jaspar—"Bighead is a strange man for a philosopher." Jumpuppe—"ln deed!"' Jaspar—"Ves. He said that all men are merely animals, and yet got angry when I called him an ass. " Buffalo Express. •'What is the difference between hu mor and nonsense?" said the inquisitive man. "Humor," replied the candid man, "is represented by the joke you make yourself; nonsense is represented by the joke some other fellow makes." —Washington Star. tireen (lOgjjles for Cows. Tho practical value of green goggles for cows to prevent snow blindness is well understood on tho American and Russian plains. Tho work of opticians for other animals is a moro recent de velopment. We now have short sighted horses and dogs which wear spectacles and appreciate highly the advantage of thus being onabled to rccognizo friends and surroundings which were formerly indistinct. Tho owner of a near signted horse which has spectacles fastened on the headstail says the aniuial objects even to going out to pasture without his glasses. The horse was a little startled when they were first put on, but clearly manifested his delight whon he fully re alised their benefit. If turned out to grace without them he will stay near the barn and whinny plaintively till the stable man brings his spectaoles.—Chi cago Herald.
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