SULLIVAN JSIFE REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XI.
So many people starve to death in Lon
don that few coses attract much atten
tion.
Seventy per ceut. of the people of
Ceylon live by agriculture. The per
centage iu Britain is 15.44.
According to the Iron Age, steel
beams for building purposes are at pres
ent cheaper than heavy pine beams.
Tho annexation movement seems to
be making progress in Canada, and it
hic's fair to become a very live issue in a
short time.
"Fertilized farming" is very much the
fashion just now among progressive
farmers in the Eastern States who are
working worn soils.
New Zealanders are protesting against
the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
by the United States, because that would
give this country complete control of the
proposed Pacific cable front America to
Australia.
Tho people cf the Samoan Islands havo
not only supported the churches aud
ministers iu their own islands, states the
New York Observer, but last year they
sent S9OOO to London to help send tho
Gospel to other lauds.
A Wisconsiu paper, after describing a
farm which the advertiser wants to sell,
adds: "The surrounding country is the
most beautiful the God of Nature ever
made. The scenery is celestial—divine;
also two wagons to sell, and a yoke ol
steers,"
The Chicago Herald thinks it will in
terest those who buy Indiau and Mexi
can silver filigree work ou the trains in
New Mexico and Arizona to know that
many of these fragile curios are manu
factured bv a firm of people in the street
called Maiden Lane, iu the City of New
York.
In Germany 200,000 families are sup
ported from the cire of tho forests, upon
which about £40,000,00J is expended
anuually, 3,000,000 people more finding
employment in the various wood indus
tries of tho Empire. The forest account
shows un annual profit of between $5,-
000,000 aud iji6,OOO,OOTT.
Tho London News says; "There was
a time when all foreign eggs in this
country were known as 'French eggs.'
Now, thauks to improved methods of
transport they cotnc to us from a variety
of countries. The annual import, ac
cording to the latest official returns,
reaches the enormous number of nearly
1,300,000,000, valued at $1,250,000.
France ant! Germany still furnish more
than one-half of tho whole."
The San Francisco Chrcnicle thinks
that "very few of the schemes haviug
for their object tlie defrauding cf life
insuraucc compauies succeed, because the
wouldbe swindlers play for too high
stakes. When a corporation is called
upon to turu over fifty or sixty thousand
in cold cash it usually studies the situa
tion carefully with a view to finding a
hole to crawl out of, and if there is one
in sight it is tolerably sure to Jiscover
it." ______________
The Legislature of Illinois considered
a bill whose object is to prevent people
from losiug their lives by the guu which
he did not know was loaded. The biil
makes it unlawful and punishab'c by a
heavy fine for any person over the age of
ten years, "with or without malice, pur
posely to aim any firearm, loaded or emp
ty, at or towards any person or persons."
It is a good law, comments the New Or
leans Picayune, aud if all thu States iu
the country should pass a similar one it
might save a good many lives, for scarce
a day passes but souic fool with a guu
that be did not know was louded blows
off somebody's head. Such people are
seldom punished, ignorance und luck of
intentiou being accepted as a sufficient
excuse for their most criminal careless
ness.
Of tho nine aud u quarter inillious of
our foreign-born citizeus, 1,571,000 am
to bo found iu the State of New York.
In no other State does the number ap
proach this. In I'enusylvania there are
846,000, iu Illinois 842,000, and in
Massachusetts (157,000. The smallest
proportion of foreign-born citizens is
found iu thi South and bordei States,
the South Atlautic divisiou having only
about 208,000, aud the South Central
division 322,000. Thu North Atlautic
division, includiuif the six New England
States, with New Vork, Now Jersey aud
Pennsylvania, has 3,838,000, tho North
Central division 4,000,000, and the
Wosteru division, including States nnd
Territories west of tho Rocky Mountains,
771,000. This shows that, notwith
standing the large number of foreign
boru citizeus in New York aud Massa
chusetts, the North Central division, In
cluding Ohio and tho States of the
northern border, wi»h Missouri, Kansas
and the two Dakotas, is in the lead.
A -ONO OF FAREWELL,
Ye happy birds, ob, whither flying?
So swift ye wing away
1 scarce can mark your trailing pinions.
Does there a warmer day
Await on other shores.
To your glad summons quick replying?
Oh, linger yet awbile! Ye carry
The summer on your wing:
Too long will winter seem without you,
Too tardy coming, spring.
But melody of song
In warmer climee delights to tarry.
Alasl we may not more entreat you,
Wnen bluer skies await;
When other birds wilf carol welcomes,
And tales of joy relate.
We can but pray, sweet friends.
That no harsh storniß will ever meet you.
And so—away I—far out of seeing
Into the heaven high;
Leaving no mark save that of music
Ou earth and sea and sky;
No sweeter song than made
By your light pinions southward fleeing.
—-Edith Vernon Minn, in the Century.
ALL A MISTAKE.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
1 BETTY Miss
Frank Middle
-fl S- worth was all
nloue in her little
district school
-1 I rootn w ben the
I eventful letter
',Y'yj arrived, to notify
\ her t ' iat £ he was
yA F7]vappointed to a
yM ( « clerkship in the
Jißr "Canceling Depart
• mcut of the Patent
Q Office, at Washington—all alone,
eating her modest little lunch of bread
and butter and baked pears, while,
through the opeu wiudow, she could sec
the children disporting themselves in the
March winds, and hear the music o<
their merry shouts. If school had been
in session, she would decorously have
read the letter and replaced it in its
envelope. As it was, she flung it
rapturous to the ceiling with a cry of
joy, caught it again and, springing to
her feet, clapped her hands like a
child.
"Oh, thank goodness—thank good
ness!" she exclaimed ecstatically. "It
will all be right now! Papa can goto
the South right away. Will can have
his school outfit, and we can pay Squire
Augur all the back rent that has been
owing for a yearl Ob, it was so good
of Judge Mellen to interest himself iu
my poor little atlairsl lam so glad that
I thought of writing to him!"
Miss Middleworth Could hardly con
duct the district school to the end of its
afternoon session, so joyfully disquieted
was her mind.
"Teacher's ih love," said the biggest
girl in a whisper to the next biggest
girl.
"Guess teacher's got au invite to
singing school," muttered the next big
gest girl, who was in hopeless despair
over an interest sum on her slate.
How gladly Miss FranK Middleworth
locked the battered scboolhousc door at
last 1 How rapidly she walked home
ward! She was almost vexed at meet
ing Reginald Augur at the cross-road,
by the old stone mill.
Ilis face brightened up at sight of
her.
"Oh, Frank!" said ho. "I was just
wishing to see you!"
The "govcrnment clerk-elect," drew
herself up. Mr. Augur need not have
been so familiar with her, sho thought!
"Indeed?" she uttered somewhat frig
idly.
Honest Reginald looked rather puz
zled.
"My cousin, Mrs. Evolyn, wauts a gov
erness," said she. "The family is small,
and she's willing to pay tive hundred
dollars a year. And you know you have
always wunted togo tho city."
"Yes, I know," said Miss Middle
worth, with chilling iudi(Terence. "But
I have changed my mind."
Reginald Augur looked at her in amaze
ment.
"Frank," he said, "have I offended
you?"
"Oh, no," said sho. "How should
you ofTend me! But—l am appointed
to au oflice in Washington. I am to have
eleven hundred dollars a year."
"And leave us, Frank?" he exclaimed.
She bit her lip.
"One cannot always stay in the same
place like a crooked apple-tree or a lim
pet growing to the rock,"said she.
"But, Frank, listen to me!" pleaded
Mr. Augur. "I am to commence the
practice of law ou my own account next
mouth. My father will receive me into
equal partnership, and then—"
"1 am very happy to hear it," said
Mis.i Middleworth, absently.
"And then," persisted Reginald, "1
•hall be able to marry. And if—"
"Yes?" Frauk lifteJ her eyebrows,
provokingly cuough. "I hope you will
get a very nood wife. I am sure you
will both have my best wishes."
Young Augur's frank, boyish fr.ca fell.
"I had hopod—" ho began, a little
awkwardly.
"Suioly, 1 caunot bo at ail interested
in your hopes," interrupted Miss Middle
worth. "Let me puss, please. I'm in a
great hurry today."
Reginald Augur stood aside, with a
sharp paug at his huart. He had loved
Frauk Middleworth ever since he could
remember. He had always installed
her, as queeu, ill nil the visionary caitles
iu the uir which he had built within his
own brain. And here she had abdicat
ed of her own free wilt aud flung his
offering away.
Frauk, bor<elf, felt a little conscious
Stricken as she walked hurriedly on.
Kegiuald Augur had all th'i winning
manner and sterling goooness of ualuro
which would naturally comr.end them
selves to any feminine heart. She had
always likod him—nay, she had once
almost believed that she loved him
but this new development had
ih« whole aspect jf her world.
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 19. 1893.
"I am to be a Government offi
cial, now," she said to her-'
self. "I am to have eleven hun
dred dollars a year. I can send papa to
Floridu. Mamma shall have a girl to
help her with the housework. Will can
goto school, and I shall have a career
open to me 1"
Bo Frank went home, ordered a new
bonnet from the village milliner; hereto
fore she had always trimmed her own
hats—and purchased, on credit, a fur
trimmed cloak which had long been the
object of her secret yearnings in the
show-windows .of Tape & Buckram.
And after sending in her resignation to
the school trustees, she went to Wash
ington to enter upon her new duties.
"It's a long way for you togo, unes
corted, daughter," said the mild old
clergyman.
''Oh, papa, things arc quite changed
since you were young," said Frank,with
a kiss. "A woman can go anywhere,
now, by herself. And only think: lam
a Government official now!"
Miss Middle worth arrived safely in
Washington, registered her name in a
quiet family hotel and, dressed in her
one black-silk gown, with the new hat
and the fur-trimmed cloak, went to tho
Patent Office and sent in her card to Mr.
Whitehaven, the chief clerk of the
Canceling Department, in whose name
her appointment had been made out.
"Frank Middleworth" was written on
the card in her bold, round handwrit
ing. Mr. Whitehaven looked critically
at its lines.
"It's an awfully busy time just now,"
said he, contracting his frost white eye
brows. "But I suppose we'll havo to
attend to this protege of Mellen's. Ask
him to step in."
The colored porter stared.
"There ain't no 'liim' there, sir," said
he. "It's a her!"
"Don't bo a fooll" said Mr. White
liaveu. "Do you see this caid? Very
well, admit him at once I"
And Mr. Whitehaven turned to a stout
baldheaded office seeker who was in the
last agonies of impatience to secure an
audience.
The porter shrugged his shoulders.
"Orders is always to be obeyed," said
he to himself.
And so Miss Middleworth was ushered
in without further delay.
Mr. Whitehaven lookediblankly at her
for a moment, and then his expression
chauged to one of active annoyance.
"Madam," he said, "I am sorry to
appear discourteous, but our time, dur
ing office hours, is not our own. If you
are a book agent—"
Frauk crimsoned all over.
"Ob," she said, hurriedly, "I am not
a book agent. I am the -new clerk—
Miss Middleworth."
" 'Miss Middleworth ?' " repeated the
chief clerk.
"Yes," said Frank, a little impatient
ly. "I sent in my card a few minutes
ago." Aud she pointed to tho pieco of
pasteboard lying ou the table.
"Ahl" said Mr. Whitehaven. "But
this appointment was madoiout to a gen
tleman."
"It was made out to 'Frank Middle
worth,'" said the young lady with
spirit; "and I am Frank Middleworth."
"Humph 1" said the chief'derkof the
Canceling Department. "Some mis
take. There are no young women em
ployed in this department—no one but
men."
"But," faltered Miss Middleworth, "I
wrote to Judge Mellen. lie has pro
cured this appointment for me. Ho—
"I beg your pardon," said Mr. White
haven. "What dul you sign yourscl£>in
your application to liim!"
"Why, 'Fnnk Middleworth,' of
course," answered the girl. "What
else should I sign myself?"
The chief clerk shrugged his'shoul
ders.
"Just look at that handwriting," said
he, nodding toward the card. "llow
on earth is one to suppose that a woman
wrote that) It's the moct natural mis
take in tho world. Has the judge ever
seen you?"
"No," admitted Frank; "but ho was
an old college friend of my father,
and—"
"Plain as daylight," said the chief
clerk—"plain as daylight. lie, also,
took it for granted that you weroa!
man."
"And am I to lose this opportunity in .
life because I happen to bo a woman!"
cried Frank. "Is this rightf li it t
just?"
"Very sorry, indeed," said the chief
clerk. "But we can't do anything for 1
you just at present. We employ so few
wo.neu in the Patent Office; and none at 1
all in this department. It's au unalter
able rule."
"Is there no chanso (or met" pleaded
Frank.
"None at all," said the chief clerk.
And withiu five minutes the office in
question was bestowed upon the uephew
of the bald-headed man, who chanced to
bo a famous ward politicion.
Miss Middleworth betook hcrsel.' sor
rowfully to thu little New Hampshire
village.
"I suppose they havo found another
teacher tor the district school by this
time," she thought. "What can Ido to
support myself and— and to pay for this
clonk and hat? Oh, I wish I had uoi
been so foolishly extravagant? And I
suppose Reginald will uever speak
to ine again. I'm sure I dou't deserve
tiiat he should."
"Never mino, dear," said tue good old
su|>eratinuaiod clergyman. "My cough
is a deal better since you went away.
And 1 believe I aiu as well off hern as in
Florida. And Will cau wait another
year for his schooling, and mother can
get along quite well with the housework
as lonif as she has you to help her."
So Frank was, in some degree at least,
coinforteu.
Hut tli-) flush of acute mortification
mounted into her cheek the next day, as
she met Mr. Itegiuald Augur iu the
street.
"Mr. Augur?" she murmured softly.
"I would prefer being called, Heg
innld," he smiled.
• • Vuur father is one of the school true-
tees," she began. "Do you suppose he
could get me a place to teach again!"
"But I thought you were going to
Washington!" ho cried.
"I have been to Washington," said
Frank.
And she told the whole story, thereby
drinking the bitter cup of discomfiture
to the very dregs.
"And now," she concluded, with eyes
brimming over with tears, "I don't
know what to do. Only—only I must
entreat your pardon for my silly and
and foolish conduct the last time we
met."
"Oh, I have nover given that a second
thought," said Augur. "But, Frank
will you let me goon now with what I
had then begun to say?"
"Yes," said Miss Middleworth, hang
ing down her head.
"Dear Frank," he said, taking bet
hand, "will you be my wife? I can give
vou a comfortable borne now. Perhaps,
by and by, it will be a luxurious one.
And all your dear ones are fully welcome
to its shelter if only you will accept it."
Frank began to cry heartily now.
"Not because I am sorry," said she.
"Oh, no, no I Only because lam so
happy. And indeed, Reginald, Ido not
deserve to be your wife."
But she married him, for all that. And
she was very happy. But if there is any
topic in particular that she especially
avoids it is that of public office in Wash
in gton City.
"Such a stupid series oi mistakes as
there was all around!" she says.—New
York Ledger.
A Queer Quaker -Trareler.
A curious looking, white haired old
man, arrayed in a peculiar garb, with a
black choker and broad brimmed hat, is
at the Occidental Hotel. The old gen
tleman is Isaac Sharp of Warwickshire,
England, a Quaker and a religious en
thusiast. He is now eighty-four years
old and for fifty years he has been travel
ing in various parts of the world, aud
this in the interest of the Quakers.
He has just now returned from 1500
miles up the great Yang-tse-kiang River
in the interior of China. Hitherto he
has been in Iceland, Greenland, Labra
dor, Norway, and in various other places
in Europe, Asia and Africa. In the
Dark Continent he visited the Congo
Free State, the Orange Free State, Basu
toland and Madagascar.
"I spent a year and a half in Africa,"
said he, "a year of which was in Mada
gascar; two years in Australia and New
Zealand, and the remainder of six and a
quarter years in Canada, the United
States and Mexico. That was the extent
of my last trip before this. This time I
have been out a long time also, my great
object being to visit the interior of China
and do what I could t'.iere.
"It's only a very little that I could do,
there are so many millions of people
there, but I have trie! at least, and that
is something. The people are very poor
up the Yany-tse kiang River. That
stream, which is much larger than the
Mississippi, is a mile and a half wide
1000 miles up. It is rough from there
on, and I think in the additional 500
miles I saw the wrecks of 500 Chinose
junks.
"The Quakers have one mission in
China, one in Japau, four in India, one
in Syria and one in Madagascar. There
may be 15,000 Quakers now in Great
Britain and Ireland, which is somewhere
about one-fourth of what there are in tho
United States and Canada. Elsewhere
we have a few members who ure doing
all they can for Christianity.
"I have been traveling and trying to
find out what was the best thing to do
and how to do it. I have seen n-.auy
curious things in my loug years of travel,
but the thing which has impressed me
more than anything else is this: That
the hearts of the people are everywhere
the same. I go now to the east, to the
strongholds of the Quaker* in Pennsyl
vania, where I will talk to the people of
what I have seen and confer with them
as to tho bestmeaus of reaching the peo
plo in China and elsewhere in the
Orient."—San Francisco Examiner.
Making Diamonds.
The microscopic diamonds recently
uindo by M. Henri Moissan are not the
first real diamonds made by the chemist.
Some years ago, Mr. Hannay, of Glas
gow, succeeded in making a few small
gems, and another Glasgow chemist not
loug ago announced in au American
scientific journal that he wo* making ex
periment* in thi* direction, and had ob
tained promising results. Moissan, how
ever, was the first to form a gem by
means of the high temperature of the
electric furnace, though the idea of doing
so is uot exactly novel. Moissan obtain*
a temperature of from 3000 to 4000 de
grees Ceutigrade is his electric cruc
ible, and fuses Iron or silver, which ab
sorbs the carbon of sugar. When the
fused metal cools, part of the carbon
separates from it again in the form of
crystals, black or white—that is to say,
black diamond, or carbouado, aud ordi
nary clear diamond. The crystallization
seeius to be facilitated by pressure, which
is produced by the expansion of the sugar
carbon as it cool*. The diamond crys
tal* were exceedingly minute, aud quite
unfit for jewelry. Moreover, the process
is very ex|>ensive. —Manchester Times.
A Bedspread lor the World's Pair.
The famous cotton apiuuer* of Man
chester, England, Mesar*. Barlow Jt
Jones, have prepared a Leautiful exhibit
of towels, spread* and other products of
the loom for allowing at Chicago. In
cluded i* a spread, or quilt as it is called
over there, which is the Columbian cel
ebration quilt. In the centre are the
*tri|>es and the thirteen star*, represent
ing the several State* of America, inter
mixed with palm leave*. In the border
aie the eagle, the arm* of Itabella and
Ferdinand, and in oue corner those of
the State of lllinoia, the cotton plant
flouring conspicuously In the dMign,
which i* of a fawn tint on white.
The "Windsor Castle" and the "Km
pire" quilts also figure in the eahibiUou.
—New York Times.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Rome, Italy, is to be illuminated by
electricity generated twenty miles away
by a cascade at Tiber.
Professor Simmands ot Hamburg has
shown by experiments that flies can in
fect eatables, and especially sauces, with
cholera germs.
A man at Riverside, Fla., recently
succeeded in extracting from eighteen
pounds of orange peel oil in proportion
of fifty pounds to one ton of peel.
Considered as a luminary, the sun has
an intrinsic lustre between three and four
times greater than that of the electric
light, when the latter is at its brightest.
Musical and dramatic entertainments
are given each week at the Blooming
dale Insane Asylum, New York City,
and the physicians consider them very
beneficial to the patients.
Several French railway lines are going
to light their carriages with the electric
light, "as it has been found perfectly
practical to make and store electricity by
means of a mechanical attachment to the
engine."
The order has been given that all the
portraits taken in British prisons, as
records of crimes aud criminals, shall for
the future be printed only on platinum
paper, the object being to secure their
permanency.
A method of signalling from balloons
has been devised by an Englishman,
which consists in connecting a number
of electric lamps in a balloon to the
earth by means of a special form of flexi
ble cable. Current can then be supplied
the lamps from the ground through the
cable and they can be lighted or ex
tinguished by a switch located on the
ground. The advantage of this system
over the older forms of war signalling
balloons is that a small and readily por
table balloon can be used, as it carries
no car and all it is called upon to raise
is simply the weight of the lamps and
the attached cab!c.
White bread and fine flour are named
by Sir James Crichton Browne as one of
the causes of the increase of dental caries.
Failing to eat as large proportions of
bran as our ancestors did, we are de
prived to a large degree of the fluorine
which they contain. The enamel of the
teeth has more fluorine, in the form of
fluoride of calcium, than any other part
ot the body. Fluorine might, indeed,
be regarded as the characteristic chem
ical constituent of this structure, tho
hardest of all animal tissue; hence a sup
ply of fluorine, while the development of
the teeth is proceeding, is essential to
the proper formation of the enamol, and
any deficiency in this respect must result
in thin and inferior enamel.
Social Life in Persia.
Social life in Persia has its unique
features and odd phrases to one accus
tomed only to the life as Europeaus and
Americans. Excepting in the family
circle and the places of worship tho pres
ence of woman is unknown as a feature
of the association. The men live a sort
of club life. They ride, walk, gossip
and gamble by themselves alone. Tho
men often spend days away from home
in feasting and sport. In like manner
the women have the company of women
only. But while the ladies are fond of
dress and free with their money wheu
they have any, they are not troubled
much with the changes of the fashions.
These are the same during centuries.
Custom prescribes for tho ladies a cos
tumo to be worn in the street ami mosque
and church; it consists of overalls
and a large wrap or mantle called a
chadtn; both are of a dark blue cotton
fabric. One object of the costume is to
obliterate all distinctions between the
rich and poor in apparel. Iu this all
women look alike excepting only the
different appearance in stature. As a
result no man can know his wife or sister
on the street or in a public place. Since
the chadm covers the head it docs away
with the hat or bonnet. luexorablo cus
tom requires this covering, aud no na
tive woman would venture to appear in
public without it. Tue gentlemen, how
ever, gratify their own personal taste in
dress to the extent of their means of do
ing so.—New York Advertiser.
Wonder* ot the Uc*i<rt.
An interesting discovery comes to 3vt
Diego, Cal., by the way of tho iniuiug
town of Julian, up in the mountains. A
correspondent of its paper, the Weekly
Sentinel, tells of a journey over th>
Colorado desert. He had camped mid
way betweeu the Seventeen Palm
Springs, which is about twenty miles
out, ami the Fish Soriu?*, some 25)
feet below the sea level. From there he
could traco for miles on the mount thi
side the line of a former sea, tho portion
that was below the water bein.» of a dull
gray-
From Fish Springs he traveled three
mile* to the base of a mountain, and
ouud that instead of corroding li ne,
the almost perpendicular rock was of
solid coral forinatiou, 200 feet high, fol
lowing ragged lines, fllliug crevices au 1
liniug a cave with a spectacle of uiag
niAceuce. The cave, fifty feet high by
twenty-six leet wide, of cor al liniug, is
hardly touched by time, In a little bay
between two jagged point* of the rocks,
the beach outline* are atill distinct
above the coral formation. Little cove*
are cut in the rocks as evidences of shel >
ter for Indians, while from them run in
distinct trails upward.—San Frauciscj
Chronicle.
The Milan Cathedral.
The cathedral of Milau, which I* re
garded by many as the tinsst rhurch
structure in Kuro|ie, and therefore in
the world, with the siugle exception ol
Si, Peter's, at Rome, has several era-lis
in the roof of its main nave, which are
slowly widening, and it is feared
threaten the collaose of the entire roof.
The work of building this c* t bed ml was
begun Iu 1386, more than 50 0 years ago,
and it is not yet entirely completed, It
is to be hoped it will not fall down from
old age befwe it is finished.w^liice^t#
Terms—sl.oo in AdYance; 51.25 after Three Months.
ETHNOLOGY AT THE FAIR:
HIGH RESULTS OF TWO YBABS*
WORK IN THE WESTERN WORLD.
One Hundred Assistants of Proteeeor
Putnam Make Collections From
Greenland to Tterra del Fuego.
PURING the past two years many
arcbceological and ethnological
researches have been carried
on all over the western world
to collect material for the Chicago
World's Fair. The work ha 9 been re
markably successful. It has been in
charge of Professor Putnsm, of the Pea
body Museum, Cambridge, and about
100 assistants have carried out tho nec
essary researches in the field. In his re
cent report on the Peabody Museum,
Professor Putnam gives a summary of
the results of the work that has covered
a more extensive field of the anthropolog
ical research than was ever covered be
fore in two years.
Professor Putoam mentions first
among the results, the collections
brought back by Lieutenant Peary from
the little tribe of Eskimos in the Whale
Sound region of Greenland. A member
ol the party is about togo to Chicago
from this city for tho purpose of arrang
ing the collections which will represent
Lieutenant Peary's work at the big Fair.
The specimens include summer houses of
skins, Eskimo boats, sledges, weapons,
implements, utensils, ornaments, full
sets of their garments, carvings in ivory,
and also several hundred photographs
of individuals of the tribe and scenes il
lustrating their daily life. There will
also be a complete census of tho tribe,
several crania, and a full set of anthropo
logical measurements and observations.
The World's Fair is also to have tho
benefit of an Eskimo settlement. The
Skiles expedition to Labrador brought
back fifty-seven natives of that country,
who will occupy au Eskimo village on
the Fair grounds with all their belong
ings until the Fair is over.
Doctor Sheldon Jackson has been
making large ethnological collections in
Alaska, and among the coast tribes of
Siberia, and Mr. Cherry has made a long
journey up the Yukon Valley to collect
specimens illustrating tho life and handi
work of the Yukon tribes. Seven other
assutants have been forming collections
umong the coast tribes between the
Columbia River and Alaska, and par
ticularly in northeru Vancouver and tho
Queen Charlotte Islands.
The interior tribes of Canada will all
have living representatives on tho Fair
grounds by permission of the Canadian
Commissioner of Canadian Affairs. T.io
Canadian Pair Commission has exerted
itself to secure au excellent representa
tion of the arcboi tlogy of Canada.
Nearly all the Indian'tribes of the United
States have beeu visited by students
from Harvard anil other universities for
the purpose of collecting ethnological
material and data relating to the physical
characteristics of the tribes. The Com
missioners of this State have assisted
Professor Putnam to secure a large arch
teological collection anil a complote rep
resentation of the Iroquois tribes.
Families from these tribes will live on
the Expositson grounds in bark houses,
Buch as were in use when this powerful
Nation first came into contact with our
race.
A good many interesting things con
nected with the period of Cortcz have
beeu found in Mexico and will be seen at
the Fair. The ancient ruins of Yucatan
have been specially explored by Consul
E. 11. Thompson. He made about 10,000
square feet of moulds of portious of tho
ruined buildings, showing the facades,
parts of corners of structuree, the door
ways and other features. He slso
moulded both sides of the famous portal
at Labna. Casts have been mado from
these moulds, and there will be seeu on
the Exposition grounds fac-similes of
these elaborately carved stoie struc
tures of Yucatan, over and around which
will be the tropical plants native to thu
region of the ruins.
An expedition was sent to Honduras
to study the ancient ruins of Copan, aud
though the work has not beeu com
pleted, many interesting and important
objects, illustrating wonderful carving*
in stono, fragments of pottery, numerous
ornament* of stone, aholls and bone,
stone iuiplemeuts, and toon, havo beeu
secured. Further south G. A. Horsey
made extensive explorations iu Ecuador,
Peru and Bolivia, where he collected a
large amouut of this material. Lieuten
ants Sagord aud Welles secured mauy
series of garments, weapon* and o'.hei
object* Illustrating tho tribes of parts of
the interior of South America. Even
Patagonia aud Tierra del Fuego haw
been drawn upon for collections.
In the United State* the archie > logical
work of the past two yetrs will bo fully
repre»ente 1. Ancient village site«, burial
places, aud workshop* or quarrie* have
been brought to light In the Delaware
Valley ami csrefully ttudied. Similar
fruitful researches havo been made on
Cape Cod, iu Connecticut, along the An
droscoggin, and in many other place*.
Two singular burial place* were fouud
in the Androscoggin Valley, iu which
the grave* were so old that the skeleton*
had entirely disappeared, leaving in tho
grave* only masses of red ochre and im
plements and other object* of *tou*.
Doctor Fran* DIM and hi* assistant*
have prepared a presentation of Ibe physi
cal characteristics of tho native American
l»eopte*. Measurement* h«ve also been
taken ami observations made of more
than 50,000 children In the public school*
ol the United States and Canada, as well
a* In the Indian school* and of many
colored children. The co -operation of the
authorities in Jajmuete aud Hawaiian
schools was alto secured, and we Ihu*
have the meeaureiteuls of Japanese and
Kanaka children for c •iu,i*ri*»u.
Titer* I* no doubt that the elhnolo
gloat feature* of tbe World's Fair will be
among the most Interesting etliibit*.
No such collections illu<trail ve of the
life and custo-n* of prehistoric and un
cultured |KM>ples has ever before been
made in any international ethibtUoe.-«>
New Ye*K Hun.
NO. 32.
■YOU.
The Chinaman praiseth his T*s,
The mandarin praise th his Q.
The gardener praieeth his turnips and Va,
But I praise TJ.
The mariner loveth the (7s,
The bllllardist loveth his Q,
The husbandman loveth his cattle and
But I love 0.
The foolish have need of the 7s, y
The actor needeth his Q,
The pilot hath need of two excellent IX
But I need U.
The hunters seeketh the J*s,
The shepherd seeketh his U;
The oollege boys seek their dual "B-A's,"
But ICQ.
—St. Nicholas.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
A curious woman—One who is not.—
Life.
A hollow mockery—The woodland
echo.—Truth.
A force pump—The cross-examining
attorney.—Truth.
A limn of the law—Painting the de
fendant black.—Truth.
It is only in school that low grades
make uphill work.—Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
Nature covers herself with a plaster
of mud to cure that tired feeling in the
spring.—Puck.
Some men aie too mean to be happy
and others too happy to be mean.—
Dansvilte (N. Y.) Breeze.
"Who is to be chaperon!" "Mrs.
Talkington." "What foolishnessl Why,
she is a sufferer from insomnia."
"I wonder why she gave him the mit
ten!" "Oh, that was natural outcome
of the yarns he gavo her!"—Truth.
When a man is ''beside himself" he
generally demonstrates that he doesn't
like the company.—Boston Courier.
When a woman is trying to write a
letter on a half sheet of paper, much
may be said on both Bides.—Texas Sitt
ings.
If a woman can succeed in making
her husband proud of her she can get
almost anything she wants.—Dallas
News.
A carpet tack is about the only thing
that has the "big head" and still makes
a success ol life.—Dansville (N. Y.)
Breeze.
Where's the profit when spring makes
us happy and gay if it make all the
microbes feel just the same way!—
Washington Star.
The woman of limited means who if
always well dressed either devotes her
entire income or her tntire intellect to
her clothes.'—Life.
Mabel—"l wouldn't marry the best
man in the world." Jacques—"Alas,
you have made me the un happiest of
men."—Boston Courier.
Every mau thinks that modesty for
bids his telling you what he couslders
the cleverest thin'/ in the way of a story
ever tnld.—Washington Star.
Many a woman who resolves when
she is married to make over her husband,
ends by being content to make over her
bonnets.—Dansville (Jt. Y.) Breeze.
And now with rod ami line and book,
The fisherman go bold,
Will go and sit down by the brook
Ana catcb a fearful old.
—Kiusas City Journal.
"I haven't any 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."—Washington
Star.
Mrs. B.yer—"Thoso are nico looking
eggs." Grocer (enthusiastically)— " Yes,
indeed; they're birds!" And then he
wondered wby she didn't buy any.—
Troy Press.
"It's curious," mused Bjorkins, "how
this law of compensation runs through
everything. Fot example, wherever
there is a well ofl aunt you will always
find a sychophant."—Chicago Tribune.
"So I should make you very happy by
accepting you, count!" "Happy ? Ah,
mademoiselle, I should dio wis sie hap
piness." "Ke*lly, count? You almost
tempt me to say 'Yes' "—Brooklyn Life.
The pen is mightier thin tbe sword.
This maxim let wise people hurl.
But take them together and they are no
match
For one pretty typewriter girl.
—Chicagol n ter-Ooean.
At a Dinner Party: Mistress—"But,
Mary, how often must I tell you always
to serve on tbe leftt" Mary (from tin
country)— " Oil, madam, but isn't thai
raeiely a supentitlon."—Fligen de Blaet
ter.
"Well, Councillor, T hope you en
joyed yourself at nty house last evening."
"Indeed I did, inadamc. As a rile,
when I drink tea I can not sleep after It,
but your tea hail not tbe least effect oa
uie.Flieyeude Blaetter.
Hawker—"My wife and I had it out
again this luoruiuif as to who should start
the fire." Jepson—" Which wont"
Hawker—"Neither. Before we finished
the argument became so hot my wife got
up and cooked breakfast on it."—Troy
i'rsse.
Mrs. Greyoeck— "tilo George is #»•
Cgedl" Mr*. Tangletouaue— '• Yea;
'II be married iu June." Mr». Urey
neck— "I hope be ha* a young lady ia
every way worthy of him." MM. Tangle
tongue—"Oh, yea; I think I can safely
say thai I am satisried in every way with
tiki tU»co. M —Button I'ourior.
A I'l qa« Ke.iJia* Clafc.
A new rlwli for reading and the en
couragement •>! good literature la the
Half Hour Club. Its uieiulters Pledge
thettuelvea to read half an hour eaeh lay,
with the eicMptiou of a two week*' holi
day in the year. A "lae of one real
mark* eaeh day'* loaa In reading. The
proceeds of the flue* are de»ot»l to tbe
purchase of puses for the a»«*t Industri
ous and nosi capable readers. ~ Boston
Journal.
Klee was introduced fresu the M
ladies la KM.