SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. A Boston paper savs: "llie rattan has no place in the equipment of a competent teacher." One of the rules in force at the new University of Chicago is that every student must take at least one hour's physical exercise every day. Two-thirds of the total number of children under ten years of age in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland are insured in one form or an other. A new diplomatic departure has been initiated by France in the sending of M. Pierre de Maillard, an agricultural engineer, to Berlin as ft technical agricultural attache to the French Em bassy. The stationing of similar at taches in all countries is under con sideration. A distinguished French scientist hns declared that the electric shock as ad ministered to criminals by the New York law does not kill, but only in duces unconsciousness, aud that the victim is afterward finished off by the dissecting knife. The statement, if true, is chiefly of interest for scientific purposes, thinks the Chicago Herald, as it has no particular bearing on the murderer's ultimate fate. Perhaps we have in electricity the coming anaes thetic. Certainly the unconsciousness which it induces as applied in New York is very profound and permanent. Old United States army regulations say that the soldier's cap should be worn jauntily, with a little slant over the right eye. The origin of that cus tom may have been in the attempt to shade the eye while aiming, but it is no longer observed, and, indeed, most officers would reprove a soldier who tipped his cap or helmet conspicuously on one side. The American soldier offers a marked contrast in that respect to the English soldier or the Canadian militiamen, for they wear little "pork pie" hats that are tipped so far on one side that they would fall off at the slightest motion were it not for a strap beneath the chin. Bible scholars the world over are very much interested in _the reported discovery by Professor Harris, of a complete Syrian text of the four Gos pels in the Convent of Mount Sinai. It was from the ignorant and secretive monks of this convent, recalls the New Orleans Picayune, that Tischendorff with great difficulty obtained his famous "Codex Sinaiticus" some forty years ago, and Professor Harris's find is even more valuable, if all reports be true, as the Syrian version undoubt edly antedates any extant text of the Greek. It promises to be of the great est importance to Biblical scholars by the light that it will throw on the crit ical questions that are now in dispute. The Atlanta Constitution believes that every man who respects his stomach will applaud the words of Doctor J. H. Salisbury 011 the subject of vegetorianisni. "People who eat no meat," he says,"have, as a rule, less nervous and muscular endurance than meat-eaters. Officers of the English army in India, for example, assure me that it is always necessary to start the native troops off on a march one day in advance of the British soldiers, that all may arrive at a given point at the same time. It is useless to deny that the ruling peoples are meat-eating." The rotund and well fed gentlemen who pose at Delmonico's or the Cafe Savarin as male caryatids, as it were, to uphold the excellence of the chef's art, are each and all of them animate testimonials to the ad vantages of beef eating. Mountains and mountain ranges in tho United States, and, indeed, the world over, have usually been named not by the mountaineers themselves, but by the dwellers in the plains, who saw the mountains as a more or less distant prospect. It sometimes hap pens that a mountain or a mountain range bears two names because of dif ferent aspects present to dwellers upno each side. The several Blue and Blue Ridge Mountains were named mani festly by those to whom the ranges presented themselves against a more or less distant horizon. One of the Green Mountains in Vermont is called Bald Face by dwellers in the Adiron dack region about Paul Smith's, a name justified by the aspect of the mountain from that part of the wilderness. The Adirondack Sugar Loaf could never have been named by a dweller upon its own top. The Orange Mountains took their name, however, not frora thair junsect aspect as seen from the low lands, but are only another evdenco o» che affection with which Dutchmen (ling to tho name orange, au affection that has led them to fix that name mi he map in whatever pait cf the world ,hey may have tarried. SHE AND 1. Why do I love my love so well? Why Is she all tn all to me? I try to toll, I cannot tell, It still remains a mystery ; And why to her I am so dear I cannot tell, although I try. Unless I find both answers here ; She is horself, and I am I. Her face is very dear to me, ller eyes beam tenderly on mine, But can I say I never see Face fairer, eyes that brighter shine? This thing I cannot surely say, If I speak truth and do not lie; Yet here I am in love to-day, For she's herself, and I am I. It cannot be that I fulfil! Completely all her girlish dreams, For far beyond me still Her old idoal surely gleams ! Anil yet I know her love is mine, A flowing spring that cannot dry. What explanation? This, " "I think I have heard you say she is a good shot with the rifle." "Yes; all habit. Her father wasp, great sportsman, and he taught her not to be afraid of a gun. But she would tremble at the thought of shooting P. bird—that, I know, She could never be persuaded to fire at anything but a wooden target." ' 'ln case of an emergency, however— " "Nonsense, man!" laughed the cap tain. "She would be as women always are in time of peril—too flurried—too excited to do anything, how much so ever she might have the wish to be otherwise. But I like her none the less for this feminine failing," added Bertram, who, being a strong, power ful, decided man, seemed an excellent match for his frail looking, gentle part ner. "But persons like her sometimes show more real courage than larger and more masculine women." "All bosh ! People say that, but they seldom really think so." On the day after this conversation, a gale from the west drove the ship to- | ward the coast, compelling the captain 1 to anchor within a hundred yards of the land, in a small sheltered bay, to save his craft from going ashore. By the next morning the gale had subbided, but the breeze soon fell away to a dead calm, preventing the skipper ' from sailiug. He had lowered his gig to enable some of his men to repair certain dam age which the cabin window had sus tained during tho tempest. At night, the men not having yet finished their work, the boat, was left astern, with the warp attached to a pin aboard. Little Thomas, tho captain's six-year-old son, was in the (cabin just after the men left the boat. The night was very dark, and none of the occupants of the craft observed the movements of the youngrtter, who, when the cabin was deserted, opened the window, seized the warp of the boat, and, drawing the latter close to the vessel, got into it Au hour later, Mrs. Bertram, massing her little boy, went on deck to look for him. But she could not find him. The captain aud his men joined in the search, but it was soon evident that he was not aboard. At length it was discovered that the boat which ha.l been left astern was gone. The pin to which the warp had been fastened was found broken, show ing that the boat hod got adrift. "I see," said the oaptaiu. "Thomas must have got into the l>oat, ftnd be gan pulliug on the rope, in this way parting the pin." "My boy! My boy I" cried Mrs Bertram, in anguish. "Where is he? Where can he be?" Tho captain tried to laugh awav her fears. "The boat has drifted ashore," said he."The current sots that way. Dont worry, Lily; we will soon have him back." He lowered a boat, Hnd was soon LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1893. making for ihe shore, wii i r good • crew, one of tho men standing in the bow, holding up a large lantern, which threw a broad gleam acroea the water. The sail on were soon ashore, but saw nothing of the boat. They shouted the little boy's name again and again, but there came no re sponse. Far along the. shore they pulled, but they discovered no sign wither of the boy or the gig. For hours they vainly continued the search. "What surprises me," said an old sailor, "is that we did not hear the lit tle fellow sing out when he found him self going adrift. Can it be, sir, he fell over and wan drowned right under the ship's stern?" Bertram bowed his head on his hands and groaned. "I have had that same thought," he said. It was past midnight when the searchers retnrned aboard. The poor mother, as pale as death, seemed al most ready to swoon, when she learned that no trace of the little one had been found. "We will look again in the morn ing," said the captain. "Don't despond, Lily." All that night he endeavored to soothe his wife; but her anguish was almost beyond endurance, such as no pen could describe. At daybreak the captain had his boat down again. Besides the crew, it now contained Mrs. Bertram, who had insisted in ac companying the party. After a long search, the boat was discovered among some rocks, where the breakers had almost dashed it to pieces. Hod little Tliomaa been drowned, or had he contrived to get out of the boat and reach the sandy beach a few feet distant ? A cry of joy escaped the vigilant mother. She pointed to the sand, where the impressions of little shoes, not yet I washed away, were visible. Leaving two men in charge of the boat, the captain, followed by his wife and the rest of the crew, and armed with a loaded rifle which he had brought with him from the ship, made his way inland. There was a thicket a short distance beyond the beach, and this the party entered. The ground was marshy in some places, and the tracks of the lost boy were occasionally seen. Following these traces carefully, the party at length beheld, ahead of them, a small opening, and there, not a hun dred yards off, apparently asleep, on the bank of a shallow stream, they be held littlo Thomas! He lay upon his side, his cheek rest ing upon one arm, his long curls streaming on the ground. The rosy, healthy color upon his face at once convinced his mother that he was unharmed as well. At flrst the happy woman could not utter a word for joy. Then, with a cry of gladness, with outstretched arms, she ran toward the siumberer. But she had not taken ten steps when her cheeks blanched, and an exclama tion of dismay escaped the whole party. An enormous crocodile had slowly lifted its hideous proportion from amongst the long reeds fringing the lower part of the bank, and was now crawling toward the sleeper. The animal, half covered with mud and green slime, presented an appear ance at once uncouth and horrible. Tt was full twenty feet in length, its : bodv covered with rough, irregular scales, its legs spotted,'its claws sharp .and crooked. The jaw wide open, revealed rows of 'sharp teeth which were not close •together, but a little apart. Each of (its eyes, of an oval shape, and of a fiery, blood red hue, lookod as if separated joy a dark line, which gave to it an of indescrible ferocity and vora ciousness. The terrible jaw was already within |a few feet of the child's head. Before the active of the sailors Icould reach it, the teeth would close /over that bright face; those golden Icnrls would disappear in that ugly I mouth forever. The captain stopped and quickly I raised his rifle. "Fire, fire, forGod'ssake !" screamed I his wife. But Bertram's hand shook. Even I had it been steady, he would not have idared to fire, lest his bullet should istrike his boy instead of tho croco (dile. He was a good shot, but so near was (the fierce animal to the sleeper that 'the chances were ten to one that he I would hit the child. Lily understood the cause of lior [husband's hesitation. Meanwhile the frightful teeth of the (crocodile were now within a few feet jof the boy ; the bloodshot eyes snapped j with greed and ferocity. In a few seconds more the little one .mustbecome the monster's victim. And now over the mother's face t here came an expression of iron firm * ness. From the quaking hands of her ex ■citod husband, who. still fearful of hitting the child, could not bring him self to fire, she snatched the rifle, raised it and took aim at the crocodile's eye. j Like a statue she .stood for an in | stint; then the sharp report of the rifle j smote upon tho air, the teeth of the | crocodile cloned with a click, its head j dropped to the earth, it imote the | banl: a few moments with its hard tail j Hnd then fell on its side—dead! i The mother's aim had been true ; the : bullet had struck the target, had pene i trated the monster's eye and lodged in ! >ts brain. ' Such a cheer os then went up to the ! sky was never heard before. | But Mrs. Bertram thought. i- nounce a ealogy upon o deceased fel low member from a neighboring State. A few (iayu After a brother of the de ceased member met the eulogist on a street of the capital, aud taking him by the naud thanked liim very earnestly for the kind words he had spoken. "I beg vou not to mention it," re plied the Congressman. "I was only too glad of the opportunity to say what I did."—Sioux t ity (Iowa) Journal. HOtV SOVEREIGNS TRAVEL | GREAT PREPARATIONS FOR THBER SAFETY AND COMFORT. | Victoria's Beautiful Railway Car riage" Precaution* by the Czar- How Other Rulers Go Visiting. WITH much greater freedom of locomotion sovereigns are yet bound to observe certain formalities in their . journeys. In principle, they travel only by special trains, and have their own imperial or royal carriages bnilt and kept up with exceeding care and always ready for use at the shortest notice. The railway carriages used by the Queen of Great Britain in England and Scotland, are marvels of perfect construction and arrangement. They are fitted with electric light, uphol stered, furnished and decorated in per fect harmony and taste. She can write, read, work, converse, take her meals, and sleep almost as easily and comfor tably as in any of her royal residences; even her favorite flowers and the many family photographs she loves to have about her are disposed in the different compartments of her carriages, in the exact, places she is accustomed to see them at home. The train always slacks speed as soon as she retires to rest, and it is well known that she never seems to feel fatigue or discomfort from a long night journey. All her heavy luggage, the horses, the appur tenances of her bedroom are sent on several days ahead, so that her apart ments are quite retuly to receive her on her arrival. She owns private carriages in France, left in charge of the Couipag nie do l'Ouest and despatched to Cherbourg to meet her when she leaves the royal yacht; these convey her to Binrritz, Grasse, Hyeres, or Italy, as the case may l»e, without, change. The royal trains arc built so as to travel on every European line of rail, with the exception of the Russian and Spanish ones, where for militarv reasons the gauge is a trifle broader than else where. Each portiou of the line assumes the responsibility of the royal train as long as it travels on its radius. The Government, officially informed of the intended journey of the sovereign, even if he travels incognito, notifies the respective companies of the line of route. The companies in their turn give instructions to their staffs of the hours of arrival-and departure of the -train, and they agree with each other as to the best manner of concordance. When this is satisfactorily settled a plan is drawn up with the minutest particulars of time and sent to the Government, which forwards a eopy to the Minister or Ambassador whose sovereign is about to pass over the ter ritory. When the moment arrives the ! chief engineer of the company, and frequently the director, is at the station 1 to receive it; the engineer of the line j enters a carriage, and the first I mechanician of the road boards the | engine. The whole extent of the line has been previously carefully examined I so as to guard against delays and , accidents. Queen Victoria travels with less ■ state than any other crowned head, except the Emperor of Austria, who in this, oh in all else, lins a deep-rooted dislike to pomp and representation. Franz Joseph is only accompanied by his military suite; if he retires to rest at all, it is on a narrow cam]) bed, but as often as not he spends the night sitting up dressed in a corner of the carriatro. William 11., of Germany, has had a train recently constructed on the most luxurious scale, and really seems to be the apogee of railway-coach building. The Czar, however, is the ruler whose journeys necessitate the most stringent measures of prudence. Un der Alexander 11. troops used to be posted at short distances along the line from St. Petersburg to Moscow and from Moscow to the Crimea. The im perial train was divided into two sections, following each other at a few minutes' interval, and it was never known with any certainty into which portion the imperial family hid taken their seats. It was to this precaution that the Czar owed his escape in the cruel catastrophe which blew up the first started train near Moscow when h« was in the second. Since the outrage of Borki fresh orders of precaution havo been given. Where formerly a soldier stood every hundred yards now there is one at every fifty along the end less line of rails across the immense con tinent of Russia, necessitating the move ments of a whole army corps; this ser vice works with admirable precision and celerity. The imperial carriages are "iron clad," and within, extremely comfortable, replete with every possi ble accommodation, bedrooms, bath rooms, sitting and smoking saloons, an excellent cuisine and a perfect system of heating and ventilation. Neverthe less the imperial party never enters one of these trains without the secret apprehension that their lives are in jeopardy and at the mercy of the niur derons sectarian. Nominally all through Europe the railway companies are supposed to make no charges for the transit of royal trains, and to undertake at their own cost the extra expenses which it entails; bnt as a fact they are the gainers by the royal journeys, as they receive important gratifications, rich presents, and not unfrequently dis tinction in the shape of orders or ad vancement. Setting apart the actual cost of building and keeping in repair these magnificent trains the sums dis bursed, even on a comparatively short journey, appear fabulous aud dispro portionate, but even those who, to flat ter the masses, cavil at the waste of money, would lie the first to accuse the sovereign of meanuess if he at tempted to curtail the exjien-es when reviving or visiting a /brother poten tate.—New I'ork Sun. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Rivers hold in suspension over one hundredth of their volume of solid mat ter. So dense is the water in the deepest part of the oeean that an ironclad, if it were to sink, would never reach the bottom. A writer calculates that it takes eight times the strength togo upstairs that is required for the same distance on the level. Doctor Eugene L. Crntchfield, of Baltimore. Md., has received the gold medal of the Society of Science, Let ters and Art of London. The phenomenon of phosphorescence is not universally understood. Objects possessing this property obsorb light during the day and emit it at night. Doctor Sievers, of Giessen, has re ceived a grant of S2OOO from the Ham burg Geographical Society for ex plorations in the Llanos of the Orinoco. It has been estimated that a bell of common size, whose sound would penetrate a distance of three to five miles on shore, could, if submerged in the sea, be heard over sixty miles. Luminous earth worms have recently been seen near Richmond and other parts of the Thames Valley in England. But it is pointed out that these phos phorescent annelids are not uncom mon, having been described by Grimm as early as the year 1670. It is now claimed that there is such a thing as electric sunstroke. The workers around electrical furnaces in which in metal aluminum is produced suffer from them. The intense light causes painful congestions, which can not wholly be prevented by wearing deep colored glasses. At a recent meeting of the Ornithological Society in Berlin Doctor Reichenow gave an interesting account of the discovery of the re mains of some remarkable birds in ' Argentina. From the remains it is calculated that the birds must have been twice as high as the ostrich. A sudden loss of blood by the lancet or from a wound, or a rapid drain on the vascular system, as in cholera or diabetes, causes the intense sensation of thirst. The thirst of fever, on the other hand, is not caused by the lack of fluids in the system, but by the dry ness of the throat, month and skin, caused by the unnaturally high tem perature of the blood. A dispatch received at the Lick Ob servatory, in California, from Profes sor Schaeberle in Chile, said that the I.ick Observatory expedition to observe the total eclipse ut the sun was suc cessful in every respect, and that the mechanical theory of the solar corona formed by the Professor had been verified. Fifty photographs were secured, three telescopes being used. How to Plac« a Bed. "The first thing I do when I get to a hotel is to see how my bed stands in regard to the points of the compass," said Frederick Wilbur, who is at the Laclede. "It is usual in fixing up a room to put the bed where most con venient, without regard to the direc tion in which the head points, and this is really the principal reason why travelers sleep soundly in one town and lie awake grumbling all night in the next. To obviata this I take my bearings with a little pocket compass, and if my bed is not arranged with tho head facing cither north or south, I swing it around right away, and make it face tho north if possible, accepting tho south as a compromise. Some people think it all nonsense to talk about a current of magnetism passing steadily from polo to pole, but any telegraph operator or fixer will show you that this is actually the case. If you sleep with your head to the east or west you don't get the benefit of this electric current, while if yon lie in the proper position it passes through the body during the night, and has a soothing, recuperative effect. Try the experiment, and you will laugh at those who take opiates with a view to wooing refreshing sleep."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Eccentricity Easily Pardoned. One of iho old residents of Mount Vernon w>:' Theodore Marston, who moved into the place before it was a town and settled on the south tier of lots next to Readfield, where he made himself a good farm. He was eccen tric, but a man of the strictest honesty and remarkably generous to the poor. When he sold a poor man a bushel of corn he never struck the measure, aud if asked why, he would put his hand on his heart and say: "Something in here will tell when it is full enough," and it was never "full enough" till well rounded. In 1816, which is known as the cold season, he kept his granary open for those who had no cash and would say to those who had : "You can get it somewhere else, I keep it only for those who can't pay."—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. The Rich Sixty Years Ago and Now. Are the rich, as a class, growing richer, and are the not rich, as a class, growing poorer ? We deny it.and we affirm, and appeal to the assessment lists everywhere in support of the affir mation, that there are more fore handed men today, according to the population, than there have been since the Government was founded. There are a few, a very few, men who count their wealth by millions, but it is doubtful if, with the exception of per haps half a hundred persons, the rich men of to-day are any richer than th .1 same percentage of the total were sixty years ago. When it was said that John Jacob Astor was worth a million peo plo stood in awe, exactly as they do now when the seventy millions of .Toy Gould's estate are ®entiou»d,—Phila delphia North American. NO. 36. NOTHING TO DO. Nothing to do bat work, Nothing to est bat food, Nothing to wear but clothes, To keep one from going nude. Nothing to breathe but air, Quick aa it flash 'tis gone. Nowhere to fall tmrt off, Nowhere to stand Nttt on. Nothing to comb but hair, Nowhere to sleep but in bed, Nothing to weep but tears, { Nothing to bury but dead. Nothing to sing but songs, Ah, well, alas ' alack! Nowhere togo but out, Nowhere to come but back. Nothing to see but sights. Nothing to quench but thirst. Nothing to have but FT hat we've got 5 Thus through life we «re cursod. Nothing to strike but a gait • Everything moves that goes. Nothing at all but common sense Can ever withstand these woes. —Chicago Mall. * HUMOR OF THE DAY. Watered stock—Soup. Royal sport —Albert Edward. --Puck. Out of sight, out of mind—The blind idiot. The persistent bore can ruake a mighty big hole in a busy day. Heir-raising intelligence--"Triplets at your house."—Boston Courier. Foot notes come like a squeaky shoe, in the text of a poem. —Truth. Eccentric people are peculiar people whom other people cannot afford to call fools.—Puck. It does not follow that a remark carelessly dropped fulls flat.—New Orleans Picaynne. The man who said you couldn't eat your cake and have it too evidently was not a dyspeptic.—Life. liove in a cottage is all right if you have a mansion togo to after the cot tage affair plays out. —Achison Globe. The French schoolboy nnißt have ft hard time learning the names of hia country's Caliiuet Ministers. —Pnck. The man who made 11 garden once. Now thinks it would be seiue To buy the thing* he raised nud save Both labor and expense. —Washington Star. "After all," murmured the" artist, "perhaps the ideal figure has a dollar mark in front of it."—Washington Star. "I will now attend to this writ of attachment," said a young lawyer who was composing a love letter. —Wash- ington Star. Every man "has his influence," but sometimes has a hard time to find it when he is in a hurry. -Cleveland Plain Dealer. When it comes to dime museum at tractions the fat woman can put tha living skeleton in the shade every day. —Elmira Gazette. A woman may be deeply interested in fashions, but it's only one thing, while a man can be absorbed in a score. —Philodelphia Times. Toledo has a tough police judge named Hone—and the toughs don ♦ think it a bit sharp to rub up against him. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. ' 'My dear fellow, I am awfuljy glad to see you. I do hope you are in a position to lend me the ten dollars that you owe me." —Journal Amusaut. The days are swiftly slipping by, And soon with deep elition The ant will join the pionio pie In summer celebration. —Wnslilngtou Star. "Do you think Miss Suburbs en joyed the concert?" "No, lam afraid not She only patted her foot through three of the songs."—Chicago Inter- Ocean. Among shopping women, a bargain is something they could not afford when they needed it, ami which they get at. a reduction when they have positively no use for it.—Puck. When one thinks of the smirk and strut of the fashion-plate figure, male or female, it is no wonder that it is so hard to get the clothes that really lit a living human creature. —Truth. "Well, Johnnie,aro you able to keep ! your place in your cla«s?" Johnnie— "Yes, sir; I began at the foot and there's not a single boy been able to take it from me."—Chicago Inter- Ocean. "No, Walton won't join our trout ing excursion. He nays he'd rather stay at home and play with that won derful first baby." "Well, that's scriptural—spare the rod, and spoil the child."—Puck. How many a weary pilgrim walks the earth. The sport of canine 'brutes and scoffer's mirth. Looking for work, he scans the country round. That he may give to work a wider lierth. -Washington star. Horseman (who has been thrown from his steed) —V Heavens! what an unfortunate fellow lam ! There, I've paid for the use of that horse for one hour and I've already spent three quarters of an hour running after the brute."—Fliegende Blaetter. Tlie Wild Turkey's Pinning*. Without a bright or gaudy mark upon it, the plumage of the wild turkey is the most strikingly beautiful of any that adorns American birds. It gleams with a rich golden bronze, mingling with quivering shades of richest blue and dancing ripples of opalescent green, as the lights and ■ shadows play upon it as the great l-ird sails through the air or struts 1 ically along among its forest haunts. A black band glittering with a metallic lustre tips the end of each feather. Moreover, there is a regal force nnd bearing about the wild turkey to which even the eagle's much vauuting majesty is inferior.—York (Penn.) Gazette,