SULLIVAN JIHH REPUBLICAN. V. M, CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XI. The former in .Tapan who has ten Bereft of land is looked upon as a mo nopolist. The New York World concludeo that believe in life insur ance; Wanamaker has taken out poli cies aggregating 51.500,000, Hamilton Disston SOOO,OOO, and J. B. Stetson, 8515,000. In California, Vermont, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Wisconsin days of grace on maturing notes, drafts, ac ceptances and bills of exchanges have been abolished, unless there is express stipulation to the contrary. Professor Vambery has been lectur ing on the "Fashion of Languages" be fore the Bnda-Pesth (Hungary) Eng lish Club. "English," he said, "may now be called ilio most fashionable language in all the live parts of the world." Chicago is now the fifth greatest sea port in the world, and yet, remarks the Farm, Field and Fireside, the trade of the great lakes is only beginning to show its possibilities. Twenty years from now, at the present rate of growth, it will be among the three greatest, if not the greatest of nil. The country's money circulation has increased from $720,000,000 in 1873 to over $1,600,000,000 at the present time. The coinage of silver has in creased from $4,000,000 in 1873 to nearly $40,000,000 in 1890. There was no silver in the treasury or in cir culation in 1873 and to-day there is $490,000,000. Says the New York Sun : The re port of the Civil Service Commission shows that women are going into civil service in larger numbers than ever, and that there is a comparative decrease in the number of men who are now en tering the executive departments. There is no great reason to regret that such is the case. The pay that the average Government clerk receives is by no means enormous for a man of ability, while the work is of a kind that most women can do easily and well. A deportment clerkship ought not to .tempt any yo.tug man of enterprise and talent, but many such have buried both qualities in the dispiriting routine of such a career. At this time of year, when every body is fretting about letters of credit and all the other makeshifts to avoid penury in a foreign land, it occurs to the mind unskilled in questions of finance to wonder why we cannot have one single international coin, which would be good wherever it is spent, says Kate Field's Washington. An en tire National currency is a boon re served for our grandchildren, but a single gold coin of the value say of $2 and a half would be an immense con venience to travelers. A moderate sum in such coins would not, be bur densome, and before leaving each coun try the National curreucy could be ex changed into them at the hotel office or the nearest shop without any fuss and feathers whatever. Multiples of such a coin, to the extent of a hundred or more, would be easily portable, and fractions of it would not be large enough to cause serious embarrassment to most travelers. The amount of time and trouble which a single inter national coin would save is almost in calculable. An electric railway shortly to be con structed from New York to Philadel phia will carry passengers the entire trip, ninety miles, in an hour, and it is announced that a similar line, run ning cars ot the speed of 100 miles an hour will soon connect St. Louis and Chicago. Already, there are signs of a conflict between electric and steam railway interests, remarks the Atlanta Constitution. Electric roads do not need deep cuts, heavy fills and pouder ous locomotives. They can bo run very cheaply, and hence their charge* will be lower than those of the steam railways. Naturally, these new lines will be formidable competitors of the old ones, and in granting charters the Legislatures will liavo some difficult questions to consider. Connecticut lias just adopted a general law which provids for the control of such enter- prises by local communities. No speed •i is allowed higher thau twenty-live miles an hour, and the railway com , mission must grant its consent before any electric road can be constructed which substantially parallels u steam road. Merchandise and heavy bag gage are not allowed to be carried on the electric cars, and the whole *ys tem is under the rules of the railway commission. Hteam may always be a factor of transportation, but it goes without saying that the cheap electric railways will revolutionise travel and traffic. The statistics of cvime throughout the country show a marked increase in the number of murders during recent years—from 2335 in 1887 to 5900 in 1891—while for several years prior to 1887 the number fell short of 2000. According to the Shoe and Leather Beporter, a convict in a certain peni tentiarv, whose crime was dishonesty, is compelled to spend his dayß cutting out pieces of pasteboard to be put be tween the outer and inner soles of shoes which will be sold as made of solid leather. A statement recently published by the authorities of Munich, Bavaria, gives some startling information as to the increased consumption in that city of dog flesh. So great an appetite seems to have developed for the food, declares the Chicago Herald, that the authorities have thought it time to in terfere for the protection of dog owners. "It has passed into a proverb that racing is the sport of kings; it can with truth be stated," declares Outing "that trotting is the international equine sport of the American people. It is true that in New York, Chicago and a few Southern cities the thoroughbred flourishes while the trotter does not, but throughout the balance of the country and in the Dominion of Canada, trotting and its relative gait, pacing, provide the popular and universal sport. It is natural that it should be so. for while it gratifies that love for equine contests which is a leading character istic of the Anglo-Saxon race, it also appeals to the patriotism and the utili tarianism of the American nature. The trotter is an American production. Ho is a grand and distinct type or branch of the equine family. By the applica tion of the laws of selection, training and development, the American breeder lias evolved a perfect trotting race as superior to its original crude elements as the thoroughbred of to-day is to the parent horse of the desert." Visitors to the Columbian World's Fair at Chicago will find 500 guides ready to do their bidding at an expense of fifty or seventy-five cents an hour. Guides for parties of live or fewer per sons will be charged for at the rate of fifty cents, and, from five up, seventy live cents an hour. The business of the guide is not going to be profitable, as the salaries paid will not be greater than S3O a month. The educational advantages are expected to compensate for the small wages. There are to be twenty-five women guides. Mrs. Pot ter Palmer thought that unescorted women would be in need of the services of a guide, and in deference to her wishes appointments will be made. The information givers are to be formed into an organized and officered corps. There will be at least five companies under the command of sergeants. The first sergeants will be paid SOO a month, there being five of them. There will he twenty second sergeants, with sal aries of §4O a month. The grounds will be divided into districts. There nre district headquarters where visitors may apply for the services of guides. The New York Post nays: The prob lem of the ultimate source of the Nile seems finally to hftve reached a solution through the recent explorations of Dr. O. Baumaun. Thirty years have elapsed since Speke sent to the Royal Geographical Society of London his famous laconic despatch, "The Nile is settled," announcing the dis covery by him of the great equatorial lake, Victoria Nynnzu, snpposed to be main head basin of Africa's mighty river. This discovery was followed soon afterwards by that of a second, seeming still larger, equatorial lake, the Albert Nyanza, which divided the honors of "Conqueror of the Nile" be tween Speke and Sir Samuel Baker. The progress of more modern African exploration, while it has served in many ways to bring about a truer knowledge of the mutual relations of these two large lakes tliHii was known to Speke and Bnker, and to establish the more positive claims of the Victoria Lake, had not, until l)r. Baumann's journey, answered the still significant question, regarding the position of the headwa ters of these lakes; in other words, the actual fountain-head of the Nile had yet to be discovered. This is now shown to be on the eastern face of the "height of land" which closely bor ders Lake Tanganyika on the north east, the source of the Kagera, or Rnvnvu, a western, and the most pow ful, tributary of the Victoria Nvanza. This position was reached by Dr. Bau mann on the 19th of September last. With its source thus placed between the third and fourth parallels of south latitude, the Nile traverses thirty-five degrees of latitude, and become*; a rival in length of the combined Mis sissippi-Missouri of LA PORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JTJNE 23. 1893. TWILIGHT. Stag, sweet, it is the twilight hour— Thy voice brings rest and peace, And unto thee is given the power To bid all discord cease. Let day lade with its load of sorrows, Now is enough for me j I care not for the coming morrows, For they may banish thee. Oh, that this eve eould last forever, Ambition's sun be set, For with theo near my heart would never The busy world regret. Only count us as Love's Immortals, Let each be one in soul; Bid Night halt at the western portals, And Death collect no toll; Then twilight would be fraught with splendor, Bathed in Faith's golden stream ; And each to each all love would render-f Sing, sweet, and let me droam. —Flavel Scott Mines, in Harper's Weekly. A SHOPPING 'BATEDfTION, I „ ~j HE report started yin Blake's store. ZV. To disbelieve a re \ port that started in SEJ SEJ3 j" Blake's store was a n unheard of heresy at the Cor- ''U So, astonisli- VjJ ing as this was, the ISTiS Corners received it . without a shadow of doubt. It hardly needed to be known that Mrs. Goodrich herself was the authority. She was down at the store Saturday afternoon as usual to make her weekly purchases. Anson Blake, who never failed when groceries were purchased to conduct the customer to the other side of the store to look at the dry goods, and vice versa, endeavored to lead Mrs. Goodrich over to look at Bome new winter goods. Then it came out. With ft bit of pardonable prido she let him know that she hivtl no need to look at fall goods in Witham Corners or in Witham Centre, either, since "her Hannah was going to the. city next week to do their fall shopping ; that she, Hannah, had an annt there who had the whole sum mer been urging her to come, and that now she was going for a few days." Mrs. Goodrich shook her large skirts and swept out—figuratively speaking, of course, as her garments always es caped the floor by some inches. Meeting was hardly over the next day before Hannah was interviewed as to her intended trip, and the ladies who we-e not present in the morning interviewed her in the evening on the subject. They were so numerous then and kept her HO long that Jerry Down ing, waiting patiently for her outsida, concluded she had gone out the back door on purpose to cut him, and walked home with another girl. His mother, who had not been on speaking terms with Mrs. Goodrich since thai good lody made some remarks on the strength of the butter Mrs. Downing brought to the minister's donation last winter, let Jerry know when he got homo of Hannah's intended trip, and suggested that a girl who couldn't buy her winter dress at the Corners, but must goto New York for it, was too fine to be a farmer's wife. Jerry went to bed in despair, while Hannah was crying her self to sleep, wondering how she could have offended him. The next afternoon, when she came in from her school, Hannah was more than surprised to find Mrs. Downing in the sitting room with her mother. As the visitor had not been in their house for a year, Hannah was sure that she bore some message from Jerry, and greeted her accordingly, wonder ing meanwhile, why her mother looked so grim, and knit as furiously as if the whole family were barefooted and suf fering. It was no message from Jerry, how ever, that brought Mrs. Downing there to-day. The lad was plowing in a distant field, and did not know of his mother's call. After her little remark last night about Hannah's city shopping tour, she had thought best to keep this visit a secret from him. x "I was just telling your ma," she began, when Hannah, Hushed and ex pectant, was seated, "that I'd been down to Blake's to get my winter dress, and that there wa'n't a thing there I'd put on my back." "Oh, not a thing!" Haunah nsseuted quickly. "I'm going to New York for our winter things." "So I heard, and I was telling your ma that, as long as you are going to town and going a-shotppin', buying one more dress wouldn't be no more trou ble to you." Buying a whole wardrobe for Jer ry's mother would have been a de light ! "Oh, nu trouble a pleasure!" Hannah cried, despite hev mother's frown. ' 'There's that brown merino I got three years ago last fall," Mrs. Down ing went on."The wear I've had out of it just beats all. I've worn it steady wherever I went. I was telling your ma that I didn't know as I could be suited better than to have another just like it. So, if you won't mind getting me ten yards of dark brown merino— say, about eighty cents a yard—or you might go as high as eighty-five—l'd be much obliged, and will do the same by you." "Don't mention it," cried Hannah, taking out h«r notebook and adding the small item to the long family list. "The money 11 be all right," added Mrs. Downing. "Of course it will," Hannah laughed. "Going to stay long?" "From Thursday to Monday only. I can't leave my school longer." "I'll be over, then, Monday night after it." "Waal, I must say," Mrs. Goodrich burst out, as the door closed nfter Mrs. Downing, "»LL'H got brass! The idea of her asking you to lug a dress tip from the city for her ! I didn't give . her any encouragement when she spoke i to me about it, I can tell you." "Oh, mother, I wouldn't refuse for j the world," Hannah returned. "How could I?" Tea was over. Mrs. Goodrich was | washing the dishes. Hannah was dry ing them, when the kitchen door was unceremoniously opened. A tall,gaunt j woman, with a commanding air, as if she were at the head of a disorderly regiment, marched in. It was Mrs. Moore. "I was down to Mrs. Downing's," she began, without a small prelude of a greeting, "fur a dish o' tea an' a few minutes' set, an' she was tellin' me that Hannah was goin' to the city this week." "Yes, on Thursday," Hannah answered. "Will you sit down?" "I hain't no time fur a set. Mary she's gone over to her grandmother's, and there ain't nobody to hum to git Moore's supper. Mrs. Downing was saying you was goin' to git her a brown mereener." "Yes." . "I s'pose it won't be no trouble, as you're bttyin', to buy me a black mereener, too, at the same time?" "None whatever." Hannah's smile was getting hollow. "How long be you goin' to stay?" "Till Monday." "I'll be round Monday evenin' with the money. You can git me seventy cent stuff, about seven yards." She departed with as little ceremony as she had entered. "I told you so —I told you so," said Mrs. Goodrich, as she lighted a candle and went down cellar with the milk. "Ef you do fur one you'll have to do fur the whole town." Miss Brown, the dressmaker, dropped in a little later. "I heerd only Just now that you're goin' to York," she said, as if to apolo gize for not coming sooner, "and that you're goin' to get some things for Mrs. Downing." "Yes, a dress," Hannah returned, while her mother gave a tremendous "Ahem." "So I heord. I don't git to York very often myself, and I'm afraid I'm getting a little behind the fashions. It don't pay, you know, for me to get be hind," she simpered. Misn Brown was more noted for her simpers than for the correctness of her styles. "So I madoibold to step round and a«k yon, as you're going to the city anyway, an' will be lookiu' at the fash ions, to just give a look fur me." "I shall certainly study the fashions well for my own benefit." "I can't say exactly how many pat terns I'd like you to buy me." "Oh, you want me to buy patterns, do you?" Hannah asked quickly. She was one of tho most obliging girls in the world, but this sort of thing was becoming monotonous. "AH long us you're in the city on* goin' right by the fashion stores, I s'pose it won't be no trouble for you to step in and buy a pattern or HO? YOU can get whatever you think is pretty — some sacks, bodies and skirts, and so on. You can tell better'n I can when you see 'em. You might get about five dollars' worth. I think it'll pay you. I'll let you have the money when you know how much it is, or I'll sew it out." While Hannoh was silently making a note of this Mrs. Dobbs, their next neighbor, came in. 'Tretty neighbors yon arc," washer greeting. "Pretty neighbors! 'Melie, she just come from the store. 'Ma,' sez she, 'what do yon think? Hannah Goodrich is going to the city a-Thurs day a-shoppin' an' is going to get Mrs. Downing a dress. I wonder if she wouldn't buy me a felt hat. I'm sick an'tired o' Miss Miller's hats!' 'Of course she would,' sez I. 'A pretty neighbor she'd be ef she wouldn't.'" "Why, certainly." said Hannoh, try ing to call up a smile. It was only the ghost of one that responded, however. "What, kind of a hat will Amelia want ?" "She's goin' to leave that to your judgment. Somethin' pretty and dressy and stylish, and that'll be becomin' to you." Hannah was dark, with delicate fea tures and very pretty. Amelia was light, with coarse features and homely. "She's willing togo as high as $5," Mrs. Dobbs went on. "Still, ef you don't have to spend so much she'll be tickled. Looking around a little and not taking the fust thing that's offered, you kin sometimes savo as much as fifty cents." The school where Hannah vainly strove each day to make the Witham youth learned was some distance from her home, and she took her luncheon with her. She had just settled down to it the next noon, when a delicate, withered looking, long ago comely woman entered the room. Hannah greeted her with unfailing politeness, hoping against hope that she had not heard of the intended trip. Mrs. Guion would not sit down. She had run over only for a moment. She had just heard that morning that Miss Goodrich was going 011 Thursday to the city, and wanted to know if she would be willing to do the least, bit of an errand there. Would she be so | kind? Of course Hannah could not say 110, and Mrs. Guion chose to consider her 1 embarrassed silence an assent, and , took from a bag three pieces of silk— j blue, yellow, and green, all peculiar shades. Would Miss Goodrich l>e so kind as to match them in zephyrs? She had vainly tried here aud in adjacent towns to do so, but then you never could get anything outside of the city, and yon could get everything there. Would Miss Goodrich lie so kind as ti> get a half pound of each? The very small item of matching three peculiar shades of silk was added t <l Hannah's list. frUv ' l »" MT.Oifc that Lviuiiig wlicu I Mrs. Clark, the physician's wife) fcatne I in. This lady was well off, dressy, bnt ■ economical and very fussy. All I Witham knew that she was hard to i please. She would not burden Miss j Goodrich for anything, she began, if i she could .possibly find time togo her i self to the city or if she could get what | she wanted in Witham. She had a piece of brown plaid j which she would like matched ; would j Miss Goodrich be so kind ss to get the i came quality exactly and the same ' pattern? See? There was t'lat fine i stripe—did she notice that. It was bought three years ago —Mi's. Clark ! did not remember now whether it was in New York or Philadelphia; she had paid a dollar a yard for it, and she : would like six yards more. Mrs. Green, from the Corners; Mrs. ! Drake, from the Centre; Mrs. Will iums, from North Witham ; Mrs. John son, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Cole, one after the other, were ushered into the sit ting-room and begged to have a piece , of goods matched or something big or little bought in the city. They always knew it would be no trouble for her as long as she wins buying for herself, and ,! not one offered to advance the money for the purchase. After supper on Wednesday evening Hannah wrote out her list in full. She i was studying it, a little amused and very much vexed, when her mother i entered. "Ma, I've been counting up," she t said. j "Waal!" ! "The things lam requested by the ! neighbors to buy amount, at a rough [ j guess, to SIBO. They would easily fill ■ ! three trunks, and the work of hunting for them would occupy me at least i four (lavs. Not one has offered me a cent in advance or the money to pay I expressage. I have just SBO and two days to spend in the city." "I told you so —I told yon so." "What could I do? I should have : offended every one of them if I had • j put the case to them as it is." "Waal, what air you going to do? You're in for it, you see." < ! "I'm not going—that's what I'll do 1 about it. We'll buy our winter dresses i at Blake's, as the rest of Witham will i for all me. The next time I make up t my mind togo to New York not a soul - in Witham will know it till I am gone, i if you please, ma." r Mrs. Goodrich did please. When Hannah went early the next spring I , even Mrs. Downing was not told till the last moment, and then it was be cause Hannah changed her name to | Downing the day she went, and was as .4j pleased as before, of course, to under | take any commissions for Jerry's mother.—True Flag. Climbing and Swimming Rabbits. On the continent of Australia the rabbits, by force of circumstances, are obliged to modify their mode of life. These animals are often observed to climb trees in search of food when they cannot obtain it on the ground. At a recent session of the Zoological Society of London, Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited the forepaws of one of these Australian rabbits, which were seen to be adapted to this new mode of locomotion. It is found, in the first place, that they are more slender than those of the English wild rabbit. Their color is paler and the spots are dark. Besides, their claws are sharper and slenderer. In the Australian rabbits differences have also been observed in the manner of raising their young. Thus, in cer tain localities, we find their ordinary seats, but in others the litter is placed upon the ground, without any cover ing. In summer they sometimes enter the water, with only their heads pro jecting above the surface. When they are pursued, during their migra tions, they swim exceedingly well and cross the wide rivers with ease.—■ Scientific American. Washington's Narrow Escape. From an "Unpublished Autograph Nurative by Washington,"in Serib ner's Magazine, we quote as follows: It was conceived that our party was yielding the ground, upon which G. W. with permission of the General, called (per dispatch) for volunteers and immediately marched at their head, to sustain, as was conjectured, the retir ing troops. Led 011 by the firing till he came within less than half a mile, and it ceasing, he detached scouts to investigate the cause, and to commu nicate his apprach to his friend Col onel Mercer, advancing slowly in the meantime. But it being near dusk, anil the intelligence not having been fully dissiminated among Colonel Mer cer's corps, and they taking us for the enemy who had retreated approaching in another direction, commenced a heavy tire upon the relieving party which drew fire in return in spite of all the exertions of the officers, one of whom, and several privates were killed and many wounded before a stop could be put to it, to accomplish which O. W. never was in more imminent danger, by being between two fires, knocking up with his sword the presented pieces. To Preserve Pictures. A new method of preserving pictures is being experimented with in Londou. It consists of placing the surface of the picture, be it canvas or paper, in a vacuum, thus protecting it from atmos pheric action. The picture is enclosed in a metal frame or case, covering the back and sides and projecting from th« sides like an ordinary frame. A plate of glass is inserted in the edges of the case, just as in an ordinary frame, and hermetically sealed to the. metal. The air is then withdrawn from between the surface of the picture and the glasa mid the painting is in a vacuum. It it jtelieved this plan will effectually pro tect pictures from the action of damp ness, air. gases and other cause* that operate to destroy paintings exported or framed in the ordinary way.—) k' tlX.it i'llll I fINJ. Terms—Sl.oo in Advance i 51.25 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Rubber is iiiftd* from cotton seed oil. Flies sometimes infect eatables with cholera germs. Scientists are of the opinion that some icebergs last for '2OO years. An electric railway will probably be built between Atami and Odalvara in Japan. T. D. Curtis, the scientist, expects to see conntry roads lighted with elec tricity. Comb honey is said to lie a remedy for dyspepsia. The wax must be eater with the honey. Fonrteen wind planets were dis covered during last month, bringing the total number of small planet# known up to 375. Successful experiments have been made in stimulating the growth of such plants as wheat, corn and tobacco by means of electric currents. Granulated cork and bitumen, pressed into blocks, is the latest favorite foi paving London streets. Its elasticity is its special recommendation. The Chinese have bred a whole colony of goldfish, each having two well-developed tails and two sets of anal fins. Biologists say it would be equally easy to breed quadrupeds with eight legs. The position of the lamprey eels has been reviewed by Professor Howes, who thinks that instead of being primitive forms, they arc aber rant fish-like forms, which have lost their lower jaw, their sucking mouth having been secondarily acquired. If the heat of the sun were produced by the burning of coal, it would re quire a layer sixteen feet in thickness, extending over its whole surface, to feed the flame a single hour. With the sun a solid body of coal, it would burn up at this rate in forty-six cen turies. Edison, the great inventor, is hope ful of being able to generate electricity directly from heat, and thus dispense with the steam engine and dynamo now used for producing electric power. If this plan be successful, it is likely that a simple piece of mechanism placed over the kitchen chimney will supply electric lights to every room in au or dinary residence. . As the ashes contain only about six per cent, of potash and less than two of phosphoric acid, the value is not more than forty cents per 100 pounds, or $8 a ton. This estimate is based on a value of potash of 4} cents a pound in muriate of potash, selling at $45 tho ton, and phosphoric acid at six cents n pound. The common price of wood ashes is far beyond the actual value compared with the price of other fer tilizers. As everybody is learning now, boil ing kills the microbes in water, and it was only when the authority of a law forbidding the use of the infected river water was putin force in Hamburg Inst autumn that the cholera was really checked; and it is interesting to leurn that Cyrus, who seems to have had good ideas of sanitation, when crossing the river Choaspes, had all the drink ing water for his army boiled—in sil ver bowls, the legend says. Preserved a Fine Leg of Mutton. There was an immense sensation created at the M— station the other day, just previous to the starting oi the afternoon express for Paris. The inspector was about to start the train when a short, fat and pussy old gen tleman trotted up to him and ex claimed : "Wait a minute, will you, please, while I—" "Impossible, sir!" interrupted the officer, putting the whistle to his lips. "The train is overdue now." "But you must wait!" cried the old gentleman, excitedly. "There is a man's leg underneath the wheel." "Good gracious! Why didn't you say so at first? Where is he?" inquired the horror-stricken inspector. "Hold on there!" And having stopped the train he hurried after the old gentleman, while a couple of porters jumped down on tho line, amid the excitement of a number of spectators. After a short search one of the porters handed up a rush basket containing a large and fine looking leg of mutton. "Thank you!" said the old gentle man. "What do you mean, sir?" roared the exasperated inspector. "You said "I said a man's leg was under tho wheel, and so it was," interrupted the old gentleman. "I bought this leg and paid for it, and if it isn't mine I should like to know who it belongs to, that's all." Then the train moved on. —Paris Figaro. The Ancient Name ot Great Britain. The oldest form of the name Britain is Ortanis, from which ertnes the ad jective Ortauicos, which iu Irish is Cruitueeh. This last is the name which the Irish gave to the Picts, once mas ters of Great Britaiu. The adjective mentioned became in the language of the Gauls Pretanicos. Pytheas, the Greek navigator of Marseilles, who flourished about the time of Alexander the Great, and is said to have made a voyage to Britaiu, in one of his few fragments now extant calls Great Bri tain the Pretanic Island. A century after Pytheas, a Galli<* people t'u" Britanni—drove the Picts out of th larger portion of Great Britaiu, and established themselves there. From this came confusion in the minds of Greek geographers between the name of the conquerors and that of the con quered island. Out of this confusion arose various and mixed forms. The Pretanic Island became Bretannie, ait.l theu Britannic, which form H< MUM fixed, ami has come down to u . lit Vile Archevlogiqile. NO. 37. HORSE SENSE. Main hoss sense'll pull yer through v " W'en there's nothin' else'H do ; 1 You may sttll bo poor and needy With yout head a cyelopedv An' bit? poets, so they say, Sometimes eat one meal a day. Plain hoss sense'll pull yer through When there's nothin' else'll do. There are big mefl X cxpeet Wallerin' in intellect, ' v Hpoutin' swimmin' in a sen Of their own philosophy, , Who might grab the shore an' stand \ Ou the dry and solid land— Plain hoss sense'll might pull 'em through When philosophy wouldn' do. With horse sense you'll never fail If you haven't been to Yale, Don't be seared, but use your head, Not some other man's instead , Don't lay up there on the shelf, Walk about an' trust yerself. i Plain hoss sense'll pull yer through, V When there's nothin' else'll do. —Sam Walter Foss. in Yuuk.ce Blade. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A rank failure—Tilted imbecility. —Truth. A peek of trouble—Four quarts of green apples. In contempt of court—Tlie con firmed bachelor.—Truth. Tunefully considered, the human neck is a pipe organ. —Dansville Breeze. A bridge should never be condemned until it has been tried by its piers.— Judge. Women certainly have room enough, in these times, to laugh in their sleeves. —Puck. Home housekeepers are so cxosper atingly industrious that they give the dust no time to settle.—Truth. In politics the coming man finds tho roads badly blockaded by th« going man.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. People speak of the face of a note •when it's really the figure that inter ests them.—Philadelphia Times. •Tagson savs the messenger boy moves so slowly that he has come to be ft standing joke.—Eluiira Gazette. A fashionable woman is one who lias what everybody else has before any body else gets it.—Elmira Gazette. Trite sayings rhymed «re liked by some ; They'll like this one, no doubt ' The schoolgirl's string of chewing gum Is '"sweetness lont? ilrnwn out." —Truth. Only ft man bearing a title can bo considered a "real liv ' nobleman on the simple evidence that he merely breathes. There is i..,thing especially irritat ing about an air of importance, pro vided it is being sung instead of l>eiug worn.—Puck. The people who follow the fashion most religiously generally look as if they were trying to get ahead of it.— Somerville Journal. A young man with pushing qualities can always get something to ilo, even if it is nothing hotter than engineering a lawn wower.—Buffalo Courier. The humble individual who saws wood for a living is of more benefit to his race than the man who does noth ing and that poorly. -Troy Press. Hunger overcomes superstition. If a man is really hungry thirteen is no more unlucky than thirty, if the vic tuals hold out.—Dansville Breeze. 0. what's the uso o' grievin'y We'ro jes iu love with life:. For the blossom's on the melon An" the edge is on the knife'/ —Atlanta Constitution. The dividing line between inquisi tiveness and impertinence is largely imaginary. Few people can W in quisitive without being impertinent.— Troy Press. "Hello, Charlie! Not at work? What's up?" "Oh, we'ro out on a strike." "What's the trouble?" "Don't know; but we'll not give in till wo get it."—Boston Beacon. Cotumhus aii'l Newton. Franklin an 1 Watts, fn their discoveries tound «reat .-.est ; Yet what to compar." with the joy of the man, With a quarter he timls in a last sutnmtfr's vest. The man who is hailed as a public spirited benefactor at the time a loan is wanted may live to hear himself howled at as a blood-sucking vampire when the money falls due.—Truth, lie asked her if she thou'-Tilt pop"oru Was good for indigestion . She said she didn't know ; would he Please pop some other question. —Kansas City Journal. When a man speaks disparingly of everybody, one of three things is trite: He has the "l>ig head," is on bad terms with himself, or liasan intensely jealous and envious disposition.—St. Paul Globe. "Poverty is a disease," howled speaker. "And yet," murmured the poor chap iu the back of the hall, "we who are afflicted with it are arrested whenever we take anything for it!"— Vogue. Mmlge— "That waiter in there is en iirelv too smart for his business." k'apsley—"Why?" Mmlge—"l told Sini to get me a rare steak, and he said .t couldn't oe done."—lndianapolis 'ourual. He "Bwothalt Chawley has the awaiu fevah and he eawn't find a n irso ■ligh or low." She— "Sit up with liiiu yourself. There is no human possi bility of your catching the disease. Detroit Free I'ress. A Costly TIM, A North Carolina mall sold a single tree the other day for #>oo, and the purchaser said that he expected to realize at least for it when it was worked up. The treo measured three and a half feet at the stump, and was a beautiful eurlejr wal nut, curled from root lo the topmost twig. There is a (/rest tlesl of walnut iti that State, and it is very vaiua'.M, single trees celling at from SHHi t) |3VHI, — New Orleans Pica J uae.
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