SULLIVAN DSSI& REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XI. "Bio birth registers show that "Eu lalia" will be a propular name this season for new voung ladies. ill (lie Chinamen in tho United State* canu from one of the eighteen provinces of the Celestial Empire— most of theui from one corner of that province. \sswriing the working ago to be from twenty to sixty years, and count ing only male workers, 440 persons in this country live on the labor of every 100 workers. A foreign correspondent calls atten tion to the statistics of suicides in tho German array as illustrating more vividly tli in words could the intolera ble horrors of the irou discipline of lie/man militarism. t —————— The Russian city of Baku, on tho western const of tho Caspian Sea, is railed bv the natives the "town of fire." It is the greatest, petroleum renter in the world. The sight upon which it is built as, indeed, the whole Caspian Sea—rests upon naphtha. Appendicitis, the medical term foi Inflammation of a small intestinal ap pendix, the use of which no one has been able to discover, has become so common that physicians are advocat ing its removal from all infants as a preventative measure, like vaccination ! Frederick .1. do I'cyster, President of tin St. Nicholas Society, of New- York, tli< qninteseenco of Knicker bocker gi utility, declares in a recent interview that it is more important to be a member of the St. Nicholas So ciety than to control 100,000 miles of railway. The noiseless London hansom, with Its india rubber tired wheels, must, in future, carry bells to give notice of its appoach. Ho many accidents have oe rurre 1 through pedestrians not hear ing the noise of approaching wheels that the commissioner of police has in troduced this new regulation. A writer in the Atlantic Monthly de clares the American desire for gregar iousness is our National vice, and he goes far to prove liis point by many il lustrations show ing the eagerness with which people crowded into cities and towns, and their refusal to accept good employment if it requires residence in the country. The total taxable wealth of the city <.f St Louis is #284,291,800, of which 84.">,348,030 is 011 personal property. The real estate valuation was made in 1802. The assessment of personal property was made this year. This is the plnn of the office, the two classes of property being assessed in alternate years. The totals on personals show an increase of over $4,000,000 over last year. A new cannon hasjustbeen invented in Germany which is expected to revo lutionize the artillery of all Europe. Knipp.it is reported,has offered $750,• 000 for tlie exclusive right to the in vention, and the inventor, Herr F.lir lcir.lt, has refused the ofi'er. He pro poses to establish u plant of his own fur turning out his guns. It will be the most rapid firing cannon in the world, so far. Bees and birds court the society of man- that is, they seek the localities where fields and gardens abound, for tiny fare better when human industry extorts from the soil the products upon which they subsist. A Maine 1» culturist says it is the rarest thing in tho world to find bees away from the settlements or from openings where flowers grow. It is in the small patches of forests they are oftenest found and generally not far from the edge of the woods. It is the same with birds. There are no song birds in tho northern Maine wilderness and scarcely anything that can be called bird life. Birds cluster around towns and villages. The trustees of tho University of Pennsylvania have asked the city of Philadelphia to deed twenty-five acres of a tract of land known as the alms house property to them in trust for use an a botauieal garden. They promise to convert the land within five years, and that the garden shall at all times be open to the public. The property is not used for any purpose at tho present time. The trustees have in view the erection on the. tract of a museum of science and art to cost «.-.(>0,000. Work on this building would be;;in as soon as the garden was thrown open to tho public. The uni versity does not ask for any pecuniary aid from the city in carrying out the plan, but a number of citizens have already promised contributions of s.")o*>o. and it is stated that there will 1 no difficulty in raising the fund etiied. More than two-thirds of the mal< prisoners in the State's prisons of tin various States are under thirty year of age. Germany has one postoflico to ever 1774 inhabitants. In proportion ti> population the United States has twice as many. Montana is larger than New Hamp shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York anil Pennsylvania put together. The average weight of 20,000 Bos ton men was 142 pounds; women, 123 pounds. At Cincinnati the average of the same number of men was 151 pounds; of women, 131. In the United States the average life for farmers is sixty-four years; for lawyers, fifty-two; merchants, forty eight; mechanics, forty-seven; sea men, forty-six; laborers, forty-four. Mrs. E. I). E. N. Southw'orth as serts that she is the author of the first continued story ever published in the United States, which appeared in the Washington Era forty-five years ago. It wan called "Retribution," but it seems never to have overtaken her. There is at the Executivo Mansion a so-called "eccentric file," on which all letters from palpable cranks are put. Most of these contain threats and warnings. This file has been kept ever since the episode of Guiteau, who wrote many such notes before he shot President Garfield. Doctor Ernst Hart, the editor of ill British Medical Journal, who is now in Chicago, says:"l consider Chicago's water supply the best of all the great cities in America. The greatest danger was done away with when the old in shore intake was abolished. But tho city will not be absolutely safe until the two-mile crib is abandoned and tho four-mile intake used exclusively." According to Eugene Field "a charm ing feature of life at tho World's Fair is the utter indifference to tho rest of the world which possesses one immedi ately upon entering Jackson Park. Ho who enters there leaves all else behind. Household cares and business considera tions are instantly forgotten. It is epidemic—this glorious, health restor ing, brain-resting, heart-strengthen ing enthusiasm!" The conquest of arid America lias but fairly begun and will not be com pleted for some time in the nameless distant future. Water is taken from rivers and streams by means of dams, pumping devices and canals ; vast areas in the mountains arc covered by well constructed reservoirs; springs, see page and drainage sources are utilized; and even tho underflow —that hidden and comparatively inexhaustible foun tain—is being tapped in miiuy localities. Artesian wells, counted by thousands, and underground tunnels and channels are flowing, and being constructed, almost everywhere. That sustaining element of plant-life, water, is sought and secured by men of enterprise and capital. A writer in London Truth suggests that an association of girls be formed who shall pledge, themselves to pro pose to any man whom they may con sider desirable for a husband. He be lieves that proposing should not be limited to men, and that men, who, as ho claims, are naturally more bashful than girls, often remain single because they have not the courage to propose, and, as a consequence, many girls are liusbandless. But there is this differ once in favor of the present order of things: If a man is refused, he soon forgets it and in u few days is ready to ask another girl to marry him, while a girl who had suffered a failure would first cry her eyes out with embarrass ment, then turn cynical and never look at a man again. It is the opinion of men familiar with the character of the Navajo In dians, declares tho Argonant, that a war with them will prove to be a seri ous business for tho Government. Tho tribo numbers about thirty thousand, of whom nine thousand are fighting warriors. The reservation where they are intrenched is rough and difficult, and contains many passes where, ac cording to one authority, "two Indians can hold tliQjr ground against the en tire United States Army." The Nava joes liavo troined their ponies togo without water for two days, if neces sary. The whole tribo is armed with tho most approved repeating rifles,and the bucks have been storing ammuni tion for years in anticipation of trou ble. The Navajoes have a perfect sys tem of signals nud scouts, nud are al ways informed hours in advance of the movements) of troops < ' a them. LAPOKTE, PA., FKIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1893. DAWN, }ut of the scabbard of the night, Dy God's hand drawn, Flashes his shining sword of light. And lo—the dawn ! —Frank D. Sherman, in the Century. A STORY OF HINDOO MAGIC. EARS ago I sat h~\ ff one day on the - ' ifei J/ <leck of a ves ]\ bp ' '. V ' U K its moorings be- i\ i fore Calcutta. * ' intend lumVUllHWll Jpij7 ed at first to 'jfmjl/111/Jf jl K° out to Gar | *~~~ Hhawmut was discha r g i n g and taking her new cargo, but illness in the family of the friend with whom it was proposed I should stop had in terfered, and I decided at last to re main on board. I was the more willing to do this, as close beside us lay the vessel com manded by a friend of mine, whose wife bad also decided to remain on board while in port. Tho Fox lay closely enough for us to call to each other from our decks, and nearly every day we spent together. If I could not goto the Fox, Mrs. Kiug would take her little niece and come on board the Shawmut. I had my baby boy with me, and little Nera, my friend's niece, who was about three years old, would spend hours swinging with him in his hummock, which was hung from the spanker boom beneath the awning, that the baby might get what little air was stirring during the heat of the day. Nera would lie there for hours and play with baby if he was awake, or with her doll if he slept. Capttain King came aft to where his wife and I were sitting, and said: "Would you ladies like to see one of the best of the native jugglers? I have been talking with the comprador about it and he savs he thinks he can get one to come off to-morrow if you would like to see him. According to what he says the fellow is far beyond anything in the way of magical performance that you have ever seen." As neither of us had ever seen any thing of the sort, of courso we were eager to have the juggler come aboard, and the Captain return to tho hatch way and made arrangements with the comprador to fetch him the next day. Mrs. King and I talked of nothing else during the rest of the afternoon. We rubbed up our little knowledge of jugglers' tricks, recalled the stale stories of Beeds planted and grown into a treo within a few moments, of the boy packed irto a basket and the basket cut into ribbons, with an ac companiment of smothered shrieks and groans from the mutilated child within, who afterward appeared in the background, safe and sound, and all the other accounts of the stock tricks of the Indian jugglers of which we had often read. We decided tlmt this particular magician would be at rather n disad vantage, for he would be working on a solid deck instead of in the sand, and iu an entirely unknown place, where ho could by no possibility have made previous preparations to deceive his audience. Next morning the Captain told me that the juggler would come on board late in the afternoon. Mrs. King, as usual, came to spend the day with me, and we sat on deck all day. We felt sure that as we had been there on the day when the performance was first proposed, and all of the following day, there had been no chance for any trick to be played beforehand, and that, therefore, we were to have a genuine performance, whatever it should be. There could be no chance of deception by hollow floors or easily moved sand. Late in the afternoon, or rather early in tbo evening, we saw a small boat glide tow ard us, in which sat a tall, slender form clothed in the white native robe, with arms folded and head bowed upon his breast. Beside him sat ft slight form, whether male or female we could not at that distance distinguish, but we supposed it was the boy who in all the stories wo had read was ono of the most important proper ties for the magical performance. There were no baskets in sight, and but little else in the way of furniture for setting the stago for the coming show. Ihe boat came alongside, and her passengers were standing iu our midst almost before tho boat had touched tho foot of the ladder, I think. The juggler was the finest looking man I ever saw. He was considerably over six feet tall, and was formed like a Greek god. His snowy robe wrapped around him left his arms and one shoulder bare, and liis long, slim hands were as perfect as bronze cast ings from an artist's master work. He had tho brightest eyes I ever beheld, but in their depths shone alight which made me shudder with —not fear—but, well, 1 could not tell what tho feeling was, but I knew it was decidedly un pleasant to meet his eye for more than a moment. On comparing notes with my companions afterward i found that they had all felt this same strange sensation. It was not fear, but none of us could give it a name, though all experienced the discomfort in greater or less degree. As the strangers reached the deck >ve saw that the figure which we had iteen sitting beside the man in the boat \vas that of a young girl. She was almost as fine looking 11 specimen of her sex as the mar. was of his. They lost no time, but proceeded with their preparations for our amuse ment. The man disdained to speak to Us at all, but gave his directions to the girl, who repeated whatever it was necessary for us to hear in alow melo dious voice. They asked for several ill. w . among others a till cane basket. it which Mrs. King and I smiled at joch other; a slender line, a pan of ishesi anil some other little urtieles ivhich I have forgotten now. The line, which was lian<le<l the man, ivas our spare signal halliard, and after swinging it around his head a moment lie seemed satisfied and laid down be side the mat which he had spread upon the deck. This mat was of woven sfrass. like thousands of others we saw every day. The only thing which he had brought with him was a long slender sword and ii small crystal globe, which seemed filled with some liquid clearer than water, with a sparkle and shimmer in its depths even when nothing jarred the globe to account for the motion. After a short time the man squatted down upon his mat and his strange eyes gazed at each one in the circle surrounding him for a moment. As ho looked straight into my eyes I felt a most unusual chill and shudder pass through my veins. I was not a nervous woman, and this heart-cliill was a new experience to mo. His gaze passed slowly around our little circle, linger ing for a moment as it met some eyes, and passing rapidly over others. I thought he pausod longer as ho gazed into my face than he did at any other, but that may have been imagination. When he had completed the circle ho raised the crystal globe and held it poised upon one hand and spoke some words to his young companion in the strange musical tongue in which he had carried on all his conversation since coming 011 board. She turned from him and repeated to us his words: "Tell the strangers to each think of the dearest one in his own far-off land and to look deep into the magic crystal if he would learn what that loved one is doing at this in stant." We each fixed our attention upon the globe, and I wondered what my sister would think if she could see me sitting here before this strange Indian looking into the depths of a glass of water (if water tho globe contained), and wishing that I could really see her for but one moment. As these thoughts passed through my mind I gazed steadily at the globe and saw the con tents glitter and ripple as if moved by some wind which we felt not. Slowly across the surface passed a dim cloud, which grow rapidly more and more opaque. Then suddenly I saw a corner of the old familiar dooryard in my far-off home. The big maple tree grow into form before my eyes; its leaves flut tered and swayed in an tin felt breeze. The green grass beneath its branches waved and tossed as if it felt the fresh air of morning pas-iug across its ver dant face. A slender form came swiftly out of the dim haze which filled in the background to the picture. It was my sister, and a look of wonder shone in her hazel eyes as she seemed looking straight across the thousand miles of water which divided us. I started up and the picture failed away. I saw nothing but the Hindoo si matting be fore me, holding the crystal globe aloft and watching the faces before him with a keen intentness. He sat silent for a moment, then rose to his feet and began his perform ance by giving us some of the less im portant tricks of the juggler, all the time his eyes roving from face to face as if ho would read each heart to its depths, and I for one felt sure that he could so read mine, for I could feel his gaze sink deep into my brain. I was half afraid of him, but wholly de termined to do nothing to break up the sitting. After some minor trieks of sleight of hand and of the commoner class of legerdemain, lie sjioke to the girl in a harsh, quick tone. ttho brought out from under her voluminous robe a small, flat silver salver, which I noticed was entirely covered by an intricate pattern of engraving. This the man put carefully down upou tho exact centre of his mat, and taking from his bosom a small silk bug, he scattered the contents, a white powder, upon the salver. He addressed tho girl in earnest tones, and then took his seat again upon his mat, with his head bowed upon his breast and his hands gripped closely together as if ho was making some desperate effort or was bearing some terrible agony. Tho girl lighted a small taper which had been among tho articles they had brought with them and put it down beside lier master. Then sho also stood witli bowed head and clasped her hands for a moment as if waiting some signal from her master. She waited but for a moment, for with a shudder ho raised his head and spoke to her in a quick, shrill voice. She in turn repeated to us his request that we should promise that, no mat ter what happened, wo would none of us move from our place. If we should move no one could tell what terrible accident might happen. Of course we all promised, more or less readily, and the man, to mako sure of our obed ience, beckoned us to sit closer to gether in a ring almost touching the mat upon which he sat. We did so, laughing and crowding together, and when wo had taken tho required posi tion he spoke to tho girl, who imme diately caught up tho signal line and proceeded to arrango it in a ring sur rounding our little group as we sat around our entertainer. As soon as she had completed her task she tbok her station within the ring, and, dropping her outer robe, stood in a closer fitting undergar ment, which left her slender liinbs un covered from knee to ankle, from wrist to shoulder. When she had taken her place the man arose, and, muttering some in eautation in a musical undertone, he walked around outside the ring formed by the rope and scattered the ashes over the line, covering it from sight. He then took his place again within the circle, p.nd after the girl had agnin i;.r v •,\1 "pon us thai under 110 cir-« cumstances were we to move, the man took the tape in his hand, and, hold ing it high above his head, seemed to be invoking some power which ho be held in the air above our heads. He then stooped and touched the tlame of tho taper to the end of the rope which encircled us. The flame crept along tho cord, and wherever it lighted a change took place in the substance of the cord. It began to writhe and twist in a very lifelike manner. The flame crept around the circle, and the slen der line which we had all Been taken from our own signal chest was sud denly turned to u twisting, gleaming serpent, which coiled and twined around our circle, hissing and darting out its fangs at every motion. It was one of tho most deadly of the many venomous serpents of the country, and we shrank together with horror. "If the strangers sit silent nothing enn harm," said the girl, with a warn ing gesture. We sat still—we could do nothing else —and tho juggler stood erect and began again the melodious chant which had accompanied his scattering of the ashes. But then it was inarticulate ; now ho seemed demanding aid from j the higher power (or lower, as you choose), and his eyes were "lighted up until they seemed burning coals, and I wondered that they did not scorch my face when he glanced at me. He raised the silver salver with its contents, and, holding it high above his head, waited for a moment in | silence. A flush, and the powder 011 the salver burst into flames. He lowered it to the deck, and the flames died away, leaving behind a mist of smoke, faintly fragrant, which settled lower and lower around us until we viewed all ob jects through its dim haze. I glanced behind to the hammock where the two children were lying to see if they were frightened, but baby was sleeping and Nera was swinging and humming to herself as she played with her doll. She lay with her head upon baby's skirts and he had one little hand buried in her hair. * All this time the serpent had twisted and writhed around us, and the Hin doo had kept up his low, wailing chant. The girl stood with bowed head close beside him, and the smoke seemed to bend and twine about her form until it grew dim and seemed to wave and sway as if in a breeze. Then all at once she raised her arms and slowly, softly floated upward on the cloud waves like a leaf rising on the eddying winds. The chant grew more rapid, the smoko more dense, but still through its vaporous waves we could see the lk'ht form floating up ward, still up until it was lost to sight far above the tops of the masts. Louder and louder chanted the Hin doo. The smoke rose even thicker and more dense. We had lost sight of the girl. All eyes were turned to the spot where she had disappeared far up above our heads. The Hindoo stood erect in the midst of tile circle, his form swaying in rhythmic measure with his chanting. He held his hands higher and his voice took on a deeper tone. Then from far up in the blue void above us we saw a tiny spot scarce visible against the azure sky. It floated downward. Nearer it. came, until we could see that it was the form of the young girl. Lower, still lower, she came, and we could see that she held a burden clasped in her arms. The smoke grew more mistlike as she descended, until it vanished. She came down with the same swaying, drifting motion I had noticed when she ascended. Soon she was below the mastheads, and in a moment she floated just above our heads. Then, to my horror, I recognized the burden she bore. It was the form of my baby. She held him closely clasped in her arms, and before I could move she had floated across and laid him in the hammock, where I had seen him calm ly sleeping but a few moments before wo saw the girl floating upward in the midst of the smoke. Before I could move she stood again before the Hin doo in the centre of the circle. The powder in the salver had ceased to smoke. The line encircling our group was again nothing more dangerous than iv simple hempen rope. My nerves had been so thoroughly unstrung by the sight of my child dropping through the air when I had supposed him sleeping safely by my side, that I did not care for further exhibitions of the wonderful power which the Hindoo possessed. They received their re ward, gathered up their effects, and in a few moments were rowing toward the shore. When wo were a little calmer, and could compare notes, wo found that every one had seen the same wonder ful-sight—the girl, with empty arms, float away out of sight, only to de scend herring the child on her bosom. The 01 v tiling which differed in our several pericnces was in the flrst vision. When the crystal had been held u 'us to look into each saw a different ,-cturc. Each saw the one of whom he thought when told to send his mind back to his best loved friend at home. I linve not the time to give the dif ferent pictures each beheld, but in all the other wonders of the hour each saw the same surprising sign. Wo all saw the twining serpent; every eye had seen the same picture that met mine of the floating girl ascending alone to return bearing the infant in her anus. If one had been deceived all had been—all in our group, that is, for when in talking it over I turned to Nera and said, "Who took baby boy out of the hammock, Nera, while we were busy with the man?" Nera looked up in wide-eyed surprise and answered: "Why, he didn't be tooken up, auntie. I lied on him dress all the time so him couldn't fall out, and we swinged all the time the man stood up and preached." Terms—sl.oo ill Advance; *1.25 after Three Months. "But, Nora, did not yon see the pretty girl fly up in the air?" "No, her stood right still all the time. Her kept watch of big man when he swing liim arms, but her not fly, her not do anything." There you have it. They say now that tho camera shows just what Nera said she saw that day. Men of science are about agreed that the mysterious power of the Hindoo juggler is noth ing more or less than hypnotism, and that would account for Nera and the camera seeing things as they are, not as they appear to those who have yielded their minds to the strange power of tho Hindoo. San Francisco Chronicle SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The Chinese hand is small, slim and with square phalanges. A map of tho smokes of Paris has been recently prepared by 51. Foubert of the Tour St. Jacques. The first nickel-steel crank ever cast in this country was turned out recently at the Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Works. The largest spider of the world is the migalc of Central America, which, with legs extended, is sometimesttfteen feet in diameter. It preys upon birds and lizards. The only two foods which contain all tho substances necessary to human life are said to be milk and the yoke of eggs. A man can live in health on these two foods. In Now Zealand a species of parrot is found that, finding its food entirely on tho ground, has lost its power of flight. It differs from the rest of tho family only in this particular and in being almost voiceless. A submarine vessel named Gustave Zede has been launched at Toulon, Franco. Its movements resemble those of asw imming whale. It is easily sub merged when required and the naval experts present declared it a complete success. The telephone has lately been arranged for the use of divers. A sheet of copper is used in place of the glasses in the helmet, and to this a telephone is fixed, so that tho diver, when at the bottom of tho sea, has only to slightly turn his head in order to report what he sees or to receive instructions from above. A rat of the mountain streams of central Peru enjoys the distinction of being the only rodent that utterly discards a vegetable diet and lives wholly on fish. The animal has been named Ictliomys Stolz manni, and tho only known specimen was obtained l> v v a Polish collector in 1891 and has been placed in the British Museum. A technical paper gives the following rule for determining the number of tons of rails required to lay a mile of track: Multiply the weight per yard by eleven and divide the product by seven. For example: Take a seventy pound rail; seventy multiplied by eleven equals 770, which divided by seven gives 110, the number of tons (of 2210 pounds each) required to the mile. Doctor Gnllipe reports to the French Academy of Sciences, after eight years' investigation, that nil stones, such as gravel, found in tho human body are produced by microbes. Microbes ore tho authors of that chemical decom position which results in calcareous deposits. Healthy organs may contain these parasites, for so long as the humors of the body are in a normal state they produce no bad effects. When the system becomes diseased the microbes produce the deposits which develop into gravel or stone. Insects do not breathe through the nose and mouth. Down the body run two main pipes. These pipes send out branches to right and left like a net work, extending to the extremi ties, even to the ends of the antenna) and to tho claws. Each main tube receives tho external air through nine or ten spiracles or breathing-holes, placed at intervals along the sides of the body. Tho spiracles nro made water-tight and dust-tight by a strong fringe of hair, which completely guards the entrance. 200 Inches of Rainfall Per Month. Cherra Punji, in tho Khasi Hills, Assam, British India, is the "pole of the greatest known rainfallin othei words, it is the wettest region on tho face of the earth. Mr. Blandford, at a meeting of the London Meteorolog ical Society, read a paper entitled "Rainfall at Cherra Punji" in which he presented incontestable proof of the extreme moisture of the country in question. The records go back for nearly sixty-five years, but prior to 1872 are rather incomplete, there be ing soveral whole years in which no JTcord was kept. Carefully compiled data from these weather journals, however, incomplete as they are, prove that quite frequently during thj sum mer, say from May till September, the rainfall for a single month ranges from 100 to 212 inches! Think of it! Nearly eighteen foet of precipitation in thirty .lays. Colonel Sir Henry Yule's register for the year 1841 shows that there were 204 iuehes of rainfall during the month of August. That was something phenomenal even for Assam, however, and is not taken into account in the deductions made above. —St. Louis Republic. The Peculiar Penguin. The "birds of a feather" that "flock together" do not belong to the penguin family, as they are entirely destitute of feathers, having for a covering a skin of stiff down. Another penguin peculiarity is that it swims not on but under the water, never keeping more than its head out, and, when fishing, coming to the surface at such brief and rare inteivals, that an ordinary observer would almost certainly mis take it for a tish.— Courier-Journal. NO. 4!s. THE MAGIC MIRROR. Dim clouds across tho field there float, And shadows slowly form, combine And Rather shape. A tiny boat I see, tossed in the foaming brine. O rower, wait! Urave rower, stay! Nay, boat and rower fade away. Again the dim clouds gather o'er. And slowly shapo a battlefield, And, dead or living, wounded sore, One lies beside a broken shield. O warrior, eanst thou heed or hear? Nay, for the visions disappear. Fling down tbo shining surface baro : An idle tale it tells to me. The shadowy form I image thero I trace in earth and air and sea. Earth, sea and air, from pole to polo The magic mirror of my soul! —May Kendall, in Longman's Magazine. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Garden truck—The wheel-barrow. Truth. A believer in cold water—The ice mau. —Truth. The zebra in the most uncomfortable of all animals—except man.—Puck. As n rnle the giant stands pretty high in the show business.—Buffalo Courier. The Arab never leaves his home. Ho always takes it with him.—Bing hainton Leader. The greatest dead-head scheme over devised—the Chinese deportation pro ject.—Philadelphia Call. "Did Smiggs marry his wife for her money?" "No, it was for her father's." —Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Friend—"Well, Psleuth, how is the detective business?" Old Psleuth "Looking up."—Chicago Tribune. It's a wise man who keepeth his own counsel. Yes, but a wiser one who can sell it like a lawyer. Truth. It is unquestionably true that some of the greatest diplomats of the age are light «ing-rod agents. Detroit Free Press. The trapeza performer's business is precarious at best. He should always have some good thing to fall back on." —Troy Press. A man is always more truthful in his opinion of his second baby than of his first. Women call it more brutal. —Atchison Globs, No longer we'll wait They are here in their glory, The fisherman's bait And the sea-serpent storv. —Washington Star. "Colonel Bloodygeld's old war traits still cling to him." "How so?" "I dined with him lat.t night, and he gave the waiter no quarter."—Philadelphia Record. Droptin—"How'd you happen to call your paper the Sun?" The Editor "lt was started principally to make things hot for a few people. " —Buffalo Courier. "Who arc those giris playing four handed pieces on the piano?" "Ono of them is the daughter of the hostess." "And her accomplice?"—Fliegende Blaetter. "Well!" said the philosophic fisher man, as he drew his line out of the water, "I lost the fish, but I .suppose I nm entitled to are-bait." —Washing- ton Star. Old Lady (anxiously)—" Does this train stop at Liverpool?" Guard "Well, if it don't, ma'am, you will see the biggest smash-up you ever heard of."—Tit Bits. "Cholly, dear boy, don't you think you are taking cold here?" "Oh, no; my man always attends to those things for me; very clevah fellow ho is."— Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Have you received nnv pie yet?" said one offlceseeker to another. "No, but I've received provisions of another sort." "What sort?" "Cold shoul der."—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegram. We went out fishing yesterday, And fished with care and thought By night we had a splendid mess— Which some one else had caught. —Kansas City Journal. Vickars—"Did you hear what Thompson said about you? lie told me that you were tho biggest ass ho had ever met." NVickars—"He told you that? You?"—lndianapolis J our nnl. The young melodramatist, tolling the story of his play to the manager, said: "As the robbers crawl in at the window the clock strikes one." Man ager— "Good ! Which one?"--Boston Globe. "Squibbs is perfectly foolish about the safety of his baby, isn't lie?" "Why do you think so?" "Well, every time the nurse takes the baby out for an airing there is a policeman with her. "—Amusing Journal. Spencer—"There is only one way of getting ahead of a lit' J insurance company, and that is to die.' Fer guson— "No, there is one other way." Spencer—"What's that?" Ferguson "Don't insure."—Brooklyn Life. Papa—"So you lot tho Mulberry gil l get away with all the class honors, oh? lam almost ashamed of you!" Sweet Girl Graduate—"Oh. well, if I were as homely as she is I should have gone in for that sort of thing myself."—ln dianapolis Journal. Wliera Men Play Second Fiddle. There is a considerable tribe of peo ple among the Kasia hills, in tho east ern part of Bengal, who consider the female the superior of the male. The former everywhere and in everything assert their superiority. The men do all the housework and perform all sorts of duties usually given to women in our part of the world, while the wives attend to the more serious affairs of life. Even the ownership of proptrty descends only through tho women. As a matter of course, the girls of a family are held in high esteem, —Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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