SULLIVAN JUSFC REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XI.
Nearly nine hundred thousand grown
English people can neither read nor
write.
Assuming the working uge to bo
from twenty to sixty years, and count
ing only male workers, 440 persons in
this country live on the labor of
every 100 workers.
Naltkenhoff, of Geneva, Switzerland,
Bays there are 311,000 blind persons in
Europe, mostly from fever, and that
seventy-five per. cent, would have kept
their sight had they been properly
treoted.
Tho value of farming lands in this
country is greatest in New Jersey. In
1888 it averaged: New Jersey, $65;
Massachusetts, £SO; Ohio, $4(1; New
York. #44; Vermont, S3B; Maryland,
S3'2; Wisconsin, $23, and in some
Western States less than $5 per acre.
Some one has ingeniously made and
placed on exhibition at the World's
Fair a large oar of corn, over twenty
inches in length, by glueing large
grains of corn oil a wooden col>, the
whole being very deceptive in appear
ance. To hear the farmers discuss the
merits and demerits of this large ear
of corn and its smaller brothers, as
well as to observe the efforts made by
others to get a few grains for seed,
afford considerable amusement for
those who understand the secret, says
the St. LouiH Republic.
The Chinese Government appears to
be awakening to the fact that the
rapid increase in the sale of Indian
teas in Europe may be due in part to
causes for which the Chinese growers
ore responsible. The Likin authori
ties have issued a proclamation against
the manufacture of what is significant
ly known as "lie tea." Tho docu
ment points out that this scandalous
practice has done much to bring about
the lamented decline in the tea trade,
and declares that the authorities arc
determined to put a stop to it. Peo
ple are warned not to make any tea ex
cept from tho genuine tea leaf; but,
says the proclamation, if any person
should disregard the warning, the pun
ishment will be severe—namely, trans
portation for life, for the maker, the
seller, the buyer, and everybody else
concerned in the transaction. Any
person who may give information that
will lead to the detection of those
carrying on this unlawful business
will be handsomely rewarded and "re
ceive a button of the fifth class." The
proclamation ends with an assurance
to tea dealers that hereafter they need
have no fear of adulteration, as no one
will dare to disregard this official an
nouncement, although no provisions
whatever have been made for its en
forcement.
Says the New York Sun : "There is
evidently a great deal for woman to
learn in the domestic arts and sciences
at the Chicago Exposition outside ol
the beautiful building dedicated to her
special honor and instruction. There
is a variety of cooking exhibitions, and
one of them is especially to be com
mended. This is the exhibit devoted
to the illustration of all the uses to
which the products of maize, or corn
as it is universally called in this conn
try. can be profitably and palatably
putin tho economy of the household.
Although the queens of the American
kitchen have been supposed to be well
ocquainted with corn meal, it appears
that there are many grades and modi
fications of the familiar yellow flour,
and the ingenuity of a celebrated de
monstrator of the culinary art has
evolved some forty savory products
with such queer names as "plunkets,"
"jolly boys," "mu-kio-li-we" and "kia
mu-ia-li-we." It is to be hoped that
these articles all taste as sweet under
any other name. This exhibit ought
to prove of further use as showing to
foreign visitors the value and desira
bility of corn flours for human food.
The use of American corn before it has
been transformed into pork for the
table is little known abroad. Ft was
not known at all until a special com
missioner, Mr. Murphy, was sent to
Europe by Secretary Rusk of the De
partment of Agriculture to give lec
tures and demonstrations of how pala
table and nutritious dishes could be
made from a grain which, on that sido
of the Atlantic, fed tho lower animals
(done. As a result of his efforts the
knowledge of corn flour has become
quite usual among the culinary experts
of Paris, Berlin and Vienna, and as
Boon as the peasantry of Europe have
become acquainted with it the foreign
market for our corn will be ap
preciably enlarged. ft is to be hoped
that the appetizing exhibit of johnny
cake and its fanciful derivatives at Chi
cago may lend added fragrance to
every breakfast table in the United
States, as well as make all Europe ac
quainted with a wholesome, nutritious,
(heap and palatable article of food,''
There is a predominance of females
over males in Spain, the number of
the former being 8,913,000 and of tho
latter 8,007,000.
Though tenuis is much more popu
lar in the North than in the South,
fully 15,000,000 pairs of tennis shoes
are sold below Mason and Dixon's lino
every year, the people preferring them
us a foot wear to other shoes.
The high price of horses in Great
Britain has increased tho numbers
lired in England and Scotland 4035
head. Increased attention is given to
horse breeding by the farmers, and the
quality is materially improving for the
useful draught horse—tho Shires and
Clydes.
The Atlanta Constitution suggested
the day after the collapse of Ford's
Theatre at Washington that tho spot
should be marked by a monument, as
an accursed piece of ground not fit to
bo utilized for building purposes. Tho
Washington Evening News now makes
a similar suggestion. It proposes that
the spot shall be devoted to a memorial
of the dead.
The San Francisco Chroniclo notes
that Japan is reaching out for new
fields to colonize. The success of the
recent experiments in Hawaii has
stimulated the Mikado's Government
to endeavor to repeat this work in
Mexico and Australia. On the coffeo
and sugar plantations of Mexico great
difficulty is experienced in securing
good reliable labor and in the Austral
ian colonies every device has been
tried unsuccessfully to fill the demand
for hands on remote ranches. Tho
Japanese are not ideal laborers, but
they nre far superior to the South Sea
Islanders that have been tried in
Queensland and other colonies at tho
antipodes. AVe do not care how many
of the Japanese swarm into Moxico
and Australia, but wo are not anxious
to see them enter our ports for woro
this immigration encouraged it would
result in the same evils that havo fol
lowed the influx of the Chineso.
In the Century George Kcnnan re
plies to the recently publishod defense
of Russia made by the Secretary of tho
Russian Legation at Washington. Mr.
Ivennan presents a large array of facte
to controvert the assertions of Mr.
Botkine. "A striking proof of tho
impoverishment of the Russian peasan
try is furnished," he says, "by the of
ficial statistics with regard to the num
ber of farm animals in tho Empire, and
particularly the number of horses.
Every American farmer knows that ho
would find it extremely difficult, if not
absolutely impossible, to work his land
without the aid of a horse; and that
the complete absence of horses on n
farm is an unmistakable evidence of
extreme poverty and-,destitution. What
is the condition of the Russian peasant
when tried by this test? In tho year
1882 there were in tho village com
munities of Europeantßussia 9,079,924
peasant households. Of this number
2,437,555 households,, representing n
population of perhaps'.l4,ooo,ooo, and
constituting twenty-seven per cent, of
the whole agricultural class, did not
own a single horse. Of course theso
14,000,000 people had not always been
without horses. They had lost them,
portly through contagious diseases,
which they knew not how to combat,
partly in forced settlement of debts to
money-lenders, which they were un
able to pay, and partly as the.result of
the ruthless and short-sighted policy
of a Government that sells tho last
horse of a poor peasant farmer for
taxes, and thus renders it almost im
possible for him ever to pay taxes
again. Mr. Botkine refers in his arti
cle to the recent famine in Russia as a
calamity that gave the Ameaican peo
ple an opportunity to show their sym
pathy with the people of Russia. I
wonder whether it ever occurred to
him that the calamity to which he re
fers was permitted, if not caused, by
the 'beneficent sovereign' whom he de
fends; and that the distress which
called forth our sympathy was the
work, in large part, of the very Gov
ernment that he describes as 'natural
and satisfactory.' The famineiof 1891-
92 was not one of the sndden, unfore
seen, and unforeseeable catastrophies
that are described in bills of lading and
insuraec policies as 'acts of God';
neither was it duo solely to the un
favorable meteorological conditions
which brought about a failure of tho
harvest. It was the result, in largo
part, of the oppression and maladmin
istration to which the people bad been
subjected, and was: merely the culmina
tion of a long-threatened crisis. The
economic couditiou of tho peasants in
the famine-stricken provinces, and
particularly in tho provinces lying
along the Volga River and its tribu
taries, was almost hopelcbß before tho
Laxvect fftilca."
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1893.
A FIVE O'CLOCK POEM.
The shadows lie across the roail
In long, cool streaks ;
Tho sunshine touches tendorly
The green hill peaks.
The air is clear as clear can be,
The sky. soft blue ;
And all the earth seoms fair and sweet,
The heavens, too.
And by tho walk before the gate,
Tho evening breeze
Makes all tho leaves to bend and wave
Upon tho trees.
The sun is low above the hill
Out toward the west;
The quiet air brings happily
A hint of rest.
The cow goes slowly 'long tho fence •
And in tho Held,
The men amid tho hay. their scythes
Have ceased to wield.
So sweet and bright and fair has been
This afternoon
That one might wish tho whole round year
Could bo all Juno.
But best of all the summer eve
Is this I seo
A cheery man comes up tho path—
'Tis John, to toa.
—fronton Register.
A NIGHT WITH KIT CARSON.
BT W. THOMSON,
tHILE crossing tlic
California in the
summer of 1850
slowly along when
we saw a single horseman riding
swiftly towards us.
"A white man, by thunder! anil
alone, boys," exclaimed our gnide,
Sam Lount. "A mighty risky trick
for these parts. We're on the
stamping ground of the Apaches and
they're always on the warpath,
ravening for scalps. We'll likely hear
some news, boys. That man's got
business on hand. That kind of a
fellow don't hurry for nothing."
By this time the lone rider had
reached the head of our line, and
singling out theguide, he courteously
saluted him. "You had better bring
yonr wagons close together, and be
ready to form a corral at a moment's
notice," he said, including us all.
"There's n big band of Apaches, led by
that young villain, Geronimo, laying
for you behind Baby Range, about
eight miles further on. They intend
to stay there until you get into the
pass, but may change their minds and
attack in the open."
"Much obliged, stranger," said our
guide. "My name is Sam Lount;
might I ask yours and how you got
clear of the reds yourself?''
"Well," smilingly responded the
man, "my Sunday name is Chris
topher, but I'm generally called Kit
—Kit Carson, at your service."
"Kit Carson! Kit Carson!" the
familiar name ran down our extended
ranks like a cheer. We all hurried to
tho front to shake hands with the
famous scout.
Carson was at this time in the prime
of life—about forty years old, I think.
A casual observer, noting his rather
under-sized form, peaceful appearance
and modest, unassuming manners,
would never have dreamed of selecting
him from out a crowd as the most dar
ing rider, fearless explorer and success
ful Indian lighter known to Western
fame.
Carson went onto answer the guide's
question: "I had uo trouble to keep
clear of the redskins, because, though
I was often much nearer, none caught
sight of me at a less distance than sixty
rods, and they know Lightfoot" (his
celebrated thoroughbred mare) "too
well to waste time in a chase.'"
"I've got men and horses camped
down on the Little Colorado," he went
on, "but I have been riding alone for
a week trying toselect the shortest and
easiest wagon route through this part
of the country. Three days ago Iran
on Geronimo's warriors just after
they'd wiped out a party of emigrants.
The remains of four wagons were still
smoking, and, as nearly as I could
judge, sixteen bodies had been piled
up with them. Eight mules lay dead
around. Looking down on their camp
yesterday I discovered they had five
American horses and men," he added
slowly; "they've got a young white
woman prisoner."
"There were 106 Indians in the band.
There are 99 now. Most are armed
withbowsand arrows, tomahaws, lances
and knives. About thirty carry old
smooth bore flint lock guns."
"And you think they know that we're
coming?" asked Lount.
"I'm sure of it," answered Carson.
"They have scouts out. You haven't
seen them, but they've counted you
over and over again."
"But they must know that you'd
warn us?" I observed.
"What do you take me for, young
sir," laughed Carson. "Not a red has
had sight of me for the last twenty
four hours. It was from their motion
that I knew n train was coming."
"And now," continued the scout,
becoming serious, "it must never be
said that thirty-six American men al
lowed a countrywoman of theirs to be
carried off by a band of savages. If
you'll join in and do exactly as I say,
we'll rescue that girl before to-morrow
morning. Who says yes?"
"I," shouted every man of us.
"Very well, then," said Carson with
a sudden sunny unile. "Unhitch for
dinner, now, and we shall not start
again until tho middle of the- after
noon. Tho plan is to reach Baby
Range just before suudgwu and camp a
little this wdv. ''
Carson managed so that we arrived,
seemingly in the ordinary course of
travel, at the appointed spot shortly
after the sun had disappeared behind
the range. In order to avoid all
chances of his dreaded presence being
descried by the Indians ho had dis
mounted when within a mile of the
mountain, placed his famous horse in
the rear amoung our led animals and
concealed himself in one of the cov
ered wagons.
Everything in the vicinity was quiet
as the grave, but the redoubted scout,
assured us that, lying behind the
frowning heights, were five score sav
ages, and that probably one or two
were looking down upon us.
We formed corral in the leisurely
manner of men unconscious of danger.
Night came on with a cloudless sky.
By the light of a full moon objects
would be quite distincly seen, while a
strong wind blowing from the west, i.
e., directly from the enemy's position
to ours, effectually drowned the noise
of any movements we might make.
After snpper Carson gathered us
around him and said in his peculiarly
soft low voice: "Near the south end of
this little range there is, as your
guide knows, a deep, ragged ravine
winding around to the west and finally
running out on the open plain quite
close to the trail.
"Geronimo'Binen won't make amove
while this wind is blowing to carry a
sound to us, but they know that it
will die away just before daybreak.
They propose then to steal through
the pass, form up ou this side, make a
rush and take you by surprise ; if they
could do that, not a man of you would
escape.
"Now, I propose about miduiglit,
when the horses will all be in the cor
ral, to take twenty men, ride straight
down the east side to the ravine, pass
through it like shadows and come out
on the trail in their rear. Here the
real trouble will begin, as we shall
then have to sneak, down wind, over a
mile of open ground.
"Under ordinary circumstances at
tempting to surprise a band of Indians
in this way would be childish, but
these fellows are gorged with stolen
food, are intent only upon wiping out
this party, will never dream of being
attacked from the west, and if they
keep watch at all it will be only for a
short time and in this direction.
"Hut remember, men, whether we
rescue a live worn in or a mutilated
corpse depends entirely upon the
exactness with which you who are left
in camp follow instructions.
"If our surprise is perfect the reds
will all rush fom-trd to meet our
attack. They will not, must, not have
time to think of their prisoner, else
they'll murder her at once.
"One hour after we leave here ten
of you milf>t silently saddle and mount
your horses. The instant you hear
our first volley dash like lightning
through the pass.
"You'll see the woman tied up close
to the rocks on the left of the pass as
you go out. Two of you, appointed be
forehand, must snatch her up and fly
back, while the other eight join in the
light. It won't last ten minutes, for
there's not a baud of Indians on the
plains tliut will stand that long when
unexpectedly attacked at night on both
sides at once. And now," concluded
the intrepid and experienced .Carson,
"we may rest for a few hours in abso
lute security."
At midnight Carson and his selected
party left so stealthily that some of us
who were dozing did not notice their
departure.
Precisely at 1, Lount having
previously let us draw lots to determine
who should accompany him, directed
the mount. Both young Alec Fraser
and myself were of this number. The
whole ten of us, silent as statues, sat
motionless for some time in our
saddles.
We were armed with percussion lock
muzzle loaders. Each man carried,
besides his belt knife, a heavy Colt's
revolver.
At last, when nearly a half hour had
gone by, the old guide whispered:
"All goes well, boys. If the redskins
have no dogs along, Carson'll surprise
them."
He had hardly spoken when out upon
the night air rang a volley of rifle
shots, and simultaneously from the
Indian camp rose a pandemonium of
yells and shrieks.
"Bide, men! ride!" cried Lount.
The corral keepers whirled one of the
encamping wagons aside, and we flew
into the pass five abreast.
As we thundered headlong over its
'2OO yards of leugth Lount hurriedly
added: "You two, Prescott and Ad
ams, seize the prisoner. You others
follow me, and, boys, don't throw a
bullet away !"
The next instant we flashed out
upon the Apaches' camping ground
and immediately caught sight of the
captive. She was sitting with her
back to us, bound to a spear shaft
driven into the earth. Never drawing
reiu we dashed past her, leaving Pres
cott and Adams. We spurred on where
a fight was raging a hundred yards to
the west.
The savages, ready to fly when a
score of warriors failed to rise after
the rifle volley, had now correctly es
timated the number of their assailants
and were rallying. Most were on foot,
but some had scrambled to their ponies
bareback. Just as we came out upon
them I saw two mouuted braves charge
furiously down with leveled lances ou
Carson. Before either came within
striking distance tho unerring marks
man had fired twice, lightning like,
and both fell.
They never noted our approach, and
when we fired upon their rear the
whole body broke and fled.
Then Carson's voice, no longer soft
and low, but ringing out trumpet
toned, rose above the din: "Reload
your giinii and pistols ! Follow up!"
We eight men had aimed only at
the six ponies iu the melee and we had
brought them down, so that among the
rush of flying savages there was not
now a single mounted man.
It was a wild raco. We did not in
tend a second ambuscade to be set for
us. It took us only ten seconds to re
charge our rifles, then wo dashed off—
Carson, who carried two magnificent
revolvers, joining us and leaving his
party to reload.
The sixty-five Apaches wero strain
ing every nerve to reach the shelter of
the dark ravine, and as they hod but
one mile to cover it seemed possible
that we might not overtake them.
Carson, Lount and Scott, superbly
mounted, gained on them and came
within half rifle shot, while the other
six of us wero still 150 yards in the
rear. Suddenly, seeing only three
were close upon them, a dozen war
riors turned and delivered their fire.
Scott fell, and his trained horse came
to a dead stop. In the hope of secur
ing at least onesealif, the braves rushed
up with tomahawks and knives. As we
pressed forward we could see in the
brilliant moonlight, close on each side
of the riderless horse, Corson on tho
right and Lount on the left—the two
veteran plainsmen sitting calinlv in
their saddles owoiting the onset. Wo
did not dare to discharge our rifles for
fear of hitting our leaders.
Carson had said calmly: "Their
pieces are empty, Sam. Wait till they
almost touch us."
The Apaches, finding the whites did
not lire, evidently supposed that their
"shoot-all-day little guns" were not
loaded. With exultant yells they came
recklessly on. They had reached within
llftoen feet of the impassive horsemen,
when six shots, so rapidly discharged
that the report of one overlapped the
other, blazed out and as many braves
| went down.
I Then, before the remaining six could
| turn and run, C'trson, giving way to a
fit of rage, drove tho spurs into his
horse's flanks, and, with an appalling
shout, fairly rode two of the miscreants
down and the others skurried away,
but our rifles finished them.
The twenty men who had been left
behind to reload rejoined ns here for
the pursuit, but Carson put up his re
volvers. "That will do, boys. Tho
reds have got their lesson."
All this, which has taken so long to
tell, occupied scarce a minute in the
doing. We found Scott with but a
scalp wound, and wo set off back to tho
Indian camp a jolly party.
Scattered over the ground wo found
blankets, buffalo robes, deer skins,
prairie wolf pelts, war clubs, bows and
! arrows and spears. Twenty sets of
| these weapon;: ' lay by the warriors
| bloin by tho opening rifle volley. Near
j at hand were tethered more than a hun
dred ponies.
Then we set out for the corral. Tho
! approach, tho attack, the rescue, tho
j skirmish, the pursuit, the destruction
: of the camp had been crowded into
| less than three hours.
This was only one among the daring
| necessary deeds which made Kit Car
son's name a household word through
out the length and breadth of his na
tive land.
In after years when, at his own homo
in Taos, I came to know Christopher
Carson well, he assured me—and his
history bears him out in this- that
never once in liis long career of battle
had he needlessly killed a single red
man, though in those times among the
pioneers of the Western plains tho life
of an Indian was considered of no
more account than that of a noxious
beast.
When the "jubilation" had quieted
down Carson inquired for tho pris
oner.
"Safe here, but utterly worn out
and nearly starved," replied Prescott.
"The Indians would offer her nothing
but horseflesh. Wo gave her a good
supper, with plenty of hot tea, and she
is asleep in Scott's wagon, fast asleep
if not awakened by our noise."—New
York Press.
A Gruesome Occupation.
Tho maecliabee men, or fishers of
dead bodies, of Paris, France, who ply
their doleful trade on the Seine be
tween the Auteuil viaduct and the Bil
lancourt bridge, threaten togo on
strike owing to the slowness with
which their money premiums are paid.
Pere Joseph, the senior member of the
profession, has been fishing for mac
chabees or dead bodies for the past
twenty-five years, but he and his com
panions are nc idle as he has not
been paid for the last batch of corpses
sent to tho morgue. Joseph sent for
ty-two maochabees to the city dead
house last year and was paid three
dollars each for them, his total gains
being about one hundred and twenty
six dollars. This year the trade
seemed to bo improving; the morgue
literally overflowing with bodies taken
out of the river, and in one day he
made twelve dollars. That money,
however, he lias not yet received, al
though it bos been due for a fort
night, and hence ho has laid down his
ropes and grappling iron until the city
officials, whose duty it is to remuner
ate him und his companions for their
services, shall be more expeditious in
their paying—New York Mercury.
Metnllzing Cloth.
An interesting announcement is
made iu the French papers of the dis
covery of a process for metalizing
textile fabrics, by which, it is claimed,
the latter are rendered proof against
the attack of insects. The materials,
such as wool, flannel, calico, etc., are
for this purpose immersed itf » boiling
bath composed of UJ pounds of sul
phate of copper, one pound of sul
phuric acid and sixty-two gallons of
water, the fabric being calendered and
dried after its removal from the fluid.
The finish obtained by this process
will, it is said, bear two or three wash
ings before it is *again necessary to
subject the cloth to a repetition of the
opeitttiou.— .Detroit Free Frew.
Terms—s 1.00 in Advance; 81.25 after Three Months.
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
It is a scientific fact that Chinamen
are remarkably long lived.
Neison says that for every death dur
ing the year two persons are con
stantly sick.
A new glass for thermometers is nn
affected by a heat of 1000 degrees, the
ordinary glass being unreliable above
750 degrees on account of its tendency
to soften.
Lyonet, who spent his whole life in
watching a single species of caterpil
lar, discovered in it 4000 eyes. Tho
common fly has 8000 eyes, and certain
butterflies 25,000.
A salt mine near Speurenberg, Ger
many, is over 4194 feet deep. It is
sixteen feet in diameter for 1200 feet,
the boring below that having been
made with a thirtcen-inch augur bit.
Edison is working on a magnetic ore
separator. Tho only obstacle in the
way of its success at present is the
necessity of crushing the ore to a very
fine powder before the separating
process.
Tho smokes of Paris have been
mapped by M. Fonbert. The princi
pal factory chimneys havo been set
down, with circles of various sizes and
tints to represent the emission of
smoke from each.
A new device in the driving gear of
a locomotive which equalizes the
steam pressure and prevents the
pounding in the cylinder has been in
vented and patented by David S. Pat
terson, of North Platte, Neb., who has
been blind all his life.
The human heart is the most powerful
pumping-maehine for its size ever
made. It throws into the arteries
seven and three-fourth tons of blood
per day. Its exertion is equivalent to
that required to raise a weight of 122
tons one foot in twenty-four hours.
The telephone is now used by deep
water divers. A receiver and trans
mitter combined is affixed to the in
side of the helmet near the diver's ear.
By a slight turn of his head he can
apeak into the 'phone, and he can hear
readily from it at all times. Its value
in deep-sea work, for reporting pro
gress or receiving instructions, is clear.
Formerly the only communication was
by a system of pulls at a cord.
Iridescent clouds were recorded at
Christiana from 1871 to 1892 by H.
Mohr. The phenomenon is rare, such
clouds having been visible only on
forty-two days and not at all in the
five years ending with 1880. They
occur mostly in midwinter, rauge in
height from fourteen to over eighty
iniles (tho loWefft twice as high as any
other clouds), and seem to be con
nected with storm in the North At
lantic.
An Australian inventor has just per
fected a method of plowing with the
help of dynamite. The explosive is
used in very small quantities, and there
is an apparatus for touching it off
underground. The result of this is
to thoroughly disintegrate the soil. It
is asserted that there is no possibility
of a serious explosion, and that owing
to •the small quantity of dynamite used
the cost is very little, while the result
ing benefit is enormous.
Curious Spoil From Dahomey.
It is said that General Dodds, who
recently returned to Paris from the
conquest of Dahomey, brought back
with him a large collection of curious
objects, which will soon be placed in
the various museums of Puris for the
delectation of admiring Parisians.
Among the articles are three large fig
ures, sculptured or carved in wood,
representing Behanzin; his father,
Gle-Gle, and his grandfather, Gle-Gle,
who was also called Kini-Kini, or Lion,
has, in his counterfeit presentment in
wood, the head and features of a mon
arch of the desert, while Behanzin,
the still living but deposed Dahomeyan
chief, has a shark's head in token of
his nom de guerre, as it may be called,
Le Requin. The general has also in
his possession the banner given to Be
hanzin by some Portuguese traders on
the west coast of Africa. It is in
scribed with the words ltci (or king)
Behanzin, underneath being the Da
homeyan arms, consisting of a shark,
an egg, and two palm trees. Two
Krupp guns taken from the Dahomey
ans, who had buried them in a field
after the capture of Abomey, have
been unshipped at Toulon, and will
soon be placed in the museum of the
Hotel des Invalides.—Picayune.
Swedish Honesty.
A point which soon attracts the at
tention of travelers in Sweden if the
punctilious honesty and truthfulness
of the inhabitants. This is best seen
in the many little incidents of daily
life. When asking for places at a
theatre, for instance, the ticket clerk
never fails to inform the applicant if,
owing to the crowded state of the
house, a better position would be se
cured with a cheaper ticket than the
one asked for. Again, when parcels
are taken out by steamers from Stock
holm to country places in tho neigh
borhood, they are just thrown out on
to the quay, where they frequently re
main half the day without being
claimed. It never seems to any one
that they could possibly be taken by
anybody but their rightful owners.
On a canal trip of any length a little
book lies in the saloon of the steamer,
iu which each passenger keeps his own
account of the number of meals, etc.,
he may take during the journey.—New
York Dispatch.
Circumstances Alter Cases.
Tit the. Isle of Man it was formerly
the law that to take away an ox or a
horse was not a felony but a trespass,
because of the difficulty in that little
territory of concealing or carrying
them off. But to steal a pig or a fowl,
which is easily done, was a capital
emie. New Xork World.
NO. 44.
THE BLACKSMITH.
Cllni* clang, cling clang!
Went the blacksmith's hammer,
While his brazen voice outrang
High o'er all the clamor.
In his forge from break of Jay,
When he pealuil his roundelay,
8o lieree ho seemed, the neighbors rO" I
Quaked with terror at the sound.
Loudly ring, my anvil true,
I'll have ne'er a bride but you ;
In my black abode, thy beat
Than a love song is more sweet:
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
Cling clang, cling clang!
Softly rang the hammer :
Roger's heart instead went bans,
With a violent clamor.
He the pretty Rose had soon,
Flower half blown of sweet fifteen,
Put on gloves, was wed full soon.
Changed was then the blacksmith's tunot
Soft, my anvil, ring to-day
In the name of love I pray,
Softly, softly sound the blows,
Not to drown the voice of Rose,
La, la, la, la ; !». la, la, la, la. la.
Cling clang, cling clang!
Rose was very trying ;
Three times, hark ! a slap outrang,
Into silence dying.
Ah. poor Rose, sure all is o'er '
Came the watch and burst the door.
Lo, the man of noise and strife
On his knees before his wife!
Rose, in love's tlear name I pray,
Beat me, beat me all the day,
For thy pretty hand will be
Soft as satin still to me.
La, la, In, la, la, la, la, la. la. la.
—From the French ol G. Lemolne.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The lyin' of society —Not at homo.
Shoving the queer—lncarcerating
lunatics.
The baby in the cradle strikes the
bed-rock of happiness.
The police justice should always bo
prepared to see a line point.
When a man begins to say "Every"
thing goes!" it usually does.—Puck.
The less attention you pay to your
neighbors the more you interest them.
Two for five—A couple of tramps
I trying to pick Up a nickel. —New York
Journal.
Ah escaping prisoner seldom begs »
pardon for the liberty he takes.—
froy Press.
It is a strong boarder who can eat
three plates of hash without turning a
hair.—Boston Courier.
Yale wants the * ruckif but what t<»
j do with a granite quarry is a puzzle,
j Meriden Republican.
Knowledge is power except in the
case of the man who knows he is licked.
—lndianapolis Journal.
One way of providing for a rainy
i day is to make preparations togo to a
i picnic. —Philadelphia Times.
It is hard to live within one's salary,
but there is one consolation —it is
harder to live without it. —Truth.
The bare-faced lie naturally does not
meet with the same respect as the
ancient humbug with whiskers.—Puck.
"The heart knoweth its own bitter
ness," but there are many souls who
don't appear to realize their own gall.
—Ram's Horn.
The modern landlord doesn't get
frightened when he sees the hand
writing- on the wall. He just gets mad.
—Buffalo Courier.
If cholera prevails iu years when
rhere are few flies, the indications f<r
a healthy summer are very favorablo.
—Buffalo Express.
A Camden minister who was given a
match sealed in an envelope for a wed
ding fee made light of the imposition.
—Philadelphia Record.
He—"Don't you think you could
love me just a littleV" She—"Oh,
yes: I can love you just as little as you
like."—Somerville Journal.
It is easier for a camel togo through
the eye of a needle, than for a woman
togo through a ferryboat without
glancing iu the mirror.—Puck.
"What's the name of your new
boat?" "I named it 'Bridget,' after
the cook, because it makes such heavy
rolls. "--Journal of Education.
You perhaps wouldn't think so to
look at it, but almost any musician
will tell you that the stick bea+H the
drum all hollow. —Troy Press.
Miss Chicago—"ls your neuralgia
any better, de.v?" Miss Boston—
"Better? How could it be? It was
never good. '" -Detroit Free Press.
A great deal has been said as to the
slowness of the turtle's movements,but
all we can say is that he generally ar
rivos in time for soup. —Drake's Mag
azine.
Even after people have struggled to
reach the top of the hill of success
they find the apex swarming with
mosquitoes and other nuisances.—
Truth.
Hotel Clerk (Chicago) —' 'Sir, yon
are leaving without your board bill!"
Guest—"Of course I am! Don't take
me for a freight train, do you?"— A
tlanta Constitution.
Bob (trying to grow a mustache) — "I
say, Tom, does it show at all?" Tom
(seriously) "Well, yes, a little ; but
never mind. I don't think anybody
will notice it."—Washington News.
"Is Spooney apt to marry thai pret
ty girl at the cravat counter?" "I
think he would if he felt that sho
could break herself of the habit of
calling for 'cash.'"—Philadelphia
Record.
"I think I will take n holiday the
next three weeks," remarked the Sec
retary and Treasurer of a private com
pany to the Chairman thereof. "But
yon returned from one only two weeks
ago." "True : that was my holiday as
Secretary; I wish togo now as Treav
vutt," ■—Tid-Bitfl