SULLIVAN JIS& REPUBLICAN.
W, 11. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XI.
Trade journals are noting the fact
that the price of wool is the lowest in
its history.
The "trusty" prisoner in a peni
tentiary belongs, in tho opinion of tho
Washington Star, to the same general
closs as the gun that nobody knew was
loaded.
There is one place where a womati
get's a man's pay for doing a man's
work. It is the Township of Marsh
field, Maine, and any woman who
wishes to work out her road tax can do
so and have her day's work count for
as much as a man's.
As an instance of the wonderful
growth of the English language, it
may be noted, observes the Detroit
Freo Press, that, whereas Noah Web
ster could not find 80,000 words to put
in his compilation, the recent Century
Dictionary comprises more than 200,-
000.
At the beginning of this year there*
were 1168 submarine cables in exist
ence, of which 880 belonged to different
dominions, and 288 to private com
panies. Tho former possessed a length
of 16,<>52 miles and the latter had a
length of 144,743 miles, thus the total
length was 161,395 miles.
Tho Terra Haute (Ind.) Gazette ex«
claims: ' 'Take all the noted cathedrals
and public buildings and monuments
and colossal statuary of the ancient
and modern world and group them in
tho Elysian fields and one might see
tho equal in beauty and radiant
splendor of the magical White City as
viewed from the top of the Manu
factures and Eiberal Arts Building.
But until that is done the White City
will stand alone a peerless gem in the
diadem of the centuries."
The annual loss of human lifo by
lightning shock is very great through
out tho world. In European Russia,
from 1885 to 1802, no less than 2270
persons were killed in this way. In
Austria during the same time the
electric fluid killed 1700 persons. Ton
thousand persons are reported as hav
ing been struck by lightning during
tho past twenty-nine years, with 2252
deaths, in France, while in the United
States 202 deaths from lightning were
recorded in 1892. The effects of light
ning stroke are usually shock and
coma and partial or complete loss of
sight or hearing. The tissues are often
burned superficially or deeply.
Vice-Admiral Colomb, of the British
Navy, who is regarded as one of th e
leading naval authorities of the world,
has expressed an opinion regardimg
the most available types of war ships,
particularly for the United States.
He says that we should build battle
ships, armored cruisers and torpedo
boats, because they will bo what we
shall need in case of any war wo are
likely to have. He says that if he had
control of the Navy Department of the
United States he would look at the
Nations with whom this country might
goto war, and would then provide
enough battle ships to be superior to
the battle ships of any one of these
possible enemies, aud continually keep
up this superiority. Ho would also
build fast cruisers, many of which
should armored—vessels like the
New York for example—and then, in
addition, fast torpedo boats as a means
of coast defense.
Tho President of a lifo insurance,
company has recently made public
somo interesting facts concerning sui
cide. It 6aid that in 1877, of the peo
ple whose lives were insured, 1.28 per
cent, died by their own hands. Since
then the life insurance companieshave
practically discontinued the policy of
refusing to pay in case of suicide, and
the result is that the ratio of suicides
tot lie insured population has increased
alarmingly. Tho President whose
statements we have quoted says:"lt
is passing strange that men will delib
erately contrive the means of their
own destruction in order to got the
best of a life insurance company and
leave money to those who come after
them. Perhaps there is nothing very
strange in it, comments the Atlanta
Constitution. In this country there
are plenty of men who arc afraid of
nothing in this world or in the next.
The only good thing about them is the
natural affection they feel for their
families. They belong to the utterly
hopeless and desperate class. Tliey
see no chance of providing for the im
mediate wants of their loved ones un
less they insure their lives and step
out of the world. Free-thinking in
religion and our social conditions are
largely responsible for this state of
affairs. The life insurance companies
will have to change their regulations
when they find that a very largo per
centage of their customers do not con
sider life worth living.
More children are born in Greeco
and in Spain, in proportion to popu
lation, than in any other Caucasiau
Nations.
From recent revelations made after
the disaster to H. M. S. Victoria, it
would Beem to the Chicago Record that
the British navy is considerably more
powerful in picture books than on tho
briny sea.
New Zealand's Labor Deportment
lias begun to publish the Journal of
Commerce and Labor, a monthly jour
nal tp contain official reports on the
state of the labor markets throughout
the colony and Australasia in general. It
will be distributed free to public bodies,
trades unions, and all applicants.
The mistletoe will be more difficult
to find next winter. It comes olmost
exclusively from the orchards of Nor
mandy, where it flourished on tho
apple tree. The French Government
has decided that all the mistletoe must
be cut off the trees at once, on the
ground that it sucks the sap and im
poverishes them.
The death of A. J. Drexel, of Drexel,
Morgan A- Company, in no way affects
the business of that great corporation,
but it removes a millionaire who
ranked with George W. Childs as a
public benefactor. The two men were
like brothers, and thero was a gener
ous rivalry between them to see which
could do the most good with his
money.
Sunday labor is prohibited in
Europe, ex3ept in France aud the
Netherlands, where the workmen are
given time for devotional exercises.
Night work is prohibited for women
under twenty-one years of age in
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany,
Great Britain, Netherlands and
Switzerland, except in cases where
factories run continuously all hours.
The hours of labor are eleven daily, ex
cept in Great Britain, where ten hours
only aro allowed. In unhealthy occu
pations a doctor's certificate is re
quired in all countries for both women
and children.
Judge Mobley, of Greene County,
Alabama, received an appointment tho
other day in one of the Washington
departments, and he journeyed to the
capital to qualify. But after looking
over the ground, avers the New Or
leans Picayune, the judgo returned
home, declining the appointment in a
letter to his indorser, Congressman
Bankhead, in which he said: "I give
you the following reasons: (1) I havo
lived to be more than forty years old
and have never been bossed by any
body, and can't begin that now. (2)
I am making more than S2OOO at homo
and like to live there. (3) I have been
elected President of the Greene County
Fishing Club, and it is time to assume
the duties of my office."
This has not been a good year for
railroad building and the reasons are
apparent. During tho six months
ended July Ist only 1014 miles of rail
road were built in the United States,
less than we have built during any six
months since the war. The new mile
age is distributed as follows:
State. Llues. Mites. State. Lines. Miles
Alabama .1 12. Missouri 4 90.1
Arkansas...B 16. Nebraska 1 22.
Arizona. ..1 42. N. Hatnp 11.
California..3 3C.25 New York .1 35.15
Colorado. ..1 6. N. Carolina 0 40.7
Florida..... 5 50.5 N. Dakota .1 50.
Idaho 1 3. Ohio 4 52.7
Indiana 3 0.6 Oregon 2 11.5
Illinois 4 37. Ponn. . ..10 181.84
Kansas 1 6.3 It. Island 1 6.
Kentucky .4 37. Tennessee.. .1 7.
Louisiana.. .2 4.25 Texas 5 125.82
Maine 1 5. Washington 5 29.5
Massach'ts.,l 1. W. Virginia .7 59.75
Minnesota..3 22. Wyoming .. 1 4.
It will be observed, says the Atlanta
Journal, from which the above table is
taken, that not a mile of new railroad
has been built in Georgia this year,
though Georgia year before last led
all the States of the Union iu railroad
construction. The fact that Georgia
does not appear in the list printed
above is not to be regretted. There
has been no recent need for new rail
roads in this State, and money has been
so tight that none of it has been found
ready togo into experimental enter
prises of this sort. A similar state of
affairs in the other States is the ex
planation of the small new railway
mileage. Railroad building line, boen
overdone in many States, and it will
be a long time before some of the
lines that have been built in Georgia
during the last five or six years will
pay. The general falling off in rail
road construction is a healthful sign.
In the first six months of last year
there were built in the United States
1367 miles of railway and the con
struction for the year was 4200 miles.
The same ratio of increase for the last
six months of the year would give ijs
about 3000 miles of new railroad fir
1893,
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1893.
THE GOLDEN DOORWAY.
Restless man hag traveled for,
Peace and home delight him not;
O'er strange ways his journeys are,
Snows and suns affright him not.
Ho tho camel! Ho the sledgo!
Ho the bateau 'mid the sedge!
And the surly jog of tho Esquimau dog along
the glacier's edge!
So ho voyages up and down
Bliding seas and deserts rude, i
And takes the wind on bis forehead brown
In all degrees of latitude.
Ho to the sources of tho Nile!
Ho to somo unknown Arctic islo
Whore tho grim ice pack shall lie at his back
for many a frozen mile!
Distance doth ho laugh to scorn
And the perils of the waste,
And the storms beneath tho horn ;
Death itself ho hath outfaced.
Ho the simoom! Ho tho shock
When on reefs tall vessels knock!
Aud the poisoned sponr and the serpent near
and the avalanche from the rock!
He belts tho continents with steel,
Ho pierces mountains through and
through,
On countless tracks tho grinding wheel
Hurries him, thrusts him out of view.
. Ho the piston driving fast!
Ho the race against the blast!
And tho ceaseless flight In dark aud light
that girdles tho earth at last!
Seo where shows tho magic goal
Of all journeyings that are,
Bright like the noiseless gates that roll
Black for Phoebus's golden ear.
Ho the traveler, patient, bold !
Ho tho doorway of erustod gold,
And tho wonders thoreln by whloli meu win
a now world from the old!
Still man rides on sea and shore,
Pressing forward, turning never.
Tells us now this golden door
His sharp unrest and long endeavor.
Ho the oar aud rushing keel!
Ho the saddle ! Ho the wheel!
And the lord of tho rail, that doth not ail in
Ills tireless framo of steel.
—Chicago Becord.
THE DAUGHTER'S MISTAKE
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
put away tho
/.A| J things, do; I'm
QJgt '•",4 11 tired to death!"
{ | Theodora Evelyn
tossed her faded
ball-bouquet on one
side, and her white
cashmere opera
cloak on the other,
while she herself sank with an air of
utter weariness upon a sofa drawn in
front of the fire.
She WHS a tall, brilliant-complex
ioned blonde, with big bluo eyes like
a doll's, golden hair, and a lovely red
mouth that put you in mind of a clus
ter of dead-ripe' scarlet cherries, and
her dress was of white mist-liko tulle,
looped up by bouquets of bluo forget
me-nots, and floating blue ribbon.
Mrs. Evelyn stood patiently by, pick
ing up the flowers, folding tho opera
cloak with the showy silk lining on the
outside, and stirring tho tire that it
might blaze up with a more cheery
luster.
"Will you have a cup of tea, love,
before you goto bed?" she asked,
wistfully.
"No, I won't!" answered tho young
lady, undutifully. "Thank goodness
I'm not such a bundle of whims as you
are, mamma. Why don't you take out
my hair-pinß, instead of standing star
ing there?"
"I didn't know you were ready,
dear," said the mother, advancing with
nervous haste.
"There!" ejaculated Theodora, tart
ly; "you've torn my dresß-trail with
your clumsy feet. I've a great mind
not to let you come near me."
"I'm very sorry, darling," apolo
gized tho meek matron, turning red
and pale as she began to tako down
the luxuriant masses of Theodora's
golden hair.
"What good does it do to be sorry?"
snapped the girl. "It's what you al
ways say. Do make haste; didn't I
tell you I was tired ?"
"Did you have a pleasant evening,
Theo?" ventured her mother, after a
few minutes of silence, during which
tho beauty yawned several times.
"Pleasant enough," was the un
gracious response.
"Was Mr. St. Emil there?"
"Yes," said Theo, roused into some
thing like animation at the mention of
that name; "and that piece of pink
and-wliite wax, his lady-mamma. Oh,
how anxious ho was that I should make
a fovorable impression on the old
woman !"
"And you?"
"Ob, I played sweet simplicity to
perfection—said 'Yes, ma'am' and
'No, ma'am!' " and Theodora laughed
boisterously at the recollection. "How
delighted St. Emil was!"
"Then he is really interested?"
"Interested? Of course he is.
Mark my words, mamma, I shall be
Mrs. St. Emil yet."
Mrs. Evelyn's eyes sparkled at the
alluring prospect.
"Only," went on Theodora, languid
ly, surveying her pretty face in a
cheval glass, "the idea of such a
mother-in-law almost daunts me. He
thinks so much of due reverence being
paid her, and I, for one, can't fall
down and worship any old woman
alive. But it's just as well, I suppose,
to keep up the illusion until after
we're married."
"Oh, certainly, certainly," said the
discreet mother, eagerly.
"How St. Emil would stare if he
heard me hauling you over the coals
sometimes," cried Theodora, with a
laugh. "He thinks one's mother is
next door to one's guardian angel, the
fool!"
"Theo, don't talk so," said Mrs.
Evelyn, a contraction as if of puiu
passing over her pale, worn face.
"I'm sure I've heard you call papa a
fool."
"No, Theo, you haven't."
"Then tho moro goose you," said
Theo, yawning fearfully. "Do make
haste. Aren't you most through?"
"Just through now, darling."
And Theodora Eveleyn, dismissing
her mother just as she might havo dis
missed any hired and pensioned slave,
lay down to her prayerless pillow to
dream of wedding rings and a bridul
altar wreathed with white blossoms.
For she was quite sure of Grant St.
Emil now.
"Mamma," called Theo, tho next
morning, and Mrs. Evelyn meekly
obeyed tho summons, coming from the
back room, where she was busily en
gaged in ripping upart the breadths of
a rose-colored dress belonging to Theo,
which that young lady had taken a
fancy to have altered. "Mamma, here
arc two tickets to tho private mas
querade at Mrs. Almy's, with Mr. St.
Emil's compliments—one for you and
one for me. How ridiculous! The
idea of you at a masquerade !"
Mrs. Evelyn's face had lighted up.
"I should really like togo for once,
Theo," she said, hesitatingly. "I
have never had an opportunity of see
ing you in society, darling, and —"
"Oh, bother!" interrupted Theo,
"as if that made any difference. But
Grant thinks a shouldn't
attend a masquerade, of all places in
tho world, without her mother's ehup
eronage, and I suppose I must humor
him. What shall I personate, mam
ma? I should like togo as Diana
with lier bow and arrows, if you can
squeeze enough money out of papa
for a decent costume."
"I will seo what papa can sparo
you, love."
"He's awfully stingy of late," ob
served Theo, with a shrug,
"You shouldn't speak so of your
papa, Theo," remonstrated Mrs. Eve
lyn. "Business is very dull just now,
and our expenses are heavy."
"That's the very reason you
shouldn't bo tagging after me to ull
tho masquerades in town," grumbled
Theo. "But I suppose wo can't very
well slip aside of it. Any old black
dress and a satin domino mask will do
for you." ♦
"Yes," assented Mrs. Evelyn, who
had learned through the long tutelage
of dire experience to think very little
of her own wants and requirements;
"unything will do for me."
"It's such a bore, your going nt
all," muttered Theodore, with an un
gracious toss of her beautiful blonde
head. "I'll teach St. Emil a thing or
two when I hav him safe under my
wing."
Miss Evelyn's costumo as that of
Diana, for tho private masquerade
ball, was a decided success. Her sil
ver-green tunic, trimmed with gold
fringe, the fillet that bound her lovely
yellow hair and tho Grecian draperies
that revealed even while they hid the
contour of her perfect arms, made her
look even more beautiful than her or
dinary self, and Mrs. Evelyn gazod
with prido upon the transformation
which had been for the most part
wrought over by skillful and industrious
fingers. For poor, harassed Mr. Eve
lyn had absolutely declined to "shell
out," as his daughter gracefully ex
pressed it.
"It's out of tho question, Mary—
utterly and entirely out of tho ques
tion," he had answered when she had
applied to him for "a little money."
"I have to 6teer carefully to avoid
sheer bankruptcy, and I cannot sparo
a single cent from my business just
now!"
So Mrs. Evelyn, having sold a pair
of opal ear-rings, her husband's gift
in their courting days, to buy the
costly material, had herself sat up
night after night, and day after day,
to make the dress which Theodora
loudly declared she must have to ap
pear as the impersonation of Diana
the Huntress!
And she reaped a mother's sweet,
unselfish reward when she saw how
surpassingly lovely Theodora looked
in the exquisite Greek dress!
Mr. St. Emil had selected "Hamlet"
as his character, and very handsome
he was in the plumed cap and velvet
doublet of the young Prince of Den
mark, but Mrs. St. Emil preferred no
more attractive costume than a plain
black silk domino wrapper and mask.
"I am past my acting days," she
said, with a sweet, pleasant laugh
when Theo smilingly demanded why
she, too, was not in character, "and I
shall derivo my greatest pleasure to
night from watching others!"
"Darling mamma!" cried Theo,
turning with ostentatious tenderness
toward her mother, "you see you are
in the fashion after all! I tried my
best, Mrs. St. Emil, to induco this
mother of mine to don a character
dress, but slio would not consent. Oh,
Mrs. St. Emil, is it time for the waltz
already ? Mamma, if you're quite sure
it wouldn't tire you too much to hold
my bouquet!"
And Theodora floated away on Grant
St. Emil's arm.
Once, during an interval in the
dancing, Grant came to his mother's
side.
"Does she not look beautiful to
night?"
"Who? Miss Evelyn?"
"Of course. Whom else could 1
possibly mean?"
"Yes, she is beautiful; and you,
Grant," Mrs. St. Emil added, with a
half smile, "you are falling deeper
and deeper in love with her. All tho
arrows in her quiver are piercing your
heart through aud through, my dear
boy."
"Mother, you don't like her."
"I shall try to do so for your sake,
Grant," said the lady, sighing softly.
"You still persist in thinking that
she is not amiable. lam sure she is."
"I like her manner toward her
mother, Grant," said Mrs. St. Emil;
"it is very affectionate and devoted, j
.Now go —they are waiting for you to j
tftkc your place in the second set of
the luncers."
And as he hastened away she thought
almost sadly to herself:
"1 must learn to love her, for Grant's
heart is set upon her, and he is too
good a son to marry without my
cordial consent."
"Mamma," whispered Theo, toward
tho close of the evening, "you'll have
to come upstairs and help mo take off
my tunic. The St. Emils have gone,
and there's no fun in stoying any
longer. Hurry up!"
Mrs. Evelyn nodded obedience, but
sho could not explain to Theodora
that sho would probably be detained
u few minutes longer by tho talk of
gossiping friends who sat beside her.
"Theo will wait for me," she
thought.
Theodora, however, was also de
tained a minute or two, murmuring
soft aideus to some of her gentlemen
friends, and when at length she flew
into the dressing-room she was breath
less with haste.
"I am tired to death," she said,
petulantly, as her eye caught the figure
in the black domino standing at the
window. "Mamma, why couldn't you
have come after me, instead of chat
ting away among those old fools by
tho door. You might as well havd
staid at homo and minded your own
business, if you couldn't be a less
clumsy chaperon, I'm tired of your
stupidity."
No answer—but Theo never turned
her head from tho glass where she was
contemplating her curls with the golden
fillet banded through them.
"You're sulking now, I suppose,"
she saiil, shrugging one alabaster-white
shoulder. "Well, sulk awoy to your
heart's content. I don't care ! I shall
get rid of these airs and graces when I
am Mrs. St. Emil, and—"
She stopped short, for in tho glass
she saw another domino-draped flguro
entering the door back of her—her
mother's figure.
"Mamma!" she shrieked.
The other domino advanced quietly
from the recess of the window, and, to
her inexpressible dismay, Theo recog
nized tho slender figure and aristo
crats bearing of Mrs. St. Emil.
"There has been somo mistake hero,"
said that lady, composedly. "Miss
Evelyn has mibtaken me for her mother.
I am not her mother, and"—she spoko
with quiet emphasis—"l hope I never
shall be."
She left the room, and never saw
Miss Theodora Evelyn again.
Graut St. Emil, thus unexpectedly
enlightened as to tho character of hip
lovely divin u y. left town within a vcek
or two, and when next Theo heard of
him, ho was -married to a fair little
damsel, more like a human snowdrop
than aught else. And Theo is still
husband hunting, and treats her poor
mother moro disdainfully than ever.
"For," she says, with moro acrimony
than logic, "it was all mamma's fault
that I lost Grant St. Emil."—Now
York Weekly.
The Fascinating Fisheries Exhibit.
In no structure within tho Fair
grounds is the outward expression
so sympathetically reflective of its ar
chitectural purpose as in tho Fisheries
Building. Itself reflected in the bluo
lagoon, in its architectural functions
and sculptural ornament it in turn re
flects the laeustrino life of the waters,
which not only almost lave its founda
tion walls but actually pour into its in
terior in fountain and cascade and
gigantic aquaria. As we follow around
these green translucent walls within,
our passage lit only from the diffused
light transmitted from above the water,
we can almost fancy ourselves walking
on the actual river bed, ogled by fa
miliar forms of sun-fish, perch or
pickerel; or perhaps wandering as in
a dream among fair ocean caves
abloom wjth brilliant sea-anemones,and
embowered with mimic groves of
brunching corals and all manner of
softly swaying sea weed—graceful
crimson laminnria reaching to tho sur
face of the water, responding in ser
pentine grace to the soft invasion
of waving fin. Kara living gems of
fishes, very butterflies of the deep,
float past flashing in iridescence with
every subtile turn of their painted
bodies. Star-flsli, at first apparently
stationary, as though in midwater,
glide across the illusive plane of glass,
with their thousand friugy disks of
feet. Strange crabs and mollusks and
bivalves sport on the pebbly bottoms,
and portentous monsters, with great
gaping mouths, threaten us as they
emerge from their nebulous obscurity
and steal to within a few inches of our
faces. —Scribner.
A Perfumed Lake.
On the Manginlilak Peninsula, in the
Caspian Sea, there are five small lakes.
One of them is covered with salt crys
tals stroug enough to allow man and
beast to cross tho lake on foot; an
other is as round as any circle and a
lovely rose color. Its banks of salt
crystal form a setting, white as the
driven snow, to the water, which not
only shows all the colors from violet to
rosy red, but from which rises a per
fume as of violets. Both the perfume
and tho color are tho result of the
presence of seaweeds, the violet and
the pink.—Chambers's Journal.
The lhvarr Pnlm.
Tho dwarf palm, which furnishes
considerable quantities of fibre, grows
in great profusion in Algeria, and is
one of the principal obstacles to the
cleariug of the laud, so thickly does it
grow, and so difficult is it to pull up;
its roots, in shape resembling carrots,
penetrate into tho ground to the depth
of a yard or more, aud when its stem
is only out it sp. N out again almost
immediately. An-. "ame indicates,
this palm is very small, and can only
attain a certain height, when pro
tected, as in the Arab cemeteries, for
example.—New York World,
Terms—Sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months.
LEATHER AT THE FAIR.
UNIQUE EXHIBITS OF AN IMPOR
TANT INDUSTRY.
Everything Pertaining to Shoes and
leather Shown In One Large
Building—An Elephant Hide.
ON the Lake Front, in the
southern extremity of the
Fair grounds, the Leather
Building is located. It is
170x625 in dimensions, and cost over
SIOO,OOO, but by reason of its unfavor.
able location has not attracted as many
visitors as some of the other exhibits,
though all who enter its doors are
amply repaid for their trip.
Beneath the roof of this great struc
ture everything pertaining to the shoe
and leather industry is shown. The
fact that this industry has been for
years one of the most important in our
country seems never to have been taken
into consideration, and the representa
tion heretofore has not been worthy a
business of such magnitude.
In tho exhibit within the Leather
Building now, however, nothing has
been omitted which properly belongs
to tho trade. There are prepared
hides and skins in hundreds of varie
ties and an almost endless list of arti
cles which are made from the tanned
skins of animals.
Though tanned leather enters into
the manufacture of a thousand and one
different articles, such as harness,
valises, trunks and the like, the shoe
industry consumes over three-fifths of
the leather used. And in tho manu
facture of these shoes what a variety
of patterns one can see there illus.
t rated. The evolution of the shoe is
one of the marks of civilization ; tho
earth has been searched and history
and the museums ransacked from one
end to the other in order that every
style and form of shoe known, or of
which record was had, might find its
proper representation in this World's
Fair exhibit. How well the origina
tors of the enterprise have succeeded
is amply shown by a study of the dis
play in the cases along the walls of the
interior of the Leather Building.
The'niost unique and odd in design
and pattern are those from Tangiers,
Africa, made from turtle claws, which
enable the wearer to climb a tree or
scratch his antagonist with the same
effect and advantage possessed by the
bear or panther.
There is such an innumerable dis
play of odd and ancient styles as to
bewilder the most ardent admirer of
footwear. Tli" straw sandal, scarcely
larger than a baby's slipper, comes
from Kioto, Japan, where the young
ladies wear them, aud the flat cloth
shoes with no soles or heels, which
protect the water currier's feet, are
from Alexandria, Egypt. The wooden
clogs with stilts attached are the prido
of tho Japanese tea packers in wet
weather, and the straw mats worn on
the feet when the sun blisters the
pavement belong to the natives of
Shotean, India.
A pair of boots purchased by Prince
Shouisski of Russia in Poris for 3000
francs have a section in the case all to
themselves. The foot is of white un
dressed kid, tho boot legs of white
velvet embroidered with gold, while
precious stones glitter in the open
pieces of the design.
Leather for decorative purposes of
all shades of eolor and thickness has
an important place in the display.
There o*o tanned skins of snakes,
alligators, lizards and specimens of
leather tanned by all kinds of pro
cesses.
There is on elephant hide, the largest
ever tanned, which is twenty feet in
length from tip of trunk to end ol
tail, sixteen feet in width, and its
greatest thickness three inches. It
weighs 800 pounds, and is used to
polish leather. Two years' time is re
quired to tan a hide of this character.
The longest belt ever made is
another exhibit in this collection. It
is twelve inches wide and 10,000 feet
in length, being the longest continuous
piece of leather ever manufacrured.
Then there are the finest and most
modern designs of ingenuity and in
ventive genius displayed by the largei
manufacturers of America. These dis
plays are unequalled, for every man
working on the designs put forth hi
best effort with a view to excel, not tc
pattern after any other. The result if
the grandest, most superb and most
costly line of footwear every seen in
one building before.
In the line of slippers the results
have been obtained in the same man
ner, and the person whose tastef
could not be suited from this display
would have to study up some design
not known to the thousands of design
ers and dealers and would bo rewarded
a premium for a novelty.
In the gallery tho machinery used
iu the shoe industry forms a most in
teresting study. Every single pro
cess from the first formation of the
shoe to the finishing and packing iu
the box is illustrated.
Pyramids of shoe dressing, of polish,
blacking and all that is necessary t(/
the care and protection as well as th(
beautifying of leather is displayed iti
various parts of the buildiug until OIK
begins to realize that there are more
things about the shoe industry and
trade than ho ever dreamed of.—St.
Louis Republic.
Precocious <,cuiti«.
Dante composed verse* at 9 ; Tasso
and Mirabeau at 10; Comte, Voltaire
and Pascal were thinkers at 13; Nie
buhr at 7; Jonathan Edwards, Bos
suet and Pope at 12; Goethe bef<>r<
10; Victor ail 1 Fenelon atl >;
Handel an I Beethoven composed at 13 ;
Mozart gave concerts at 6. On the
other hand, such men as Wellington,
Balzac, Humboldt. Boccaeaio, Newton
and Walter Scott were backward
pupils.
NO. 46.
THE OLD LOVE SONG.
Flay It slowly, sing It lowly,
Old familiar Mine!
Once it ran in dance and dimple, -
liike a brook in June ;
Now it sobs along the measures
With a sound of tears ;
Dear old voices echo through it,
Vanished with the years.
Ripple, ripple goes tho love song
Till, in slowing time,
Early sweetness grows completeness,
Floods its every rhyme j
Who together learn tho muaio
1,1 fe and death unfold ;
Know that love is just beginning
Until lovo is old.
Play it slowly, it is holy,
As an evening hymn ; . ,
Morning gladness hushed to sadnoss
Fills it to the brim.
Memories homo within tho music,
Stealing through the bars ;
Thoughts within its quiet spaces ' v
Bise and set like stars.
—Tho Camrms. >.
HUMOR OF THE DAY. '
Weeds of woe—Two for five.' N
A noted composer—Chloroform.
Court martial—A soldier's wooing.
A green-goods man—Tho vegetable
vender. —Truth.
A man is known by the company that
blackballs him.—Ram's Horn.
A secret is a plant that waits to bear
tho leaves of gossip. —Ram's Horn.
The still watches of the night—Those
which have not been wound.—Truth.
An escaping prisoner seldom begs
pardon for the liberty he takes.---Troy
Press.
Yon can't tell by the blossoms which
of the apples will be wormy.—Texas
Sittings.
It takes either a goor! deal of push
or a pull to get through the doors of
life. —Truth.
The Toy Pistol—"l'm loaded." Tho
Trigger—"Don't get gay or I'll firo
yon."—Chicago Record.
A man attempting to live in style on
a small salary is like a dpg fighting
without front teeth.—Puck.
Miss Elderly—"What would you do
if I told you my age?" lie—"Multiply
it by two." —Brooklyn Life.
There is a language of flowers, as, for
Instance, when a barefooted boy steps
on a thistle.—Minneapolis Journal.
"What's the matter with the horned
horse?" asked the tiger. "It has tho
gnu-monia," replied the lion.—Puck.
There is r. Uod in the affairs of the
men which, if taken at the knot, leads
to strangulation.—Thomasville Times.
'■How much do you lovo me, my pretty
maid V"
"How much is your fortune, kind sir? ' sho
said.
—Ciiieago Becord.
Young Author —"Don't you like to
see yourself in print?" Debutante—
"No; I prefer silk."—New York Jour
nal.
These are the times when a good
many of us have to sit down and think
to find out where wo stand.—Troy
Press.
Van Wither—"Miss G.adys is a
lovely girl, but she has no heart."
Von Miner —"Yes, she has—mine."—>
Vogue.
' 'Has man a perfect orgf n of speech ?"
"Yes." "Has woman, also?" "No;
hers is made without stops. "—Harvard
Lampoon.
"Why did they name that paper
The Ladies' Friend ?" "I suppose be
cause it makes such good curl papers."
—Statesman.
Why express surprise Inat a you nof
tnau should get giddy waen a pretty
girl violently turns his head."—Phila
delphia Times,
"He is flippant. He can't be serioutf
if he tries." "Yes, he can. He is very
serious when he tries to be funny."—•
Brooklyn Life.
Money may be the ro'oi of all evil;
bat it is a root, nevertheless, that
bears many flowers of everlasting
beauty.—Puck.
Tho fitness of things is well main
tained when the impatient diner is
served with food prepared in a chafing
dish.—Buffalo Courier.
"Falser sings beautifully, but they
tell me he can't tell the truth."
"That's right. He's tho most truth
ful 'lyre' in the State."—Detcoit Free
Press.
Dinkle—"lt's a strange thing to mo
how a short man always wants a tall
girl." Dunkle—"Humph! I'/s a
strange thing to me how a short m?.n
wants any girl. I'm blamed if 1 do
when I'm short."—Buffalo Courier.
Colonel Wellington de Boots—"IJ
is almost impossible for yets, Miss
Sprytely, to imagine wha*, a huge
amount of work I have to do, for I am
not only commander of the regiment,
but also its Major, Adjutant, and good
ness knows what!" Miss Sprytely—
"Your our trumpeter, too, Colonel?"
—Judy.
Why Car Wheels Wear Out.
A car-wheel wears out because the
metal of which it is composed comes
away iu thin scales. A microscopic
examination shows that the continual
jarring has a tendency to destroy tlio
coherence of the particles, and thus
gradually disintegrates the whole.
Car-wheels long iu use become t>o
brittle that a stout blow with a heavy
hammer will sometimes cause them to
fly into fragments as though they
were made of glass. —New York
Journal.
Ballets of Precious Stones.
Bullets made of precious stones sro
rarities in warfare. But during tho
recent fighting on the Kashmir fron
tier, when the British troops defeated
tho rebellious Hunzas, the natives
ueed bullets of garnets encased in lead,