SULLIVAN JLUK - W. M, CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XTI. The two-minuto bicycle promises to iirrive far alioad of the two-minute trotter, observes the New York Re corder. ■ Some one linH figured that there are so many railway lilies, steam, elevated, cable and horse cars in New York City {hat a person may ride for six hours at a total cost of fifty cents. According to an election return just made to the British Parliament, there are 6,229,120 voters in the United Kingdom. There were 4,592,482 in England, 270,27fi in Wales, 747,271 in Ireland and 619,091 in Scotland. F. P. Jjoomis, formerly United States Consul at St. Etienne, France, says that from an investigation ho made he finds about 95,000 Americans visit Europe every year, and that they spend about $100,000,000 minually abroad. Cardinal Gibbons has rechristened Chicago with the classic title of "Thaumatopolis,'' the wonder city. The appcllatiou is deserved, but the New York World thinks it will hardly displace that of"the windy city" in popular parlance. The name of Gay Head, applied to a famous promontory of the Massachu setts coast, means exactly what it seems to mean, and is peculiarly ap propriate. The headland, as seen from the sea, is gay with many colors run ning in strata, the result of chemical qualities in the earth of the cliff. A like variety of color is presented by many rocky islets and headlands ill the Sound opposite Fellinm Bay Park. The Woman's Library at Chicago contains 7000 volumes in sixteen lan guages and represents twenty-three countries. It is to Vie placed in the permanent Woman's Memorial Build ing, which is to be erected in Chicago, and will form a nucleus for the collec tion of the literary work of women in the future, as well as, through its catalogue soon to be issued, a complete bibliography of women's writings up to the present time. There are 22,0(W,000 - soldiers in arms in Europe. If all Long Island were a drill-ground, calculates the ' New York Recorder, it wouldn't be big enough for their field manoeuvres. If they were to march in a street pa rade, files of ten abreast, it would take the line of 2000 miles 100 days to pass a given point at fair marching speed. In Indian file they would reach around the world. In a year they would drink the Hudson dry for over a mile <>f its length. There has been a remarkable revival of interest in the "abandoned farms" of New England since so niuiiy mills closed their doors. A largo number of applications have been made to the Massachusetts State Board of Agri culture for its descriptive catalogue of the abandoned farms of that State. Ii is believed that some of the men who are out of work think of taking up farming as a means of livelihood. "But will a mechanic be a successful farmer?'' queries the Now York Tri aune. N iw eoiuus the suggestion that the log power of the United States shsll ne utilized for draught purposes, as it sin Belgium. A writer estimates list there arc 7,000,01(0 dogs in this Country, u.il thon figured out their pulling capacity. The idea may be new a' to log*, but the New Vork News recalls that humorist John I'hoetiiv .-nggested the utilization of cat power utore than forty years ago. Ills plan Wi. to run sewing machines by cat power. The cat was to be placed iu harU(>** connected with luotive works. A mou-i was to be i-UHpemted just beyond tint it's reach. Tbe cut's jumping lor litt mouse wuuld propel the IuHA It 1 lie Hay> | IK Boston ( ultivutor: There Is a deficiency uf U.iHMi mm bushels in the German i t rop tin., jciu. and till* coll. - with a deficiency of |H,. mm,ism I'Urliels of w beat ityc bread h tin"l ti It- final of a lure* putt of th Oermau | • <| le. Tltny ti'efer it t> aln «1 i. Sif >id hen tin v IMI'I fit but h. Ua.n - • • li I t, rill' u I with RIIKXM '• ' ll'i lull iu' tlirt lis* • IllM < i fifi'tii ft ' Iti-ft- 111 Mif* tfe* wtuuu# i < i.i 11. It II M | »i* t I t+l 'UI - 'TIS USELESS TO REGRET. We've done tho best wo could, my dear, There's nothing to regret ; We've taught the children many tr"' '■« On which our hearts were set ; And If against our old-time ways They foolishly protest, We need never regret, my dear, That we have done our best. There's many a plan that's come to naught ; There's many a light gone out; Anil disappointments, griefs and cares Have hedged us round about; And many a sad mistake we've made Throughout our lives, and yet We've done the very best we could ; 'Tls useless to regret. For out of evil good has come, And out of darkness light; And all wrong doing in this world Home day will bo set right; And though we have not reached tho height Attained by others, yet We've done the best we could, my dear; 'Tls useless to regret. We've tried to livo like honest folks, To do our duty well, Gainst evil things to take our stnnd, In goodness to excel; So judge yourself not harshly, dear, Nor at misfortunes fret; We've done tho best we could, and so "J'is useless to regret. THE EDITOR'S VISIT. BY FRANCIS O. WIL.MAMB. HE noon hour had | I J come, and the city I I editor of theChron '£! II icle was very busy, making out nu as signment list, when a queer old-fashion e<l figure of a man vwkV* came into the room and stood waiting by the side of the j desk. "Well!" said the city editor, look- j ing up sharply, (iftar an instant, "what j do you want?" "I wanted to know if you could | make use of this," answered the new | comer, timidly holding out a small j bundle of manuscript. "I'm sure we eau't unless it's some- I thing a trifle less lioary with age than 1 that yon brought here the other day." j The city editor, who was a compara- : tively young man, very alert, very ; quick iu speech, and all business, took j the manuscript, unfolded it with a] sua)) and rtiu lift eye over the first few j HUBS. Then he wheeled his chair j around and said, straightening up and j speaking testily: "Now look here, John Harmon,onco ' and for all, understand that it's no use | bringing such et Tff as that in here, j and I won't be bothered with looking at it! Why, this is identically the j same ancient history you tried to shove . off or. me the other day." "But I polished it up I" suggested the old man. "Polished up your grandfather!" exclaimed the other. "Why, you couldn't polish that matter so that it 1 would be readable if you worked for- j ever. It's hard luck; but the plain! truth is there arc too many young men i hustling for live news to allow of such back-number trash as that being good j for anything but to stop a hole. Ij haven't got any more time to talk ! If ! you get any news, bring it in and I will look at it! Otherwise,stay away, jilease !" The city editor faced his desk again, picked up his pen and fell to work, not looking at the other. The older man for nu instant stood motionless, thou h«t*picked up the manuscript, put it in his pocket and turning away walked slowly out of the room without a word. The wind was biting hard outside and he drew his collar about his ears as he walked despondently down a side street. He had not far togo, for pres ently he went up tho steps of a small house anil opened the door. The room into which lie came was bare and mis erable looking, and everywhere showed the lack of a woman's hand to straighten the few bits of furniture, which only served by their mean repair to add to the forlorn appearance of the apart ment. The old inaii stood quite still, one hand resting on the doorjauib. staring ahead of him as if he saw be yond the opposite wall. As ho stood there, there camu a glad child's cry from the other end of the room : "Oh, Gran'pop, I glad you come ! It's awfully lonesome!" The old man's face brightened. He reached down and, as the little girl came running to him, caught her up und laboriugl.\ lifted her to his breast. Then he kissed her and put her down. Khu did Uot nee the tears on his clieeks IIS he talked to her of the fun thev would have that evening "ufter work was done." \fter work was dom was THE M-,I*OU * hell these two had grand lump", together. Work, ai-little I'<• 11 \ aell knew, meant writing, writing, writing until (-In would crawl upon tin old man's ku< - and beg liilu to come ulay, ami In would drop th> pen from ui» erain|» -d lingers and lei her ki from las eyes the mist which would I gather there, wllell lie Kept IllH lllllld I Itiiif Hied mi the pa-ps before him. •I h I Harm .v* :....rh . Igfcty, "a br >U. N IFITT ii 11, A -pajx-r man |,< WAS culli li, an<l iti only inheritance p> ..I writing an I* lilth. uraitddatiidi I i at oat' mot IK r und falki i had iln d 111 ' !*'* t'f t | #|' 11 *|| |<* || 112 • tl VUfN llcillft'. I In* «il I i.jhii (lire* ihti i Itm #!<.'« IttilkK i*« tii fo| t|luw|f fil l-' I U j till I nil til* <* ♦•*! O.it LAPORTE, PA.., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1893. more likely, keener hunger than ever. When the child was left to herself she sat down and fell to looking over soino illustrated papers which wore her invariable source of amusement. By and by, becoming tired, she wandered over to the table. The rejected manu script on the chair caught her eye. Gran'pop's papers were forbidden arti cles to her, but when shrt saw this package and slowly spelled out the writing on its cover, "the Chronicle," there came to her mind that Gran'pop had told her when he was writing this address tho night before and was too busy to play with her, that the manu script had to be sent iu to-morrow. This was to-morrow, she reasoned, and the manuscript had not gone. Gran'- pop must have forgotten it! He would be sorry, she knew. Presently there came to her a bright idea and she stood very still for a moment, thinking hard. Why could not she take the manuscript to the Chronicle? She knew where the office was ; she had been there with Gran'pop. It would bo such a surprise to him to find it already gone when he came home. She decided to do it. She took the bundle from the chair and pulled on her jacket and tied her hood fast. She was used to dressing herself and soon was on the steps, tho manu script clutched firmly in her hitnd. Then she started off for the Chronicle office, proud of her self-appointed mission. The elevator boy was much sur prised and not a little amused when she asked for tho editor. Ho tried to chaff her oil the way up, but sho re fused to take any notice of liis re marks, if sho understood them. All her thoughts were on the top story and the editor. Despite his fun making the elevator boy was a trifle impressed, aud, thinking she might be one of the "old man's" relations, when they arrived at the upper floor he showed her to tho door of the sanctum and told her to knock. Thon ho left her and went back to his post. The editor was greatly surprised when a timid knock sounded on his door, nnd in answer to his "come in" he saw over his gold-bowed spectacles tho diminutive maiden who entered. He looked at h«r hard, but sho did not appear discomfited. She came toward him without hesitation and stood with one little hand resting ou the edge of the desk, the other extending tho folded manuscript. "Gran'pop forgot to bring it down, so I fetched it!" she explained, her blue eyes looking up into his puzzled gray ones. Now, the editor was not a man easily confused, but this WHS a novel experi ence even for him. In all his life ho nevert rememiiered having received in liis office so small and at the same time so confident a visitor as this. Ho looked at her sharply, almost sternly, suspecting ho was the victim of some joke Ixit her gaze never flinched, and the baby eyes were not frightened. He took the manuscript from her grasp and on aeil it. There was no solution of •> .ie mystery to be obtained here, however. The story was ao.ne local history of early days. There was no name, no mark of any kind to tell who wrote it or where it came from. Non-plussed, ho turned his eyes upon the little figure beside him. Somehow, in spite of tho old-fashioned and much-worn clothes, it suggested to him that of a little one who had oiiuo called him father, and a kiudly smile lit his face. "1 don't know anytliiug about this paper," ho said. "Who did it come from?" "Front Gran'pop," she answered, as if that conveyed full information. "Yes, but who's Gran'pop? 1 don't remember him." "Why don't you know him? He's been here often, and I came with him once or twice, that's how I knew where it was." The editor racked hia brain in vuiu t< > think who Gran'pop eon Id he. "Well." lie Raid at hint, "yon Hit down in that big ehair there and I'll look over this paper and tell you what to nay to him." Then he wheeled his chair about and liogan reading. It did not take long, however, for him to decide what to do. Hi- atruok a hand bell on the dusk and a boy caiue into the room. "Send Mr. Campbell to me!" the editor aitid. A moment and the city editor of the Chronicle entered. "Campbell, 1 unid tin' editor, "do ymt know whose writing that i»V and lie handed him the muumuript. "Yen," answered the other "it'n old Johu Harmon'*. He brought it in In re thin morning and I told him »i couldn't ttae it. It'* till aucieiit his i torv." "Well," Mftid the editor a bit ahortly, "it'a the kind of ancient hintory tin i Chruuiole wulitii. Can't .you nee that that local matt' r that a goml man* noithl father read than Hewn"' (tire it a goo i jihic.' .in the fourth page of tu laumu'N hami I'll try to »■ . that we huvi a column i>f ju-l Mlieh -tit) twice i: week That mill; ' I'll'- city ■ litor did Hot ace tin I ill l< dilute Hi tie big chair, alid it bit din coiieci ted at being turned biWll an • Itirph, he ' ink up the luaiiHaoripl i.'.iiii i.i | left Hi |<i'iia Homier l l»j *| it hum the 1.. • It< r Mill* ttin "old igMi' I'iid In *t l hiil rie I itut' lad collie tula hit. li.tinU. Win li he bad imiiic, Hie edi'ur ili'i H a »ht el of |i >|n i tiiwiril lilW, hiiiilliiii al ih 'lltth Hrfur. 11l the eliali, h« Mild "I ttill write a tetter tol >Oll In Uk, iwtli i..11 bii i ||l.- I|o tllnli p .p. Mi II Id. dli t If I wui Iv, an I Ik I auldt V ur<te a t » bin ■ then |i v fold ltt»« .heel, put it til an «Mtelop„ Hi * little gul .limped mil of iti I'll 111 411 i iniid I.I'MH |l hllll ' linn I •|. * If 411, u . r Inn I .11 111 I i |. ' '44, Ie in,. nn t *•••• tin *lllll ill , .i. tit h l*| J I tin In, I an! «4t-h Ih. i li lie lull • it) diMjij.. 41 iw t||| U« .A » The elevator boy was quite deferen tial to her going down ; but she paid no more attention to him than When sho slipped out of the building she hurried up the street, the letter in her hand. As she turned the corner near home she saw "Gran'pop" just entering the door nnd ran hard to catch him ; but. he had gone in beforo she came up, so she knocked on tho door. The same instant it was pulled open hnrriediy and the old man, white and trembling, stood in the frame. "Thank God!" liebreathed, drawing her tip in his arms nnd burying his face in her curls, "I thought you were lost." "No, I only been to th' office!" ex claimed Polly, clinging to his neck. "To tho office? Where do you mean?" "Th* Chronicle office. I took th' writin' down there yon left on th' chair and tli' oditor gave me a letter for you ; he was awful nice." Tho old man took the envelope sho held toward him and dropped into a chair. With the child drawn close against him ho broke the paper with trembling fingers nnd read: TIIK DAILY CHBOSICLE. So. 429 Street. John Harmon, Esq. Dear Sir—We will use your paper on local history In to-morrow's issue. We will be pleased to have you contribute a column of like matter ns often as you can give it to us, for which we will pay you ot our regular space rates. Yours truly, C. N. HAPGOOD, Managing Eilitor. There was a mist before the old man's eyes as he read tho last words. "Was ho crossj Grun'pop?" queried Polly, seoiug the tears. "No, Polly," said the old man, straining her to him ; "he has given ns lots to do, but it shall not interfere with your playtime, little one."— Kate Field's Washington. Raising Foxes in Alaska. For tho purpose of perpetuating the fust vanishing fur supply of Alaska certain enterprising persons have gone into tho business of breeding blue and black foxes on uninhabited islands along that coast. Whon the seals have been finally exterminated the world may still look to that region for somo of the most valuable and beautiful pelts known. Tho Smeda Propagating Company lias recently stocked a number of isl ands with foxes, ami the investment is beginning to yield haudsome re turns. The lands thus employed ore valueless for anything else, being wholly barren. The breeding of blue foxes has already been made very suc cessful on one of tho Pribylof Islands —that of St. George— in Bering Sea. Of their increase ten. thousand liave been killed aud skinned for market. One advantage of-this industry is that it involves no expense for the care or feeding of the animals. All that is re quired is to let loose a few pairs. Those of them which are taken must at all times be trapped aud not shot. Thus they become exceedingly tame in the course of a few generations. In the same region there are red, whito und "cross" foxes. Skins of the last named variety, which is supposed to bo a cross between the red aud the black, nro quoted at from to 8S wholesale. The white anil red pelts are worth only about 81 apiece, because, though they arc very beautiful, they are much more common and easily obtain able. Black foxes are so rare as to be hard to procure for breeding purposes. A Musical Canine Critic. A wonderful story o#- a French mu sical critic is related by persons who profess to have Ueyil acquainted' with him and to have seen him in attend ance on musical performances. lie was a dog, and hiif name was Parade. Whet he v he had a different name at home \vas never known. At the be ginning of the French revolution lie went every day to the military parade iu front of the Tuileries palace. He marched with the musicians, halted with them, listened knowingly to their performances and after the parade din appeared, to return promptly at pa rade time next day. (Sradually the musicians became at tached to this devoted listener. They named him Parade, and one or another of them always invited him to dinner, lie accepted the invitations aud was a pleasant guest. It was discovered that after dinner he always attended the theatre, where he seated himself calmly in a corner of the orchestra and listened critically to the music. If a new piece was played he noticed it instantly and paid the strictest at teiition. If the piece had fine, melo dious passages he showed hi* joy to the lust ..f his doggish ability, but i( tin pice, was ordinary and uuiiitercstlug lie yawned, stiucd about the theater and unmistakably expressed his disap proval liratuloii lliick*aw. Malula'loiis In Old >1 inlilclie.nl. The customary morning salutation at all seasons in old Marblcln ad, Mass , in, "How is tin- Hull?" Iu the post rapiy *llllllll. r the answer, aft. r a look ; «l«.tt II the street, has generally been, "Oil, hit tail is goitiK round aii< round.' Tins is the towns wt>y •> .peaking of tie weather vane ou tin < '■ >ll K r• gatioual < hurcli, tln< iufallihh oracle which .lelelliillieh wilt ther bimli hall put out t>> M mid leluiirely laud* melt u«a 11 11 ii,, ktwi'bf*ti r I'uioii au< \dv. rt I»I r KIHUI HI ( apthit). It Would be itllHl'tllt to find ft IUO(* lit lltl lit t' ■l.it I I 11. itll, 111 . I', •lotted ou tlit I'lutea k#pt at tht dog point I than tlial paid bt s ilotf ills autfcoflti** t« »'»w notll 1.11 the ollit 1 1...1 ill ritt-r He .low had n. | la i u aaay limit |ti< pound utoi. thai! log 1) 11||hi lo.ui t . f.-r to brukU • *<tt M in M» ton . -l.i, snaltt lite I I.lt Hi I, | ,p SI lU < I I , uiitio. 'll l I l<'t •>!< '<•< U I*UMMM»»it t.Mtit "*l»l, SCIENTIFIC AX I) INMJSTIUAL. Edison, the electrician, makes rubies that excel the genuine. The surface of a man's lungs is esti mated at 150 square feet, ten times tho surface of the external body. In Great Britain the aunual sick rate for each inhabitant is ten days to tho year ; iu the United States eight days. Nests of the termite ants of South Africa are,often twelve feet high and grouped together in clusters, the tallest iu the center. Ant 6 are provided with a poison bag, which discharges a fluid having a strong sulphurous smell, sufficient to drive away most insect enemies. The smallest holes pierced by modern machinery are 1-1000 th of an inch in diameter. They are bored through sapphires, rubies and diamonds by a machine which makes 22,000 revolu tions a minute. Sir .lames Crichton Browne, the Eng lish specialist, is a believer in tho theory that the coming man will bo toothless. Ho declares that over 10,- 000,000 false teeth are annually fitted into tho mouths of Britishers. Many larvse of beetles nnd other in sects are used for food ; the bee gives honey and wax, the coccus manna and cochineal, the Spanish fly a blistering drug, tho gall insects au astringent and tho silk worm an article of dress. Uranus has four little moons—Ariel, Umbriel, Titauia and Oberon—which, funnily enough, rise in the north and set in the south. A single diminutive one, belonging to Neptune, traverses the sky from southwest to southeast. Neither Mercury nor Venus has any satellites. Doctor Noisser,of the Hygienic. Insti tute at Berlin, has discovered in the city a new cholera bacillus which he calls vibrio berolensis. The inoccula tion of dogs, cats and rabbits with this bacillus has proved that the vibrio is fully as potent as the Asiatic bacillus. The Berliners manifest no alarm over the discovery. The difference between the atmos phere of the best ventilated houses and the outer air is illustrated by tho con duct of cut flowers. Blossoms that re tain their freshness but a day or two when standing in water within doors will sometimes live twice as long when dropped iu a shady placo out of doors, even without the aid of other moisture than they obtained from the eur|h and air. Experiments made by the scientists appointed for that purpose by the French Government show that the re sistance of the atmosphere to the motion of a higL speed tram often i smi/umts to ILOU tlif> resistance which the locomotive must overcome. Two engines, of which the resistance was measured repeatedly and found to bo nineteen pounds per ton at thirty seven miles per hour, were coupled together and again tried. In tho second trial the resistance fell to four teen pouuds per ton, the second engine being shielded from atmospheric re sistance by the first. Great attention is now being paid by the German military authorities to the question of facilitating and expediting intrenching methods. Among other implements which they are testing is au intrenching spade, invented by M. de Layeli. When ill use it is fitted to the stock of the rifle, but it is sug gested that its proposed place, when not in use, on the breast of the soldier, is likelv to cause oppression and to give little or no protection. Tljo whole tarrangoment adds rather liiore {hah three pounds to his impediments. A Chinese Proverb's Origin. " 'He'll steal your shoes' is rtii ex pression which in China is used to de scribe an arrant knave and pilferer." says ex-Consul Edward Bedloe, re cently returned from Amoy. "The expression is hundreds of years old and is based on au adventure perpetu ated through the medium of decornted crockery ware. A wealthy Chinaman, whose gorgeously embroidered shoes were the envy of the community, win-, according t>> the legend, despoiled of his pride iu the following manner ; A : rascal one day rushed up, gave the | rich man a hearty blow on the back and seizing the astonished gentleman's : hat pitched it upon a high wall. The next moment tho fellow seamed to , limviver that il was uot an old friend lie w as greeting *.» enthusiastically mi I apologized profusely. " "How shall I get my hat?" in-J quired the man Mith tin beautiful I diors. " '.lump on my back and you can reach it.' replied the schemer. "I'hi augge«tiou was carried out, I but while the liatless man wa« reach | ing for his hea l covering the raseal slipped oil the lutudkoittn »hooa and | luade H»HV, lenvim the simple miudud uitlliomtitc clutching the w«li," M'xlerate i lliuate (attdMclvclu tge, I'u li iibtediy the climate most on I dlleive to longer If V I - ft ntoler»t< ..111, altl .ugh a cold dim ite, other thuitf 1 belli < e.pial. has a deeidt I adv..nU. •• I ever l hot one. For lustauc*, th. rate oi ii.- tality in o ithwru clime* u> much I gr a*< r thai in that ot Mich region* as < Seautlinavla ai I Huwia.ahlU I irnlloii t hf.- m h. .gcr Mi Noiaav Hon u air {. • nitrv HI, I ~112 . oi.u Sol .tat is , t ld. ll> cold I hit ctc.-wue 0(4*1 prejudicial to |o*y !if« w i>|uv«d by j Uu low iua«imu ii aa* ahteii i« reaele t i by I lie inhabitant* of »ioll ph lei laud and Hill, I.T 11, \tn HI tu Hi H. lie* dI i \'i l. ia. • - t t*i It net d • ill liteloiiM Trail.plant. Jt • *«. < Terms--- 81.00 in Advance; 81.25 after Three IContfis. WHAT THERE IS IN DUST. IT CONTAINS STARCH GRAINS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES. Difference llet ween the Oust of Cities nii<t of the Country —Ex amining a Pinch of Dust. ft/ dreadful dust! J 1 There is no getting rid of \. Jit. It is the bother of my life," So says the housewife. It never oc curs to her to wonder what is this ever-accumulating dust of which she complains. Yet there are ever so many strange things to bo told about it. Of all the materials of which dust is composed tho most interesting is stßreli. In every pinch of dust there is more or less of this ingredient in the shape of oval and spherical grains. The dust found in coffins with old Egyptian mummies contains starch grains just like those which fly about in the air to-day. A scientist with an iuqitiring mind once took the trouble to examine un der a microscope specimens of dust which had penetrated the skulls of an imals embalmed in the days of the Pharaohs. The samples revealed the same kind of grains of starch. Such grains arc always in everybody's clothes and 011 the hands. Press your moistened finger upon a clean pieco of glass, and on looking at tho latter with a microscope you will discover several starch grains. Wash your hands a dozen times and every repetition of the experiment will produce tho sanio result. Whero does all all this starch come from? The answer is: From the food of mankind. Wheat, barley, rice, po tatoes, etc., are largely composed of starch. Little gruins of it are widely scattered by tho winds, and being very light are held in suspension. For tho reason above mentioned much more starch is to be found in tho dust of cities thau in that of the coun try, whore population is comparatively sparse. Thus it may be said that in every town a cloud of starch always hangs in tho air. However, the dust flint blows through the streets, which settles upon furniture and makes work for the housewife, contains ever so many other things besides starch. Take a small pinch of it at random and examine it at leisure. Perchance you will discover among it a fiber of wood, a scale of human epidermis, a frag ment of the liair of a dog. a pieco of an insect's claw, the shell of an ani malcule and the spore of a plant await ing a proper resting place, with the necessary dampness to reproduce its species. These are all orgauie substances, animal or vegetable. Dust contains much inorganic matter, particularly small particles of silica. On account of their size and shape such particles were for a long time mistaken for eggs of some kind, but this notion was fin ally exploded by making chemical analyses of the alleged eggs. The history of a single one of these frag ments would be most interesting to know. Ever so long ago perhaps it was part of a rock. The waves wore it a way from the parent stone and threw it into a heap of sand on the shore. After a while the wind caught it and flung it upon the upland. Bain took it from the groundauil hur ried it along to a river. The river car ried it to the sea. From the sea water it was taken by an oyster to build the hitler's shell. The molluxk wiia caught and i ateii, and the shell, befngthrown away, was trampled upon, powdered and dispersed by the brvrf.e*. Thus the particle whose st|»r,v 'is here re lated was set afloat in the atmosphere, to fall at length upon your library table and to afford a subject for spec ulation beneath your microscope. As you walk down the street- on one of the breeity autumn ilavs a cloud of dust is blown in your face, almost stilling you. It is a mixture consist ing lurgeh of Kiuall fragments of sand. But if you will take a pinch of it home aud subject it to examination, you will tiiitl that it contains an e\truor diinirv variety of other thingx, such as the broken libers of plants, pollen, tine hairs, fibers of clothing aud otlu r fabrics, particles of lime and soot, ashes aud clusters uf different kinds of micro organisms. When a rat "I Minlinlit ntr. nni* int.. a darkened room it reveals lie liner I dust particles which always till the air, > though ordinarily invisible to the t-yu, • Doctor I'm.l. 11, who has made a stii.lv J of tln» subject, s,n„ thai tin- particles 1 ill questlou consist l!iostl\ of Irugmellta I ot vegetable aud animal fiber-, such I as cotton and wool, and of an euor uioii* variety of mien organisms, sinvflv or in masses, such as bacteria and tin spores ..f mold plants Such are the "moten in tie *tllibt UUI, rt spectiug which so many poetic idea* list. In.-It t \pr< -sed Not a few of I thciu art Melius capable of producing tllseaneit of V artolt* sorts 11 th. I llapp. u I I.t tllld hxlgni. lit ill th. 1111 114.411 ,1 111 Witshnmi til Mai V Hlutfulai I*l.l bit 1 til ll,mail. Hue of lie 1»i mi *lll 11Im products ..I lUwait i» a v lire.ma lata kn.au *• "Cuh ■ leto ii.l -ok. MMM ut ou* *i|b*lauee, otlvu aie«l> ot t vllo * t*h 1 brown in color, soft to Ihv It 1 itch, hut *lll MM h '■ I* pro Iu j- d l.i the *iud I up Iroiti the ■l. ii c«att-i It 1 lam t -a Inch I lltl llauaiiau. lon, sine, pi 1 Iln leal gmiti. ol Ihe Uv.i fc-i .uu„ into •llfll aoft t lis I tll.it, 1* belli t.d |.| Is 111 U*a Volt .til o| th ..tll\c hlitta ol 11, -t til 1 11 » a n> it hnilti ' tUti lualwfisl V * it|l, in I'* i^mo In l*u »tf, an | .til at i.t p.*.. ti>, ah • til. 1 #l, 1:. • • .. NO. 4. WEAVING. I placed my loom the slender threads along— I laughed to see them glisten ; Then—ldle weaver! sat with carele«» hand.' And dreamful eyes to listen. The whirring song crooned vibrantly, tbo warp Was wondrous fair that day; At eve I rose - I had forgot the weft! The threads were all one way. A useless faliric, with unwoven shreds Acros« _ n o binding ties ; 'flic warp of aims may glint, but Idly runs, In which no purpose lies. O careless heart! I said, and aro you thus An instrument unstrung? A strain of harmony but half complete, For words you left unsung? O listless dreamer! weaving shadows there, To echoes half contest, Across the loom, If you will only look, Lore, smiling, holds the weft. —Louise Warson. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Ruled off —Ledgers. A tweed garment —A sac coat. "Get off the earth," the cyclone said to the barn. A nervous affection—A man on tho eve of proposal. The crawfish is not very good to eat, but it will do at a pinch.—Truth. One characteristic of good old Elijah was his raven-ousappetite.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. London's constant fog may be caused by the continuous reign.— I >ll llus News. The tine wheat will insure the farmer and the English sparrow full crops.-- Cleveland Plain Dealer. People who are always scheming generally pay about double for what they get.—Milwaukee Journal. When a man is dressed in a little brief authority, he makes it more con spicuous than a red neck-tie. —Puck. So far no one has ever made the blunder of painting a Cupid to look as if he had any sense.—Atchison Globe. "Why does Snagsby keep his bail cut so short?" "Because he's getting bald, and he won't have it long."— Philadelphia Record. "He says he owes you a licking doos he? Well, you'll never get it." "How do you know?" "I'm his tailor." —Chicago Tribune. "He's a very modest young man, isn't lie?" "Modest as a burglar; he doesn't even want the credit of his own work."—Philadelphia Record. An enterprising hosier has an nounced h new button, which he colls The Old Maid's Wedding. Why? Be cause it never comes oft".—Tit-Bits. The coalman's season may be th* winter, the summer the iecmay's harv est, so that it's possible the inilkmai' finds his greatest protit in the ? spring. Shall I from her swoet spall depart, Or tiikf her for better or wor-W The choice is - will she break tnr henrt, Or -shall she break my purse? it -Puck. Demonstrator in Natural Science "Gentlemen, I hold in my hand three shells." Voice (from amphitheatre) '•lt isn't under tiny of tlieui.-Detroit Free Press - . Watts—"l wonder how lifts work 1 will get along when you nivd. I have left it?" Potts — "You'd letter 1>« wondering how we'll get along?' --In dianapolis Journal. Pipkin- - "Does your know anything about cooking?" -.Potts guess she does; you can't fset Ju l' iutc any of your cheap lvate Field' < Washington. "Hello, Bingley. how did tl<t- do<-toi succeed in breaking up >*4911 fever?' "Oil, easy enough; he prjistUited his bill, and 1 had a chill i:i fifteen rain ntes." —Chicago I uter : )ceAA'.' "Can I get this note 'sWiU'eil?" h» timidly asked the m»Aoj»leuder "«iracious ! ' ejaculated the broker, ai lie glanced :it the date, "it'M fdd enougl' to need it! ' Atlauts <\-utt|tf|tioii. I'nU'ss old words can lu- - for tin new oues that are I'.eiliij ruiiidlj coined. Kuglish dictionaries v'ili soon have t.» be taken t>> i cottnit' t'l>inpri st to lie rendered portable. • tUuU* v -v>» Applicant for W.irk iT'lbiti tli«- ■ c cupatioii --em. to In- a dtiiijji ryy« oUe.' Maiitis,'er "Ye. : but the!' in -iim- m>ii nr.« killed th* company S#W(ilil i-» ud tloweri to yuiir fuu-ial." Pot-tol- Transcript. t Ki.-har.l Wli'-n my « i,!V tyiried to -leiri lo r I>t with int I tnltt t know tin re was a mortgage ,'ii it'"' Hurrj "A mortgage? ' liic4iai<d • "Het mother, I found, weut <tU,,f• lot." Hotitui 'lSaio>i-ripi , \ fellow ii, Hielllivtkjc win! ciMildn t J| V«'Hf ftir I li. 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