SULLIVAN JSS§FT& REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XII. Nearly 1000 children ore boru year ly in Loudon workhouses. Life insurance companies ore be coming the .holders of enormous masses of capital. Paris statistics show fliat out of every thousand bachelors forty are criminals, rnd out of every thousand married men only eight. This gives o ratio of crime five times us high with unmarried men. Between 2000 and 2500 convicts from English prisons arc annually dis charged on ticket-of-leave, and of these over seven hundred arc apprehended for fresh offenses and 120 for failing to report themselves. The City of London is sacred from intrusion by the Royal troops, and only two regiments in the British ser vice have the right to march through it in martial array, with bands play ing, bayonets fixed and colors dis played. The thoroughfares of Rio de Ja neiro are so narrow that people can lean out of windows and shake hands across the street. Events, however, remarks the Washington Star, do not indicate that they feel like doing this very often. Theodore Roosevelt thinks that the day is not far distant when the lake country of Wisconsin and Minnesota will be famous as the summer resort of both the Eastern and Western States, and that a trip thither will be as pop ular as one to Newport or Saratoga now is. The New York News boasts that "from the figures furnished by the State Board of Equalization it appears that the appareiit value of real estate, plus the assessed value of personal property, make an aggregate of nearly six billion dollars. This is equivalent to about one thousand dollars for every man, woman and child in the State, or five thousand dollars for an average family. The London Standard correspond ent at Shang'*j» telegraphs that Viceroy Chang, notorious for his hatred of foreigners and for encourag ing natives iu the barbarous treatment of Europeans, is reported to have ad dressed a petition to the throne openly advocating the extermination of for eigners in China, and especially Eng lish, iu order to prevent the eventual partition of China among European powers. The hostility to foreigners in the provinces is unabated. Statistics are said to show that young men do not, >n the average, attain lull physical maturity until they arrive at the age of twenty-eight years. Professor Scheiller, of Har vard, asserts, a>> the result of his ob servations, that young men do not at tain to the full measure of their men tal faculties before twenty-five years of age. A shrewd observer has said that "most men are boys until they are thirty, and little boys until they ure twonty-fivc;'' and this accords with the standard of manhood whie was fixed ut thirty among the ancient Hebrew* and other races. The -tucking of Alaska with reindeer is u proiiouneed success according to the Rev. Doctor Sheldon Jacksou, I'nitcd St itcs (lenerul Agent of Edu cation in Ahi-ko. Of 170 reindeer brought to Alaska from Siberia last year but eleven died, while eighty eight fawns were boru, of which seventy nine were living three weeks ago. The revenue steamer Hear made several trips across tli>' straits this summer and transported thirty-seven more rellidei I I I Alaska. I'll, purpose of lli< scheme ts to furnish a reliable supply of 100 I for the natives and also to establish tin use of tin liter tor work purpost s. A Peruvian tnveutur has endeavored lo provide it;pilll»l tint ilallK' I to which vessels ar« exposed when in the vicin Ity of It clu rgs or Other imp) udiliK <Ktl lls loll* bv Mpil| » M»eaU» of .lo|e ping tin VK»s< I suddenly \v.rlieally sliding frauti «HI n post at the bow of tin VI . I hats on It* sltli • pivoted Wln II requited I'lie Wilt** *r.l held ill their normal p -ition by mean* of chaius allu'ln I I a lorwurd projection of the 11sine, and o|ht rehaiiiseoniieel foiwmd motion of iln »hi|t »bn h will "YOU COME TO A COUNTRY RI ;H WITH CORN." Vou come to a country rich with corn, October! The young birds pip<> in the fields now shorn, October! Ntooks of ru9»et on every hand Like pointed tents of the red man stand, October! The flail Is heard on the farmer's floor, October! Straw and chaff are thick at the door, October! The dusty sacks go over the hill, And merrily, merrily whirls the mill, October! Your voice Is n thrush's, a fawn's your tread, October! A garland of wild flowers Is round your head, October! Your cheek how bonny, your bronth how | sweet! And the lamps of the forest light your feet, ! October! I Shake your crisp locks to the life-givlngsun. i October! Drink of your presses, that laugh as they j run, October! For the Ice King lurks in the fields of snow. To rifle your kingdom and lay you low, i October! —l)ora It. Ooodnle in Harper's Young People. WHAT SHE SAW. BV EMMA A OPPER. -ft APPT ! Yes! Never had Net vJ/ vl i Frame ft / I I looked for such i. "Vn ft happiness. It \ I -5: v 'SM Ik I was wonderful, I I ' J incredible. J | _ Would her y- I vF'mother think 1 Vj . \ —ft' it too sudden? ! UO ' n °t I. U when void all / I about, it. It j Hi J I I liad been three | SI ILa 1 ' l)11 K months, i ltr ltr l' lß ' "he had! been here with | Aunt Julia, who, extravagant woman, j owned two summer cottages elsewhere, j but who so greatly preferred this big, i jolly, lovely hotel on Cliff Isle that I she had come hither for two entire j seasons, bringing her favorite niece ! with her. And this summer her fa- 1 vorite niece had met Stanley Mayhew, j been loved by him, loved him and promised to be his wife. Nettie sat in the corner of u great, | soft sofa in the long parlor, thinking i her happy thoughts. Only three months! but how well they knew each , other now! Stanley came down from the city every night, and every Sunday for ail day, «nd how her contented mind teemed with sweet memories—of moon- ' light strolls on the sandy shore; of quiet hours on a rustic bench on the hill; of crabbing and fishing in his little skiff; of long talks, only bright and friendly at first, then something ; more; of tho moment when he had spoke, and she had yielded her full trust to him ; of the blessed two weeks since then. She had written to her mother and she had told her Aunt Julia ; and she wondered if she ought not to tell Eleanor Wells. Why hadn't she? Eleanor and she were chums, and Eleanor was an old friend of Stanley's family in the city, and was the one girl beside herself to whom Stanley paid uny attention. Was she, perhaps, just the least mite jealousof that old friend ship, and of Stanley's frank admira tion of Kleanor? Was it because of that lurking little doubtfulness that she had not confided her happiness to Eleanor ? Nettie was ashamed of the feeling. Of course he admired a handsome, clever, charming girl. He himself had introduced them, and wanted them to be friends, they were. It wan herself whom he loved. Was not that enough for her? Did it not seem to fill her world with radience? She would go and find Eleanor this minute nud tell her. She would tell how she almost wondered that he had not chosen her instead; and they would laugh together probably cry a < little and have a good talk She must hurry. It was after seven o'clock How. ttlnl lie would bn down on tin eight o'clock boat to night, he had told her, because In had a little extra work at the office. She would jilst have time, when she had seen Eleanor, to get into her prettiest gown for him She rost, smiiiug and flushing, and went tripping down the long room, humming a gay air. A huge, gilt-framed mirror wits at the end of it She stopped suddenly, in the act of passing it. li• had colli* ! There he was, just eiilt ring the farther door of the parlor. Kleanor Wills war» with him. Ni Mil stood waiting, her eyes fast' tn-'luuthu mirror which reflected lb' >li lln moment she stood tlu-re seemed t< tor an tii mil \ tier smile faded, i a quiver |ia»se4 #»er her, an I It r fact to .li on a marble eol liiess; for she ha I ' n I It His lib v Ml \ 111 w stoop over I.lis !U' i S\. lis iitt In i raise Iter pretty, 1 t.'iwoeful head, siel si iit their lips 14,1 I I. 11l I It they had not men poor v II I 11,,. I im 11,, ireuihliua hand* »t r> clasped so tight lv that it hurt lot her breath came in little, inl* el able |«*»pn to wlti It | .ii I • ill aefi»* tha kti'Wl |IM<U, and, l-ai. 11l sb l. Welti Mel ick It i| I tit l" b«ls*lt, mi t ti<»|tii all* , s.«ti< an I 4»siu LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1893. And that was at first as far as her • thoughts would go; for she could not believe what she had seen. "No, no!" she whispered, wringing her hands. "It wasn't Stanley. No, no !" as though every feature of his, every look, were not familiar and dear ' to her. She found herself mounting the hill and sinking down on the rustic seat where they had sut together so often. And there she pressed her face on the j rough wood and tried to think. Think? She could not. One thing j blinded her to all besides and stifled thought—ths remembrance of that which the mirror had reflected—of that sight of the man she loved and had trusted tenderly, bending to caress another woman. He did not love her, then. She was j a plaything merely—a source of vvliini- , sicul amusement for him during the j idle hours of tho summer. He hud . not cared for her—he had not been [ serious. He had meant to make love I to her while the mood was upon him, and to break the bond when he should tire of it. Else could ho be making I love to another woman ? And she had cored for him so deeply , —her faith in him hail been so entire ! . And her love for him had so filled her j heart and her life ! Oh, it had been j no light matter to her. And now —what? She could not j find relief in tears, as she asked her- ! self that wrenching question. She felt frozen, benumbed. She j sat motionless, and stared up at the first faint star in the gray skin. "Nettie!" a voice called, impera tively and half impatiently. It was Stanley Mayhew's, and he followed it. Ho came hurrying up the bonk. "Mrs. Loney told me she sow yon coming up her. What on earth— You must have known I'd be there. Or, no; I told you the eight o'clock boat, didn't I? Well, I got through before I thought T should, and here T j am." He threw himself down beside her, a shadowy form in the dimness, and patted her hand by way of greeting ; j nor did he notice that she drew it away quickly and fur. He was laughing, and when he had paused a moment to get his breath, he began to explain why. "Now, what do you think?" he de manded. "Now guess ! I've just seen Eleanor Wells. What do you think she told me?" Nettie shivered. "Well, they're engaged!" said her lover, with an uir of triumph. What did he mean ? she wondered. But she did not care. What difference did it make what he meant? What difference could anything make now ? "They're engaged," he repeated. "The trouble is over, the storm is ended, and they've got into smooth waters, with the matrimonial port in plain sight. Of coursfi she's told you all about Leonard ? Talked to you about him for hours, I suppose?" "No?" he went on, though Nettie had not spokeu. "I can't believe it! And you such chums! "Well, I've told you obout Leon ard, you know —my next older brother who went to California in April to manage a mining syndicate—the clev erest fellow you ever saw. "Well, he and Eleanor were en gaged. Really, didn't she tell you? Why, that's part of our family record, tor it's au old affair. The Wells chil dren olid 'we nils' used to ploy dolls and tag together, you know, and it has always been a settled thing, somehow, that Eleanor would marry Leonard when they got old enough, because they were always sweet on each other. "Well, they had been regularly en gaged for a year or so, when 10, and behold ! early this spring they hod a j tiff. "It was all about a young Spaniard that Eleanor didn't euro any more about than she does nhout me; but the spat grew into a quarrel, and tho quarrel ended in Eleanor's sending back poor Len's ring and all his pho tographs and tin types and presents. "I believe there was a packing box 1 full of them, and Fred and I arranged them in his room, and put crape over the door. But we were really broken Up about it, all of us. Mother was actually sick for a week. And Len Leu wan a mental wreck. "He looked like a ghost. lie said he'd got to get away, and tir»t we knew he'd packed up and gone off to California to manage a syndicate. "I've been glum enough over it. I knew Leonard thought the world of her, and that she well, I'll come to the point, Haul Stanley with auothei breezy laugh "I met Hh anor down at the house just as I got there, and die told me that it just tl%ed up "She said she knew all the while that she wan to blame, and the otln i day situ lutlsti red up courage to writ - and tell LeU SO, all I tile Vl rv next llav she got a long letter from him "llu vowed he was in the wrong, and wanted her to for <ive him slid take It in i back, and i>o forth and so • • it . t'heir letters bad clotted each other; lb* spirit had luovt d them both almost at the same Hint- Hn now tin y're both back in their seventh ht-aviu. "I don't »• u why Eleanor never told volt She's just the j, irl to colt itdi Iter tr->'thlva lo a sympathising girl tin i, l liui rou mi Nil ditln t Know Hello*' 11. h«d lighted a ... itch ' >t in- eigsi a ill pi tv full V In I I .Itoliitlaci "Si IU. what lsan> Bill S.tin grasped ln« cost frout with l*o |rt inulolls llllb ban l» "And aln n ,In told pil| yol| kl*»ed Utlghiu, "tM emu., I t>u»cd hi I I 1t,,1 glad I dldn i itnua Wlisi I w*» doing, but i ill..nil list* given It. I •aiMgraUUtM* u I '•» I knoan Why, his cigar fell to the ground that his arms might do their duty. "I—l've wronged you," she sobbed. "You and her. You wouldn't speak to me again if yon knew !" But he did know two minutes later, and lie only luuglied and drew her [ closer. "Now I do know you care for me," he declared, in high contentment. "And if I hadn't been so—so jealous j of her," Nettie whispered, "it would ■ never, never have happened. 1 should have told her of our engagement then, and she would have trusted mo and told me about her nffoir, and I should never have suspected either of you. Oh, Stanley, can you forgive me —con : you ?" Yes, he could, for he kissed her. "I think you had the worst of it, I little girl," ho said, in tender banter. "I know I did," she answered, j solemnly.—Saturday Night. lie tirew Up With the Conntry. Dozens of letters have been received j from all corners of the United States i for more information about the little 1 gray toad that was dug up under sev -1 enteen feet of hardpan on the premises 1 of Henry and Eliza Henderson in the southern part of this city, says a ■ Tiicoma (Washington) letter to the New York Sun. Managers of museums j aud owners of aquariums covet the ! little hopper, which is not over a I month old, dating from the day he was unearthed. What surprises the scientists most is tho fact that he does not turn up his eat-like claws and die. Heretofore, toads taken from stones or dug up out of th 3 earth at a great depth have died iu a few days, most of them expiring inside of an hour or two, but this particular toad is grow ing fat on flies and con hop eighteen inches any day. He loses his appetite ofter eating six or seven plump house Hies. These have to be caught for I him. When they are placed before him he jumps after them viciously and | blinks, and shifts his weight from one | forefoot to the other after swallowing j them. There are various surmises ns to the | age of this toad. Trees which were ! saplings at the time Columbus landed I were growing in the four feet of soil 1 on the top of the hardpan until the Hendersons felled them three yeors ago. In o few days the toad will be forwarded to Harry Henderson, of Pittsburg, Penn., it nephew of the Tacoma Hendersons, who will place ! him in an aquarium in Slienly Park, East Liberty, at that city. Miss Hen derson is afraid to trust this ancient treasure to the c;re of o friend, on ex press company, or the mails, and she | will probably make a special trip East i in the capacity of fly catcher and I chuperon for his toodlets. A Substitute tor Tan Dark. Growing wild in great abundance in New Mexico anil Arizona is a plant that yields a large percentage of tan nic acid. It is known as eanaigre. i Experiments were made with this plant, and when it became certain that the product of its root wits in every way suited to tanning, a large quan tity of tho tubers were shipped to various tanneries, both in the United States and Europe. This was in 1889. The results obtained were at once gratifying and encouraging to all con cerned. A number of European tanneri erected plants for extracting tho acid from the eanaigre root and odopteil their tanneries to the use of the prod uct. It will surprise most renders to leant that since that time they have had large forces of men employed in New Mexico and Arizona digging and ! shipping the root. American tanners hove been slow in taking up the euuoigre root, fearing the supply could not be made to au swer the demand. They have long been convinced, however, that it fur nishes equally as good u tanning agent as the oak or hemlock hork, and at htf-t steps ore being taken to begin the cultivation of the plant on a large scale. Many farmers in New Mexico have undertaken to make a business of it, and a large company has been in corporated for the purpose of improv ing the lands of the Pecos Valley, where the conditions ore especially favorable to its growth. Waverley Magazine Not sti IliiiigcrouH. "Man iu No 69 wants some parlor matches He aaya these eight day ►.tick* are a confounded nuisance," the hell boy said to the clerk iu one of the hotels yesterday. "I'ell him he'll have to get along with the old style match," answered the clerk "Tlis insurance companies don't allow parlor matches iu the rooms." "Ves, thill's II fact he continued, in answer to it surprised uiiestioiier. "Insiirauee policies of net rly all cum (tallica prohibit tho keeping and Use of p.irlor nislolie* in any part of a hotel but I hey un generally kept lit lh< ofticcx because they ari in greater favor aud uiort convenient thaii lln s'llplnil match, and the requirements of I lie policy is 111 that I itcut over look, I bv both its bidders and the iskiiin.' cotitp4ii,v there isn't much chile'i lor an aceldelilal Ignition of a parlor mil li to do much harm ill a liott l ••Mli I bill III' > ari dangerous Itlings iii rooms, win re csrpeis ui cur i .iiits or stray papei are liable to catch tii. trout lb in Ihi i ar« not only ntuft . toll) light I bv aet'ldi 111, sU"h a* St. ppill upon litem, lull «• Is not ift netall v kuowu, lb > oflt U bri sk out lit lis,a. ii out »|.oul tiieoils combustion \ut t,isv )ild-< how lastly lhl« Is liable to bappi n b> Ituldtle a bunch of litem in ih duik and watching llu IUUIH |t, || ~l|l, , lil .1 111 ' I 111! llt SOME QUEER TELEGRAPHS. NOVEL. WAT "5 OF SENDING MES SAGES LONG DISTANCES. Series of liooniiiiß Cannon, Beacon Fires unit Signal Towers—Coiu liuiitleatliig by Sun Flashes. WHEN the Erie Canal was opened from New York to Buffalo, it was announced by the booming of cannon ull along the route ; the man with the big gun at Buffola began, and the one at the next station heard it, and fired his, and so on step by step till the city of New York was reached. That was one kind of telegraphing, but the eye is employed in signaling more often than the ear. Beacon fires flashing from hill to hill is the earliest way of sending mes sages of which we know anything ; of course, those in charge of the fires understood each other's signs—one, two, three blazes by night, one, two, three columns of smoke by day, meant to those who understood that an en emy was approaching, that there were few or many, and so on. .Jeremiah, the old Jewish prophet, called on the people of Benjamin to fire signal on a mountain top, and the old Oreek poet, .Eschylus, tells us that the commander of tho Greeks at the famous siege of Troy telegraphed the message of the city's fall to his wife, who was in far-off Greece. The news was flashed by fires from peak to peak of eight intervening mountains, traveling the whole dis tance in one night. Three hundred years ago, when all England was stirred with terror ot the coming of the great Spanish Armada, how eagerly they watched by night for the first flicker on the hilltop. Each peak near tho coast had its bonfire realty laid, and below woited men with swift horses ready to carry the message of woe if the Spaniards came by day. But the flint never struck the spark from steel to start tho blaze, the trusty horses never clattered down into the valleys, for the winds and waves of the Atlantic scattered the great fleet, aud not a ship was landed on the const. In later times the semaphore served o very good purpose to carry messages. Towers were built on commanding points, five or ten miles apart ; frames on these held shutters by the opening and shutting of which sixty-three dis trict signals could lie mode. A simpler arrangement was afterword used con sisting of two arms worked up and down from within these towers. On the lookout room were telescopes which were constantly fixed on the tower next in line. So perfect was the system that when the time boll was dropped ot the Greenwich Observatory of the hour of noon, it was signaled to Portsmouth and the message of ac knowledgment received ot Greenwich within three-quarters of a minute. Of course a fog rendered these signals useless, and they we're' gladly given up when men began to play with light ning and train it to carry their mes sages. Flags ore used more or less at sea for signaling, but a fog also ren ders them useless, and the fitfiilness of the wind is another difficulty; too little breeze leaves them flopping ot the post, too much may flutter them with the end toward the other party. Then the semaphore system is used, as a mast or pole with its two arms eon be set up anywhere oil o ship. There is still ouother mode of sig naling used largely between the army posts iu our Western country, in which old Sol writes the letters of the mes sage. Perhaps every boy or girl has flushed the sun's light by means of n mirror, nnd enjoyed seeing the vivid spot donee ut his will, by the adjust ment of tho looking gloss. Some one, with the kind of brain which sees a step further thou his comrade's does, said: "Whv not make practical use of this vivid far-reaching flash?" and forthwith the heliograph or sun writer came into being. It is u small compact offoir ; u tripod holds o bur which supports o mirror, on tile bar is a projection like the ou o gun to guide tho eye in adjusting it. A small hole is scratched through the quicksilver at the centre of the mirror, which, of course, makes a dork spot or shadow in the centre of the patch of light. The operator takes his instrument to tie highest point convenient and with it "covers" the mountain peak where he know* the other party with whom he wants to speak must be. Attached to |)ie sight on the rod is a small while disc. The operator ad justs his mirror till the little dark spot of shadon is thrown till the dim', and as he knows from the "aiming or "sighting" of tin rod that the disc covers the spot he wauls |o strike, he is sure that the strollgest glare of the light Is jilst where he wauls ll to lie. Now the man on the other mountain watching the vivid spot, sees it flash, flash, flash, tllelt move so fast that it Is merely a flicker; llteii flash auaiu with longer or sborlt r intervals, ami just as tile length of the dash 111 tile alphabet of tin electric tele Miapli makes lln letters or words, so does the length of the Hash ot light in this system. I 111 |aisltloli ot tin sit it makes no differ euec, for when lie is IU I lit' Wl'oltK place, a second mirror is substituted tor Ills majest> and throw- tin In im on iln first i.in 111 tin II Intnl.i va- where the utilin . tl Ml i lear,' II litest has It* ell Hashed suit miles, but the slice, ss ol iln heliograph of coui « depend- in large Measure nil Iln ab>-< ut ' of . lotlds Ni W Vol It T Ibst-rw r I hi! ol Ihe iltoli.-l articles lit iln I ctdlet'lloU of tht Ist I I. tlMi i. ttos|o|i, Is what I' sai llibe In I n at I .-lists! known lo I Mil It s VII inches 111 ilian.i TL ■ Mil Ml * ... i. in lit vi d|o have pint I<• >'l |uf tl Terms—-81.00 in Advance; 81.25 after Three Month* SCIENTIFIC A'ril INDUSTRIAL. The adult htimen heart is five inches long. A single polypus has been cut into 124 ports, nnd each in time became a perfect animnl. The climate of the Southern Polar regions is much more severe than that of corresponding regions to the north. The Doric column was never less than four and rarely more than six diameters high, and the diameter at the top was three-fourths that at tho bottom. A German has invented a paper from which any sort of ink may be erased by the use of a moist sponge, but tho Government has refused to grant him a potent on it. The last annual circle of wood leaves an accumulation of living cells upon its surface, and toward midsummer these cells produce ati abundance of new ones until the aggregate is suffi cient to form a new annual layer. This process on common trees requires about six weeks. Among the products which science hos put to valuable service is the net tle, a weed which is now being culti vated in some pnrts of Europe, its fiber proving useful for a variety of textile fabrics. In Dresden a thread is produced from it so fine that a length of sixty miles weighs only two and a half pounds. An official notice has been issued in Russia that "physicians shall have the right to make use of hypnotism in tho treatment of their patients. In every case of the application they must in form the administrative authorities, at the same time giving the names of the physicians in whose presence the pa tient was hypnotized." A man fifty years old has, according to it f'rencli stot sticion, worked 0500 iloys, slept (5000, amused himself 4000, walked 1*2,000 miles, been ill 500 days, has partoken of 3G, 000 meals, eaten 10,000 pounds of meat and 4000 pounds of fish, eggs and vegetables, oml drunk 7000 gollons of fluid, which would make a lake of 800 feet surface if three feet deep. An attempt is being made in Eng land to utilize the power nbsorbed in the application of the brakes to tram cars so as to render aid in restarting the car. A spring is charged which con be released nnd will start the car without the aid of the horses. A for ward and not a recoil movement is of; once given to the wheels, but its action can be reversed in case of need—such ns to overrunning joints at junctions. Electrical progress has been very rapid in Switzerland on account of the abundance of cheap power from water falls. Professor Dealer, of the Zurich Polytechnic School, states tluit_ at the close of 1802 there were in operation 552 electric light installations, fifty two plants for the electrical transmis sion of power, 121 batteries of accum ulators and 1051) dynamos nnd electro motors. The number of incandescent lamps was 115,i>2(i and of lamps 0746. There are several simple methods of distinguishing between mushrooms and toadstools, and any person who has seen the two together would not be likely to mistake one for the other. The mushroom has the neck solid, with a color or frill midway between the earth and the head, whereas the stem of the toadstool is hollow; tho mushroom lias o thick kid-like cover ing, which the toadstool locks, and salt has no effect on the mushroom, where it turns the toadstool black. Imitative Forms in Flowers. Those who have given any particular attention to the study of botanical oddities know that the Brazilian flower known as the "running ante lope," is so called because its white petals have a series of well-defined, dark-colored lines and dots in which the imagination can readily trace the form of an antelope with its limbs out stretched and head thrown back, seemingly fleeing for its life. In the "caricatv.re plant'' one species has the imitative form on the petals and an other hoi- it outlined in the rilm nnd shading of the leaves. This lust mentioned curiosity bears n remarkably well-executed likeness of the Duke of Wellington, and has, on that account, been named "Arthur and his Nose.' Among the orchids the imitative form is entirely different iu character, being exhibited in the shape of the flower itself. Some lire exact count* rfeits of liee*. butti rill. - ninths, etc . vvhib others take upon themselves the form of worms and beetles. Naturalists be lieve that in the first iustauci it is nature's trap to lure other bees, moths olid butterflies, but the case of tin worm and beetle orchids, or thost tluit are exact counterparts of loads, lizards and huge spiders, they do not attempt to explain. -St. Louis He public. Ilacterlu and 4'ulils, According tu the Herltu correspond ent of the Lancet, Professor Sehellk )I*h found that tin micro-organisiif. move 11.ward warm points. This move lili'llt he terms theruiotaviK, and lie concludes as thi result ot experiments with a specially constructed apparat I" that wariuth ads a* a stimulant oil micro organisms, which move toward a warm botlv lit theli neighborhood,*Mtl that this theruiolax is is avil il prop i-rty of lateu tin llw professor fut III! I ciMisnli rs Ih»l 111 certain c«-• -ot "Catching cold" all infection Is con veyett by bacteria I bus a |tersoti en IrriUH nt'old room would iltrail tin bacteria present by bis Matin body, ui. i in m, rtndiug »dinis»i.ni through the skill ot olbera ise, pr.idin . alt. r a i. limit lints til iitt'iiiialiou, tin results t« linsri'v attributed lo 'ill iilltt told' rim bill lullli sbtHlh- sa.sl glands, and mucttu* un u.lu sin- sr. *ll 1,, i i 't, i i ni l p itata i nil . t tailuts Ni|s M |||l lineman NO. 5. THE POPPIES IN THE CORN, When the mist in pearly column* Rises o'er the hilltops *rav, And the dews of eatly dawning In the grasses melt away, Then the sun in softened splendor Sheds his lirst rays thro' the morn, Uo, they kiss the sleopy fanes Of the poppies In the corn. O'er the scene there falls a silence, All the twittering song-birds still; As the lark, his far flight taking, Circles toward the distant hill, / tip and upward, Hies triumphant, Earth-bred warbler, heaven-born. Till a song steals down from cloudland O'er the popples in the corn. .Slowly comes the hush of noontide, Not a leaf sways on tho trees. Not a dew-drop on the grasses, Not tho whisper of a breew, Glows the sun In scorching fury, One woo butterfly forlorn, Panting, falls in dying struggles On the poppies in the corn. Soft a breeze comes rustling over, Kighingthro' the cedars tall, ■Stirs tho grapes in hanging clusters On tho mold'ring wine-clad wall, •Sinks the sun in amber glory, Dies the day as night Is born. One wee star peeps through the twilight, At tho poppies in the corn. —Maud E. Kendriek. in Boston Globe. HUMOR OF THE DAY. No doubt tho jail-bird often wishes he could fly.—Truth. Tt. is the mnu who is always gettiug left that talks about his rights. Most of the things that "everybody knows" are not true at all.- Puck. Tailors and lawyers build up their business by care in taking measures for winning suits. A short history of China : A seven dollar tea-cup and a three-dollar ser vant-girl.—Washington Star. A dollar in a savings bank will ulti mately turn out to be worth two in an old stocking.---Boston Herald. The tenant who spends all his money on a tear naturally has cause to worry over the rent.—Buffalo Courier. There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise. Ho kept his tongue, he stopped his oars. And also shut his eyes. It is the man with about :s('>. 17 to his credit in a bank that usually tries hard est to stir up a panic.—Washington Star. The highest form of sincere tlnttery at the present time is to ask a mnu if he cau change a 310 bill. Memphis Appeal. The walking delegate doesn't need to be remarkably handsome to present a striking appearance.---Buffalo j Courier. A good many concerns that have gone under lately have been sunk by their floating debts.—-Philadelphia Ledger. Friend —"Well, Tommy, now that you've started to school, what do you like best?" Tommy—"ftecess."—ln ter-Ocean. "Well, Anna, have you found the rose for my hair yet?" "Yes, Madam ; but now I cannot find the hair."— J Fliegemle Blaetter. Quericus —"Who was it that wrote the song 'They're after me?' " \\ itti cus. "Adam, in all probability, as he was the first man."-—The Club, lie went to get a photogr.ip'i ; Ho posed in killing style. The sail result was little else Than hands and feet and smile. Washington Star. The true luxury of ati alarm clock lies in its reminder that with a little extra haste you can spare fifteen min utes for another nap. Washington | Star. In the search for the Western train robbers, one detective arrested another detective as one of the guilty men. | Detecting is a great business some time---Baltimore American. They didn't come with awful bills To present with a savage stare. For they wore afraid he'd begin to t"ll Of the tilings he'd seen at the Fair. Chicago lnter-<>••>■.•>ll. "Life is a song," said some poet, and he told the truth. But it is a sad [ reflection that a man may make his : existence as obnoxious to society as some popular tunes gel to be. Wash j itigton Star. "1 wouldn't l>e so particular to take * the saud out of your shoes all the time, Mr. Noodle," she said, and then, all- 1 a pause, "Your system might absorb a little. I think yon need sotnt I Philadelphia itecord. I \ 1 it 11 v lor your thought'., my low | Di tender tones he said. Til Mil »h« told tll lt vKioui of "\ -l-'l *t v« Were tlo itim throllito her In-ad Chicago bitcr-o. can. All the wedding put* «< |. a»soni ! bled at the registrar's. I'ho bridegroom alone was missing. \l la-t he put 111 a | belated appearance. He »as a bile old gentleman of seventy "Auolli'i I time," »aid there,; -irar, "com. « bit earlier. Horntagsblall "Well, Aunt Ite lii I -11 I tie >Ollll. lud> 111 111 travelliu " ill, "1 sliill have to bid you a 101l fs> well "It 1 you're goiii ( I" tlii« lr Illi, in am, SMI I tli< ju ird I|<||l»ll||| t • the driver tii go ahead, 1 "you'll hivi to make it ' pretty aliorl " Tit Hit t lto.il nl a Muwl< IVai'l. V I'll r ll* je»« l< r I • o.iide 11 t ill * bout foriii> doi a »iugli |>atl It stil Is ol brnti 11 ft>M »lndl*d I* lib dla HIOIKU. and the bliuiael. light at IU pro. I* a |H»f. I ruin tu raid M-rw-a as a rudder, and it* stand »■ n ■■lab ol It >i» ll »i i| h* leas than half an oituee It priec i» #-j«l,tMMi lili lolal Hold pi odili lloU ol i'suttsl gm » imlai. I l< 1 lb. la I , ,n at- I Ho, IMS! oiiuee*. with ni s a-. 1 ui» otiio'u Ihlltet u pi uui a> in tit lu lUtf to tt.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers