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.