SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XII.
According to the New York Mail
and Express nearly four thousand chil
dren in that city are refused admission
to the public schools for "lack of ac
commodation. "
The Hartford Journal declares that
moneyed men of to-day have their per
sons as well guarded as the Czar of
Russia, to protect them from the
murderous cranks which now infest
the whole country.
Over seventy-two per cent, of the
population of India are of the Bralim
anic religion, nineteen per cent. Mus
sulmans, three per cent, of Animistic
or aboriginal forms of worship, and
0.80 per cent, are returned ns Chris
tians.
Otto Wells, a full-blooded Coman
che, who entered the Carlisle (Penn.)
Indian School in a blanket as a boy
pupil, stood up in a dress suit at the
school the other day to be married to
Miss Porkhurst, an Oneida girl. So
far as Lo is concerned civilization is
not ft failure.
The street railroads of New York
City had, until the introduction of the
cable system, 20,000 horses in service,
and the total number of horses and
mules on American street railroads
was not far from 400,000. Now, with
7000 miles of trolley roads, and over
1500 of cable, there is decidedly less
demand for horses and mules, and
correspondingly smaller demand for
hay for fodder.
It lias been decided by an English
court that it is not libellous to call ft
lady ft woman. This recalls the fact
to the New York Tribune that in a
Western town a couple of years ago a
yonng woman who worked as a clerk
in a dry good store threatened to 6ue a
newspaper for libel because it referred
to her as a saleswoman and not as a
saleslady. She did not carry out her
intention, however, as she was ad
vised that she had no case.
About ten years ago a number of
Germans, who had migrated to the
Northwest, disgusted with the hard
ships of that cold country, determined
to remove to the South. They accord
ingly bought at $lO an acre a worn
out plantation of some 2000 acres in
Lauderdale County, Alabama, and
settled there. They proceeded to im
prove their property along practical
and intelligent lines. They cleared
away the broomsedge and planted
clover and grasses and begau raising
cattle. They sold hay and small grain.
They planted orchards and vineyards
and utilized the products in every avail
able way. The result is that the St.
Florian colony is among the most
thrifty and prosperous communities in
the State of Alabama. Their land is
now worth at least SSSO per acre and
they are happy and independent.
Professor (Jarner's announcement
that his visit to Africa to study the
language of the monkeys has been en
tirely successful is necessarily of great
interest, observes the New York
Times. It is of the greater interest
because he has brought back with him
two chimpanzees, with whom he
"claims" to have established conversa
tional relations, and with whom,
doubtless, he will consent to converse
in public—not necessarily for publica
tion, but as a guarantee of good faith.
Of equal interest is his statement that
when he was anchored out in a cage
in the middle of an African forest,
eavesdropping on the circumambient
apes, he kept a phonograph, and by
trick and device induced the monkeys
to talk into it. Their remarks will
doubtless be ground out again for the
benefit of learned societies, in the
wheezy and asthmatic tones into which
the phonograph converts all sounds.
The wages of train-robbery do not
seem to the Kan Francisco Chronicle
to be large enough to make the pursuit
attractive. Within the last three
months there has been uu epidemic of
this crime, but in nearly every case
the robbers have been run down and
either captured or shot. Even where
bloodhounds are not used the fugitive
is placed at a terrible disadvantage,
as he is usually seeking to escape from
men who know every trail and hiding
place. Before the day of the telegraph
the criminal had some chance of elud
ing pursuit, but in the present day of
instant communication his lines are
not cast in pleasant places. It would
make a curious exhibit were one to
bring together the profit and loss of
train-robbery in a single vear. It
would be found that the men who ex
pend rare skill for weeks HI planning
a crime seldom realize anything for
theil pains An honest, plodding day
laborer makes more inn year than one
of the high u r class criminal* who risks
life and liberty a dozen times tor
p< ttv gains.
LIFE.
Dining and sleeping;
Laughing and weeping.
Sighing for some uew toy;
Loving anil liating,
Wooing and mating,
Chasing the phantom, Joy.
Losing anil winning,
Praying and sinning,
Seeking a higher life :
Hope and repining,
Shadow and shining,
Care, and worry, and strife.
Hoarding and wasting,
Loitering, basting,
Missing the golden mark,
Praising and flouting.
Trusting and doubting
Takinga leap in the dark.
- Clarence Henry Pearson.
THE MARSEILLES CLOCKS.
f^'-~. clocks in that
' l —forward one
hour— b tradition which is said to
have had its origin in the following
story:
There lived in the vicinity of that
city ft M. Valette, a gentleman of an
cient family and of considerable for
tune. He had married Marie Dan
ville, daughter of the Mayor of the
city, and, with their two sons and two
daughters, dwelt in a beautiful villa
near the city—-a seat which had been
the favorite residence of his ancestors.
As his children grew up, however,
he was induced to move to Paris,
which place both he and Mme. Valette
conceived to be more suited to the ed
ucation of their family. The removal
of M. Valette and of his family was
deplored by his tenantry, to whom lie
had been as a father, but particularly
as M. le Brun, whom he had left fac
tor on his estate, was, though a just
mau, of harsh and unaccommodating
temper.
M. Valette found it necessary in
Paris to adopt a mode of life which but
ill accorded with the moderation <>f
liis fortune. He made frequent de
mnnds for renewed remittances upon
his factor; an 1 the latter wns forced
to use rigorous and oppressive meas
ures to procure for his master the nec
essary means. The scanty vintage of
the preceding year had made such de
inandH doubly bwitft*. iiliey, and Le
Brun became as odious to the tenantry
as Valette had been respected and be
loved.
These circumstances were but little
known to Valette, or he would have
revolted from a manner of life which
wrung from his ienantsalmost all their
hard-earned substance. One night, as
he slept in Paris, the form of his fac
tor appeared to him, covered with
blood, informing him that he had been
murdered by the tenantry on M. Vn
lette's estate for rigor in collecting his
revenue, and that his body had been
buried under a particular tree, which
it minutely described. The ghost of
Le Brun requested, moreover, that M.
Valette would immediately hasten to
Marseilles and deposit his remains in
the grave of his ancestors. To this
request Valette assented, and the ap
parition at once disappeared.
The morning came to dissipate the
gloom which Ihe vision of the uiglit
had occasioned: and though he had
been for some time astonished at the
unusual silence of Le Bran, yet ho
could not help considering the whole
as a mere illusion. Stories of ghosts
he had always considered as fit only
for the nursery, To take so long a
journey on such an errand he knew
would be regarded as the height of su
perstition ; and he made no mention
of the incident.
"You are more thoughtful than us
ual, father," said one of his daughters
to him next morning at breakfast.
"I am thinking, my dear, " said M.
Valette, "why i have been so long in
hearing from Le Brun. I need money
and my demands have not been met."
Night came and about the
hour of midnight Le Brun again ap
peared. There was an evident frown
on his countenance, aud ho inquired
of Valette why he had delayed in ful
filling his request. Valette again
promised immediate obedience, and
was no longer disturbed by the unwel
come intruder. Morning came again.
"It must still be a dream," said he
to himself "though a remarkable one,
certainly. To-day will probably bring
me the expected letters from Le Brun."
The third night the vision appeared
with a terrrible frown on its counten
ance. It reproached Valette for his
want of friendship to the man whose
blood had been sj)ilt in his cause, and
for disregarding the peace of his soul.
"If you will grant me my request,"
said the phantom, "I promise to give
you twenty-four hours'warning of the
time of your own death, to arrange
your affairs and to make your peace
with God."
M. Valette promised in the most
solemn manner that he would set ott'
next morning for Marseilles, t<> ext
cute the commission; and the appari
tion of Le Brun disappeared.
Valette rose early next day, and, al
leging to his family that business of
the most urgent necessity called him
immediately to Marseilles, departed
for the seat of hir. ancestors, after an
aliseiic. of len years. There he found
that the narration of the murder of
Le Brun was but ton true. I'uder the
tree that had been MI minutely de
scribed to hi r.i he found the mangled
remains, which he caused t<> lie de
eentl.v interred in the family vault, hi
vain, however, h* made search for tin
murderers, '''lit saw onuses which
occasioned t he dvath of the 11 nfortunate
Le Brun led tin tenants to the most
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1894.
' obstinate concealment of the manner
of it, and Valette saw, with horror and
regret, the misery they had suffered
j that he might be furnished with the
means of extravagance.
"Had I imagined," he exclaimed,
"that my unsatisfactory pleasures
would have cost so dear, I would long
j since have retired from Paris. I shall
return to my estate immediately, that
my children may learn to relish its
! tranquil pleasures.
M. Valette no sooner returned to
Paris than he communicated liis reso
lution to his wife. Mme. Valette, hav
ing accomplished the principal object
of her residence in Paris—the educa
j tion of her family—assented with
' pleasure to a return, and in little more
than a year they found themselves
| again in the chateau of their an
cestors.
I About eight years after their return
from Paris, the family mansion de
manding repairs, they found it ncces
i sary to remove for some time to Mar
: seillcs, where they resided in the
house of M. Danville, the father of
Mme. Valette.
Time had effaced the impression of
his dream from the mind of Vnlette.
I Sitting one night after supper in the
! midst of his family, a loud and suil
| den knocking was heard at the gate ;
but when the servant went to open it,
he found nobody without. After a
| short interval the same loud knocking
J was again heard, and one of Valette's
sons accompanied the servant, to the
! gate to see who demanded admittance
at so unreasonable an hour. To their
J astonishment no one was to be seen
there. A third time the knocking was
: repeated, still louder and louder, and
! a sudden thought darted across the
' mind of Valette.
"I will goto the gate myself," said
j he; "I believe 1 know who it is that
| knocks."
| His presentiment was too truly re-
I alized. As he opened the gate Le
Brun appeared, and whispered to him
that next night at the same time—for
it was now the twelfth hour—lie must
, prepare himself to leave the world.
Then, waving his hand, as if to bid
adieu, Le Brun disappeared.
M. Valette returned, ghastly as the
phantom he had seen, to the family
circle; and, upon their anxious and
urgent inquiries as to the cause of his
uneasiness, related for the first time
the incident of the dream and the
promised warning he had just received.
A sudden gloom and melancholy was
spread over the faces of all present.
Mine. Valette threw her arms round
the neck of her husband and embraced
him with tears. M. Danville, how
-1 ever, obstinately d 'eU.ved his incred
ulity, and considered the whole as one
of those unaccountable illusions to
which even the strongest minds are
I sometimes liable. He declared his
son-in-law must be the victim of
some delusion, and, although he could
not account for his dream, said that
this last vision must be irere imagina
tion.
No sooner had M. Valette retired to
I his apartment than M. Danville en
deavored to impress the same opinion
on the family of his son-in-law. Ap
prehensive lest the very presentiment
of the event might occasion it, or at
least be attended by disagreeable con
sequence, he thought of a device
which, as Mayor of the city, it was :n
his power easily to accomplish. This
was to cause all the clocks of Mar
seilles to be put forward one hour,
that they might st-ike the predicted
i hour of twelve l-.ext night when it
should be only eleven; so that whet
the time set by the ghost should be
; believed by Valette to have passed
j over without any event supervening,
he might be persuaded to give up the
fancies with which he was so deeply
impressed.
Next day the unhappy Valette made
j every effort to arrange his worldly af
; fairs, had his will executed indue
legal form, received the sacrament,
and prepared himself for the awful
j event he anticipated. The evening ap
i proached. From a large open window
i which looked into a beautiful garden,
he saw the sun go down, ax he believed,
j for the last time.
The lamps were now lighted in the
ball, and he sat in the midst of his
family and partook of the last supper
which, he believed, he was to eat upon
| earth. The clocks of Marseilles tolled
i the eleventh hour.
' 'My dearest Marie," said he to Mme.
Valette, "I have now only one hour
to live. There is but one hour be
; twixt. me and eternity."
It approached. There was an tin
usual silence in the company. The
twelfth hour struck, when, rising up,
he exclaimed:
"Heaven have mercy on me! My
time is come."
He heard the hour distinctly rung
j out by all the bells in Marseilles.
I •The Angel of Death," said he, "de
lays his coming. Gould all have been
a delusion? No, it is impossible !"
"The ghost," said M. Danville, in a
tone of irony, "has deceived you. He
is a lying prophet. Are yon not yet
safe? The whole thing is the illusion
iof an unhealthy imagination. You
should banish, my friend, a thought
which so completely overwhelms you. "
"Well," rejoined Valette, "God's
will be done! I shall retire to my
chamber and spend the night in grate
ful prayer for so signal a deliver
ance."
After having been nearly an hour in
his chamber M. Valette remembered
that he had left unsigned in his library
a document <>f importance to his
family, to which it was necessary his
name should be afllxed. In passing
from his bed-chamber to the library
lie hud to cross h\ the head of n flight
of stairs which led immediately down
t<> the wine-celler. At this spot he
heard a taint murmur of voices below,
mid instantly run down to the bottom
1 <i| thr stsiis to ascertain (he cause.
' No sooner had l» descended than an
luiseeit huuu stabbed law to'.he heart
At this moment the clocks in Mar-'
seilles struck one in the morning, or,
as it really was, twelve at ni&ht —the
exact time predicted by Le Brua.
The celler of M. Danville had been
broken into by robbers, who, perceiv
ing themselves discovered, saw no
other means of escape than by mur-,
dering the ill-fated Valette, by whom
they had been surprised. These men
were unconscious instruments in the
hand of fate.—Argonaut.
Erin's Loss or Uatn.
Mnch of the old joyousness of the,
Irish has vanished. The old stories
and legends are rarely told now; poli- j
tics anil trade absorb all the con versa-',
tion. The narrative of bygone glories'
and sorrows, of St. Patrick and Brian,
of the great O'Neil, and oftheGeral-i
dines, and '9B and the famine, have'
given place to United Ireland, The
Nation, and tho vulgarities of Mick
McQuade.
The crossroads nre deserted wliercy
formerly in the long summer evenings
the boys anil girls gathered to dance
to the fiddle's never-tiring music. You)
may still see the girls milking the,
cows in the crofts, morning and night,
but you hear no more the plaintive
ballad and come-all-ye to make the
dhrimin dhu let her milk down easily.
To the non-politician it seems as if;
this were due to the all-pervading
political taint. It appears to him the'
pi aii of campaign has banished the
"good people," the rise and fall of;
the butter market pat the milking song
out of tune, and discontent made the
heart too heavy for the heels to be,
light. To the less sentimental ob-'
server the signs are of brighter omen.
If the people have less of the old
careless gayety, they are grown,
steadier. If they are discontented, it
is not mere grumbling shiftlessness ;|
they want something higher than they;
have, and that, with the power of;
saving money, is what brings men and
Nations to the top of tlie tree.—West
minster Review.
The Letter •».!" as a Mascot.
Is the letter "J," like the letter
"E," so indispensable that it is as dif
ficult to find a list of names without
the former appearing in it as it is to
find a complete sentence in which the
latter does not occur? Is the above
the cause of its frequent appearance
in the names of America's great men,
or is it really a mascot letter?
Beginning with our Presidents I find
it as the first initial letter in the names'
of eight; the only President of tin?
Confederacy also began his name with
the "little mascot." In the list of
the Vice-Presidents I find it six times,
divided equally between the Christian
and the surnames. Among the names
of the Presidents pro tem of the Sen
ate it occurs twenty-two times, and
among the Speakers of the House four
teen times. Thirteen of the Secre-'
taries of State commenced their first
names with "J," and one used it as
the initial of his surname. In the
realm of Justice the record is equally
if not more startling, twenty-one out
of a total of fifty-five Chief Justices
and Justices beginning either their
first or last name with it. Besides the
above we find it in nearly all the mul
timillionaires of the country, viz : John
D. Rockefeller, J. J. Astor,Jay Gould,
J. T.l. Sears. J. S. Morgan, J. B. Hag
gin, J. W. Garrett, John Wanamaker,
J. (}. Fai:, Jchn W. Mackay, J. G.
Flood, .John A?.buckle, J. B. Stetson,
John Claflij, Joseph Pulitzer and
dozens of others. —St. Louis Republic,
Hound Shoulders Cured.
A woman physician has recommend
ed the following movements for the
cure of all except very "severe cases '
of round shoulders, when braces are
also sometimes ft necessity : 1. Raise;
arms before your shoulder liigli; ex-;
tend arms sideways; throw head back
straighten head; move arms forward;
lower arms, repeat ten times. 2.'
Stand erect; raise arms before you :
rise on tiptoes, then throw arms as far
backwards as possible ; sink again on
heels and drop arms to side; repeat'
ten times. 3. Raise arms with elbow'
bent shoulder high, bringing palms
together in front of face; then, with'
elbows still bent, swing both arms
vigorously backwards as far as possi
ble, even with the shoulders, palms
looking forward. This should be re
peated several times, but as the posi
tion is somewhat fatiguing rest or
change of exercise mny be made be
tween the movements.
Another simple movement designed
to bring about a correct position of
the shoulderblades consists of holding
« cane or wand in both hands, throw
ing the head back and carrying the
stick "from above the head back and
down the hips."
As the clothing, if too tight or un
yielding about or over the shoulders,
may help to produce round shoulders,
both the under and outside wrist
should be comfortable and bands over
the shoulder of garments made of
elastic.—New York World.
How the Forget.Me-Not Was Named.
Everybody knows the pretty little
forget-me-not and like* the flower
more perhaps because of its name than
its beauty. How was it so called? The
Germans account for it by quite a
pathetic romance. It seems that once
upon a time a knight ami a lady were
walking by the bank of the Danube
when the latter asked her "gallant
gay" to pluck for her a tiny blue
flower which she saw growing in the
stream. No sooner said than done,
lint the knight, overbalancing, fell
into the river and owing to the slip
pery uatureof the bank and the weight
of his own armor was carried away by
the current. As he throw the flowers
•slio.o to his l»«ly he cried out with his
!a«-t b'eath, "Vergiss meiu liiebt!"
("Forget me lint i And ever since
thf- th.u'nr ! «n been looked upou as the
ei.bleui c! flde'i'y. Philadelphia
'limes.
GETTING OUT MAHOGANY.
A PROFITABLE, BUT HARD AND
DANGEROUS BUSINESS.
Tlie Valuable Logs Are Obtained
From tlie Tropical Forests of
Nicaragua.
"T" ~T~ SCHNEIDER, of Nica
|> ragua, is stopping at the
| m Hotel Royal, says the New
( * Orleans Picayune. The
gentleman is an extensive expor
ter of mahogany from the country
where he has resided for the past few
years, and where ho has amassed a
competence in shipping that particu
lar and valuable wood.
"Mahogany is ft very valuable wood,
but is hard to get out of the forests
where it grows," he said to a reporter
last night. "However, it pays if ono
goes at it right, and knows how to
manage the business. The way wo go
about the work of getting out mahog
any logs is, first, to get a concession
from the Nicaraguan Government.
You must 'stand in, 1 as they say in the
United States, if you get a concession,
but an enterprising citizen from our
country can go there and establish
himself in the favor of the oflicials,
and if he has a good record at home
as a man able to tend to business they
grant him a pri\ilege. But that is
only the beginning of the trouble one
has in cutting and exporting the wood.
You then proceed to make bargains
with the natives to cut and haul logs
out of the forests. If you treat them
kindly they will work for you for a
time at the least. The best Indian
labor costs about fifty cents per day.
It is often hard, however, to get them
to work, as they live on fruits, and
can sustain themselves without labor
of any trying kind. Half of the year
is called the rainy season, and it rains
from May to October. It is then so
wet that ono finds it impossible to
get out any timber, auil no one will
work for you during the wet sea
son. When the dry season opens we
commence operations, anil if we can
get enough labor wo succeed, but wo
have to be careful with them, as they
become easily misled and often think
we are taking some advantage of them.
When they become conviuced that
something is wrong, whether they have
cause to believe that such is the case or
not, they get angry, and the feeling
spreads among all the tribes. The
woods are so dense and the work so
trying on men brought there from
other countries that they cannot stand
it, and there is no profit in paying
them what they require to risk their
lives among the snakes and in the
swamps where the mahogany grows.
When the timber is cut we haul it, one
log at a time, on a two-wheeled oxcart
especially made for the purpose. It is
a very slow process, but it is the only
practicable way to get the timber out.
There are 400 and 500 logs to the acre,
and the price of the wood is so high
partly because the timber is so hard
to obtain."
"What is the price of mahogany?"
"The average price of a gooil ma
hogany log is $75. I sell very few logs
in the United States, and my principal
market is in France. There T ship
practically all my timlier. The price
is better in France, and the money is
paid as soon as the logs arrive in port.
There are not as many fortunes in ma
hogany as some people imagine, as the
wood is too difficult to draw from the
tangled forests of Nicaragua. When
a man from the North goes to Nicara
gua he stands the climate very well for
a year, and is very energetic, and won
ders at the spirit of laziness that pre
vails among all the people. But nfter
awbile he is overcome by the climatic
conditions and gets lazy and is unable
to work three good hours a day —if ho
doesn't die in the meantime. The ma
hogany business is very pretty to talk
about and very nice in theory, and
even in price, but a great deal of the
fancy profit that apparently accrues
on logs is lost in the time and expense
one is required to undergo to get the
logs out and carry them to the ships.
Cheap lodging Houses Abroad.
One of the City Councilors of Lou
don told me recently with justifiable
pride of the wonderful success that has
followed tho establishment of a mu
nicipal lodging house in London. He
says it is absolutely clean, the. linen is
spotless and the rooms are more like
those of a club than of a public insti
tution. The charge for lodging for a
night is five pence, or ten cents, and
this gives the lodger the right to cook
his owti food in the place. London
was not the originator of this system
of public lodging houses, but fol
lowed an example sot some years ago
by the enterprising city of Glasgow,
which has ten lodging houses, nine for
men and one for women. These, too,
are organized somewhat on the prin
ciple of a club and beds with one sheet
are provided for seven cents and beds
with two sheets for nine cents. The
thrifty Scotchmen have succeeded in
making these institutions pay over
four per cent, on the investment, and
I liaven't any doubt that public lodg
ing houses on tlie same plan would
pay a good deal better in New York.—
New York Mail and Express.
Chinese Kxfcutious.
At Canton, China, tlie average num
ber of executions is about 300 per
year, but in IXBS 50,000 rebels were
beheaded. Females are sometimes
strangled and the worst criminals are
nailed upon n cross. Sometimes tbo
sentence directs that the criminal
while living shall be cut into a number
of pieces, which ntmber never ex
ceed* thirty-six. The headsman for
merly received .14 a he.i 1. but tho mip
ply and competition bus reduced the
uns'o to lilt* <■ nts api«v> Most of
the criminals who ire ht bended aro
water pirates or luu I owiidits. —Chi*
Herald
Terms—sl.oo in Advance ; 81.25 after Three Months.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. J
Instead of jaws the butterfly lifts a
curled proboscis like that of an ele
phant.
The vegetarians contend that the
animals that do not eat meat are the'
strongest.
A year on Jupiter is equal to eleven
years, ten months and seventeen days
on our globe..
A correspondent of the London Lan
ce* points out that when sugar is part
ly burnt iu a gas flame it is destruc
tive to mice.
A traveler in India attributes liis
immunity from fever and sunstroke
during five years to having the lin
ings of his hats and caps made of yel
low material.
The bee can draw twenty times its
own weight, can fly more than four
miles an hour, and will seek food at ai
distance of four miles. By a beauti
ful mechanical adaptation its wings
bear it forward or backward, with up
ward, downward or suddenly arrested
course.
The current over the Mersey bar,
Liverpool, since the extensive dredg
ing operations has been found to in
crease, much to the surprise of h num
ber of engineers engaged in the work,
who have thought that if the channel
were deepened the current would be
more sluggish.
Lobsters are not peace-abiding crus
taceans. They cannot be persuaded
to grow up together peaceably. If a
dozen newly hatched specimens are
put into an aquarium, within a few
days there will be only one—a large,
fat and promising youngster. He has
eaten all the rest.
The helicoid anemometer is said to
be quite independent of friction for
all excepting light winds, but it is not
so simple in construction as the cup
form. The air meter consists of a
single screw blade formed of thin
aluminum, and made as nearly as pos
sible into the exact shape of a portion
of a helicoid.
By placing two iron bars at seven or
eight yards distance from each other,
and putting them in communication
on one side by an insulated copper
wire, and on the other side with a
telephone, it is said that a storm can
be predicted twelve hours ahead
through a certain dead sound heard
in the receiver.
We can now tain any distance, hear
at any distance, write or draw pict
tures at any distance. It only remains
for us to see and feel at any distance.
The problem of sight is now nearly
solved and within ten years it will be
possible for a to sit in his room,
see the opera, hear the music and read
his own newspaper at his own fireside
at the same time.
Home very industrious students of
microscopy, as applied to medical
problems, have been offering pretty
strong evidence that parasites are the
origin of malignant and cancerous
tumors ; so the Pathological Society of
London appointed a committee to in
vestigate the evidence, which commit
tee unanimously reports that, notwith
standing the labor expended, the
point is not proved—the parasites are
not demonstrated.
A Itiiinod Wedding Cake.
An English gentleman residing in
Calcutta has brough an action against
a lirm of Paris pastry cooks and con
fectioners under rather interesting cir
cumstances. The plaintiff was about
to be married, aud ordered what has
been called a phenomenal wedding cake
from the defendants. A sum of Sl'2o
was paid down for the cake on deliv
ery. The colossal anil expensive arti
cle of confectionery was packed by the
plaintiff's order, and he took it with
him to Calcutta. On opening the case
containing the cake when he arrived
m India the Englishman found that he
had literally nothing but a shepeless
mass of crumbs. The splendid gateau
had been hopelessly bruised and broken
during the voyage. An action was
then brought against the Paris firm
for a sum of $135. which included, be
sides the price paid for the cake, the
cost of packiug and transport. The
defendants maintained before the Paris
tribunal of commerce that they had 110
more responsibility after they had de
livered over the cake to the person
who ordered it. It was true that they
recommended a packer, but that ex
pert acted under the orders of another
individual, who had been selected by
the plaintiff to superintend the opera
tion. The tribunal decided in favor
of the defendants. —Paris Letter.
First American Steam Locomotive.
After one has spent n day viewing
the splendid railway exhibit at Chic
ago's great Fair, or even the showing
made at our own Exposition, it is dif
ficult for him to realize that every
thing relating to that branch of in
dustry is the result of but sixty years'
labor. All the giant strides that have
been made in the railway enterprise
of America have been brought about
ifithin the memory of many men ant!
women who daily walk the streets of
St Louis. lu 1831 the railway (?)
connecting Albany with Schenectady,
N. Y., liad less than a dozen ears, each
drawn by two horses' Later on, in
ls:s2. I believe, locomotive engines
were introduced, but as the railway
ran U)i and down hill, just as the
wa;:on roads of to-day, the locomotives
had to be assisted by stationary en
gines. thus making double expense.
The very tirst steam locomotive
constructed in America was made by
tin Kemblcs Compauy of est street,
Ne.v York, in I*3o 3). This pioneer
American "triumph of tlie mechanic's
art" uas shipped In sailboat from the
manufacturer's shops to Charleston,
S (' , where if whs put together and
first used mi a short freight road be
lle' city Is-l named and a musll place
called Hamburg. -St. Louis Republic.
NO. 13.
BEFORE THE DAYBREAK.
Before tbe dt ybreak shines a star
That in the day's full glory fades ;
Too fiercely bright is the greet light '■
That her pale-gloaming lamp upbraids.
Before the daybroak sings a bird
That stills her song at morning's light |
Too loud for her is the day's star,
Tho woodlands' thousand-tongued dellgM.
Ah ! great the honor is to shine
A light wherein no traveler errs ;
And rich the prize to rank divine
Among the world's loud choristers.
But I would be that paler star.
And I would be that lonelier blrd,%«f
To shine with hope while hope's afar,*'-.
Aud sing of love when love's unheard.
—F. W. Bourdillon.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The maids of old were not necessarily
old maids.—Hallo.
Cold weather does'ntsecm to nip the
society bud.—Puck.
The trouble with the love of a bon
net is the hata of a bill.
Some men aim so high that their
arrows cut nothing but the air.—Puck.
The great trouble with the budding
genius is that he usually nipped in the
bud.
"How strangely Putter acts! Isn't
he a little off?" "No, but the market
is."—Boston Transcript.
When a minister is installed there is
a charge to the people, and paying his
salary is another one.—Lowell Courier.
"I like this hat," said Isabel.
"It makes my face look long; and well;
But wh'on dear father saw the bill
It made his face look longer still."
—Puck.
Time is money, they say. And it
has been noticed that it takes a good
deal of money to have a good time.—
Truth.
A man is much like a razor, because
you can't tell how sharp he can be un
til he is completely strapped.—Texas
Sittings.
"See that man yonder?" "Yes."
' 'Been in Congress ten years." ' 'What's
his record?" "Ten Years!"— Atlanta
Constitution.
It surely must be safe to say,
Without tho least transgression.' ■ 1
That he who "gives himself away" *
lias lost his self-possession.
Raymond's Monthly.
"Methinksl scent the morning air,''
remarked the swell collector, as he
drove down Main street at 3 a. m.—
Buffalo Courier.
Secret societies have charms that
are especially attractive to the man
who likes to make a gaudy display on
his watch-chain.—Puck.
He—"Did you say the furniture
was Louis XIV?" She—"Yes. Why?"
He—"The bills suggest the Reign of
Terror."—Beau Monde.
"What a big hill I am getting to
be !" said tho ambitious ridge of dirt
near the river. But it was only a
bluff. " —Chicago Tribune.
"I would not live alway," ho sang,
The notes he loved to frame ; .
But he wore a ohest protector and
His gum shoes, just the same,
—Washington Star.
Blood may be thicker than water,
but did any one know a girl who would
not steal her brother's cigars to give
to some one else? —Truth.
Geouge—"You would marry the big
gest fool in the world if he asked you,
wouldn't you?" Ethel—"Oh, George,
this is so sudden."—Vogue.
Tramp—"Madam, I was not always
thus." Madam—"No. It was your
other arm you had iu 11 sling this
morning."—Detroit Tribune.
When you are buying a horse don't
consult a pedestrian, aud when you
are courting a woman don't ask advice
of a bachelor.—Hawltinsville Dispatch.
There is this singularity about pho
tographs. A pretty picture is invari
ably "the perfect imago of her," while
a poor picture "doesn't look a bit
like her."—Boston Transcript.
The Uzar cried boldly "give us peace!"
The Frenchman cried "of course!"
Then each one hastened to increase
His land and naval force.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Miss Manhattan (maliciously)—"You|
must miss the dear old London fogm
very much." Lord Tuffnutt (lottily)|
—"I do. But lam partially eompeiH
sated by your charming New Yorlr
mud."—Vogue.
"What is the difference between
the ancient Romans and the modern
Americans?" "Give it up." "The
Romans used to "ru their dead, while
the Americans have to earn their liv
ing."—Texas Sittings.
The rain came down iu torrente,
With a splishy-splashy swash.
And it soaked the foolish fellow
Who had soaked his mackintosh. *
Washington News.
"My friend," said the solemn old
gentleman, "to what end has your life
work been directed ' "To the head
end," murmured the barber, and then
silence fairly poured. It didn't merely
reign. —lndianapolis Journal.
Best Schools tor Cooks.
There are probably 150 schools for
cooking in Germany and Austria, the
best of which are at Vienna, Berlin
and Leipsic. A man who wishes to be
come a chef must begin at the very
bottom oft lie ladder at peeling pota
toes—and work up, round by round,
to the top. A course of schooling as
strict as that, of any polytechnic school
iu this country must be followed for
four years before the student can get
. a diploma. Every year competitive ex
aminations are given. in which as many
hs 200 chefs take part. The chef who
was employed at the White House bv
(irover Cleveland during his first term
has a gold me lul which «as presented
to liini by the Empress Frederick for
excellency in conking, s silver medal
given bv the Km-; of Saxony, a di
ploma from the Empress of Austria,
ami numerous other marks of appro
batiou and honoi won in competitive
cent- cts 111 cooking. -Chicago Herab l