SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XTI. Paris has the largest and most com plete sewerage system in the world. A statistician estimates that Ameri cans expend $400,000 a day for amuse ments. A statistical person has figured out that the average life of a cabinet under the present French Republic has been nine months. By a new route which is proposed from England to Australia, across Canada, the trip from London to Sydney, it is believed, may be shortened to twenty-eight days. The Chicago Record confidingly ad mits that "of all sads words of tongue or pen a few of the saddest are those which would properly describe a view the World's Fair grounds at the pres ent time." Of all the States New York has the greatest number of savings bank de positors, 1,510,389, and also the great est amount of deposits, $588,425,421. Massachusetts comes next withsl,l3l, 203 depositors, having on deposit 8369,556,386. Twenty-two years ago there were 222 bearers of titles in the Freneh Chamber of Deputies, where now there are but sixty-five. Only three marquises are left out of thirty, while the counts have declined from thirty two to fifteen. At this rapid rate of disappearance a few decades more will see almost the entire extinction of titles in the Republic. The recent use of the guillotine in Paris has started anew the discussion as to relative merits of methods of rendering the murder innocuous. It must be admitted, argues the San Francisco Examiner, that a man once beheaded is fully as incapable of act ing on criminal impulse as though he had been hanged, and that an electro cuted person is at an equal advantage. Therefore all the methods have points of excellence. A manufacturing company in Wil mington, Del.f* stopp, d its whistle thirteen years ago because it was com plained of as a nuisance, and at the same time informed its workmen that any man who was late would be lined twenty-live cents. In all the years since then only two men have been lined for tardiness, and the question is asked by the Chicago Herald : What need is there for a noisy whistle to call employes to work anywhere? In a little coffin about fifteen inches ong the heart and other portions of the body of a man, whose disgrace and tuicide in tlio year 1892, brought about the overthrow of a cabinet, is sued forth from the morgue in Paris a few days ago on its way to the Pere la Chaise cemetery. They were the remains of Baron de Reinach, who in Hie heydey of his power was one of ; ae financial magnates of Europe, con trolling even the destinies of minis ters and influencing the policy of the Nation. There have been great changes in the I nited States Government depart ments in the last thirty years. The lirst woman regularly employed was put on tile rolls of the Navy Depart ment thirty-five years ago. She was a young widow, and the officials consid ered it an awful problem how to dis pose of her. Finally they hit upon a plan. They treated her as if she was a contagious disease and isolated her in an attic room. She received and re turned her copying by a messenger. Hut the disease caught on, Hoto speak, an 1 to-day ther<' are 1000 women in the Treasury alone. Theio is one woman to every seven men. Two or three recent railroad catas trophes, fortunately of th« minor sort, have directed public attention to the fact, remarks the Washington (Star, thai the list 1 of iftovs fur heating purposes and oil as an illuiiiiuant is still indulged in by ancient and iiiosh hacked corporations, to which tho safety uf the passenger is apparently a tumor consult ration. Public s,uti iu< iit -.hottld be strong enough t>> work th< necessary reform, but the trouble iil>out public svutimcut i> its failure to declare it- If until sunt* frightful combination of colli* m or derailment snd conflagration i - u. ral in u'lmtiou. | („ Pullman and Wu u> r tumpauuw- worried over even the small quantity of oil u-t I for ok inn purposes uu the liußt. t car. have t oiiqilt li ly I tall lain I tho dangerous llmd, and a ill iu future do lluir euok bt got I' lid of. ihe utlbll.) aitoilld lutbl silt Utiotttdv M|'oM lilt i|lllvel>al • Of », t) ml l«'d and Ik. * WJ • ) i 1.1 I Hit ~ I i, I I I, UNAWARE. Somo day, when falls a sudden sanso Of perfect penco on heart and brain. That comes, wo know not why or whence, And ere wo seek is gone again. When breathes the unexpeetant hour Strange beauty ot an instant blown, As if a rose were full in flower Whose earliest buds we know not grown. Perchance one wingod moment sped Down tho whifo bights of heavenly air, Some spirit of our blessed dead Hath stoo 1 beside us unaware! THE BOTKINE BATH. BY ADELINE S. WINO. JROFE SSOR Botkine, of the California, was sitting on his front steps nt Berkeley in the morning of a sultry July day. He was delightedly efforts of his pet _ toad to capture a very large angleworm, nnd his enjoyment was enhanced by the fact that his beauti ful German wife, who usually declined to interest herself in anything which she even suspected of a connection with science, was seated beside him, giving eager little pressures to his hand and uttering a pleased exclama tion, in lier pretty foreign accent, whenever the toad made an extra effort. The fact was that she, while cutting roses, had been the one to see the be ginning of tho contest, and felt the proper pride of a discoverer. The toad had been sitting still, looking as if carved by n Japanese artist, and giving no sign that it saw anything. The worm gave a little wriggle as it liegan to come out of the ground, when, quick as a flash, the toad made a leap and seized the end of the worm in its month. Then began a tug-of-war. Every time tlint the toad gave a pull, the worm drew back. But the toad was not to be discouraged. It jerked and jerked until it fairly stood on its hind legs. Still, it could not dislodge the worm. At this interesting point a train whistled. "Why, Selma !" said the professor, "them is the ti.iin already. I had quite forgotten that 1 must go the city to-day. Where is my hat?" "Do wait an instant, clear; just see what that toad is doing," she ans wered, holding him back. He glanced down and saw the toad twisting its leg about until the worm was wrapped twice around it, then the toad gave a hop, and out came the worm. This had been too fascinnting a spectacle to the unwary professor. He dashed into the house and back again, kissed his wife, and, with a regretful glance at her rippling hair, and soft blue eyes, started off. Suddenly lie rushed back. "Why, dear," he cried, "I forgot to , tell you that that Mr. Smith, the Ca nadian, who wrote the. paper on bacteria, will lie here this afternoon to stay a day or two. He may come before I am back." She clasped lier hands in mock despair. "But what shall I do with him?''she wailed; "you know I can not talk science and pollvwogs !" "Oh, don't be alarmed. He isn't so very dried up. .lust let him liaveu good soaking in a bath-tub. Then In will come out perfectly human and I happy. He's an Englishman, you | know,"and the professor, with a ; laughing glance at his little wife's rue i fill expression, threw dignity and his coat-tails to the winds as he madly ran down the street, "looking like a great black bird of prey," as Mrs. Botkine | laughingly remarked to herself. But she grew sober as she thought how ruthlessly science and scientists • seemed to dog her unwilling footsteps, lier husband certainly loved her, but he had a way of becoming utterly Absorbed in his studies, and then burst : ing into her reflections with remarks which sounded positively ghoulish. He had appear'd only yesterday in her own private sanctum carrying a "hot rid snake by tie tail, aud, although he had not vet reached the pitch of Professor Aga— -i/. who was said to have consigned infant serpents, for raft--keeping over night, to his wife's I loot - she did not know where his en thusiasiii might lend. "I'm half afraid togo to sleep," sh> had roguishly said to him ou«- night. "I'm afraid that your deepest interest • veu in uic is only scientific, and I In lit vt you are capable of cutting me open to what queer thing there is 111 my heart that I love such a bookish old bear with." "Now hen wu this Canadian Com iug ! An I how «,t(. she to l>i properly interest, d ill his old bacteria ami led disgrace her husband by betraying In r ignorance on thi mbiect I" the a-ked hers, If. Manifestly, to must tike a bath, and everything po- iMc must be dou< to ui*ke that bath r. uu allmelt' e, so that In iboultl kit. liter* as long a (torsi bit-. Hhu mnl iq -lairs, and with In i j own ilituph'd liait Is (nt tlowu a u> v, cuke of perfuilltd snap She . Vid II eril I all v. Peril.!,, , his WVt-rr sen It 11lii* tnlul a nil I Ik tin .i-i. l wiilt Mich etr. mum!' luiury P. rhap who kill * ' le itlV hi discover IV. II Hi ll tin |i»« i. oi liu It ita t Kb i v.rul.in* all. .1 luu. S. w i Mind! Mi, t*.,.||.| pint ~i I.it .■ ii . i a hilt in|lh 1,11.1 ~t 111 l«i <1 lit j I'll. 11. • hall .I .. tn-t- ht Ml lat ( ' jdvote 1, 9lUv it tliv ah' 'Uwl an 4 i- , LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1894. cologne bottle within easy reach ; got out smooth and rough towels and a bath-blanket; saw that the shower j bath worked ; and with a sigh of relief, ; went down stairs to impress the cook that during the entire afternoon there must be plenty of hot water in the boiler. Suddenly a happy though struck her; slio went into her husband's study | and brought out every book on bac teriology that she coulil find. These she ringed on a shelf at the foot of the bath-tub. Standing ort i, little beyond the others, as if but just shove l in, was Mr. Smith's own pam phlet on "Bacteria." She v.rs sure lof the vanity of authors. Ho would lat least take this down to sec if auy | passages were marked, and might be i lured into the perusal of some other | books. Mrs. Botkine pinneil on the wall some colored illustrations of various | forms of bacteria, and then surveyed the effect with the calm satisfaction of | a general who foresees the success of his manoeuvres. She sighed regret fully that she could not bring herself ! to introduce into the room a few sam | pies of the "germ culture" that her husband was carrying on, but she felt that she must draw the line at living germs. j She smiled again. To be sure, Mr. i Smith might think her husband rather eccentric in pursuing his studies in ; this room, but he would certaiuly feel I that he had found a congenial spirit in a man who could not tear himself away from his beloved bacteria even i in his bath. She had done all she could. With this virtuous feeling she was able to go about her occupations for the day, and in the afternoon even banished the thought of her expected guest : enough to take a quiet nap. She was awakened l»y a knock at lier ' door, and the inaid handed her a cord | bearing the seemingly innocent in- j seription, "Mr. Wortliington Smith." She was filled \yith a nervous fear, | and her heart beat fast as she walked | I down the stairs. She lingered ontßide i the drawing-room as long as she dared, j and then, putting her trust in the I bath-room, walked in and greeted her i visitor with a smile of timid welcome, j Ho did not look at all alarming. • She was surprised to see that he was j young, darkly handsome, and dressed : with moro regard to fashion than the ! scientific mind generally deigns to be- j stow. He saw her timid air and blonde j beauty with evident admiration. After the first polite commonplaces, j Mr. Smith smilingly observed: "Pro fessor Botki ne's r?cent researches ; have been of such interest to scien- | rifle men that they must lay him open j to a great deal of persecution from in- | quiring admirers, but—" "Oh, not at all," she answered, rather incoherently; "or, rather, II should say, he likes to be persecuted j , —that is'' (with some confusion) "he will be delighted to find you here when he returns. In the meantime, I hope that you will let me look after you." Mr. Smith thought that ho should i like nothing better, but contented | himself with remarking: "Thank you, very much. Perhaps you would be so kind as to explain to I me a few things 1 should like to know 1 about Professor Botkiuc's theories on bacteria." He was surprised to see a deep flush and a look of distress come over her face, and, before she could answer, he hastened to add: "But I fear that I nm trespassing ou your time. Pray, do not let me incommode you. I have some uncut pamphlets in my satchel j here, and will look them over as 1 wait," and he looked down embar- 1 rassed. A furtive feeling of relief crept for a moment into her eyes. Then the thought that she could not be guilty of ; ueh inhospitably as leaving her guest to shift for himself forced itself upon her. But here he was, plunging into science the very first thing and turning shy besides. Oh, she must send him off to that both ! It seemed rather awkward, but she nerved her self to tho effort. "No, Mr. Smith," she said, gayly, "I am sure that I could not tell you anything on the subject, and 1 can not think of leaving you here alone. You must let me make you comfort able. I know that after your journey you would like a bath." lie looked amazed and then em barrassed. "Thauk you, very much, Mrs. Hot- Line," lie stammered, "but I do not care at all for a bath. I shall do very well here, and —" "No, no! 'she said, nerveu»ljr; "I Know that you art' only afraid tleit there is no hot water ou such a warm day, and you do not wish to give trouble." lb put out hi>< haii I and tried to in t< rrupt her, but she shook her head and went ou rapidly : "It is all ready. Kverytliing i* in the bath room, and I will ring lor •lames to nhow you lip." lie looked thunderstruck at her in >ikteuee. "Hut, I tuwute you. Mr». Hot kmc," In- exclaimed, "it in not at all worth i «lule. 1 " "Not another word, if you plea»e, Mi Smith Von will really annoy mi if you rt'fune," Hhi thought to herself that lie little knew how more th in annoyed nh« Hlt, it the thought of Ilia |H>a»lhh 11tit - limn.. A» tie man -ivanl appeared, ■he ttanl: "ilaiMMi, take tlu» k< nth man's natehel to the gut «» chamber and ah>>« hilt to the lialh rouru," Mi Smith t udi avufi I to hang ba.-k . I ... m.iiinll .it Mi H iiiii. .iitMglv wi«»t I li t h«ti l toward ilit lit.and w*l!m >| into atiutlit t room Khf nail to I alternate l> »t »til an I triumphal. I \ lei lloa. I Int.,, Mi hit.Hft 11 mark tut tu fctntat If that lu.tur.ihi> t»he »■ aid hate »o»»4 that • ■ she was too pretty to bo eccentric. Ho land no wish to bathe, but fearing j to vex her, meekly proceeded to per ' form hit! ablutions. She, meantime, was vastly relieved. She Hiniled to herself at the thought of how unwilling he had seemed to give the slightest trouble. "I suppose he thought wo Ameri cans never had any decent facilities for a bath," she reflected. Then: I "He really is remarkably good-look | ing, for a scientist. If I had not | known what he was, I should have thought he was just a nice young fel j low and rashly tried to get on with him. Oh, if George had not told mo liu time!" She shuddered as sho tlio-ight of her escape. "I suppose he will be dried-lip look ing before long. Ho is a whited-se j pulclire kind of mnn now. I could ■ not see the slightest sign of baldness I in him, but his seething intellect is I bound to cook his hair oft' in a few years. Even George is a wee bit liald. But how delightful that Mr. Smith did not fathom my ignorance." She was so elated that she went to . the piano and sang for a half-hour. She was startled by hearing some one jcotne r.ishing into the room be hind her. She wheeled on the stool and encountered the gaze of Mr. j Smith, who st.ood before her, looking decidedly uuoasy. "I beg pardon for interrupting you, Mrs. Bodkine," he said; "but I wish to thank you for your kindness and to make my adieux." "Why, Mr. Smith—" she began, but he waved his hand apologetically and coiitined: "I am very sorry not to have found Professor Botkine, but perhaps 1 can come again. There is just time for mo to catch the five o'clock train." It was her turn to be astonished. She opened her lips to speak, but he went on, nervously: "Pray forgive my leaving yon so abruptly. Thank you very much. Good afternoon," and, bowing pro foundly, ho was gone. For a moment she felt stunned. Then a flood of questions poured through her mind. Was the man in sane ? Or what had she done to offend him? What would her husband say ? What was there in science to turn au apparently "nice" young man into such a distraught savage? "Ah! recommend me to a "plain, commonplace man who has not bacilli on the brain !" she sighed. The rest of the day seemed endless, but at last sho descried Professor I3otkine, aiul with him a rather desic cated and "dug-iip"-looking man. "Oh, dear!" she moaned; "there is another scientist, I know to look at him. What will he do, I wonder? Dissect my cat, or say that he cannot dine with us because he never eats anything but bacteria?" "Here we are at last," said the pro fessor; "I found our friend on the train. He had mistaken the train and gone to Alameda. Mr. Smith, let mo present you to Mrs. Botkine." Sho welcomed her guest cordially, but the minute she was alone with her husband, she seized him by the lapels of his coat. "What joke have you been playing on me?" she demanded; "who is this Mr. Smith?" The professor looked astonished. "Why, my dear, there is no joke. This is the Mr. Smith that I told you I was expecting this afternoon. What is the matter?" "Matter!" she cried; "who is the Mr. Smith that came here this after noon with a satchel, and asked about your theories?" "Why, we met him at the station. Ho had a few specimens to show me. He is the son of my friend, Commo dore Smith, of Sen Francisco. He had just run over for a short call." "A short call!'" sho echoed again; "what will he think of me? I sent him upstairs to take that bath!"—Argo uaut. Monkey*. Monkeys, with some notable excep tions, are some degrees worse than savage men in their treatment of the sick. On tho new Jumna ('anal, at Delhi, monkeys swarm in trees upon the banks, and treat their sick com rades in true monkey fashion. The colony by the canal being over crowded, and as a consequence un healthy, did, and probably does still, suUVr from various unpleasant diseases. When one monkey is so obviously un well as to so offend the feelings of tin* others, a few of the larger monkeys watch it, and taking a favorable op portunity, knock it into the canal. It' it is not drowned at once, the sick monkey is pitched in again after it re gains the trees, and either drowned or forced to keep aloof from tho flock. At the London Zoological Gardens the monkeys torment a sick one with out mercy, and unless it is at once re moved from the it lifts little chance of recovery. The small inoukeya bite and pinch it ; the larger ones swing it ■ round by the tail. When it dies, a* natty moneys as can tin I room sit on its body. - New York Disputch. Ilurwd'vurr wl it Whale, An interesting stu ty of the horse p >wer of the whale has been made by the eminent auat.uuat, Sir William Turner, of the I'm vcr»tlv of I. 1m btii'ijh, Scotland, lit eoiijiiuetiou with lohll HetlderiMiu, tile t.|tlall> ellllUi lit 1 ilaktfow ftltiulmiMttf. rili' situ and llllleliklollk of a ureal whale "Handed ■A tafal >eaf» ou |lie shore at tufblktlfd tile lieeeMNtrjr data for a computation of th- potter in-er« >i»rj to plop. I It at tie rate of tttelft iilb.aiile.il He win!' MMMtfmi • i.'ltlv fiM't lit hliMtli, Ittt-lilV bit a» 10w tin li iug* • "I tl» tali, ael tti IMIMNI M wi.ll) loltr toMa, It wai tii dat I 11. .1 It t ... powt I tt . Kw< . uj |u attain thy u i SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The proposed Hoboken (N. J.) Bridge will have a siuglo span of 5850 feot—the longest iu the world. The greatest depth recorded of Ijftke Michigan is 870 feet, or about one-sixth of a mile. The mean depth is about 325 feet, or one-sixteenth of a mile. The flea is covered with armored plates very hard and overlapping each other. Each is set with spikes, and bends in conformity with the move ments of the body. Tho largest engine is at Friedens ville, Penn. ; its driving wheels are thirty-five feet in dinmeter, the cyl inder is 110 inches, and it raises 17,- 500 gallons of water per minute. A new process of rain making was recently brought before the Academic des Sciences, Paris, by M. Baudoiu. His theory is that electricity main tains the water iu clouds in a state of small drops, and that if the electricity be discharged tho water will come down. An instrument has been invented for sounding tho depths of the sea without using a lead line. A sinker is dropped containing a cartridge, which explodes on touching the bot tom ; tho report is registered in a microphone apparatus and the depth reckoned by the time at which the ex plosion occurred. The air brakes on railroads are being built with a view to their use on trains of 100 cars. The plant on each train is being built so that it can be used in such a way as to bring the speed down from eighty to thirty miles per hour within five seconds. Great power has to be used, and every part of the apparatus has to be perfect to stand the strain. Dr. Hughes, of Meriilen, has re ceived a letter from R. W. Sawyer, of Nassau, New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands, telling of the finding of a pink pearl in a conch shell there that is the finest ever brought to light. This pearl is nearly as large as a pigeon's egg aud of the same shape, having no flaw or blemish, and of per fect color and marking. It was sold to the local agent of a Paris house for over §2OOO, tho largest price, it is believed, received for a pearl at the Nassau conch fisheries. At the recent meet ing of the chemical section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science the arti ficial diamonds that have beeu made by M. Moissans, of Paris, were ex hibited and awakened much interest. These, as yet, are of hardly sufficient size to be marketable, but there ap pears to be no longer doubt that this and the cost are but questions of technical detail, and that another de cade at most will suffice to reduce diiimonds to the vulgar level of the amethyst or the Rhine stouo. How Old Is the Human Kacc 1 The fullest answer that science can yet give to the three most interesting questions perhaps ever asked iu the world are explained in au article in tho Forum, by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, the ethnologist. These questions arc: "When did the first man appear?" "By what process did he appear?" and "Where did he appear?" Summing up all that geologists ami anthropolo gists know he appeared certainly 50,- 000 years ago, and it mav be us many as 200,000 years ago. The evidences of his existence which date back 50,000 years are unmistakable. By what pro cess he came into being science has no definite answer. If it refuse to accept the doctrine of specific creation, it must refuse also, for lack of complete evidence, to accept the doctrine of gradual evolution —the old Darwinian doctrine. Dr. Brinton thinks the theory of "evolution by a leap" is as good as any other theory. According to this, man sprung from some high order of mammal, the great tree ape, perhaps, by a freak, just as men of genius are freaks, anil as all the vege table and animal kingdom show freaks. As to where man first appeared it is beyond doubt that his earliest home was in southern Europe, or Asia, or North Africa. No earlier traces oi' him have been found than those found in the area that is nou England, France and Spain. .Natural Curiosities. Curious resemblune. sin Nature start with the cocoannv, iu many re spects like tin- h'tioanskull ami almost a facsimile of tho monkey's. The meat of th, English walnut is aim i-t a copy of the human brain ; plums nnd black cherries like the human eye, ulmottdH like the human nose, and an unopened oyster ami shell a perfect likeness of the human ear. The shape ,d ii man a body may be traced in the mammoth stpiash, the open hand u growing scrub will,nvs and cclerv, tile human heart in German turnips ami egK plant, and dozens ol the mechan ical inventions of the present day t ■ patterns furnished by Nature. I liu*, the hog suggested the plow, tin- Iml terlly the door hinge, the frog stool the umbrella, the duck the ship, and the fungus growth on trees the bracket. \c« Process tor Ijiiiiiicllii;. Fletcher, Iblsstdl A Co., l.oinlou, have introduced a new proc. « to nil pt-rsede the us, of Berlin black and I.lack had for prot, ctitiK caul iron. 1 lie casliUK is coaled Willi a lilln of euauicl. a Inch Is Ml thill thsl , veil ill, lilteat details on the In. 11l Hi pie serv.d This uamrl is »ald to be nil- Miliilely proof .i|_-i,iu»t rust, mi I pre* IM-rves lis qualities at Ml V I, flip, lllllu tip to |.|i, hi I< I heal. II e >l. •ul obtainable, liieludiug «.d I and silv.r. bright or dull, and as many ». »r. a i le d can I" pl -duttd on one . •-! 1114 I It, itfti'tJM. is Mid to oil. r iii it Iv olllet fo| df - ir-ittVM w l . oI oil Mitt* Mutvtttlil' Amvltcau, t Terms---SI.OO in Advance ; #1.25 after Three Months. BIG GUNS OF BIG NAVIES WEAPONS THAT CAN BE TIRED ONLY SEVENTY-FIVE TIMES. Powder Charges Weighing Pounds— Heavy Projectiles nr.,l Their Terrific Kflfect. Two of the mammoth 110-ton guns, upon which the British admiral ty has so proudly commented as the "modern naval artillery," and which cost about #IOO,OOO each, went down into seventy fathoms of water with the battle ship Victoria, and in con nection with this fact, says the Wash ington Star, there must have been awakened much interst among readers as to whether such heavy war weapons, heavier than nny yet made for the United States navy, and heavier than will probably be built, are a wise ad dition to a modern war vessel. And yet this big gun is not a new thing, as it practically dates back twelve years. About forty of these big gnus have been built, aud some of them were sent to Italy. It is easy to comprehend among navy officers that such guns arc an expensive luxury, not only in tho actual cost of the gun aud its ammunition, but also iu the size of the ships required to carry them. But what will be of most in terest to lay people is the quantity and cost of ammunition and the life of the gun itself. Tho best ordnance experts calculate the life of the 110-ton gun to be seventy-five rounds with full charges. Tho 110-ton gun, and, in deed, all largo guns, are fired with slow burning coacoa powder, the name coacoa being derived from tha brown color of the powder. It is shaped iu hexagonal prisms, this being the most convenient form of packing, and 10,- 000 of these prisms are needed to make a full charge for this monster g;.u. Each prism is pierced with a hole in the centre to give ready access to the flame ami insure an equable ignition. For nearly all naval guns the pow der charge is made up of four car tridges, but owing to the extraordi nary weight of the 110-ton gun charges (901! pounds) it is divided into eight cartridges, each weighing 120 pounds. To load the gun it is necessary to bring it to its extreme elevation that is, the muzzle is pointed upward as far as it can be on the mount, nnd these operations follow: 1, Unlock and uuscrew tho breech block; 2, withdraw tho breech block; if, tra verse breech block to one side! 4, place the loading tray in the. gnu ; 5, swab out the gtv o, ram home, or put into place, (lie projectile; 7, place the iirst charge; 8, place and ram homo the second half charge; withdraw tho loading tray; 10, replace the breech screw; 11, screw up aud lock the breech screw. The gun is then ready to bo sighted by the captain of the turret from liis conning tower. It is lired by elec tricity. The gun can be loaded and fired within two nnd a half minutes. The projectile used in the gun, when ships or forts are attacked, weigh 1800 pounds, or nearly 200 pounds less than a ton, and it leaves the muzzle with iv velocity of 2105 feet ft sec ond and a destructive energy equal to 55,305 foot-tons. When tested before mounting on the Sansparcil three years ago the shot tore its way through specially manufactured steel armor twenty inches thick, and yet the armor belt of tho Victoria ranged from sixteen tc eighteen inches in thickness only. In addition to the twenty inches thick ness of steel the shot went through eight inches of iron fastened in a heavy wrought-iron frame, twenty feet ol oak baulks, six feet of gr.mite blocks, eleven feet oi' concrete, and six feet of brick. In other words it went through forty-four and one-third feet of a wal.' unique in history for combination ol width and variety isid strength of ma terials. The cost of one firing of this gun was #IOO for the powder and S6OO for the projectile and fuses, and aftei seventy-five rounds there would be tin cost of the gun to add, namelv, SIOO,OOO. In firing the gun against a body ol men or a flotilla of boats it is intended to use sehrupnel, a drum-like cylindei of steel, inclosing 2'loo four-ounce bullets. As soon as the schrapne) bursts tho bullets go flying on, the spinning of the shell caused by the rifled grooves of the gun spreading them out over a large area. When n shell is used it is charged with powder, which causes it to explode and scatter its pieces with great destruction. Kuglish I,aw to Accidents. The term "accident" would appeal to be easily defined, but the late Itoril Chief Justice Cockl urn thought not, ami on several occasions insurance companies have sought a definition iu the courts of law. It has been decid ed that a sunstroke is not an accident, but that injur\ to th" spine by lifting a heavy weight is one. Hven if physi cal tilinents contribute to au accident it is covered by the policy. Th,' rela lives uf a man alio, while bathing iu shallow water, was seized witli a tit and suffocated sustain,- I their claim,a --• liil those of a man who, when similar ly sei ted, fell under a train ami wan killed. Again, a pers.ui having fallen au I dislocated lib -ho'ild. r an- put to bi.! and car,-fully nursed, but iu less than a month in died ol pneumonia, i I'he connection bet a ft it that Complaint and a dislocated shoulder is not at one. visible, but ou the ground thai | Ihe resllessiiesi. and use, plibilil \ l.i ' cold product I by til- m'.'ld. lit I, I to I III,* dis. .ts, a Inch kille.i him, the rela live* M.re held to • lltltl, I to elalli. ' "The inltlH lie. of lllloikilMtllllg liquor ' lias Ih'l'li alltliorlllv, l\ dellm-d in."lt, i iti|, ucai aluelt dlaturb tie halnuc,. uf a ' in.,ii lion loi ib ~i wnl nmriit— I „l hi* la. iilli, s, ' and lu.mie* rctt«lVv<l ahih in that <-••inlttioit Me not covvtvd ■ "■-■' I • »■ • | Journal, I NO. 16. MY LITTLE CHILD. My littlo child Slips from my arms Just when my heart Most to her worms, God bless her ! How She thrills me when She tumbles in My arms again.' Years fly so fasti! Soon sho will b» A maiden; then She'll turn from me, Some smooth-faced boy Her heart will steal From me—what u?- Of love so leal? What use? Why, then It comforts mo To know that il Her memory I hold my place—« Young love wanes fast, But father's lovo Will always last. —Phil. L. Barker, in Chicago Record, HUMOR OF THE DAY. A correct costume —The convict's gark The golden rule —The power of money. Lawyers may be poets; they write lots of "versus." Lumbermen are not necessarily log gerheads.—Lowell Courier. It's a wise cow that knowns its own butter.— Florida Times-Union. A gross outrage—Finding it n few packages short.—Florida Times. The Hawaiian difficulty —How to pronounce the Queen's name.—Hnllo. A miner may be ever so well off, but he can't help getting in a hole occa sionally. —Toledo Commercial, What cares he for wealth, Kor palace or hovel The boy in good health. With a yellow back novel? —Buffalo Courier. The burglar is not inclined to bo talkative, but he is a great bore when he finds the safe locked.—Binghamton Republican. He —"This is a bird's-eye view of my home ; it—" She—"Yes, I notice it has a kind of jay appearanoe."— Chicago Tribune. "Did the office seek the Colonel?" "Yes, but he had three days' start and there was no reward out for him."— Atlanta Constitution. The boiler-maker with oratorical tendencies ought to have little trouble in riveting the attention of his hear ers Buffalo Courier. The ideal juror in a criminal case is the man who either never reads any thing or never understands what he reads. Milwaukee Sentinel. Some say that with the greater use of the telephone, the messenger boy is beginning to go. He may be, but he's not going fast.—Philadelphia Times. Tis now the naughty littlo boy Gets home from school too lato To carry in the evening coal. But not togo and skake. —Chicago Inter, Ocean. A shoemaker in Lynn, Mass., dis plays a sign iu front of his shop read ing: "Boots and shoes repaired and promptly executed."—New York Ob server. Clara—"Would you take Walter Handsome and Arthur Handsome for brothers?" Amelia—"Yes, I have al ready promised to be a sister to them." —Raymond's Monthly. A Young Higher Critic—Foml Pa rent--"Yes, Bobby, the Angel of Death passed over the houses and smote tlio first-born of each Egyptian family." Bobby (after a moment's silence) "Pop, what did the angel do when it was twins?"— Harlem Life. Young Lady—"What be-e-itutiful chrysauthcmtims! What are they worth?" Dealer "Twenty-five each, ma'am." Young Lady—"And what are all those young men ranged nlotig tho counter for?' Dealer —"Those are tho ten-cent stems."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Muggins (recently married, showing his apartments^—"This is a wardrobe where my wife hangs her clothes, and this is another wardrobe where my wife hangs her clothes." Bilter— "Where do you hang your clothes?" Muggins—"Oh, I don't have any now." .New York 11. raid. Wiigleigli "Bagleigli ha 1 a cnriouc adventure the other day. lie got into the middle of a field when he found that an angry brindlo bull stood iu front of one gate while a healthy Jer sey cow guarded the other. Hedidu't know which one to face." Tagleigh- - "I suppose tile cow proved to be tho most harmless. " Wagleigh—-"No; it was a toss-up bctwccU tin; t\Vo,'_' Brooklyn Life. Tile Soil Consumed lij Flames, Several hundred acres in Humboldt County that this summer raised the biggest hay crop in the Stale burned to allien. The noil Itself has been consumed bv tire t • a depth of fifteen feet. I'* yearn ago tie- laul waa several teet under water, ail.l wh-. known >.4 Owl Lake. It w*« drained by a big ditch nu.l dried up, leaving a very rich Mill. A few tlay> iici, when a prairie Hre nwt.pt ov«-r it, tie .ml it ■nit took Ht'e, 1> 111'ii iiilike turf. Th« tire i at* dawn to a hard clay that will be of tin tiittt for forming puriioaca. Island fount > Wa.h limes. Iu Care a t alii vtre, hi» t iv v. vu. and uiiio>iitg |,i have mm'* lip. Inak oil with cold Ml|C», Ifllt It i Itfll.r I i hate tin 111 •ut lh.u in Adi i|i if warm mutton tat applitd i tin ■ re. at night, I'l*l before t 'turn*, Viii IHVII <*•«•« Iht'Ul lu di.aj j val,
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