SULLIVAN JBILFE REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XII.
Ninety-one per cent, of the farmers
in Utah own their farms.
Encouraging reports continue to
come from the cotton manufacturers
of the South.
The average time spent by the
British House of Lords in the Nation's
work, according to iv contemporary, is
fifteen minutes per day.
• Australia is a country without or
phans or an orphanage. Each waif
is taken to a receiving house, where it
is kept until a country home is founc
for it.
The new programme of public in
struction adopted in France devotes
more time to the study of English and
less to the study of German.
Iu thirty-six State prisons in this
country solitary confinement is used
as a punishment, and in twenty the
prisoner is handcuffed to the wall.
An English widower returns thanks
to a choir for their sweet singing at
his wife's funeral, "thereby enliven
ing and brightening up the dullness
and monotony which
characterizes a funeral service."
Russia has decided to spend a quar
ter of a billion in the improvement of
her navy. This is a pretty expensive
outlay in pursuance of a plan to keep
the peace : but the leading powers of
Europe are not stopping at expense.
England will have to meet those fig
ures, and France can be relied upon
to slide several big war ships into the
water. It looks to the Detroit Free
Press as though the test of modern
naval improvements was not far off,
and it may be followed by very mate
rial changes in the map of the eastern
continent.
Says tho New York Observer : "The
poor we have always with us—and the
lazy. To discriminate between them
is somewhat of a task. In some cases
the wood-pile marks the division.
They goto the right or left according
to their disposition. Some of the
hungry go right to work, while by
others the opportunity to labor, aud
so earn a breakfast, is left severely
alone. If the newspapers are to be be
lieved, and we see no reason for donbt
ing their statements, then while in
Chicago the unemployed number tens
of thousands it is hard to get men to
labor at fifteen cents an hour on canal
work. When men were recently asked
for from Milwaukee by a Chicago busi
ness firm, the answer came that while
there was plenty of steady work in the
Wisconsin woods for willing men at
fair wages, the men were not to be
had. There was work, aud there were
workers enough, but the men were shy
and refused to be introduced."
The New York Journal of Commerce
aud Commercial Ihilletiu. which keeps
a daily record of the iires in this
country, and is deservedly high au
thority on alt questions of insurance,
reports the total losses by tire iu the
United States and Canada iu the year
lHl»:t at 91 ftti,445,875, against $1112,-
704,700 in IHD2. In but one month of
I sum did the total of tire losses sink
below 910,000,000, aud that was iu
February, when tho returni of tho
Journal of Commerce place the figures
at S9,UIV,!M)U. The same paper reports
235 tires in l>eccinber of a greater de
structivfnets than SIIMHH) **ch. It
says that the underwriters attribute
much of the loss to careless lustalla
tion of electric light and power
plants. I'nd. r these circumstances it
ought to be the occasion of more than
insurance interest to learn that the
electriu risk is being investigated by
experts who are gathering particular*
of all the iirt > traceable < • > .ectficity.
Kleelricity is a good servaut who will
bear a lot of watchiug.
The baltiiuore Sun s tribute to th*
South la worthy "112 reproduction
"Lesa coniplaint lis* been hsard from
the South during *h> l»»t at*hi or leu
months than fr<>tu auy othir pari of
the eunntry, hut this la u<d bt-eaiisa
the iieoplu of this section have nut felt
the Itnaie I*l stringency, bat In cause
the> hat lesiu. l t i<t . and U
strong and •ilsni two, It.<i sit not
given tu making au iMitert otwry time
they come to run li |da in the load
m! Ilia. I'ui a p».opto kit, nfluf In
tti«* hut* th> |.o**riy mi l 11 t»i»i,u,
that lobuw I tin wat was amazing iu
Its ■ aim tli> i., lit an I |M t I
in I i» 'illy as tin it» a> t< i U sling
1 " 4 " "♦ " '"ibintt
ha* »»<•#* no fe » and Unr
pi <«•»«« tfeei I >to >to I Si
nnlwd With Hmthii iiil » il W| Iklil
*4# Ml iIHI antli"!** ''
ON THE ROAD TO DPEAMTOWN, ,
Coma here, my sleepy darling, and climb
upon my knee.
And lo! all In a moment, a trusted stood
'twill be
To bear you to that country where troubles
are forgot.
And we'll set off for Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
0 lit ten' Bolls of Dreamland are ringing
soft and low!
What a pleasant, pleasant country it is
through which we go ;
And little, nodding travelers are seen in
every spot,
All riding off to Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
The lights bsgin to twinkle above us in the
sky,
The star-lamps that the angels are hanging
out on high,
To guide the drowsy travelers where danger
lurketh not,
As they ride off to Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
Snug in a wild-rose cradle the warm wind
rocks the bee ;
The little birds are sleeping in every bush
and tree.
1 wonder what they dream of? They dream,
and answer not,
As we ride by to Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
Our journey's almost over. The sleepy
town's in sight
Wherein ray drowsy darling must tarry over
night.
How still it is, how peaceful, In this delight,
ful spot,
As we ride into Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
—Eben E. Rexford, in Independent.
rescued'at last.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
lace
Sjl ' counter 1" shouted
the floor-walker.
i'/'N'. gf "Miss Garrick,
tjgSy TV— what are you think
ing of? Show these
jy 1 'Ju ladies heliotrope
58' .1 chiffon and be
y I jl quick about it!"
Isola Garrick
52 h I'i Bp* hurried to her post,
\ '4| with one hand
Vi—J pressed to lier fore- |
head. All day long
J she had suffered
from a racking headache, but in this
promising dry goods firm headaches
were not "business," and no allow
ances were made for them.
"Why, mamma," whispered a tall,
rod-cheeked young woman, in a seal j
coat and a velvet toque, nodding with
jets, "it's Cousin Isola !"
"Hush—sh!" said the other lady,
who was stout anil short, with a gold
eyegloss and big diamonds in her ears.
"We are not supposed to recognize
her now. No"—to the young girl be
hind the counter—"this is not the
right shade. This is violet, and I in
quired for heliotrope. Some people j
seem to be absolutely color blind !"
Isola looked wistfully at her aunt.
Surely surely she could not intend
entirely to ignore her!
But Mrs. Pierson Garrick's gaze
was wholly unrecoguizing.
"We have heliotrope also," said she,
taking dowu another box.
But-the tall young lady tossed her
head impatiently.
"It isn't tho right color at all!"]
said she. "Come away, mamma."
The floor-walker administered a sharp
rebuke to Miss Garrick, when the cus
tomers were gone.
"Really," he said, "it would seem j
as if a sale might have been made."
Isota's eyes brimmed over with tears
which it would have been "unbuai
lu aa-like" to shed. Six months ago
she had come, a timid, inexperienced
orphan to New York, and naturally
her tirst idea was togo to her father's
brother, Mr. Pierson Garrick.
That gentleman, however, was not
ut home he generally contrived to be
out of tile way when any cuiliarrassiug
circumstance occurred ami his wife
gave Isola to underitaiid that it was
quite impossible to do anything for
her.
Iu the old Connecticut farmhouse a
generous hospitality had always pre
\ vailed, aud the girl i|>uld Imrdly be
j lleve that she was unVelcouie to these
relatives.
"I dare say, said Mrs. Garriek, ah
aoiltlv, "you r»n get something to do,
'for satau tiit Is some mischiuf still -
Oh. iio, that leu t the right ipiolation!
| 'Where iln re a a will, there's a way,'
wit* what I meant to say. Hut your
1 anele i»i tut home, and Cornelia is
pis! going out, aud the house la full
uf euiM|Mts«
"I could wail a lit llu while, ha/,
tide I Isoht, glancing at au inviting
"Il Would lie of no us#, ' sharply til
leted the lad) "We rually can I un
drrtuke to op« n » hotel fur all out
• Is rose, with burning ilu< ks and
indignantly sparkling • >»», and h«di
i. , , i . I .... . u- W i.- i. i.. I„
tahv linttill ah» did not know, hut of
oni Ihin* she was i|mu eeitain sh>
would U no I. uide 14 on Ihetti super
«UI«U» p«i* pi*
4 ki idiy vwngiry neighbor nad a
dnwgiiUi istiiU'l slid s«:tlled m a
L.ifcl.. iion«l a shop OM Thud »«•«%*.
"»uiei» th> signed Wilhm her
dta*n*.hanl<*4. an t alls • »w|io»** in tai
1 V'i I • Ml 1 1 K ft tilUdHwii i|| I l+K
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1894.
dry poods house whore she received i
the smallest possible salary for the i
largest possible amount of work.
As it happened, Mr. Bonjamin Gar
rick, of Rio Janeiro, was staying at
the house on Lexington avenue, the
one solo guest who represented the
"household of company," mentioned
by Mrs. Garrick.
In his younger days Cousin Ben had
been the black sheep of the family.
But the Pierson Garricks, who had
been the loudest in his censi'fe wliil»
ho was under a financial cloud, werj
his most devoted adherents, now tlint
he had come home the lucky possessor
of ruby mines, railway shares an'?,
thriving coffee plantations.
"You must do your very best, Cor
nelia, to make yourself agreeable to
him," said Mrs. Garrick to her tall
daughter. "Who knows how he may
decide to leave his money?"
"Oh, by-tho-way !" said Cousin Beu,
the first day that ho came home to
dinner. "I met Burley in the Ex
change, and he was telling me that
Alfred was dead."
"Yes,"smiled Mrs. Garrick. "Some
soup, Benjamin? It's lobster bisque,
and very nice. Oh, yes—we are all
mortal!"
"Well,'' quoth Ben, smiting the
table with his fist, "there isn't a soul
that I've calculated more on seeing
when I came back than Alfred ! No
body but myself ever knew how good
Alfred was to me in the days when all
—yes, Louisa, you and Pierson, too
turned their back upon me. Ah, you
never knew it, but I went up into the
old garret one day, with a clothes line,
to hang myself. There didn't seem to
be anything else to do. And Alfred
came after me—it was when that little
baby of theirs was so ill of croup, and
he was looking for herbs to make herb
tea —and I tell you he talked to me as i
no one else had ever done. And he
took his last five hundred dollars out
of the bank and packed me oft" to South I
America with it. Oh, I sent back the
money long ago! But what could pay
for the kind words and the helping
hand—eh? Poor Alfred ! So he's
dead? And that pretty little wife of
his—and the child? She grew up,
didn't she? What has become of her?
I mean togo out to Elmville to-mor
row and see after the child. They
called her some strange Spanish name
—lsidora or Isola. Alfred's wife was
always fanciful."
Mr. Pierson Garrick swallowed his
soup silently. Mrs. Garrick and her
daughter exchanged glances behind the
tea urn.
How lucky it was that they had sent
their country cousin away ! For the
Garricks were money worshipers, and !
the idea of diverting one oent of Ben's ,
fortune from their own coffers was j
terrible to them.
Benjamin Garrick went to Elmville
the next day. but to no purpose.
The old house was closed, padlocked,
and drifted knee high with frozen
j January snows, and no one could tell
him what had become of the solitary
child with the strange Spanish name.
And no one sympathized more deep
ly with him iu his disappointment
than Cornelia Garrick!
Isola had heard her father speak of
the wayward cousin who had drifted
off into the auriferous South, but that
was all. Of his return she knewnoth
j lug, or she might have felt more hope
ful that evening when the floor-walker
' notified her in an incidental way that,
ks it wns necessary to cut down their
expenses after the holidays, they had
decided to dispense with her services
thereafter.
I'oor Isola! Did the floor-walker
know that she had but twenty-five
j cents iu her pocket? that she was in
debt to the confectioner's wife? that
j in all the great, dreary city she knew
not whither to turn?
The man made some little careless
jest as he counted out their week's sal
ary, luiuus sundry tinea, to her and
j the tive other victims who were on the
' discharge list.
They looked blankly at each other,
but weut quietly away. What else was
I there to do?
"I must yo to Mrs. Pieraon Garrick
(now, 1 i-ait I Isola, "even though she
stared fue full in the face and never
chose to recognize lue to-day. She is
at least a woman, and she has a daugh
ter of luy own age,"
The next day she paid her small
| stock of money to the confectioner's
wife for the board bill it was little
enough, and the poor woman hail sore
| need of it aud walked through the
deep snow to the handsome house on
Islington avenue.
As she stood Uesitatiun at the foot
of the steps, a stout, elderly gentle
man, dressed iu a tail silk hat and a
tut-trimmed overcoat, came dowr.
tlx IU
He glanced casually at her, but the
had turned away her facu. It seemed
as if everybody must know that she
was a lieggar. and the stiauie of il
! oli, the shame of il!
"Pretty girl," said Coitalu It* u b
himself "Hangs dowu her head lou
j lunch, though
"llu has a kiud face," thought Isola
"1 wish I uclo I'urvnt was like htiu
lud th. ii she liiuidly Winlinl tho
slippery »te|u> and rang the belt
Mil l'ier»on *iainek was adding up
hit housekeeping a> count* in a pretty
little room "|ieniug from her husband's
library Iktsnu the two apartments
hung a portiere of richly colored hat
Hhe h«»k«.-d up indignantly as the
pa«h>r maid u«hi i«d in the unwtleume
visiunt Kin Cornell* raiaud her
•yis li ui in gone! she wa» tending
W II Id.tUi*' eftedshu. "4nd
wh»l is it that brings yun here, Isola'
|b | m iMauoua leiT »o« ihat yuu must
4i<i ii lon y m**ll >'
• I n> t< i«• Mttfii WfIMMMNP m my
lib I said Mr* fl-rfv g IhtffUth gri-a
hi y r*4
l»> livufcad pit*'ltaly liuis one tu
Ib< iflhe*
j ' 1 hat* Mind to 4*ptn len kuj •vii.
naiil she, "and I Have failed. Pleasa
don't look HO cruelly at me. All I ask
is a little money to tako me back to
Elmville. I can get housework to do
there, or I can work in tho factory.
But oh, this oruel city is killing mo!"
She burst into tears; but Mrs. Pier
son Garrick did not relent one whit.
"This is all nonsense, Isola," said
she. "I have already told you that
we can do nothing for you. Why
don't you goto the intelligence bu
reaus or the employment agencies?
Mr. Pierson and myself have all we
can do without providing for all our
penniless relations. And I beg you
will go away at once. This is dear
Cornelia's at home day, and I can't
have her nervous system upHet. I—"
"Hello! what's all this?" spoke a
deep voice, and Cousin Ben appeared
from between the rich Roman por
tieres. "Who is this girl V Not Isola,
Alfred Pierson's daughter? By Jove !
I believe she has her father's very
eyes ! And what are you bullying her
for, Louisa? Turning her out of your
house ? Then, as sure as the world,
I'll go, too. Come here and kiss me,
Isola. I've held you on my knee many
a time when you were a baby. I'm
your Cousin Ben, and your father was
the best friend I ever had in the world.
And I've looked for you—l've hunted
high and low, and these people have
allowed me to believe yon were dead.
Yes, Louisa," in answer to Mrs. Gar
rick's pleading glance, "I did go out,
but I returned after a paper I had left
behind me in Pierson's study, and so
I heard it all. I couldn't believe that
a woman could have been so false and
cruel. Little Isola, will you come to
me and be my adopted daughter? I
owe more than that to your father's
child."
And Isola ran, sobbing, into hie
arms.
That was the last of all the dark
days she had endured. Nothing was
too good thenceforward for Cousin
Ben's adopted child.
But Mr. Pierson Garriek shrugged
his shoulders. He was one who al
ways laid the blame of things on other
shoulders.
"You have outmanaged yourself,
Louisa," said he. —Saturday Night.
Poisoned Arrows,
Poisoned arrows have been in use
since time out of memory. We have
it on the authority of both Strabo and
Aristotle that the ancient Gauls poi
soned both their arrows and the shafts
of their spears with a preparation of
vegetable poison extracted from what
is now believed to have been a species
of hellebore. The Scythians went a
j step farther and used the venom of
serpents intermixed with the virus of
| putrid blood, the latter being one of
| the most active and incurable of the
j poisons known even to-day.
The natives of Japan, the Ainos,
prepare their arrow poisons from a se
cretion of the bamboo, and the same
! may be said of the Aborigines of Bor
j neo, Java and New Guinea.
In Central and South America the
I "Woorara" poison was the terror of
the early explorers, as well as of the
modern scientific expeditions. Analyses
of several specimens of arrows rubbed
1 with this poison prove it to be a mix
j turo of rattlesnake venom, putrid
' blood and juice from the plant or tree
| which produces the strychnine of
i commerce.
Among the North American Indians
the Sioux, the Apaches, Comanche*,
I th> Bannocks, the Shoshones and the
' Blackfeet were the chief tribes which
I used poisoned war implements. The
Sioux obtained their supply of venom
| and virus by forcing large rattlesnakes
j to strike their fangs repeatedly into
| the liver or kidney of a deer or buf-
I falo, and then allowing the meat to
putrefy. When a war party went out,
1 one of their number was made bearer
of tins putrid, venom-soaked mass,
and whenever a battle was imminent
; each brave would take turns at jab
-1 bing his arrows into the poison.
, Among the other tribes mentioned, al
though the process of obtaining the
poison supply was not always indeu
tieal with the above, this general mo
duli operandi and result* were very
similar.- St. Louis Republic.
Miii'li Like a Man.
The Kulu Katuba is more like a hu
man being, according to I'rofct.eor
Uaruer, than any other animal. The
principal difference between the phys
ical organisation of a human being
and a gorilla, accordiug to the same
authority, i» that th« spine of the
gorilla is not so regularly jointed as
that of a in a ti, some of the joints hav
i nig seemingly gone into partnership,
i The difference, or to put it more finely
the distinction, betweell the ehluipail
I zee and the hulti Hauiba is still a mat
i t»r of coujecture, Profeaaor (tamer
I nSYS, an lie doe* Hot |KMta* fcs a skeleton
i of tho Kulu hauiba Skeletons of
■ gorillas and chimpanzee* are the same
j to hiiuM a varied collection of pipve
are to solue no u, an t he e*|»«ets to be
pi»t as will supplied a ith thu luaut
luatu r> mains of Huht Ram ban some
tat Having bean iit Alrica on scien
tific exploration bent, he natural!,) in
. tends togo again Hie African lever
seldom leaves a matt upon whom it has
> once Uk«n a grip Call Mall budget.
Hi mai table I.lMb- tlaguels,
A magnet ahi. U lb gnat Sir laaa
kkwUtu wore as a s»t in his finger ring
i a said to hate Iteen ■ apable ui ratalUg
7ln grain*, of about jui times its own
112 ! weight of three giain* and to hate
lie!) much alio lied tit cuMs«>|uegce uf
| it* pht i<'iue nal | -»4l line ahith
i i ...it. . i I i -in I tin l«ealte,
i I ahnti ia now >n U»* Mojal Ho
etity'e fdi< tioi, at Kdtubuiglt,
till gleet | - ■ ll weiglw I.at lit
■ »«M »| «ia>x. >i t »l m • .paWe* «l
•ipp iting IfcW ft etna, and is, tiiere
l< i> th<- ill »(ni '< agi.> 1 I its t*M
•g Ihf *M l« art
THE POSTAL GRAVEYARD.
THE WORKINGS OF THE DEM) LET
TER OFFICE.
A System of the Postoflrtce Depart
ment About Which There Is Al
ways Something New to be Told.
I~THE infinite pains taken by
I this great Government of
| ours with even the most
trifling interests of its (50,-
000,000 of people is most forcibly il
lustrated in the workings of the Dead
Letter Office. The scrawl of tho
illiterate receives as close attention as
the polished ehirography ©f tho uni
versity graduate, a modest penny as
much care in the handling as a preten
tious SIOO. Six million pieces of un
delivered mail matter are annually
received atthe Dead Letter Office, and
and not one, however insignificant, is
overlooked or slighted, according to a
writer in Harpor's Young People.
Early each morning the groat Gov
ernment wagons marked United States
Mail may be seen lumbering through
the stone archway leading into the court
of the l'ostoflice Department BuiUling.
Here they are speedily unloaded, and
the great leather pouches quickly dis
appear, being borne by the messen
gers to the elevator, and then to the
Dead Letter Office. Each one of tho
20,000 dead letters received daily
passes at least through tho hands of
threo clerks, and should it chance to
contain anything of money value,
through at least three more.
A "dead" letter, strictly speaking,
is one that bears a correct address, ie
fully prepaid, and has been duly de
livered at the office of destination.
Remaining there unclaimed for one
week, such letters are advertised for
the period prescribed by law, and
then sent to the Dead Letter Office.
Here, first of all, each day's "dead"
mail must be accurately counted, and
a correct record made of the number
of letters and packages. There are
usually four clerks employed on this
work. Should any ignorant or care
less postmaster send in with his
"deads" a letter bearing a written or
printed card or request, a letter with no
address, one without a stamp, or one
bearing a foreign stamp, the counting
clerk must winnow them out and rec
tify, as far as he can, these errors,
Being counted, they are tied in bun
dles of usually 100 each by tho mes
sengers. They are now ready for the
second set of clerks, whose duty it is
to "violate the sanctity of the seal"
with the long, keen knives with which
they are provided. It is curious to
' watch these men. With one quick
stroke the envelope is split lengthwise
and in th> next instant the contents
are deftly extracted and examined, and
if of no money value quickly laid aside
and another taken up. Each opener
averages about 2500 letters per day.
Should the letter chance to contain
money, even a single cent, a stamp, a
| postal note, a money-order, green
; backs, notes, drafts, cheeks or any le
gal tender, ho immediately 6eizes a
pencil, notes the kind and value ol
j the find on tho envelope, and beneath
it places his own initials. Besidei
this he has a small blank-book in which
j he makes a duplicate entry, and in ad
' dition adds t lie name and address
! found on the letter. This work he
' usually does at the close of the day,
I and then both letters _ and book are
\ given in charge to the chief of the
| division.
Whenever it is possible the letter
| with its contents is returned to the
sender in care of the postmaster, who
| in responsible for its safe delivery,
and who must return a receipt for il
to the department. Every possible
protection is thus thrown around it.
When the money cannot be thus re
; turned, on account of the failurro of
i the writer to sign his name or ad
dress, then it is held ill the office for 8
j year, in the hope that it may bo ap
' )died for. Failing in this, tho monej
I is turned into l T ucle Sam's already
i corpulent money bags.
Tin* carelessness of tho people it
sending money is almost incredible.
About 1"»00 letter- that bear no ad
dress whatever are received eact
month, and, curiously enough, they
very often contain money or its equiv
alent. I recall one that came undet
my own observation that revealed,
when opened, drafts to the amouut ol
92&00.
Accurate records are kept of all
I valuable letters and their final dispo
I hi tion. In round number* about
jt ID, Hi it I are received 111 cash annually,
and 41.iOO.tMH) m draft*, notes, etc.
The remaining dead letters, that have
! i'idv their literary merit to ooutßivud
them, or want of it to condemn them,
are given oue lant chance bufore being
| CoUMgned t« the wa*te paper dealer.
Thev are placed in the hands of clerks,
1 who do their utmost tu return them
to their «rilir< a thaukh»a task at
bet K.ieh clerk is c*p'cted to av
erts at 1> a*t 'i'tO per day, and the
supply is never exhausted.
In addition U» tho "deads" there It
another class termed "uuiuaiUlde,"
that inclu li * siieU as ar> held fur post
age, will from bdsU, lolitiuW and
nil*directed the ul<h<sl clasa o| UU'
mailable lettefa ale the misdirected,
I'licm» form a curiou. study, an I are
avoided careful spei lal treatment,
tile) nuutbel abuUt JIHMI dally. Till )
•«• lurwarded daily frout the mailing
..itKvs, not being detained or advsr
till las 'lead It It' rs are. l'-i«tmaat<<r*
i ttnabii t«* d«dt»«l them aeeounl
j u | •tfur of detUiieUt'l 111 the ad
tlfiMW, «»f Uii wlitilM
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SCIENTIFIC AXI) INDUSTRIAL.
Tho, English langtlage oontains forty- '
>no distinct Bounds. ,
When oxygen is in a liquid state it
is strongly attracted by a powerful
jloctro magnet.
Tho boef extract factories in South
America make one pound of extract
From thirty-four pounds of meat.
A cubic foot of new fallen snow
weighs five and one-half pounds on tho
average, and has twelve times the bulk
of an equal weight of water.
It is strange, though true, that in
Asia and Africa, where grass will not
grow, tho most beautiful flowers and
shrubs flourish to perfection.
In filing band saws, tio a string
where you begin to file, and then you
can tell when you get around, anil
therefore all the teeth will be sharp,
and you will not file any of them twice.
Dr. O. V. Thayer, of San Francisco,
has successfully used tho solar cautery
—burning glass—in removing facial
discolorations of the skin of large urea,
also in removing tattoo or India ink
marks.
At the two large abattoirs of Lyons,
France, the guards protect the ani
mals to bo slaughtered from seeiug
anything conuected with the slaught
ering of other animals; a terror is
found to have an injurious effect upon
the secretions and flesh of dumb
creatures.
Refined crystalized sugar, whether
made from the beet or the sugar cane,
is almost chemically pure and sac
chorose, and is the same substance in
both cases. Few articles of food are
so generally free from adulteration as
granulated—not powdered or coft'ee
crushed—sugar.
The rate of mortality of London is
shown by a recent report to have
steadily decreased with the introduc
tion and perfection of adequate means
of disposing of the sewage of the city.
At the end of the eighteenth century
the annual average mortality was esti
mated at fifty per 1000, and in 181)2 it
had dropped to 10.1 per 1000.
In South America among the moun
tains the evergreen oak begins to ap
pear at about 5500 feet, and is found
up to tho limit of the continuous
forest, which is about 10,000 feet. The
valuable cinchona tree, from which
Peruvian bark is obtained, has a range
of elevation on the mountain slopes
running from -4900 to !>SOO feet.
In the process of extracting gold
from its ores molten load is used in
stead of mercury. The lead is melted
on a shallow hearth and the powdered
ore is fed at one end and earrie 1 for
ward as a film over tho surface of the
lead by means of an agitator moving
over it. It is thus brought to the
other end, where it escapes through a
hopper. In order to prevent oxida
tion of the lead tho chamber is kept
filled with carbonic oxide from a gas
producer.
A .Man Willi Throe Lejrt.
Of late years 1 have lost all trase ot
my old ami oddly malformed friend,
Qeorgo Leppert, whom I first met at
Tiflin, Ohio, in 1881. George was a
Bavarian l>y birth, and came to this
country twelve years ago, settling at
Baltimore, where he followed the trade
of a wood-carver. Should you happen
to meet him on the street you would
notice nothing peculiar either in his
gait or general makeup, unless it was
that the right leg of his trousers was
something near twice the size of the
left, and too full to wrinkle besides.
This lupsiiled appearance was caused
by a remarkable malformation, Mr.
Leppert being the not over proud pos
sessor of two right legs uud one left ;
or, IU other words, of threr perfectly
formed lower limbs. [ often remarked
that should nature, through some of
her odd freaks, choose to increase my
normul supply of legs l»y fifty per
cent. I w-uild do my best to play the
#IOO-a-week fiddle in a dime museum
before the setting of the sun on the
day following the addition of the ex
tra member to my auatouiy .
Ho often told uie that when ho was
a small boy iu his Bavarian home he
hud perfect use of all three of bis legs,
but when 1 saw him last in 18N7 the
extru member was slightly paralyzed,
probably the result of being bound to
its companion, an operation that »a»
necessary in order t.> get both iut>
oUe trousers leg. \\ lieu I la»t heard
from him, in ItWI, lie wu» at tin Belle
vuo iX. Y) Hospital, undergoing
treatment for rboiiuiatintii. St. Lotus
Republic-
The hr<l Iron drill*'*.
The tlr»t iron bridge evei erected
iu the world, and which i» In couMaut
u»e at the prrwnt tune. »pau« a little
river to the t'ouuty of Salop, ob the
railroad leading from Shrewsbury to
Worcester, England. Ii »«» built iu
tue year 177#, is cieclly hi tie l.van
let?! iu length ■ total amount of iron
iiked iu construction, ton»
Sti ph< iikoti, the groat engineer, til
writing conei ruing it, sntd ' W hen
we etiiimdcr till 112» I that the easting
■ t iron at that time in it» infancy,
w« ar» cunvmc.iil that mihln.hmg
hii laeily alone o.u»l l eon ■• »*. and
• into elocution such an under
tiltiu* "»t I. Mil* tt.pnnb
I K U»l Mr. li lt It) uu lUttllle..
It te «aid thai a hen lltet lo trie mi
I \ , i V .»I . .. at I
i.al I into, l"» the ttlal tin*' IU- Itt
pat I I - . 1411, .1 ». I
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NO. 21.
POET AND PEASANT.
A poet and peasant, side by aide,
Together dwelt within the self-same town ;
The poet's fame was noted far and wide,
The peasant's not beyond the township's
bound.
Tiie post sang of love and household joyß.
But neither wife nor children made him
glad ;
The peasant had a wife, two girls and boys,
Who with him lived and his small cottage
shared.
The poet mused, ''What is this gift of mine?
'Tis but a dream, a hollow dream of bliss i
I would exchange it gladly at the shrine
Of Hymen's altar for a young child's kiss."
The peasant sighed while at his daily task.
Turning the furrows while ho held the
plow;
"Had I my neiglthor's gift I would not ask
For higher honors to bedeck my brow."
Ah! such is life, common fate of all,
With pain and pleasure over strangely
blent;
The gilts wc crave on others lightly fall.
And with our own we nover seem content.
—Boston Post.
HUMOR OF THE HAY.
The man who labors under a delu
sion works for a bad paymaster.
Anybody can see through people
who make spectacles of themselves.—
Dallas News.
The borrower is a good deal like pie
crust —he is very "short" and very
sweet. —Truth.
When a mau has no bills against
him he must feel as if he belonged to
the nobility.—Texas Sittings.
Eating one's own words isn't exactly
a love-feast, but sometimes our friends
enjoy seeing us do it. —Truth.
A man's worth and what a man's
worth, are, it frequently happens,
widely different things. —Puck.
If a man gets up when the day breaks
can he be said to have a whole day be
fore him?— Minneapolis Times.
Sneezing is probably an effort of
nature to force lazy people to take
some exercise.—Milwaukee Journal.
Cholly—"Yaas, we missed each other
in the crowd." She— "That's just like
her. She's always losing things."—
Life.
A large part of the average hack
man's success is doubtless due to his
knowing how to take people.—Buffalo
Courier.
Clarissa —"I owe you an apology,
dearest." Fred "Don't speak of it.
T wish to remain a preferred credi
tor. "—Pack.
"And do you ever invite your poor
relations to visit you?'' "0 yes, in
deed. You see they are all too poor
to get here."—Judge.
"Bilkein's is n strong face, or I'm
no judge of physiognomy." ' 'lt ought
to be. He and bis whole family are
living on it." —Buffalo Courier.
Matutnit "Aren't you home from
school earlier than usual to-day?"'
Bobby- "Yes, mamma, I wasn't kept
in to-day. "—Harper's Young People.
"I wonder what tiiis image repre
sents?" " The god of humor, proba
bly. Don't yon see that it is full of
little fuuny cracks?''—lndiapolis Jour
nal.
"Why in the world do you want to
get your daughter a violin, Jawson?
She is not mi .ical, is she?" "Not at
all; but vie ins have cliin resta."—
Judge.
Jinks —"I on't tliiuk it looks well
for a minist. r to wear diamonds."
Ellkms — "Wi»y not? Aren't there
sermons in stones?"— Kate Field'*
Washington.
"I wonder how it was discovered
that fish was a brain food?" She—
I '• Probably by the wonderful stories
that men tell who go fishing."—Chi
| eago Inter-Oceau.
He -"Did you ever hear that Jag
sou's wife spi-aks two languages?"
She "Yes." He "What are they?
i 'The one tor company and tho othe*
for Jagson.'' luter-Ocean.
' , "Now, what must I do with thi«
wedding caku t<> dream of it?" asked a
gushing daiusel of a matter-of-fact
| young man. "Just eat it ; that'*
■ i all," was tlir reply. Tid- Hit*.
She "Tell me, now. have your af
fections always remained constant?"
' ll< "I can truthfully nay that ttoy
have, though I admit that their object
has often changed." Huston Trim
! script.
Muggins "Some people are never
»ati»tie I to know that certain thing*
HI. MO. but an coiitiually wanting to
I kuow tk« why an I * hereof of it.'
ttu ,gitu "Vi» I wonder wbv it i»?'
Philadelphia Iteourd
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"to give a |>t-r»"ii Miiiiuthiug sharp or
' pointed. I shouldn't to a tut stir
* pytsrd if young Mr Jiliki*» au4 1
1 win' to |tait frii-itd»hi|> after I leavv
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