SULLIVAN JSS& KEPUBLICAN. w. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XII. Tncle Sam has 1416 clerks sixty old and over. According to present estimates about 20,000 miles of cable will be laid with in the next two years. Houston, so the Post announces, is now the largest city in Texas, its new directory giving it a population of C 1,530. Mexicans are allowiug American ma chinery to enter that country free, in order to hasten development. It is enormously wealthy, but its wealth is hard to develop. "Not only was the blarney stone at the World's Fair bogus," laments tho New York Mail and Express, "but tho beautiful girl from Kildare in one ot the adjoining booths was born in Pitts burg." Lord Rosebery, the new British Pre mier, once introduced a bill to substi tute an elective Senate for the Houso of Lords. He is said to be heartily in favor of removing the veto power of the Lords. Quinine is not used in the United States as extensively as it was ten years ago. In that time the consumption has been reduced fully twenty-five per cent. There is more quinine sold in Louisiana thsn in any other State in the Union. Says tho Washington Star : It is with difficulty that people generally can be made to realize to-day that the long business depression is ended. Yet that is the welcome and demon* strable fact. For some weeks now the news dispatches have contained each day a lengthening list of manu facturing establishments that had re sumed operations. Tho use of carrier-pigeons has in creased to inch a degree that the French Government lias decided to impose severe penalties upon all per sons found keeping them without a license, and to prohibit the importa tion of foreign born pigeons, even when merely destined for pie pur poses, the object being to prevent any possible carrying of news with regard to French military matters, should there be necessity. The United States Government owns a great many miles of 'longshore tele graph lines, connecting lighthouses, live-saving stations and other Govern ment property on tho coast. It is usually easy to recognize these Gov ernment lines by their low poles of rather small iron piping. These poles are planted deep in the sandy beach, and, being of small diameter, they present little hold to tho sea winds, and thus are seldom blown down. The United States Government is seeking by piecept aud example to induce towns with names ending in the forms burgh, borough, boro, and burg, to adopt this last form. Burg is the usual pronunciation in the United States of the form burgh, and most Americans refuse to sound tho final "b," even of Edinburgh. These several nifflxcs, and, as well, bury, brottgh, and barrow, are related to the Anglo-Saxon verb beorgau and the German bergen, to hide or to sin ter. Tho several suffixes are also related to Bevcral Anglo-Saxon forms meaning hu earthwork, and from this came the application of such suffixes to indicate a fortified town. One element of difficulty in bring inR Spanish American offenders against the laws to justice in our Territories derived from Mexico istlie tirs ot race and kinship. An atrocious criminal uf Mexican blood may be protected through years ot a lewlen* career by relatives and family triendswho them selves are euuuently respectable and, except where the safety of friends ot kludred are concerned, law abiding Thin protection in continued after tho criminal has been brought lut > tho courts, in the way of the bribing and packing of juries and in the prov.ding of aveuves of escape from prison. Thus for yearn the murderer and out law I'i.rllrio Ti ujlllo has gone at large, or, when apprehended, htt* found it easy to escape Hie penalty of hia crime*. His pr it. ui headquarter*are ill the Mali/aitu Mountains, east of Albuquerque, in I i»»n>ru Brrualilo and Valeueia Counties where, with a price on lit* head, be perpetrates bis depredation* aud outran • with a high and Julian! baud < hie form of pluu di-riug with Trujiilo Hitd hi* i« to gti into a thick of sheep and drive eft hundred* at a time, „i • run off eel tie from the plain* raugtw, kill them, end sell tbe meat to inbehilauU ot the mountain luwit* I tie* do not htsHata •( uiUl'lvl iltl»l lu« Uuwijr M PATIENCE. Be patient! Easy words to speak While plenty fills tho sup of Hfo, While health brings roses to the check, And far removed are eare and strife. Falling so glibly from the tongue Of those—l often thiak of this— Whom suffering has never wrung, Who scarcely know what patience i9. Be patient I when the sufferer lies Prostrate beneath some fell disease, And longs, through torturing agonies, Only for one short hour of ease. Be patient! when the weary brain Is racked with thought aud anxious care. And troubles in an endloss train Seem almost more than it ean boar. To feel the torture of delay, The agony of hope deferred j To labor still from day today, The prize unwon, the prayer unheard. And still to hope and strive and wait The due reward of fortune's kiss— This is to almost conquer fate, This Is to learn what patience is. Despair not! though tho clouds are darl:, And storm and danger veil the sky ; Let fate and courage guide thy bark, The storm will pass : tho port is nigh. Be patient! and the tide will turn, Shadows will flee before the sun. These are the hopes that live and burn To light us till our work is done. —All the Year Itound. LILLIAN'S LOVER, IIX HELEN FORREST GRAVES. rf? //S afraid," said I Mor ton to her -stj Chiqn't ir across the tied land scape.-. red glow of sunset yot lingered ; while the black pines and cedars quivered in tho wind. "I wish," added Jessie, "that I had asked that man which was ho right turning to take. But I was afraid of him; he louked so cross." She was a tall, slim slip of a thing, with blue, wistful eyes, hair of the real Scotch gold, an 1 red lips, that trembled partly with cold, partly with a certain vague terror ut the position in which she found herself. In her hand she carried a heavy bag, for Jessie had no money to pay omnibus hire, or to engage a sleigh at the railway station. "Suppose, she said to herself, j "this lonely road should lead no where, except into the woods? Sup- j pose it should conduct me straight [ into a gypsy camp? For it seems nur« and more desolate the farther I go. Suppose I should be frozen to death, all alone here, with no helping hand to snve iue?" "Take car*, child," cried a loud, clear voico. "Do you want to be run over?" It was lo gypsy, nor yet a black | brown tramp, simply a plump, com- | fortable woman, driving herself in a trim little red cutter. She eyed Jes sie curiously through her spectacles. ! Jessie returned tho gazo with interest. I "Pleas* , madam," aaid Jessie, "can yon tell me il I am near Buekuor Hall?" i "Bless me, ' said the woman, "don't I you know? Bncknor Hall was burned down last niglit, and the old lady was [ suffocated in tho smoke. Friends of ynurs?" Jessie put her bag down in tho ! ■nowv ioad; she trembled violently. "'No--not exactly friends," she said. I "But I was engaged togo there as 1 companion and reader, and—aud—• j Oh, what shall I do now?" The old lady looked meditatively at the lash of her whip. "Come from New York?" said she. after a pause. "Yes from the Wilberforee Protec tive Agency. And I spent all my money tor tbe ticket hero." "One or two bright round tears de tached themselves from the long lashes mid rolled slowly down her cheeks. Mrs. Parkhurst, who prided herself on her knowledge of physiognomy, made up her mind on the spot. "One thing is very certain," said she. "Mrs, Bncknor will never re quire a companion an! reader now. And if you're puzzled what to do next, you had better jump IU aud go with me." "Where?" said Jessie. "Hume," said Mrs. Parkl>urst. Now, Jessie Morton herself was not a had judge of the human face divine, and in the indescribable solitude of this moment, she caught at tho wel come idea of sheltei and compauy. She gut into tbe red cutter, drew the buffalorobe around her shivering form, and uestlod c1OH« |ti Mrs. Parkhurst, before she venti <*% d to ask, timidly: "Whei ik home f'' Mrs. Parkburat shook the reins, ''be pony darted merrily uver tbe smooth road into tin purpling dusk "It's the Bn-Mitt Milltary Institute, ' naid I he, with a very visible pride "l ui huilM kc> per there," ■What!" "Oh, Uk* < re!" Moltlwl Mrs Park . urst 'V mi ahtiuld lit Id on tight when we tun th<>», »harp (um>. Yen ban very mailt lallcii out. Vee, tin BaMwtt limtlt.ile, And a line place it la I I was 'liuLikk if tour refer<neee turn out what tHejr thou Id b. w< in IK lit make ru i.i fIM )T<MI 111. I. \S . until a auiart tmiuij Woiuau ill ibr Inn li fo.iiu I toil| | i > iM ■an do tH'UK-lbiUfc •lea I.miilhciiiu|miiiusii| and leading tit t" "W*. ftt I ' LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 27. 1894. "You'd like a place?" "I must have one." "Theu," said Mrs. Parkhurst, "we'll think of it. Fourteen professors and one hundred and ten boys—that's a family to take care of, isn't it? For the colonel's wife is an invalid, aud don't trouble herself about the house keeping. I and my widowed daughter run the whole establishment, and there are nine of lis sit down to din ner in the housekeeper's room. There !" as they drove in between two massive stone gate-posts, into an avenue of rustling tamaracks. "Do you see that pretty young lady gathering holly berries? It's the colonel's daughter, Miss Lillian Bassett." "You've come back, have you, Parkey?" cried a sweet, girlish young voice. "Did you bring my chocolate caramels?" "The candy store was shut up, Miss Lilly." "Oh, how perfectly shameful!" And a clnster of glaring rod ber ries, aided by a not unskillful hand, hustled through the air, aud hit the housekeeper exactly on her nose. But, instead of evincing offense, Mrs. Park hurst only laughed. "Isn't she pretty?" said she, "and such a mad-cap. Well —perhaps mar riage will sober her down." "Is she to be married soon?" asked Jessie. "We don't quite know," said Mrs. Parkhurst. "But one of the young professors admires her very much, and we think she don't quite dislike him." Jessie looked wistfully back to whero Lillian Bassett's scarlet mantle lighted up the snowy terrace. Why were some girls so happy, whilo others toiled ceaselessly on in life's shad ows? Why was life such a problem? For awhile, however, the wheels re volved smoothly. Jessie's references, forwarded from the Wilberforce Pro tective Agency, proved all that could be desired, and she was engaged to take charge of the linen-room. During an outbreak of scarlet fever she found herself particularly efficient as a nur6e, and Mrs. Parkhurst soon began to wonder how it was that she had ever got along without her. + * * * # • "Married, Lilly! Really married! And to that handsome young pro fessor of mathematics!" cried Adcla Maurice, Lillian's ex-sclioolmate. "Well, I never expected to see you caged! And he's quite a self-made man, they tell me." "I tell dear Lillian," said Miss Bella Bassett, the sharp-nosed maiden sister of the genial colonel, "that she should not make too sure of anything in this world. The captain is very houd some, and all that sort of thing, but —l'm afraid he's inclined to bo a flirt." "Nonsense !" cried Lillian, coloring wrathfully. "Oh, but indeed, I've met him twice at the shrubberies, walking with that pretty yellow-haired girl that takes care of the linen-room," per sisted Miss Bella. "What!" exclaimed Miss Maurice. "One of tho servants?" "Now, Aunt Bella, why can't yon hold your tongue," flashed out Lillian, "when yon know very well that old l'srkhurst says she is a reduced lady?" "Reduced ladies have no business wandering about the laurel hedges with handsome young engaged men," viciously retorted Miss Bassett. "And 1 really think my brother ought to inquire into it. Thero she goes, flouncing out of the room. Well, I'm really afraid, Adela, that our Lillian's temper isn't altogether perfect." "I dou't think mine would be." said Adela Maurice, "if I were bad gered like that." "It is a dreadful trial, isn't it, to see your lover drifting off' into an other woman's snares?" said Mismßcllh, Wilfully misunderstanding things. While Lillian, running up stairs, paused to catch her breath at one of the big mullioncd windows on the staircase. "How I should like to cram a big bath sponge into Aunt Bella's cen sorious old month!'* suid she. "Only to think of—" Suddenly sho paused. Down on tile lower pine walk, whore the west winds hud swept the path dry of snow, Cap tain Moreton was pariug up and down with the gold-haired young girl at bis side. "Well, why shouldn't thej?" said brave l.illiaii, swidlowing the rebel lions lump in her throat. "I sup pose he happened to meet her. and -" At this precise moment, however, tile couple paused beside a (>roiip of dark spruces. She could distinctly perceive her lover bend his tall head to kiss—yes, to kiss the yellow-tressed lassie. And then they passed on into the tamarack thickets aud were lost to view. Lillian stood still, her bright eyes hrimiuiug over with tears, a pane transfixiug her heart a* if some poi soned arrow were buried there. "And I loved bun !" she Haul, aloud, "Oh, bow I loved hint! But this is an end of it all. To-nigbt. when heroines to talk to me to night there mint In all cud of it all!" Ihe young protestor »a» certainly >i very handsome luau, with his brill laut blue eye*, hi* brown hair, shot with Kuhleli gleam*, aud those .itraight, clear-out features of ki>i and when he rauiM cheerily iu that eventual Lit !lau'a heart failed withiu her. 'How can he bear himself so bravely?" «he thought "When I* hi* couMciciice hi* mauly truth* "I urn Kht'l liilly, to Ituil you alone, ' niiil Captain Mori toil, tenderly, tuk ing her band in hie. Hhe prk«*d it away, "I hali *itllU|£ hand ill hand, said •he, iu an*w• rto hi* aurprieed iflaiic. It a at* au epoony * Well, ju*t a* you like, darling, hit a4iainle*< ««i. Mating buneelt heelde hei I "It* ynu aiwk«i lei 1 *ant«4 tw talk with you very particularly. I have a secret to tell you." "There may be more secrets than one in the world," said Lilly, in a low voice. "A secret that is not entirely my own—a secret that may, perhaps, alter all our existing arrangements—" "It undoubtedly will," said Lilly, rising to her feet in her excitement. "You need not goon, Captain Moreton. I know all, and I give your betrothal riug back to yon !" "Lilly, I would scarcrly have thought this of you !" he said, gravely. "No? For what did you take me, then? Am I not a woman, with a wo man's'spirit? Do you think I can con tinue to love a man who is false to me?" "False to you, Lillian? But I am not that. Sweet, whether you marry mo or not, I shall goon loving you loyally to my life's end !" "How many girls do you lovo at once?" bitterly asked Lillian. "I? Why do you ask that question?" "Because I saw you this very after noon in the pine walk with another woman. I saw your arm around her waist. I saw you stoop to kiss her!" "Oh, you saw me, did you? Then my story is half told already. It is but a short time, Lilly, since I knew it myself." She stood looking at him with large, surprised eyes. How dared he speak so lightly—and to her? "Lilly, that sweet young girl whom Mrs. Piirklmrst has employed in the linen-room—Miss Moreton, she calls herself—is my own sister, and she has concealed herself from me, fearing that tho knowledge that she was in the institute in such a capacity would prejudice my future unfavorably. Sho was a governess in New York— she was coming hero as companion to poor old Mrs. Bucknor, who was killed in the fire—and Mrs. Parkhurst, ignorant of any relation between us, liro.ight her here. And, noble heroine that she is, she would have gone away without betraying herself, had 1 not chanced to meet her by accident. She thought 1 would be mortified, but in stead I am proud of her beyond the power of words to express. " 'But Miss Bassett?" said she. "And theu I told her that this even ing you should know all. I have kept my word. Now 1 await your verdict. Have I not reason to triumph in such a noble sister as this?" Lillian burst into tears : she hid her face on Morelon's breast. "Oh, Will," she cried, "what a dreadful goose I have been to doubt your love! Go and bring her here at once. Tell h't.l want to see my dear now sister. Tell her that, hereafter, her home must bo with me. There's plenty of room iu the new house for your sister. But first, Will, kiss mo and tell me that you forgive me, quite." j And HO the brave young girl, who had subordinated her whole life to her j brother's Niiceess, wan promoted to her I proper place on life's ladder. "1 could have been happy anywhere had I known that Will's future was | assured," said she. And Lillian laughingly told her that she could be as happy in the new col | lege as anywhere else. "And we," said she, "will be a deal ' happier!" j Miss Adela Maurice and Jessie were | the bridesmaids. ! Aunt liella put her disappointment in her pocket, and the wedding came | off at .Easter, greatly to Mrs. Park hurst's delight. "I knew," said that worthy dame, "that she was something tint of the common the tirst look I had in her i face. Physiognomy never yet failed j me!"— Saturday Night. At Sea on an Ice Hoe. Recently the lifeboat society at | t'ronstadt received news that toward tha south shore of the Gulf of Finland, ; about thirty miles from Oronstadt, some 200 fishermen and peasants, and their horses aud sleighs, had been suddenly carried out to sea on a large ice Hoc, which had been detached ap parently by a recent storm. The ice cutting boat H at Cronstadt were laid i up for the winter and could not be used. Twenty aailors, however, with two officers «nd assistant surgeons, were dispatched over the ice with two lifeboats on runners, and a similar party started to the rescue from Oren eubauni, on the other side of the mouth of the Neva. The latest tele grams from Oronstadt state that the fishermen and others have been louud and all rescued by means of a bridge made of poles and planks, which were thrown out from the firm ioe. They tiad been out off from the mainland for at least forty-., .gilt hours, during the latter part of wlueh provisions were passed over to theiu by the in habitants of the nearest shore. Scleu title American. A l>ng ol -ti H y. I'lnenix, Arizona, has a bohtniled dog which IN destined to make a place fur himself in history. Recently he broke up a race between hose team*. He acts as chief mourner at all flint rata held in the city. Hut now one iimr* litis be.- II S'lded to Ills accomplishments. Oil several occasions recently he has ■topped runaway horses by seizing the lines in his teeth and holding on till the annuals slopped. Kau Francisco Chronicle. < aeiiihilli Hithoul Care. \ pr<>p.in of the prevailing inability of traiumen ou our elevated and other i>tilroa-l» t>> call ** i.i tin name* ol his tlous with distinctness, a geuth mall wh.< ha* lived for several years ui Wal.'s says that there IN at hast oin station In thai tioiintiv which the rail aay guard* ar» boMud to ptonouitcu carefully It is « anj lolly Villi JfihUM* AN ARTIFICIAL ICE RINK. SAN FRANCISCO'S NOVEL INDOOR AMUSEMENT, Real Ice Artificially Produced, on Which People Skate in Summer Clothing—How the Ice la Made. SKATING on real ice in snmmev attire is rapidly becoming one of the moat popular indoor amusements in San Francisco. To native Bons and daughters who have never experienced the rigors of an Eastern winter, it is a thrilling novelty. To those who have enjoyed the exhilarating sport in a land of blizzards and frosts, it is made more enjoyable by the fact that winter dress is unnecessary. These are only a few of the reasons why the frozen lake in the big Me chanics' Pavillion, with nearly 10,000 square feet of polished surface, is visited daily by hundreds who can skate and many who are speedily learn - ing. The sheet of ice is five inches in thickness, 100 feet long, and sixty feet wide. At least 500 persons can skate with comfort at a time, but it was a trifle crowded on the opening night, for no less than 811 glided or strug gled over the slippery surface, accord ing to the respective skill of the skate wearers. "This idea of a big skating rink with natural ice," said W. W. Donaldson, "is not exactly a new one in this country. Bight here in this city it has been tried threo times, but each attempt failed beoanse the organizers did not master the intricate mechani cal appliances. This is the first natural ice skating rink operated in the United States, and the fourth in the world. There is one in Paris, an other in Berlin, and a third in South ampton, England. Therefore this is the fourth in the world aud the first in the United States. The successful construction of this rink is the result of ten years of careful study and ex periments on my part while engaged in the cold storage business. I was preparing a similar rink in Chicago when tho disastrous fire destroyed the big cold-storage building at tho World's Fair. The plant being de stroyed, we had to abandon the project. "How i» this natural ice prodnctd? There is no secret about it. The ice is produced by a machine of the ordinary type employed in cold-stor age work. The difference hero is in the manner of freezing, In cold stor age it is done in tanks and insulated rooms. Here the ice is frozen three times a day and the refrigerament used is anhydrous ammonia. This is employed to cool the strong brine. After the brine is cooled it is pumped through a system of pipes 40,000 feet in length, which run through the water that is turned into ice. The cold brine absorbs the heat. The floor beneath is insulated and made up of dead air cells and covered with lead to make it watertight. "In the placing of the pipeß lies the principal secret. The pipes run in three centers from a header at each end of the tank. These headers are six inches in diameter, und the pipe is taken out of each header at six-inch centers. This admits of circulating the brine from both ends at the same time. The return is also taken from both endß and carried back to tho brine tank. By this means wo have a cooling surface exposed to the outside air. In this way we outwit nature, and our ice surface has an even tempera ture all over. Through inch pipes leading from the headers the brine is kept in coustant motion. "Of course, after being used several hours the surface of the ice becomes cut up aud somewhat rough. That is why we have three sessions daily morning, noon, and night. During the intervals the snow is swept off the ice, and with a hose or orchard spray er a thin coating of water is spread over the ice to till up tho cuts. In this manner we have a perfectly smooth surface three times a day. The water is frozen at a temperature of about ten degToes above zero, which would be as oold, probably, and as hard as ice frozen in any cold ooun try when the temperature is above zero."—San Francisco Call. A Very Variable Mar. One ol the most remarkable stars in the sky, whose antics have puzzled the astronomers ever siuco it has heen carefully observed, is Argus, some times the brightest star in the constel lation. Argo Nuviu, one of the most brilliant constellations in the southern heavens. When thisstar wastirst cata logued, in the seventeenth century, it was set down as a star of the fourth magnitude. In less than a century it rose to the second ; then at th j begin ning of this century tlinuuished again to the fourth, rose IU a few years to the second, became in 1N27 of the tlrst magnitude, theu again of the second, again in WBM of the tlrst, rivaling Sinus iu briltiaucy, then gradually dwindling down to a Mar which at present la barely visible to the un aided eye. A satisfactory explanation of these rapid and siugiilar changes haa thus lar battled the sagacity of astronomers. Picayune. Australian KKK», Kgga are Uow shipped Ironi Al|S> trails to Kngland. A trial shipineul, luade by the lion -I, 11. .'on tier, of Victoria!! eggs anil pbeese, was lately lUa|MH't«-d by an officer floUl tin ih partinent of the Ageul General tor Victoria With regard to the packing .1 tti. eggs, they had. in the tirst place, I>eeii rilblie.l over wtWi gr*a*e and alter ward |dac. I With brali, dour, lime and |adlard in small caws W hen o|» noil llisi wer«* found lo b* pet *| |y frash and sweet Ihe • has which consisiad o| lw>(h t»rty |MMII and small loaf »<•>, wets sound si, el |tt4 l»M.«ltMktlli iatlMU Terms —>Bl.oo in Advance « 51.25 after T'hree Months. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. Silk is woven by electricity. Aluminum does not rust or tarnish. The steam engines of the world to day give 50,000,000 horse-power. There is a prospect of steam tnr bines being applied to torpedo boats. Zoologists say that all known species of wild animals are gradually dimin ishing in size. A large meteor fell near Atchison, Kan., and people for miles around went looking for it. The inventors in Chicago are quar relling over the ownership of an ap paratus for the transfusion of blood. Opticians say that the eye can de tect the color produced by adding but one-millionth of a gramme of fuchsine to a glass of water. According to careful estimates, three hour 3 of close study wear out the body more than a whole day of hard physical exercise. Italian fire enginesare supplied with hose fitted with electric wires, so that the fireman handling the hose can communicate with those at the en gine. Every well-developed adult of tho human species has lung surface equal to 1400 square feet. The heart's power is sufficient to lift itself 13,000 feet each hour. Among tho most astonishing freaks of tornadoes are the stripping of feathers from fowls aud of clothing from persons. As theso effects cannot bo produced by the wind, they are ascribed to electricity. In the Western deserts a spot of ground becomes excessively heated, causing tho air above to descend. This produces an influx of the atmosphere from all sides, but nnequally, the re sult being a gyratory motion and a sand-Btorm. 3t. Mary's Falls, Mich., is now being •■< iiized for electric power produc tion, the power being transferred to the Sault by wire. A new flouring mill villbe run by electricity, and it is contemplated to use electric power in the iron mines. Smokeless powder has been followed by a chemical combination called a "fog creator." A German named Beilim is the inventor. It is a shell, which, when it explodes, enshrouds iu darkness the troops at whom it is aimed. It also causes the soldiers to cough. Edison is now at work with a plan to grease the sides of ships so that they will slip through the water more readily. He says tho friction of salt water and its constituents is much more than is geneially believed, and if be can only do what he is trying to do the Campania can make the voyage between New York and Liverpool in four days. Professor Falb, of Berlin, prophe sies a very probable collision between the earth and the comet of 1866 on November 13th, 1899, when the comet will cut the point where the earth ar rives every year at that time. But ho does not think harm could come of such a collision, the material of the comet being so light, unless the car bonic acid gas, of which it is probably composed, should poison our at mosphere. But, anyway, he says we may look out for a magnificent shower of meteors on that date. A Student's Confession. I>. A. Costigan, a student at th» University of Fayette, West Union, lowa, who WHS alleged to have beet) sandbagged and dragged out of town ou Tuesday night, lias made a full confession in writing exonerating every one but himself. To avoid tak ing part in an oratorical contest, Costigan besmeared his clothes with dirt and his face with blood and in jected fluid under the skin above his eye so that the eye appeared swelled as if struck by a club. He reappeared at his room at 11 o'clock at night and told his room-mate that unknown men had kuoeked him down, carrying him four miles in the country. The matter was investigated by the college odi cers, but no elue could be obtained. Costigan's actions excited suspicion, and Anally his room mate charged him with complicity in the matter. Costigau then admitted that he had planned the whole afl'air to eat-ape the contest and create a sensation Costi gan is about twenty-live years of age. He wans candidate for County Kuperin tendent of Schools in Clayton Conaty last fall lie has left the university. New York I'ost. Lotus Caters. According to Homer, the lotus rat ers were a people who lived ou the northern coast of Africa, visited by Ulysses in his wmiih-rings, aud who endeavored to detain his coinpauious by givi'ii, them the lotus to eat who ever a«e of this fruit wished never to depart. The Arabs called the fruit of the lotus the "fruit of destiny," which they beliete is to lie eaten m I'lir.ulisc. The lotus is a shrub two or thr*e feet high, and its fruit, which is produced in great abundance, is • ilwurf of the aixe of a wild plum, which has a pleasant, sweet taste. Tint name lotus has bee uglveli to several beautiful specimens nf water Illy, es pecially to lit* blue water Illy aud the Kgyptiau water Illy.—Chicago Her ald'. An title.iii I'riace. What do you think of this for a name? Kyu Kkpeiiyoti Kjro 11. That, however, i» the name at an African I'riuce taken by ait Kli||llslimali to L.lt erpoid to lie educated, and IIOW lie m so cold slmernitf all day over the MIL, IK Mk» hut toi uuo thing m the a ild g» l«<-k lit Africa, ah*-ta ••line ha w«nt tlmst in liar* Iml and ••Mishit** t" hts in<iis mt»i«iit. »ki* Vvik Jeumai NO. 29. SONG OK THE RED BIRD. When the first faint glow of light On my window, pale and white, Wakes the thought that night is o'er— When I fain would slumber more. And strange visions lade aDd glow As my dreams flit to and fro, Suddenly without X hear Piping clear, but soft and near : "Cheer up, eheer up, cheer! Choer! Day is coming, day is here ! Merry, merry, morning, m«rry ! Sleep no more, O do not tarry, Light is breaking, cheer, cheer, cheer!" Lying there in vain regret That the day owes night a debt: That the dark Is soothing still, Though the light will lead and thrill ; Musing o'er a fading dream, Conning o'er some worldly schema, Suddenly again I hear Sweet and mellow, strong and clear • "Cheer up, oheer up, oheer! Cheer ! Love is waiting, love is near! Money, money, nay, not money, Makes life hnppy, makes lovo sunny ! Work is blessing, cheer ! Cheer ! Choer —Charles W. Stevenson, in Chicago Record. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A close friend—The one who never lends yen anything.—Philadelphia Record. Are the members of a college Pi Eta society particularly partial to pastry ! —Lowell Courier. Generally a man can get into fash ionable society with a golden wedge. —New York Journal. Woman's sleeves must be hot-tem pered,as they are nearly always ruffled up.—Florida Times. Jones—"What does he do?" Brown 'Do?" Why, he doas everybody." -—Florida Times-Union. A a much hate can sometimes be put into a word as can be lired out oft» musket. • -Ram's Horn. . A genuine sign in a Market street restaurant, Philadelphia : "Six o'clock dinner here from 5.30 to7.3o.'"—Life. The fellow who tells all ho knows wouldn't be half so insufferable if ho knows all he tells.—Phiadelpliia Rec ord. It is an indisputable fact that every man who wears his watch In his vest pocket is behind time.—Philadelphia Record. Nedders—"What's a bon mot?" Slowitz—"Something you always think of after it's too late to say it."—Chi cago Record. If you have nothing else to do see how rapidly yon can say "soup soothes theosophists thoroughly."— Texas Sittings. The Benefits: "What makes soma girls look young so long?" "The men are to blame. They won't propose." —Life's Calendar. A man denies himself pleasures when he is young that he mr.y have money to pay out to the doctors when he if old. —Atchison Globe. It is a mistake to suppose that wo men ever marry for money; some times, however, they marry for the want of it.—Boston Transcript. Sime—"Your father was »n old whaler, wasn't he, Jimmie?" .Timmie -—"Yes; but near as I can remember ma did her share of it!"— Boston Courier. "My wife is very sick, Doctor " "la she suffering much?" "Suffering 7 Well, I should say so. Why, sh»' ha 1 such a bad cold she can't talk."— Sparc Momenta. "'How is it that Lipditop takes so much interest in all that Nupop's baby tries to say?" "Oh, he's writing a dialect story and depends ou the baby for ideas."—lnter-Ocean. Stuyvesant—"Half the world never knows how the other half lives." Madison "That's what comes of liv ing in flats without an air shaft."— Browning, King ic Co.'s Monthly. Affable Swell—"Well, the fact is, my name is not Smithaon. You see, I am traveling incog. There's my card." Fellow Passenger—"Cllml to hear it. I'm traveling in pickles. Here's mine."— Brooklyn Life. Mother "Don't you think that a boy of your size could take the tack* out of this carpel if he wanted to? ' Small Son "I guess so. Shall 1 take my sled and go out and see if I can find one who wants to? Good News. l«ady "You say you are a musician Well, I'll give you a little practice •lust gn over to the woodshed slid tackle a few ohords," Cramp "Kx cuse me. madam, I aui a tcuor and 1 fear those chords are too heavy f.w me." Philadelphia Hecord. "I wish some missionaries didn't vary so much," said King Kannabile, as heswallowed his portion of the roast. "I wish so, too,' said tjueeii Kama bile, "but there are so many brands ol Presbyterians these days it's hard to tell what to order." Harlem Life Man of Fashion ( reading a new spa per that a village scho-.dmaster hit • shot hints df lteean*c lie could not pay a debt of fifty tuarksi "Hiillculons' Why, if I *i r t.. shout luyi-lt f,, r every llfty marks that I owe I ahoii <1 lut kept at it all the yea I ruitlid!"- Fllcgende lllat-llcr. Mrs 1 1 nit* VIIIOOII (|u brid groom, in railway Irani I• >ou lov< in• >' Old I'arty (confidentially li >iu the other seat to the bridegroom) "."tin 's a*k ed yon that fo»ty at-veli tines a! ready. I wet out here, but I'll Inn, the seore with this tffUtIeUISII by the wmdow " I'll Hit* It H .irked 1t..1 It \\ ityi Nhi thi I act thai I iiavi tin>lir make any .11 tT«-r • it. • 1., lull, deari » ' He "W iHiurxi it 4u*» tu,« iwn It Is Wlrlt a couifolt In ktt'iH lhal if I • biuiltl dl* VOIt would In- pro* Had flit " Hits - Hut »tip|.«*»r I •ImtiM dti ' Ha—"l'bsu I w .'ild lw pi j»i.l« I l'ii Lilsi Vsi»aa«i.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers