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
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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.