SULLIVAN JSllfe REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XTI. South Africa will again canny cotton manufacture. The fitness of things is liappily il lustrated, the Chicago Herald thinks, iu the name of Mr. Chinook Whiskers, of Oregon. M. Berry asks the French Chamber to give Parisians the right to vote by mail, when they are out of town, or too ill to come to the polls. A Kentucky woman recently brought suit against a railroad for killing her horse and her husband. She got $l5O for the horse and one cent for the lius baud. The ex-President ol the Royal Col lege of Veterinary Surgeons of Eng land condemns public drinking troughs for horses on the ground that they propagate certain diseases peculiar to horses. Justice Wheeler, of Chicago, holds that a bicycle rider has as much right of way on public streets as the driver of any vehicle. F. G. Nelson sued the owners of a truck which ran into him while he was riding his bicycle, and has gained a judgment for SSO and costs. It has been estimated that 25,000 horses are employed in the London carrying trade, that their value is a million and a quarter, and that the cost is for food alone $4,000,000. A rule prevails of foraging the horses on threepence an inch per week—that is, a horse costs as many shillings a week as it stands hands high. Letters just published, written dur ing the siege of Paris, show what high prices were paid for curious meals. A certain M. Deboos bought up the Zoological Garden and sold tho ani mals at a profit. The cassowary was sold for $lO ami the kangaroo for only 820. Two camels brought SIOOO and a wild boar $4lO. Elephants' flesh was a luxury, and the two were sold as steaks for $5400. Tn Ireland vaccination was made compulsory in 1803. Since that time the Irish Poor Law Commissioners have carried out the law and the whole population has been vaccinated. From 1830 to 1840 the yearly average of deaths from smallpox was 5800, in the next decade it was 3287 and in the next 1272. In the year 1807 they were twenty, in 18G8 they were nineteen and in the next year six. The largest balloon in the world has just been constructed at Ilolloway, iirnr London, England. It is a sphere of 57.24 teet diameter, has a capacity of over 100.000 cubic feet, weighs one and a quarter tons, and will lift an ad ditional weight of a ton. It is to be used for the purpose of obtaining con tinuous meteorological observations for a period of six days without de scending. It has been successfully tested. The annual report of the State Geological Survey of lowa shows that the belt of coal extending ncross Missouri from Keokuk to Kansas City is more productive than any other portion of"the great interior coal field of the American continent." This field includes a large portion of lowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas, Indian Territory, Arkansas and Texas. Coal beds are found in most other States also, but they be long to other fields ond strata. The St. Louis Republic says : Secre tary Herbert is the only member of the Cabinet who can be called a specialist in his own deportment. Mr. Herbert is fitted to be Secretary of the av y, and for no other place around Cleveland's council board. He lis a sailor, every iuch of him; he 'knows a ship from masthead to keel; be can box the compass like an old salt, and could walk the deck as an Admiral or climb the rigging as a sailor. He has sailed before the mast, and has been taught the art of sea manship in the school of experience. Though the Chinese have been in this country so long a time and have become so numerous, it is said of them that they do not and csunot compre hend the status of the police, re marks the New York Sun. Their first idea is that a policeman is a sort of feudal ruler, with the right to chop off their heads or levy on their property or do as he pleases with them. They have no fault to find with such rulers. They are used to them in China. In fact, as soon as they rind out that the police are mere watchmen on salary **t to guard the pnldio peace they be come disturbed ami confused and end the strain <>u their minds l>y deciding that the policemen must !>#• soldiers, and that IN what nenilv EVERY ( hum tUM lUmka ttb tu-dfty, The Dakota River, with an estimated length of 600 miles, is believed by many to l»e the longest unnavigable stream in the world. If all the people of tho United States were placed in Kansas, California and Nebraska, those States would not be so thickly settled as England is now. Every member of tho British cabi net acts in three capacities—as admin istrator of a department of state, as member of a legislative chamber and a confidential adviser to the crown. An agricultural writer figures that the loss to the farmers of the coun try by the use of narrow wagon tires, through the wear and tear of horseflesh and the loss of time, amounts to the enormous sum of 8300,000,000 a year. Jonathan Hutchinson, to the aston ishment of the New York Mail and Express, is devoting the best years of his life to studying the question, "Do the sick ever sneeze?" He believes it to be fully as important as the deter mination of the problem, "Why are black cats black?" It appears as if the people of the United States were steadily reducing their consumption of quinine and other cinchona alkaloids. Year after year since 1887 the importations of cinchona bark have been diminished. In 1893 the amount imported was less than half that of 1887. Fine carriages with rubber tires are said to be coming into use in the city of New York. These tires cost about SI 00 for a set of fonr, and rarely last more than one season, but they are a great comfort to those who can afford them, making the motion of the car riage easy and noiseless. This is an age of specialties, ex claims the Boston Cultivator. The successful men of the world to-day are those who devote themselves to special work. Every mnn has some liking or possibility which is greater than any other, and which is in some way dif ferent from those of other men. This is his vocation, and he should devote to it his best thought and endeavor. In this way he will concentrate his energies nnd secure larger results. A Philadelphia physician think* that a great deal of nonsense has been writ ten about hypnotism. "Any one," he says, "may hynotize himself in a few minutes by closing his eyes, directing them inward and downward, and then, imagining his breath to be vapor, watching its inhalation nnd expulsion from the nostrils. Babies invariably look cross-eyed before going to sleep, in this way producing what hypnotists call 'transfixion.' Fishermen often hynotize themselves watching a cork on a surface of shining water. An hour passes by as if it were a few minutes." The Swiss Government has, for the last twenty years, caused observations to he made through its forestry sta tions on the temperature of the air, of the trees and the soil in the forests. These observations show that the tem perature in the forests is always below the temperature outside. The tem perature also varies according to the trees composing the forests. A beech forest is always cooler than a forest of larch. As to the trunks of the trees, they are always colder than the surrounding air. Regarding the tem perature of the soil, it is found that iu the forest the temperature is in variably below that of the air. Out side the forest the soil is always warmer than the air in summer and colder in winter. The popular idoa of Siberia, accord ing to the Chicago Record, is that it is a barreu desert extending from the frozen ocean of the north to the burn ing sands of the tropics, but this is a great mistake. The population of Rus sia in Asia is nearly 18,000,000. There are several cities with a population ex ceeding 50,000. The agricultural pro ducts reported, which constitute only a very small portion of the whole, are valued at an average of #30,000,000 a year, the output of thtj mines exported is valued at upward of $20,000,000 annually, and the furs, tish, skins and other products that come into Kuropean Russia from Siberia are worth $5,000,(100 or $0,000,000 more. Rut this population is scattered over an enormous area; it is only partially civilized; the greater portion of the country does not expect or aspire to the production of anything more than is necessary for local consumption; the means of communication and trans portation are lacking, and, as pro ductive industry is measured in the European countries and America, it niav be «aid Hat two-third* of the ui Übiutlijr iOir LAPORTE, PA,, FRIDAY, MAY 11, IS»4. tHE SOLDIERS OF THE SUN, Along the margin of tho world They march with thoir bright banners furled, TTatil, in lino of battle drawn, Tley roach the boundaries of dawn. Tbey orosa the seas and rivers deep. They climb the mountains high and steep, Aad hurrv on until in sight Of their black enemy—the Night, Then madly rush into tho fray These armies of the Night and Day. Swiftly the 9hinlng arrows go, While bugHng Winds thoir wamlnes Mow. Strive as He will, the Night Is pressed Farther and farther down tho west. With goldon spear nnd gleaming lance The cohorts of the Day advance. Thus, dally, is the battle won By the brave soldiers of the Sun! —Frank IV Sherman, in Harper's Weekly. MISS TIM BROOK'S OPENING. T wasn't the first m 9/J time by any means Miss Tim brook had i* l li. read her niece's let '/[ tor i nof was it the fi 7 fi'st time that Miss Cynthia Stone had, fry figuratively speak- Wffak ' iug, stabbed her \ttlta stout, geutlo old Jf' friend by remnrk ing, oracularly, "Ingratitude is the crying sin of the age !" The crying sin of the age Was a mov able quantity with Miss Cynthid. Last week, when-the butcher's boy had un intentionally given her the wrong change, it had been dishonesty ; and the week before, when a child had timidly walked into the little mil linery shop nnd begged a few snip pings of velvet for her dolly, It had been boldness. On all other occasions it was whatever happened to cross Misß Cynthia's fixed ideas of the fit ness of things. Miss Timbrook gave a little sigh, nnd returned to the bonnet she was trimming. As she tried to fasten a pink rose iu what, she hoped Was a pertly Correct fashion against some Very green bows, she said, with a great effort at cheerfulness: "Pink an' green is tit for the queen." "Humph!" said Mitw Cynthia, scorn fully. Miss Cynthia was Miss Timbrook's old-time friend, companion and assist ant, and was the spice of her placid life. "Sybilla Tim, you amaze me!" de clared MiBK Cynthia, sternly. ''Why don't you show some spirit? Tell that girl to pause before it's too iate. Rc miud her how you've brought her up, and even high-schooled her there iu New York for three mortrtl years, boarding her out afterward to a high priced woman on account of her bein one of them highty-tity milliners, so as to have her pick up idees, and you all the time hoping that when 'twas all over she'd come back here and be the prop of your old age and build up the business." Miss Cynthia stopped only long enough to draw a full breath and then went on again: "And it's time 'twas built up. Look at them bonnets, Sybilla Tim.'* Miss Timbtook looked as she Was told, and beheld four bonnets perched upon frames ift the little shop window. They drooped dejectedly, and seemed to shrink from the gaze of the passers by. And well they might. Miss Timbrook quailed visibly at the sight of her own handiwork. "I know it, Cynthy," she said, apologetically. "They aren't just what they ought to be. They're old style, like ourselves. And I know the trado's failing. But dearly as T love to fuss with the ribbons and the arti fieials, I'll shut up the shop before I'll say u word to hinder Ruthy from fol lowing her own bent." "Fudge 1" said Miss Cynthia, sharp ly. "She feels a drawing—ain't that what the letter says?—to be an artist. And now that some of her pa's kin has left her a legacy, she thinks that in stead of coming home for good, she'll just make us a little visit, and then go back to New York and study what she calls art. She thinks it's more uplift ing than making bonnets. Land! I don't like making bonnets myself, but I don't intend being drawn away from my 'lotted duty by something that looks more alluring. She says it's an 'opening' io a higher life ! Fudge 1 I say." "Speaking of openings," ventured Miss Timbrook, timidly, "there's that Boston woman that's just set up a tine shop on Plum street. They tell me she's sent out cards to announce her spring millinery opening, and is going to serve tea to folks; she really is. Suppose we have an opening. Cynthy?" At this rash suggestion, Miss Cynthia burst out, "Are you crazy, Sybilla Tim? And what, for the land's sake, would you open?' " Giving a scathing glance at the four limp bonnets in the window and be stowing a final glare on her friend, i Miss Synthia flounced out of tho room, i Miss Cynthia might storm and scold, J but she only used her temper to cloak the sympathy and love which she was ashamed to show. Ruthy's unexpected desertion was a bitter disappointment to her, first on account of the sorrow of her friend, Sybilla, and secondly on her own i ccount. Bonnets to her did not represent any form of the ideal, BK they did to good Mi«H Timtirook, but as she hud said to herself over and over Again through the long winter, "Siuce it must be bonnet*, I'd like 'em to be t isty, such an Kuth'U know how to 11*. ' Aiul now Kuth v WHHii't eonunt 1 When MIRH Timbrook'x niece really did come for her lit'le vm.t, it *eem«<i to the two o| -fiwhioned, untnecesii fui woiu«u tUut »u the wurld Luukt stand still an i admire; as for them, the world must truly stand Btill when she left them. "What is i that if troubling Aunty Tim?" asked Ruthy, the second night after her arrival. Miss Timbrook had retired, and Miss Cynthia had Ruby all to herself. She therefore snatched at the opportunity of freeing her mind. ''You 112" said Miss Cynthia, solemn ly. "Sybilla Tim's just counted bn you for comfort, to say nothing of helping with the bonnets. And her spirit is broke now she knows you ain't to be depended upon." "Why, how so?" asked Ruthy, as tonished at this personal criticism. "How so!" echoed Miss Cynthia. "You can see for youtself that the business has all gone td pieces. Why-, the Kingsburys and the Lennoxes and the Fairfields haven't ordeted a bonnet from us for an age ! Old Judge Fetets's widow is the only one of the old cus tomers that has stood by us. And I presume it's sheer pity that makes her. Besides, it ain't possible to make a mourning bonnet homelier than it nnt uraliy ia. Well, I guess to shut up shop is about all tlint's left for Sybilla Tim nnd me.'' Miss Cynthia sighed and then Van ished, hoping her remarks would make Ruthy unhappy. Tho young girl sat still awhile, try ing to reconcile the desire of her heart with a growing sense of disagree able duty. She was rather stunned by the fact that Aunty Tim's need of lief rtrtd lortgl tig for her had neve* oc curred to her before. The stiff; old fashioned letters which had been re ceived from her aunt with pathetic regularity had conveyed to her no idea of the yearning of the loving heart; and Aunty Tim had permitted the hope of years to be dashed to the ground Without ft murmer. Ruthy went to bed Very soberly, ner darling ambition was far from quenched, although sho was deeply touched by her aunt's unselfishness. On other nights she had lain awake picturing to herself the sesthetic side of a life devoted to art. Thero were lively dfenms of the *'cuto" little apartment iu the tall Studio Building in New York which sho was to sliars with Miss Dilloway, an elderly artist friend, who was a successful illustrator of magazines. Ruthy meant to work like a Trojan, of coutse, but wheit one was hot Work ing wlint a joy to inhabit such charm ing rooms with their gay artist trap pings, where there was such a darling of a tea-table with fairylike cups and saucers, to say not ling of a brass kettle feady at any moment to blew a real Bohemian cup of tea! And a couch with such tremendous pillows, and the funniest closets where all sorts of things were artfully tucked away! Makeshifts might be, but the orlioits ugliness of uncultured poverty would, happily, be always missing. But to-night these fascinating dreams were extinguished by the homely details of Aunty Tim's forlorn bonnet shop, and by that awful gap in "th' business' which she kue» coit'd only be filled by hetself. That she was a born milliner she was at that fnomeut too painfully aware. Her artistic instincts would sel've her in the making of a bonnet as well as in ths painting of a picture. But how could she give up her heart's desire, which was the '"open doof' 1 to her of all things beautiful, just to add a touch of beauty to two homely old lives! Ruthy turned restlessly on her pil low. The "open door" which an artistin career seemed to offer her was persistently flung back in her mind by Charles Kingsley's imaginary old ladv, "Mrs. Do-as-yoti-would-be-done by," who had evidently como to stay until matters were adjusted more to her liking. At last, Ruthy could endure "Mrs. Do-as-you-would-be-done-by's" so ciety 110 longer, and with an im patient sigh she jumped out of bed and carefully felt her way to tho chamber across tho ball. A second later, Miss Cynthia's blood ran cold as she was roused from peaceful dreams by a sharp shake of her shoulders. "Lawful sakes !" chattered the good lady. "Is the house afire, or has the dam given away—" "Shi no. It's 1," said Ruthy, softly. "I want to talk to you—" "Aint the days long enough?" in terrupted Miss Cynthia, crossly. "Listen!" and Ruthy put her rosy mouth to Miss Cynthia's wrinkled ear and whispered mysteriously. "You do beat ail I" said Miss Cyn thia, admiringly, when she at last mas tered the situation, and was capable of doing some whispering on her own account. Then, like two conspirators, they exchanged vows of secrecy, and Ruthy stole back to her bed. Next morning Miss Cynthia seemed a trifle more acid than usual, and the minute she had swallowed her break fast she delivered herself of the follow ing: "Seems to me, Sybilla Tim, you haven't done your duty by 'Rastus's folks. Here's 'Rastus been dead four months, an' 'Rastus's widow probably worn to a shadow through inournin' an' hard work, and that youngest child having fits, and you, own cousin to 'Rastus, have never been to Pem broke Corners to see his folks since the funeral." "Why, Cynthia! You know," began Miss Tiinbrook, fixing her eyes re proachfully on her friend. Then she stopped from sheer astonishment. Hadn't she urged the making of that very visit ever since 'Rastus died? But Miss Cynthia bad invariably flown into a rage at the mention of it, say ing that in her state of health it was the foolishe*t piece of Ihikiuchs that she had ever heard of.".lust because Hast us had died, was no reason why a feeble woman need go tramping round the country, when *ho couldn't weuU w»tt«re,'' VlissCjrpthia had stud. But it seemed that Miss tiynthirt was on the other side of the fence. after much persuasion, and the assur ance that Ruthy would extend her visit, Miss Timbrook limply resigned herself to be made ready for an eight days' sojourn at Pembroke Corners. No sooner had she set forth on her travels than Ruthy took a train for New York, a journey of several hours' duration. Tho fourth day she reap peared just at nightfall. An express man folldWed her beating several mys terious boxes. All of this kept the neighbors in ft feverish state of curiosity, but when tho next day they beheld the blinds tightly closed, and a huge placard an nouncing a Grand Millinery Opening oil Saturday, then indeed they wen richly furnished with a subject for gossip. In addition to this, cards wete sent out to the select whom Ruthy designated as the "F. F's. " Behiud the blinds Ruthy nnd Miss Cynthia worked like bees. The money which Ruthy had previously conse crated to art had been expended id millinery goods. She had visited the leading shops in New York, and her quick eyes had taken in every new wfittkle fttid fold. The rugs, Irtce Curtains, and a few other trinkets she had been hoarding for the adornment of that artistic apartment in New York now trans formed the ugly little shop into an at tractive bower where bonnets budded and bloomed as if by majic under Ruthy's skilful fingers. Saturday morning, bright and early, Miss Timbrook was driven in from Pembrodk Corners by a neighbor of 'Rastus's widow, who wa6 rt ttlilk ped dler. The cans jingled merrily as they drove up to the door. "Good land !" exclaimed Miss Tim brook, fearfully. "Tho shutters aro shut!" and silo cast a tragic look at the wooden blinds that had never re mained Up after sovon o'clock iu the morning since sho had been in the business. And now it Was quite eight. What could have happened ! Just then Ruthy rushed out and dragged the bewildered oid lady into the little shop where she sat down, her kuees "all of a shake,"as she expressed it, too astonished to speak. "You see," explained Ruthy, "we were determined that nobody should get a peep at the 'Opening' until you did, yourself. I've given up painting, you know, and invested my capital in millinery. How do yoit like your new pnrtaer, Aunty Tim?" "Bless you, child!" qunvered the old lady, tenderly. "You're the Bible Ruth over again—-'easy to be en treated i though I didn't mean you should know how hard it was to give up. But I expect an old woman's eyes are full of entreaty, and though it isn't mentioned in tho Beatitudes, still I believe that those that see and yield to they enfings of old folks shall some day be truly blessed. Then she dried her eyes and took another delighted look around. Such shapes, such curious combinations of color and material, such dazzling, in describablo millinery—well, the like of It she had never even dreamed of before I The "Openiug" was a great success. Miss Timbrook's little shop soon ac quired a fame which traveled far and wide, Aild everybody who was any body, according to Miss Cynthia, "bought bonnets of Sybilla Tim." As for Ruthy, her heart's desire died hard. She would never paint a pict ure, maybe, but she had touched with glowing colors the graynessof two hu man lives. And she would sometimes say to her self, whimsically: "Have I not routed 'Mrs. Do-as-yon-would-be-done-by,' and made it quite impossible for that less amiable person, 'Mrs. Be-done-by as-yoil-did,' even to show her face? Resides, it must be higher art.to trim a bonnet beautifully than to paint a poor picture, which I—might have done."—Youth's Companion. (figantic leaves. What trees bear the largest leaves? An English botanist tells us that it is those that belong to the palm family. First must bo mentioned the Inaja palm, of the banks of the Amazons, the leaves of which are 110 less than lifty feet in length by ten to twelve in width. Certain leaves of the Ceylon palm attain a length of twenty feet and the remarkable width of sixteen. The natives use them for making tents. Afterward comes the cocoanut palm, tho usual length of whose leaves is about thirty feet. The umbrella mag nolia, of Ceylon, bears leaves that are so large that a single one may some times serve as a shelter for fifteen or twenty persons. One of these leaves carried to England as a specimen was nearly thirty-six feet in width. The plant whose leaves attain the greatest dimensions in our temperate climate is the Victoria regia. A specimen of this truly magnificent plant exists in the garden of the Royal Botanical So ciety of Edinburgh. Its leaf, which is about seven feet in diameter, is capable of supporting a weight of 395 pounds. —Scientific American. Yell County Mis Monument. Yell County, Arkansas, bears the name of a hero. It was named after Archibald Yell, who was once a Fed eral Judge in the Territory of Arkan sas, says the Arkansas Gazette, and was elected to Congress the year the Territory was admitted into the Union as a State. The year James H. Berry was born Yell was inaugurated Gover nor iff Arkansas. When Berry was learning in Alabama how to speak that sweet Southern accented language, Yell was again elected to Congress. After serving one year of this term in Congress he resigned to fight for his country in its war with Mexico. He led thu First Arkansas Cavalry at the battle of Buena Vista, and while en gaged ill a charge at tjie head of ill* Coiuwu was kiiiuU. Terms---SI.OO in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months. HOUSEKEEPING IN CHINA, CHINESE SERVANTS, MALE AND FEMALE, AND HOW THEV WORK. Their Ways Are Peculiar, But, After All, Tlicy Make Meal Servants- One Wonlrin'* Kxperience. "T~ T OUSEKEEPINO in China, or rather iu Hong Kong ( differs ] | materially from housekeep er ing in Japan. A multiplicity of servants must be employed in the oile as in the other country, but the great difference consists in the fact, that in Hong Koflg nothing can be bought for the house save through tho comprndore. A compradore, generally speaking, iu places of business is tho cashier; in this case he is the middle man, and it in useless to rebel against his rule ; nothing can be done without him, ''Master"himself occasionally grows weary of the compradore's yoke, and declares he will market for himself; it would be worse than useless for the mistress to do so, for the Celestials have no sort of respect for their own or other women folk, says the Pall Mall Gazette. To market "master" goes; he finds the shops full of meats and vegetables, but not a penny worth can he buy. No amount of expostulation avails him ; a thousand and one polite but diaphanous excuses are given him why the goods cannot be sold, and he is perforce obliged to have recourse to the compradores again. One com pradofe usually serves several families, and as a rule serves them well. . The "boy" is at the head of the Servants, as in Japan, and is paid about the same wages—slo per month. In most households he hires the re mainder of the servants. After him come the cook, the house coolie, and one or two small boys, "larn pidgins'* who serve as apprentices, without pay ; then there is a scullion in the kitchen and the market coolie —if the family lite nt the Peak. Usually an amah is kept who waits upon her mistres- and does the house hold mending; her pay averages from ten to twelve dollars. If there are children one or more nurses are em ployed) according to the number. At least four chair coolies are kept, at from six to seven dollars a month ; if the household is a large one, and off the line of the tram, a double number must be employed. Home ladies keep a Chinese tailor the year round, instead of an amah. He costs no more, and he can mnko dressoH and many of the linen and coltou clothes of the men folk, winch is a great advtiytage in that clime, where so many cl»«uges are necessary. Some families who are very particu lar keep a "washman," others send all of the linen out of the house to be done; this costs but little compared to London or New York prices. The ordinary laundry work done in Hong Kong is very poor; shirts and collars are passably laundried, but other things are badly done compared with the work of the Chinese out of China. Chinese servants are peculiar, and one must spend some time in learning their ways and habits, for they imitate nmuy things without trouble, and, as a rule, do exactly as they are told; still they will persist in doing soinu things in their own way. They can never be persuaded to do a thing which they do not wish to; they will always take refuge in the laconic answer, "nosavey," which means they do not understand ; and, having once said they do not understand, nothing will ever make them confess they do. As in all Eastern countries, the lines of caste are strongly drawn, anil the European women—-all white women are called Europeans—who asks one of her servants to perform a bit of work not belonging to him soon discovers this fact. "This no blong my pidgin" is a refusal as unalterable as the laws of the Medes and Persians. An amah will refuse to cairy even a small parcel for a block, and lose her place rather than do it. The chair coolies will carry "chits" and paroels, but it is beneath the dignity of a boy or an amah to do so. As a race the Chinese have no re spect for women in general, and an un mitigated contempt for any one in particular who chooses to wait upon herself. They much more admire a woman who lies on the veranda all day reading novels and occasionally calls, "Boy, bring me my handker chief," or, "Boy, pick up my book," than they have for one who does these things for herself A boy who has lived in a bachelor's house dislikes very much togo to live where the household is controlled by a woman, aud in many cases an old and devoted servant will take his leave if the master brings home a wife. They cannot stand to be looked after in the careful way which so irany women think necessary, Hnd it is my opinion that they will take advantage of a wo man twice as often as of a man. A Very Rare Whale. Some days ago there was found stranded on the beach near Corson's Inlet, N. ,T. large mamma), which was at first snpposed to be a porpoise, but has since been found to be some thing more rare. l)r. (ireenman, of the University of Pennsylvania, went down to look at the luckless monster, and after examination pronounced it a pygmy, or Japanese whale. He was very much surprised to see this speci men in the Atlantic, as these whales arc rare even in their natu-al habitat, the sea of Japan. The whale was nine feet long and weighed about 800 pounds. This is the second specimen found on the Jersey coast, the other haviux been found at Spring Lake in 1876, am) secured by the Smithsonian Institution. Pieftjrnne. 'Die "four o'clock*" opeji regularly itt i o'clock, ram or aiiiu«. NO. 31. MIDNIGHT SONG. The star that in the midnight sky Above the heaving foam Shines brightly when the storm to nifcb, To guide the sailor home ; That pr .rless light no gloom can blur Shines not more pure abovo **" Than innocency beams in her— The little lass I love. Star of my heart, O dreaming star. From balmy sleep arise ! Shed one soft ray To bless my lay Before the darkness fliw. The rose that in the night wind sways So flawless and so pure 'Tis fit to charm a seraph's gaae, A hermit's glance to lure. O not more fair is that white rose In spotless grace divine, Than is the lass whoso bosom knows The love that burns in mine. Rose of my heart, O rare, white Rose, In song my love I pour 1 O come and rest Upon my breast White Rose that I adore. —Samuel M. Peck, in Atlanta Journal. HUMOR OF THE HAY, The burglar's friend —His faithful Jimmy. A host in himself —The cannibal who devours his entertainer. —Grip. The good measure of the vegetable peddler always appears at the top.— Puck. One of the most striking things yoa cau place in a parlor is a clock.—Hart ford Journal. "When you lose the power to enjoy yourself, people no longer like you.— Atchison Globe. "He has uo more influence," said » Hartford wit, "than 'p' in pneumo nia."—Hartford Courant. Many people would be more truth ful but for their uncontrollable desire to talk. —Atchison Globe. We dream great things of to-mor row ; but all it ever becomes is another yesterday. —Atchison Globe. The only objctionable feature about the violet is that so many ]>eople writs poetry about it. —Atchison Globe. The popular idea of a good business man is one who can meet and beat a scoundrel at his own game.—Puck. Some men have such confidence in their ability that they would start a sun-umbrella business in London.— Puck. There would be no great objection to the anarchist if his exploded bombs were only as harmless as his oxplodod theories. WtmMugton Star. There's nothin' like the weddtn* For to make a feller learn ; 1 For he thinks that she is his'n. But finds out that he is her'n. , —lndianapolis Journal. Passenger "I say, conductor, 1 there's an old gentleman falling off the 'bus." Conductor —'That's all right; he's paid his fare." —Pearson's Week ly- "Are you sure Miss Oldtime keeps up the study of ancient history?" Madge—"Oh. dear me, yes. I saw her reading in her diary to-day."—lnter- Ocean. "Are there any more jurymen who haven prejudice against you?" in quired the lawyer. "No, sah, da juty am all right, but I want to challenge the judge."—The Green Bag. La Fiancee —"I am awfully sorry, Jack, but those roses you sent ine don't match my gown." Le Fiance (who paid $9 a dozen) —"Can't you change your gown, dear?"—Yogue. "I think 1 understand now," said Higge, "why they speak of Miss Wei laby's new Paris-made gown as a 'cre ation.' It looks almost as if it were made of nothing."—Chicago Tribune. Men cannot consistently deride wo men for wasting so much cloth in making their sleeves, so long as they themselves are wearing the long-tailed coats that are in fashion.—Somerville Journal. Author —"I am troubled with in somnia. I lie awake at night, hour after hour, thinking about my literary work." Friend- "Why don't you get up and read portions of it?"— Broo klyn Life. "If, as the Bible saye, 'all flesh is grass,'" said the star boarder at the breakfast table yesterday,"this steak must be the kind of stutt those tough Mexican hammocks are laado of."— Philadelphia Record. Jess—"Miss Fitz gives her age as twenty-nine, but she means thirty." Bess—"Then why don't she say thir ty?" Jess—"Oh, that's the way mer chants mark their goods, nowadays." —Kate Field's Washington. Duel Up to Date : "I challenge you to a duel." "Accepted." "Your choice of weapons-—dagger or pistols?" "Neither. Winter ascent of Mont Blanc —rotten rope—three feet dis tance. " —Fliegende Blaetter. "I don't know whether I like thoso pictures! or not," said the young woman. "They seem rather indis tinct." "Hut you must remember, ruadame," said the wily photographer, "that your face is not at HII plaiu."— Indianapolis Journal. "I need a new umbrella, and I'm going to buy one," declared Mrs. Mc- Bri'le. "Let me give you a piece of advice about buying umbrellas," adiled her husband. ' Sever buy on a rainy day." "I'd like to know why not?" "'Because they are always up them."—Detroit Freo Press. "Dear,' asked Mrs. Wickwire, look ing nplromher paper, "what does thi* paper mean by referring to 'tho superfluous woman?' What is tho superfluous woman?" "In our eu- KHgemoDt davs," unsw. red Mr. Wiok wire, "ihn superfluous woman waa vuav youoguc luiUaaupoli* Journal.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers