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.