SULLIVAN JUSK REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XII. About fifty gamblers commit sui cido at Monte Carlo every year. English football players aro debat ing changing the rules with a view to fewer killings. Nearly every workingman in Italy wears a beard, on account of the cost of shaving. Now it is proposed to aid tho barbers by putting a tax on beards. According to tho New York World in eleven principal Western States tho building of 26,600 miles of railroad lino caused the settlement of 96,500,- 000 acres of farming land. The railroad companies of Great Britain pay an average every day of S7OOO in compensation, about sixty per cent, being for damages to passen gers and the remainder for lost or in jured freight. The gold product of west Australia last year was double that of the pre vious twelve months. The total ex port for the year was 110,391 ounces. The prospects for the present year aro most promising. President Eliot, of Harvard, said the other day that the Greeks, who know more about athletics than wo shall learn in a hundred years, held their Olympian games once in four years, while to-day tho college stu dents want at least four contests every year. Although tho court of Austria is commonly known as the most aristo cratic in Europe, no monarch is easier to reach than tho Emperor Francis Joseph. He has certain nudionce days, when any of his subjects, high as well as low, aro permitted to call to discuss with him any affair which thoy choose. It is said that the leading magazine publishers are using manuscripts now which have been on hand anil paid for, some of them for years. This saves paying out money now, of course. Some of these magazine offices have manuscripts on hand which they ac cepted and paid for five, ten and even fifteen years ago. Two London florists, becoming des perate because of the dullness, made an effort to revivo the interest in tu lips and create an artificial demand for the bulbs. # They spent all the money they could procure in bribing penny-a-liners to assist them. Theii failure was complete. One of them became insane. Tho other was forced to accept tho humble position of an under gardener at a merchant's coun try seat. In France cattle and sheep are rarely, if ever, sold by actual live weights, declares tho American Agriculturist, and proper appliances for weighing are practically unknown. A Govern ment measure is under consideration for making sales by weight compulsory at public fairs. The bill provides that stock exposed for sale in any market or fair must have a ticket showing tho weight, as ascertained on a scale, or, as it is called in England, a "weigh bridge." A twelve-story office building -will soon bo begun in the heart of Chica go by a man who sold the lot recently for $480,000 and then secured a lease for ninety-eight years at $24,000 a year. Somo of the provisions of the lease aro peculiar, remarks the San Francisco Chronicle. He binds him self to build a twelve-story structure, costing $200,000, and to permit no one to sell liquor on the premises un der penalty of forfeiture of the lease. This is said to bo the second case on record of a like restriction in Chicago. Should such clauses become general the rent of saloons in tho business dis trict of Chicago will bo advanced. Emperor William, in the estimation of the New York Tribune, deserves considerable credit for tho reforms which he has inaugurated in the Ger man army iu connection with the uni form and the equipment of tho men, whose comfort and wclfaro are now studied to a much greater extent than ever before. The weight of the equip ment has been reduced by some fifteen or twenty pound, and the tight, stiff collar around tho throat has been superseded by a loose and open one, allowing the man to movo his head and neck without difficult and to breathe with greater ease on tho march in hot weather. The Austrian military authorities are following suit in the matter, and are taking a leaf out of the book of their allies at Ber lin, among other innovations decided upon being the substitution of a gray uniform in the place of the blue ono now in use in the army of Emperor Francis Joseph. OCT ALL OUT OF LIFE YOU CAN. Tis a vory good rule—as rules may go— Of valuo to boy and toman ; To sot the days by tho star of faith And get all out of llfo that he can. Tho coffers of hope hold infinite stores, And wo may supply them at will, We may heap them with treasure that never shall fade, With wonderful beauty may fill. Yes, get out of lito all wo can every day But let us reflect on tho meaning. Shall wo wrest from tho weak because wo aro strong Each thing that of value is seeming? Shall wo feel that possessions are riches alone? And insist that wo lead in tho van? In fulfilling this rule that wo hold for our days, 3\> get all out of llfo that we can? There are thoso who do this, but you will not, I know, For vou hold that the secret of living— Of beautiful days full of infinite charm- Lies only in loving and giving. To get out of lifo we must put into lifo Ail gonerous courage, all sweetness , Bothoughtful for othors, bo courteous and kind, And then will lifo grow to completeness. And thus will tho days as thoy glido into years Hold their riches for boy and for man Who follows this rulo in its meaning sublime, To get all out of life that he can. —Lillian Whiting. THE KEY TO SIXTY-SIX. BY E. M. II ALU DAY. ESSggHE weather was cold, and everybody M looked pinched and A blue. It was not v<sP|/rJI 3 the sort of day when business is brisk anywhere. Out of doors it was so raw, so penetrating, that the constant effort to keep up acirculution to fight against the weakening influence of the cold, absorbed every energy and loft little over for thought, for plans, for busi ness or pleasure. Inside, rooms were heated to a suffocating, baking close ness, and men were languid. They stood at windows and looked at the icy streets, or held hands to aching heads over ledgers. In the big insurance office two men ■were talking in a private room. A card was brought in, nud an old man fol lowed it rapidly. He was a little bent, which shortened his fig ure, and he held his head at a peculiar sidewiso angle. He shuffled a little as he walked, but the very loose and heavy Arctic overshoes upon his feet may have had something to do with that. His brown overcoat, a good deal worn at the elbows,, was long and of a comfortable, old-fash ioned pattern. A gray knitted woolen scarf was wound around and around his neck, and woolen gloves were upon his hands. He put one of these hands up to his ear, and cupped his palm to catch every sound when he was spoken to, and then you saw why ho carried his head so oddly. He was deaf. Ho had come in, he explained, to have his life insured. He had often thought of doing so, but had never been in a position where he felt that he could regularly pay the premium before. Ho was a kindly faced man, who seemed to state facts because they wore such, without understanding any reason why they should be concealed. Has eyes were clear and apparently good, although not very wide open. "Wo shall require you to fill out a blank before we can consider your ap plication," the manager said. "We seldom take men of your age." "1 am not so old as I look," the ap plicant replied. "I know that the premium will bo large, but I have a regular income, which ceases at my death, and I have lately found a dear young friend to whom I should like to leave something. I might take a fancy togo walking on the railroad track somo day,"and he smiled whimsically. "We will have that putin your pol icy," said the manager, gravely. When he had filled out his applica tion blank, wo discovere 1 that his name was Louis A. Cattermole, that he Was forty-four years of age, and came of perfectly healthy parents. He said that he was born in central Missouri,that his father had been killed in the war, and his mother had been blown up on a Mississippi steamboat. He had no near relatives whom he know. He had been a wanderer upon the face of the earth. Three years before, he had met John Mackley, a young New Worker, on a journey through the South, and he had come to New York 'ery recently to live. fie seemed to be a sociable sort of .'ellow, although looking ten years oi ler than he said he was. He had an Ingenuous way of talking, which might have come from central Mis jouri. McCary, tho insurance mana ger, came from Kentucky, and he rather enjoyed verbosity when he could ionscientiously listen to it, without feeling that ho was establishing a pre sedent.J "I am afraid," ho said to Cetter nole, ' "that you will never pass the loctors." But he did. They were astonished to find so vigorous a frame. "Sound as a nut. In remark - »ble state of preservation. The teeth arn't good, but leav ing out that and tho deafntss, that's is fine a specimen as I ever saw at forty-four," the doctor reported. So, »ftor all the preliminaries were gone through, Louis A. Cattermole received & policy upon his life, made out in fa fur of John Mackley, tho young stock broker on New street. We made a great many inquiries, of sgurae. Mackley, who was a big, LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1894. straight backed, bluff fellow, who had a reputation for turning pretty sharp corners on tho street, evidently had no idea of tho admiration he had ex cited in his friend, Mr. Cattermole. When he was asked about him, he laughed, and said he was a queer old duffer, who told a first rate story with a "nib" in it. "Ho lives across the street from me. I live up in the Dalton, you know, and old Cattermole is in tho Merlin, just opposite. He comes over and smokes a cigar with mo now and then, and I return the visit and smoke one of his old pipes, when I am down on my luck, and need pulling out. Tou don't mind his deafness after you get used to it. Ho tolls a capital story." And Maok ley laughed at tho stray memory of somo one, showing all his big white teeth. He had had his mustache shaved lately. John Mackley was al ways very much in the mode. Tho first premium was paid in cash, and when the second one came around we had a letter from Mr. Cattermole, inclosing a check. Ho had been away for some months, traveling about, and didn't know when ho would be at homo. The letter was from Philadel phia, and tho check was paid indue course. Next spring Mr. Cattermole wroto tho insurance company a letter, say ing that ho wanted to make somo ar rangement by which ho could cut down his policy. It had been an enormous policy, all the office had thought; and knowing John Mackley, and Mr. Cattermole's slight acquaint ance with him, we had regarded it as almost ridiculous that the old man should spend what must have boon the major part of his income that that overgrown young fellow might have a fortune some time or other. "Good Lord P'the doctor said. "That man is good for fifty years. John Mackley will be dead first." McCary went up to tho Merlin to see Cattermole. He found him in. Tho elevator boy said he hadn't been well for some days; that Mr. Mackley had been in almost every day. "He's a mighty clever gent, Mr. Cattormole is," the elevator boy gra ciously remarked. The apartment was small, and plainly, almost poorly, frrnished. McCary looked about and thought of all tho luxuries this lonely man might buy with the sum ho annually spent upon insuring his life for tho benefit of a rather heartless, rather raffish young man, who would doubtless make ducks and drakes of the money when it came into his possession—if it ever did. And then McCary gave a cyuieal sort of a sigh for the vagaries of human nature. Mackley had let McCary in. "Mr. Cattermole isn't very well to day," the young man said cheerfully. "I have been trying to get him togo to bed. He'll be out in a minute. I must be getting along down town," and he opened the door and was gone. Cattermole came in presently, in a flannel dressing gown and a pair of list slippers. He was hollow eyed, and had a towel around his head. He said one of his ears had developed an ab scess, and ho was almost stone deaf, and in great pain. McCary had some difficulty in making him understand the obstacles to lessening his policy. "I've lost money, sir," he said, "I feel as though I were robbing John. He's been like a son to me; but I must do it! I must do it!" And then after McCary had gone all over the ground again, he made up his mind that he would not do anything of the sort. The sacrifice seemsd too great. McCary's people went to the moun tains for tho summer, and he went down to the Oriental Hotel at Man hattan Beach, and dined and bathed and slept. Two or three times he met Cattermole walking along tho ocean front. The walk, and the odd car riage of the head, seemed exaggerated. Tho old man told McCary that he had been ill ever since the winter before, that grippe had gotten the better of him. Then he would ask McCary if he had seen Mackley. Ho often had seen him going gayly about with some friends; but ho never saw him with Cattermole. * He used to despise John Mackley for an ungrateful cub. And then ho realized that Mackley had no reason on earth to suppose that poor deaf old Cattermole had put him under any particular obligation. No doubt ho knew nothing about tho policy. Mack ley was like all his class. Cattermolo said that he thought tho sea bathing did him good. Ho and Mackley had taken bath houses side by side for the season, and often went in together, he said. McCary saw Catter molo in the wxter one day and laughed heartily. He had tied up his poor ears in wads of cotton, and a rubber band, and covered almost his entire head with a straw hat. His arms were covered, too, and altogether he made a conspicuous figure in the water, even in that groat and motley crowd at Manhattan Beach. He was a bold swimmer, and often went away out bo yond the float. One day it happened that McCary was in the bath house when Mackley came in for his key. "Give mo fit!, will you?" he said to tho attendant. "The other gent's got 66. I give it to him 'bout ten minutes ago." "Oh, that's all right! Give me 68." "I thought you had bathed, Mack ley," McCary said. "I saw you com ing out of tho bath house just as I came in." "1 wont up through from the beach. I forgot the formality of a key and my bathing suit. I had to come all tho way around. Did you see old Cat termole? T haven't seen tho old bog gar for a week. WVll have a swim. Many people in? Ugh!" McCary went up into the pavilion and looked at the bathers. The water was black with people. He saw old Cattermole come out of tho bath house in his queer rig, accentuated by his curious walk and twisted neck, and plunge into tho water. Two hun dred people turned to look after him with enrious eyes. He went away out boyond tho float, and then presently in the chopping of the waves McCary lost sight of him. Presently he saw another head bob bing about, and then he saw a mau spring upon tho float and wave his arms wildly. Ho seemed to have something in his hand; and then he plunged into the water again. A dozen swimmers started for the float, but it was a long way in that cold water. They found John Mack ley dancing about, half crazy. He had been swimming out there with his friend Cattermole, and the old man had been taken with cramp, or some thing—perhaps it was the undertow— and he was gone. Mackley had pulled the hat from his head in his efforts to save him. He had been there but a minute before. McCary pressed his way down into the crowd. He too had soon Catter mole but a few minutes before. Every effort was made to find the body, but they wore all 'unsuccessful. "It will wash in,"the guard said. "They always do.' "He was a great friend of mine," John Mackley said with feeling. "And ho was the best story teller in New York." McCary followed Mackley into the long row of bath houses. He was an insuranco manager. He had soen tho whole thing, and he might as well know all the details. Mackloy went down the corridor with his heavy, majestic tread, his shoulders straight, his head well up, and his bare, brawny arms shining. He stopped at his door and tried to fit in his key. It wouldn't turn. He looked at it again. McCary saw it too. On tho brass tag were the figures "66." McCary put his hand upon the key. "You threw away the wrong one, didn't you?" he said coolly. "What do you mean?" Mackley asked angrily. His big fist was in tho air. "Hush!" MoCary said sternly. "You don't want any trouble, any ex planations. It was all perfectly done, and you were very clever to carry it out so far, and right under my eyes. I advise you ta goon the stage. It isn't so dangerous as this, and it's more profitable than Wall street — sometimes." Mackley's face was rigid, bat de fiant. "I never should have suspected you in this world, except that I had my field glass to my eyes when you tore the hat and bandage off your head out there in the water. I saw it. It saw Cattermolo turn to Mackley and as you stripped your arms I saw your plan. It was clever, and it was simple; but you ought to have gotten under the float, and thrown away the key to 66, in stead of the key to 68." "Perhaps yon can prove some of those things." *'l can prove that your teeth were drawn—very bad teeth—in February of last year, and new ones put in. Perhaps the physicians who examined Cattermole, and the dentist, could corroborate my actual vision." Mc- Cary smiled. "But I will relieve your mind, Mr. Mackley. The caso will never come to court. We will keep the handsome premiums you have paid us, and not advertise your histrionic abilities. I advise you to dress your self—if you can get into 68—and be ready to meet the reporters." And Mr. McCary went over to the hotel and ordered his dinner.—Mun sey's Magazine, "The Lamb Hourd." The Duke of Holstein in his' 'Travels in Muscovy and Persia" (1636) gives a full account of a wonderful vegetable growiug in the neighborhood of the city of Samara, Russia, and known as tho "lamb or sheep gourd." The Duke says:"lt most resembles a lamb in all its members, and on that aocouot is called 'the lamb gourd' by the peo ple. It changes place in growing as far as the vine or stalk will reach, and wherever it turns the grass withers. When it ripens the stalk withers, and the outward rind is covered with a kind of hair which the Muscovites uie instead of fur. They showed us sonie of these skins which wore covered with soft wool, not unliko that of a lamb newly weaned." Scaliger also speaks of the "lamb gourd" in his works. In one chapter ho says that the queer vegetable con tinues to grow as long as grass is plentiful, but that when tho grass falls, the "pore creetyr dyes frome lac of nourishment." fie also says that the wolf is the only animal that will feed upon it.—St. Louis Republic. Nervous Singers. The effects of nervousness arc varied and amusing. Ono young mezzo-so prano was prevented just in timo from walking onto the platform in a lingo pair of fur-lined overshoes, which were put on above her slippers, and which contrasted comically with her dainty! gown. Another songstross, who was gifted with a good verbal memory, was sing ing without note. During a rather elaborate symphony, preceding the second verse of her soag, she chanced idly to glance at the book of words which she was holding. Confusion followed. Sho could not link the melody with tho poem. It was a ter rible moment; but sho stepped swift ly to the piano, glanced at the accom panist's copy, and finished her song con aniore ! It appeared, on inspec tion, that by a printer's error two lines of her song had been left out of tho book of words. This had confused her, and was the can -e of her failure to blend words and music together.— Atalanta. SCIENTIFIC ANI> INDUSTRIAL. The bones and muscles of a human body are capable of over 1200 different motions. There is a boy in tho Philadelphia Stock Exchange who can road the "ticker" by sound. St. Louis druggists say that tho fashionable vice of cologne-drinking is on the increase there. A steel bar magnetized while cold loses its magnetism upon being heated ; one magnetized hot IOBOS it on cool ing. Dresses ere made of wooden fibre which, when spun or otherwise pre pared, is scarcely distinguished from fine silk. A ton of pure gold is worth $602,- 799.11, and a ton of pnre silver $37,- 704.84. A million dollars in gold coin weighs about a ton and three-quarters. In New Mexico canyons one may see natural stone pillars cut into fan tastic forms by the sand blasts formed by the wind sucking up and down the narrow passes. Tho first habitable planet, according to the scientists, was the fifth satatel ite of Saturn, which began to cool about 5000 years after tho origin of the planetary system. Watchmakers as a rule aro singular ly free from affections of the eye, al though they wear a powerful magnify ing glass in ono eyo only for at least five hours out of the twenty-four. Tho strongest timber known is tho "Bilian" or Bornea ironwood, whoso breaking strain is 1.52 times greater than that of English oak. By long ex posure it becomes of ebony blackness and immensely hard. The weight of a German soldier's equipment when in marching order is now forty-seven pounds, fifteen toss than that of a British soldier. Tho Czar's foot soldiers carry a weight of sixty-eight pounds each. An ice locomotive was some years | ago constructed for use iu Russia. It ' is employed to haul freight between ] St. Petersburg and Cronstadt. The ! front part rests on a sledge and the i driving wheels are studded with spikes. James Wortham, a farmer living t near Senora, Ky., is puzzling the j physician*. Blight blue spots cover I his body at periodical intervals. When the spots api>ear a knot the size of a walnut presents itself and re ! mains until the spots go away. The surgical treatment of consump i tiou has, it is stated by a medical au thority, loug been a dream of Euro ! pean surgeons. It is no\v announced I that, as a beginning of a series of ex | periments, the diseased apex of the ' lung of a patient suffering from tuber culosis has been successfully removed. A singular aberration of the side arms of marines on board English | ships is reported, says the Electrical | Review. It appears that the bay | onets belonging to the marines have, j in many cases, become highly mag j netized through contact with, or close proximity to, dynamos, and the result | is that compasses have become af j fectod by sentries passing near them i when wearing, these sideocunu, .An : order has been issued that in future ! sentries are not to wear sidearms when | on duty in the neighborhood of dy namos, and it is expected that this will overcome the difficulty. The Word "Mrs." The word "Mrs." is a curious ono; if indeed it is a word. The "Century Dictionary" calls it "an abbreviation of Mistress or Misses;" but the spell ing certainly makes it an abbreviation of the first, and the second form ie apparently only a contracted English pronunciation. Tho full word has fall en into disgrace now, and so, unless | one makes it very plain that tin* term is quaintly used, one lias to say Misses, j "About 150 years ago and earlier,' | says an English writer, " 'Mrs.' was | applied quite -impartially to unmar ried as well as married ladies. Even j children were sometimes styled 'Mrs. The burial of an infant daughter of | John Milton, who died at the age of five months, is recorded in the regis- I ter of St. Margaret, Westminster, and I her namo is entered as 'Mrs. Katherine I Milton,' followed by a small 'e' to in , dicate that a child is meant." Thus, : apparently, one is historically justified in writing "Mrs." hpfore a woman's name, whenever there is doubt. And yet the lady may be so unscientific as to take offense.—Rochester Post Express. A Strange Musical Instrument. A musical instrument, the like of | which has never been seen before, is the outcome of many years' hard thiuk- I ing by a Swedish electrician and ' musician. There is a frame, and on it I are hung a score of tuned bells, a I series of steel bars struck by motallia hammers, a row of steel strings of nocessary tension, a xylophone, and a fraudulent bagpipe, made out of a bar i of steel and an electric current. The ; operator can sit at the keys a few feet ! away or a hundred miles—it doesn't ! matter which,so long as theconnecting j eloctric wires are fixed up. For a be ginner I should recommend tho hun dred miles radius. The keyboard, which is like that of a piano, but with | few keys, is equipped with switches, so that one set of instruments or tho whole lot may be operated on at once. —New York Dispatch. A Barometer Tree. Attention lias been called to a rc markable property of the Fontaino bloait service tree. The leaves of this tree (which are green above and white below) turn so as to present the whito under surface to the sky jnst be oro a rain. Those who are well acquainted with tho peculiarities of thisvegelablo I barometer say the "sign'' uevcr fttils. I —St. Louis Republic. Terms -SI.OO in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months. ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA. ELECTRICAL AND OTHER CURIOUS FREAKS OF NATURE. The Tornado's FunnH-Sliapod Cloud —Extraordinary Performances of Lightning—Hand Storms. TORNADOES are the most ex traordinary and among tho most destructive of atmos pheric phenomena. It has boon reckoned that on an average each of them costs one life. That which strnok Louisville in 1890 wiped out $1,250,000 worth of property and 135 lives. The funnel-shaped cloud which does the damage runs at a speed of from forty to eighty miles an hour. It looks like an immense balloon, black as night, swooping its neck round and round with terrible fury, and tearing everything to pieces in its path. Its track is always from south west to northeast, the width of it being rarely over 300 feet. Warning of the storm's approach is given by a still and sultry air, with a lurid or greenish sky. People feel depressed without knowing why. This gas that covers the surface of the oarth, by which wo live by breath ing, is a wonderful elemont. Tho electricity which pervades it, though employed for various useful purposes by man, is a mystery yet. Some of its phases are astonishing and beyond explaining. For example, there is tho most intense form of it known, tormed globular lightning. It takes the form of spheres of dazzling brilliancy. Such spheres were soon playing about during the great Lonisvillo tornado. Peoplo on board of ships havo often observed balls of fire "as big as bar rels" rolling along the surface of the ocean. These sphere are apt to burst with deafening reports. Tubes of glass made by lightning are often found in sand. The elec tricity passes into tho ground and melts the silioions material, forming little pipes, the inside diameter of which represents the "boro" of the thunderbolt. Such tubos measuring as much as twenty-seven feet iu length have been discovered. No doubt ex ists as to the method of their manu facture, inasmuch as peoplo hove sought for them and dug them up still hot from places freshly struck by lightning. Lightning does a great deal more damage and is much more fatal to human life than is generally imag ined. It kills sixty-nine persons every year in France. In this country it has been reckoned to destroy twenty two lives annually, but this is prob ably an underestimate. By a single flash 2UOO sheep were wiped out on one occasion in Ethiopia. Iu New Grenada is a place, near the gold mine of Vega de Supia, where no one will willingly dwell on account of the fre quent strokes of lightning. A stroke at Brescia, August 18, 1769, exploded a mazazine containing 207,000 pound? of gunpowder, wiping out a great part of tho town and 3000 lives. A long list might be given of similar fatali ties nearly as disastrous. Before the invention of lighting conductors oliurches and other lofty -tmildrtigs were constantly struck; .» One of the most interesting of elec trical phenomena is the so-called St. Elmo's fire. It appears in the shape of brush-like discharges from metal points in the rigging of ships and else ' where. These are termed by sailors "corpse candles." If three of them are seen at sea it signifies that the ves sel will be lost, while a single one means a continued storm. However, the superstition varies considerably. In a passage of the "Commentaries, ' Caesar, says: "About the second watch there suddenly arose a thick oloud, followed by a shower of hail; and the same night tho points of tho spears of the fifth legion seemed to take fire." Columbus on his secoud voyage beheld several corpse candles playing about the mast of his ship. He seut a man aloft to fetch one down, but it could not be grasped somehow. The St. Elmo's fire is said to give out a sort of roaring sound like a port fire. In some of the desert regions of the West—notably the Painted Desert of Arizona—those prankish phenomena called "sand storms" are frequent. Sometimes they rise seemingly to the clouds and obtain a diameter of fifteen or twenty feet. A spot of ground becomes excessively hoated, caus ing tho air above it to ascend. This occasions an influx of the at mosphere from all sides, but un equally, the result being a gyratory motion visible in tho sand or dust raised into the air. In other words, a sort of natural chimney is created, through which there is a powerful up draught. Such whirling columns have a very wierd appearance as they move hither and thither, sometimes many of them at once, across the desert. Ono might imagine them to be ani mated by evil spirits, and it is no won der that people in India call thom "devils." A peculiar phenomenon observed in various places, but most perfectly among the mountains of the Brockon in Germany, is tho so-called "Brockeu spectre." It is ail enlarged shadow of the observer cost by the sun, near sunrise of sunset, upon tho fog which envelopes him. Its en ormous size makes the apparition rather startling. Presumably, it is due to the fact that tho shadow is thrown upon the particles of moisture suspended in the air all along to the limit of vision. —Washington Star. Measures aro being taken by the authorities of Crete to revive the silk industry of the island, which was once flourishing, but which has been dwin dling for some years owing to the use of b I seed. A good supply is to bo furnished free NO. 32. JUST AS OF OLD; I miss you from my side this lonely night, And ieel that nothing now on earth is trufe Old sweet pictures in the mellow light Give to me the happy past—and you, Just aa of old. I wish that you would steal behind my chair And press your fingers to my tired eyes, And when, surprised, I found you laughing there You'd lay your dear head down, where now none lies, Just as of pld. And as the flro flickered on your hair, Till each bright tress was like a skein of gold, I'd give the world if smiling, restful there, You'd whisper low, "I love you," asofold, Just as of old. —Chicago Times. IIUMOR OF THE DAY. Tho camel probably thinks his hump a thing of beauty.—Puck. Nothing succeeds like the man who has the rewards of success to dis tribute. -Truth. An ounce of prevention is not worth a pound of cure in the pork-packing business. —Puck. Home people are too good to gossip with you becauso they don't trust you. —Atchison Globe. We never see a bankrupt at tha charity soup house. That's where his victims go.—Truth. Mabel—"With what verses are yon the most familiar?" Poet—"Reverses" —New York World. If so mo men wero half ae big as they think they are the world would have to be enlarged.—Texas Siftings. "Down brakes!" cried the railroad man's wife as the dinner platte* slipped from her grasp. —Lowell Courier. A little choppy weather wan natur ally expected in a month that came in like a lamb.—Philadelphia Record. Revenge is sweet sometimes, possi bly, but never when the other • fellow gets in his work on you.—Somcrville Journal. •' A teakettle can sing whan it ia merely filled with water. Rut man, proud man, is no teakettle.—Texas Siftings. Though hia is largely a robust sort of life, the average dairyman is pretty much of a milk-and-water chap.—Ruf* falo Courier. , Little Girl (looking at impression istic landscape)—" Mamma, what made him think it looked liked that?"— Harlem Life. "Her hair is just too sweet for any thing." Ah, indeed! Perhaps she dressess it with a honey comb. —NefV? York Mercury. "Do you think Officer McGobb is square?" ."Surely, ho must be ; hois never 'round when wanted." apolis Journal. She—"And what -have yoji been studying since you left college, law or medicine?" He—"Neither; economy." —New York Ledger. • •' Teacher— ''What havp the various expeditions to the North Pole accom plished?" Dull Roy—"Made geogra phy lessons harder." Mts. Captain Smith— "And'yonfhink any soldier can be fearless?" Colonel Stoton—"Yes; all he has to do is to keep out o' danjah, mam !" In silence the family are sitting. Each keeping as still as a mouse. As they ponder the annual question, "It it better to move, or clean house?" —New-York Mercyry. "Man's a fool." He walks out on the lawn and orders the billy goat ofl his premises, follows a mule anil argues with his mother-in-law. —-Galveston News. A telephone girl receives calls, but she doesn't pay them. This part ol the business is attended by those hir ing the instrument. —Philadelphia Times. We have great respect for the wis dom of the ancients. They were born in time to say all their smart thing? before we had a chance to think of 'em.—Puck. Tho Wife—"John, these carpets must be beat." The Husband—"Why, my dear,„ when I bought them the dealer told me they couldn't be beat." —New York Press. It is only guileless boyhood that vows he "will never do it again." Even when caught in the act, the full-grown man of sound mind tries to prove that he didn't do it at all.—Puck. Witts—"There goes a woman whose successes have turned many another woman's head." Watte—"That'6 queer. What is her line?" Witts— "Millinery."—Buffalo Courier. "I hear your son has become an ac tor; how is he getting on?" "Very well, indeed. He began as a dorpse, and now ho has already advanced to the role of a ghost."—Fliegende Blaet ter. Fair Visitor —"I should like to see the editor of the woman's pago." Of fice Boy—"Dere he is over dej-e ; do fat man in his shirt sleeves, wit de clay pipe in his mout." —Rrooklyn Eagle. Old Physician —"Now, in a case like this, where the patient is inclined to hysteria, would yon look at her tongue or—." Young Student —"No; I would listen to it, I think."—Chicago later- Ocean. j "When Bill Walker went to tho Leadville silver mines in '72," said the Old Reminiscent, "ho hadn't a rag to his back, and now—now, by jingo, he's covered with em."—New York Mail and Express. Watts—"Tebson must bo awfully afraid of his wife. He is always tell ing us how she will give him fits if ho don't hurrv home." Potts—"That's the best sign in the world that he is not afraid of her at all. The man who is bossed by his wife never says a word about it." —ludianapolis Journal.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers