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 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.