SULLIVAN J81& REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XII.
Tho mi par lieet industry is l>elng
rapidly pnslied in Australia.
Tho countries of the world where
women already have some suffrage
have an area of over 18,000,000 sqnare
miles, and their population is over
350,000,000.
Says Texas Siftings: Seven ont of
every ten railroad accidents are settled
with an annual pass. Some men would
be run over by a whole freight train
for the sake of a few free rides.
Aft the result of statistics showing a
large increase in the number of youth
ful criminals, the German Ministry of
the Interior is discussing a reorgani
zation of the system of compulsory
education.
The New Zealand farmers are the
most prosperous in tho world. Within
the past ten years the agricultural re
sources have been developed until the
dairy and frozen-moat industries have
attained enormous proportions.
An English passenger recently
bought a ticket from London to
Vienna. After twenty-four hours'
traveling without having had a chance
to get any food, tho traveler stopped
off at Dresden rather than continue
hiß journey for the leruaining twelve
hours in a state of starvation. The
German railway company cancelled
his ticket, which contained no stop
ping privilege, and he was forced to
buy u her.
Australia has not yet recovered
from her financial troubles. Rigid
economy has been practiced in all de
partments of the various Governments
for months past, and there has beon
entrenchment all around, but yet tho
revenue returns are not satisfactory.
In the Colony of Victoria tho expendi
tures of the Government during the
quarter just eudeJ exceeded the rev
enue by something like .$'2,000,000.
The interest on deposits in tho State
savings banks has been reduced from
3 J to three per cent.
The strong facial resemblance which
married couples often acquire after
living together a long period of years,
Harmonious in thought and feeling,
and subject to tho same conditions in
life, has often been commented upon.
The Photographic Society, of Geneva,
recently took tho pictures of seventy
eight couplo for an investigation of
this subject. The result was that in
twenty-four cases the resemblance in
the personal appearance of the hus
band and wife was greater than that
of brother and sister ; in thirty cases
it was equally great and in only
twenty-four was there a total absence
of resemblance.
The Atlanta Constitution is con
vinced that no money-making scheme
is too rascally for some men, as wit
ness the gang lately arrested in New
York, which for years has been plun
dering insurance companies and cruelly
killing horses in order to secure in
surance money. They rented a stable,
filled it with fine horses, good har
nesses and carriages, getting as large
insurance upon the contents as was
possible. Then a lot of worthless
horses, worn-out wagons, etc., were
substituted and the stable sat on fire.
Tho gang is known to have destroyed
more than a dozen staiixes, involving
the death of 100 or more horses. The
law having got these rascals in its
clutches, it is to be hoped a dose will
bo given them that will serve as a
warning to others.
A writer in tho Lady's Journal, in
oommenting on tho story of the doc
tor's pago introducing a patieut as
"Jones" instead of "Mr. Jones," upon
tho ground that he did not know ho
was married, contends that the boy
was not to blame so much as our own
lingual deficiency ia the mattor. Men
ought to havo a prolix, sh a siys, whioh
should indicate at once whether thoj
are married or single. It would be
lnore convenient, doubtless, for the
feminine worklj but soino married
men, writes James Payn, woul I not
like this plan at nil. Th ouly chance
they have of being received with civ
ility by tho other sex is this doubt ol
their eligibility for matrimony. More
over, though it bo truo the ladles have
their "Mrs." and".Miss" to denotj
their connubial or celibato condition,
there is nothing to indicate it in their
cpistolory communications; they per
sist ia withholding this information
from thoir correspondent:', who conse
quently never know how to addicm
thorn, Editors, of course, are oou
st aptly placed iu this cmharras-<ing
position. Itis»af<-r to write "MrV;
ttost women, unless they are advo
cates of female right*, prefer it to be
Mttppoßcd that some nrtlo lias fallen a
victim to their bow and spear.
There aro 08,000 postoffices in tho
United States, and of these 67,000 do
not pay the expenses of operating and
maintaining them.
Ex-Secretary of tho Navy Tracy is
quoted as saying to a friend that in
addition to the work and worry his
cabinet life cost him 830,000 every
year above his salary of 88000.
"Worth its weight in gold" is said
to be an inadequate expression when
applied to a copy of tho first edition
of Walton's "Complete Angler." Tho
amount of gold its value represents in
England would outweigh many copies.
Tho Japanese Government has is
sued an ordinance for tho purpose of
restraining and regulating emigration
from Japan, and has made a rule that
no emigrant will be permitted to leave
his own conutry for a land where his
coming would be in violation of the
law of that country.
If the inheritance tax law, just en
acted in England, had been in force in
this country at Jay Gould's death, his
estate would have paid to the Govern
ment 85,600,000. Mr. Rockfeller's es
tate would have to pay 810,000,000;
William H. Vanderbilt's estate would
have paid 816,000,000.
Supervisor of Indian Schools Moss
has sent to tho Bureau of Indian
Affairs a denial of the statement that
"Apache Kid," the noted outlaw, was
an educated Indian, which has been
used as an argument against educating
the rod men. While at San Carlos
Superintendent Moss inquired about
this, and learned that the outlaw was
never in school a day. He was a Gov
ernment scout, and while in that posi
tion learned to speak some English.
A novel and extremely interesting
experiment is soon to be tried in Ohio,
announces tho New York Tribune. It
is a new departure in road improve
ment, which is claimed by its author
to have points of marked superiority
over the building of macadamized
roads. The plan is to extend the elec
tric railway tracks from cities and
towns into the surrounding country,
and to construct tho roads in such a
way that they can be used for wagons
and carriages drawn by horses as well
as by cars. Of course there will be a
great saving in horse power wherever
such roads are used, since far heavier
loads can be drawn on steel tracks
with the same force. In two counties
of Ohio trial will be made of this sys
tem the present year. It need hardly
be said that tho result will be awaited
with much interest not only in Ohio,
but in other States. The question of
road improvement is filling a large
place in the public mind nowadays,
and anything in the direction of solv
ing it is sure of earnest and respectful
attention. Something similar to tho
Ohio idea was suggested by an Eng
lish writer years ago, but nothing, we
believe, ever came of it.
Some interesting facts present them
selves as to the social condition of tho
people of the United States in a study
of the statistics of the Census Bureau,
remarks the Boston Herald. The
Census was taken on June 1, 1890,
and then out of 32,067,880 male in
habitants of this country the un
married numbered 19,945,576. The
married were 11,205,228, tho widowed
were 815,437 and the divorced were
49,101. Out of 30,554,370 female in
habitants 17,183.984 were single, 11,-
126,196 were married, 2,154,615 were
widows and 71,895 were divorced. The
number of married females is thus
much larger than tho proportion of
married men, and the fact that the
proportion of widows is three times as
great as the proportion of widowers,
and the number of divorced women
much larger than the number of di
vorced men, shows that the men who
aro widowers and divorced more fre
quently married again than women in
the same condition, Again, it ie
shown that, by comparing the in
habitants of fifty principal cities with
the country at large, the greater pro
portion of married men are in the
cities rather than in the country.
This is contrary to expectation, and
tho percentage of married males in the
cities is one per cent, higher than it is
on the average in the country. In
classifying the divorced persons, it is
found that thoy aro most numerous in
the western division, and least numer
ous in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
the two Carolina*, Georgia and Florida.
In Maryland the proportion of mar
riages is exceptionally high and yet in
that Stato there are three timos as
many widows as there are widowers.
Divorces aro more common at ibt
West than in the East. These are a
few of the facts that appear in the
study of the Census from the point of
view of the conjugal relation
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 29. 1894.
SILVER AND GOLD,
Pare well, my little sweethoart,
Now fare you well and free
I olalm from you no promise,
You olalm no vows from ma.
The reason why?—tbe reason
Right well we can uphold
I have too muoh of silver,
And you've too mueh of gol<L
A puzzle this, to worldlings,
Whose love to lucre flies,
Who think that gold to silver
Should eount as mutual prize 1
But I'm not avaricious,
And you're not sordid-souled
I have too muoh of silver.
And you've too mush of gold.
Upon our heads tho reason
Too plainly can be seen;
I am the Winter's bond slave,
You are the Summer's queon,
Too few the years you number,
Too mary I have told;
I have too muoh of silver,
And you've too muoh of gold.
You have the rose for tokon,
I have dry leaf and rime,
I have the sobbing vesper,
You, morning bells at chimo.
I would that I were younger,
(Yet you grew never old)
Would I had less of silver,
But you no less of gold.
—Edith M. Thomas.
BACK FROM"™ TOMB.
BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT.
fH E guests filed
slowly into the
hotel's great dining
hall and took their
places, tho waiters
began to serve them
leisurely, to give
the tardy ones time
to arrive and to
save themselves the
bother of bringing
back the courses; and the old bathers,
tho yearly habitues, with whom the
season was far advanced, kept a close
watch on the door each time it opened,
hoping for the coming of new faces.
New faces! the single distraction of
all pleasure resorts. Wo goto dinner
chiefly to canvass the daily arrivals, ta
wonder who they are, what they do
and what they think. A restless de
sire seems to have taken possession of
us, a longing for pleasant adventures,
for friendly acquaintances, perhaps
for possible lovers. In this elbow-to
elbow life our unknown neighbors be
come of paramount importance. Curi
osity is piqued, sympathy on tho alert,
and the social instinct doubly active.
That evening, then, as on every
evening, we waited the appoarance of
unfamiliar faces.
There came only two, but very
peculiar ones, those of man and wo
man—father and daughter. They
seemed to have stepped from tho pages
of some weird legend; and yet there
was an attraction about them, albeit
an unpleasant one, that made me set
them down at once as the victims of
some fatality.
The father was tall, spare, a little
bent, wiih hair blanched white, too
white for his still young countenance,
and in his manner and about his per
son the sedate austerity of carriage
that bespeaks the puritan. The daugh
ter was, possibly, some twenty-four
or twenty-five years of age. She was
very slight, emaciated, her exceedingly
pale countenance bearing a languid,
spiritless expression ; one of those peo
ple whom we bometimes encounter, ap
parently too weak for the cares and
tasks of life, too feeble to movo or do
things that wo must do every day.
Nevertheless the girl was pretty, with
the ethereal beauty of an apparition.
It was she, undoubtedly, who came
for the benefit of the waters.
They chanced to be placed at table
immediately opposite to me; and 1
was not long in noticing that the
father, too, had a strange affection—
something wrong about the nerves, it
seemed. Whenever he was going to
reach for anything his hand, with a
jerky twitch, described a sort of zig
zag before it was able to grasp what he
was after. Soon tho motion disturbed
me so much I kept my head turned in
order not to see it. But not bofore I
had also observed that the young girl
kept her glove on her left hand while
she ate.
Dinnor ended, I went out as usual
for a turn in the grounds belonging to
the establishment. A sort of park, I
might say, stretching clear to the lit
tle station of Auvergno, Chatel-
Guyon, nestling in a gorge at the foot
of the high mountain, from which
flowed the sparkling, bubbling springs,
hot from the furnace of an ancient
volcano. Beyond us there, the domes,
email extinct craters—of which Chatel-
Guyon is the starting point—raised
their serrated heads above the long
chain ; white beyond the domes came
two distinct regions, one of them nee
dle-like peaks, the other of bold, pre
cipitous mountains.
It was very warm that evening and
I contented myself with pacing to and
fro under the rustling trees, gazing at
the mountains and listening to the
strains of the baud, pouring from the
Casino, situated on a knoll that over
looked the grounds.
Presently, I perceived the father
and daughter coming toward me with
slow steps. I bowed to them in that
pleasant continental fashion with
which one always salutes his hotel
companions. Tho gentleman halted
at once.
"Pardon, me, sir," said he, "but
may I ai-k if you can direct us to a
short walk, easy and pretty if possi
ble!"
"Certainly," I answered, and I
ofl'ered to load them myself to the val
ley through which the swift river
flowi— a deep, narrow cleft between
two great declivities, rooky and
wooded.
They accepted, and as we walked
we naturally discussed the virtue of
the mineral waters. Thoy had, as I
surmised, come there on his daugh
ter's account.
"She has a strange malady," said
he, ' 'the seat of which her physicians
cannot determine. She suffers from
the most inexplicable nervous symp
toms. Sometimes they declare her ill
of a heart disease, sometimes
of a liver complaint, again of a
spinal trouble. At present they at
tribute it to the stomach —that great
motor and regulator of tho body—this
protean disease of a thousand forms, a
thousand modes of attack. It is
why we are here. I, myself, think it
her nerves. In any case, it is very
sad."
This reminded mo of his own jerk
ing head.
"It maybe hereditary," says I;
"your own nerves are a little disturbed,
are they not?"
"Mine?" he answered, tranquilly.
"Not at all; I have always posseseed
the calmest nerves." Then, suddenly,
as if bethinking himself:
"For this," touching his hand, "is
not nerves, but the result of a shock,
a terrible shock that I suffered once.
Fancy it, sir ; this child of mine has
been buried alive!"
I could find nothing to say; I was
dumb with surprise.
"Yes," ho continued, "buried alive ;
but hear the story; it is not long.
For some time past Juliette had seemed
affected with a disordered action of the
heart. Wo were finally certain that
the trouble was organic, and feared
the worst. One day it came ; she was
brought in lifeless—dead. She had
fallen dead while walking in the gar
den. Physicians came in haste, but
nothing could be done. Sho was
gone. For two days and two nights I
watched beside her myself, and with
my own hands placed her in her coffin,
which I followed to tho cemetory and
saw placed in the family vault. This
was in the country, in the province
of Lorraine.
"It had been my wish, too, that she
should be buried in her jewels, brace
lets, necklace and rings, all presents
that I had given her, and in her first
ball dress. You con imagine, sir, the
state of my heo't in returning home.
She was all that I had left; my wife
had been dead for many years. I re
turned, in trutn, half mad, shut my
self alone in my room and fell into my
chair dazed, unable to move, merely
a miserable, breathing wreck.
"Soon my old valet, Prosper, who
had helped me place Juliette in her
coffin and lay her away for her last
sleep, came in noiselessly to see if he
could not induce me to eat. I shook
my head, answered nothing. He per
sisted.
" 'Monsieur is wrong ; this will make
him ill. Will monsieur allow me,
then, to put him to bed?"
"'No, no,' I answered. 'Let me
alone.'
"He yielded and withdrew.
"How many hours passed I do not
know. What a night! What a night!
It was very cold; my fire of logs had
long since burned out in the great
fireplace; and the wind, a wintry
blast, charged with an icy frost,
howled and screamed about the house
and strained at my windows with a
curiously sinister sound.
"Long hours, 1 say, rolled by. I
sat still where I had fallen, prostrated,
overwhelmed; my eyes wide open,
but my body streugthless, dead; my
soul drowned in despair. Suddenly
the great bell gave a loud peal.
"I gave such a leap that my chair
cracked under me. The slow, solemn
sound rang through the empty house.
I looked at the clock.
"It waa two in the morning. Who
could bo coming at such an hour?
"Twice again the bell pulled sharp
ly. Tho servants would never answer,
perhaps nover hear it. I took up a
candle and made my way to the door.
I was about to demand :
"'Who is there!'but, ashamed of
the weakness, nerved myself and drew
back the bolts. My heart throbbed,
my pulse beat, I threw back the panol
brusquely, and there, in the darkness,
saw a shape like a phantom, dressed
in white.
"I recoiled, speechless with anguish,
stammering:
" 'Who—who are you?'
"A voice answered:
" 'lt is I, father.'
"It was my child, Juliette.
"Truly, I thought myself mad. I
shuddered, shrinking backward before
the spectre as it advanced, gesticulat
ing with my haud to ward off the ap
parition. It is that gesture which
has never left me.
"Again the phantom spoke:
"'Father, father! See, I am not
dead. Some one came to rob me of
my jewels—they cut off my finger—
the—tho flowing blood revived me.'
"And I saw then that she was cov
ered with blood. I fell to my knees
panting, sobbing, laughing, all in one.
As soon as I regained my senses, but
still so bewildered I scarcely compre
hended the happiness that had come
to me, I took her in my arms, carried
her to my room and rang frantically
for Prosper to rekindle the fire, bring
a warm drink for her and go for the
doctor.
"Ho came running, entered, gazed
a moment at my daughter in the
chair, gave a gasp of fright and hor
ror and fell back—dead.
"It was he who had opened the
vault, who Ind wouuded and robbed
my child aud then abandoned her;
for ho could not efface all trace of his
deed; aud he had not oven taken the
troublo to return tho coflin to its
niche; sure, besides, of not being
suspected by me, who trusted him so
fully. We are truly very uufortunate
people, monsieur."
Ho was silsnt. Meanwhile the night
had eomo i»u, envelopiug in the gloom
the still mid solitary little valley; a
bort of Mysterious dread t>veiuud to
fall npon me in the presence of theae
strango beings—this corpse came to
life and this father with his painful
gestures.
•'Let us return," said I; "the night
has grown chill."
And, still in silence, we traced our
steps back to the hotel, and I shortly
afterwards returned to the city. I
lost all further knowledge of the two
peculiar visitors to my favorite sum
mer resort.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Artificial ear drums arc a success.
Insect eggs have the greatest vi
tality.
The sour gonrd trees of Africa aro
the oldest living vegetation.
The apple contains a larger amount
of phosphorous, or brain food, than
any other fruit.
The United States has a lower per
centage of blind people than any oth
er country in the world.
Microscopists say that the strongest
microscopes do not, probably, reveal
the lowest stage of animal life.
There are 100 students taking the
course of electrical engineering at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
It was twenty-nine days from the
casting of the Lick objective glass be
fore it had cooled sufficiently for safe
removal.
Tho Electrical Review says the elec
trical purification of sewage "is a com
plete success, chemically and bacter
iologically."
The South Sea Islands is the home
of a worm which emerges from its
hiding place only one day of a certain
change of the moon in October.
The East Indian ship worm will in a
few months destroy any vessel by eat
ing out tho interior of the beams and
planks. Thoy will be left a mere shell
that can be shattered by the fist.
The oni m has virtues to which
thousands of people will swear. This
is its ability to ward off attacks of ma
laria in any form, and to euro cases
as rapidly as the strongest doses of
quinine.
A New York lady has so contrived
matters that she can, before getting
out of bed, start a fire in the kitchen
by turning on the current, and when
she comes down stairs finds the kettle
boiling and the place comfortably
warmed.
J. J. Hogan, a mechanical student
of Yale College, has invented a re
markable instrument, called the Kino
siineter, which is used to measure the
slightest motion perceptible to the
test of touch. The measure is one
millimeter p«/ second.
The important discovery has been
made by Doctor Backeland that the
addition of a minuto amount of a solu
ble fluorid to yeast will preserve it for
more than six months. Doubtless other
important applications will be made of
this remarkable property of the solu
ble fluorids.
Mr. Qraham, the great British eleo
trician, lias invented a "lond-speak
ing telephone," an apparatus which
gathers and materializes the wave
sounds to such a wonderful degree
that they can be heard any plaoj in a
large room, even after traveling over
the wires hundreds of miles.
How Hard Times Make Soldiers.
It is an interesting fact that hard
times usually bring plenty of reoruits
to the United States Army. A reoruit
ing sergeant told me that it is easier
now to recruit a good class of young
men and plenty of them than it has
been for years.
"You see," he said, "thereare hun
dreds of young fellows who usually
earn good enough wages in the mills
and factories of New York, Newark
and other cities in this vicinity, who
have been out of work during the past
winter. When every other resource
seems to be exhausted many of those
young fellows tarn to Uncle Sam and
enlist in his service.
"It isn't patriotism nor love of ad
venture that impels them to put on
the blue. It is stern necessity. The
pay is poor and the task is hard, but
they enlist, many of them, rather
than turn to beggary or theft."—New
York Herald.
Strange History ot a Cherry Tree.
In the management of a cherry tree
the late Almeron Higby, of Watson,
Lewis County, may be regarded by
some people as wiser iu his day and
generation than the youthful George
Washington. When nine years old he
planted a cherry stone, from which
grew a tree that was known by his
parents as "the boy's tree." When it
began to bear cherries he picked the
fruit, sold it, and saved the money.
This he continued to do during his
entire life. Last summer, at the age
of fifty-nine, his health declined, and
the tree also began to decay. So he
cut it down, had the trunk sawed into
boards, and with his own hands made
a pretty ohtrry coffin for himself. A
few days ago ho died, and all of his
funeral expenses were paid from the
money that ho had saved as the pro
ceeds of the sale of the cherries.—Mil
waukee Wisconsin.
Oil ot Eggs.
Extraordinary stories are told of
the healing properties of a now oil
which is easily mode from tho yolks
of hens' egg*. Tho eggs ore first
boiled hard, and the yolks are then re
moved, crushed and placed over a lire,
where they aro carefully stirred uutil
the substance is on the point of catch
ing fire, when the oil separates and
the oil may lie poured off. One yolk
will yield nearly two teaspoonfuW of
oil. It is in general use among the
colouUts of South Uu«i.t as a iiteu'ii
of curing cuts, luuioti«, etc. - St. LUU.M
Star Saying.
Terms—-SI.OO in Advance ; #1.25 after Three Months.
ODD FREAKS OF THE SEA.
SOME STRANGE SIOHTB AND QUEER
EXPERIENCES.
Effects of Gigantic Waves—Sub-Ma
rine Rruptlons and Storms—Show
ers of Fish Bones.
SAILORS have more than their
fill of strange sights and
strange experiences. Big
waves range among these
strange experiences. We do not refer
to those waves which are the imme
diate consequences of high winds and
atmospherical disturbances, but to
those single waves of immense height
which shew themselves suddenly in
the midst of a sea comparatively
smooth. A vessel may be sailing along,
in fine weather and with no swell on
worth mentioning, when, without tho
least warning, comes sweeping along
a wave that towers like a mountain,
falls on the deok, and carries away
everything movable, members of the
crew among the rest.
The steamer San Francisco was once
struck by a tidal wave of this sort in
the Gulf Stream, and 179 persons swept
into the sea and drowned. In March
last all the crew save one of the bark
Johann Wilhelm were washed over
board by a single wave. In June last
year the ship Holyrood encountered
another such sea which is said to have
risen up "suddenly like a wall" and
to have flooded her decks fore and
aft.
The Cunarders, Etruria and Umbria,
have both encountered the phenom
enon, and the former had one man
killed and several others injured. The
case of the Pomeranian will be fresh
in the minds of all. Sometimes these
waves are the result of submarine
eruptions and laud earthquakes occur,
ring in close proximity to the sea.
An English bark crossing the North
Pacific met with one of these big
waves and immediately afterward the
ocean seemed to be boiling, ami the
sulphur fumes that emerged from the
water were so powerful as to drive the
crew into the rigging. Clearly there
was an eruption here as the ship sailed
over, and the wonder is that the groat
wave did not do more injury.
Again, the American schooner I)oro
J. Ward, while on a voyage to Seattle,
Wash., from Cooper Island, was sail
ing quietly along, when suddenly she
was lifted as if a whale had struck her
bottom, and then experienced a suc
cession of shocks which oast every
thing loose about their feet. There
were a few big waves succeeding the
main one, and then everything was
smooth again. The biggest solitary
wave ever known was that caused by
the Peruvian earthquake of August
13th, 1868. In no other instance, we
are assured, has it been known that a
well markedjwave of enormous propor
tions has been propagated over the
largest ocean tract of the globe by au
earthquake whoso action has been lim
ited to a relatively small region not
situated in the centre but ou one side
of the area traversed by the wave. At
Africa it was fifty feet high, and en
veloped the town, carrying two war
ships nearly a mile beyond the railway
of the north of the town. It inundat
ed the smaller members of the Sand
wich group, 6300 miles away, and
reached Yokohama, in Japan, iu the
early hours of the morning, after tak
ing in New Zealand ou the way. It
spent itself finally in the South At
lantic, having traversed nearly the
whole globe.
A singular occurrence was reported
recently by the English ship Cuci
para. She was about midway between
the Cape and Australia when she en
countered a hurricane. About mid
night of August 4 last the sea sud
denly fell almost calm. "It appeared
as if the sea was aftected by some
tremendous pressure," when suddenly
the whole vessel fore and aft was en
veloped in sheets of flame that rose
half way up tho masts and overran
the decks for three-quarters of an
hour. It was an electrical storm, and
the crow, never haviug encouutered
such ft thing before, were panic
stricken, and very naturally so. They
expected every minute to see tho
masts go by the board. After what
must hftvo been a very cheerful forty
flvo minutes the flames snvift'ed out
suddenly, and left darkness so thick
that it might have been cut.
Another singular occurrence was
that of the bark Peter Pridell, which
was off Valparaiso when a whirlwind
passed over her stern, taking away
everything movable, sails and all, on
the after part of the bhip, leaviug the
forward part untouched. Hero was
the sharp end of a storm with a
vengeance. Almost as surprised at
their good fortuue and narrow escape
must have been the crew of the barken
tine Fortunate, which, while ou a
voyage from Rio Grando to Liverpool,
felt a tremendous shock that could
not be accounted for until the vessel
was put into dry dock, when the
sword of a swordfish was found to
have penetrated somo feet into the
wood ot the hull.
Yet another of the curiosities of the
sea is the occasional shower of fish
bones or the like, falling ou deck
when many miles from land. These
showers are easily explained. The
fish are taken up in waterspouts, and
come down in more or less rarefied
condition. But perhaps the most
awful of all things that can happen at
sea is a fire. A severe squall break
ing over a vessel unprepared for it,
and with all her sails set, is bad, but
the experience is short, sharp and
generally decisive; but for loug
drawn-out agouy there is nothiug like
a fire, especially if it is among coal,
and there is also dynamite or guu
powiler iu the cargo. —Pall Mall
Gasette.
If a snail's head be cut off and the
animal placed in a cool, moist *pot a
new head will be grown.
NO. 38.
OOLDEN HOURS. OOLDEN DAYS.
Everything has beauty in It
In the world that 'round us lies,
Lifting up eaoh waking minute,
Giving joy to longing eyee,
That shall All the hours with praise-
Golden hours make golden days.
By us joys are ever flying.
Lot us make our hearts their snare
Let us share the sweetness lying
All about us everywhere!
Let us walk In happy ways-
Golden hours make golden days.
Troubles come but they are fleeting;
Soon their shadows will go by,
Ait the olouds the sunlight meeting,
Pass and show the azure sky.
Life Is full of sunny rays—
Golden hours mako golden days.
—George Blrdseye, In Detroit Free Press.
HUMOK OF THE DAY.
A trying situation—The cloak mod.
el's.
It ia seldom difficult to appear nat
ural when you have no desire to
please.—Puck.
It frequently happens that the flro
of genius has difficulty in making tho
pot boil.—Puck.
My neighbor calls bis cat "There
by" —because from it hangs a tail.—
Arkansaw Traveler.
Strange as it may scorn, it some
times happens that an old salt gets
into trouble by boing too fresh.
Almost every woman we know would
J'ke to know what some other woman
has got to be so proud of. —Atchison
Globe.
Paddy's latest feat was to pawn his
gun, preparatory to a day's shooting,
in order to buy cartridges. —London
Truth.
There is plenty of room at the top ;
but there isn't enough for one-tenth of
the people who think they ought to be
there.—Puck.
The peooe maker is a commondable
character, but he is not esteemed by
the fellow who is getting the best of
the fight.—Puck.
The part of a man's salary that ho
usually doesn't spend is tho part ho
would receive if ho were getting what
he is worth.—Puck.
"Galton had his lawn mower stolen
last night." "Great Caesar ! What
a lucky fellow he has always been."—
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Speaking of bereavement, Jones af
firms that no death ever affected him
so sadly as that of his wife's first hus
band.—Salem Gazette.
Two words sometimes make a long
sentence. For instance.
judge remarks to tho prisoner:
"Twenty years."—Truth.
You may sp6ak as you will of pedi
gree generally, but in a sleeping car
it is a man's berth which raises hiin
above his fellow passengers.
An exchange tells "how to make a
fountain pen work satisfactorily."
Another way is to give it to one of
your enemies.—Texas Siftings.
There is that in a woman's disposi
tion that induces hor to give anything
she has to the poor, providing they
will use it her way.—Atchison Globe.
I kissed her a dozen times last night,
And now it makes mo sore
To think that if I'd only stayed,
X might have had one more.
—Life.
A woman's idea of loyalty is to loan
her best silverware to a neighbor who
is giving a party, and say nothing
when she hears it praised. Atchison
Globe.
Jack—"What sort of a girl is she?"
Jim—"'Oh, sho is a miss with a mis
sion." "Ah!" "And her mission is
seeking a man with a mansion."—
Spare Moments.
The lightning flashed, the lightning crashod,
The skies were rent asunder,
With shriek and wail loud blew the gale,
And then It rained like thunder!
—Puek.
Willy Wilt—"Do you know, I fancy
I have quite a literary bont." Van
Demmitt—"All right, my boy ; keep
on and you'll be worse than bent—
you'll be broke."—Puck. ;
Mudge—"Er—Miss Laura, I hope 1
am not talking too much about my
self." Miss Laura—"Oh, no.. You
have to be talked about by somebody,
of oourse." —Indianapolis Journal.
No wonder the modest violet
Drops shyly out of sight
If it hears all the poems
People about it write.
—Chicago luter-Ooean.
Housekeeper—"Are yon sure that
this tea isn't half copperas?" Dealer
(convincingly) "We couldn't afford
to sell copperas at the extremely low
price we charge for this tea, ma'am."
—New York Weekly.
L'Enfant Terrible —"Have you got
another faoe?" Mrs. Homeleigh
"No, dear; why do you ask?" L'En
fant Terrible—".Mamma said you are
two-faced; but I thought if yoii had
another one, you wouldn't wear that
one." —London Tid-Bits.
In the gloaming. O my darling,
ffhdro the nlguts are six months lon&
If I stayed till midnight, darling.
Would you think that it was wrong?
Would you work the old gags on me?
Would you murmur, soft ani low.
That I might be late for breakfast.
Or tho olook was six weeks slow?
—Detroit Free Press.
Teacher —"Now, Johnnie, you may
tell us this: Suppose your mother had
told you to come home at five o'clock,
and you did not go; what would you
be doing?" Johnnie—"l don't know
whether it would be swimmiu' or
playin' baseball." Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
"What have you named your new
boy?" "William. I wauted to get a
name that would be sure to fit." "I
don't quite oatch." "Why, don't you
im, if he grows up to be a real nice,
good kind of young mau he will be
oallad Willie, anil if he should happen
to turn out pretty tough be can be
o*ll*l BUl.lndianapolis Journal.