SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XII. In all of Persia there are only twenty miles of railroad. The overhead trolley has succeeded in providing itself more deidly than the underfoot banana peel, remarks the Washington Star. A newspaper man, who recently took a stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge, heard ten different languages on the way, besides profane lan guage. ______________ Tho British and Continental press generally agree that the election of M. Casimir-Perier to the French Presidency is a conservative and moderate republican victory over the radicals and socialists. Secretary Morton, in the interest of farmers, urges better protection for the birds. "It is a melancholy fact," he says, "that our women and our boys are the birds' most destructive and relentless enemies." Dr. Dale, of London, who has been been writing book reviews all his life, says that he believes most books are written by people who are not quite right in their minds. He thinks that this is about the most harmless occu pation for such people. The Baltimore Sun calls attention to the faot that wheat sold for a cent a pound in the Baltimore market the other day while oats sold for a cent and a half a pound, oats selling for fifty per cent, more than wheat. The Sun remarks that this is probably unprecedented. By irrigation 25,000,000 acres are made fruitful in India alone. In Egypt there are about t>, 000,000 acres, and in Europe about 5,000,000 acres. The United States have just begun the work of improving waste area and have already about 4,000,000 acres of irrigated land. Mulhall estimated that the agri cultural earnings of the United States are §3,490,000,000; the earnings from manufactures, $1,330,000,000; from mines, §480,000,000; from transporta tion, §1,155,000,000; from commerce, $160,000,000 ; from shipping, $60,000,- 000; from banking, $260,000,000. Buffalo, N. Y., has 40,000 Poles, living chiefly in a quarter of their own where English is little spoken, and many business signs are in Polish or Russian. The colonists retain many of their native characteristics and slowly conform to American ways. The colony is one of the largest for eign elements to be found in any American city of the third class. There will be no nonsense about duelling in the Russian army hereaf ter. The Czar has issued a decree ap pointing a court of honor to deter mine in each case whether a duel is the proper thing. The decision is to be final, and under it any officer who refuses to accept a challenge will be cashiered in disgrace. Officers who Hre not adepts with the foils will now have to guard their tongues. Fresh finds of rich bods of gold and silver are the order of the day. The latest announced is in a despatch from Manitoba, to tho effect that an immense bed of aurifereus ore, a mile wide and two miles long, iu one tract, has been discovered betwoen Rut Portage and Port Arthur, seventy miles south of tho Canadian Pacific Railway, which assays an average of $8 in gold and S4 in silver to the ton of ore. Tho minors who gotothe newcampc in West Australia and New Mouth Wales will, in tho opinion of tho Han Francisoo Chronicle, earn all that they get. No mining iu this country is at tended with such dangers and hard ships except in a fow places on the Mojavo and Colorado deserts. At Coolgardio water is so scarce that it commands twelve cents a quart and all provisions are extremely dear. Camels are used for transport, as tho desert hoat and drought prove fatal toliorscs and mules. Mays tho Boston Advertiser: Thore Is growing a stroug public opin ion that the law iu it* modern opera tion has been Abused so gravely that a good, shrewd lawyer with no case at nil can save a client from proper pun ishment for months and even years al though it is patent to everyone that Do valid reason exists why justice should bo delayed n day. Legal "pleading" is now such an intricate and many-resourced art that plain, old fashione I justice must stnnilde and grope through wearisome and de vious pathways In-fore sh* ean clutch an offender who lian sharp-eyed conn eel to guide hun. WHEN THE HEART'S IN ITS PRIME The Bon's on his throue, and tho Wind on his tour Like wandering minstrel o'er meadow and moor; The day and the season are both in their prime, And youth's at its sweetest and tenderest time. The buds are in bloota and the birds sing their best, The trees are in leat and the orchard is dressed With clustering fruits, for the year's in its prime, And youth's nt its ripest and tenderest time. Too soon shall the clouds cover sunshiny sky, The voice of the minstrel be hushed to a sigh; Too soon shall tho day and the season de « cline, And clustering fruit shall be melted to wine. The petals shall fall and the songsters de part, The foliage fade like the youth of the heart ; i For swift runs tho current of pitiless time, And.".'.ways the swiftest when life's in its prime. The birds and the blossoms and fruit shall appear. With summer's return and the turn of the year, The breezes shall be sweet and the sun be as fair; Alas ! but the prime of my youth is not there. Each month of the year has its prime, but in truth There'* only the prime in tho season of youth, Though hearts love again, and shall love for all time, There's only one love when the heart's in its prime. —Mary Berrl Chapman, in the Century. TILE MAPLE "SUGAR CAMP. BV AMY RANDOLPH. J DIAMOND, Jack ? A renl diamond! Oh, ho* bright it is, like a spark of white fire! i Like a star, dropped \ down out of the sky 1 y \ I never eaw a dia moud before; and to • 'if? think that it is mine ! Dear Jack, I couldn't possibly love you any more than I did before, but I do love you, oh, so much 1" The little bit of love making took place under the frost bound apple trees of the Back Orchard, where Esther Elm ford was standing, with a •white woolen hood wrapped tightly over her curls and a black and-scarlet plaid shawl enfolding her, mummy fashion. She was a tall, rosy-cheeked girl, with a complexion born of moun tain breezes and eyes that shone with ruddy health—no ideal sylph, but rather a rosy, wholesome, dimpled human girl like Wordsworth's hero ine— "Not to sweet or good For human nature's daily food." And as she looked at the tiny, glitter ing stone, the sparkles under her eye lashes were a dead match for it. "But you must not wear it every day, Essie, you know," said John Jef ferson. "Why not?" Her countenance fell. "You wanted our engagement kept a secret," you know." "80 I did. Anything but the gos sip of the whole combined neighbor hood !" cried Esther, with a moue of distaste, Well, auyhow, I can put a black velvet ribbon through it and hang it around my neck !" "But you haven't paid me for it yet." "Paid you, you mercenary fellow!" "One kiss, Essie! I don't often get a chance to claim it, you know." She poised herself on tiptoe to nc cord the demanded royalty, and then ran, laughing, away toward her home. "How generous lie is! she kept re peating to herelf. "A real diamond 1" When she got back to the kitchen of the roomy old farmhouse, where Mrs. Elmford was frying crullers iu an atmosphere of fragrant blue smoke, that lady cast a discontented glance at her. "Seems to mo you've been a long time gettin' that spotted calf into the barnyard, ' said she. "Was I long, mother? But he got clear down the lane, and the orchard gate was open," equivocated Miss Esther. "The Striker gals stopped here for you. They was goin' up to the Ma ple Sugar Camp with a lot o' fresh baked bread and pies for Tom and Leoiiidas, and they waited for you till they was clear oi't o' patience," added Mrs. Elmford, fishing another tin skimmer full of crisp brown beauties out of thi' bubbling mass of fat and lauding them in the blue stone jar, afterward to bo liberally sprinkled with white sugar. "Oil, mother, can I go?" said Esth er, eagerly. "I'm sure I 'ould over take them in five minutes "I've no objection," said Mrs Eltn ford." And you might take a basket of these 'ere erulls to your Uncle Peter. He's dreadful partial to fried caked, ami he thinks there are ain't uoiie like thi'lu I make 1111« r Mother Klmford's receipt." Esther wits right. In less than the specified five minute* she had inau aged to overtake Alice and •lesoamine Striker, with their baskets of fresh provision* to the dwellers iu Maple Sugar Camp, on Uiant Hill, where the supreme proerts of "sugaring off" was just then in full blast. Hut in the two minutes duritiK which she put olt her fur bordered hood and fleece liued mittens upstairs, she had slyly slipped the diamond rii<n on the tirai linger of her left haud. "I shall b« wearing It," aha said to I.APORTE, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 10. 1894. herself, "ami no one be any the wiser." The Striker girls welcomed her joy ously. "It's so nice to have you," said Alice. "Jessamine declared you would not go, but—" "Why shouldn't 1 go?" said Esther. "Don't I go up every year when they are sugaring off? - ' Jessamine Striker began to giggle. "Yes," said she, "but our Leonidas has never been there until this season, and Mr. Jefferson has never been so particular in his attentions to you be fore." Esther crimsoned to the roots of her hair. "What ridiculous nonsense 1" said she. "Oh, is it, though?" retorted Jessa mine. "When all the world knows that Jack Jefferson is as jealous as Othello." Esther walked on, with silent dig nity. In her secret heart she was be ginning to regret that she had put her self out to accompany these silly girls. "Don't mind Jess, dear," said good humored Alice Striker, slipping her hand through Esther's arm. "She will giggle at everything —it's her na ture. Isn't this a charming morning? I heßrd a blue-bird in the ewamp down by the river, and there's a lot of yel low jonquils in bloom in Anne Rebec ca's window-box. The snow is thaw ing in the sunshine, but the walking is good yet, and Leon says the maple trees have never given a better yield." Up at the sugar camp, all was life and animation. Blue threads of smoke wound upward to the sky from the chimneys of the two or three boaril shanties, thatejved with strips of bark and trusses of straw, where the "hands" kept house in a gypsy fash ion. The great kettles where the sirup was boiling down to the requisite solidity were watched by select de putations, lest the fires should slacken or the saccharine masses scorch, while others were attending to the im promptu stone chimney in the open air, while the carcass of a wild turkey was whirling around and around in front of the blaze, impelled by a most ingenious rotary spit, and a nest of potatoes was baking in the hot ashes below. The girls were joyfully wel ! comed. Uncle I'eter chuckled aloud at the sight of the cruliers made after his mother's time-honored recipe. The two young Strikers extended a hospi table invitation to their meal, even now in process of preparation. "Leon shot the turkey yesterday by Lone Lake," said Tom. "And it's a prime one, you bet. Rather nicer I than the salt cod-fish we had reckoned on." But Esther declined to say. "I'll just take a look at the sugar l kettles," said she, "and then hurry I back to mother. We're going to have the parson's folks to tea, and there's a deal to do." Leonidas Striker escorted her to ! the largest kettle of all, ordinarily | called "Big Ben," and gave her the monster stick to stir the bubbling waves of sweetness. "There," said he, "you can say i you've helped to sugar off this year. Isn't it a splendid yield? And maple sugar's going to be high this season ! i Oh, you'd better stay, Esther, there's a lot of young folks coming up this afternoon, and Darky Jones is to be here with his fiddle !" "Oh, I couldn't, possibly!" said Esther. In truth and in fact she had ! not been quite at her ease since Jessa mine's unlucky allusion to Othello in conjunction with Mr. Jefferson; and she did not breathe freely again until she had reached home, where her mother was just clearing away the : dinner dishes. "Has any one been here?" said she. "Who Hhould be here?" connter qnestioned Mrs. Ehnford. "I don't expect Elder Morris's folks until four o'clock." As Esther took off her things in the j little chamber upstairs, where the shingled roof sloped down to the eaves, she glanced down at the en | gagement tiuger. Terror of terrors, j the sparkling little ring was gone! ****** It was past four o'clock. Mrs. ; Morris was droning away in the sit tiug-rooni about the last missionary i box which had been sent out to the Hougara Indian Reservation; Miss Adelgitha Morris was admiring her hostess's most recent crazy patchwork ; i the two little Morrises were playing checkers, ami the good elder himself was laying down tomes of theological ' law to Farmer Klmford ; while Esther, with tear-swollen eyes, was mixiug a batch of biscuits for tea iu the : kitchen. All of a sudden slio caught sight of John Jefferson riding past on his gray pony, with averted face. In nu instant she caught down the shawl that huug ou the peg back of the i buttery door, and niu tiling it around her head and shoulders, darted across the snowy back-yard where slie could intercept her lover at the curve of the 1 road. "Jack! Jack!" she cried, piteously. "I've lost it! Your ring! Oh, Jack, do nay something to comfort me! I i am so unhappy. *' Mr. Jefferson drew up his steed and faced Esther with a scornful light iu his eyes which she had lit-vcr seen be fore. "Yes," said he, calmly; "I knew you had lout it.l know hvw vou lost | it. I know to whom you have given it." Kssie stood dumb before the cruel i emphasis of his words. "I was at the Sugar ('amp an hour ago," said he "Home one told lite you had gone there, and I was goiug to bring you Imiue. And I »a» your riutf on lieiiiiula* Striker's watch guar I Wasn't that rather soon to transfer yoiil last lover's gift t>> V<>ur old swalu? Would It Hot have beeM belief taste ol UI into display your pledge a little ' 1«M publicly 1" "J«ck, Jack !" pleaded Essie, hold ing up her hands, as if every word were a blow. "I need detain you no longer," ha said, as he bowed frigidly and touched the neck of his horse with his whip lash, and the next minute he wasgone. Poor Essie dragged herself back to the house, the tears freezing on her cheek and her heart colder still. Was she the victim of enchantment? What did all this mean? Tea was over at least, but Esther Elmford did not know whether she had eaten hot biscuit or cold, hasty pudding. She had listened, with a vague, unmeaning smile, to Mrs. Mor ris's prolonged account of little Tommy's last siege of diphtheria and Miss Adelgitha's proposed visit to New York. It was almost as if brain and nerve were benumbed, when Jessa mine Striker's clear, sweet voice struck across the current of her hopeless apathy and she fonnd herself in a con fidential corner of the best bedroom upstairs, with Jessamine eagerly har anguing her. "The strangest thing!" cried Jessa mine. "He found it in the maple sugar kettle. Alice had made some flannel cakes, and he dipped out a dipperful of the hot sirup for us to eat with it, and Leon came within one of swallowing the ring. 'Whose is it?' said he. 'Why, Essie Elmford's, of course,' said I. 'Didn't I see the sparkle of it when she took off her mitten to unfasten the lid of the bas ket that held Uncle Peter's crullers? And it must have, slipped oft her finger,' said he, 'when she went to stir the sugar in the kettle.' So he hung it on his watch-chain for safekeeping until we came home, and here it is." Esther murmured a word or two of thanks. "I was very careless," said she. But even after Jessamine was gone, she sat staring at the pretty trinket which had so nearly been boiled down into maple sugar. What was the use of it now? What was the use of any thing?" "Esther! Esther!" her father called up the narrow wooden stairway. "Here's Mr. Jefferson wants to speak to you !" How strangely all these things seemed to succeed one another, like the dull lapses of a dream. She knew not how, but she was standing, with Jack's arm around her, her troubled eyes looking up into his. "My own darling," he whispered, "can yon ever forgive me for being such a brute? I have just seen that Striker fellow. He's not such a bad lot, after all, and everything is ex plained. Sweetheart, say that you forgive me! I never shall forgive myself." And all the horrid uiglitm»r*) feol ! iug wns over, and the engagement was ii sesret no longer, and poor little Esther Elmford was happy again. "But I don't think,"said she, "that I shall ever want to taste maple sugar again. Not just yet, at all events 1" —New York Ledger. A Smokeless Locomotive. Recently in Austria a most success ful and satisfactory trial was made of a smoke-consuming aj>paratus to loco motives anil doubtless suitable for all other steam engines. A number of practical and scientific guests made the trip between Vienna and Znaim, a distance of about sixty-two miles, be hind an absolutely smokeless locomo tive. Open cars were used and even at a speed of over forty-five miles per hour, nothing but clear-water steam ' was emitted, and no smoke, sparks or cinders, and even tho guests riding on the locomotive, found at the end of the journey that their coats, linen and ■ hands were as cleau as when they started. This apparatus is au auto matic device, attached to the outside I of the boiler, which supplies the tire with just enough air to consume the j smoke and gas. Over the tire a steam | veil whirls and mixes tho air aud gas, and this burned gas is forced against ; the boiler ami every partiflle of heat l is utilized. It is claimed that a sav ing of from ten to twenty-five per 1 cent, is effected in heat-giving ma j terial. This device has been in con stant use for over two years and has been found entirely satisfactory. The invention is astonishingly simple iu \ construction and operation and soon saves its cost. A special advantage of the apparatus is that it can be readily I attached to any locomotive orstation ■ ary boiler without the slightest alter ation of the general system used in I either.—Atlanta Constitution. HUM a Peculiar Malady. The fourteen year old son of ft man named Emery, at Buffalo, Intl., is af- Hected with a peculiar malady. Al though apparently otherwise possessed of ordinary intelligence, lie has always had a mama for snakes and wants to catch and play with them whenever anil wherever found. Last Thursday lie was bitten by a viper and, although his life was saved by prompt medical attention, he is frequently seiaed with spasms in which he has the exact char acteristics of a reptile, darting out his tongue, snapping at people, aud worm* nig Ins shoulders about iu imitation at a crawling snake, until throe men are unable to hold him.—Chicago I'iuies. The World Is Washing Away. An interesting calculation has re cently beeu made public through the French Academy of rioieuoea. It Ulo the effect that taking into considera tion the wear and tear on the soli I laud by octau lashing, river erosion slid wind aud wo.it her, to say nothing ol probable volcanic action, the world will, by tlii' « nd til the year t.ft ht.iMi l, be completely washed away, and tY« ocean will roll over the present fotiu datiou* of Ills gt iat eoutiuunts. | Vorh Telegram. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, There are 4500 species of bees. A locomotive lasts fifteen years and earns about SBOO,OOO. The Earl of Dunmore proposes to oross Bering Strait ou the ioe next winter. Steel barrels, made from sheets ranging in thickness from one-six teenth to a quarter of an inoh, are coming into use. Leuenhoek says that 4,000,000 webs spun by young spiders when they first begin to use the spinneret are not, if twisted together, as great in diameter as a hair from a human head. The fibre of the nettle hemp is claimed to be four or five times as strong as silk and not inferior in lus tre. The production of a nettle hemp thread as fine as No. 100 is now re ported. No science, unless it be that of the electrician, can boast such a wonder ful growth in the past quarter century as that of bacteriology, which has de veloped with remarkable rapidity since Pasteur made his initial investi gation. A company formed some time ago for the purpose of constructing an electrio railway on the JungfrAu, Switzerland, now propose to establish a soientifio observatory at the upper end of the line, at a height of about 13,000 feet. The latest theory concerning the cause of the aurora borealis has been deducted from a careful analysis of that light thrown through a spectro scope. This unique experiment clear ly establishes the fact that it is oaused by an electrical discharge among the particles of meteoric iron dust con tained in the atmosphere. Harvey Bejim, a medical student in Ann Arbor, Mich., has succeeded in joining two living dogs together, like Siamese twins. It was done by graft ing strips of flesh from one body to the other and retaining them in posi tion for forty days. When one dog barks it appears to give his companion intense pain, and vice versa. An English company is introducing a new method of horticulture. Glasa houses aro mounted on wheels running on rails in such a way that the houses —with or without heating apparatus —may be moved in succession over crops to be forced, protected or ripened. It is claimed that the work of the hothouses can be greatly in creased by this plan. For the lighting of Antwerp the novel plan is proposed of distributing water from steam pumping stations at a pressure of 775 pounds per square inch, and using it . iiu&l! district sta tions for driving dynamos by means of turbines. These stations would supply local consumers through a low pressure, two-wire circuit system. The cost of coal per sixteen candle power per hour is placed at only 2} cents. George Jimson, of Jimson's Grove, Wis., astonished his father, mother and seven guests by eating and swal lowing in rapid succession thirty-one spheres of what appeared to be thin glass. Old Mr. Jimson was about to send for a physician, when his son showed that the spheres were merely frozen bubbles of water, made after Professor Dewar's method. The elder Jimson was greatly relieved by the discovery. To Wet Rid At Flics. Flies are the pest and worry of all tidy housekeepers, and how to rid a room of them is an unsolved problem to many. This is quite easily accom plished by taking advantage of the flies' habit of flying to the window or place from which light is admitted, and to accomplish this, darken all the windows with a hoavy Bhade, or any material, cutting a hole in one of the shades, over which is firmly pinned a sheet of the oonimon transparent fly paper, and, if possible, have this located at one of the east, south or west windows, from which the most light may be obtained. It will bo but a short time ere the flies in the room will be sticking to this paper in their effort to be near the light. This is far easier and more cleanly ttan plac ing paper about the room for them to accidently light upon, or killing them with poisoned liquid or pyrethrum uowder.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Eiisrhiwrs Fiffht, A romftrkftlilo cano in noon to ho lioArd lit IjouKtov \. Oeorgo Olon denning, a Htokcr on tho North Hrit ish Hallway, lia* summoned John lilvthe, «u engine driver, for iiHuault, ami Blrthe liaa taken oat a promt mill mona for Olendeuning for a aimilar nflvnae, The two men were in charge of a paasenger train to Citrlitle. They ijuareled, and while the engine wu rnnuing at tho rate of fifty mile* an hour tHoy fought on the foal plate, (lleudonning aaaerts that Illythe knocked hitu to the engine (loot and liattered hi* head a.'nuixt tho lever. On the other hand, Wythe maintain* that OlendeuniUß »*» the n^nreKM ( r. Thi» new peril to the afety Of paaaon ger traltie i« attracting much atten tion, and people who write to the Uewapapcr* are an if-{eating Varion* mean* for the prevention of quarrel* between tiUM'no driver* and the atok era.—New York Advertiser. The Itaclllu* nt llie Infliifiiia The mierolie of the "grip," other* kite tho "wltuunu liaeillit*," wa* di»eovrred l>y Or. Canon, of Vienna, «h>» rtr*t deieeteil it in the Ulood of ■me of hi* patient*. It i* a enrioimly diapf l or*ani*m, many tint** smaller than the mievohe of any other known I'vrm diaWlav, and »» only revealed to the human eye l»y Mailtg a micro koupa with a iu»HHilyln* power of |<MR> dtamttara. —Ht Loum Mxpnbli*, Terms —-#I.OO in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months. SUNSTROKE AND DROWNING INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED BY THE NEW YORK BOARD OF HEALTH. What to Do AVh»n People are Over come by Heat—Re vlvlnjj Persons Rescued From the Water. THE following instructions for the treatment of persons who have received a sunstroke, or who have been taken from the water in a drowning condition, are issued by tho New York Board of Health, and as they are appropriate to any locality we publish them in full: SUNSTROK K. Any one overcome by the heat should be immediately removed to the nearest shade, and the collar of shirt or dress should be loosened. Send immediately for the nearest physician, and give the person cool drinks of water, black tea or coftee, if able to swallow. If the skin is hot and dry, place the person in a sitting position against a tree, wall, or auything that will be a support to the back ; sponge with or pour cold water over the body and limbs, and apply to the head pounded ice wrapped in a towel or other cloth. If there is no ice at hand, keep a cold cloth on the head, and pour cold water on it as well as on the body. If the person is pale, very faint and pulse-leeble, lay him on the back, let him inhale ammonia for a few seconds, or give him a teaspoonfnl of aromatic spirits of ammonia or tincture of gin ger in two tablespoonfuls of water. Use no cold water upon the head or body, but rub the hands and feet and apply warm applications to the same until the circulation is restored. DROWNINO. I.—Loosen the clothing; place the face downward, with the forehead resting ou one of the wrists, and the face turned to one side. Open the mouth ; Beize the tongue between the fingers, covered with a handkerchief or piece of cloth, and draw it forward between the teeth ; clear the mouth and throat from mucus by passing the forefinger, covered with a handker chief or piece of cloth, far back into the mouth, thus opening a free pass* age to the windpipe. 2.--Turn the body face upward, shoulders resting on a folded coat or pillow; keep the tongue drawn for ward ; raise the arms backward and upward to the sides of the head (this expands the chest and allows the air to enter the lungs) ; then slowly move them downward, bending them so that the elbows will come to the sides and the hands cross on the pit of the stomach, and press them gently but otronftly against the sides and chest (this forces the air out of the lnugs). Continue these two movements (which produce artificial breathing) very de liberately about ten or twelve times in a minute, and without ceasing, until the patient breathes naturally, or un til satisfied that life is extinct. While this is being done a little friction on the chest may be produced by rubbing gently with warm flannel, and the body may be stripped and wrapped in dry blankets, After natural breathing begins, con tinue very gtntly. for a few minutes, the two movements which produced artificial breathing. After natural breathing is fully re stored, give the patient a teaspoonful of brandy, hot sling or tea, two 01 three times it minute, until the beat ing of the pulse can be felt at the wrist. Rub the arms and legs upward, and the feet anil hands with warm or dry flannel. Apoly hot cloths to the body, legs and arms, and bottles of hot water to the feet. CAraoN. 1. I>o not be discouraged if anima tion does not return in a few minutes. The patient sometimes recovers after hours of labor. 2. Do not allow the tongue to fall back and close the windpipe while the arms are being worked. 3. Do not rut) the legs and arms un til natural breathing is restored. •1. Do not put any liquid in the mouth until natural breathing is fully restored. 5. Do not roll the body nor handle it roughly. ti. Do not allow the head to hang down. KiiiiM-thliK Curium. By a very simple rule the duration of night and day can l>e determined at auv time of the year. All you have to do is to multiply the time of the sun's rising by two an 1 it will give you the length of the night. Multiply the time of setting by two and you get the length of the day. It is easily demonstrate I at the time of the year wlieu the sun rises and sets at t> o'clock and day and night are of eipial duration. It is just as true a* tlie days lengthen and shorten. Thus, at winter approaches, take a day when the sun rise* st fl.Bo anil sets at .VIO. Apply the rule and you have a night of thirteen hours and a day of eleven hours. This rule will he found absolutely accurate at any season of the year. ttlaula Journal. K I'alalial Barn. In ex-Vice President Levi I'. Mor ton's farm at F.llerslle, X Y , the cows have fresh water constantly Imfore them 111 iron buckets, over which there are aooden covers to prsveut hay or teed from getting in. Tb>' • talis srs provided ailh sell-cleaning •table tinting which cover* the gutter liehin I tin ('<■*• »ii I altoss theiu t>* >laud on « it'Vtii auriace t here la au mi rlo-s I trolley track aith four lines on <-a«-h rtu.it Carrier* carry the i-ars with fee I to Ibe cattle aud also manure to the manure •li«l, altera ll is tiumiivd iii •a*|un> and then spread ths Um I, S*m t«fk World NO. 44. ITS ORIGIN. There was a poet who would sing In light, bewitching rhyme, Of any man or anything, At any place or time ; And when an editor one day Had caught him unawares, He wrote a verse about the way He Went Down Stairs, And ever since that time, the bard. When inspirations flow Is said to flad it very hard To keep from writing so ; An 1 every poet, young or gray, His tribute fondly bears, To him who wrote about tho way He Went Down Stairs. —Washington Star. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Love is a charming hostess, but an exacting guest. Lofty idealists are usually men who are too lazy to work. —Puck. Truth is mighty; but it will not prevail in a horse trade. —Puck. People do a great deal of talking about the lost art of conversation.— Puck. The great beauty of adversity as a medicine is that it is not sugar coated. Puck. Voices—"ls Miss Crummer emanci pated?" Carson—"Well, she shaves. —Truth. Executive ability is the faculty of getting some one else to do your work. —Puck. The best way for some people to fcrge to the front is for them to take a back seat. —Dallas News. When a mau makes a blunder ho can't blame on somebody else, he decides to say nothing about it. -- Atchison Globe. Tho Kentucky six-footer whose bride is only three feet high is no doubt very proud of his better half.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Talk about your mosquito coast!'' said the man as he tenderly rubbed the shining surface on his bald head. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Lady—"How is this insect powder to be applied?" Assistaut (absent mindedly)—"Give 'em a teaspoouful after each meal." —Tit-Bits. He—"l've bought you a pet mon key to amuse yon, darling." She "Oh, how kind of you! Now I shan't miss you when you are away." —Tit- Bits. "I wish you would give us soma thing more on current topics." "Here's the very thing; an article on the overhead trolley."—Washington Star. Good intent is but added exaspera tion when its consequences are disas trous. The man killed accidentally is just as dead as the mau murdered. —Truth. Mr. Flitty—"l ha l all the conceit taken out of me yesterday." Miss Victor—"Really? How did they carry it off? On a freight traiu." —Detroit Free Press. Professor (to class in political econ omy)—" What is the hardest tax to rftise?" Student (whose mother is liousecleaning) —' 'Carpet tacks." —De troit Free Press. "The teacher says your Fieddie wastes a great deal of his time at- Bchool." Mother—"Well, I m glad to hear it, for I was afraid he didn't go half the time." —Chicago Inter-Ocean. Servant "Please, mum, Mrs. Next doo wants you to lend her some read iug suitable for a sick person. Mistress— "Certainly. Give her those medical almanacs." —New York Weekly. Wife—"How people gaze at my new dress ! I presume they wonder if I've been shopping in Paris." Hus band—"More likely they wonder if I've been robbing a bank." —New York Weekly. "Don't you consider Miss Bondby rather dull?" said one society man. "Well," replied another, "after the manner in which she cut you this morning I can't sny that 1 do. Washington Stisr Lord de Void (to Miss Bndd, whom lie meets traveling on the continent) —"I thought once tliftt all the pwetty Amerwicau girls came übwoad, but when I went to New ork I decided that they all stayed at home. ' Judge. Miss Skrutnohus—"l was so digust ed to see people tako up their ear of corn in their tiugeis. I always use a knife to aetach the corn from the ear. Mrs. Homespun—-"Well, I suppose a kuife answers right well wht-re one has no teeth."—Boston Transcript. Edith—"What a quick turn for repartee Harry Prince has!" Mabel "Bat ho never says anything to wound oue's feelings. " Klith— "And then he's so gallant! You should think the world of him. He was so prompt in your defence the other day! Somebody remarked, 'There are no frills on Mabel Htoue, ami Harry replied, 'On the contrary, she is distinctly plain.'Boston Tran script. A Welleslcy Colic {<» «irl tells of a bright saying of one of their number The class was selecting a motto, and •• l-o thy own self be true," \*!»» suy ge»ted, aftrr a number of others ha I been disapprove I of, and met with • (into a favorable roMption till a young la If ar •*«, and sai I sh* hardly thought that appropriate for a VJIIM( ladie»' seminary —"For n shall I • )oa, a* the itigiif the day, th -<i wilt nut then IKI false to snv man Aui i'l*l wr - »' .i I'» thai uitiiiw. llousnksspsi
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