SULLIVAN JS& REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. xn.
The sugar palm of South America is
a rival of tho New England maple.
Australia has more places of public
worship in proportion to population
thau any other country.
The peasants of Pergine, near
Trientc, are using electric light in
their houses, as they can get it cheaper
than kerosene.
There arc moro paste diamonds and
afliilicial stones of all kinds made in
Glasgow, Scotland, thnu in any other
city in tho world.
Whenever a murder is committed in
Argentina it is customary to put every
possible witness in prison and keep
hiiu there until the real culprit is con
victed.
Of tho 5,000,000 inhabitants of Lon
don more than 1,000,000 have to live
on loss than $5 a week for each family,
while more thau 300,000 areinclironic
poverty.
Mme. Blanc says that Bret Harto is,
of all the American authors of the
times, the most popular in France and
that llowells is not generally liked by
the French.
"Fugitive trains" was added to rail
road nomenclature during tho big
strike. It applied, explains the Chi
cago Herald,"""to freights that started
out for a certain destination not know
ing whether they would "git there"
or somewhere else.
It seoms to tho New York Adver
tiser as though in many ways the au
thorities of Great Britain wero adopt
ing American methods. The latest in
stance of this is shown in the investi
gation now progressing of the cruel
ties perpetrated upon prisoners con
fined at Dartmouth.
There is great coustornatiou among
tho lovers of bull-fighting in Spain be
cause Guerrita, tho only remaining
great fighter, has declared his unal
terable decision to retire from the
ring. The reason given is that he is
worth over $200,000 and that bis wife
suffers terrible anxiety every time ho
lights.
Most of the States have had a sys
tem of commutation for good behavior
of prisoners. Massachusetts is just
putting that kind of a ticket-of-leave
law in force. The first subject for
clemency is a man now in the thirties,
a splendid specimen physically, who
fourteen years ago was given an
eighteen-year sentence for burglary.
He has been a model prisoner and
means to begin life anew.
E. B. Bolton, of the Royal Society,
has been conducting some interesting
experiments to show the effect of en
vironment on animals. The pepper
moth was the particular insect he
studied. He found that if an egg was
put into a pill box lined with gilt pa
per the caterpillar produced would be
bo golden iu color. When tho box
was black tho caterpillar also became
black. And lastly, when he mixed
different colors the caterpillar became
mottled.
Referring to the common statement
that electricity is still iu its infancy,
Professor Dolbear recon ly said:
"Electricity is not in its infancy.
Despite what has been done there is
nothing iu the present use of elec
tricity that has not been known for
many years. Arc lights wore known
eighty years ago ; the telegraph is sixty
years old, tho telephoue thirty, and
the incandescent lamp ditto. We are
uot at work with new things or on new
new principles. If you are running
u motor with electricity, it is not a
new discovery in electricity to apply
tho same power to tho operation of a
lathe or a *troet cur."
Christian people who spen.l auy
leugth of time in Europe are often
somewhat at a loss, avers the New
York Independent, with regard to
church attendance. In almost every
iuiportaut center there are Evangoli
cal churches of various denominations;
but they are nut always widely known,
and it in sometimes difficult, to learn
the full fact- as to the pro»isiou foi
public worship. In I'aris and Berlin
the American chapels are well known.
In Dresden where there in an English
and American colony, chiefly Aiueri
c»u, of about .1)00 people, compara
tively few have known of the Presby
terian church, which is rather a union
church under the care of tie- l!i>v. .1.
I'avis Bowtlen, • -u< of the most elo
quent preachers on the Continent.
The church lias no distinctive chureh
building, but meets inn hall, nn<i
«arnestly calls for the support of all
Cbristiau Americans who -.pen 1 u time
Ui that city.
Almost one-twentieth of the popula
tion of tho United States is widowed. I
!
With the additions recently an
nounced the number of members of
tfto British House of Lords is 572.
Wheat, cotton, iron and many other
things which are produced in vast
quantities in the United States are at
wonderfully low figures.
That Americans have a "sweet tooth"
is shown to tho New York Mail and
Express by the fact that they consume
25,000 tons of candy a year.
If America were as densely popu
lated as Europe it would contain ns
many people as there are in the world
at the present time, estimates tho De
troit Free Press.
According to a recent article in the
Bailroad Gazette the steam city rail
roads of London earn only $73,000 a
mile, while those of New York City
earn $300,000 a mile per annum.
There is a boy in Sing Sing (N. 1".)
Prison who was sent up for six years
and a half, for stealing $1.50. It has
just been discovered that he did not
steal it, and there is talk of his de
manding an indemnity from tho State.
Cities in Norway do not grow quite
so as somo of those in tho
West, muses tlia New York Tribune.
Tromso, in that country, has just cele
brated its 1000 th anniversary. In
that time it has grown from sixty peo
ple to 6000! The inhabitants are
chiefly devoted to fishing.
It looks to the New Orleans Pica
yune ns though every country in the j
world would be added to tho list of j
sugar producers and refiners. A num- I
ber of Japanese merchants represent- !
ing large capital propose starting a !
joint stock concern, and establishing |
works for refining between Hiogo and |
Osaka and also near Yokohama; find j
it is said have already taken step.i to !
import the necessary maohinery.
Of all citios of the world, Paris pre
sents a gathering of humankind most
fearfully mixed in its elements of dis
order. Tho criminal brought up from
childhood in tho capital will risk his
life for the privilege of living there. J
Accordingly, many crimiuals who have i
boon forbidden residences in Paris, in
npito of tho strictest surveillance of
tho barriers, will work their way in
again and tako up their career of crhno
under other names.
Throe streets in Paris are to bo j
named after tho authors, Edmond
About, Guy do Maupassant and Octave
Feuillet. Taine, tho critio and his- '
torian; Brillat-Savarin, tho epicure; i
Charcot, the great physician, and
Fourier, the socialist philosopher, [
whose communistic colony in New !
Jersey half a century ago was a moro
interesting experiment, tho Chicago
Beoord thinks, than even tho Brook
Farm—all these are to have their
names perpetuated in the now baptism
of streets that is taking place in Paris.
A Bengalese magistrate, having boon
informed of tho whereabouts of a mad
dog, armed himself and went to tho
place where the rabid animal lay by a
house door. He learned upon inquiry
that two women were in the houso and
sent word to them that ho was about
to shoot tho dog and thcreforo they
should not bo alarmed by tho report,
and that, as ho might not inflict a fatal
wound at tho first fire, and, in fact, j
might miss, they should remain within
until notified. Such a supremo cour- j
tosy is in marked contrast with that
of western civilization.
Whilo Russia is behindhand iu most 1
things pertaining to progress and en
lightenment, she is distinctly in ad- j
vatice of the remainder of the world as
far as the regulation of the tho bicy- j
cle traffic is concerned. Before any- j
ono is permitted to ride on any public
thoroughfare ho is compelled to ob- j
tain a license at a cost of a dollar, and
to have his name and address entered
upon tho police registers of his dis
trict, in token whereof ho ispresented
with a square pioee of leather with hi*
nnnibei in large figures of bright
metal. This he must have permanent
ly affixed to the back of tho cycle, »o
that it may be seen by the polico.
But, prior to receiving the license,
the knight of the wheel is forced to
undergo au examination as to whether
he can ride sufficiently well to avoid
becoming a public danger. This ex- i
animation coiim t , iu the descript ion
;
of a figure H net round two sticks, and
he is obliged to do this to the satis
faction of the official examiners, one
of whom is usually the president or
fice president of the local bicycle
club.
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1894.
IF I SHOULD 00,
If I should go away,
And you no more should moot me lllce the
May—
I say, It I should go,
Who long have lived and long have loved
you so—
Would you not fool some natural, sweet re
gret?
Would you remeinberyot?
If I should go away?
And you should seo tho breaking of the
day-
Would you not still remomber how I stood
And saw tho sarao sun lightening all tho
wood
Where the pines waved? Whore nil tho flow
ers are wet
With sweetest dews? Would you remembor
yet?
If I should go away—
Sweetheart there are no words for me to
say!
I cannot go and leave you! God would not
Have any violet of our love forgot!
Put, if His violets with no tears were wet,
Would you—o, sweetheart, love of mine,
forget?
—Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
TARSNEFS TEMPTATION,
BY TOM P. MORGAN.
fdV A NLESS there was
a horse-trade or
I something of equal
I importance on
112 hand, Lyman Tars
ney wa s pretty
stiro to be found
at tho postoffice at
mailtime; not be
cause ho expected
a letter, but be
cause the post
office was in a gro
cery store plenti
fully supplied with
comfortable box, barrel and counter
Beats. It offered abundant opportu
nities for sly nibblings of crackers
and cheese, and was tho clearing
house for the gossiji of the village.
When, one day,. the postmaster
really did hand Tarsney a letter, he was
much surprised and examined it
doubtfully. The envelope was ad
dressed plainly enough, and bore the
New York postmark. Who in the
world could be writing him from New
York?
Tarsney went to one side and opened
the letter with mingled eagerness and
doubt. Perhaps somobody had died
and left him a fortune? Stranger
things had been heard of. When ho
had gained a partial understanding
of the contents, he hurriedly left the
postoftice, his whole lazy body quiv
ering with excitement.
Around the corner he paused, un
decided whero togo to examine his
prize in secret. Then he slouched
with unaccustomed energy out of the
village into tho woods, turning ab
ruptly from the beaten path as soon
as ho was out of sight of any house,
and keeping on till he felt sure he was
in no danger of being seen.
He wormed his way jnto the midst
of a thicket, and re-examined his
prize. The contents of the envelope
consisted of a neat circular, printed
in imitation of the work of a type
writer, a strip purporting to bo a
clipping from a newspaper and a small
slip bearing a name and address.
Tarney read the circular carefully.
It was couched in a strain well calcu
lated to Hatter tho vanity and whet
tho greed of the reader. After stat
ing that the writer was desirous of ob
taining a shrewd man to handle his
goods, which were nowhere mentioned
as counterfeit money, but always as
"goods," the circular continued:
"Yon can make money faster and
easier by dealing in my goods than
you ever dreamed of before in your
life. It was never intended that one
man should have millions and another
nothing. The wealth and good things
of this world are too unevenly distrib
uted.
"Unless you have money enough to
live on comfortably for the rest of
your life, this is just tho business you
should take hold of, as my goods can
be handled with perfect safety and
immenso profits, and enable you to
provide yourself with a competence
for your old age and pass your re
maining years in ease and comfort.
"There is no wrong about it—Uncle
Sam has millions of our money locked
ui> iu the Treasury, uselessly and un
justly so."
So on went the letter to a consider
able length, in a way shrewdly calcu
lated to find the weak point of such a
man as Lyman Tarsney. When ho had
finished reading the circular, he was
gasping at the magnitude of the possi
bilities which seemed suddenly to have
opeued before him. His hand trem
bled at he turned hungrily the
printed slip that accompanied tho cir
cular.
It purported to bo a newspaper
clipping, setting forth that, in spite of
the utmost vigilance of tho officials,
certain engraved plates had boon
stolon from tho United States Treas
ury, from which notes—exactly tho
same as tho genuine except that they
did not have the sanction of the Gov
ernment— were being printed by the
thousands of dollars' worth. Tho fol
lowing extract is a fair sample of the
sophistry of the article:
"As tho case stands these people in
Now York have everything theii own
way, for their shrewd work seems •»
bo carried on in perfect safety, and
there is not the slightest chance of de
tecting them i>r the people with whom
they do business. It seems to bo a
positive fact that they are in posses
sion of duplicate Treasury plates ex
actly the same us those used by tho
Government, uud the paper is similar
to that upon which the genuine notes
•re printed. It isn profound mystery
how and from whence they obtain it.
Tliu greenbacks which the New York
acoundrels arc dealing in aro so fine
anil perfect that tliero is not one
chance in ten thousand of detecting
them, and alf the detectives have failed
to unearth the slightest clue to makers
or users."
Lyman Tarsney had never been des
perate or depraved. His sins had been
chiefly of omission rather than of com
mission. He had never btolen aught
except precious time, and the happi
ness and comfort of his wife and chil
dren.
He had always been one of those
sanguine souls who are content to wait
patiently for something to turn up,
instead of rolling high their sleeves
and turning up somothing for them
selves.
In the old home State ho had done
fairly well, till finally ho had conceived
tho belief that in Missouri was located
the El Dorado where kindly nature re
turned a maximum of reward for a
minimum of toil. Thither ho had
journeyed with his little lloek, and
purchased a rnn-down farm "on time."
The succeeding season was a poor one,
and Tarsney's minimum of labor
brought him so little of reward that
he was unable to make the necessary
payments on the farm, and indue
time lost it.
The family presently found shelter
in a shabby routed house in the out
skirts of the village, and Lyman de
generated by degrees into a good
natured loafer, a trader of horses and
catcher of lish—a worthless etitnberer
of the ground.
Tho "green goods" circular came to
him like a revelation. It aroused his
avarice aud his long dormant ambi
tion. He had never had his chance
before, ho told himself; but now his
chance had como. The artful argu
ments seemed prepared especially to
fit his case. They stilled his sluggish
conscience and blinded his dull eyes.
"The wealth and good things of this
world are too unevenly distributed. It
was never intended that one man
should have millions and auother
nothing."
The words met with Tarsney's un
qualified indorsement. The appeal to
his desire for comfort in his old age
seemed like tho pitying words of a
kind friend. True, it was counterfeit
money. Ha! Was it?
Did not the newspaper clipping
state that the notes were printed from
genuine plates made by tho Govern
ment? What mattered it to him if
these plates had been stolen? It was
uo affair of his. Was not the money
the same, whether printed with Uncle
Sam's sanction or without it?
Tho (Government had millions,
billions for aught ho knew, looked up
in the Treasury vaults, of no use to
anybody. Why should not he profit
by Uncle Sam's carelessness? Tho
tempter won.
The coming of dusk admonished
him of the flight of time. He placed
tho precious documents carefully in
his pocket. When he reached home
the scanty .upper was waiting for
him.
"Poppy's turn! poppy's turn!"
whooped tho littlo white head two
sizes larger than tho baby that wore
it.
There was always a baby in tho
Tarsney household. These children
loved the shiftless, worthless father,
who was always good-natured, who
whittled little toys for them, and was
ever ready with a story.
Ho had no relish for the simple
supper that night. Tho food half
choked him. He noticed, he know
not why, that his wife's cough seemed
worse than common, though in truth
it had been growing worse for weeks
unporceived by him. But tho poor
woman looked more cheerful to-night
than was her wont.
She was not patching or mending
this evening, but was nursing the
feeble baby in idleness. Her thin
cheeks were faintly Hushed. Tho
little white heads were happy and ex
cited over something unusual.
"Dess what, poppy?" piped tho
head that was two sizes larger than
the baby.
"I'm to git all tho fino washin* an'
ironin' from the hotel," said Mrs.
Tarsney, with almost a happy smile.
"I can make 'most a dollar a day out
of it."
Poor soul! Happy at the prospect
1 of added toil!
"An' me and John aro to begin
pickin* grapes at the nursery day af
ter to-morrow," said Jim, ten years
old. "We'll git half a cent a pound."
"I made six cents herdin' Mis' Bar
low's dncks this afternoon," chimed
in Lyddy, tho eight-yoar-ohl girl.
For a long time these poor souls
had worked, saved and denied them
selves that they might return to the
old home State. The hunger for home
had been knawing at Mrs. Tarsney's
heart for many a long, long day. She
had uttered littlo complaint, but had
toiled on, wearing her life out at the
washtub in tho liopo of one day re
turning to tho dear old home com
munity. Sometimes sho said hope
fully :
"Maybe my health will be better
when we get back home."
The younger children knew only by
hearsay about the old home, but they
were all strong in the belief that it
was tho happiest place on earth.
They were all of one accord hungry
to go. No self-denial tending to bring
tho happy time nearer was too great
lor them to make. Every dollar,
nickle, penny that could p >«silily be
spared was sacredly hoarded to that
end.
The sum required to take them all
was a very great one in their eyes
Mrs. Tarsney, with pat hot in pride,
felt that they must not go looking
like beggars. New clothes Must oe
provided for nil. and no matter how
cheap, new clothes for the entire flook
would cost what was to them another
large sum.
Jit the Imttere I old pewter sugar
bowl in the little cupboard bcitldo the
chimney was ono hundred and forty*
two dollars and scventy-nino Cents (
the savings of many long days of toil
and privation. Out of the hoard tho
husband and father, too, must be well
clothed and provided with a railway
ticket. Ho had added but little to
the fund, possibly five dollars in all —
but then ho was tho husband and
father. Mrs. Tarsney was afraid of
banks, and so the slowly growing
hoard was kept in the old pewter
bowl.
"It won't be so very long now," tho
poor woman said, hopefully, and then
a paroxysm of coughing shook her.
"sly dollar a day will count up pretty
fast, and Johnny and Jimmy will
make a great deal while grapes last."
Lyman Tarsney lay awake all night
loug, torn by doubts and indecision.
Ho believed he loved his little flock.
He would have dono right by them
long ago, he told himself, if only some
thing had turned up to give him a
chance to do so. The something for
which ho had so patiently waited had
been a long time in turning up. But
now, he thought, tho opportunity ha<J
come; he had his chance at last.
Just as the first faint gray was creep
ing up in the east, Lyman Tarsney
arose from beside his sleeping wife
and stole tho battered old pewter
sugar-bowl and its contents, every
penny of which represented so much
of patient self-denial, of toil and pri
vation.
As ho slunk through tho room Mrs.
Tarsney, disturbed by somo slight
noise that he made, stirred uneasily
and coughed iu her sleep, and tho
wretched man paused suddenly, as if
a reproachful voice had called to him.
But tho poor woman did not awaken,
and he crept out of the house with tho
precious hoard in his clutch.
He started to slink rapidly away,
and then stopped, he knew not why.
The gray of the early morning hung
over tho sleeping earth and dimmed
the stars, fading slowly boforo tho
coming day. Soft sounds of tho pass
ing night wero borne to his ears with
seemingly unaccustomed clearness.
It would be train time in a few min
utes. Tarsney took two or three
slouching steps toward the gate, and
then stopped again. The patient wife
anil mother, the little flock of white
heads—how terribly they would be
cast down when they discovered tho
loss ! Their grief—
But was he not acting for the best,
doing the best for them? he asked
himself. It would not be for long,
and then he would come back with a
much greater sum of money thau he
had taken away. He would make it
all up to them then, and they would
all go back to the old home State.
Still he did not goon. He turned
nnd crept cautiously to the window,
left open for the admission of tho
breeze. The room was wrapped in
darkness.
He could hear tho regular breath
ing of its sleeping inmates. Mrs.
Tarsney coughed again feebly in her
sleep. Disturbed by the sound, ono
of the little white heads iu the trun
dle-bed almost beneath the window
stirred uneasily and murmured,
"Poppy!"
Lyman Tarsney clutched the win
dow-sill, and then there came tho
long-drawn, far-off whistle of the east
bound train, admonishing him that he
had but just time to reach the station.
He turned and slouched quickly to
the rickety, half-hiugeless gate, then
paused with his hand on its top. Tho
little white head's murmured "Pop
py 1" seemed still sounding in his
ears.
He stood there for a little while,
then his hand dropped from the top
of the gate and he looked up at tho
far, far-off, fading stars in the graying
sky—looked up helplessly, dumbly for
a little time, and iu that tiino he knew
himself for what he was.
He saw his utter worthlessness. The
cruel, criminal neglect of years was
made as clear to him as if a great voice
had shouted the truth in his ears.
Lyman Tarsney gasped, bared his
head aud stood up straight beneath
the stars.
The rumble of the approac'iing train
grew louder and louder, but tho man
turned and tiptoed into the house, and
replaced the battered old pewter sugar
bowl in the little cupboard beside tho
chimney.
When the rest of the family awoke
with the coming of tho sun, the hns
ban laud father was sleeping as
soundly as any of the white heads had
slept. The frugal breakfast was kept
waiting for hiin as he slept on, and the
clamor of the white heads was hushed
—Poppy was sleeping. A goodly part
of tho forenoon had slipped away be
fore he awoke.
"1 duuuo but you ought to liavo
waked mo sooner," he said to his wife,
in a lialf-shamel'aced way. "I'm goin'
to work to-day. I've been thinkiu'
about—wal, if we're goiu' east we've
got to work. I—or—you don't need
to tako that wasliin' from tho hotel,
Marthy. You'd better rest—l'm goin'
to work.'
And ho worked that day and for
many days thereafter—worked with a
zeal and faithfulness all tho more
marked because of his idleness of
many a day before.
If there was any touch of heroism
in this, I think it was augmeuted by
the fact that Lyman Tarsney never
kuew what he had escaped by keeping
out of the clutches of the"green
goods" men. Youth's Companion.
A South Alrirait Home.
A typical Southern Africa houso
| hold described by Olive Schreiuer had
mi Kuglisli father, a half Dutch
i mother with a French name, a Scotch
i governess, a Zulu cook, a Hottentot
i housemaid and a Kaffir stable boy.
j while the little girl who waited on
the table wan a Basuto. New i'ork
| Advertiser.
Terms —>sl.oo in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months.
AN ICE CREAM FACTORY".
MAKING THE COOI.ING COMPOUND
BY MACHINERY.
Things That Are >Hxe<l Up for It and
How They Are Treated—lce Cream
Bricks.
ICE CREAM is manufactured from
a combination of milk, pure
cream aud gelatine, flavored with
different extracts, such as vanilla,
lemon, strawberry, etc., tho in
gredients being first mixed up to
gether and placed in circular metal
vessels or runners which revolve
around inside of circular wooden
tubs, the runners being surrounded
by a quantity of cracked ico and rock
salt. Each runner is furnished with
a beater having a number of blades
which revolve around on the inside,
beating up tho material, tho ice and
rock salt causing it to thicken and
form itself into ice croatn. Some
manufacturers uso eggs, corn starch,
etc., and boil the ingredients before
freezing.
The first process is the mixing to
gether of the ingredients. About
ten quarts of pure cream, ten quarts
of milk and about eight pounds of
granulated sugar aro first mixed to
gether. If tho ice cream is to bo
flavored with strawberry, about six to
eight drops of puro red coloring aud
one-quarter pint of essence of straw
berry are added. A quantity of
gelatine dissolved in about a quart of
warm water is then added to this,
bringing tho solution up to about
twenty-four quarts in bulk. It is
then run through a strainer or fine
sieve into the runner.
The runners aro made of copper,
the inside of which is coated with tin,
which, after about four weeks' con
stant running, has to be renewed, t'uo
coating of tin being worn off by tho
working of the beater. The runners
are about twenty-three inches in height
and about ono foot in diameter, and
hold about, forty quarts. The wooden
tubs in which they revolve are twafect
four inches iu height and aro about
twenty inches in diameter on the in
side, leaving a space of about four
inches for the ice around the runner.
Attached to the top of the cover of
the runner and perpendicular shaft of
the beater, which revolves in a socket
at tho topof the grinding machine, aro
two gearing wheels, which aro geared
to another attached to the shafting of
the machine. When the machine is
in motion tho beater, containing ten
1 i inch iron blades, nnd the runner
revolve around in differeut directions,
making about fifty-five revolutions
per minute. As soon as the machine
is set in motion, a small quantity of
ico and rock salt is added, which is re
newed every few momemf until the
tub is filled, taking iu all about twen
ty-five pounds of ice. The boating
operation takes about, twelve minutes,
the salt and ice gradually freezing the
twenty-four quarts solution, while the
gelatine swells or raises the material
up to forty quarts.
The grinding operation is completed
when the ico cream shows or adheres
to tho glass windows in tho cover of
the runner. The wooden tub with the
runner of cream is then rolled to ono
side and another is putin its place to
pass through the same operation. Tho
ice cream is then taken from the run
ners and put into cans ranging from
one to ten gallons each and packed
into ice and rock salt for delivery,
which is ready in about two or three
hours' time.
Tho machine for breaking up ice
consists of a revolving cylinder four
teen inches iu diameter and twenty
inches iu length, riveted to which are
nine conical-shaped wrought iron
teeth about five inches in leugth,
which, when the machine is in motion,
pass between a number of other teeth
connected to tho framework of the
machine. Tho cakos of iee, which
weigh about fifty pounds each, are
first broken into two pieces and placed
in the machine. Tho teeth of the re
volving cylinder, which makes about
120 revolutions per rniuute, crash
through tho ice, breaking it up into
small pieces at the rate of a ton in
every twenty minutes.
Ice cream bricks are made by pack
ing the cream into metal forms. These
foims have a top and bottom cover.
The ice cream is first put into these
brick shaped forms and a strip of paper
placed between the cream and each
cover, which holds them firmly in
pl.'Ve, and then thev aro packed away
in salt and ice aud frozen for about
throe hours. They are then taken out
and tho forms dipped into a pail of
warm water, which losend the cream
from tho sides. Tho top and bottom
covers, after being wiped with a eloth,
are then taken off, the attoudaut al
lowing the loosened brick of cream to
slip out of the form onto a strip of
white paper immediately covering it,
and placing it into a pasteboard box
and packed in ice again for delivery.
Neapolitan bricks of ico cream are
made by placing ono layer of creani
over another, such as vauilla, choco
late, strawberry, etc. A great many
metal forms are made of composition
of lead and zinc, representing animals,
fruits, vegetables, etc., tho ice cream
being packed into the forms aud frozen
iu the same manner as the bricks.
Forty-quart cans of milk cost whole
sale about $1.12 per can, puro cream
about seventeen cents per quart, and
ice about $3 per ton. Two machines,
with three runners, can turnout from
1500 to 20(11 quarts of ico cream per
day.- New York News.
The Chinese Government levios i>
regular tax on beggars, and give#
them, iu return, the privilege of beg
giug in a certain district.
Tho coldest place iu the world i»,
Yakuteh, Russia; the thermometer
sometimes falls to seventy-three de
grees below zero,
NO. 49.
"DUTIES I PUT AWAY."
Duties I pot away ;
My heart keeps holiday.
I flee the fervent heat
And seek the cool retreat,
Whero I can see the blue
And silver river flow, , *
And green and distant woods—
Bweet silent solitudes.
Here all is calm ; the grass
Scarce rustles M I pass.
One works ; I hoar bto boon _
In honeysuckle blooms.
Go, brown bee, go away;
I love not work to-day ;
But with white clouds abo^fc
That rove, my thoughts would rflvi
111 random luxury,
Through earth and air and sky.
Even the birds are still,
And the wind upon the hill,
Beon through the tremulous air,
All things look calm and fair ;
And I with them would cease
For this delicious peaco ,
Letting the world go by,
With for It all an oye.
—W. F. Barnard in tho Chautauquan.
HCXOR OF THE DAY.
The Boston girl speaks of the ball
player as being stricken out. —Puck.
Man's character often speaks tho
loudest when his lips are silent.—
Texan Sittings.
We have hoard girls apply the word
"cute" to everything but a corpse.—
Atchison Globe.
Some men would complain if they
did not have anything to complain
about.—Atchison Globe.
Few husbands and wives are so af
fectionate and trusting that they say
"our money."—Atchison Globe.
It sounds rather paradoxical for a
perfectly well man to speak of his in
valid wife as hi 3 better half.—Boston
Transcript.
"Er man kin run inter debt," said
Uncle Eben, "but when it comes ter
gittin' out he'agotter crawl.' I—Wash
ington Star.
Scribe—"How is your novel com
ing along?" Jiblets—"By tlie ex
press. I expect it at any moment."
—Syracuse Post.
An old maid is a popular lady who
has had many elegant offers of mar
riage, but prefers to remain single.
»—Atchison Globe.
As a rule, the man who boasts that
ho believes in always calling a spade a
spade, occasionally calls things spades
that nre not spades.—Puck.
Wigwag referred to a conversation
ho had had with two female deaf mutes
ne "a little exeroiso with the dumb
belles."—Philadelphia Record.
In scheduling this grist world
No thing reoeiv«M ns&fcWs
For every dog there is a day,
For every cat a night.
—Buffalo Courier.
An insult from certain sources is n
ediuplimont. When an ass kicks at
you ho does HO becatiso ho recognizes
that yott nre utliko hinv—Texas Sift
tags.
Judge—"How old are you, miss?"
Elderly Female—"l nni—l am—"
Judge—"Better hurry up; every
moment makes it worse. Fliogende
Blnettcr.
"Gue sister," said Johnny, "i&
stamp clerk in tho postoflice aud the
other is a school teacher. I often
Wonder which one licks the most."—
Adam's Freeman.
Melton —"I wish I hadn't read that
article on 'How to Tie a Necktie.'"
Beaver—"Why?" Melton—"l knew
how to tie ono before I read it."—
Clothier and Furnisher.
"Did Miss Gotrox's father try to
draw you out while von were there,
last night?" "Draw me out? Great
Scott, man ! Ho was behind me, not
in front." —Buffalo Courier.
She stood upon the white sand beach,
The north, east, south and west did scaa;
Wlien suddenly sue gave a screech ■
"Ha, hu ! hu, ha!" She saw a man!
—Syracusa l'ost.
Servant "Yis, sorr. Mrs. Talker
is in. What's yer name?" Visitor—
"Professor Vandersplinkenhoiuier."
Servant—"Och! Sure, ye'd better go
roight in aud take it wid ye."—Tit-
Bits.
Smith-Jones —"How do you manage
to keep up your mental energy so
well?" Smith-Brown—"My wife gives
me a piece of her mind every morning
before I start to work."—Harlem
Life.
Blobbs—"What are you doing with
your football suit on? Not going to
play this kind of weather?" Hicks—
"No ; but I'm going to see old Money
bags and ask him for his daughter's
hand." —Philadelphia Beeord.
"When other lips an I other tongues
The tale of love shall tell—"
I have no dou >r. Evangeline,
You'll like it jus: as well.
—.ndianapolis Journal.
Clerk- "I would like to have my
salary raised. Hoggs gets 3i> more
than me, aud he dou't do any more
work. It's unjust." Employer
"Yes; it is unjust. I'll reduce Boggs's
salary $6."--Philadelphia Record.
Studious Boy—"What is the mean
ing of 'market value' aud 'intrinsic
value?'" Father " I'he 'market
value' is the price you pay for a thing ;
'intrinsic value' in what you got when
you Hell it to a second-hand dealer."
-Tit-Bits.
Little Ethel—"l wonder why men
liko to talk about their old school
days?" Little Johnny -'"1 suppose
after they get growed up they is al
ways tryin' to tind out where the
teacher lives, so they eau lick him."
—Good News,
Miss Haverly "I'nele Ned has tho
funniest way of speaking of my sist' is
two little children." Mr. Austen
"How?" Miss Haverly -" A'ell, their
names nro Ebeneiser and Floreno#. He
calls them the Ebb an l Flo of tti«»
Tied." —Vogue.