SULLIVAN JBLFE REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XTI. The annual tuxes of the world aggre gate the enormous sum of $1,350,000,- 000, According to statistics, women to day arc two inches taller, on an aver age, than they were twenty or thirty years ago. The plague raging iu China is said to be identical with that which de vastated London in 1661, when there were 08,596 deaths in a population of 460,000. Forty-five pounds of corn arc said to be worth only a cent and a halt' iu Russia to-day, and many farmers arc sending their cattle into the fields, as the cost of harvesting would exceed the price of the corn. Sonio one, who has evidently con siderable time on his hands, estimates that of 1000 men who marry, 332 marry younger women, 579 marry women of the same ago and eighty nine marry older women. About $7,000,000 in cold cash has been expended thus far on Chicago's big ditch—the drainage canal. Pub lished estimates, a .-cording to tho latest authorized revision, put the cost of the work at #21,000,000. The American eagle must spread his wings over a miasmatic domain alto gether, the New York Mail and Ex press concludes, if the quinine con sumed by Americans is any indication. Uncle Sam's subjects swallow just one half of all tho quinine produced in the world. A school census of Chicago, just completed, put-, tho population of that city at 1,587,727, which is less than the total claim lon the basis of the names in tho directory. Of this number 658,300 are under twenty-one years of age. The number of pupils attending private schools is 43,546. The same census places tho foreign born population of Chicago at 618,565. The twelfth report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics says of some of the contracts made by coal mine operators with the miners : "The tendency of these contracts is to cause the signers to be considered more in tho light of chattels than free men. By the terms certain rights are waived that are common to all men, while "the provisions seem to be in violation of the laws of the State and are ap parently imposed on tho miner to cir cumvent all laws that may be passed for his protection." Little shops ape the ways of the big ones sometimes with absurd results, muses the Chicago Herald. One sees now and then a tiny ten by twelve shop fairly hidden beneath hysterical declarations that a great stock must be sacrificed. Sometimes a shop that cjuld by no possibility hold more than a few hundred dollars' worth of goods, announce; a great clearance sale, when a half-hour's rush such as the big shops occasionally have, would leave tho place as bare as Mother Hub bard's cupboard. It begins to look to tho New Orleans Picayune as though one outcome of the late strike would bo compulsory military servica for tho whole Nation. General Curtis, of New York, who is a military enthusiast, has prepared a bill which lias recive I tho sanction of the House Militia Committee. Tho National Guard is subject to bo called by the President into active service, for a time not exceeding nine months, to repel tho invasion of foreign foes, to suppress rebellion, or to put down Indian uprisings. While iu active service it is to be subject to the same regulations as tho regular troops of the United States, an 1 to be entitled to the same pay and allowances. Such a plan as this would turn tho whole Nation into a vast military en campment an I m ike a soldier of every citizen. A Maine lumberman says the wild lands of his Stat would make thirteen States as large :>s Ithode Island, two as large as New Hampshire and Ver mont, and one twie a* large as Mas sachusetts. These liu Is arc heated iu the following counties: Aroostook, 2,830,5]N acres; Franklin, 589,654 acres; Hancock, 362, sj) acre*; Ox ford, 553,651 acres; Penobscot, H27,- 001 acres; I'iscntaqis, 2,ii'K),144 acres; Somerset, 1.735,5;H acres; Washing ton, 021,123 acre*. The spruce tim ber lan Is of Mam • are worth more ti> day ttutii the pine lands fifty year* ago. Ibis statement, observes the New York Hun, is l>a -•••! on th opin ion 111 IUIUIM.'! mell who llttVll been en gaged iu the bllstnen fur forty years. Th*j value of th .'»o spr ic litti Is has b-'.-u itljr enhanced by the «.nv*- UtuUi J«Ui*u I ioi pulp WuJ-1. Land forces have most influenced the destinies of mankind through warfare. "There ought to be a law compelling every man to read a petition beloro signing it," thinks tho Atchison (Kan.) Globe. It is said that tho world uses 19,- 500,000,000 bushels of wheat and 25,- 000,000,000 bushels of Indian corn annually. Of the latter about i,500,- 000,000 bushels are used by man, tho rest being fed to animals. It is said that a set of harness is on exhibition in London, England, which automatically slips off a horse when it falls down, leaving the animal per fectly free. If safe, remarks the New York World, this harness will meet a long-felt want, especially incitieswith asphalt pavements. The engineer who is installing the electric power plant of the Metropoli tan Elevated Railway in Chicago figures that the use of electricity will save thnt company .$300,000 a year in operating expenses, compared with the cost of running trains by anthracite burning locomotives. Shocking casualties resulting from balloon ascensious have lately been so frequent that it seems to tho New York News high time for legal inter position. Several women have lost their lives during tho summer by mis haps in essaying tho parachute act. It speaks ill for the civilization of tho time when great throngs of people will congregate to sec a poor woman, in the effort to earn a living, take the horrid chance of plunging through space to an appalling death. Bran, the refuse of wheat, and which at one time was considered so worthless as to be spouted into the river at Minneapolis, now sells within a fraction of tho wheat itself, an nounces the American Cultivator. And oats, hulls and all, bring nearly as much is the finished product. The following comparison of wholesalo bulk values per ton will show how matters stand: Bran, per toil, $16.25; corn, $19.25; wheat, $18.50; oats, $24.50; flour (best St. Louis), $26. American interest naturally attaches to the Japaneso Navy from the fact that her first armod ship of modern design was an American vessel, and iier first admiral was an American officer. The vessel was the ram Stone wall, which was captured from the Confederates while at Havana, and in 1868 was sold to Japau and taken to Yokohama by way of the Straits of Magellan, in charge of Captain George Brown, United States Navy. Tho first Japanese Admiral was Walter Grin nell, who was appointed to that office while an ensign in tho United States Navy stationed at Hiago. Says tho Buffalo News: The fre quent reference to the "Midway" in the newspapers, periodicals and the everyday speech of the people proves ihat the unique thoroughfare on the World's Fair grounds took a wonder fuld hold upon the imagination of those who visited that most peculiar feature of the fair. The "Midway" found entrance to church ex hibitions, to society festivals and pub lie amusements of various kinds, and "Midway" seems to be a word that lingers longer upon the lips of tho people than any other term connected with the great Columbian festival of last year. E. T. Simeox in his "Primitive Civil ization" says tho two occupations iu China are learning and agriculture. The standard of comfort for the le lioring masses is fixed by that of the smallest cultivators, who form tho largest section of tho population. Poverty never involves actual starva tion, except in times of famine. It means having to eat plain rice. The average man iu China probably gets enough to eat, such as it is, in ordinary times. The farms are small, from half an acre to four and a half acres; the estimate is that one aero will sup port twelve persons iu abundance. YN ages are very low. A recent Chinese writer states that the average earnings of w irkmcn aro twenty cents a day, and that half of this is enough to ■sup port a family of live, after Chinese fashion. The now Penal Code fixes the value of labor impressed into tlw public service it fourteen cents a day. But these nr minimum rate*. In citi carpenter and mas -isgel thirty cents a day without food; nervnuW, s•'. a month without fi M I; farmhand*, §17,50 a year without food. A sol dier's pay is (2 a muni!i with bonr l, but half of this i, prsid m rice. In tiithO uf the cities ej'wjuu Isbojcr i will \mrk for »ix cuuU a day, LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1894. "FAIL-ED." Fallot of the goal which ouee hart boon my aim, Tho distant port which I onco had sallod, I think tho graven words above my narno Must bo "'Ho failed." Failed to nelilovo tho vision and tho quest, Tho solf-forgettlng nod solf-saerlllco ; Failed to attain the heritage of rest BoyonJ all price. Failed to retain thn birthright, having sold For passing ploasuro an I fro n fear of pain ; Paying tho wage ol God's eternal gold For timely gain. Failed of tho purity that purges sight, Tho faith that nourishes with daily broad : Failed of tho hail 1 that roaohes through tho night To gui le our tread. Failel, having lai I his han 1 upon tho plow, Posoon to falter and so soon to tire ; Fiiilod. though the God of llfo inay evpn now Save as by lire. However bright life's after-glow may flsm", If storms rotreat that have so long as sailed, 1 think tho graven wor Is a'>ovo my n mi Must be "H J failed." —Arthur L. Salmon, in The Academy. THE POINTS VIEW, ur FMMA A. OITER. JUST hate it!" said i Julia Ives, not vio «» lently, but plain ) lively. ) "What?" her J~" j m other qucs tioned, in anxiety. And her father "' looked up in v—startled apprehen """ sion. Not thnt they were astonished at Julia's having found something new to despise. She was their only child, and perhaps a little spoiled an I capri cious. "Ob, Pelham Heights and every thing in it!" said Julia. She had on her gray riding-habit, with n rosebud on her lapel. "I'm sick of Pelham Heights! Let's move ! Isn't two years of it enough for you? Such a place such restrictions! You can't build a house under four thousand dollars; you can't keep a cow ; you can't," said Julia, satirically, "wear a silk hat with a sack coat, or oat your salad without oil. I want to move out in the woods and live in a shanty and keep pigs!" "Julia !" her mother gaspe l. And she added with as much severity ns she was able to master, "You to be tirad of Pelham Heights! AVhcn you have had such a magnificent time here, so much attention from all the goutle men, and—" "The gentlemen !" Julia murmured, pulling on her gauntlets. "It is tho gentlemen that I want to get away from. You meet one Pelham Heights i man, and you know nil tho rest. They're precisely alike. They're just like the place itsolf—perfectly correct, , and polite, and swell, and monotonous and tame, and and wearing! I'm deathly tired of them! If I could meet a- a farmer or something," said Julia, "that didn't know anything about clothe:', or tho opera, or the books that you have to read if you're proper, and that wore a slouch hat and tucked his trousers in his boots, and snid, 'ain't' and Mil tell!'—if I could meet him I'd marry him!" Miss Ives informed her rtaring parents. And then r.ho went out and mounted her horse, changed her mind about having tho .rroom accompany her, and rode off alone. "I don't know what to mako of her," said her mother, despairingly. "She isn't like my family. She's an Orcutt. She has your Aunt Felicia Orcutt's nose, and she's like her. 1 hope she won't do anything peculiar. I couldn't live through it. If she only would take a liking to soma nice fellow here in town and settle near us ! But how she talks!" "Let her alone," Julia's father re sponded, with a coolness which was exasperating. "She's a little roman tic just now. but she'll come out just as she ought to go. She's a level headod girl. I'm not worrying about her." "Do you ';ver worry about any thing?" said his harassed wife. "If she could lik ; Horace Upham or Spen cer Prescott—both eligible. But she won't." "She'll like somebody just as good," Julia's trustful father retorte l. Miss Ives chirruped to her horse till he struck into a bar I trot. Peo ple bowed an 1 smiled from hammocks and porches; hats flew off at hor np pr inch. She saw Spencer Prescott on his bicycle and Mr. Upham in his road cart, and slm smiled in weariness. lYrhaps her father and mother had considered it noi.si use, but she was tired el' I'eihain Heights. She did pine for something new nud interest ing. She d'd abominate the Pelham Heights society men, mid she did feel n gloomy despair of ever knowing anybody any better, or stronger minded, cr livelier. It \iao all per fectly true. It was H berntful day, and she wanted t- get us far away iru.n town a* sin- could. Bingo ei.'jo/nd the oatiup na keenly i»« hi« in* tri-ss He trotted smoothly and tiwiitiy. ! turning of a iie»v ioi» l, JuliK reined him it l»-*, hesita tingly, th- n H ut In ion. The road loitke I siio-ith. ll w u ili\ tiff, at any r itc; t)» i« •* a* a sho iy thicket on either *»d«. Miu !m ihic* Ime it her peaceful head and dr»u!l in the woody trn (Muw. b* ail led a'otig with poetUve euthusissw. iJat lhugo «*• rather young and sometimes heedless without a strong guiding hand, and Julia had forgotten everything but her triumphant enjoyment of being live miles away from Pel bam Heights. At an unlooked-for unevenness in the newly-mado road, Bingo stum bled, could not recover himself and came down on his knees, with a fright ened whinney, and his mistress was thrown to tho ground. She was on her feet the next in stant. Had anybody seen her—her, that was ratod tho best horse woman in tho region? She felt a dreadful, creeping certainty that somebody had ; and she was right. Out from the tangle of young trees on the left came stalking a young man with a gun and a dog. "Great Scott 1" he ejaculated. "I'm just iu time. Are you hurt?" "Not in the least," said Julia. Her nose—tho nose which partook of the qualities of her father's Aunt Felicia's—went up a haughty three inches. Bingo got ou his feet and looked crestfallen. "Well, your habit is torn a little," the young man observed, eying tho tear wfth a twinkling expression. Julia could have boxed his ears. "I presume I should have dis covered it," she retorted, stroking Bingo's noso. "No doubt. And your posy came off," said the stranger, picking up the fallen rosebud. "A .Tack, isn't it?" Julia fixed him with a sevoro look ; I but that look revealed to her some | interesting facts—interesting and amusing. He was a tall fellow, blonde-haired and blue-eyed and darkly sunburned; his eyes were really fine, and he wore a faded coat and disreputable looking old soft hat. He looked a good deal like a tramp, but there were the gun and dog. "An American Beauty, since you are particular about knowing," said Julia, frigidly. "I am particular about everything; it's my nature," said the young man, in a tone of mild apology. "And you''l excuse me, but it disturbs me to see your hat on one side—fearfully j on one side." Julia's frowning eyes met his. She j eould not hold out against his mis j chievous, gav impertinence. She | laughed. "I did look absurd, I suppose, and Bingo, too. We never made such a break before, did we, Bmgo? Is my I hat straight now, please?" "Perfectly, geometrically. Seriously, j I was frightened when I saw you go over. Aro you certain your'e not hurt?" "Not a bit." She blushed a little under his look of concern. "But you are shaken up a little bit. Let mo tell you!" ho said, almost i shyly, his strong, brown hand on Bingo's shoulder. "There is a farm house only a quarter of a mile up the road, and I know the people well. If j you will ride up there with me, I will ' get you some milk, or buttermilk, I whichever you like best. I happen to j know the quality of it. • I've had many a meal there." ! "Is buttermilk the best thing to take when you've fallen off your horse?" said Julia. "Always. You know those little books about first aid to the injured? i Buttermilk is always recommended iu a case like this." "You are ridiculous," Julia said, laughing. "It isn't buttermilk alone,yon know. Mrs. Molntyre makes splendid ginger bread, and she's been baking to-day. It melts in your mouth." Tho buttons were off his coat—most of them. Ho was peculiarly graceful; every move was easy. What was he ? who was he? "I don't know," Julia murmured. "I--" "Is it too unconventional ?" said her new acquaintance. "Don't say so. You don't know Mrs. Mclntyre's gin l ger-cake—you don't, indeed !" | "Unconventional?" Miss Ives i echoed. "I hate conventionality!" | Tho young man cast a look at her j faultless attire. j "do do I," ho responded, quite ; solomuly. "Do come, then. I can smell that ginger-cako 'way here." "You aro an incorrigible joker," said Julia, biting her lips as she laughed. "I will go," she added, with a pretty graeiousness quite her own; and ho helped her to mount. She rodo back past the scene of the accident seventeen short minutes later, j Sho looked at the spot where he had | stood and laughed at her, and felt such a sharp regret that she should see him no more, that she would nut admit it ! oven to herself. She had left him at Mrs. Melr.tyre's; i sho looked back impulsively; but the j bouse was out of sight. Sho ha I not tho faintest notion as to who he was. , For all she knew he was a farm hand. Hut ho was u strangely clever and well bred and handsome farm-hand, aud ■ and fascinating. Aud she was going back to_Pelhani I Heights back toSpeucer Preseottau 1 ! Horace Upham. Her head drooped; ' her eyes dwelt oil the dusty road soiu ! brously, "Bingo," she said, "I'm sorry we caui'j out this way. Yes, 1 am," There wm a hop at Pelhani Heights j clubhouse, a *• ek later. It wis small, because the club wau exclusively aud ' early. Mr. and Mr . Ives mil their hand iuno daUkht*r name into th> ballroom at aide o'clock, aud wer>' hummed in I r rat)y by r»mh!l erowil at mi Mi ; Ifohim ami Mr, I'r -scott, and half a UtMelt others An I Ml-n Ives'* car I was aim is! full, I when old .Iu 1.-i< Luml»*rt reachf.lover the be lof th>« »hoit«i»i mail in thr >UKu'4li liUjj tiii.i i , ait I t ju.'hti I iter KIM. I « duuoo (or Jack Hwouurt, Julia I" he commanded, with jovial fa miliarity. "My friend John Har court—Mrs. Ives, Miss Ives, Mr. Ives." Julia was looking her best, in a pale green silk and cloudy chiffon; but when she looked up at tho judge's friend, she gazed and smiled and blushed tili she looked quite dazzlingly pretty. "Allow me I" ho said. Somebody had taken her first dance, but she forgot it. She took Mr. Har court's proffered arm and walked away with him. Neither of them spoke, but in a se cluded corner of tho room he pulled a dried rosebud out of an inner pocket and dangled it before her eyes. "I was so glad you let mo keep it!" he murmured. "It was kind in you." "I didn't know you had it," said Julia, striving to frown, and smiling instead, with the happiness sho could not smother. "Give it right back to me." "Never!" said Mr. Harconrt. If ho had been handsome in a dilapidated coat and a slouch hat, he was a strik ing inn dress suit, with a white flower in his buttonhole. "Toil seo yonr self how I have carried it around with me. Give it back?" Julia met his bantering look and re turned it. "Yon looked precisely like a tramp, u sho remarked, "or a farm laborer, and I thought you were. Aro you?" "Come out on tho piazza," said Mr. Hnrcourt, laughing, in gay content ment. "No, I'm not a farm hand, Miss Ives. I'm a lawyer up in the city, and when I feel the need of total rest 1 bury myself down there in the woods with tho Mclntyres for two weeks or so, and hunt and fish. Sometimes the judge ferrets me out and makes me stop a night with hini and goto some 'function' hero in Pelham Heights. So I bring my dress suit along as a provision against that catastrophe. This time, Miss Ives," said Mr. liar court, slowly and softly, "it is not a catastrophe. This time I bless tho 1 dear old judge from tho bottom of my heart!" Six months later, Miss Ives's engage ment to Mr. Harcourt, the prominent j young lawyer, was announced with | pomp and ceremony, and nobody was i surprised. Julia's mother drew long breaths o5 i peaceful reliof. "I am so glad?" she said to her hus band, in her thankfulness. "Do you remember what alarming notions tho child had awhile ago? She worried me terribly. And now she is going to ! marry John Harcourt, tho most de lightful society man I ever met, and have an establishment right here in Pelham Heights for all but a few months in the winter, and do every thing just as wo could have wished. i And she is so happy with it all I Don't ! you feel thankful?" Julia's father chuckled for several moments. "Didn't I tell you she'd eomo out jin good shape!" ho queried. "She did have some notions one while, didn't | she? It's the point of view, you see— it's tho point of view."—Saturday Night. Brazen Impudence He Thought. A west-bound train had just pulled out of the Union Station at Albany, says the Express, and tho conductor was harvesting tickets. All the seats were taken and several passengers wero obliged to stand up. Among tho latter was a dillident-lookiug, mild-mannered | man, who refused to give up a ticket. "When I get a seat, you get a ticket," he remarked mildly, but firmly; "you j are probably aware that the company can not collect fares from passengers whom it does not provide with seats." ( "Oh, come now, that don't go ; I want ' your ticket, see?" Thus spoke tho conductor. "No seat, no ticket," la : conically observed tho passenger. "We'll see about that," growled tho conductor, who hustled around and ' fiually found a brother-conductor who | was going up the road a way, whom ho induced to give up his seat to tho mildly firm passenger. 'There's a seat ' for you; now givo me that ticket," said 1 the conductor, iu a ferocious tone. | "Certainly, here it is." And the mild, ! but firm, passenger handed out a pass good to Chicago. Improvement iu Halloous. A description was given iu a con tcnipor iry of the Government balloon establishment near Farnham, which is under the direction of Colonel Tem plar. Balloon' are made there of sev eral thicknesses of gold-beater's skin, and are charged with hydrogen in stead of the customary coal gns. Tlio hydrogen is obtained either by the re -1 action of zinc and sulphuric acid or by the electrolysis of water, and costs about eight shillings per 100 I cubic feet. For transport it is compressed into irou cylin lers to a tension of about 100 atmospheres. A properly an I symmetrically mad; and mounted balloon is said to gyrate co np iratively little, and it goes without saying that such increased steadiness renders bal loon photography easier and much more accurate.— Invention. Sen W live* May .lake El'ctrieltv. A number of men are at work creeU iug portable houses u *ar the concourse at Cou#*y Island, Hro.iklyu. Inquiry as to what they were for elicited the reply: "For Klison, Watch and wait." It is said that Klisou is (Ding to experiment iu using th<> sen waves as a motive power f<»r generating •*l#*c tricity. It has long hern kiuuu to j hull that bv tbntitr; a series of casks attache I to i a.*h other by chains, and anchored *o ON to riso and fall with the waves, they could, by meait« of roils co in in u meat ing *ith rochet ' wheel* placed it) potter houses on the shore, bs« utile to revjlvs dyustu <« and H«Ukf of liodies from public in»tiutiou*, most of theui bciiif{ those of |mtt|)*r* and criminalf, who have died in the asylums and prison*. Th#* French Government eoiimden it a ; ">d plan to turn to a useful account in this nay after il#-*th the thie*#*« and murderers who have been eitenilo* uf society duriug their lifetime. Not until tbv eioM u( thu l**t ecu tury * fortius of cinumsly ywutral -1 j alwlubod m Euiop*. NO. 50. A LI fT LG WHILE, Yet a little while to bo Here, where few have love for me! Vet another cross to bear— Journoying through tho darknees hero! Day by day ure Hearing homo ! Aching heart and test that roam, Yet a little while to bo Where tho dark night shadows me I Yet another song to sing Yet another broken string— ... Then, tho rest in roses given, '"■ Aud tho sleep that wakes in heaven! —Atlanta Constitution. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Only two people attend a real pic nic.—Atchison Globe. It takes hard times to make sojuo people thankful. —Kam's Horn. A boy's idea of a hero is another boy who runs off.—Atchison Globe. It is human to err, and human na ture to say, "I told you so." —Ram's Horn. Did anyone ever get all tho reward that was offered for a thing?—Atchi son Globe. Miss Brooks— "Do you get board in Brooklyn?" Bridges—"Awfully."— New York World. A busy man usually prefers telling a lio to answering a lot of questions. —Atchison Globe. There is as little mercy in stabbing with a word as there is in doing it with a knife.-—Ram's Horn. A woman thinks nothing of buying a fifteen dollar hat, and then eating a seventeen cent luncheon.—Truth. Wo should always treat fortune in such a way as not to cause her smile to turn into a horse-laugh. —Puck. And what is a pneumatic tiro.' You asked me once before. It is tho name that, without blamo They now give to a bore. —Judge. They say that money talks. Prob ably that is the reason a doctor lirst asks to see the patient's tongue. — Puck. She—"What colored eyes do you admire; brown or blue?" He—"J can't see well enough in this light."— Buffalo Express. "Is Fraulein Snssmilch at home?" "No, sir." "Pleiase tell her that I called." "I will tell her at once." — Lustige Blaetter. The person who can sing and won't is bad enough ; but surely thore is no forgiveness for those who can': sing and will.—Elmira Gazette. "In oldon timo did walk oil utr Yo winner of ye maiden fair ; But now" —and here the joker grinned— "Ho mounts his wheel and rides on wind." —Buffalo Courier. People think it is tough when they have to pay thirty-five or forty cents per pound for steak, but it is a great deal tougher when they pay only fif teen. —Boston Courier. "Why don't you try to paddle your own canoe," growled Drown as Jones struck him for ten. "I can't," said Jones, "but I am trying to float a loan."—Washington Times. Billtired—"The world owes me a good livin' an' that's all they be to it." Tom Wiser —"Yes, ol' boy; but you see they is so many o' you fellers thet she can't pay her bills."—Boston Courier. "Now," said the young man, "take tho average woman—" "But there is no average woman," interrupted the elder. "You just naturally have to cousider each woman by herself."— Cincinnati Tribune. Tonix "My friend Soarer's busi ness frequently puts his life in dauger, but I've never yet known him to de sert his post." Toddies—"What's his business?" Tonix—"He's an aero naut." —South Boston News. I'anks (from his berth, feebly) —"I say, steward, do you think it's all up with me?" Steward (cheerfully)— "Hevery thing, for the present, sir; but your happetite will be a-comin' by an' by."- —New York Herald. "I,ittlo boy blue, come blow up your horn, The sheep's in tho meadow, tho cow's in the corn Ho came when the cattle had ion.; ;jotteu through, A messjnger lie—this little boy blue. -rue!:. "I was astounded when I heard that Mr. Brown, who married Miss Schmidt last week, had given up his position. Does he think t 1 at love will support him'.'" "Oh, o; but ho hopes that his father-iu-hiw will." •-Fliegende Blaetter. Miss vi n A-tor—' Di l y.'ii le!l Mr. Clmmleigh I was not at home, Eugenie?" Eugenic— "Oni mam'selle; ami he zay lie spi't not Francais, and I to hi.n 7.'iy '/.it milady vi 11 eoiaez down her own self and t -II him in zsh Anglais." —Tho lvmg'a .Fester. Mrs. Nuxdoor -"Your little boy climbed over Iho fence and ran all over :nv flowerbeds." Mrs. Suburb "Horrors! They had just been watered, hadn't they?" *'N - o." •'Oh, well, never mind ; ill' exercise won't, hurt him if he don't get his feet \vjt.' i.l New Soulful V'ounij Woman "Do you mean to tidl mi'that you have never yet met the w!»> talked ; and when »li ■ talked iiotw fy el*< imieb t.ill.i l at lroHt u-t 'ii that imuß'iliate VH'imt). Nor was lie! husband ell tir dy obliv, thn fact, "Intr wife, ' remarked a fririi I t ■ inm no ■I iy, "ii.i u i : irUbl* c luimaii If l«t ii. "Will, i < »." li« lejihed thoughtfully, "I (>re«t4ia« *hu lia»; but (liur* are t ui »l»u i «l. >»t liituSt it gttt »>».ij aita llur. -I'tltlil Jr'twu 1 'twi