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<ite liU.tlofity. —Uhiwsjg
• llwtaiU.
Terms---SI.OO in Advance ; 81.25 after Three Months.
A GRUESOME EXHIBITION.
COLLECTION OF VALUABLE BONES
AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.
Great Auk's Skeleton—Human Hones
Less Costly Than Those of Ani
mals—Used as Fertilizers.
FUNK ISLAND—that is, a part
of it—has been reproduced for
exhibition at the National
Museum, says the Washington
Star. It was on that lonely rock,
thirty-two miles off tho coast of New
foundland, that the now-extinct great,
auk had its principal roost. Fifty
years ago the last individual of tho
species perished. It is represented
now by a skeleton, worth S6OO, stand
ing by a heap of bird remains such as
chiefly compose tho surfaeo soil of
Funk Island, while alongside is an egg
of tho fowl, valued at SISOO, together
with the inner skin of another egg.
Tho National Museum possesses nearly
all of the groat auk bones in existence;
they are the most costly bones in tho
world. The finest collection of skele
tons in tho world is stored at tho
National Museum. They are arranged
in a series, so as to run upward from
the lowest fishes through tho reptiles
and birds, toman. Human bones are
much cheaper than tlioso of many other
animals. One can buy a nicely-articu
lated skeleton of a man tor S4O, or of
a woman for $50 —sex makes some dif
ference in the price—whereas tho
skeleton of a gorilla costs S3OO, of a
whale $l5O, of an elephant $-100, of a
lion $75, of a horse S7O, of a cat sl2,
and of a python $75.
Tho bones of a human being aro
nearly one-quarter water during tho
life of the individual. They aro
chiefly composed of phosphate of lime,
but contain a good deal of animal
matter and other elements. In tho
skeleton of a man are nearly four
pounds of tho metal calcium, which is
many times moro valuable than gold,
being worth S3OO an ounce. Thus iu
the osseous framework of tho averago
tramp may be found material with a
market value of about SIB,OOO, but
tho trouble is to separate it from the
substanees with which it is combined.
Thnt is what makes calcium costly. It
is only in bones that phosphate of
lime is found iu anything like a pure
state. Everybody knows the value of
that material as a fertiliaer, but it is
only recently that human skeletons
have been imported into this country
to grow crops with. Not long ago a
shipment was made from to
the United States of ten carloads of
human bones, said to have been ob
tained from ancient mounds in South
ern Mexico, but moro probably gath
ered from varions old and abandoned
cemeteries. As these remains were
fragments of unassorted skeletons, it
was estimated that 50,000 individuals
were represented in tho lot.
This would not be considered a nov
elty in Europe. Years ago English
farmers usod human bones to some ex
tent to fertilize their land. Tho bat
tlefield of Waterloo was for a time tho
base of supplies, and this was supple
mented by mummies from Egypt,
ground to a fine powder. Tho mum
mies were fetched for this purpose by
tho cargo, and the preserved corpses of
people dead for thousands of years
doubtless formed part of the consign
ments, but tho bulk of the material
consisted of mummies of eats and other
small animals. Tho Egyptians of old
used to mummify the cat, ibis and
other creatures, which they regarded
as sacred. In ancient Egyptian tombs
are found greot numbers of copper
boxes, opening at one end by a slide,
which contain mummies of cats, hawks,
ibises and now and then snakes and
small crocodiles. Mummies are a rec
ognized commercial artielo in that
country to-day. For a long time lo
comotives were run between Cairo and
Suez with no other fuel. Corpses of
of royal personages, 3000 years old and
upward, fetch high prices. Tho pro
cesses adopted for their preservation
began with the removal of tho intes
tines. Then tho brain was taken out
through the nostrils and the body, af
ter being soakod in preservative sub
stances, was wrappod round and round
with bandages. The bundle thus made
was placed insido of a papier mache
caso formed of a pulp composed of liuen
and whiting, and this was inclosed iu
a series of wooden colli m.
Less than a year ago the Austrian
bark Vila was deserted by her crew.
Later she was picked up as a derelict
off Cape Hatteras and fetched into tho
port of Now York. Her cargo was
found to cousist iu large part of
bones of horses and cattle. In one
corner of hor hold was a great heap
of human skulls. Nobody kuowsto
this day why tho crew deserted tho
vessel in mid-ocean. She was worth
$40,000, including her freight. The
gruesome character of the lutter was
added to by frightful odors and tin?
presence of swarms of blue flies. In
formation obtained respecting the
bark from Alexandria, in Egypt,
showed that tho bones had been col
lected iu deserts and cemeteries of
that country and were shipped to tho
United Stutos for uso as fertilizer.
The preparation of human skeletons
for market is quite an important in
dustry. The chief centre for this
branch of commercial activity is
Paris, where three concerns are en
gaged in tho business on a considerable
scale. They obtain the requisite
supplies of raw material in tin *h*|u>
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<nu«u whoso presence
and touch thrilled umr whole b.
in an uU rly ludoneribitblo manner?"
Woary V<"iiug M.i "Only mire. It
was w'u'ii I vim in ih hand* "if a wo
man dtnti-I.ln lmiap dm Journal
When lie tall ■ I >!»> 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, <u-t > 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