SULLIVAN JBFIB REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XII. Tho rate of taxation has nearly quad rupled in France sinco 1830. Tho centre of population is now mid way between Cincinnati and Indian apolis. Tho Slav has not turned out an in dustrial or social success in the coke regions, confesses the New York Tri bune. President Harper says that he en tered upon his duties at Chicago Uni versity opposed to co-odueation, hav ing great misgivings becauso of tho presence of the girls. Ho now de clares that tho young women's depart ment of the university is tho only one that never gave him any trouble. The world's tunnels are estimated to number about 1142, with a total length of 514 miles. There are about 1000 railroad tunnels, ninety canal tunnels, forty conduit tunnels, and twelve suba queous tunnels, having an aggregate length of about 350 miles, seventy miles, eighty-five miles, und nine miles respectively. Tho University of Lille, France, is said to be the first institution of learn ing on the Continent to add a depart ment of journalism. Abbo Dr. Cooten will read lectures on the great editors of England and Germany. Professor Gaud will lecture on the laws govern ing tho press, and M. Tavermer, of the Paris "Univers," will spsak upon the duties of newspaper men and the way a paper is printed. California will pay dearly in tlie end for tho bounty of $5 granted for every coyote scalp presented to the Stato Treasurer, predicts tho New York Tribune. This bounty law was passed to protect sheep, but it has been costly. Last year over $500,000 was paid out, and this year it is esti mated that §050,000 will be needed to satisfy tho claims. As the coyotes live on jack-rabbits, tho slaughter of one pest will simply lead to the increase of the other. There are American ladies who have more valuable lace than any European potentate. Tho laces of tho Astor family are valued at §300,000, thoso of the Vanderbilts at 8500,000. Mora lace, it is said, is bought in New York than any other city in the world. The Pope's lace treasures are said to be worth §875,000, thoso of the Queen of England §375,000 and those of the Princess of Wales §250,000. Tho Queen's wedding dress was trimmed with a piece of Honiton costing §SOOO. Maine has produced men of aston ishing vigor and longevity, but none more notable in this way than Dr. Westbrook Farrer, of Biddeford, if tho stories told of him are true. He is said to be a physician in active practice, though ninety-eight years old, and, still more remarkable, to bo in tho habit of visiting his patients regularly on a bicycle. He attributes his exceptional vigor at this advanced age to the use of wintergreen too, of which he is said to be an ardent advo cate. Tho Province of Quebec has a law bestowing 100 acres of Government land on every father of a family who has twelve living children. Up to the present timo 174,200 acres have been given under this law. Not all of these fathers, however, are satisfied with the amount of this bounty, for familios of twenty children pre not rare, and tho fathers of these want a proportionately higher reward. One old gentleman, Paul Belanger, of Kiver da Loup, wants 300 acres in recognition of his family of thirty-six living children. Tho San Frtineisco Chronicle re marks: Whou Colonel Sellers in "Tho Gilded Ago" Hjiokii of tlio im mense sums of money he proposed to make by dispensing his eye water to tho orientals he throw out a hint which inventors have been slow to act upon. Tho conditions of life iu the Orient are very peculiar, and the peo ple have cortiu wants which wo iu the Western world aro hardly more than aware of. Among those is nmn, rem ody against the encroachments of white ants. These destructive insects tuuko life a burden to thu European* living iu China and other oriental countries. They out everything mi lu of timber, and at a MUMqienw it u almost impossible to keep a house or it* adjuncts in repair. A eorr< »pon dent ii|g|ji'»t» that the kliowufHct that thuae auts have an h\>i lull t i lime may put some ingeuioit* American on to an idea which if proja-rly worked oat would L>e a Im Ik I . U ,n 111 people living in the Oiuiit, especially Euro pean*, who Would pay UUrully foi •wot* rams ly |«r lU4 um* MM* THE BUGLE CALL, Have you heard tho troops a-marchlng? Marching, marching, O my soul, to hoar tho bugle and tho long roll of tho drum ! the hill and down the valley, I can hear his step among them. Before you see his scarlet coat, I'll know my love has come. "I can see the troops a-marchlng, Slowly, slowly. As thoy near, the pale leavos tremble at the coming of that band ; i'Uere Is noither souad nor footfall, netthor bugle-blast nor drum-call, A silent host they pass from sight Into n silent land." Nay, I hear tho bugle calling, Calling, calling, 0 the footsteps of my soldier, I can count them as they fall ; tW I timo mino to tho echo, over hill and over valloy, X am marching, marching evor, to that un seen bugle's call! —Mary Stewart Cutting. A KOREAN RKllia'g" FATE. BY ernes c. ADAMS. 112 \ KOREAN of noble I I iuent in public life tj ' Jome > stepped from tho Yoko- Wf W l" iu ' a steamer in I \ March last to tho // __ —x V wharf at Shanghai II I Bi) nn( l 11 few minutes ta ""or lay dead in 1 tho street, the vic / EffljjS\ tim of an assassin. / I A fellow country- I man wljo k»d iu dueed him togo to Shanghai, hastened ostensibly to greet him, and they had hardly exchanged a word before tho false friend stabbed the newcomer to the heart. The crime was a political murder, planned in the court of Korea, connived at by the Chineso authorities, and the story throws a curious light upon the meth ods and practices still in vogue in oriental society. The victim was Kim Ok Kiun, who, ten years ago, headed an unsuccessful revolutionary attempt at Seoul, the capital of Korea. From the day he failed he had been followed by emissaries of the Korean court, bent first upon his extradition to the home from which he had fled, and finally, equipped with instructions to kill him, and to carry out this meri torious service to their country in such a way as to save the court from any appearance of complicity. When the deed was done last March, it was evident that China and Korea had a perfect understanding in the mutter. The murderer was not dragged off to the Shanghai lock-up, like a common malefactor. On the contrary, he was treated with respect ful consideration, as soon as name and that of his victim wero made known. He not only went free, but ho was permitted to buy tickets for one passenger and one coffin to Koreo, and ho departed for home with tho body of his victim and the distinction due ton man who had rendered a public service. In the capital of Korea the assassin was honored as no ordinary patriot. The body of the murdered man was divided into eight parts, and one part was sent to each of the provinces of the kingdom to bo exposed to view on the public high ways. This much of the tragedy has been published. It is believed, however, that the extraordinary story which had this bloody termination has not been retold, and it is well worth re lating in connection with the crime that has closed the chapter. It was told in October, 188(5, when the Jap anese newspapers were alluding in every issue to the lively correspond ence between tho Governments of Japan, China and Korea, concerning Kim and the attempts of his enemies to kill him; and he himself appeared in print with the evidence of the plots against his life, which were the basis of Lis appeal to the Government of Japan for protection. One night near tho end of Decem ber, 1884, a number of tho highest officials of Korea gathered at a ban quet in the new postollice building in (Seoul. A servant suddenly opened the door and cried that tho house was about to be attacked. The men at tho tallies fled into the darkness, only to find that enemies surrounded them. Home of them were killed on the spot, and others were severely wounded. Then tho mob and its leaders rushed to the palace to secure tho person of the King. By this timo news of the uprising ha I spread through the city, and the guard- of tho legation had hastened to the palaco to add their strength to the King's bodyguard. The rebels, who were attempting noth ing less thnu tint destruction of every leading official of the Government, beseiged the building, but the pluck and discipline of the Japauesu kept tht'iii at bay. Then the Chinese troops, hearing that the Japanese were inter fering unwarrantably in one of the internal commotions of Korea,marched from their camp outside the city and gave battle to the Japanese at the pal ace, but the latter held their own throughout the night, in the morn ing it was fom.d that the King had fled, and th> Japanese had to tight their way t the coast, where tliuy »if' protected by their warships. 'I In- rebellion was soon put down, t tun* aid .l.tpm patched up their liii-i.li rutaielllig aul tint matter m.led. 1 1»» priuc |»<«I actor in this furious oiil i kk. ami the instigator of all tie a**» niiistinii , «a» kuu «>U Kmii, alio hail hi >d tin login ,t ofti •« m K->ri'», an l »u Jealous of tliu preponderance ' * ' I . '4 ,' < I •' x l" latnilj i u u< H, •w» v. «ll vl J Vii«J Wtlwugs Iv LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1894. this family, anil through her in fluenco, it has been the predominating power aiul has controlled all the prin cipal offices. It is the opposition to this family, led by the King's own father, that has stirrod up the recent insurrection. In 1884, the leader of this opposition was Kim Ok Iviun, and ho hoped, after murdering his loading rivals, to seize power for himself and his adherents. Failing in his plans he fled with some of his fellow con spirators to Tokio, Japan. Then be gan the efforts of Korea, abetted by China, to induce Japan to give the arch rebel up, and failing in this, to assassinate him among his protectors. A Korean mission was despatched to Japan in o Chineso man-of-war to de mand the extradition of Kim and his followers. They were assisted in their efforts by the Chinese representatives at Tokio and, it is said, by Li Hung Chang, the great viceroy of Chi-Li. Many weoks were spent in the negoti ations, but Japan was firm in her re fusal. She took the ground that she had no extradition treaty with Korea; furthermore, she alleged, that the crimos for which the fugitives were wanted to answer in Korea were of a political nature, and it was against the law of nations to surrender politi cal offenders. So the mission went home defeated. Kim and four of his associates lived for a while in peace at Tokio. Three of his comrades, doubt ing the ability of Japan to withstand the pressure, fled to San Francisco. Had Kim respected his asylum it is barely possible that ho might have lived there securely for the rest of his days. But in the following year, 188 a, there was another plot to over turn the Koroan Government, and there was evidence that Kim, tho dar ing, restless and designing politician, was at the bottom of it. Demands for his extrdition wore at once ronowed. China and Korea both asserted thr.t as long as Kim remained in Japan he would be able to creato disturbances in his nativo land. Japan remained firm in her refusal, giving as her only reason that political offenders wero never extradited in Western countries, and if the Eastern nations desired to be treated as equals by those of tho West, they must learn to act upon tho same principles. No further attempt to secure tho extradition of Kim was made, but Korea at once began to take measures to effect the removal of this troublesome i>orson by other pro cesses. Three futile expedients for the as sassination of Kim wero attempted in the following 3 T car, and were described in the public prints, as far as tho de tails were known, late in 1836. The instrument in the most interesting of these attempts appeared in Japan in tho person of Chi, an official in the Seoul war department. In Kim's palmy days Chi had been on ardent disciple of the advanced views of that astuto politician, but he was now faith fully serving a Government composed of Kim's enemies. 110 traveled quiet ly to Japan, and took lodgings in an ordinary inn in Tokio. On May 2, 1880, he wrote to Kim, protesting that their old friendship still continued on his part, that ho deeply sympathized with Kim in his misfortunes and exile, and requested an interview. Tho old assassin was too sharp for tho young ono, however, and Kim bluntly re fused to see him. At tho same timo he directed his friends to worm their way into Chi's confidence, and one of them did so with considerable skill. He told Chi that tho exiles were tired of their life in Japan, sorely re gretted their folly, and longed to be back in Korea. Kim was the cause of their present plight. He had deceived them, and they all hated him for it. Would Chi intercede for them with the King and the Government! They would cheerfully seize Kim and carry him off if they could. Nay, thoy had become- so embittered by his conduct that thoy would kill him, if ridding the country of him would be tho means of making their peace with their sov ereign. Kim was very wary, but no one could lull his suspicions to sleop as his companions could, and they would do anything to show tho sin cerity of their repentance. Chi listenod seriously to these things, but was quite non-committal. It took some weeks for confidence to beget confidence. At last he convinced him self of the sincerity of tho exile. Then Chi contidod to him that he ha l been sent to Japan by the King for tho ex press purpose of kitliug him, and that he would pay a sum equivalent to 85000 to anyone who would givo him effective assistance in carrying out this bloody task. Kim's envoy at once became very circumspect. It was a perilous affair, ho said. Ho was will ing to do tho work, but suppose, for instance, that Chi had never recoivod a commission from the Kiug, then any one killing Kim would be seized by tho Japanese, and would bo repudia ted by tho Koreans. Chi was able to soothe these suspicions. He first pro duced a large Korean dagger, which, In- said, had been given to him by the King for the purpose of slaying Iviin, and finally he exhibited this mandate, to which the royal seal was actually attached: "We hereby commission you to croHs the sea ami apprehend tho rebel, to accomplish which object you shall have full |>owcr to act according to circumstances, using duo caution not to make fruitless attempts." On the dime day, the »up|M>*ed con spirator also secured iu writing from tin* lUlK'iapoetiug ('III a promise to pay linn WOiNI for his aervice, aud on the initday Kim, ariiu d with these doeu UK Ot", which he laid In-fore the Jap* ii (i 'Verillni'Ut, demanded prutee tion. A demand fir an explanation Mint at one ti'legrauliod to Seoul, and, of I'uiir* 1 , all kuowli-dge of the plot aIU at one. repudiated by the Korean Uuv< runt* ut Tti< tuny «, tIU alnioat 111 (if a llt.u to tin, but Wfc .-uu-l *'i« f4l«« wl ittviaiity te j Korea. Kim was a loading statesman of tho country, and if not an assassin himself, he had inspired assassination. According to Korean ethics it *as not impropor for his enemies to remove him by tho knife or bullot, political methods that have been employed moro than once in tho East in this genera tion. Japan now decided that Kim was a heavy load to carry, and ho wa? or dered to leave the country by Juno 27. Kim, however, had other views. When tho police wont to see him at the expiration of tho time, he fled to tho French embassy and appealed for protection. Ho was, however, turned over to the authorities, and his forc ible removal from the country was or dered on tho ground that his presence tended "to endanger tho poace, tran quility and external safety of the em pire." What to do with him, though, was a knotty problem. Japan wished to insure his safety. If ho was sent to China he would bo killod. Russia would not harbor him. San Francisco was proposed, but Kim was without means, and it was feared that he would btarve there in a land of plenty, unless the Americans took very kindly to him. It was finally decided that it was not desirablo, for his own sake, to turn him loose upon the world. Japan has a little group of islets in the Pa cific, tho Bonin Islands, which at that time were uninhabited save by a few retired pirates and runaway sailors. So Kim was sent to these- far-away sunny islands to be supported by the Japanese Government. For some years ho contemplated tho mutability of for tune in this retreat,but at last, just as tho little islands wero beginning to bl«- som under the nurture of the Japan ese farmers who had gone to them, the Government listened to Kim's piteous appeal and took him back to Japan. The fact was notr generally known, but it had not escaped tho observation of Korea's agents. In his retirement and obscurity Kim, on an evil duv, made the acquaintance of a fellow countryman. The man ap peared to be of very little importance. He did not thrust himself upon Kim's notice nor appear ot all anxious to cultivate his acquaintance. Ho was an agent of the court of Korea, but Kim seoms never to have suspected it. For weeks and months he would never go near tho man he intended to mur der. He was carrying on a logiti mato business in Japan, and was so slow, discreet and pa tient in promoting the real purpose of his sojcurn there that his conduct excited no comment. Very little is really known of his acquaint ance with Kim. What ho proposed to do was to murder tho man on friendly soil where ho would not be called to account for the crime, and ho bided iiisHimo. At last his oppor tunity came. Kim had a claim for a considerable sum of money in South China. His pretended friend under took to negotiate for the settlement of this claim. He know that he had completely deceived the old man when ho went to Shanghai to prepare for the denouement. His dagger was ready for tho victim whoso perfect confi dence he had won. His plans were cunningly conceived. Tho problem was to get Kim to Shanghai though ho seemed to be doing everything in his power to make it unnecessary for Kim to make tho journey. He reported at last, that it would bo positiTely nec essary for Kim togo to tho Chinese port to sign documents that would not or could not be sent to him. He knew very well that Kim would not consult anyone with regard to a visit to China, and he assured his dupe that there was not a particle of danger. Ho could travel in disguise, transact his busi ness in a few hours and return to Japan, in perfect safety by tho next boat. Kim's cunning had ajiparently de serted him, and ho went unsuspect ingly to the cruel death prepared for him. The Japanese Government did not know he was out of the country until the news came that he had been butchered on Chiuose soil. They made some effort to investigate the matter, but finally decided that Japan had no jurisdiction, as Kim was a foreigner murdered on foreign soil. So tho chaptor ends. Kim died as he had made others die. Ho became the vic tim of political methods that ho had used with considerable effect upon his rivals; and tho manner of his taking off shows how stealthily aud persis tently some Go "uontsof theOrieut are still capable plying the arts of the assassin in the pursuit of their enemies.—Detroit Free Press. An Interesting People. Interesting information is given by a French traveler in China of tho Man tzu, a people who occupy all tho ter ritory between China proper and Thibet. Tho feudal system prevails among these mountaineers, who aro divided up into more than eighty small States. Lamuism is the religion pro fessed by the majority. Tho lan guages of these States, which aro more Thibetan than Chinese, differ very much oue from another. Tho Man tzu are fairly well uia lo and strong. They do not wear a que like tho Chi nese, and dress in coarse woolen fab rics, which they make for themselves. The men wear a shirt with a collar, and the women wear dresses consist ing o! body and skirt, two stydus un known in China, aud reiuindiug oue of European faxhions. Their houses, too, built of stoue, have usually one or two stories above the ground, the latter belli.; always oeeupiud byeattle, upon which they ehistly depeud. The aiiiiiiuli r> ar< t by tile .Ma i-tzu are tho horse, the tiormd and the homiest vitk, tSos]Hi'io4 of cuw, xheep with loiiy, spiral horns, and the goat, ona vsrwty of alueli Its* lour horns. The pig", dogs, eats mid fowls whieh aro (Its I thvr t nru id tut leal with those lull u-1 lii tbs teat xi Cuius I'est Lj^'l«mn SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A flash of lightning equals 12,000 horso power. Tho inouth of tho starfish is exactly in tho centre. The wrist contains eight bones, tho palm five and the fingers fourteen. During digestion tho flow of blood to tho stomach is increased tenfold. The principles of rainfall wero first correctly set forth by Dalton in 1787. In proportion to the weight of tho body, woman's hair is longer than man's. Enamel of tho teoth contains over ninety-five per cent, of calcareous matter. Four-tenths of the working ex penses of an electric light plant are for coal. In London, according to Halley, there was no total oclipso of the sun between 1140 and 1715. Soap babbles are round because every part of their surface is equally pressed by the atmosphere. Tho heart ordinarily beats about seventy time 3 a minute, and throws about two ounces of blood at each con traction. Tho chemical composition of tho epidermis of the heel is nearly tho same as that of tho matter of nails, horns and hoofs. The song of wild birds is usually a succession of three or four notes con tinued dining the same interval, mostly without interruption. It is so hot at Massowah, Abyssinia, that when tho northwest wind blows from tho desert the thermometer sometimes registers 100 degrees. In tests last year in the German town of Dessau it was shown that cooking by wood aud coal costs a littlo moro than twice that done with gas. Of the mineral spangolite only two specimens are known to exist. One was taken from Cornwall, England, and tho other is near Tombstone, Arizona. The hair has a life of its own apart from that which animates the human body. This accounts for the growth of hair on the dead long after their interment. A mechanical fluid is the recent in vention of an American engineer. It is a mass of hard steel balls of two sizes, one-eighth and one-fourth of on inch in diameter, respectively. Under pressure this mass flows and transmits pressure in all directions like a fluid. Tho device is calculated for use wher ever fluid pressure is desired without leakage, and it has already been em ployed for tightening the brasses of connecting rods, a pocket at tho sido being filled with the balls and pressure applied with a set screw. Tho Worcester (England) munici pality will utilize its plant, putin for supplying electricity for lighting, to run electric motors for pumping pur poses at its waterworks, instead of employing steam, as originally in tended. There will be two thirty liorse-power alternate current motors having a guaranteed efficiency of ninety per cent., working pumpa capable of delivering 10,000 gallons of water per hour to an elevation of 300 feet through three milc3 of ten inch pipe. Hoisted by Her Own retard. When Yale athletics were in New York, prior to their departure for Ox ford, a well-known Brooklyn society woman gave them a dinner. It is part of tho creed of these young men never to express surprise at any joko at their expense. This their hostess knew. She was determined to compel a departure from this law and con ceived her plan with that object in view. The women of tho party lind been notified, but were bound over to silence, until some comment should be made by tho broadc'othed guests. At au exquisitely apr '•d tablo the party sat down. r vUtlers ilrst served coffee, liqu and candies. Next came ices. j salads. Talk ilowod on brillif ond easily. Evi dently there w, o stupidity on tho part of these» ants in serving thus contrary to established etiquette, for the hostess remained unconcerned. So did tho Yale men. Tho reversed dinner went through its courses without hitch or jar, until after tho soup and just beforo tho clams were served. Then the Yale men asked to bo excused. The host ess ncqniosed with a broad touch of wonder on her face. In ten minutes tho team tiled back into tho dining room, each with his "swallow-tail" on "hind part before." They had done honor to tho reversed dinner. Tho surface of unconcern was broken down. Tho hostc-ss was hoisted by hor own petard, but tho table rang with ap plause. —Argonaut. ('oekr.iaclios Willi Hlx-Inc'i Wiiiir*. When tho transportation company's barges brought ties for tho trolley hero thoy also brought some Southern cockroaches that dwarf tho looal sp vi mens. Tho tie* oomo from North Car olina and Georgia, whoro the-io giant cockroaches are abundant. They aro about two inches loug, and wliou th 'ir wiugs aro spread out in ilying they measure nearly six iuoho* a -ro,v Thoy are haruile-«s au 1 look something liko a beetle when their wing* ars drawn in.—Hartford (Conu.) Courant. Smallest ISn.l known, Tho fly cater of Cuba is the smallest bird know t > ornithologist*. Ii i. al»>ut otm-third the silo of (tie hum iiiing bird In the year Ifttf'J Ite*aca Eapinlotn, a man of falmloiis ueall i, caused VMS at Ite t$ lords to l>« 01 i<lit with uets and made into a pit pie, whtah hu ate at one sitting, and t*< u tkM fa* #s«|i|tlttiHl »( b. in liui rr. was s imsu vf iswtl s i| >nii<m •yyiUlii Terms—>sl.oo in Advance ; 81.25 after Three Months. BIBLES FOB THE BLIND. FIRST EDITION EVER PRINTED IN THE POINT ALPHABET. The llook Is In Kleven Volumes— Kach Frftttr Represented by n Dlf tcrent Number of Itulsed Dots. THE only Bible published in tho point alphabet to be used by the blind has lately been printed in Louisville. It con sists of 1839 pages, is in eleven vol umes and was turned out by tho American Printing House for the Blind, an annex of the Kentucky In stitute for tho Blind. The eleven em ployes of the printing house were en gaged on the work for about ten months, and on May 7, 1894, just a little over a year after tho work was begun, the first shipment to tho American Bible Society at New York was made. Of course this is not the only Biblo that can be read by the blind. Those thus afflicted have been reading a Bi ble for forty years, but it was pub lished in what is known as the lino alphabet. The line alphabet is made up of tho Roman letters enlarged and raised on the leaves of the book, so that tho blind reader may know them by fol lowing their outline with his lingers. Every school child can road a book printed in that way. But with tho New York point alphabet each letter is represented by a different numbar of raised dots arranged iu a fixed posi tion. Strange to say, this soconl method is the easier to learn, an 1 is always taught before the line moth ) 1. That any sort of a Bible for tho blind came out at all is duo to a bo quest of 840,000 made to the American Bible Society by a wealthy woman of New York City. It was male a per manent fund for printing Bibloj for the blind. The four girls who do tho typesetting bogan their part of tho work April'2B, 1833. As booli as ono page was setup it was carried into tho molding room aud an impression taken. Tho page was then ready to be cast. It was carried down stair) and placed in the stereotyping mi chine. A thin coat of tin foil was thin laid over the mold aud a light pouring of metal made, so as to malt tho tin foil into the mold. Another pouring was then made to fill in the blank spaces between lines au 1 re-enforco the back. A nieco of ordinary roof or's tin the size of tho page was then laid over the back of the thin matal impression, and anothor light pouring mado to make the two adhere. WUea this had cooled off tho workmau ha.l a true copy of the page on a very light, flexible plate of stereotypo. All tho rest of tho 1039 pages were tr«ata.l in the same "Vay, aud on January 21, 1894, the day tho last page was set up, the last plate was also completed. The work of printing was then be gun. The leaves aro necessarily very heavy, and, of course, can be printed only one side. Four sheets, or pages, were printed at a time. When tho pages were ready for binding six of them wero grouped together an.l stitched with wire. Tiio iu-sido o.lgo of eaoh sexto is bound by a cloth lino I card-board guard. This is mi lo noo essary by the thickness of tho leave) and the constant handling by tlio rea der. When those sextos aro bound to gether thoy make a volume varying in thscknessof from throe to four inoho3. The New Testament is included in three vol.imes, the Old iu eight. The whole work of printing tho first Bet of this Bible cost just S39OD. Tho cost of binding is $1 a voluino. Tho interest on the borp" st nearly half n century ago has grown so thit the books can be sold to the blind at less than tho cost of tho binding. The whole set is sold at §7, aud tho New Tostaaent alone can be secured for §3 less. These Bibles aro being sent oul to all the schools for the bliud in the country through the American Biblo Association. Mining and Milling Yellow Oclira. "A very important Georgia in dustry that has sprung lip iu tho last few years is the mining ami milling of yellow ochre as carrieil ou at Carters ville," said Captain 15. M. Hall, tha well-kuowa mining engineer. "Like most new industries, it ma le a small beginning anil tho product had a vary limited market. Hut its superior quality soon gained for it au oa<er demand at a high price. It is now sold at Cartersville for Sit) to SIS per ton, while the standar 1 Ponusylv.inia ochres ssll fur less than half that price iu Philadelphia. The Carteraville account of its great purity, is essentially a metallic paint, while tha ordinary ochres of oo:nlucre J arc merely claya statue I with iron oxide. Its beautiful greenish yellow color and its high per cent, of iron make it peculiarly valuable as an in :re lieut iu the manufacture of linoleum. A large proportion of the t' irtersville product is shipped to Kurope. T»M iiew mines are being opoue I and put in operation that will greatly tho outp it. One of these belong* t > William 11. Shatter, of lYuti<vlv.im», au I the other to T. H. Jones, of Car tersville. lean »ay froiu a p TMIU ll examination of th> i<- properties that their opvrati«m will all largely t > Itu material wealth of Georgia. " Vtl int t Constitution. t Colonel at IVii \v,ir«. The third son of th« Kiup.'r >r Will iam, Adalbert Kcr linau l, e-l-brit.»l Ins tenth birth lay, by his for.nileu trine < at iU'iliu, into th < im xiriil army, tha jruutgtUr in kni »»r •••'<; en Itceoiiii U'{ * (I'ilmdl of tha fa umt l ! htaii lti||im«itl. I'lm entrance « n niMkitl by I'lUßiii mi 1 u( eou.i Ura bla pump. an t at th. tunut tit Uad a grand iu a*lalii*ltou *! »a« Aivaiuaat. NO. 51. MY SERENADE. I liavo a cavalier. At dusk he drawetli near . To wait outside my wickot. I hear him draw bi9 bow ; lie playoth soft and low, Hid In the maple thicket. \ The listening leaves aro stirred ? The dreaming flowers have heard His strain from out the shadow. The broad moou, white and still, Climbeth the dusky hill : Tho mists dance in the meadow. My faithful cavalier. At dusk ho drawoth near To wait outside my wicket. I hear him draw his bow ; Ho playoth soft ami low, My dreamy little cricket. —Dorothy Dean, in Kate Field's Washington. HUMOR OF TIIE DAY. There are some very good people who love to tell bad news.—Ham's Horn. The world owes a man a living, but he must go after it.—Cleveland I'lain Dealer. Love abhors a crowd, but does not want to be left entirely alone.—Gal veston News. If you notice, the fellow who pays his way is tho one who weighs his pay. —Buffalo Courier. A growler is n man who would much rather sleep in a cyclone than in an ordinary draft.—Galveston News. When men speak of a woman, tho first question, and frequently the last, is—"ls she pretty?"— Ram's Horn. A setting hen is quite anxious as to the outcome of her mission; she broods over it constantly.—Lowell Courier. About tho only martyrs for con science's sake that we have in modern times are our baseball umpires.—Dal las News. A "forelady" advertises for work. We liopo she is accustomed to tho management of "sales-gentlemen. Chicago Post. He—"l love you. I know that I am not all that I ought to be—" She - "Yes, everybody has told me that."— New York World. A head-line in a contemporary reads, "Onto Chicago!" The coun try has been onto Chicago for sorno time.—Kingston Freeman. Mother—"Tommie, I am going to spank you. Do you know what for?" Tommie (indignantly)—" Yes. You want to ease your own feelings by hurting mine." —Harper's Bazar. Stranger—"What price do you set on that red cow of yours?" Mr. Hai codc—"See here, mister, air you a as sessor, or has she been run over by the railroad.?" —Indianapolis Journal. Tho Judge—"l should think you would be sorry for having so forgotten yourself as to throw a plate at your wife." Tho Prisoner (penitently) "I am, your honor; that plate cost ten cents."—Buffalo Couriei. "I don't see tho least uso of this tool case being: put on my bicycle." He —"Why, in case of an accident, you'd have something to work with." "Oh, you absurd man ; don't I always have liair-pins with me?"— Chicago Inter-Ocean. X'ow Use for Natural t*as. The possibilities of natural ga.s evi dently have not yet been exhausted; The latest use which would seem to have been found for it is the making of ice, the idea being to simply expand tho gas i'roin its usually high initial pressure down to or near that of tho atmosphere, nature having done all the preliminary work of compression and coolinpr, making the gas ready to absorb heat from its surroundings im mediately upon being release 1 from confinment, All that would be neces sary would be suitable coils or cham bers into which the gas could I*3 al lowed to expand. It has beeu calcu lated out quite plausibly, in fact, that with an ordinary gas well, furnishing 2,50'J,000 cubic feet per day, some thing like liftj tons of ice con 11 be turned out daily at an oxpensj of about tifty cents a ton. The gas loses nothing but its pressure, ret liu ing all its caloritic value, and heuce, all its virtue for rolling mill and glass works use, for heatiug brick, lime and pottery kilu.s, and the endless number of other furniicesto which it is adapted. In a certaiu way, therefore, the may be regarded as affording some thing for nothing—a desideratum to which many in this world are con stantly looking forward.—St. Louis Star-Savings. Russian OfilciaK Fpnr Turlle Diivis, Most people regard tiio turtle dovo as an ideally inno.-ent creature, but the Russian Minister of War evidently look* upon it an a positive dauger to the stability of the C/ar's domains. A lady prestidigitator front the Folios- Bergere, iu Paris, was traveling to St. Petersbur to fulfil au eu .• t .'luent in that city. \b>i!n with her she enrrte I a number of turtle dove for profes sional purport but oil rear the lttiinu frontier tli • «er eu I in virtue.. tfct \v .• wilh really ai a I at the sttppi --u>n of car rier ] i ■■ • >n- prohibiting th«- intro duction o! any kind of pi on ou auy pretext what ver. Prayers and c* |HMlulatioiis wer# in » mi, but it is pleasing to think tli tt lb. m ueral coalman t wit of tU • town jjilUutly ilii It rt >k to ttk - goo I ear- of the birds mini tlu r owner thuulil r»- cro«s the fr »t.<r Wt •tsuftit i 'ln MM*. I lie •• 1.1.11)1 IllrJ " Home jh ttplt* e«ll tUe • .»n*| |vtri<l the"l IIUJI bit I I I 11 * tU«t the IWUeruuu of Hi Kil I* a wieli ih tu> U.U.I Iti at md« * I ... , b 1.1 II aud It b«ia* Ivi « i l> >*• N«w \*tm AJvMtiMI.
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