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
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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
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