SULLIVAN JS& REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XII. The New Zealand Maoris own about 10,000,000 acres of land. The spring anil autumn maneuvers of European armies cost annually $lO,- 000,000. In twelvo months American railroad companies havo paid $239,616,284 as interest on bonds and $95,337,081 as dividends on stocks. Tho Egyptian Government pays in terest on 800,000,000 Nile Canal debt and $30,000,000 Suez Canal bonds, squeezing tho money out of tho farm ers. Tho most unhealthy city in Europe, according to statistics recently issued, is Barcelona, Spain, one of tho love liest places in that part of the con tinent. One who lives in Barcelona increases considerably his chances of death. The statement that a child five and a half years of ago would not have more than ono hundred and fifty words in its vocabulary that it was ablo to uso led a careful mother to note foT a month tho number of words used by her child. All the parts of speech used were recorded, with the result that in this case the child appeared to have a vocabulary of 1528 words. A young man of Lewiston, Me., who prides himself on his uttractiveness for tho gentler sex, got on a train tho other day and saw a good-looking young lady, who seemed to have no body with her. Ho approached her, relates the New Orleans Picayune, and did tho masher act. She was re sponsive, and he was having a very nice time when a man came in and thanked him for having mado tho task of taking a lunatic to the asylum easier than lie dared hopo. An estimate 'of the charitable be quests in England during 1893 puts the total sum at about §7,000,000. This is held to bo about one-tenth of j tho estates upon which probato duty has been levied. Among tho larger j amounts given aro the following: Earl of Derby, $100,000; Richard Vaughan, of Bath, a retired brewer, 8225,000; tho Be v. .fames Spurrell, $1,300,000; John Ilorniman, a toa merchant, $l5O - 000; Ileury Spicer, tho well-known paper dealer, $750,000; Sir William Mackinnon, $300,000. The largest legacy of all is by Baroness Forrester, ,91,500,000. N. S. Nesteroff, an attache of tho Russian Department of Agriculture, is in Michigan inspecting methods em ployed there in cutting and market ing lumber. His object is principally to get information respecting im provements in sawmill machinery. Mr. Nesteroff pronounces the Saginaw Valley mills the finest ho has over seen. He was especially interested in tho maple sugar industry iu tho spring, and spent a month in a New York State sugar camp. This busi ness was entirely new to him, and ho will try to introduce it into his nativo country, which has, he says, an abun dance of sugar maples. The Chinese trade unions can trace their history back for more than 4000 years. The Chinaman does not dis cuss with his employer what hois to receive for tho work ho does; he sim ply takes what he considers a fair and proper remuneration. Ho levies toll on every transaction according to laws laid down by his trade union, and without for a moment taking into consideration what his employer may consider proper. He is, therefore, says a correspondent of the Philadel phia Telegraph, generally called a thief; but he is acting under duo guarantees, in obedience to laws that are far better observe 1 and more strict than any tho polico havo been able to impose. It takes 3200 mail cars to distribute Uncle Sum's mail, and the New York division alone requires 81!) railway post clerks to handle it. Last, year these clerks hiiudled 1,207,220,577 pieces of mail bound past their divi sion,of which 75J,y7f!,N.15 were letters. To net a clear idea of tho immense amount of mail matter in this number of letters, suppose they nvera ;i: four inches in length uud uro laid cud t» end. They will stretch over a line 2075 miles long. Ml railway post clerks must be quie's uud intelligent and have a thorough knowledge of tho whole oonntry. Iu the second divi sion there are IN,OOO postoflict tm I the clerks lißint < very oue. This -iyn tem rntl *«v |><»toflici i baspri v. 100 valuable, tin- writer fr >!•« who-t intrresting article iii llar|>< r'» Yoitnv I'eoplu the .< U N uro drawn, that II l« now l>«utg upintuJ *iii th« trauvat lautiu •teatuthiiMk TELLING STORIES. 1 know of a boy that's sleopy, I can tell liy tho nodding head, And the eyes that cannot stay open While tho good-night prayer Is saH And tho whispered "Toll a 'tory, Said In such a drowsy way, Slakes mo heartho bells of Droamland That ring at closo of day. So you want a story, darling! What shall tho story be? Of I,title Boy Blue In tho haystack, And tho shoep ho falls to soe, As they nibblo tho moadow elovor While tho eows aro In tho corn? 0 Little Boy Blue, wake up, wako up, For tho farmer blows his born! Or shall It bo the story Of Llttlo Bo Peep I toll, And tho sheep ho lost and mourood for. As If awful fato befell? But there was no need of sorrow For the pet that went astray, Since, loft home, ho came back hoaio In his own good tlmo ami way. Ob. tho pigs that went to market— That's the talo for mo to toll! Tho great big pig, an l tho llttlo pigs, And tho wee, woo pig as well. Hero's tho big pig—what a beauty.' But not half as eunnlng is ho As this llttlo tot of a baby pig That can only say "We-we !'■ Just look at tho baby, bless him! The llttlo rogue's fast asleep, 1 might have stopped tolling stories When I got to Little Bo Peep, Ob, little one. how I love you ! You are so dear, so fair! Here's a good-night kiss, my baby- God havo you In His care! —Eben E. RexforJ. OCTAVIA'S CHOICE. BY ITEL.EN WHITNEY CLARK. flrfc p. /T ain't right, ac ' (Is/ acordiu' to my i,lo<>s t>f what ' a right an what's wrong, Octavy!" said Grandma Mockbee, severe >y. "An'l shan't give my con sent!" added tho old lady, winding briskly away on a big ball of clouded red and white yarn. Miss Octavia Mockbee, black-eyed and scarlet-lipped, turned sharply around with an impatient frown on her shapely forehead. "I haven't asked your consent yet!" she retorted, imperiously. "When I do, it will be time enough to refuse!" "Then you ain't a-goin' to marry him after all, Octavy?" cheerfully commented Aunt Adaline, looking up from the sponge pudding she was mak ing for dinner. "I'm eo glad! Mr. Fothergill may be respectable, for all we know, an' then ag'in he mayn't. But wo know all about Jeromo Mead owgay, an' his folks afore him. Not a shiftless one among 'em." "An' like aa not the t'other one is a ' wolf in sheep's clothin'," sagely com- i mented Miss Martha Phipps, who was ! spending tho day."lt ain't best to take no resks, Octavy." "But you hadn't ought to encour age Mr. Fothergill so much, Ockie," admonished Mrs. Mockbee, with a mollified glance at her tall grand daughter. "It ain't right to accept the attentions of any man without you think—" "Now, look here, grandma, and J Aunt Adaline—and you, too, Miss J Phipps!" The black-eyed beauty wheeled around and leveled a whole battery of angry glances at her startled hearers. "You may all keep your good advice till it's called for! I don't want it! I'm going to marry Ferdinand Foth ergill and live in tho city. I shan't tio myself down to a common farmer like Jerome Meadowgay, and you needn't think it!" And tho offended Xantippe flounced out of the room, leaving her auditors breathless with astonishment. One hour later, sixteen-year-old Margie, coming in from tho barn-loft with a flat split-basket of fresh-laid mot Jerome Meadowgay leaving tho house. "Oh, Jerome, do stay to dinner !" greeted Margie, cordially. "We're going to have rice waffles and sponge pudding." But Jerome gloomily shook bis head. "I'm going away, Margie," he said gently. "This is the last time I shall see you for a long while—perhaps for ever." Margie's dimpled face clouded over like an April sky. "Going away, Jerome! 'But—but where?" she asked, blankly. "I—l don't know yet," hesitated Jerome. "Maybe to Greenland," he added, recklessly. "But good-by, lit tle Margie. Don't forget me, will you? There'll be nobody else to re member me." But Margie clung to his hand. "Oh, Jerome, mamma and grandma will remember you, and so will I!" j she declared, impulsively. "Ami if Cousin Octavia prefers that littledude of a Ferdinand Fothergill to you, she'll rue it some day, eoo if she don't. "But you'll write to us, won't you, : Jerome? she pleaded, looking at him through a pair of forget-me-not blue eye* fringed with thick, curling lashes. | " That's is, if you don't gut froze up in Greenland," she added, dubiously. I Jerome laughed in spite of hit) gloomy prosp.-ets, and a ray of warmth seemed to tlud its wav to his chilled heart. "I doii t think I'll ft- < /r, Margie and I'll certainly write to you,'' hi promised. And r« lensiug tie niitd of a hand, lie svro k- n«ay, while Margie hurried into thti house "1 mustu't wsteb huu uut of tight, b«ca rouik put tbu haud loldly ailde. "I'bv i >• hurmd, iu m I am concerned," be assured her. "You said all was over between us that day, Oetairia, and I accepted your decision." "But—but it is not too late yet, Jerome. I—" "It is too late!" was the stern re ply. Pretty, pink-ehceked, Margie mado a charming bride, a few weeks later, and the Gothic-roofed cottage, with its hop-vines and Virginia creepers, is no longer in want of a mistress.— Saturday Night. New Ituilding Material. A new building material called eompoboard is thus described by tho Northwestern Lumberman: It is made of one-eighth-inch strips of wood from three-quarters to ono and a quarter inches wide, placed bo tween two sheets of hoavy strawboard and united under heavy pressuro with a strong cement. The process of manufacture is peculiar. Into tho machine that molds the board are run two sheets of the strawboard from rolls, ono from abovo and ono from below a table onto which aro fed from a feeding device tho strips of wood. A roller running in a tank of the liquid cement rolls upon the inner surfaco of the sheets of strawboard, and the three layers of 'material run together betweeu rolls ami into a hy draulic press capable of exerting a pressure 120 tons to the square inch. Ten feet of tho board is stopped auto matically for a few seconds iu tho press, then run out upon a table fit tod with cut-off saws, whore it is sawed to tho desired length. It is then run upon trucks, placed in tho dry-kiln, aud when taken out is trimmed to forty-eight inches in width. The strength of tho board as com pared with its weight is marvelous. The ends of an eighteen foot can bo brought together without breaking or warping it. No conditions can warp it. Wall paper is put upon tho board and tho finish is as fine as upon any plastered wall. Tho strong points claimed for the board: It is not more expensive than first-class plastering. It forms an absolutely air-tight wall. It stiffens a building much more than any coat of mortar can. It is quickly put on and produces no dampness, thus causing no swelling aud shrinking of tloors and casings. It is light, thus avoiding the dragging down of the house frame, tho consequent cracking of walls and the warping of tho door frames. It forms a solider, cloauer, drier wall at no more expense than is involved in the old way. Paper Manufacture in America. It is ft curious and rather startling fact that nest to the articles entering into food and clothing, papor is the most universally used commodity in the world, nays the Philadelphia Times. The daily output of nows print paper in the United States is about 1200 to 1500 tons. Just think of 125 or 150 carloads of newspapers mentally de voured each day in this country ! Tho production of news print is larger than any other grade. That of book paper is probably as much as 1000 tons and of writing 450 tons each daily. The gross daily capacity of the paper mills of tho United States in opera tion during 1892-93 for all kinds and grades of paper was estimated at about 10,000 tons. Of this amount nearly 2500 tons represented news print and book paper, 1800 tons wrapping paper, 850 tons strawboard, 150 tons writing paper, and almost 2100 tons of the various other kinds and grades. The States which rank tirst in the production of paper are New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. From these seven States come nearly three fourths of tho entire paper supply of the country. By far the greater part of the vast output is consumed in the United States, the greatest paper using country in tho world. Death From Fright. "During my forty odd years of practice I have never seen but ono case whero death was caused by fright," said a physician. "The in stance I speak of happened in South America, through which I was making a tour. One afternoon wo experi enced a rather severe shock of earth quake. Some time before tho shock was felt a young Mexican who was em ployed to work about an anatomical museum in tho town whero I was then visiting fell asleep in a chair in the room which contained all tho ghostly relies. Suddenly ho was awakenod by an extraordinary noise. lie wot. hor rified to see all the death's heads nod ding and grimacing, and the skeletons dauciug about and waving their flesh less arms madly in the air. Speech less with terror, tho poor fellow tied from the scene, and upon reaching the street fell to the ground unconscious and half dead with fright. After a few hours he became somewhat ration al, and it was explained to him that it was an earthquake that had caused all the commotion aiming tho specimens, but theshoek had been too severe and his death followed in ft few days."— St. Louis(ilobi -Democrat. The l'otoinae to l.iirlit Washington. The War Department has boon mak ing an investigation into the feasibility of making the great falls of the Po tomac furnish power for the lig htiug of Washington City, ami the report which has just bei li submitted shows that the project is < ntirely practicable. The engtueer in charge of the matter say that there is no trouble about transmitting tho power to Washing ton ; that at a rea-- (liable eost a eanal can be eoiii-trueted around tho falls to s power plant txdow thuin, and at the lowest «t*|avis left his po»t, jumped to the step, and, cling ing to the outside hand rail, reached out ahead of the car. The biby was still mi the track, and as the car rushed down upon it the plucky mo turnout gra*|>«)d its druta aud drw<* lUo chill out ul harm's way. Sail Lake (Utah) Ut raid. Terms -81.00 in Advance ; 81.25 after Three Months. M IKMIFIf AND INDUSTRIAL, A llsh swims with its tail, not with its tins. India ship-worms ruin a vessel in live months. A new species of giraffe has been discovered in Africa. Owls without tufts are day owls; thoso with tufts nre night owls. Recent experiments indicate that the normal eye can discriminate fif teen separate tints in the spectrum. Tho latest German Government re ports show that eight persons have died of leprosy (three of them siuce 1870) in tho district of Konigsberg, and that ten persons are now suffer ing from that disease. If it were possible to cut sections out of the side of soap-bubbles, an 1 then by some delicate process handle the pieces, there would be required fifty million films, laid one upon an other, to make a pilo one inch in height. Meteorologists say that the heat of the air is due to six sources: (1) That from tho interior of tho earth; (2) that from the stars; (3) that, from tha moon; (4) that from tho frictiou of the winds and tides; (5) that from the meteors; (6) that from the sun. A novol way of illuminating a tun nel has been devised iu Paris. Re llectors throw tho light from many electric lamps sixteen feet above the rails to the sides of tho tunnel, whero it is again reflected by buruishod tin Tho trains automatically turn the cur rent on and off in entering and leaving tho tunnel. The apparatus for keeping the eyo moist is complex and efficient. It com prises the lachrymal gland, which secretes the tears ; tho lachrymal car uncle, a small fleshy body at. the iuner angle of tho eye; the puneta laoh ryniie, two small openings at the na sal extremity of tho eyelids; tho lachrymal ducts, which convey th 3 tears into the nose, and the lachrymal sac, a dilatation of tho canal. Linseed-oil increases in weight when exposed to the air in a vessel protect ed from the dust. Bo far as its phys ical qualities aro concerned, it under goes a gradual change, assumes r. darker color, becomes moro vicious and less inflammable. An experiment made by a Bavarian chemist resulted in 3.5 ounces of pure linseed oil in creasing 0.31 ounces in weight after the oil had been exposed to tho air eighteen months —an increase of about eight per cent. When electric motors wero first ap plied to cars grave doubts wero enter tained as to the rcsu'faut effects of tho extreme jarring on tho poles of tho field magnet, in tho light of the knowledge that a permanent magnet loses its magnetism by jarring. The law of compensation seems to abound in nature, since it is now proven that the field magnets, which are not per manent magnets, increase in magnet ization by tho jarring to which they are subjected. An arrangement for heating water by an incandescent electric lamp in the lighting circuit has been devised by M. Leon Titot, of Paris, by which he utilizes eighty-five per cent, of the heat given out by the lamp. Ho claims that an eight-caudle lamp will maintain tho water at a temperature of forty degrees centigrade; while a sixteen-camlle lamp will maintain it at boiling poiut. Tho receptacle, holding about a pint, affords, within the larger lamp, boiling water in ten minutes. Fear as a Cause of Disease. An eminent medical authority makes the statemeut that a great deal of contagion is due largely to nervous apprehension and fear. Terror causes radical changes in tho secre tions and nerve cells, and while tho possibility ; not the direct cause of disease, it '-rtainly is sufficient to put the person iu the proper condition to be attacked by the prevailing malady. It is a well-understood fact that ex cessive anger infuses a toxic element into tho secretions, and the bite of a man in a state of frenzied rage is al most as deadly as that of a mad dog. Fear destroys tho resistive capabili ty and, as it were, lets down t'.io drawbridge and makes way for the en emy. Iu seasons o' epidemic, there fore, it is necessary to cultivate tran quility and cheerfulness, to learu not to feur and to surround oneself with an atmosphere of personal, mental an I physical defiance of dangers. If', iu addition to this, due precautions as to dress, diet and rest are taken, one may walk in tho midst of the pestilence and dwell iu infected regions, and no deadly thing shall harm one. —New York Ledger. Some Oil Statues Found. Some interesting discoveries are re ported in the ancient Roman ciiy oT Thamugodis, in Algeria, now known as Tiuigad. In exoavatiug the capitol many fragments of colossal statues, at least twenty-eight feet high, have been found. Traces of painting have boon discovered on three other statues re cently unearthed. It now appears in disputable luat the ancients wero not content with the mere beauties of form, but paiutel their beautiful statues in all the colors of life. -New Orleans Pieavuue. Illumine;! field Flsli, Mr. Edison, at one of his enjoyable scientific seances, lin I a lar,j;e glob l of gold fish whose Muatomy was dis tinctly outlined an I every action of each organ was plainly seen. This tlie "wizard" ncconi] lislied liy making tli • Ash swallow minute incan I 'scent lamps and by iuvisilile wirccoti luete I the •l«otrio current. The lUh ap parently wsro no' iuo.>:umo le 1 by their diet a(el«totrioity,--Atlanta .in stitution. NO. 52. MY SWEETHEART. Twns n quaint rhymo scrawled In a spolllng book, And tmnded to mo with a bashful look, liy my blue-oyod sweethnart so fondly true, In tho tlonr old school days long years ago— "lt you lovo mo as I lova you No kntfo can cut our love in two." Thnt "Sanders' Spoiler," so tattorod and torn, Hns alwnys a halo of romance worn, And never a poet with honeyed pen Has written so precious a rhyme since then-" "If you love mo as I lovo you." Ah, dear, you know I did—l do. I'vo kept it safely for many a year— This dog's-earod, shabby old spelling-book, dear, And now, as I hold it within my hand, Again in the school-room I seem to stand— Heading once moro with rapture new — "If you lovo me as I lovo you." now some foolish saying from out the past Liko a roso branch is over the pathway cast, And tho time of flowers, wo still remember, Till minds blow cold in tho bleak Doeomber. God grant it always may bo true — "That you lovo mo as I lovo you." —Carolyn L. Bacon, in BulTalo Expross. IIUMOIt OF THE DAY. v Doing time—The lady who grow 3 younger every year.—Puck. It is usually i» great big mm who insults you. —Atchison Globe. Tho politician's favorite novel— "Put Yourself in His Place."—Puck. Many do a heap of hard climbing iu search of easy grades.—Chicago Her ald. Order of tho Bath—Come right out of that water this minute!— Boston Transcript. No man can worry about how ho looks and keep his bank account grow ing. —Atchison Globe. Some people aro of such happy dis positions that tliev never amount to much.—Atchison Globe. A great deal of the piety of to-day is a thing of great beauty because it ia only skin deep.—Puck. Never put any confidence in the auswers of a man who is afraid to say "I don't know," occasionally. Don't think that because a man has done you a favor ho is under everlast ing obligations to you.—Puck. Butter is prime whilo it's fresh; but a man has long lost his freshness when he reaches his prime. -Puck. "Aro you certain that you love mo?" "I am." "But are you sure that you aro certain?" -Now York Pre3s. Tho lawyer who worked like a horso was engaged in dra a convey ance.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. May—"Next to a man, what's tho jolliost thing you know of?" Ethel — "Myself, if he's nice."—Brooklyn Life. One of tho dampers of ambition is tho fact that the mantlo of greatness has to bo worn as a shroud too often. Puok. One's own capacity is a poor stand ard of measurement; tho stars shine, though my near-sighted neighbor deny it.—Puck. When a man does not want to do a thing he says"l cannot;" when he canuot do it. ho says"l don't waut to."—Fliegende Blaetter. Tho average dwarf is at a very se rious disadvantage. No matter how large his income ho is always sure to be short.—Buffalo Courier. When a boy goes out West hunting, and writes home that he killed a deer, he can fool his mother, but he can't fool his father.—Atchison Globe. As tho express dashes through tho station —"O, porter, doesn't that train stop here?" Porter --"No,mum ; it don't even hesitate."—Tit-Bits. To his mate tho caterpillar sal 1 In a toae of e iutioa, soft and low. As they elung to the branch just overhead, Get onto thothogiri in the hammock below. —Washington Star. A man regards his newspapor much as he does his wife- something to find fault with when he feels cross and something he uever approves of- -Atch ison Globe. "I love to listen to tho patter of tho rain on tho roof," said the miserly poet. "I suppose you do," said his wife. "It's a cheap amusement."— Harper's Bazar. Dora—"Don't you think my gowns fit better than they used to? ' Cora— "Yes. Your dressmaker told me yes terday she was taking lessons in geome try."—Harlem Life. Mr. Oldstyle—"l don't think that a college education amounts to much." Mr. Sparerod—"Don't you? Well, you ought to foot my boy's bills and see."—New York World. No woman is such a slouch at mathe matics that she can't tell in half it minute how much ner husband would save in tho course of a year if ho shaved himself.—Atchison Globe. One of the unexplained mysteries of life is how difficult it is sometimes to get into a comfortable position when you goto bod, and how uuustial to find one that isn't comfortable when you have to j;et up. -Puck. Jinks (on the rail)--"I was talking with an eminent physician in the smoker." Mrs. .links "What is hit name?" "He didn't mention it, and 1 did not like to ask." 'Then why do you think hj is an eminent physi cian ?"' "I asked him what was the best c ire for consumption, and ho said he didn't know."—Puok. Cabman (at library) --"Say, is this here the novel you advise 1 me to read?" Librarian "Yes; that's the one. ' Cabman "Well, yon can take it back. There's nine people in the first four chapters who hired cabs, and each of 'em when he gol out 'Hung his purse to tho driver.' Now when I want that sort of literature, I'll t," to Jules Verne nuJ gut it pure. —Chi* iwhu Record.