SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XIII. The army worm has cost this coun try more thnn the Revolutionary War. Tho great cannoil goods center of industry of tho world is Baltimore, Md. Ballington Booth says that the Sal vation Army has grown in twenty eight years from two persons to over a million. Tho islet of Massowa, in tho Bed Sea, whero Italy is sending its An archists, is ono of tho hottest places in the world, and escape from it in that sterile region would bo very diffi cult. Tho only school in tho United States for tho teaching of tho art of letter* writing is said to bo at Chautauqua, N. Y. Tho instructress, Miss Francos B. Calloway, has pupils ranging from tho Texas cowboy to tho aristocratic society woman, and in ago from four teen to seventy. Tho British postoffico has recently introduced a new system of notation for its date stamps. Tho lotters from A to M are used to represent tho hours and also of twelve intervals of five minutes sacl); thus A A means 1.05, A B 1.10, and so on. A. m.and p. m. are expressed by A and P after an asterisk ; thus M C*A means 12.15 a. m. Edward Atkinson, tho statistician, testified boforo tho Royal British Com mission on Agrienltnro that one client of his in this country had received one 6inglo order for 25,000 steam plows for tho Argentine Republic. Ho said that thero were enough good whoat lands on tho Paraguay and Parana Rivers to food tho, wholo world. Tho war between China and Japan, though not of vital interest to Ameri cans, will yot bo watohod with keen intcrost by all our military loader.", remarks tho Now York Times. Thero has boen no groat war siuco tho intro duction of what wo boliovo to bo im provements in tho modo of warfare, and it remains to bo tostod whether tho greater advanco has boen mado in weapons of attack, such as grins, smokeless powder and torpodoes, or in means of dofonse, such as armor plates, now turret?, and possibly bullet-proof coats for soldiors, and this war may teach us mnny things. It appears that England is tho groat cat railway-traveling oonntry on oarth. In 1880, tho oxtent of linos in Eng land boing then about 18,033 miles; tho number of passengers was nearly 004,000,000. In 1800, by which tlmo tho railway lines had increased by about 4375 miles, tho numbor of travel ers had grown to nearly 818,000,000. No other country in tho world comos near tlieso figures. Evon tho railroads in tho Unitod States, which moasuro the enormous length of 108,7(30 milos, carried in 1890, only rather morothan 520,000,000 passengers. In Germany, in 1880, 215,000,000 persons travelod on 20,756 miles of railway ; in 1890 tho number of passengers was over 426,- 000,000. Edward Bellamy shudders whenever he hoars tho nnmo of "Looking Backward." Tf you wish to make a friend of Francis Bret Harto don't mention "Tho Heathen Chinee." Will Carleton wonders how people can read "Ovor the Hills to tho Poor House," which ho considers one of tho poorest poems ho over wrote. Mrs. F. Hodg son Burnett does not wish to hoar "Little Lord Fauntleroy" praised ill her immodiato vicinity. Charles Heber Clarke has taken a very strong aversion to his once famous nom do plumo of "Max Adler." But no one recognizes him as anyone elso. "Tho Opening of a Chestnut Burr," by E. P. Boe, was considered by him to bo an inferior work. Our pestiferous friend, tho bicycle, continues to grow in favor, and it is being put to very proctical uses, notes tho Chicago Becord. In the German army estimates for the present yoar the sum of $25,000 i s included for tho supply of bicyolos to tho in'fantry. Two whocls are assigned to each bat talion and an instruction has been is- sued dealing with the bicycle service. These machines are to bo used for communications between columns on the march and for communications between advanced guards. When troops are in quarters bicyclists are to fulfill tho functions of orderlies, es pecially where mounted orderlies are wanting; they will also relieve tho cavalry from relay and intelligence duties. In great fortresses all tho duties hitherto devolving on cavalry as m<ssage-bearers are to bo trans ferred to bicyclists. In tho military service of our own country tho bi eyole has already begun to figuro con spicuously with admirable results. WHAT DOES IT MATTER. Tt matters llttlo where I pros born, Or if my parents wore rich or poor i Whether they shrank at the cold world's scorn, Or walkod In the pride of wealth seoare. But whether I live an honest man, And holds my Integrity Arm in "my clutch, I tell you, brother, plain as I am, It matters mnoh 1 [t mattors little how long I stay In a world ot sorrow, sin, and care; Whether in youth I am oallod away, Or live till my bones and pato are bare. But whether I do tho best I can To soften tlio weight of adversity's touch On tho faded cheok of my fellow man, It matters much 1 It matters llttlo where be my gravo, Or on the land or on tho soa, By purling brook or 'neath stormy wavo; It matters little or naught to mo. But wUothor tho Angol of Doath comes down And marks my brow with his loving touch, As ono that shall woar tho victor's crown, It mattors much! —From the Swedish. DOCTOR BARTON'S PATIENT BY HELEN FORREFT GRAVES. ND you don't even Jl\\ know her name!" \ said Mrs. Sen f? . // \\ wick. "My dear Kenneth, thore - ./II never was any thing so ridic ' Tho captain of "y artillery shifted -*■—— liis feet to a more comfortablo position on the sofa, and looked longingly at u box of cigarH which was placed just beyond his reach. "Of coursa I know her name," said he; "and a very pretty ono it is. Perry—Miss Perry." "But who is it you are talking about?" said pretty Joyce, who had been preparing a mustard-paste for hor brother's chost. Captain Ronwicl: answered prompt ly- "My sweothoart I" "Kenneth, don't bo ridianlousl" said his motlior, somewhat tartly. "Tho swootest, prettiost blossom in all tho Adiroudaok wildernesses 1" pursued Kenneth. "Tho fairest of— Catnip teal I tloolnro, Joyoo, I won't, drink it! What do you tako mo for?" "It's tho host thing in tho world for a cold on tho chost," said Mrs. Ronwiok, wringing her hands, "Oh, if you had only kept away from that, campiug party." "I mistook her for tho boatman's daughter the first time," said Captain Ronwiok. ".She—" "Kenneth, don't talk—pleaso don't talk 1" urged liia inothor. "It's tho worst thing you oould possibly do, with your lungs all oongostod, and—" "But I must talk 1" said tho captain. "Consider, motlior, Joyco hasn't heard a word about it. Sho only camo last night. Fanoy, Joyce, my boing fool enough to mistake hor for a boat man's daughter I" "Why, aron't boatmon's daughters as liico and ladylike as any ono?" said Joyoe, readjusting licr apron ribbons. "Oh, but this boatman livos in » porpotual state of shirt-sloovos 1" said Ronwiok; "and ho is a living fountain of tobacoo juioo, and talks abominable grammar through his uoso. And his wifo is a low class of Meg Merrilies, who takes too muoh bad whisky whon ovcr sho has tho opportunity. How I ovor mado such a blunder I can't imagine. But Jenkins sent me up to tho Lako head to hire a boat, and when I saw hor sitting thero among tho water-lilies, I jumped at once to tho conclusion that this was the boat to hire. 'My good girl,' says I— fancy my idiocy I —'if you will just row me up to Noedle Point, and call for me again in the evening, I'll givo you a dollar.' " "And she?" said Joyce. "Rowed me up, of oourse. I wish you could have seen the way in whioh sho handled tho oars. But it was Dolph, tho tobacco-soaked old boat man, who callod for me at sunset. 'Why didn't you send your daugh ter ?' says I. 'lt warn't my darter,' lays he; 'it was Miss Perry.' Well, then 1 met her at the picnic. We ivaltzed together halt the evening. :Jho is as beautiful as she is graceful, ind as intelligent as sho is boautiful." "Did you apologize?" asked Joyce. | "Of course I apologized," said Cap tain Kenneth. "And we had a good laugh over it. She had boen after ; water-lilies, she said. She paints 'em j in water colors. I am to havo one ] when they are finished. Joyce, you ; must know her. She is a perfect ; beauty. And she dances like a sylpb, and sings like Patti, aid—" | "Nousenso !" said Joyce. "A farm er's daughter, seen through the big ' end of the opera glass! You were al j wajs a victim to delusions, Kenneth." "My dear Joyce, I assure you—" "Children, children!" remonstra j ted Mrs. Ren wick, piteously, "do havo a little common sense. Kenneth, | you know you ought not to talk. Joyce, don't you hear how hoarsoyour brother is?" If pneumonia should set ; in after this exposure—" Captaiu Renwick made an expreE ' sivo grimace. Joyco looked a litle apprehensive. "Mamma," said she, "you always | were a pessimist. It's only a cold thot ails Kennth." "But it is settling on his lungs, my dear," said Mrs. Renwick, plaintively. "And out hero in the wilderness there isn't oven a drutf store short of fifteen miles. Oh, dear ! oh, dear ! why did I ever allow myself to be persuadod to come to the Adirondacks?" I "The scenery, mammal"said Joyce, soothingly. "But one can't eat and drink | scenery. And this woman knoirs LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26. 1894. absolutely nothing about omelettes and Frenoh coffee, and she never broiled a beefsteak in her life until I showed her how. As for her soups, they are simply uneatable. And the beds aro as hard as tho neither mill stone, and tho mosquitees are unen durable !" "All those are trivial annoyances," said Captain Benwick, skillfully con triving to tip over tho catnip-tea on the current number of a popular maga zine, in his reach after tho cigar box. "To me, tho Adirondacks are the gar don of the world! I shall never be willing togo anywhere elso in the sum mer. And she says it is even finer here in winter, with tho trifling ex ception of a little solitude." "Kenneth," cried his mother, in agonized accents, "you must not talk I" "My doarest mother, I am all right if you only won't fret!" declared this prodigal son. But Captain Benwick's oyea were unnaturally bright, tho hot flush of fever burned on his check, and his breathing was alternately hurried and laborious. It was undoubtedly tho fact that ho had taken a severe cold during tho camping out expedition from which ho had just returned, and that this cold had been proof, so far, at least, against all tho remedies Mrs. Benwick had used. "Oh, dear! oh, doar!" sighed tho mothor. "Why don't tho doctor como? Joyce, look out of tho win dew ! See if there aro any signs of him." "The doctor?" ejaculated Captain Benwick, raising himself on ono elbow among his pillows. "You don't say you have sent for a doctor?" "Why, of course I have!" said Mrs. Benwick—"for Dootor Barton, from Nylcsburg." "A snuff-taking old fiend, who will doeso me with calomel, and experi ment on mo with every one of tho hun dred-year-old drugs in his saddle bags!" cried the captain. "I won't soo him!" "Dear Kennoth!" ploated Joyce. "My son!"sobbed Mrs. Bouwick. "No!" ejaculated Kenneth. "I'll bo hanged if I do! I despiso dootors, anyway ! And what sort of n medical man do you imagino would porch him self up hero on tho boughs of those everlasting pines?" "Konneth, you must eeo him!" said Mrs. Renwiok. "Mothor, I won't," stoutly declared tho rebel. "But what will ho think J" "What ho pleases. It will matter little to you or mo what ho thinks," said Kenneth. "All I know is, that ho shan't cross this threshold. Give him his fee und tell him to bo gono I" Mm. Renwiok and Joyce looked de spairingly at caoh othor. Undoubtedly tho oaptain was master of the situation. If ho chooso to sot the dootor and his gallipots at deflanoe, what was to be done? All that moment, liowevor, thcro was a slight rustle down stairs. "Tho doctor has como!" cried Joyce, excitodly, "with suoh a protty little horso and phaeton. Oh, Ken. I'msuro ho isn't old, and ho don't tako snuff. Oh, I'm so sorry I didn't catch a glimpso of him." "Ho has como, has ho?" said the captain. "Thou tell him togo about his business." Mrs. Ogden, the fat landlady, put in her head at this junoture. "Ploaso, mom, the doctor," said she. "Tell him—" hoarsoly shouted Ken ueth, flinging tho pillows right and loft. But before he could complete his sentence tho door opened and a tall young lady, in a blue cloth ulster and a pretty plumed hat, came in, with a flat morocco caso in her hand. "Miss Porry!"ke exclaimed, star ing at her from the sofa, with a face suddenly lightod into now brightness and enthusiasm. "How kind of yon to remember me! You are acquainted with my mother, are you not? Joyce, this is Miss Perry." The tall young lady looked com posedly around her. "I am sorry to hear of your illness, Captain lienwick," said oho. "We must see what we can do for you." "But," added Kenneth, stretching his neck to get A look at the door, which was still slightly ajar, "where is tho doctor? They told me he was coming up." The beautiful blonde sat down and gently took Kenneth Benwiok's wrist in hor delicate fingers. "I am tho doctor," said she. "Have the goodness to remain quite still for a few moments while I ascertain the pulso and temperature." Captain Benwick was struck dumb. An electric thrill seemed to dart through every pulso and vein. But Joyce's eyes sparklod, and the dim ples came out around her mouth. "You !" she cried. "A doctor?" Doctor Barton nodded, still intent on the enameled faco of her watch. "Pernella Barton. They call me Perry for short. Captain Benwick always called me Miss Perry. I don't believe ho know I had any other name." "And you are really a doctor?" said Joyco. "Oh, Kenneth, how fortun ate !" Doctor Barton examined her pa tient's tongue, listened at his lungs aud made some abstruse hieroglyphics in her notebook. Then she measured out some gray powders in infinitesi mal papers, and left hgflf directions in the most business-like way in tho world. "I shall look in again this even ing," she said. "It seems to be noth ing more tliAn a severe cold. But I do not intend that it shall gain any headway." "I put myself entirely in your charge," sail Captain Benwiok, with a contented air. "I'm perfeotly cer tain that I shall get well." "I thought you wore going to lend the dootor about his business." mali ciously whispered Joyce. "Bat I didn't know what sort of a dootor it was,"'retorted the captain. Pnenmonia did not set in after all. Doctor Barton proved a trne prophet, and soon dispelled the heavy oold. But Captain Benwiok had yet another ailment—in the region of the heart. "Mother," he said, coaxingly, "wasn't I right? Ain't she lovely?" "The sweetest girl I ever saw," Mrs, Renwick warmly answered: "and the most talented and self-reliant." "And if, mother —" "Yon will be the most fortunate man in the world,", said Mrs. Ben wick. Captain Renwick made the best use of his time, and, although Dr. Bar ton's summer vacation was over, and sho lingered and loungod at pionios, and in the pearly shadow of water lilies, ho still continued to make many appointments for seoing her; and, when he returned to tho Hundred-and- Forty-seventh Artillery, he was an en gaged man. "And after tho first of Novomber," ho says, "Doctor Barton will be phy sician advisory to but one patient. Saturday Night. A Much Traveled Cat. "I have got a pet kitton at homo," said W. L. Slocurn, of Manchester, N. H., last night, "which, I think, has traveled about as rapidly and as fur in one day as any other animal in tho world. One morning, about a month ago, the kitten strayed into my fac tory a short time before tho machin ery was started up. It got playing around the floor, and soon took up it J position in tho big fly wheel, where, without being noticed, it nestled down and went to sleep. Soon tho machin ery was putin motion, tho whoel moving so rapidly that tho poor kitten could not escape. Indeed, it is prob ablo that puss was soon unconscious from dizziness. A littlo computation shows the distance tho cat traveled. Tlie wheel moves at the rate of 250 revolutions a minute, and at every turn pussy went seventeen feet. As tho wheel was kept in motion 890 minutes without stopping, the kitton must have travelled during that timo a littlo over 800 miles. When tho whoel was stopped the kitten was dis covered and taken out, more dead than alive, but it shortly recovered, and, although it has remained about tho factory ever since, it is obsorved that it always givos the fly wheel a wide berth."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Chinese au<l Music. Tho Chineso have somo extraordin ary superstitions relating to music. Acoording to their qaoer notions, tho Creator of the universe hid eight sounds in the earth for tho express purpose of compelling man to find them out. According to tho Celestial idea, tho eight primitive sounds are hidden in stones, silks, woods of various kinds, tho bamboo plant, pumpkins, in tho skins of animals, in certain earths and in tho air itsolf. Any ono who has ever had tho ploaßuro of soeing and listening to a Chineso orchestra will remember that tho musioal instru ments were made of all thoso materials except the last, and that the oombincd efforts of tho other seven seemod hot ter calculated to drivo the ethereal sound away than to coax it from tho air, which is really tho objeot of all Chinese musioal efforts. When the band plays tho naivo credulity of the people, both old and young, hears in tho thuds of tho gongs and tho whistling of tho pipes tho tones of the eternal sounds of na ture that were originally deposited in the varioas animate and inanimate ob jects by tho all-wiso Father.—Phila delphia Press. Rescue ot a Sand 11111 Crane. "Tho devotion of birds to their young is one of the most beautiful sights of nature," said William P. Bux ton, of Dubuque, last evening. "I saw a striking illustration of this char acteristic while on a hunting expedi tion up in Minnesota last fall. One day I shot and wounded a young sand hill crane, which with soveral others, was rusting on the prairie. At the re port of my gun all the birds took flight with the exoeption of the wounded one and one other, which was almost cer tainly its parent. The injured bird made several attempts to fly, and finally succeeded in rising some ton or fifteen feet in tho air, but as it could not sus tain itself it fell again to tho ground. It tried again, however, and the parent bird, seeing tho trouble tho young one was in, placed herself underneath it, allowing it to rest its feet on her back, both birds continuing all the while to flap their wings. In this way, muoh to my amizemont, she succeoded in bearing it off to a plaeo of safety."— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. What $lO Will Do in Egypt. "Speaking of tho value of money to an Egyptian native," said a traveler, "I recall whon I wanted to take an in telligent follow with mo for a six months' trip to act as my servant, in terpreter and body guard. He sai I ho would go, but there was ono diffi culty. "What is that?" I asked. " 'I must leave money enough with my father, mother, wife and four chil dren to support them for tho six months while I am away,' " ho replied. "I whistled. It was an uuoxpeotod request. "'How much do you want?'" I asked. " 'lt is a largo sum,' " he replied— piteously. " 'Well, name it.'" "I burst out laughing and gave him the money. Think of all that family living six month* ou §lOl '—Detroit Free Praia, CHEAPEST AND BEST FOOD, INSTRUCTIVE BULLETINS BY THB AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. Great Waste In Buying and Cooking; Food—The Nutrition in Various Kinds of Food—Man's Need 'T" ~T* OW will the coming man be Ivl fed? _| The Department of Agri (J" calturo has become interest ed in this question newly, and before long will publish a series of bulletins on the subject. They will be prepard& by suoh well-known experts in thv branch of research as Professor W. 'O. Water and Dr. Edward Atkinson. The former gentleman has been engaged to oonduct certain investigations and experiments of an original and higLly scientific character. At the bottom of the whole inquiry lies the fact that the people of this country do not know how to ohoose the foods they eat or how to cook them afterwards. This burden of ignorance falls most heavily upon tho wage-workers, who, taking an average among them, use one-half of their money to buy food with, this estimate not including the cost of cooking. The poor man wastes in purchasing provender; his wife wastes in preparing it for the table. Most educated people have queer notions about foods. It is generally imagined that an egg contains as much nutriment as a pound of lean beefsteak. As a matter of fact it has forty per cent, less of nutriment, pound for pound. Beef sirloin is only seventy five per cent, as nutritious as beans and peas. Chicken and turkey aro ahead of peas and benns in this re spect, being the most nutritious food known. Shad and mackeral are as sirloin steak. Lean beef is nearly threo-fourths water. Dealers say that the demand for fish is actually increased to a considerable extent by the popular belief that it is good brain food. The reason for this is supposed to be that fish contains a great deal of phosphorus, an element that is more abundant in the brain and nerves than in other parts of the human body. But tho faot is that there is no special abundance of phos phorus in fish. If thero were, it would bo of no importance. Tho widely cir culated phrase, "Without phosphor ous there is no thought," was origi nated by a Gcrmnn half in jost. On ono occasiou the elder Agassiz dcliverod a lecture on tho importance of fish culturo—it was in Boston—and remarked in a joking way that fish was an excellent brain food. From this saying and from tho oft-quotod phrase of the Qerman scientist above referred to has been derivod the ao ropted idea on this subject. In truth, thero is no cause whatever for beliov ing that the eating of fish promises rerebral aotivity. But, speaking of the relativo value of foods, it. is inter esting to know that a pound of lean beef and a quart of milk as it comes from tho cow contains about tho same amount of nutritive material. How over, tho nutrients in beef aro more valuable for ordinary use. Professor Atwator has invented n new con trivance for moasuring tho energy produced by various foods. Tho food Boleotod for trial—a dolinito quantity of it—is burned in a vossol surround ed by water. A thermometer of ex traordinary dolicacy registers tho rise in tho temperature of tho water, tho quantity of which is known. Then an equal nmount of tho same food is burnod in the human body, Of course, all food digesto I undorgoes a prooess of ehemioal oombustion. It ia ft golf-evident proposition that tho ohcapost food to buy ia that which oontains tho greatest amount ot nutriment to r a given price. With a small equipment of knowledge on this subject the poor man could select his r „iolcs of diet in the market with a Vf.stly greater economy. In other words, ho oould live much better for loss money. He ought to be taught to select such foods as wheat flour, corn meal, beans, milk and tho cheaper outs of meats. To start with, it is not easy for him to realize that hipfh priced foods are in genoral uneco nomical. Tho maxim that the boat is ohoapost does not apply to foods. The average man, leading a moder ately active life, requires fifty-niuo ounces of food per diem. He consumes thirty-seven ouuoos of wator and ab sorbs in breathing thirty ounces of oxygen from the air. His total bodily income, theroforc, is about eight pounds daily. What ho needs for his support each day is four and one fifth ouncos of flesh-forming albumen, two ounoes of fat—enough to make a fair-sized caudle—seventeen and a half ounoes of sugar andstaroh, four-fifths of an ounoe of mineral matters—such a& oommon salt, potassium, eto.—two quarts [of wator and 150 gallons of oxygen. So muoh water is contained in solid foods that we may be said to eat as muoh water as we drink. In order to enpply tho substances above mentioned, a man should eat daily twenty ounces of bread, eight ounces of beefsteak, thirty ounoes of potatoos and one onnoo of butter, with one quart of water—or the equivalent. A human being is oomposed mostly of wator. Tho body of a man woighing 154 pounds oontains ninety-six pounds or forty-six quarts of water. To oom pleto his makoup must bo added thir teen pounds of albumon, ten pounds of gelatine, twenty-throe pounds of fat, eight and a half pounds of phos phate of lime, one pound of oabonate of lime, three ounoes of sugar and staroh, seven ounces of fluoride of oaloium, six ounces of phosphate of magnesia, a trifle of chlorido of po tassium and a little ordinary table (alt.—Washington Star. The Odd Fellows of Mississippi hare deelded to build a home for the help* less oust oi that Ord«r. Terms---SI.OO in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Tho starfish has five eyes. Phonograph cylinders are now made of hard soap. The telephone is about to be intro duced into China. Experiments in weaving by elec tricity are being tried in Qermany. Bailey, the astronomer, figures out the weight of the earth at 6,049,830, • 000,000,000 tons. Sapless oedar blocks from rogions swept by forest firos are usod in pav ing Detroit (Mich.) streets. The largest comets are so rarified that they never harm planets or satel lites by oolliding with them. Sanctorins, an Italian physiologist, estimates that five-eighths of all tho solid and liquid food taken are ex haled by the skin. An examination of tho eyes of many animals has showu that the natural shape of the pupil in oats and other members of the gonus Felis is oiroular. A ton of Dead Sea water contains 187 pounds of salt; Bed Sea, 93 ; Mediter ranean, 85; Atlantic, 81; English Channel, 72 ; Black Sea, 26; Caspian Sea, 11. The group of sun spots now visiblo is nearly 80,000 miles in breadth. It is not remarkable for any unusually large spots, but rather for tho great number of smaller ones and for their wonderful activity. Petroleum is to be usod instead of ooal on the locomotives of the Riga Railway, in Russia, and reservoirs are to bo built for this purposo at five cities, capable of containing collec tively 1,000,000 poods of petroleum. A Bordeaux physioian has troatod two casos of violent attacks of hyste ria by simply holding tho tongue be yond tho teeth f?r a few minutes. Tho attacks were brought to a speedy close after tho usual remodies had failed. An interesting ethnological exhibi tion has opened on the Champs do Mars, Paris, consisting of a caravan of the Chambaa tribe, men, women and children, with their animals and household trappings, brought there by tho explorer, M. Bruaeau. A scheme has been proposed to re duce tho friction of salt water against ihe sides of a steamer, which, it is claimed, will increase tho speed fifty per cent. It is to forco air through the vessel's plates and thereby form a narrow spaco between tho iron aud water. Dr. J. A. Gilbert, of the Yala psy chylogical laboratory, who some timo ago completed a series of testa regard ing the mental and physical develop ments of the pupils of tho Now Haven (Conn.) public schools, discovered that boys are more sensitive to weight discrimination the.n are girls, and that girls can tell the difference in color shades better than boys. Water Your Horses 0. r teu. Feeding a horse principally oa grain and driving it five hours with out water is like giving a man salt mackeral for dinner and not allowiug him to drink before supper time very unsatifactory for the man. If you know anything about the care of horses and have any sympathy for tbein, water them as often as they want to drink—once au hour if possi ble. By doing this you will not only bo meroiful to your animals, but you will bo a benefactor to yourself, is they will do more work, look better, and live longer. If you aro a skeptic and know more about horses than any oneelse, you aro positive that the fore going is wrong, because you have had horses die with watering them toa much, and boldly say that tho agita tors of frequent watering are fook in your estimation, and yon would not do such a thing. Just reason for a moment and figure out whether the animal would have overdrunk and overohilled his stomach if it had not been allowed to become overthirsty. A driver who sits iu his wagon and lashes his ivorn-out, half-curried, half feed, and half-watered team deserves to bo punished as a criminal.—Our Dumb Animals. A Goose Plant in Full Moo 11. The "goose" plant iu Washington Park Conservatory is now at iti best, says the Chicago luter-Oeeau. One of the biggest geeso is over a yard long, and broad in proportion. The plant is ono of tho most unique, rare and valuable knowu to scientists. The correct name is aristolochia gigas Sturtevantii, and it was at the World's Fair. When there it bore only one or two flowers, owing to its being too young to bear more. It is a native of South America, and even there is con sidered a marvelous production. Iu one of the green houses next to the "goose" house at Washington Park is a collection of caladiums ol the most varied shapes and colors. Mr. ICanst, the head gardener, says tho collection has no duplicate. Many of the plants have leaves as delicately traced as the finest Valencienues laces. A newspa per may be read if covered with ono of these transparent leaves. The col ors are all shades of red, piuk, ma roon, crimson and yellow. Some Kcmarkable Cases. Hero aro some remarkable cases: The other day a wagon maker, who had been dumb for years, picked up a hub and spoke; and a blind carpen ter reached out for h'n plane and saw ; and a deaf sheep ranohtnau went out with his dog and herd; and a nose less fisherman caught a barrel of her ring and smolt; and a forty-ton ele phant inserted his trunk into a grate and flue.—Victoria (British Columbia) Horn* Journal. NO. 3* A SONO OF LOVE TIM&. Sing a song of love-time— AH the world Is light; Itlpple on the rlyer And the stars a-shining bright. Blng a song of lovo-tlme— All the world Is sweet, Rainbows round the heavens— LUlles at your feet! Sing a song of lovo-tlme— Sorrow In eclipse! Rosy children climbing To the leaning of your lips Blng a song of love-time— Sing it—sing it, birds! Set the sweetest music To the sweetest human words 1 Sln« a song of love-time— All the world mado new , And a heaven that Is noarer Than the heaven in the blue! , — F. L. Stanton, in Altlantn Constitution. HUMOR OF THE DAT. A civil tongue is a better protection for the head than a st.el helmet.— Ram's Horn. Praising yourself relieves yonr friends of a great burilen. —Cleveland Plain Doaler. What availcth it if a girl wear white kid slippers and nobody sees thorn?— Oil City Blizzard. Somo lnon ought to bo ashamed of themselves, but they nevor happen to think about it.—Galveston News. People who aro always telling their troubles aro never at a loss for some thing to talk about.—Ram's Horn. No person ever lives the allotted years of man without wishing ho hadn't written that letter. —Puck. We don't believe a long-haired man knows any raoro about medicine than a short-haired man.—Atchison Globe. He —"Shall wo take the cars down town!" She—"No, Jack; let's have the cars tako us down town.''—Truth. "Oh, doctor I doctor 1 I've swallowed a Albert." "Swallow a nutcracker, madam. Five dollars."—Chicago Tri bune. Higbee—"By Jove, old man, you are looking extremely well. Been taking a vacation ?'' Bradford— "No; my wife has."—Truth. A man spends most of his time when around home in wondering where tho women folks have "hid" the things ho wants. —Atchison Globe. Stewart—"Miss Mitford is a very magnetic girl." Darley (who is jealous) —"I havo hoard that she shocks every one sho meets."—Truth. A—"Wo had an addition to tho family yesterday." B—"Congratulate you, old man; a boy cr a girl?" A— "Neither; mother-in-litw." —Truth. A mother's idea of as good luck as any one can ask for is to occasionally find a pair of stockings in tho pilo that doesn't need darning.—Atchison Globe. Admirer—"Whero did you get all this wonderful strength?" Famous Strong Man—"l was a carver in a boarding houso for threo years."— Syracuso Post. "What do you think? Dick said that I was the prettiest girl at the re ception." "Think? Why, that ho can't consult an oculist any too quick." —Chicago Inter-Ocean. "There's ono thing I can't under stand about mosquitoes," said Bobbie. "Where do such liltlo bits of things keep those great big bites that spread about so?" Harper's Bazar. "How did Officer Dulan get the silver medal he wears?" "It was for bravery." "What did ho do?" "Walked by three fruit stands without taking anything."—Chicago Inter- Ocean. "What does Dr. Slimpurse say pro duced this case of appendicitis?" "Lack of work." "What! Why, tho man never has an idle day." "Oh, no; but Slimpurse has." —Chicago Inter-Ocean. Mrs. Nucook —"Isn't it funny, dear, wo aro nevor troubled with tramps? Why is it, I wonder?" Mr. Nucook— "Probably because you always give them something to eat, darling."— Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Carry any life insuranco?" "Yes, 810,000 in favor of mywife." "Should think you'd bo ashamed to look her in the face." "Wha—what for?" "For living. What excuse do you give her?" —lndianapolis Sentinel. Dick—"Cholly's down with nervous prostration. He road a cablegram hi tho paper that it was raining in Lon don and couldn't turn up his trousers." Harry—"Why not?" Dick—"He had on knee breeches." —New York Herald. How odd it is that it seems never to have occurred to the street-car people that by taking all the seats out of their cars they could get a great deal moro room than they have now for folks to stand up.—Somerville Jour nal. Cumso—"Say, old man, why don't you try electricity for your baldnoss?" Caraway—"Electricity? What good could that possibly do me? Does it make the hair grow?" Cumso —''Beet thing you could use—sure to givo you a shock."—Harvard Lampoon. "My dear," he said to his wife upon returning homo aftor the vigilance committee were through with him, "I have remembered at last to got tho tar to paint tho roof with ; and I havo brought you home some feathers to fill those cushions that you have been making."—Truth. King ot Crabs. A soft shell crab weighing twenty four ounces and measuring twenty-ono and a half inches from tip to tip of the extended claws, was to oeived in Baltimore a few days ago from Deal's Island, Md.—New York Post.
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