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.