SULLIVAN JKFE REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XIII. The population of Europe doubles once each 600 yearn. The total cost of the Chinese mis sions amounts to about $1,250,000 an nually. _____ In times of war the armies of Euro pean nations can be raised to 9,366,000 men, and tho daily expenses will be nearly $20,000,000. Farm land in the northern tier of counties of Now York brings less money now than it did fifteen years ago, avers tho Mail and Express. In Australia horses and cattle are now being branded by electricity from storage batteries. The temperature is uniform, and tho brand safe and ar tistic. China has only 200 miles of railway in actual operation. Japan's total length of railway lines, for which con cessions are granted, is 2520 miles, of which 1912 miles aro in actual opera tion. A Western health officer is interest ing himself in tho cultivation of mushrooms. lie nays: "I suppose that thousands of tons of mushrooms goto waste every year in the State of Ohio alone, while hundreds of pounds of the same edible aro imported into tho State from France." A new monument to Garibaldi, and the finest, in Italy, is to be erected in Rome soon. It is said that there is not a town of any considerable size in Italy which has not a statue of Garibaldi and one of Victor Emmanuel. A monument to Victor Emmanuel now in course of erect'on at Romo is to cost $5,000,000. It is said that seven suicides is the normal daily average in New York and vicinity. Facts collated prove that poverty, which is usually considered a prime cause for self-murder, does not figure as the motive in the majority of these suicides, for most of tli3 persons are those in comfortable circum stances. Those who have theories about the necessities of beginning a literary career in early youth will find no con venient illustration in the biography of Mr. Du Maurier, muses the New York Tribune. When "Peter Ibbet son" was published the author was already fifty-seven. Years have not destroyed his freshness of feeling. One of tho most delightful things in "Trilby" is its atmosphere of vital energy. One needs only to turn to tho rec ords of tho Pension Office in Washing ton to realize how rapidly tho men who fought in tho Union Army thirty years ago are passing away. The latest report of the Commissioner of Pensions shows that tho number of applications for pensions has fallen from 363,799 in 1891 to 40,148 in 1891, while about 37,000 wcro dropped from the rolls during the last fiscal year because of death. The assassination of President Car not has mado the fortune of tho hard ware dealer in Cette, where Caserio bought tho knife with which ho com mitted his crime. The man's name is Guillaume. Sinco the origin of the knife became known, no day has passed without Guillaume's receiving orders for the "Carnot poignard." These orders como not only from France, but also from foreign coun tries, in such numbers that the dealer cannot fill them. One house in Brus sels alone ordered 300. Women are certainly driving men from many fields, notes the New York Tribune. In the town of Fieber brunn, near Innsbruck, Tyrol, a few weeks ago, there was a wrestling match for women. Six representa tives of the fairer sex showed their strength and agility before 400 epectators, who cheered the victors lustily. It was a disgusting exhibi tion. A visitor, in describing the struggles, says that the women quickly lost their temper, and pulled out handfuls of each other's hair. The Students' Movement is now or ganized in more than 400 colleges. It Was started in Philadelphia five years ago, and its purpose is defined as fol lows: "To organize the students in the universities and every great pro fessional school, so that each college shall have suitable rooms for social and religious advantage, that young men coining as strangers to the city can bo introduced into good hbmes, to attendance upon chnrch, and to be surrounded by healthful, social and religious influences, and that the social and spiritual side of the student's life should be looked after as carefully as the intellectual." Experiments are being made with tompressed bay soaked in a drying >il for paving blocks. The statistics of life insnranoe people show that within the last twenty-five years the average of man's ife has increased five per cent., or two rhole years, from 41. G to 43.9 years. The adoption of a univorsal postage (tamp, whioh can be used in any coun try, will be the most important pro >osal at the '97 Postal Congress in Washington. announces the St. Louis Star-Savings. Brazil has long been having a revo lution. Now the bill has been pre tented. It is for $40,000,000, and, ac iording to the San Francisco Exam iner, Brazil cannot help but wonder 'hriftily if she got enough fun for the noney. Census returns of the Indian Ter ritory show that out of its population, 178,097, only 25,055 are Indians, these belonging to the five civilized tribes—Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choc iaw, Creeks and Seminoles. There ire 109,393 whites, and out of the lotal population 82,724 aro women *nd girls. The United States Entomological Commission has shown that onr forest trees are hotels, where a multitude of insects board and lodge. The oak provides provision and a home for 309 species of insects and lodgings for 150 more. Tho elm makes full provision for tho wants of sixty-one species and harbors thirty others. The pine bears the burden of supporting from its jwn vitality 151 specieF, while twenty more love its shady retreats. M. Casimir-Perier, President of tho French Republic, during his recent tour in the provinces, drove about in an .especially constructed carriage the seat of which was so high that an or dinary person could scarcely reach it from the street. Any repetition of the Caserio incident would have been impossible. The President was always accompanied in his drives by a large force of gendarmes, and at the various railroad stations the public was care fully exoluded from the platforms. Colonel Dulier, a Belgian officer, has discovered that steam precipitates tho soot of which smoke is composed. He has invented a chimney with two connected flues, into which two steam jets are passed. By this means ho purifies the smoke. Tho soot is passed into the drains, where its dis infecting qualities are specially val uable. This invention can bo applied at small cost to any building, and has been introduced with success in Glasgow. The London County Coun cil is favorably impressed with it, and sanguine people hope it may be tho means of delivering London from fogs. The New York Tribune remarks: Among recent "silly season" topics in the London press was that of "mum my wheat" and its alleged germina tion. The discussion was, unlike most such, of real interest, for it revealed the fact that many people, including some with pretensions to scientifio knowledge, actually do believe that grains of wheat taken from mummy cases and thousands of years old have sprouted, grown to stalk, and borne seed. Why not, they demand, when frogs and toads have been found alive after being imbedded in solid rock for thousands of years? And that such animals have thus been found, they have unquestioning confidence. Doubtless the one is as true and as reasonable as the other. But neither has the least foundation in fact. If a toad be found i übedded in coal, it must have lived in the carboniferous age, which was probably millions, rather than thousands, of years ago. But all animals of that age have long been extinct, while the toads alleged thus to have beon found are identical in species with those of to-day. Ho it haß come to pass that the alleged "mummy grain" which has actually sprouted and grown has been either oats or Indian corn, neither of which is indigenous to Egypt or was known there in the days of the Pharaohs. In the second place, it is a biologioal im possibility for animals thus to survive, and it is also a botanical impossibility for wheat thus to grow, for the germ is known, by actual observation to perish in about seven years, and final ly, to clinch the matter, numerous ex periments, conducted with all possible care, have proven that toads thus sealed up immediately and invariably perish, and numerous test plantings have been made of grains of wheat, peas, beans, lentils, almonds, peach pits, olives, dates, poppy seeds, etc., found in mummies and ancient tornbe, of which not out has ever germinated. LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1894. FROM DAY TO DAY, From day today. Take no thought for the morrow, Why hope or why remember, Or In the white December Ilun Idly out to borrow The roues o( the May? From day today. This moment is the lever With which to lift the mountain, And loosed the prisonod fountain That flows and flows forever, And quenohes thirst for aye. From day today. There Is no wider measure, Bravely as you may will it, Striving you eannot All it, So, life's Immortal treasure Is hidden in the Day. —Annie L. Muzzey, in Youth's Companion. "MERRYGOOLS." PKIZE STORY BY JTTLINA O. HALIi. ./T was a rapturous spring day. I had wjA accomplished my iiitj errand with an ease fM and facility which Hi P n * me on the best -®j possible termswith <jjJ mysel fand all sales un man-kind, and was rH sauntering home l":CnfT 9|| ward up Eleventh fßl'lfl liflSßffl street - ily lagging jj 'jiacl'jir steps were not from languor, but a _ ;K ~ mere reluctance to going in-doors and again putting architectural barriers between me and the free airy undulations of the sea con's breath. "Please, mum, can ye tell me where St. Patrickses Church is?" The voice had iu it some of the clear rustic jubilant ring of the sleigh-bells under the star-lights. It was liquid with laughter as tho bob-o-link's ec static twitter over meadows of butter cups and daisies. The face of the speaker was of the Irish-American type. Tho curves of her mouth rip pled into smiles; her limpid eyes re minded me of the eddying pools of a trout-lirook in their fascinating un certainty of depth; and the warm rich color came and went in lur plump cheeks like the flashes of flaue in a midwinter aurora. "Please, mum," she began again. I must have gazed in her face too long, for the question was repeated. "St. Patrick's!" I replied, medita tively. "Do you know what street it is on?" "Oh, yes; they tells me it's on Tenth, between and 'Q,' but I don't know how how to find any of these streets." A perfect trill of laughter followed this confession, as though her own ignoranco of Wash ington topography were the rarest joke in tho budget. "Ah, I remember. I can show it to you from the next corner," and I turned in upon "H" street and sig nalled to her to follow. "But the trouble I'm giving ye, mum." A little touoh of alarm shaded her face for an instant. "You can't have beon long in Wash ington?" "Oh, yes! It's going on two years. But I don't step my foot in the street but once a month, and I'm that stupid I don't just git onto how they go." "Your mistress ought to give you a holiday oftener than that," I said, with a sudden 6tir in the blood that quickens the indignant pulse of there former when a new case of tyranny oomes to his ear. Again she laughed, sotting all the mirthful possibilities of her face into brisk concerted action. "She's me own mother, mum, but she's sick in her mind, daft like, since Bhe got hurt. Why, she's wild if I'm out of her sight, 60 I almost never leave her." "How could you get out to-daj?" [ asked, not without inward remon itrance at my own inquisitiveness, but I felt myself to be in touch with a rare character and longed to deter mine its constitutional elements. "You'll laugh when I tell you, but ihe's bavin' another weddin' day and thinks I'm after tho priest." Indeed, I would have laughed long and loud if anything could have infused the musio into my tono that echoed through hers with such infinity of iweet variations. "You speak as though she'd had wide experience in wedding days. She'll know how to make her daugh ter's a brilliant one later," I said, with most reprehensible familiarity. The sleigh-bell ring in her voice deepened to the dignity of a cathe dral chime as she answered: "No, mum. It's likely I shan't never jet married myself. I can't leave her while she lives. Larry, he's promised to wait, but something may happen. ¥e can't toll." I should have looked in vain for a blush on her already roay face, but she went on simply with the story of her mother. "It's the 15th of the month and Ann Ryan's always at home when they stop the mill to clean it. She comes into »tay with mother. She looks like my mother's bridesmaid, they say. Some way she always puts mother in mind of that day. The minute Ann Ryan comes in mother gets out her old wed din' drees and puts it on. We stiok up the old paper flowers over tho mantel and pin sheets over the chairs to make everything look nice for tho bride. She kind o' forgets about me then, and while Ann sings 'The Bride of Killarney' and 'The Four-Leaved Shamrock |o' Glenore' I slip out for an hour. That's how it is, mum." "Doesn't she get impatient for tho guests to cojne or for the service to be read?" I asked, feeling the intense pathos of this dried-tip and withered mind clinging so tenaciously to its one supreme memory. "How does it all end?" "Elegantly, always. She alw**« gets tired trying to think of things' gone by and just falls asleep in her chair and sleeps till it's almost dark. She's sort o' dazed like, when we give her her snpper and get her to bed. I put away all the weddin* things, and next day she's forgotten it all." At that instant a boy with a tray of flowers in his hand passed ns on the other side. Only a gleam of the yel low daffodils reached onr eyes. "Saints be praised 1" exclaimed the girl, as she stood stock still with her hands clasped rapturously together; "Be they merrygools, mum?" "I'm afraid not. Did you want some?" I asked, wondering what this new burst of emotion could nean. "I've wanted some for years and years," she said, and the bells in her tone were muffled now, and a tear drop rolled down her cheek. "They are hard to find, I'm afraid. Florists do not raise them. Few peo ple want them. You might perhaps find them in some country garden," I might as well have suggested her picking a celestial nosegay of ama ranths and asphodels. All were equally out of her reach. "Mebby ye think I'm daft too," she said, with a return oi the old sunshine to her face. "Mother's always talk ing about merrygools. There's some thing she wants to tell us—Danny and me. She begins, 'Listen, my chil dren. It was a great time. I'd picked all the merrygools'—and there she gets crazed, like, and you can't under stand any more." "Does she mean the dark velvet ones, or the daisy-like ones?" "Just like velvet, mum. I saw somo when I was a little girl." Wo had reached St. Patrick's and even been standing by tho steps of the terrace. She had thanked me for my guidance with warm ebullient gratitude, but I still detained her. "Come to see me on your mother's next wedding day," I said, giving her my address. "Some ono will help you find the place. I'll go this minute to Twelfth street to see if I can not buy some marigold seeds. My gardon er shall plant somo to-day. We may get somo blossoms in that way before tho season is out." She caught up my hand impulsively and gave a resonant smack to the back of my glove, and vented the surplus of her overflowing joy at tho anticipa tion in another clear ripple of laugh ter a littlo solemnized by our prox imity to the sacred walls, along whose gray surfaces sho slowly raised hor eyes heavenward. A moment later sho disappeared within tho wide door way. I found with delight that fashion in flowers had not exterminated all the antique pets of the garden. I accom plished my purpose with no other hin drance than a little nmiablo home riilicuie at tho eccentricity of this mild philanthropy. During tho entire month that fol lowed I watched the tiny sprouts tin fold into deeply incised or palmate leaflets, and the morning of the fif teenth found the little plants tall enough to wave at the touch of the gentle breezes. Early in tho after noon my new friend appeared looking more blooming than ever. Her hap piness touched into even deeper dim ples all the angles of her mouth and eyes, but her laughter was reserved until 1 took her into the garden and showed her the thriving growths. "Sure they be merry gools, ruum?" "Oh, yes? The gardener knows the order of the plant, he 6ays." She was down on hor knees in an in stant, burying her face in the dark green mass. When the exuberance of her delight had expended itself we sat down under a magnolia near by, and it was then I heard another part of the family history. "Yes, mum, my father died six months before his father did. Then mother and Uncle Mike had togo over to the old country to see about the property, for grandfather was a rich man, but close, like, with his chil dren. Something dreadful happened to mother while they were gone. They say how something hit her on tho head. She can't tell and Unole Mike wouldn't. Mebby he was in drink and don't know any more than we. But they came home worse off than ever. Couldn't get a cent. And now Unole Mike's gone off and we don't know whether he's dead or alive." The hour of our chat was short and the month that followed was long. That flower bed was my clock and my calendar. Every forcing process known to horticulture was used and the best results followed. A week be fore the 15th, velvet buds began to unfold, and when the longed for day arrived there were scores of rioh, cheerful looking blossoms, sending out their strong, pungent odor upon the hot, sultry air. The sun had scarcely begun to settle into its after noon decline before the supreme mo ment had arrived, and my guest and I went down the steps with scissors and basket. The birds hovered and seemed excited by the metallio click of tho steel, and almost burst their tiny throats with song. Perhaps they felt in their downy breaßts that the young girl's laughing notes as they melted upward into the sunny air blended with their own wordless "Te Deum." When the basket was filled and the moment of departure had arrived, she turned her luminous face full upon me and said: " 'Twould be mighty queer if I should ask you another fa vor still, when 1 ought to be down on my knees a thaukin' the Lord for what He's made ye do for me already." I implored her to speak out her wish frankly. "If only ye could come with me and see the old mother when she gets them." It was the dearest wish of my heart, though I would not have suggested the intrusion for the world. We proceed ed far out toward the higher grounds to the north and turned into a little street quite too narrow for vehicles to paaa eaoh other. Up the stain we climbed, peat Ann Byan'a door, and entered. There, euro cnougb, sat the perennial bride in the midet of the ghostly or nuptial array of white* draped furniture. She was fast asleep in her old arm-ohair, and was still crooning the last strains of "Kathleen O'Moore." "Mother, darlin' l Wake up. I've brought ye something," said the girl, giving the wrinkled brow a kiss. The old creature started up wildly and gazed about bewildered. "Yes, I do!" she said, with a slow, stern voice. "You never believe me, but I do smell merrygools." "I do believe ye this time. See here, and here, and here!" and the jubilant maiden tossed handful after handful in her mother's lap. The poor dazed creature rubbed her eyes and pressed her head with her hands and sat for a long time in silence. Then she began turning over the flowers as though seeking something underneath. "Where did I put that paper? I hid it in my lap under the merry gools. " "When was it, mother, darlin'?" asked the daughter, calmly, but with an intensity of eagerness hard to sub due into such magnificent quietness of manner. "Before the fight began? Then he hit me. Oh—h!" She looked around the room in terror of the shadowy memories that came back to her. Her weak mind was strained to its utmost tension. Suddenly she got up and went to the little trunk which usually contained the wedding dress, and part ing a little slit in the lining with her finger pulled out a yellow paper and almost shouted in the intensity of her delight. Of course I did not know the significance of the document thus curiously brought to light. I slipped out quietly and came away. It was not till months later that I learned the outcome of it all. One bright starry evening in Octo ber, after my return lrom a long mountain sojourn, I was summoned below to find my old "merrygool" friend, who was waiting upon the side verandah to see me. We sat down un der tho flaming woodbine, in its gor geous autumnal hue, and had a long talk. Qreat changes had come to the little' household. The mother's vi tality had declined from that trium phant moment when the paper had been found, and she died a few weeks later. My friend and her brother had both been to Dublin, and the violent dealings of a wicked lawyer had been brought down upon his own pate so far as to dispossess him of the estate ho so held, and to turn the current of monetary transmission into its legal channel again and make my Irish friends comfortable for life. "And now I want to tell ye one thing more," added the girl as she rose togo, "and I musn't keep Larry awaitin' too long," she said, point ing out the tall figure that had cast its shadow over us many times as it had passed up and down outside the gate. "We're go ing to be married in a week. He's foreman of the mill now and Danny's got a shop of his own, but he'll live with us till he gets a home for him self." This combination of happy circumstances called out one of the old peals of laughter. Even the katy dids stopped their harsh dispute to listen. "Wouldn't yon like a bunch of marigold's to-night?" I asked. "It's kind indeed you are," she said, with a smile that showed her dimples even in the dim light from the street, but I'vo got a little garden of my own now, and there are three buds of mer rygools in blossom yet. Ye'll think it's queer, I'm afraid," she added, with a soft organ-stop modulation in her voice, "but I've got 'em growin' on my mother's grave. She thought so much of 'em, you know." I assured her that other flowers than white roses and day lillies might be made a sacred tribute to the dead. "And maybe its queerer still," she added, in a half whisper, "but I'm goin' to trim up tho house with 'em and wear 'em myself when I'm mar ried." —Washington Pathfinder. The Chicago Style. "Maybe it's a chestnut worked over," remarked the drummer to the hotel clerk, "but I heard a story the other day which illustrates the kind of men some Ohicagoans are." "Let her go," said the clerk en couragingly. "One of those rich fellows there," continued the drummer, "had a close fisted friond of his with him at his country place, and during the evening the friond dropped n quarter in the grass and immediately went down on liis knees to find it. '"What are you looking for?' in quired the host, who was talking to another guest some distance oif. " 'l've dropped a quarter in the grass.' " 'Here, let me help you with a little light,' said the Chicago man, and he kindled a $5 bill with i match and held it till the frieud found his lost quarter."—Detroit Free Press. Told Them To Help Themselves. A queer story of anarchism comes from Italy. Not long ago the laborers on the estate of a rich proprietor named Mai, living noar Milan, came to his house with the harvested grain. They were met by his son, a youth of twenty-three, who made them a speech, telling them that the grain they had sown and cut was theirs by natural right, and bidding them to take it home and shout "Long live anarchy!" After some pressure they obeyed, and on the father's return the help of the polioe was required to make them give up the oorn again. The son thought it prudent to leave th« country.- -Picayune. Terms—sl.oo in Advance • 51.25 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC ASD INDUSTRIAL. Tho brain of an idiot contains much less phosphorus than that of a person of average mental power. Clouds that move in a direction op posite to that of the surface currents indicato a change of weather. Recent experiments indicato that the normal eye can discriminate fif teen separate tints in tho spectrum. Paving stonos of compressed hay have been tried in Salt Lake City, Utah, and are said to mako a good road bed. At a depth of 2500 fathoms the pressure of the water is, roughly speaking, two and one-half tons to tho square inch. Vienna, Austria, is to have a novel elevated railway. The cars are to be suspended instead of running on or dinary rails. Several of the same species of crea tures inhabit the Arctic that have been fished up from great depths in the Antarctic seas. Do not approach contagious dis eases with an empty stomach, nor sit between the sick and the fire, because the heat attracts tho vapor. The skeleton of a prehistoric bird has been found in a mouud in Idaho. It must have measured forty feet be tween the tips of the wings during its life time. Experiments on 100 womeu led to the conclusion that they were not more than one-half as sensitive to pain at the top of the forefinger as the average man. The death rate in Italy was in 1889 as high as twenty-seven per 1000, whoreas in England it was only seven teen—a difference attributable chiefly to sanitary arrangements. Seasoned timber is but little liablo to decay under the influence of a dry atmosphere, and will resist composition for an indefinite period when kept totally submerged in water. The great Yuma desert, Arizona, was formerly a salt sea. Seashells and oysteis fourteen feet in diameter have frequently been found at from ten inches to two feet in tho sand in va rious parts of tho desert. Clarenco S. Bemont, of Philadel phia, has the finest collection of min erals in America, the value of which is at least $125,000. He buys the best to be had, aud what he does not want is sent to the British Museum. Dr. Kingsett, the chemist, recogniz ing that ozone, tho natural purifier of the air, is produced in nature by bal sam trees —tho pine, fir, larch and eucalyptus—uges such trees bo planted and cherished on farms, and in town and villages. Cinnamon tea is recommended by a Southern physician as u valuable drink in fever affected districts. It possesses an especial virtue against typhoid fever, and essence of cinnamon i3 said to bo one of the best disinfectants to use in tho sickroom of a typhoid pa tient. Fish Catch Turtles. "Turtle fishing is carried onto n considerable extent in tho vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico," said O. L. Davidson, of Atlanta, at the Laclede last night, according to lha S. Louis Globe-Democrat. "Tho turtles that are most sought for are the ordinary green turtle and the hawk's bill turtle. Iu the neigh borhood of Cuba a most peculiar method of securing the turtles is pur sued. They train, or at least take ad vantage of the instincts of a certain species of fish. The fish is called by the Spaniardsreve (meaning reversed), because its back is usually taken for its underside. It has au oval plate attached to its head, whose surface is traversed by parallel ridges. By this plate it can firmly adhere to any solid body it may choose. The boats which go in quest of turtles eachcarry a tub containing some of these reves. When tho sleeping turtles are seen they are cautiously approached, and as soon as they are judged noar enough, a reve is thrown into the sea. "Upon perceiving tho turtle, its in stinct teaches it to swim right toward it and fix itself firmly upon the crea ture by its sucking disk. Sooner would tho reve allow itself to be pulled to pieces than give up its grip. A ring which was attached to the tail of the fish, in which a string was fastened, allows the fisherman to jpnll in his prize. By a peculiar manipu lation the reve is pulled oft', and re turned to the tub, to bo roady for IUJ again when tho nsxt turtle is sighted." A Japanese Clock. The real Japanese clock, one of the kind in use among that brown-skinned, almond-eyed race of Orientals before they came in contact with time keep ers of European pattern, is the oldest liorologicnl instrument imaginable. They are of many kinds and patterns, of course, but are all alike in one ro spect, viz., in recording tho flight of lime without that seeming indinpensa ble adjunct, the pointer rotating on au axis. Iu those queer Japauesj timekeepers the scale and figures (characters) are arranged in a fashion more resembling a Fahrenheit ther mometer than anything else, tho pointer or "hand" being attached to a rod, which is continually sliding down the "time tube," thus pointing to tho hour and minutes as it slowly, but ini- ■, perceptibly, falls toward tho "bulb" i or "weighthouse." A square-linked chain is attached to the upper cad of the rod, to which the time pointer is affixed, and when the clock is "wound up" it is douo by simply coiling tho chain around the toothed wheel. A heavy weight fastened at the other end of the rod continually pulls rod aud pointer downward, thus plainly aud simply recording the flight of time. St. Louia Repubiio. NO. 8. A BONO IjF HOPS, Nigbt, and no star i To guide the woarjr and the wandering ' feet; And yot I know somewhoro the lights shine far, And breaks the Horning swset. Night, and blank skies Above tho brave ships, tossing on th« foam , And yet I know somewhoro tho Harbor Ilea Badlant with Lova and Homo! Night—but for mo Still light! light! light where darkest storms shall cease; O lonely land! O black, sea— I pass from you to Pence! —Frank L. Stanton, In Atlanta Constitution. HU.HOIt OF THE DAT. Politeness is the email change ol character. —Pack. Necessary evils, to a great extent, are those we don't want to abolish.— Puck. Just mako your best endeavor— Hnvo faith instead of doubt j If times wore good forever, What could you growl about? —Atlanta Constitution. One hundred and twenty-three pianos make El Dorado a good town from which to take a vacation.—Em poria Gazette. A man need not necessarily be a tailor in order to press a suit for mar riage with the girl of his choice.— Hartford Journal. Politics are full of uncertainties. To-day a man is on the stump, and next week he may bo all up a tree.— Boston Transcript A man should dare say his soul's his own; but some people act as if they were getting theirs on tho in stallment plan.—Pack. Very often n man discovers tha' there is a good deal of the porcupine about the people he thinks it his dutj to sit down on. —Atchison Globe. He—"And am Ireally and truly th« only man you ever loved?" She "Well—er—l never had it seem bo easy before."— lndianapolis Jourcal. '•I don't know much ot Shakospoare." Said sho beside tho tub ; "But ouo lino makes me weary. It's this 'Aye, there's the rub.'" —Philadelphia IteeorJ. Figg—"Did I understand yon to .-taj that Impenunf! was meeting his billl nowadays?" Fogg— "Yep ;on every corner."—Pittsburg Chronicle Tele graph. A little boy, on returning from Sunday-school, said to his mother: "This catechism is too hard; isn't there any kittychisms for little boya?" -Tit-Bits. He bought him a now waste basket That would bold a bushel or so. For he knew thoy would soon begin to come The poems on beautiful snow. Chicago Imer-Oeean. The soldiers of Jnpau and China can exist for weeks on rice and parched peas. When they have ft pitched bat tle they will have to look out for their rice and mind their peas and cues.— Judge. Both rich and poor have reason to repine, And oft discover that things don't go rignt; The rich need appetite that they may dine— The poor need dinners for their iipputite. --Judge. At the Photographer's: Miss Bnap perly—"Now don't begin taking my picture with that old chestnut of ask ing me to look pleasant." Operator —"No, miss; we never afk impossi bilities of our subjects." —Detroit Free Press. Nurse—"Please, ma"am| every timo little Bobby can't have his own way he runs at me and pushes me and kicks mo like everything." Fond Mother— "Bless his little heart! He'll bo a fa | mons football player some day."— Good News. "Aren't you afraid that statue will shrink if it be left out in the rain?" ! asked tho cheerful idot. "Shrink?" said his host. "What an idea!" "I didn't know, you know. I thought it might become a statue wot."—Cincin nati Tribune. Kiddem -"Sellers has moved out of the apartments over his store." Koddem —"That's queer. Auv par ticular reason?" Kiddem—"Yes; ho was afraid the firms from whom he buys goods wouldn't like the idea of his living above his income."—Buffalo Courier. Mrs. Barnes—"Kangaroos must be the most human bein's of any of tho dumb brutes." Barnes —"Why, what makes you think so, 'Mandy ?" Mrs, Barnes —"'Cause I saw some knanga roo shoes down t' the village t'-day, an' thoy was jest liko what everybody Wears."—Puck. Tinn—"Halloa, Tagg, what's that sign on your front door, 'No admit tance except on business?' " Tagg— "There have been so many young men calling on my daughters and their visits have been so fruitlessthat I have adopted this plan to reduce the sur plus. " —Tit Bits. The conversation had turned on the transportatiou question, and Mr. Jag way, who was indulging in ono of his regular spells of being perfectly sober, observed : "If I had my way about it, the Government would own the rail ways and carry people anywhere for one rate of fare wiLhout regard to dis tance, just as it carries letters in the mails." "H'inph!" said old Hunks. " You don't need to wait for that. lon could put a stamp on yotir fore-, head and go through the mails any day as a 'periodical.' " —Chicago Tri bune. Charles E. Norris has just been ar rested in Chicago for a murderous as- ; lault ten years ago. He has traveled •11 over the world since, and the de tective who started oat to capture him on the night of the assault was the • man who made the arrest.
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