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.