SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XIII. The question of coeducation is be ing passionately discussed in French circles. Utah has 1,035,200 acres of land ir rigated artificially and 2,518,700 are Bnsceptible ot similar improvement. An article in the London Times states that the best wages paid a letter carrier in that country is 84.50 a week. Becent figures show that tho total ▼alue of matches made and consumed throughout the world is but little short of $200,000,000. In 100 home families in New York, on the average, are found sixty-three that hire their home, fifteen that own with incumbrance, and twenty-one that own without incumbrance. "In tho United States three-fifths of ihe entire wealth of tho country is owned by 31,000 persons—less than one-twelfth of one per cent, of tho population," asserts tho Farmers' Tribune. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has decided to gradually do away with the service of interpreters at tho various agencies, etc., and to employ instead tho Indian children who havo been educated at the expenso of tho Government. Twenty-five inilcs of the Congo Bailroad in Africa, forming tho first section between Matange and Kenge, aro now completed. The work has cost 8100,000 a mile. The lino will be ninety-three miles long in all, and will connect tho immense waterways above Stanley Falls with tho sea. Since Florida orange growers havo turned their attention to tho develop ing of early and lato kinds of fruit, it 's possiblo to have oranges here all tho year through, btates the Phila delphia Presbyterian. With the aid of cold storage, the prosenco of fruit on the table is much more common than it used to be. Iceland can hardly bo considered as a new country, admits the Washing ton Star, for it was colonized before the Vikings made an excursion to tho North American coast. Yet attention is now being directed to the resouroes of tho island, and projects for devel opment are being planned and pushod with the vigor usual when a new land has been opened for settlement. An English syndicato has secured a con cession to build railways, and a lino of steamers is to be established to run all the year between Iceland and Liv erpool. Tho export sheep trade is the incentive that has given lifo to these commercial projects. Iceland's geographic position is such as to sug gest it as a field for American enter prise. It is oncouragiug to know that tlio scientific application of electricity to therapeutical work is gaining ground rapidly. Not only aro medical men themselves actively investigating the subject, but electricians like Edison, Tesla, Elihu Thomson, A. E. Kennel ly, J. J. Carty and others, are devot iDg considerable time and study to it. American medical papers contain many notes ou new lines of work, and even the more conservative English press finds spaeo to record advances in the electro-therapeutic art. Tho London Lancet contains interesting references to the very successful use of electricity in curing trigeminal neuralgia, and to long continued treatment of cases of ticdoulourcau*, which is practically the samo thing, with long and short applications of tho current. Success is uniform in all cases. The Director of the United States Mint has estimated and the Secretary of tho Treasury has proclaimed the value of foreign coins, as required by Section 25 of tho act of August 28 1894. The changes made aro as follows: VHIUO. vhlup. Juiyi, Oct. 1, 1594. Bolivian of Bolivia 157 ,i"A IVso ot Contra I American Static 157 ,4C)4 Shanghai tael of China (!7(i ,{;«,» llalkwnn tnel of China 75'J ,7(j,) Tleu-Tsiu taul of China Cbe-Foo tael of China # 7j7 Ppho of Colombia 4j7 4 (i 4 Sucre of Ecuador 407 Rupee of ludia 217 .227 Yien of Jupun 4!)1 Dollars of M'-xleo 4H7 _504 Hoi. of Peru 457 ,4(-»4 Ruble of Russia 3fi'i ,SJ7J Mnhhnb of Tripoli 41:1 .41S Tho cstimato of the value of coins of countries having a single silver btsndard is made up on tho average price of silver for tho three mouths ending September 29, 1891, viz: $0.04127. There has been added to the list the Tien-Tain and Che-Foo taels of China. | AN ANfWERWO THOUGHT. Ifman tie but a mere sojourner hero— A borrowed presence from some distant sphere, A passing shadow 'twlxt a smile and tear— A thing of floettng breath, Then, O ye heavenly choristers, draw near. And toll me what Is doatli. If mortal strength bo but a borrowed might, A olrcllng sua that wanes before tho night, A taper burning with a transient light, Borrowed from worlds above, Oh, pause, sweet spirits. In your phantom night, And tell me what is lore. If human II fo Is but a feeblo spark— A flitting gleam consumed by shadows dark, Or spirits soaring upward, as tho lark, Let mo not blindly grope ; Ahoy ! swoet sailors in your phantom bark, And tell me what is hop If my poor heart, a thing of trust an I pray'r, Must throb—then vanish as dissolving air-, If I must struggle through a world ot care— A vicious, fleeting strife— Then toll me, O thou shapes of beauty rare, Toll mo what is life. Ah, yos! I hoar you aaswjr. clear an I strong, Like flood of deod, unfathomable song ; "To live is Christ ! To triumph ovor wrong Tho soul's swoet mission is ; Or day, or night, or llfo bo short or lonj, 'T:s writ—ye nro His." I hearken not to Evolution's drone, Tho godless critic or tho cynic's tone; I ask but grace to "walk with God" alone— Trustful, exultant, free . To bldo the sacrod prosoneo of His throno, Through all eternity. —Cleveland Plaladealer. A MODERN WITCH. fIIEBE is some thing uncanny about tho girl. I cannot make her out," and Charlie Vanderveer puffed viciously at his cigar. "Why, the other night I was tip there, sho started in by read ing my palm, and ended by hypno tizing me. By Jove, Tom, I was frightened—abso lutely frightened." "That is easy," answered Brans ford, with an in dulgent smile. "What, tho palmistry or the hyp- ■ notism?" "Both; and the frightening thrown in." "Well, you will see her to-night, and can then judge for yourself. Here wo are, now." Saying which they walked up tho broad steps of a comfortable looking brown stone mansion and were ushered into the drawing room by a stately looking butler. Miss Morgan was as charming a girl as one would care to meet. She had beauty, numerous accomplishments, and, incidentally, wealth. Within tho past few years sho had developed a craze for anything bordering on the mystic or supernatural. At first it was palmistry, but recently it had de veloped into mird-reading, hypnotism and ingeniously planned though en tirely unsuccessful wanderings of the astral body. Yet sho had impressed some of her friends to such an extent that the}' would dream nightmareish dreams about her, and when they informed her of tho fact she would calmly an nounce that she really had been with them in astral form. Tom Bransford thought of all this as he was presented to this self-con fessed witch. To her credit be it said that the young lady thought too much of her personal appearance to adopt any outlandish form of dress; on the contrary, the tout ensemble, while certainly bewitching, was anything but uncanny. After the first introductions and per funatory conventionalities, the con versation was turned to the subject of hypnotism, and Bransford volunteered to become a subjeot with foolhardy daring "just to seo what the sensa tion was like," as he meekly explained. Overjoyed at tho prospect of a new victim to experiment upon, the young hostess offered him an invitingly com fortable looking arm-chair, while she, seating herself before him and taking his hand in hers, directed that he should look steadily into her eyes. Bransford did so, while Miss Moigan fixed her lustrous eyes on his as though sho v would look him through and through. "Don't stare at mo that way too long, Miss Morgan, I havo a weak heart," interrupted Bransford. Estello laughed. "You must not in terrupt the physic current by talking; but tell me, have you experienced any strange sensations yet ?" "Yor," replied Bransford, "the strangest and wildest sensations. I can hardly talk. I feel that lam go ing, goiug." And as a matter of fact, Tom's eyes closed while he was yet talking, and in another moment he collapsed, helpless and powerless in the chair. "I have never been so successful," cried the girl, clasping her hands de lightedly. '' He has passed beyond the suggestion stage, and now must be iu the somnambulistic stage." Then turning tho limp form of Bransford, she commanded: "Stand up. You are now completely in my power. Stand up and open your eyes. But Bransford did nothing of tho sort. On the contrary his logs and arms became rigid, his teeth clenched, and his breathing labored. Estelle turned pale. "Heis in ths cataleptic stage; but I think I had wake him up, don't you?" LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1894. "By all means," assented Vander vocr, whose faoo had asstimed an al most greenish hno with fright. Bat in vain (lid this (air diseiplo of Mcsmer resort to passes, command*, and finally tearful entreaties. Brans ford could not be aroused, and his condition seemed to become more serious every moment. "Ob, Mr. BransforJ, do wake up. If you have the slightest regard for me, I beseech of you to wako up," cried the girl, anxiously. " Oh, Mr. Vanderveer, do you please say some thing to arouse him, your voice will be more familiar than mine." "Tom," cried Charlie, at the top of his voice, "wako up, old man." Then shaking him by the shoulders, he pleaded with him wildly. "Tom, old friend, yon are all right. Wake up, Tom, if you lovo me, wake up." Then reproachfully to Estelle: "Ho toll you he had a weak heart." "Yes," she replied, now crying hys terically, "but I thought ho was jok ing. Do pleaso go for a iloator as quick as you can." "But I can't leave him hero, he'll fall on tho floor," said Chnrlio. "Don't you thiuk I had better carry him to tho lounge?" "Pray do, and then I can batho his forehead with some extract and fau him while you aro gone." Bransford's remains—for tiiey liard ly seemed to bo more—were then la boriously half lifted, half dragged from tho chair to the louuge, aud a daintily embroidered pillow placod under his head. Estello had in the meantimo supplied herself with all available restoratives and took her place by his side, while Charlie hur ried away for me licil aid. Left alone with her uufortunato victim, she unburdened her soul aloud. "Oh, what have I done! Perhaps he will die. Aud I heard so much about him. I was sure wo were going to be good friends. And I did like him from tho moment I saw him this evening—aud now I havo probably killed him. Oh, how could I do it, how conld I do it!" A sort of spasm passed over the un conscious form before her, aud she thought his breathing ha-.l ceased, so put her hand over his parted lips to see if she coul :1 fool any breath, when to her horror and surpriso, tho trem bling hand was kissed iu a most life liko manner, and Bransford's dark eyes looked into hers with a humor ous twinkle. "Beraomber," he said, quietly, "I am not responsible. I am hypnotized, you know." Then, still keeping her hand in his own, he sat up aud asked gravely: "Don't you think that you have had a pretty good lesson in tho danger of playing with edged tools and dabbling iu occult arts yon do not know anything about?" "I think it was perfectly abomin able and cruel for you to give mo euch a terrible fright," she cried, pull ing away her hand. "It might easily have really oc curred. Come, now. You havo said you liko me, then forgive me, but promise to be a bewitching woman and not a womanly witch in the fu ture. The day of witchcraft has long since passod; nineteenth ceutury witcheshave no excuse for existing. Is it a bargain?" "Bather a one-sided bargain ; but I think you aro right and I promise." When Vanderveer returned an hour later, after calling unsuccessfully on five physioiaus, ho found Tom an.l Estelle chattiug as cozily together as though they had been friends for years. "Yes," Tom said on his way homo, "it was hard enough to lay thero and stimulate unconsciousness while sho was crying aud you were carryiug on like a lunatic; but wheu she put her dainty little hand oa ray mouth, why I simply could not resist. Yo gods, man, if it had been her lips, an.l I— do you think she ever would have for given me?" "Oh, yds," prophesied VanJerveor, gloomily, "aud in timo no opology will be looked for or required under similar circumstances." Charlie was right.—Truth. Oldest Scythe In the World. Quietly reposing on one of tho many well-fillod shelves in Flinders Petrie's private museum in London is an ancient agricultural implement which throws much light on the art of husbaudry as practiced by tho prehis toric Egyptians. This antique farm ing tool is a wooden scythe blade, which was found securely imbedded in tho mortar of one of tho oldost tombs of the valley of the Lower Nile. The shaft of the instrument, as al ready stated, is of wood of some un known species, the edge being carefully set with a row of flints «o as to pre sent their jagged edges iu a manner not unliko that exhibited by the teeth of a saw. These flints are of uniform size, tho baso of each being fashioned so as to fit the curve of tho wooden blade. Tho teeth aro not set iuto a groove along tho edge of tho blade, as ono would naturally suppose, but aro each firmly cemented iu place, tho material being of such excellent com position and the workmanship of such superior quality that after a lapse of time closely approximating 6000 years they appear as sonud and perfect as when first taken afield by their origin al owner. —St. Louis Republic. Birds That Build Tenements. The social brosbeoks of South Africa live in large societies. They select a tree of consideiable size, and literally cover it with a grass roof, under which their common dwelling is con structed. The roof serves tho double purpose of keeping off the heat and rain, and 400 or 500 pairs of birds are known to have the same shelter. Tho nests in this aerial dwelling aro built in regular streets, and closely resem ble rows of tenement houses. —St. Louis Globe-Demoorat. WISE WORDS Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power. Who losos all tho fault that is found? It is as great to be a woman as to be a man. Castles in the air are seldom fur nished. Life is a riddle, to which the answer is death. Impudenco is sometimes mistaken for liberty. A hen pecked husband is often chicken hearted. Talking is tho safety valve of tho feminine boiler. What a lot of things people hide from each other! Every man makes a different noise when he sneezes. To a clever woman every man is a possible husband. A signature to a mortage is usually a pretty bad sign. People are not shocked as often as they pretend to be. Tho surest way to bo bad is trying too hard to bo good. The secret of success is success in keeping one's secrets. The great wisdom is not to talk wisely, but to act wisely. The man who does most has the least time to talk about it. There is nothing more serious than what some consider a joke. The shortest day in the year is tho day before your noto falls due. A boy always experiences nervous affection on the eve of proposing. Love is the paradise of tho foolish, but only tho playground of the wise. A good man is one who behaves himself, and forgives others who do not. The worry of to-day is usually tho result of tho carelessness of yester day. Chinese Victims ot Consumption. That there is a large Chinese popu lation in Boston is well known, and yet it is soldom that ouo hears of a death in tho Chinoso quarter. The proportion of Chinese residents i3 small as compared with those of other natioualities, and there is no way to toll tho exact number of deaths among them, as thoy aro recorded by the city officials under tho head of miscel laneous nationalities. Inquiry reveals tho fact that Chinamen in nearly every case die of consumption. Thoy are ill, as a rule, but a short time. In their native country their principal diet is rice, which from its healthfulness, tends to lengthen life. When they begin business hero all their habits change. They work early and late, seldom leaving their shops, and as they succeed they begin to oat American food. It is remarked by all with whom they have dealings that they always buy tho best the markets afford. It is their custom to work un til midnight or after, and then enjoy a hearty meal. If they are well-to-do they are certain to havo chickens and whatever fruit can bo procured, no matter how expensive it may be. If they have just started in the laundry business it is quite likely that they will form a company and adjourn to tho nearest "night lunch wagon" or restaurant. Living as most of them do, in Buch small rooms, when siokness overtakos them they cannot receive proper care, and they are carried to the hospitals. —Boston Transcript. The Eyes ot a Portrait. How it is that the eyes of somo por traits seom to follow a spectator around the room? It is thus ex plained ; Suppose a portrait havo its face and eyes directed straight in front, so as to look at the spectator. Lot a straight lino bo drawn through the tip of the nose and half way be tween the eyes. On each side of this middle line thero will be the same breath of head, of cheek, of chin, and of neck, and each iris will be in the middle of the whole of the eye. Ii one now goto ono side, the apparent horizontal breadth of every part oi the head and face will be diminished, but the parts on each sido of the mid dle line will be diminished equally and at every position, however ob lique, there will be tho same breadth of face on each side of the middle line, and the iris will remain in the centre of the eyoball, so that the portrait will preserve all the character of a figure looking at tho spectator and must necessarily do so wherever he stands. In portraits tho apparent motion of the head is generally ren dered indistinct by the canvas being imperfectly stretched, as tho slightest concavity or convexity entirely de forms the face.—Cincinnati Commer cial Gazette. The Horse Knew the Days ot the Week, A Dexter (Me.) man has a mare thai knows several things, aud among other accomplishments apparently can tell the day of the week. On Sunday last the gentleman hitched up, and, having assisted his wifo into the car riage, got in himself. He was busied for a moment in arranging the robe, and before he had taken up the reins tho horse started ont of the yard into the street. His purpose was to attend cburch, and, as tho horse took that direction, he deoided to let her go without guiding to see what she would do. The route is altogether different from that taken in the week-day driv ing. He left the reins hanging on the dasher, but nevertheless was carried as straight to the church as he would have gone if he had turned the horse. Without a word, when sho had turned up to the church door and the carriage was iu position at the steps, the mare stopped for her mas ter to alight.—Lewiston Journal. WONDERS OF ALUMINUM. NUMEROUS USES TO WHICH THIS TOUOH MET A L WAT BE PUT. Its Cheapness Will Work a Revolu tion in Mechanical Construction —Process of Production n Secret. ss TV' BTICLES made of alnmi /\ num, the bronze with which overy clay bank abounds, can hardly bo classed as novelties any longer," said a Maiden lane dealer in goods made of that metal. "Tho novelty now consist in tho Bp plication. Aluminum ten years ago was only produced after an expensive and tedious scientific process. It was worth as much if not more than silver and the produot was so small that it had no commercial standing, and was only made up into paper weights or fancy little trifles. To-day aluminum is a thoroughly established article of trade. Its cost in the bar or ingot is only ono-twolfth of what it was twelve years ago, and tho price will continue to steadily decline until it is as cheap as tiuned iron, which it will ultimate ly supplant for a hundred uses. Every jewelry and novelty store to-day car ries in stock an endless variety of articles for toilet, table aud personal use which were formerly made of sil ver, or silver plate, but which are now made of aluminum. The prices arc much lower than those which they supplant. Manufacturers buy tho aluminum in bar, ingot or rolled sheet. Tho metal comes from Pitts burg, one cancern near that city turn ing out about ninety per cent, of tho output iu tho United States. The process by which cheap alum imfin is produced at its present prico is a jealously-guarded secret. Experi mental plants are in operation all over the country, aud the secret must sooner or later become common property. Then the aluminum ago will dawn. Houso furnishing stores are already displaying all manner of cooking uten sils mado of the light, tough and non tarnishing metal, aud cuspidors mado of it |are quite popular. It is also be ing used extensively for bath tub lin ings and for outdoor signs in place of zinc or brass. Wire aud tubing of all dimensions are on the market. A gentlemau representing the prin cipal aluminum reduction works of the country stated yesterday that tho coming year will witness a further re duction in the cost of tho product of at least fifty per cent. The building of ships of heavy burden of aluminum is among tho piobabilities. In the clay banks of the country tho practi cal scientist sees the houso building lumber of the future. In 1880 aluminum cost' 817 per pound; in 1886 it had declined to 88. Then the electrolytic method of re ducing tho ore was invented, and iu 1889 tho ruling price was $4. Then it began to replace brass, German sil ver and nickel. The prico had fallen in 1891 to 81.50 a pound, and with this year dates tho introduction of aluminum as a commercial staple. In 1893 the new metal was as cheap as copper. Tho prevailing price is to day from fitty-threo to sixty-three cents per pound, in 100-pound lots, according to quality, aud fifty to fifty eight cents in ton lots. All tho steel-workers of the country use large quantities of tho new metal as an alloy. Tho use of aluminum was tho secret of tho wonderful flexi bility and strength of tho Damascus blade. The German Government has done ranch to encourage its use. Pon toon bridges have been constructed of it. Aluminum shoe pegs are alone used in the making of shoes for the army. It has been found especially valuable in tho fitting of torpedo boats. A rowboat weighing 146 pounds has a carrying capacity of a boat weighing 800 pounds in other metal. Bicycle frames are made of it. Lamps made from it do not ex ude oil. Food cooked iu aluminum vessels cannot scorch. Cornets and flutes made ironi pure aluminum are as sweet ;n tone as if made oi silver. Many kinds of surgi cal instruments are made of it. The metal is three and a half times lighter than copper. Spuu into fine thread it will enter into the manufacture of draperies. Already "silk bows" have been shown as proof of tho possibili ties in this line.—New York World. How Pepsin is Prepared. Pepsin, which in various forms is bo largely used as a remedy for indi gestion and stomach trouble, is ob tained from tho membrane that lines tho stomach of various animals, that of the hog being most largely used. The fresh stomachs aro deprived oi their fat and divested of their outei coating, cut open, geutly washed with cold water and macerated for several days in a pickle. This pickle is com posed of water thirty parts aud hydro chloric acid one part, uud requires frequent stirring. The liquid is next strained and filtered clear through coarse paper or allowed to stand twenty-four hours and then poured off Common suet is then added and thor oughly mixed with tho liquid. The pepsin rises to tho top, and aftei standing is skimmed off. After this it is drained in a strainer, then submit ted to strong pressure to force out all that is possible of the saline solution. Next it is carefully dried in warm air without other heat. Tho resultant constitutes the crude pepsin, which is used for making purified pepsin, etc. Purified pepsin before drying in water occidulattsd with pepsin before drying in water acoidulated with hydrochloric acid, then adding just sufiicieut salt to separato it from its solution. It is next washed gently with cold water and drained, pressed and dried rapid ly on glass with gentle heat. —New York Telegram. The honey demand is growing aud prices are stiffening considerably. Terms"-SI.OO in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months. PClEffTiriC AND INDUSTRIAL. Corundum is worth about 8200 per ton. Hoso of aluminum is now used in Germany. Sugar alono will sustain life for a considerable timo. Only one out of every fifteen per sons has both eyes in good condition. An airpump is said to have been do vised which Bweeps a room by suck ing tho dust all out of it. A spoon in a glass filled with hot water prevents tho breaking of tho glass, because tho metal readily ab sorbs a largo part of the heat of the water. The United States consul at Odessa, Bussia, reports to the State Depart ment that of 793 cases treated at the bacteriological station for a year for hydrophobia by the Pasteur method, but six died, all children. The snow huts of tho Esquimaux are tho warmest dwellings that can be constructed in polar regions, becau - * snow is the poorest conductor of heat, that can bo found thero and keeps the warmth of the fire within. Sir Andrew Clark, lato President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, advised that each mouthful of food should receive thirty-two bites—that is, one for every tooth—if one wishes to avoid dyspepsia. Professor William Harkness, of Washington, states tho magnitude of tho solar system as 5,578,400,000 miles measuring across the diameter of Nep tune's orbit, while the radius of tho earth's orbit is 92,797,000 miles, with a possible error either way of 59,700 miles. The use of tho electric current in the treatment of disease is extending, as shown by tho large attendance upon and widespread interest iu the second annual convention of tho National So ciety of Electro-therapeutics in New York City. Physicians of tho old schools of practico now use electricity for many troubles. Cocaine is one of tho mo3t ussful drugs known. Its use was demon strated on tho eyes of animals by Kol ler, of Vienna, not many years ago, and it is now indispensable to tho sur geon. Cocaine applied to tho eyo en tirely removes sensibility, and allows the most delicate operations to be painlessly performed. It is also used in operations on tho nose and larynx, which otherwiso could only bo per formed with great agony to the patient, for the administration of chloroform in these cases is impossible. Moving Moim'a'u. • A traveling mountain is found at the Cascades of tho Columbia. It is a triple-peaked mass of dark brown basalt, six or eight mile3 in length where it fronts tho river, and rises to tho height of almost 2333 feat abov j tho water. That it is in motion is tho last thought that would bo likely to suggest itself to the mind of anyone passing it; yet it is a well-established fact that this entire mountain is moving slowly but steadily down to the river, as if it had a deliberate pur pose somo time in the future to dam the Columbia and form a great lako from tho Cascades to tho Dalle?, says a writer in Goldthwaito's Geographi cal Magazino. In its forward and downward movemeut tho forest along tho base of tho ridgo has become sub merged in the river. Largo treo stumps can bo secu standing dead in tho water on this shore. Tho railway engineers and brakomen find that tho line of railway that skirts the foot of tho mountain is being continually forced out of place. At certain points tho permanent way and rails havo beon pushed eight or ten feet out of line in a few years. Geologists at tribute this strange phenomenon to the fact that tho basalt, which consti tutes tho bulk of tho mountain, rests on a substratum of conglomerate or of 6oft sandstone, which the deep, swift current of tho mighty river is con stantly wearing away, or that this softer subrock is of itself yielding at great depths to the enormous weight of the harder mineral above. America's Deal S?a. Medical Lake, so-called on account of the remedial virtues of its waters, situated on the Great Columbiau plateau, in Southern Washington, at an altitudo of 2333 feet above tho level of the Pacific, is tho Dead Sea of America. It is about a milo long and from a half to three-fourths of a mile in width, aud with a maximum depth of about sixty feet. The composition of tho waters of this Alpine lake is almost identical with that of the Dead Sea of Pales tine, and, like its oriental counter part, no plant has yet boon found growing in or near its edges. It is all but devoid of auiinal life, a species of large "boat-bug," a queer little terrapin, and tho famous "walking fish" being its only inhabitants. This walking fish is an oddity really de serving of a special "note." It is from eight to nine inchos long and has a finny' membrane extending from head to head, even around both tho upper and lower surfaces of tho tail. It is provided with four legs, those before having four toes, the hinder five.—St. Louis Republic, Some Rare Gems. Another gem, beautiful and inter esting in itself, which is occasionally sold for the true ruby, is the red zir con, also called jargoon and jacinth or hyacinth. Jewelers call these stonos "jacinth rubies" and charge accord ingly. The gem is of all colors, the pure white ones being hard to distinguish from diamonds, on aoconut of their wonderful firo. Chrysolite is just as white, but it is like glass compared with a diamond or jargoon.—New X'orkJJJourna!. NO. 9. DEACON HOPEFUL'S IDE*. T)onr friends, when I am dead an' goaa, Don't have no woeful takln'j on, Don't ant so tarnnlly l.erctt, As though they weren't no sunshine left. Don't multiply your stock o' woes Jly sorry looks nn' gloomy clothes, An' mnko the trouble ten tlmos viorso Bv alters follerln' a hearse. When I depart, It's my Idee, The most eonsolln' thins tor mo 'l