SULLIVAN DSSSS REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XIII.
The population of the Qerman Em
pire is increasing at the rate of 500,00(
a year.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale says thai
only eleven per cent, of the America!
people are illiterate.
English courts have decided tha
engagements rings are not recover
oblo at law. A Vermont court hole
they were.
Peoplo who live beyond theii
means and aro very tardy in paying
their debts havo been blacklisted in
Vienna, Austria, by a daring pub
lisher. A book containing theii
names lme met with a big sale.
The old Lincoln homestead, near
Hodgenville, Laruo County, Ivy.,
where Abraham Lincoln was born, is
to be purchased by an association of
the citizens of Hodgenvillo and made
into a public park. The homestead is
now known as the Creal Farm, and lies
about two and a half miles south of
Hodgenville. An electric railway is
to be built out to the farm, announces
the New York Sun, and in a general
way it is intended as another Mount
Vernon.
Creameries scattered over many
ports of tho East are making consider
able change in the conditions of farm
ing, the Chicago Herald takes note.
Tho dairy is becoming moro and more
important, and poor farms aro en
riched by tho presenco of many cattle.
The creameries buy milk by tho hun
dred pounds and farmers like the
simplicity of this wholesale trade.
Meanwhile there is a constant interest
in creamer\' prices and local news
papers publish quotations from timo
to time as news items.
Certain tables of longevity just pub
lished in England by Professor
Humphreys leave tho whole matter
pretty much in the dark. Of the 821
cases in which tho subjects havo
reached ages varying from oighty to
over a hundred years, one-third were
small eaters, and only one-tenth ap
pear t3 havo had robust appetites.
Physician?, as a class, were found to
fall below the Tho usual
directions for prolonging life by diet,
sleep and exercise aro not strikingly
confirmed by those tables, maintains
the New York Tribune.
A notable examplo of a big result
produced by small means is found in
the fact that lead pencil users havo
whittled away several big forests of
cedar trees in Europe, and the supply
of wood suitable for lead pencils is
practically exhausted in the Old
World. An order has just been placed
by a noted German firm of pencil
makers with a California lumber com
pany for a largo quantity of sequoia
wood, which is found to bo the best
wood now availablo for pencils. The
sequoia is the big tree of California.
It seems too bad to tho New York
Sun that the grand old giants should
be sacrificed, and especially that their
end should be lead pencil shavings.
The London Times says that tho
Manchester ship canal is both a
financial and oommercial failure. It
was opened eleven months ago, and it
is not doing as much business now as
at first. It is stated that the gross
receipts of tho canal for a year will be
less than $400,000 —not enough to pay
tho interest on the first debentures.
The city of Manchester in building
this canal, which has cost upward of
825,000,000, expooted that ships
carrying cotton and other merchandise
would uso the canal and unload their
cargoes at Manchester docks, instead
of at Liverpool; but upon the com •
plction of the canal the railroads im
mediately reduced their rates so that
manufacturers found it more to their
interest to continue to uso tho rail
ways.
Tho death of Robert C. Winthrop
recalls to the New York Times the
events and struggles of a period ex
tending over the averago lifetime of
two generations. Ho was eighty-five
years old at tho timo of his death.
At twenty-four he was a member of
tho Massachusetts Legislature. At
thirty-one ho was tho best-known
speaker in the Harrison campaign and
a Whig member of tho House of Rep
resentatives. At forty-ono he was
United States Senator for a brief
term, by appointment. His last ac
tive participation in National politics
was as a supporter of Oenerul Mc-
Clellan in 1864. Aftor that his time
was devoted to study and charity—his
chief work being the charge of the
great aud fertile benefactions of Mr.
Peabody. His was a noble life, which,
if not sufficiently distinguished to pass
into history, exerted an influence that
cannot be lost. American citizenship
is bettor aud more seoure fur the work
of Mr. Winthrop.
A VOICE FROM THE NIGHT..
O heron, from the lonely shore :•
Unceasingly thy cry, i
111-boding, dismal, harsh,
Arises through the mist of night >
TL>*t gathers deep and eold and white I
Upon the silent marsh,
Dim, drifting shrouis that foldod lie ~i.
Around my door.
What shadow of the future's needs
Dismays thy simple heart,
Poor dweller in tho fog?
What evil spirit of unrest
Disturbs tho quiet of thy nest
Beyond the tussocked bog?
Do demons even ply their art
Among the roods?
Perhaps thy bright-eyed mate is led
Across the winding oreek,
Belated, tired of wing.
Thon grievo not! Soon thy loving note
As beacon's blnze to storm-tossed boat
The wanderer will bring.
O heron, can the words I speak
Recall the dead?
O heron on the lonely shore,
The east is gray above;
Thy watch is well nigh done,
And gontie dawn will bring thoe sleep,
While I my endless vigil keep,
. Unwelcoming the sun ;
For she, my light, my life, my love,
Will come no more.
—H. Prescott Beaoh, in lilppincott.
ON EVEN TERMS.
112 112 J*" OU appear to forget
that this fellow
. | j Vaughan has the
reputation of being
jjj %A one of the most des
- Pirate criminals that
ever stepped. 'King
afir of the Coiners' he is
rightly named; but
it is chiefly because
* he is at the head of
a dangerous gang. And because, by
a lucky chance, you have found out
that ho is living in private lodgings
uuder an afljhmed name, makes it.
none the less risky for us two alone to
attempt his capture."
It was in a decidedly dissatisfied'
tone that Mr. Eoche, the detective,
urged upon his superior officer the
hazardous nature of the business they
were upon; but Arnold Bond merely
smiled good humoredly as he re
sponded :
"Whatever risk there may be,
Eoche, I think I shall face. And as I
exjiect to take our man entirely by
surprise, in the very bosom of his
family, I don't anticipate much resist
ance. Still, lam prepared for it, and
don't thiuk that he will easily give us
the slip. For the rest, you will'isimply
carry out my instructions."
The two detectives knocked at the
door of an unpretentious looking
house in a quiet street of tho east end
of London.
Almost immediately, a respectable
looking woman opened the door, and,
stepping back, said, before Bond could
speak:
"Ah, sir. I don't believe they ex
pected you again to-night; bnt it's
well you've come, for the poor mite is
very bad, they say."
With the ever ready wit of a shrewd
detective, quick to take advantage of
the slightest error, Bond instantly
checked tho exclamation of surprise
which -sprang instinctively to his lips,
and, stepping in, quietly observed:
"Indeed! I am sorry to hear that.
Our usual friend could not come him
self, bnt, as his partner, 1 thought it
advisable to look in again. Let me
see—Mrs. Sutton, second floor, is it
not?"
Neither of the detectivos scarce ven
tured to breathe as they anxiously
waited to see the result of this rather
haphazard remark.
"Oh, I took you for Dr. Dalton his
self, sir! Yes, eecind floor. It's
rather dark, but I daresay you can
find your way up. Lor'l I never
knowed before as how the doctor had
a partner."
"This gentleman is merely a friend
of mine. If you don't mind, he will
wait for me in the passage. I don't
suppose I shall ba many minutes,"
Bond said, inwardly ohuckling with
satisfaction at the lucky mistake which
had, undoubtedly, saved him and his
companion no little at the outset.
Leaving his subordinate—who had
previously received careful instruc
tions—Arnold Bond, with heart beat
ing a little faster than usual, oautiously
mounted the dark, narrow stairoase
and tapped at a closed door facing
him.
Then, without waiting for any
reply, lie instantly opened it, and as
quickly stepped into the room and
shut the door after him again.
"Surrender yourself my prisoner.
Michael Vaughan, alias Balph Sut
ton," he said, sternly, as a tall,
bearded man sprang hastily to his
feet with a startled exclamation, and
confronted him.
A momentary panze; then, with an
oath, the coiner snatshed up a chair,
and raising it above his head, was
about to hurl it at the deteotive; but
as quickly dropped it, as his eye
rested on the revolver steadily levelled
at him.
"Trapped!" he ejaculated, savagely,
glaring at the officer."And in this
torn fool fashion, too. But there's
treachery here," ho added, fiercely,
"and if I—"
"Michael, Michael," interposed a
woman's voice, in pleading tones,
"you're forgetting poor little Jess.
Yon know tho doctor said she must be
kept perfectly quiet."
"Ah, Jess, poor mite," said the
eoiner. "No, wonder I forgot every
thing, when Bond himself jumped up
before me like magic! Well, I'm
fairly nabbed; but if it wasn't for
her," ho aiMed, with a bitter erapha-
HiH, pointing to a bed in a corner of
the room, "you'd never take mo in
Uis squeamish fashion."
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1895.
The bed was occupied by a little
girl of about six years of age, who, it
needed no seoond glanee to perceive
was very near to death indeed. She
was wide awake, staring in mate ter
ror from the deteotive to her father
and back again. Nor did the white
face of the coiner's wife, who stood
trembling by the bedside, express
muoh less alarm than the ohild's.
"Let's clear out before yoa frighten
my young 'uu to death," said the
coiner, in a quieter voice. "Never
mind, Jess," he went on, turning to
the child and speaking in such a ten
der and soothing tone that Bond
stated with astonishment, "Perhaps,
soon, I shall come baok, and then
you'll be better, and we will—"
Vaughn's voice faltered, and he
paused.
"Ah, take him away,,sir, but don't
hurry him over what he very well
knows must be the last goodby he'll
ever say to his child! What hope
there may have been you'll take with
you but to take it at this moment—"
The wretched mother, unable to ar
ticulate another word, sank into a
chair, hid her face in her hands, and
gave way to a sudden outburst of
grief.
"Is the gentleman going to take
you away, then, daddy?" the child
said freely. "Oh, don't go ! Ido so
want you to-night." Then looking at
the detective with great, earnest eyes,
little Jess continued, half indignant
ly, half pathetically: "How would
your little girl like you to be taken
away if she was ill, and wanted you to
stop with her dreadfully bad?"
An involuntary smile gathered for
one brief instant on the stern counte
nance of Bond.
"It's true, worse luok," whispered
the coiner, stepping near his captor.
"Poor little beggar, she's mighty bad,
and the doctor says the next few hours
means life or death. More'n anything
she's got to be kept particular quiet,
so let's clear out and leave 'em; and,
please God, I'll see her again yet.
Yes, my prince of traps, you can seo
what makes me sucii a miserable cow
ard, eh?"
As if ashamed of tho tremor in his
speech, the coiner turned, und, tak
ing down his hat, ornshed it upon his
head and approached the door with a
rigid countenance and twitching lips.
Apparently, he dared not trust him
self to take even a farewell look at his
child. But, as Arnold Bond moved
toward the door also, his glance fell
for an instant upon the thin, white
faco of little Jess, who had alroady
fallen back exhausted.
Sho was gazing steadily at her
father, who, however, kept his face
carefully averted. The pitiful, plead
ing expression in tho sick child's eyes
struck the detectives to the heart, for
it was a look which expressed more
eloquently than any words the bitter
disappointment she felt at seeing one
she evidently dearly loved about to bo
taken from her this night of all
nights.
Tho detective paused abruptly, hes
itated a moment, and then the reso
lute expression on his features soft
ened suddenly, and ho said, in a half
jocular tone, to hido the emotion ho
could not entirely conceal:
"Stay, Vaughan; I oan't do it after
all. I can't take such a cruel advan
tage of even you at a time liko this!
That's all and good night."
"Bond, Bond," cried the king of
tho coiners, springing forward as he
recovered from his momentary stupe
faction, "Heaven prosper you for this I
Bad as I am, I hope I'll be able to give
you your reward for this, if it's years
to come."
A moment later tho detective had
gone. He hod sacrificed an opportu
nity of adding enormously to his rep
utation.
It was a year later before the author
ities succeeded in discovering the "fac
tory" where Vaughan and his confed
erates turned out the cleverly made
counterfeit coins which had so long
been passed with impunity in most
quarters of the metropolis.
But after infinito trouble Bond
found out all he wanted to know, and
one night he surrounded with his men
the counterfeiter's don.
Bond got within a few feet of the
door, and was already thinking how
neatly ho had managed everything,
when suddenly, and without the slight
est warning, the whole floor seemed
to cave in beneath his feet; and as he
threw out his arms with a startled
cry, the trap ho had unconsciously
sprung turned completely over and
threw him into a large well-lighted
cellar below. Before he could rise
some seven or eight men had seized
him, and amidst a storm of oaths and
threats, bound him hand and foot,
despite his strenuous struggles.
"You fools!" cried Bond, exasper
ated beyond "Let me tell
you the game is up I My men sur
round the place, and this little joko
will only make matters a great deal
worse for you. You'd better—"
"Joke," repeated one of the coin
ors, with a tierce laugh. "Well, we'll
see. What say you, boys? What says
our oath?"
"Death to tho trap who bowls us
out?" answered a burly, villainous
looking fellow. "Surrounded we may
be, but what of that? Haven't we
means for getting away through the
burrow at the first alarm?"
"Aye, but not if we stand chucking
precious minutes away in empty talk,"
interrupted another of the gang.
"Quiok, pals! Here's an end to our
snug little bceiness, and so let's make
an end of this interfering sneak be
fore we out. The traps outside may
smell a rat if he doesn't soon give 'em
the cue."
Without another word ono of the
coiners stepped up to tho prostrate
officer and, with a savage cxclamma
tiou slipped the noose of a rope over
Bond's head anil drew it uncomforta
bly tight ronud his nook. Another
of the desperate crew at onoe threw
the other end of tho rope over one of
the beams which supported the floor
ing above.
The deteotivq now recognized to the
fall, extent the really serious nature
of his position; and, half dazed by
the terrible calamity whioh had so
suddenly befallen him, was giving np
all hope of escape, when for the first
time the leader of the gang—Michael
Vaughan—himself spoke.
"Leave him to me, lads, and get
you along while you may. There's
not a jiffy to lose. Hark! hear tht
traps! They're breaking in already."
"We don't go until we've choked
the life out of the rat. Who's put
'em on our trail? Eun him up sharp
and have him a pleasant surprise to
his friends," replied one of the ruf
fians;
With these words the unfortunate
officer was jerked off his feet, but at
the same moment Vaughan snatched
up a formidable knife and at a single
stroke severed the rope above hisjhead.
"I'm with you, Mr. Bond, "ejacu
lated Vaughan, with grim determina
tion stamped upon his white face.
"Aha! see how my mutinous ciew
sink back from your bulldog) And
by all that's lucky for us both, here
oome your men. Another minute's
delay and I reckon it would havo gone
a bit hard for us both."
Almost before he had finished
speaking the long oellar-like room be
came for a short space a scene of des
perate struggling, the walls echoing a
chorus of savage cries and shouts.
Of all the members of the gang their
leader alone offered no resistance, but
lapsed into moody silenoe.
Only when the opportunity offered
did he whisper in the detective's ear—
"You see, I haven't forgotten what
I once promised, sir, although you
only had a smasher's word for it.
Perhaps you didn't know it, but I
reckon you had tho life of my little
Jess in your hands that night a year
ago, and maybe you'll agree now that
I've paid a fair price for it. As for
me—but there, we'ro on even terms
ouce more." —London Tit-Bits.
A Defense of Dirt.
Every few years somobody raises
the question whether St. Paul's Cathe
dral in London ought not to be cieansed
from the soot with which it is en
crusted, and restored to something
like its primitive whiteness. Somo
time ago an experiment of the sort
was made on one of the porticos, which
forthwith assumed a mottled or pie
bald appearance. Now the matter has
come up for discussion again, and tho
following interesting point is made in
a letter to tho Times by a well known
architect: "I havo had tho opportu
nity, when examining eome of our
London stone-faced Tchurches, of re
moving the coat of dirt with a view of
seeing the condition of the stone un
der it, and have found it to be perfect.
Tho casing of dirt appeared to bo made
chiefly of road dust which had adhered
| to the stone (only the outer coat of all
being gray black). All the deleterious
chemicals must have gone out of tho
lower layer, so that the dirt was a per
fect protection. If it wore all cleaned
off, the stone would be subjected to
the strong chemicals in our London
atmosphere. It must be remembered
that this dirt only adheres to the parts
which aro not completely washed by
the rain, and that it is just these parts,
therefore, which are in most need of
protection. If at sonto future timo
the atmosphere of London should be
as pure as the atmosphere of the coun
try is now, it might be wise to aot on
the suggestion, but until that time
comes I sincerely trust that no such
experiment will be made."—Washing
ton Star.
By Balloon.
Perhaps the North Pole may be
reaohed in a balloon. The question
ha 3 been mooted and may bo carried
out in the near future. A balloon
with a oubio contents of 50,000 feet
and capable of lifting twenty tons,
furnished with a number of ss-allor
balloons containing a reserve supply
of hydrogen, would certainly seem to
give every promise of success. The
balloon would carry five men, with
baggage, a number of Eskimo dogs,
several boats and a large sledge. It is
calculatod that from Spitzbergen,
where the trip will begin, the air cur
rents which blow steadily from tho
south, will carry them across the
Arotio circle a>d direotly over the
North Pole in a flight of about four
days' duration. Thus, instead of as
sisting to destroy human life, the mil
itary balloon may be the means of the
discovery of a new continent, proving
once more that "the glory of a scien
tific invention is its utility to man
kind."—Boston Herald.
The Sliam Fight Was Getting Serious
A volunteer sham fight took place
recently in England. During the re
treat a Scotch volunteer, in scramb
ling through some bushes, stuck fast
in a hedge. One of the advancing foe,
seeing the situation, for a joke came
toward the unfortunate volunteer at
full charge with the bayonet fixed and
a ferocious look on his face. The poor
fellow in the hedge, seeing the threat
ening aspect of affairs, bawled out at
tho top of his voice.
"Hand on, you idiot; dinna you
, ken it's only in fun?"— Australian
Queenlander.
Asia and Its People.
The great continent of Asia, to
which so muoh attention is given just
now, is remarkable for many things,
bnt it is especially noteworthy in re
spect of its peoples. In the first
place, it was the cradle of the human
race ; secondly, it oontains many more
people—lso,ooo,ooo more, say somo
—than the rest of the glol>e put to
gether, and, thirdly, in the Burmese
it has tho merriest people iu the world
uu J in the Aiuu of Japan the raddcat
--New York Press.
DECAPITATIONS IN CHINA,
HOW CONVICTS ARE BEHEADED'
ACCORDIN G TO CHINESE LAW.
Sign or the Red Cross—Formidable
Sword Wielded by the Execution
er—Strangling a Prisoner.
THE execution of the two
Japanese spies whom we
Amerioans delivered up to
the Chinese, and the deoapi
tation of a man-of-war's captain ac
cused of cowardice in the sea fight off
Ping-Yang, wore reoent notable in
stances of the nse of the headsman's
sword here in China, writes Jnlian
Balph in Harper's Weekly. There
have been other beheadings, for of
fences growing out of the war and for
the ordinary criminal offences, and
these have lent a new interest to the
subject, even to foreigners resident in
China, who frequently read of suoh
punishment, but seldom witness them
or hear them described. I have been
so fortunate as to fall in with a dis
tinguished European who witnessed
the legal slaughter of a number of
criminals in Pekin. The account he
has giTOn me of what he saw is so un
like the popular idea of the methods
of justice here that I have written
down the substance of it.
"The official on duty on the morn
ing of which I speak, having reached
the mat shed, clothed in all the glory
of a mandarin's dress—button, neck
lace, breast-cloth, and all—ordered
the men brought before him one by
ono. The law says that in such oases
the oondemned men shall admit their
guilt, and ask that punishment be no
longer deferred. Like almost all good
law and almost all good logic in China,
this regulation is turned iuto mero
ceremony and pretence. The prison
ers neither say nor do anything, but a
man who stands behind each ono
pushes him over, bumps hi* head on
the ground and says, 'Yow.' This
word, or one with that sound, means
'I want,' and the presiding mandarin
understands it to have been uttered by
tho prisouer, and to mean, 'I want to
bo punished.' Whilo tho official ticks
off the man's name upon the list be
fore him, tho man is pressed down
upon the grouud and a red oross is
painted on his neck. This is done in
order that the right head may befitted
upon the right body afterwards, if
proof of the man's death ie required
for official entry.
"Tho prisoner thus painted is pulled
away to the execution ground, where
the headsman is hoating his swords in
a great caldron of hot water. Tho
swords are rather m ire like knives
than swords. is a yard in
length, half an inch thick at the edge,
and an inch and a half or two inches
thick at the baok. If you should weld
together nine or ten of our heaviest
axes, one laid beyond the other, you
would make something liko one of
theso knives. The victim is laid upon
his face, and his legs are tied together.
A long pieco of whip-cord is looped
under the man's jaw and tied into hi 3
pigtail. So much of its free end is
left that two men go off with it to a
distance and pull on it with all their
might, while a third one sits on the
condemned man's back. The execu
tioner seizes a knife and stauds over
the victim, whose neck is seen to pull
out—and out—and out. The knife
falls, the head is sovered, and fre
quently the men who are pulling the
whip-cord fall backward and roll half
over, like tumblers in a circus. The
executioner picks up the head and
holds it towards tho mandarin, who
looks at it carelessly and calmly, and
makes a mark upon the tally list in
front of him, I was less stolid than
he, especially when, happening to
glance at one of tho heads, I saw it
open its mouth just as it was held up
to the maudarin's view. It was then
placed beside the body, and the next
felon was brought out and treated in
the same way.
"Two or three prisoners were to bo
strangled on this oeoasion, and though
I went away twice, from sheer inabil
ity to witness their execution, I was
urged back by a friend who accom
panied me, and thus I saw enough to
be able to describe that mode of pun
ishment also. The executioner tied a
short bit of whip-cord around each
man's throat, and then putting a stick
of wood in the slack of tho cord at tho
back of the neck, turned the stick and
tightened the cord until it was evident
that it could not be made tighter.
For some reason he immediately
loosened the cord (in each case, otherr
said), and then tightened it again and
fastened it. The victims made no
sound, but a quiver passed over their
bodies, and their fingers were seen to
curl in as if their fists were being
clinched. That was all. The man
darin sent a clerk to check off the
names of theso victims, and thus the
law was vindicated, or avenged."
A Simple Water Filter.
A new filter is being brought out
which possesses many advantages. It
oonsists of a piece of rubber tubingan
inoh and a half long, which fits into a
small metal case or tube perforated at
its extremity. Inside the tube at tho
bottom against the hole's is pressed a
small piece of spouge which comprises
the filter. The rubber end of the
tube is prosscd onto the cold water
tap,and thus the filter is made perfect.
—New York Telegram.
What Botanists Say of Indian Corn.
Botanists say that the Indian oovn is
a grass of the tribe Phalaridem, that
the leaves are linear-lanceolate and
puboscent with a short • ligule, that
tho infiorescenoe is monoecious, that
the pistillatod flowers are crowded on
a raohis, that tho ovary is bifid and
that*the withered glnmes and palets
remain on the rachis; and if yon do
not know all about the subject now,
it's your own fault. —Kew York i>is
patoh.
Terms---SI.OO in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months,
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL,
Aluminnm corrodes in salt water.
A telephone line between Berlin and
Vienna has been formally opened.
The blood fiowa almost as freely
through the bones as through the flesh
of very young children.
The hiccough nut is a South African
plant bearing an oblong fruit, the eat
ing of which causes violent hiccough.
A Hartford (Conn.! man has in
vented a new electric motor, which he
claims will run over 160 miles an
hour.
A steel ship has been constructed in
Cardiff, Cornwall, with the standing
rigging, as well as the hull, all of
steel.
Dr. Maxim is said to entertain the
hope that his aeroplane will be practi
cal enough for general use before the
close of this century.
Automatic machines have been de
vised for use on a moving train which
mechanically record the condition of
overy foot of the track.
Railroad authorities say that an or
dinary locomotivo has 300 horsepower
and burns n ton of coke for eighty
miles of passenger train travel.
If man had been limited to the use
of his natural weapons of defense he
would long sineo have been beaten out
of the contest by the animal king
dom.
Professor Bonney says that a fall of
fifteen to twenty degrees F. in the
average temperature would bo suf
ficient to account for all known glacia
tion in the northern hemisphere.
At a recent session of the central
criminal court, London, a witness who
was suffering from a virulent affection
kissed the Bible in tho usual way. The
judge promptly ordered the book de
stroyed.
Air can be frozen at a temperature
of 29:3 degrees below zero, and the
product, which can be handled and
felt, burns, so to speak, with its ex
cessive cold. Frozen air can be pro
duced in any quantity, but its cost,
SSOO a gallon, is likely to prevent a
large business.
Tho observations of twenty-five
years, made in the Bay of Bengal by
the Indian Government meteorolo
gists, have shown that the average
temperature rises during years that
sun spots are numerous and sink when
they are few. When tho number of
sun spots exceeded the average the
barometric pressure was less than its
average.
To protect iron or steel used in
pipes, roofs, bridges or other con
structions where it is liable to suffer
from corrosion two important precau
tions are necossary ; first, see that there
is no scale on the metal to begin with,
and second, paint it with nothing but
pure linseed oil and oxide of lead or
graphite paints. Of course, frequent
inspection and care are also required.
A foreign journal statos that by a re
cent order of the Russian admiralty
petroleum will bo tried as a fuel un
der the boilers of the two now armored
cruisers Rostislaff and Russia, now be
ing built for the Russian navy. These
war vossels will bo the first to bo sup
plied with petroleum furnaces, and a
thorough test will bo made of the value
of this fuel beforo other vessels are
fitted for its use.
Electrolytic experiments in connec
tion with the manufacture of beet root
sugar have proved to be so successful
that the principal French factories
and thirty-three German firms have
decided to adopt the electrolytic pro
cesses. It has been found that the
presence of one part of salt prevents
the crystallization of four parts of su
gar, and by means of electrolytio os
mesis the saline constituents of tho
juices can be effectively eliminated.
Last Remnants of the World's Fair.
The last of the races of other lands
who came to tho World's Columbian
Exposition have just returned home.
People who have walked much during
the last year on State street, between
Washington and Randolph streets,
must have noticed the Ceylonese who
were used by the Ceylon Tea Company
as advertisements. They were four
man and wife and two children. They
camo here at the opening of the Ex
position, under the care of the Ceylon
Commissioners. They were a part of
that vision of beauty which delighted
millions, bnt which no longer exists.
After the gates closed the family was
brought downtown. For a year they
were at the teahouse on State street,
and even city people used to tarry and
look at them. Last week they left
Chicago for their home, where the
spicy breezes blow, 20,000 miles away.
They were tho last human remnant of
the Exposition. They will have a
strange story to tell when they get
back. —Chioago Tribune.
A Machine That Shines Shoes.
Shining your shoes by machinery is
one of the newest schemes of an in
genious inventor. It is a bootblack
ing machine, consisting of an apply
ing brush, a polishing brush, a fluid
receptacle and a blacking receptacle,
so placed upon a stand that by the
movement of a lever, the small oiron
lar brush takes up the blacking and
moistens and distributes it over the
shoe; then the circular brush comes
along and polishes the shoe before
you can say "Jack Robinson."
This clever contrivanoe tills the ns
aol "long felt want" for the gentle
man who cleans his own shoes in the
seclusion of his chamber, but it is
doubtful whether it will be fnlly ap
preciated by the itinerant bootblack,
who wants his five oents a shine.
Notwithstanding all objections,
however, the new bootblack ing ma
chine is likely to be in gteat demand
within a verv short time. —Housefui
nibbing Review.
NO. 15.
DO YOU WANT?
Do you want so mo real estate, ,
Or a box of paper collars? '
Do you lack a chicken coop
Or a pocketful of dollars? •
Make en ad—mako an ad.
Do you want a billy go.it?
Would you sell n house and lot?
Want to rent a lumber yard
Or a tea or coffee pot?
Make an ai—mako an ad.
Havo you got a horso to trade,
Or a stovepipe, or a bell,
Or a gold mine, or a store,
Or a block of stock to sell?
Make an ad -make an ad.
—Printers' Ink.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Never try to mako game of a tamo
duck.
A long head is a great help in pre
venting a long face.
Put a beggar on horseback and he'll
run into debt.—Puck.
Charity covers a multitude of sins;
justice uncovers them.
No one has as much money as peo
ple imagine.—Atchison Globe.
Of all tho sad words to scribbling cranks,
The saddest are theso, "Declined with
thanks."
—Truth.
A word to the wise is sufficient—es
pecially if they have chips on their
shoulders.
She—"Do you believe marriage is a
mistake?" He—"No; I am a bach
elor. " —Puck.
Some "jokes" are so utterly bad
that they are actually good.—New
York Tribune.
Gushing is excusable in immature
girls and oil wells.—Pittsburg Chron
icle-Telegraph.
Kitty—"Oh, Mr. Flirtly is so ten
der, isn't he?" Judith—"Yes—pre
tender."—Detroit Free Press.
"Do you think Elsie will tako her
millionaire for better or worse?"
"No; for more or less." —Puck.
Never judge a man by tho clothes
lie wears; form your estimate from
the clothes his wife wears.—Puck.
The man who has attained a high
position must not think himself ex
empt from tho fores of gravitation.
One of tho sweetest things in neck
ties is a true love knot made by tho
1 girl's own hands.—Philadelphia Times.
Life Is real, lifo is enrnes",
And tho moments speed away,
In a manner fur too rapid
When wo have a note to pay.
—Detroit Freo Press.
The man with nobody to care for is
quite as badly off as the man with no
body to care for liim. —Galveston
News.
When a man makes a success of any
thing, the conceit of other men is so
great that they think they can do just
as well.—Atchison Globe.
When man begins to climb too fast
With all his heart and soul,
Invariably he flails at last
He's climbed into a hole.
If you could condense the wisdom of
ages into a single short sentence, you
couldn't get a young man to remember
it for five minutes after he starts out
in the world. —Puck.
"This'shape doesn't seem to be as
becoming as a small hat; do you
think so?" Milliner—"Oh, my, yes.
You can't see how much of your faco
it covers up."—Chicago Inter-Ocean,
I knocked at tho door of her gentle heart,
Which I ha 1 so longo.l to win,
And she came in response to my tlmlJ
knock,
But she never asked me in.
- Detroit Free Pre3S.
r Harry —"Do you enjoy the idea of
marrying a man reputed to be as miser
ly as your fiance is?" Maud—"Oh,
yes! Don't you see that the dear fel
low will be saving enough for us
both!"— Puck.
The ladv was making some remarks
about tne kind of clothes some other
ladies at church had on."The finest
garment a woman can wear," said her
husband, "is tho mantle of charity."
"Yes," she snapped' "and it's about
tho only one some husbands want their
wives to wear." —Detroit Free Press.
Why the Girls (Higgled.
At a place of worship in North Lon
don a funny incident occurred on a
recent Sunday, A young man who
carried a collecting plate after the per
vice, beforo starting put his hand in
his pocket and placed, as he supposed,
a shilling into tho plate, and then
passed it around among the congrega
tion, which included many young and
pretty girls. The girls, as they looked
on the plate, all seemed astonished
and amused, and the young man, tak
ing a glance at the plate, found that
he had put instead of a shilling a con
versation lozenger on the plate, with
the words, "Will you marry me?" in
red letters staring everybody in the
face, while one of the congregation
had capped it by a second lozenger,
on which was printed, "Name tho
day."—London Weekly Telegraph.
Dig Hive Full ol Honey.
Mrs. John Welsh, of tho town of
Suamico, Wis., has obtained between
400 and 500 pounds of honey in a sin
gular manner. Her boy, Philip,
while in the woods, observed the mark
of claws upon a dead tree, and, think
ing to timl a wildcat, cut it down. It
proved to be a bee tree, and fifteen or
sixteen feet of its length waa filled
with honey. The tree was about
three feet in diameter, and the shell
was only about three inches thiok.
The comb was not broken, bnt was in
five sections, each the length of fif
teen or sixteen feet. The good lady
procured a washtub full of chilled
bees and several tubs of honey. Tba
boy is still after the animal with clawa
that was feeding upon the honey.—
Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal.