SULLIVAN JIHH REPUBLICAN.
V. M, CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XI.
The former in .Tapan who has ten
Bereft of land is looked upon as a mo
nopolist.
The New York World concludeo that
believe in life insur
ance; Wanamaker has taken out poli
cies aggregating 51.500,000, Hamilton
Disston SOOO,OOO, and J. B. Stetson,
8515,000.
In California, Vermont, Oregon,
Idaho, Utah, and Wisconsin days of
grace on maturing notes, drafts, ac
ceptances and bills of exchanges have
been abolished, unless there is express
stipulation to the contrary.
Professor Vambery has been lectur
ing on the "Fashion of Languages" be
fore the Bnda-Pesth (Hungary) Eng
lish Club. "English," he said, "may
now be called ilio most fashionable
language in all the live parts of the
world."
Chicago is now the fifth greatest sea
port in the world, and yet, remarks the
Farm, Field and Fireside, the trade of
the great lakes is only beginning to
show its possibilities. Twenty years
from now, at the present rate of growth,
it will be among the three greatest, if
not the greatest of nil.
The country's money circulation has
increased from $720,000,000 in 1873
to over $1,600,000,000 at the present
time. The coinage of silver has in
creased from $4,000,000 in 1873 to
nearly $40,000,000 in 1890. There
was no silver in the treasury or in cir
culation in 1873 and to-day there is
$490,000,000.
Says the New York Sun : The re
port of the Civil Service Commission
shows that women are going into civil
service in larger numbers than ever,
and that there is a comparative decrease
in the number of men who are now en
tering the executive departments.
There is no great reason to regret that
such is the case. The pay that the
average Government clerk receives is
by no means enormous for a man of
ability, while the work is of a kind that
most women can do easily and well. A
deportment clerkship ought not to
.tempt any yo.tug man of enterprise
and talent, but many such have buried
both qualities in the dispiriting routine
of such a career.
At this time of year, when every
body is fretting about letters of credit
and all the other makeshifts to avoid
penury in a foreign land, it occurs to
the mind unskilled in questions of
finance to wonder why we cannot have
one single international coin, which
would be good wherever it is spent,
says Kate Field's Washington. An en
tire National currency is a boon re
served for our grandchildren, but a
single gold coin of the value say of $2
and a half would be an immense con
venience to travelers. A moderate
sum in such coins would not, be bur
densome, and before leaving each coun
try the National curreucy could be ex
changed into them at the hotel office
or the nearest shop without any fuss
and feathers whatever. Multiples of
such a coin, to the extent of a hundred
or more, would be easily portable, and
fractions of it would not be large
enough to cause serious embarrassment
to most travelers. The amount of
time and trouble which a single inter
national coin would save is almost in
calculable.
An electric railway shortly to be con
structed from New York to Philadel
phia will carry passengers the entire
trip, ninety miles, in an hour, and it
is announced that a similar line, run
ning cars ot the speed of 100 miles an
hour will soon connect St. Louis and
Chicago. Already, there are signs of
a conflict between electric and steam
railway interests, remarks the Atlanta
Constitution. Electric roads do not
need deep cuts, heavy fills and pouder
ous locomotives. They can bo run
very cheaply, and hence their charge*
will be lower than those of the steam
railways. Naturally, these new lines
will be formidable competitors of the
old ones, and in granting charters the
Legislatures will liavo some difficult
questions to consider. Connecticut
lias just adopted a general law which
provids for the control of such enter-
prises by local communities. No speed
•i is allowed higher thau twenty-live
miles an hour, and the railway com
, mission must grant its consent before
any electric road can be constructed
which substantially parallels u steam
road. Merchandise and heavy bag
gage are not allowed to be carried on
the electric cars, and the whole *ys
tem is under the rules of the railway
commission. Hteam may always be a
factor of transportation, but it goes
without saying that the cheap electric
railways will revolutionise travel and
traffic.
The statistics of cvime throughout
the country show a marked increase in
the number of murders during recent
years—from 2335 in 1887 to 5900 in
1891—while for several years prior to
1887 the number fell short of 2000.
According to the Shoe and Leather
Beporter, a convict in a certain peni
tentiarv, whose crime was dishonesty,
is compelled to spend his dayß cutting
out pieces of pasteboard to be put be
tween the outer and inner soles of shoes
which will be sold as made of solid
leather.
A statement recently published by
the authorities of Munich, Bavaria,
gives some startling information as to
the increased consumption in that city
of dog flesh. So great an appetite
seems to have developed for the food,
declares the Chicago Herald, that the
authorities have thought it time to in
terfere for the protection of dog
owners.
"It has passed into a proverb that
racing is the sport of kings; it can with
truth be stated," declares Outing "that
trotting is the international equine
sport of the American people. It is
true that in New York, Chicago and a
few Southern cities the thoroughbred
flourishes while the trotter does not,
but throughout the balance of the
country and in the Dominion of Canada,
trotting and its relative gait, pacing,
provide the popular and universal sport.
It is natural that it should be so. for
while it gratifies that love for equine
contests which is a leading character
istic of the Anglo-Saxon race, it also
appeals to the patriotism and the utili
tarianism of the American nature. The
trotter is an American production. Ho
is a grand and distinct type or branch
of the equine family. By the applica
tion of the laws of selection, training
and development, the American breeder
lias evolved a perfect trotting race as
superior to its original crude elements
as the thoroughbred of to-day is to the
parent horse of the desert."
Visitors to the Columbian World's
Fair at Chicago will find 500 guides
ready to do their bidding at an expense
of fifty or seventy-five cents an hour.
Guides for parties of live or fewer per
sons will be charged for at the rate of
fifty cents, and, from five up, seventy
live cents an hour. The business of
the guide is not going to be profitable,
as the salaries paid will not be greater
than S3O a month. The educational
advantages are expected to compensate
for the small wages. There are to be
twenty-five women guides. Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer thought that unescorted
women would be in need of the services
of a guide, and in deference to her
wishes appointments will be made.
The information givers are to be formed
into an organized and officered corps.
There will be at least five companies
under the command of sergeants. The
first sergeants will be paid SOO a month,
there being five of them. There will
he twenty second sergeants, with sal
aries of §4O a month. The grounds
will be divided into districts. There
nre district headquarters where visitors
may apply for the services of guides.
The New York Post nays: The prob
lem of the ultimate source of the Nile
seems finally to hftve reached a solution
through the recent explorations of
Dr. O. Baumaun. Thirty years have
elapsed since Speke sent to the Royal
Geographical Society of London
his famous laconic despatch, "The
Nile is settled," announcing the dis
covery by him of the great equatorial
lake, Victoria Nynnzu, snpposed to be
main head basin of Africa's mighty
river. This discovery was followed
soon afterwards by that of a second,
seeming still larger, equatorial lake,
the Albert Nyanza, which divided the
honors of "Conqueror of the Nile" be
tween Speke and Sir Samuel Baker.
The progress of more modern African
exploration, while it has served in many
ways to bring about a truer knowledge
of the mutual relations of these two
large lakes tliHii was known to Speke
and Bnker, and to establish the more
positive claims of the Victoria Lake,
had not, until l)r. Baumann's journey,
answered the still significant question,
regarding the position of the headwa
ters of these lakes; in other words,
the actual fountain-head of the Nile
had yet to be discovered. This is now
shown to be on the eastern face of the
"height of land" which closely bor
ders Lake Tanganyika on the north
east, the source of the Kagera, or
Rnvnvu, a western, and the most pow
ful, tributary of the Victoria Nvanza.
This position was reached by Dr. Bau
mann on the 19th of September last.
With its source thus placed between
the third and fourth parallels of south
latitude, the Nile traverses thirty-five
degrees of latitude, and become*; a
rival in length of the combined Mis
sissippi-Missouri of
LA PORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JTJNE 23. 1893.
TWILIGHT.
Stag, sweet, it is the twilight hour—
Thy voice brings rest and peace,
And unto thee is given the power
To bid all discord cease.
Let day lade with its load of sorrows,
Now is enough for me j
I care not for the coming morrows,
For they may banish thee.
Oh, that this eve eould last forever,
Ambition's sun be set,
For with theo near my heart would never
The busy world regret.
Only count us as Love's Immortals,
Let each be one in soul;
Bid Night halt at the western portals,
And Death collect no toll;
Then twilight would be fraught with splendor,
Bathed in Faith's golden stream ;
And each to each all love would render-f
Sing, sweet, and let me droam.
—Flavel Scott Mines, in Harper's Weekly.
A SHOPPING 'BATEDfTION,
I „ ~j HE report started
yin Blake's store.
ZV. To disbelieve a re
\ port that started in SEJ
SEJ3 j" Blake's store was
a n unheard of
heresy at the Cor-
''U So, astonisli-
VjJ ing as this was, the
ISTiS Corners received it
. without a shadow
of doubt. It hardly needed to be
known that Mrs. Goodrich herself was
the authority.
She was down at the store Saturday
afternoon as usual to make her weekly
purchases. Anson Blake, who never
failed when groceries were purchased
to conduct the customer to the other
side of the store to look at the dry
goods, and vice versa, endeavored to
lead Mrs. Goodrich over to look at
Bome new winter goods.
Then it came out. With ft bit of
pardonable prido she let him know
that she hivtl no need to look at fall
goods in Witham Corners or in Witham
Centre, either, since "her Hannah was
going to the. city next week to do their
fall shopping ; that she, Hannah, had
an annt there who had the whole sum
mer been urging her to come, and that
now she was going for a few days."
Mrs. Goodrich shook her large skirts
and swept out—figuratively speaking,
of course, as her garments always es
caped the floor by some inches.
Meeting was hardly over the next
day before Hannah was interviewed as
to her intended trip, and the ladies
who we-e not present in the morning
interviewed her in the evening on the
subject. They were so numerous then
and kept her HO long that Jerry Down
ing, waiting patiently for her outsida,
concluded she had gone out the back
door on purpose to cut him, and walked
home with another girl. His mother,
who had not been on speaking terms
with Mrs. Goodrich since thai good
lody made some remarks on the strength
of the butter Mrs. Downing brought
to the minister's donation last winter,
let Jerry know when he got homo of
Hannah's intended trip, and suggested
that a girl who couldn't buy her winter
dress at the Corners, but must goto
New York for it, was too fine to be a
farmer's wife. Jerry went to bed in
despair, while Hannah was crying her
self to sleep, wondering how she could
have offended him.
The next afternoon, when she came
in from her school, Hannah was more
than surprised to find Mrs. Downing
in the sitting room with her mother.
As the visitor had not been in their
house for a year, Hannah was sure that
she bore some message from Jerry,
and greeted her accordingly, wonder
ing meanwhile, why her mother looked
so grim, and knit as furiously as if the
whole family were barefooted and suf
fering.
It was no message from Jerry, how
ever, that brought Mrs. Downing there
to-day. The lad was plowing in a
distant field, and did not know of his
mother's call.
After her little remark last night
about Hannah's city shopping tour,
she had thought best to keep this visit
a secret from him. x
"I was just telling your ma," she
began, when Hannah, Hushed and ex
pectant, was seated, "that I'd been
down to Blake's to get my winter
dress, and that there wa'n't a thing
there I'd put on my back."
"Oh, not a thing!" Haunah nsseuted
quickly. "I'm going to New York for
our winter things."
"So I heard, and I was telling your
ma that, as long as you are going to
town and going a-shotppin', buying one
more dress wouldn't be no more trou
ble to you."
Buying a whole wardrobe for Jer
ry's mother would have been a de
light !
"Oh, nu trouble a pleasure!"
Hannah cried, despite hev mother's
frown.
' 'There's that brown merino I got
three years ago last fall," Mrs. Down
ing went on."The wear I've had out
of it just beats all. I've worn it steady
wherever I went. I was telling your
ma that I didn't know as I could be
suited better than to have another just
like it. So, if you won't mind getting
me ten yards of dark brown merino—
say, about eighty cents a yard—or you
might go as high as eighty-five—l'd be
much obliged, and will do the same by
you."
"Don't mention it," cried Hannah,
taking out h«r notebook and adding
the small item to the long family list.
"The money 11 be all right," added
Mrs. Downing.
"Of course it will," Hannah laughed.
"Going to stay long?"
"From Thursday to Monday only.
I can't leave my school longer."
"I'll be over, then, Monday night
after it."
"Waal, I must say," Mrs. Goodrich
burst out, as the door closed nfter Mrs.
Downing, "»LL'H got brass! The idea
of her asking you to lug a dress tip
from the city for her ! I didn't give .
her any encouragement when she spoke i
to me about it, I can tell you."
"Oh, mother, I wouldn't refuse for j
the world," Hannah returned. "How
could I?"
Tea was over. Mrs. Goodrich was |
washing the dishes. Hannah was dry
ing them, when the kitchen door was
unceremoniously opened. A tall,gaunt j
woman, with a commanding air, as if
she were at the head of a disorderly
regiment, marched in. It was Mrs.
Moore.
"I was down to Mrs. Downing's,"
she began, without a small prelude of
a greeting, "fur a dish o' tea an' a few
minutes' set, an' she was tellin' me that
Hannah was goin' to the city this
week."
"Yes, on Thursday," Hannah
answered. "Will you sit down?"
"I hain't no time fur a set. Mary
she's gone over to her grandmother's,
and there ain't nobody to hum to git
Moore's supper. Mrs. Downing was
saying you was goin' to git her a brown
mereener."
"Yes." .
"I s'pose it won't be no trouble, as
you're bttyin', to buy me a black
mereener, too, at the same time?"
"None whatever." Hannah's smile
was getting hollow.
"How long be you goin' to stay?"
"Till Monday."
"I'll be round Monday evenin' with
the money. You can git me seventy
cent stuff, about seven yards."
She departed with as little ceremony
as she had entered.
"I told you so —I told you so," said
Mrs. Goodrich, as she lighted a candle
and went down cellar with the milk.
"Ef you do fur one you'll have to do
fur the whole town."
Miss Brown, the dressmaker, dropped
in a little later.
"I heerd only Just now that you're
goin' to York," she said, as if to apolo
gize for not coming sooner, "and that
you're goin' to get some things for
Mrs. Downing."
"Yes, a dress," Hannah returned,
while her mother gave a tremendous
"Ahem."
"So I heord. I don't git to York
very often myself, and I'm afraid I'm
getting a little behind the fashions. It
don't pay, you know, for me to get be
hind," she simpered. Misn Brown was
more noted for her simpers than for
the correctness of her styles.
"So I madoibold to step round and
a«k yon, as you're going to the city
anyway, an' will be lookiu' at the fash
ions, to just give a look fur me."
"I shall certainly study the fashions
well for my own benefit."
"I can't say exactly how many pat
terns I'd like you to buy me."
"Oh, you want me to buy patterns,
do you?" Hannah asked quickly. She
was one of tho most obliging girls in
the world, but this sort of thing was
becoming monotonous.
"AH long us you're in the city on*
goin' right by the fashion stores, I
s'pose it won't be no trouble for you to
step in and buy a pattern or HO? YOU
can get whatever you think is pretty —
some sacks, bodies and skirts, and so
on. You can tell better'n I can when
you see 'em. You might get about five
dollars' worth. I think it'll pay you.
I'll let you have the money when you
know how much it is, or I'll sew it
out."
While Hannoh was silently making
a note of this Mrs. Dobbs, their next
neighbor, came in.
'Tretty neighbors yon arc," washer
greeting. "Pretty neighbors! 'Melie,
she just come from the store. 'Ma,'
sez she, 'what do yon think? Hannah
Goodrich is going to the city a-Thurs
day a-shoppin' an' is going to get Mrs.
Downing a dress. I wonder if she
wouldn't buy me a felt hat. I'm sick
an'tired o' Miss Miller's hats!' 'Of
course she would,' sez I. 'A pretty
neighbor she'd be ef she wouldn't.'"
"Why, certainly." said Hannoh, try
ing to call up a smile. It was only the
ghost of one that responded, however.
"What, kind of a hat will Amelia
want ?"
"She's goin' to leave that to your
judgment. Somethin' pretty and dressy
and stylish, and that'll be becomin' to
you."
Hannah was dark, with delicate fea
tures and very pretty. Amelia was
light, with coarse features and homely.
"She's willing togo as high as $5,"
Mrs. Dobbs went on. "Still, ef you
don't have to spend so much she'll be
tickled. Looking around a little and
not taking the fust thing that's offered,
you kin sometimes savo as much as
fifty cents."
The school where Hannah vainly
strove each day to make the Witham
youth learned was some distance from
her home, and she took her luncheon
with her. She had just settled down
to it the next noon, when a delicate,
withered looking, long ago comely
woman entered the room.
Hannah greeted her with unfailing
politeness, hoping against hope that
she had not heard of the intended trip.
Mrs. Guion would not sit down. She
had run over only for a moment. She
had just heard that morning that Miss
Goodrich was going 011 Thursday to
the city, and wanted to know if she
would be willing to do the least, bit of
an errand there. Would she be so |
kind?
Of course Hannah could not say 110,
and Mrs. Guion chose to consider her 1
embarrassed silence an assent, and ,
took from a bag three pieces of silk— j
blue, yellow, and green, all peculiar
shades. Would Miss Goodrich l>e so
kind as to match them in zephyrs? She
had vainly tried here aud in adjacent
towns to do so, but then you never
could get anything outside of the city,
and yon could get everything there.
Would Miss Goodrich lie so kind as ti>
get a half pound of each?
The very small item of matching
three peculiar shades of silk was added
t <l Hannah's list.
frUv ' l »" MT.Oifc that Lviuiiig wlicu I
Mrs. Clark, the physician's wife) fcatne
I in. This lady was well off, dressy, bnt
■ economical and very fussy. All
I Witham knew that she was hard to
i please. She would not burden Miss
j Goodrich for anything, she began, if
i she could .possibly find time togo her
i self to the city or if she could get what
| she wanted in Witham.
She had a piece of brown plaid
j which she would like matched ; would
j Miss Goodrich be so kind ss to get the
i came quality exactly and the same
' pattern? See? There was t'lat fine
i stripe—did she notice that. It was
bought three years ago —Mi's. Clark
! did not remember now whether it was
in New York or Philadelphia; she had
paid a dollar a yard for it, and she
: would like six yards more.
Mrs. Green, from the Corners; Mrs.
! Drake, from the Centre; Mrs. Will
iums, from North Witham ; Mrs. John
son, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Cole, one after
the other, were ushered into the sit
ting-room and begged to have a piece
, of goods matched or something big or
little bought in the city. They always
knew it would be no trouble for her as
long as she wins buying for herself, and
,! not one offered to advance the money
for the purchase.
After supper on Wednesday evening
Hannah wrote out her list in full. She
i was studying it, a little amused and
very much vexed, when her mother
i entered.
"Ma, I've been counting up," she
t said.
j "Waal!"
! "The things lam requested by the
! neighbors to buy amount, at a rough
[ j guess, to SIBO. They would easily fill
■ ! three trunks, and the work of hunting
for them would occupy me at least
i four (lavs. Not one has offered me a
cent in advance or the money to pay
I expressage. I have just SBO and two
days to spend in the city."
"I told you so —I told yon so."
"What could I do? I should have
: offended every one of them if I had
• j put the case to them as it is."
"Waal, what air you going to do?
You're in for it, you see."
< ! "I'm not going—that's what I'll do
1 about it. We'll buy our winter dresses
i at Blake's, as the rest of Witham will
i for all me. The next time I make up
t my mind togo to New York not a soul
- in Witham will know it till I am gone,
i if you please, ma."
r Mrs. Goodrich did please. When
Hannah went early the next spring
I , even Mrs. Downing was not told till
the last moment, and then it was be
cause Hannah changed her name to
| Downing the day she went, and was as
.4j pleased as before, of course, to under
| take any commissions for Jerry's
mother.—True Flag.
Climbing and Swimming Rabbits.
On the continent of Australia the
rabbits, by force of circumstances, are
obliged to modify their mode of life.
These animals are often observed to
climb trees in search of food when they
cannot obtain it on the ground. At a
recent session of the Zoological Society
of London, Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited
the forepaws of one of these Australian
rabbits, which were seen to be adapted
to this new mode of locomotion. It is
found, in the first place, that they are
more slender than those of the English
wild rabbit. Their color is paler and
the spots are dark. Besides, their
claws are sharper and slenderer.
In the Australian rabbits differences
have also been observed in the manner
of raising their young. Thus, in cer
tain localities, we find their ordinary
seats, but in others the litter is placed
upon the ground, without any cover
ing. In summer they sometimes enter
the water, with only their heads pro
jecting above the surface. When they
are pursued, during their migra
tions, they swim exceedingly well and
cross the wide rivers with ease.—■
Scientific American.
Washington's Narrow Escape.
From an "Unpublished Autograph
Nurative by Washington,"in Serib
ner's Magazine, we quote as follows:
It was conceived that our party was
yielding the ground, upon which G.
W. with permission of the General,
called (per dispatch) for volunteers and
immediately marched at their head, to
sustain, as was conjectured, the retir
ing troops. Led 011 by the firing till
he came within less than half a mile,
and it ceasing, he detached scouts to
investigate the cause, and to commu
nicate his apprach to his friend Col
onel Mercer, advancing slowly in the
meantime. But it being near dusk,
anil the intelligence not having been
fully dissiminated among Colonel Mer
cer's corps, and they taking us for the
enemy who had retreated approaching
in another direction, commenced a
heavy tire upon the relieving party
which drew fire in return in spite of
all the exertions of the officers, one of
whom, and several privates were killed
and many wounded before a stop could
be put to it, to accomplish which O.
W. never was in more imminent danger,
by being between two fires, knocking
up with his sword the presented pieces.
To Preserve Pictures.
A new method of preserving pictures
is being experimented with in Londou.
It consists of placing the surface of the
picture, be it canvas or paper, in a
vacuum, thus protecting it from atmos
pheric action. The picture is enclosed
in a metal frame or case, covering the
back and sides and projecting from th«
sides like an ordinary frame. A plate
of glass is inserted in the edges of the
case, just as in an ordinary frame, and
hermetically sealed to the. metal. The
air is then withdrawn from between
the surface of the picture and the glasa
mid the painting is in a vacuum. It it
jtelieved this plan will effectually pro
tect pictures from the action of damp
ness, air. gases and other cause* that
operate to destroy paintings exported
or framed in the ordinary way.—) k'
tlX.it i'llll I fINJ.
Terms—Sl.oo in Advance i 51.25 after Three Months.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Rubber is iiiftd* from cotton seed oil.
Flies sometimes infect eatables with
cholera germs.
Scientists are of the opinion that
some icebergs last for '2OO years.
An electric railway will probably be
built between Atami and Odalvara in
Japan.
T. D. Curtis, the scientist, expects
to see conntry roads lighted with elec
tricity.
Comb honey is said to lie a remedy
for dyspepsia. The wax must be eater
with the honey.
Fonrteen wind planets were dis
covered during last month, bringing
the total number of small planet#
known up to 375.
Successful experiments have been
made in stimulating the growth of such
plants as wheat, corn and tobacco by
means of electric currents.
Granulated cork and bitumen, pressed
into blocks, is the latest favorite foi
paving London streets. Its elasticity
is its special recommendation.
The Chinese have bred a whole
colony of goldfish, each having two
well-developed tails and two sets of
anal fins. Biologists say it would be
equally easy to breed quadrupeds with
eight legs.
The position of the lamprey eels
has been reviewed by Professor
Howes, who thinks that instead of
being primitive forms, they arc aber
rant fish-like forms, which have lost
their lower jaw, their sucking mouth
having been secondarily acquired.
If the heat of the sun were produced
by the burning of coal, it would re
quire a layer sixteen feet in thickness,
extending over its whole surface, to
feed the flame a single hour. With
the sun a solid body of coal, it would
burn up at this rate in forty-six cen
turies.
Edison, the great inventor, is hope
ful of being able to generate electricity
directly from heat, and thus dispense
with the steam engine and dynamo now
used for producing electric power. If
this plan be successful, it is likely that
a simple piece of mechanism placed
over the kitchen chimney will supply
electric lights to every room in au or
dinary residence. .
As the ashes contain only about six
per cent, of potash and less than two
of phosphoric acid, the value is not
more than forty cents per 100 pounds,
or $8 a ton. This estimate is based on
a value of potash of 4} cents a pound
in muriate of potash, selling at $45 tho
ton, and phosphoric acid at six cents n
pound. The common price of wood
ashes is far beyond the actual value
compared with the price of other fer
tilizers.
As everybody is learning now, boil
ing kills the microbes in water, and it
was only when the authority of a law
forbidding the use of the infected river
water was putin force in Hamburg
Inst autumn that the cholera was really
checked; and it is interesting to leurn
that Cyrus, who seems to have had
good ideas of sanitation, when crossing
the river Choaspes, had all the drink
ing water for his army boiled—in sil
ver bowls, the legend says.
Preserved a Fine Leg of Mutton.
There was an immense sensation
created at the M— station the other
day, just previous to the starting oi
the afternoon express for Paris. The
inspector was about to start the train
when a short, fat and pussy old gen
tleman trotted up to him and ex
claimed :
"Wait a minute, will you, please,
while I—"
"Impossible, sir!" interrupted the
officer, putting the whistle to his lips.
"The train is overdue now."
"But you must wait!" cried the old
gentleman, excitedly. "There is a
man's leg underneath the wheel."
"Good gracious! Why didn't you
say so at first? Where is he?" inquired
the horror-stricken inspector. "Hold
on there!"
And having stopped the train he
hurried after the old gentleman, while
a couple of porters jumped down on
tho line, amid the excitement of a
number of spectators. After a short
search one of the porters handed up a
rush basket containing a large and
fine looking leg of mutton.
"Thank you!" said the old gentle
man.
"What do you mean, sir?" roared
the exasperated inspector. "You said
"I said a man's leg was under tho
wheel, and so it was," interrupted the
old gentleman. "I bought this leg
and paid for it, and if it isn't mine I
should like to know who it belongs to,
that's all."
Then the train moved on. —Paris
Figaro.
The Ancient Name ot Great Britain.
The oldest form of the name Britain
is Ortanis, from which ertnes the ad
jective Ortauicos, which iu Irish is
Cruitueeh. This last is the name which
the Irish gave to the Picts, once mas
ters of Great Britaiu. The adjective
mentioned became in the language of
the Gauls Pretanicos. Pytheas, the
Greek navigator of Marseilles, who
flourished about the time of Alexander
the Great, and is said to have made a
voyage to Britaiu, in one of his few
fragments now extant calls Great Bri
tain the Pretanic Island. A century
after Pytheas, a Galli<* people t'u"
Britanni—drove the Picts out of th
larger portion of Great Britaiu, and
established themselves there. From
this came confusion in the minds of
Greek geographers between the name
of the conquerors and that of the con
quered island. Out of this confusion
arose various and mixed forms. The
Pretanic Island became Bretannie, ait.l
theu Britannic, which form H< MUM
fixed, ami has come down to u .
lit Vile Archevlogiqile.
NO. 37.
HORSE SENSE.
Main hoss sense'll pull yer through v "
W'en there's nothin' else'H do ; 1
You may sttll bo poor and needy
With yout head a cyelopedv
An' bit? poets, so they say,
Sometimes eat one meal a day.
Plain hoss sense'll pull yer through
When there's nothin' else'll do.
There are big mefl X cxpeet
Wallerin' in intellect, ' v
Hpoutin' swimmin' in a sen
Of their own philosophy, ,
Who might grab the shore an' stand \
Ou the dry and solid land—
Plain hoss sense'll might pull 'em through
When philosophy wouldn' do.
With horse sense you'll never fail
If you haven't been to Yale,
Don't be seared, but use your head,
Not some other man's instead ,
Don't lay up there on the shelf,
Walk about an' trust yerself. i
Plain hoss sense'll pull yer through, V
When there's nothin' else'll do.
—Sam Walter Foss. in Yuuk.ce Blade.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A rank failure—Tilted imbecility.
—Truth.
A peek of trouble—Four quarts of
green apples.
In contempt of court—Tlie con
firmed bachelor.—Truth.
Tunefully considered, the human
neck is a pipe organ. —Dansville Breeze.
A bridge should never be condemned
until it has been tried by its piers.—
Judge.
Women certainly have room enough,
in these times, to laugh in their sleeves.
—Puck.
Home housekeepers are so cxosper
atingly industrious that they give the
dust no time to settle.—Truth.
In politics the coming man finds tho
roads badly blockaded by th« going
man.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
People speak of the face of a note
•when it's really the figure that inter
ests them.—Philadelphia Times.
•Tagson savs the messenger boy moves
so slowly that he has come to be ft
standing joke.—Eluiira Gazette.
A fashionable woman is one who lias
what everybody else has before any
body else gets it.—Elmira Gazette.
Trite sayings rhymed «re liked by some ;
They'll like this one, no doubt '
The schoolgirl's string of chewing gum
Is '"sweetness lont? ilrnwn out."
—Truth.
Only ft man bearing a title can bo
considered a "real liv ' nobleman on
the simple evidence that he merely
breathes.
There is i..,thing especially irritat
ing about an air of importance, pro
vided it is being sung instead of l>eiug
worn.—Puck.
The people who follow the fashion
most religiously generally look as if
they were trying to get ahead of it.—
Somerville Journal.
A young man with pushing qualities
can always get something to ilo, even
if it is nothing hotter than engineering
a lawn wower.—Buffalo Courier.
The humble individual who saws
wood for a living is of more benefit to
his race than the man who does noth
ing and that poorly. -Troy Press.
Hunger overcomes superstition. If
a man is really hungry thirteen is no
more unlucky than thirty, if the vic
tuals hold out.—Dansville Breeze.
0. what's the uso o' grievin'y
We'ro jes iu love with life:.
For the blossom's on the melon
An" the edge is on the knife'/
—Atlanta Constitution.
The dividing line between inquisi
tiveness and impertinence is largely
imaginary. Few people can W in
quisitive without being impertinent.—
Troy Press.
"Hello, Charlie! Not at work?
What's up?" "Oh, we'ro out on a
strike." "What's the trouble?" "Don't
know; but we'll not give in till wo get
it."—Boston Beacon.
Cotumhus aii'l Newton. Franklin an 1 Watts,
fn their discoveries tound «reat .-.est ;
Yet what to compar." with the joy of the man,
With a quarter he timls in a last sutnmtfr's
vest.
The man who is hailed as a public
spirited benefactor at the time a loan
is wanted may live to hear himself
howled at as a blood-sucking vampire
when the money falls due.—Truth,
lie asked her if she thou'-Tilt pop"oru
Was good for indigestion .
She said she didn't know ; would he
Please pop some other question.
—Kansas City Journal.
When a man speaks disparingly of
everybody, one of three things is trite:
He has the "l>ig head," is on bad terms
with himself, or liasan intensely jealous
and envious disposition.—St. Paul
Globe.
"Poverty is a disease," howled
speaker. "And yet," murmured the
poor chap iu the back of the hall, "we
who are afflicted with it are arrested
whenever we take anything for it!"—
Vogue.
Mmlge— "That waiter in there is en
iirelv too smart for his business."
k'apsley—"Why?" Mmlge—"l told
Sini to get me a rare steak, and he said
.t couldn't oe done."—lndianapolis
'ourual.
He "Bwothalt Chawley has the
awaiu fevah and he eawn't find a n irso
■ligh or low." She— "Sit up with liiiu
yourself. There is no human possi
bility of your catching the disease.
Detroit Free I'ress.
A Costly TIM,
A North Carolina mall sold a single
tree the other day for #>oo, and the
purchaser said that he expected to
realize at least for it when
it was worked up. The treo
measured three and a half feet at the
stump, and was a beautiful eurlejr wal
nut, curled from root lo the topmost
twig. There is a (/rest tlesl of walnut
iti that State, and it is very vaiua'.M,
single trees celling at from SHHi t)
|3VHI, — New Orleans Pica J uae.