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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-15
7 APOR1E HOTEL,

7 APOR1E HOTEL,
Il. HARMS, Proprietor.
A large and commodicus house, posses.
sing all the attributes of first-class hotel
The Bar is well supplied The patronage
sf the public RESPECTFULLY solicited.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-15
D0"'7 OvERL00k THAT
7. j. Keeler,

Is adding every week to his well
Selected Stock of Merchandise con;
sisting of Dry Goods, Notions, Ready
made Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots
and Shoes, Groceries, Hardware,
Oueensware, Flour, Feed etc.
Prices as low as the lowest. Call
and be convinced of good qualities
and low prices.
II. j. KEELER,
Pa, Aug. Sth, 1889.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
4 Beetle That Eats Floors.

State Entomologist Lintner has re- ceived from Howe's Cave specimen of beetle which has riddlcd painted kitchen floor in that place. The holes are about quarter of an inch in diam eter. The beetle is about an inch long, gray. with black velvety dashes on its wings, and the males have horns. Prof. Lintner finds that the depredator is the long horned pine-borer (Mono- hamus confusor). Its larva, or grub, is the one that causes the injurious and unsightly burrows so often seen in pine lumber. In this instance the grubs must have been in tho pine logs before they were sawed into flooring From some unknown reason the grubs occasionally remain in a dormant or unchanged condition for long time. In the museum of the Peabody Acad- emy Of Science at Salem, Mass. one of these beetles is preserved which had eaten its way out of the wood of a pine bureau which was made fifteen years before As show ing a greater imprisonment Of beetles in furniture it is traditionally said that in l7S6 son of General Israel Putnam. resi- ding at Williams town. Mass, had a table made from one of his apple trees. Out of this, twenty years afterward, long horned beetle gnawed his way, and a second one burrowed his way out twenty eightye after the tree was cuf down. IN. r. Fines.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
 STRONG AND WEAK,
Expectations Beliefs Entertained by .
 Famous Russian General

At the storming of Loftsha, during the Russo Turkish war. General Skobeleff ordered an officer to lead a battalion to certain point. The men marched on as long as there were buildings to shelter them from the Turkish fire, but when they came to the open ground they halted, for an advance, apparently, meant the ami. hilation of the battalion.
 Just at that moment the men saw Skobeleff riding calmly at walk across the fatal space, while round him shot and shell whistled furiously.
 In a fight, after the passage of the Balkans, the painter Verestchagin says that the rain of bullets was the most murderous he ever experienced, though he had been several times under heavy fire. In spite of the dan ger, he watched Skobelcff walk slowly along. his hands buried in the pockets of his overcoat. The whlstling bull lets did not cause him to bend his head once; his face was quiet, and his eyes restful.
 Now we know what running the gauntlet means" said he to the artist, as a turn in the road sheltered them from the bullets of the Turk.
 Tell me, honestly" said the artist ''have you really So accustomed your self to war that you no longer fear dangcr?"
 Nonsense, replied the Russian General, they think that am brave and that am afraid Of nothing, but confess that 1 am coward. But have made it rule never to bend down under fire. If you once permit yourself to do that, you will be drawn on further than you wish. Whenever l go into action l say to myself that this time there will be an end of me. :"
 But though courageous under fire, the Russian General was a coward at headquarters. Before his troops he always appeared in full dress uni form with his hair neatly trimmed and scented. But in the presence of his superiors he wore a worn-out coat, a cloak hanging all awry and q cap crushed down on the back of his head. He seemed embarrassed, as If afraid his elegance might give offense.
 This hero of many battles was super stitious. He believed in lucky and un- lucky days, refused to sit down with thirteen at table, jumped from his seat at the spilling of a little salt, and left a room in which three candles were burning.
 What bundle of contradictions is man. A General with a will that en- ables him to walk slowly across bat tle-feld swept with bullets and shell. but not strong enough to keep him in a room where three candles are burn ing!- Youth Companion.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
4 Schooner with a History.

The schooner Polly Snow, of Ban- gor, is probably the oldest vessel in active service that flies the American flag. Built in Ames bury, Mass, in 1894, she is eighty-five years old. Was rebuilt in 1914 but still such was the good condition of her timbers and wood that large part was put back. and her model is the same to-day as when first launched. During the war Of 1872, rigged as a top-sail schooner, carrying four small guns and one long thirty-two, she did good service as d privateer, capturing several prizes, which were taken into Salem She was captured by the English man-of- war Newcastle, prize crew put on board with some of the original crew and started for Halifax, N. $. Tho Americans on board recaptured her and put into Portland, Me, where the British prize crew were imprisoned till. the close of the war She has.been employed in the fishing business, but of late years in the lumber coasting trade. During her long life She has never been wrecked, but had several times been run into, and in every case the fault has been with the other party. Her sailing qualities are excellent, and Captain Snow says, with pardon able pride, that it takes Burgnss boat to beat her. Boston Globe.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
A Burglars Clever Trick

''One of the neatest tricks l have heard of in some time was perpetrated by pair Of burglars in this city late ly," said a police captain to New York Graphic reporter "Ihe younger of the two had entered private resi- dence while the inmates were at tea and the elder stood outside on watch. The rifer was discovered and was soon chased from one floor to another by two gentlemen members of the house. hold, Somebody called 'Poicen and the outside burglar. drawing his re- volvcr, responded. There. there, ladies; don't make any fuss. I'll take care of this fellow, he said. and mak- ing a rush he grabbed his mate blythe collar and gave him a cuff on the neck as he led him down the stoop. The fam fly breathed more freely and the gentle men prepared to go to the station house to swear out a complaint When they arrived there nobody had heard of the case The burglars had van- ished. It's an old trick. but I haven t heard about it in this neighborhood in many years.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
HUMOROUS.

A salOon-keeper says the letters W. C. I. U. mean "women constantly torment us"
 Have you ever stopped to con slider what is the chief end of our ex- istence on this mundane sphore?" asked the solemn old gentleman with the shining garb Dividend, " replied the oil speculator. -Terre Haute Ex- press
 First Robbcr - i've found the dress tho lady of the house does her shopping in. I suppose her purse is in the pocket" Second Robber- Then we'll have to take the dress with us. We can hunt for the pocket when we have a whole day to spare. "
 Spectator (to dcfendanO Well, I guess the jury will find for you, The judges charge was certainly very much in your favor. Don't you think SOP" Defendant (moodily) -"Oh, I knew all along that the judges charge would De all right. It's the lawyer s charge that's worrying me. :"
 On the Horse-car. -''Do you be- long to the Salvation Army?" he asked of stcrn-visaged woman who stood at his side No, sir, I do not But in this generation Of tired men, ,' she added, with a whitening glance at the row of sitting males, Il seem to belong to the standing army" She got a seat. - Harper's Bazar.
 -"This world is pretty evenly di vided after all. said the butcher, as he scraped away at his block. "How?" Lady in the diamonds and sealskin gets out of her carriage and comes in here and inquiries for 'sassage N "Well?n Well, other folks have the money and us butchers have tbe edde- cashun. Makes me feel more content. :" Detroit Free Press.
 First Member Sewing society," "Dear me! Here we've been talking for three hours and haven't got to sewing yet" Second Member-"Sew- ing? What sewing?" Third Mem bcr-'' Why, sewing societies ought to sew. you know" The president Ladies, owing to the lateness of the hour the Sewing Society for the Amelioration of the Heather will now adjourn. TN. Y. Weekly.
 Country Magistrate (genially. to complainanO -''Oh. boys will be boys! wouldn't prosecute 'em, if was you. That cut over VT eye will soon heal, and ye know they wouldn't "a stoned ye if ye hadn't got mad when they sassed ye. Jest remember ye was a boy once y'rself, and" Magistrate's $ Wife Crushing in) "Silas. Silas! Them boys is in our orchard ag'inr' Magistrate (darting up) -"Consarn 'eml Where's my shotgunr" r"-Puck
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

At recent meeting of the cura- tors of the Kentucky University it was unanimously decided to admit women into the institution.
 Boston University has over one hundred free scholarships, represent ing $lO, 900 annually dispensed for the benefit of needy students.
 Kansas has built school-houses at the rate of one for every day in the year for the past four years, and has 131 more to spare for good count.
 The possessions of Trinity Church in New York foot up to $40, 900, 900. Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, its pastor, has a nominal salary of $l2, 900, but really receives just as much as he wants.
 Ut is said that among the 800 women students at Oberlin there has occurred no case of discipline the last year The argument from experience is strongly in favor of co-education.
 The Presbytery. of Rio Grande just formed, has under its care -four American and four Mexican churches, the Industrial Indian school at Albu- querque, the Indian schools at Jcnez and Laguna, and five Mexican schools.
 According to the statistics of the United Presbyterian church the aver age salary of it's ministers is sos The highest average attained was in 1875, when it was $l,0l2. In 1880 it was $S96, since when it has been gradually rising. Last year it was $9i0
 Tho list of members of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Dr. Lyman Abbott, pastor, has been recently revised, and nearly one thousand names dropped as dead wood" At the last annual meeting the number of names on the roll was 2,543 By the recent action it is reduced to l ,S55, of whom 250 are non-residcnts.
 By will the late Rev. Daniel Rice, professor in Macalester College, Min ncsota. left S25, 900 to endow a chair of biblical history in that institution SD, 900 to endOw the same chair in AL bert Lea Seminary, and also sum to endow scholarship in both institu- tons, which it is estimated will ap- proximate $100 00J.
 A Baptist church at Wolverhamp- ton, in order to provide amusement and recreation for the parish, has built billiard and smOking-rOom back of ifs chapel, and bar for the sale of non-intoNicants, every thing to be under the control of the government of the church. The British Weekly says that it would De a calamity if this course were generally adopted.
 According 10 a decree published by the Minister of Education no cler- gyman can in Italy be an inspector or director Of State school. This is based upon a recent law to the effect that the local control of schools should be in the hands of heads of families, who would naturally take a deep in tcrest in their welfare or course the leading object is to cut the schools loose from clerical oversight and in fucncc. N. Y. Independent.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
BLOW NC BUBBLES,
A Solution for Producing Them of Great
 Size and Beauty

Size and Beauty
 Next to white castle, the mOttled castillo gives the best results. The soap being obtained, friendly drug gist must carefully weigh out sixty grains (for exactness in proportions is needful) for each ounce of water. That is, one drachm (according to the apothecary's weight of the old arith- metics) and when the weighing is done and the obliging druggist thanked for kindness, the rest is plain sailing. A bottle with a sound cork is the next requirement., It must be large enough to hold three or four times the quanti- ty of solution you wish to make. Do not prepare too much at one time; two ounces of soap solution will make good quantity, and for this six or eight ounce bottle will be about the right thing. The bottle must be we'll cleaned and then we'll rinsed out with soft water-w which, by the way, should be used for all operations. All being ready, the soap is cut into fragments small enough to enter the bottle. Measure an ounce of water for each drachm of soap; this can be done with tea spoon, eight spoonsful making an ounce. Having poured the water and put the soap into the bottle, we have now to await perfect solution, which will happen in the course of two or three hours if the bottle be put in a moderately warm place. Then add | glycerine to the soap solution, the quantity varying with our ambition. l have found that One-half the volume of the solution gives excellent results; that is to say, to each ounce of water add one-half ounce of glycerine, meas uring the quantities instead of weigh l ing them, in both cases. The bottle is now to be tightly corked and we'll shaken; then set aside for two or three hours more, and we'll shaken again. These alternate periods of rest and agitation should continue for a whole day. Finally, let the bottle stand undisturbed and tightly corked for twenty-four hours. Bubbles oi great size and beauty may be blown with this solution. n.-Thomas w. Chit tenden, in St Nicholas.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
FOR OUR YOUNG READERS.
JOHNNY-JUMP-UP..

Once there was little hoy Whom it strangely did annoy To have people always say. Full hundred times a day: Johnny, Johnny, jump up. do, And find this, or that, wou't your Oh. 1t vexed his very soul, And filled his heart with dole. That his ears they'd always prick With "JohBny, Johnny, jump up quick" ''Oh, l wish" he rashly said, That could lie still in bedN But when he next heard folks say: Johnny, Johnny, jump up, pray, To his great surprise he found Both feet rooted in the ground. Yes. 'tis true, that he was planted Mid the flowers, with face all sfanted; And his legs had grown as thin As the very slimmest pin. Only bright, laughing face Had been left him as grace; But never can he run when they Call Johnny, Johnny, jump up, pray" And so I'm sorry, arc not you, For the little boy in blue?
 Anne B. King, in N. Y. Independent.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
PERSONA. AND LITERARY.


 Thomas Hardy. the novelist. sits as justice of the peace in Dorset shire.
 Among the authors whose manu- scripts arc written in violet-colored ink, it is said, are William D. How ells, Julian Hawthorne. Charles Dud- ley Warner, Grace Greenwood and the poet Whittier.
 Statistics have been furnished by the Chautauqua Association to the ef- | feet that over three thousand years would be required for any one person to read all the literary works now in existence that are recognized as stand ard.
 Sir Edward Baines, of Leeds, is probably the senior European journal ist. He represented his fathers paper at the "Petcrloo Massacre" in 1919, and is probably the oldest survivor of that scene. He is now more than ninety years old.
 Mrs. Fanny Kemble. now wig orous old lady of eighty, living in En- | gland, has written novel The scene is in the Berkshire hills, where she lived forty years ago and occa- sionally astonshed the natives by her eccentric behavior.
 IA Chicago paper which runs a story daily, or which did run one, made inquiries of over four hundred readers before it found one who had read ten lines of the serial Most people look upon them as something to fill up space with"
 A Japanese romance entitled "The Moon Shining Through Cloud Rent on a Rainy Night has been translated into English and German. It is by a writer by the name of Bakin, and his style is said to be suggestive of Rider Haggard.
 Susan Warner, whose novel, "The Wide. Wide World" was the most popular American novel of its day, lies buried in the military cemetery, close by the Cadets Monument, West Point, The grave is kept abloom by the sister of the authoress, Anna B. Warner, herself writer.
 Prof. H. H. Boyesen, of Columbia College, is remarkable among literary men by reason of the fact that he writes with conspicuous elegance in at least three languages. He is fort unate, too, in being on terms of inti- macy with distinguished men in Amer ica, England and the continent
 Another prominent feature of American history has been attacked Dr. William H. Eglc, State Librarian of Pennsylvania, says the victims of the famous Wyoming massacre were trespassers who had frequently been warned by the Government that they were invading the rights of the h. dians.
 MT. Ruskin was once asked if it would not be we'll for the Welsh Ian. guago to die out and bea rep! aced by the English. God forbid' he re- piled. "Tho Welsh language is the language of music. There is no genius about the English language. The Scotch have got all the poetry and the Irish all the wit, and how the devil we got Shakespeare I do not know.
 -Dr. IIofTmann, the author ol 'Struwwelpeter," or Slovenly Peter, as he is presented to Fnglishspeak- ing children, work almost as famous all over the world as the Munchausen stories, recently celebrated his eighth eth birthday at Frankfort his native town, where for many years he has been at the head of- 't11 IunatIc asylum N His nursery rhymes have gone through one hundred and tifty-seven editions and are translated into every Euro pean language.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
What Did He Expect7

Here is a. story from Harrison street:
 A young dude barg gained for and got light-colored spring overcoat for four dollars. and walked out of the store admiripg himself. In two min utes he came back, and, diving his hand into the pocket, said to the clothes dealer, holding up two cock reaches:
 'See what found in the pockets"
 .Well,' said the seller. ..ain't you satisfied? Did you expect to get two canary birds with four-dollar oyor- coatP '-Baltimore Americar
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
USEFUL INFORMATION.
How to Tell n Horses Age Without Con
 sultinG an Export.

sultins an Expert.
 The foal is born with twelve grind CTS When four front teeth have made their appearance the colt is F days old, and when the next four assert themselves its age will be about 2S days The corner teeth make their appearance when the foal is about months old, and these latter teeth at tain the height of the front teeth at the age of year. The 2-year-old has the kernel-the dark substance in the middle of the tooth's crown-grOund out of all the front teeth. In the third year the middle front of teeth are shifted, and when 3 years old these arc substituted by the permanent Cor horse) teeth, which arc larger and more yellow than their predecessors. The next four teeth are shifted in the fourth year, and the corner teeth in the fifth, giving place to the permanent uipper.
 At , years of age horse has forty teeth. of which twenty-four are grind CTS, far back in the jaw. with which we have little to do. But, be it re- membercd, horses invariably have tusks, which mares very rarely lD !. Before the age of is arrived~&U the tusk is full grown. an11 slight groove on its~i face (which gens.sall I5eai-T with age, the
 I',x,,ipo ,,,oro ro,,dad ,pd E5S'ry,y,sd at the kernel or mark is worn 1rt of the middle front teeth. There will still be diffe renee of color in the center of the tooth.
 The tusks have now attained their full growth, being nearly or quite an inch in length, convex without. con cave within, tending to point and the extremity somewhat curved. Now or | perhaps some months before, the horse may be said to have a perfect mouth. At seven years the mark, as de- scri bed. is very nearly worn out of the | four center nippers, and fast wearing away in the corner teeth, especially in mares; but the black mark still re- mains in the center of the tooth. and is not completely filled up until the animal is eight years old. As he gets on past seven the bridle teeth begin tc wear away.
 At eight the kernel has entirely dis appeared from all the lower nippers. and begins to decrease in the middle nippers. It is now said to be past mark of mouth. There are indica- tions, however. after this age which will enable a very shrewd observer to guess very closely at a horses ago, | but none that can be relied upon by observers. As horses become advanced in years the gums shrink away and the teeth exhibit a long and narrow appearance; they lean more forward and assume an arched shape. Dub | lin Farmers Gazette.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13

The very height of strawberry-eat- ing is with coffee. Nobody ever really tasted coffee who has not drunk it in alternate mouthfuls with strawberries, and nobody knows the strawberry flavor excepting immediately after the clearing of the taste which comes rom drinking coffee. The clearing proper tv Of coffee is familiar enough, but there is strange ignorance of this spe. cial application of it. The best oi strawberries with the best Of coffee make the supreme refinement of iu dulgence in the fruit ', Post,
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
COMMON SENSE.

If could but forget her,
 surely would not let her Bewitchng face so often come between me and my task.
 In spite of all her beauty I'd stick 10 daily duty. And hide my grief beneath calm, impene- trable mask
 She leases and torments mo- And yet my love prevents mo From leaving her, as we'll know It would be best to do.
 She knows that adore her, And that I'd bow before her Thrice happy-what fool-to kiss her dainty little shoe.
 Shes sure of my devotion Now, if she had the notion That for some other girl, perhaps, her service I'd desert
 1wonder II she'd slight me- Or with truer love requite me? By love! think I'll try er!-Wheres a girl who wants to fl Tt?
 Journal of Educat on.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
HEREDITY IN GEESE.
A Transmission of Terror to the Third
 Anserne Generation.


 Anserine Generation.
 correspondent of the Revue Scienti1ique vouches for the following story: For about twenty years ne was in the habit of visiting two or three times each year a farm where was kept flock of geese, numbe>1ng from thirty to thirty-fve in thS/ /early part of the winter, and in I spring four or five left for~~recding pur- poses; these a'~~ generally being killed 9 few months later, after the .ow broods had attained their growth. In the month of July, 1862 on feast day, the farmer and his men being absent the geese were for gotten and were attacked by dogs, which killed many of them. The next evening at twilight the farmer thought they must have been at tackled second time. He found them flying about in their pen much fright ened but the dogs were nowhere to be seen. The next day the terror re- appeared at the same hour, as it did on the following day, and from that time on. The correspondent of the Revue had forgotten this fact when, ten years later he chanced to be on the farm ono evening, and heard the cackling of the apparently frightened geese. When he asked for an explanation, he was told that this had been kept up from the time they had been attacked by the dogs; that there had been no repetition of the attack, and that the flock had been re- newed in the meantime at least three times. If this story is well authen- ticated we have case Of the trans mission of terror to the third genera tion in a family of geese.
The Springdale news., 1889-09-13

Baked Hash. Chop any cold meat fine, grease pudding-dish..put layer pf cold mashed potatoes in the bot tom. then layer of meat, then d layer of stale bread crumbs; sprinkle with pepper and salt, lay few bits Of but Ter over and moisten with half cup of beef gravy. Bake IL u moderate oven one hour