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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

The public Is hereby warned not to pay
any money to parties representing to be
agents Of the Seattle Posr-IETELLIeENcxR,
except the following. who are the only
authorized travelling agents of the Posr-
ISTELLIoxscxs, Wig: J. A. Mcclellan and
7. A. Davies. This does not apply to resi-
dent agents Of this paper, who are located
in various cities and towns Of the North
west nor to postmasters, who are in all
cases authorized to take subscriptions for
the Daily. Sunday and Weekly Posr-Is-
IKLLreKNcER.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01

Democratic Congressman Harter OF Ohio says
that II Jefferson lived today he would be op-
posed to free coinage Of silver His idea was
that the government should coin money simply
to protect the people from fraud, and that the
stamp Of the government should az, for the pro-
lection Of all, the weight and fnsness Of the
metal in every piece. That the government
should make profit out OF coinage, give it
fictitious value or permit any one else to do so
was no mart of his creed
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01

The Texas Legislature has passed bill gerry
Wandering the congregational districts 90 badly
that 1t il denounced even by the Democrats
themselves. One Democratic member OF the
Legislature declares 1t to be an ~unconscionabls
gerrymander," and the Democratic Galveston
Ne,ss says it does not see how the governor can
sign 1t. a. ito inequalities are so marked The
Second and Sixth districts have each over
10000 population, while the Twelfth has less
than 10000, difference of over 10000 in popu-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01

The tiles about the fireplace in the dining
room OF Governor RusselPs home in Cambridge
are each ornamented BY q picture of one OF the
old houses occupied by the ancestors of the gov.
ernor and his wife. A Mrs Russell 10 q de-
scendant Of Governor John Hancock the tile
representing the noted Hancock house on Bea-
con street in Boston naturally has the place Of
honor
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01

N. Inandi, young Frenchman, astonished
the Paris academy of sciences by solving the
most abstruse mathematical problems of. hand
He can multiply or divide sums of twenty-four
figures mentally without a blunder, but in all
other intellectual ways he il dull
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01

The world consumes more than 50, 900 tons Of
cotton seed oil annually. 1t Ia largely used in
hotels and restaurants O. q substitute for salad
dressing and for frying hsh.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01

Peoples party leaders in Mississippi and Ala
bama are clamorins for a plank in their plat.
form demanding reimbursement to former
"owners" for their ltberated slayes
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01

loa the poor statesman.
Whose untutoFed mind
bees currency in haystaeks
And credit in the wtndi
--Ass York SuA
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01

There were at the beginning Of last year s,os7
artesian wells in the Western states and ter
Yitorfea
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01
THE PASSING THRONG.

There are twenty representatives in congress
Who are under So years Of age
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29
A Very Queer Satellite.

The satellite nearest to the planet
Jupiter must be singular place of resi-
dence, if there be any possibility of resi-.
dents at all resembling human beings. In
the first place, though 1t is bigger than
our moon, tho substance of which 1t is
composed is less than half as light as
cork, so that 1t Is not very solid place
of residence.
In the next place, though the sun ap-
pears very dim from it as compared with
what it appears from the earth, it has a
moon-namely, Jupiter itself - whose
surface appears many hundreds of timei
larger than our moon.
In the third place, the recent observa-
tions made of this satellite by Mr.. Bar
nard, in the great Lick Observatory,
make it not improbable that this satel-
lite is really cut in two, and that there
fore there may be two separate little
worlds, probably not separated by any
very great distance Qor the total diame-
ter of the two together, If there be two
divisions of the satellite which was al
ways supposed till quito recently to be
single, is not above $500 miles across),
revolving together through space, some
even of the details of one of which
worlds must be visible from the othor.
if there be anything like telescopes on
either half.
If the satellite is not cut in two Mr..
Barnard holds that there must be light
belt round it, very like the light belt on
Jupiter itself, and that this light belt
produces the impression of division un-
der certain circumstances of the orbit.
We may hope that the Lick Observatory
will at length solve the problem. Per-
haps the residents of the two halves Of
the planet, if it be in halves, can really
telegraph to each ther.-Loadon Spec
fUfOr
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29
The Structure of Ferns.

When Towering plants usually make
seed, that is generally the last effort of
plant life-the seed is the beginning of
the life of the new plant. Ferns, how
ever, only produce spores for reproduc-
tive purposes. These spores germinate
and go through the same process subse-
qucntly that flowers go through in the
production of seeds. The spores expand
when the terminating time comes, and
form fiat, green membrane; what are
then really the flowers appear on this
membrane. AS general rule, after
these fern flowers have matured, the
membrane dries up and disappears. In
one family of ferns, however, natives of
New Holland, this green blade is per-
manent and continues to enlarge, be-
coming really a portion of the plant.
Every year new blade is formed, which
spreads over the old ones. The large
plant is of totally different character,
having the fronds of ordinary ferns.-
iMeehaa's Monthly.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29
Right Kind of Scissors.

One needs many pairs of scissors, and
true economy consisists in having pair
for each sort of work. The cutting of
paper is very trying to sharpened steel,
and pair might be kept for that pur-
pose. Long slender shears are handy
for general use buttonhole scissors could
find place in every work basket; pair
of scissors for trimming lamps in the
kitchen is necessary where there is no
gas; grape scissors for the table are not
altogether new; scissors to cut flowers
in the country are q convenience.
Few people carry pocket scissors of
the folding sort. Those that do never
part with them. Convenient for mani
cure use, to cut clipping from paper
at moments notice, string, etc., they
answer almost every purpose of the
pocket knife and are much more conven.
lent to handle. Give n persoh accus-
toned to their use knife aud the pocket
scissors and he will part with the former
first. No cutting blade should be put
in the fire, as it will then lose its temper
which is denoted by its turning blue.
Such knife or blade will never keep
its edge. -Hardware.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29


The japanese Bureau of Agriculture is
to be represented at the Worlds Fair by
the horses of Koyoshiama, the pigs of
Rinkin, the Oshiki fowls, and many
other odd creatures that will add interest
to the exhibit. A firm of Toxic florists
will send the flowers and dwarf trees of
the country in pots. The Yokohama
florists at a recent meeting voted to ex-
pend the sum of SIS, 600 on their dis
play. The tobacconists of Southern ia
pan will show samples of cut tobacco in
grotesque designs. A Mr.. Morimura of
Toxic promises to exhibit gold and silver
wares and carvings of ivory and lacquer
goods of a value OF $50, 600. The Japan
Government will erect Il model of the
ancient Fushime Palace at cost of S34,-
900 to show the quaint and richly elab.
crate architecture of the early history of
Japan. The japanese amusement COM
panies will send over acrobats, conjurers,
and wrestlers, and young men and wo-
men who paint pictures on fans and sell
them ''while you wait" Altogether,
the japanese Building promises to excite
unusual interest among visitors to the
Fair.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29
LAPORTE, PA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1892

Nobody helped him. He was ridiculed,
sneered at, discouraged on all sides. He
had the poorest farm in the place, and
he has made 1T one of the best. He
has put every spare dollar into
books on agriculture, improved ma
chimes, good stock. He has now four
men at work for him, good horses, good
cattle, good poultry, and he will have
good house. Papa, do you not think it
will be pity to have the new house in
the care of Mrs. Lamson, to ruin as she
has the old one2 Outdoors the manage
ment is all left to Mark, and see what he
has done. But man cannot make a
home comfortable alone; he needs a
wife,"
"Well," said the Judge, "let him have
one, but not my child"
"Still he loves me-" said Essie, "and
I love him!"
"Pshaw!" said the Judge, and marched
out of the house.
But prompt as he was, he was just,
and he loved Essie. He had let preju-
dice influence him against Mark all his
life; now he took pains to find out how
much of his dislike was we'll founded.
Grudgingly enough was the verdict given
in Marks favor. Maysville did not will
ingly acknowledge it had been wrong in
its estimate, and shouldered upon Mark
all the faults of his ancestors. But the
facts were strong, and Judge Lennox
found himself confronted by them.
Slowly, for he was not easily convinced,
he took respect into the place of con-
tempt, and, after month Of patient in
vestigation, sent for Mark.
The interview was frank, manly one,
tho old gentleman not being given to
half hearted measures of any kind. He
admitted his former prejudices, and
heartily commended the young man who
had struggled so nobly.
"When your new house is finished,"
he said, "I will let my Essie be your wife.
A man who can make his way against
wind aud tide as you have done, deserves
a happy home"
The Judge being power in Maysvlle
public opinion veered round, rs soon as
the engagement was announced.
The new house being completed, Essie
became housekeeper, Mrs. Lamson gladly
resigning her feeble reign. And under
the new regime 1t was wonderful to SEQ
how even the old people smartened up.
They had no chronic objection to
cleanliness, if someone else did the
necessary work and with Mark and Essio
to govern and direct, the Lamson house.
hold so lost its old name, that you could
scarcely find to-day in Maysville one
voice to repeat the old saying that 'Marls
Lamson came OF bad stock. ."--7ho Ledger.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29

A French journalist has recently given
some curious information about the
women who are tempted to steal and
who fall during their shopping expedi-
tions. He says that in Paris no fewer
than four thousand women are caught
every year stealing before the counter.
The number of titled ladies seized with
kleptomania while examining the fashions
ia almost Incredible. Among the most
recent culprits were a Russian princess,
n French countess, an English duchess,
and the daughter of reigning sovereign.
AS rule, these more distinguished
offenders are let off on the payment of
round sum for the relief of the poor, and
when the 'skop.lifter is known to be
rich, the sum. exacted rises to as much as
ten thousand francs. The police au-
thorities,consent to this sort of condona-
tion.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29
A wOMANS ApIEU.

Our love Is donei
would not have it back, say,
would not have my whole year Mayi
But yet for our dead passions sake,
Kiss me once more and strive to make
Our last kiss the supremest one;
For love is done.
Our love is done!
And still my eyes with tears are wet
Our souls are stirred with vague regret;
We gaze farewell, yet cannot speak,
And firm resolve grows strangely weak,
Though hearts are twain that once were
one,
Since love is done.
But love is done!
know it. vow it, and that kiss
Must set iinis to our bliss.
Yet when | felt thy mouth meet mine,
My life again seemed half divine
Our very hearts together run!
Can love be done?
Can love be done?
Who cares if this be mad or wise?
Trust not my words, but read my eyes.
Thy kiss bade sleeping love awake:
Then take me to thy heart; ah! take
The life that with thine own is one,
Love is not done!
Anne Reeve Aldrich, in Spirit.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29
NO. 16
LEFT UNDONE.

It isn't the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you've left undone,
Which gives you bit of headache
At the setting of the sun;
The tender word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts tonight.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of a brothers way,
The bit Of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say.
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone,
That you had no time or thought for,
With troubles enough of your own.
The little act of kindness,
So easily out of mind;
Those chances to be angels
Which every mortal finds
They come in night and silence
Each chill, reproachful wrath
When hope is faint and tagging,
And blight has dropped on faith.
For life is all too short. dear,
And sorrow is all too great,
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late.
And it's not the thing you do. dear,
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bit of headache
At the setting of the sun.
-Margoret Il. iSangster.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29
Ancient Butterflies.

Near the top of Mount Washington, in
New Hampshire, lives little colony of
very cold-loving and mountainous butter
flies which never descended below 1000
feet from the wind-swept summit. Ex-
cspt just there there, are no more of their
sort anywhere about; and as far as the but
terHies themselves are aware, no Others
of their species exist on earth; they meyer
have seen single one of their kind save
of their own colony. A writer on "high
life" In the CornhiU Magazine says that
this little colony of chilly insects was
stranded on Mount Washington at the
end of the glacial period some odd thou
sands of years ago, and the butterflies
dwelt there ever since, generation fol-
lowing generation.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29

The difference in character between
the people oil the various sections of
Brazil, country about as big as the
United States, are very marked. The
States south of the equator are indus
trious and enterprising, but the Northern
States, in which the heat is oppressive
and the means of life can easily be got,
are languid and indolent. The natural
resources of the northern section OF
Brazil surpass those of the southern sec
ton, and yet the southerners are moro
prosperous that the northerners.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29

The New York Post calls attention to
the evidence that "not only in western
Massachusetts, but even in Maine, the
substitution of coal for wood as fuel has
gone so far as to make perceptible diff
ference in the quantity of trees that
need to be cut every year. The same
story comes from other parts of New
England. In New Hampshire an au-
thority upon the subject says that coal is
fast taking the place of wood, even
in the kitchen of the farmhouse, and
that as consequence cordwood is losing
its value. What is still more important,
It is claimed that the lumbermen are
exercising more judgment in their
methods of work. A partner in New
Hampshire company is quoted by the
Boston Herald as saying that by the
methods now used the timber will repro
duce itself faster than it is cut off.
Many of the larger companies have
adopted plan OF operation that forbids
the cutting of trees girthing less than a
specified number of inches, and so the
s.timber tract" is kept good. One ele.
ment in the change of system is the fact
that the demand for cord-wood is dimin.
ishing, SO that the railroad companies
no longer put a premium on the destruc-
ton of forests by buying all the wood
that is delivered along their lines, as
they used to do.'
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29
case.

The Duke of Leinster's country house
is said to have passed into the ownership
OF an Irish farmer who was formerly its
tenant, under the operation of the new
Irish land laws. This, recalls the Brook
lyn Citizen, is the building after which
the White House. at Washington was
modelled
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29

Everybody knows the poem, ''The
Old Oaken Bucket" but who knows the
grave of the author9 1t will be news to
most that Samuel Woodwork, the writer
of that piece of immortal verse, is buried
in San Francisco, CAL, but such is the
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29
w M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. X.

The vital statistics of Michigan show
that in that State, as in Massachusetts
and England, the most popular period
of the year for marriages is the fourth
quarter.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29

The hungriest Wall-streeter nevei
takes lamb without mint sauce.-Pack.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-29

A MODERN WONDEK-WORKE
 Nikola Tesla is one of the wonder work CTS. He is Croatian by birth, and has done some marvellous things with elec- tricity. He is now studying how electrici- ty may best be changed into light. It struck him one day that he might be able to change electricity from a stream to vibrations approaching those of light. At first MT. Tesla used a machine very differ ent from the ordinary alternator. He had no less than 384 poles, instead of the cus- tomary 12, on the rim of his rotating disk, and he got $500 alternations per second instead of 300. Lately he has adopted the current as delivered by the alternator used in electric lighting, increasing the frequency of it's reversals by a con- trivance which consists of transformer, of the type familiar to consumers of cleo tric light, with a second transformer hay ing in it's circuit magnetic spark inter- rupter, from which are obtained discharges in all respects similar to those of the larg- est induction coil-discharges of very high frequency. Connecting this circuit in turn with condenser, series of Leyden jars, surging effect is produced. The currents are raised from vibrations of 25,00O or so per second to between one and two millions At the same time their pressure is heightened in a cor responding degree. And then Mir. Tesla was able to take a most important step. MT. Crookes had found that the effect of luminosity could be produced if the cleo trodes merely touched the outside of the tube. But MT. Tesla has succeeded in producing this effect with the electrodes entirely detached from the tube. From this point he has gone even further and has actually dispensed with tubes all together, producing the light by agita- tions of the light-bearing ether so rapid as to provoke vision. In his latest experiments, we are told, he suspends from the walls of a room two
 metallic plates, attaches them to the poles
 of his condenser, and in the intervening
 space, without tubes, globes, or other ob- jects, creates @ soft and diffused glow.
 Thus without any mechanism that is visi-
 ble beautiful effects in lighting for private
 apartments or public halls can be ob-
 tained.
 l MT. Tesla and his fellow workers in cleo
 tricity are outdoing the genii of the
 Arabian nights.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-29
About Snakes,
From the Kingston Freeman.l

lrEpln tuc hlnssOon fEcttnan-
 A Kingston lawyer. after reading the item published by the Freeman a few days ago in regard to snakes found in Elmen- dorf street, said: 'I have had an Antips- thy to copperheads since was a boy and saw this kind of snake at Marbletown. It is a sneaking, mean snake. There was a path the men used near the house where lived and the copperheads would lie along the path in the sun and strike their poi sonous fangs at whoever came near them. One man was bitten through the clothing, and his leg swelled As big as keg and be- came blue as indigo. He narrowly escaped with his life, notwithstanding the fact that most of the poison was absorbed by the Each year thereafter at the date when the man was bitten his leg would become spotted and swell and break out just as though he had been bitten again.
 One of the safeguards used by farm hands when at work in hay or grain on ground infested by these reptiles is to bind twisted bands of hay around their legs. The snakes jump up and strike their fangs in the hay without reaching the flesh. There IS legend of one chap In Wawar- sing famous a mower with 6 scythe, to the effect that he carried on his legs three copperheads half way across a field while moving. The snakes in striking at the man became fastened in the hay bands and dangled from his calves, to the terror of his fellow workers who saw him. He was acquainted with snakes. To prove 1t, he bet gallon of whiskey he could show them a dozen copperheads in less than three minutes. The bet was taken. He drew from his pocket a whistle, blew a shrill blast. and all over the field the heads of coppeiheads could be seen as they raised on their tails to ascertain the mean ing of the unwonted sound. The bet was paid and the man drank the whsskey and cut ani gathered the hay alone, for no one else could be hired to work in that field from that day.