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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

As result of his Investigations, Pro
fessor McCook estimates the army OF
tramps in the United States at IS, si5
Practically all of them are in the prime
Of life and III good health, with moth
ing to prevent them from earning a
livelihood, three-iifths Of them having
trades by which 10 support themselves,
and nine-tenths able 10 read aud write,
And yet they ara loators and non.pro-
ducers, refusing 10 assume the ohliea.
tions Of citizenship, aud are a mere
burden "a society. At conservative
estimate, their maintenance costs tho
public -, 30 a week, eighty four eruts
of which ia spent ior spirits nud t..
baeco and If 10 this Is added police
and hospital charges, the expense is
increased e. -. 90 "a week, a. much ~
It costs g. support The MOST dangerous
criminal The aggregate aum thna
required O. keep the tramp army iH
mntipu j. sa,ld1 ual 4 yeaf i sam
duahle the eost of ihe indian bureau
aai more than une-aHarter ~ thr au
aual Interest af lhp public iebi
Mnraa than this. ths afmy + ean
ataHt menace q FHtlie m8r#= anl
public hetilh thH Fftater thai a Is 81
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

Says the New York Tribune: at
may not be tlattering to our vanity,
but it is fact, nevertheless, that
Europe does not take nearly as much
interest in America as America takes
in Europe. This has long been indi-
Gated by the paucity of American
news in the European press; and it is
now forcibly brought to our attention
by the indifference of Europe to the
greatest Exposition that has ever been
held. The average European classes
the United States with Australia,
Madagascar, South Africa and other
out-of-the-way countries, whose do.
ings can have no possible interest for
him, This being SO, the wonder is
not that there have been 80 few Euro
pean visitors to the Fair, but that any
one in this country should have ex-
pected them to come.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

Prince Bismarck made suggestive
statement i'll his address to an organi-
zation Of schoolmasters. He drew II
comparison between the French and
the German systems of education,
showing the bearing of the latter in
the unity and strength of the Nation.
He dislikes the French system because
il inculcates National vanity and
ignorance of the geography and history
of other Nations No Nation excels
Germany IN its educational system, and
the eX-Chancellor well knows the adj
vantage of making the German school
"a specific institute, like a corps of
officers.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The average woman lives longer
! than the average man.
All medical authorities hold that
fruits are essential to prolongation OF
life.
Attempts have been made to coun-
| terfeit meteorites, because they are Sc
valuable, but without success.
According to the tracks found in a
stone quarry in Connecticut, bird
with foot eleven inches in length in
habited those parts
DIR. Brown-Sequard says that press
ing in the neighborhood of the ear, es-
pecially in front of the right one, will
stop fit of coughing.
The photographic office at Washing
ton is disposed to attribute the heat
and drought in Europe this season to
the scarcity of icebergs in the North
Atlantic.
The Chicago Common Council has
empowered the Mayor of the city to
negotiate for the erection of garbage
crematories of capacity of 100, 900
tons day
Criminals are usually of weak phys
ical organization. In 1886 sixty
seven per cent. of the men in French
prisons and sixty per cent. Of the
women were sent to the hospital Mt
some time during the period OF incar-
ceration.
The narrowest part of the Strait of
Florida, through which the Gulf
Stream flows at the rate of five knots
an hour, is fifty IN les wide, and has
mean depth of 35a fathoms. If this
were stopped up the climate of this
country in winter would be totally
changed.
A recently constructed submarine
boat, destined for the French Navy, is
moved by electricity, carries II crew of
twelve men, and can remain under
water for two hours. 1t is planned to
lodge under an enemy's vessel II tor
pedo powerful enough to break big
steamer in two.
A. ID. Risteen, in recently pub
lished paper in the Astronomical Jour
nal ON new method for determining
the direction of the suns motion
through space, concludes that he has
obtained results which not only show
the reality of such motion, but that
its rate is 1919 miles per second.
after two years trial with pine, oak
and greenheart in the Suez Canal Com
pany's arsenal basin at Port Said, it
has been found that while the pine
and oak are almost entirely destroyed
by the "taret, or borer worm, the
greenheart has suffered no injury
whatever, This wood is II native of
British Guiana.
Experiments with bicycle fitted out
with small chemical tank and fire axe
are being made by South Boston fire
company. The bicycle has cushion
tires aud with its whole outfit weighs
about sixty pounds. The tank holds
about two gallons Of chemical, which
amounts as AN extinguisher to about
twelve pals of water.
Ii is popularity supposed that the
sudden downpour which usually fol
lows bright flash of lightning is in
some way caused by the Hash. Me
teorol, gists have proven that this is
not the case, and that, exactly To the
contrary. il is not only possible but
highly probable that the sudden in
creased precipitation is the real cause
9f the flash.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06
The beauty of the elm is more

The beauty of the elm is more than
skin deep, says the New York Post. and
a high light of forestry gives it the first
rank rs a shade tree, both for streets
and parks, becauseit alikewise strong,
vigorous, and can be grown i'll SO many
places. The leaves are so tough that
dust has little effect ON them Certain
kinds of naples also have a good stand
ing for shade, beauty, and rapid
growth, though the soft maple is use
less for heavy shade Oak trees, the
English and the Turkish, though rarely
seen as shade trees i'll our streets, take
high rank for that use.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

The Chinese are the most lightly
taxed people in the world. They have
no Chancellor of the Exchequer wor-
ried over budget-making. All the
land there belongs to the State, and a
trifiing sum per acre, never altered
through long centuries, is paid as
rent. This is the only tax in the
country, and it amounts to about IS
per head yearly.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

The wheat outturn will not exceed
443, 900, 900 bushols according to the
American Agriculturist's own reports,
and of its Interpretation of Govern
ment returns, compared to GA, 900, :
600 rs the average for the last two
seasons and 400, 900, coo bushels in
1890. Nearly $500, 900 less acres
were devoted to wheat than last year,
and the bulk of this decrease was in
the surplus States, which bid fair to
have $4,000, 900 fewer bushels than
last year, and 125, 900, 900 bushels un-
der the surplus States product of
1891
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06
NO. So.
FOR LOVES SAKE.

Aye love me, sweet, with all thy heart,
Thy mind, thy soul, and all thou art
And hop'st to be-love me with love
That naught beneath the heavens may move (;
Yet say not wherefore say not why
Thou lowest since in these do lie
The seeds of death to Love, but say,
Thou lowest and must love alway
For should's st thou love some witching grace
OF word or manner, form or face--
Should thy hearts worship thus be bought
BY any gift that Time hath wrought,
So art thou false to Loves pure creed,
And like to fail i'll sorest need
But love for Loves dear sake, pray.
Then shalt thou love me, sweet. Away
2itella Cooke, in Lippincott's
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

Not long ago there was dug up in
Ashland a curious stone with some dim
aud crude inscription upon H. Ii be
ing shown to an old Oregon pioneer
he pronounced II IL temanewas stone,
worn "a "A hrvastplate by the ancient
tniian priests,
Il has holes ia the upper corners hy
which Il may he hung upon the priest 5
neck, Il carries upon u picture ut
the sacred wlgwan, aud a Que eul If
tho wig@ stands thu totem pole, on
the top u which little tiag sas hung
that warned the evil apirlts eif ahile
the prlest performed hts divine fane.
tlans "a the aaered hause sc wiggam.
Thu tenaneaas maY eoiueiie Nith
the hFeastplate # the Ephal aaFu hY
tAe ancient tlnbfeW priests, 80 that
tha pietnre ot thu ai8eam un this
alone msN represent tbs primary ia
asfaf u Aii Tao tempies eKef ledi
eat.Ht % tha wurll ani all ilass aasl
flhHgls police ai al a8ea aul raantftss
H. psaslhls "a 90 HAeal i asgsslaals
a sh afisinAl tut m repfNA. asel IA
th ttane pfai#hly t4ia Ashland
tome r ths auls - at ths klad nae
t4 AiateAaN Ashiht 1fHeaaHI III
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

The Western Tobacco Journal adj
duces figures to show that the annual
per-capita consumption of manufac-
tured tobacco in this country, on a
basis of -65, 900, 900 population, is five
and onethird pounds, costing not less
than $5 at retail No other country
approaches the United States in the
amount and value oftobacco consumed
per capita.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

The park policemen of San Francisco
use the lariat to stop runaway horses,
and all are experts with the rope. The
Captain of the Golden Gate Park squad
says his men "can stop horse within
a distance of fifty yards without the
slightest danger to themselves, and
he implies, though he doesn't distinctly
say so, without danger to the runaway
or its rider.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

Great excitement prevails in France
owing tu the discovery that, OF the
twenty eight companies which own the
various submarine cables which en-.
circle the globe as with nn iron net,
no less than nineteen are English, and
that during the recent troubles ia con
nectIou with Siam the dispatches al
dressed % the French Government
from the far cast were read aud known
1T th8 English Foreign Oalse several
hours before their delivery ia Paris.
France Is, IN aet, entirely depend, at
upon English companies fpr cable eam-
munioatiou ailh her various colonial
dopendeneies including tteu ruuis.
au'l actually goes - lar a. e. grant q
state subsidy # $50 900 per muum a.
the English African Direct Telegraph
Company, Nhuae lime she # Obliged
g. ase IA arder O. feaeh hsf possessions
~ the aeat eoast 81 Atfiet or the
twenty eight cable eamf4a.s Al8 taa
ar fraaeh. one Danish thf Npfth
American aul thfea South American
Indeed ~ the la3, ,09a mile ef alf
maelue eahla ahlah constitute a. sHl,
m#flHa fathie teas q thU aafla.
mafe lh#a lhfH 48#gi #se tH tHs
haaia q che EBsllsh ah4 afe plaa 4
tAafelt ii ssasn#fls aifHHtaseeaa
position Htth faaissaf e. HtA ual1au.
AlLlln.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

Once in st. Paul, Minn,, 81. 50-a-
day laborer had lung trouble. He
went to Southern California and began
keeping bees. Last year he sold
$40, 900 worth of honey. Bees do well
in Southern California, for flowers
bloom at all seasons, and they keep on
laying up honey for the winter that
never comes. Great joke on the bees,
isn't itp
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

Weather forecasts in Great Britain
grow more accurate every year, and
the meteorological council announce
with pride that eighty-four per cent.
of those given last year were success
full. Three years ago nearly seventeen
per cent. of the storm warnings were
not fulfilled, but now the rate has
fallen to seven per cent.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

An English woman of great wealth
claims that the clergy pay so much at
tention to the poor that she could not
get one to attend her husband when
he needed spiritual consolation. She
admits n great deal, is the comment of
the Atlanta Journal.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

Venice is i'll hopes of reviving her
ancient maritime prosperity. I'M
portant harbor- works have been going
on for the last twenty years to form
the 'Lido Port, which probably will
be ready for vessels next year, although
the works will not be concluded till
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06
The Forestry Department of India
is successfully naturalizing the mahog-
any tree in Bangalore.

Labrador, country which we al
ways associate with Arctic snowdrifts,
icebergs. etc. has 900 species of
towering plants, tifty-ninc ferns and
over $50 species of MOSES and lichens.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

Handlzerchiefs were first made for
the market at Paisley, Scotland, in
1743, and sold for about 81 each Last
year it is computed that $4,000, 900
dozen were sold in the United States.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

Many Germans are leaving Kansas
and settling in Maryland. The great
West has been over doomed, and thou
sands OF people want to get away, says
the Atlanta Constitution III explana-
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

Old English silverware is much III
demand in the United States just now,
and genuine pieces, especially those of
historic interest, fetch high prices.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06
A LOVE LETTER.
/, MADDOX
BY S. A. WEISS.

.
sat ut breakfast,
reading the leading
county newspaper,
and choking with
toast and indigna-
tion ut u fierce ed
itorial attack upon
his own political
party.
sc o n t o Il II d Q d
nonsense a n d j d :
iocy !" he exclaimed,
at length. MS he con
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06
VOL. XI.

Wandering bicycle riders have lately
caused vast increase i'll the business
of wayside inns.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-10-06

From Chicago comes n loud protest
against street parades, which are char
acterized as nuisance.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21
LATEST TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.

The first of the week the shipment
of coal from Pittsburg aggregated
100000 bushels per day. 1t goes to
the South and West.
A million for charity, and tramps
coming into Chicago at the rate Of
several hundred day to get it, is the
situation as it appears in the general
roundup.
DR.. VIM. s. Lawton, President Of
the Augusta and Savannah railroad,
and brother of Gen. A. S. Lawton.
died at his home in Savannah few
days since.
Sixty-tive and half million pounds
f fruit were shipped from San Jose.
CAL, during the season Just ended.
OF this amount 1850, 520 pounds
were prunes, an illustration of the re-
markable growth of prune growing in
the past few years. Eight million
pounds Of Bartlett pears were among
the shipments.
Henry Dobson, Bridgeport Conn,
until within week an inmate of the
aims house, has come into the posses
sion Of handsome fortune by the
death OF his father in England. Dob
son, it is said, had partially completed
university course at Oxford twenty
years ago, when he suddenly left for
America.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21
CLERK SAND-BAGGED.
A Daring Robbery Committed in the
Chicago Postofflce.

Chicago Postoff1ce.
Andrew j. Robertson, Cashier Of
the wholesale stamp department in the
Chicago Post Office pit the Government
building, was found lying on the floor
of his office in pool of blood Tuesday
evening.
Medical aidwas at once summoned
and when he had sufficiently recovered
he made statement saying that at
about 1880 while he was engaged in
balancing UP his accounts, some one
appeared al his window and asked him
how he was coming out, he replied
that he thought he was all right.
The stranger said that he had sent
his boy for stamps during the day and
that he had given him too many and
that he would return them If he would
open tho door. When the man gave
rap used by the clerks in the build
ing. the door was opened.
AS soon as the robber was inside the
office he attacked Robertson and ter
rible conflict ensued. Money was
scattered AN over the office, one pack
age of $500, one of $500, and ono of
$500 were found. So far the police
have 10 clue to the robber.
The exact amount of money is not
yet known but it is said by Govern
ment employees that the sum will reach
$4,000.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21
Good For Chattanooga.

The Chattanooga Times says that,
within the next fifteen days the work
of building quadsuple foot. railway
and wagon bridge across the Tonnes
SEQ river, west of Cameron Hill, and
the construction Of two lin of rail
way on the north side will begin and
will be prosecuted with all possible
haste until all is completed and the
railway in operation.
TO complete the work as it is laid
out and agreed upon means the expen-
ditnre Of not less than $3.50, 900 in
hard cash. il improving property in
the immediate vicinity. In addition
TO this it will develop the immense
coal and iron deposits in the noun.
tains north of the river.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21
WITH consistency roora ~
the way Of then ss.sa
The democrats exiE n s.
own nuorum presen&.A -4uN -

own quorum presenSsA -|vN
10TH DARN the House today the,
bill for the admission of Arizona was
put through with rush and the bill
FOR the admission OF New Mexico was
well under way when wrangle over
what was 10 be done with Oklahoma
interviewed and The debate thus precip-
itated lasted until adjournment.
18th DAY.-A debate over the pen
sion policy of the present administers
ton, growing out of an item in the
urgent deficiency bill, approprlating
$1,000 for special examiners, con-
sumed the entire day in the house.
Under the lead of Mr.. Cannon an as
sault was made against Mr.. Cleveland't
pension policy, especially that portion
of it which resulted in the revocation
of order 1874 and the subsequent sus-
pension of thousands of pensioners.
Mr.. Livingston of Georgia and Mr..
Enloe of Tennessee defended the ad.
ministration, and Mr.. Lacy of Iowa
and Mr.. Morse of Massachusetts, op.
posed it. Some routine business was
done before the deficiency bill came up.
Amendments to the bill providing for
two associate justices for the district
of Oklahoma were agreed to.
18TH DAY.-The fight over the Ha-
waiian matter in the house followed
OIL The heels of the message, which
was delayed on account Of the pension
debate until $3.50 O'Clock this after
noon. The first skir1nish occurred
over the question of reading the in
structions to Minister Willis, which
was insisted upon by Mr.. Boutelle Of
Maine. The house finally agreed to
this, and Immediately after the con-
clusion of their trading Mr.. Boutelle
renewed the assault by bringing for
ward resolution declaring the adj
ministration policy inconsistent with
the spirit of the constitution and the
traditions of the government. Great
excitement reigned, and in the confu-
sion Mr.. Bouteile failed to follow up
his parliamentary advantages and was
ruled out of order. The resolution
of Mr.. Cochran for the appointment
of committee of seven to investigate
the alleged invasion by the territorial
integrity of the United States of the
last administration also went down
under retaliatory objection of Mr..
Boutelle. The confusion was so great
that the sergeant-at-ar was called
in to preserve order. An adjourn
ment was caused by the lack Of a
quorum on a motion to go into execu-
tive session. Party feeling ran very
high at the close of the session, and
there is no doubt the struggle will be
continued as soon as opportunity Of
fers in the house tomorrow.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21

During the past ten years Pittsburg,
Penn, has built %, 600 houses within
her limits; $4,000 of those buildings
have been erected since 1887, at the
stupendous cost of $40, 900, 900. Mag
nifcent business structures have been
built which, according to the Washing
ton Star, compare favorably with some
of the finest commercial buildings on
the contenent, and tourists visiting the
city have been unstinted in their favor
able comments upon the city's growth
in this direction.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21

Not all the Indians are yet deprived
of their natural means of livelihood, tho
hunt. Many of the tribes inhabiting
reservations in the far northwestern
states live almost entirely on the
spoils and profits of hunting and fish
ing. The coast Indians employ them
selves busily during the salmon-run-
ming season in supplying fish to the
canneries, and piece out their live1i-
hand at other seasons by the proceeds
of furs and flesh obtained by hunting
and trapping In the interior of Ore
gon and Washington big game is yet
plentiful enough for the hunting sea-
son to afford to the Indians a pretty
good scource of support for most of
the year.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21

The worlds greatest pest hole is at
last to be cleansed, announces the
Chicago Herald. The Sultan of Tur-
key has resolved to put Mecca, Arabia,
into something like healthy condi-
ton. The decision is the effect Of an
intimation from the British govern
ment that unless the holy city is
cleaned it win take means to prevent
the annual pilgrimages from India.
The Sultan has decided not only
to cleanse the town, but to erect at his
personal expense great clearinghouse
capable of containing 5000 persons.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21
-he>s WIN be no shortage.

Ihe publication of the fact tina,
Chicago is preparing to feed and 10 dee
the hungry and homeless has caused =
tide Of ragged humanity to set in from
all over the country. Every freight
trains the police say is heavily laden
with trampish looking men. II i
probable the Chief will instruct dc.
tails OF police to meet all incoming
trains and turn back the wanderers.
those who refuse to 60 will be ar
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21
d-bs 1uka Reporter,
-Published Every rhursday A.
sJtKA, MISS.
Great Britain consumes one-third Of
the worlds crop of cotton.

Coin collectors regard the collecting
Of old Greek coins as their most for
midable task, not only because of their
rarity but because fully 1000 cities
had distinctive seriesof coins.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21
They Resolute.

at Brunswick, Ca, at mass meet
ing resolutions were adopted calling
on the relief committee Of the reccnt
epidemic fora statement of receipts
and disbursements, and generating
correspondent N. ). Pagan, who had
been accused Of sending out false
report rejecting upon committee can-
vasser5.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21

The latest statistics of the Salvation
Army show that their work is estab-
lished in twenty-three countries, in
twenty-one different languages, has
forty newspapers, with an annual cir
culation of $4,000, 900 copies; they
also report SOTO stations, 1886 Of
ficers and estimate that they reach not
less than 100000 persons every
week.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21
ought to Chew Dynamite.

Geo. Huffman, returning from a
ball at East Liverpool, o., quarreled
with his sweetheart, and fired three
shots into her head and three into his
own. He afterwards jumped into the
river, but crawled out to throw him
self before train, when he was ar
rested. The girl may die. Huffman's
wounds are serious. The small cali
bre prevented instant death.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21

Bicyclists were made use of in
France recently to bring in the returns
from the general election, but, as the
roads were heavy and the time slow,
the experiment has not been regarded
as q success.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21

The Georgia Legislature has declar.
cd for the coinage Of both gold and
silver, without discrimination, aud for
state banks Of issue.