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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
Peter, The s.Mint Bird"

If you have a silver dollar of 1886,
1888 or 1889, or one of the first nickel
cents coined in 1856, you will find
upon it the true portrait of an Ameri-
can eagle that was for many years
familiar sight in the streets of
Philadelphia. "Peter," one of the
finest eagles ever captured alive, was
the pet of the Philadelphia mint, and
was generally known as the ''mint
bird" Not only did he have free
access to every part of the mint, going
without hindrance into the treasure
vaults where even the Treasurer of the
United States would not go alone, but
he used his own pleasure in going
about the city, flying over the houses,
sometimes perching upon lamp-posts
in the streets. Everybody knew him
and admired him, and even the street
boys treated him with respect. The
government provided his daily fare,
and he was as much part of the
mint establishment as the superintend-
ent or the chief coiner. He was so
kindly treated that he had no fear of
anybody or anything, and he might
be in the mint yet If he had not sat
down to rest upon one of the great
fly-wheols. The wheel started without
warning, and Peter was caught in the
machinery. One of his wings was
broken and he died few days later.
The superintendent had his body
beautifully mounted, with the wings
spread to their fullest extent; and to
this day Peter stands in a glass csse
in mints cabinet, where you may see
him whenever you go there. An ex-
act portrait of him as he stands in the
case was put upon the coins named.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
RECIPES.

Oatmeal Pone.-After oatmeal has
been boiled put two pints in buttered
pan, season with salt and half cup
of sweet milk to moisten it. Bake
for half an hour, in steady oven.
Serve while hot
Estella Pudding.-Five we'll beaten
eggs, two and half teaspoonfuls of
sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter,
one tablespoonful Of baking powder,
one cup of chopped raisins, flour TO
stiffen. Bake two hours.
Boiled Parsnips. the par
snips. and lightly scrape them, boil
them till they are soft, which can be
ascertained by putting skewer in
them. Small parsnips are served
whole, and large ones are cut in
halves.
Prune and Rice Pudding. Wash
thoroughly and soak over night one.
half pound of prunes in one quart Of
water. In the morning, to the prunes
and the water in which they have been
soaking, add one-half cupful of rice,
one-third cupful Of sugar and half.
teaspoonful of salt. Cook in double
boiler one hour, then turn into but.
tered dish, sprinkle with sugar and
brown in the oven for half an hour
Serve with cream or sauce.
Crumpets. Warm one pint of new
milk and one ounce of butter in 8
saucepan; when the butter melts take
it from the fire, let it cool little and
mix with it beaten egg, pinch OF
salt and flour enough to make it into
batter; lastly put with it quarter
of pint of fresh yeast. Cover it and
let it stand In a warm place for o
quarter of an hour. Bake the crum.
pets slightly OH an iron plate made
for the purpose and well creased.
Clear Tomato Soup.-Into a sour
kettle put cup of. canned tomatoes,
quarter Of pound of ham, a slice
Of onion and quart Of water. Cover
closely and boil twenty minutes, then
strain. Add a heaping tablespoonful
Of butter, level tablespoonful Of
sugar; salt and pepper to the taste.
Bring to boiling point again and
thicken with two tablespoons of corn
starch-moistened Just before taking
it up stir in about fourth of q tea
spoon of soda. Serve with crackers OF
small squares of toast.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
Imperial Telephone Etiquette.

Emperial William Ii. has his own
imperial way of using the telephone.
Despite mistakes caused by the en-
peror's refusal to name himself at the
opening of his conversation, as other
people do, he invariably introduces
his telephoned orders. merely with the
words: 81 command that" and so
forth. As soon as chief of depart
ment hears these words lie motions
that his sub-ordinates must at once
leave the room. The significance of
this arrangement is supposed to be
that the chief is having something like
an audience with his Majesty and that
it would be presumptuous for per-
son not summoned to hear the i'm.
perial voice to occupy the room into
which its tones are conveyed. At the
end of the conversation the Emperor
walks away without saying "good-
by" and the chief with whom he has
conversed must listen for five or six
minutes afterward to make sure that
the imperial orders have been COM
pleted. Then he calls back his assist.
ants and the usual etiquette is re-
sumed. New York Sun.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
Electricity as a Purifier.

Electricity is coming prominently
to the front for use in publication
processes. 1t has been successfully
introduced In France and England for
purifying sewage, and if worked with
refuse destructor. in which the heat
can be used for generating the cur
rent, 1t is thought it will be found not
only more satisfactory but more eco-
nomical than existing methods.
In Germany an electrolytic process
for purifying mercury for use in very
accurate work is coming into general
use. A new method of bleaching
starch by electricity is also reported.
by which, it is said, second and lower
qualities of the product can be treated
electrolytically SO that they can COM
pare favorably with the first quality.
Methods of manufacturing ozone by
electrical action are also we'll known.
The subtle fluid is destined to play an
important part in the sanitary engi-
neering of the future. -INew York
World.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
COOKING IN HIGH LATITUDEs.


Housewives who think they struggle
with many difficulties in cooking
should be thankful that they are not
dwellers in some of the high places of
the West. There, according to the
testimony of cooks, many recipes, and
those for rich cakes in particular, are
a failure. A woman living in one Of
the Western forts, at an altitude of
$500 feet above the level of the sea,
found out by inquirlng of the best
cooks in the garrison that more flour
and eggs, and less butter and sugar,
must be used in cake baking than in
lower latitudes. The largest quantity
of butter that could be used success
fully In large loaf of cake was one
half cup. Those who have lived in
some parts of Colorado at an eleva-
ton of 5000 feet or more have also
noticed the effect of tho altitude on
cooking, and found it necessary to re-
wise their recipes. New York Post.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
It's a Nap You Need.

A room without a couch of some
sort is only half furnished. Life is
full of ups and downs, and all that
saves the sanity of the mentally jaded
and physically exhausted fortune
fighter is the periodical good cry and
momentary loss of consciousness on
the upstairs lounge or the old sofa in
the sitting room. There are times
when SO many of the things that dis
tract us could be Strengthened out and
the way made clear if only one had .
long comfortable couch on whose soft
bosom he can throw himself, boots and
brains, stretch his weary frame, un.
mindful Of tides and tapestry, close
his tired eyes, relax the tension of his
muscles and give his harassed mind
chance.
Ten minutes of this narcotic when
the head throbs, the soul yearns for
endless, dreamless, eternal rest, would
make the vision clear, nerves steady,
the heart light and the star of hope
shine again. There is no doubt that
the longing to die is mistaken for the
need of nap. Instead of the i'm.
mortality of the soul, business men
and working women want regular and
systematic doses of doing -and after
a mossy bank in the shade of an old
oak that succeeding seasons have con.
verted into a tenement of song birds,
there is nothing that can approach
big sofa, or a low, long couch placed
in the corner, where tired nature can
turn her face to the wall and sleep
and dozo away the gloom.
journal.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
MENDING TABLE LINEN.

A housewife whose table linen al
ways does her good service mends it
with fax embroidery cotton of num-
ber to correspond with the quality of
the cloth. Under the ragged edges of
the tear she bastes piece OF stiff pa
per and makes a network Of fine
stitches back and forth over its edges,
carrying the stitches about an inch be-
yond the edges of the cut. Thin places
and breaks in linen may be run with
the flax or embroidery floss, and tow
els should be mended in the same way.
New York Recorder.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
Iams. Th. meat did not

clans. The meat did not del
icate as that of the seal or narwhal.
The flesh of the walrus is protected by
a thick blanket of fat-the blubber,
which enable ii to resist the icy water
Of the arctic seas. This fat yields
nearly barrel of oil. The hide aud
tusks also are valuable. The hide Is
used by the Eskimos to make soles for
their boots, or kamiks, and it is also
cut into strips for their harpoon-lines.
1t is from one to one and half inches
thick.
The formidable tusks are used as
weapons of offense and defense, and
also, it is stated, to gather their food,
the clams.-[St. Nicholas.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
The WalruS.

As the walrus lay upon the ice, their
immense bulk and massive forms
could be better appreciated. Lieuten-
ant Schwatka described the walrus as
''huge seals, with upper canine-teeth
prolonged into tusks." These tusks
are usually from one to two feet IN
length, and l have seen some that
were two and a half and even three
feet long. When full-grown, the tusk
weighs about five pounds. Their
length does not seem to be dependent
upon either the age or size of the ami
NAL, as often young, small walrus
will have long tusks. The average
weight Of the animal is about ton,
and ours weighed between 1900 and
1900 pounds. One was ten, the other
thirteen feet long. They attain, how
ever, a length of from fifteen to eigh-
teen feet, and half as much around
the fore flippers. The flippers are
some two feet long, and capable,
when extended, of covering consid-
cradle area, aud of forcing the animal
rapidly through the water. Walrus
also use these flippers to protect
wounded comrades or to carry their
offspring. The inside of these paws
is covered by horny skin that serves
to protect their palms in scrambling
around over the rough ice. The wal
rus-fippers, when properly cooked,
are considered a great delicacy by the
Eskimos. The flavor of the fipper is
very similar to that of the coarser
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
Do Ants Talk.

once saw drove of the small
black ants moving. perhaps to better
quarters. The distance was some $50
yards. Most all which came from the.
old home carried some of the house,
hold goods. Some had eggs, some
had what might have answered for
their bacon or meat; some had one
thing and. some had another. / sat
and watched them closely for over an.
hour. l noticed that every time two
met in tho way they would hold their
heads together as if greeting each
pther, and no matter how often tho
meeting took place this same thing
occurred, as though a short chat were
necessary.
To prove more about it, killed ono
who was on his way. Others being
sye-witnesses to the murder, went
With speed, and with every ant they
net this talking took place as before.
But instead of a pleasant greeting, it.
was sad news they had to communi-
cate. know it was sad news, for
every ant that these parties met hastily
turned back and fled on another
course, as much as to say, .sfor tho
kings sake and for your safety do
not go there, for have seen mon
ster. inst behind. that il abIe In do
stroy us all at one blow. i saw him
kill one of our family. I do not
know how many more are killed" So
the news spread, and it was true.
How was the news communicated II
not by speech3-[ Magazine of Nat
ural History.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
HUMOROUS.

4'ried and found wanting-The
',eggar.
Mrs. Pie-What will you do if
give you good breakfast? Happy
Tite-Eat it, mum.
Madge-Do you prefer blond men3
Beatrice-No; l prefer old gold
very old and plenty of gold!
IL guess that must be Watchdog"
remarked Tommy, sfor his tail be-
gins to tick when you speak to him."
A Kansas cyclone is spoken of
which was so terrific In its fury that
it blew all the keyhoies out of the
doors.
A man feels proud when he is work.
ing his way to the top, but he feels
different if his necktle undertakes to
do the same thing.
Clara-And SO you have at last
brought Harry Goodcatch your feet2
Maude-Yes; but Pm afraid It's for
the last time. Iaccepted him.
Miss Laker-Isn't it too bad there
are SO many failures in life? Wis
well-Can't say as it is. Pve been
assignee in three and they paid me SO,
well wouldn't mind tackling more.
Oh, parlor critic, it is not
The strictly proper thing
To say the encores all belong
To the girl who will not sing.
"The Car must have a pretty nice
time after all, said Mr.. Meekins.
"What makes you think SOP" asked.
his wife. "His wife takes chances.
on going to Siberia if she blows him
up"
Annie-Why did you refuse Mr..
Specie? i am sure the presents and
flowers he has sent you show him to-
be in love with you. Belief was
afraid he had spent all of his money
on mo already.
n stump OEdIOT WdutcQ tuc WluSb
of bird to fly to every village and
hamlet in the broad land; but he COLI
lapsed when man in the crowd sang
out: You'd get shot for goose be-
fore you flew mile.
"Did you write James Skidmore's.
name on his note?" sand the judge to q.
prisoner accused of forgery. "Pd
like to know, judge" said the cuiprit,
"if Jim Skidmore has copyright on
the letters as happens to form his
name?'
A restaurant keeper and dentist In
New York, who are next door neigh.
bors, have fallen ont; and it is rather.
rough on the former that the latter
should have glaring announcement.
in his window to the effect: "Teeth'
sharpened to tao kle tough steaks"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
He Was Sorry.

Housekeeper-This is the goth time
today that I've had to come to the
door to tel peddlers that 1 did not
want any thing.
Peddler-Very sorry, NUM-
Housekeeper-It's some comfort to
know that you are sorry, anyhow.
Peddler-Yes mum. Pm very sorry
you don't want any thing, mum. New
York Weekly.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
Just to Be Good.

just to be good
This is enough-enoughl
o, we who find sins billows wild aasA
rough,
Do we not feel how more than any gold
Would be the blameless life we led of old
While yet our lips knew but mothers
kiss?
All though we miss
All else but this,
To be good is enough.
1t is enough
Enough-just to be good!
To lift our hearts where they are under
stood;
To let the thirst for worldly power and
place
Go unappeased; to smile back in Gods
face
With the glad lips our mother used to kiss
All! though we miss
All else but this,
To be good is enoughi
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
A DETHRONED KING.
Passing Away of the Buffalo,
Once Monarch of the Plains
Immense Herds Extinguished
For Their Hides.

Up to 1869 the Indians usually
killed the buffalo by thousands. Dur
ing many generations they slaughtered
them only for the meat and skins
which they themselves could use.
Then there came time when there
was a market for the hides and
tongues, and countless other thousands
were slaughtered for this purpose. AS
late as 1874 one could buy beautiful
fur robe ovcrcoat, we'll made and lined
with flannel at the retail clothing
stores in st. Paul, Minnesota, for $40.
There was q market, too, for the
choicer portions IF the flesh, but this
only cut small figure in the dreadful
total, so that finally the trade in robes
constituted the only incentive for
slaughter. The Union Pacific Rail-
road was completed in 1869, other
railroads began to reach out their iron
arms across the Kansas and Nebraska
plains, and from that hour the fate of
the buffalo was sealed.
For several years to come he could
be hunted, shot from horscback, driven
into enclosures and slaughtered, or per-
haps forced over prccipices after the
manner described in old biographies
and school-books. The animals seem
to have divided into two great herds
towards the close of their career, for
we hear of "the great Southern herd"
and ''the great Northern herd" Tho
Southern herd was the first 10 60.
Buffalo Bill and his kind with English
"sportsmen" and American army off.
cers, We'd with each other in the wan
ton slaughter. During three short
years 1S12-3.4-the number so killed
has been estimated in millions. 1t
matters not how accurate this estimate
is, or whether the number so slain
was one million or len millions, the
fact remains that ut the end Of 1872
the great Southern herd was extinct.
In the North the conditions were
more favorable, but the relentless
hunter was hot upon the trail of the
diminishing herds. In 1876 Fort Ben
ton alone cent eighty thousand hides
to market. In 1883 two carloads of
hides were shipped from Dickinson.
North Dakota. In 1881 Fort Benton
sent none at all. In 1879 little band
of the animals were known to be graz
ing near Fort Totem, on Devil Lake,
North Dakota, and it is believed that
these animals furnished the two car
loads of robes which came eastward
to ST. Paul from Dickinson i'm 1888.
This was the last year of the buffalo
1888. A herd, numbering perhaps
eighty thousand, crossed the Yellow
stone River in that year, and went
north towards the British line.
"They never came back" is the
pitiful refrain which one hears from
the Indians along the border from
Wienipeg in Manitoba to st. Mary's
Lakes in Alberta. No, they never
came back. and last summer and fall,
while riding with the officers of the
Canadian mounted police through Al
berta, they told me the story of this
last year of the buffalo, but it was
never told twice alike by any two
men, for strange mystery seems to
hang over the closing scene of the
great crime which annihilated the
mighty herds [Harpers Magazine.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.


headlights.
Lieutenant Peary says that he saw
butter flies and bumblebees in the north
of Greenland.
The electric light promotes the for
nation of chlorophyll in all kinds of
plants, both wood and herbaceous.
A hypodermic syringe that can be
thoroughly sterilized after use is re-
cent invention Of two English physi-
clans.
At a meeting of the Ornithological
Society in Berlin DR.. Reichenow COM
municated some particulars of the find
ing of remarkable remains of gigantic
birds in the Argentine Republic
double the height of the ostrich.
The wind blows because the air is
colder and therefore heavier in one
region than in another; the cold,
heavy air flows along the surface of
the earth, creeping under the warm
er, lighter air; the flowing air is
wind.
The Chinese make what is called
"chi-wa-hi," or grass cloth, from the
fibre of the common nettle. 1t is said
to make a splendid cloth for tents,
awnings, etc. When made into belt
ing for machinery it is said to have
twice the strength of leather.
A novel lathe is the invention of a
New York man. 1t is automatic in
its action, as it self-centres, self-dogs
and self-releases the stick to be turned.
Almost any shape can be made on the
machine, round, square, oval, octa-
gonal or any number of sides.
Professor Bailey found that many
plants which are injured by the direct
rays of light are actually benefited
when the light is passed through
clear glass globes or through a glass
roof. The light has the effect of ac-
celebrating growth without changing
its normal periodicity.
A singular practice has been found
by Doctor Who in certain villages of
Belgium. "Vaccination' is performed
with a needle charged by insertion
into pustules found on pigeons in sum
mcr, these pustules being supposed by
the peasants to be those of smallpox,
but being really due to mosquito bites.
The scars can hardly be distinguished
from those of true vaccination.
A French cavalry officer has in
vented what he dubs q "hippometer,"
for measuring the distance covered by
horse. 1t is very much like an
ordinary pedometer, and its strapped
TO the horse in front of the saddle.
Like the pedometer, it works by the
stepping of the animal. 1t is expected
to be specially adapted to the require
ments of hunters, travellers. and mill
tary men.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
A UDark Breakfast. -

Governor Russell's little son Eustis
surprised his mother one morning q
short time ago by exclaming: .'Mam.
ma, l want dark breakfast"
Mrs. Russell was at loss to know
what he meant and demanded an ex.
planation.
"Well," replied the young hopeful,
s'last night you told Mary to give me
a light supper. and l didn't like ii.
Now, mamma, please do let me havo
q dark breakfast. - Boston Globe.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Blue is the mourning color in China
The fret college was Harvard, in
1888.
The United States have S,OoO,O 900
sheep.
Umbrellas were imported from India
in 1772.
Chinese botanists can grow oaks in
thimbles.
Nails were first made in Rhode
Island in 1777.
Last year our railroads carried 600,-
o,Ooo people.
An oak tree nearly five centuries
old was recently felled near Castleton,
Ind.
De La Reyniere's "Almanach des
Commands" is the most famous cook
book.
The royal crown Of Great Britain
weighs thirty-nine ounces and is
valued at 81, 200, 900.
Berlin, Germany, has the widest
train roof on the continent-that at
Anhalt station, which is 1913 feet five
inches.
1he Fijians believes that the souls
of all people of manageable age who
die unmarried can never enter into
heaven.
An agency for the sale of exclusive
recipes for soups, sauces and entrees
has been opened in Paris by Ore
tired chef"
Hash must have been an invention
of the old Romans, for it is related
that they mixed all sorts of meats and
s'pounded them into pulp"
Black patches shaped like stars,
crescents, horseshoes, and even like
coaches and horses, were worn by the
ladies of the court of Queen Anne.
The Mariposa (Cal.) Big Tree grove
has 427 big trees. The largest is "a
feet in diameter. Through tunnel
or hole cut in one four-horse stage is
driven daily.
The ancient Romans made the
kitchen one of the chief rooms of tho
house. 1t was paved with tiles, whilc
the walls were hung with pictures and
otherwise decorated.
Oregon, it is said, purposes sending
to the Worlds Fair horse that over
tops all others. and scan pick the tall
est persimmon." He is twenty hands
and two inches high.
Life insurance dates from almost
the year 1850, and was the invention
of the Chevalier de Mere, Flemish
nobleman and the Able Blaise Pascal,
the famous Jesuit priest.
The largest sequoia tree in circum-
ference is in Tulare county. California,
given by Uui,ed States surveyors at
l09 feet. The tallest is the "Keystone."
in Calaverus, being 365 feet high.
An English walnut tree at Vallecito,
Calaveras county, CAL, measures nine
feet in circumference, and is probably
the largest in the state. 1t produces
annually large crop Of superior
nuts.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
FOR THE HOUSE WIFE.
WASHING THE Dishes.

The order in which dishes are
washed is generally as follows: Glass,
silver, china, cooking utensils. But
there has lately been question raised
in relation to this order. and house,
keepers are preferring to wash the
cooking utensils first, as thus, the
lighter washing coming last, the hands
are left in much pleasanter condition.
-CNew York World.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
Not Hopeless.

Teacher-This is the fifth time
you've been late to school this week.
Boy-Ycs'm.
''How do you expect to keep busi-
ness appointments when you grow
up ?"
'My legs'll be longer them"