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Facts About the skeleton Industry

Paris is the head centre of the skele.
ton trade. The mode of preparation is
very delicate operation. The scalpel
is first called into requisition to remove
the muscular tissues. Its work being
done, the bones are boiled, being care.
fully watched meanwhile that they may
not be overdone. After this cannibalis.
tic procedure they are bleachei in the
sun. Even then spots Of grease are sure
to appear when they are exposed to heat
The French treat these with ether and
benzine, securing thereby dazzling
whiteness, which is distinguishing
mark of their skeletons. They are war.
ranted never to turn yellow aud to stand
the test of any climate. New York in
midsummer is not too hot for them.
They are put together by master hand.
A brass rod with all the proper curva.
lures support the spinal column. Deli
cate brass wires hold the ribs in place.
Hinges of the most perfect workmanship
give to the joints graceful and lifelike
movement. Cleverly concealed hooks
and eyes render disjunction at pleasure
possible. The whole construction plainly
indicates the care and skill OF an artist
and connoisseur.
Domestic skeletons are generally the
work of amateurs. Janitors In medical
colleges rescue bones from the dissecting
rooms and cure and articulate them.
They fud purchasers among the students,
who on the completion of their studies
resell the skeleton, if happily the market
is not glutted. A second hand skeleton
may thus be had at quite reasonable
fgure-occssionab as low as SIS.
The imported article, however, ranges
from $50 to $400. The very high priced
ones are valued because of the preserva.
ton of the nervous and circulatory sys-
TENS. OF course, they are beyond the
reach of modest purses, aud, as taste
for medical aud scientific research has
not yet developed among the millionaires,
very few 0 skeletons are sold. They
are alwayf special order. A very fine
French sk Aeton may be had for $3.50,
and that is as high as the general run of
purchasers care to go.
Skulls, hands, and feet may be pur-
chased separately, but to obtain rib, an
arm, or collar bone, the whole affair
must be bought. A skull and cross
bones, suitable for decorative purposes,
cost but $40. Toe skull has but one
cut; it may be pretty, it is not artistic.
For $22 q skull that will unhinge aud
reveal its hidden contents is possible.
The bones of the ear are CO nprised in
this treasure.-Boston Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
Baron B,eichroeder, the millionai

Baron Bleichroeder, the millionaire
Berlin banker, is dead. He was one of
the syndicate which undertook the ad-
jusrment of Austrias currency system
for the purpose of restoring specie pay
ments. He was the author of that por-
tion of the movement which so di-
rected the currency of foreign exchanges
as to draw the flood of gold from the
United States, which now has amounted
TO nearly S1O0, 900, 900 IN two years.
There is no reason, however, to suppose
that gold shipments will cease on
account of Bleirhroeder's death.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
EASTER.

Easter, smile o the yearl
Bringer of music and aowersl
Easter. whose skies are clear
With spring days heightened hoursi
What shall we say that is newf
What shall we sing that is oldi
Sermon or sonnet or chant
Gliding refunded gold.
Yet Oh Brightness returned,
Well may Iglorify theei
Never the world again
Sunless and chill shall see.
Quickenea from clay, the reed
Springs from the glow above;
Up from my heart has leaped
The shining lily of love.
Peal, Oh carillon, peal
Every change to be heard!
Sing in the chapel, choir
Trill in your meadow, birdl
Thou who kneelest in church
tThy thought from earth apart
My Easter offering, love-
To the altar of thy heart!
e. Ireneus Stevenson.
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seventy.

With France still in fer.ncnt, Ger,
many looking for some one to tread on
the tail of its coat, Italy financially
troubled aud the Car of all the Russias
hiding in bomb preof cellar it was
great sight, exclaims the Washington
Star, to see President Cleveland bow
and smile to half a million representa-
tives of the happiest and most loyal peo-
pie in the world.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Chinese botauists can grow oaks in
thimbles.

Chinese +. botanists can grow oaks in
thimbles.
Science announces that cholera bacilli
do not live long in the body that has
been properly buried.
The University of Pennsylvania, Phil
delphia, is to have building entirely
devoted to chemistry.
It is necessary to use high pressure IN
order to transmit the electric current
economically to long distances.
The Edinburgh Review says that the
commonest form OF color. blindness is
that which thinks green identical with
red.
Coal of an excellent quality and in
large deposits has been discovered at
Djebeli- Ebou- Feyaz, in the district of
Ter, Asia Minor.
There is reptile conmon to the
Sacramento Valley, California, known as
the blowsnake. A full-grown blowsnake
thinks nothing Of swallowing half
dozen eggs at time.
The auger that bores a square hole
COubl6tS vi a 6CkCW oukCt Al u ootO
tube, the corners of which are sharpened
from within, and as the auger advances,
pressure on the tube cuts the round hole
square.
The modern lecturer relies greatly up
on the projection of illustrations upon a
screen, and the lanterns for this purpose
have been so improved that effects and
~ xuopdorf,r1 bind
now obtained In the lecture-room.
NJ. Van Rysselberghe, who died re.
Gently at Antwerp, was the inventor OF
the meteorgraph, an electric weather
register, by means of which the con-
ditions prevailing in various localities
may be shown at central station.
Much research and investigation war
rant the assertion that man is not the
only animal subject to dreams. Horses
neigh and rear upon their hind feet
while fast asleep; dogs bark and growl,
and in many other ways exhibit all their
characteristic passions.
Electricians are now considering the
feasibility of using potentials up to hun
dreds of thousands of volts. With the
potential of 100000 volts the power of
Niagara could be transmitted to Chicago,
with loss not exceeding twenty per
cent, and it could be sold at that place
in competition with steam power, prob
ably to commercial advantage.
A large dirigible balloon, intended to
make headway against air currents of
twenty eight miles an hour, is being
made in France. 1t will be similar in
form to the La France Of 1884 1885, but
larger-230 feet in length and forty.
three feet in its greatest diameter. It
will weigh sixty-six pounds per horse
power, and will be propelled by screw
in front with ruddes behind.
The enameled iron of various colors
which has become such common ar
ticle of electrical commerce is made, nc.
cor.ling to French industrial paper, by
dipping the iron plates into an enamel
ing liquid composed of: Borax "a parts
10y weight, soda salts s, boric acid Is,
washed sand 25, feldspar 1875. saltpeter
3.5, -four spar parts. The plates are
then dried and fired. Coloring is OBJ
tanned by using metallic oxides.
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The latest legislative break in Missouri

The latest legislative break in Missouri,
recorded by the Detroit Free Press, is a
bill req lirlng all the butterine sold in
that market to be colored pink, this
mark being evidence to the purchaser
that he is not buying the genuine article.
No special provision seems to have been
made for the protection of those who are
color blind.
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Raisin:Swaus.

Swans are not hard to raise; they sell
at $40 and $50 per pair. A farmer at
Biddeford, Me is making quite sue
cess at swan breeding, and his profits
must be quite large each season. The
average hatch yields from three to six
young swans. They hatch usually about
June anG mature in fourteen months
from birth. They are very cross waen
with brood, and need watching con-
stanily unless perned up closely. New
York Independent.
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His Secret of Happiness.

professor" said gentleman recently
to the famous Professor Biackie, OF :
Edinburgh, .tmayI ask the secrerof' your
happinessa" .:s.:
"Yes," replied the genial Professor,
who, in his old age is as sprightly and
merry as schoolboy. "Here is the !
secret. Ihave no. vain regrets for the
past, ! look forward with hope to the
futute and always strive to do my
DUTY. New York Herald. - I, s.s-s
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THE PATIENT SEASONS.


How patiently the seasons bide their time'
No murmur from the bud that months
ago
Was ready, where the earth inclined, to
blow; +. 80
Theeirds are happy-in theirsohosen home.
No doubt there are commuuings meath tbs
snow,
And some bright eyes that never close In
sleep,
And some sharp ears that listen we'll and
keep -s,--.
Sweet hope alive in little hearts below. -
Then let the winter wear itself away, -,
Borne thither on the breast Of freighted
rills; !.
A dream of spring has touched the, con-
slant hills,
And made the valleys patient Of delay; =
Mary A. Mason. in Youths Companion. =.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21

The Courier Journal learns that Pro.
fcssor Virgins lays the blame for the
cold weather, the ch olera and the rest of
the ills with which the earth has recently
been afflicted on the conjunction be-
tween Jupiter and Mars.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21

Travel from the North to Florida has
never been greater than during the pres
ent season, declares the Chicago Herald,
and the large sums OF money that have
been invested in railroads and hotels to
accommodate this travel are paying good
dividends.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21

General Harrison Is the only surviving
ex-President of the United States; Mr..
Morton is the only living person who
has occupied the office of Vice-Presi-
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-21

The Congress of Colombia at its late
session appropriated $3.50, 600 year for
the encouragement of foreign immigra-
tiop
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The U nited States contain more than
100 distinct and separate railways.
It is now held that there were tive
distinct epidemics of cholera in Europe
last year.

Mortality is greater among the Alas
kans than among any other citizens OF
the United States.
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THE OLD WE'LL SWEEP.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

on ainT goin' to take
that we'll sweep, away,
] o t b a m-the well
sweep that wss there
when / was a baby2
Don't do it, Jotham-
don't!"
Squire s Q d gi C k
beckoned to his son to
lay down the uplifted
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-14
Rest Way to Get Ri VI .ilis.

The beat way to get rid %. rats AMI
mice is not to poison then, btt to m,te
them thoroughly tired of tho locality an
SO induce them to leave. They are gen.
orally too smart to eat poison, even when
ir is prepared for their benc it in the
most seductive fashion, but they ale not
SO particular about tartar emctlc. When
little of this is mixed with any favorito
food they will cat as greedily ~ though
the physic were not there, but in two or
three hours there will be the most dis
couragcd lot Of rats about the place
that anybody ever saw. The tartar will
not kill them, it only makes them deathly
sick. If you put your ear to their holes
you can hear them trying to vomit;
sometimes they will crawl out and walk
about like seasic.l man, 50 ill that they
do not seem to care what becomes of
them. But it disgusts them with the
whole vicinity, and as soon as they are
able to travel they march oil and you see
them no more.--New York News.
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The Odor OF Mnsk.

The most potent Of all perfumes, mrsk
and altar of roses, arc imported from the
East, but are too powerful, especially the
former for European tastes at the pres
ent day. 1t was, however, the favorite
scent of that most elegant OF royal ladies,
the Empress Josephine. Down to the
epoch of the destruction Of the palace of
st. Cloud by iire during the war Of
1870, the dressing room Of the suit che
had been wont to occupy aud especially
the drawers Of the bureau she had used,
were redolent of that odor. The mortar
employed in building the now ruined
M0sQue Of Zobeide at Tauris was mingled
wife quantity Of musk by the picty Of
thesmasons engaged in the WORK, an to
tiifs day the surrounding atmosphere IL
highly scented with it, especially when
the sun shines upon the ruins. This ex-
traordinary durability Of the scent pro-
ducing quality has brought about vari.
Gus interesting experiments. A French
chemist once exposed suall quantity Of
musk after weighing it to the rays of the
sun in a closed room. After certain
period the musk was again weighed and
was found to have lost no perceptible
portion of its substance, even when tho
minutest tests were applied. Yet the
scientific experiment calculated that the
volume Of perfume evolved had amount
ed to no less a quantity than 81 900, ,U00
of particles.-Ncw York World.
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Facts About Grade Perfumes.

Musk, In the raw looks Q good deal
like axle grease, and smells worse. The
popular notion that the musk OF com.
merce Is obtained from the muskrat is a
mistake. Nest Of the supply comes from
the musk deer, creature that is cares
fully reared in India for the sake of the
secretion. This secretion Is shipped in
the crude state, and IL used not only in
the manufacture of the liquid perfume
sold as musk, but also in very small
quantities to give strength aud staying
power to many perfumes made from the
essential oils OF flowers. Curiously
enongh, the blossoms Of two native
plants have noticeabiy musky oder.
One is the small, yellow blossom OF o
creeping vine known as the musk plaut.
Its odor is marked, and is counterfcited
in the commercial perfume called muss.
The other is tho blood root. The pure
white blossom Of that early spring plsut
has a distinct though delicate inusky
odor. A bean known rs the musk bean
is q cheap substitute for animal musk.
Civet is greasy aud intensely strong
secretion of the auimal Of that name. A,
sold by the dealers in essential oils, It is
yellow In color, aud of abou; the con-
sistency Of honey. Like musk, it is not
used at It's full strength, but IS dilutel
and dissolved in alcohol or used as M
auxiliary to other perfumes.-Chicayo
Inter -Oceau.
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tauk can only be approached By circuit
oss and difficult climbing. To a stranger
sssnding below, the upper lake, Of
;ysar.c, has no existence. In that plain
Selow are over 200 graves. Scores Of
humsr beings, famishing for water, have
v1poudad their last strength In reaching
chs slrot, only to find the lower tanks
dry; aud, ignoraat OF the great upper
lake, where thousands Of gallons were to
be had for little climbing, have lain
down in despair to die. Later travellers
passing have buried the unknowns' re.
mains, and always marked the grave,
Mexican fashion, by cross of stones.
There Is in Western New Mexico o
sort of lava formation running through
an immense canyon, which shows plain
y thSt some tremendous upheavat OF ma
snre once visited the country and prob
aoly destroyed everything it encountered
Tor miles round about. In the dryest
part of this most desolate spot large
,tream of water comes gushing out of a
high cliff, as if it came from the gigantic
uozzle of great hose, and falls cataract
into the abyss below. Before reaching
the bottom, however, the water is dis
.eminated into fine spray and spreads out
ikc hue fan, the play and sport Of
che winds. 1t is strange and beautiful
tght. Probably in some period long
past the bed OF a river was whore the
water merges, but a volcanic upheaval
has changed the face of nature, sinking
the bed Of the river many huudreds OF
feet and leaving the water to pour from
Its exalted perch into empty air.-Now
York Press.
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment whom.
rightly used. The many, who live bet.
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products 10
the needs of physical being, will attost
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced In the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas.
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak,
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
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Activity Is Natures Law.

The first glance at the heavens seems
to discover rest. But as soon as we be-
gin to look narrowly aud get beneath
the surface of things, we find that every.
thing is in motion after most wonder
full manner. Nothing is at rest. Not
an atom but is moving and working at a
tremendous rate. Every word and every
particle seems 10 have a mission, and to
be energetically aud remorselossly busy
in fulfilling it. Enthusiastic work
from it there is no dispensation and no
respite.
Day aud night, summer and winter,
the astronomical forces take no holiday.
Some motions are mere rapid than
others; the planet, or moon, or sun has
its varying rates Of speed; sometimes,
perhaps, relative rest may be reached
for whilo in the contest between equal
contending forces; but even in this case
the rest is merely relative to few cir.
cumstances. New York Journal.
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M,nyOlian Phcasnnts.

II the Monyolian pheasant at all 70.
sembles in gany spirit ITS E lropeau at
finity it is moro fitted for barnyard
fowl thar a sportsman's trophy. Proba.
bly, it is just as easy of donesticatiou.
1t is common thing to hatch out
pheasants under ordinary fowls, aa.
they readily come ut tho call for food.
The less of the game quality they have
tho better are they fitted for the spit. It
is amusing to learn that as the Mongo-
lian pheasants are greedy grain feeders
they should be boarded out on the farm.
ers OF the Sacramento aud San Joaquin.
-Marysville (Cal.) Appeal.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-14
Ideal LIfs Of the t,oiree planter.

'sCoffee planters in Guatemala have
double way Of making money!" said Carl
r. Ebberle, of Philadelphia, at the Ma
tional. s'ln the first place they have all
grown rich during recent years because
Of the high price of the bean and the de-
cline of the Brazilian coffee plantations
upon the abolition of the monar chy. A
very great impetus was given to coffee
culture in Central America, and now
there IL very little good coffee land in
Guatemala that IL not cultivated, but
there is plenty OF land In Nicaragua.
ssIt costs about nine or ten cents per
pound to land coffee in the New York,
London or Amsterdam markets. hen
It sells from fifteen to thirty cents the
enormous profit is plain. The rich plant
ere spend their winters in Paris or Lon.
don. There are millions of German cap.
ital invested In coffee, and the Germans
practically control the trade. American
interests are small. In all large cities in
Mexico and Central America are seen
big German commission houses and re.
tail stores.
"The coffee planters are paid for their
product in gold. They pay their hands
and other expenses on their plantations
in silver. AS their own silver money is
worth about sixty -four cents on the dol
lar it is easy to see what 1t means to
them when exchange is thirty-six cents.
The life Of coffee planter Is an ideal
one when once established, for the plan
tations are at an elevation usually of over
5000 feet above the sea in the noun
tains and the climate is delightful. The
profits from large plantations, and most
Of them are good sized, are princely aud
the planters are enabled to travel where
they will, for people will drink coffee and
as long as the trees are kept in bearing
the return is certain. 1t takes largo cap.
ital, however, to embark in the business,
since you must expend large sums and
wait four years before there is sub.
stantial return. n."-.Washington Star.
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august
Flower

p" am happy to state to you and
to suffering hum anity, that my wife
has used your wonderful remedy,
August Flower, for sick headache
and palpitation of the heart, with
satislactoryresults. rseveral years
she has been great sufferer, has
been under the treatment of eminent
physicians in this city and Boston,
and found little relief. She was in
duced to try August Flower, which
gave immediate relief. We cannot
say to much for it," L.C. Frost,
Springfield, Mass. @
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BccChams Pills arc better than minersl ,,o
tiers. Beecham's-no others. 25 cents a boz.
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A statue is to be erected in France te
tho memory of The inventor of the vcloc.
ipeds.
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: The Victoria railroad bridge over the
st. Lawrence at Montreal, Canada, is
Two miles long, cost over $5,OOO,OOO,
md contains TO-, 500 tons of iron and
5000, 600 cubic feet Of masonry.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-14

There are in foreign lands, American
missionaries, their wives and assistants
to the following number: Presbyterians,
ssasiss, 1850; &c SCsopgrogationa'i'tA'
1850; Methodists. S6o1~>
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Browns Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Mala-
ria, Biliousness and General Debility. Gives
strength, aids Digestion, tones the nerves.
creates appetite. The best tonic for Nursing
Mothers, weak women and children.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-14
The Argument Used

IL powders to induce the dealer to push
them off on Royal consumers is that
they cost less than Royal and afford
the dealer much more profit.
But you, madam, are charged the same price
for them as for the absolutely pure Royal, which
is perfectly combined from the most highly refined
and expensive materials The lower cost of the
others is caused by the cheap, impure materials
used in them and the haphazard way in which
they are thrown together.
Do you wish to pay the price of the Royal
for an inferior baking powder, made from i'm
pure goods of 27 per cent less strength? If
you buy the other powders, insist upon having
corresponding reduction in price.
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work or household cares. Browns trpn Bit
terS .ebuilds the system, aids di .estlon, re-
spIendld tonic for women and dhtllren.
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Italy cxpends every year 800, 900, 900
for her soldiers, and less thaa $4,000.
600 for schools