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almost precipitated a panic. 1t would
unsettle values, make coal, oil aud gas
fields yalueless, ruin gas companies
and throw thousands of men out of en-
ployment and reduce an enormous in
vested capital to mere nominal value
The new light was not perfect and
then came long delay in which the
then wizard" seemed to many minds
to be promising more than ever could
be fulfilled Perhaps it was important
that there was this delay 1t brought
people to right understanding of the
actual effect of the new light upon bus
mess and society. Even now the cleo
trio light is just entering upon its com
mercial stage. Universal as it seems it
is really only beginning to occupy the
field it may yet fill. It is only now
that we are enabled to see its effect
upon other industries.
Gas making has for long time been
one of the most conservative of all in
dustries. As an industry it apparently
feared no competition, wished for no
improvements and cared for nothing
but dividends. The electric light has
now forced this sluggish business to
bestir itself TO consider improvements,
and to find new markets
As light, the electric is so superior
to the gas lamp that one is hardly to be
considered beside the other, so one
fades and must fade before the other
Gas as fuel in a crowded tenement
lodging city is the ideal fuel and it is
not surprising that the demand for gas
increases SO rapidly. It prevents the
teaming of coal into the Streets, it
keeps rough, dirty matter out of our
homes it saves labor and prevents
dust, keeps the atmosphere clear and
reduces the daily horror of the city ash
cart. We hardly notice these things as
yet, but they are destined to change
very greatly the character of our homes,
our streets, and cities and even change
the shape of our houses, and complete
~ alter the aspect of our streets These
are but suggestions and hints of the
changes we are passing through to-day
under the influence of Edison's inven-
tons Charles Barnard, in Chautau-
GUAM.
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a COSTLY DISH.
The Peacock at the Feast in Ancient an
Medieval Times

The Peacock at the Feast in Ancient and
MedieVai Times.
Hrehm informs us that the flesh of
the young peacock is very delicate, and
has "a wild odor'' which is very agree
able. He thinks an old bird fit only
for stewing. The Greeks must have
found it marvellous costly feeding, if it
be true, as Aelian says, that single
bird was worth a thousand draehmas-
nearly sixty pounds sterling. The es-
TEEN in which it was held in the last
days of the Roman republic did not di-
minish under the imperial regime.
Vitellius and Heliogabalus served up
TO their boon companions enormous
dishes of peaeocks' tongues and brains,
seasoned with the rarest Indian spices.
In medieval days it was still held in
favor, particularly as Christmas dish,
and minstrels sang of it as food for
lovers and meat for lords. -
To fit it for the table was no ordi-
nary culinary operation. After tie
skin land plumage-had been carefully
stripped off, the bird was roasted; then
served up again in its feathers, with
gilded beak. No, I have forgotten that
it was first stuffed with spices and
sweet herbs and basted with yolk of
egg 1t floated in sea of gravy, as
many as three fat wethers sometimes
supplying the unctnous liquor for a
single peacock.
No vulgar hands carried it to table,
but the fairest and most illustrious of
the danes and damsels present at the
feast and its arrival was announced
by Strains of triumphal music. Had
the bird known the honors reserved for
its obsequies, surely it would, like
Keats, have fallen half in love with
easeful death -
BY cock and pier' exclaims Justice
Shallow-little knowing that his every
day ejaculation referred to the old
chivalrous usage of swearing over this
lordly bird to undertake any grim en-
terprise worthy of gallant knight.
Did not the royal Edward make oath
on the peacock before he entered upon
his invasion of France?-All the Year
Round
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SCIENCE AND AMERICA.
The Glowing Tribute of British Maya
Zine TO Our Industries.

The Glowing Tribute OF British Maya
zine TO Our Industries.
Science is supreme in American pro-
duction, and the Americans have out
run us all in its application. They
were the first to utilize electricity, not
merely in the development of telegra-
phy and the kindred arts, but as a
powerful ally in manufacture. In the
welding of metals, for instance, it now
plays an important part. It has re-
diced the price of aluminium from two
pounds and two shillings pound, and
the metal has now in consequence
passed into common use; it enters into
The fabric of the bicycle; it is made into
shoes for the horses of Russian eavalryy
it is embodied in the enigmatical figure
which crowns the Shaftesbury memo
rial.
In iron and steel the use of highly.
developed machinery, which is no more
than the application of science, has
revo1utionized production. The new
drop-hammer has brought down the
price of American plows to less than
one pound. and in the making of all
sorts of agricultural implements it is
calculated that six hundred men can
now produce as much as two thousand
one hundred and 70 ty-five few years
ago. Where single workman could
make three dozen pairs of sleeve links
In day, boy can now make nine
thousand.
The manufacture of pins still holds
its Town as an ''object lesson;" but
whereas Adam Smith notes with aston
ishment and admiration ten men turn
ing out forty-eight thousand pins a
day, the modern American manufacture
er finds no difficulty in supplying seven
and half millions in the same time,
as the result of the labor of five pairs
Of hands. Compare this with the state
of things at the time of the war of in
dependence, when imported pins sold
for seven shillings and sixpence doz-
en-, and when to encourage home in
dnstry, the government offered fifty
pounds for the bes twenty five dozen
of pins made in America equal to those
imported from England. Edinburgh
Review
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A oRlPPLE's TALENT.


leo OF ram
An indolent boy, whose schooling
had been chiefly remarkable for his re-
sources for mischievous pranks, met
with an accident which disabled him
for LIE.
In Consequence of injuries affecting
4 hip and spine he became an incurable
cripple. His life hung in the balance
for many months, and when he began
to mend IN general health it was with
out hope of his ever leaving his bed.
0nadGy he was seized with a strong
! purpose. 81 must work, he exclaimed
to his mother. 81 shall lose my mind
if lie here counting my aches and
pains"
He asked her to prop him up with
pillows and to fetch his school books.
The pages disclosed an industry which
had interfered with serious study.
Fly-leayes and margins were illus
trated with humorous faces and boldly
drawn caricatures Algebra and ge-
ometry were illumined with grotesque
portraits of teachers and schoolmates.
His Hneid contained a series of comic
pietuges illustrating Didos romantic
career and the adventures of her lover
in the spirit world.
The cripple had thought of his one
accomplishment, which had often
brought him into disgrace at school for
waste of time. He began by making
pen and ink drawings to illustrate COM
zeal incidents and dialogues A dozen
of these were sent to an illustrated pa
per, and six were accepted
Encouraged by his success, he became
a regulaD,cQptributo to several comic
Journals Rhds ended by earning more
money than his brothers, who were
clerks in stores.
He was not strong enough to work
more than few hours morning and
evening; but when his pencil was idle
his mind was conjuring with grotesque
faneies. Not satisfied with the wages
received for quips and cranks and hui
morous cartoons, he resolved to learn to
etch, and finally became expert in the
use of tools and acids. Perceiving that
confinement indoors was restricting his
work to interiors, he designed bed ON
wheels which could be rolled under
trees
His health gradually failed, but am
bition spurred him on. ''Work has
kept him alive" said his physician; he
will die without it" When too weak
to use his pencil he passed quickly
away.
A life of physical anguish had been
ennobled by heroic persistence in turn
ing his one talent to good account
Youths Companion.
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PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL.

Sir Charles Russell, the we'll known
English attorney general, has received
for his fee in conpectSop with the Behr-
ing sea arbitration the sum Of $40, 900.
In addition to this his regular salary is
$4,000 year, and he picks up an addi-
tional $40, 900 for fees
"A St Petersburg editor has hit
upon the notion of printing his journal
on paper suitable fof making cigar
cites. 1t is said that its circulation has
been greatly increased by this means.
as the Russians are largely given to
smoking cigarettes, which they make
themselves.
Miss May Frank of Oakland, Cal,
who was offered the place Of teacher
lecturer and preacher in a reformed
Hebrew congregation in Philadelphia,
has declined it, because she does not
care to be bound to any congregation.
Miss Frank is. probably the first woman
to whom such position was ever
rendered. She will continue her work
on the Pacific coast.
Baltimore has blind boatman
His boat was stolen by some worthless
fellows the other day and subsequently
abandoned and picked up. He claimed
it, and when told that he must identify
it, did so, not by telling the color and
model, as man with good eyes might
do, but giving the positions of all the
nails and the chinks in the boat where
splinters had been knocked off
"A French singer of prominence,
and most charming woman went
to the Society islands on professional
tour Instead of receiving money for
her services at the concert, she re-
ceived five hundred cocoanuts, three
pigs, twenty-three turkeys, forty-four-
chickens, and lot of bananas, lemons,
and oranges The papers did not tell
us how she carried the proceeds home.
Mrs. Lewis. whose late husband was
Prof. Lewis, of Cambridge, England,
has returned with her sister from her
second visit to the monastery of Mount
Sinai Mrs. Lewis is familiar with
Greek, Hebrew and Arabic The
monks at the monastery permitted her
to examine six chests full of manu-
scripts in their possession, and she and
her sister brought away photographs
of almost all the papers.
The story is told of Philip d. Ar
mour of Chicago, that few months
ago the grain dealers got up corner,
hoping to squeeze him His own
granaries were full, and they refused
to let him have square inch of space
in their elevators Mr. Armour had
thirty days in which to find place for
three million bushels of wheat. Ac-
cordingly he sent for his builder. told
him what he wanted, and in twenty
eight days the largest and finest grain
elevator in Chicago had been erected,
and the grain was stored in il.
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AKIN TO NATURE.
A Place Where Men Grow Up Perfectly
Chaste and Simple.

A man of the north who has a local
reputation as lazy man should see a
Mexican ''puncher" loaf. in order to
comprehend that he could never achieve
distinction in the land where POGO
tempo means forever
The baile-the song-the man with
the guitar-and under all this dolce far
niente are their little hates and biclz-
erings, as thin as cigarette smoke and
as enduring as time They reverence
their parents, they honor their patron
and love their eompadre. They are
grave, and grave even when gay, they eat
little, they think less, they meet death
calmly, and it's terrible scoundrel
who goes to hell from Mexico
The Anglo-American foremen are
another type entirely. They have all
the rude virtues. The intelligence
which is never lacking and the perfect
courage which never fails are found in
such men as Tom Bailey and Johnnie
Bell two Texans who are the superiors
of any COW men have ever seen. 1
have seen them chase the "mavericlxs'
at top speed over a country so difficult
that a man could hardly pass on
foot out of walk. On one occasion
Mr.. Bailey, in hot pursuit of bull
leaped tremendous fallen log at top
speed, and in the next instant tailed
and threw the bull as it was about to
enter the timber. Bell can ride pony
at a gallop while standing up on his
saddle, and while Cossacks do this
trick they are enabled to accomplish it
easily from the superior adaptability
of their saddles to the purpose In
my association with these men of the
frontier have come to greatly respect
their moral fibre and their character.
Modern civilization, in the process of
educating men beyond their capacity,
often succeeds in vulgarizing them,
but these natural men possess minds,
which, though lacking all embellish-
ment are chaste and simple, and utter
" devoid of a certain fippancy which
passes for smartness in situations
where life is not SO real Frederic
Remington, in Harper's Magazine.
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A Story of virsinia's Black swamp.

Three and a half miles west of Aide,
Loudoun county, Va, is the locally ia
nous "black swamp" and a strange
story has been current Whereabouts for
the better part of this century Jesse
McVeigh lived long ago in an old stone
house on the edge of the swamp, and
there game to him once stranger ask
ing ShsateA The stranger is taken in
and Ask3iyed there for five years. He
neveuSSgenk beyond the swamp for ex-
ercise 9Ud he took elaborate precau-
lions at night to guard against sur
prise. When be died stranger from
a neighboring gillage came and claimed
the body, protesting to recognize the
dead man as an acquaintance The
stranger who claimed the body was
the dead mans son, and he afterward
became chief justice of the United
States supreme court The father, a
wealthy and well educated Maryland
er, but man of ungovernable temper
had slain a guest at his own table by
breaking his skull with a decanter.
The homicide's place of hiding was
hardly more. than fifty miles from the
scene ofAisscrime N Y. Sun.
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DECLINE of YhnIinn..

The whale fishery was at one time an
enormous industry in the United States.
1t reached its height in 1854, when 6O9
ships and barks, Is briggs, and 50
schooners, with a total tonnage of 208, :
800, were engaged in it. BY 1876 the
fleet had dwindled down to 1869 vessels.
and it is doubtful if fifty are now at
sea. The Introduction of kerosene,
and the increasing scarcity of whales,
seem to be the cause of this decline.
Some remarkable voyages were made
in the old days. 1.-THE Pioneer" of New
London, sailed in June, 1864 for Davis
strait and Hudson's bay, returning in
September, 1865, with 1891 barrels of
oil and $4,000 pounds of bone, valued at
$50, 00O In 1847 the envoy" of New
Bedford was sold to be broken up; but
her purchaser reftted her and she
made a voyage worth s132, $50 On
the other hshd, vessel made five
years voyage, and on her return the
captains lay amounted to only eighty
FIVE dollars. But, as the Nantucket
captain, whose vessel returned from d
three years voyage as clean as she
went out, remarked: ''She amt got
.bar'l O. ile-but She's had mighty fine
sailh'-Gustav Kobbe. in st Nicholas.
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Toughest Town Ia the World.

A citizen of this city lately returned
from tour around the world describes
Port Said at the Mediterranean end of
the Suez canal as the wiekedest place
he ever visited. During the five days
| was detained there waiting for a
steamer" said he, 81 scarcely dared
venture in the streets unattended, for
assaults and robberies at midday were
of the commonest occurrence All ma
tions are represented there, and the
enmity between the consuls is such that
criminals are rarely brought to justice.
The morning that l finally left the
hotel 1 was Mortified to find the body
of Norwegian sailor on the sidewalk
with his throat cut from ear to ear and
a rope around his neck by means Of
which his assailants had evidently been
dragging him about the street. No.
body manifested sufficient interest in
the event to even remove the body. ~
Philadelphia Record
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-03-22

-Littiee8hnny was in tribulation
that morning. Prohibi ions, great and
small, met him at every turn. It was
mo" to this and mo" to that, till at
last he began to cry, angrily exclainl-
ing to his mother between his sobs:
II wiSh Spo' was a swear word, NAM
ma, soIpOou couldn't say itl'-Boston
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$4,000 in Prizes
WILL BE DISTRIBUTED
AMONG NEW SUBSCRIBERS.

A prize certificate issued and num-
bered In the same order as paid sub
scfiptions are received " i'll be sent hy
return mail ii not found satisfae.
tory, return it and money will be re.
funded. Send $l.50 for years sub
scriptson at once and secure one oil
the largest prizes.
THE AMERICAN HOME JOURNAL,
35s DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO.
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THOMAS ALvA EDISON.

3ome of the Changes Induced by His Won
derful Inventions.
The effect of Edison's work upon the
numerical and social progress of these
lines has been very great, how great it
viii ultimately be it is impossible to
~ Selecting the electric light as the
lost commercially important of all his
INVENTIONS it may be OF interest briefly
examine its history.
The announcement of the discovery
method Of subdividing the electric
trent SO that q number of lights
lla be made to glow along one cir-
a 6tom 4 common 6nnfA Of mower
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-03-22

Tho. sris & st German railroad
was onEIe6 in 1887, amidst intense ex-
citemerT THE French reporters were
on hantkpnd voluble in their descrip-
lions. Speaking of the locomotive,
they saidSSH9snorts! His prodigious
tail of vapQg Aoats in the firmamentl
Noble and intrepid horse, which moth
ing can stQn He devours the way be-
fore HING 8e3S clothed with thunder,
like the holses1t job
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PLANTING PEANUTS.
The Berry First Brought to North Carolina
by q Trading Slave Ship.

The Berry First Broug hit to North Carolina
by n Trading Slave Ship.
There is much doubt as to the orig
1na1 home of the peanut Some claim
that it is indigenous to Africa, others
that it was a native of South America
and was carried by earlier explorers Of
that country to Spain and thence to
Africa. The earliest authentic tradi-
ton tells of its appearance in eastern
North Carolina, probably brought
there by some of the slave ships land
ing cargoes along the coast. The ma
tive Africans recognized and used them.
Peanuts grow upon trailing vine
with leaves much resembling small
four-leaved clover. The small yellow
Hover it bears is shaped like the bios
som of the pea family; indeed the agri-
cultural bureau in Washington does
not recognize the peanut as a NUT at
all, but classes it among beans The
soil in which it is cultivated must be
light and sandy; after the flower falls
away the flower stalk elongates and
becomes rigid, curving in such way as
to push the forming pod we'll below the
surface of the earth; If by any accident
this is not done the nut never natures.
They are planted in rows about three
feet apart, and the vines spread until
the ground is covered by them. Harvest
ing is done after the first frost, and the
yield is often one hundred bushels to
the acre, making this a more profitable
crop than wheat or cotton yhe vines,
with the nuts clinging to them, are
torn up with pronged hoes and allowed
to dry in the sun for day or two, and
then sacked to cure. In about fort.
night the nuts are picked off, the
empty ones, which are technically
called pops being rejected. This is
done by hand and is slow work, as an
expert laborer can pick only three
bushels day. They come into mar
ket in a rough, dirty state, unassorted
and with vine tendrils clinging to the
pods.
Eastern Virginia and North Carolina
produce all the peanuts consumed in
the United States and Canada. Blue
and Iray
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For Charity. -Binks-"We are go
ing to have a novel entertainment at
our house next week for charity"
Slinks-sR That SO? What is it?'' Binlzs
Readidfs from Dickens Want to
buy a. ticket29n Detroit Free Press
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20
BRECKINRIDGE II BOLD AND
BRASSY
The Disgraced kentuckian Ex-
hibits Himself

AsHINGToN, April 15.-Repre-
sentative Breckenridge, against whom
verdict of $4,000 in favor of Miss
Pollard was rendered Saturday
spent most of the day at home with
his family and friends. Shortly
after noon the charming weather
tempted him and Mrs. Breckenridge
to take drive.
The defendant in the famous
breach Of promise case will have a
conference tomorrow with Messrs.
Butterworth aud Mckinney, of his
counsel to discuss the motion for q
new trial, which, he said tonight,
would be made within the time fixed
by the rule of the court-four days.
IL will be pressed TO determination
with all the yigor possible and it
overruled, as he anticipates, there
will then be an appeal To the Court
OF Appeals Of the district
"During ,he past month and to.
day" said Colonel Breeknridge to-
night, II have been in receipt OF
letters aud kilograms from every
county la my district assuring me
of Ll.e continued ooustaney Of my
frieads. They believe that my
career is not yet ended that | have
some years OF good work in me a.
their representative, To day | re,
eeiyed u cordial aud earnest invita-
tlon To speak ia Bourbon county
ky., on the seventh OF May, aud
numerous telegrans from other por-
tons Of my district | have no
doubt of NY re nomination aud re-
election. # ny lifc 10 spared -
Mlss fuilari Aaa ~ overcome bY
the protraetel strain upon her that
she aas taken last night 10 Pfoyi-
deuce Hospital, where che still re
mains. size received no callers to-
day and this evening WAS reported
by the attendant Ia ba resting
quietly she snd The famous old
claimant, AelarfaAan. aFs b0tl
euleled on the books u the hospita
as Suffering boa aeFFous pFoalFa-
llou.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20
TREASURER's SALE OF UN.
SEATED LANDS.

Agreeable to the provisions of An Act of As
sembly entitled eau Act directing the mode of
selling unseatcd lands for taxes, passed the 18th
day of March, 1915, and the supplements there
TO, I, A. l.. Smith, Treasurer Of the county of
Sullivan, hereby give notice to all persons con-
cerned that unless the County, state, Road,
School and Poor Taxes due on the following
tracts of unseated lands, situate in said county,
and paid before the day of sale, the whole or
such part of each tract as will pay the taxes and
such costs chargeable thereon, win be sold at the
Court House, in Laporte, in said county of Sull-
ivan, on the
ELEVENTH [ilTHl DAY OF JUNE, 1894,
being the second Monday of June. [the sale to
be continued by adjournment from day to day if
deemed necessarily for arrearages Of taxes due
and assessed, and costs accrued on each tract
respectively
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

Our exchanges have remarked that
new depot aIll he huilt At Hughes.
yllle along the hne Of the W. 4 n
H., this spung We understand that
tie Rail Road officials have given
up this idea for the presenl, at least,
aud instead sll commeHee the OH
ing ~ the several cuts along the
railroad between thia place aud
k0admanl Mhile 40 would All
like 10 ESQ ught good depot IL
headquarters II our railroad, set as
travelling pahlie, - ale more ia.
.eFvsleI ~ lhs alllng of lhese cuts,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

Congressman are feeling uneasy
over the approach of the Coxey's
army. If Congress had performed
their duties in a business like man
ner they would have been home be-
fore Coxey army began to arrive,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

Atty. w. E. Crawford, of Hughes
vile, came up to Sullivan on trout
fishing expedition on Monday. We
don't imagine he had very good sue
cess. owing to ice and snow that
abound in the creeks.