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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20
The " Elephant Man,

The person whose name will go into
the book that will some day be com
piled on ''Curiosities Respecting HUI
man Beings as the Elephant Man, "
died in Il London hospital in the early
part of the year 1890. The poor fell
low was afflicted with two of the most
terrible diseases known to the ply
sicians and surgeons-overgro of
the bones and humorous excrescences
OF the skin. Two enormous bony out
growths developed ON his forehead,
and later on the bones of the upper
jaw, nose, right arm and both feet
grew 10 gigantic proportions. The
skin disease caused great haplike
masses of flesh 10 hang from different
portions of his body, particularly
from the face and head. The nose was
the facial feature upon which the dis
ease seemed to have taken special
spite, the overgrowth OF bone, flesh
and skin causing it TO hang down so AS
to give the man very repulsive, ele-
phantlne appearance. Just before his
death, the head, which had been in
creaslng IN size with wonderful rapid
ity for about four years, attained such
proportions that the neck could no
longer hold il erect. During the
whole of the last year of his life he
slept IN a erouching position, with his
hands clasped around his legs anl his
enormous head resting on his knees
and arms. st Louis Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20
Some Costly Banquets.

There are some costly banquets re-.
corded ia the worlds history. anl one
supper given by Aelius Nefas, footed
az nearly quarter IT million dol.
lHfs. tine dish al the table ~ the En-
peror ieliagshulus eost s20u. u0n
Cleopatra banquet tp Antony Was q
sanptl0us affair, aud the queen took
pearl ear dlap wurth sd, 0On. dit.
solved # in strong acid, drinking the
health ef the trinmsif saying, 'My
lnusht a. AuionY shau exceed la
value the ahole hanlnst When
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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

The mining craze seems to have
struck some portions OF Georgia and
Alabama pretty hard. A score or
more ct new gold mines have been
opened ia these States within the last
three or four months, notes the 81.
Louie Republic, aud good many old
ones are being worked as they were
never before. George Huntington
CLARK predicts in the Manufacturers
Record that ia the Immediate future
the gold hells ui Gsorgla are going to
surprise the old duubters as much -
the development ~ Southern iron dad
The richest s8ll mines re that State
are ss yet uuioaeheI he aays
Georgia gold belle eoysfs % strip ol
country irom tHeutY o. forty miles
side, ani esieniius aeFoas the Stale
frHm Heriueaai a. aHihssst umhrsc
ius thaHi loa msfs mi.fs itWna
iHiu AlahaHa anl spreads aut over
same 13in square mliD mars iu that
state NeafaaH #iaa aata - af
praaHrsl Wsf tie bHH en aHih .f
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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

The death of Publisher Monro in
New York shows to the San Francisco
Chronicle that the vcrmiform appen-
dix is playing an important part in
the surgery of the period. The dan
ger that results from the lodgment of
seeds of fruits and berries in this use
less part of the anatomy cannot be
too strongly impressed upon all, and
especially upon those who have the
care of children. Grape seed, in par
ticular, should not be swallowed by
those who have any regard for their
health.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

w. B. Muller, of Omaha, says the
eight hour day ''would bring about in
creased consumption, vaster display
of productive activity, a higher intel
lectual and moral development of the
toiler and wider demand for the
more artistic products of our factories
and workshops. 1t would stimulate
inventive genus, develop better and
grander civilization and bring about
an almost fabulous increase of national
property and wealth. The general
struggle for reduction of the hours
of labor is struggle for better
civilization, struggle for work for
willing hands who should be EN-
ployed.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

Rev Christopher Dowidat, pastor of
n Lutheran church at Oshkosh, Wis,
has expelled printer from his church
for being union man, declares the
New York Press. He says unionism
is against the commandments of God.
''To strike is taking advantage of the
capitalist, and this is against the com
mandment Thou shalt not steal.
Further. you shall honor your EN-
ployer the same as child honors its
parents. God made rich and poor.
God will not let Il Christian starye.
Those people who are suffering in the
cities are not Christians Mr. Dowi.
dat believes that the workingmen
should take what they are offered by
the capitalists and thank God if they
can get anything at all II they can't
get work II is Gods will.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

els it not nearly time that some re-
striction was put upon the disposition
of surgeons i'll this town to slice open
their fellow-creatures in the interest
of the complaint called appendicitis ?"
asks New York Life. ''That late alb
surd and lamentable operations have
cost the lives of useful citizens, will
strengthen our opinion, which begins
to be pretty generally current tAnt ap-
pcndicitis is epidemic in the minds of
the metropolitan surgeons, a.id that
human life would be safer in New York
if the operation was forbidden except
by order of court. The public
knows altogether too much about ap-
pendicitis, and the doctors altogether
too little. Two-fifths of the genuine
cases result from scare in the patients,
and one or two more fifths of all the
cases exist only in the imaginations of
the surgeons The cure of such legit-
innate cases as are left is not worth
what IT costs. Appendicitis is played
out. The invention of the operation
for IT has changed a very rare malady
intoa common and dangerous disease.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20
NO. 49,.
FAREWELL

say farewell, but with a sense
or something more than confidence
That it is not the dismal word,
Which, overgrown with gloom, is heard
Where tears are shed, where people part
The pieces of a broken heart.
And things like that-the dreadful kind,
Which shake the soul and mar the mind.
To me, farewell is touch of hands,
A parting on the golden sands.
look to eastward, where the light
Shall rise to drive away the night
OF separation, which must fall
In chilling shadows on us all.
To me it does not seem the end
OF what has been for friend and friend,
But through its severance 1 see
Beginning of what is to be
A promise of the future, when
The hands which parted. clasp again.
These are the sunbeams, which dispel
The shadows, when 1 saw farewell
w. ]. Hampton, in Detroit Free Press.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Underground photography is ad

Underground photography is adj
vancing.
By using a microphone, you can
hear fly walk.
Steel rails, it is said, average 130
tons per mile, iron 145.
San Antonio, Texas, is said to be
very desirable resort for consump-
tives.
The Pennsylvania Railroad locomo-
tives between Jersey City and Pitts
burg burn $40, 600 worth of coal daily.
DIR. Quintard, of France, has inven-
ted delicate surgical instrument for
gauging the trembling of nervous peo-
pie.
A retired French naval officer has
invented rifle which is capable of
firing two kinds of explosive bullets at
once.
The Kansas University is excavating
tunnel under its various buildings
through which all of them will be
heated.
The New York Health Board has de-
clared consumption a communicable
disease and announces vigorous plan
of procedure to prevent its spread.
Sewing machines driven by electric
motors have been fitted up in large
costume establishment in Paris. The
current is obtained from the street
mains.
81 r,
pan, of which there are forty, are be-
ing connected together by telephone.
Thirteen stations are already in COM
munication.
Kansas capitalists talk of piping
natural gas from Neodesha, where it
was recently discovered, to the zine
fields of southeastern Kansas and
southwest Missouri.
A powerful telescope may reveal as
many as forty-three million stars, of Il
number of which the light takes two
thousand seven hundred years to ira
verse the intervening space.
Coffee is Intoxicating if taken in
sufficient quantities, though differing
in its effects from alcoholic stimulants.
The nerves may be disturbed in de-
gree approaching dellrium tremens.
NJ. Dufosse, French savant de-
clares that fishes can talk. They can,
lie declares, produce certain sounds at
will by the vibration of certain specially
designed muscles. These vibrations
are caused by little air bladder,
which is alternately distended and ex-
hausted.
The timber line in the Rocky Mount
aims runs as low as $500 feet and as
high as II, 400. 1t has been observed
that on the south slope of Mount Me
Clellan, in Colorado, pines two feet in
diameter and thirty feet high live and
increase in size at an elevation of II,
400 feet. The winter at that elevation
is long, the cold is intense, and the
snowstorms are of terrific violence.
The Massachusetts State Board of
Health concludes, from Investigations
of artificial ice, that artificial processes
of freezing concentrate the impuri-
ties of the water in the inner core
of the portion last frozen, that the
impurities are least if distilled water
is used, that the number of bacteria
III artificial ice is insignificant under
the prevailing methods of manufac-
ture, and that the amount of zine
found in ice is insufficient to cause in
jury from its use.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

Harold Frederic, who is a close OBJ.
server IN English politics, is OF opin-
ION that the resignation of Mr.. Glad
stone is due not to the fact that his
eyesight is failing or TO the at that
be is growing feeble, but TO the fact
that be has been losing influence with
his own administration. The theory
is that his cabinet vas out OF sympathy
with him in many things aud went its
own way regardless Of his wishes
hosebery was becoming more of u
power than the Grand old man. aud
so che latter dropped hint Of retire
mont after the manner oi Bismarck,
and like Bismarck, was surprised h.
ind that there Wa no elamor against
Die going ga other words, Gladstone
is represented AS being edged off the
stage by hls young men. The danger
iu hlt rcllrement does not lie - much
.u the lpss If hi- personality. po~erlal
a. that is, e. lu ths loss - thst pecu
tar thins called leadership hosehery
ur snY lne eiso osn he made the official
hoRt af tha m.assrv aud tho leader ol
the hhsfal nafi, hut no pne eau "a.
haut She aeaeral enahienra af tha
raftf sni ~ sFmraihizers throughout
ih. aafd "a Niatsisae ths 30 :
gross Hres "a paHsr eAlah be cannot
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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20
THE FAITHFUL HEART.
Wherever l am led by fate,

Wherever / am led by fate,
In regions wild and desolate,
Or in the hurrying crowd, more rude
And alien far than solitude.
One blessed truth in shine and storm,
Consoles my heart and keeps it warm
One tender soul, through good and ill,
Remembers, holds, and helps me still.
In mountain gorge, on treeless plain,
In weary wastes unblest by rain,
Or selfish cities. lonelier far
Than wilderness and desert are,
One face is ever by my side,
My shield and guardian, friend and guide
A face that none but can see
The face of her who thinks of me.
Though miles ON miles stretch wearily
Between that faithful heart and me,
know its unforgetting grace
Can bridge all distance, time and space,
Can send blessing from afar
However wide my wanderings are,
And be, wherever may stray.
My fire by night, my cloud by day.
spread my blanket on the ground,
Remote from human sight and sound,
And as my senses swim to sleep
Amid the silence wide and deep,
The wind by which my cheek is famed
Seems like her kind, caressing hand,
And in each wandering star, see
The face of her who prays for me,
o tender light, shine softlier yet
o watchful eyes, do not forget
o helpful heart, my strength renew,
And keep me safe, and hold me truel
o gentle face, still kindly beam,
Sustain my sonl, inspire my dream,
Be now and always, near and far,
My hope, my guide, my polar star
Elizabeth Akers, in Worthingtons
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

There is no such thing as ''next
Senate, " and so long as the Constitu-
tion lasts there never will be. The
Senate of the United States is an
eternal body. 1t never dies. 1t is to-
day exactly the same assembly which
met for the first time il 1889. Every
second year it undergoes change of
membership, the terms of one class of
members expiring. But that change
neither ends the old body nor makes
new one.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20
Ehingham B. Wilson, of BROOKLYN

Effingham B. Wilson, of Brooklyn,
has discovered somewhere on Long
Island a perfect mine of Indian arrow
heads He keeps the secret of the To-
cation to himself, and, according to
the New York Mail and Express, is
obliged to keep a sharp lookout for
inquisitive spectators, who would
like to follow him when he starts ont
to make r collection. Mr.. Wilson has
been offered large sum for the arrow
heads he has already in hand, but the
offer was refused. When the collec-
tion reaches 5000 heads it will be the
most extensive in the country.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

The Baltimore Manufacturers Rec
ord reports that there are now in the
South 406 cotton mills, with 2,76S, ,S79
spindles and 62,052 looms; capital
invested, $97, 900, 900, as against $21,-
976, 900 in 1880. In 1860 there were
in the South 161 cotton mills, with
667, 1854 spindles. North Carolina has
the largest number of mills.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

The Arizona people are indignantat at
the stories of their lawlessness, which
have been published recently. They
are reported by the New Orleans
Picayune to say that such reports are
false, and that if they can catch the
newspaper man who started them they
will lynch him out of hand.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

Ferris, the man of the Worlds Fair
wheel, offered $40, 900 n year to the
projectors of the new Manhattan
Building, on Broadway, in New York
City, if they would build tower on
it and give him the elevator rights
The Manhattan will be the tallest and
ugliest building in New York, alleges
the Chicago Herald
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

Joaquin Miller says that there is no
danger that the giant trees of Cali
fornia will be exterminated, as you
may find small sequoias in almost
every doorvard in the State.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

The ways of Providence, r. L., are
strange to the Philadelphia Ledger.
A number of the city's unemployed
who were put to work on city improve
ments, have struck, rather than work
ten hours day.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

Lord Chief Justice Coleridge has de-
cided that it is best that clerymen
should not take part in criminal in
vestigation. He declined to swear the
Rev. Thomas Coney to serve on the
Grand Jury at the Berkshire Assizes
racaptly
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

London's debt was increased last
year by Sc, 900, 900 and now amounts
to $3.50, 055, 900. The revenue of the
city for the last fiscal year was $685.
165, 900.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20
THAT VITAL CLEW.
ILBERT STAN

STAN
t o n lived in
cha IN b e rs in
Whites $ Inn and
was reading for
the bar. Wild,
who justified his
name, was an old
college acquain-
tance who had at
tempted several
things in life and
failed in all.
Gilbert had not
seen him i'll sew
eral years, when
Wild turned up
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

''this is matter of life and death.
That piece of paper must be found. "
eyes, miss" was the laundress'
commonplace reply.
''First of all you must please answer
very carefully some questions L shall
put to you. Did you on that day de-
stroy any paper?"
''No, miss.
'Have you destroyed or removed
any since?"
''Not scrap, miss. You see there
amt no fires this time o the year, and
the little cooking l does is all done on
the gas stove. -
Everything was being turned upside
down and inside out, when Edith sud-
denly stopped
''Do you remember whether the win
dows were open on that day." she
asked
''Yes, miss Mr.. Stanton always use
to ave IS winders open. )"
'Well, just open them as they would
be if he were here. p"
The woman did as shewas bid. Edith
then placed apiece ofpaper on the table
where Gilbert said he had laid the
confession, the door leading into the
bed room and the entrance door hav-
ing first been opened. There was
considerable draught, and the paper
trembled on the table.
''Perhaps there was more air on that
day." said Edith. 81 will substitute
lighter piece of paper.
This she did, and almost immediate
ly it was caught by current, and it
futtered across the room. AS it fell
on the floor they were startled to see
little kitten spring from the open
doorway and pounce upon the paper,
rolling over and over with it in her
teeth"
''Lor', MISS" suddenly broke in
Mrs. Morton, now / remember
When the gent shot 'isself [ was work
ing in the 'ouse opposite, and came
back to see what was the matter
That little kitten belongs to the party
in the next set, and when | came up
to the landing she was playing just
like that with bit o paper, which
she runs away with and leaves on the
stairs"
"Yes," said Edith, in breathless
eagerness.
"Well, paper about the stairs looks
SO untidy, miss, so l picked it up
and"
"What did you do with it?"
81 threw it in the pail with the other
rubbish. "
For the second time the contents of
the pail was emptied by the laundress
and carefully examined 1t was abso-
lutely certain that the paper was not
there.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

Edmund Yates says that Queen Vic
toria offered to make Mr.. Gladstone
an Earl or Mrs. Gladstone Peeress in
her own right; but the Grand Old
Man declined.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

Tt has been figured out that the cost
of the United States Senate, an ex-
pense borne by the people of the
United States, is $8400 day.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

The marriage statistics of every
country show that widowers are more
prone to marry maidens than to take
widows
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

at his chambers and announced that
he was "stone broke.
Stanton reproached Wild for his
dissipated habits, and declined to rem
der him any assistance.
Raymond Wild was hot blooded and
high words ensued The quarrel was
at its height when Mrs. Morton, Gill
bert's old laundress, who had been
completing her morning duties in au-
other room, closed the door of the
chambers and passed out.
Shortly afterward the tempers of
the two men cooled. Wild apologized
for some offensive remarks he had
made, and they shook hands. Gilbert
now promised to do his best to help
his old acquaintance, and invi ed Wild
to remain an hour while he went to
keep an appointment.
When Gilbert Stanton returned he
mounted the stairs to the door OF his
chambers, but did not immediately
enter. He stood for few minutes on
the landing, considering what course
he should adopt with regard to the
man inside.
As he leaned against the door, smok-
ing cigarette, he was startled by
loud explosion inside.
He hastily unlocked the door aud
went in. Stretched upon the floor
was Raymond Wild-dead
The evidence at the inquest was
simply this The police, when called
i'll, had found the dead body OF man,
identified as Raymond Wild. with
bullet wound in his head A revolver
was also discovered which Gilbert
Stanton had admitted was his, and
the contents of one chamber had
been discharged.
Mr. Stanton had said: "rhe man
committed suicide. ! was not inside
the chambers ut the time.
William Carey, n solicitors clerk,
dcpdose that he was looking out of
the office window ON the ground floor
when he saw Mr.. Gilbert Stanton
enter the building, aud heard him run
up the stairs.
About i've minutes afteTward- Ger
tainly when ample time had elapsed
for Mr. Stanton to enter his chambers
-- he heard the explosion.
Eliza Morton, Mr.. stantons laun-
dress, had admitted the deceased ON
the morning in question, and noticed
when leaving that the two gentlemen
were having some words.
His defense wHs that Wild had found
the revolver during his absence that
he was standing outside the door oi
his chambers, as We have described.
when the shot was fired; that although
they had quarreled they we're oh pacific
terms when lac went out aud that ihe
deceased had lett "a written confession
OF his own guilt aud Gllhert's iuna-
cence.
Hat where Was this written comics
sionf Gilbert stanton declared that
he found i on the bed room mantel
piece, but during The excitement ~
the hour hal mYstsrioualy iust ur mls
laid IL. IL had searghed everywhere
ief il. bat without avail
II distinctly remembered thnl, ai
Ter examining ths body. hr PLACED iha
paper on small table in front af him.
aud Rlaneiag ont ed th# nindaa, uaa
policeman ln thr quairaHele II
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and fan daaustasfs ia aH aa ieaf4h
his denr slaf
ia be- rsiaru thf psraf ssA lisa.
peafad Hht he HHfef saa IA afitrsHfE
III ma.l ll'is - sfH hrt failef 4.
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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20

Brigandage has greatly increased in
Spain because of the poverty prevail
ing among the country people.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20
LAPORTE PA, FRIDAY, APRIL 20. 1894

Seventy years ago there was one
homeopathic physician in the United
States, where now there are 80, 900.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-20
The total income of the Church of
England is about 81, 900, 900 week.

Nearly 400 tons of mail matter are
handled daily by New York letter car