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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
A ri liculous Custom.

BIT there is nothing more amusing,
perhaps, in all the quaint and curious
"customs" of the House of Commons
than the strange ceremony which
marks the termination Of it's every sit
ting. The moment tho mouse is adj
journed, stentorian voiced messengers
and policemen cry out in the lobbies
and corridors: "Who goes home?"
These mysterious words have sounded
every night for centuries through tho
Palace of Westminster.
The performance originated at a
time when it was necessary for mem
bers to 60 home in parties for com.
mon protection against the fcotpads
who infested the streets of London.
But, though that danger has long since
passed away, the cry of "Who goes
homer" Is still heard night after
night, receiving no reply, and expect
ing none. e.-Chambers's Journal.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
TWO CORPORATIONS CLASH.

'This bill" protested the man at
the window, ''calls for S2.6l for gas
burned in June, and there wasn't any
body in the house during the entire
month to my certain knowledge"
"'rhe meter tells different story,
sir" replied the cashier ut the gas
company's office, "and we have to go
by the meter; ~. 6l is right
"Well, I'll pay it," said the other.
taking out his pocketbook with great
apparent reluctance. "Your name, l
think, is Ruggles. Here is your ice
bill for last February, amounting to
$2.96. We have called your attention
to it several times, but you have al.
fused to pay it on the ground that you
did not know any ice was left at your
door during that month and you
didn't need it. 1t wasn't our fault if
you didn't know it. The books show
that the ice was left there, and We
have to go by our books. The differ.
ence is thirtY-two cents, and if you
will just hand over the amount"
Here they clinched. Chicago Tri.
bune.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
THIS WAS A GOOD ONE.

"Did I tell you the latest bright
thing my little boy got OFF," asked
Mcbride, as he joined group OF
friends at the club.
"Yes, you did," replied all, in con.
cert, with discouraging unanimity.
''That's where I've caught you, re.
torted Mcbride, "for it only hap
pened last evening. and haven't seen
soul of you fellows since. Besides,
this was really good one."
"Then you haven't told it to us, !"
replied Kilduf, speaking for the
crowd. "Go on"
eyes, stell us quickly" added Skid.
more. "and let us have the agony
over"
Thus encouraged, Mcbride began !:
"You know, boys, little people have
sharp ears, and they are not at all
backward about telling any little
scraps of information they pick up.
This popularity has led good many
parents to resort to spelling words
when their young children are pres
ent. OF course that sort of thing is
of no avail after the youngsters learn
to spell. Well, Mrs. Mcbride and 1
are in the spelling stage now, and
little Freddy is often very much
mystified by our remarks to each
other. Last night we had our new
minister to dinner, aud Freddy
watched the good man helping him
self very literally to biscuits. He
thought it q good opportunity to put
into use the family verbal cipher, feel
ing perfectly certain that the minister
would find it unintelligible. So he
called out, Mammal
".What is it, Freddy?' asked my
wife.
Mamma, isn't the minister o
p-i-gq' spelled ont Freddy, triumph
antly."
The fellows had TO admit that this
story about McBride's boy was really
good one. --Harper's Magazine.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06

This is apparently to be the greatest
corn year ever known, and the season
, is now SO far advanced, according td
contemporary, as to reduce the
chances of disaster to minimum. In
1891 we raised the greatest corn crop
ever grown, but we are going to rem
der it insignificant this year. In 1891
corn covered 76,204,000 acres and
yielded an average OF twenty-seven
bushels to the acre. This year the
corn fields amount to S2,304, 600
acres, or s. 900, 900 more tnan in 1891, /,
and all reports indicate a larger yield
per acre than in that year. But at the
same average yield the crop will
amount to 2, 222, 2O8, ,OO0-two billion
two hundred and twenty-five million
two hundred and eight thousand bush.
els. Corn is worth about fifty cents a
bushel, not only in the markets, but
in the feeding of hogs. This crop will
therefore add Sl,111, 104, 900 to the
country's wealth. Think of it Mere
than a billion dollars of actual wealth
produced in a single year in the shape
of single cropi
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
Baby in a Ten. Inch Well.

The eighteen-months-old child of
Bill Gee, farmer living near Tiger
town, had terrible experience on
Tuesday evening, says the Galveston
News. A ten-inck bored we'll had just
reached depth OF twenty-nine feet.
being near the house, when the little
one went out alone to investigate.
Somehow he managed to fall in feet
first and was impaled upon the end OF
the boring machinery, part of which
was yet in the we'll. The frantic
mother was witness to the horror
and Immediately gave the alarm. The
child could not be gotten out Of the
hole, SO the neighbors were all sum
moned and some eighty of them went
to work digging a great square hole
near the we'll. This being completed
to u depth on level with the child,
tunnel was made from the hole to the
we'll and the child rescued after being
in its perilous condition twenty three
hours. Its plaintive cries, Mamma
mamma, come take me out!" were
heartrending. The child will recover.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
Curious Tyranny.

A newspaper printed at Lubbock,
Germany, gives q curious instance OF
police tyranny in the neighboring
town of Dassow. A poor laboring
woman named Dorothea Bruhn, whose
husband had for many years been bed
ridden, went to the pastor of the town
with request that he would otiiciate
at the burial of one cf her children.
The pastor merely said that he would
see about it, and failed to appear at
The grave at the appointed hour. In
default OF other religious services the
mourning mother recited over the
grave single verse Of hymn ex-
pressing her faith in the child's welfare
in the other world. For doing this
she was reported by Jealous police
man as having violated an ordinance
forbidding any lay person to make a
discourse ut an interment. The Police
Justice found her guilty and she was
fined the sum of little less than 81,
with the alternative on non-payment
of q days imprisonment.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The electric lines in Chicago now
extend over 500 miles.
A metallic ribbon is the latest SUBJ
stitute for bicycle chains.
The only dyes impervious to the
bleaching power OF the suns rays are
Prussian blue and chrome. yellow.
The meat of the herring gives the
muscles elasticity, the body strength
and the brain vigor, and it is not
fiesh.forming.
A mastodon skeleton unearthed in
Border County, Texas, in August.
1894, had tusks attached to the skull
which were ten feet long.
The problem OF employing spirits
for lighting on a new principle similar
to the incandescent gas light is re-
ported to have been successfully solved
by a German.
A French medical authority asserts
that death caused by fall from
great height is absolutely painless.
The mind acts very rapidly for time;
then Inconsistencies ensues.
It is urged that photographers gen.
orally should be prepared to catch
viows Of lightning in order that it
may be studied photographically as
effectively as astronomy is now done.
A new method for identifying hand
writing is reported to have been dis
covered. 1t consists in enlarging the
letters by photography and measur-
ing the alteration due to beating of
the pulse.
One of the most recent projects for
rapid transit is the suspension Of the
cars, the motive power being electrici-
ty. The inventor claims that the
enormous speed of 1856 miles per hour
may be attained.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has discov-
cred that drop of air at a tempera-
ture of minus 180 degrees will freeze
hole through PERSONS hand just as
| quickly as would the same quantity OF
i molten steel or lead.
An expert says that in the nerves at
the finger tips of blind persons we'll
defined cells Of gray matter, in all re-
spects identical with the gray matter
of the brains, are formed. They car
| ry their brains in their hands.
Stag brick chimneys are being tried
abroad. The weight is but half that
of brick. and a special cement binds
together the blocks composing tho
chimney 50 firmly as to require Meth
er chain nor iron band for strength
ening.
It has been pointed out that the
hairs of some caterpillars, prevalent
at this season of the year, may cause
serious inflammation Of the eye, and
impairment of vision. They should
be removed from the eye at once il
introduced there.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
Western Pennsylvania, according to

Western Pennsylvania, according to
the report OF the United States GeoIo-
gical Survey, has twenty.ono or
twenty two bituminous coal seams of
commercial value. DIR. Chance, the
Assistant Geologist of the State Geolo-
gical Survey, estimates the quantity of
coal contained in these seams ut 3d..
SAT, 200, 900 long tons. 1t is estimated
that this supply would not be ex.
hausted for $50 years taking the aver
age annual production for the past
five years, which has been 43, 900, 600
tone
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06

The existence of an international
criminal league, recently discovered
at Brussels, is only another proof that
the world is growing smaller day by
day. Just as with us one State is too
bounded sphere for the exuberant
activities of the artists in the craft oi
appropriating other peoples goods, SO
it is abroad. A European federation
of thieves, secret agents and receivers
of stolen goods has been unveiled.
The headquarters were in London,
where the fence had his quarters.
This is development of the theory
of the solidarity of Nations that is not
reassuring.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
The Chicago Tribune observes tha

The Chicago Tribune observes that
n newspaper reporter named William
Weldon invented the idea of the Obi.
cycle sulky." the record d-breaking
sulky with ball bearings and pneu-
matte tires. He suggested the inno-
vation in a newpaper "fake" article,
not really as a practical thing. The
Tribune bewails the fact that he never
took patent for the idea, thus los.
ing millions. The Tribune il off
scent, however, comments the Path.
finder, for the application of bicycle
wheels to sulky would not to be
patentable. To entitle to patent the
invention must be "novel," and the
Patent Office holds that mere adap.
tation of a device to logical though
new use, is not such "novel" use as
will carry patent.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
The South American Tca.

One of the principal pro lucts OF
Paraguay is the yerba mate, which is
largely used as tea in South America.
It was discovered recently that adult
teration was practised in the com
merce and preparation OF that plant,
and the Minister of the Interior, at
Asuncion, has recently taken severe
measures to detect and punish thos
who practice adulteration. New York
Tribune.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
IN THE ORCHARD.

A lengthening vista Of yellow and green.
With shafts of deep shadows and inlight
between;
The branches, wind-tossed, dapple tree.
trunk and ground,
With ripples Of light on the soft waves Of
sound.
The apple trees old, with arms gnarled and
gray,
Like sentinels grim stand in martial ar
ray.
Their armor Of green disclosing o'erhead
Rich treasures Of fruit shining yellow and
red.
The vanishing point is a crooked rail fence
Where scampers squirrel with malice
prepense;
chattering robin doth hotly pursue
The little red thief and chases him through.
B. E. Jaques, in American Agriculturist.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
The Clock Didn't Hun on Sundays.

A London gossip writes: "The
Aquarium people have organized an
exhibition of curious old clocks and
watches. Among the 1000 examples
acquired are several of special utter
est. OF the general exhibits one of
tho most interesting is a clock built
by pious Scotchman a century and
half ago. To guard against any pos.
sible consequences of breaking the
Sabbath, he 80 constructed it that at
midnight on Saturday it stopped dead,
aud never SO much as licked until
Monday morning began. Jewellers
Circu1ar
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
A LITTLE SONG.

A little cot in little spot,
With a little heaven hath sent;
A little way from that cot each dayS
A song to sing, and word to say;
A little winter--a little May,
And heart content, contentl
A little wife, and q little life
In love and duty spent
A song and sigh as the years go by:
grave, perhaps, where the violets lie;
But heaven on earth and heaven Oh
high
In life and death content!
Frank l.. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
Bismafck,s Gold Chcssboard.

Prince Bismarck was recently the
recipient of handsome present in
the shape of chessboard inlaid with
alternate squares of yellow and milk
white amber laid on an under surface
of gold. The figures, which are mary
elously carved, are also of amber, and
each minute detail is faultlessly car
ried out,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06

When it is remembered that on the
lines of single railroad system in
Georgia there are 2,0SS,00O peach
trees that grow fruit for shipment,
something may be known of the pres
ent magnitude of an industry that
scarcely existed twenty years ago.
The peach belt now extends over the
greater part of the State, and somo
single orchards number 100, 900 trees.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06

Some of the republics south of us
are said to order good deal of rail
road iron from the United States. eff
these States would buy more railroad
iron and fewer guns they would get
q much more comfortably, remarks
Il st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
LAPORTE, Pa, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1895.

ise before she died that, come what
might, I'd see the child mistress Of the
house we'd been driven from here.
My wife was very proud woman, sir
her family claimed descent from Poca-
hontas. I sent the child to q convent
in Paris, and there she's remained
ever since. But she's finished her ed.
ucation, and she's coming home right
now-coming home to her inheritance.
Yes, sir, the estate will be hers in an
hour or SOS time, and with it mat
ter of $50, ZOO. Now, sir, will you
give dying man hand~
81 will do anything that lies within
my power. ;"
"Then find out my daughter" camp
the astonishing reply, "and marry her. :"
Horror struck, the Englishman
started to his feet. Did not this man
realize that he was q murderer, still
red handed?
'My God!' said Old Man Swanlee,
"you are not going to refuse mef"
He stretched out a bony hand and
caught at the others gaiter. ''Heav-
ems, man, think what you are saying.
Think what this means to. mel"
The other turned away his head in
despair.
"It is not much am asking. She's
beautiful. had her photograph sent
me only the other day. She's highly
educated; she's we'll born; she's rich.
What more can young man want in
a wife?"
"But," broke in the Englishman,
desperately, 81 am not free. I met a
girl in Paris while back, and crossed
with her here in the boat from Havre.
Before we landed in New York she had
promised to becom my wife. Inever
could marry any one else. I-er-in
short, love her."
The old mans knotted hands wres-
tied with one another tremulously. ~
see," he said at last, with heavy sigh.
"I should like it to have been, but
what you say is final. Still, sir, you
must do something else for me, if you
will"
Anything that lies within my
power" exclaimed the other eagerly.
"Believe me. anything"
"Then find out my daughter and act
as her guardian. Give her my dying
command to obey you in everything.
and she will do it. See that she has
her rights; guard her from adven-
turers; watch that she marries good
husband, n man that is worthy of her,
one who will treat her WE'LL
The old mans voice had died down
almost to whisper.
His companion stopped over him.
"Iwill do all you ask, " he said earnest
ly. "But you had better tell me now
where shall find Miss Swanlee.
Thanks; you are very good. But
I ought to have told you she is not
bearing that name now. To avoid
complications which arose after the
war I made her take another, which
she will carry until she comes back
here. She was christened Miriam, af-
ter mother, and"
The old mans voice dropped.
Eyes, yes" said the Englishman,
impatiently; "but what was the sur
name?"
"Lee."
"What, Miriam Lee?'
eyes, sir; Miriam Frances Lee"
"Just God! That is the girl to
whom / am engaged!"
The Englishman reeled against tho
table, staring wildly at his host. Old
Man Swanlee had ceased to live, but
the angle Of the hut propped him
against falling. On his grim old face
there was a curious look Of satisfac.
tion. New York Advertiser.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06

In Astrakhan, Russia, the Kalmucks
are dying out They are afflicted by
some mysterious mental disease that
is filling the asylums and hospitals,
and the mortality is 80 great that there
viii probably soon be not Que of the
race left in the district.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
1SrR1cAorEs OF OUR LANGUAGES.

INTKICACIES OF OUR LANGUAGES.
Mother" said Johnnie, after deep
thought, suppose l should knock this
vase off the table and catch it-then /
wouldn't catch it, would II"
"N--n-no, suppose not" his
mother slowly assented.
But, continued Johnnie, still toy
ing with the vase, "If l should knock
it off and not catch it-then would
catch it, wouldn't ~"
"Yes, you would, his mother grimly
returned, this time with quick decis.
ion. .-Rockland Tribune.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06

The San Francisco Examiner be.
lieves that the English habit of carry
ing ones wife into nm active political
campaign could be adopted in this
country without the wife being pelted
with stale cabbage or an out-of-date
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
it is not mast

Herbert Spencer takes gloomy
view of the future. He believes the
world is approaching an era Of State
socialism, (which" he says, twill be
the greatest disaster the world has
ever known"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06

The Chicago Times Herald offers
four prizes, aggregating $4,000, for
the best American inventions in the
line of "horseless carriages. They
must be ready to run from Chicago to
Milwaukee in November.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
A GREAT SACRIFICE.

Miss Uppercrust -"She's awfully
self-sacrificing. Do you know, she
stayed away from church last Sunday
in order to sit with sick friend"
Mr.. Cynicus ST don't see anything
so self sacrificing in that.
Miss Uppercrust-"Yes; but she
had just got new dress and hat. -
New York Ledger.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06

1t appears that canned horse meat
is really to como on the market. It is
said, in the New York Sun, to be
sweetish and not SO good as dog, but
it is not nasty.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
Old DSWANLEE'S DAUGHTER

WO men were rid
ing tired horses
down an lll-flefned
trail through North
Carolina WOO d g.
The one was a New
Y ork r-k e o n,
alert, dark haired
and chronically one
day behind with
his shaving, His
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
NE1auBoRLY FEELING.

Fond Parent -"She's got lot of
music in her."
Sarcastic Neighbor-"Yes. What a
pity it's allowed to escape. Truth.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
HE WANTED TO KNOW.

he WANTED TO KNOW.
Little Clarep ,e-"Pa?"
Mr.. Callipers -"Well, my son?"
Little Clarence spa, which is the
biggest nuisance mau who talks
in his sleep or the man who sleeps in
his talk ?"-Truth.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD By THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

After Tribute-Noighborl Feeling
Enthusiastically Afiicted-The
Small Boys Idea, ETC., Etc.
Come let us wander DER the mead
This pleasant summer day;
Let's watch the bovine at his feed,
The farmers toss the hay;
And through the clover let us stray,
o summer girl--and
The usual tribute sweet will pay
When coming through the rye.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
INsTANTER.

Thomas they named the
twins over at your house yet?"
John-"Yep; pa called them Thun-
der and lightning as soon as he heard
about them. Puck.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06

Marriage seems to the New York
Mail and Express to be a failure in
Switzerland, where one divorce is
granted for every twenty-five we'd
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
THE SMALL BOYS IDEA.

THE SMALL BOYS IDEA.
Boy-'I want to buy some paper.
Dealer "What kind of paper?"
Boy--"1 guess you better gimme
fly paper. l want to make kite. -
Philadelphia Record.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-06
DouBLY AFFLICTED.

"Hi, Jimmy. wot's de matter?"
s'Back's blistered.
"Swimmin' or lickin'?"
'Both. Chicago Record.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-27
BALTIMORE AND THE SOUTH.

Writing under lis caption the Balti-
more American, In Its last issue, says:
IF Baltimore'S trade with the South
were taken away, we would have tn
close up at least one-fourth Of our job
bling and mercantile establishments;
we would lose several of our important
transportation lines, and thousands OF
merchants and employees would be out
of work. The loss would be from one
to two hundred millions Of dollars an
nually."
This Is q frank admission from an
| unlocked for source, and one that is
full OF meaning. Baltimore has been
practically built Up by Southern pa
| tronage, and we'll may the American
say that to lose 1t Baltimore would
have to close up ut least one fourth OF
| Its jobbing and mercantile establish
| ments. The American was led TO the
remark in its enGeavors to have It's
city we'll represented at the Atlanta
Exposition on Maryland Day. from
which 1t thinks much good will come
Continuing, our contemporary says;
1T will be valuable checkmatc to
Chicago's heroic effort to gather IN
| Southern customers. Baltimore can
hold her own II she keeps widcawake
and uses modern methods. Not only can
she hold her own but she can double her
present trade; and undoubtedly the in
crease of transportation facilities from,
this point to Southern States Is the
| recognition by the railroad men and
capitalists OF that fact. The South is
the coming section of the country, and
| Baltimore has before her one OF the
finest opportunities an American city
| has ever known"