The Daily Republican from Monongahela, Pennsylvania • Page 2

A LAPP WEDDING. LITTLE BOYS AJ(D Feoflb intend to do their best, but omehow they do nothing during the day they can think of without regret boy of (be family bant into the room, pale and speechleM with fright the acute mind of the lover quickly Sivined the situation. "Firer be yelled. The boy nodded and pointed to the door. "George!" wailed the tender girl in A Jealous Cow.

A few years ago I had qniet milch eow, Rose, which was fond of Thomas, the stableman, and alto showed an aversion to dogs. One morning I had just begun to dress when I beard my puppy barking in the cowshed. The next minute I heard a roar of unmietakeable fear and anguish a human roar. I The Iatense Coldness of Space. We rarely realize, I think, how easily the earth parts with its beat, end how cold apace is through which the earth sweeps in its orbits.

Nor do we commonly appreciate how relentlessly space sucks away the heat which the earth has garnered from the sunbeams, out into its illimitable depths. 'Way out in space is a cold so intense that we fairly fail to grasp its meaning. Perhaps 300 or 400 degrees below the freezing point of water, some philosophers think, are the dark recesses beyond our atmosphere. And night and day, summer and winter, this insatiate space is robbing us of our heat, and fighting with demoniac power to reduce our globe to its own bitter chill. So, after all, our summer and winter temperatures are only maintained by the residue of the sun's heat which we have been able to store up and keep hold of in spite of the pitiless demands of space.

Otr margin sometimes gets so reduced on nights in winter that we can readily believe the astronomers and physicists when they tell us that a reduction of the sun's heat by seven per cent, and a slight increase in the number of winter days would suffice to bring again to our hemisphere a new Age of Ice, with its inevitable desolation. Tha balance is ieally a nice one between the heat we daily gather from the sun and the share of it which we lose in space. Harper's when they are atone at nignu Teacher (to class) Put this ex pression in a different way: "Storm follows calm." Small boy (whose father is not a teetotaler) Racket comes after a auii." Everything is possible in this country. But supposing it happened that a man who was once a messenger boy should be nominated for President, would he run? It was a great judge of whom another English Judge said, Infuriated by his self-satisfied aspect, "There 'e coes. the old 'umbug, nmming a yarn.

Ow I ate 'im!" It is announced that Sir Arthur Sullivan has so far regained his health as to be able to attend a Wagner opera. This is good evidence that Sir Arthur is not only convalescent but husky. The Philadelphia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has discovered that when a street car horse in that city shows signs of being overcome by the heat the driver doses the beast with copious draughts of whisky. Philadelphia has long been known as a bad, wicked town, bat nobody ever suspected that she had descended to such depths as this. The demon of Intemperance is after her at a lively gait and he seems to be traveling on horseback, too.

Belva Ann Lockwood is very much opposed to any military display at the opening of the Columbian Exposition. In the July number of the American Journal of Politics she demands a display of olive branches, plowshares and pruning-hooks instead of the "pomp and circumstance ot glorious war." As Belva has never been able to get everything she has wanted, she may as well brace herself for another disappointment. The rest of the world wants to know bow our soldiers look and our soldiers want to be looked at. A NxniBEii of people possess what may be called an aptitude for injury. They not only accept it at every turn and receive it at every pore but actually seem to hunt it up and lie in wait for it.

Nothing falls that does not hit them; nothing breaks that does not hurt them; nothing happens In any way that they do not reap a golden harvest of wrong from it These people are miserable, as a matter ol course that goes without saying; but they would be utterly and hopelessly miserable if they could not at any moment scrape the subsistence of an injury together to solace some heavy hour despite of their excitement. IT is authoritatively announced that the base-ball season is a failure. This is largely due to the rains that have prevailed. But there are also Indications of a dearth of interest in the games. Men do not watt eagerly for base-ball returns as they did sev-1 eral years ago.

They are not baseball mad. But, while there is manifestly less interest in base-ball than there was, the subsidence is not in amateur or non-professional playing. There is nothing to indicate that the passion mat, orings a crowd into a vacant lot at any time of day to play ball or to watch others play is subsiding. The rains have not quenched its ardor in the least or modified the enchantment. It is simply ball-playing as a business that the public is a little tired ot Even if the big clubs of professionals were to go out of existence the game of base-ball would be likely to continue in high favor QUEQR MARRIAGE CEREStO.

JHEB IN REINDEER liANO. Touching Noses and Bowing Pro lasely Feasting While the BrkSe is Crying and the Groom Is Turned Oat ol Door. OT curious- of the wed ding ceremonies of. tne world are those practiced the people of Northern Lapland," said Dr. George H.

Boehmer, of the Smithsonian Institution, to a writer for the Washington Star. "The groom arrives with his parents and friends at the village where the prospective bride resides and the parents take charge of the reindeer of the visitors. Thereupon the latter, though not a ac companied by the groom, call at tne house of the girl, with whoso father ana mother they touch noses. Bowing three times they request permission to say something, and this being granted they express their thanks for the privilege and again bow thrice. They then pro duce a large bottle of Russian wine, which they have brought with them, and fill glasses of it for the parents of the young lady, who, before drinking, make three bows, and with three fingers touch their shoulders and chests three times.

After having par taken of the wine also, the visitors re turn thanks for the courtesy shown them, which in reality expresses the ac ceptance of the young man by the girl's family. A refusal on their part to drink would indicate that he was not accept able to them as a son-in-law. "This concludes the ceremony of the first day. On the next morning a feast is spread in the house occupied by the young man, to which the girl's relatives are invited by delegations ol tne groom friends, who call upon them three times, each time extending an invitation and receiving thanks for the courtesy. The relatives of the bride that is to be all re pair to the feast except the girL who remains sitting and crying in a corner of her paternal dwelling while the banquet lasts.

After numerous bowings and ex changes of 'nose-kisses, the guests are given the places of honor, the men oc cupying one side of the table ana the women the other, while the parents of the young man stand at the door. The latter then pour out glasses of wine for the parents aud brothers oi the girl three times in succession. Eating and drinking being finished, all shake hands 1 1 1 i auu Kiss mil uruss cacu ui.ut.-i a vuccus. The groom's relations are asked to as semble at the house of the bride on the next day and the second day's ceremony is thus brought to a close. i "On the third day the father of the Krirl prepares a feast in his house, to Iwhich he invites all of his relatives.

The girls assemble and weep with the bride, whose bead and eyes they cover with a veil. When the relatives and mends of the groom arrive money is demanded of them at the, door, and this being paid according to the circumstances of the groom a second demand for money is addressed to ithem at the inner door. Payment having been made they enter and find themselves confronted by three of the cirl's relatives, who ask them to leave the house at once. The groom and his companion then retire, and, hav ing heaped snow upon their heads and shoulders, they return into the bouse say ing that they have been unable to endure the severity of the snow storm outside. Nevertheless they are turned out a sec ond time, but on returning onoe again they are permitted to stay aud are given eats of honor, after having bowed to everv one present The bride's friends offer wine, and eating and drinking con tinue all through the day, the girl and her female friends not participating in any of the festivities, but continuing to weep in the corner occupied by them.

'Eating and drinking being finished, all present bow aud rub noses, complete confidence having been established on both sides. The groom then takes a seat next to the bride and, lifting her veil, takes a look at her face. Presently he rises and leaves, and the same cere mony is repeated by the young man's father, mother and friends. They then address the young woman father, saying, 'Have we now received this girl from To which he replies, 'You have, indeed. Now, do as you please, whether you burn out her eyes or use her lor anvthinz vou choose.

I have no lonzer any power over my daughter. The girls attempt to dress the bride in her traveling costume, beginning by takins? off the clothes which she has worn in her father's house. However, the bride makes this task difficult by kicking, jumping and shrieking, so that they are finally obliged to dress her by force, putting on her a veil, which she must wear until after she has arrived at her destination. Two of her girl friends then conduct her to the reindeer sleieh, in which has already been stowed her personal property. Wrapping her in a blanket they fasten her securely iu thr sleigh, placing upon her head a loaf oi bread.

On arnvin: at the erooin home the bride is conducted into hf future dwelling. The loaf of bread is taken by the groom's mother, who throws it into the house, saying, "Here thou shalt be mistress Largest Elevator la the World. The largest grain -elevator in the world os built at Minneapolis Junction in 18S6. The main building is 330 feet long, 92 feet wide and 175 feet high. Its storing capacity is 2,000,000 bushels of grain.

During iU construction tho carpenters and joiners used 12,500,000 feet of lumber of all kinds, besides thirty-two carloads of nails. These nails tilled 10,000 common nail kegs, and best calculators say that there wcro but littlo short of 50,000,000 of them driven into the immense structure. Philadelphia Press. While thcro oro now 1,000,000 Hebrews in the United States, there art over 5,000,000 in Russia. THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF THE PAPER.

Quaint Sayings sad Doing of Llttl pnaa Gathered and Mated Here tow Other UtU Folk to Bead. Flaying; School. My dollies dear, please listen now To what I have to say, I'm going to put you all In school And teach you every day. There my children, take your seats; Don't you hear the bell? All ready? Now I shall begin To teach you bow to spelL Lily, will you please spell oa? An easy word, you know. C-A-T, cat; that's very well; Now, Marjorle, spell crow.

You can't? What is the matter, dear? Next mav SDell the same; You too? Why do you hang your heads? As though you were in shame Why, Daisy Deane, you naughty child. To go to sleep In school; Don't you know that such a thing Is quite against the rule? No? Tbon I'll tell you that It's true. What? tired, do you say? Well, guess I'm tired a bit myself, So run along and Dlav. Henry Eastman Lower, In Our Country. The Broken Saw.

A boy went to live with a man who was accounted a hard master. He or gave notice they meant to quit, so he was half his time without or in search of a boy. The work was not very hardopening and sweeping out the shop, chopping wood, going errands, and helping round. At last Sam Fisher went to live with him. "Sam's a good boy," said his mother, "I should like to see a boy nowa days that had a spark of goodness in him," growled the new master.

It is always bad to begin with a man wbo has no confidence in you, because, do your best, you are likely to have little credit for it However, Sam thought he would try. The wages were good, and his mother wanted him to go. Sam had been there but three days before, in saw ing a cross-grained stick of wood, he broke the saw. He was a little frightened. He knew he was care ful, and he knew he was a pretty good sawyer, too, for a boy of his age; nevertheless, the saw broke in his bands.

"Mr. Jones will thrash you for it," said another boy, who was in the wood house with him. "Why, of course I didn't mean it, and accidents will happen to the best of folks," said Sam, looking with a very sorrowful air on the broken saw, "Mr. Jones never makes allow ances, said the other boy. 1 never saw any thing like him.

That Bill might have stayed, only he jumped into a hen's nest and broke her eggs. He daren't tell of it; but Mr. Jones kept suspecting, and suspecting, and laid everything out of the way to BilL whether Bill was to blame or not, till Bill couldn't stand it, and wouidn't. "Did he tell Mr. Jones about the eggs?" asked Sam.

"No," said the boy, "he was afraid Mr. Jones has got such a temper," "I think he'd have better owned up at once, said Sam. "I suspect you'll find it better to preach than to practice," said the boy. "I'd run away before I'd tell him." And he soon turned on his heel and left poor Sam alone with his broken saw. The poor boy did not feel very com fortable or happy, lie shut up the woodhouse, walked out into the gar den and went up to his little cham ber under the eaves.

He wished he could tell Mrs. Jones, but she wasn't sociable. When Mr. Jones came into the house the hoy heard him. He got up, crept down stairs, and met Mr.

Jones in the kitchen. "Sir," said broke your saw, and I thought I'd come and tell you before you saw it in the morning." "What did you get up to tell me for?" asked Mr. Jones. "I should think morning would be time enough to tell of your carelessness." "Because," said Sam, "I was afraid if I put it off I might be tempted to lie about it. I am sorry I broke it, but I tried to be carefuL" Mr.

Jones looked at the boy from head to foot, then, stretching out his hand: "There, Sam," he said, heart ily, "give me your hand; shake hands. I'll trust you, Sara. That's right, that's right Go to bed, boy. Never fear. I'm glad the saw broke; it shows the mettle's in you.

Go to bed." Mr. Jones was fairly won. Never were better friends after that than Sam and he. Sam thinks justice had not been done Mr. Jones.

If the boys had treated him honestly and "above-board," he would have been a good man to deal with. It was their conduct which soured and made him suspicious. I do not know how that is. I only know that Sam Fisher finds in Mr. Jones a kind master and a faithful friend.

Scotch tract. A Wlrkod Little Brother. It was verging toward 10 o'clock and the devotod young people had enjoyed the exclusive use of the front parlor for a matter of two hours, when suddenly there was a sound as of the hurried movement of feet be-low-stairs. "What's that?" he exclaimed, palp ably alarmed. The sound grew rapidly louder and more confused.

"Mercyr gained sue, tne roses on her cheek fading noticeably. Ills arm no longer rested lightly about her waist: his eyes no longer looked softly into hers. He was scared. Ulslng hastily, he stood listening to the Increasing uproar. An instant later a puff of smoke shot through the keyhole of the door and the next they knew the small an agony of terror.

She tottered forward and sank upon the sofa. The sighing swain heeded her not. "Run for your lives," shrieked he, and was gone. Like a madman he rushed from his sweetheart, ran swiftly through the corridors and away. As his fleeing footsteps SDunded on the front piazza the small boy laughed scornfully.

"Mame," he observed, "there aint no fire. The fainting girl promptly resumed an upright posture upon the word and glared fiercely. "No," proceeded the flower of the family, "I just had cook make a big noise downstairs while I blew smoke through the key-hole." "You little imp!" The boy looked triumphantly haughty. "Mame, do you remember last night?" She gasped. "When that feller told you it would be the pride of his life to protect you in a real danger?" Her lips parted but no sound came.

"Oh, I heard him, all right." Flushed with anger she frantically clutched the chair. "Mame, that feller's no good. He's a bluffer, thought so an It was by a very narrow margin that he escaped and only temporarily at that The next day he was sub jected to violence and contumely, but through it all he had the comfortable consciousness of having been indorsed. Detroit Tribune. Bel's Little Adventure.

One morning little Bel was sent by her mamma to the "button store" to match a spool of silk, says the Doll's Dressmaker. She had often been trusted on such errands though only 4 years old, and very proud she used to feel as she trugged along "helping mamma." "Be sure and get just that shade of blue and come right back, little daughter," said mamma, as she kissed her good -by. "Yes, ma'am," was the sturdy answer. Now on the way to the "button store" there was a fruit stand, and Bel often used to look at it with longing eyes. This morning she saw something she had not seen for a long time great, beautiful red bananas.

If Bel liked anything in the world it was a banana. She wondered how much they would cost Then she thought she would ask. "Five cents." Why, she had just 5 cents in her fat fingers that very minute! Before you could think, she hadn't 5 cents at all, but had the banana instead. Do you think she went right home? Jot she. She marched straight to the button store, and standing on tiptoe reached her sample above the counter, say ing: 'My mother wants a spool of silk like this." The lady smiled down at the mlte, matched the silk carefully, and hand ed it to her.

'Fank you," said Bel. She never forgets her manners. "But, little girl," called the lady, 'didn't your mamma send any money for the silk?" "Yes'm; but I buyed a banana." And before the lady could stop laughing she was on the street, hur rying nome, ir you win believe it, it was a long time before mamma could convince her little girl that she bad been naughty. The Modern Tooth. Fresh from his recent revelations as to the inevitable results of higher education on the woman of the future, Sir James Crichton Browne, who presided yesterday over a meet ing of the British Dental Associa tion, has felt it his painful duty to call attention to the lamentable condition of the tooth of the present The picture he draws is truly deso lating, and it is all the more so in that it is founded on the relentless basis of actual investigation.

Out of 1,861 children under 12, recently examined, the proportion of those blest with normal or perfect teeth, in need of neither extracting nor filling, was only one in eighteen. Even more alarming are the dental statistics of Leeds, where 90 per cent, of the teeth of the population are bad. Furthermore. Sir James stated that no fewer than 10,000,000 of artificial teeth are used in En gland annually. Of the three causes to which Sir James Crichton Browne attributed the present parlous condi tion of the human tooth soft food, high pressure and vitiated atmosphere the first, at least, is by no means an inevitable condition of latter-day life.

On the other hand, the nervous tension of modern existence and the growth of large towns are factors which cannot be eliminated from the great dental problem, and are bound to exert an increasingly destructive influence on the type of the coming man. We arc rapidly tending toward an era of total baldness, and this, it seems, is to bo further aggravated by tooth- lessness. There is an ancient Greek legend of the daughters of Phorcys, who had only one eye and one tooth among them. Thts, we take it. must have been a prophetic view of the results of culture and civilization on the woman of the future-London Globe.

The movement that has sprung up oil over the country for good roads Is now taking the shape of a demand that there be a road-making exhibit of some kind at the World's Fair. If it Is merely frightful examples that are needed Illinois can furnish all ol them. dashed down stairs, and at the same moment arrived my son pitch-fork in hand. There lay Thomas on his face in a dry gutter by the side of the road to the cow-house and the cow butting angrily at him. We drove off the cow and poor Thomas scuffled across the road, slipped through a wire fence, stood up and drew breath.

"Well, Thomas," said "what's the matter with Rose?" "Well, sir," said Thomas, "I heard the pup bark and untied him, and I was just coming out of the cow-house with the pup in my arms when Rose came round the corner. She knocked me down and would have killed me." Thomas had, indeed, had a narrow escape; his trousers were ripped up from end to end, and red marks all along his legs showed where Rose's hora3 had grazed along them. "Well," said "you'd better not milk her this morning, since she's in such a fury." "Oh, I'll milk her right enough sir, by-and-by; just give her a littlo time to settle down," said Thomas. "It's only jealously of that 'ere pup, sir. She couldn't abide seeing me a fondling of it." In about twenty minutes Thomas called me down to see the milk.

The cow had stood quiet enough to be milked. But the milk was deeply tinged with blood, and in half an hour a copious red pre cipitate had settled to the bottom of the pail. Till then I had doubted the jealousy theory. After that I believed. London Spectator.

Foji-saa, the Saered Mountain of Japan All the mountains of Japan are of un questioned volcanic origin, and Fuji stands where Hondo, the mam island, is broadest. About twenty craters are still active throughout the islands, but Fuji-Ban belongs to the much greater number which are now inactive. Its last eruption occurred in 1707, continuing more than a month. As far away as Tokyo, sixty miles northeast, the ashes fell to a depth of seven or eight inches; while on the Tokaido, twelve or fifteen miles southeast, the accumulation was six feet. At this time was formed Ho-yei-san, a secondary or parasitic cone on the south east slope.

No other mountains in Japan reach within three thousand feet of the eleva tion of Fuji, and it is therefore in prom inent view lroai an immense area, in eluding thirteen provinces of the Em pire. uertam avenues Tokyo are called Fuji-mi, or Fuji-viewing streets, and from all of them the famous peak is a glorious spectacle. All winter long the summit of Fuii-san is unapproach able, and from November to July snows reign supreme. In the latter month, however, when the trails up the nioun tain slopes are laid bare, the ascent be comes feasible, and remains so through out the summer and early autumn. Century.

Pishing For Sponges. The British Consul, in his report on the trade of Tripoli, remarks that the sponge fishery on that coast is entirely in the hands of Greeks, and is carried on by means of numerous small craft, em ploying about 700 men amongst them. The fishing takes place in the summer months only, and is effected by machine boats provided with proper diving ap paratus, or by trawlers and harpoon boats. Last season there were twenty- one diving machines in use. These, as the divers have time to select and cut them, naturally secure the best sponges, but the trawl nets and harpoon boats, which can only fish in comparatively (hallow waters, to a greater or less extent damage the sponges by tearing them from the bottom.

The best sponges ar found to the westward of Tripoli, the quality becoming inferior toward the east. The diviug is dangerous owing to the presence of sharks and other acci dents to be met with, such as remaining too long under the water or dmnz be yond the proper limits, which often ex hausts the divers and proves fatal to them. English Mechanic. Disinfecting Food for Russians. Disinfection has been used recently for an unusual, if not novel, purpose in Russia.

Owing to the need for food for the starving peasantry, committeos were appointed for the purpose of organizing a collection of scraps left after the meals in the large cities. Many such scraps were collected from hospitals as well as from social gatherings. Thus arose the alternative of conveying contagious diseases to the peasants whom it was in tended to benefit, or of destroying the food. In the face of the terrible scarcity in the country, the latter alternative was clearly to be avoided if possible, so the question was referred to the Bacteriologi cal Institution of Odessa for solutioo, which came to the rescue with the suggestion that morsels of bread left over bv persons infected with contagious diseases should be dried at a temperature ot 250 degrees or be submitted to a current of steam of similar temperature for at least one hour, when they would be thoroughly disinfected. The London Hospital.

The Nitrate of Soda Beds. On a vast arid plain of tableland in Northern Chile, formerly Southern Peru, in the provinco of Tarapaca, between the Andes and the ocean. On this plain are vast deposits of nitrato of soda. It lies in strata 500 yards wide and about eight feet thick and in hollows looking like dried-up lakes, whose sides are coated aud bottoms covered with tho nitrate underlying common salt. This soda is purified at tho const by solution, separation from sand and recrystallizi- tion, aud is then shipped to Europe aud the United States.

Detroit Frco Magazine. Glass Has a Mysterious Origin. There is little known in regard to the invention of glass. Some of the oldest specimens are Egyptian, and are traced to about 1500 years before Christ. Transparent glass is believed to have first been used about 750 years before the Christian era.

The credit of the invention is given by the ancient writers to the Phoenicians, a party of whom were driven ashore near the mouth of the River Belus, and lighted a fire with kali, a plant which grew there abundantly. They noticed that the sand, when mingled with tha ashes of this plant, melted into a vitreous substance. Among the first cities noted for the manufacture of glass were Tyre and Sidon. There is every reason to believe, however, that the world owes the art of glass-making to the Egyptians, who carried the art to the highest perfection; and that the glassworks at Disopohs, capital of the The-boid, formed the first regular manufactory of it. Glas3 was introduced into Rome in the time of Cicero, and some of the most beautiful specimens were made before the Christian era.

During the middle aes the Venetians were the most famous makers of fine glassware, and fter them the Bohemians. Thoush the att of making glass and blowing it into all sorts of shapes was known so early, it was not used for windows until about A. D. 300. Detroit Free Press.

Burial Alive for Indian Lepers. Surgeon General Sir William Moore does not think that the terrible disease leprosy is more prevalent in India now than it was in former years, in spite of the impression to the contrary which led to the appointment of the commission now investigating this subject. Railways, it is observed, have enabled lepers to flock to the large centres where they find better opportunities of living on alms. The only reason which may have increased the number of lepers is, he believes, the suppression by the British Government of what is called "sutnajh," or the burial alive of lepers, which was formerly a common practice. This horrible remedy for the leper's sufferings was, we are told, always adopted with the consent of the leper himself, who, frequently declaring to his relatives and friends that he was tired of life, would ask them to perform "sumajh." Then a hole was and the leper escorted to the grave with flig3, drums, "tom-toms," and other native musical instruments.

The leper was simply placed in the hole in a sitting posture, and the earth filled in. London News. An Insect Terror. A strange spider, it is reported, ha3 appeared ia great numbers in the lowlands and valleys about Ilermosillo, Mexico, and is giving the natives greas alarm. It is peculiarly ferocious and manifests no fear of anything, not hesitating to give chase to men who disturb it.

It is considerably larger than the tarantula, common in those regions, and is terribly poisonous. Three deaths have been lately reported from its bite. It is a hairy insect and has Ws as large as a pipe stem. It runs with remarkable agility, aud climbs the stick or whip toward the hand of any one who strikes at it. It is a newcomer to the section, and so far no one has been found who has seen it before.

One of the deaths was that of a Mexican who wo3 riding alont? and saw one of the spiders. He struck at it with his whip, and before he could drop the whip the spider was at his hand and had bitten him. lie died within three hours in great agony. The spiders hop along the ground in great leaps toward the object of their attack. New Orleans Picayune.

Chinese Engagements. A Chinese engagement dates its bo- ginning from tho exchango of red cards between the parents ot tuc contracting parties. These cards in many districts are immense documents, aunost tne siza of a horse blanket. They are important, for the reason that they are used as evi dence in caso of disagreements in tho fnturc. We seldom henr in China of broken engagements.

et if a quarrel cannot be settled peacefully recourse is had to the law, aud the Judge usually imposes a fine upon the party who has broken tho contract. The chief incident in a Chinese mar- ria'O is tho arrival of the bride iu her bridal clothes beforo tho house of her chosen one. That is a defneto fulGlmout of tho contract. The weddioz dnv is determined by the parents of the groom. Tho Imperial calendar names tho lucky days, and on such tho so-callei red celebrations take place, both in tho cities aud country.

Now York World. The gresn goods men have by some occult reasoning come to the conclusion that the crop of suckers for 1892 is unusally large and rank, and that Chicago has a full share of the product During the last few days a great number of people who flatter themselves in mild way that they are disposed to be honest and respectable, have received the old moss-grown, vine-clad circulars, in Which they are asked to disregard conscience, forego honesty, and buy 13,000 with $300, and become rich tike their neighbors. men grow rich honestly," the circular recites. This is particularly true ot the green goods men. The art of selling counterfeit money has not improved in years.

The original green goods man had some ingenious and really clever Ideas. The printed extract purporting to be from a New York newspaper, which relates how the counterfeiter escaped because his money was made from plates stolen from the Treasury Department and was as good as genuine, was very unique before it was bowed down with old age and covered with wrinkles. But he is a very young man or a hopeless case of aged Imbecility wbo will fall into the badly constructed trap the confidence man now opens up. The green good sharps have not evolved anything new, and if it were not fur the occasional news of a farmer who has succumbed to a bad case of gold brick, and the frequent report of the idiot who "didn't know it was thoy probably become dlscouragcd'und retire from the Held..