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That is the fact that reciprocity treaties almost identical with what are now proposed were negotiated with Spain, for trade with Cnba and Porto Rico, in 18S4. This instrument provided for the admission to Cnba and Porto Rico of all the agricultural products of the United States, with two exceptions, and of a long list of manufactured products. The two exceptions were wheat and flour, on which duties were to be levied of 14 cents per bushel on wheat, the present duty being $1 35, and 51 65 per barrel on flour, the present duty being $5 83. A variety oi reasons are assigned for the shelving of this treaty, which would have given us free sugar and an almost complete control of trade with Cnba and Porto Rico. Each reason is clearly colored by the politi cal views of those advancing it An equal variation of opinion regarding the effect of the fact on Mr. Blaine's policy is shown. One side sees in it a destrnction of any claim to originality in Air. Blaine's views; the other brings it forward as evidence that Mr. Blaine is simply carrying out the settled Republican policy, taking it up where it was lelt off by the Arthur administration. It might be salutary, if possible, to find out what the influences were which induced the strangling of a treaty which is now so obvi ously for the commercial welfare of this country; but any personal aspects in its connection are of slight moment beside its clear indication as to the present policy to - be pursued. It is, very plainly, not necessary to arrest the present legislation for the reduction of the sugar duties. To do so wonld be to postpone both the reduction and the early realization of reciprocity. On the other hand, Spaia six years ago, showed her re? Jiness to exchange the abolition of duties m American products in Cuba and Porto Rico for the similar abolition of our duties ou the products of these islands, and tier subsequent imposition of prohibitory dnties on flour is now cut in the evident light of retaliation. It is very probable, therefore, that the repeal of sugar duties by this Government wonld evoke a similar action by Spain, as regards our trade with the Spanish "West Indies. Bnt we need not rely exclusively on that probability. The amendment of Senator Pierce to the tariff bill meets the important requirements of the reciprocity policy, and harmonizes it with the policy of cheapening sugar to the consumers of this country. It provides for the reduction at present; bnt, ir after a year any sugar producing country imposes discrim nati'jg duties on our agricultural products, the President will have power to order the restoration of the duty on the sugar pro duced by that country. Such a proviso makes it almost certain that before the year is out the dnties which shut the Havana markets to our products will be removed, and the cost of sngar reduced to the con sumers of the' United States by nearly 40 per cent. It is hard to see what objection there can be to any.such harmonizing of the two poli cies, except from those who are interested in keeping the sugar duties as they are, or from the others who can see nothing in this ques tion except the advancement or pushing into the background of rival political am bitions. NOT A POPULAR REFOR31. - Chicago is agitating a popular movement to bring the street railway companies to terms, with regard to over-crowded cars, by a general refusal of those who cannot get seats to pay their fares. It is urged that the contract of transportation implies the right of the passenger to a seat; and that if the public re use to pay unless they have seats, it would very soon bring the companies to the point of putting on cars enough to pro vide seats for every one. Although snch a regulation is enforced by law in Paris, it is not likely to work in this country. The controlling motive -of the average American is to get there in the shortest time, and nine out of every ten of him wonld prefer to stand up in the first car that comes alone than wait five minutes for a seat in the next car. He would just as soon stand in the car as on the side walk and by doing so he will get his trip over just so much sooner. When we are ready to pay dividends on hundreds of tbonsands of dollars largely water to shorten the time of our daily trips five or ten minutes, is it likely that the hasty American will give thai five or ten "minutes to waiting for a car that has empty seats? Certainly the Pittsburg public shows so disposition to go into such a movement. Our people are more inclined to quarrel with the cable car companies for the per emptory manner with which the gripman waves tbem to the next car and reluses them the poor privilege of hanging to the step for a dozen squares. "While the ultimate result of a "no seat, no fare" movement might be the provision of more cars, its im mediate result would be that the cars would roll past when the scats were filled; and that bas already been demonstrated to be provocative of profanity on the part of the Pittsburg passenger. Reforms which depend on a popular movement that will indefinitely lengthen the time before you get to going on the cable car may as well shut up shop In this coun try. They.do not appeal to the American qnality of going by the first conveyance, whether standing up or sitting down. IRE BEHRING SEA 8NAKL. The Behring Sea correspondence between the United States and Great Britain, which The Dispatch publishes to-day,thows that the situation is really much more serious than has been suspected. The reports sent out a week or two ago that the negotiations were broken off are very nearly substantiated by the correspondence. The last letter of Sec retary Blaine, written so late as the 19th of July, leaves the whole affair in as bad a tangle as ever, and the publication of the correspondence will keep the country in a condition of anxiety and suspense until the reply of the British authorities is received. This last letter of Secretary Blaine must be regarded as his ultimatum, that he cannot recede from his position that the Behring Sea is a mare clausum. On this question there is a wide diversity of opinion which is not limited to party lines. Many of those who have made some study of the question are of the opinion that Mr. Blalne posi tion cannot be maintained, others with more enthusiasm, but probably less information, evince a disposition to stand by the Secre tary right or wrong. It is believed that Secretary Blaine and Representative Hitt had an understanding in regard to the resolntion asking for the correspondence, Mr. Blaine's purpose being to get the correspondence before the country and secure a serious and general expression of public opinion, and in this be will un doubtedly succeed. The correspondence needs more careful reading than at this time is possible before an opinion can be expressed. The question undoubtedly re quires delicate treatment, but there is no good reason why this country and England should not find a pacific solution to it TBE DIVERSION OF FUNDS. In reply to the assertion that if the United Stitcs Treasury uses the national bank re demption lund to pay current expenses, it will be laying hands on funds that belong to other people, and will create a new debt by a forced loan, the Chicago Tribune de nies it with the following argument: The Government does of course take upon itself the redemption of the national bank notes as tbsy come in, but for every dollar of responsibility so assumed it bas a dollar paid in by the banks. The Governmentneither loses nor gains by the change, bnt the people will have the benefit of alargeamonntof money now locked up In a redemption f nnd being thrown into circulation. This indicates a remarkable degree of mathematical confusion by the esteemed Tribune, and is equivalent to a declaration that it a business man has a sum of money raised for the payment of specified obliga tions, and spends it all in extravagant living, leaving the obligations unpaid, be "neither loses nor gains by the transaction." At present the condition ot the Treasury is as the Tribune states it It has undertaken the payment of $50,000,000 of national bank notes, and it has $50,000,000 which the national banks have paid in for that pnrpose. One sum exactly balances the other. But suppose that it spends the $50,000,000 to meet the ex travagant appropriations. Then it will have the obligation of $0,000,000 for the re demption or the notes, and it will possess no money to pay for it To whatever extent this fund is drawn upon it is the diversion of funds from their legal purpose, and it is the creation of a new debt by very question able methods. A further effort to becloud the subject is made by the argument that this fund will be used to buy bonds, and that the Treasury will hold the bonds and thus be exactly as well off as it was before. That may be all very well; if the bonds are held in the fund to redeem the national bank notes and con verted into cash as the notes are presented. But if these bonds are held in the bank note redemption fund, tbey cannot be put into the sinking fund; and the sole purpose of laying hands on this fund will be de feated. A single sum of fifty millions can not play the part of fifty millions for one purpose and fifty millions more for another purpose with any degree of success. Of course any decent degree of financial management; will enable the Treasury to take up the national bank notes as they are presented. But the fact that a single session ot Congress has brought the Treasury to the place where it must disregard the obliga tions to keep up funds, established by most specific legislation and amounting to con tracts with the holders of the debt, warrants a donbt whether the present control of affairs will secure the management required. BILLY AND FUTILE, We are glad to observe that some of the commercial bodies of the South are display ing a disposition to squelch that foolish proposition to boycott Northern trade, if the Federal election bill is passed. That sen sible tendency is desirable, because it will save the Southerners useless work in trying to establish an impracticable and silly boy cott; and it will also preserve tbem from a sectionable exhibition that will be sure to strengthen the prejudices already existing.. The threat of such a thing will never hurt Northern trade, simply because it is im possible to induce filteen or twenty millions of people todisregard the rule of buying where they can get their -goods to the best advantage. If the South could buy goods anywhere else as cheaply as of the North, it would do so without the slightest enmity toward the Northern merchandise. If it has got to pay more in order to indulge the sectional spite created by partisan legisla tion, it will be hopeless to expect twenty millions of people to throw away their money for that barren gratification. The enthusiastic Southerner may assent to the abstract proposition; but he will keep on qnietly purchasing his supplies of the source that gives him the best value for his money. ,- Commercially, tbe proposed threat is not worth tbe wind that it takes to utter it; but politically, it is the worse course the South can take. Every Northern opponent of the federal election bill can tell the Southern ers that the one thing that might make the North solid for the party that is urging such partisan legislation would be for the South to attempt to make trade a basis for politi cal dictation. A DEADLY SAFEGUARD. Lives are always worth saving. It is quite clear that something should be done to make the cable cars in our city streets less dangerous to human life. Several children have been killed lately by the cable cars, and they would not have been if the pilots of the cars had been proper ly constructed. This fact is proved prttty clearly in another place. The pilots are not low enough and tbe angle at which they project is too obtnse for life-saving pur poses. Only one course is open to tbe cable companies. They should introduce the re format once. The expense is -not worth TffE considering, beside the responsibility for needlessly taking human life. The pilots should be made to throw off obstaoles in the surest way. The pilots as they are are worse than nothing. Aar Eastern paper says, apropos of the beginning or debate in the Senate on the tariff bill: "At this late stairs speeches are certainly not made to convince the Senators, and they are not likely to exert more influenco on the country. " The first assertion Is probably true; bat the influence on the country might be of great importance it the debate took into con sideration such cogent features as the present condition of the Industries affected by the changes In the tariff and the probable results of the new duties. All such considerations were absent from the House debate; and it might have a good effect If the Senate shonld supply the lacking element of reason on the rbul. The inquest into the causes which drove Miss McDonald to commit suicide directs at tention once more to the secret evil ot fortune telling. We are glad to hear that Pittsburg Is not greatly infested with these pernicious ras cals. Tbey should be punished severely, wherever found. the state of Congressional business warrants the belief that If more set of 'rules were passed to expedite it, no business at all would be done, and no surplus would be left to do it with. Opinions seem to differ as to the convict system ot Mississippi. The grand jury of Purvis county, after Investigating the state ments that tbel punishment of Kllralnwas a farce, brings in a report that he was treated like any other convict. As the pngillst himself, asserts that be was treated like a prince, the inference is that reports adverse to Mississippi's penal system are wofully misplaced. Bnt the inference is weakened by the obstinately lurk ing suspicion that in Mississippi there are con victs and convicts. Jay Gould declares that the next West ern Union building shall be absolutely and really fireproof. This thing of permitting out side tire departments to water the Western Union, while he is about, is not at all In ac cordance with Mr. Gould's principles. Rain was never more welcome. The country needed it, the city needed it and every thing and everybody will be better for its com ing. A steady rain is worth twenty storms. The statement that King Leopold of Bel gium has ordered that Bangala, the most popu lous assemblage of native villages on tbebanks ot the Congo, shall be called "New Antwerp," Is an evidence that the practice of transplant ing exotic names to new and Incongruous local ities Is not confined to the Yankees of a previ ous generation. -King Leopold has done welt by the Congo; but a few slips of this sort will balance the account The Tennessee Democratie Convention omitted to nominate Governor Bob Taylor for a second term. There is a belief among the Tennesseeans that they can now conduct their campaign on a higher level than that ot fiddling politics. The census is not kind to PittsBurg. Every time a new reading of the returns Is pub lished the population of Pittsburg shrinks. Now it is.down to 239,000. Wabd McAlmsteb's deliberate con clusion that no gentleman shonld permit him self to associate with his valet, is entirely to be commended in the case of New Yorkers. Evil communications corrupt good manners. The valet industry depends upon good manners, and its basis must and shall be preserved free from demoralising associations with the New York swells. The Republican opinion that no more Dublic buildings bills must be passed this session, is a tardy effort to close the spigot while tho vital fluid of the Government's "financial life, gashes out of the bunghole. DeToe's latest and most pretentious break into weather prophecy fixed hot and clear weather lor yesterday; but the heavens were kinder than De Voo. Mrs. Leslie did not get married on her foreign trm; but she got an extensive amount of free advertising as a preliminary to the an nouncement that she is going to lecture. There is a not unjustifiable suspicion that Mrs. Leslie has profited by tbe instructions ot that original American, Phineas T. Barnum. PROMINENT PEOPLE. MBS. ANITA GABLAND SPENCKR has Charga of a church in Providence. B L She his the reputation of being one of the best speakers in that city. Miss Harriet Hosmeb, the sculptor, fs making preparations to leave Chicago for Rome, where she intendk to study new ideas to use in her work. Ex-Pbeseoent and Mrs. Cleveland, Mr. Gilder, ot the Century, and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jefferson are at Wakely Lake, near Sandwich, Mass., for a few days' fishing. Rot Winton, of Winfleld, Ran., is the latest musical prodigy. Hals but 5 years old and plays with a wonderful degree of in tuitive skill the most difficult organ and piano music Judge Geokge A Lewis, of Buffalo, is said to have created a breeze in that city by be coming a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church, though he has been a trustee In a Pres. byterian church. Thebe will be at Lawrenceburg, Tenn., on Angust 10, a grand birthday celebration in honor of Davy Crockett, and a great impetus will be given thereby to the movement for a monument to Davy. The formal announcement has just been made of the engagement ot Miss Louisa Shep ard, daughter of E. F. Shepard. to William Jay Schieffelin. son of William H. Bchleffelin, the drug merchant, of New York, and grandson ot John Jay. Bishop A W. Wilson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, began a journey around tbe world from Baltimore on Monday, and for tbe third time hts left his home to visit the missions established by bis church in Asiatic countries. A van who was carting away asbes the other day from Mrs. Whitney's residence at New port found In the rubbish an envelope contain ing a check for $6,375, payable to Mrs. Whit ney. He promptly returned it and was hand somely rewarded. OK SABBATH SCHOOL WORK. Able bu1 Instructive Lectures Delivered nt tbe Carlisle Convention. ItrKCIAZ. TXLXOBAU TO TH DISPATCH.1 Cabxisle, July 23. This Is considered one of the big days at the Cumberland Valley Sab bath Sobool Convention, now in session at Williams' Grove. Fully 6,000 persons from all parts of the country were on tbe grounds to day to witness tbe interesting services held by this assembly. Tbe programme was an inter esting one, and the auditorium building was crowded. The exercises opened with devo tional services, followed with the teachers' normal section, by the Rev. H. B. Stanford, of Harrisburg, Pa. Then followed tbe lecture. "History, as Recorded In the Old Testament." by Rev. Willis J. Beecber, of Auburn, N. Y. The afternoon exercises were opened with the BIDle normal lecture by Rev. J. L. Grove, of McConnellsburg, Pa.; "Children's Home Illus trated Lecture Lessons, From tbe Birds and Flowers," Rev. R. H. Gilbert "Practical Primary Instruction," Miss Ella C. Logan. Tbe noted lecturer, Hon. Thomas H. Murray of Clearfield, Pa., spoke on the "Heroism of St Paul." This was followed by the Cbautau qua round table and question box. The concert given this evening by tbe Steel, ton Choral Union, with 100 voices, was grand, and drew a larger crowd. To-morrow fs "tem perance day." nomit o Hollow1 Mockery, From the New York Herald.l Perhaps tbe most lonesome creature In this world Is the incubator batched chicken. To it the sheltering wine hath no meaning, and home, tweet home is a large, globular joke, outgttwn before appreciated. PETTSBTTBQ- DISPATCH, THE TOPICAL TALKER. Aquatic Opportunities Neglected-A Remln. Ucenoo of n Great Divine Captain Davis Deserves Sncceia Why Chler Brown Is Plngued on Monday. -Mow that the Bellevue dam Is up the stretch of water from the city to the wickets themselves makes about as good a rowing course as could be desired. It Is strange that greater advantage of this Is not taken. The Ohio should hare Its banks lined with boat bouses from Jack's Run to Bellevue. ' It is said that Interest In aquatics is reviving here, and It is certainly a fact that more shells may be seen on tbe Allegheny these summer evenings than have been there for a long while. Sculling should lead the way to other forms of boating. r "The death of young Mr. Wilson," said an attorney yesterday, "was all the more of a blow to me because I knew his father, the Rev. S. J. Wilson so well, and loved and hon ored him so highly. Dr. Wilson was pastor or the sixth Presbyterian Church from 18S2 to 1S78, and many of us think that he was the best spiritual teacher and preacher that Pittsburg bas produced. I bave tbe most vivid remem brance of some of his sermons. He was a man of intense piety and nnusqal eloquence. I nsed to think of the trinmphs that would bave come to him had he entered tho courts instead of the church. Tbough he was liberal minded in the best sense, a student of the sciences and a lover of the arts, be never permitted his faith in the religious principles he taught to waver for a moment "I must have been a small boy at the time, but I remember very well hearing Dr. Wilson make a speech at a war meeting, in Allegheny, along In tbe '60's. Dr. Wilson was one of the gentlest; kindest men I have ever known, but In that speech ho did not mince words. He spoke after Judge Kirkpatrick bad made a pretty fine address, and bis stirring appeals to their patriotism earned the people off their feet One expression of Dr. Wilson's has stuck fast In my memory to this day: "The Union,' he said, "must be preserved If the blood has to run to onr horses' bridles.' It was the sort of speech that one never forgets entirely." QostpantC, of the Eignteenth Regiment, is fortunate in its Captain, and Captain W. H. Davis appears to be fortunate in his com pany. The Eighteenth Regiment is lucky to have both. Since the regiment went into camp at Mt. Gretna Captain Davis and bis company have been picked out for commendation bv In specting officers, and unusual marks of favor have been showered Upon tbem. No doubt Company C contains good material, but Captain Davis Is only repeating with them what he has done in the milder ways of the newspaper business before. Billy Davis, as those who bave served under blm are permitted to call bim, possesses the happy faculty of get ting good work out of men, without fuss, with out friction, without show of force. Be he sol dier or reporter tbe man wbo serves Captain or Editor Davis feels impelled by some almost mysterious influence to do his best If 1 wanted a model disciplinarian to manage oth ers or myself I should pitch upon tbe Captain of Company C. Am the heads of the city departments are constantly being importuned for office by their faithful friends and followers and by a dickens of a lot of total strangers. Perhaps Chief Brown, of the Department of Pnbllo Safety, bas the best reason to know that public office is a trust to be administered in the inter est of tbe offtceless who want offices. Chief Brown said yesterday: "Fd like some body to explain to mo why It is that I am over run with officeseekers on Mondays more than any other day. Saytenmen come to me for jobs on other days which is away below the real figure a hundred, which is less than tbe reality again, swoop down upon me on Monday. Why do tbey choose Monday? I've been debating the matter in my mind for months. Every time I come down to the City Hall on Monday 1 find a mob awaiting me. Of course I haven't work for a tithe of them. It's awful I" Chief Brown's forehead was all puckered up as he formulated this conundrum, but present, ly bis Napoleonic features dissolved Into some thing resembling a smile, and he said, some what after tbe fashion of Archimedes: I have found it My friends and tbe other fellows who would be friends of mine spend Sunday contemplating tbe blissful prospect of drawing a fat salary and dolog nothing of which they wrongly suppose serving the city consists and as soon as Monday dawns they swarm around the City Hall to obtain practical flulfiment of their irrldesceut dreams. Tun leisure ,of tbe Sabbath works misery for me," CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS. On a transparency carried in honor of Can didate Buchanan for Governor of Tennessee at Mnrfreesboro were these words: "It is not wealth, nor pomp, nor state, bnt git up and git that makes men great." And on the reverse siae: "Andrew Johnson from tbe tailor's bench, Buchanan from the plow." This Is a new rendering of an old and very popular sentiment. When John S. Wise, of Virginia, was called to respond to the toast ot the watermelon before a social club he said it was too comprehensive a subject for him, embracing, as it does, the whole field between paradise and paragoric. It runs from peerless color to painful cholera morbus. Prom iced luxury amla damask cut class and soRened light to lukewarm lusclousness and theft, unlit even by moonlight We are promised a rest from the awful in fliction or "Little Annie Kooney" that un thinking people with Jerky nerves insist on whistling or humming Into our ears dlnrnally and noctnrnally. It has neen superseded by a com panion piece, "Annie Booney's bister." The Hebrew name for baby isyelletb. There was really no crying demand for a change from tbe original tongue. Three locomotives have been shipped from this country to Palestine for the new railroad be tween Jaffa and Jerusalem. They are named Jaffa. Jerusalem and Bamleh. They are said to be an Improvement over the camel back. The oldest bread now in existence has been discovered In the old rierce bouse ou Pierce's Hill, Boston, and was brought over in the ship with the family In 1530. It is the genuine Hay Flower article, doubtless. IF the new "far slaht" machine which Edison Is working on will enable one to sight the col lector several blocks away. It will be hailed as the greatest of tbe wizard's Inventions. BusPEMDEit Jack, tbe cowboy, has been made a New York policeman. He must not be confounded with the one-gallased crowd, as bis name might lead one to Infer, bnt rather he's tho "man on horseback:." A QUEER NOCTURNAL VISITOR. A Snow-White Owl Takes Up Its Position In b Gentleman's L brnry. rsraCTAI. TEHEORAJC TO TUB DIHrATCU.1 PAKKEB3BUBO. W. Va., July 23. Last night while Mr. Sims Powell was sitting in his li brary at his home on Prospect Hill, about 10 o'clock, he beard a noise like the fluttering of wings. On looking up he saw before bim. sit ting on tbe back of a chair, a beautiful snow white owl which had flown in at the window, Tbe bird sat quietly blinking at tbe light until Mr Powell picked it up. He will keep it as a curiosity, which it is, being tbe only snow.white owl ever captured in this section of oountry. Pprlle It With a Big H. From the Washington Post. Is the Mr. Harmony who is running for office on the ticket ot the Ohio Republicans the same Mr. Harmony wbo led the party last year? DEATHS OF A DAY. Mr.. Ellen CTcCaffrey. Mrs. Ellen McCaffrey died of blood poisoning at her home at Twenty-ninth and Bmallman streets yesterday morning, aged 13 years. Bhc leaves six children among whom arc John, of the police foree, Thomas, tbe well-Known real estate dealer, and Dominies, tbe athlete. Mrs, McCaffrey was a loving wife and mother, and during her long and gainful Illness received watchful attention from er tons. Her death has caused great sorrow not only among her lramedlaterlends bnt by an, who knew her gentle disposition. John llnrltlev. One of the oldest residents in the county, Mr. John Darkley, died at his home, near bharpsburg, op Tuesday last aged 87 years. He spent SO years or bis lire as a farmer, and In all bis dealings was recognized as an honest man, commanding tbe respect of all who knew him) He was a member of tbe Pine creek Presbyterisn Church. """" THURSDAY. JTJLT ' 24, OUR MAIL POUCH. Honor to Whom Honor Is Dne. To tbe Editor of the Dispatch: In a late issue of The Dispatch I see an In terview with Mr. James B. Scott, in which it is stated that Prof. John B. McMaster, of tbe University ot Pennsylvania, Is about publish ing a "History of the Johnstown Disaster," which he Is compiling for the Flood Relief Commission of Pennsylvania. It Is to be the official statement, full and complete, of the wholo matter, from beginning to end. It is this fact which causes me to send yon this communication-No publication yet Issued has given tbe names of tbe 75 men who on a few minutes' notice dropped all business affairs and went to Johnstown at their own expense in company with Mr. James B. Scott and stayed with him until the relief methods were thoroughly organ ized and he was made "dlotator." Certainly their contributions were equal to many others, and should -aDpear In the list of those who helped to relieve the people of Johnstown. For days and nights tbey never, saw a bed. or had a chance to remove their clothes, went cheerfully about In mud and rain, answering all calls and doing all the good in their power. Tbey spent most ol the first night in packing several carloads of boxes, barrels and bonules of provisions across tbe brake in tbe railroad and In spreading themselves out in all directions to notify tbe people and obtain wagons and other conveyances lor the transports ti on of relief to tbe people of the various towns In the Cone. maugb Valley. They were soldiers in a good cause, and should not be forgotten. One fairly cood history says there were two companies of soldiers, A and B. went up along with Mr. Scott That was not true, and crew out of the fact that tbe 75 men were divided Into two companies, A and B, one under Mr. H. E. Collins and the other under Mr. A. J. Logan, as captains. The 75 men do not want to claim unearned credit; but they don't want to see credit due them given to others. Personally, I would like to say a word of praise which I think is due to one person who. in his particular province, did as much as any other singlo person in getting speedy relief to tbe peoplo of Johnstown, but whose name I never bave seen in print in connection there with. That person is Mr. Dean, of the Panhan dle Railroad, who had charge of tbo repair of the break on tbe railroad near Bang Hollow. Tbe work done Saturday nlgbt and early Sun day morning by the men under his supervision in closing nptbBbreak was really snrprilne. In fact hardly anybody believed at first that tbe work was completed when told it was done. "Honor to whom honor is due." "Full many a gem of purest ray serene Tbe dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear Full many a flower Is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air." So many trifling and unmerltorlous people advertised themselves unblusblngly in connec tion with Johnstown's flood that it was not strange that some people who deserved credit able mention were overlooked. PlTTSBUBQ, July 22. MOBBELLYILLX. The Original Reel Family. To the Editor of The Dispatch! I wish to correct or rather to add to, a state ment made in your Allegheny City Seml-Cen-tennial Sonvenir in the historical reference to Casper Reel, Jr. Beyond the community In which tbe Reels reside itisnot generally known by tbe published references to the early settlers of Allegheny county tbat David and Casper Reel, Jr.. were twin brothers, and tbat David was his elder by several hours. I bave in my possession a trne copy taken from the old fam ily Bible, showing the births of the entire fam ily and the deaths of all those that died previ ous to the death of the parents; also a copy of all the more recent deaths. The copy is as f ol lows: Casper Reel, Sr., was born May 11,1712. Elizabeth Wise (Reel) was born October 2, 1760. The births of the children were: Anna Mary Reel was born February 18, 1785; Jacob Reel was born September 4. 1787; John Reel was born November 7, 1789; Daniel Reel was born November 24. 1791: Conrad Reel was born August 8, 1791; David and Casoer Reel, Jr., wero born January 22, 1798; William Valentine Reel was born September 21, 1S0L Elizabeth Reel was born November 8, 1803. The deaths tbat occurred previous to the death of the parents, with the exceptions of William Valentine, which Is not found in the list is as follows: Daniel Reel died December 1, 1812; Jacob Reel died January 4, 1813; John Keel Hiari ,t T?rr Xfarvra Anvil A 18I3 ('nana Ra,1 died at Fort Meggs, April 6, 1813: Casper Reel, sr.. aiea uctouer m, iki; .uuzanetn (wise) Reel died July 8, 1843; David Reel, Sr.. died September 14, 1SG8: Conrad Reel died In bis 78th year: Anna Mary (Reel) Johnston died April 21, 1878. Casper Reel, Jr., died April 25, 1837. The joungest member of the family, Mrs. Elizabetb Quail!, Is still living and is now near inn tbe close of her 87th year. Her mind and I memory is remarkably bright and retentive for one oi nerage; in iact, most an oi we oisiory ot this noted family contained on page 229 of tbe biographical part of the late history of Allegheny county was given the writter verb ally from her clear, active memory. Her affability of manners and her great knowledge ot the early events tbat occurred In our county from the days of her father that is still re tained in her active memory, makes her tbe most precious jewel to be found in our community. As she is tbe last link that binds us, as It were, to the living past we prize ber all the more, knowing that its severance is but a few years at most. With a fervent love to all, and loved and cher ished by all, sbe Is now pleasantly spending her declining years with a most dutiful son and daughter, who resldo upon tbe old Quaill farm, close by the old homestead, tbat is so dear to her heart Tbe memory of a good Christian home is hers to enjoy, and as she looksout upon the old homestead upon which time lias wrought its wonderful changes, she feels tbat a better one awaits her upon the blissful shores of immortality. D. R. West View, Pa., July 22. An Electrical Query To the Editor of The Dispatch: Wbat becomes of the electricity used for lighting purposes? Is it changed Into some thing else, diffused through tbe atmosphere, or wbat is tbe jesultr Robebt Milled. Markle, Pa.. July 22. It is all consumed, except wbat Is stored away in resistance coll. D Is ilio Winner. To the Editor or The Dispatch: Please answer the following in to-morrow's correspondent's column of your paper to de cide a bet: A bets B that this is not a second class city. B bets tbat it is. J. B. Pittsburg, July 22. Ike. Weir. To the Editor of The Dlsuatch: Please Inform me through your paper what the Belfast Spider's proper name Is, and oblige William Cummin gs. McKeesport July 22. ONE TRUST DOOMED. Chicago's Ice Monopoly Likely to be Com. pletcly Crashed. ISFECTAt. TEXXOBAM TO TUX DtSPATCH.l Chicago, July 23. The Chicago Ice Trust has just received another heavy blow. An ar tificial ice plant bas just been completed with a capacity of 200 tons per day and to-day it goes into active competition with the Trust The ice is turned out in square blocks, is made of pure water and, most important of all, costs at the factory $1 per ton. which figure is swol len to S3 per ton before it reaches the bands of the private consumer. Large as the product of this establishment is, it seems to have made oply a slight impression on tho market The price ll3t of the Trust by which 810 per ton Is charged to large con sumers, bav not yet been revised, and the old rates are still being collected. Tbo reason of this Is that the artificial product has not yet become known and no sys tematic means has yet been takon to distribute it to consumers. But the 'trust" is doomed. It is only a question of a few weeks wben it will be forced to loosen its grip. Besides, tbe intro duction of the ice machine will probably make it impossible for any future trust to make any material Increase in prices, no matter how scarce tbe natural product may bocome. A COLLEGE COMPACT Carried Oat nt a Pretty Wedding: la Mendvllle Chareb. The marriage of Miss Anna Mosler. of Mead vine, and Dr. E. W. Day, of this city, occurred last evening iu Christ's Protestant Episcopal Church at Meadvllle, and was followed by a brilliant reception. Three ot tho ushers for the wedding were E. E. Baldwin, a prominent joung lawyer of Cleveland; Wharton Plummcr, lawyer, of Chicago, and Walter J. Guthrie, a prominent citizen of Apollo, Pa. These three young men were classmates of Dr Day In Allegheny Col lege, graduating In 1884. And the four; while in college, each made a solemn compact to be present at the wedding or funeral of any one ot the others, whenever and wherever it might occur, regardless of where they might be, and this is the first call to respond to that compact made In their college days. Until Rare and Rlnlancboly. Prom ths.Wssblngtou Herald.) The melancholy days bavo, surely come la the legislative forum when things have got so hot that Reed can't longer count a quorum, ' 189a A NEW THEOLOGY. PROF. BURNHAM'S WAKE UP THE ADVANCED IDEA9 OLD SCHOOL. Cbatanqnana Entertained by a Lively and Progressive Paper on tbe Theology of To-Day T jo Colored Races Folk Lore Mrs. Wilson Continues Her Talk on Foreign Countries.. rSTXCIALrXXXOKAM TO TB DISPATCS.I T ake Chautauqua, July 23. This Is truly a theological week. The fair, fickle Chau tauqua girl has for a moment forgotten her literature and her tennis and is turning her at tention to tbe lectures on biblical theories and points by Profs. Weidner and Burnham. The talks are so decidedly biblical that Dr. Harper, the famous Hebrew scholar, introduces the speakers. These threo gentlemen, Dre. Har per, Weldner and Burnham, are all peers and have no equals in the line of scientific theol ogy. They are original and fearless in their thoughts, and for this reason, if for no other, interesting. -This afternoon ProL Burnham spoke on "A New Theology," Prof. Burnham is very advanced in all of his thoughts, but declares himself to'be an orthodox Calvinistlc Baptist He believes tbat tbe soul should be perfectly open to new convictions and conclusions. Christ was a man; he ate, drank arid slept just as other meu do. Progressive knawledge is necessarily limited knowledge. The only way we are to tell wbat Jesus was is to take tbe tes timony and facts of tbe Bible. Because he had Ills conditions of knowledge, does tbat prevent blm from being tbe divine teacher and leader of tbe men? Will the theology of tbe future be like the theology of to-day! It cannot be. It bas not been what it is now, and will not be wbat it is now. There can not be a new Bible, for this one is complete in its revelations. For tbe period of eighteen hundred years there bas been no new book added. It will always be what it is now. But theology is not the Bible. If it were, all theologies would be alike. One Bible and Many Tueoloclcs. pHE0i,00T is oar .knowledge of the nature, the life and tho ways of God, especially tbe life of Jesus Christ as we know and under stand. If there is anything in tbe universe of God or nature where tbe father bas shown bis heart to his children, theology should take all there is out of it. Theology for the present uses It practically, circumstantially true. There would be no theology if we did not have facts. But these facts are not facts of observation, as in any other sciences. We can not study God in this way, for God Is not here. We can only study literary criticism. How and wbere and by whom were these books of tho Bible writ ten r The only way we find it Is by the in terpretation of the language of the docu ment a scientific pn cess, and If it is not a scienjiflo process it is nothing. Any ohange in tbe science of interpreta tion must change the basis of theology. We classify isolated facts and from these class ifications we gain our industries. Whenever you build inductions on facts we are acting in tbe light of science. Theology is a showing of facts by accounting for their causes, and thus becomes a philosophy. Theology being a sci ence and a philosopby can not remain the same. Science could never be fixed until everything Is known, so long as there is a single fact to be known in tbe universe of God, so long are these new theories to be inducted. One fact may outweigh a whole ton of theory. When that fact comes where will tbe science of to-day goT Where the science of yesterday went into ob livion. Thank God tbat there is in tbe universe things nnknown. Thank God that there is such a chance for man to grow better. There is no advance in one line of philosophic thought but there Is progress all along the line. The Effect of Scientific Discoveries. Que new discovery has made a revolution in the whole domain ot science, who dares to stand up and say tbat there is no chance for Improvements? That we are to stop here in the progress of philosophy? I am thankful tbat God's light is bright enough to shine for alt The theology of the nineteenth century does not mako theology of tbe twenty-fifth cen tury. We are not sorry tbat theology of tbe third century is not theology of to-day. We should be thankful that tbe future can better understand God and be more familiar with His truth. The eternal verities of God will al ways remain. It may be that He can lead us on to the better and higher by onr desire to know God bas made us to love, to know and we will follow out His divine thought within us. Tbe aim and desire of man in all times should be to find himself and find bis God. At tbe close of tbe lecture Dr. Burnham was ready to answer all questions which any per sons In the audience desired to ask concerning the views which be set forth. Several gentle men of ministerial persuasion, among them Dr. T. Ix Flood, editor of tbe Chautauquan, sent query and argument at him hot and heavy, but he was ready for any and all tbat came. They could not trip tbe scholarly professor, however, who, leaning his long form over tbe pulpit bis ejes sparkling and his bland face wreathed with smiles of satisfaction, answered tbem with all the suavity and decision of manner that Tom Reed meets a fiery Democratic Congress man from Missouri. His advanced ideas made some of the old school thinkers writhe, but they could not get around bis studied and well guarded position. In one discussion Mr. Burn ham made the statement that some Christians were better than others, when tbe disputant said that he could not say that tbey were. "Yes, but are we as good as the Apostle Paul?" "In spots, perhaps." Next In interest to a pointed legal discussion is an argument between men of different relig ious beliefs, in which tbe thoughts flyback and forth like, lightning, and the air gets fairly bluo. Southern Folk Lore and Legends. J-Tvebt one has beard tbe stories of "Uncle Remus" telling of the legeud of tbe col ored people of the South and the many pecu liar tales, funny because of their absurdity, which the black seers of tbe plantation bave carried down from generation to generation. These stories, with personal reminiscences of tbe negroes upon bis father's great plantation in "Ole Virginny," where be spent bis child hood days, were the subject, or ratber subjects, of tbe discourse of Dr. John A. Broadus this afternoon. Dr. Broadus is an old entertainer, is never monotonous, always sensible and at times humorous. "I am to speak ot my per sonal recollections of the people in Culpepper county. Virginia. Henry and George, two col ored boys, were my childhood companions. We played and went barefoot together. I very much envied tbem for they could 'tote' water a very long ways upon their heads and I could not There are a number of different races of negroes. There are three which I can distlo euish at least. Tbe brown negroes are superior. Many a time on tbe plantation have I beard a negro girl say that "snu wa'nt gwine to marry no black nigger.' Then there are a class of black negroes who come from tbe inland who are also superior. These are very few, as they were of the more Intelligent and more capable of defendhg themselves from tbe slave traders. The negroes on the larger plantations are now not far from barbarism. I remember this among some of the homely stories I have told. One morning I asked motheifwhy the negroes ..i.i Vl.nlr mv tmntfl at th. nMtfrlthnr servants did for their boys. When mother re plied: "Son, learn to wait on yourself oecause some day you may not bave any negroes to wait on you,' she was a prophet There was a black man by tbe name of Griffin, wbo possessed remarkable strength and was also something ot a wit He had a riddle, 'You ain't got It, ain't going to bave it and don't want it; and wben yon gets It, you wouldn't take tbe world for it' The answer was: 'A bald head.' Some Negro Peculiarities. 'THE negroes used to take a great liking to valentines, and would often come to me to write out some of their rhymes, snch as: The roses are red, Violets blue. Sugar Is sweet And so is you.' " Among the Instances of negro Ingennlty he mentioned the instance of tbe colored youth wbo was very good at guessing or estimating the amount of any crop.. This is the way he did it: My father always overestimated and the overseer underestimated, so the boy split the difference, and usually hit the mark. He read a number of selections from Mr. Harris' "Undo Remus," giving them in tbe negro dia lect He remarked tbat in all of these stories tbe weak overcamo tbe strong by means of cunning. Speaking of tbe annual excitement of tbe negroes in their religious worship, be said there was as much religion in that as In the zestbetlo gratification received from tbe cultured preauberin tbe high-toned church. Tho Idea of taking tbe negroes away from their homes in the South was a foolish one. Tbey wero very much endeared to the locality In which tbey lived, and tbey would not wlsb to go, and if tlioy do not want to Immlgrato we have no moral rlgbt to force thorn to do so. w France as a Republic. THM morning Mrs. Abba Gould Woolson con tinued her lectures on European nations. Sbe spoke on "Republican France," and again proved htr tendency to be dissatisfied with the existing state of things. She recited the history of the French through the time ot tbe French revolution, and made some discourag ing remarks on Its results. Mrs. Wll-ion con sidered tbe French people inclined to be licen tious and fickle. If tbe Germans thought too much and acted too little, the French acted too much and thought too little. "The women ot France are cold and dlsnas- sionate," she ctfXu, "and control tbe small J money matters of tbe State." Mrs. Wilson has one eminently good quality and Is optimistic In one sense at least, for she continuously reminds us of "tho great and glorious United States." Sbe Is very free In the use other adjectives, and one might judge by the large amount of language at her command tbat sbe had copied several consecutive pages of Webster or jog gled them up and put them in tbe form of a speech. Tbe National Business Association of tbe United States and Canada held its twelfth an nual convention here to-day. A speech of wel come was made by George Vincent, which was replied to by Mr. Spenser, of Washington, D. C, and Mr. Packard, of New York. Mr. Spenser, who set forth the benefits of a busi ness education in glowing terms and compared the work tbat business schools were doing in the commercial to tbat done by Chautauqua in the literary world. Mr. Packard told an amus ing story, which will interest all wbo know Chancellor Vincent or his son George. It was a time in the boyhood days of young Vincent wben be was not as good as perbaps be Is now. He had committed some trespass on wbat bis father considered the bounds of good behavior at the dinner table, and his father gave blm a seating at a smaller table In one corner of tbe room. Wben tbe time came for saying grace George said, with great solemnity: "And the Lord bath sit me down In the midst of my ene mies." Chaatnuqna Chip. uQustosis of the Greeks and Romans" was tbe interesting topic of a lecture this evening by Prof. J. H. Chainberlin. It was illus trated with stereopticou views. E. C. Buydam. E. Schwartz, ot Pittsburg, and M. B. Albree. of Allegheny City, arrived at the Athcnsnm to-day. Here also may be found the name of B. P. Raymond, President of Wesleyan University, wbo came this morning. Lakewood had many arrivals to-day. Quite a large number of Cbantauquans attended the evening hop at that point The yacht Greenhnrst took a Jolly party up the lake for a day at the Assembly grounds. COMMANDER CUSHING'S MOTHER. A Letter to a Plltsbnraer Full of Touching Reminiscences. The following interesting communication was received yesterday from Dr. Jobn M. Batten, of-1 Pittsburg: "A few weeks ago I read In The Dispatch a statement that the mother of tbe Hero of the Albemarle was in straitened circumstances. A few dsys afterward the same papers denied the above statement and said further that Mrs. Cusning was well cared for and resided in St Joseph, Mo. Learning this I sent her a little book of which I am the author, in which a full history of the blowing up of tbe ram Albemarle by William B. Cushlng is given. "On the fly leaf of this little book I wrote: To the Mother of the Hero, William B. Cashing, deceased, ex-Commander In United StatesNavy. I'ou doobtless bave read many stories of your hero s'on, William B But it Is likely that you have never read a story or htm. or one wbo talked with the hero, walked with him, ate with him, slept with him and rode with him. I send yon the story, hoping It may be a solace to you In yonr de clining years and heirloom to your posterity. JOBS M. BATTCT, Plttsbarg, Fa, "I received an acknowledgment of the re ceipt of the little book from Mrs. Coshlnga son-in-law, which reads as follows: ST. Josurn, MO.. July 14, 1300. JobnM. Batten, rittsbnrg. Pa.: Deak Sm-My wife's mother, Mrs. Cushlng, desires me to thank yoa la ber behair for the book which yoa sent to ber. and which. sue wishes me to assure yon, she highly appreciates and valnes. Mrs. Cushlng is now 83 years o' age, and has been, till very recently, enloylng remarkably good health fur one so old. She had. however, a sllsht paralysis a lew weeks ego. from which she bas not entirely recovered, and which has not ar retted her mind, and only her body to a very small extent. It Is, bowever, a great task for her to write a letter, and this is why you receive tbls acknowl edgment of your book from mo rather than from her. We have a little 6 years of age son which has been named after bis Justly celebrated uncle, Wm. B. Cushlns, and my wife thinks that he la the exact picture of his Onele Will. I am quite sure that If he becomes hair as distinguished as his ancle that onr whole family will be very proud of him. It Is rarely that we see a mother tbat bas borne four as noble sons as did Mrs. Cashing. Alas I thevareall dead: one bnrled at Tucson. Ariz.. one at Dunkirk. N. Y.. one at West Volnt. and one, the hero of the Albemarle, at Annapolis, Md. Again thanking yoa for yonr kludness and thougutfulness. and with many kind wishes from Mrs. Cushlng and for a long and happy llle, allow me to sign myself as yours very truly, E.H. BoUTOir. A HINT FOE OLD SOLDIERS. How They Can Save Tims In Taking Oat Pension Affidavits. Since the passage of the dependent pension bill,tbe Clerk of Courts' office has been crowded with persons certifying to their applications tor pensions. The impression bas prevailed that tbe applications must be executed before the Clerk of Courts, and old and young and decrepit persons hardly able to walk have been coming to the clerk's office from all parts of the county. This impression Is wrong, and many could save themselves a tiresome journey by going before a convenient notary public or justice of tbe peace. Captain Dalglelsb, of the Clerk of Courts' office, wrote to Congressman E. S. Osborn for information on the subject and received the following reply: WAsnra gtojt. D. C, July 23; 1890. DxabBib An application for pension can be executed before a notary public or a Justice or the peace as well as berore a clerk of a court of record. In the case of mjustlce there should be a certificate on file In tbe Pension Office as to tbe Tact tbat the offlcerlsajustlceof the peace. Yonrs, etc-. E. S. OSBOEK. THEIR TAXES WERE PAID. fxamlnlns Yotera In tbe Twenty-Seventh Ward Contested Election Casr. Another hearing was held yesterday before Commissioner John S. RobD. Jr., in the Select Council election contest of the Twenty-seventh ward between P. M. Carr and Honry Pfeiffer, the Incumbent The entire hearing was taken up in tbe examination of the tax receipts of tbe voters of the Second district of the Twenty-seventh ward. Tbirty-one voters were sworn as to tbe pay ment of their county and poll tax. Some of those sworn did not have their receipts with them: some bad not paid any taxes, bnt pro duced receipts to show tbat their taxes bad been regularly paid, but by whom they did not know; some of tbe receipts showed the pay ment of taxes, but were not paid in time to en title a vote, and quite a nnmbor showed that tbey were legallv entitled to a vote. All of those examined stated that they bad voted for Pfeiffer. Tbe next bearing will be held on Tuesday, and quite a number of tbe voters wbo were present yesterday will be again called to show tbeir receipts If tbey can find them, or secure duplicates. LITTLE WASHINGTON'S BOOM. While Not Phenomenal, It Is Steady nnd Reliable. S. P.Fergus and wire. of Washington, Fa,, bave been in the city for a day or two. Mr. Fergus is one at Little Washington's substan tial citizens, who invested Judiciously in oil operations andcame outmanythousands ahead of tbe game. In speaking of the oil business, Mr. Fergus said: "There is nothing very exciting In the Wash ington fields just now, but operations are going on steallly. Tbe field Is a staying one, and conservative operators are content wlth-a re liable if not a phenomenal production. Wash ington bas felt the effects of the oil business, and bas Improved wonderfully. The town has just voted to go into street improvements to the extent of f 150,000. A few years ago such a thing would not bave been thought of." RETURNED WITH TROPHIES. M. G. Frank Preaente-n Box of Turtles to tbe Tariff Club. Ex-Building Inspector M. G. Frank, of the Soutbslde, returned yesterday from Orange vllle, O., where be bas been camping out with the Soutbslde fishing club which bears his name. He told some big stories, but be brought with bim two big boxes of turtles to bear out his statements. Mr. Frank presented oce box to the Tariff Club, and turtle soup will be on tbe bill of fare there for tbe next week. NO FEAR OF A TUMBLE, Tbe Building Inspectors Declare Lafayetto Hnll Perfectly found. It bas for some time been the impression that Lafayette Hall was unsafe. Entertain ments at which large crowds are expected are to be given there during September, and Mr. Mernman wbo Is managing the affair had the Building Inspectors examine the building yttterday. After going all over the old structure tbey pronounced it port eotly safe. The Query Jlnv Yrt be (Solved. From the Washington Star. Senator Quay has an idea wbo struck Mr. Patterson, and h Is waiting quietly for devel opments. CUEIOUS CONDEKSATI0NS. There is a news stand in Atlanta, Ga., whose proprietor refuses to sell newspapers to colored people. A Portsmouth, O., man has a "well-developed apple erowing on an ordinary grape vine, the result of skillful grafting. Some practical but inartistic German has made up a compound of sugar and con densed mill; and tea, from which a cap of tea can be bad by simply pouring on boilini; water. The Jackson ambulance is painted black and is used as a coffin wagon, operated by an undertaker; all of which combine to make the thing very consoling to anybody whd bas usa for it There appeared last week in the obitu ary colnmns of the Public Ledger notices of tbe deaths of 27 persons, 16 men and 11 women, who bad lived to or beyond the advanced ago of 81 years. A Bucks county farmer writes to say tbat floras a common hen tbat has hatched ont a brood of ducks and fs raising them in a motherly way. She must bave been set a good egg-sample. A Japanese paper states that at Kana waza a family of six generations lives. The oldest is said to be 132 years of age, and to be a great-great-great grandmother, ber husband, aged 130, also being alive. An office has been opened in Paris where the impecunious nobility may consult a list of eligible American maids, widows and divorcees with Information In regard to tho amount of their fortunes. The greatest marvel in telegraphy is said to be the synchronousmultlplex, an instru ment bv means of which six messages can oe transmitted upon one wire, either all from one station or in opposite directions. The search for the 510,000,000 which was in tbe hold of tbe British sloop-ot-war De Braak, which sank on May 25, 1798, is still proceeding. The treasure lies somewhere at the bottom of tbe sea at Cape Henlopen. The first elephant ever seen in England was sent as a present to Henry HL by the Xing of Franca about the year 1253. Numbers of people crowded to see the curiosity, and a special building was erected for it at the Tower. The barn owl, when she has young, brings a mouse to her nest about every 12 minutes: and as sbe is actively employed both at evening and dawn, and as both male and fe male hunt, 40 mice a day i3 a low computation for the total capture. Frank Hopkins, of California, who has been visiting the Ottoman Empire, declares that tbe sale of women tbere bas not been stopped only carried on a little more privately. He quotes Circassian beauties at 2,000 each, and Nubian maidens at about $100 apiece. Tight-lacing has wrought the death of a Berlin actress. She had taken part in an eve ning performance, and then seemed to be per fectly well, but the next morning aho was found dead in bed. Subsequent examination showed tbat death was due to syncope, and this had been induced by tight-lacing, which the actress practiced in an extreme degree. 'Squire Adams, of Chattanooga, dis covered a curious matter in connection with his signature the other day. He happened to glance over his name from right to left or more properly, backward, and saw that "S. M. Adams" could be read both ways. Another gentleman present said he bad a relative who could spell both ber Christian and surname either forward or backward Hannah Drep perd. A reporter said he could go them one better; that the names of the children of bis family In tbe order of their birth formed a question, "Peter, May Emma Carrie Jennie?" The phonograph figured at a wedding for the first time at the marriage of Miss Ten nant and Mr. Stanley. Three of them were placed iu Westminister Abbey during the ser vice. One was placed In tbe tower, to record the full sound of tbe wedding bells. Tbe second phonograph was placed by tbe organ, to note the music and tbe wedding march. Tbe third was placed In the choir, to give tbe hymn as sung by tbe voices. These records bave been presented to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, so that at any time uereaiter ine weaaing nens. me organ and the voices will sound as on the 12tb ot July, 1890. John McCraney, living near Kingston, Ga., has found a most wonderful stone. While plowing on a sandbar near tbo Etowah river, he saw something shining with tbe most brilliant of lights jjst to one side of him. He stopped his plow and went to pick it up. It was a clear white stone, the size of an egg; re flecting in one way all tbe colors of tbe rain bow. Turning it over, the colors took on the character of a spirit Aevel, following each other up through the canter of tbe rock till all were gathered in one end. Mr. McCraney bas been offered 51,000 for it, but refused it He will take it to Atlanta to have it tested, it may be a diamond. It emits a perfectly white light in the dark. Among the trophies brought borne by the French Army from an eastern expedition was a specimen ot a bird rarely, if at all, seen in Europe. This is tbe celebrated Chinese, or rather Mancboonan lark. He is a larger bird than bis European congener; his notes are more brilliant, and his natural repertoire. If the expression may be used, is more extensive. But the most noticeable feature is bis wonder ful promptness and skill of mimicry, imitating most natural sounds which he bears tbe notes and songs of other birds, tbe cawing of crows, tbe crowing of cocks, the braying of tbe donkey, even tbe barking of dogs. The Chinese turn this faculty to account and train the lark to sing many airs. W. E. Baker, the late sewing machine millionaire, had curious conceits in regard to the arrangements of bis private grounds. His place at Wellcsley, Mass , in tbe matter of tbe grounds particularly, is a curiosity. Every where on tbepremlses the visitor is confronted with some ingenious piece of extravagance Here in tbe pathway is a concealed platform, which, as yon step upon it, swings and sends yon a-lurchlng; there Is an inviting chair in front of a flowering cactus, and wben yon take a seat to inspect tbe cactus the plank sinks one of sight and in its place springs np a wooden devol, painted red. and grinning in your face. There are dozens of groiesqneries of this kind, which suggests tbe macbauism of a Humpty Dumpty rather than tbe arrangement of a gentleman's private lawn. W. J. Ayers and his divorced wife, Mra. Gertie A Ayers, were married in Chicago the other day. Their wedding cards bore this startling and original line: "Whatever God joined togetber let not rum put asunder." During their former wedded life Mr. Ayres had been much addicted to tbe flowing bowl, and when he became so ulssipated that his wife could not live with him she got a divorce. Avers reformed, and for a couple of years bas been a temperance exborter. His ex-wife be lieves bis reformation complete and Is willing to try him again. The bridegroom had the unique sentence put on bis wedding cards as a sort of admonition to the demon ot rum to stay out of hi' domestic affairs in the future and greatly oblige. FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES. John D. Rockefeller, wbo founded the Standard Oil Company, made $50,000,000 In ten years. If that is Standard time, everybody would like to run by it Texas Sifttngs. "Oh. I'm mad: my typewriter has just secured 110,000 from me in court on the strength, of a lot of love letters I wrote my wlte before marriage." "How did she get them?" ' '1 dictated them to ber and she kept coptej-ad-dressed to herself. "Epoch. Johnny Peck Did yon ever save anyone from drowning, pa? Mr. K. Peck (dolefully) Yes I "But you don't seem very happy over It, pa. Whom did you save?" "Your mother.my son, before we were married. Lawrence American. Reporter Can yon kindly give me soma of the important particulars about your wedding, sir? Bridegroom (an ex-newspapermanl Certainly. I bave it all written np here. Follow copy, please. Double-leaded plea, first page and scare bead. Good evening. Burlington tree Press. Jones You can get the position if you can find somebody tbat can go on your bond. Smith Which do you prefer, Willy Yanderolll or Jay Gould? Are you acquainted with them? Hot at all; butthevcango on my bond, can't tbey, If they want to? Texas Siftings. Crusty (reading his paper) I declsrel here Is a man np in Michigan who while ont hunt ing mistook another man for a bear and shot him. 1 can't for the lire or me see how be could bave made snch a mistake. Mrs. Crusty (spliefnlly)-Humphl Can't yes? W elll cs,atChicago Matt. There is an eternal fitness of things. The largest real estate dealer Is California Is named Mndd. Troy Times. -A She is ugly, but she knows how to fix herself. Valla Keusi, Cool and collected the Ice hill. FA ington Post What is suoposed to be the very first snake story was told In Idea one faH. PMladtf 4 Dliia Timet.
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