THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1889. 8 BMcfr ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, ISIS. Vol ; .No. 347. ruttrcd at 1'lttsburg I'ost office, ovcmbcrH. isaT, as stcona-ciass matter. Business Office 97 andOO Fifth Avenue. News Booms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street. This paper haling more thnu Rouble the circulation ofnny other in Iho State outsldo of Philndrlphia, Its ndrantnscs as an adver tising mcilinm -will be npparcut. TERMS OF THE DlS-PATCIL rosTAGE rr.EK in the united states. DAIIT DisrATCH, One Year. JSM Daily DisrATCH, l'er Quarter 200 Daily Dispatch. OnoMonth u Daily Disfatcu, including Sunday, one year. t WOO Daily- Disr-ATcn, Including fcunday, per quarter - 50 Daily Dispatch, Including fcunday. ona month 90 EtJKDAY DisrATCH, one year. ISO Weekly' Dispatch, one year 1 2j THE Daily DISPATCli Is delivered by carriers at 15 cents per it eel, or including Uic fcunda) edition, at 20 cents per -week. PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, JAN. 19. 1SSD. PABTISAH DEADLOCKS. The West Virginia Legislature stuck at its deadlock last night, taking seven more ballots without any materialization of the expected break. As far as can be perceived at present there is no reason why the arrest of business may not continue indefinitely. In "West Virginia, as in nearly all close contests for the past few years, is to be seen the delirium of partisan ship. An honest purpose to place public welfare first and to givea fair force to the will of the people would settle all these disputes in a quarter of the time that is usually con sumed by them. But when the rule is to place the party interests first, and the pub lic interests after them, the prolonged fights, frequently accompanied by scandalous fea tures, which have been so common of late years, become an almost inevitable conse quence. This country is in need of a lesson to the politicians that honest politics will place tne interests ol tne wnoie country nrst ana those of party in the second place. WHAT IS THE PEOGEAMME? The DisrATCH correspondent at Harris burg assuredly raised an interesting ques tion, and one which the statesmen coniessed had not previously occurred to them, when he asked whether, in case a prohibition amendment were adopted next Juue, it was the purpose to have free, unlicensed and un restricted sale of liquor during 1890? That this result would follow unless an extra session of the Legislature were called to prevent it is of course most apparent to all. Prohibition would not become effective by a mere constitutional amendment. Acts of the Legislature would be required to give the amendment force. But the Legislature will have adjourned by June 18, not to meet again until 1S91. Meantime early in 1890 the licenses to sell liquor would expire and could not be renewed. "With them would expire the regulations and limitations of the traffic. So far as can be seen, or as any body contends, free-trade in liquor would then be permissible without any sort ot re striction until the Legislature might regu larly reassemble in 1891. An evening cotemporary is good enough to suggest that there is nothing new or in teresting in the contemplation of this con tingency. It saj-s that a year or two of this free and unrestricted sale would be merely "a measure of justice" to enable dealers to get rid of their surplus stock on hand. We prefer to believe that the Republican leaders at Harrisburg stated the truth when they frankly avowed to Thc Dispatch correspondent that the question was both new and interesting, and that it will have to be met by calling an extra session of the Legislature in case the prohibition amend- ; ment should be approved in June. The great numbers of people who are satisfied with thc operation of the present high license laws would assuredly less than ever favor prohibition with a prospect of an in tervening year of unlicensed and unregu lated traffi: day and night, Neither raiuld the Prohibitionists themselves indorse that interregnum of free sale. As a '"measure of justice to dealers" it would be totally un satisfactory; while in its results to the p.ace and order it would prove more costly to the State than any sort of compensating bill. J It is assuredly well that whatever course is proposed a clear understanding of the , programme be had from the first If the Legislature wishes the people to vote iu June foi or against prohibition, it is clearly of interest to know whether or not un licensed and unlimited traffic during 1890 is included in this plan. THE (WESTION OF JTTEOES. The prompt action of Judge Collier yester day in ordering informations to be entered on the strength of the allegations against grand jurors in the Burns case, shows that the Court means to protect itself, so far as specific complaints of malpractices in the jury system are brought to its notice. But, as pointed out yesterday, the Legislature has also its duty to perform. Thatbodyhas now full cognizance of the difficulties that are met with, and of the opprobrium which attaches to the operation of the jury system. It should meet the requirements of the situ ation by passing an act vesting the appoint ment and removal of the Jury Commission ers in the Judges. This is the simplest and surest remedy for the evils that are peren nially complained of. It will satisfy the public judgment by affording the surest pro tection against the existing reprehensible condition of things. IAHGTEY TO THE RESCUE. The drama is being forced upward and strange to say the machinery by which this operation is being accomplished only yes terday was popularly adjudged to be acting in the contrary direction. Shakespeare is to be helped upstairs with novel vigor. Mrs. Langtry has said that she intends to place her performance of Lady Macbeth on the plane of art, not millinery. This declara tion is the more wonderful because it had been understood that Mrs. Langtry's ideas about producing "Macbeth" included not a little attention to such details as the costum ing of the ushers in kiits, and the provision of real blood every night for the realistic smearing of Duncan's grooms. It is true that Mrs. Langtry has not yet told us how many frills of lace her sleep walking costume will contain, nor has the historic origin of the brooches and bracelets she will donbtless wear been yet revealed to us. But something, we are sorry we cannot say precisely what, unless it may be the fact that we remember her dresses a great deal more vividly than her acting, suggested to us that in Mrs. Langtrj 's Lady Macbeth Mrs. James Brown Potter's millinery or the lack of it would be out-Pottered, excelled and deposited in utter shadow, as it were. But we must accept Mrs. Langtry's assur ance and look forward with patient hope to an exposition, richer than any that has gone bciore, of what the Jersey Lily imagines to heart. This is a cheery season of Shakespereaa revivals. Never until this day has it been demonstrated that actors could travesty the works of the immortal bard, not only with out punishment, but with -profit Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, according to the consensus of opinion even in London, have made "Macbeth" a sort of comedy-melodrama with marvelous mechanical effects and in fact lacking only a tank to set it be side thc superb "Dark Secrets" and "Lights and Shadows," and the rest of the master pieces of the modern stage. At the same time Mrs. Potter has shown how easy it is to harness Shakespeare to the ballet, and trausrorm a mythical Cleopatra into a real female of doubtful character and patent physical charms. To cap the climax, Mrs. Langtry comes out to rescue Shakespeare from the milliners and to set him on the plane of artl How grateful we ought to be to Mrs., Langtry. SINGULAR. LEGISLATION. The multiplicity of bills with regard to street passenger railways, which have been introduced in the Legislature, may indicate the general interest which is taken in that subject But some of them appear to re quire supervision in the interest of the public; and notably in that class is thc one introduced yesterday. "While many of its provisions are all right, those which can have no effect except to create a monopoly are all wronc. The passenger corporations already existing in the city maybe con ceded to be adequate to present needs; but the city is likely to expand into districts at present sparsely settled. Legislation which will prevent the building of lines to accom modate the future growth of any section, or which would prevent new and improved methods of transit from any direction, is antagonistic both to public interest and public policy. The most striking provision of this bill is the section which forbids any passenger rail road to construct its line within 1,000 feet of another passenger railway, except for cross ings and loops, unless the paralleled j jine consents An illustration of this provision is furnished by looking back and seeing how it would have worked in the past The most recent horse car lines in the city are, we believe, the "West End and the Transverse. It this law had been in force when they were bnilt, the Citizens or the Birmingham could have forbidden the construction of the Trans verse, and the Union the construction of the West End if the Union had not previously been shut out by the veto of the Manchester line. The fact will be apparent to anyone upon a moment's consideration that no line caa reach the center of the city from any direction, without coming under the prohi bition of this section. Such an enactment would mean simply that all projects to im prove or increase rapid transit, for the future must come to a halt, unless they are made grateful to the existing companies. Hardly less remarkable is the provision giving such companies the power to cross bridges and to pay damages in their stocks and bonds. All companies should be em powered to cross qr use a public highway, like a bridge, on equitable terms; but con sidering the amount of stocks that are issued nowadays in the proportion of three dollars for one of actual investment, the proposi tion to pay damages in that kind of legal tender is calculated to take away thc breath of thc unfortunate bridge company. Such provisions as these raise the ques tion whether the authors of the bill would not do well to study the principles of con stitutional law. The present corporations will save themselves useless trouble if they abandon such attempts to create a monop oly, and devote their attention to the legiti mate work of transporting passengers as cheaply as possible. No Legislature can make such a monopoly permanent; and we doubt very much if it can take away from a municipal government the right to au thorize a street railway to run wherever public traffic requires it Thc bill is clearly unconstitutional, and not worth the paper it is written upon. POWDEELTS ALLEGED BACKSET. The contest among the local Knights, which terminated yesterday in the election of officers of District Assembly No. 3, is widely claimed to be a defeat for Mr. Pow derly, and is said to be all the more severe because ol Mr. Powderly's presence in the city immediately before the election came off. This position is additionally unique, because, if correctly stated, it shows that while the majority of the Knights are op posed to the administration, they do not fol low Mr. Barry out of the order, but take the course of staying in and controlling its local machinery. Whether this attitude will be preserved, or whether this important dis trict will hold itself in readiness to make a flop when it will do the most good, must be reserved for the future to disclose; but, it is clear that events are no't tending toward the increase or rehabilitation of the strength of this important order. THE PEICE OF JUBOBS. If our present jury system is to abide with us, as mud and malaria are doing this merry winter, something ought to be done to fix a regular tariff for the sale of jurors. As it is now any decent, respectable man who starts out to buy a jury has really nothing sure to go by in estimating how much money he ought to put in his wallet This uncertainty is decidedly deleterious. If jurors are for sale they ought to be marked in plain figures so that the pur chaser can feel that be is not paying any more than his neighbor for a prime article of justice to order. It is rumored in the neighborhood of the Court House that some good creatures have acted as juror-brokers, buying and selling juries in small and broken lots after the manner of curbstone dealers in oil or grain. But it has always been hard to put one's hand on a jury-broker when one most wanted him. Indeed, to-day it is probably a fact that the jury-broker is trying with all the burning enthusiasm of the gods to be come extinct Consequently some relief is needed at once. How would it do to draw up an official schedule of prices for jurors, at retail and wholesale, and intrust its dissemination to the Jury Commissioners? THE SUGAE BOUNTY. There is a curious condition of things in the Senate over the question of sugar duties. The Democrats who last year were fighting for high sugar duties are now protesting with vigor against the proposition for a sugar bounty; while the Bepublicans who with few exceptions hold that the sugar duties should be reduced, propose by the aid of the bounty to make thc protection higher than before. The Senate bill reduced the duty on raw sugar from a basis of 1.4c per pound to one of .7c per pound'.' Since its discussion the proposition to add .thereto a bounty of Jc per pound has been accepted. This gives the sugar grower a protection of 1.7c 'pec pound against 1.4c at present Consider ing that the, present ratio of protection on raw sugars runs from CO up to 88 per cent does not this addition seem a little unneces sary? It would be wise and consistent to give the sugar growers the benefit of a bounty to cover a portion of the reduction made in the duties. Thus the original proposition to put a bounty of 1 cent per pound on raw sugars produced in this country and take off all duties, would have given the public cheap refined sugars, freed them from the exactions of the Sugar Trust and upheld the home production of sugars. But to pay out of the public treasury in bounties a sum which actually increases the ratio of protection looks like putting it rather strongly. The public will get cheaper sugars through the reduction of duty under this arrangement, but to work the application of thc bounty idea so hard may prove to be running the principle into the ground. The report of a Watermelon Trust has at least one feature that entitles it to con sideration. Its stock will be of the typical kind that the trusts seek to make valuable. Watermelons are composed of water in the proportion of nineteen parts out of twenty. The perversities which sometimes preside over the types, is seen in the title to Har per's TVcckhj's illustration of the "Front of Wilder's Building, on Broad street, Pitts burg," after the calamity last week. The curiosity of what wonld otherwise be a very commonplace mistake of the types, appears in the fact that thc picture itself shows Weldin's sign partially erased; and a com parison shows that thc only letters visible in the sign are those which are wrong in the title of the. picture; while those erased in the picture are those which the types man aged to get exactly right. This will go far to confirm the theory which all newspaper men have been tempted, to entertain at times, that a malignant spirit must preside invisibly over the production of typograph ical errors. The juror who got into the wrong jury box without knowing it, and the- Court which had to order a case begun again on account of the mistake, present another object lesson on the jury system. Instruc tion on that subject is abundant at present. Senator Quay appears to be develop ing a line of independent action on the tariff bill, in defiance of the decision of the caucus. -Is it possible that the junior Sen ator who has his grasp on the throttle of the State machine is going to turn out a kicker, if not a Mugwump on national pol itics? The attempt of the Haytian navy to run down the steamer which the United States navy had captured does not appear to have been very successful. The Haytian navy is not a coal schooner, which accounts for the safety of the United States vessels. The stock market still continues to refuse to boom in response to presidents' agree ments and bankers' pledges. The stock market is beginning to have a dim suspicion of the fact that the only way to restore rail way investments to a prosperous condition is to put them on a solvent and honest basis of capitalization. The footpads who are making things un pleasant on the city streets, do not appear to fear the police very much. One was cap tured the other night; but it was not don by the police, and the rule remains un broken. The declaration of the New York An archists that Most has become "conservative and cowardly," indicates that Most must have found the agitating business profitable. Nothing is so sure to turn an agitator into a conservative as to get a little ahead to the extent of a little money, or an equivalent. Me. Laffeety's bill relative to the in corporation of passenger railway companies, seems to be especially designed to make things solid for the existing corporations and to shut out all new ones. The most striking features about that prohibition amendment are that the Demo crats do not know what they are going to do about the vote on it in the Legislature, and the Bepublicans do not know what they are going to do about the vote on it by the people. PUBLIC PEOPLE PAEAGEAPHED. Lord Duffeein's eldest son has been slaughtering tigers at a great pace in India; six on one expedition. Prof. Loyering, of Harvard, celebrated on Tuesday night the completion of his fiftieth year as professor of physics. E. O. Wolcott, Senator-elect from Colorado, was born in Providence, R. L, where his father was a Congregational minister. He went to Colorado 15 years ago as a school teacher, and then drifted Into the practice of law. The Uerman Emperor's Christmas present to his eldest son consists of a complete collec tion of the uniforms (adapted to the child's size) which havo been in use in the Prussian army from the days of the Fredericks to the present time. Kaiser Wilhelm knows how to give his own interpretation to the adage "Train up a child in tho way he should go." The Empress of Austria recently visited a small town, where the inhabitants were so de lighted that, to do her the highest honor possi ble, they elected her a member of the Chamber of Deputies, an honor she was obliged to de cline. In recognition of this favor she sent quite a sum of money for the poor, but the Mayor was obliged to decline the gift, as they had not a pauper in tho place. Literally, honors wero easy. A man, old, weazen-faced and shaking with paralysis, called at the Philadelphia Mint on Tuesday and said that his name was A. Squires, and that on Monday, June 11, 1855, he placed 2,201 in the care of tho United States Govern ment He had a time-worn receipt with him which seems to establish his claim against the mint, if he can prove he is really "A. Squires." He was a forty-niner in California and has been a gold miner in that State since 1855. It is probable that he will obtain his $2,201, with in terest, from the mint after the usual red tape has been spun out Piiof. Charles Eliot Norton, of Har vard College, has been visiting New York on an odd mission. He desires the rich men of that city to contribute $75,000 to equip an expedition to excavate the site of the ancient temple of Apollo at Delphi. The Greek Government has given permission to tho American school at Athens to undertake thc work, and all now needed are tho funds necessary to employ labor and organize an expedition. The seat of the oracle of Delphi, according to tradition, was established in tho very earliest tipes by Apollo himself, and at the period of the Homeric poems a magnificent temple already stood there. After it had been burned, 543 B. C-, a still more magnificent edifice was reared on the same site. The temple, which contained enor mous wealth, was plundered many times by various conquerors during the next nine cen turies, but it continued to flourish until Its final destruction by the Roman Theodosius in the fourth century of the Christian era. Pontage Stamps in New York. From thc New York 'World. J Thirteen tons of postage stamps were sold in this city last, year. There is a good deal of letter go aboutNow York. - THE TOPICAL TALKER. Good Cornea From the Most Evil Wind Note of Current Life. It is curious how even & great calamity will work to tho advantage of someone. The rail roads and the hotel keepers and others in this city havo certainly obtained an increase in their receipts as an indirect consequence of tho terrible disaster on Diamond street In tho crowds which havo ever since AVcdnesday of last week surrounded the .tottering shell of Weldin's stores have been many strangers. Yesterday I encountered a gentleman from Altoona at the corner of Woodland Diamond streets, and bo told mo that he had come to Pittsburg to tako a look at the tracks of the cyclone. When I expressed some astonishment at this he told mo that a dozen or so of his ac quaintances had been drawn to Pittsburg by. the same attraction. Probably hundreds if not thousands of people residing in neighboring towns have paid Pittsburg a visit just to see for themselves tho ruins where so many human lives were sacrificed. Another odd circumstance of tho Willey building collapse was that from the very first the disaster was underestimated. Rumor usually magnifies tho facts, but it did the re verse in this case. One of tho doctors who was summoned to tho spot tells mo that the boy wh) brought the news merely told him that a man had been hurt by the fall of a building on Diamond street. Pittsburgcrs who wcro away from home the day the accident occurred had a Door chanco to realize the magnitude of tho massacre. In the Chicago papers, for instance, on the morning of Thursday the Reading silk horror dwarfed the Pittsburg catastrophe, although to-day we know that so far as the loss of human life is concerned the latter was fully as destructive. The congregation in an East End church a few Sundays ago noticed with somo dismay that their pastor preached a sermon half an hour longer than usual. After tbo service one of the elders of tho church took tho liberty to remark to tho preachor: "That was a very good sermon, Mr. C , but wasn't it a littlo too long?" Tho minister laughed as ho replied: "Yes, it was exactly 25 minutes too long. I had my watch in front of me and I mistook the time when I looked at it, and tho congregation had to suffer for my error." V One day last week a lady who resides in Chi cago, on the Southside, advertised for a serv-' ant. The first applicant who camo in answer to the advertisement was a pretty and neat young girl, evidently but recently from Ireland. After some little talk the lady asked the girl if she had any references. "Oh, yes. Ma'am," tho girl replied, and handed over a sheet of noto paper, on which was written the following legend: Tohoit mol consarn: "" Italy and thruly she he a good gurlj She kin do ginral work. She lived with mo sivln months. She be me cussln. Mns. rOLiCE officer O'Brien. Tho reference did not get tho poor girl a place then and there. V If you want to understand what an offense and stench the present jury system is to those who know its working best, call upon a few lawyers and get them to relate their experi ences and express their opinions. It is not exaggerating thc situation at all to say that there is hardly a lawyer at the bar to-day who has not known a jury, grand or petit, to be bought The lawyers generally seem to favor Tne Dispatch's suggestion to place the Jury Com missioners directly within the control of tho bench. Fortunately Allegheny county has no cause to doubt the honesty of her judges, and the lawyers, who are as deeply interested in the proper administration of justice as anyone, and perhaps more interested in the matter than their clients, would almost unanimously ap prove of a law that would wipe ont the present system and set up new commissioners ap pointed and removable by the judges. A BEAUTIFUL BURNING LAKE. The Startling Phenomenon Discovered in a Denso Indiana Forest. bpcclal Telegram to the Dispatch. Indianapolis, January 18. Near Decker, a village in Southern Indiana, a strange and startling phenomenon has been discovered. A small lake two miles from the ulace is burning and is emitting a peculiar sulphuric odor. 'The community is excited, ana those living near the burning lake are preparing to leave the place. The phenomenon was first discovered by a couple of hunters. When theyreacbed the lake they were startled by the strange sight that met their view. The entire lake was ablaze. They left tho terrifying place in a fright, scarce ly daring to look back, and told their neighbors of the phenomenon, but they only laughed at tho story. Finally a few went with the men, and wcro astounded when they found that the strange tale was true. Tho lake is a beautiful sheet of water, circular in its outlines, a half mile in circumference, in a dense wood, and is skirted by a heavy growth of swamp brush. Tho fire covers the eastern surfaco with a steady blazo six inches in height, and as night comes on it changes to a peculiar purple hue. It emits an odor like burning sulphur, and re flects a mild, steady heat. No smoke is per ceptible, eeverai tneones are suggested, tne most plausible of which is that a vein of oil near the surface has burst out under tbo pond, and that tho oil rose to the surface, where it was set on fire by a spark from a burning log heap near by, and that as the oil continues to rise it keeps burning upon the surface. HAS EVERT NEW THING. The Dispatch Complimented on Its Unprece dented Success. From the Allentown Item. The Pittsburg Dispatch is ono of the very best newspapers that reaches our table. By its expenditures, its enterprise and its judg ment, it ranks front among the leading papers of the country. It is the first in supplying its readers every new thing that may be of profit entertainment or instruction. Every year finds The DisPATcn tho first in tho field with whatever is notable or now. The success of The Dispatch, always wonderful, has never been so trrcat as at present. The circulation of its daily edition continues steadily to advance, and its Sunday issue averages over 44,000 copies each edition, a circulation unprecedented for Pittsburg. Unclo Sam's Printing. From the New York World. Public Printer Benedict's report for 18SS presents some interesting figures. Among other things it shows that over 22,000,000 envelopes were printed for the use of tho Fiftieth Con gress during its first session. Millions of these were used by members in sending out tons of their printed speeches to beloved constituen cies. The office now uses daily about 20 tons of paper, and turned out 819,608 bound books during the last six months of the year. Nearly 4,500,000 pounds of printing and writing papers were consumed during a period of six months of the year. Uncle Sam's printing office ap pears to be doing a pretty fair business, tariff or no tariff. Ills Ilnlr Cut in Five-Cent Style. Chicago, January 18. Jacob Schneider ap plied to Judge White to-day for a warrant for the arrest of Barber Mike Ryan, who, when Schneider offered him 5 cents for a hair cut, placed him in achair and with his clippers cut a channel from the back to the front of the head without touching the rest of the hair. The Court gave Schneider 2 cents to have the cut completed and refused to issue the warrant. Snakes and New Year's Pledges. From the Hew York Telegram. Sixty-three snakes wcro killed in one holo near Harveysburg, O., the other day, and now there are a number of Ohio men who believe they can break their New Year's pledges with impunity. DEATHS OP A DAL Dr. Charles Osterlln. Special Telegram to the Dispatch. Findlav, O., January 18. Dr. Charles Osterlln, the discoverer of natural gas in Findlay and an eminent physician, died here to-day from paraly sis, aged' 82 years. Dr. Osterllu was born in Wlncsburg, K1nirlom of Wurtcmberp, and came to America In 1832. He settled la Flndlay in 1S31 and has lived here ever since. Gcorgo Zclglcr. Special Telegram to the Dispatch. Carlisle, Pa., January 181 George Zelgler, tho oldest man In the county, died at Ids resi dence near this city this morning. He was a fanner, and died In the house were he was born. 91 j cars ago. BLAINE, CAMERON AND QUAI. Tho Three Implacnbles nt Last on the Best of Terns. Special Telegram to the Dispatch. Washington, January IS. When it became generally known to-day that the Hon. James G. Blaine was a guost at the man sion of Senator Cameron last evening, on the occasion of the banquet to the Pennsylvania "Farmers' Club," that Senator Quay was there also, and that Cameron and Quay and Blaino all sat with their legs under the Senator's mahogany at the same moment and clinked tho friendly glass, thero was won derment indeed. It had been reported at all times that the Pennsylvania Senators would be the chief stumbling block in the way of the appointment of the Plumed Knight to a Cabi net position. All of the old-time opposition to Blaino on the part of these eminent managers was recalled, and It was decided that Harrison could not afford to appoint Blaino without the consent of Cameron and Quay, and that he never would get that consent. Theiefore, great was astonishment of these wiseacres to know that Blaino had actually broken bread with the Implacable Quay and the unchangea ble Cameron. This new friendliness Is accept ed by most people as evidenco that the Penn sylvania Senators are not only not opposed to the appointment of Blaine to a Cabinet posi tion, but that they know he will bo appointed, and that ho is quito agreeable to them. It is the first instance in which these three men hare been brought close together socially, and probably the politicians are pardonable forsee- iK ouiucbiiuii; mure jn it. man jjibiciuum tion to dinner. It is whispered that the friend liness between tho gentlemen is sinccro and complete, and that Senator Ilale, who is a warm friend of the senior Senator from Pennsylvania, as he is also of Mr. Blaine, has had something to do with the union. Apropos to this, a close friend of Senator Cameron said to tbo correspondent of THE Dispatch to-day that he had asked Mr. Cam eron plainly if there was anything in the re ported unfriendliness between him and Quay, and that the Senator responded that he and Quay understood each other perfectly. DAD A HARD K0W TO U0E. Unlucky Even In the Manner of Ills Death A .Family's Rough Record. Manchester, N. II., January 18. If ever a person could lay claim to having been Dorn under an unlucky planet, certainly Alexander Love, a French Canadian, was that one. Love, with his wife and two small children, came to thi3 city last spring from Canada. Soon after arriving here he was taken sick, and for a long time lay at death's door. Ho had hardly re covered when his n if e met with an accident that left her a cripple for life. Then Love was thrown out of employment. He moved to Alexandria, wheio he built a cabin in the woods. He had got out a few cords of wood, when his ax slipped and nearly cut bis foot off. He was laid up for two months. After cettinc ont azain he had cut somo flvo cords when he was caught by a falling tree and killed, not instantly that was not his luck but ho Was so severely injured that he died in a few hours, after suf fering terribly. His crippled wife and children were in the cabin near by, but a mile from any other building, and were compelled to witness, without power to alleviate, the death struggles or the unfortunate husband and lather. The next morning, with crutches and pushing a child In a chair, the wife of Love went nearly three miles beforo she could make herself understood and securo help to care for her dead husband. Charitable neighbors have contributed enough money to send tho family back to their Canadian friends. GETTING THE HANG OP THINGS. Yico Presldcnt-Elcct Morton Learning Now to Ron tho machine. Washington, January 18. This after noon Vice Prcsidont-elect Morton visited the Capitol and held quite a levee in the lobby of tho House. He was in troduced to members by Representative Phelps, who afterward accompanied him to the Senate, where bo was warmly greeted as he came upon the floor. The Senate rules were recently amended in order to admit Mr. Mor ton to the privileges of the floor, and this was his first visit since then. He will probably re main in the city several days and spend some time attheCapitol, studying the working of the Senate rules, in order to familiarize himself with the duties of tho position he expects soon to fill. Mr. Morton Is also engaged in looking about the city for a desirable residence, but has so far failed to find a suitable .one. In answer to a suggestion on the subjecthe said be did not at preseut desire to buy or build a .homo in the national capital. LIKELY TO AFFECT CATHOLICS. Taxes to bo Assessed on AH Pittsburg Schools of Tuition. It is the interition of tho City Assessors to mako assessments upon all educational proper ty, where tuition is charged, as provided in the decision of Judge Sterrett Tho owners can appeal, if they desire, and the matter will go into the hands of the City Attorney. As thero are a large number of schools in this city of the class alluded to, the tax would make quite an item in the city's tax list Aprominentcitizen, speaking of the case, said in substance: "This decision places the Catholics in a deli cate position. They reasoned that, as they sup ported parochial schools, they should not be re quired to pay public school tax, and that they should receive a portion of the school fund. They must now, if this decision is sustained, either pay taxes on the parochial schools or else close them, as these schools all demand a tuition fco from the scholars." TRIAL OF THE CHARLESTON. Arrangements for tho Test of the New Cruiser's Equipments. Washington, January 13. The Navy De partment and the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, havo agreed upon the conditions for the contract trial of the cruiser Charleston. The preliminary trials of the machinery will be made in San Francisco bay, near Mission Rock, after which the vessel will proceed to sea and go south for ono day's steaming. The four honrs' full power trial required by the contract will be made over a straight course somewhere south of Point Conception, in Santa Barbara channel. Tho steering quali ties of tho vessel will then be tested at all speeds. A board of naval officers will be ap pointed in a few days to examine the vessel in the drydock and also to witness the trials at sea. CANADIAN BUILT CARS, They Cannot be Used for American Traffic Without Pnying a Duty. Detroit, January IS. The new customs order regarding Canadian built cars is being rigidly cnfoiced. Heretofore Grand Trunk and other foreign built cars nave been loaded in interior points in Michigan and have run through to Portland, Me., without question. This was a disregard of tho law.but was tacitly permitted to go on through some misunder standing in the interpretation of tho interna tional arrangement. Now no Canadian built car can pass Detroit from any American point to another through point in Canada without paying duty if such cars are intended to ply between American points. Canada roads are preparing according ly by stopping cars at Detroit that were in tended for loads between American points. A BIG PURCHASE. Tho Seller Refuses a Stnndnrd Check and Demands Currency. Special Telegram to the Dispatch. Findlay, O., January 18. The latest pur chase by the Standard Oil Company is that of 185 acres of M. S. Priest of Liberty township, Wood county. The price was $11,000. A funny thing connected with tho transaction was that Priest refused to accept the Stand ard's check for the amount, and insisted upon being paid tho whole amount in currency. When it was explained to him that it would perhaps be difficult to get that amount of cur rency here on a moment's notice, and that it would also be somewhat risky for him to, carry so large an amount home with him, he finally compromised by taking part in currency and part in drafts issued by banks on New York. Episcopal Convocation In Pittsbnrg. Tho clergy and laity of the Southern Convo cation in the diocese of Pittsburg, under Rt. Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead (EDiscopal Church), hold their winter session at St. Mark's Church, Southside. on the 5th and 6th of February. The usual convocation services will be preceded by a meeting of theclergv for prayer and in struction, called a "Quiet Day, conducted by thn Tlv. A. R. firnnsiv. nf Rf Anrlrnw'a the Rev. A. S. Crnpsey, of St Andrew's unurcn, iiocnesier, x. i, To Make ft Complete. From tbe Norristown Herald. J The latest novelty in decanters is a musical affair which plays "Comin' Thro' the Rye,'" "When tho Corn is Waving" and "The Wind That Shakes the Barley." Very appropriate; but to the list of tunes should be added "Hard Times," "Dear Father, Come Home," and "We Won't Go Homo Till Morning." SAtS KEELY WAS ONCE J. ii HUSS. Eustace Wrszynskl's Story of an Earlier Scheme Than the Motor. From the Chicago Tribune. "I knew John W. Kecly. the motor man, 22 years ago as John Adam Huss," said Eustace Wyszynski at his house, 1053 North Halsted street, last night. Mr. Wyszynski is now white' haired, but his memory is as bright and bis in telligence as keen as a new knife blade. More over, bo made the statement over a pile ot Huss' stock certificates, descriptions of Huss' and Keely's motors, and a letter from Keely. "In 1866," said Mr. Wyszynski, "I was en gaged with my son-in-law, Nicholas Lomos. in the wholesale cigar and tobacco business in Louisville, Ky. That year a man named John Adam Huss came to Louisville with what he claimed to be a 'hydraulic air engine,' which would relegate steam as a motive power to tho past He soon interested a number of promi nent citizens, among them G. A. Reuter. M. Wittenstein, the coal merchant, John C. Tel f orth. Max Leopold, and my son-in-law. "They organized the Hydraulic Air Engine Company in three States, paid Mr. Huss sev eral thousands cash down for exclusive rights In those States, and put him on a large salary to superintend the erection of a factory. As soon as possible he was to finish a sample en gine and make a trial of it before the stock holders. After numerous delays be was finally forced to bring out an engine. It was a bald failure. But his protestations that a little more experimenting only was needed to perfect it rallied the stockholders around him and they advanced him noney all he asked, in fact The second trial was postponed from timo to time, but at last fixed about a year off. .cverytning was ready lor it. rhe day armed. The stockholders met When they had waited an hour an ugly rumor reached them that Mr. Huss had not been seen for a day or so. An investigation followed, and it was discovered that the inventor had silently flown. H ere aro the stock certificates, cuts of the engine, rec ords of the money expended they are all tbo stockholders had loft." "But how does that identify Huss with Keely?" "I will give you proofs of the identity as the story unfolds. The bursting of the motor bub blo broke up my son-in-law in business, and I went to work at my trade of map engraver. My employers were German Bros., lithograph ers, and I had been worKing for them about two years when an incident occurred which subsequent developments have kept as vivid in my memory as if it had occurred yesterday. "All efforts to trace Huss had been fruitless, and he had almost passed out of mind. But one day as I was bending over a lithographic stone I was amused by a voice in conversation with Charles W. German, the head of the firm. I looked up. Two men wero consulting him as to whether he could make a print of a machine of which they had a small model. One of the men was Huss. As I recognized him he saw me. He and his companion madeabolt for the door, and left Mr. German standing dum founded. " 'What in thunder's tbo matter?" exclaimed Mr. German, when ho got his breath. ' That's Hnss, the air engine man.' I said.; " 'It's John W. Keely. tho machinist.' replied Mr. German, 'and his friend is C. M. Babcock. So they introduced themselves.' "That was the last time," continued Mr. Wyszynski, "I saw John Adam Huss, alias John W. Keely. but it isn't the lastl've heard of him by a erreat deal. "When Keely began to mako a stir at Phila delphia with his airmotor I got a description of his machine so far as it had been mado public, and found it was the same thing we had put our money in at Louisville." MODES OF SUICIDE. Tho Vnrlons manners Which People Select for Ending Their Lives. From the Lewlston (Me.) Journal. "Of various modes of suicide," continued he, "poisoning has been by far the favorite in the cities. I find that statistics in New York City between 1866 and '72, reveal over 600 suicides, and of these over 200 were by poison. Of these, the favorite is arsenic in its commonest form paris green, although the more educated class of people used chloral or morphine: Paris green was most popular because it could be ob tained far more easily. The laws, anyway gov erning tho sale of poisons are not half stringent enough, especially thoso governing the sale of morphine, opium, etc. Drucgists in some in stances ask few questions, and with a brief register of tho name, let the person and the poison go. "They say that in London, hanging is a popu lar mode of shuffling off the mortal coih In France, the charcoal fumes are the popular method. Now and then they blow out the gas and more often imbibe absinthe to gradual ex tinction .a gay and debonaire method of seek ing oblivion. It is said that 7b per cent of tho people who shoot themselves, put the pistol In their mouths and the result is less disfigure ment of the body. Drowning is very common method with people who are in mental trouble and temporary derangement and is sought chiefly by those who are under surveillance and escape it to seek refuge in the river or harbor. I have heard it said that of those who throw themselves from great heights, many do so un der a morbid distemper. You have, possibly, felt that awful inclination to throw yourself over a high cliff when looking down. You have probably stood by a high window and thought bow easy the dajs and their troubles might cease, by a leap. "In old davs, the defeated monarch fell upon bis sword. To-day, he dies to another land or basks in exile at Monte Carlo. In olden times thegrandmotherspunthesbiningthreadsoflife till its sunset glow disfigured her face. To-day, some of them subsist on sleeping Dowders.mor phine decoctions, chloral salts, etc., etc., until the noonday of life finds them withered and al most dead. Voluntary suicide is not worse than wilful disregard of the laws of life." HAD HEARD OF EACH OTHER. Characteristic Meeting of Senator Quay and Calvin S. Drlcc. Washington, January 18. It is said that as Calvin S. Brice was passing the door of the Senate, the other day, Senator Matt Quay was standing there. The two men had never met before. They were introduced, shook hands cordially, and Quay, in his dignified way, said: "I think I have heard of you before." "Yes, I expect you have. Senator. It appears to me that I have also read your name in the papers." "Yes, it has gotten there occasionally," re plied Quay, lifting his Ben Butler eyelid toward the west. Quay asked about Colonel Brice's health, and expressed a desire for him to call upon him. Brice thanked the Pennsylvania Senator and said he would be glad to do so, bnt he ex pected to leave for home during the day. INTERNAL KETENUE FIGUKES. Nearly a Million Increase In the Receipts In Six months. Washington, January IS. The collections of internal revenue for the first six months of tho fiscal year ending Jnno 30, 1889, were 563, 312.565, an increase of J868.957, as compared with, tho collections for the corresponding period of tho previous fiscal year. The receipts were as follows: From spirits, S35.S66.3S8. an increase of S1.310, 841; from tobacco, $15,343,653, a decrease or $511, 245; from fermented liquors, $12,142,306. an in crease of $23,028: from oleomargarine, $410,989, an increase of $51,203; from banks, bankers, etc., 5.747. an increase of $5,392: from miscellaneous, $43,390, a decrease of $50,262. The receipts for December, 188S, were 5362,229 less than thoso for December, 1887. Invited to Delmonlco's. Prof. Hermann, who is an intimate friend and a general favorite of the newspaper fraternity, yesterday received the following letter: New York, January 14, 1889. Prof, nerrmann: Dear Sin The pleasure nf your company at the annual dinner of the New York Press Club, at Delmonlco's. Twenty-sixth street and Fifth avenue, on Wednesday evening, February 27, Is specially desired by the members. An early re ply, accepting the Invitation herewith most cor- uiauy e.xieuueu iu you, itiii oe ayprcbi.iii-u. The above letter Is signed by John A, Cock rell. President, and P. J. Hanway, Horatio C. King, William S. McLaughlln.William Gibson, Jr., and John A. Cockrell, Committee on Invi tations. ' Pqnnrlng tbo Circle. From the Chicago News. 3 It looks now as if round dances would never be able to square themselves with tho minis ters. A MYSTERY. My fellow-traveler's face was wan apd pale. And when be met my gaze he seemed to quail. He made pretense to read somo paltry book; Yet he could not his hand all nerveless shook. Some mystery, thought I, doth lie behind AH this: this creature longs for peace of mind. Itcmorse is preying on him now, perchance A crime is here, or may be a romance. Else why this pallor ? Why these blood-shot orbs ? And why this sorrow that his life absorbs f Has he some luckless fellow-mortal slain ? Or Is he a rejected, love-lorn snalu ? At last he turned, with a distressing sigh. And fixed on me his wild and restless eye; Tnen In a voice emotion seemed to choke, IIo said : "Rave you got anything to smoke J" America. GOTHAM'S GEIST OP GOSSIP. Somewhat Tired of Comstock. 1NZW TORK BUREAU SPECIALS. New York, January 18. Anthony Comstock bad Gustav Zunker, a saloon keeper, and his bartender fined SI each to-day for conducting a raffle. Zunker was selling chances in a picture lottery for the benefit of a widow with seven children, when Comstock arrested him. The Judge told Mr. Comstock that similar cases would be dismissed hereafter without a hear ing. Collided In a Fog. The coast steamship Richmond, which sailed from here yesterday, came back to-day with a big hole in her side. At 10 o'clock last night the Richmond steamed into a heavy fog. A little later the schooper Jacob Reed, of Barnegat. approached unnoticed and crashed into the Richmond. The Jacob Reed suffered little damage. No lives were lost Tho Atlanta Oat of Keltcr. The United States cruiser Atlanta will prob ably not sail for Hayti to-morrow, as has been ordered from Washington. Four of her boilers are still entirely our of repair. Her officers think that two daysat least will be required to put her machinery in order. Wnnts $5,000 for Her Hand. Mrs. Christine Davis stumbled and fell over Frederick Loeser & Co.'s wire mat some time ago. Her hand was badly lacerated by a broken wire. Blood poisoning resulted, and Mrs. Davis was ill for several weeks. She sued Loeser & Co. for $5,000 damages to-day. A Female Mall Smuggler. Collector Magone has been investigating the private affairs of Mrs. G. W. Heap, widow of a former United States Consul, since early this morning. Mrs. Heap has been smuggling em broideries, laces and women's underclothes into the country by means of the mails. Col lector Magone says the whole affair is a great secret, and be doesn't know what ho may do with Mrs. Heap. Going to Amazo the French. The Produce Exchange appointed a commit tee to-day to supervise the American exhibit of Indian corn at the Paris Exhibition. As the general appropriation of Congress is inade quate, members of the Produce Exchange will subscribe money enough to show the French what Indian corn 13 like. A Life's Work Completed. The Rev. Alexander Kohut finished to-day his "Arucle Completum," a Talmudic encyclo pedia, in 12 languages, begun by him 25 years ago. ODE MAIL POUCH. Ilenry HI. Stanley. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Please givo a brief account of the career of Stanley, the explorer, and oblige Tarentdm, January 18. Many Readers. THenry M. Stanley was born in Wales in 1810. When 3 years old he was placed in the poor house of St. Asaph, here remaining until he was 10. At the age of 15 he sailed as a cabin boy in a vessel bound for New Orleans. At this place he was adopted by a merchant named Stanley, whose name he took instead of John Rowlands, his original name. His patron died without leaving a will, and young Stanley was thrown on his own resources. He enlisted in the Confederate army, was made a prisoner, and subsequently joined the Federal service, becoming a petty officer on a war steamer. He became a newspaper correspondent at the close of the war, and in 1867 was sent by the New York Herald as its correspondent with the British army in Abyssinia. He was Anally sent to find Dr. Livingstone. Stanley reached Zan zibaron the east coast of Africa, in 1871, and in October of that year found Livingstone at Ujiji. Stanley remained with Livingstone until about February, 1S72, when Livingstone started on the journey from which he never returned, and Stanley mado bis way back to Europe. Tbe stir made by this exploit induced the conductors of tho New York Herald and of the London Daily Telegraph to send him. at their own expense, on another African expedition. He reached Zan zibar in the autumn of 1874, and, learning that Livingstone was dead, resolved to go north westward, and explore the regions of Lake Victoria N'Yanza. This he reached in Febru ary, 1S75, and found it to be the largest body of fresh water on the globe, having an area of 40. 000 square miles. He then pushed westward toward Lake N'Yanza, and was able to satisfy himself that it was not, as had been generally supposed, connected with Lake Tanganyika. He returned to Uiiii. and entered unon the descent of the river Lnalaba, supposed by Livingstone to be the Nile. In this task he was occupied eitrht months. Stanley reached England after this in February, 1873. A num ber of volnmes from him, in which he treats of the wonderful regions explored, have been published. In 1879 to 1882 he visited Africa again, his object in this being to develop the basin of tbe river Congo. The King of the Belgians devoted from bis private purse $250,1)00 per annum toward this costly enterprise. He completed the work in 1884, having established trading stations along the Congo river from its mouth up for 1,400 miles to Stanley Pool. It was at the end of 1SS6 that he was charged with the organization of the expedition for tbe re lief of Emin Pasha. AT THE SOCIAL SHEINE. A Brilliant Allegheny Reception nnd a Charming Sewickley Assembly. Miss Anna Frances Marshall, of Stockton avenue, Allegheny, gave a brilliant reception and musicale last evening in honor of her visitor, Miss Sharp, of Philadelphia, who is a niece of Mrs. Charles Clarke, of Oakland. The mansion contained fine floral decorations throughout, and the mnsic rendered was ex cellent. About 100 of the most prominent society peo ple of both cities were present at the festivities, which lasted from 9 to 12. HONORING THEIE PAST0E, Southside Preabyterlnns Tender Rev. T. E. Fnrrnnd n Reception. The members of tho Southside Presbyterian Church gave Rev. T. R. Farrand, their new pastor, a reception last night in tho lecture room at the church. About 150 people were present, and several of the clergymen from other Southside churches attended also. Dr. John M. Duff made the address of wel come, and tho Rev. B. F. Cameron, of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, also made an ad dress. About 10 o'clock the party were regaled with refreshments by the ladles of the congregation. A Charming Assembly. In tho second of a series of assemblies at their delightful home, Sewickley, the Misses Black last evening entertained in a charming manner a nico company of guests. It was one of those cordial receptions which havo made the homes of Sewickley enviable resorts in more ways than one. FACTS AND FIGURES. London, with a population of 4,765,000, has only 4,193 subscribers to the telephone. The business failures in tbe United States for 1S83 amounted to $123,829,973, against $167, 600,911 in 18S7. China and the East Indies furnish two thirds as much wool as all the countries of Eu rope combined. It is estimated that the packing season, which ends March 1, will show a reduction of 600,000 hogs from the number packed last year. Accordino to reliable statistics there are 120,557 women and children engaged in this country in tbe production of cotton goods, and 89,792 in the production of woolen goods. Doting tbe year recently closed 22 railway companies, with 3,720. miles of lines and nearly $187,000,000 of securities, havo become insolvent and passed from the control of their owners into that of the courts. The gas area of Indiana is 1C5 miles long and 65 miles wide, and contains 381 paying wells. The daily segregate flow of gas is 60W,COO,000 feet of which probably 100,000.000 feet are wasted. The averago flow of gas is 1,500,000 feet per well. The manufacture of silk was first introduced into Europe from the Indies, 1,353 years ago, by two monks, who established its manufacture at Constantinople. It was made in England as early as the reign of Henry VL, in the middle of the fifteenth centnry. It is stated that the English Government is out with a pamphlet notifying tbe trado at homo and abroad that adulterated cheese will no longer be tolerated in the English mar kets, and the discovery of any offerings of such lots will result in tbe confiscation of such property. CUBIOUS C0SDEKSATI038. The veterans of the late war are dying at tbe rate of 6,000 a year. A Trenton thief this week got five years for stealing a 75-ccnt knife. The weight of the heart is from eight to 12 ounces. It beats 100,UUO times in 21 hours. One police patrol wagon in Boston made 58 trips during a Saturday night recently. An Indiana citizen has followed the ex ample of a Southern man and eloped with his divorced wife. A party of immigTantshasreachedKern county, California, after a six months' wagon ride from Nebraska. At a ball in Paris recently a lady woro shoes, each of which had a watch inserted in the leather, near the toes. A San Francisco detective, aftersearch ing that city over for a house robber.foundhira in jail. He had been arrested for opium smok ing; Charles Allen, of Eed B3nk, TS. J., has long suffered from an oyster thief's work. A few days ago he shot the thier, a seal weighing 1C0 pounds. The sum total of all the counterfeit money set afloat last year did not amount to $25,000. and tne "aueer" men were ont of socket in their transactions. The English villages are diminishing in population, owing to the exodus of the unem ployed, who are flocking into the towns at tit rate of 60,000 or 70,000 a year. A family of five in Dakota subsisted for three .weeks on Ave pounds of pork and a bushel of carrots, and there is no use in any young housekeeper trying to beat that record. Mrs. Jane McCarthy, of Louisville, waded into a gang of loafers with sleeves rolled up and knocked five of them down by right and left Danders before they could getaway. In so doing she smashed a knuckle, which a doctor mended free of charge. The microscopist of the Department of Agriculture, Professor Thomas Taylor, has discovered that pepper is adulterated often as much as 50 per cent, with the seed or stone of the olive, which are obtained in large quanti ties from the olive oil factories. While sawing a log that had beea chopped down a couple of years agoV. 8. Whitemore, of Beatrice, Neb., struck a stons as large as his two fists that bad grown solid in the heart of tho tree. The tree was sufficiently large to indicate a growth of perhaps 20 years or more around the stone. Tobacco should be credited as a part of the discovery of Christopher Columbus. When he first met the Indians they "were im bibing the fumes of tobacco in tbe shape of a cigar." This cigar wai not wholly of tobacco, though. It was a stalk or straw tube filled with thi3 weed. But the Indians smoked pipes chiefly. Theyare still pegging away at the Cape? Cod ship canal, which was begun" nine years ago. The contract requires tbe work to be finished by Jnno 20, ISM. but as there are seven miles yet to be dug, and as during 1S83 there was only about seven-eighths of a mile opened, the prospects are not good for the fulfillment oi tne contract. Illinois census returns show that out side of tbe cities the population is decreasing. The school census of 1S88 shows that in July last there were in the"State 843,976 males under 21 years of age. In 1S80 there were 789,676. This is a gain of 54,300, but the gain in Conk county was 83,217, so that the loss in the rest of tho State was 28,917. Duluth has had a tremendous boom during the last 12 months. Over $4,300,000 has been spent for improvements, and 782 new buildings have been erected at a cost of $2,802. 600. The citizens of Proctor Knott's city are confident that this year is going to beat th last, and say that there will be at least 1,500 new buildings put up. John Derone, of Easton, Pa., must give up $10 to a wicked small boy or go bald-headed. During tho cyclone of last week Mr. Derono had his bat and wig blown offwhilecrossingthe South Easton Suspension Bridge. The wig and hat were found by an enterprising youngster, who undismayed by the agent' threat of a law suit, refuses to surrender bis find until the owner pays him $10 for them. According to a German scientific jour nal they are using electricity in India to pre vent snakes going into dwellings. Before all the doors and around tbe house two wires are laid, isolated from one another and connected with an induction apparatus. When a snaka attempts to enter the house or no under it ho completes the circnlt as he crawls over the two wire", and If the shock: be gets doesn't kill him it is likely to frighten him so that he goes away from there as soon as he can. Electricity cut np some queer capers with a tree down in New Orleans. A guy cable was attached to the tree from an electric light. In some unaccountable way the cable became crossed with a live wire, and on wet days electricity run down the former. Several time'i it set the tree afire and eventually started a blazo which de'troyed that part of the tree above the wire. The trunk was exam ined and its heart was found to have been en tirely eaten out by the electricity, leaving a mere shell. Mr. Friese Greene, a British pho tographer, has actually produced a picture with only the light lsuing from his eye. Hav ing stared for 15 seconds at a 3,000-candle elec tric arc only three feet away, ho closed his eyo and quickly brought it over a sensitive plate at a distance of one inch. The result was a very faint but distinct image of the arc and the car bons, due. probably, to momentary phosphor escence of the retina. A second attempt failed, and gaslights proved too weak to pro duce enect. In the Pine Grove Mines, Esmeralda county, Nevada, there is a blind boy employed to do errands, tend cars and the like. He has a most remarkable faculty of finding his way, not only through the intricacies of tbe mine, but about tbe town. He goes to any part of the mine for tools, and never goes astray, and on dark nights he guides the other miners from tho town to the house where most of them lodge. They cannot easily find the way without him, for the trail is narrow and crooked, and on each, side are many prospect holes and old cellars. CLIPPED BITS OF "WIT. He playeth best who loveth best All music, gay and grand. But give the min two asses ears Who Wagner's strains can stand. LUt. Reassuring. Irish Surgeon (to patient whose legs he has Just amputated) And now, my good fellow, cheer up. Keep a stiff upper lip and remain calm, and Inslx weeas, I will pledge you my word, I'll have you on your feet again. Lies. Too Useful for Use. Salesman Yes, lady, this new patent bed contains a sofa, a toilet stand, a table, chalis and footstool In fact th whole furniture of a bedroom. Customer Indeed I but what does one furnish the bedroom with then? Lies. Poor Hunting Grounds. "Yon don'fr seem to like moving about la society," remarked Bjoncs. "No." replied Giles. 'Tmworklng on a so ciety paper, and the editor told me to mlnzle In fashionable life and pick up bon mots. I've been at It a week and haven't yet heard anything said that Is worth printing." A Wife's Thoughtfulness. Mrs. Bjones I suppose that new grand piano was Mr. Fer guson's present to you? You must be very proud ofit. Mrs. Ferguson Yes, it was very nice of him hut, oh, Edmund, you must show Mrs. Bjones that lovely silk handkerchief which 1 gave yon. Jioiton Post. Too Good. Customer Say. this rifle yon sold me yesterday is no good. Dealer What la the matter with It? Customer It shoots too accurately. Dealer Why, Isn't that Just what yon want? Customer I guese not. I'm the proprietor of a shooting gallery, and I give prizes tg those who score the highest number of points. 1'ankts Bloat. An Unhappy Admission. He had asked the old man for his daughter's hand, and com mented long and earnestly on his bright pros pects. "UmphI" said the old man when he was through. "A young fellow with such bright pros pects as yon Is a blanked fool to marry, and I don't want any blanked fool in my family." His Boston Patient "My dear lady," said the doctor, "yoa are suffering from undue excitement on account of the news that John L. Sullivan Is once more getting into form. The only thing that will save your life la to put you on a low diet." A low diet!" screamed Miss Waldo. "I would die first. Death Is prelerable to being vulgar." Historic Jokes. Napier's famous dis patch from India announced his victory in one word, "Peccarl" which Is. by Interpretation, lnafbcluda." Verymnchor tho same kind was General de Bourmout's message to the French War Minister la 1353, when the Dey of Algiers es caped him after being taken, "PerdldV" Diem "1 have lost a Dey." It Is said that'Drake, wfcea the ships of the Armanda turned their sails, sent to Elizabeth the word "C'antharldes" that Is, "The Spanish fly." This last Is probably a fable. Temple Bar. , 133BtMHB3S