PITTSBURG DISPATCH,' THURSDAY, -FEBRUARY- 7, :1889? ; t fc flje BtftretftJ. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY ia. Vol. 43, So. 306. Enteral at HttsburK l'ost offlce, Itorcmbcrlt, 1SS7, as second-class matter. Business Office 97 and09 Fifth Avenue. News Booms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street. This pnper hnxlns more thnu Double tho circulation or any other in Ibo Smto outside of Philadelphia, Its advantages as an adver tising medium wilt be apparent. TE1U1S OF THE DISPATCH. rosTAOE rniE rs- the cmtu states. DAILY DisrATCn, One Year f 8 CO DAILT DisrATCH, Per Quarter 100 Daily UlBPATcn. Oncllonth u Daily Dispatch, including Sunday, one year 10 00 Daily Diei-ATCU. Including bunday, per quarter 150 Daily DisrATCir, Including Sunday, ons month. M Euxday DisrATCn, oneycar. 150 Weeklt DisrATCH, one year 129 Hie Daily disfatcii 1 delivered by carriers at 35 cents per week, or including Uie&undaycdltlon, at 20 cents per week. PITTSBURG, THURSDAY, FER 7, 1SS9. GYPSUM FOE FOOD. The very interesting disclosures made by a case on trial in our courts yesterday con cerning an invoice of alleged cream of tar tar sold to a Pittsburg grocer should attract the attention of the public A food product which is composed, to the extent of 70 per cent, of gypsum, and nincteen-twentieths of it other adulterations, is not calculated to strike the average stomach very favorably. We bclievo that gypsum is a very useful article in its place; but that place is hardly located in the popular digestive organs. It is a matter tor public congratulation that the Association of Grocers is fighting such wholesale adulterations as this. The public should not only recognize the public bcrvices of this association but should sup port them by work on their own part "When consumers unite to secure the exami nation of all products, with pledges to ex pose and withhold patronage from all who nalta off adulterated food, the penalty of loss of business will bring the whole nefar ious swiudlc to a sudden stop. BeyoDd that the people also have it also in their power to see that criminal penal tics arc applied to Fuoh cases as this one. The man who sells gypsum for food should be given an opportunity to learn to do honest and useful manual labor at the work house or penitentiary. NOTHING SHALL ABOUT THAT. It would be unjust to the Legislature to assume that the extraordinary bill giving monopoly powers and rights to gas, heat and lighting companies, which has been re ferred to the Judiciary Committee, will ever get back to the House. A copy of the exact provisions is given in another column of The Dispatch this morning. It will be seen that the cool demand is virtually made that the lucky corporations shall have no competitors just so long as by watering their slock or other devices they can keep their dividends below 8 per cent per annum. From the disposition already shown at Harrisburg this year to make short work of such demands, it may safely be assumed that there is no danger of the bill going upon the statute-books, or, if it went there, the Courts would still have something to say on the sort of public policy involved in such a measure. But it is not well that such requests should be made at all. They convey an ex aggerated idea of the eagerness of corpora tions to own the earth, and to make rapid and enormous fortunes at the public ex pense, which must produce an unpleasant feeling among the millions of taxpayers who have supported trusts, '"combines" and monopolies. The value of 6uch exclusive privileges as are thus sought is enormous; but it would be created solely and abso lutely at the public expense. sunobity fighters. It seems to be settled that the Union Pacific funding bill is thoroughly killed for this session; and the tactics by which its passage was prevented are severely criti cised by some of the prrss. The resort was the extraordinary one or filibustering; but it must be remembered that the shape in which the measure was brought up was also the extraordinary one of proposing to pass a bill involving some 870,000,000 under suspension of the rules, without giving the opponents of that measure a fair chance lor 'lull discussion and amendment. It is also worth while to remember that members like Payson, of Illinois, and Anderson, of Kansas, who led the tactics which gave the bill its check are of unimpeachable integ rity in their public careers, and deserve the confidence of the public by the opposition which they have always shown to the abuses of the Pacific railroads. The bill will un doubtedly reappear in the next Congress; but it will add to the interest of the occasion to know that Payson and Anderson will be on hand to make their usual fight against the indefinite extension oi the debt. NATURAL MONOPOLIES. It is regarded as an evidence of the prog ress of socialism of the mild stamp of Prof. E. T. Ely, that Alanson W. Beard, of Bos ton, has lately come out in the press declar ing that he is "well-nigh convinced that it would be desirable for city governments 'to assume the ownership and direction of every enterprise which must of necessity be a .monopoly, such as the production of gas, water, electric lights and street car ser vice, ihe idea that anyone should ob ject to private and corporate monopolies in Boston is doubtless calculated to create a sensation in that city. Had Mr. Beard op posed any of the really great corporations such as the "Western Union telegraph or the railroad combination, it would surely have rocked Boston to its foundations. But as he objected only in general terms to the minor ones there is a probability that Bos ton will let him live there for a time longer. As to Mr. Beard's conclusion, few intelli gent men can avoid the decision that if there is any class of business which is a natural monoDoly, it wouldJe better in the bands of city governments than in private hands provided you have a decent city povernmeuL But the weakness of Mr. Beard's, Prof. Ely's, Mr. George's and all the other state socialists' logic is that there is not a single one of the functions which they bring up as illustrations, that is a natural monopoly except the water supply, which is already in the hands of nineteen municipal governments out of twenty. The only reason why the gas, street car and electric lighting functions are monopolized is that municipal governments have not had the public interests sufficiently at heart to avail themselves of the lever for free and natural competition, furnished by the first principle that should control the use of all the streets. That principle is that whatever privileges are granted in the streets nnst be for public use; and that the essenceof pub lic use lies in the ability of all persons to I use these privileges for' the purposes to which they are adapted and on equal terms. Take the gas supply for illustration. The city of Philadelphia has just proved that it is perfectly practicable to receive gas from' an outside manufacturer delivered in the holders by the thousand feet and thence dis tributed to the consumers. There is no more of a natural monopoly in manu facturing gas to be delivered to the holders, than there is in manufacturing pig iron to be delivered on board the cars; and when we reach a sufficient state of enlightenment to provide that gas transporting lines must take gas from the manufacturers and distribute the equivalent thousands of feet to various con sumers, the monopoly of gas supply will en tirely disappear. The same principle will work equally in the street railway business. But the trouble is that, so far at least, city governments have been more ready to serve the purposes of the private interests that enjoy the monopolies granted by legislation, than to preserve the public interests. In that case how much hope would there be of bettering the present state of affairs by put ting into the hands of politicians who now serve the private monopolies, the direct power over those important lines of busi ness? If Mr. George, Prof. Ely and Mr. Beard can reform the character of city councils and politicians there may be hope that the plan of putting these functions in their hands would work well. But when that reform is made these lines of business can at once be thrown open to natural and legitimate competition, and the State social ist plan will be unnecessary. Natural monopolies arc very uncomforta ble things when we find them; but before swallowing the later theories whole, it is worth while to inquire how far the existing monopolies are natural, and how far they are the result of vicious or ignorant legisla tion. LEGISLATION FOB STOCK WATEBEBS. The arguments which were presented against the conference report on the Nicar agua Canal bill, in the House of Repre sentatives yesterday, were certainly worthy of more attention than was paid to them; while the spread-eagle speeches of Mr. Chipman and Mr. Scott were a fair sample of the shallow sophistry by which legisla tion in favor of corporate abuses is de fended. It may be, as Mr. Chipman says, time for the United States to carry the American flag into Central America; but it is not time, and never will be time, to carry it there for the purpose of securing to a big corporation the right to levy tolls on Amer ican commerce in order to pay dividends on triply or quadruply watered stocks. The justification of the bill is in the benefit that will be conferred on commerce; but the re markable additions to the bill which are evidently intended to open the way to un limited stock-watering, will, as Mr. Bucka lew pointed out, hamper and defeat that very object. So too, Mr. Scott's remarkable derision of the opponents of these precious measures, with the argument that the Bothschilds and and Barings can take care of themselves was a very cheap lalsmcation ot the issue. There is no doubt that the great financial magnates can take care of themselves; but for the United States to raise the Jingo cry for the purpose of enabling either European Rothschilds and Barings, or American Scotts, Goulds and Morgans, to delude in vestors by selling them securities composed of three parts water to one of real value, Is legislation in the interest of gigantic and successful swindling. But the lobby was too strong for any con siderations of mere honesty, and the bill went through with a rush. "When its results are fully understood it will take rank be side the Pacific Railroad legislation, and will probably be found to have been secured bv similar methods. THE PRESIDENTS GOOD EXAMPLE. The announcement, apparently on good authority, that President Cleveland will commence practice as an attorney in New York upon the termination of his admin istration, develops the usual amount of newspaper comment. The phase of it that should be most pleasant to the American public is its utter disregard of the effete and imported notion that an ex-President of the United States cannot retire from his office into active and useful life. The President of the United States is no more than an American citizen elevated to a position of great responsibility. "When he lays aside the duties and responsibilities of his high place, no restraints attach to him any more than the duty of all citizens to fill private position honorably and use fully. It is the long-standing American idea, and one which can be overset only by importing a cheap imitation of foreign aristocracy, that a useful American citizen will pursue some legitimate business. That idea is the true one; and the President who takes up again the private work which he laid down on entering public life will pre sent the best ideal of American citizen ship. "We are therefore unfeignedly glad that the President will go to work at the practice of the law. The question as to the exact benefit which the country will derive from his resumption of legal work may depend on the class of practice he engages in. Lawyers who exert their talents in devising methods by which great combinations can defy the laws, or in pleas by which great criminals can escape punishment might be not more useful but less harmless, if they spent their lives in genteel leisure. But as the great lawyers who do that sort of thing are well known and the President's talents as a lawyer are comparatively unknown it is permitted to hope that he will do a straightforward and useful law business. At all events he sets the good example of showing how ex-Presidents can go right to work like other good Americans. "With regard to the formation of two big coal syndicates, the Baltimore American says that they "will do a great deal to fur nish the country with fuel." Will they do any more than the mining companies of which they are contposed did before the syndicates were formed? The proposal of "Windom's name for the Treasury causes the esteemed New York Sun to "doubt if Mr. "Windom will con sent." The phraseology is faulty because if Mr. "Windom will consent tha doubt can not exist. But as the Sun evidently doubts whether Mr. Windom will consent, the opinion is still more faulty. Mr. Windom was a good Secretary of the Treasury for a brief career; but he never developed the habit of throwing high positions over his shoulder. The Treasury surplus was swelled nearly seven millions last month. The House does not appear to be disposed to do much in the way of reducing this overplus, by cutting off revenue; but perhaps it hopes to make up for that by swelling the appropriations. Concerning the Clayton assassination in Arkansas, the St Louis Republic ex- claims: " Hang the murderer of John M. Clayton first investigate his politics after ward I' That is what all decent people say to the radicals who are attempting to make politics of murder." There is a possibility of difference of opinion about the order of proceedings suggested by our esteemed Bourbon cotemporary. People generally will agree that it is' necessary to catch a murderer before you hang him. "When the State of Arkansas takes that first step, it may do a good deal toward ridding the case of politics. This is announced to be the week of the ice carnival in New York, and it looks much like the week of the ice carnival in Pittsburg. The most lasting carnval is that which stores up the cubiform gelidity tor the cooling of heated humanity next summer. The significance of the purchase by the Government of 2,500 tons of coal to send to Samoa cannot be fully understood until we are informed whether it is anthracite or bituminous coal. If it is anthracite it will indicate a readiness to put the whole Treasury surplus into the maintenance of American interests in that Pacific islet. Winter weather was wanted, no doubt; but even the most ardent lover of frigidity is likely to object that a little less abrupt ness than the present fit showed would be desirable, "With the winter commencing in February, when shall we expect spring? The probability that Congress will in crease General Harrison's Cabinet by a De partment of Agriculture is taken as indi cating an increase of his troubles in select ing Cabinet officers. But it will not have that effect The Department of Agricult ure will be a first-rate place to put a man who is good for nothing else. The assurance now comes from Harris burg that Allegheny's charter puzzle is worked out all right But there can be no guarantee that the Supreme Court will not spring another decision on the devoted third- class cities. Me. Thomas C. Platt consoles himself for the slim chance that he will be called to General Harrison's express company in the management of the United States, by the thought that if he is not, he will at all events continue at the head of the United States Express Company. Hippolyte seems to be as stubborn in refusing to be conquered in Hayti as Mataafa or whatever the other colored gentleman's name may be is, in Samoa. The reported enterprise of establishing a big union freight yard down in the vicinity of Chartiers will doubtless prove a great convenience for the railroads. If it could also lead to the establishment of a big union passencer depot, some of the convenience might extend to the public. PROMINENT PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED. Miss Ellen Tehby has taken possession of her new house in London, which was built ac cording to her own plans. Mks. Wanamaker, wife of tho coming Cabinet officer, was Miss Brown, daughter of her husband's partner in business. She is more devoted to charitable occupations than to social matters. A FKENcn paper reports that from a plant called KanalT, which grows in the summer on the shores of the Caspian, M. G. Blakcnbourg, a chemist, has obtained an admirable textile matter, which is soft, elastic, tough and silky, and which can be bleached chemically without losing these properties. Tho resistance of this new material is said to be far greater than that of hemp, while its specific weight is much less.! Texas Benders, a Colorado ranchman and scout, says of Colorow, the Ute Chief, who re cently died, that nobody mourned his taking off. "He was the greatest villian that ever traversed our lands," says Benders. "When ho died his followers killed SO of the best horses in their possession, and buried them with their old leader. They thonght Colorow would have a long trip in the spirit land, and so they pro vided a big string. TnE Rev. Dr. Haygood says: "There is an impression up North that the only education tho negro is getting Is from the funds contrib uted by Northern philanthropists to certain colleges and schools in the South. 1 once said to a Northern bishop, after hearing him make tin address on the subject, that the Sonth expended in her system of common schools for the education of the negro many times the amount contributed by Northern people to a few Southern schools. He replied that he had never thought of tho matter in that light be fore, and that tho suggestion was a revelation to him." In the race for sensational popularity. be tween Mr. Spurgeon, Mr. Haweis and himself each representing one of tho threo leading denominations in London Dr. Joseph Parker is dead. He has attained ms supremacy by means of a series of Monday talks to working men at the City Temple. To these ho Invites workingmen to come in their working clothes, and eat their dinners and smoke their pipes while he talks to them. The topic of bis first talk was '"Mistakes About Preachers." Cer tainly there can be no mistake about Dr. rarker, for one. As Mr. Spurgeon is wrest ling with the gout at Mentone, Mr. Haweis ronst be looked to for the next bid lor popular favor, j Judge Belt., of Mount Carmcl, III., furn ishes the following maiden speech by Abraham Lincoln, delivered at Pappsville, near Spring field.llL, nearly SOyears ago. Mr.Lincoln was not thenja lawyer, and had no intention of becom ing a lawyer. He had then made up his mind to learn tho blacksmith trade. His genius was recognized, and he was suddenly nominated for the Legislature. His first speech was as follows: "Gentlemen and Fellow-Citizens I presume you all know who I am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by friends to become a candidate for the Leg islature. My politics are short and sweet. I am in favor of a national bank; am in favor of the internal improvement system and a high piotective tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles. If elected, I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same." LIVING WITH A BROKEN NECK. Miss Edith Phelps Dislocates tho Vertebrae, but Will Recover. Special Telegram to The Dispatch. Sidney, N. Y., February 6. Miss Edith Phelps, daughter of Mi. James Phelps, of this town, who, in common, but unprofessional phrase, "broke her neck" a few days ago, bids fair to recover. The facts of this most remark able case are that when Miss Edith attempted to raise a window sash, which was caught fast by ice that had gathered at the sill, the obstruc tion suddenly gave way. permitting her head to fly back with a violent jerk that dislocated the vertebrae of the neck. Her head, no longer sustained by the neck, dropped down on the right shoulder. The surgeon who was called to attend her succeeded in reducing the disloca tion, and then adjusted around the neck a stout pasteboard collar, as it may be termed, as an artificial support for tho head in its natural position. It is believed that in the courso of months she will entirely recover without any deformity of the neck remaining behind. So far she has suffered no great pain. Surgeons say that in juries of the nature indicated, followed by per fect recovery without deformity, are exceed ingly rare. Highly Flattered. From the Chicago Kews.i If it should prove true that German spies have been sent to this country to discover the secrets or the army and navy Americans will feel highly flattered. They didn't know there were any military or naval secrets in the United States that were worth discovering. A Discovery to fllnkc the World Fanse. From the Detroit Free Press. When it is one minute after 8 o'clock it is past 8. When it is 30 minutes after 8 it is only half-past 8. Here is another discovery to make the world pause and feel sad. THE TOPICAL TALKER. A Nice Distinction In Letting Why tho FIcnsnnt Valley Car Blnsh-Poetic High License A gentleman who has never been known to pay rent for a house when be could possibly avoid it called upon a real estate agent, who is well acquainted with him, yesterday and said: "I want a nice little house somewhere in the suburbs have you got anything that would suit me?" "No, I don't think I have just now," said the agent. "Well, if you hear ot ono will you let mo know?" "Yes, replied the agent, adding In a stage whisper to his clerk, "that's about ail I will let you, too." It is not possible for many of us to traverse the arctic regions, we cannot for instance see with Georgo Kennan the Russian convicts painfully plodding across the Siberian steppes, but who is there among ns who cannot afford to take a ride in a Pleasant Valley street car? Now is the time, when tho mercury is em bracing zero, to observe the red bobtail car in its greatest glory. Tho piercing wind shrieks a winter war cry through the attenuated sides of tho sanguine vehiclos, the wild windows rattle out reminiscences ot 20 years, and the merry bell of the driver-conductor-cashier tinkles gaily as the dainty mules dance over tho frozen track. Who would notllvo in Allegheny be yond tho parks just to enjoy tho privilege of standing In a red bobtail car a few hours each day? V But a man must not be a glutton in treating himself to S-cent rides in tho triumphal cars of Pleasant Valley. Two days ago I for one found that gluttony in this direction leads di rectly to tho grave. Tho man who lives in Al legheny of course knows this. So do the un dertakers. The wretch who said that tho hay In these lurid cars is new mown, that is pneu monia, was dallying with a great truth. Speaking soberly, isn't it about timo that tho Pleasant Valley street car line grappled with the fact that it is trying to empty an ocean with a child's tin bucket a bucket full of holes at that? A stockholder in the road ad mitted to me yesterday that the cars wcro out of date and Inadequate, but he said that tho stockholders wero worrying most just now about the dividends. The surest way to increase tho dividends is to mako tho cars fit for the public. On Tues day evening, coming from Allegheny to Pitts burg, I counted 33 persons in tho car, which has seats at most for 21. Returning to Alle gheny lato at night, I counted1 48 persons in tho car, and it is quite possible there were more, for I was so cribbed, cabined and confined by the crowd that I couldn't get a full view of the front platform. After this experiment I took the pains to in terview as many peoplo as I could who use tho P. V. line. They said one and all in much strongor language than The Dispatch can print that there are not half enough cars on tho Pleasant Valley lino, that nearly all the carsaro antiquated and in all ways unfit for use, that the overcrowding of tho cars is en couraged by tho company's system of paying tho drivers an extra dollar per week whenever the receipts of their cars go abovo a certain figure, and that tho schedule of running the cars is not obeyed even if such a thing exists. "We can count you with us I hope, Mr. Spring," said the Prohibition Advocate to tho coming puet. "No: I think not," said tho long-haired one. "How's that?" "I believe in license, you see poetic license!" LOAN EXHIBITION. Music and Recitation to Enliven tho Even ings Given by Bellevuo Ladies. This evening the pretty loan exhibition given by tho ladies of the Bellevue M. P. Church will open and continuo until and including Saturday. Several odd articles have been gathered by the industrious ladies, notably the original seal of the borough of Pittsburg. It is a brass disk, the design showing a vessel under full sail, and a deer below, with tho date 1791 It is in tho possession of Joseph Birmingham, a one time Treasurer of tho borough. An interesting en tertainment will be given each evening. To-night Mrs. Nettie McFadden-Huntcr and and Mrs. F. W. Keifer will sing, and Miss Blanche Jones will give several recitations. To-morrow night there will be a reception of all nations, and Saturday night will bo devoted to the ancients in costume Ills Forty-First Birthday. Mr. Charles Ott. an ex-Street Commissioner and a prominent citizen on the Southside. en tertained a large number of friends at his resi dence on Sarah street last night in honor of his forty-first birthday. Oldsbuo-Gollck. Manager R. M. Gulick, of tho Bijou Theater, was married yesterday to Miss Frances Old shue, youngest daughter of Dr. Oldshue. Mr. Gulick and his hrido aro now on a threo weeks' tour of the East. A PRESIDENT'S MASCOT. Harrison to bo Presented With tho Left Hind Hoof of n Double-Tailed Rabbit. Special Telegram to The Dlsnatch. Redbank, N. J.. February a William Big ger caught a rabbit with two tails to-day on the William B. Parker farm. This farm is just east of Redbank and at one timo it was owned by the grandfather of President-elect Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Bigger asserts that the finding of such a rabbit is a sure sign that during Mr. Harrison's administration everything will be doubled up. He says that mechanics and laborers' wages will bo doubled up and that the farmers will get twice as much for their products. Mr. Bigger will have the left hind foot of the rabbit preserved and mounted, and will send it to Mr. Harrison, both as a memento of his grandfather's farm in New Jersey and as a symbol of good luck. He says that as long as President Harrison carries the left hind foot of this double-tailed rabbit in bis upper left hand pocket, ho' will have no bad luck, and all his projects will turn out just twice as prosperous as he expects them to. A Chilly Reminder. Yesterday was a cold day, but nothing like the 6th of February, 58 years ago. The Register of Pennsylvania, a weekly paper of Philadel phia, contained the following communication, dated Beaver, February 12, 1830: "On the 6th inst., at 7 o'clock in tho evening, tho ther mometer stood at 16 degrees below zero, and as it was at 6 degrees the evening beforo I pre sume it was tho coldest night ever known in Pennsylvania." Extremely English. From the New York Sun. The decrees of fashion are wide reaching. Even the stereotyped thanks murmured in your partner's car after a dreamy waltz, a trip ping polka, or a staccato varsovienno can be a la mode or not. Just now it is extremely En glish for tho young swell to drawl as he relpases tho fair dancer from his conventional embrace, "So pleased, y' know." DEATHS OP A DAY. Dr. Emanuel Brnllicn. Special Telegram to The Dispatch. CnAMBEnsnnna, February 0. Dr. Emanuel llra.llen, ono of the leading physicians or the county, died here to-day, aged 43 years, lie was born in Belsano, Cambria county, attained the rank of Captain through bravery In the war, and practiced for 12 years in Indiana, Since 1SS0 he has resided here and acquired an Immense prac tice. He was a prominent member of the late Medical Association and of the American -Medical Association. His remains will be Interred here. He had been HI about four weeks from gastric ncpatic catarrh. Rlchnrd Peters. Atlanta, February C Itlchard Peters, one of Georgia's most prominent and wealthy citizens, died this morning, aged 79. He was of a well known Pennsylvania family, bnt lived most of his lire in the Sonth. He was interested in railroad matters, and two of his sons Klchard Peters, Jr., of Philadelphia, andltalph Peters, of Cincinnati, are prominent railroad men. Sirs. Diana Ekln. Louisvillp, February 6. Mrs. Diana Ekln, wife of Brigadier General James A, Ekln, United States Army, died ia this city this morning at 6:15 o'clock. She was a native of Kllzabetli, Pa., the daughter of Samuel Walker, a well known citizen. Jobg GIsh. Special Telegram to The Dispatch. Carlisle, Fcbruary8.-Jqhn Gish, a prominent citizen and cx-Postmaste? of Shlppensburg. died of pneumonia this morning. lie was so years old, A NIGHT SESSION. Congress Discusses the Opening of a Portion of the Sionx Reservation. Washington, February 6. At the evening session of the House Mr. Peel, of Arkansas, called up the House bill to divide a portion of tbe reservation of the Sioux cation of Indians in Dakota Into separate reservations and to seenre the relinquishment of tho Indian title to tho remainder. Amendments were adopted making slight changes in the boundary lines of the proposed reservation, striking out tho allotments to the Santee Sioux tribe in Nebraska; Increasing from 60 cents to SI per acre the amount to be paid the Flandreau Sioux Indians in lieu of al lotments, requiring patents to Indian lands disposed of to settlers to be placed In the cus tody of a proper person upon tho reservation subject to inspection.and fncreasing allotments to Indians in severalty from one-quarter section to 320 acres. Mr. Payson, of Illinois, made a strong argu ment in favor of excepting honorably dis charged Union soldiers and sailors from the payment of the sums reauired to be said bv settlers upon the lands surrendered by the In dians, and offered an amendment to carry out that view. Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky. moved to further amend the bill so as to relieve all set tlers from the payment upon their entries. Upon Mr. Payson's suggestion these two amendments were hold to be pending with the understanding that an aye and no vote shall be taken upon them to-morrow. Bills were passed as follows: A substitute for the Senate bill in relation to dead and fallen timber on Indian lands; granting to tho St. Paul, Manitoba and Minnesota Railroad Com pany right of way through the White Earth reservation, Minnesota; the Senate bill to ratify the agreement with tho Shoshone, Banneck and Sheepeater Indians for the sale of a por tion of their lands in Idaho; for disposition of tho agricultural lands in tho Pipestone reser vation, Minnesota; granting to tho Ft. Smith, Paris and Pardnell Railroad Company right of way across the Indian Territory and to the Yankton and Missouri Valley Railroad Com pany through the Yankton reservation. Dak.; for the sale of lands patented to certain Flat head Indians in Montana. AN EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVER!. An Admirable Snbstltuto for Coflco Found Its Effect Upon tho Trade. Tho Paris correspondent of tho Glasgow Mail writes that he hears that a discovery of an extraordinary naturo has been made in tho island of Reunion which threatens to make havoc in tho coffeo trade. It is said that a plant called the wild orango grows in that island. It produces a fruit which is green at first and afterward bluish, verging into purple as it ripens. Hitherto the product of the plant has not attracted any particular notice in a commercial sense, but it has recently been tested and found to possess qualities which will render, it an admirable substitute for cof fee, the uso of which will place within tho reach of those who hitherto hayo not been well ablo to afford tho high prices which in many places are asked for good coffee a beverage which will bo in every way the equal of the latter. The Government of tho colony is said to have the matter in hand, and about 24,000 acres in the highest portion of the island are now under cultivation for the growth of tho 'wild oranges." The G overnment anticipate a yield of 3,000,000 kilogrammes per annum. It is expected that thcro will bo a great dcclino in the chicory trade once tho intended new industry is commenced, as tho demand for it in future, should tho enterprise in wild oranges prove successful, will bo much reduced. It is a pretty well-known fact that at present there are about 2,000,000 kilogrammes of chicory mixed annually with the coffee used in France. Tho product of tho wild orango, to which tho name of "mussaenda" has been given, cannot oniy competo witn pure coiiee, out it is claimed that, when mixed to a slight extent with tho latter, it improves its flavor, both as regards tho tasto and tho aroma. MORE HELP FOR LEGITIME. Major Porter Has Decided to go to Haytl to Command His Troops. Baltimore, February 6. A gentleman who has been quietly living in this city for a day or two told a reporter to-day that ho was Major David E. Porter, son ot Admiral Porter, United States navy. Ho also said: "I am tho man who three weeks ago mado an agreement with the Haytian Minister. Mr. G. C. Preston, dean of tlie diplomatic corps at Washington, to go to Hayti and assume command of tho forces loyal to Legitime. The terms or tho contract were that I was to receive in gold $300 a month, and in tho event of being killed the sum of 15,000 in gold was to be paid to my wife. Minister Preston, before I could make arrangements to start, divulged tho agreement and the press caught up the story and we fell oat. Moro than that, tho indignation of my father was aronsed. and he looked with disapproval on the step I had taken." After tho first rupture between tho Haytlan Minister and myself another conference was held and the former terms were reasserted. Again there came a misunderstanding. A third meeting was arranged and the first con tract signed. Then there came another falling out, and there the matter stands now. Cer tain things have como to pass that look as though the original agreement will be kept. I intend to go to Hayti, and will leave this country with the understanding that I take charge of Legitlme's troops." HE WANTS HIS FEES. An Attorney for CInlinnnts Agnlnt tbo Gov ernment Sues tho Treasury Department. Boston, February 6. Jerome F. Manning, the well-known Alabama claims attorney, has brought suit against Secretary of the Treasury Fairchild to recover 50,000 damages. Tho papers were served on Mr. Fairchild when ho was recently in Boston at tho Tariff Reform Club dinner, and the writ is returnable at Cam bridge, March 4. Charles Cowley, counsel for tho plaintiff, stated this niorting that the suit is grounded on the fact that Mr. Fairchild, while Assistant Secretary under Daniel Manning entered an order that in cases where tho Court of Ala bama Claims had given decisions in favor of claimants tho drafts which are issued by tho Treasury Department be delivered to the claim ants, and not to the attorney for the latter. Mr. Manning, tho plaintiff, contends that this order should not apply to claims disposed of previous to the establishing of the regulation, and alleges that Mr. Fairchild wrongly caused drafts for very largo amounts to be paid to claimants instead of to the plaintiff, whereby the latter lost his fees. FRESH THEATRICAL NOTES. Messes. Hoey and Evans aro presenting their excellent dish of broad comedy in "A Parlor Match" at the Opera House to fair business. Their work is as fresh and full of spontaneity as if they had only just begun tho impersonation of the unique tramp and the literary agent. Tho whole play is one long laugh, and the dismal house echoes with un wonted cheerincss. TnEitE aro some odd features about "Fas cination," which Cora Tanner appears in at tho Opera House next week. Miss Tanner appears as a rather hoydenish English girl in the first act. She has a lover who is apparently under the spell exerted by a certain London beauty of tho adventuress type. The girl in order to observe her lover assumes male attire and sup posed to be a young man, moves in the fast set in which her lover docs. The sale of seats begins this morning. Minnie Palmer is probably seen at some thing near her best in "My Brother's Sister," and the big audience at the Bijou last night seemed to. enjoy the wbolo peeformance im mensely. Tho play has been knocked together in places, and tho action and movement of tho plot moves moro briskly in consequence. Tho first act shows considerable improvement by reason of this condensing and changing. In the first act also Miss Palmer introduces a new dance, in which she is moro clever and grace ful because she overcomes the harassing im pediment of a dress en train. It is as usual her dances and songs which contain Miss Palmer's most popular work, and they were all heartily applauded. Mr. Roberts was again seen to great advantage, and the company swing in be hind the star very effectively. The same play will be given to-night. Habry Lacy and "The Still Alarm," by Jo seph Arthur, will be the next attraction at the Bijou Theater, and their first appearance in this city since their European success. The following is from tbo London correspondent of tho New York Mirror: " 'The Still Alarm' has been produced at tho Princess' Theater, and has made an enormous hit., The particular feature of tho success is the amazement that has been stirred up by tho Are engine scene. The pit and gallery are packed to their utmost limit at every performance by peoplo who sim ply go wild over the rapidity with which tho horses are hitched up and the engine leaves the house. When the London Alhambra burned down, a few years ago, the writer was in the immedlato.vicinity. From the time the first alarm was sounded to the arrival of the first engine, a space of more than 15 minutes elapsed, and the English papers spoko of that achievement as being wonderfully quick. The engine had not more than 600 yaids to go from its houso to the burning Alhambra." 0UB MAIL POUCH. Ex Pedo Herculcm. To th Editor of The Dispatcn: Although knowing little Latin and less Greek, I cannot forbear the above aphorism, or apothegm, because of Its appositeness. By the way, Macaulay has said, in one of his critical essays, I do not remember which, that a certain individual did not know the differ ence between an aphorism and an apothegm, orapopthegm. according to his old-style or thography. Now these words aro so. nearly alikoin their meaning, so nearly synonomous. even when traced to their roots, that there is not sufficient difference to justify a distinction; but to the application. If the foot of Hercules is a measure of tho man, and if wo can judge of the whole by a part, why is not a portion of a man's mental character indicative of tho whole, or can we not approximate a correct judgment of a char acter even from its peculiarities and indiosyn crasies? We all remember that in his speech in the Senate a few days ago, Mr. Sherman persisted in mispronouncing the word Samoa, calling it Sammyo. and the derivative Samoan. he pro nounced Samian. Even after his mispronunci ation had been corrected by Senator Mander son, and he had acknowledged the correctness of the correction, ho soon relapsed into the same fanlt. If the perceptions of a great man are so un certain and inexact that he will not or cannot correctly pronounce such simple combinations of the letters of his own language, can wo.bo sure that he will always properly and correctly perceive and apprehend the facts and pre mises upon which must rest his arguments and conclusions for or against matters of adminis tration and government, or are not these per ceptions likely to be Inaccurate and unreliable also, viatiating tho whole fabric of his argu ments? While we have oftep read and heard of the inequalities of the endowments and attain ments of great men, wo do not believe Mr. Sherman is lacking in this regard or to this ex tent, but merely suggest the matter analogic ally, and to show the deficiencies of an emi nent character. His observations of matters of fact, and the conclusions drawn therefrom have always been unexceptionable. But he stroncly reminds us of an old friend, an ac complished and educated gentleman, a Greek and Latin scholar and a teacher of these lan guages, a fine orator, and now a clergyman in New York who never could pronounce the word propriety, but called it properiety. Allegheny, February 5. Aliqdis, Washington's Salary. To the Editor of The Dispatch: What salary did Washington get as Presi dent of the United States. James B. Allegheny, February 6. According to the act of August, 1789, the President received 25,000 a year. The act of March 3. 1873, increased this to 30,000, which is the salary at the present time. Wo Think Not. To the Editor of The Dispatch: To decide a bet will you kindly adnso us through the columns of your paper if it is cor rect to use the word "Messrs.' before a cor porate company, such as "Messrs." Ottawa Glass Company. F. M. B. Fittsbubo, February 6. FANCY PRICES FOR LAND Paid In Washington City, Wfacro It Sells by the Square Foot. Special Telegram to The Dispatch. Washington, February 6. Several of the most interesting sales of real estate mado for some time in the city were effected to-day. One was between ex-Senator Joshua Hill, of Georgia, and Prof. Alexander Graham Bell and his cousin, Charles J. Bell, of the telephone monopoly, A lot 125 feet front and about 100 feet deep, on Connecticut avenue, near Dupont Circle, was sold for 4 a square foot, all land in the city being sold by the square foot instead of front feet, as is usual in other places. Tho rear of these lots adjoined the rear of the lot on which the residence of the Hon. James H. Hopkins is situated, the latter fronting on Eighteenth street. Hill, the former owner, was in Congress prior to tho war, was made Collector of tho Port of Savannah by Presi dent Johnson after tho war and was in tho Senate from 1S68 to 1873. Ho purchased the entire square on which this lot is situated when it cost but a few cents per square foot. Prof. Bell and his cousin intend to erect elegant residences here, the professor having rented his late residence to Vice President Morton, not caring to livo there since the death of a favorite child. Another purchase "was of a lot on Massa chusetts avenue, also near Dupont Circle, by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the noted novelist, for $27,000, tho lot being only 30 feet front and 150 feet deep. A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE. Captain Ingersoll Was Drowned and Ills Wile Died at the Same Moment. New Y'ork, February 6. Tho schooner James F. Kelsey arrived at this port to-day from Wilmington, N. C, having on board the second mate, John Christmas, and two seamen, F. Anderson and J. Roach, the sole survivors of the crew of the schooner Alllo B. Chester, hailing from New York, which had become disabled during a galo encountered on a trip from 'Charleston to Barren Island with phosphates, and struck on tho outer edge of Diamond reef, 11 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, at 10 r. si. on January 0. The Captain of the Chester, Thomas Ingersoll, First Mato Wells and two seamen were drowned. The story of the disaster as related by the survivors is one of great interest. The Allle R. Chester was a cutter-board schooner of 427 tons. She was built in 1833, and was owned by Jesse Carll. A coincidence In connection with this story is the fact that it was discovered that, at the very time when Captain Ingersoll was spending his last moments lashed to the rigging of bis vessel, his wife was dying of consumption at Woodmunk ville, N. J., and they passed over the boundary of life almost at the same moment. HATE THE NICKEL READY. An Importnnt Decision for Street Car Pat rons to Ponder Over. From the Philadelphia Hccord. "When a passenger gets on a street car," said Judge Biddle, in his charge to the jury in an assault and battery case, yesterday, "it is his duty to pay his 5 cents fare, and if he can't pay it, it Is his duty to get off; and if he don't get off, the conductor has a right to uso as much force as is necessary to put him off. Any man who has a 100 bill. If the rule were otherwise, might rido around in the street cars for the balance of his life." Under this charge the jurv promptly acquitted J. M. Van Kleech, of the Ridge avenue line, of assault and battery in ejecting John H. Miles, colored, from a car. Tho latter tendered a 5 bill for his fare, but tho conductor could not change it and ejected Miles. It was said that tho latter appealed to a passenger to pay his fare, as be was in a hurry, and the appeal was acceded to, but Miles became so abusive that the offer was refused and be was ejected. INFORMATION WANTED From tho Secretary of the Treasury In Re gard to the Senl Fisheries. Washington, February 6. Ia the Houso to-day Mr. Dingley, of Maine, from the Com mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, re ported a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to what orders were given to the commander of the United States revenue cutter Richard Rush in regard to the protection of seal fisheries in Behrings Sea in the spring and summer of 18S8, whether such Instructions differ from those given the samo commander In the spring and summer of lSoV.andit so, what reasons existed for any material charge In such instructions. Tho resolution was adopted. Boston nml Tier Pics. From the New York World, Statistics have be'en gathered which show that 25,000,000 pies aro made in Boston every year. With all her Athenianism, Buddhism and Browningism, there is a good deal of New Englandism still clinging to the Hub, to say nothing about indigestion. LULLABY. Hush, little one, and fold yonr hinds The sun hath set. the moon Is high; The sea is singing to the sands, And wakeful posies are beguiled By many a fairy lullaby Hush, little chlld-my little chlidl Dream, little ono, and In your dreams Float upward from this lowly place Float ont on mellow, misty streams To lands where bldcth Mary mild, And let her kiss thy little face, You little chlld-my little child! Sleep, little one, and take thy rest With angels bending overtliee. Sleep sweetly on that Father's breast Whom our dear Christ hath reconciled But stay not there come back to me, O, little chlld-my little child. 'Eugene J'Kifcf, in the Chicago Xtwt. ODD 8CEAPS FROM GOTHAM. A Blonde and Brunette Episode. INEW TOBJC BUREAU SPECIALS. New York, February 6. The Jamaica School Board, the principal of the Jamaica school and the Fredell family are all by the ears because two "little Fredells are brunettes while the other two aro blondes. Jessie and Jennie Fredell, both under 8 years, have tow heads and white faces. They have attended the Jamaica school many months. The two young Fredell boys, however, were born dark and were made darker by working In an oil factory. They went to school for the first time yester day. Henry Van Allen, the principal, mistook them for picannles and ordered them over to the colored school. When they told him they were brothers of the small Fredell girls. Princi pal Van Allen remarked that there must be "a nigger in the fence." When Mr. Fredell heard ot this remark he started out to thrash Mr. Vari Allen with a club. Ho threatened to break up the school, and do up the whole Jamaica Board of Education, If he did not get a public apology belore to-morrow. Mr. Fredell Is still on the warpath. Beware of Safe Experts Ten days ago a young man who said he was the agent of the Y'ork Safe and Lock Company examined the York safe of C. G. Rochat, a Jersey City jeweler. He went through all the compartments of the safe carefully, suggested an improvement or two in the mounting, and left with the promise to come again soon. He came again at 2 o'clock this morning while Mr. Rochat's watchman slept. He cut a holo through the wall of an adjoining store, cracked the safo and carried away eight gold watches. A Yonng Stranger's Awful Story. Fritz Ruehl, 16 years old, is a self-confessed murderer and a fugitive from justice. He is red-headed and has a vicious countenance. He was arrested laBt Saturday night for burglariz ing his employer's restaurant. At the station house he confessed that he had murdered a boy 6 years old at Landsberg, Bradcnburg, Germany, last November, and that his uncle had provided him with 60 to escape to America. Fritz said that the boy had. annoyed him by shoving him about, and he then seized tho boy and beat out his brains against a corner stone. Fritz left his home at night time and went to Berlin, whero he remained eight days. Ho then proceeded to Hamburg and from there to Antwerp, and he boarded the Holland steam ship Pennland on December 1 and arrived hero on December 16. He worked in a bakery here, but was discharged for stealing. He was then employed by the restauranteur whom ho was trying to rob when arrested. Ruehl' repeated tho story of his crime in court this morning, and was remanded for further examination. The police have reported his caso to the Ger man Consul. Scared to Death by a Tramp. ' Fannie Moore, tho U-year-old daughter of Assistant Appraiser Daniel Moore, while re turning from school with several girl friends a week ago was attacked by a tramp. The other girl3 ran. but Fannie was too frightened to move. The tramp shouted that he was "Jack the Ripper," and threw his arms around her. She fainted. Tho tramp was frightened away by a policeman who carried the unconscious girl home. When sho regained consciousness she was delirious. At night she was seized with convulsions and the next morning brain fever set in. On Monday she died. Her fu neral took place to-day. Tho tramp who caused her death has not been found. Detectives are hunting him down. Boycotting an Undertaker. An undertaker named Fritz Trepkan, of Orange, N. J., has been boycotted because he ref used to join tho Undertakers' Union. The liverymen who belong to the union, thought they could ruin Mr. Trcpkan's business by re fusing to let their horses be driven in his funeral processions. They were checkmated, however, by an Irish livery stable keeper who has also been boycotted. The Irishman and tho German have made a cast iron agreement to stand by each other and fight tho union. Drinks and a Doll Prove Costly. This morning James V. Demarcst, of Brook lyn, cut in his pocket 51,200 which ho had made by selling milk for 6 cents a quart, and started for the bank. On tho way he stopped twlco to get a drink and once to buy his little girl a doll. When he got to the bank tho two drinks and the doll were all he had for his money, for tho 1,200 was gone. The police are trying to find the man who picked his pocket. TIRED OF CIVIL SERYICE. Senator Daniel Wants to Ketnrn to the Old System of Filling Office. Washington, February 6. During tho de bate In the Senate on a proposition to increase the clerical f orco of tho Civil Service Commis- .1 sion. Senator Daniel attacked the civil service system itself as being un-American, un-Repub-llcan and un-Democratlc. While ho regretted tho defeat of the present administration, he felt that there would be some consolation in it if tho incoming administration should manifest no affection for the modern machine system of appointments. He hoped that it would lead the Government back to the old principle in which the people were recognized as having a right to share in the peoples' offices. II the ReDublican party would go about it sincerely and help to nd the country of that humbug, he would pledge them at least one Democratic vote to assist them in doing it. He longed to see the time when the piam American citizen mignt leei tnat mere was no bar to any office under tho Government of which he was worthy: and he hoped that the new administration and its advisors would find some way of amending the system so as to throw open the doors to all applicants, although they might be subjected, when necessary, to proper examination. TRANSATLANTIC NOTES. The French'Mlnister of Commerce and In dustry has appointed a committee to organize an International Congress of Popular Tra dition. A Russian officer who has made a. tour of observation through India concludes that English rule there is "far from tottering to Its fall. It has struck out so many deep roots that to disturb it would be no easy task." The greatest emigration society at present is the Argentine Republic. It will spend 5,000,000 to bring immigrants from the North of Europe alone. Ships from England, Hol land and France are taking them over in thousands. Bismarck's famous dog, the Relchshund or Realm dog, which died recently at the age of 13, was an unusually large slate-colored Danish boar hound called Tyras. Bismarck got his first Danish hound when he was 17, and has had one ever since. An attractive new book, "The Folklore of Plants," has been published, in which we learn that the human race sprang from ash trees, by the Norso mythology. Homer tells us that the Greeks came from oaks. The Zulus claim descent from a bed of reeds, the Su raatrans from a cane, the Chiapanecas from a silk cotton tree, and the Tamanaquas from a date. Abbangements for hoisting people to the top of Eiffel's tower, which will bo raised to its thousand feet by March 31, are to consist of two lifts to carry 50 to 100 persons each to the first platform. Two others will ascend from the ground floor to the second platform, 112 metres high, in a minute. They n ill stop at the first platform to tako up or leave passengers. Tho complete ascent will take four minutes, and it will be possiblo to take 'to the top 750 visitors an hour. Br.rri.su women are rising in opposition against the manner In which the waltz is over whelming and suppressing all other dances, round and square. A spokesman in behalf of the men says that they are too busy and un taught to carry the figures of tho square dances In their beads sufficiently to give them requisite assurance, and hence with them it is the waltz, the best of the round dances, or nothing. It is suggested that some new quad rilateral should bo invented of easier move ments. Minnie Matilda Mdbbell, of Dorking, aged 15, has received the testimonial of the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, and 5 for saving the lives of three young children in September. The certificate says: "JUnnie Mnrrell, after rescuing one child", re turned to the second floor, and taking the two others out of bed, tried to mako her way down stairs, but was unable to do so. She succeeded in reaching a window on the first floor, irom which she dropped the children safely into tho .arms of persons beneath, she herself escaping in a like manner." CURIOUS (MDENSATI0BS. Bunlay, the newly-crowned King of Anham, is only 10 years' of age. The elevated railroad in New York carried 680,000 passengers last Saturday. A young man died in La Grande, Ore., recently from the effects of over-exertion la dancing. Guilford, Vt., announces a live grass hopper that was hatched out In a field In tha mild weather of January. A case is engaging the attention of one of the courts at Springfield, Mo., in which the defendant stole 10 cents worth of corn. An Indiana paper has a typographical error akin to genius. It heads tha Town Coun cil with "Burglar Meeting," instead of "Bogu lar Meeting." An orange grower at Lake Como, Fla., exhibits a novel orange that weighs 25 ounces, and says there are several more of the same size on his trees. Five years ago a good specimen of a mummy could be obtained In Alexandria for S3. Theprice has now advanced to $15, with 1 extra for a real old veteran. A prominent citizen of a small town near St. Louis met with a very peculiar acci dent not long ago. In putting on his spectacles the arms ran into both eyes and nearly blinded him. A New Bedford man had his nose broken because be said he had seen a whale SO feet long. The man who broke it for him had never even been to sea, but he had his idea how long a whale ought to be. For two years Captain Prink, of South Windham, Me., was totally deaf. But the other day, after a terrific sneezing spell, during which, as he said, ho thought he'd sneeze his head off, he was delighted to rind that be could hear just as well as he ever had in his life. A nursery man in Danbury, Conn., has a most peculiar roof, in fact it is quite improb able that there is another one like It in the State. It is composed entirely from photo graphic negatives. The greenhouse is entirely roofed by these negatives, which bear the like nesses of all manner of people, old men long since forgotten, pretty girls, dozens of babies and many others. It must be a queer sensation to look through the roof at the sun. i The total tobacco consumption oi Europe is about 3 pounds by each inhabitant. In tho Netherlands the proportion is a little over 7 pounds to each inhabitant; in Austria-Hungary, 3.8 pounds; in Denmark, 3.7 pounds; in Switzerland, &3 pounds; in Belgium, 3.2 pounds; in Germany, 3 pounds; in Norway, 2.3 pounds; in France, 2.1 pounds; in Sweden, nearly 2 pounds: in Spain. 1.7 pounds: In Great Britain and Ireland. 1.34 pounds; in Italy. L2j pounds, and in Russia. Impounds. In the'United States the proportion is said to be greater than that of any European country except Holland Vi pounds per inhabitant. The largest revenue derived from tobacco are those of France, Great Britain, Austria-Hungary, and then Spain and Italy. , A remarkable bird about the size of a robin and much resembling a kingfisher with out tho prominent tuft of feathers attracted considerable attention on a street In Kenne bec, Me., recently. Flying along to an English sparrow with one dart of his hooked beak he killed the little bird, and then placing one foot upon his victim's breast proceeded to tear in pieces and devour him. A stagedriver picked up the feathered cannibal and his proy and carried them into a nearby store where.perched upon tho counter, he devoured tho sparrow with apparent relish. The bird seemed to have no fear of anyone, and showed no antipathy against anything but tho sparrows, several of which he killed during the afternoon. His species was unknown to any who saw him, but u is tnougnt no is one oi tno variety known as butcher bird. The great horse car strike of the paa week has given rise to a very original game called "scab" in New Y'ork. It can be played by any number of boys. The largest, strongest and most active boy of the neighborhood is selected as the "scab." The other boys aro strikers. The "scab" is given a start, and when he has reached a certain distance the strikers pelt him with mud and small stonej. When he is hit by a stone or a lump of mud the strikers turn into police and try to catch and beat tha boy that threw the stone that hit the "scab." If tho successful boy succeeds in reaching a base before he is overtaken by the police be is appointed "scab," and the game is repeated. The danger of the game adds novelty to it. and it is, therefore, a great favorito with the rising generation of Gotham. Among the heaviest locomotives ever built are those recently put on its mountain division by the Philadelphia and Reading Rail road. Their actual weight In working order is 153,010 pounds, and 133,310 pounds is on the drivers. They have a tractive forco of 271 pounds average pressure In the cylinder. Their cylinders are ii inches in diameter by 23 inches stroke; driving wheels, 50 inches diameter; boiler, 6 feet in diameter and 13 feet 6 inches long over tube sheets. The tube3 are 270 in number, and 2 inches in diameter. The fire box is over 11 f eot long inside by 42 inches wide, and is placed above the frames, bnt not abovo the wheels. The heating surface in tbo firebox is 185 square feet, and the total heating surface 2,315 square feet. The cngino is de signed to burn anthracite. So indestructible by wear or decay is the African teakwood, that vessels built of 19 havo lasted fully 100 years, to be then broken up onlv on account of the poor sailing qualities on account of faulty models. The wood, in fact. Is one of tho most remarkable employed in human industries, on the score of its very great weight, hardiness and durability, its weight varying from some 42 to 52 pounds per cubic foot. It works easily, but because of the large quantity of silcx contained in it, the tools employed in its manipulation are in a short time worn away; it, however, possesses the ad vantage of containing an oil which prevents the spikes and other iron work with which it may rome in contact from rusting. The differ ence between this and the East Indian teak wood, though both are used for shipbuilding, is notable; the latter, which is really tho most valuable timber produced in tbat country, is light and easily worked, strong, durable, not liable to the attacks of Insects, abounds in silex, and resembles coarse mahogany. The tree requires some 60 to 80 years' growth to produce the size of timber preferred for ship building, and much of it is used in England for this purpose. TAKEN FROM LIFE. Time Flies Minute insects. The Lady of Lyons The Lioness. She Why, Ulrich, you never told mo this was to be a masked ball. Ulrich (in tragic whisper) Hush! That Is the Vicomte de Grosnez, with his own lace. THE BARBER'S CONFESSION. Polite am I, yet seldom let A chance to cat a friend escape; And, though 1 am a man or peace, I oft am looking for a scrape. Getting the Best of Him. Mrs. S. Walter, take this stuff away; I'd Just as lief cat so much garbage! Waiter (who has heard him before) Yessah. But dar's no 'countln' for tastes, sah. A Regular Freeze-Out. Traveler Say, boy, what arc you sitting there tor? You'll freeze to death. Boy (between his chattering teeth) Why, de ole man tole me fer to take der pup out an' drown him: but de Ice on der creek Is two feet thick, so thought I'd sit here an1 freeze him to death. A Pointed Moral. "We should never complain, whatever befalls us," said the minis ter. "The moment we grow dlssatlslled we be come unhappy." ' 'Do you really think so?" she sighed. "Yes," returned the good man; "the first woman who complained of her Lot was turned into a pillar of salt." The "Workings of Time. Mrs. B. That couple across the street are going to celebrate the anniversary of their wedding. 1 wonder how long they have been married. 3lr. II. Tbia must be the first anniversary, be cause I notice that she sits at the window every evening and waits for him to come home. Mrs. B.-lf they had been married as long as we have, the poor thing would have to wait for hhn all night. ' ' IS SIABRIAOE A FArLTTBE T ' ' Is marriage a failure? I fancy, if so, It beats a success any bachelors know; What 'tis to be wedded unknown Is to me ' I have a good notion to try It and see. Jly sweetheart's so sanguine she ventures tat. guess Our falling together would be a success! I've nothing to lose, and 1 blush as 1 own That I am a failure when taken alone. The Power of Music The sun had al ready sunk In the West when the convict returned to his native village. During the many years of his confinement he had harbored but one Idea that of revenge. As he neared the old schoolhonso (which, by the way, he had made np his mind to lire), a bell from a distant spire began Its slow and solemn peal. A feeling which the convict had not felt In many years filled hU breast. He stood rooted to the spot, and tears, hot tears, moistened his checks. When the bell had ceased 1U tolling he hastily wiped his eyes with the back of his cal loused hand, and exclaimed: "My heart Is soft ened: I will not shed blood to-nlght-I will rob Instead I" -AU from life. : l . j & ' i, y" "
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