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PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 1889.
AS TO SIBir STREETS.
The contributor who, in a communication
elsewhere, objects to the recent assertion in
onr editorial columns that the old gibes at
Pittsburg's dirt are out of place, and argues
that our streets are dirty, has not examined
the article with a view to locating its limit
ations. The point under discussion was the
old-time atmospheric dirt of Pittsburg. The
assertion that we hare abolished our former
smoke and fogs, does not necessarily guar
antee the absolute cleanliness of our streets
or the perfect purity or. our politics.
The evidence of the senses would restrain
us from asserting that our streets are clean.
We do not think that Pittsburg is the chief
sinner above all the cities of the land in
that respect; but it is bad enough to call for
reform. The Dispatch certainly joins its
correspondent in urging that energetic
work be started to cet the streets in good
shape. If we are not mistaken there is an
adequate appropriation for, street-cleaning
purposes; and the season of snows and slush
and mud is one when the expenditure is
most needed.
Clean the streets and let Pittsburg be as
free from filth under foot as over head.
MUCH ABO ABOUT NCTH2NG.
It is again announced by authority that
Lord Salisbury will not send a Minister to
Washington until Mr. Cleveland has gone
out of office; and Mr. Smaller sends a semi
hysterical dispatch to the New York
Tribune representing this determination as
a crusher to the Cleveland administration.
It is hardly worth making a fuss over. Its
principal significance is that Lord Salisbury
is disposed to make as much fuss and show
just as much offended vanity now, at our
executive rulers did during the campaign.
The whole affair is unworthy the dignity of
two great nations; but neither the United
States nor England need worry about it.
The principal result will be to set the plain,
common sense people of both nations to
thinking that since the two governments
can get along without high-priced represen
tatives for months at a time, it may be pos
sible to dispense with those costly sinecures
as a permanent thing.
OUR AIR IS CQD ENOUGH.
The New York Sun once more demon
strates its cheerful spirit in endeavoring to
extract comfort from the cold wave which
has barely left us. Perhaps it is cold comfort
that our cotemporary draws from its obser
vation of the atmospheric phenomena, but
any &ort of comfort to be found in such a
chilly pursuit it worth having. But the
Sun further says that a little reflection upon
the nature of these great atmospherio phe
nomena, that is the movements of the cold
wave, gives startling significance to "the
statements of scientific men concerning the
frightful cold of space, through which the
earth is bearing us protected by the warm
blanket of the atmosphere."
With the fag end of the above paragraph,
we are sorry to say, we cannot agree. We
think that reflection upon recent atmospheric
phenomena, whether with or without refer
ence to the remarkable weather charts of
the Signal Service, which rival in obscurity
the war maps of the New York Serald,
would lead one to marvel not at the coldness
of space, but at the gelidity ol the at
mospheric blanket, which certainly has not
been protecting us to any great extent for
several days. While the air we breathe is
nipping us sharply, we do not care to specu
late about the temperature of space. Space
is big enough to take care of itself.
HO MONOPOLY IN HEWS.
The much-fought-over question of the
right to monopolize the business of sending
quotations from exchanges has reached a
court of last resort in Illinois. The Su
preme Court of that State holds that the
exchanges cannot at this late day set up
the right of exclusive owership in quota
tions from their transactions. The quota
tions belong to the public, and any respon
sible news collector has the right to take
them and send them over the wires. It is
somewhat difficult to see how any other
conclusion could be reached; and yet the
desire to monopolize that business has been
so great, and the corporate interests behind
it so strong, that the opposite view has pre
vailed on many of the exchanges for some
years. Such a control of the quotations
might make it easy for jugglery and manipu
lation to nse the quotations in crooked ways.
The Illinois ruling makes a free market in
commercial news, and that is the only rule
that the public should tolerate.
HOW RECEIVERS ARE APPOINTED.
The report that Mr. Jay Gould and Mr.
A. L. Hopkins have quarreled, and that
their protracted copartnership in railroad
schemes is ended, is not of itself particu
larly important. But one of the incidents
which this separation brings out is instruc
tive to the public.as bearing on the relations
of corporate management to the bench. It
is said as illustrating the confidence between
Gould and Hopkins, that in the corporation
wrecking career of the greater manipulator,
he "obtained from his friend Judge West
brook, an order making Hopkins co-receiver
of the elevated roads with Judge
John F. Dillon."
We do not understand that this fact is in
dispute; and indeed it is so ordinary a pro
ceeding in the history of corporate manipu
lations that no one makes any attempt to
cover it up. Xet,ifitsbearingsare considered
very slightly, it ought to be seen that per
mitting the men who have wrecked a cor
poration to control its management after it
has passed into the hands of the courts, is
perverting the machinery of justice for the
enrichment of the manipulators. It is well
recognized in the case of all private insol
vencies that the court takes charge of the
concern in order to secure the interest of the
creditors. But, when a corporation comes
to grief, the people whose rapacity, reck
lessness or incompetency hare wrecked it,
nearly always find a court ready to con
tinue them in power by the selection of one
of their number as a receiver. The result
generally is that the policy that has
wrecked the corporation in the first place
is extended until the manipulators can buy
it in on their own terms.
This is one of the cases in which Mr.
Gould's career only presents a striking ex
ample of an almost universal practice. Nine
outof ten railroad bankruptcies will show
the same course to have been adopted; and
the results of the receiverships so estab
lished are calculated to discredit either the
intelligence or the integrity of the Judges
who appoint men to positions of trust on
the nomination of the wreckers and mani
pulators. WHERE THE PROFITS STAT.
The division of opinion on the petroleum
market, with regard to the Producers' Asso
ciation's bundle of oil, is a rather singular
illustration of the different views that may
be produced by diverse interests.
The brokers on the Exchanges think that
the Producers' Protective Association ought
to agree not to unload on the market before
a fixed date, in order that the market may
be lively and give the brokers a harvest in
commissions. The producers, on the other
hand, are of opinion that the brokers ought
to boom the market in order to let them get
rid of their burden.
In the meantime the Standard is not say
ing anything; but sits back, very well con
tent with its promise to give the producers
their five cents profit out of the shutdown.
Its calm satisfaction is probably justified by
the knowledge that it makes more than that
out of storage charges, and probably as
much in addition by getting the outside re
finers squeezed.
After the producers hare got rid of their
oil it will be pertinent for them to stop and
figure up how much there is out of the shut
down to any interest outside of the Standard.
BEWARE THE RABBITS HOOF!
Perhaps William Bigger, of Bedbank, N".
J., has the best intentions in sending to
President-elect Harrison the left hind foot
of that double-tailed rabbit he caught the
other day, but we deem it onr duty to point
out for Mr. Harrison's benefit that in ac
cepting the alleged mascot he lays himself
open to grave danger.
Mr. Bigger asserts that as long as Presi
dent Harrison carries the left hind hoof of
the double-tailed rabbit in his upper left
hand pocket he will have no bad luck and
all his projects will turn out twice as pros
perous as he expects them to. Furthermore
Mr.Tligger states that the finding of such a
rabbit at this time is a sure sign of a gener
al doubling up of everything under Mr.
Harrison's administration. It is in this
sweeping assertion that we scent danger.
Without stopping to consider the patent
objection which Mr. Harrison would have
to being doubled up, by reason of his pos
session of a double-tailed rabbit's left hind
hooforamore prosaic lobster salad in his
department of the interior, let us glance at a
somewhat remote, but always possible, politi
cal contingency.
May not this doubling of things conduct
Mr. Harrison to the ambitious resolve to
work for a second term, a double dose of
Presidental honors? There is the awful
corollary of the left hind hoof of the bl-cau-daled
bunny. We know how Mr. Cleve
land doubled upon his previous declarations
and tried hard to stay in the White House,
and some people hare not done weeping
about the melancholy result of his attempt.
Perhaps Mr. Cleveland had a left hind hoof
of a two-tailed rabbit. If Mr. Harrison is
wise he will send back the alleged mascot to
Bedbank as soon as he gets it.
THE CENTRAL PACIFIC SENATOR.
There is nothing in the character or record
of Senator Stanford which makes it im
possible to give any credit to the report that
he has forced the withdrawal of the Union
Pacific funding hill from the Senate by serv
ing notice on the committee that the bill
would be antagonized unless the precious
scheme to extend the Central Pacific's debt
more than twice as long and at two-thirds
the rate of interest was tacked on to it.
The California Senator's participation in
legislation has never gone beyond a keen
care for the corporations of which he was a
leading stockholder; and there is no doubt
that if he believed there was anything for
the Central Pacific in such a course he would
unhesitatingly resort to it.
The improbability lies, however, in the
doubt that the Central Pacific crowd have
anything to gain by it. Heretofore they
have intimated that they do not care to set
tle, but that if the United States will not
settle on the Central Pacific's terms they
can address themselves to that fate to which
the second Yanderbilt once consigned the
American people. That may have been a
bluff; and thev may now have made up
their minds that they wish to join their
compromise with that of the Union Pacific,
in order to work them both together. That
view is supported by the urgency with
which the Central Pacific compromise is
now advanced, but still there is a doubt re
maining. The whole Central Pacific policy
for many years has been based on the inten
tion to make the road worthless by the time
the debt matures, and to let the United
States have it; while the men who made
their vast fortunes out of it will transfer
their interests to the Sonthern Pacific.
Even if they have changed their minds and
want the debt extended for the brief term of
125 years, will it be more likely to be suc
cessful if they make Congress swallow the
dose at the same time as the Union Pacific
mixture, or by letting that milder exten
sion of 60 years go first as a sort of en
tering wedge?
However, the policy may turn out to be
shaped the spectacle of a United States
Senator supposed to represent the peo
ple, but really using his position to con
trol the fate of a fifty million debt of his
own corporation, is far more instructive
than edifying.
Senatob Stanfobd's appearance be
fore the Senate committee as an advocate of
the proposition to extend the Central
Pacific's debt 125 years at 2 per cent, is one
of the phenomena of the times which will
only be surpassed when the Senator votes in
favor of his own company from his seat in
the Senate.
The case of the anthracite coal oper
ators, which has opened up before the
Inter-State Commerce Commission is a
rather peculiar indication that the famous
coal combination is going to pieces. Of
course if it is the fact that any coal oper
ators are discriminated against, they are en
titled to relief. But the fact that for many
years they were maintained in a virtual
monopoly of the seaboard market by the
discriminations of the railroads against bi
tuminous coal, is likely to make the pnblic
slightly incredulous as to the reality of their
grievance.
Bismaeck's proposition for a compro
mise on the Samoan question wodld be very
gratifying if we had anything to com
THE," BITTSBUEG- DISPATCH, SATURDAY,
promise. But as all we want is to have the
Samoans left alone, the only compromise
that is possible is for Bismarck to call off
his dogs of war.
Mb, Andbew Carnegie's article on
"The Bueaboo of Trusts" is occasioning a
good deal of comment unfavorable and
otherwise throughout the press. The com
mentary generally seems to be too preju
diced to estimate the article properly. Mr.
Carnegie's arguments are plausible enough
in the main, but he fails to give his writings
the interest thatthey might have contained if
he had told what he knew about the buga
boo of the Railroad Trust in whose interest it
was necessary to strangle the South Penn
project,
The West Virginia Democratic method
of carrying a disputed election by counting
only the votes that will elect the Demo
cratic candidate, has the meritof simplicity.
It is less trouble than killing the opposition
candidates.
The statement that President Hippolyte
has shot thirteen of President Legitime's
Generals sounds very sanguinary until we
reflect on the fact that Haytian armies are
composed entirely of Generals. The com
ment by some of our exchanges that thirteen
is an unlucky number seems to be fully
justified in this case. The thirteen Gen
erals who were shot certainly comprised a
very unlucky number.
The supporters of John O. New'a candi
dacy for the Secretaryship of the Treasury
are evidently anxious to show how easy it is
in Cabinet probabilities to step from the
sublime to the ridiculous.
Anothee remark from the President
elect is reported to be: "I will not have so
much as a piece of muslin come between
me and the Republicans or any set of Re
publicans in New York." Is this to be
taken as a warning against petticoat poli
tics, or does it surround that late shopping
expedition to New York with a hitherto un
suspected political bearing.
The intelligence that the Banks county,
Georgia, Guards are ready to fight over
Samoa, is doubtless what gave pause to the
man of blood and iron.
Talk having been heard in New York to
the effect that the Attorney General of that
State would follow up his. Sugar Trust
victory by proceedings against the Standard
Oil Trust, the Standard people are asserting
that it is "a bluff!" The Standard is an
undoubted authority on bluffs, but it may
yet have the experience of being called
down by the law.
The explosive natural gas again serves
notice on the publio that it may be a good
servant, but it is a bad master.
The movement in favor of robes for
Judges is likely to gain favor in the West,
where the performances of lively female
litigants Buggest the advisability of pro
tecting the judiciary with robes of bullet
proof steel armor. They would be more
antique than the usual silk robes, and a
great deal more practical.
PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIES.
Bekatoe Quay has been having a royal
good time tn Florida, catching lots of fish.
The Prince ot Wales has recorded engage
ments, public and private, for every day of the
present year up to December 21.
General di Cesnola, who has been suffer
ing from pleurisy for tho past three weeks, is
now happily pronounced convalescent, though
still confined to the house.
It is stated, that emdoldened by the success
of the Stuart Exhibition, in England, the direc
tors have made arrangements for holding an
exhibition In the same place next year of relics
of the House of Tudor.
"Is life worth living without a sweetheart!"
was the subject brought forward recently at a
young women's literary society. It was, how
ever. Impossible to find a member willing to
speak on the affirmative sldo of the question.
AN American who recently heard Bismarck
deliver a speech In the German Reichstag says:
"The old Chancellor stands without a stoop.
His broad ebonlders are very square. His head
is thrown back upon them. His fine eyes (his
eyes, very large and piercing, are what one first
remarks on seeing Bismarck) glare out from
under his shaggy brows as the Chancellor faces
his bitterest enemy in German politics."
A bather good story Is told of the late
Bishop of St. Asaph. His lordship once deliv
ered a short address to a village school on the
subject of besetting sins. "We all," he said,
"have onr besetting sins; myself like the rest.
What do yon suppose is miner' At length one
little fellow was courageous enough to hold up
his hand. "Please, sir," stammered the lad,
"droonkennessl" 'No," rejoined his lordship,
in the meekest of tones, "not drunkenness, but
vanity."
Miss Elles Terry's present achievements
In the role of Lady Macbeth call to mind the
fact that to enact that most difficult part was
one of her earliest ambitions. About 31 years
ago, she, being then Syears old, assumed the
character of Fairy Ooldemtar, a good fairy,
in a pantomime called "The Wite Cat," This
was at the Princess' Theater, London, under
Mr. Charles Kean's management. "Another
little girl, named Milly Smith." says Miss
Terry, "took the part of Dfagonetla, a wicked
fairy, and she fell ill; for a night or two I took
her place. I remember very clearly that when
I found that, as I thought, I had made a success
of the bad fairy having doubted before
whether I could be bad in a play I at once set
to work to study a part of Lady Macbeth." A
few months later she did, Indeed, appear In the
great Bcottlsh tragedy, bnt only as Fleance.
Until the present she neverreallzed her childish
ambition of presenting Lady Macbeth.
GEEEN IEAS FOE THE MILLION.
The Largest Pnrcbnt e Ever Blade, Bnt Not
For a Corner in thoMnrket.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
New York, February 8. The tea trade was
stirred up to-day by the announcement that
Joseph J. O'Donohne had bonght at one swoop
60,000 packages, or over 2,000.000 pounds of
green teas. It was learned that Mosfey Broth.
ers,Fearon,Low&Co. and E. P. Phelan &
Co. were the sellers and Lester, Cary fc Co. the
broker. The transaction represents a little
over $500,000. Mr. Cary said this sale included
all the green teas in the market, and all of this
crop on the way from China, the FingSuey
and other provinces.
Mr. O'Donohne said that he had not bonght
the teas for the purpose of cornering the
market or squeezing anybody. He said the
teas were cheap and ho bonght them and will
turn them over rapidly. Mr. O'Donohne said
that the transaction was made possible by the
closing of the Tea Exchange. .While It ex
isted flctltlons'paper values, such as the cof
fee jobbers aro righting, were current. The
purchase was the largest of its kind ever made
in the country:
DEATHS OP A DAI.
Mrs. John BIgelow.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
New York, February 8,-Mrs. Jane Poultney
BIgelow, wife of John BIgelow, ex-Minlster to
France, died atherhomehere this morning. Mrs.
BIgelow was a woman of social prominence in Eu
rope and America. While her hnsband was Min
ister to France she frequently entertained famous
Englishmen, Frenchmen and Americans. Of late
Sears she lived 'Very quietly at her residence In
ramercy Fark. a few steps from theoldTUden
mansion. She had three daughters, one of whom
Is Mrs. Charles 8. Dodge, and two sons, I Jeuten
ant BIgelow, of the army, and Poultney BIgelow,
the Journalist.
Cornelias H. Delamnter.
HEW YORK, February 8. Cornelius H. Dela
mater, founder of the Delamater Ironworks,
died at his residence In this city, of pneumonia.
Mr. Delamater was born in Khlnebeck, N. T In
1821. Daring the rebellion he hunt the Ironclad
Dictator and did a good deal of other work for the
navy. Sir. Delamater was very autlve In the So
ciety for Mechanics and Tradesmen, and was also
a member or the Union Leacue,
THE TOPICAL JALKEE.
He Called It the Bazoo In Need of a War
A Bilious Picture The Generosity of
Art Critics.
The pronunciation of the word Bijou has
always been a stumbling block in the mouths
of a great many patrons of that theater. I
have heard the word twisted into all sorts of
queer sounds, but the funniest rendering of all
I caught In a Long Line car the other evening.
As the car came to a standstill at the theater
crossing on Sixth street, the conductor opened
the door and said In an insinuating sort of way:
"The Bazoo."
The prolonged emphasis which he threw
upon the "zoo" made the word sound dellclonsly
funny.
V
Some days ago a distinguished lawyer at the
Pittsburg bar bought an article, which it is
needless to describe, ata store where they gen
erously throw in a clock with every purobase
above a certain figure. It would be unreason
able to expect to get a valuable timekeeper as
a complimentary gift, and the lawyer realized
this while he accepted the clock. He set it up
in a room at home, however.
It didn't keep good time, bnt the lawyer did
not complain, because he was satisfied with the
article he had purchased. When he had gone
to town one morning this week, however, his
little daughter, who is as precise as can be and
full of discretion, observing that the gift clock
did not agree with the elderly halt clock, took
the former to a neighboring jeweler's and told
him to set it in order.
Yesterday the clock came home, and wlthjlt
the jeweler's bill for J2 75. And the lawyer
thinks he will not accept the next gift clock
offered to him.
"I WISH a nice little war wonld crop out,"
remarked an elderly philosopher yesterday.
"Why?" asked a stripling.
"Because we have a large surplus of popula
tion which needs reducing. War would do
that."
"Would you go to the frontT" asked the
young man.
"No, sir; the surplus ends where I begin."
V
Tee humorous and satirical paper called
Time Is showing some excellent results in the
way ot using colored Inks for engravings and
letter-press. It is curious that more has not
been done in this way before. Charles Reese,
in the late Lotus, made good use of colored
inks in his engravings.
In the current number of Time a poem called
"At the Bog Show" is printed in a pale shade
of brown, which the clever sketch by Charles
H. Johnson, which accompanies it, is all the
brighter for being left in black and white.
.
In one of the local picture store galleries
may be seen an oil painting of a stretch of
ocean and sky. There is nothing in it but
water and sky which Mr. Hammer once
rightly said are very cheap and the waves are
only less bilious in color, a yellowish green,
than the clouds. Of course the work Is mo
notonous, and truthful as it is, fori have seen
sky and sea in precisely this condititlon of
color generally before a storm, I would not
have It hang upon my walls.
A friend of mine said of this picture that it
would make him desperately seasick to look at
it for but two minutes.
V-.
Painters generally have very little mercy to
show the critics. But the Pittsburg artists can
hardly feel unkindly towards those who write
about their works in this city. In fact the ever
lasting platitudes of praise which are laid in
the local shrines of art must become somewhat
tiresome at times, one wonld think.
Frith. the great English painter who has recent
ly published a book of his recollections, writes
savagely of all the critics. He could not have
had the heart to If he had lived tn this city.
V
The other day a man who can paint pictures
which nobody wonld desire to destroy at sight
took a talented critic to see his latest canvasses.
The first ploture was trotted out, and the judge
gazed at it in a trance of admiration.
"Beautiful! Such harmony, such strength,
such atmosphere magnificent!" he exclaimed.
"Hold onr' said the artist. "Be careful of
yonr adjectives. I have another picture at
least a foot larger you will have no words left
to fit it if you're not careful!"
TB0JTFAIRY LAND.
The Hnmboldt Society's Fourth Reception a
Grand Success.
Birmingham Turner Hall, on the Sonthside.
looked like a scene from fairyland last night,
the occasion being the fourth annual reception
of the Humboldt Dramatic and Literary Asso
ciation. The hall was very exquisitely decorated
with flowers, garlands of evergreens and trop
ical plants.
The illumination was very beautiful consist
ing of all kinds of colored gas lamps, which
shed a peculiar soft light across the room that
gave the impression ot a woodland scene at
sunset.
A SPICY PROGRAMME.-
School Children Celebrate the Opening: of a
New Building.
They had a big time In commemoration of
the opening of the new school building in the
Thirty-fifth ward last night.
Hon. A. C. Robertson and Superintendent
Luckey made characteristic addresses. A num
ber of recitations were delivered by pupils and
the trial scene from the Merchant of Venice
was rendered by amateurs.
A pantomime and fan drill were parts of the
programme, lhe Iron City Band was present,
and with a quartet furnished the music.
Goodmnn-Lord.
Miss Minnie' Lord, sister of Prof. W. G.
Lord, of Covington, Ky., was married last
Friday to Mr. Harry Goodman, of Pittsburg.
The ceremony was performed at tho residence
of the bride's brother, Mr. Fred Lord, at
Pueble, Col. They will visit Covington In the
latter part of this month, en route to their fu
ture borne In this city. Miss Lord was one of
Covington's most lovely and attractive ladies,
and her friends were agreeably surprised at
her marriage.
Pleasant Social Events.
Two pleasant social events occurred last
evening in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Arthurs, of Center avenue, gave a dancing
party in honor of their nephew, Mr. Biddle
Arthurs.
Mrs. W. N. Pew, of North Hiland avenue,
gave an "at home" in honor of her guests, Mrs.
Painter and Mrs. Stetson, of Olean, N. Y.
Terr Pleasantly Entertained.
Mrs. Lizzie Pershing Anderson last evening
conducted a very pleasant musical and literary
entertainment in the Fourth ward school hall,
Liberty street, near Cedar avenue,' Allegheny.
The elocutionary portion of the entertainment
was particularly meritorious.
Their First Cotillon.
The Ernani club, a society of young people
from the Sonthside, which was organized last
fall, gave their first cotillon last night at Odd
Fellows' Hall, South Eighteenth street. It was
a full dress ball, and Gernert fc Guenther fur
nished the music.
Eoelety in New York.
From Lles.l
Simply becanse a lady loses a diamond pin at
a dinner party in her own house, is it quite the
fair thing that society should ask who her
guests were? And having lost a diamond pin
under these circumstances, is it quite the fair
thing for the loser to advertise a reward for its
return? Would it not, in short, bo best for all
hands if the lady grinned and bore it, revised
her visiting list and hired a detective when she
gave any dinners in the future?
WAYS OF WALKING.
Negroes all toe out; Indians all toe in.
The passionate and strong wear the inner or
outer rim ot the heel off, but men moro fre
quently the outer and women the inner.
A man going placidly along, his nose a little
elevated, alert, with his hat tipped straight
back, is generally found to be observant; if a
woman, self-conscious and proud.
An observant, keenly-watchful man, if
thoughtful and imaginative, often goes gazing
at the ground before him, with a slow, listless
pace, seeing only the fragile castles of fancy.
The "bearing of a prince" means nothing
moro, physically, than a finely formed, athletic
man using all his locomotive muscles naturally,
but the "regal carriage of a queen" means little
more than the eloquent curves ot back, neck,
and the beautiful poise of the head. '
If we see a man. walking, and notice furtive
side glances, if his walk is shuffling or sly, we
will find a deceitful wretch; or, if better edu
cated, a somewhat cunning man; or, better
still, a man secretive and observant. IX In a
woman, the base Is vanity or love of praise.
FEBRUARY 9,- 1889.
EMIGRATION 10 ARGENTINA.
The Effect of the New Scheme of Assisted
Passages Adopted br the Republic.
Southampton yesterday witnessed the be
ginning of a new tide of English emigration,
Bays the' London Globe. A party of 245 men,
women, and children embarked for Argentina,
under the new scheme of assisted passages
lately established by that Republic. The main
features of this plan for bringing English
settlers to the country is that its Government
pays the whole passage money, on condition
that the head of the assisted family executes a
bond convenanting to repay the advance, with
8 per cent interest, within two and half years.
To make the offer more tempting, employment,
at good wages, is guaranteed in any part of the
Republic where the new comers may prefer to
settle. Nor is there much doubt that Argen
tina is m a position just at present to fulfill
these conditions onerous as they may appear.
Although the influx of European emigrants at
Buenos Ayres has averaged 1,000 per diem for
some time, the farmers in the Interior remain
terribly short of labor and eagerly compete for
all that Is on offer.
But it is impossible that such an abnormal
state of things can last very long. There must
be a limit to this wonderful absorption of labor,
even in a country whose area contains an im
mense superficies of land which only needs cul
tivation to yield splendid crops. From all parts
of the Old World the crowded out are flocking
to the Platte. This very steamer which left South
ampton yesterday was going on to Queenstown
to pick up 1,300 or 1,400 Irish emigrants. Ant
werp, Amsterdam and Rotterdam have wit
nessed many similar embarkations during the
last month, while Italian emigrants have set
forth by the thonsand during the last two
years, even without the Inducement of assisted
passages. It will be a curiously mixed popula
tion, therefore, before the process of peopling
the country is finished: more mixed, perhaps,
than that of the United States; and with not a
little combatlveness in it. a quality apt to be
come unduly stimulated In South America.
For the present the inhabitants have enough to
do with the development of their resources,
and with that even more critical matter, the
adjustment of ways to means.
A NEW INDUSTRY IN RUSSIA.
A Large Works Established for the Produc
tion ot Nicotine.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of the
North Britith Mail says that during the last
few months a new industry has sprung up in
Russia in the form of nicotine extract. This
product not only finds a sale in Russia, but is
already exported in considerable quantities,
especially to South America. The lees ob
tained, when preparing the tobacco leaf, have
been used for a long time for destroying para
sites on plants, and they have also been found
efficacious when applied as an antidote to the
various skin diseases to which sheep are liable.
It has now, however, been discovered that this
product affords a remedy for another destruct
ive agent namely, the dry rot among sheep
and last autumn the Russian firm of Nikolai,
Bogdanow & Co. started works in Moscow for
the production of nicotine extract on a very
large scale. Four to five poods of common Ma
chorka tobacco yield only about one pood of
the extract, but in such a concentrated form
that a teaspoon! ul is sufficient for nearly two
pints of water, and the works produce about 50
poods of the extract per diem. The Russian
Government has decided to exempt this prod
uct from excise dnty. Any other uses to which
this nicotine may be applied, although not diffi
cult to Imagine, have not yet transpired.
ODE MAIL POUCH.
The Streets Were Not Included.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
As a stranger who has great reasons to be
very proud and very kind to your city! permit
me to say in regard to your editorial, in a
recent issue, saying your city was not dirty,
that you will certainly find a disinterested per
son to disagree with you. For the past
ten days I have been tramping aronnd
your city, and I will say that the
absolute filth of your streets, your sidewalks
and your crossings is the most noticeable thing
a stranger sees. Acknowledge the fact and
use your influence to clear away the more than
a thousand cart loads of unhealthy dirt that
blocks up your handsome city. Have some in
fluence in cleaning the sidewalks, the gutters
and the crossings, and have aws observed in
regard to throwing rubbish on the streets. It
will be money In yonr pockets, health to your
people and a step in the right direction for
true civilization. Be assured I chide you as a
fr'end. With all your wealth and your magic
industries the filth on your streets is a Bad
memory for a departing guest who has been re
ceived with extraordinary hospitality.
John A, Drier.
Allegheny, February 8.
ELECTIONS AND TERRITORIES.
Two Subjects Discussed at a Fall Repub
lican Senatorial Caucus.
Washington, February 8. A full caucus
of Republican Senators was held this morning,
at which were discussed the election investiga
tion resolutions and the admission of Territo
ries. As to the former it was decided that the
Committee on Privileges and Elections shonld
examine Into the several propositions now
pending and determine which of them, if any,
shall be adopted. The report of Senator Ev
arts on the Texas outrages, recently reported
to the Senate, will be discussed as opportunity
offers.
Upon the Territorial question It was decided
to sustain the Senatorial conferees in their dis
agreement upon the omnibus bill, which pro
poses to admit the two Dakotas, Montana and
New Mexico.
NO CHANGE AT CHARLESTON.
The End of the Contest Is Still Far In the
Future.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
Charleston, W. Va., February 8. The
joint assembly went into session again to-day
to inquire into the matter of returns of the
State election, bnt nothing was done. On mo
tion of Senator Price it adjourned until Mon
day at 3 o'clock in order that the proper re
turns may be secured from Webster and Wood
counties.
NoohanffBof moment tooknlacein the Sen
atorial matter, except that the Senator Van
pelt voted for Eenna. The result of the ballot
was: Kenna; 38; Goff. S3; Carr, 2; balance
scattering.
NOT MUCH OP A WIPING OUT.
The Republican Tariff Bill as Viewed With
Democratic Eyes.
Washington, February 8. The computa
tions made by the Treasury experts upon the
probable effect of the Senate amendments to
the tariff bill reached the Committee on Ways
and Means to-day, and were immediately sent
to the printer. A Democratic member of the
committee says the tables show that one
half of the reduction of $26,000,000 effected
by the changes in the sugar schedule is wiped
out by changes in the other tariff schedules,
which in themselves would result in a con
siderable Increase in the revenue.
This would leave the net reduction of rev
enue about 12,000,000 or 113.000,000, leaving the
internal revenue sections out of the circula
tion. The Microbe and the Man.
From the New York World.!
And now comes the report that the microbe
of diphtheria has been identified by two
French professors. The man of the future will
bear upon his body the scars of countless Inoc
ulations if many more brands of microbes are
discovered. Mithridates drugged himself so
thoroughly that he could not kill himself by
poison and had to resort to the sword. Per
haps, when the germs of disease are better
known to science, men who wish to die will
have to depend on tne knife or the pistol to
remove them from the earth.
TEMPTATION.
Yon might as well say to the bee,
As he lights on the lip of a flower:
Its beauty you're welcome to see,
But the honey mmt stay and get sour."
Do you think he would Ust to you long.
With the treasure Just under his eyes ?
No. He'd find the temptation too strong,
And make a bold dash for the prize.
Or, supposing a bird on a tree.
Where cherries were rosy and sweet,
And yon told him to let them all be.
For yon thought them too pretty to eat,
Do you think yonr command he'd obey.
And with feasting his eyes be content t
No. "To let such fruit spoil, "be would say,
'Was never Dame Nature's Intent."
So do not be cruel and cold.
And askme to promise in vain;
For when pretty Ups open to seold
They bat tempt one to trespass again.
Qeorgt Crouch in Liu,
GOTHAM'S GEIST OP GOSSIP,
Snlt for Possession of a Pew.
tiTEW YOBX BCBXAU SFICUXS.l
New Yobs; February 8. When President
Thomas B. Jones, of the Nassau Firelnsurance
Company, died, recently, he left all of his real
estate and the bnlk of bis personal property to
his second wife, and small legacies to his sons.
The disposition of the big estate was made
-without trouble among the heirs. The question
as to who should have the late Mr. Jones' pew
in the Church of the Holy Trinity, however,
created a raw. The whole Jones family and all
its collateral branches in New York and Brook
lyn were just determined to sit in that one pew.
Suit for possession of the pew was begun to
day. Mrs. Jones' lawyer claims the pew for her
on the ground that it Is real estate. The other
side contends that the pew is personal property.
Thought It Time to Settle.
Freddie Gebhardt has at last paid for the
screen which he gave to Mrs. Langtry, and
which she gave to the Baroness Blanc, many
months ago. Three months after the screen
had been delivered the Broadway dealer in
bric-a-brac from whom it was bought began
sending Mr. Gebhardt bills, and kept on send'
lug them. Mr. Gebhardt didn't mind. The
dealer threatened a suit. Mr. Gebhardt was
indifferent to all threats. Then the dealer got
mad and had Mr. Gebhardt arrested on the
deck of a steamer bound for Liverpool.
Freddy convinced the deputy sheriff that he
was not the Mr. Gebhardt that was wanted,
and he was let go. Upon his return the papers
in a suit for the value of the screen were
served upon him. The case has been called
and adjourned several times. This ran up a
big bill of costs. A threatened continuation of
the fight in the Supreme Court brought Mr.
Gebhart and Mrs. Lanttry to terms. The bill
was paid to-day.
Hard to Try a Boodler.
The new trial of Boodle Alderman McQuade,
who was recently released from the peniten
tiary on an order from tne Court of Appeals,
began In the Supreme Court this morning. Mc
Quade's lawyer said that the wear and tear of
shoemaking at Sing Sing for 20 months had
rendered his client so weak that he could not
endure the fatigue attendant upon jury-getting
in New York. He therefore moved for a
change ot venue. His motion will probably be
granted to morrow. In the six boodle trials
already held over 8,000 talesmen were exam
ined. Almost Libelous Language.
Anthony M. Comstock has been sued by Mi
chael J. Sullivan, a former officer of the Society
for the Suppression of Vice, for 825,000 dam
ages for malicious libel. The libel complained
of consisted of an article published In a news
paper in which Sullivan is spoken of as "a
burglar, a thief, a traitor and a liar." Sullivan
claims that this article was inspired by Corn
stock. Many Live Saved by Three Pels.
Two cats and a dog saved many lives in a flve
story tenement at 241 East Seventy-fifth street,
to-day. Seven families occupy the building.
Early this morning a gas main burst in the
basement, where the cats and dog were shut in.
The escaping gas filled the room. The animals
yowled so loudly and made such a racket that
they aroused the janitor. The whole house
was full of gas. Mr. and Mrs. Horchla and
their five children were already Insensible. The
whole Rogan family, on the fifth floor, were
suffering from nausea, without knowing what
ailed them. Several other tenants were half
unconscious when the janitor called to arouse
them. Three inmates of the house were sent
to a hospital. The others revived as soon as
they were brought to fresh air. The dog was
taken out half dead, but the cats were all right.
Minister Phelps Delayed.
United States Minister to England Phelps is
a passenger on the Nord Deutscher Lloyd's
steamship Lahn, from Bremen and Southamp
ton!. The Lahn was due this afternoon, but
owing to the recent heavy winds she is not ex
pected until to-morrow morning.
CATCHING CONSUMPTION.
The Bacillus Hobby May be Ridden or
Driven Too Far.
Consldenng the popularity of consumption in
England it is wonderful so little is known about
It, says the London Globe. There has long been
an astonishing variety of remedies proposed
for its cure, ranging from the Madeira to the
Davos Platz system. It has been said to have
some connection with cancer; it has long been
believed to be hereditary; and latelyithas been
said to be catching. This latter view, which has
gained much ground in Germany, decidedly
adds to the pains and penalties of consumption.
A patient ceases to be "interesting" when be
can hand over some part of his "interest" to
yourself. Hitherto the consumptive has en
joyed as much society as any invalid can be
said to enjoy, and has taken his prescribed
voyage as freely, and sometimes as cheerfully,
as any passenger on board. But fear of the
consumption bacillus will henceforth dictate a
new line of treatment. The invalid traveling
by sea must be isolated in a definite part of the
ship allotted to those who are in this unfortu
nate case; for the danger of infecting other pas
sengers must De strictly guarded against Of
course. If the doctors are really agreed as to
the liability of infection in this illness, there is
nothing to be said against these precautions.
But, if adopted upon insufficient evidence, they
are terribly hard upon the unfortunate patient.
He requires to be brightened up and made to
take a cheerful view of his malady; bnt this Is
scarcely possible when seclusion from his fel
lows is added to the other troubles under which
he is suffering.
ETIQUETTE ON THE ICE.
The really fashionable skate never weighs
more than IS pounds.
Ladies should never wear club skates with
satin dancing slippers.
No tbuly polished urban person will go
skating in his bare feet.
Nevzh go skating with cream cakes or other
explosives in your coat-tail pocket.
Children under 6 months of age shonld
not be allowed to wear clamp skates.
Bustles are never worn by gentlemen on
the ice, no matter how badly they skate.
IF you wish to be considered original never
cut the figure eight on the ice with your skates.
Keep your skates on the ice. Do not at
tempt to skate sitting down with yonr legs in
the air.
It Is not de rigueur for persons weighing
over 210 pounds to skate on ice that is less than
an inch thick.
Avoid roller skates on real Ice and do sot
fall in near the danger signals unless you have
your rubbers on.
Always fall forward. No true gentleman
will ever consent to crack his skull on the Ice
by falling backward.
Do not spread the elephant more than nine
times in one evening unless you have an un
usually large wardrobe.
Do not sit down to take off yonr skates in a
slushy spot, unless you are near-sighted, or can
not maintain your equilibrium.
Take your skates off when you are through
skating. It is not de rigueur to wear them to
church, the theater, or Into the parlor.
Don't be too fresh while skating. Remember
that you are on ice and not likely to spoil even
if you are not as fresh as you once were.
Do not improvise skates. A shingle fast
ened on to a carving knife is not a good skate,
no matter how well the juncture is made.
Is yon wear screw skates exercise diplomacy
about the bole you bore In your heel, and do
not Insert the gimlet farther than the bone.
Do not nse ice skates to skate on flag stones.
The grating of the blade on the stone will
probably give you a chill If you break this
rule.
It does not look well for a young woman to be
seen carrying a Chinese fan while skating, and
no properly constituted" person will wear a
Panama hat on the ice even in the evening.
Popcobk balls are very light, bnt eating 23 of
them does not give man the buoyancy he needs
to keep him on bis feet while skating, bo that it
will be well if you limit thenumber of your pop
corn balls to U.
Skating on the slant roof of a Queen Anne
cottage is a dangerous and unsatisfactory sport
to all but lunatics, somnambulists and would-be
suicides none of which are admitted to polite
society In New York.
If your feet are so large that nothing but a
bob sled will serve for a skate for you, do not
pursue the sport on a small lake. Never skate
on anything but the Atlantic Ocean or a river
like the Mississippi.
New York Evening Sun,
CDBI0US CONDENSATIONS.
From India comes the news that Lady
Eva Qulnn has shot Ave tigers in Upper India,
and that the slaughter of big game is becoming
a fashionable pursuit.
The gilded rooster on the tower of the
First National Bank building In Portland, Me.,
Is the same bird that served as a weather vane
on the top of the old Portland court house, over
10O years ago.
El Paso, Mexico, must have some very
public spirited ladies. An item which appeared
in a recent number of one of the papers there
reads : The fashionable ladles who engineered
the last bull fight netted $281 53, which they
will devote to the town clock fund.
Mr. Elihu Stevens, of Keadfield, Me.,
who recently celebrated his 101st birthday,
does not class himself among those who never
tasted tobacco. He tried the weed once and
says that one chew was sufficient for a Ufe
tinie. One chew a century cannot be consid
ered extravagant.
A plebiscite has been taken at Milan.
The municipality has directly asked the heads
of households their opinion as to whether re
ligions teaching should form a part of the cur
riculum in public schools. Or the 27.515 votes
recorded, over 25,000 were In the affirmative.
That is an answer which agitators will hardly
dare to overlook.
Why will people postpone their 'bene
factions T Record was made in London the
other day of a lady bequeathing a fortune in
1873 to a man who had saved her life in 1843.
Twenty-five years are a big slice of a man's life,
and perhaps, in the above case, the man died
in the interval between his heroism and the
proposed reward.
For blandness of expression, the follow
ing advertisement, taken from a London paper,
wants a good deal of beating: "I, Emanuel
Emanuel, sole surviving partner of the firm of
E. and E. Emanuel, goldsmiths, a, beg to In
form my customers and friends that the an
nouncement in a London paper of my death
and burial is premature."
In Germany, after a girl graduates, she
Is sent into the country to the house of some
notable housewife, where she remains a year,
learning the most approved methods of house
hold work. Some town have started schools
for this work, notably Hamburg. In England
there is a training college for English house
wives, at "Goodrest," near Kenilwortb.
The Emperor of China has presented
his bride-elect with two beautiful mirrors for
her attiring room. They are of massive foreign
glass, over 6 feet long and 5 feet broad, set in
rosewood, in frames 9 feet high, with flowers
carved in relief. The pedestals for holding
them are also adorned with figures of foliage,
animals, birds, etc Each mirror and each
frame took eight men to carry it, and they
were conveyed from the palace to the house of
the bnde's father.
An enterprising storekeeper of Kenne
bec, Me., has what he terms "a prize candle"
burning in his window. The candle is protected
from draught of air by a screen, and is kept
constantly snuffed. It was lighted at 9 o'clock
last Thursday, and during the first 21 hours
just 6K inches burned away. As the candle is
42 inches in length at this rate it will last about
six days and a half. There have been 8,537
guesses as to the time which the candle would
burn, ranging from 17 seconds to 61 weeks. By
far the greater part of the guesses are less than
100 hours.
A novel suit has been entered in the
Third District Civil Court, Williamsburg, by
William J. 31 clntee, a well-known politician,
against the Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad Com
pany. JThe suit is brought for the recovery of
the value of a coat. He accidentally sat on a
covered stove and burned off the tail of his
coat. He then went to the railroad company
and demanded damages and the official of the
corporation offered him ?3 to buy a new tail for
his coat with. He indignantly refused the of
fer and is now trying to find oat how much the
coat tail is worth.
A polite burglar has made the his ap
pearance in one of the small towns surround
ing Boston. After removing all the portable
articles of value from the residences in which
he plied his trade, he proved himself a perfect
gentleman by leaving in each case the follow
ing unique note: "I regret to say that the high
cosfof living, and my failure to receive certain
sums which I had confidently expected, have
put me under the palnfnl necessity of perma
nently removing yonr silverware. With all
dne apology and wishing you the compliments
of the season, I am respectfully yours."
Two young ladies at Canton, Me., have
started to raise funds for a town hall by means
of the deplorable progressive-letter scheme.
That is, each writes two letters asking for 10
cents, herself sends 10 cents to the central treas
ury and asks each recipient of a letter to follow
her example until the series has reached tho
fifteenth stage. A friend of these enthusiastic
young persons remarks that the plan seems
simple, but the young ladies will raise enough
for a handsome building by these Insignificant
contributions which no one ol the givers will
miss. But how about the postage bUl? Uncle
Sam will be the gainer by the sum of 52,017 12,
which the writers of these letters will have to
spend for postage before they get through, and
then there are the manufacturers ofpaper and
envelopes to rejoice with the rest. How much
will the building cost when it is doneT
St. Louis oculists are excited over a cu
rious case of eclipse blindness which afflicts
Robert Winter, a young artist. During the
eclipse of the sun on New Year's day Winter
and a party of friends were walking near Mills
College, and having no smoked glass or other
object to view the eclipse they were compelled
to use their naked eyes. The sun presented
such a beautiful spectacle that Winter gazed at
it until, dazzled by the rays, he was compelled
to withdraw his eyes. It seems that winter
had eanght the focus of the sun's rays at ex
actly the point where the heat was so intense
as to scorch some of the nerves in the mirror
of the eye, while the delicate tissue behind the
pupils was also Beriously affected. Winter's
right eye, under the care of the physician, is
gradually recovering the faculty of -sight, bnt
the left eye is so seriously affected that there is
doubt whether he will be able to nse it again
for months.
CLIPPED BITS OF WIT.
An Unheeded "Warning. Young Bleaker
Be died of water on the brain.
OldSoaker-Served him right. I told him not to
touch t.LUi.
"When to Pop. "When a woman shows
enough Interest In a man to piek a piece of lint off
his overcoat he can marry her if he only says to.
Sort Valley BnterprUt.
"Coming Events." New Bride (who does
the cooking, starts up In bed at 2 a,h.) Wake up.
Charlie. What is the matter? Why do you groan,
so terribly In yonr sleep?
Charles (half awake) I was dreaming, darling,
of to-morrow's breakfast! Lie.
A Fortunate Tour. First Barnstormer
Hello, old man. Been on the road?
Second Ditto Yes, out West.
First B. Successful?
Second D. Very. Why I had three meals a
week, and got a free pass home on a cattle car.
LUs.
Strategy. Vera "Wiley I'm afraid it
would be better not to speak to papa just yet,
Jack. Walt until next week.
Jack Dorr But why?
Vera Wlley-My milliner's bill will be In then,
and he may look upon your suit with more favor.
-Puck.
Taking an Inventory. "Gracious I" ex
claimed Cora: "I can't find ma anywhere. X
wonder where she can be?"
'Don't worry about her, my dear," replied
Mrs. Knaberly; "there's a new family moving in
across the way: so I guess you'll find her looking
out of the window." Puck.
A Division of Pleasure. Friend (to Ken
tucky Colonel)-I hear. Colonel, that you and
Major Hevengallons were taken down with the Jbn
jams together, sir, the other night.
Colonel (loftily) No, sir. There was not enough
liquor between us for that. I had the Jims and he
bad the Jams, but, sir, we couldn't combine I
Lit).
An Opinion From Thompson Street. Mr.
O. Washington Darke-I hear, Scott, dat yo's got
a job on de Horning Clarion. Whad yo think ob
de profession ob Journalism?
Mr. W. Scott Clng-lt am a perfesslon, sab,
which requires de clearest head an' de most
pow'ful eorncenteratlon ob mind. No ordinary
man, sab, could wash dose ten-story windows
without dizziness. Puck. ,
A Blight Disappointment Landlord
(looking out orthe window) There comes Widow
Jenkins' boy, and I do believe he's coming to pay
the back rent. I'll go to the door myself.
Little Boy (at the door)-Ma sent ma for a re
ceipt. Landlord-All right, my little lad; step right In
and I'll write It out.
Little Boy-We're goln' to have company to
morrow an' ma wants It for lemon Jell'. New
lorkSun.
Our Boarding House. New Boarder (who
Is dressing) I say. neighbor, whatlsthatwalling,
shrieking, cursing and sobbing 1 hear going on
down stairs?
Old Boarder (dressing and beginning to yell)
Heavens 1 those are the other boarders gone down
before as.
N. B. Wen, What does It mean?
O. B. It means, ham and eggs again I
Attempts to hang himself from the ehsndeUtf
with his cravat, LUt, ; '