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PITTSBURG, SUNDAY. FEB. 10. 1SS9L
THE FEnTEKTIABr DISCIPLINE.
The protracted inquiry into the details of
the charges against the hospital steward of
the penitentiary is now at an cud, and the
official inspectors are considering their de
cision. "When that shall have been made
known the public will be better prepared to
judge how far responsibility for the things
complained of at the investigation extends.
Tor the present, however, several conclu
sions will likely be reached without going
far astray. The leading one is. that the
weight of evidence established a looseness
of discipline in allowing money among the
inmates, and also raised a strong presump
tion that Dr. Maharnekehad financial deal
ings, bargains for privileges, with those
tinder his care. That the application of
electrical apparatus, whether for curing or
punishing, was also a proceeding which
under the motive of anger might readily be,
if it was not indeed actually, abused, is also
clear. The profanity was virtually con
ceded. In place of endeavoring to indicate to the
inspectors what their course should be, the
public will rather wait with curiosity for
the inspectors own judgment. As The
Dispatch stated when the matter came up
a week ago, testimony from the inmates
alone, owing to their peculiar antecedents,
could not be regarded as conclusive unless
corroborating circumstances were clear. It
is perfectly w ell known that there are cer
tain classes of witnesses and sorts of testi
mony upon which neither the public nor
the courts will imperil the rights or the
reputation of any private citizen. But that
upon which no jury would feel safe in con
victing a private citizen, might yet be
1 enough to establish strong beliefs as to the
inefficiency or unfitness of an officer in a
public institution.
The sum of the matter is that while it is
absurd to think that prison keepers can
please those under their charge, or that they
can establish a government which will ever
commend itself to the inmates, it is impera
tive that there shall be no abuse of power.
Prisoners are entitled to ieel that justice
which punishes can descend through its
agents to no littleness or injustice, and that
the community would much rather see them
come out reformed and with new and better
ideas than embittered and inspired to bad
moods by unauthorized, harsh or vindictive
treatment.
AN TJNFEOPHEHC DANIEL.
Senator John "W. Daniel, of Virginia, has
delivered himself on the subject of the
civil service reform policy of the new ad
ministration. He wants it understood that
lie is "agin it," and he hopes that President
Harrison will "go back to the old prin
ciple." Probably Senator Daniel's oppo
sition to the new-fangled idea of appointing
officers for the benefit of the public rather
than the politicians has been strengthened
by the obstacle which the remnants of
President Cleveland's reform policy has
presented to Senator Daniel's getting his
11 of patronage before the Democratic ad
ministration goes out. It is certain, too,
that as he is not a member of President
Harrison's party, he could view with perfect
indifference the violation by the incoming
President of his own pledge and of the
double pledge in the party platform, to ex
tend andenforcetheprincipleot selection for
efficiency and not fpr party purposes. Sen
ator Daniel's hope of getting civil service
reform killed for the benefit of future Dem
ocratic administrations is not likely to be
fulfilled. "We do not think President Har
rison will prove quite so obliging as that
This is not "a Daniel come to judgment."
CHICAGO'S NEW AMBITION.
It is pleasant to know that the plans for
the opening of the Chicago Auditorium are
not going to fall short for lack of being suf
- ciently ambitious. "We believe that it was
Sir Philip Sj'dney who said that "he who
t shoots at the noonday sun, though he know
' that he shall never reach his mark, yet is he
certain that his arrow will fly higher than if
, aimed at the wayside bush." On this
1 principle it is quite evident that the Chicago
; arrow will take a lofty flight; for Mr. J. C.
Duff, who is going abroad to secure attrac
tions for that fine building, announces his
, intentions as follows:
I My first object is to get Gilbert and Snllivan
i to write another "Pinafore" and Audran
another "Mascot" I hope to persuade Plan
quette to give us another "Chimes of Nor
mandy." and if 1 succeed I guess we can rest
-on our oars a little while.
Only three composers who are expected to
take the contract of beating their own
records, and Chicago will be satisfied!
"Well, the notorious modesty of our "Western
neighbors, as heretofore, is safe to take a
form that will not stand in her light All
that Audran, Planquettc and Gilbert and
Sullivan will have to do in the matter will
be to name terms according to the Chicago
style, "seller May," or possibly June, and
Chicago will rest in sublime confidence that
the operas will be turned out, just as her
own great minds would make good their
'deliveries of stated amounts of No. 1 hard
wheat or strictly pure cottonseed lard.
But there are contingencies which Chi
cago does not seem to take fully into con
sideration when she starts out to go long on
operas in this reckless muner. It is true that
the visible supply of opera, grading strictly
as No. 1, is quite short, but that fails to in
clude all the factors that may work in such
a deal on operatic futures. In view of the
fact that these composers have beeu trying
for some ten years to surpass their great suc
cesses, it may turn out that they would be
unable to beat themselves now. Suppose, to
bring it down to the Chicago phraseology,
(that the crop of operas which that city in-
tends to buy up should be ample in volume
but deficient in quality. 'Who is to do the
grading, and what are to be the rules of in
spection? This'is a vital point to our sister city, be
cause it suggests numerous practices by
which such catastrophies may be circum
vented. Thus, if the grades of operatic
wheat should be lowered, &o that what is
really No. 2 spring can pass inspection as
Xo. 1 extra, it will make it easier for the
sellers, as Chicago knows; but the ex
perience of the buyers under these circum
stances is not so satisfactory. So, also, in
case the contract should be filled by the de
livery of round lots of opera, apparently
of first-class quality and up to the standard,
but proving on inspection to contain a large
proportion of operatic oleomargarine.cotton
sced oil and other unsuspected substitutes
for the real article, the usual relations of
Chicago with the rcst.nf the world would be
sadly reversed.
"With due recognition of these perils in
herent in an operatic bull movement, we
wish our Western friends success. But
above all things we hope that they will
avoid attempting to corner the market ia
opera. Previous experience of Chicago
efforts in that direction warrants the ap
prehension that such an eflort would smash
up the whole business.
EDGEETON'S DECAPITATION.
The bouncing of Edgerton, by the Presi
dent yesterday, as a closing stroke ot ad
ministration policy is noticeable for its
comic features although it seems to be tragi
cal enough for the decapitated places-holder.
The President asked Edgerton to resign, ap
parently for the purpose of putting in his
place a friend who might have a chance of
prolonging his term beyond the inaugura
tion of the Eepublican administration.
As there might be a whole month, and
possibly six weeks, of salary for Edgciton
before Harrison could replace him, he ut
terly failed to perceive the advantage of the
change. He refused, with the consequence
that the President removed him and sent ia
the nomination of Thompson.
The only criticism that can be made on
the President's action is that it is too late;
and that iault is a vital one. The appoint
ment of a professed and unblushing advo
cate of the principle of patronage lor the
spoils only on the Civil Service Commission
reduced the pretense of reform to a farce.
Such an appointment might be excused on
the plea of ignorance as to Edgerton's real
character; but as that character was mani
fested very shortly after he began his work
of reducing civil service relorm to a hum
bug, to let him continue the work for years,
and then remove him at this late day, bears
the essential characteristics of a death-bed
repentance.
As for Mr. Edgerton's declaration that he
is removed because he is a Democrat, while
Mr. Cleveland is a Mugwump, it may be
true. But if it is true that fidelity to the
spoils principle is a cardinal point of the
Democratic creed, it might be healthy to
remember that Mr. Cleveland as a Mug
wump reformer is the one national candi
date whom the Democrats have elected for
thirty years; while it was after he put snch
spoilsmen as Edgerton in place that he
suffered defeat
FASHION AND SALVATION.
The New York fashion ot "slumming,"
which was considered the correct thine for
the Four Hundred and their imitators a
year or two ago, is now reported to have run
its course. Its main recommendation to the
gilded society of the metropolis was that it
was supposed to be an accurate copy of the
charitable duties of the nobility and gentry
of Great Britain; and as it consisted of wit
nessing the most unedifying sights ot the
seamy side of New York without any per
ceptible diminution of the great mass of
vice and misery, the wane of charity which
was merely a iashionabic whim, need not be
especially regretted.
But, of course, fashionable New York
must cultivate a religious "fad," and it is
interesting to learn that the one which has
replaced "slumming" is that of lionizing
Mrs. Booth, the young and pretty wife of
the Commander-in-Chief of the Salvation
Army in the United States. Whether this
is an imported fashion, or is the original
product of some daring and fertile mind
among the Pour Hundred alleged brains of
New York high society, is not in evidence.
It is only known that Mrs. Booth is pro
nounced a very charming young woman,
with a sweet voice, soft eyes, and a face of
refined beauty. These qualities have not
always proved an open sesame to the New
York circles of fashion; but the capabilities
of the young lady as a lioness, together with
her personal charms, have made her a social
craze
If the association of Murray Hill with
the Salvatiop Army could inspire the for
mer with some of the earnestness of the lat
ter, this freak of fashion would be very use
ful. Even the exchange of the fashionable
idiocies for the freakish characteristics of
Salvation campaigns would be a distinct
improvement But we fear that the result
of making a Salvation Army heroine fash
ionable is more likely to prove demoraliz
ing to the fair Salvationist than inspiring
to the societv lion-hunters.
NOT THE EIGHT CUKE.
The summing up of the losses from the New
York street car strike estimates a cost of
100,000 to the men, ?250,000 to the com
panies and a still greater, but unestimated
cost of inconvenience and loss to the public
of New York. This is generally taken as a
text to show the foolishness of the strikers;
and there is much justice in that view.
The fact that $100,000 of the men's wages
has been thrown away with nothing to show
for it but utter defeat, should teach the
workmgmen that the methods of industrial
warfare are only to be regarded as a last
resort, available for the most desperate
junctures.
But the fact that the loss to the compan
ies is placed at a higher sum than the loss
to the men should also have its lesson. It
is as much to the purpose to show the need
for them to avoid a strike as it is to draw
the same lesson with regard to the workers.
The idea of the New York corporations seems
to be that they will protect themselves against
future strikes by compelling the men who
resume work to abjure their right to organ
ize. But will it have that effect? It may
prevent the immediate recurrence of strikes;
but will not its future effect be to make the
men cherish their grievances more secretly,
form their organizations more completely
under cover, and use more violent and sub
versive measures when they get ready to
renew the conflict? The fact may be ad
mitted that the street-car strikes were ac
companied by unjustifiable acts of violence;
but it is the best way to prevent the recur
rence to such measures, for the companies
to" show their employes that they will re
spect all the rights of the latter, and will
only go into a conflict where it is necessary
to preserve their own rights.
Strikes should be avoided as long as they
can with manliness on either side. But
capital and labor should make equal efforts
to avoid them; and we do not believe that
the former is taking the right course to se
cure a permanent solution "of the labor
question, when it denies the right of the
latter to organization.
The Philadelphia Traction Company,
which took a second trial - in order
to escape paying 518,000 damages for
cutting off a newsboy's leg, has re
ceived a stunner in the shape of a
verdict of ?20,000 on the second trial. The
ability to know when it had got enough
would have been valuable to this corpora
tion; but of even greater value to similar
corporations will be the ability to recognize
that the surest way to avoid big damage
suits of this kind will be to have no one in
jured on their lines.
The country awaits with calm indiffer
ence the question whether Bismarck will
grab Samoa or Harrison enforce civil
service reform; but the one thing which
keeps it breathless is whether the St. Louis
baseball team will own Arlie Latham for
the coming year.
One home industry has been broken up
not even natural gas and the geographical
advantages of the site could save it, viz.:
a manufactory for counterfeit gold and
silver dollar pieces in Butler county. Uncle
Sam still insists on having a monopoly in
that business as the thirteen Butlerites cap
tured yesterday realize now to their sorrow.
They are also taught the useful lesson that
the safest way of "making money" is to
earn it
Dr. Titus Munson Coan is quoted as
declaring that "water is the most dangerous
drink known to man." This is the first in
timation the country has received that the
eminent gentleman has joined the Hill
wing of the New York Democracy.
The news that Germany has made over
tures to England to restore the double stand
ard of coinage will give aid and comfort to
the stoutly struggling bi-nietallists of this
country. Having, according to the inscrip
tion on the paternal dollars trusted in the
Deity for about 24 cents on the dollar, these
many years, it will be a relief to observe the
probability of a reinforcement and to trust
in Bismarck for change.
The savage critics ot the purists in art
have as yet failed to raise an outcry at the
action of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Legis
latures in refusing to pass laws against
dressed beef.
It has recently come out in the Dominion
Parliament that a member of that body ac
quired a timber right from the Government
on seventy-five square miles of pine land
for 316, and sold it in three days for?50,000.
This may bo why our esteemed cotemporary,
the Toronto Empire, turns up its nose at the
corruption of the United States.
Twelve hundred applications forlicense
in this county, this year, will keep the
courts busy on the job of cutting them down
to about five hundred.
A Western journal declares emphati
cally that "the new Secretary of Agri
culture must be a practical agriculturist."
Probably he should be, and probably he
will when the Secretarv of War is a prac
tical soldier and the Secretary of State a
statesman. Until then they are all likely
to be practical politicians.
Various cities are trying to abolish the
bobtail street cars; but the bobtail flushes
continue to lure their victims to ruin with
out interference.
The grand jury of Steubenville, Ohio,
recently passed a vote of thanks to the pros
ecuting attorney for his "patience, expedi
tion and endurance." If an Allegheny
county prosecuting attorney could get a
chance to thank a graud jury for these
qualities, the sensation would be novel.
There is hope that the litigation over
the electric light plants will be settled by
about the time that the patents run out.
The Central Traffic Association having
failed to make the combination which it
wished to make, of course the report of a
rate war is heard. After the rate-cutting
has forced the combination, it will next be
beld up as an awful example of competi
tion between the railroads.
PDBLIC PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.
Mrs. Mona Caird is a brunette, tall, grace
ful and handsome.
Mr. John P. St. John is speculating In land
In California. Of course he will have nothing
to do with vineyards.
Writtxg to Mr. Newman Hall the other
day, Mr. Spurgeon said: "Something of the
comic attends solemnity when I am in it"
The Empress Frederick will get 5,000,000
francs under the will of the Duchess of Galicia.
She receives an annuity of 40,000 as Queen
dowager of Prussia, and is richly provided for
by her late husband.
Senoka Romero will give a dancing party
at Washington on Tuesday next at which the
President and Mrs. Cleveland are expected to
be present. Senor Romero and Mrs. Whitney
will lead the cotillon.
Sir Charles Dilke was recently asked his
opinion of Boulangcr, and replied: ''I can
only repeat what I said in the Fo tnighlly He
view in 18S7. I have not discovered whether
he is a clown, a charlatan, or the coming
Caesar."
By an oversight of the "White House stew
ard the wine gave out in the middle of the re
cent dinner given by President and Mrs. Cleve
land to the Diplomatic Corps. White House
servants were flying about Washington at mid
night trying to secure enough bottles to repair
the blunder.
AN attempt to lower Weston's record of 5,000
miles in 100 days was recently begun at Sitting-
bourne, England, by Charles Green, over a
three-quarter mile course on the main road
from London to Dover. He walks bare-hetd-cd,
wears a flannel skirt and trousers, stout
leather boots, and, like his American rival,
wears a pair of gaiters, while he carries a rid
ing whip in one hand.
Paris is at last to honor itself with a monu
ment in memory of Balzac As in the case of
Victor Hugo at the Avenne d'Eylau, and of
Thomas Carlyle at Cheynowalk, It is proposed
to place the statue near the house where the
great author died. Alieady the Parisians have
renamed the adjoining street Rue Balzac, and
though the house is falling into ruin it has still
very close associations with the author's life.
A tree that grows in tho courtyard, and is seen
over tho wall, was planted by Balzac the day of
his marriage.
Harper's JJazar says: Andrew Carnegie,
the millionaire iron founder, says that he be
gan his business career by sweeping out an of
fice, and that his fellow-sweepers were David
McCargo, now President of the Allegheny Val
ley Railroad, Robert Pitcairn, Superintendent
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Mr. More
land, City Attorney of Pittsburg. What a busy
time those brooms must have had if the son
was father to the man in the case of this quar
tet of sweepers! Mr. Carnegie, by-tbe-way,
is said to have a most gorgeous music room in
his New York house. The walls are separated
by pilasters of carved satinwood, and hung
with pink satin damask. (A pretty effect no
doubt, bnt upholstery is fatal in a music room).
The portiere is of embroidered plush. Tho
renter panel of the ceiling was painted by Mr.
Frederick Crowninsbicld. The most striking
feature of the room is the mantel piece of
Mexican onyx. Certainly Mr. Carnegie swept
to some purpose.
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
The Strango Behavior of a Society Leader
Fair Florida Mourns tor tho Visitor
Who Come Not Poker Knocks Out
ulnslc
Mrs. Jean PoultneyBigelow, whose death The
Dispatch; announced yesterday, was a remark
able, though eccentric, woman in many ways.
She was naturally a woman of social promin
ence as the wife of the Hop. John Blgelow, ex
Minister to France, and she was almost as
widely known in tho aristocratic circles of Eng
land and France, as at home in New York City.
But the news of her death recalls to my mind
& very peculiar series of accidents in her last
voyage homo from England. She traveled on
tho City of New York, the crack steamerof the
Inman Line.
A few days before the City of New York
sailed the agents of the line at Liverpool were
requested by somebody in authority to meet a
lady whose name I cannot recall, whom we will
call Brown, at the station of the Northwestern,
on the afternoon the ship was to sail. The
agents sent one of tbelr young men to the sta
tion as requested, and when the train came in
he was on the lookout for Mrs. Brown. He saw
an elderly lady apparently looking for some
one, and asked her if she were Mrs. Brown.
The lady responded in the affirmative and ac
cepted the young man's offer to escort her to
the steamer. She reached the ship and was,
shown to Mrs. Brown's quarters, which were of
the best to be had on hoard tho palatial vessel.
V
Just before the City of Now York put out of
the Mersey, the purser was approached by an
elderly lady who said she was Mrs. Brown, and
asked with some indignation to be shown to
stateroom, adding that she had been promised
a better reception by the Inman Line people.
The purser took this Mrs. Brown to tho state
room allotted to her, only to find that it was
occupied by another lady who said she was
Mrs. Brown. Tho purser consulted his list of
cabin passengers and found there was only one
Mrs. Brown in it Here were two Mrs. Browns
demanding the same berth. Mrs. Brown No.
2, however, was able to produce a cabin ticket
on which her name was written opposito to the.
stateroom which sbe claimed. The purser
asked tho lady who bad possession of the state
room to produce her ticket but she refused
point blank.
It was not until late that night that the pur
ser could persuade Mrs. Brown No. 1 to give up
the stateroom to the rightful possessor. By
the time he had succeeded in doing this he had
discovered that Mrs. Brown No. 1 was no other
than Mrs. John Blgelow, who for some reason
had personated Mrs. Brown.
V
After this curious adventure Mrs. Bigelow
still declined to show her ticket but tho pur
ser persisted until several days out from
Qucenstown he succeeded in getting it Then,
strange to say, it was found to be indorsed in
the part which the bolder is requested to fill
in: Joseph Pulitzer, journalist, age , etc., de
scribing the proprietor of the New York World,
who had been expected to travel on the City
of New York, but who was compelled to stay
behind for some reason or other. Of course
this use of Mr. Pulitzer's namo was entirely
urauthorized, and Mrs. Bigelow never ex
plained what she meant by it
Strange as her behavior in this and some
other respects was during that long and tire
some voyage, I only remember her as the most
distinguished looking lady on board the ship.
This time last year Pittsburgers were to ba
found in every resort of fashion and health in
Florida, yesterday a gentleman who has been
roaming about St Augustine and the places
near it, for a tew weeks, told me that not only
are Pittsburgers scarce in Florida, but visitors
from all parts of the country are very few in
number.
There is only one explanation for this phe
nomenon. The yellow fever bugaboo has
scared everybody away. It is not unnatural,
but it is very hard upon the people of St
Augustine, for example; who were so careful
whde the plague was at its height to quaran
tine themselves from all their neighbors. It is
doubtful if the fever ever got nearer to St.
Augustine than SO miles. Jacksonville, which
yellow jack made his headquarters, is at least
S5 miles from St Augustine, as the crow flies.
But anyone who has knowlege of the move
ments of those Pittsburgers who in other years
have escaped the vilo weather we endure at
this season, by following the blue birds to tlielr
winter quarters, is aware that ever since the
exodns began last fall Southern California, and
even the south of Europe, have been preferred
to Florida and the Gulf coast.
.
TnE season at its best begins in St Augustine
in a week or two, and doubtless the great hotels
there will bavc more tenants when March
comes. Spring begins, in St. Augustine much
earlier than it does here, usually putting in its
appearance about Maroh 1. The coldest days
of the car in tho same neighborhood are
usually encountered about tho middle of De
cember. .
In the advertising columns of a cotemporary
an enterprising firm asserts its ability to "re
cover umbrellas in one day."
Such philanthropic industry ought to be en
couraged, but it is to be feared that the ad
vertiser Is a little too sanguine. Umbrellas
have often been lost in less than a minute, but
very, very few have ever been recovered at all,
much less in ono day.
bTRANGERS visiting this city have often
commented upon the unusual love for music,
which is to be found among the sons of wealthy
men here. Only a few days ago In a Western
city a gentleman assured me that he had never
encountered so many young men of standing in
good society who could play, not merely the
piano but also wind and string instruments, as
he had during a recent visit to Pittsburg.
It would have pained my Western friend, as
it did me, to hear a young man who is a power
in East End amateur musical circles observe:
"Ihe odd thing about 'these little musical
seances we have been enjoying among our
selves this winter is that they always wind up
in the same way, although no such finale is on
the programme. The bojs have a habit of put
ting a silver dollar or two in their trousers'
pockets, and almost as soon as the concert has
begun, some one among the performers will
jingle the money in his pocket and it's all up
with music at once. Nobody's happy till poker's
under way, and the charms of Chopin, Mozart
Mendelssohn, Rubcnstein and the rest are as
naught before four aces and a king."
Hepburn Johns.
Lynching as a Floe Art.
From the Chicago Herald.
A lynching near Schuyler, Neb., the other
night is described as one of "the most quiet
and orderly" proceedings of the kind that ever
'took place. "Why can't all lynchings be con
ducted in this manner, and the nerves of the
man to be lynched spared the irritation often
due to the boisterous clamor and rude disorder
of the men?
A Pointer for Bonrdlns-Uouse Keepers
From the Lewlston Journal. I
A Bath genius has made a discovery that
entitles him to the everlasting gratitudo of
boarding-housekeepers. He has found a way
to make a tender steak out of almost anything.
His way is to run itthrough asausage machine,
hich Is guaranteed to make tenderloin out of
neck.
The Pension Agency,
From the Grccnsburg Tress. 1
Colonel Chill Hazzard, of Monongahela City,
wo arc pleased to note, is receiving the strong
est possible support for the Pension Agency
of this district We do not know this man who
is better fitted for the position than the
Colonel. His friends in this section are legion,
and they hope to see him receive tho reward of
his faithful service as a soldier and Republican.
Hard on AInlne.
From the Chicago News.
It has been discovered that a very large pro
portion of the people who visit Maine imme
diately settle down and remain permanently.
They travel to that State on corpse tickets, and
Instead of investing in real estate become in
vested in it. Maine is a State which can be
heartily recommended to dead people.
A Fatal Mistake.
From the Chicago News. J
Three Kentuckians have been rendered
fatally ill by drinking poisoned whisky. Some
body must have poured water into the tipple.
Consnl Sewall's Resignation Received.
"Washington, February 9. The resignation
of H. M. Bewail as Consul General at Samoa
Iwo tcwiicu uj wo Bvxuujr ui. ptate mis
morning.
THE CKOW HAS ITS PBICB,
Ten Cents a Head to be Paid for the Pests by
the State of Maine.
Augusta, Me., February 9. The orators of
the Maine House of Representatives were in
spired by the subject of tho crow yesterday.
There was a queer debate upon a bill intro
duced by a granger Representative, fixing a
bounty of 10 cents on the scalp of every
crow killed, and Instructing town treasurers
to immediately dostroy by fire, after paying
the bounty, all crows' heads deposited
with them in lots of ten or more each. The
Representative from Mercer thought this
question one of the 'most important betore the
Legislature. The" losses to the farmer ot
Maine by the depredations of crows are enor
mous. The representative from Stetson had
planted two acres of corn two years ago, and
the crows had taken the corn out of every hill.
'They destroy our apples and our potatoes,"
he said, "and are an awful pest to the farm
ers." Representative Cloutier didn't favor the
bounty. He thought the crow was the most
important bird in the State. He was no sneak.
He came in tho daytime with his charming
music. There is no law preventing tho farmer
from shooting him, and if he Is such a pest, let
the farmer take his gun and kill him.
Representative Burleigh proposed as an
amendment that the words "by fire" should bo
stricken out, so that town treasurers might de
stroy the beads in any manner they wished.
Mayor Wakefield, of Bath, moved an amend
ment that the craws be canned and sent to the
hotel and boarding house proprietors of Au
gusta for use on their tables. Mr. Burleigh
moved an amendment to this, providing that
the gentleman from Bath eat the crow.
There was a long discussion over an amend
ment to reduce the bounty to5cents, butflnally
the original bill was passed. A crow's scalp Is
nowworth lOcents in Maine, just 51 90 less than
a bear's scalp.
WEDDED ON A WAGER.
Dr. Lo Caron's Matrimonial Experience
During the War.
From the Mew York World. 1
An interesting episode in the career of Henry
Beach, alias Major Lo Caron, was his courtship
and marriage in the South, as narrated by one
or his former comrades. It serves to show the
devil-may-care spirit of the adventurer who is
now testifying before the Parnell Commission.
The regiment was temporarily quartered
near a thriving settlement, and the customary
diversions of camp life served to while away
the weeks ot waiting. During an exciting game
of ecarte one day, a discussion arose regarding
a pretty brunette who had wounded the hearts
of many of the soldiers. The dispute waxed
high, and ended with Major Le Caron laying a
wager that he would forfeit 8100 if ho did not
marry her inside of one month. As the Major
and the lady were unacquainted, and the
young object of the wager was jealously
guarded by an old aunt the offer was readily
snapped up.
Every effort was made to block the doctor's
game, and numerous gay' suitors made hard
love and tried to cut him out. But he proven
equal to the task by marrying the girl on the
last day allowed by tho terms of the wager. He
came North soon afterward, settled here, and
it was not until a couple of years afterward
that he went back to see her. He found her a
blooming woman with a child who for three
years had been carefully guarded. This child,
Henry, is now, or was lately, in Chicago, the
wife and child having returned with Le Caron.
The marriage thus strangely entered into has
proven a most happy one, if we except the
slight eccentricities in the character of the
man.
COOPER AS A JIOSES.
Tho Republican Senator Asked to Lead the
Prohibitionists In the Coining Fight.
From the rhiladclphia Record.
It is on the cards that Senator Thomas V.
Cooper, whose success as Chairman of the Re
publican Stato Committee has won for him the
reputation of being a remarkably successful
political organizer, may lead the combined
forces in this State for prohibition.
A gentleman who is well acquainted with the
ins and outs of things at Harrisburg said last
evening that the Prohibitionists had asked
Senator Cooper to accept the position of Chair
man of their State Central Committee, and
organize the party for the approaching battle.
Senator Cooper is said to have asked for time
to consider the offer, and he is now sleeping on
it and considering whether an acceptance or a
refusal will best promote bis political pros
pects. The Republican friends of the Senator are
urging htm to place himself at the head of tho
prohibition organization. They claim that he
could accept the offer without injuring his
standing in the party, because of the position
,the organization-' has already taken on it
Should the fight result In a victory for prohi
bition, it is cUimcd that Senator Cooper would
then occupy a position which would demand
recognition and make him an available candi
date for tho Republican nomination for Gov
ernor in 1S90.
SUED FOR X0T SHAVING.
A White Barber to be Tried for Refusing to
Shave a Negro.
CAMBRIDGE, O., February 9. A case unde'r
the Ohio civil rights law was brought before
Justice Turner in this place to-day. The de
fendant, George Moses, a white man, is the
keeper ot a barber skop hero. Wednesday a
colored man named Isaac Green applied for
a shave and was refused. This made Green
angry, and the snit was the outcome. Hoses
waived examination and was remanded to tho
Common Pleas Court in 3100.
HOTHING SLOW AB0BT THEM.
An Ohio Couple Meet. Court and Marry
All in Ono Short Hour.
PojtEROY, O., February 9. A romantic mar
riage took place at Middleport last night.
Alexandor Neighborgall, a young man from 1C
miles back In the country, came to town and
met Miss Ella Rowe at the Grand View Hotel.
They were introduced and, after an hour's
courtship, were married. They never met be
fore. The bride's home is in Rockbridge
county, Virginia.
The Result of the Treating Bill.
From the Hew York Bun.
The bill introduced in the Pennsylvania Leg
islature forbidding one man to "treat" an
other, intoxicants, of course, being the article
tabooed, can have but ono result if passed.
Hereafter the guests on such occasions will
take it out in cash. The barkeeper will still
set 'em up, but each man will pay his individual
charge and collect from his generous legally
regulated host. Wonderful are the suggestions
of modern legislation.
Proud of the Distinction.
From the Sew York Sun.
"Are you a boodle Alderman?" asked the
visitor kindly.
"Indeed I'm not" said the prisoner, drawing
himself up proualy. "I am a wife beater."
Sad, bnt True.
From the New York World. J
It is a sad fact that the man who goes out on
a strike is often confronted by an empty home
plate,
MY TOAST.
rwntTTEX FOR THE DISPATCH.
There's many things or which the Sonth
Has reason eood to boast;
Her courtlv men, her ladles fair.
Her plncy -woods and balmy air;
Her rivers broad and foreits deep,
And streams that sparkle, laugh and leap;
Hut 'tis not these that In my rhyme
I oiler as a toast.
The "Sunny South" I've rambled o'er
From Texas to the coast;
From Carolina's mountains grand,
To where the Gulf waves kiss the strand;
Have stood on Lookout's lofty crown,
And sailed the Suwanee river down,
But 'tis not these that in my rhyme
I offer as a toast.
A house so old, you quite believe,
'lis haunted by a ghost;
A chimney broad and deep and dark.
Two great black dogs (that never bark);
A glint backlog lying flat
Supporting plies ot brush and "fat;"
A match now watch! Tills Is tho time
And place to drink my toast.
Bring forward that split-bottomed chair;
(No nearer, or vou'll roastl)
Who does not love that leaping Are;
(Like lover's glance, when hearts desire.)
V hat castles grand, what maidens fair.
What armies have been marshaled there I
Bring wine and vintage, old and rare,
And drink with me" this toast. .
The good old-fashioned chimney place,
The genial Southern host.
The clean-swept hearth and silent dogs,
The snapping, crackling hickory logs.
Behind the dark, wainscoted room
Where phantoms steal from out the gloom
These, these, I pledge the dear old Sonth,
And, loving, drink the toastl
Helen IUwtuohnb.
Norwich, Coxn., February 7.
SNAILS A LA MODE.
Where the Slimy Molluscs Aro Eaten and
Considered Delicious They Never Cause
Poisoning, Indigestion or Colic Different
Varieties of Frogs Eels, Seals, Frogs
nnd Whales Considered ns Food.
From tho London Standard.!
A Wiltshire correspondent writes us, in some
amazement, that only last week he found a
man searching for snails, not .as zoological
specimens, but as articles of food. Still more
extraordinary, he actually praiscd.them. Sim
ply roasted on the bars of the grate and eaten
with pepper and vinegar, they are declared to
be toothsome. Soaked in salt and water, and
then cooked and served alter the fashion of
whelks and periwinkles, they are still better.
At this season tho land shells, like snails, are
hibernating in holes, under leaves and in the
hollows ot trees. As all the species now
in a torpid state lay on a load of fat
before retiring for the winter, the snail
seeker, though, possibly, he did not quite
understand tne reason why, was of opinion
that it was only at this period of the year that
the molluscs are tit for human consumption.
Here, most likely, he was wrong. Bat at all
events, in supping freely on such dainty bits,
tho Wiltshire gourmet has proved himself a
great deal more sensible than many people who
may be inclined to call him bard names, and
then proceed to swallow a dozen of raw oysters,
and a piece of cheese so swaiming with para
sites that if the latter were only unanimous it
would walk off the table.
Snnils Eaten in England.
Wiltshire is, however, not singular in possess
ing a man above tho prejudices of his neigh
bors. In several parts of England snails are
regularly eaten not, it is true, as an ordinary
article of diet, but at stated feasts. For in
stance, the Newcastle glass men wero famous
for their taste in that direction. Every year
they held a sort of gastronomic festival, at
which snails figured as the principal dish.
Whether the custom has since then fallen into
decay is a question on which, no doubt local
information is to be bad. But we believe that
the iron pnddlers in some parts of the Black
country are wise enough to still indulge in the
same dainty, and it is by no means uncommon
to hear of snails boiled in milk being pre
scribed, like the viper broth of Carolinean
times, for patients far gone in consumption. It
is less agreeable to know that at one time they
were employed in the manufacture of imitation
cream, and that in suite of analysts and acts
of Parliament they are even yet bruised and
stewed in milk to form one of the tolerably
palatable articles which pass under that name.
Southdown Mutton's Flavor.
There is, however, the consolation that many
adulterations much more reprehensible than
the use of snails enter into the food wo are
compelled to consume. Moreover, science
leaves us no room to doubt their eminently nu
tritive qualities. It Is, indeed, affirmed that
the quantities of snails which appear in the
chalk pastures after rain, and which aro de
voured by the sheep along with the short,
sweet herbage on which both feed, have a large
share in imparting that peculiar flavor to which
Southdown mutton owes so much of its celeb
rity. Be that as it may. the English prejudice
against snails is singular, since, from time im
memorial, considerable quantities have been
collected round London and on the
Kentish pastures for export to France.
There, at all events, there is no
squeamishness on the subject, the
only regret of thousands being that they are
too expensive to be indulged in as frequently
as might be wished. Even in Covent Garden
the common snail often appears for sale, the
purchasers, however, beipg almost solely the
members of tho French, Austrian and Italian
colonies in London; for the North Germans
and Scandinavians seem, like their Teutonic
kindred generally, to hold the dainty morsels
in abhorenco. Any one who has passed through
the Lisbon fruit market in autumn must havo
noticed the huge baskets of snails for sale, and
in Madrid and other wealthy Spanish cities, as
many as 15 different kinds may sometimes be
counted on the slabs of the dealers.
Cultivated Snails.
Italy they are equally popular; but no sooner
are the Alps passed than the snail begins to
disappear from the menus, until, by the time
Denmark and Sweden are reached, it is never
seen on the table. In some of the large towns
with a cosmopolitan population there are, of
course, as in London, a few patrons of it, Bnt
as a rule, the Latin people are its principal
friends, just as they arc of a dozen wholesome
articles of food which we foolishly neglect. In
Southern Europe tho vineyard snail is the
species held in most esteem. This form is,
however, by no means uncommon in England.
At one time it was believed to have been
imported by the Romans, while an
other theory held is that it was
introduced about the fifteenth or six
teenth century. It is nndeniably common
in the vicinity of old Roman camps. But it is
frequent also on chalk and other dry soils, and
the opinion now generally entertained is that
the Helix pomatia is a native British species.
The rulers of the world were, nevertheless, its
especial patrons. Not content with eating it
stewed in every form, they fattened it in
"cochlearia," or styes, meal boiled m wine be
ing regarded as the food best fitted for pro
ducing large and jjiicy specimens. How suc
cessful they wero may be inferred from the
fact if fact it be that some of the shells of
these domesticated snails would bold a pint of
wine. But the trade in them is perhaps better
than ever it was during the palmy da)s of
Roman luxury.
Snails Exported to Amcrlcn.
In the neighborhood of Dijon, a small farmer
has been known to clear 300 per annum from
snails, the vine-growers keeping tVem in dry
cellars, or in trenches under coverings of
leaves and earth; and from certain "escargo
ticres," nearlm, in Wurtemberg, no fewer
10,000.000 of the vineyard snails are sent every
year to other gardens, to be fattened before
they are dispatched for the use of the Austrian
convents during Lent. From Troyes it has
been calculated that snails to the value of 20,
000 the wholesale price being 4s per 100 aro
forwarded to the Paris markets. Packed in
cask, they are also exported in a small way to
the United States.
Wuolcsomeness of Snails.
In truth, it a choice is to be made, tho land
snails ought decidedly to be preferred to the
sea ones. They are infinitely more delicate in
fibre and in flavor, and being for the most part
vegetable feeders, they are far more cleanly in
their habits. Their wholesomeness is unques
tionable. No one ever heard or a case of
poisoning, or even, when consumed in modera
tion, of an attack of dyspepsia or colic, from a
dish of snails, while all of these mischiefs are
not infrequently the result of even a sparing
indulgence in mussels, clams, cockles, scallops,
or other coarso marine mollusca. There is,
however, no reasoning with prejudice. Nor
are snails the only free food which are re
jected. Eels are frequently held in equal dis
like, from a sort of idea that they are water
snakes, though, except from the legend of the
ill turn done to Mother Eve by "the serpent,"
it is hard to find any logical or dietetic ground
for holding the flesh of oae reptile iu esteem,
and that of another in loathing.
Frogs, Seals and Whales Good.
The English frog is not the species most fa
vored by the Parisian restaurants. Even there
it is only the bind legs of the green ones which
are eaten. Yet in Germany all the muscular
parts aro used, and in Vienna, where there aro
regular preserves for keeping and fattening
thorn, almost any species is considered perfectly
suitable for tbe table. In tbe West Indies the
grunting frog is in favor, and In South Africa
a large species when conked might be mistaken
for chicken. The seal when joung is excellent
and as a matorial for soup is quite equal to the
hare, whilo the skin of anyof tho catacea, espe
cially that of tbe whalebone whale, if boiled
down to a jelly, is a dish lit "to set before a
king." It is often sent in hermetically closed
tins irom ureeniana to Christian IA.. ot Den
mark and therefore has in reality that destina
tion. Yet we are Galliosto all these and a score
of other easily obtained dainties which are
eagerly eaten by the people of the Continent,
and especially by those of the South.
Terrible Creatures Italians Eat.
An Italian will indeed, eat almost anything.
There are gruesome tales told of tbe terrible
creatures whioh sometimes appear on the
tables of old-fashioned Roman families and
we admit some very peculiar beasts do hang
up in the market. Yet it is undeniable that, as
Prlnco Lucien Bonaparte remarked. It is possi
ble to make '.i comfortable meal" of most of
them, the turkey buzzard always excepted.
The reason, wo fancy. Is that in England we
have never known the straits of famine which
nearly every other country In Europe has, at
one time or other, experience 1. Devastated by
long wars, foreign and civil, laid waste by mer
cenaries, or by the opposing armies which
marched over the soil, it has again and again
been the lot of tbe people of Germany, Italy,
and France to face the alternative of eating
anything or dying of hunger. In this way ex
perience has been their stern teacher.
There's Nothing New.
From the New York Son. J
A speech by tho Greek orator Hyperides has
been discoverad at Athens. It begins: "Mr.
Chairman, I had not expected to be called upon
to address you this evening, and consequently
am ill prepared." It really seems as though
there is nothing new under the sun.
MATTEBS METROPOLITAN.
Hard to Decide Between Two Evils.
(NEW TOBS BUREAU SrECIALS.
New York, February 9. The stockholders
of tho Metropolitan Opera House Company are
trying to decide what kind of grand opera they
shall givo New York next season. The Board
of Direotors, in a circular letter to the share
holders, recommend German opera, because it
is the cheapest. German opera has paid ex
penses this year, and -the directors think it
might net them a profit next winter. Many
largo shareholders, however, favor Italian
opera. Henry Clews prefers Italian opera "be
cause it stirs his soul." James Harriman con
siders Verdi much less tiresome than Wagner.
He is in for anything cheap, however, and If
Wagner will cost less than Verdi, he will be a
Wagnerite. Levi P. Morton has no choice. He
does not care what opera is produced here dur
ing his four years' residence in Washington.
J. Pierrepont Morgan says he'd just as soon
havo "Pinafore" as anything. Mr. Stanton the
director of the Opera House, and George
Baker, President of the First National Bank,
wish German opera. The stockholders think
the rich people here show too little Interest in
their enterprise. For instance, they say, even
the great Mrs. Astor threatened to give up her
box a few nights ago if its price for next sea
son were raised above 53,000.
Joss Can't Get His Board Paid.
Ynet Sing and Chinatown's Board ot Alder
men are on the ragged edge of a law suit over
$o30. the cost of keeping a Chinese Joss for the
last three years. When Chinatown's public
Joss was bought in the spring of 1685, tho Al
dermen of Mott street wero too dead broke to
buy him a house. He was kept in the rear
room of a laundry until Yuet Sing volunteered
to pay bis board and lodging at a hall in the
Bowery. The Aldermen promised to reim
burse Mr. Sing at the close of the year. They
failed to do it. Mr. Yuet Sing threatened to
sue them, and five of them went back to San
Francisco to escape him. The other seven got
so tired of seeing Mr. Sing's bills for Joss
sticks and altar cloths that they got out of the
Council ono by one and decamped to other
cities. The new council has refused to pay the
bills, and Mr. Sing has appealed the matter to
American law.
General Sbermnn's Birthday Celebrated.
General Sherman celebrated his sixty-ninth
birthday yesterday by giving a dinner at his
new home in Harlem. Sixteen or 18 guests
were present, among whom were Gen
eral O. O. Howard, General H. W. Slocum,
General Daniel E. Sickles, General Daniel
Butterfleld, Major Hugh Sherman, of Des
Moines, Iowa, brother of the General; Colonel
Alexander S. Bacon, Colonel Ewing, Chauncey
M. Depew, Joseph H. Uhoate ana others. There
were no formal speeches, but much solid enjoy
ment. Generals Sherman, Howard and Slocum
gave interesting recollections of the first meet
ing at which the plans were laid which were
afterward so successfully carried out in the
famous march from Atlanta to the sea. Mr.
Depew told some new stories, and it was well
op in the morning before the guests departed,
Harrison's Inaugural Shoes.
In the show window of Edward Day's shoe
store is an elegant pair of patent leather shoes,
size No. C, over which hangs the sign, "Presi
dent Harrison's Inaugural Shoes." Mr. Day is
an enthusiastic Republican. He worked day
and night, presided over a Republican club,
marched in parades and shouted himself sick
for Harrison in the last campaign. After elec
tion he asked General Harrison, by letter, to
accept from him a pair of shoes to wear at the
inauguration, and received an answer saying
Mr. Harrison would take the shoes and pay
for them.
TWO HEARTS THAT WEE TRUE.
A Kentucky Pastor United to Ills Sweet
heart After Seven Years' Absence.
PARIS. KTf., February 9. Rev. Geo. T. Wal
den, formerly pastor of tho Christian Church
at Millersburg, this county, is the hero of
quite a little-romance. Seven years ago, when
he left his home at Melbourne, Australia, to
enter the Bible College of Kentucky Univer
sity, at Lexington, he broke an engagement
with his lady love, Miss Alice Virco, in order
to leave her fancy free during his seven
years' absence. After successfully shielding
off the darts of several of our most noted Blue
Glass belles and finishing his theological edu
cation, he returned to the land of his nativity.
There were kindled anew the longr pent up
flames which had been dormant in his bosom
for so many years, and in tbe latter days of
December ho made Mi33 Virco his bonnie
bride.
Elder Walden has been the recipient of
showers of letters from his many Kentucky
friends bearing the warmest congratulations.
He was one of tbe most popular and talented
young ministers ever turned out ot college in
the State.
HO SUCCESSOR TO SACKVILLE
Likely to be Appointed Until President
HnrrUou Is Seated.
WASniNOTOJf, February 9. No information
has been received at the State Department in
regard to tbe appointment of a British Minis
ter to this country. Tbe department has, how
ever, been informed that Mr. Edwards. First
Secretary of the Legation at AVashington, who
has been in London for some time past has
sailed from England for this country. On his
arrival in this city he will assume bharge of
the affairs of tbe Legation and relieve Mr.
Herbert, tho Second Secretary, who has been
In charge since the enforced departure of Lord
Sackville, In November last.
Mr. Edwards' return at this particular time
is understood by certain officials to mean that
there is no immediate prospect of the appoint
ment of a successor to Lord Sackville.
A Mntnnl Agreement.
WAsnufGTOK, February 9. The conferees
on tbe diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill have reached an agreement The House
representatives accepted the Senate amend
ment of $500,000 for the maintenance of Ameri
can rights in Samoa, while tbe Senate con
ferees agree to allow the provision of SIOULOOO
for the naval station at Pago Pago to go into
the naval appropriation bill.
Picturesque Ilooslcrdpm.
From the New York World.1
The Indiana Legislature is considering a bill
for the abolition of White Caps. It is rumored
that tbe White Caps are debating the advisa
bility of wiping out the Indiana Legislature.
Great and picturesque is Hoosierdoml
FACTS AND FIGURES.
THE national bank depositories now hold
$15,625,433 of Government deposits.
IjAST year Louisiana produced 450,000,000 feet
or lumber, an increase of 00 per cent since
1SS0.
Exports of provisions from tbe four Atlan
tic ports last week aggregated 15,775,887 pounds,
against 13.752,858 pounds the corresponding
week in 1887.
The latest official returns show that there
are in Gre.tt Britain, out of a population of less
than 38,000,000, 1,035,092 persons who receive
parish relief that is to say, a fractiop more
than one person in every 34 of the population.
One of tbe applications of a waste product
to a useful purpose is tbe manufacture of paper
out of cedar wood pulp, for underlying carpets,
wrapping of wool, furs, etc. The paper makers
procure the cedar chips of pencil manufact
urers, and the paper made of this material
will, it is claimed, preserve articles wrapped in
it from tbe moths.
AM electrical fire engine, which can be
tapped for service whenever wanted, ts the
latest invention. Tbe advantages claimed are
tbat it can be started at full speed; that it is
much lighter than a steam fire engine of equal
power; that it costs one-third less; that it is
noiseless in its operation; makes no smoke,
sparks nor ashes; that it is safer and easier to
control and is economical.
TUB walnut that grows in Persia. Asia Minor
and Circassia makes the costliest of all cabinet
woods. The veneers are cut to one huu
dred and twentieth of an inch In thickness,
and sometimes as tbin as 175 to an inch. The
veneers used on furniture are somewhat
thicker, the thinner ones being used on picture
frames and covering for walls, after being
backed with strong, toogh paper.
TiiEr.E are used annually in the United
States about 15,000,000 bushels of wbeaf in
various manufactures, such as starch, food
preparations, sizing for cloth and piper; 50.000.- I
000 bushels are required for seeding, and I
28a,O0u,0OU bushels for food consumption;
which leaves only about 50,000,000 bushels for
export If these averages are all kept up an
increase in the wheat area of the country is
Imperatively demanded.
UBI0US CONDENSATIONS.
It is said that the Empress Frederick
has collected 24,000 oDituaxy notices of her hus
band. A young lady in Maine had 16 teeth
extracted as one of her preparations for mar
riage. A Key "West fisherman rubs his body
with kerosene oil and swims among sharks in
safety.
One American manufacturer of base
balls employs 500 bands and keeps 40,000 dozen
balls in stock.
A Vermont man has started a news
paper at Jamaica, in that State, and calls it
Jamaica Ginger.
An Albany snowshoe club kept them
selves in practice during the open winter by
putting a lot of spring beds iu a circle, covering
them with canvas, and tramping over them to
slow music
A dying wife at Covington owned up
that she had gone through her husband's
Eockets regularly for 27 years, and that she
ad purloined about 8XJ0 from him to use-aa
pin money
The first bank in the United States was
the Bank of North America, chartered by Con
gress at the instance of Robert Morris in 17!,
and by the State or Pennsylvania in 1781. with
a capital of 5100,000. It is still in existence in
Philadelphia.
Advices from Bnrinah announce that
Mandalay has recently been visited by two im
mense conflagrations. Iu the first tbe flames
destroyed 632 houses, a bazaar and a Buddhist
monastery. In the second 00 bouses wero
burned. Both conflagrations were of accidental
origin.
An "Emperor William clock" has beeu
made in Berlin. The case represents the old
Emperor's palace. AVhen the hour strikes the
palace guard marches past and William I,
with his first great-grandson, now the little
Crown Prince, appears at the historic corner
window where he so often showed himself to
bis people.
Punk, the well-known shaggy black
and white shepherd dog, belonging to General
R. U. Sheridan, and the constant companion of
bis master for the last 13 years, died recently
at New Hartford, N. Y. He had lived far be
yond the average of bis kind. Few dogs ever
reach tbe age of 12 years, Tbe only one on
record that lived to a greater age than Punk
was the pet dog of Wilhelmlua, the sister of
Frederick the Great, which reached the age of
19. Punk was 18.
Since the Boulanger election the ped
dlers of Paris have been selling dainty-looking
little pies wrapped in pink paper and each one
bearing the following inscription: "Souvenir
of the election of January 27. Tbe Boulanger
question. What he promises us. Open and
see what he gives." The sale of the pies was
immense till the buyers discovered that they
had been cruelly deceived, for under the tempt
ing exterior was hidden nothing but hay. This
is utilizing with a vengeance the parable of tbo
wicked father who gives bis son a stone in
stead of bread.
It was the exciting moment in the
mad-house scene of "Light o' Day." Tho
Thespians in the St. James's Theater, Manches
ter, Eng., followed the incidents intently. Sud
denly a yonng lady, moved by the brutality of
the blackguards, rushed past the checker at
tbe stalls, jumped on the stage, and. seizins
tbe actor taking the part of the keeper, sec
upon him in a most vigorous manner. Tho
audelence seemed to appreciate it then
laughter was long and loud and to rather
resent the officials' Interruption.
A woman named Girvin, liging nt Dur
ham, near Rochester. Eng., has just had a nar
row escape of being buried alive. She fell into
a kind of trance, which was mistakenfordeath,
and a coffin was ordered and the usual prepara
tions made for a funeral. But while a number
of the relatives weie gathered at the bedsido
bewailing their bereavement the supposed
rose started them by suddenlv rising up in
:d and askinc what was the'matter. Tha
woman is making good progress toward con
valescence. A novel scarfpin of French design has
just appeared. It is a singing bird of gay
plumage. The apparatus consists of an India
rubber bulb connected by a tube with the body
of the bird, but concealed by the wearer's
clothing. When tbe bulb is pressed it makes a
wind current, which works a small whi3tle.
and at the same time the bira's beak moves
and his tail wiggles in a very natural way. To
the spectator, who does not see tbe machinery.
jt is a very wonderful thing. Considering that
the bird is only the size of an ordinary scarf
pin, it is really a curious piece of mechanism.
Brinwood, in New South "Wales, has
been roused to Indignation aejiinst the China
man. This is why. When Ah Jack died, several
of his sorrowing relatives decided to annex 35
be bad left in the local bank. So they wrapped
the body in a blanket declared tbe dead man
was ill. demanded the coin, and one of tbe
sons of Confucius directed the dead man's
hand in making the necessary signature. "You
acknowledge this to be yonr mark?" said tha
manager, unexpectedly. The mysterious
silence that followed induced him to tear away
the blanket He was horrified to find that An
Jack was dead.
In a school district in London there
were many parents who reported no children
in their families. In oruer to find just bow
many children were thus being kept from
school, the school authorities got two monkeys,
dressed them gayiy, put them in a wagon in
which was a brass band, and started through
tne district. At once crowds of children ap
peared and followed the wagon, which drove to
a neighboring park, when tbe school officers
went among the children distributing candies
and getting their names and addresses. They
thus found that over 60 parents kept their
uuuureu irum scnooi; ana as a result or tna
monkeys, the brass band, and the candy about
200 little boys and girls have been set at study.
The annual review of the American
whale fishery shows tbat there are now 108
whaling vessels owned in this country, of
which 20 are laid up at home. Prices for the
products, except whalebone, have been low,
and the right whaling In the Arctic Ocean,
where most whalebone Is taken, is becoming
more and more popular, so that now about
half the total tonnage of whaling vessels is
employed in that branch of the service. In the
Arctic last summer there were 47 whalers, a
slight increase from the year before, but their
average catch was only about half that of 1ES7.
Of the American whalers now in service. 63 are
owned in New Bedford, 23 in' San Francisco,
8 in Provincetown, 4 in Edgartown,3in Boston,
3 in New London, and 2 in Stonington,
Several years ago an artist of Dresden
persuaded a locksmith there to give up his
trade and become an artists' model. It was a
good thing for the locksmith, who is now tha
tamous "muscle man of Dresden," whose mag
nificently developed body makes him probably
the most renowned model in the world. Ia
order to preserve for future artists an exact
duplicate of his extraordinary figure, tbe Di
rector of the Royal Saxon Povzellanfabrik at
Meissen recently invited him there that a cast
from life might be taken of the upper part df
his body. It is said that "his muscular devel
opment is so complete and detailed that even
tbe least and slightest cord of every muscle
stands forth prominently, and bis whole body
looks as if it were woven together or plaited
like basket work. His muscles have such a,
hardness that they feel to the tough as it they
were carved in wood."
TIMELY TOPICS.
Why He "Went "Bromley, come take
dinner with me at my boarding house to-day."
"I will, Darrlnger. I'm not a bit hungry."
The poet tries to win a name,
Bnt finds there's much to vex
When be beholds that name Anon.,
And often simply Ex.
A Strong Temptation. Rob "What was
the cause of tbe fire at Bigam Co.'s, the other
day?
Bob Too much insurance, I guess.
DIDX'T TAKE AFTER UIK.
"I suspect that our babe's tongue-tied
1 hope that It won't prove true."
'If It should, I'm pretty snre, dear,
bhe doesn't take after yoa."
A POET'S TRIALS.
Better Left Unsaid. Mamie I visited
Prof. Gllhooly this afternoon and he said my head
was full of nonsense.
Jack (sceptlcally-Fshaw, I don't believe there
is anything In It.
The Reason "Why. "Bob, old man, how
well yon loot."
How welt you look, I should say."
But I'm going to be married this evening."
"And 1 was divorced this morning."
"Wouldn't be Imposed Upon. Country
man (la a dngoods store)-I want a collar. ,
"What slieJ"
"vhat size, ye tirnal fool! Why, big enough to
go ronnd my neit, o' course. DIdn' spose I
wanted a horse-collar, did ye?"
Results of Cash Payments. Alarmed
Mother-Why. my daughter, weeping? What's
t,1(J matt,.rj
Daughter ihrldeof a month) I-I have been shop
ping, or trying to.
Alarmed Mother-Well?
Daughter I find my husband has always paid
cash and hain't any credit anywhere.
Jilt Jrom Ximt,