Ml '& V - " ' J i i r k 'A jt Bigpftfj. -ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1S4S. Vol.44, Ho 49. Entered at PltttbnrgPostoface, November 11, 1SST, at second-class matter. Business Office 07 and 09 Fifth Avenue. News Booms and Publishing' House75, "77 and TO Diamond Street. Average circulation of the dally edition of The Dispatch for six month ending; March X.1SS9, 27,988 Copies per Issue. Average elrcnlntlon of the Sunday edition of The Diipatch for February, 1SS9, 45,144 Copies per Issue. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE FREE IN THE UNITED STATES. Daily Dispatch. One Year 8 00 Dailt UibPATcn. Per Quarter 2 00 Baity Dispatch, One Month 0 Daily Dispatch, Including; bunday, one " year. WOO Daily DisrATCH, Including Sunday, per quarter SO 'Daily DisrATCH. including Sunday, on --month 9 Buxday Dispatch, oneyear 2 SO Weekly DisrATCH, oneyear , 1 3 The Daily DisrATCH Is delivered by carrier at Mcents per week, orincludlngtheSundayeditlon, atSO cents per week.. 1 PITTSBURG, THURSDAY, MAR. 28. 1889. THE DIPLOMATIC APP0IKIME1TTS. The list of dipUmatic appointments which was sent to the Senate yesterday completes the distribution of the more important mis sions, and gives a tolerably clear view of the principles of selection. Kobert Lin coln, for Minister to England, is a more creditable example or hereditary selection than Fred Grant's appointment Mr. Xin coln, it is certain, will.be a good represent ative of the United States, although there is no evidence as yet that he will be an especially brilliant one. Murat Halstead lor Germany, and Allen Thorndike Bice for Eussia, are, like White law Beid's nomination to Paris, strong ap pointments. "While these gentlemen's posi tion in domestic politics has aroused strong antagonisms, and in various respects been open to sharp criticism, no one will deny that they are men of marked ability and high mental equipment. But Mr. Hal stead's diplomatic career is threatened at 'the outset by an idiosyncrasy of our poli tics. The offended specter of Senatorial dignity rises in Mr. Halstead's pathway, and, it is intimated, will put a veto on his public services. This is on account of the very sharp criticisms which Mr, Halstea'd's paper made of the Senate's course in sup pressing investigation into the purchase of Senator Payne's seat. The position that the Senate would as sume by such action would be a very re markable one. It would be a practical avowal of the rule that criticism of the "Senate's acts on public matters is forbidden, on pain of making the critic ineligible to office. A sort of fatality, too, appears to make the Senate quick to resent the criti cisms that are just and required by the public interest. Schuyler's very moderate expressions on the policy of making a clean sweep are fatal, but "Whitelaw Beid's at tacks on the Grant administration are not objectionable. -This incongruity will be most marked if Halstead's vigorous de mands for the exposure of a rank piece of corruption, are held to disqualify him. A feature of the diplomatic appointments is that they do not represent any particular faction or interest in the Bepublican party. Beid and Bice were Blaine men, Halstead a Sherman man, Lincoln a Gresham man. It would be tooTmuch to expect any non partisans in the list; but the administration is evidently not permitting personal feel ings .to influence its appointments, at least in the diplomatic line. A BEASOff THE OTHEB WAY.. From a meeting of Wilkinsburg citizens resolutions arc reported against the proposed .Increase of Judges' salaries, and also against an allowance of mileage, because as it is said the Judges already ride on passes. This reason would be a very good one why a mileage rate should be established where Judges travel in the discharge of their func tions, and the pass system abolished. It is poor policy to keep the Bench on such short commons that the corporation courtesies are acceptable. If there is any one class ol offi cials for whom liberal pay is good policy it is the Judges. Whatever maybe true of. the country districts, where thecost of living is comparatively light, the present salary of 56,000 per annum for Allegheny county Judges, for instance, offers but an insignifi cant prospect of much of a competency for themselves or their families in old age. That good and able men are found to take the places, and sometimes eager to get them at that figure is true; but the same would hold good if the salary were much lower. The possibility of getting others to do the work at less cost is not always the ruling consideration in private business; nor is it exactly the safest to apply to the Judiciary. As between paying a reasonable mileage, or even liberal salaries to Judges, or having them make ends meet by the "courtesy" of corporations, the public might wisely choose the former. ELECTIVE POSTMASTERS. The rush for postoffices which attends the inception of a new administration revives the proposal to leave the choice of post masters to the people. The idea is not a new -one; but it has received a notable impetus of late. The people of Winchester, Mass., recently adopted it by a meeting, somewhat on the town meeting p!an,to designate their choice, and the example has been followed at Hammondsport, X. Y., and other places to a degree that has attracted attention even at Washington. Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, who is the champion of the idea in its revived shape, argues that until the postoffices are taken out of politics, it is better that the post master should represent the choice of the people in the locality of the office, than the choice of a single member who has followers to reward with plunder. This may be true "the country districts; but it is highly questionable of the city districts. Beyond that, in addition to the entire reconstruction of the constitutional theory which it in volves, it cannot be viewed as 4tep in the direction of reform. Instead of being in the direction of removing (ho postoftWs front-politics, it only pushes them further into politics and seems to fix them there ir retrievably. It mizht be a useful expedient for an ad ministration to call upon the people to show their preferences in the choice of fourth class postmasters of which the appointing power can, in the nature of the case, know but little; but any legal-reform should be in the direction of taking the postoffices out of - politics altogether. t -. ATONIC FOE C0WABDS. A day or two ago a big steamer entered the port of N. ew York with a cargo of bones. These anatomical remains were not of the usual sort, but relics of men and.beasts which have lain on the sands ot the great North African desert for centuries. An en terprising German has been gathering them for years and now they are to be used by Americans for refining sugar, in manufac turing paper and as fertilizing materials. The bones of Arabs, Egyptians and Ethio pians, of camels, horses and lions, will help to sweeten our coffee, to form the pages of Tub Dispatch, and increase the wheat crop. Surely here is a superb chance for some genius to compound a new patent medicine. The bravery of the Arab, his daring and powers of endurance, have been celebrated often in song and story. So have the sup erb characteristics of the Arabian steed, and who has not heard of the majestic attributes and enormous appetite of the African lion. To be sure the camel stands only second to the mule for obstinacy and ugliness of tem per, though as a perlpatetio tank the ship of the desert has rather the best of the human variety in the lower circles of our society. But the desirable qualities of the Arab; his horse and the African lion riroba bly would outweigh the camel and fellah element, if the bones were carefully ground down to powder, and then tastefully packed in double-bottomed bottles of extra thick glass with large corks and artistic labels. Such a preparation would doubtless find favor with modern pugilists and others who are wanting in ferocity and blood thirsti ness. ".Essence of Courage," would be a nice title, -while a blue Arab on a yellow horse fighting a red lion would be a taking trade mark. This suggestion is donated to the patent medicine maker free of all charges. A TBANSPABEKT PBETEKSE. Itappearsby a local article elsewhere that some of the railway men are repeating their old and threadbare ruse of adopting certain lines of action, for reasons best known to themselves, and charging it to the inter State Commerce law. The announcement that through rates from Pittsburg to points beyond the Mis sissippi Hirer are withdrawn under the amended law, because of inability to under stand whether they will conflict with the long-and-short haul clause, is. a peculiarly transparent example of this old and thread bare pretense. Its utterly factitious char acter can be shown in two ways. First, the requirements of the fourth sec tion have not been changed by the amend ments. If the through rates which are withdrawn, are a violation of the new law, they were a violation of the law before. Second, the nature of that requirement is very simple, and has been thoroughly un derstood, ever since the law went into ef fect. No one who has given any attention to the matter, holds that it requires a rail road to keeps its local rate within the pro portion of the through rates on freight pass ing over its line between points beyond its termini. The requirement is simply that, in the case named, the rate between the Mississippi and Omaha shall not be greater than the whole rate from Pittsburg or New York to Omaha. This is the "universal con struction of the act, and it so happens that it has an authoritative basis in the defini tion of a through rate, as. "one contract and one voyage" by the United States Supreme Court, in the case of Wabash vs. Illinois, decided before the inter-State Commerce act was passed. One single fact exposes this pretense. Most of the lines which withdrew the trans Mississippi rates are engaged in transporting freight from Chicago and Mississippi river points to New York. Everyone of them charges more on the same freight delivered at Pittsburg than their proportion of the through New York rate. They have a right to do so under the law; and their knowledge of the right exposes thehollow ness of the claim that they do not know whether the law will permit the same thing west of the Mississippi river. Another point is pertinent. If the law should be violated by excessive rates west of the Mississippi which the railway in terest has been protesting are ruinously low the violators would be the trans-Mississippi roads and not those taking the freight from Pittsburg. The law does not forbid a cheap through rate. It forbids high local rates in excess of a certain standard fixed in relation to the through rates. Consequently the claim that this action is necessitated in order to protect the Pittsburg agents from the increased penal provisions of the amended act is exceedingly shallow. The withdrawal of through rates to points beyond the Mississippi will probably be a great inconvenience to Pittsburg shippers. It is worth while, when that inconvenience is felt, to remember that it is due to the sweet will of the railroad agents and not in any degree to the inter-Siate Commerce act. JOHN BRIGHT. John Bright, the great English common er, is dead. For many months this sad event has been looked for, but nevertheless the removal of snch a noble character can not but demarid the attention of the world. Mr. Bright was not an Englishman of the insular sort; his sympathies were not con fined to the limits of the British Empire, his abilities were at the service of all man kind. His heart and body, when at their strongest, were always to be found on the side of freedom and peace. During the war of the Rebellion his voice was loudly heard again and again, advocating the cause of the North. At all times he has shown the highest regard and warmest friendship for America. If in later years his fidelity to the cause of f eedom has seemed to waver, and"nc has been found in the ranks of those who are re fusing to give Ireland her rights, it may be said in charity that advancing years brought with them infirmities of mind and body to dull the keenness of his judgment He has done so much to succor the weak, to enrich the common people and to preserve peace, that he deserves to enter the kingdom of eternal peace amid the praises of his fellow men. WHAT SOME FIGURES SHOW. The Massachusetts remonstrants against the extension of suffrage to women have favored The DisrATCH with some statis tics as to the recent legislative action" on the suffrage question. To the remonstrants these statistics are presumably encouraging, or else why should they circulate them? But wc cannot so regard their significance. Let us examine the results in the women's suffrage cause. A municipal suffrage bill was defeated in the Vermont Assembly by a vote of 192 to 39. This is apparently a rather severe blow to the women's suffrage movementpfor a similar bill passed the Vermont Legisla ture two years ago. A bill of similar char-, acter was defeated in the Maine Assembly by 90 to 42 votes; and in the Senate of 17 to 9 In Massachusetts a municipal suffrage bill was defeated in the House on March 12 by 127 to 78. - ' In the Legislatures of Dakota, Ohio, Ne braska, Neva'da, New Hampshire and Con THE necticut, bills on. Constitutional amend ments in the interest of women's" suffrage were voted down or shelved. These results, we repeat, the remonstrants regard as high ly satisfactory. But it is not significant of the growing power of the women's suffrage party that so" many attempts should have been made to secure favorable legislation? And do not the figures ot the vote in the Houses of Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts show that the friends of the women's suffrage cause are many in number? In Massachu setts seventy-eight out of two hundred and five Assemblymen voted to give women the right to vote in municip'al elections. The remonstrants are doing their fair opponents good service in makiug known the growth of the latter's strength. "This hotel is an exhalation,of piety and scholarship," writes George Alfred Town send, from the Ponce de Leon hostelry at St Augustine. So much enthusiasm is redolent of free champagne for the writer. Considering the fact that the hotel is one of the investments for Standard Oil funds, the people who are not so favored, arc justi fied in retaining their opinion that it is an exhalation of getting refined petroleum car ried by the railroads at 65 cents a barrel, while the outside public has to pay $1 23. This President's proclamation gives the Oklahoma land boomers a definite term for the endurance of their sufferings. They can satify their land hunger after the 22d of next month. But most of them will grum ble because thev cannot do it thisVeek. Pbesident Harbison's declaration that "the man I appoint to office will not be selected for what he has done, but for what he can do," is a first-class principle to act upon; but it is susceptible of some re markable variations. Colonel Fred Grant, for instance, was obviously not selected for what he has done. As he will have to do nothing in the Austrian mission, and that im net wlot 1.A nnn Ar iin orHiorAnfA ttlffl principle is demonstrated. Another building put up in the winter season, has tumbled into rains, this time at Binghamton, N. Y. The number of lives lost is sufficient to point the moral that brick buildings should be erected ata season of the year when they will stay built Pension Commissioned Tanneb's platform that every soldier and every sol dier's family should have a pension if it is needed, is certainly broad gauge enough. But it may be wise to remember that it is not Pension Commissioner Tanner's duty to make the pension laws. His functions cease with administering the pension laws which Congress enacts. The courtesy of the Senate is understood to be getting up on its hind legs to revenge Murat Halstead's discourteous assaults on the practice of choking off investigation into purchased seats in that awiul body. The painful absence of Colonel Elliott F. Shepard's name from the list of diplo matic appointments seems to call for the sending of another letter from the pious journalist to the Secretary of the Interior, who, it is well known, regulates the dis tribution of the foreign missions and 'the hours of meeting for the Senate. March's lamb-like character is about the only thing that tempers the wind to the bulls and bears, who are otherwise suffering from a scarcity of spring mutton. The alarming intelligence that cable roads cannot be built without the passage of that measure pending at Harrisburg, may be well founded; but it is calculated to astonish any man who will walk around .the city and see two lines in operation and a third in course of construction. John Bright's support- of the cause of freedom in this country will live longer in history than his opposition to the cause of freedom in Ireland. The report that Jay Gould is to take a hand in Wall street, would not appear to be ground for excitement, if it were certain that he would take nothing else. Incident ally, however, it is intimated that he may take the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Bailroad. PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIES. The handsome Duke ot Portland has just given his beautiful betrothed a magnificent sable cloak and a pearl necklace, which is said to be the finest in England. Ke-PbesidentMcCosh returned to Prince ton from his Western trip a few days ago In bad health, and has since been seriously ill. He is now much better, although still confined to his home. Walt Whithan is again confined to his house in Camden, and his indisposition is so great that the "good gray poet" is nnable to write at all. His physician, however, says that he is no immediate danger. Mb, Walters, of the London Times, in tends to pay all the expenses of the Times' tom foolery as well as the costs and damages which may hereafter be incurred, out of his private purse. It is estimated that it will amount to nearly 2,000.000. Mr. Walters' in come from the Times was $300,000 a year. Mr. Beaufoy, the Gladstonian who was elected to Parliament at Kcnnlngton the other day. Is said to be a descendant of that Beaufoy who, in 1767, moved the repeal of the test and corporation acts, and ot whom Erskine May says: "From the force of truth and of a good cause, his admirable speech put to shame the arguments with which the first statesmen of the day ventured to oppose him." The Rev. Dr. Scott, President Harrison's father-in-law, 'keeps steadily at work at his desk in the Pension Office. His daughter and the President himself baro asked him to re sign his position, but he refuses to live in idleness. Shortly after the election Mrs. Har rison wrote to her father asking him to qnit work and live at the White House. Her hus band also wrote to Dr. Scott cordially sup porting hi wlfo's request But the old gentle man sturdily refused tlio temptation, and said that be had been so long used to the routine of his office that be could not Rive it up. His com panions in the Pension Bureau say that his habits and manners have not changed at all since last November. WIndom'a Winsome Ways. From the Chlcaco News. Secretary Wlndom is a wonderful man. He has discovered a polite way ot declining to ap point people to office which pleases the appli cants nearly or quite as well as the tender of a good official position. It would be difficult to mention a more remarkablo feat than this. It appears that Mr. Wlndom is so bland, so sym pathetic, and so regretful, all at once, that the applicant forgets what he came after and only longs for permission to die for the captivating Secretary of the Treasury at his own expense. Mr. Wlndom is a genius and he deserves to live forever. Rongb on Chlcagonns. From theLoultvlllo Courier-Journal. 1 A Chicago man professes to have discovered the powderwith which the Egyptians embalmed their dead. Two thousand years from now Chicago mummies will perhaps he kicked abdut the Stats ot Illinois regardless or the present condition of things, or maybe they will be shipped to the museums ot Symmesgopia for tile edification of those among the Syrames gonlans who are students of -HnV races having larfco cheek bones. PITTSBURG DISPATCH, THE'TOPIQAL- TALKER. A Lay of Iho Fostofiee flow to Raise a Pap Lot of Robins Abonr. The Pittsburg Postoffice Is keeping a good many people awako at nights, and President Harrison and a fair representative ot Pittsburg might sing together lust now with eminent ap propriateness some such version of the song in "The Yeomen of the Guard" as the following: The Phxsidet-I have a son; to sing, o I Pittsbuhg sing me your song, Ol l'BJESlDENT-lt It sung with a groan, In a gruesome tone, To the tune ot a Senator's gong, 01 It's the song of a man who'd gladly pay A good round sum to find a way To make two pegs In one hole stay, Two men In the Pittsburg P. O. Helghdyl Helghdyl Misery mel Lacadydeel To please Magce and satisfy Quay In that blessed old Pittsburg P. O. PlTTSBuno 1 have a song to sing, Ol TnE Prbsidext Sing me your song, Ol PlTTSBuno - It Is sung with a smile, All free from guile. For It may prevent a wrong, Ol It's the song of a citizen voting tree. Who cares naught for A, nor a fig for B, Pat who wants his mall as soon at may be, Ana he says to the President. "Sir, " sayt he, "Till the fight Is settled "twist Quay and Magce Let Larkln stay In the P. O." Helghdyl Helghdyl Misery me! Lacadydeel Till the Senator bold and C L. agree Let Larkln stay In the P. O. . A pup can be brought up in a great many different ways; just as there are more methods ot killing a dog than to choke him to death on bntter. Hero's the very latest way to raise a pup. The youngest in a family of three, a boy ot immence acquisitiveness and precocity, brought home a tiny Newfoundland pup the other day. Willie." said tho boy's mother, "that pup is too young It Is not more than a day old yon ought to tako it back!" "Oh, I know how to raise It ma." replied the boy. "We'll feed it with a bottle." After some skirmishing this young fancier, aided and abetted by bis two sisters, procured a large wino bottle, which they partly filled with milk and warm water. One of the girls carried the botttle which was to the pnp what a hogshead would be to you and tho boy held the pup's mouth open. Most of the milk and water wentall over the pup's furry body. This' style of feeding might have Improved the dog's coat had It been persevered in, but the dog would have died bad not one of the small girls cried; "The right way to do Is to pour the milk and water on a rag and let the pup eat the rag!" So a rag was obtained and saturated with milk, but the pup had no confidence in the rag his omnivorous appetite had not arrived. He declined to be fed through the rag. Then it was the boy's turn again, and with a wild yell of joy, he shouted: "Oh! 1 know the very thing! The medicine dropper!" So the physician's Instrument for measuring minute doses was hunted up, and for hours every day since the discovery that unfortunate pnp has had its mouth held open to receive nourishment from the dropper. But the pup is getting fat, all the same, and growing apace. V Soke people insist that the robins are getting scarcer and scarcer every season. Every sort of excuse for this lamentable fact is alleged, from bad boys to wicked English sparrows. Nevertheless on Sunday last about sunset time I counted in a field of about two or three acres, no less than 22 red-breasted songsters and that, too, in a locality less than five miles from Allegheny City Hall, and within a mile of Iron mills and their populous surround ings. All down the Ohio valley, In fact, I hear of the great plenty of these beantltal birds, The catbirds seem to be quite numerous enough, also. EYEN WATTERSON SATISFIED. The Star-Eyed Goddess Thinks Harrison Is all Right. Louisville, March 27. Regarding Presi dent Harrison's diplomatic appointments, Mr. Watterson will say in to-morrow's Courier Journal. There Is no denying that tbe administration Is getting in some very astute political and party work In Its aDDOlntments to office. "With the ex ceptions of Wanamaker and Tanner, 'Mr. Harrlt, on, wnue selecting ormoaoxitcpuoucausoi we most pronounced description, his shocked the popular or moral sensibility, but rather has Im pressed the country with tbe Idea that he It a clear-headed, well-intentioned man, working for the best with great Intelligence within bis own party lines, lhe batch of dlplomatlcnomlnatlons sent to the Senate yesterday, completes the list of foreign placet of Importance to be filled and though containing some surprise It will on tbe whole give Sretty general satisfaction The nomination of obert Lincoln as Minister to England Is at once a surprise and a ten-strike. In bringing tbe Journalism of the party to the front and stimulating that important branch of party service, the President snows both wisdom and sagacity. No better Minister to France could have been found In any walk or life than White law iteld and no fitter Consnl General to London than John U. N ew. Now we have Murat Halstead to Germany and Thorndyke Rice to Russia. Mr. Rico Is the editor of the itorth American Bcrteie, a man of many accomplishments and large fortune, whose knowledge of European life and affairs Is very great and has not been obtained by the sacri fice of Americanism. The election of Mr. Hal stead for Berlin Is a particularly happy one. He It already well known to the Germans. In tbe Franco-German war be was the companion and guest of Yon Mollke, met the great Chancellor familiarity and often, and will be no stranger to the Court to which he Is accredited. He Is, per sonally both a handsome and a brilliant man, and will appear nowhere without distinction. HARRISON'S FIRST MONTH'S SALARY. Mr. Cloveland Receives Three Days Pay for tho Month of March. Washington, March 27. President Harri son received his first month's salary to-day. It amounted to S3.8S8 88, and was delivered to him in the form of a Treasury draft Tho draft was for the month of March, minus the first three days. Mr. Cleveland received tho President's salary for that portion of the month. Quay nnd Cnmoron Out of Washington. tSPZCIAL TELEGRAM TO THK DISPATCH.! Washington, March 27. Pennsylvania was unrepresented In the meeting of the Senate to day, and many office seekers who called at the mansions of Senators Qnay and Cameron were turned away disappointed. Mr. Cameron was in Harrisburg, in attendance at the wedding of his daughter, and Colonel Quay went to Phila delphia this morning, to look at the plgs-in clover puzzle of tbe postmastership at short range. Both of the Senators are expected to return to-morrow. DEATHS OP A DAY. Mrs. Blnrr Bailey. Mrs. Mary Bailey, an old and well-known resi dent of this city, died on Wednesday morning ats o'clock. She was born In Flttsbnrg lnlSIS, her maiden name being MaryGraham, daughter of Ma". Graham, of the war of 1812. She married George Wm.McCandless, abrother of JudgeMcCandless, in 181!. He died In 1830, leaving a ton. Major W. G. McUandlest. She afterward married Sam Bailey, of tbe old Iron firm of Bailey, Brown & Co. Tills second husband died In 1890, leaving the following children: Robert G. ilailey, of Alles & Ualley; Bam Bailey, Jr., of the Union Storage Company: Emma W Mary G. and Ida Ualley: Mrs. George Sinner, Mrs. Gushing, Mrs. Dr. J. K. McCltutock, Mrs. Har baugh and Mrs, Eliza Semsle. Tbe deceased was a member or the First Presbyterian Church, and had a wide reputation as an active, earnest Christian and a kind, loving mother. Mrs. Frances L Ilnnna. Mrs. Frances L. Hanna, one or the oldest resi dents ot Allegheny county, died the other day from old age and was buried yesterday, she was 74 years of age, and came to Sprlngdale with her parents from Philadelphia when the watSyears old. The Journey from Philadelphia to Spring dale wat made In wagons. When herfather, John Kecne, came here he purchased 330 acres of land at 81 an acre. To-day the land It worth 1,000 an acre. The deceased was married to J.-M. Hxnnal who survives ber, and bas a family of children. One of them !s George S. Hanna. tho oldest conductor on the West Penn Railroad. He hat been con nected wltn the road for 25 years. Mrs. Hanna wat a prominent member of tbe Methodist Church at Sprlngdale. Her death was earned by old age. Ex-Congressman Mafaoney, WASHlSGTOit, March z7. Ex-Representative Peter Paul Maboney, of New York, died at the Arlington Hotel this morning at 8:55 o'clock, Mr. Mahoney wat taken tick two daya after the In auguration of President Harrison, and for several days his death has been looked for. He retained consciousness until a short time before his death, and talked feebly with tbose about his bed. All or the members ot hit Immediate family were with him when he died. The remains lcrt here this afternoon tot New York, and the funeral will take place on Friday. Air. Maboney was a native of New York City, where he was horn June 25, 1848. He never held any public onlee until he waselected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat. -Judge Jacob Barnel. CWCTSNATi, March 27. Ex-Judge Jacob But' net, aged 72, died la Is morning. THURSDAY MARCH AN IMPOfiTANT TEST CASE. A California Chlnnmnn Fighting the Scott Exclusion Act to the End. Washington, March 27. Should a quorum of the Supreme Court be in attendance to-mor- ow, the Court will Immediately proceed to tho hearing of arguments In the case ot Chae onan Ping, appellant, versus the United States. This case involves the constitutionality oi me Scott exclusion act approved by tbe President, October J, 1888. Tbe facts in the case, as set forth in the statement of counsel for appellant upon tbe motion to advance the case for argu ment, are as follows: The appellant is a Chinese laborer and a sub ject of China, and departed from tbe United States tor China June 2,1887. Before doing so he applied to and obtained from tbe Collector of the Port of San Francisco, the return cer tificate required by Section lot the Chinese re striction act of May 6, 1882, as amended July 5, 1881 He returned to the United States Octo ber 7. 1888, and presented the certificate to the Collector and claimed the right to land there under, but permission was refused by the Col lector on tbe sole ground that under the pro visions of the act commonly known as the Scott exclusion act of October 1, 1888, tbe cer tificate presented by appellant had been de clared null and void and ot no effect. He sued out a writ ot habeas corpus in the United States Circuit Court, ana after hearing, the Court ordered appellant remanded to the cus tody from which he had been taken. This cus tody was the captain of the shin which had brought him back to the United States. From that judgment of remand Chan Ping has appealed to this Court. Ex-Governor Hoadly. of Ohio, and James O. Carter, of New York, will represent tbe case for appellant be fore the Court, and Solicitor General Jenks will appear for the Government, Messrs. J. F. Swift, recently confirmed as Minister to Japan, Attorney General Johnson, of California, and S. M. White, of California, will also be present to look after tbe Interests of the State of Cali fornia in the case. DECEITED BI SPIRITS. A Modern Jeremiah, Whose Prophesies Cansed His Friends to Lose Money. rSFXCIAL TILXOBAM TO THE CISPATCn. Middletown, N. T., March 27. Jeremiah Eigmle is a well to do farmer of the town of Hancock, shrewd and level-headed in ordinary business, Jrat clean gone on Spiritualism. In all matters of importance be makes a practice of consulting the disembodied spirits of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Horace Greeley or other eminent men who have passed away, and thinks that they give him not only wise counsels but a foreknowl edge of coming events and gift of prophecy like that bestowed upon Jeremiah of old. The latter-day Jeremiah has always been an ardent Bepublican, and in the campaign of 1884, alter consulting the spirit of Horace Gree ley, astonished all his friends by the confident prediction that Cleveland would be elected. Some who had faith in his prophetic eif ts were encouraged to make bets by tbe prediction and won handsomely. When the Presldental cam paign of I6S8 came around these winners and others who wanted to be winners were clam orous for advance information as to the result. Seer Eigmie, after due application to the spirits, foretold that Cleveland would be re elected. The adverse result of the contest was a corker on his spiritual prognostications, and put all his betting friends "in the soup." Eigmie has published a card, in which he at tempts to explain tbe failure of his prophesy. He says: "The first time that Cleveland ran. In a spirit ual communication with Horace Greeley, that departed statesman told me that Cleveland would be elected. I asked him why he wanted Cleveland elected and he said it was because the spirits could control him. When Cleve land ran the second time I asked an unknown spirit who would be elected and was told Cleveland. I am now satisfied that this was a lying spirit, sent to deceive me and the Demo crats, Inst as the Lord sent a lying spirit to de ceive Ahab." AN IMPORTANT DECISION. Private Organizations Cannot be Taxed ns Corporations. New York, March 27. Judge Barrett, In the Supreme Court to-day, decided that joint stock .private organizations are not liable to taxation as corporations. Tbe case before him was brought on a writ of certiorari for tbe review ot the Tax Commissioner's action in assessing the capital stock of the National Express Compa ny. The company was formed in 1833, but is not incorporated. Since the organization, the Judge says, substantial privileges have been conferred upon joint stock companies. The privileges are undoubtedly corporate incidents, but do not in terms create corporations, nor do the acts profess to authorize them. On the contrary, they expressly declare the opposite intent. A corporation cannot be formed by a private agreement between individuals. The franchise must proceed from the State: and even the State cannot compel people to accept its boun ty. There is, in fact, no statute of the State providing for the formation of joint stock com panies or limiting their organization. The con ferring of these privileges no more creates a corporation than would general legislation con ferring similar privileges upon ordinary part nership. Judgment Is given for the company. A DISGRACE TO JOURNALISM. A Mugwump Organ Enraged Because Some Editors Get Offlccs. Special Telegram to The Dispatch. New Yobk, March 27. The Evening Post in an editorial to-day says: No man who follows journalism really at a pro fession, and expects to be listened to as an articulate-speaking man, can possibly find In office, given as a reward for newspaper "support," anything but discredit and confusion. An editor hired to preach certain opinions about men and measures is probably as despicable a phenomenon as can be found In a modern free State, and It makes no difference whether he gets bis pay In ad vance or alter the work Is done. And of all of fices with which be can be rewarded tbe least suit able It a forelgu mission, because that lays tbe shame of our press before unfriendly and mocking eyes. Fancy for one moment what Bismarck, feeling as he does about the newspapers already, would think or an editor sent to him to represent a great republic as an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, in payment for three or fonr months campaign blather of very little more co herence or rationality or significance than the whlnnv of a war horse or the low moan of a belli cose bull I Lincoln Will Think Abont It. Chicago, March 27. The Hon. Robert T. Lincoln was informed by a reporter this after noon that he bad been nominated by President Harrison to be Minister to England. When asked whether or not he would accept the posi tion, if confirmed, he said. "I shall consider the matter. I shall consider the matter I shall consider my business interests carefully, but what my business interests are I do not care to make public" Nothing Small Abont Them. Talbotton, Ga., March 27, Mr. Jim Buck Brown, of Meriwether county, near the line of Talbot, was in the city yesterday. Mr. Brown is a tall, well-proportioned man, weighing 833 pounds. He has a brother and an uncle some what like himself, and the three weigh over one thousand pounds. CAUGHT ON THE GRIP LINE. You may flirt with any girl you want, If yonr 'Art Is true to Poll." You may call on any girl yon want. If your '"Art It true to Poll." But should the run a debt quite large, And ask you, as she will. ' "lo tend a check to Madam Blanck To pay 'My MUliner'e Rill, " Drop her then right on tbe spot From that moment ccase-to call; For never, never pay hef bill, "While your "'Art Is true to Poll." "VANDT Who is-thla 'fellow Ward McAllis ter? Zandy-Why, he Is the leader of New York's celebrated 400. "Vandy And what It New York's celebrated 400? Zandv The cream of Gotham's society. Vandy I guess you mean the scum of the milk. AN itching, soul is quite as potent as an itch ing palm, Joe Howard. But, Joseph, what's the matter with a goocfoid Itch right In the middle of the back, where yon can't get at It? Book agent Mr. Brown, I have here a very Interesting publication In three volumes that I would like very much to show you. Mr. Brown-What Is tbe title? Book Agent "The Life orGrover Cleveland.'' Mr, Brown By whom? Book Agent Colonel Dan Lamont. Mr. Brown 1 thought so: any other man could have put! tin half a volume. President t abrison won't kiss the babies, And tbe babies now are tad; But we can't blame Mr. llcrrlton. For, unlike Cleveland, he's a dad. And he knowt that to klat the babies. At least sometimes isn't nice. And tbat's when they've been eating Bread and jam or milk and rice. -w. CS. Cv -28, 1889. CAPITA! GOSSIP. Speaker Borer Has the Cournge of Bis Convictions Peculiarities of the Liquor License Law Some Democratic Plans A Power Behind the Throne, rrnon A BTAIT cosBxsroaoENT.l Harrisburg, March 27. Last week while talking of the failure of Mr. MacDonald to secure a special order for his bill to reduce liquor licenses to 300 in cities of the third class, Speaker Boyer was heard to say that so far as be was concerned he considered high license no evil, and wouldn't care it the sale was made higher rather than lower. A gentleman who Is friendly to Mr. Boyer says his record on the liquor question is so clear that it onght to give the greatest pleasure to the temperance element. Two years ago Mr. Boyer voted for high license because conscien tiously In favor of it. Friends told him It was a very impolitic move in fact, suicidal. His district is one of those compact ones, a few blocks wide and about three or four times as long. The liqnor men unquestionably have influence therein, and they were not favoring high license. Mr. Boyer. however, came back to the Legislature, and with the largest ma jority his district ever gave for anyone. He ran 100 votes ahead of the Presldental ticket "Undoubtedly," said the Speaker's friend, "he lost votes because of his attitude on the high license question, but, just as surely, he made more votes than be lost. As it is with the Speaker himself so it is with the Republican party. It isn't losing anything by its attitude on the liquor question." A Liqnor License Mix. The peculiarity of tbe liqnor situation In some of tbe third-class cities worries some of the representatives here. Up in Crawford county, for instance, are TltusvUle and Mead ville. One accepted the Wallace Act and the other didn't. There is but slight difference- in their population, but the one that didn't ac cept the act will, under the ruling ot the Attor ney General, pay but t3C0each for its liquor licenses, while the other must pay 1500 It is the same in the case of Oil City and Franklin, In Venango county. The Attorney General ruled that a third-class city of less than 10,000 Inhabitants (which couldn't become a city by right of Its population under the Wallace Act, but which, being a city, remained one) was not affected by the recent Supreme Court decision as to classification of cities, except tbatft nom inally came into the third-class. This, he held, lelt its license fee J300. Some Democratic Polities. Representative Wherry's solemn repuliation of a candidacy for State Treasurer, and bis ac companying declaration that he would not take the office. Is considered by tbe Republicans to remove him from the race, but to still leave him where gubernatorial lightning may find him when it goes gyrating about seeking some one to strike. Hon. Henry Hall's assertion that Mr. Wherry was endeavoring to do his party a service was not denied by that gentleman, and he is honest enough to- believe that in this in stance he is serving both bis party and bis State. It was stated in the Harrisburg corre spondence of The Dispatch on Friday last that the attack on the Sinking Fnnd Commis sioners had been approved by Democratic State Chairman Kisner, ex-Lieutenant Governor Black and three members of tbe State Execu tive Committee. Other peonle are just finding this out now and making mnch of It. The Democratic leaders expect to gain by the at tack, and to gain largely. Who their candidate for Treasurer will be, now that Mr. Wherry bas taken himself out of the way, is a question, but Captain Clay, of Elk county, is spoken of as a good man for tbe place, whose popularity among tbe veteran element would by no means weaken the party. A Very Vexed Question. 'T think," said Senator McCreary, of Erie, "that we will adjourn very close to the 25th of April. I voted, you may remember, to refer tho resolution to the Appropriations Commit tee, not because I was opposed then or now to an early adjournment, but because I thought we ought to take a few days to look about us. There were a few bills in which I was interested myself and I didn't know just exactly where they stood. Of course I wanted to find out about them before I voted to adjourn, lhe work is getting along nicely now, and with the present disposition to rush things shown by the House we may get away for the Washing ton Centennial. A good many members want to go, but they want to adjourn sine die before going." Behind Mr. Quay's Throne. "Frank Welling Leach is more of a power in politics than you might imagine," said a geni tleman who not long ago returned from Wash ington. "As Quay's private secretary he keeps track of about everything that Is going and makes it a point to know almost everyone of any local prominence in Pennsylvania. Par ticularly in the case of minor appointments his 'This isn't one of our people' carries great weight with it, and the gentleman who isn't 'one of our people' may straightway write his name Dennis. The man who wants an office needs to be very caret nl these times to keep all Magee men off his petition. Mr. Quay, "some how, seems to have a prejudice against them." Hnd to Drink or Drown. It is related of a convivial member of "the third House" that while recently on a pleasure trip he became abstemious and refused to drink any more. "We wonldn't have that, you know," said another. "That would have broken np all the fun." "How did you fix it?" "Oh, a couple of us held him and I put the neck of the bottle in his mouth. Then he had to drink or drown." "Yes," said another, "and when it comes to drinking or drowning, you bet isn't going to drown, if be knows himself." Simpson. ACME COUNCIL'S MEMBERS. They Celebrate Their First Anniversary In a Grand Style. Acme Council No. 219 Jr. O. U. A M., did itself very proud last night; for the celebration ot the first anniversary of that organization was throughout a very creditable affair. An excellent programme of musical and vocal selections was rendered by some of the foremost performers of the city. The Toerge Orchestra was represented by ten of its mem bers, andfurnished tbe music at the concert as well as at the succeeding ball. Mrs. Mathildo Henkler, Miss Edith Harris, Mr. J. Boyd Duff and Mr. E. H. Dermltt sang together "Dance We So Gaily," by Schubert, and they also ap peared in the operetta "Tbe Sleeping Queen." Mr. Fred Toerge's violin Isolo, "Fantasia," from Sonambula, was rendered by that gentle man in his well-known artistic manner. Miss Lillian Burkhart's recitations were also very favorably received. Odd Fellows Hall, where the entertainment was held, bad been very beautifully and orgously decorated with plants, flags and anting. The place was thronged with guests and it is hardly possible that the members of Acme Council will ever have a more successful anniversary celebration. YOUNG DRUGGISTS' RECEPTION. The Closing; Event of the College of Phar macy Commencement. The graduates of the Pittsburg College of Pharmacy held their reception last night in Cyclorama Hall, Allegheny. About 100 couples were present. Dancing was the order of tbe evening. Supper was served at 12 by Caterer Lutber. The grand march was led by Mr. H. D. Mar shall and Miss Pritchit, The dancing contin ued until 2 o'clock this morning. Tbe Commit tee ol Arrangements were: Messrs. Howard Marshall, Sam Wentllnc. John Captnhover, B. E. Henderson and P. 1. Knapp. Tho K. of P. Fnlr. Tbe formal opening ot the fair, at the Coli seum, under the auspices of Lorena Lodge, K. ot P., will take place this evening. The G. A. R. Band will be present, and the Horseshoe Fonr now performing at the Academy, will give some of their specialties. Tbe De Wolf Division, of the uniform rank, will also he present to-night. Oklahomn Open nt Lnsu Washington, March 27. President Harri son to-day issued his loog-looked-for proclama tion opening the Oklahoma lands to settlement April 22 next at noon. He gives warning that "no person entering upon and occupying said lands before said hour of 12 o'clock noon, of the 22d day of April. 1SS3. hereinbefore flxel, will ever be permitted to enter any of a-ill lands or acquire any rights thereto; and tlat the officers ot the United States will be re quired to strictly enforce the provisions of the act of Congress to tbe above effect." Mary Anderson Mending; Rapidly. Philadelphia, March 27. Miss Mary An derson, the actress, went for a drive through Fairmount Park this afternoon. She Is Im proving very rapidly, now that she Is enjoyiug perfect quiet and rest. She took her first ride yesterday afternoon, going up through the park to the Wlssablckon. She will probably take a drive every aay now while the weather is fine. r - r. 5, A LITTLE GOTHAM GOSSIP. Ate More Than He Conld Pay For. fXXW TOEK BUEXAO SriCIAtS.J New Yore; March 27. William J. McShane went Into a Park Row restaurant last evening, and ordered and ate: One plate of corned beef and cabbage, two plates ot roast beef, one of Irish stew, a bowl of vegetable soup, a dish of raw oysters, a plate of Iamb potpie.one otbeef and beans, a mince pie, three apple dumplings, two cups of coffee, and a glass of milk. When he finished, he said: "I feel as If I could fight Sullivan now." The proprietor suggested that he should pay for tbe meal. McShane replied by smashing two panes out of the restaurant door. He was arrested and to-day was.com mltted for trial. A Good Start In Housekeeping. Soon after losing his wits in January, 58-year-old Casper Gristing, of Jijontclair, N. J began to pay attention to Miss Minnie Treen, a pretty housemaid of 23. Minnie did not smile on his suit at first, but finally agreed to marry him if he would sell his $4,000 house to her for JL Tbe transfer of real estate was made on Saturday, and tbe marriage took place to-day. Egyptian Embalming a Success. The body embalmed by a Chicago man ac cording to the Egyptian process In the morgue. a week ago, has been kept near a hot stove ever since, In order to test the process. Al though the temperature of the room in which It lies is 100, there are as yet no signs of decom position. Hundreds of people call to look at the body daily. Bound to Gel Into Trouble. Percy P. May, brother of Fred May, and Edwin Kelly, son of Eugene Kelly, the banker, were arrested at 1 o'clock this morning for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Kelly gave the name ot Edwin Callaghan when taken to the Thirtieth street station, where the pair spent the rest of tbe night in cells. In con sideration of this fact they were fined only S3 each in the police court this morning. May has a talent for getting himself in the news papers. Two years ago ho was horsewhipped by a woman. An Elopement a Failure. Mrs. Alice Cannon, who ran away from her husband in County Kildare, Ireland, with her two children, and eloped to this country with Patrick Condon, a neighbor, was sent back to day on the Gulon steamship Wisconsin. Patrick and the children were reshlpped with her. Mrs. Cannon resisted shipment so vigorously that she had to be bound and carried bodily on board the vessel. She threatened to commit suicide. CAENEG1E NOT IN IT, Although Valuable Southern Coal and Iron Fropnrtv Has Changed Hands. Baxtxmoee, March 27. Probably the officers ot the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com pany themselves do not know the truth about rumors of the disposition that has been made of the controlling interest in the company, as the stock has been bought np quietly. The Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railway Com pany is the wealthiest corporation doing busi ness in the South, being a consolidation ot the Pratt Coal and Coke Company, the "Coalburg Coal and Railroad Company, and one or two other important companies. They own coal and iron lands, besides the famous Pratt mine, and also several important branches and min eral railroads of Alabama and Tennessee either with large blocks of stocks of several of tbe principal furnaces of the two States. The 3anttfacf.ureTj' -EeoroT has positive informa tion that there Is no real foundation for the rumors that Mr. Carnegie or Cooper, Hewitt & Co., have purchased a controlling interest in the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company of Ala bama and Tennessee, but a controlling interest has been sold in New York, and there will be a change in the management at the annual elec tion next Monday. This is correct. Of course it does not preclude the possibility of Mr. Car negie or any one else obtaining an interest hereafter. PALMER LIKES SPANISH ONIONS, So He Makes Up His Mind He Can Endnro . Life in Spain. Washington, March 27. Senator Palmer, who has accepted the Spanish mission, said to day: "Heave for Michigan to-night, but will return in a few days to be 'coached,' and then I shall hid a tearful adieu to my native land. My hopes of retiring from public life and giv ing up the remainder of my existence to the study of agriculture have again been' shattered, and I become a wanderer. There will be com pensations, though; I understand they raise a pretty good variety ot onions over there, and, like all enthusiastic farmers, I am interested in onions. "Why do I need to be 'coacbedr Well. I can't say. My idea of diplomacy is to bold my apron extended until the plums drop. I never mistake hurry fur activity that's our great national error. Shall I like it in Spain? Cer tainly; but I wish I didn't have to go there until November. To spend my winter there and to live in the 'log house' all summers would be my ideal existence. I have no doubt that it will be very pleasant over there, but I am still patriotic enough to prefer a log house in Mich igan to a castle in Spain." Should Be Looked Into. From the New York; Herald. A man found hanging to a tree in Missouri bad a card pinned to his back saying, "I die be cause I am too'duraed lazy to live." This man never hanged himself. An Inquest should De held. How It Got its Itame. From the Detroit Free Press. The Texas umbrella tree Is becoming a favor ite for shade purposes In California. It is not only shaped like an umbrella, but there is no time in tbe year it doesn't leave. He Wants Two Days Rest. From the Philadelphia Times."! President Harrison wants two days of rest from tbe office-seekers Sunday, to attend church, and Monday, to transact a little public business. ODD ITEMS FROM FOREIGN SHORES. The British record of football for 1889 shows tbe appalling number of eight deaths and five serious injuries. A SHALL leasehdld property in Worcester shire is announced for sale by auction, held "for a residue of a term of 2,000 years created in the year 1600." The American skater, Joseph Donoghue, is acknowledged to be a great man abroad, but his title to the championship is disputed more energetically since a Norwegian named God ager, on February 21, at Stockholm, did the great feat ot covering ten miles in S3 minutes 21 1-5 seconds. A nRX of great genius has offered the British Government an immense sum for the use of the national postage stamp for advertising pur poses. The advertisement is to be printed on the back of the stamp before tbe gum is put on, so that the purchaser of every stamp mnst see the announcement before he moistens thegum. This is an Australian idea. A French lady of acknowledged compe tence, who bas been revisiting London after an absence of 20 years, remarks that the carriages and horses have snnk far below the average of excellence of 20 years ago. Well-appointed car riages and fine horses can bo counted on tbe fingers, where formerly they were invariable. Against this tbe increase in tbe number of car riages and horses is enormous. In the neighborhood ofHaberstadt there is a Tillage named Strobeck.of which all the Inhabi tants are chess players. Chess is regularly taught in the schools, and every year there is a public examination in the game, a distribution of prftes in the sbapo of chess boards, and a kind of chess tournament ana festival at which the six best players in the locality are publicly feted and carried home in triumph. It is said, in the Pall Mall Gazette, that each year 15 people cut of every 1,000 marry. Of each LG00 men who marry, 61 are bachelors and'133 widowers, while of each 1,000 women only 98 have been married before, and 802 are spinsters. Twelve marriages out of every 100 are second marriages. The average age at which men marry Is abont 27, while the average at which women marry is about 25 years. Out of every 1,000 persons 602 are unmarried, 315 are married and 53 widowed. Over one-half of alt the, women between 15 and 45 are unmarried. Married women lire two years longer than single ones. Jf the mother dies first the father survives 9 years: but if the father dies first, tbe survival ot the mother Is UK years, as an average. Two thousand four hundred and forty-one births oc cur In: England dally, about 33 for each 1,003 In habitants. February Is tbe month in which the greatestnumberof births occur, June the montn In which occur tbe fewest. The average mm ber of births for each marriage la i.38. In every 1,060 births 11 are twin. " CDIIODS COKDESSATIOBSrr:" i l I 7 The English sjarrowi are Duilding their nests in the electric lamps in Atlanta, Ga. Eeuben Taibrougb, of Bockmart, Ga,, killed 72 rats la hiaJSars In a couple of hours the other day. Hew England manufacturers used 4,000,000 shoe boxes, costing from 25 to 3) cent each, last year. A Bussian joint stock company is building an immense boat theater to float up and down the Volga river. Performances are to be given at every large tows. A floating sawmill is in use at -Florence, Wis. The boat Is 40x80 feet In size, and draws 17 inches of water. The mill hands live aboard, and the boat is moved along the river to wherever there is a fine lot of timber near the banks. The process of manufacfnrlnjg India ink has been a secret with the Chinese for many centuries, but a firm of English chemists claim to hare discovered a process of treating cam phor with sulphuric acid that produces a"plg ment identical with India ink; The tinfoil so commonly used to wrap Neufchatel cheese, chewing gum, varioas kinds ot candy, and all kinds ot chewing to bacco, is said to he dangerous on account of the lead in it Its use for wrapping articles of food has been forbidden in France. W. O. Fluker, of Union Point, Gas, bas in bis possession a genuine loadstone, Which he has had for many years, and which he haa used repeatedly for mad dog bites, and wits eminent success. Tbe stone, though a small one. readily absorbs a pint of milk and distends four or five times its natural size. No patient to whom the stone has been applied for mad dog bites has ever been afterward troubled with any indications of hydrophobia, and It has been used in many severe cases. An exciting soene was witnessed in the Gaiety Concert Hall, Birmingham, England, recently. A dramatic sketch was in progress, during which a sailor is drugged and murdered. A sailor in she audience leaped from the gal lery on to tbe stage, declaring he would not see a comrade come to harm. The officials of the hall were floored one after another by the man In bis desperate efforts to reach tbe stage robbers, and four policemen only re moved him after a violent straggle. He was perfectly sober, and had returned from along voyage the previous day. Elder xMorris related in a Windsor, Ont, Baptist church, the other evening, that one of his recent converts had a fearful vision a few nights ago. The new convert, who Is a young colored man, saw hell, a place of liquid, boiling flames, rolling over and over, and gray haired men rolling over and over in them; alto he saw and heard a lot of young men popping ut in the flames like a lot of popcorn in a stove fire. The elder drew a frightful picture of Gehenna, scaring bis bearers so that several women went into fits, while men groaned and wept amid great excitement. The day after Mr. Morris was notified to drop the old-fashioned hell or stop preaching. A hail storm which swept across New Hanover county. North Carolina, the other day, was the severest on record. The bail stones were of enormous size, and fell in sheets. Many were as large as hen's eggs. Much damage was done, but tbe strangest fact of alf was tbe killing of Benjamin Moore, a yonng colored man, by the bau Moore was caught in tbe storm in the suburb of Wilming ton, and was beaten by tbe enormous hailstones until be was completely exhausted. He was discovered, after the storm, lying helpless on the ground. He was bleeding at the mouth and nose, and his condition was so alarming that a Shysician was sent for, but before he arrived toore was dead. A wagon with loading recently arrived atEastDarr station, Queensland, from Bar caldlne, and the driver reports the following terrible tragedy: A man accompanied by bis wife and two children, aged 3 years and 1 year, had pitched a tenton the river bank. The first nisbt the father was awakened by bearing one ot the children moaning; He lit a candle and found the girl apparently in a fit, and she died in a few minutes. She was buried on the spot next day. The infant child was placed in the bed previously occupied by the deceased the next night, when tbe parents were again awakened Dy tbe child moaning. The father immediately struck a light and saw a large brown snake gliding off the infant's breast. The child also died in great agony in a few minutes. Some carriers came and discov ered the snake's hole under the tent. Digging down they quickly unearthed and lolled tbe reptile. A very curious custom of the Vienna Hofbnrg was brought before tbe public by the death of Crown Prlnpe Rudolph. On the day after his death (a large undertaker at Vienna received the oroEsn oak coffin, to be de livered on the same day. The man asked for a little more time, but tbe order was that the coffin must be delivered the saute day, other wise It would be of no nse. What was the rea son for thi3 haste? The Crown Prince lay al ready in bis coffin, and no one else bad died at the Holburg. Presently, however, the reason was given that it is the custom to have always a coffin ready at the Imperial Palace. When the terrible news from Meyerllng came to Vienna, the oak coffin which had been in readiness ever since the death of Archdnke Franz Karl, the father ot the present Em peror, was sent to Meyerline to receive tbe re mains of the dead man; and according to tra- dition tne Imperial house must not be without Its empty coffin for 21 hours. A bill for the better protection of life and property by night has been introduced into tbe British Parliament. It proposes that it anyone armed with a dangerous weapon or in strument enters or attempts to enter a dwell ing honse in the night with intent to commit a felony, he is to be guilty ol felony; and, in ad--ditlonio any punishment to which he is now liable, be Is liable to be sentenced to be pri vately whipped three times. In the case of an offender who is under 16 years ot age. the num ber of strokes at each whipping must not ex ceed 25. and the Instrument must he a birch rod. In tbe case of any other male offender the number of strokes at each whipping is allowed to go up to 50. The Court must, however, al ways specify in its sentence tbe number ot strokes to be Inflicted and the instrument to be used, and no whipping is to take place more than six months from the passing of the sen tence. For the purposes of the measure the "nitrht" Is made to commence at 6 in the even- .ing and to last until 6 in the morning. TAKEN FROM LIFE. Is marriage a failure? Of course if is not. Marriage Is an assignment. Ocular demonstration She You were net so dissipated before we were married. He Indeed I was, my dear; but when anybody told yon to then, you wouldn't believe it. . A Rare Possibility. Miss F. I think I shall go at Cleopatra, but 1 don't know where to go for the costume. Mrs. A. You will find all yon need at Tiffany's. Cholly Ah. liedrich, I see you have my trousers ready; I am forever Indebted to yon. Tledrlcb Foreffer Indebted? Neln. meln frendt, dose drouser don'd go oudt mit dls store till dot hill vat teddled, spot cash, right avay alndt ltl Patriotism "Clarence, dear, here is a very Interesting article about The Llama of the Trans-Baikal," remarked Eloise. 1 don't care anything about It," replied Clarence, '-Why don't the magazines print some thing about American pugilists.'" Some of a Nomad. Magistrate (to pris oner) Were yon oorn In Fepnsylvany? Prisoner Yes, sir. Magistrate Brought up In the State? Prisoner Yes; I have been brought up In Penn tylrany, and every other State In the Union, too. Something to Think About. "So, Mr. Meredith, you must put away this madness. I can never, never be yours; there la an insurmountable obstacle." "Do not say so! Tell me what this insurmount able obstacle is, love, that I may crush It as I would a worm In my path. " "It's a husband In .New York." THE LONDON "TIJIES." Oh, red rag'to the Irish bull, Great thunderer, How, came yoa to be such a dull Old blunderer? None hut the donkey, daft and droll, VeA nn thistles. None other would have swallowed whole Those epistles: XT STE1KX. g. I'd been her slave quite long enough On waget far too simple; ' v Had carried fans, bouquets and stufl, For lust a smile's quiet dimple. Sometimes a word or tnanks or two-T i I ttruck for higher fee: -. Boycotted, what else could she do v ; Butglveberseirtome? V Another She You are a dramatic aatkeV I believe? Ho-Yes, Miss: that Is my vocation. She I am about getting a divorce and I would like yoa to wrifo me a piece In which I could star. 1 have the flne.t emerald ring In America, and If yon could utilize that fact In the piece I should like you to do to, I have alto composed a little poem, called "A Mouse In the Cotfia,' which I would like you to hear me recite; It would give you some Idea of my power. I forgot to state I am a well-known society amateur and my blood ts very blue. " , 4 -a7roX.
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