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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.
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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
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