?w- . t-: -, ?&" ' Sit, w '- THE POTSBTJBGT "DIXTOffOESblS MlYTi 9fm& $ &'"-" ? W- . 11 &$ Stfpafrfr. JSSTABLIBHED FEBRUARY 81 1848. Vol. 44, Ho. 8L Entered at Pittsburg Pcutofficc, yovember 14, 18S7, as cecond-class matter. Business Office 97 tod 09 Fifth Avenue. Kews Booms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 DlamondStreet ATeroto net circulation of the dally edi tion of The Dispatch for six tnoathi coding Wayl.lSSO, . 28,051 Copies per Issue. Annre net circulation of the Snnday edU lion of The Dispatch for April, 1SS9, 46,143 Coplea per Issue. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE TOEB HT THE L.MiAD ETATXS. Datlt Dispatch. One Tear s 8 00 Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter 2 00 DAILY Dispatch, One Month... 10 Daily DisrATCli, Including Sunday, one year. 10 Dailt Dispatch, including Sunday, per quarter. 2 SO Daily Dispatch, including Sunday, one month .'. 80 SuksaT DISPATCH, one year 2 50 WixkA Dispatch, one year 1S5 The Daily Dispatch li delivered by carriers at 15 cents per week, or Including the Enndaj-edition, at 20 cent per week. PITTSBURG, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1SSSL THE END OF THE HUE FIGHT. The announcement that the original milk combination has gone to pieces, is a. cor roboration of what The Dispatch toii its members concerning their policy all alone' They sum tip the whole story of what must befall any attempt to engross the market, with the words: "They (the dealers) got their milk from Ohio, and we fonnd we conld not prevent them from getting a sup ply." Bnt there seems to be a combination about as undesirable in its character, to take the place of the old one, if there is any founda tion for the assertion that the members of the late shippers' organization are going to Intercede with the dealers' association to let their recent agent join the new clique. "What combination is there in this town whose assent is necessary to let a man con duct the milk business successfully? If there is any sneb in the shape of the milk dealers' association it is time that it were broken np. In order to do that, if the milk shippers lave any business sense which their late career .surrounds with doubt they should instruct their agent to continue selling milk, not for the illegitimate purpose of squeezing other dealers, but for the legitimate and profitable one of building np the largest business possible by the most moderate charges for distributing the milk. A COMMENDABLE VIEW. Mr. Joseph Fleming's view of the license business is a refreshing departure from the usual attitude of the rejected. He at tributes his defeat solely to the Judge's excessive integrity and care to avoid even any appearance of favoritism, and points out that like himself, every applicant who retained the Judge's son for attorney was rejected. "While this is a rather extreme application of the Boman father principle, it is much pleasanter to bear' Mr. Fleming testifying to the Judge's purity, even though he has Buffered an annoying and probably costly defeat, than to hear the vague talk oi corruption which was so fre-iuentlastweqb,- but utterly failed to pro duce any definite excuse for its existence. Mr. Fleming is a disappointed man; but he does not let his disappointment make him unjust or revengeful. Such an attitude certainly offers better ground for reopening the case than some others that bave been as- Burned. craiosmxs fob pabis. The industrial exhibit contributed to the Paris Exposition by the United States is said to be very inadequate. As a corre spondent'with a rather Unkindly feeling for Connecticut says: "The section is in adequate if it purports to exhibit more than the industries of a single town like Hart ford." It is, of course, unfortunate that the magnificent industries of this country are not properly represented at the great Exposition to which so many peode ot all nations in the world are now on their way. But after all the United States is, to a great extent, showing in the most practical way to the whole world ber industrial potency the year round. An interesting exhibit that might have been made has probably never been thought of. A collection of American curiosities might lave been sent to the Exposition. "We do not refer to the fat women, skeleton men and elephant- boys of the museums. These would be very tame and commonplace compared with such national curiosities as the New York Alderman, the ubiquitous practical politician, the society actress, the tank dramatist, the St. Louis critic, the Mail ani Ezpreit editor, the postoffice arch itects, "Wall street kings and sensational preachers, all of whom America could fur nish in large numbers and great variety. The country would spend a pleasant summer with all these curiosities under lock and key in Paris. PEOnrS OF PUBLIC EPIBIT. The claim? of the New York Timet that the Centennial celebration there demon strated the presence in that city of a genuine public spirit, is good in its way. One sar casm might refer to the public spirit exhib ited at the Centennial ball, but taking the remark as it is meant, it is rejoined by the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette that as New York spent $300,000 and took in 53,000,000, almost any city could afford that kind of an exhibition. The remark seems to be just enongh. Yet it does take considerable pub lic spirit for a city to go into money-making that way. In proportion, there was about the same income from our Centennial last fall, and it could have been made to yield bigger results. Money for exactly such purposes is now needed to complete the manufacturers' bnilding of the Exposition. Our citizens should come forward with the funds, certain of getting the money back in one form or another. TELEPHOKEEEGTOATIORAin) CHARGES. The fact that Illinois and some other "Western States are following the example of Indiana in discussing legislative regulation of telephone charges is an interesting indi cation of the times. The Philadelphia Presi remarks upon the absence of any disposition atHarnsburg to follow the example. If there had been any indication on the part ot the Legislature of a disposition to regu late any corporations in the public interest, 1 the omission in this case would have been more singular. As it is, the Pennsylvania Legislature is strictly true to its own.pre xjedents. As bearing closely upon this subject of regulating charge, it is pertinent to note the cogency of a-paragraph going the rounds that there is no monopoly in telephones in Sweden, which are in consequence supplied' on commercial principles at competitive prices. The companies make . reasonable profits, but the service is so cheap that nearly every country store, as well as every city house, takes advantage of it. It looks as if it would pay this country to send a commission to Sweden and find out bow they do things there. It would be bafe to wager that one of the first discoveries made would be that the absence of a monopoly carries with it the absence of some millions of watered stocks on which dividends must be earned by exorbitant rates. This would permit fair profits to be made by supplying telephones at about one-fourth the charges assessed in the United States. PHAE1SEEISM AND F0BK. A rather peculiar difference between Mr. Cleveland's Centennial speech, as it was de livered, and Mr. Cleveland's alleged speech, as revised for publication, is noted by the Sun. The speech delivered said that if the people "have wandered" or "have been mis led" they will correct the error. The revised report makes it read if they "should wander" or "should be misled." The latter form the brilliant Sun praises as containing "nothing Pharisaical or 'Mugwumpian," while it regards the former as "the regular old-fashioned cant." This indicates the belief of the brilliant Sun that it is "pharisaical" to point out the errors of the time and to insist on reforms. We never beard before that this was the function of the Pharisees. We were under the impression that they were loud of dis playing religion in high-toned sanctuaries, and making profit out of the vested interests arising from the gain of turning the Temple into a .place where active commerce was transacted. Between Judge Gresham's use of the term, when he said, with regard to the use of money in politics, that "the Pharisees are doing this," and the view of the esteemed Sun, there is a great gulf. In this connection we observe that Mr. Jay Gould's remarks, in response to Bishop Potter, evoke from another cotemporary the comparison of Mr. Gould to the juryman who "got some of the pork." This in en tirely incorrect bi)th with regard to Mr. Gould's share and his position in the case. Mr. Gould occupies the position of the man who appropriated the hog and escaped con viction by means of bis judicious distribu tion of the proceeds. PATBI0TI0 BLUSTER PAYS. It is astonishing what a din of growling and grumbling always seems to follow a big public festival in New York City. - The latest howl in the wake of the Centennial celebration comes from the Governors of the States, United States Senators and other distinguished guests of New York. It is claimed in their behalf that they were treated with scant courtesy, and just as if they bad been mere common people. They did not cet front seats in the best stands every day, and hardly any of them reached the choice luncheons spread in upper cham bers for the elect in the "Wall street cele bration. In a great Bepnblio like this it is very pitilul to see any of the aristocrats merged with the common herd, and forced to pay for their dinners out of their own pockets. It is no wonder that the dear creatures are angry. But they ought to have observed how the members of the New York Legisla ture and the Board of Aldermen obtained their rights. The shrewd New Yorkers de manded the earth before the celebration came off, ana they kicked and kicked and kicked until the Centennial Committee gave them a large slice of the best things in sight. They bad a free grand stand in a choice po sition, free tickets" to the banquet and to the ball, and generally about all they conld see, eat and drink for nothing. The Governors and Senators are making their moans too late. An hour's bluster the day before is worth many weeks' weeping after the event That is what the New York patriots in the service of the sovereign people discovered. FARMS WILL BE FAT THIS YEAB. Are not the farmers and market gardeners about here rather tiddly taciturn? This is the time of the year when the bullish farmer tells us that his fruit trees are so heavy with blossoms that the crust of the earth has sunk six inches in their vicinity; when the bearish farmer tells the man at the village store that he can't pay his bill for some time because the wheat crop is already ruined by the drouth. The astonish ing fact to be notlSed hereabouts is that the farmers are not dealing at all in superla tives. They are for the most part silent. Out in Illinois the reverse is the case. There one half of the farmers are saying that the first blossoms have been ruined by a recent series of frosts, and the other half are contending that if the frost killed some of the germs it is probable that an abundance of them remain uninjured to load the trees with fruit This is the good old'style. "We fear it is going out The peach growers of Delaware, we notice, have not as much as hinted once that the peach crop is bound to be a failure. The perjuries of the peach growers have hitherto added largely to the picturesque quality of current fiction. But the vocabulary of the greatest liar on earth is bound to run out at last, and so the peaches will have to come along without the usual prelude of poetic perjury about frosts and worms and blight The railroad, the telegraph and the news paper have made an end to much of the glib romancing of the agriculturist It is better for all parties. In this region the fanners' silence is pretty sure to presage prosperity. Ik' certain quarters the license discussion has become even hotter than the weather; and, whatever restrictions are to apply to the service of liquors, there are evidently those on both sides of the controversy as to the Court who do not go in for equally dis creet regulation of speech. In this state of the case the communication in to-day's Dis patch from the well-known lawyer, Mr. McClung', considering the License Court proceedings from a purely legal standpoint, cannot fail to be of interest The dispas sionate manner and intelligent grasp of the more important phases of the subject which characterize Mr. McClung's letter raise the question considerably above the plane of mere personal controversy. The point brought forward that "judicial discretion" not "arbitrary discretion" is to be exercised' in respect to licenses, and that it bears upon the case, is decidedly interesting. Ms. Lxqaixs is reported as asking "Who is Halstead?" This is a weak copy of Secretary Chase's indorsement of the edi tor's letter as that of "Halstead, M." We think Mr. Halstead will be able to let Mr. Ingalls have some information bearing on bis identity. It is interesting to notice that. General jEanry B. .Jackson, in a speech at Savannah the other day, declared: "The Confederates were the supporter! of the Federal Constitu tion. The North rebelled against it,' not the South." This apparently makes it necessary for General Jackson to reconstruct history to the extent Of alleging that the faithful South conquered the rebellious North and tbuipreserved the Union and the Constitution. Some of our esteemed Southern coteiaporaries should now give us another sermon on the weakness of sectional politics in the North. The extremists on both sides of the liquor question are now engaged, each in assert ing that it is very wrong for the other to make personal attacks, and each in illus trating the bad taste of such things by a little personal attack of its own on someone of the other side. The facts as reported with regard to the land-grabbing winked at by Marshal Needles indicate that a town site can pass through a Needles eye without difficulty, no matter what a camel might do. Painful as it may be, some one should sit down on Needles. V "It makes one melancholy to think of the great men that were in that little, poverty stricken Bepublic of 1789. They can't be matched to-day." This remark from the Chicago A'etcs is another example of that much frowned upon offense of pessimism in the first degree. The esteemed News is plainly Unacquainted with the disinterested statesmanship of Thomas V. Cooper or the high-minded legislative policy of the Hon. Michael Lemon. There is a reckless American who adver tises himself as expecting to circumnavigate the globe, in order to prove the skill and daring of American sailors. What he really will prove is the foolhardiness and idiocy of ont American sailor. A Cork "jarvey," which, translated, means the driver of a jaunting car, 'was yes terday "knocked" out by a professional pugilist Contrary to the usual custom in such cases, the "jarvey" refused to resucl tate. This has proved so highly inconveni ent to the pugilist that be is now in jail for manslaughter. Lights of the profession will clearly have to select their subjects with more care. With the problem confronting the Presi dent of 150 consulates to fill and 1,300 people who wish to fill them, be will soon be in a state of mind to enyy Judge White for having finished up with the license list The acquisition of the white lead com bine by the Standard Oil Trust is to be credited to the knowledge ot the latter or ganization, that it will need a large amount of white lead products to put an appearance of whiteness to its own character. Whited sepulchres have for some time been in fash ion among the Standard Oil magnates. The conference report on the. soldiers orphans' bill permits the syndicate a hope of a contract for maintaining the orphans for six months after Junel. After that they will be in their own bean soup. Beport has it that President Harrison has invited Dudley to the White House. Letters to "Dear Old Sam" and other boys in Indiana will probably soon cheer them by information that Dudley is dining at the White House onc more, "and by the hope that they will be able to participate in the feast That Carter divorce case has been a great drawing card for the Chicago courts. But it is expected that the crowds will lessen1 now that it is announced that Mrs. Bawson takes an interest in it Mrs. Bawson some times emphasizes her interest in divorce Cases with her revolver. The City of Paris makes good her name by proving herself the fastest on record, PUBLIC PEOPLE PABAGBAPHED. .Lord Tsannrsos has so far regained his health as. to be able to take out-of-doors exer cise. ' Mb. Ashmead Baetlett has begun the record of climbers of the Eiffel Tower. His time is 21 minutes. Biexkewicz is the name of the leading Polish novelist. His characters are Poles, but by no means sticks. Hattie Blaise, youngest daughter of Sec retary Blaine, was recently confirmed at St Johu's Episcopal Church, Washington. Secretary rusk Is one of the hardest workers at Washington, It is said that he is the only Cabinet officer who uses a gold pen. Max O'Rell is coming back to America on another lecture tour in the fall. One may hear the chestnut tree already rattle its branches. Word comes of the death of John Kidd, the last survivor of the passengers of the Forfar shire, who were rescued by Grace Barling in 1S38. Mb, T. P. O'Oonhob says that the Prince of" Wales never pays a tailor bill. The advertise ment his patronage affords Is all the remuner ation Poole wants. ' R. B. Sears the tennis champion of Ameri ca, says that, comparing the playing of men and women of equal grades in the game, the latter would be entitled to a discount of 60 per cent To Colonel Shepard belongs the credit of perpetrating the best mot of the season. He says in bis newspaper: "Just now it seems that the Centennial ball was a bat." This joke will be understood by pious people when it Is ex plained that "oat" is the slang expression for a jamboree or spree. "Sydney Luska," whose real name is Mr. Harlan, has written a new story, entitled "Metamorphosis," which is running in the Sun day Dispatch. It is one of Mr.Harlan's ablest works, and is full of promise for something still greater from this interesting and per severing young novelist Mr. Harlan is now only about 25, and, considering his youthful ness, his work is quite remarkable. THE PITTSB0BG STAGE. A good show add good business at Harry Williams' this week. The attraction at Harris' next week will be that amusing skit, "We, Us &Co." J. C. Stewart's musical comedy, "The Fat Men's Club," at the Bijou next week. This will be the final attraction of the season at this popular house. A clever and very amusing performance may be expected. At the Opera House next week Bice's famous burlesque company will appear in "The Corsair" and "Evangallne." The former will be given the first half of the week and the latter the last half. The sale of seats begins to-day. This morning at 9 o'clock the box sheet for the sale ot reserved seats for the two concerts to be given by the Mozart Club and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Old City Hall, May 15 and 18, will be opened at Mellor & Hoene's music store. Friday at noon the sale of season tickets for the May Festival closes. On Monday next at 9 A.M. the sale of tickets for single concerts be gins. The official hand, book is now in the, hands of the printers and will be Issued the end of next week. This will be a handsome volume of oyer 100 pages, containing programmes, with analytical notes thereou, and biographical sketches of the singers. The book will be pro fusely illustrated, and in every way be in keep ing with the high standard set for the festival by the management. Oentli or J. M. Roberts. Mr. J.M.Eoberts. Commander of Post 3.G. A. Ti died at his home' on'Copeland street, Bhadyslde, I yesteraay. aa was awrat eg year! or age. and for a number of years be was bookkeeper for the Pitts bur U Company. iIr..Koberi was well known among U A. K. men. , He h a candidate for the Commandershlo of Post 3 with Major Sidney Omo hundro, who died a few weeks since. ' THE TOPICAL TALKEB. A Man Reporters Beteat An Echo of the Sewlckley Meeting The Law of Cora, peaiatloa aad tan Tale of a Barrel. A itah Whom newspaper rep6rters cordially detest Is he who begs that some particular abuse may be. as he terms It "written up," and afterward, -when, the reporter p6sslbly at the expense of much trouble and hard work has complied with the request, coolly professes to have no Interest in the matter, no thanks to give; Ho Is a common pest. Every reporter of a year's'experiencs has met him. A very large specimen of this species not long ago approached a certain newspaper writer of this city and asked blm to draw the public's attention to the flagrant misbehavior of a street, railroad corporation. The writer agreed to do to, and being properly conscien tious, investigated the subject for himself thoroughlj before writing a line. He then treated the railroad to a little sober advice, and It was startled intoarge Improvements at once. Some days afterward be met the man who had asked him to do this work, and was sur prised that he did not even so much as allude to the subject. The writer asked him It he had seen the artlole in question. "No," replied the impudent bore, "I don't read your paper." V The people who ask most favors of a newspa per are not its regular readers. This may be hard to believe,- but ask any veteran newspaper proprietor or editor and he will confirm it. V THE UW OI1 COMMCHSATIOS-. The sun delights to spend Its rays Upon some ugly spot. To make a rainbow of a haze, Or gild a chimney pot. The monarch ocean. condescends To kiss a muddy shore; And oft a pretty nostril lends Its beauty to a snore, f I know that all tlAs Isn't news, But It may help you when Ton wonder pretty women chooso To marry ugly men. V As the enthusiastic White meeting of Se wlckllanswas making the dust palpitate on the Beaver road on Tuesday flight, a young lady rushed Into a house not far from the scene of eloquence and said to her mother: "They are making an awful noise at Choral Hall! It must be a full house." "How can you say so," her mother grandly replied, "when you know that nearly all of them are Prohibitionists." ' . There's a story from the old times when the Prohibition idea was not so strong in the rural districts near here as it l&o-day. At a certain farm in Moon township there lived a good man who had the misfortune to be linked to an intemperate wife. She 'would drink, so the veraolous chroniclers of Moon township inform me, any two men under the table. At harvest time in those days it was considered Indispensable to have a barrel of gooa old Monongahela whisky for the farm help. It happened one year that when the harvest came around the old farmer's wife had been celebrating rather heavily, and yet her desire for ardent spirits was unappeased. The ques tion which 'agitated the old farmer's mind was how to keep the barrel of whisky from the har vesters out of reach. He was afraid that If she and the whisky were left alone in tho bouse together there would not only be no whisky, but also no dinner for the harvesters. He took counsel, and the result was that .the barrel of whisky was slung up to the center beam of the barn and lashed firmly In such a place that It could only be reached and lowered to th'e ground by a man who could climb ont to it Then he and the help went into the field with the comfortable assurance that the barrel of whisky was beyond the old lady's reach. But she had seen the barrel rolled out to the barn, and as soon as the men were away from the house she went ont to reconnolter. She was somewhat irate when she saw the barrel hung up out of'her reach. It took ber ten minutes to decide on a course ot action. Then she returned to the bouse and picked out a clean washtub: With this tub and her husband's rifle she re turned to the barn. She placed the tub direct-1 ly under the barrel. Raising the rifle to her shoulder she fired at the barrel, sending a ball clean into the center of the barrel. Down, came a stream, ot the golden juice of the rye, playing a tune on the tub, which made the old woman smile sweetly. There is no need to go into details. When the harvesters came in from the field they found the old woman asleep beside the tub, Borne whisky was left, but the dinner was not cooked. PENHBXLYANIA DIEECTOBS - Hold n Resrabar Meeting and Decide to Issna Some More Stock. Philadelphia. May 8. At the regular meeting of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany's directors to-day It was decided to make a 6 per cent allotment of stock. The present capital is. 106,615,400, and the new issue will make the capital stock about $113,000,000. The stockholders of record to-day will, according to the resolution passed, have the privilege of subscribing to the new issue to the extent ot 8 per cent of their holdings. This subscription may be made any time between June 15 and July 1, and holders of fractional parts will be entitled to a full share of the new stock. The stock may be paid tor July 1, or one-halt may be paid then and the balance September I. The new stock will be issued in November, and 4 per cent Interest will be allowed on payments made in July up to the time stock shall be issued. The allot ment blanks will, as usual, be negotiable in tho exchange. The money will De used for improvements to the line and construction. All requirements of the company this year will be between $11,. 000,000 and 12,000,000, and only 60 per cent of this can be spared from the assets. The com pany's business Is increasing very fast and re quires increased expenditures. The tonnage, it is said, is increasing at the rate of 10 per cent per annum, and locomotives and cars must be provided to move it. Third and fourth tracks are required in many places and will absorb some of the money. BOId) UQUOB MEN. Beading- Saloonlsts Say the Brook Law Is Unconstitutional A New Point. Beading, May 8. William H. Johnson, one of the saloon keepers upon whom rules were recently taken to show cause why their li censes shouldnot be revoked for selling liquor on Sunday, has filed an answer in which he de. nles the allegations in the petition, and again sets up the unconstitutionality of the Brooks law for the reason that it denies the right of the accused to be heard by himself and counsel and to meet the witnesses face to face, and does away with the trial by jury. The representatives ot the committee on Public Safety announce that it any of those summoned make untrue answers they will be prosecuted for perjury. It is also announcod that the constables who have made falsn r. 'turns will be prosecuted for perjury. The Way They TJso Water in Kentucky. From the Norrlstown Herald. 1 A Kentucky man has designed an apparatus by which he claims that water may be success fully burned In a common stove. Next thing the men in that State will get to drinking water. A Pointer for Very Yonng Men. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. When a young fellow is in love with a girl of 23, and he is only 20, all he will have to do is to wait five years and the tables will be reversed. Girls don't grow old as fast as bpys after they pass 23. Room at tbe Bottom of the Blver. From the Boston Herald.'! Omniboat is tbe latest word.' It describes an excursion steamer. There's always room for more passengers on an omniboat so locg as the steamboat inspector Isn't around. HER THOUGHTS. She Is a very modest maid, The little maid I sing, And blushes of the rose's shade -Her dimple-doited cheeks pervade When compliments I bring. She thinks she Isn't pretty, thongh Therein she's very wrong. . Ber month Is Jnst a Cupid bow. And her bright eyes such darls do throw, One can't withstand them long. She thinks that no one care's for her, Ho lover's heart she'll gain; And here, again, docs sadly err, For there Is one, Ican'aver, Bound fast In Cupid's chain. And though het thoughts no one should doubt, 1 I mny not all, you see; .. ' v- Torwhat.tthlnkthejnostabou't, ,, J A&dAow am going to find oat, , Is what the thinks of met -Lift. CANADIANS WOULD MAES AMERICANS. A Question of Railroad Rates Leads to Ar guments in Pavor afAnnexatloa. Nbw York, May 8. At yesterday's- session ot the Senate Commltte's Investigation of the workings of the Inter-State commerce law, Charles Francis Adams, President of the1 Uplon Pacific road, said the law was In many cases a cruel one. Those who obeyed it lost by the operation, and those who evaded it profit ed. He thought tbat a common railroad law between Canada and the United States and a legalized pool would be a good thing, and would tend to bring about a solution of the present troubles in reference to Canadian roads. President James J. H11L of the St Paul, Min neapolis and Manitoba Railroad, was asked by Chairman Oullozn if much foreign trade went' over the Canadian Pacific Road. He said that it did, owing to a difference of ' five or sit cents a hundred pounds from its western terminus to Omaha in Its favor. Chairman Cullom asked whether or not the road in question was not trying to get an outlet, across the State ot Maine, and alter a cross question or two, Chairman Cullom asked: "What if we made Canada a part of America?" "Well, I think the Canadians would make good Americans," answered Mr. Hill, with a smile. Mr. Erastns WIman spoke strongly In favor of commercial reciprocity, and figured out how, in the event of that as an assured fact Cana dian territory -would at once be built up by em igration from Europe and largely from tbe United States. This closo Interchange ot Ideas and peoples must eventually bring about one grand republic. Any attempt to shut ont the Canadian lines from operating in this country wonld be a serions blow to Western American farmers, and would be badly received by the Canadian people, according to Mr. Wlman. "Is It policy for the American people." asked Senator-Blair, "to help with their resources to buildup a great nation with hostile, or, at least, alien connection on the north of nsT" "The tie whlcli binds Canaaa to Encland is but a sentiment The State of New YorK to day, in a certain sense.is far more important to England than all of Canada. Canada cannot stay as she Is. She must either become an in dependent republic or join with ?ho United States. There are many forces at -work In Canada. The hopes of a great party there rest entirely upon ond old man. After the death ot Sir John MacDonald will come the deluge." THEY. TEACH TOO MUCH. A Practical Criticism of the Work of Agrl cnUnral Colleges. Washington, May 8. W. O. Atwater, in charge ot the work at experiment stations established by the Agricultural Department, assisted by A. W.Harris and AC. True, of his division, is preparing a bulletin which will be published this year, giving a'history of the department, its present organization and a sketch of the progress of education in agricul tural colleges and schools. It is acknowledged that the purpose for which agricultural colleges were established in the several States and to which the Govern ment contribted by liberal grants of land and money has not been realized. Tbe colleges do not educate men for the farms but for nrofes- sions, and the tendency of their teachings has been to draw young men from the farms in stead of fitting for jvork on them. The curri culum in most case's is too' extensive for the average farmer's son to understand, and In most cases also the expenses are too great for tbe average farmer's son to meet Tbe conse quence Is tbat the class for whom tbe colleges were assigned have received almost absolutely no benefit from their existence. In connection with the State University ot Minnesota, an agricultural school was opened last fall, tbe course of Btudy comprising two years of 24 weeks each. The graduates of tbe common district schools of the State are qual ified to enter, and they are taught tbe practical things ot farm lire, including shop work, agri cultural chemistry and veterinary science, in addition to the literary branches of learning. When the 'school had been open but a few weeks its accommodations were all taken, while tbe agricultural college proper had been strug gling along for years with barely enough students to form a single class. AN 00EAN FLIER. City of Porta Breaka All Record Between Hew York and Qucenstovrn. New York, May 8, The steamship Cltyot Paris, of the Inman line, which arrived at Sandy Hook at, 11:15 o'clock to-day, has broke all records from' Queenstown. Her corrected time Is 5 days, 23 hours and 7 minutes. The. best previous record, which was made by the Etrnrla, was 6 days, 1 hour and 69 minutes. It is the first voyage across the Atlantlo made in less than six days, and there were many men In maritime- circles who prophesied that tbe trip would never be made in less than that time. On the first day out from Liverpool tbe City of Paris covered 415 miles. The next day she progressed 494 miles f urther.on her jour ney. Then on the third day she still further increased her stint and went 603 miles.CTbe fourth day was tbe best of all and the City of Paris made 611 miles. On the succeeding day she made 604 miles, and in the last fraction of a day she went 392 miles. The City of Paris not only broke tbe record for the entire voyage, but also made the quick est single days run' having accomplished 511 miles in one day. The longest run previously made in a single day was 60b miles, by tbe Urn brla, of the Cunard Hue. The City of Paris was commanded by Captain Frederick Wat kins and brought a large number of saloon passengers, among whom was David Dudley Field, who, though 85, refuses to go slow. The wbolerrdistanco run by the City ot Paris was 2,855 miles. PBOTECTING THE B00MEBS; Secretary Noblo Declare Tbat Sales of Iiots by Companies) Are Illegal. Washington, May 8. Secretary Noble has received the following telegram dated to-day from Special Agent Pickler at Oklahoma: Great comnlalnt here aralnst Semlnote Town Site Company on account or its chancing (10 for registry or lots here, oi which W. W. Wltten and others telegraphed you yesterday. Just informed that some company has been selling lots to settlers at Udmont at auction as high as (50; will Investi gate. By direction of Secretary Noble Commis sioner Stockslager immediately telegraphed the following: J. A. Pickler, Oklahoma: Bales or town lots by town site companies or other private individuals or organizations are worthless under the law ana the people should be eo informed. H. il. StoCkslaoxb, Commissioner. Just informed L Arc Light for Philadelphia. The Westlnghouse Electric Company has obtained tbe contract to pnt 600 arc lamps along the streets of Philadelphia. The lamp Is' of the Waterhouse patent ODD ITEMS FBOM F0BEIGN SHORES. The French army is making trial ot a small electric lamp, wblch is to be employed in searching tbe field of battle for tbe wounded. Already a great deal of diplomacy and in trigue is said to be on foot to get the post of Poet Laureate when Tennyson dies. The salary is 72 a year. The street car drivers who bave been on strike in Vienna, and who have finally suc cumbed, average about 60 cents for a day be ginning at 7 in tbe morning and ending at mid night or 1 A. m. An association of endormeurs has been un earthed in Belgium whose occupation is to en gage a single railway passenger in conversa tion, offer him a cigar prepared with chloro form, which puts him to sleep, and rob him. The newest feature of personal adornment is made up ot hairs from the tall of tbe African elephant made into watch guards and brace lets. The elephant is now becoming so scarce that bis relics are said tr be very fashionable. Prop. Fresiniis, of Weisbaden, after a long series of chemical analyses, declares that an egg contains as much nourishment as a pound and an ounce olcherrlea pound and a quarter of grapes, a pound and a half of russet apples, two pounds of gooseberries and four pounds of pears, and tbat 114 pounds of grapes,127 pounds of russet apples, 192 pounds of pears and 327 pounds of plums are equal in nourishment to 100 pounds ot potatoes. AN old safe In the British Legation at Toklo, neglected for many years because the key was lost, was forced open recently, and among its contents were found the medals of gold and silver sent by the British Government 23 years before for presentation to those natives who bad assisted in the defense of the British Lega tion against air attack made upon it by a mob in 186L An attempt will be made to present tbe medals now, but most of tho men for whom they were Intended are dead or cannot be found. Berry, the English hangman, is now an ap pointed officer, and consequently does not feel himself under any official restraint regarding his conduct. He bangs by the hiece; all over the country, wherever he is called. He makes himself so prominent at levees and emoklpg concerts tho days before and after executions tbatit has become a matter of public scandal and.a.motlon has' been made in the House of Commons that tbe hangman sbalt'be placed under the control ot the Home Office, afed sub-, jectea to .Bucntestnecioea as may pe ceasta ered decent. .. s ; 0UE HAIL MUCH. Tho Real Point at Iaaae as to the Idcesae, Court Judicial Biicretlon Quite a Dif ferent Tblnsr tfrom Arbitrary Discretion Wherein tbe Method of the Court Were Open to Criticises. To the Editor of The Dispatch! What is the issue Involved in our License Oourt.dbxcuseiont Is It, as seems to be assumed by many on both sideswere too many or too few saloons licensed in Allegheny county? H this is all there is of It little attention need be given to It The ex-. cltement will in a f ew days die out: the disap pointed parties will get over their soreness, and matters will go on in the old way. But )s this all? .If Judges are wise they will not look to the winning parties for discriminating approval, and for the same reasons, aslong as complaints are confined to parties smarting under defeat, tbe judges can afford to ignore or disregard them. But when tbey become numerous among any class of Intelligent people outside of the directly interested, it is well to-look into the matter and show either that their are no good grounds of complaint, or take steps to re move "tbem it they exist. ' It appears to ni useless to deny tbat there are many complaints and criticisms coming from such sources, and we, therefore, propose to consider the matter loom the stand point of a disinterested party, or "rather from that of a party not interested in the cases con sidered by tbe Conrt, but only in the general principles involved. We do not desire to retry tbe license cases. We speak only after it has been announced that final Judgment baa been entered In all tbe cases, and onr purpose is to learn wisdom for guidance in the future, not to influence any decision already made or affect any case already considered. We desire to re view tbe acts of the Court without passion and without prejudice, and without influence from bias in favor of or against any class of people or any kind of business. In order to do this and consider the matter as alone a legal proceeding should be con sidered, we must In the present case reject as worthless the opinions (first) of those who want the Court called toacconnt as a means ot compelling more licenses, and (second) of those who justify a conrt In "knocking 'out whisky sellers" witbont regard to method; and who, in their eagerness to lessen the demoralization of liquor drinking, wholly forget that there .are other kinds of demoralization, and that we cannot afford to cure the evil of Intemperate drinking at tbe expense of impaired confidence in the administration of jnstice. We wish to proceed upon principles which will commend themselves to every fair-minded man, regard less ot whether he believes tbat many more licenses should bave been granted or that few er or none should bave been granted. The question is: Did tbe parties who appeared before tbe License Court get what they were legally entitled to ? If tbey did tbey must sub- What hen are they legally entitled to? Cer tainly they.are not all entitled to license. Just as certainly no single one ot them can claim tbat he is entitled to license, and it must be conceded bv everv fair-minded person that it is legally and logically possible, that every man should have been accorded bis legal rights, and '. jet no man be given a license. They were entitled to three tbingSL (L) An investigation judicial In its methods. (2.) Tbe exercise of a legal or judicial discretion. (3.) The entry of an honest judgment. If they got these they have gotten justice as nearly as human organizations can attain to it and must ask no more. No one has presented anything which justi fies a charge of corruption or intentional un fairness; and therefore we pass' the question as to honest judgment as conceded in favor ot tbe Court. Were tbe methods ,of investigation judicial in their nature? It is not easy to see how this is to be affected by the difficulties surrounding the matter. It a court acts at all, it should act as a court, and it duties are imposed which It cannot get through with acting in this way, tbenthe Court is not responsible for tbeir non-performance. Butconcede something to the necessities of the case, must npt the enthusiasm of anyone who wishes to regard our courts as presenting model methods of investigation be dampened by a view of the procedure In Allegheny County License Courts up to the present writing? Sufficient time was not given. Applicants, were practically denied counsel. The Court appeared as their accusers and frightened the nervous and left none but the brazen in fit con dition to answer questions knowingly. Had the same methods been applied In any other judicial investigation the whole community, including tbe Judges, wonld bave seen the im propriety of it. So far as we are concerned, we are willing to let the dead past bury Us dead, but, as to tbe future, call a halt. Let us bave no Investiga tion or one which will give some assurance tbat the truth has been arrived at. It this isrnot done in the Interest of the parties, let It be done in tbe Interest of the Court ana of those who wish to retain confidence in the adminis tration of justice. Did tbe Court confine itself to the exercise of a judicial discretion? Judicial discretion Is perhaps most frequently defined by simply contrasting it with arbitrary discretion. It has been well defined by tbe courts as "a discretion to be exercised In discerning the course pre scribed by law; never tbe arbitrary will of the Judge." It has long been the eljry and pride ot our system of law tbat it leaves so little to tbe will of the Individual who sits as Judge. Tbat system, centuries since, clearly recog nized the weakness of human nature, and has always striven to answer the petition "deliver us from temptation." No man in this age can conceive of a case which tbe law leaves abso lutely to the discretion of the Judge. It may be that there is no appeal from his decision, butit does not follow from this tbat there are no rules to guide him. No suitor is or should be compelled to go into court submitting to tbe Judge, and saying I am here to receive what it may please you to bestow upon me. He goes there asking as aright that be be given wbat the law .says belongs to him, and there should be absolutely no motive or temptation to exert personal influence. (This, of course, does not. mean mat ne can aemanu anyining out a lair hearing, unless that hearing demonstrates his right to something more,) Such is human nature tbat if Judges assume or are given more than a judicial discretion, corruption and oppression will follow as surely as effect follows cause. Not necessarily in every individual instance, but still the rule holds. No one will of course assert that all guiding rules were ignored by our License Court; but was there not enough of assumption by the Judges of tbe right to do things for the same reason tbat the Almighty chose the elect "out of his mere good pleasure" to suggest a pause. Perhaps this attracts more attention, because those who have been Interested in and observed tbe matter have of late years thought tbey ob served a tendency on the part ot many Judges to substitute personal will for law, and lay down what they think the law should be, in stead of "dlscernlngthe course prescribed by the law." Many perhaps could look philoso phically upon some arbitrariness in the License Court were tbey certain it would go no further. But the trouble Is, that wbat a court has the right to do when sitting for one purpose it has the right to do when sitting tor any other purpose.- Tbe License Court arbitrarily cutloose from all precedent In tbe manner of conducting its investigation?, and here we have perhaps the most palpable instance of arbitrary discretion. No man can understand the line of distinction which enabled tbe Court to determine between a fit and an unfit party. The Court itself by refusing rehearings, although it is conceded that mistakes must have been made, admits thattha line is so shadowy and indistinct that it will not attempt to hunt it up again. Tbe defenders of tbe Court's action claim for it the right to refuse lew.'tainy or all, I. e., claim boldly the right to exercise an arbitrary dis cretion. The Court's action cannot be justified on tbe ground of necessity. There never was and there never will be a necessity for a court acting other than as a court. It is Idle to tell us tbat others have done tbe same, or worse. So much tbe more reason for checking the practice. To say that some judges bave refused all licenses, and, therefore, Allegheny county Judges may grant such as they choose is to beg tbe question. It is simply to reassert the right to exercise an arbitrary judgment Logically it Is much easier to see how, in the exercise of a judicial discretion, no licenses may be granted than to see how the result in Allegheny, county was arrived at It may be that what we contend for may result .In fewer licenses. So ba li. We are no: fizbtinir for license, but for a court controlled by dennite I ruies. xi inose rules result in prumuifiun wo then knqw where we are; There ia not to-day anywhere in this land a freer field for tbe exer cise of tyranny than In oar courts If we permit the judges to act simply as seems rightin their own eyes. Human nature cannot resist the temptation to oppress. Improper uso of such power Is as sure to come as the morrow. That which Is begun with tbe purest purpose will end In tbe grossest wrong. Let us not, because we are dealing with some-' thing tbat Is under the ban. Ignore the begin nings of evlL Whatever it is dealing with a conrt is a court and should act as such. Pittsburo, May 8. " S. A. McCltoq. " Xovr T,hls Is Lnuclmblc. From the Philadelphia Record. In picking-out a place tqlle to, this coming summer, don't forget the particular merits of breezy Philadelphia a resort between two I good bte rivers, with tbe tip-topmost park i, bills aad groves on this oosUnsat fer .. -fllTT YORK H01ES. . AFasaHoPray Walls Hla So Starves, nrew tomc Btnauu: swtcuts.1 Nstw;Yobk; May 8. Little Herman Carveli; 10 years old, related In the Tombs Police Court to-day how be had been maltreated by his fa ther, William F. H. Carveli, a religious fanatic. Whilffthe boy told bis Story Mr. Carveli shonl ed prayer after prayer from tbe prisoners' pen. and begged the Lord to deliver hlra from bis enemies and policemen. Mr. Carveli and Her man started' down tbe bay in a rowboat last Monday morning. When well from shore Mr. Carveli stopped rowing and began praying. He prayed all the afternoon and evening and till 9 o'clockTuesday morning, while little Herman cried for food.. He eventually landed tbe boy at tbe Battery, rowed out into the East river and prayed till sundown. In the evening Mr. Carveli took Herman, to a Y. M. C. A prayer meeting. He paralyzed the nice young: men present by calling them a lot of "blanked black legs and thieves," and' they bad Mm arrested. At the station house the boy said tbaf neither he nor his father had eaten for 48 hours. Car veli will ba examined as to his -sanity. He is tbe son of J. S. Carveli, Canadian Member of Parliament from Prince Edward's Island. He YIeJded Gracefully. At 11 o'clock this morning Judge Barrett handed down his decision that Tbomas F. Gil roy, ot Tammany Hall, was the rightful Com missioner pi Publio Works. At 11:15 the whole Sheriff's office, ex-Congressman Cochran and other bfg Tammany warriors and a small army of reporters, heelers and lawyers marched over to tbe office of D. Lowber Smith, of the Connty Democracy, who thought he ought to be Com missioner of Public Works till May 1, 189L The whole crowd was admitted by Mr. Smith without challenge. As soon as Mr. Smith read Judge Barrett's order, he surrendered without firing a gun. Every one was surprised by this, because the bolts and bars and Connty De mocracy militia, wblch Mr. Smith has had about his offices since the appointment of Mr, Gilroy, were supposed to mean that Tammany Hall couldn't have the County Democracy's last Dig municipal plum without fighting tor it He Will Fnit 100 Days. George Francis Train completed the twen tieth day of his fast this noon. He says he is just one-fifth done. His pulse Is fall and regu lar, and altogether he seems to be In fine con dition. His weight has fallen from 198 pounds to 171 pounds. He will lecture again next Sun day night A Centennial Deficit. Colonel Crnger, chairman ot the Army Com mittee of the Centennial celebration, said to day that the expenses of the committee for the two parades would be between (120,000 and 1125,000. Tbe receipts from tbe sale ot stands will not be more than $50,000. He Denerved HI Sentence. Daniel Smith, who has long made a practice of forcing small boys to beg for him, was sent to tbe penitentiary for four and a half years to day. He was arrested several weeks ago at tbe instance of little George Wright's father. Smith picked up young Wright in the street and taught him to steal and beg. When the boy was Unsuccessful Smith burned his neck and arms'with nitric acid, so that bis wounds would excite tbe compassion of charitable per sons. Young Wright will recover his health, although hojs deformed for life. Bared by Her Bnalte. An express tram on the Long Island Hallway, near Rockvllle Center, struck a buggy contain ing Edward L. Vermilya and bis wife last night Mrs. Vermilye was thrown against a board fence. She struck it bustle first, and did not receive even a bruise. Mr. Vermilye was dnmped on tbe.otber side of the fence and bad his face badly gashed. The bone was killed instantly and the buggy was smashed to flin ders, , AT THE THEATEE8. Carmen at tbo Opera House De Lusiaa'a Farewell Other Attraction. Tbe Boston Ideals were greeted by a fair audience last night at the Grand Opera House. The; opera rendered was "Carmen." The play famishes few opportunities for the display of such vocal powers as take a popular audience by storm. The orchestral parts surpass the vocal In this respect, and the orchestra made the most of the fine opportunity furnished by the opera. It is 'doubtful if anythingpresented on tbe Pittsburg stage this season has sur passed tbe mu&Jc given by tbe orchestra at the Grand last night Mile. De Lussan as cigarette girl and gypsy maiden was at her best. She approached very near to that highest art which conceals art. The farewell of Zelie De Lussan to America and the close of the Boston Ideals' season will be marked Saturday night by the presentation at the Grand of a grand combination bill, with. De Lussan as' the principal soprano. Tbe pro-' gramme as arranged Is as follows: Second act of Balfe's "Bohemian Girl." including "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls." "Heart Bowed Down," the quartet and gypsy dance; second act of Bizet's "Carmen," including tba ever favorite bull fighter's son?, and tbe second and third acts of Donizetti's "Daughter of the Regiment,''' with De Lussan as Marie, EMMA ABB0TT'8 M0NDMENT Sbo Spend $85,000 an a Receptacle for the Abea of Her Husband and Herself, New York, May 8. Emma Abbott has con tracted with a Philadelphia firm for a monu ment to her late husband, Eugene Wethereu, tbat will cost 535,000. It will be erected at Gloucester. Mas-, and will be composed of various species of marble, Beneath it will be a vault to contain two bodies. Above is a canopy, supported by four columns of Gothic style, on the top of wbloh is a figure of Hope. Tbe wbole is 64 feet high. When Miss Abbott dies her body will be cremated and tbe asbes will be placed near the remains ot her husband. PENN8ILYANIA PB0DTJCT3. A farmer, of Chester county was found dead in a pigpen, tbe other day, with av "pigs in clover" puzzle in bis band, . Samttei. Billiard, ot South Bethlehem, while dancing in front ot a saloon to the mutio of a German band, recently, fell and broke a leg. He was evidently dancing the "break down." A colored family in Mlnersvills were all made sick the other day by drinking beer from a bottle tbat bad contained Easter egg dye stuff. Tbe result is that the people have be come suspicious of bottles and have taken to buckets. The story is told of a Butler county man who begged a bundle of straw from a neighbor. The request was cheerfully granted, but the ungrateful suppliant bundled up hay Instead and spread a thin covering of straw about it to hide bis meanness, but a neighbor detected the fraud. This is not the case in everyday life. We usually find our neighbors with a thin covering of bay to bide the straw. A oektlexanJ living near Beaver Falls is said to have the power of curing rheumatism "by gently blowing upon the patient's face, and rubbing tbe afflicted parts in silence." Que blow and rub make a cure, but after each case he suffers exactly the came pains as be has treated. He accepts no fees. The people of that section don't take kindly to this heroic treatment as they think the cure is worse than the disease. THE WOBLD OP WOBKEBS. Michigan capital has bought 150,000 acres ot Mississippi timber land, and Is looking all about for 150,000 more to buy. iNlSSSthe United States sent abroad 52,-. 000,000 worth of sewing machines and (6,000,000 worth of steam-engines. Stxtiei hundred of the finest cigars ever made were sent from Cuba to New York for Centennial smoking and cost just SSOO. Repairs to Pennsylvania's fences cost about 55,000,000 each year. In some cases the in closures are worth more than the land they protect, t The largest crane In the world is at the Chatham (England) dockyard. It lifts 840 tons, stands 125 feet high and has a radms of 75 feet 8 inches. Twenty factories, with the aggregate cap ital ot 51,560,000, have been established in Flor ence, Ala., a town' ot some 2,509 people, daring; the seven months just past. Kangaroo leather has become so Important an article of commerce that the Australlcws have set about presetisg tfee animal by fetWd dlag tbe aJaaghter sf K treta 'fee 1st ot JaMUfy to the 1st ot May. ' CDIIQC5 COSDESSATlOS&f j A Buler45.yeaxs old, does a little'ser lee lor a Georgia pkyslclan, who has 'had" hisa since IS. v - ; A Chinese theatrical troupe has been organized at Portland, Ore., to make a tour of the United States. In tba gravel on a farm near Van Buren, O., recently, an Indian skeleton was un earthed, with a jar and some wampum shells. A wild turkey was killed in Madison county, Florida, recently which weighed 65 pounds. One of its drumsticks lasted the fam ily lor two or three oays. AToccoa, Ga., paper announces the ar- T rival of William Bowers, whose name wbl go ' down la history as one of the only two Georgians who voted tor Abraham Lincoln in 186a A Georgia paper records the death of Moses Austin, -colored, of Butts county, age 110 years. Tne most wonderful part of '.the item, however, is that ha never saw George Wash ington. -i " Sumter county, Georgia, had thamest destructive hail storm it bad ever "Seen last week. Tbe hall was said to be tbe size of ben's eggs, and tbe fruit trees, corn and cotton wero Utterly destroyed. $3$f J. W. -Griffin, living near Eochelle, Gahas been bitten twice by rattlesnakes?"' He says he can cure any snake Dite. - In 1867 he killed 377 snakes, and th next year 382. -He expects a bigger record this year. -" ' Ban Antonio, Tex., people suffered ' Short-lived water famine last week, owing to V break in tbe machinery at the pumping station Water was sold along the streets at 5 cent per' bucket, but, as It was drawn from a stream into which several sewers empty, there was little) demand, for it. In a Tarrytown sanitarium is a petrified prehistoric lizard, 11 feet and 1 inch long. It Inches broad at the shoulders and 9 inches at the bead, and weighing 300 pounds. Its color is gray and its substance sandstone. Tbe speci men, wblch Is almost perfect, was exhumed on the shore of Cbarlestown Lake, five miles from Farmersvnie, Province of Ontario, In July last. John B. Huard, of Fall Biver, Mass., on going to bis hencoop, which is situated under his barn, espied a rat turned on lt3 back, balancing an egg, while another was engaged in pulling tbe rat by the tail along toward a hole in tbe wall. Mr. Huard obtained a gun and fired a cbarze of scatter-shot killiasrboth animals, Ona weighed a pound and a halt and tbe other two pounds. Two dogs, a Newfoundland belonging to John Halland, and arfox hound owned by a man named Mason, fought at the shore ot Highland Lake, near Winsted, Conn., tbe other afternoon. The' fight ended by the big New foundland dragging the bound into tbe lako and -holding his head under water until he was dead. The fox hound was worth (50, and Mason will sue tbe owner of tba Newfound land dog; which was tbe aggressor, tor tho value ot the drowned bound. An unusually large number of vipers infest the neighborhood ot Wardnell Wood, Newlcgton, England, nearthere, where several of these dangerous reptiles have been killed during tbe past few days. No less than ten vipers. Including one or two snakes the less dangerous specimen of its species nave been killed, and the cottagers who live in the neigh-' borbood eagerly seek after tbe vipers when, " dead, from which tbey extract oil, which they declare- to be a ante antidote to ablte from a viper. Sug and Raspberry Williamson, while plougbing one afternoon lately near Abbey ville, Ga., came across an adder about 12 Inches long. Tns circumference ot the snake some-. . where near the middle of its body being out of. ' proportion, tbe boys decided to make an exam ination. They gave the snake a gentle tap on. tbe bead, and a large toad was vomited from its hot airless resting place. To all appearances the toad was dead, and was pitched into a fence corner. About sundown, nowever, when tbe two young men were preparing to go home, they looked to see what had become of their unfortunate victim. To their surprise the frog was batting its eyes and getting ready tor its nightly hop, as it anxious to swallow some thing itself. : The returns for accidents on the rail- ' ways of the United Kingdom, during the year 1888 are interesting. Eleven passengers rere killed and 694 Injured, as against 2$ passetbers killed and 638 injured In 18S7. There we'' injuries from other causes than those d 'collisions and mechanical defects. Ofser ot the companies there were 3SV death: 2,100 injuries. Fifty-three persons perish. s, erade crossines. Tha total Is nearly 1000 kA? and 8.000 injured In connection one w ,-T another with the railway system. Tfceror wefeV 35 collisions between passenger trains and ML between naraenzer and freieht trains. There'. were 288 failure of axle, tha greater part be-i longing to engines, in lora tne rail way aeatns were 1 in I8,v,uw passengers carried, ittsu now i in u,uw,uuu. The Farriers' Company in order to proj mote progress in tneir art, nave arrangea vnta ; the Royal Agricultural Society to hold a borse-j shoeing compctltionat tha forthcoming show at Windsor. The works ot old writers on the subject ot horseshoeing afford interesting study. Xenophon never mentions horseshoes. '&' He recommended only a stone flooring in them stables to harden tbe hoofs, as did also Virgil. 72 Perhaps tha first mention of an iron horsesboa f. occurs in connection with Childrich, who livedo, A D. 481, and from a drawing of that shoe it 1st -3 -apparent that It did not differ materially from A the shoe of the present day. In tbe middle ot ' the last century La Fosse, farrier to the Kirig'if ot France, advocated a half-moon shoe, or, tip, . in order to bring tbe trog on the ground, a the -ory which has its advocates to-day. The great tun designed to hold cham pagne In tha Paris .Exposition and now being dragged along tha roads toward its destination by 12 yokes of oxen recalls tba history ot tbe tun ot Heidelberg. The first was begun in 1343; and was made to contain 21 pipes. Another, bej un in 12S9 and, finished in three years, bad a iameterof 18 feet and held 128 English hogs beads. A third was made to hold 600 hogs heads. In 1664, and was destroyed by the French tour years later. Tba ona wblch at present Is mouldering away and, according to Longfellow, ia "next to tha Alhambra one ot tba most mag nificent ruins of the Middle Ages," was begun in 1751. and was capable of holding 283,000 bot tles. For nearly 20 years It was kept steadily replenished. At every vintage the grape grow ers used to meet and dance on its top. It was 24 feet high and 88 feet In its longest diameter. Tba biggest vats, however, have never figured in history. In one English brewery there Is a cask said to be capable of holding twice as much as the tun ol Heidelberg. It is 38 feet la diameter and 40 feet high. " ' TAKEN FROM LIFE, Fly-paper A kite. French as she is printed in American newspapers Is full of unmarked graves. When an Indian dies bis relatives pay his debts. And yet some people thlnt Indians can be -civilized. Sidney Wollett can repeat 300,000 vines of poetry, and bis friends are gradually dropping away from blm. " -T-'.- What He Lacked. Cbolmondelej (sigWkf lug) I wish I were a rumor. - - o jSe "Wherefore?" asked Reginald.' . ' SefS That I might gain currency." responded tb wretch. ' Kt'jfes ' "What's the matter, little boy?'v ", -JiS&k That feller hit me." ?JWi' Well, I wouldn't cry If I were you.M .,? J- -''Course you wouldn't 'cause you're jthj enough to lick him." 'U A Good Beaton. Mamma Ho ward, "are you going to take part In the .tree-planting at school on Arbor Day? Boward (emphatlcally)-No, I hain't; there's 'null switches growln' round our school now, "I'm awfully sorry, don't you know, that ' these Knickerbockers are not more the fashion. Gives a feller an opportunity of showing' a -calf." . . "Oh, your conversation does that I" 't JTecessarr Precaution. Mrs. Basse (ta- ber mald)-How Is the weather to-day, ilarie? Jtr" Maid fresh and windy. Madam. , j?, Mrs. Passe Very well: you will please pot a, i-i healthy flush on my cheeks this morning: lam' going out. ,2 An -Unpardonable Error. Father IK? Sand. Hid rrnrrr. !! m h discharged you fofi swindling him. This U a terrfble disgrace to the',! famllr. Son-1 couldn't help li father. He gave ma some lead toput under the scales, and I made a mistake and put it on the wrong siae. A Long Ceremony. "Better not wait fori Charlie any longer. You know what It Is when aj fellow lliill!nnnfef fflrl." Ah, there they arenowl He Is just hlddingj her roaAntrht ' "Allrlghtrletusgo and have a game of btUJ lards. We'll luitbare time." tsi Business Changes. "A year agoljaflHol said, 'Isold out my drug business and wentUojj Wall street, and la less man a wceajg.iimajii' doubled my capital. That's maklngmoney,fas eh?" , -.JHF "Yes, Indeed. Yon most be very rich nowt" ' "Well, no; not very. At tha expiration, of JUie seeeaa wee JU len aii subh, aao. mm now cuts itfceaal14 0iw." -AUromJttrt? ( ?2a