BWEG&m &z&Jmtoi-C' mi -V THE PITTSBTJEG- DISFATOH, 'TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1889. -JF - - w m PlTATEST-AND FULLEST ACCOUNTS OF THE Jnfinstnwn Disaster Will be found in this and the f ollowingissues of The Pittsburg Dispatch, Which has a corps of staff correspondents and mists located at the scene. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, IMS. Vol. 41, So.117. Enterei at 1'lttsburg Postofilce, November 14, 1887, as second-class matter. Business Office 97 and 99 Fifth Avenue. News Booms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street Average net circulation of the dally edi tion of The Dispatch for six months ending Jane 1. 1SS9. 27,824 Copies per Issue. Average net circulation of the Sunday edi tion of The Dispatch for May, 1SS9, 47,468 Copies per issue. TERMS OF TOE DISPATCH. POSTAGE FKEE IN THE UNITED STATES. Dailt DisrATCn. One Year. 8 00 Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter 2 00 Daily Dispatch, One Month TO Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, one year. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, per quarter. 2 50 Daily Dispatch, including Sunday, one month 90 Sdsday Dispatch, one year. 2 SO Weekly Dispatch, one year 125 Tun Daily Dispatch is delivered by carriers at I5cents per week, orlncludlngtbcSundayeditlon. at 20 cents per trees:. PITTSBURG, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1SSSL BATS 07 C0MF0ET. The official estimates of the loss of life at Johnstown reduce the fearful totals which expressed on Sunday the fears rather than the calculations of the fatal work of the floods. The total of deaths it is now thought will not exceed 4,000 or 5,000. This is terri ble enough ; but as it indicates a reduction of 5,000 or 6,000 from the previous estimates, it is some relief to know that the limit of the horrors has been surpassed. , In connection with this ray of mitigation there is also the comfort given by the prac tical sympathy from all parts of the coun try. Western Pennsylvania's prompt and unstinted generosity was that of close rela tionship; bat the aid from communities far beyond such ties has been proportionately generous. New York and Philadelphia send princely sums. Memphis on one side and Connecticut on the other, swell the re-, lief. The wave of sympathy has traversed the ocean, and London and Berlin send their contributions to the aid of a commu nity which would hardly be heard of in those cities except for this disaster. If anything can, comfort thesufferers under their terrible calamity it must be this uni versal and tangible offering of the sympathy tf civilization. BE CASEFTtt'OF THE W. People cannot hearken too earnestly to Ip Bigpafrfr. the warnings already sounded by mddical men atrainst the 'indiscriminate use othe .Jlegheny water at this time. It is a case f inhere the care that can aroid danger should t beexercised, no matter what latitude con jecture assumes as to the actnal risk from the confusion of unhealthy elements into the river. filtering and boiling are simple and in expensive processes. They are cheaper than doctor's bills. Bad though the recent repu tation was of well-water in some parts of the city, it is safer to trust even to such for a while than to use the quality of liquid -which for a couple of days past has been, and for some time yet will continue to be, -dispensed through the pipes of the two 'cities. DEVOTION AND GEHEBOSITY. It is encouraging to observe that exam ples of heroism and self-sacrifice in the pres ent day do not tail to stimulate the emula tion of noble deeds. The devotion of Father Damien in sacrificing his life for the care of the lepers in the Hawaiian Islands has in spired others. Pather Moellers, a Belgian priest, and Miss Ellen Flavin, a young Irish girl, have taken his place, thus ac cepting practical and certain martyrdom for the sake of caring for the stricken out casts suffering the slow death of that dread ful disease Although wholly different in character and degree, a similarly encouraging proof of the motives of humanity and of readi ness to succor the suffering is furnished by the universal outburst of sympathy and aid for the stricken in the terrible Johnstown calamity. Hardly any better proof of the generosity and loyalty to the duties of hu man brotherhood is to be afforded than the fact that within twenty-four hoars after the nature of that terrible calamity was known every railroad station in Western Pennsyl vania was prepared to ship supplies and money to the sufferers. It was a sponta neous and unstinted outpouring of assist ance and comfort from the entire people. The ready and free-handed generosity thus displayed stands out in clear relief against the exceptional examples of depravity af forded by the few wretches who took occa 'sion of the calamity for plunder. The world has still plenty of generosity, heroism and self-sacrifice; although in times ' sof general prosperity the absence of occa sion for the exhibition of those qualities creates some doubt as to their existence. AlLOHG-EELT WAST. It is satisfactory to learn that indictments have at last been found against railroad offi cials for violations of the inter-State com merce law. It is not creditable to this nation that since this law was enacted viola tions have been notoriously general, but that not even an attempt has been heretofore made to punish them. This is unjust alike to the public for whose protection the law was passed and to the railroad men who made a decent effort to obey it That some thing is being done to check the idea that the law can be over-ridden with impunity by the corporations, is something; then it remains to be seen if Chicago will demon strate its ability to punish railroad men who break laws, with fine and imprison ment, as ordinary people would be punished. It is a long-felt want of this country to see some of the corporate managers, who syste matically defy law, in the penitentiary. AKTI-PEOHIBITIOH PERSONALITIES. The persistence of the disposition to make Judge White the mark for all the shafts aimed against prohibition is apparent in -eomo-oi the comments made upon his recent speech in favor of the amendment. Bat there is a sort of incongruity between some of the comments. Thus the Philadelphia Telegraph regards it as a scandal "for a Judge holding these (prohibition) opinions to sit upon the bench and make a pretense of administering" the law," and goes on to declare that his action in the License Court was not "such exercise of discretion as the law and his judicial oath called lor." On the other hand a city paper in referring to the same speech attacked the Judge for inconsistency because he did not exercise his discretion to re) use all license and 'thus establish the prohibition be believes to be right. This discrepancy between the prin ciples on which the Judge is assailed, are likely to bring out the fact that his action, though extreme and sweeping, was really based on the attempt to enforce the law as. the Judge construed it and not the law as he thought it should be. The suggestion of the Telegraph that a Judge who prefers another sort of leg islation to that in force, ought not to sit on the bench to administer the existing law would cause a wholesale decapitation of the Judiciary. Thus, every Democratic Judge, believing in a low tariff, would be disqualified to sit on cases arising out of the revenue laws; and most Judges belonging to a minority party in any State would be liable to be ruled off the bench, if the fact that they think the law might be im proved impairs their ability to construe it honestly. The Dispatch is not in favor of the prohibition amendment; but it does not per ceive the necessity of (lagging such silly personal attacks into the discussion of an abstract issue. THEY WILL EE-EUILD. In the face of the awful loss of life, no one thinks of the immense destruction also oi property at Johnstown; yet the future fate of the place, now become so magically his toric, will later on be a subject of interest. The first ray of light is thrown on the sub ject this morning in the telegram given through The Dispatch, stating the pur pose of the Cambria Iron 'Works people to re-build. This is prompt and plucky. Those works were the nucleus and main support of Johnstown. If the owners were to abandon them, under the pressure of their enormous losses, then indeed the press, in its accounts of the disaster, might be con sidered as printing the obituary of the place, as well as that of so many of its people. It will be remembered, as to most of the survivors of the dreadful catastrophe, that anything they have in worldly possessions is bound up in the ruins. Awful as the associations must long be to them, it is still at Johnstown that the sites of their homes are, and with one another and the people of the surrounding county their most intimate acquaintance lies. "We may be sure, how ever, that in the. rebuilding of the town, which will follow the rebuilding of the' Cambria works, the treachery of the ele ments and the dangerous experimental en croachments by men upon the track and outlet of the waters will be the things first and most vigilantly guarded against. DISCIPLINE VEESUS HUMANITY. The action of Adjutant General Hastings in sending back the members'of Battery B who had gone to Johnstown and commenced the work of relief, may be in accordance with the red - tape of discipline;' bat it is very poor humanity when the suffering are to be rescued and property is to be pro tected. , The assertion of the Adjutant General that it is an insult to, the people of Johns town to bring in-the troops is certainly a re markable one. It is not an insult to desti tute and suffering people either to relieve their wants or to protect them- against thieves and marauders. Whether it is not an insult to humanity when martial ideas of discipline check the work of relief, is a "question it might be well for the Adjutant General to consider Between a Governor who has not yet been able to do anything in the relief work and an Adjutant General who will not let others do anything that clashes with his ideas' of red tape, the State administration has not managed to make a very shining record for itself in connection with the disaster. A BESTJLT OF COMPETITION. It is a curious example of the different effects of competition and combination, that is brought out by the speculation in water-gas companies that has been going on in England. The formation of companies to manufacture gas by the water gas patents has been very active and some rather wild speculation in the shares of the companies has taken place. But combination with the older companies using the more expensive process has not been prac ticable; and the result is that the new companies are basing their, hope of success on the unexampled cheapness of the new gas. It is declared as the result of experience that water gas can be produced and sold in England at 4 pence, or 8 cents per thousand cubic feet- The fact certainly seems to be worthy the attention of the Pittsburg public which has to pay ?1 per thousand for illuminating gas and 10 cents for fuel gas. The competition which would evoke a supply of this 8 cent gas for both light and heat would be duly appreciated in Pittsburg. AN EX-TBTJBT SMASHER. The expressions of Mr. Wellington B. Burt, who was last fall a candidate for Gov ernor of Michigan, nominated by a party which declared its enmity to trusts, and as serted that they were supported by the tariff, with reference to a business stroke that he has just made in England, are ex tremely interesting. Mr. Bart informs the public that he has made an arrangement which will control the importation of English salt .and bay up the small salt factories in this country. Some ten or fifteen millions of alleged capi tal is to receive dividends from this nice little arrangement, and, as its avowed pur pose is to prevent the "crippling" of the industry by too low prices, it is the obvious in tention to make the consumer pay the divi dends. The arrangement, as the late Dem ocratic candidate remarks proudly, "was based on suggestions made by me, and has been a great success." This seems to prove that one leading Dem ocrat's opposition to trusts is confined to the conspiracies out of which he does not get a divide. It may also indicate a very good subject for trying whether the repeal of the tariff on salt will have any effect on the combine. The report that they have discovered iron mines in Oklahoma indicates that the boomers are getting to work again; but they cannot be said to be doing their best until it is reported that they have discovered cold. When they report the development of natural gas wells, then they may be truly considered to have caught their second wind. It is conducive to our national pride to learn of the complete concessions which Bismarck is reported to have made to the United States with regard to the Bamoan treaty. It certainly seems flattering to our nation, to learn that it has induced Bis marck to give up every thing. Bat before we indulge in too much self-glorification, as some of our esteemed cotemporaries seem disposed to do, it is well to inquire what Bismarck gets in return. No one ever accused the man of blood and iron of conducting his' diplomacy on the principle of giving up everything and getting nothing back. . Tub Adjutant General's theory that it is an insult to the Johnstown sufferers to guard their ruined property against robbery would appear to indicate a' logical deduction that a lasting .injury would be inflicted upon them by sending them food, money and clothing. The official mind is sometimes fearfully and wonderfully made. We have the interesting information from the esteemed Boston Herald that at the sale of Mrs. Langtry's stage property the other day, "the garden scene by the Lake of Como," where Claude Melnotte's villa was situated, was sold for the beggarly sum of (25. This is not only an example of selling a bnildib&site dirt cheap, but it is also a re markable instance of real estate without a local habitation. The Lake pf Como scene in "The Lady of Lyons" requires almost as violent an effort of the imagination as the city lots which California land companies sell on the summit of the Sierra Nevada. The suggestion, is pertinent that if the New York and Chicago Exchanges are going to shut down on rival places where the goddess of chance is wooed, to use the mildest expression, they will have to sup press the ocean steamships. It is somewhat discomposing to learn from the esteemed Atlanta Constitution that the trouble with our American writers is "their tame imitation of foreign models." To learn that Amelia Bives, Gertrude Ath erton, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Edgar Saltus are imitators of foreign models shat ters all our preconceived ideas of European literature. The Constitution should inform us who the models are upon whom these writers have shaped their literary efforts, in order that the public may unite in subscrib ing a fund in order to get the models killed off. When Judge Stowe informs the grand jury that it is not its business to inspect the public institutions he strikes a rude blow at that limited opportunity for free entertain ment which is one of the dearest perquisites of grand jury service. It is probably a base invention of the en emy that Beverly Tucker was appointed on that Haytlan Commission because' he was a business connection of Mr. Blaine's, The true reason must be, as it is the only- other one apparent, that Beverly can assimilate more spirituous liquors and paint the town a deeper carmine than almost anyother statesman within easy reach of the adminis tration. Bnt if this is a qualification Jor diplomatic office why should Riddleberger be left in the cold consomme? The Johnstown manufacturing works will be rebuilt; bnt the builders can hardly be blamed if they make it a condition pre cedent that tfie South Pork dam shall not. Mb. McGabigIiE, of Chicago, announces that he will now settle down and try to "honestly support his family." The qual ification introduced by the word "honestly" is a rather large one. In order to do that, Mr. McGarigle will have 'to give up' all the funds that he got out of the public belore his hurried pilgrimage to Canada. That might be uncomfortable for his family. PEBS0NAL GOSSIP. Gesebax Geeeit, of the Probabilities Bureau, is afflicted with rheumatism in a mild form, and grimly refers to this addition to his outfit for predicting weather changes. 51. Henri Rociiefort belongs to one of the oldest of nohle French families. But he has dis continued the titles, and as his sons are not le gitimate, they cannot claim them, so that when the pamphleteer and journalist dies they will lapse. Strange to say, the last of the line who bore the title, Henri Bocbefort's father, died some 20 years since in a lowly garret in abso lute poverty. It Is said that M. Gounod, the composer, who is a man of intense religious convictions, once spent an hour upon his knees praying for the conversion of Sarah Earnhardt, in that lady's presence. Sarah's response was. short but not very sweet, and at last she had to torn him ont of her house. Gounod's country, house was threatened daring the Franco-Prussian wars. Trusting to his fame for defense, he put up the following inscription: "The house of Charles Gounod, the composer of 'Faust.' " But the marauding Germans burnt it to the ground all the same. The acoustic properties of Mrs. Ole Bull's music room in her now residence on Brattle street, Cambridge, says a cotemporary, are un usually fine. The room was not planned on any special theory, but has numerous windows, en trances and irregularities of outline. It is beautifully decorated with carved teak wood from India. The friends who have been Mrs. Ball's guests on occasional afternoons of late, when Mrs. Wulf Fries has played for her and she herself has assisted at the piano, have en joyed a musical treat, appreciated the more for being informal and impromptu. Count Tolstoi, the Russian author, lite our own Mark Twain, can't write in a 'nxed-up" room. His study is devoid of carpets, paintings or statuary. An old lounge, two unpretentious tables littered with manuscripts of all kinds, and two stiff-backed chairs constitute the only furniture in the room. The room is divided into two compartments by an unpalnted wooden partition, which runs half way up to .the ceil ing, and from which depend two wooden rakes used by Tolstoi in his garden. In one corner stands a wooden spade above it, hang ing from a wooden peg, Tolstoi's great over coat An eminent publisher tells a very curious literary incident. One of his authors a lady novelist who has won at least two brilliant suc cesseshad in manuscript at the time "She" was published a work based on the very same idea. It had been the work of years, but she destroyed it rather than appear to have plagiar ised, si. iiourget has just related a similar ex perience. He had four chapters, written of a novel for the Jlevue del Lcltret et da Arts when Maupassant's "Strong, as" Death" ap peared with exactly the same plot. As tbo two writers bad no communication, the incident illustrates how intangibly ideas Boat in the in tellectual air, the same thoughts being sug gested in different minds by reading, or conver sation, or discovery. No Performance at Harris'. The company that is billed to "give "The Streets of New York" at Harris' Theater this week was storm-bound somewhere west of Washington, D. C, and no performance conld be given yesterday. Manager Dean has tickets placed on sale, though, for two performances to-day. The National IeagueMeetIng Postponed. Lincoln, June 3. President John Fitzger ald, of the Irish National League of America, to-day issued a circular postponing he meet ing of the League which was to hare been held JtilvB at Philadelphia. This mt Hnnn nnnn the request of Mr. Parnell. Opening of the Calais flarhor; Pabis, June a The new harbor at Calais was formally declared ;ppen by President Osrsot to-day in the; preserice'of a great uirsne oi peuuiot .inei-ouuaings along tne wharves and all the vessyls in the port were uveeratpu vutu ukb ouu nuauu, CDRIOUS CHIROGBAFHY. Noted Authors Whoso Handwriting Has Been Almost Hlcaible Dickens' Fine Hand and Greeley's Hieroglyphics Sev crnl (Good Stories About Noted Jour, nnllst. In a letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne when a youthful student aV Bowdoin College he remarks: "What do "you think' of my be coming an author and relying for support upon my pen? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my handwriting is very authorlikel" The truth of this early assertion is attested by the fact that at his death the famous romancer left several manuscripts that remained long unpublished because no one could -be found to decipher their intricacies. His remark .also serves to illustrate the proverbial reputation for poor penmanship with which, in common with the legal profession, literary people have been so long credited. This reputation is, at the pres ent day, at least, almost wholly undeserved, since, with very few exceptions, the chlrogra phy of our most prominent authors is quite un exceptionable in its legibility. It is no doubf true that the handwriting of Joaquin Miller re sembles a dilapidated hedge fence; that 'Nora Perry's melts away into Intricacies of Illegibil ity; that Aldrich's characters are bnt half formed, and that William Winter's are so strange and crooked as to resemble Japanese hieroglyphics; bnt, on the other band, the chlv rography of Holmes, Howells, Harte and a host of others are fair examples of the clerical neatness of most of our modern writers' manu scripts. Cariosities of Penmanship. The little pleasantry of Hawthorne's, bow ever, had some foundation in fact; as many amusing anecdotes are recorded of veritable curiosities of chirography among the most noted writers of the past. Sdmo years ago a new form of annual was proposed in England, which was to consist of a story by eminent authors, each of whom was to write a page, to be produced in fae simile. After receiving a few manuscripts the publishers were obliged to abandon the undertaking, as it was found that many ot the pages would be utterly illecible to the ordinary reader, and because some of them would contain 20 words, while others would comprise enough to fill a newspaper column. This idea was, however, practically carried out in an edition of one of Hugh Conway's storios, in which each alternate page was a facsimile of the author's manuscript; but it is safe to say that few reader's ever took the trouble to de cipher these pages, as the penmanship was al most microscopic, and was rendered still moro illegible by being blurred in the process of printing. Exceedingly Fine Writing, The number of writers who have attained this useless art of minute penmanship, so per plexing to editors and printers, is really re markable. As is well known, Charles Dickens was one of the chief offenders in this direction, his hand writing being very diminutive, while every inch of his manuscript was usually cov ered as thongh paper were both scarce and ex pensive. His habit of writing with blue ink upon bine paper, with frequent interlinations and cross lines, completed his enormities, and must have made bis copy a burden to the wearied proofreader and compositor. Of a like nature was the chirography of Donglas Jerrold, who dotted down his jokes upon little slips of blue paper in letters smaller than the type in which they were presently to be set. Charlotte Bronte's handwriting was so exceed ingly delicate that it appeared to have been traced with a needle, while Thackeray wrote a fine feminine hand, and delighted In ornament ing: his manuscript with pen and ink sketches and caricatures of his famous characters. Perplexing- to Printers. Captain Marryat it is said, wrote such an ex ceedingly fine hand that whenever the copyist rested from bis labors he was obliged to put in a pin where he left off in order to find the place again. Another expert in microscopic penmanship is the English novelist, R. D. Blackmore, who, like Dickens, writes with blue ink, and in tiny, detached characters, which are almost undecipherable at first sight. His cotemporary, William Black; is also noted fcr the wonderful minuteness of his chirography. Among American authors of extreme economy in the use of ink is Cable, who writes a dapper little hand with a fine-pointed steel pen: Julian Hawthorne, whose letters are well-formed but almost infinitesimal in size, and the poet Stod dard, who uses a sharp-pointed lead pencil and gets about 1,200 words on a single sheet of fools cap, Illegible Signatures. The most celebrated exponent of bad pen manship in America was Rufus Choate, whose signature has been aptly compared to "a grid iron struck by lightning," and whose hand writing was, in many cases, absolutely unde cipherable, even by the, writer himself. One one occasion Mr. Choate was having his house repaired, and made arrangements to have a carved mantelpiece put up, promising, to send the model. Failing to obtain one to snit him, he wrote to his workman to that effect. The carpenter, after studying the missive which looked as if a spider wading in ink had crawled across the paper at length concluded that it must be the-desired plan, and forthwith began fashioning probably tho most original mantel piece that ever ornamented a room. This story is almost equal to that told of the great napol eon, who was such a wretched writer that it is said his letters from Germany to' Josephine were at first taken for rough maps ot the seat of war. A Neiv Story About Greeley. No mention of remarkable penmen would be complete which did not inclnde the name of Horace Greeley, whose chirography was once tersely described by a new cpmpositor in the Tribune office in the savage remark, liberally interspersed with profanity: "If Belsbazzarhad seen this handwriting on the wall he would have been more terrified than he was." Mr. Gree ley, becoming disgusted with the blunders of one of his typesetters, sent a note up to the foreman requesting him to discharge the man at once, as he was too inefficient a workman to be any longer employed on the Tribune. The foreman obeyed instjvctldhs, but betore leav ing the "typo" managed to get possession of Mr. Greeley's note, and immediately went to a rival office and applied for work, showing the note as a recommendation. The foreman to whom ho applied scanned the note, and said "Oh, I see "good and efficient compositor1 employed a long time on the Tribune Horace Greeley." and immediately set him to work on the strength of Greeley's certification of his incapacity, ftpr.having been "out of a job" for the space pf about IS minutes. A Terror to Printers. The handwriting of Horace Greeley was plain compared with that ot Hr. Bloss of the Cincin nati Enquirer, who was, beyond doubt, the worst penman -who ever occupied an editorial chair. This remarkable journalist was peculiar in his methods,' but in none more so than in his manner of writing. His pen was held at the extreme end of the holder, and the strange characters which he made were sometimes al most as unintelligible to himself as to the world at large. His writing was simply a series of hieroglyphics; but he made his characters al ways alike, and, in course of timeby close study, one could learn to decipher-them. When it was known that Mr. Bloss was dead the printers in the JZnquirer news room lost no time in rummaging the waste paper bags for specimens of his chirography, until in less than an hour not a strap of his manuscript was to be louna in uie omce. Hcnrt-Brenklng Proofreaders. Of all noted authors, probably none was such a terror to his printers as Balzac, although Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott and Byron were nearly as bad. The latter, in particular, made a fearful mess of his proofs, and scrawled cor rections on the margins till Murray and his printers were almost driven out of their senses. His additions were generally greater than the original text. To one poem, which orlelnally contained 400 lines, LOOO were afterward added in the proofs. Balzac's copy was altered and corrected sometimes as many as 15 times, and revise after revise returned in an almost illegible condition. Wlttf B0AES IK NEW T0BK. The Fierce Wild Hogs Found In the Taller ottho Hrdson. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.-, The existence of wild boars of the genuine European sort in the mountains of' the lower Hudson valley will Delight sportsmen. It seems that a New Yorker several years a-o imported nine boars to clear out the rattlers that infested bis estate on the Shawangunk mountains. After they bad cleared the in cisure, they dug under the fence ana escaped. They have bred and increased, and are as ferocious as those of the Pyrenees. Hunting them is dangerous pastime, quite beyond that of hunting bnffalos or grizzlies. That will, however, only add zest in the estimation of a genuine sportsman. Mrs. MnybrlckToo Sick to be Tried. LlTEBPOOb, Jane 3, Mrs. Maybrick, who,, it J is charged, poisoned her husuand, states that she is nnablA to appear in court. It 'is alleged that Mr. Maybrick before bis death wrote to his brother that if bis illness proved fatal an autopsy ought to be held. 0US MAIL iWCfl. Not Milk, But 'Lemonade. To the Editor of The Dispatch : Inyonr issue of Tuesday, May 53, in a report of a business meeting of the Constitutional, Amendment Committee, of Allegheny, there are some errors which I wish to correct. It is stated that a member of the committee "assailed the Law and' Order 'League, charg ins it with working against the amendment by its spy methods," and that a restaurant keeper in his precinct had been fined for selling a glass of milk. It is said, further, that v the committeeman said he had worked specially with that restaurant keeper, and he had prom ised to vote for the amendment, but that ho had changed his mind since the L. & O. L had arrested him for selling the milk. I had not spoken to the restaurant keeper, and did not say I bad worked specially with him. I did not say it was a glass of milk, but that it was lem onade. I have since seen the restaurant keeper, and he makes no complaint of his treatment by the Law and Order League. The matter had been misrepresented to me. J.N. Smith. ALLEGHENY, June 3. Marrlago Licenses. To the Editor of The Dispatch i Is it necessary to have a license in Ohio in order to get married? If so. where-is there a place where a license Is not required? B. CANONSBUBQ, June 3. L It is necessary. 2. Any town or city in New Jersey. , BRITISH SHIP BUILDIHG. An English Editor Tells Something About the Trade and Customers. It is pleasant to learn, says the London Globe, that there is one great British industry which holds its own and something more in competi tion with the outside world. English, Scottish and Irish built ships are still in request among' foreigners; for quality and cheapness combined they have no equals. . Some trade statistics lately published show that at the present moment the private yards of' the United Kingdom have between 160,000 and 200,000 tons of shipping in course of con struction for foreign owners. Our largest cus tomer Prince Bismarck, will hear it with re gretis Germany, which has ordered 80,000 tons'. Portugal ranks next with 20,000 tons, while France, Norway and tbe-Coionies have to pay for about 10,000 tons each. Brother Jona than is only a small customer, his order being for no more than 6,000 tons. But it has to be remembered that his mercantile navy is also limited. This latter consideration applies to a greater or less extent in the other eases. While the United Kingdom owes 9,SO0,O00 tons of com mercial shipping, excluding vessels under 100 tons burden, all the other maritime nations combined can only lay claim to about 5,500,000. So, therefore, whether the ocean carryingtrade or the ship building trade comes under observa tion, this country can Congratulate herself on being immeasurably ahead of all her rivals. Which is an excellent thing to think of in these days.when the pessimist croaks from the house tops tnat jonn liuu is played out. A MADMAN BUSS AMUCK. Ho Fatally Shoots One Man nnd Terrifies Scores .of Citizens. rSrECIAL TKLEQnaM TO TUB DISPATCH. 1 Tbenton.N. J.,Jnnoa The people of the lower section of the city were thrown into a state of excitement at 8 o'clock this afternoon by the appearance on the street of James Mc Caren, a gray-haired old man called "Jimmy, the bum," who was running about with a re volver in each band, and threatening to kill Sersons in his way. He had just shot and killed ohn Shay, a married man, aged SO. According to eye witnesses Shay had made a jocular remark to McCaren, and in a flash the old man had a revolver out. His bullet entered Shay's breast just about the heart. Ho fell on the sidewalk and expired. A few women sit ting on a step nearby screamed "Murder." McCaren turned to them and flourished his re volver, and threatened to shoot if they made any outcry. They retreated through an open door, but other persons, attracted by their cries, came into the street. Then the murderer drew another revolver and ran amuck among the people, driving them from point to point. The only person that escaped his notice was a stout lady carrying a babe. Mr. McCaren held a crowd that finally surrounded him at bay, until Frank Tyrell, a nephew of Police justice xyreii, came aiong ana disarmed mm of one of his revolvers. McCaren concealed the other weapon on his person. Lieutenant Cleary, of the the police, then appeared on the scene and took him into custody. 1 A W0BK THAT HBE0 BEGAN. An Engineering Project Undertaken by Ro mans Soon to be Finished. StLools Globe-Democrat. A work of engineering began by the Romans under Nero, in the socond century, will be fin ished this year; that is, it has been in process of construction for over 1,700 years. The work to which we refer is the cutting of a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth. The canal, when done, will be only four miles long, and will bave a depth of eight meter?, which will allow tho passage of the largest vessel used in Greek traffic. It is not so great a matter from an interna tional view as the Suez and Nicaragua proj ects, bnt it will do much to further the rapid progress made by modern Greece in the arts of civilization and commerce. A TABLE GROWING GKEEN LEAVES. The Strange Sight Witnessed at a House In a Canadian Town. Brussels, Ont., June a Your reporter, while at a private honse the other day, saw a very rare curiosity in the shape of a flower stand; it is made of poplar, and where the small limbs bave been cat off there are green leaves; the flower stand Is actually growing. It was purchased from a traveler from Seaf o forth, and is quite a curiosity. LEGENDARY LORE. A Fow Stories of Animal Mythology He lming to Birds nnd Beasts, The bushman still holds the belief that the jackal Is black, because he oncecarried the sun on his. back, when that great luminary was a mortal on earth, and was sitting by the wayside weary and worn. In Poland, says De Gubornalis, It was a capi tal crime to kill a cucKoo,.because the old Slav onic mythological diety used to change himself into the form of that bird fn order to an nounce to mortals the number of years they had to live. I The Zulu believes that the reason tho hyrax has no tail is because, when tails were being distributed, each animal had to fetch his own, and the hyrax was too lazy to perform the journey. Hence the Zulu proverb, if one Zulu asks another to fetch bim something, simply because he is too lazy to do it himself: "The hyrax went without a tail because he sent for it." The natives of Vancouver Island bave a mythical origin for the melancholy note of the loon. One fisherman robbed another of his flsb, and.thencut out his victim's tongue, so that, when asked what had become of his flsb, he could ' only make the plaintivo cry which, is made by the loon. They believe that that creature is the luckless fisherman trying to make himself understood. Legends about the cuckoo are exceedingly numerous. There Is a singular one from Bo hemia. "At a wedding among the birds, at which the hoopoe was .bridegroom, the cuckoo lent her crown which she always wore, and has never beon able to get It back. That is the reason why the cuckoo ia always crying out kluku, which means 'Yob rascal,' to which the other replies jdu, jdu, 'I corns, I come,' but comes not" Bohehia is a fruitful source of myths. Here is another story of the cuckoo, and a more in teresting one, to my mind than thelast: "Christ one day passing a baker's shop, sent one. of his disciples in to ask for bread. The baker re fused to give it, but his wife and six dan ghters, who were more compassionate, delivered some secretly to the disciple. In reward they were placed among the stars; as the Pleiades; but the baker was tamed into a cuckoo, and it confirms this story that bis cry is heard as long as those seven stars are visible in the Bky." Grimk, in his work, tells how it is a com mon belief in Europe that the enckoo is a transformed girl seeking or calling her brother. Instances are given "which are quoted by, the writer in Cornhill Magazine. ' "In Albania there were once two brothers and a sister. The latter accidentally killed oneot them by get tingup suddenly from her needlework and piercing him" to tbo heart with her scissors. Sho and the surviving brother mourned so much that they wero turned into' birds; he cries out to the lost brother by night gjou, gjon, and she by day. ku, ku, ku, ku, which means, 'Where are your"- " BELIEVERS IN LUCI. A Few of the Many Superstitions of Gam blers and Other Sports The PokerPlny ers Peculiarities Seared by a Black Cut Lucky Pieces and Mascots. Perhaps no class of people in the world are as superstitious as the professional gamblers. It is very rarely that one of the fraternity is found who is not only superstitions, but mor bidly so. Their dreams, the way in which they get ont ot bed in the morning, whether thev see the new moon over the right or left shoul der, action of animals, and a thousand trivial occurrences guide the gambler in his move ments and lead him to play or abstain from Maying on certain days. Superstition follows f the gambler to the card table and never leaves him, and there are hundreds ot the fraternity who wonld quit a game at the outset should anything happen to lndnce them to believe that the fates were against their winning at that particular time. "I have not won at poker for more than a year now," remarked a veteran sport, "andril tell you how it happened. I have a wholesome horror of cats, and especially of black ones. A little over a year ago I had been playing poker the night before, and had won a hand some stake I awoke lato in the afternoon, about dusk, and hurried out of. bed to don my clothes, and try my luck again, feeling like a four-time winner. Imagine my feelings when a large black cat confronted me at the door, and for a time barred my passage. Every time I wonld attempt to leave the room that cat would bristle up and show fight. I finally hurled a bootjack at the creature, striking it fairly in the head, and the animal turned and ran away. w A Sport's Nerves Shaken. "I will confess that the incident unnerved me, bnt after taking a "bracer,' and enjoying a a hearty supper. I strolled around to a popular resort and bought a stacs: of chips, sitting into a game where there was plenty of money and the players easy 'marks' for a professional. I lost from the start couldn't win a pot. And the hands I had beaten would break a man's heart threes, flushes, full bands, aye, even fours would not win for me. After losing heavily I suddenly thought of the incident at my hotel, with the big black cat, and I quit right there and then, I didn't play for quite a while, but finally thinking the spell had passed, I again sat in but lost as before, and that has been my luck right along. I believe the visit of that cat was a warning, and it I had obeyed it and not played that night, I would not have struck this strtak of badlnck. If my lnck ever changes again I will never touch a card the same day I see a cat in the house or on the street" As the narrator of the above absurd reason for rosing at cards was evidently imbued with superstition, he was asked to relate other inci dents where card players had been pursued by adversity for not paying due heed to significant waxnujgB. Luck fn a Pocket Piece. "There is any number of" them," he con tinued. "There Is something peculiar about it all, I will admit, but there are many who can testify that ill-luck usually follows a warning of that kind. It may be mind-reading or an in tuitive knowledge of what is to happen, but those who disregard the admonitions of their own reasoning powers invariably regret it. At thelast meeting of the St Louis Jockey Club a well-known sport lost heavily every day until the closing day of the meeting. His continued ill-luck had unnerved him, and he bad determ ined to let the races alone that day. But he couldn't stay away from the track, and con cluded to go out and look at the fnn anyway. On the way out the conductor of the street car failed to conduct fare from the sporting man, and just as he alighted from the car he saw something shining in the street He stooped and picked it up. It was a silver dime. Things are coming my way to-day,' he said, 'and I'll just put a few dollars on the first race, any way.' He did, and won. He repeated and won again. And that 'superstitious' man, as you would call him, not only won all he had lost durine the meeting, but came away with a clean winning of over 500. Playing With Cross-Eyed Men. "Now, there may have been nothlne signifl- cant in his getting that free ride and finding that dime, but if he hadn't he wonld not have risked a dollar. His superstition stood him well in hand, and he conld never be convinced but that there is something in signs and inci dents which prompts a man to act, and as a rnle to act properly and successfully. He wouldn't take $10 for that lucky 10-cent piece be found in the street, and now wears it as a watch charm. Bnt the most' superstitious of all gamblers Is the poker player. The slightest slgn' or annoyance breaks blm alljto pieces. I once" saw a poker player enter a room, remove bis coat light a oigar.invest in a stack of chips, and as he pulled his chair up to the table he discovered that there was a cross-eyed man in the game. That settled it Without a word be arose, turned in bis checks, and, donning bis coat left the room. When asked what his peculiar conduct meant he replied: "'Why, I wouldn't play in a game of cards with a cross-eyed man it he'd give me his money.' Why J' 'Well, I can't say why, but I have a premo nition that it is bad luck, and I don't want to be pursued by ill lnck; that's the only explana tion I can give.' The Superstitions Pokor Player. "This is but one of many of the peculiarities of poker-players; There are very few of tbem who will permit a spectator to stand or sit near him, even a friend who he knows wonld rather cut off his right arm than tip his hand,' and to pat a foot on a player's chair is a mortal offense. I have beard many a player, npon discovering that some one had a foot resting on his chair, say: "There, I knew it No wonder Fm losing. Take that foot away, please.' " Others will at once get up and quit the game upon making the discovery. I once knew a crack poker-player, whose face was a blank, no matter what sort of a hand ho held, who would quit the game if he won the first pot It is said that Senator Tabor always pre dicted a losing 'sitting' if he held a deuce in the first hand dealt him. Such peculiarities as a mortal dread lest some one in the game will change a red or blue check in a jack-pot for whites, while the play is going on, or take a particular seat etc., are very common, but the thing most dreaded by superstitious poker players is tho result of lending checks to a friend during the Drogress of a game. Not one in a hundred will do it without immediately quitting the game. Not that they are parsi monious, or afraid that they will not be repaid, but simply because they claim it brings ill-luck. t Lottery nnd Policy Fiends. "In. the man who plays policy or wastes a stipulated amount per month in lottery tickets. the poker player has a strong rival for the prize for superstition. Let a policy playerpass a certain street and house number threo times' in a day and he will play those numbers if the idea strikes him light or will avoid them if he feels a premonition that they will lose. The lottery victim happens to ride on a street car bearing a certain number .three or fourtimes in succession. Then in his dreams he sees the number written on the walls, on the windows and dancing beforo his eyes. He hurries oat the following day and purchases the ticket .bearing that number if he can get it If he cannot be is firmly convinced the number will win, and is wild to find that the ticket he wanted is sold. If he wins, thousands believe in his wonderful stories, born of superstition. If he loses, be will- explain away everything by urging that the warning was intended for him, and that it indicated that be should not play that number, and that he misunderstood the signs. s Faith In Baseball Mnscots. 'Hundreds of anecdotes might be related showing how widespread is what Is known as superstition, especially among the sportinsr classes-r-how people who lead quiet sedato lives are nearly as bad, refusing to take any im portant steps on Friday, for Instance bat that part of the story has been told and retold. The baseball mascot is another living example of how superstition takes hold and never leu go, and there Is not a baseball club in the League or Association whose members cannot tell yob why they were beaten after the game is over they met a funeral, or one of their number put his coat on wrong, or some similar trivial hap pening, doomed them to defeat Among the thousands of superstitions people there are very few who will admit their weakness." WHAT HE SAW. A Man Who Does Not Seem Satisfied With the Paris Exposition. They are grumbling in Paris because the Exhibition is not ready. This is what one man says be saw when ho went lately on a morning visit: L Twenty-three handsome pavilions in course of construction. Inscription: "No ad mittance." 2. Fiirty-flve pavilions, no less elegant, in the bands uf .tho locksmiths. Inscription: "Entrance forbidden."- , a Sixty-three .other pavilions, all equally handsome, in the hands of painters and car penters, inscription: "It is forbidden to enter under pain of fine," NEW YORK NEWS NOTES., Colored Dudes Hauled Up for Mashing, !sxw TOKiBtratiu srxcuxs. New Yoex. June 1 This morning Jeffer son Market Police Court was full of colored persons, who wished to hear 23 col ored dudes tried for" "mashing." The dudes were arrested at the instance of St Mark's If. E. Church. According to Deacon Samuel Tilden Williams, they had done nothing for the last 20 Sundays but ogle Christian young women of color from" the street corner near St. Mark's. They were caught in a bunch before the church last night and bustled off to jail by 12 policemen. They all looked so sad and sub missive this morning that Deacon Williams refused to. press his complaint against them. The judge dismissed them with a sharp lecture on the evils of Sunday mashing. A Genuine Garibaldi Day. The Garibaldi Legion and many other Italian societies made their annual pilgrimage to-day to the honse on Staten Island in which Gari baldi once lived. Speeches were made by prom inent Italians from the porch where Garibaldi smoked his pipe almost every evening for three summers. Dinner and a dance were had in the adjoining garden. A Naval Hero Dead. A. Os Smith, for GO years in the naval service of the United States, died last night in Brook lyn. He had served on men-of-war during the Mexicaif War and the Rebellion, He had cruised around the world a dozen times or more. For the last few years he was postmaster in the Brooklyn navy yard. Mr. Cleveland's Next Appearance. Grover Cleveland will help Mayor Chapln, of. Brooklyn, review a parade of Sunday School children next Wednesday. An Umbrella With a History, Among the articles to be sold by the property clerk at police headquarters this month, is a silk umbrella with a tomato head which was stolen from Mrs. Lillian Scofleld. It was a gift from Broker Nate Hatch, whose mysterious death ocenred in tho yard attached to Mrs Sco fleld's house. The bonnets and tights and gowns and laces and jewelry of Aimee, the dead queen of opera bonffe, will be sold in a down town auction room next Wednesday. More than 120 complete costumes were spread out for examination of professional costnmers and managers to-day. C0MPDLS0RT PHOTOGRAPH!. A Detective Evolves a Scheme to Havo Every Man's Picture Taken. "Years ago," said Charles Elborongh, of 8t Louis, "I did a quantity of detective work in the Bast, and was once sent on a chase after a defaulter, which took me right round the world. Before quitting the business for something less sensational, but more profitable, I elaborated a scheme for the prevention of crime and the detection of crime by means of photography, and the only objection to it was the crude con dition of the art at that time, and the absence of portable cameras. The scheme involved a law for compulsory photography. Everyman on arriving at say, 20 years of age, should be compelled to have his picture taken by a Gov ernment photographer, who shonld retain a picture and give another to the subject On the back the name, age, height weight and any peculiarities should be written. "Now see how this would work. A man who offered a stolen horse or team for sale could bo challenged to produce his official photograph, and there could be no more of the old-fash ioned defenses alleging purchase, from some" person who conld not be found. Or if a man wanted to cash a check and was not known, he conld produce his picture and the teller could satisfy himself from the description and like ness as to the identity. This scheme, in fact, would make the commission of crime difficult and no man conld long escape detection. As to the expense, it would be quite nominal, and wonld be more than met by money saved which wouldhave been spent by detectives on useless trips or false scents, I know this idea will be ridiculed, bnt I am convinced something ot the kind will be finally adopted." QUEER WAYS OP TELEPHONES. An Inspector Says They Have Idlosyncra- , cles Like Human Beings. "A telephone is like a human being in some respects," said a telephone inspector. "There are some of them that are always out of order and costing the company money, and some of them do not need attention once a year. Now and then a telephone needs repairing so much, that the company actually loses money on it I've known a telephone to get out of order mysteriously and defy all attempts to locate the trouble for a few days, and then in an equally puzzling' way it would come out all right We don't know half as much about electricity as we. will after a while, and there are many things about the telephone that we don't understand, but one or two simple les sons about it shonld be learned by every one. "For instance,- every user of a telephone should know that when he is listening and the voice at the other end of the line becomes now fainter and now more distinct that induction from other wires is causing the interrnpton. and that the tronble will bo only temporary. Hang up the audiphone. take it down in a min ute and everything will work all right Bnt when there is a rattling in the 'phone, disturb ing the sound, and somstimes cutting it off altogether, there is something wrong that needs the attention of an inspector." CURING BI HYPNOTISM. A Hospital for the Purpose Shortly to be Opened In France. Hypnotism is performing some strange and almost miraculous cures. After all, the falth curists will-be left in the shadows at the pres ent rate of progress. It Is now claimed that the thirst and desire for intoxicants can be wholl y eradicated by this method. A hospital is already opened in France to treat this class -ot patients, and it Is believed by truly scientific men'tbat the cures are permanent The patient is hypnotized and then told that be must abhor and detest liquors, and never again use them. It reads like a joke, bnt there still are strangerthings in the world than were dreamt of by tbo philosophers. The world should reap new harvests morally as it reaps industrially. The Panama Canal to be Inspected. Pabis. Jane a At a meeting of 300 Panama Canal shareholders in this city it was decided to send a commission to Panama immediately to inspect the canal woiks. Austria's Emperor Will Go to Germany. Vienna. Jane a The J'either Lloyd says that Emperor. Francis Joseph has accepted an invitation to attend the German army anni versaries in the autumn. THE ELECTRICAL WORLD. The simplest way to moderate; the glare of Incandescent lames without lessening the lighting power is to give the globe a thin coat ing of collodion. It Is proposed in England to extend the tele phone system to pulpits occupied by eminent divines, for the benefit ot Invalids and also of patients in the hospitals. A fleet of small twin screw boats, propelled by electricity, will ran on the Thames river, England, this summer. They will transport passengers from place to place over short dis tances. The electricity is to be generated from accumulators, carried on the boats, and recharged when necessary at any of the river stations. The boats are 63 feet long, 22-inch draught and carry SO passengers. A system of machines has been devised for facilitating the taking of the census, in which electricity is called Into play. The machines are much more reliable than the most accurate human agency, and one machine will do tho work of a large number of clerks. The next census of this country will be taken with these machines, and two are shortly to be sent to New York for the 1890 census taking. There are now in use in the United States more than 5,500 central electrical stations for light and power. There are 200,001) arc lights and 2,500,000 incandescent lamps. There were 53 electrical railways in operation in March last, and S3 roads in process of construction. The increase of capital in electrical investments daring 1SSS was nearly 570,000,000. These, are very significant figures, and they point unmistakably to the course of future inventions and discoveries. The newest rival to the electric light is zlr conla, the oxide of zirconium, a metal found in North Carolina. Over a Bunsen burner is fitted a glass chimney, in which is snspended a hollow cotton wick saturated with zlrconla in the orm of a white powder. When tbCgas is turned on and a match is applied the wick is immediately consumed, bat the zlrconla remains as a thin, delicate, snow-white hollow column, which beats white hot and glows like an electric light, and seems aiaoat'to last forever if it does not get broken. CnilOUS CONDENSATIONS. r A Kansas bride received a barrel of salt as one of her wedding presents. Miss Frankie Baymond, an 8-year-old Chicago glrL has three Hon cabs to play with. An advertisement in the London Times offers to cure nervousness and timidity In bash ful young men "who design making proposals. of marriage." There are in London 65 theaters and about 500 music halls, providing entertainment for 325,000 people every night, or 10U.000.000 in the coarse of a year. -The multiplication of 987,654,321 by 45 gives U,U4,Ui.ii3. Beversing the order and multiplying 123.45&789 by 45 a result equally oua is oDtaineo, o,too,too,oua No less than four doctors will be always on duty at the Pans exhibition and will be found, when wanted, at the fixed points at which it has been arranged to post them. By a law recently enacted in Denmark a man found drunk is carried to bis own resi dence, and the keeper ot the saloon where be bought his last glass has to pay the expenses of the ride. ' Arnold Lake, of St John's, Mich., has a colt that was horn without eyes, and that portion of its bead where the eyes should be is as smooth and firm as any other part of its skulk ' Mrs. George Thomas, a Dubuque woman, arose in the night to shut a blind, and ber husband bobbed up after her and fired six" shots at the supposed burglar.not one of which came within a foot of her. Mrs. Todd Lattie, of Bronson, Mich., who has been totally blind for 15 years, sudden-' ly regained her eyesight a few days ago. Tha first person she saw was her daughter, and she exclaimed: "My, how you have grown." The evil effects of an atmosphere sur charged with dust, in factories, have been at- ' tracting so much attention in England that tha factory acts are about to .be amended, and a bill is to be brought before the Honse of Com mons compassing an effectual means of pre venting Injury from the inhalation of dust In Matagorda county, Tex., are a som ber of negroes who are natives of Africa. They were pirated and brought there from Guinea during the brief period of the republic They preserve many of the strange customs of savagery, use their own language among them selves and retain all tha superstitions of feti chism. There are more miles of railway in tha Australian colonies in proportion to the pop ulation than in any other country in the world with the single exception of the United States. The total cost of construction of the Austra lian railways Is estimated at 85.503,210. tha average cost permlle for several years being about 10,102. " Bellini's piano, on which he composed his earliest operas, has Just been found in tho possession of a widow lady of Catania, whose husband bought it for 1 IOs. The Cantanlans have petitioned the owner to present tha piano to the town, Bellini's birthplace, that the relic of their townsman may be preserved as a sou venir, and not pass into careless bands. As we recollect, says Eugene Field, Sir Walter Scott's poetry is full of rhyme that Is not perfect, and the greatest of modern En glish' poets (invariably careful and correctjkloes not hesitate to rhyme "hundred" with "thun dered" and "wondered" and "blundered? ' tha grandeur of the theme, the nobility ot tha thought and the magnificence of the move ment are such that to stop or to carp at that bad rhyme would be profanation. Mrs. Catherine Schmidt, of Wichita, . widow with a family of three children, was found guilty of selling three glasses of beer and sentenced to imprisonment for three months, and a fine of $300 wis imposed. The trial was witnessed by a large crowd, and when the sentence was announced there were many cat-calls and hisses. It Is said to be the first instance of a woman being sentenced to jail for violating the prohibitory law. -The telephone bell rang suddenly in UeElysee the other day just as President Carnot and the Cabinet ministerstwere assem bling in council. An official put his ear to the tube and heard an unknown person ask if ha were in communication with the Elysee, as if he bad an Important declaration to make. On being answered in the affirmative, the unknown applied his mouth to the telephone and de livered the following message verbatim: "Viva Boulanger! You are all a pack of robbers!" At Jackson, Mich., a butcher in tha Central market in hanging out a quarter of beef was unable to let go for a time and then fell to the walk. Several others who handled tha meat were knocked down, and only onV man; who had on rubbers, foiled to be shocked' Another man touched one piece at beef anbTt laid bl9 hand on another, when he, too, fell to the walk. The cause was finally found in aa; electric wire communicatine a current to tha Iron market front charging tha meat with electricity. Two Akron young men, says a paper of that city, one of whom Is a thoroughly educat ed watchmaker, have completed- an electric clock which promises to revolutionize tha clockmaking industry in this country. So far as can be learned this clock is the most simply devised thing ever invented and must not ba confounded with the so-called electric clocks now made, which are only self-windlnc and hare a barrel and a mainspring. The Akron clock ha neither, and in fact is so simple that a little child can see into it There are a few details yet required, bat in a short time a com plete and elaborate description of it will ba 'given. As motive powers, steam and electricity are threatened with a new rival. 31. de Susini. aCorsican doctor, has, it is asserted, after 20 years' perseverance, constructed a motive ap paratus or propeller, of 20-horse power, which is worked by sulphnric ether, a result which the doctor anticipates will realize a saving of 85 per cent ot the combustible material at present employed for setting machinery in mo tion. Experiments with the apparatus hare been-made before scientific men at Paris. To pronounce any decisive verdict on the merits of the new agent would as yet however, be evi dently premature. A London lady lost a diamond earring of great value. A gentleman who bad Just re turned from the East professed bis ability to discover the missing gem by means of an In dian drug. Accordingly, he asked all the com pany to be seated, and presently, after leaving the room.'he reappeared with a colored glvs bowl containing liquid. He then announced that he should ask all those present to dip their fingers into tha vessel, and declared that should anyone have secreted the jewel for a joke the jester's hand would be tinged a rich blood-red. After the ordeal was gone through everyone's digits came out perfectly white, bat the earring was found at the bottom of the bowL CLIPPED BITS OF WIT. Miss Bugge O, but mine is such a hor rid name I Young Brown Ah s um I'm afraid It's too late to alter it now I-PuncA. What this country really needs is less scrambling for office and more strawberries Is tha shortcake, 5Ao and Leather Reporter. In a Philadelphia shooting' gallery tha local sportsmen use a living dog Instead of a painted target. On an average one dog lasts 17 days. Somertitte Journal. .The PrrrSBUEO Dispatch prints these two items by accident in add conjunction: 'Shad, are selling for i3 a hundred down lu Delaware."; "Enough bones to fill a cart were found in a fox's ; den in .Birmingham, Chester county, Pa., re cently. 'SomerviUe Journal. THE ONLY" CUBE. 'ILove is a tender thing," Thus all the poets ting; So when you feel you're hit Oo straight and tender it Somervilte Journal, "JIaria," said Mr. Cuteboy yesterday, "I made 30 this morning." "Indeed," said Mrs. C curiously. "Bid Heading go up?" -Not exact ly," was the quiet rejoinder, "but your brother John asked me to lend him that sum and I didn't happen to have If at the time." PMladtlpMa In quirer Fashionable women have a new way of arranging their visiting lists. They pot the names of their friends down in alphabetical order, with marginal notes of "at home" aays. But It is con sidered bad Ipim to beg for charity from one who is receiving and cannot choose, to be ont. Asia Orleanr Picayune. They were in the conservatory at an evenA ing party, and there; amid the perfume of the roses and posies, he had fervently declared his passion- "Mr, Sampson." she responded, with womahly tenderness, "my heart has beenwholly yours for months, and now,"snewent on,shyly. takiagJnls arm, oumaytakeme lntosnpper;! ; heard It announced when you Urst began those.; wordsof love which have so blissfully changed all we colors oi my me-" naryT-9 -t , "ilahall not marry Miss Croccsus, after all." Announced young ujenklns sadly. Her'? family seems to oppose the matcn too much." ; - "ilangtlie family:" exclaimed a sympathizing friend. "Oo in and wln,15Jcnkin. Just thcjame. What do you care for the Ctmlly 'i opinion, to long J as the girl Is willing?" " '"',' 1 That's Just it" explained EJenklns, still mora? sadly. "Miss brasut seems to agree wltalbsai;'! 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