i. ?,; r- KL B$pf4 lESTABUSKED FEBRUARY 8, 1844. ToLM. Xe.llL Entered ut PUtsburc l'otofflce. 2f orember 14, 1&S7, a tecuud-clatt matter. i Business Office Q7and09FlftbAvenue. Hews Booms and Publishing1 House 75, jr 77 and 79 Diamond Street SXastern Advertising Office, ltoom 48, Tribune Building, hew York. . Average net drcnlatlon of the dally edition of IXHXDlsrATcn for six months ending June 30, 1S89, 29,492 Copies per Issue. Average net clrcnlstlon of the bunday edition of ETSX Dispatch for three montlis ending June SO, turn. 52,660 peoples per Issue. TERMS OF T1IE DISPATCH. rOSTAOE FME IX THE UNITED STATES. DAH.T Dispatch, Onelear i t 8 00 : Daily DrsrATCH. One Month 70 lV4.lT.-r IIispatcw. lneludlnfrknndav. 1 rear. 10 00 AJAH.YDisrATCli.lncludlueSunday.Sra'tlis. 8 50 teDAlLYDisrATCiMncludingSunaay.l month so bCNDAT Dispatch, One! ear 2 60 i "WrxKLT Dispatch, One Year l 25 i' Tmh Tt ,w llei.a"j'rTr fc (.Itrorpil hv rnrrlprfiat ' ilS cents per week, or Including bunday edition, at f ;wcents per week. .PITTSBURG. THURSDAY. JULY 11, ISBS. HOT LIKELY TO EETIEE. Senator Donald Cameron, upon his retnrn rwrom jsurope, lates occasion 10 state mat wfhe report of his withdrawal from politics ay . i : a v 1.1m Tl... aw.a. was unaumuriseu uy liiui. xiw .cjju.h harmed no one, howeTer, as all who are ac quainted with the Cameron principles were quite well aware that it is not in accordance with them to give anything up that can be held to. "We have had something of a superabun dance of that sort of reports ot late years, and It' ''the public has naturally come to estimate k them at their true value. After the inde W pendent upheaval of 1882 the public was Pn gravely informed that machine politics in r Pennsylvania were a thing of the past and the machine has, upon several occasions, proved its vitality. Prior to Senator Cam eron's last election some remarks were heard about his lack of desire to remain in the ' Senate, but after the Legislature which was -to choose a Senator was chosen, Senator Cameron's re-election found no obstacles, either in his own unwillingness or in the ob jections of the legislators. Itissaretor'',t " ' , n- ,'.. acuei '" : .(.in in-i : VI .1 m OK TJEE COHPOEoTIONS " -v d : i ot Jnie T. letter, c ' lu . ... tn i 'w n. r third .iil in ; - i i v p" -1 uau recovered ' aarge damages from the traction company for the loss of a limb on its road, is a some what significant warning to the corpora tions that their mainstay of getting heavy damages cut down by the Courts as exces sive, can very easily be overtaxed to the point of entirely giving away. In this case, the jury first gave the plaiutiff a ver dict of $18,000, and the Court exercised the rather arbitrary power of cutting it down to $12,000. Not content with this, the com pany obtained a new trial, and upon that trial the jury increased the damages to S20,000. An application for another trial having been made, Judge Finletter refused it, with some rather pertinent remarks upon the arbitrary -discretion exercised by Courts in cutting down the awards made by juries. ' Indeed, he tended very strongly to the view that a Court has no such authority, and that the verdict of the jury should stand unless based upon some erroneous construc tion of the law. This is a novel but not wholly unsatisfac tory departure from the practiceof Courts of cutting down whatever verdicts may seem to be rather severe, regardless of the fact that if a verdict should happen to give inadequate damages, or should refuse dam ages altogether in a case where they aro plainly justified, no Court has ever taken the trouble to set aside such a verdict.' The ruling has still to undergo the review of the Supreme Court, where it may receive the reverse of favorable consideration; but if it stands it will require the adoption on the part of corporations of very decided meas ures to prevent accidents which may bring them into the courts as defendants in suits for damages. THE BROOKLYN DISASTER. From the horror of some people over a re cent event in Brooklyn it almost appears that a shadow has been cast upon the title of Mr. Harrison as President of these United States. A frightful doubt appears to have been thrown upon this matter by the extraor dinary behavior of the officer in charge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The President of the United States and commander in chief of the army and navy that is, Benjamin Harrison was on board the United States steamer Dispatch, bound up the sound. The big blue flag which denotes the President's presence hung from the peak, taffrail, jib boom, or some other appropriate part of the vessel, as the Dispatch steamed by the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The enly man who saw it was a new watchman. The big blue flag caught his eye and he ran with com mendable swiftness to the oommander of the yard. The latter knew the President was passing, and ordered the salute of 21 guns to be fired, although the Dispatch was then out of sight. But after one gun had been fired he ordered the gunners to stop firing! What did he mean? He did not blow out bis brains with a blunderbuss: he did not order every tenth man in the yard to be shot; in fact, he did nothing heroic to expiate.the awful offense. Then he deliberately al lowed common sense to interfere with the strict letter of naval etiquette. When one gun had been fired he ordered the salute stopped, because the ship Dispatch had passed. We suppose he will be court martialed and condemned to live in Brook lyn forever. In the meanwhile, if Benjamin Harrison can travel between Brooklyn and New York without being saluted at least a dozen times, it is worthy of mention that it will result in a considerable economy of gunpowder and noise. TENEMENT HOUSES AND M0EAL1TY. The inquiries of organized charity In vari ous cities seem to leave no doubt that the tenement houses, which form such a blot upon the fame ot the majority of the largest cities, arc leading causes of intemperance, and the even worse vices which flourish in their midst. The experiences of Miss Octavia Hill and her coadjutors in reforming the tenements of Loudon prove that the im provement of their dwellings has frequently effected a marked reform in the charactcrand habits of the inhabitants. This evidence is corroborated by the report of the Associated Charities of Boston.which declares that "the foul condition of many of the dwellings of our poorest people is the potent cause of their physical and moral degradation. It Is vicious economy for anyone, no matter how poor, to live in a tenement, however low the rent, where the health of father, mother or child is injured; disease is contracted and morals are lost." This is undoubtedly the correct yiew; but still it fails to afford a perfect solution of the problem. Although the removal of the conditions which make tenements the nurs ery oi physical and moral vice may create a new class of inhabitants for the improved houses, the class which can afford to pay for the old tenements and nothing better, must still find its habitation somewhere. A few of the people whose means will only afford the pittance required to pay for shelter in the rookeries may be reformed by the re form of the tenement, but the vast majority of them will simply change their place of location. So long as there are people who can only afford to pay for the worst tene ment, so long the tenements themselves will exist, however vigorously the reform of their conditions may be pushed. It is the class whose means can only pay ior the tenement that create those rookeries, and cot the tene ments that create the class. The work of pushing the reform of the tenement is a great one, but it is necessary to perceive that it is not and cannot be com plete until we remove the causes that rrowd our cities with underpaid laborers, and reform the conditions that create the demand for the tenement houses and must have them in one locality or another. A QUESTION OF COST. The expenditures for removing obstruc tions and cleaning up the debris at Johns town up to Tuesday are reported at f 172,000. Of course there is understood to be consid erable work yet ahead, but if the State au thorities can complete the job short of a quarter of a million, candor will compel those who thought the Governor unwise in not calling an extra session of the Legisla ture to revise the opinion. The estimate originally sent ont was that 51,000,000 wonld be required. If the State authorities get through lor one-quarter of that, raise the money on their own responsibility, and present satisfactory accounts of the expendi tures, they will be entitled to the frank ad mission that their course was the wiser one. Of course it is too early to judge yet. It will continue so until the final settlement is had; but in the midst of the frequent and continued criticism of the Governor's ac tion respecting Johnstown, we cheerfully note the returns so far as indicating that he mar have been better posted as to the actual u. nsions of the task than some of those v i u differed from his views and his esti uaiei. If. the ultimate exhibit show the cost so very much less than the figures originally tpok-n of, the Governor will have credit for an agreeable surprise to be shared, of ours), by General Hastings, to whose con stant presence and vigorous oversight much of the expedition in the labor will justly have to be recognized as due. DEMOCRACY AND PLUTOCBACY. A specimen of a widely prevalent, if not predominant, class of opinion is furnished by the complaint of a Democratic organ concerning another Democratic paper's criticism of the election of Calvin S. Brice to the position of National Democratic Chairman as an evidence of the plutocratio influences which are to be found in the Democratic as well as in the Republican or ganization. The complaining organ takes the ground that to criticise whatever its party may do is fractious, if not presump tuous. After the Democratic committee has elected a Chairman, according to this view, it is not consistent with the duty of a Demo cratic newspaper to say anything about the fact that the big bank account of the Chair man furnished his chief recommendation for the position. This is the stereotyped view In the organ type of journalism. Those who think the official action of a party is the ultimate measure of what Is right or wrong for all who belong to that party are impervious to argument over the question. Nevertheless, the great mass of people, even among those who are accustomed to regulate their po litical actions by mere partisanship, will have a good deal more faith in the expres sions of the jonrnal which is outspoken enough to point out false tendencies in its own party than In the paper which follows the stereotyped rule of the great majority of party organs in swearing blindly to what ever the party may do. As to this particular case, there is no doubt that the outspoken Democratic paper is correct, The Democratic party claims in its platforms to be opposed to the plutocratic tendencies of the day, and when it puts into a leading position a man whose only recom mendation In politics is his superabundance of money, and whose financial greatness has been created by the practice of the worst corporate abuses, it is both just and perti nent in a public point of view to point out the fact that it is not true to its professions, and that it is abandoning the principles which iorm its greatest claim upon the pub lic support. Both the criticism and the complaint will, however, have a decided public use in call ing the attention of the people to the fact that as long as blind partisanship forms the leading political motive, and big bank accounts are the principal factors in politi cal campaigns, one party organization will be just about as susceptible to the influences of plutocracy as another. AEXANSAS' BLACK SPOT. The New York World, which cannot be accused by anyone of being addicted to the bloody shirt, has recently sent a careful in vestigator to Arkansas to report on tho con dition of'thincs in connection with the as sassination of John M. Clayton. His report is a practical arraignment of the civilization of Arkansas. It shows that a political murder having been committed in the first place, the people of that State have made themselves, morally at least, accessories after the fact. Instead of nniting to secure the detection and punishment of the assassins, there is a greater disposition to shield them from discovery. Detectives in disguise seeking to trace up the crime have been warned to leave as soon as their errand was suspected; and after the lapse of nearly a year, it is certain that the murderers will not be punished. This is strong corroboration from an im partial source of the charges wnich Repub lican papers have made in connection with the Clayton affair. Bnt the case does not contain any especial political capital. The Republicans long ago abandoned the idea that the General Government could exercise permanent supervision over the detection and punishment of capital crimes In the States; and with a Republican administra tion in power, it is powerless to take any steps for the punishment of Clayton's mur derers. The most salient lesson from the impartial statement of the facts concerning that crime is that emigrants who wish to settle in a locality where their political free dom will be respected, and their lives pro THE tected, will find Arkansas a good State to stay away from. , When we find the London edition of the New York Herald presenting the argument that it was very wrong for the Englishmen to object to voting money for the support ot the Queen's descendants to the third genera tion, because Americans have to spend con siderable money in electing their representa tive rulers, it may be taken as an example of how a certain class of New York opinion, when transplanted to England, comes to the conclusion that money spent by the Ameri cans in governing themselves is money thrown away. It should be suggested to Prof. John L. Sullivan, that because he has been success ful in vanquishing his late antagonist, it is not wise for him to resume his old and long unsuccessful attempt to conquer the cham pion that has beaten him so many times, namely, Mr. John Barleycorn. Bismaeck's disposition to suppress Switzerland because the little republic per sists in its traditional policy of affording a sanctuary for political refugees, even in cluding the Socialists, is peculiarly Bis marckian. Nevertheless, the Iron Chan cellor should remember the fact that what feudal tyrants were unable to do in the way of oppressing a free nation, absolutist states men are likely to find an unduly large job in the nineteenth century. The experience of a Missouri man who was bitten by a mad dog, and despite 13 ap plications of a famous madstone died of hy drophobia last week, will strengthen the popular conviction that the only sure pre ventive of hydrophobia is to avoid the society of mad dogs. The suit over thejroperty of the Oneida Community has a strong resemblance in many points to the questions that have been raised as to the ultimate disposition of the wealth of the Economites. , But the form of acquisition is so different in the two eases that the strongest point of resemblance is the proof which both communities show of what united effort and abstinence from the common dissipations of life can effect in the creation of wealth. A MAN has been discovered in Virginia who expresses the belief that General Mahone will be the next President of tbe United States. He must be one of the millennial prophets, having figured out that the millennium of the spoilsmen is coming. These is a conflict of authority between the Treasury Department and the Navy De partment as to the number of stars in the flag. The Navy thinks we have 42 stars now, and the Treasury is of the opinion that we must wait until next year for them. There is no need of quarreling over the matter, but common sense would seem to indicate that the stars cannot rise until the States come into the Union. Ax English writer Is out with a story en titled "I Mark the King." The name war rants the warning that in some parts of this glorious country if he tries to play the king after marking it, he is likely to get himself marked with a bullet hole in his body. The Hon. Edward J. Phelps, late Min ister to England, has expressed the opinion that this country has no settled foreign policy. Mr. Phelps does not seem to have paid sufficient attention to the fact that tbe settled foreign policy of the last adminis tration was to do nothing that foreign nations could object to, except to make a good deal of bluster in the last year, for the sake of campaign purposes. Between artesian wells in the parks and the extension of its water system up the Allegheny river, Allegheny City may hope for pnre water and a corresponding relief from fevers some time in the future. Herbert Spehceb says that it costs the English railways 1250,000 a year "to protect their interests in Parliament." That is nothing in this country. It should not re quire a great effort of the memory to re member that a single line of subsidized rail way in this country reported an expendi ture of about the same amount for the same purpose when it was after some legislation for its benefit. Italians who murderously assault their superintendent with pickaxes and other tools intended for peaceful use, may not prove as cheap labor in the long run as they were al leged to be in the index. Crriii Sebyice Commissioner Roose velt is quoted as saying that "there is no inspiration in beer." This wonld be likely to create'the impassion that all Mr. Roose velt's studies of the motive power of New York politics had been futile, if he did not insert the saving clause that there is inspira tion in whisky. PEES05AL FOISTS. Mrs. James A. Garfield, widow of the late President, Is making preparations to spend next winter In Washington. Prince Bisjiabck and Const von Moltke have become honorary members of the com mittee for the institution of a Beethoven Honsoat Bonn. Herr Joachim is honorary President of it. F. H. Winston, of Chicago, who served as United States Minister to Persia, thinks there are only about a dozen Persians in this country, and a like number ot Americans in Persia, mostly missionaries. Sib Julian Pauncetote. the British Min ister, was one of the guests present at the com mencement of the Georgetown Convent one of the historic schools ot tbe country, where General Scott's daughters, Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, Mrs. Fred Grant and many women of national distinction, wero educated. William Haydew Edwards, who has been appointed Consul General at Berlin, was a per sonal friend of the Grant family, having been reared with them in Brown county. He was at one time engaged to marry Nellie Grant, now Mrs. Sartorls, but the cause of their broken engagement has never been known, but the romance of It has made Edwards a bachelor. The oldest printer in California is Jose de la Rosa, who now lives at Ban Diego. He will be 100 years of age next January. He was sent by General Santa Anna to Alta California in 1833, to publish a newspaper, and selected Mon terey for the place of publication. He has a wonderful memory, and is In control ot all his faculties. He i said to have in 'manuscript a life ot Santa Anna and a history of California from 1830 to 1KS0. He spends most of bis time at present smoking cigarettes and conversing upon tho interesting episodes ot bis long and adventurous life. Mr. J. R. Werner, who used to be an officer of the Congo Free State, says that when he vis ited Tippoo Tib that African magnate was al ways very polite. "But," says Mr. Werner, "from the first moment of seeing him X felt a certain distrust of him, which I have never got over. One thing I noticed in particular noth ing escaped bis quick restless eyes, and I was very much amused when, a tem days later at Yambuya camp, he sentAn interpreter to me with a request that I would come and see him, I found that all be wanted to know was the meaning ot the numbers and designs on the brass buttons of two Belgian officers who were In uniform." HTTSFCRG DISPATCH, v THE TOPICAL TAI&ER. John Chinaman In nurture He Learnt tbe Lesson ofPoker Young Minnie Palmer's Plans Sninmer Hotels Near at Hand. Tun Chinese who reside in Pittsburg are al ready noted for their general good behavior. Tne Mongolian eolony In the two cities number several hundred, almost ail ot whom are in the laundry business. A great many of them have shown a liking for ordinary American attire lately. On Snnday last, on Smlthfleld street, in the short distance between tho really visible prom ise of a postofdee and the Monongahela House, I encountered no less than half a dozen young Chinamen rigged out in regulation cutaway coats, wide light-toned trousers, gray derbies, high standing collars, cuffs and canes. Very neat and clean they looked, too, and decidedly superior in their behavior to the majority of young Americans on that populous street. As two of these Americanized Celestials were passing a Chinese laundry, the proprietor of which, m the silk blouse and baggy pantaloons of his native land, was standing at his door, a couple of Southside shop girls going in the op posite direction smiled at them. Tbe laundry man shouted something in Chinese to bis dudish compatriots, which made them turn and look after the girls. It was evident that tbe laundryman was joking them about the im pression they had made upon the "Mel lean girlee." But flirtation translated Into Chinese has not an appetizing appearance, Longfellow has immortalized the truth that impressions taken upon the mind in youth are the strongest and last the longest. He never wrote a grander, or truer, or more touch ing poem than "The Bong of My Lost Youth." Somehow I was reminded of Longfellow's lines tbe other day when a middle-aged man, who has seen a very active life, said to me: "You were surprised Just nowbecause I refused to take a band in a game of poker. Naturally. I have played all sorts of games of chance but the national game, as they sometimes term .poker. I've tried my luck against many a faro bank; played horses to a pretty load tune, and I've never been averse to making a little bet to oblige a friend on any sort of subject. But I don't play poser never have played poker and never shall. WhyT I'll tell you. "When I was a boy I traveled a good deal with my.father. and though be did not play, I used to see a friend of his a very rich man constantly playing poker. He lost money in almost every game I saw him play and the games he played were for big money. It became Impressed upon my mind that poker playing was a very sure way to lose money, and the final ruin of ray father's friend only made the impression stronger. I resolved never to play poker then, and I have lived np to that re solve." . The general public does not know very much about John R. Rogers, who signs himself "Yours merrily," and is the husband of money making Minnie Palmer. Bnt dramatic editors and tbe theatrical profession know that he has played a pretty big part in tbe success of bis pleasant but not overwhelmingly brilliant wife. Mr. Rogers has given up his life entirely to ad vertising and pushing Minnie Palmer for the past ten years. He has kept her before tho public In some way or other all the time. When Minnie Palmer was touring in England the American papers bristled with stories of her astounding social as well ashlstrionlc triumphs. Baronets and even bigger British bugs battled for her smiles under tbe management of "Yours merrily. John R. Rogers." When she was in America her husband-manager kept sur prising the publlo through the theatrical news columns of the papers with odd accidents and incidents of fortune good and bad. In short. Minnie Palmer has been magnificently adver tised wherever she has gone. Probably she has considerably more money than she needs, as a result of this advertising. Bhe owes her suc cessa real success in England to it. In En gland Lotta was comparatively a failure for the lack of it. Lotta, a real dramatic sunbeam, remember. Well, the strange news Is that in future Miss Minnie Palmer Is not to be managed by "tier's merrily, John R. Rogers." He makes the an nouncement that he tas abdicated In favor of some other fellow not named. Mr. Rogers says his wife and star has accumulated enongh money to live comfortably, and they mean to take life easily together. Minnie Palmer will play a short season at places she likes, and somebody not ber husband will toot the horn and placard the papers and tbe walls for ber. If she does not want to make any more money she has gone a good way about it. - Some remarks made in this column the other day about the beauty of the scenery back of Sewlckley, and the splendid site for a hotel that exists among the hills of the McKean tract, have been Interpreted by a gentleman re siding in another direction entirely as a reflec tion upon the scenery about him. and a hotel which everyone knows fills the wants of Pitts burgers in that region completely. It is needless for me to say that in talking of one place I did not refer to another. There is a very good hotel in Sewlckley itself, but the lack of one in tho picturesque hills two or three miles away can be alluded to without injury to Mr. McKelvey's excellent house. In other neighborhoods there are other hotels which serve certain purposes admirably. At Idle wood, for Instance. Mr. Jackson has a first-class honse, and many Pittsburgers know what a de lightful refuge from thn city heat and turmoil is to be fonnd there. And it Is pleasant to know that Mr. Jackson finds It does pay to keep a first-class hotel in a summer resort as nearto Pittsburg as Idlewood is. There is no necessity for a Plttsburger to rush a thousand miles to find rest and rural comforts. JIBS. TTLEE DEAD. Another Lady of the Whlto Honse Enters tbe Dark Volley. Richmond, Va.. July 10. Mrs. ex-President John Tyler died at tbe Exchange Hotel this evening from a congestive chill. Mrs. Tyler bad only been at tbe hotel f lnco Snnday even ing, having come from a visit to her son, Lyon G Tyler, at Williams burg, and was to have left here Monday on a visit to another son, on the James river, but, feeling unwell, she kept her room. Tues day at 11 o'clock she was taken with a chill. Medical skill proved of no avail, and she died at 6 J5 o'clock thU afternoon. Mrs. Tylerleaves four children Lyon C Tyler, President of William and Mary College, Virginia; Gardiner C. Tyler, who lives In Charles City county. Vir ginia: Dr. Lacklan Tyler, of Washington City, and Mrs. Win. FIllls, of Montgomery county. Julia Gardiner Tyler, second wife of John Tyler, tenth President of the United Stater, was born on Gardiner's Island, near East Hampton, N. Y., in 182U. She was educated in Cbegary Institute. New York City, and after a short time spent in travel through Europe, she came to Washington with her father in ISM. A few weeks after their arrival they accepted an invitation from President Tyler to attend a pleasure excursion down tbe river on tbe war steamer Princeton. The fes tivities on this occasion were sadly marred by tbe explosion ot a gun on the vessel, causing loss of life. Among those killed was Miss Gardiner's father. His body was taken to the White House and Miss Gar diner was thrown a great deal into the society of the President President Ty'er's first wife baa died shortly after be entered the White House, and the President paid Miss Gardiner marked attention, which resulted In their marriage in New York City, June 28, l&U. For the succeeding eight months of President Tyler's term she presided over tbe White House with tact, grace and dignity. After the 4th of March. 184a, Mrs. Tyler retired with her bnsband to tbe seclusion of theirconntry place, "Sherwood Forest." on tbe banks of the James river, Virginia, She remained in Virginia until after the Civil War, her husband having died abont the beginning ot the strife, and then" went to reside at ber mother's residence on Castleton Hill, Staten Island. After several yean' residence there she removed to Rich mond, Va., where sbe died. Mrs. Tyler was a Roman Catholic in religion. A Printer Gets Married. E. J. Murray, formerly a compositor of The Despatch, and Miss Lydla Brindley, a young ladyof Wheatland, Mercer county, were mar ried yesterday by Rev. Father Gallagher.of St. Mary's Catholic Church, at New Castle. This Settles It. from the Chicago News.: That stupendous Institution, the North American bustle, has practically become ex tinct in Chicago. This great advance in civili zation Is a matter for sincere rejoicing. DEATHS OP A DAY. Miss Kale Agnes Wlnkcl. Miss Kate Ames Winkel, daughter ot Mr. Hen ry AVlnkel, of the Union rianlngHlU Company, died yesterday at her home, No. ziOOtildney street, Sonthslde. Miss Winkel was an active worker In the Bandar school of the Herman Lutheran Church on fcouth Eighteenth street. The funeral services will be held on Jfrlday afternoon at 2 o'clock. THURSDAY, JTJLY 11, v BOBBI P0ETEE ISXT SLOW; ,Tb Snperintendent of the Census Will Ap point HI Own Clerks. Special Teleirram to The Dispatch. Washington, J uly la It looks very much as if Robert P. Porter, the Snperintendent of the Census, bas beaten the Civil Service Commis sion in the contest between them for tbe privi lege of appointing the army ot clerks that will be employed In the work of ascertaining the results of tbe tenth census. The strugzle be tween Porter, backed by the Secretary of tbe Interior, First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson and other anti-Mugwumps on the one band and the Civil Service Commissioners on the other has been going on all summer. Por ter contended that there was nothing in tbe law organizing the Census Bnreau giving con. trol of tbe appointments to tbe Civil Service Commissioners, and be did not mean to let them have them. The patronage be claimed for himself. He said that the work of collect ing census statistics was of a technical charac ter, and as he was to be responsible for the work he desired to name his own men. Tbe President found himself between tbe two horns of a dilemma in settling tho matter. He desired to admit tbe justice of tbe claims set up by Superintendent Porter and bis friends, and yet be felt that his repeated profession of civil service reform demanded that he should put as many Government employes as possible under the protection of competitive examina tion. His friends, the Civil Service Commis sioners, are becoming rapacious. Having swallowed up the 5,000 employes of the Rail way Mall service, tbelr appetite wouldn't be ap peased until the census otnploycs were given them also. Bnt they have been disappointed. Tbe President has escaped bis predicament by a sort of compromise. The census clerks will be named by the Secretary of the Interior on the recommendation of Mr. Porter, of course, and appointed after being subjected to an ex amlnation held by the men whom Mr. Porter shall select for tbe work. This is just what the Superintendent wants. Under this arrange ment he will not only have tae privilege of earning his men, but will see to it that they possess the qualifications necessary for tbe proper performance of their duties. Among department people here who fully appreciate the difficulty of getting competent clerks for technical work general satisfaction is expressed at tbe arrangements made for tbe appointment of the census force JAMES NEELI'S STRANGE BEQUEST. A Republican Ex-Slntc Chairman Gets tbe .Balk of nil Estate. Special Teleirram to Tbe Dispatch. Philadelphia, July 10. Colonel Frank C. Hooten, of Westchester, at one time Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, has received, according to the terms of a will just filed in the Register of Wills' office, a leg acy of abont t70,0U) from the estate ot James Neely, who died a week ago at Fifteenth and Spring Garden streets. Neely was not a rela tive of Colonel Hooten and the friendship between the two men bad existed a short time, but when Neely made Colonel Hooten bis executor be willed to him the bulk ot bis large estate. Tbe singular disposition ot the estate has caused considerable talk. Small legacies were left to the Episcopal Church in West chester and to tbe Westchester Library, and $5,000 to relatives. A young woman ot Neely's acquaintance received J2,5W. The history of the young man was as singular as the disposition of his estate. He was the son of Robert Neely, of Westchester. Robert Neely was a director of the National Bank of Chester County. He had devoted bis wbole life to the accumulation of wealth. He amassed a fortune of more than 150,000. Upon Robert Neely's death this estate wentto his son James, who entered upon possession last year. The father bad married since tbe death of his first wife, the mother of James, and his last wife had entered into an ante-nuptial agreement by which she promised not to apply for or to ac cept any part of the estate. After Robert Neely's death his widow charged that ber sig nature to tbe agreement bad been obtained by fraud, and suit was entered in the courts, which has not yet been determined. Young James Neely, after coming into possession of bis fathers estate, entered upon a career which so rapidly reduced tbe property that upon his death not much more than 875,000 was left, and tbe bulk of the fortune, which had taken the father so many years to amass, went to a stranger. THE EXECUTION OF OEIMIIfALS. Doctors Conld Provide a Simple Metbod of Poisoning; to be Given In Sleep. from the Electrical Engineer. The Electrical Engineer does not share the feeling expressed by some electricians that the employment of the electric current in capital punishment would disgrace or stigmatize their vocation. We take the liberty, however, to point out the following paragraph from the report of the commission: "Your commissioners are firmly convinced that if the criminal could be put to death In a certain and efficacious manner tbe purpose of the law would be achieved equally well as if the terrors of death were enhanced by the in fliction of prolonged physical torture before the end was finally accomplished. Various suggestions have been made as to tbe means of accomplishing such a result. One has been the injection of a violent and sudden poison, such as prussic acid, by means of the hypoder mic needle, into the body of the condemned, which is open to the very serious objection that tho use of the instrument is so associated with tbe practice of medicine and as a legiti mate means of alleviating human suffering that It is hardly deemed advisable to urge its application for the purpose of legal execu tions against the almost unanimous protest of tbe medical profession." We are not told when and how the medrcal profession was polled on the question, bqt the above paragraph clearly implies that the sug gestion of poison was satisfactory but for tbe feelings of tbe doctors. It bas always seemed to us that tbe question of simpler and more bnmane executions could be best met by physicians. There is no doubt tbat they could provide a simple method of polsonlnc. whlrh conld be applied witb no ex pectant attention on the part of the condemned -.unawares, say in sleep, if desirable, as we think It is and which would be nearer certain to inflict no conscious physical suffering than any other means hitherto suggested. And Yet He Didn't Win. Fiom the Detroit Free Fress.l Kilraln was born one month before Sullivan and has had just so much more opportunity to train. SO IT IS SAID. BUI. wee wrote his finest novel In full dress. Luther, when studying, always had his dog ,at his feet. Tasso wrote his finest places in tbe lucid in tervals of madness. Flint read 2,000 volumes in the composition of bis Natural History. Cxsab composed bis famous commentaries, It Is said, on horseback. PASCAL wrote his thoughts on small scraps of paper at his by-moments. Bacoit knelt down before composing his great work, and prayed for light from heaven. America. Rousseau had the greatest difficulty in com posing his works, being extremely defective In the gift of memory. ICtrvTEB never recopled what be had once written. He composed with great rapidity, cor rectness and precision. La Fontatkb wrote his "Fables" chiefly under the shade of a tree, and sometimes by the side of Racine and Boilean. Rousseau wrote his works early in the morn ing; LeSage, at midday; Byron, at midnight. Aristotle awoke early, and worked until he slept. CoitNXlLLE, In his lofty flights, was often brought to a standstill for tbe want of a word, which was commonly supplied by bis brother Thomas. Demosthenes passed three months in a cavern by the seaside in laboring to overcome the defects of his voice. There he read, studied and declaimed. ' Calvin studied in his bed. Every morning at 6 or 6 o'clock he had books, manuscripts and papers carried to him there, and be worked on for bonrs together. I Buffon, in writing bis books, used pages divided into five distinct columns. In the first column he wrote out the first draft; in the sec ond he corrected and improved, and so on to the fifth. Richelieu amused himself, in the intervals of bis labor, with a squadron of cats, ot which he was very fond. He used to retire at 11. and, after sleeping three hours, rise and write or work. Voltaire was a most impatient writer, and usually bad the first half of a work set up in type before the second half was written. He always had several works in the course of com position at tho same time. Milton was of the opinion that the verses composed by him between the autumnal and spring equinoxes were always the best, while Alfierl, on the contrary, said that the equinoc tial winds produced a state of almost "complete stupidity" la bio. 188SL A PBETTYMOTJTH. It Is a Kara Thing Bow Mouths Are Spoiled Some Snsssstlons of How to Improve Its Appearance Care of Teeth and Gam. From Harper's Bazar. Being the most expressive feature of the face, the month has much to do with produc ing the effect of beauty or its opposite. While a large mouth gives an impression of coarse ness, particularly in a woman, too small a one is almost equally objectionable, and bas been not Inaptly compared to a buttonhole. Cupid's bo w is tbe standard pattern for a per fect month, which bas clearly defined edges, while the under lip Is short and full, as if, to quote the old poet, "Some bee had stung it newly." The color sbonld be a vivid red, with no need of biting the lips to give them a look of glow ing freshness. There are few things so charming as a lovely mouth, and few so rarely seen. There will be fine eyeB and beautif nl bair in profusion, but a perfect mouth is bard to find. It Is not a feat ure that engages the attention of unrefined or uncultivated people, wbo are invariably at tracted by brlgnt eves and a sbowy complexion, but to the reader of human nature, the mouth is an interesting study. The finely of the Month. Thus, thin straight lips indicate bad temper, while those tbat are too full proclaim a sensual nature; a mouth with blunt corners is charm ingly expressive; corners tbat turn upward be long to a merry disposition, wh lie those that droop downward denote a hard, cruel nature. Dimples at the corners of tbe mouth give a look of creat sweetness, and the soft flexible curves of the upper lip are also very expres sive. When these curves are sharply denned, and tbe space between them and the nose is very short, it gives character to the profile. A babit of sucking and biting tbe lips is ruin ous to their shape, and Mine, do Pompadour confesses that her very pretty mouth was spoiled in this way before sbe was 30. Chil dren's mouths are often stretched out of pro portion by thelfpropeuslty from babyhood for stuffing all sorts of miscellaneous articles Into this convenient receptacle. Biting the lips frequently makes them sore, and for bard, dry lips a little pure glycerine, lightly rubbed on at nicht, is often beneficial. A harmless application for tbe same purposo is made of a quarter of an ounce of wblte wax, with one teaspoonful each of glycerine and mutton suet. The wax and suet are melted separately, and then the whole mass is well mixed, and turned into a mold to cooL Borne persons are greatly troubled with chapped Ifps for which the above recipe will be found beneficial and a cbapped. dry-looking mouth is anytbine but attractive. Mungo Park, during bis much quoted travels In Africa, was the subject of frequent criticisms among the negro belles, and among tbe decisions at which they arrived was tbe impossibility of finding a woman anywhere who wonld be will ing to kiss such a thin, shriveled mouth as his, lrom the African standpoint. Don't Slake Faces. A man's month should be large rather than small, as tbe latter characteristic gives a con tracted and effeminate look to tbe whole face, and it is expressive of an entire lack of manly qualities. Any mouth to be fully satisfactory requires a reasonable amount of room; and the "perfect rosebud of a mouth." which the writers of a past generation were fond of be stowing on their heroines, was appropriate only for a child. "Making faces" and excessive smiling are both injurious to the shape of the mouth, and the former, which seems as natural a propen sity ot childhood as stuffing things into tbe mouth, requires constant watchfulness. This .ugly babit sometimes clings for life, and it seems impossiDie tor tne victim to talk witnout grimacing. Superfluous smiling is almost equally unpleasant, and to be, as it were, on the verge of smiling, without really doing it, is more attractive and dignified. When smiles are too profuse they lose their value, like other things, but the charm of a thoroughly sweet smile, when not too often repeated, is quite ir resistible. Lessons in the art ot smiling have been re corded of ancient times, and as an elegant ac complishment, tbe art of smiling gracefully, in just tbe right degree, deserves consideration. Many persons open the mouth too widely, and the process recommended by a writer on beauty is "a sweet and geptle smile, where the month hardly opens, the cheek dimples slightly, and tbe lower lip just conceals the ends of tbe upper teeth." Catching; Files. A mouth half open the rustic's look of won der gives a vacant expression to the face, and produces the unpleasant result of a dark line at tbe base ot the teeth. This is very disfiguring, and It always suggests"a lack of personal clean liness. Avery Important part of the mouth now comes Into view, and one on which the beauty of its smile depends. It makes all the difference in tbe world whether tbe parted lips disclose two pearly rows of teeth or gold fill ings and discoloration. Good teeth will make an ordinary mouth attractive, but fresh, whole-some-looking eums must be Included. These need brushing as much as the teeth, and tooth powders are bad for botb. Those which are put up so attractively in tasteful boxes, and represented as "infallible for whiten ing and preserving tbe teeth," usually contain powerful arids or gritty substances, both of which are sure to injure the delicate enamel. Rubbing the teeth and gums with a piece lemon, although often recommended for whitening the teeth and giving firmness to the gums, is as de structive as the use of other acids. A ripe strawberry crushed around the teeth before retiring, and left there until morning, is said to give a Insurious hue to the enamel and a rich, fruity aroma to tbe breath, but there s the same objection to tbe acid. Charcoal Sweetens the Drenth. A bad breath is certainly repulsive, and very properly so, not only because it is 'so unpleas ant in Itself, but because it can always be rem edied with proper care. If it proceeds from de cayed teeth a dentist should be consulted; if from a disordered stomach it is a case for the physician. Two drachms of chlorate of potash mixed with six ounces of rose water will make a purifying wash to rinse the mouth with every few hours. Charcoal Is a great sweetener of the breath, and besides this it "strengthens and whitens the teeth, removes the tartar, prevents toothache and gives the gums and lips an attractivo red color." About as much as can be placed on tho point of a knife xbould be rubbed gently into the interstices of the teeth on going to bed, to be rinsed ont thoroughly in tbe morning; The objection to charcoal is its grittmess, and it must be reduced as nearly as possible to an impalpable powder. Its purifying qualities are invaluable, and, it is said. If taken inwardly. It will cure indigestion. "Pearly" teeth are considered especially beautiful, and this rare charm if accompanied, as Is apt to be, by a space between the t o front teeth, gives a peculiarly sweet, arch look to tbe wbole face. Sound teeth, thanks to tbe Improvements in byztene and dentistry durins the last 20 years, are not uncommon now, but beautifully shaped teeth witb a pearly luster are. Trying; Weather for Them, , From the Mew York Tribune.! This is trying weather for tho people wbo keep their doors and windows hermetically closed In order to give the impression that they are out of town. Chicago's New Industry. From tbe Detroit Free Press. Chicago's recent annexation bas given promi nence to a new Industry within the city limits the raising of bay. A COLLEGE GRADUATE. College days are over now, I'm at last a graduate, or Bo they tell me; anyhow I am done with Alma Mater. , Lessons were an awful bore; ' Wonder how la all creation I survived 'em, what Is more. Howl passed examination! Wonder what I learned? WhylotsI All the books of whist and euchre; How to desiccate Jack pots, How to spend no end or lucre. Then I learned to pull an oar. Though I never took to training. Voted it a beastly bore; HUliards proved more entertaining. Baseball for a time I played, Though my blistered hands grow sorer; 1 scored all the runs we made. When 1 was appointed scorer. Football was too awful rude, Such a game I can't survive. A Suit In tatters 1 I'm no duds; Neither am I a Godiva. Lessons I found very dry, Vet I studied 'era, at random: Learned 'em, too, yet Somehow I Couldn't ever understand 'em. Modern languages all flow From my lips like well, like nectar; As for the dead ones, well, you know No one gossips with a specter. Like the other graduates I received this, my diploma. If it means all Webster states, I surmise it's a misnomer. It's all Greek, or some such ituiT, Sol hardly think I'U need it; Still 1 wish I knew enough, " Now I've got tbe thing, to read It i - Atto xork San. METE0P0LITAITDE1FT.' Dudley's Blocks of Five. CXXW TOKK BUBZAU SrXCXU.S.1 New Yore. July 10. The general term of the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Daniels and concurred In by Presiding Justice Van Brunt and Justice Brady, has affirmed the decision made by Justice Patterson some time aco, denying a motion to vacate an order for the examination of Colonel W. W. Dudley as a witness before trial In his suit for libel against the. irbrlcf. Colonel Dudley, it now appears, will eventually be obliged to explain what he meant by getting the Indiana "floaters" into "blocks of five." 8b o Escnped by Death. In a Brooklyn police court this morning Julia Clarkson, 40 years old, was sentenced to 29 days in jail for vagrancy. As she turned from the desk she said: "lam glad It Is so long." and dropped dead on the floor. Court proceedings were suspended till the body was removed. Mr. Brice Never Heard or It. Calvin S. Brice, Chairman ot the Democratic National Committee, was asked to-day what he had to say in reply to the charges made by General H. V. Boynton in the Commercial Gazette, of Cincinnati, reflecting severely on Mr. Brice among others. They are to tbe effect that the late administration took sides with HIppolyte, tbe Haytian insurgent com mander, and protected blockade runners carry ing contraband goods and troops between In surgent ports in the interest of firms In Now York and Boston, because Democrats of high position, such as Mr. Calvin S. Brice, Chairman of tho National Committee, were in terested in their ventures. "Never heard of it," said Mr. Brice. "Do you mean tbat there is no truth in the charges?" was asked. "Never beard ot it," said Mr. Brice again. "Never knew ot anybody that was Interested In it" "Then there is no truth in the charges!" "No truth in tbe charges." And tbat is all Mr. Brice wonld say. No Beer. No Celebration. Herr Most and bis followers will celebrate the centennial of the storming ot the Bastile at Pbcenlx Park next Saturday. They were going to hare their orgy on Sunday, but on learning that beer would not then be forth coming, decided to hold it on Saturday. Most will deliver tbe oration of the day. Leo Hart man, tbe Nihilist; one Carside, of Baltimore, and a few other extreme folks will assist Most to snpply the necessary amount of brag and bluster. During the day a "business meeting will be held in order to devise means of edu cating the masses and carrying on the work." Bhe I Proud of John L. Mrs. Johanna Connor, of 157 West Twenty seventh street, who is nearly or quite tbe oldest woman in tbe city, is also the happiest over the victory of her great grandnephew, John L. Sullivan. Mrs. Connor is in her 96th year, and says she Is an CSulllvan O'Kelly on her father's and mother's side. Bhe belongs to a family of fighters, and says the Sullivans al ways showed superiority over others in physi cal prowess. Gone to See Eiffel's Tower. Stuyvesant Fish. Mrs. Fish and three young Fishes, Edwin Gould and Mrs. Gould, J.Pierre pont Morgan, Jr., Senator W. D. Washburn and Mrs. Washburn, George W. Roosevelt, United States Consul at Brussels; Albert Fink Railway Commissioner, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Btrakosch sailed for Europe to-day. SUIT FOE A C0EPSE. Horace Band Recovers His Father's Body From an Undertaker Who Held It. A son suing for possession of his father's corpse was the unusual lawsuit beard in Nash ville to-day, says a special to the Louisville Courier-Journal. Saturday Stephen Bond, an aged negro, died suddenly in North Nashville, and Theodore Kramer, Deputy Coroner and undertaker, was notified. After the inquest was concluded no one appeared to claim the remains, and Mr. Kramer took them to his establishment, embalmed them and prepared them for burial. Yesterday Horace Bond went to Kramer's and identified the body as that of his father. Later In the day Bond went to Priest & Dough erty's and arranged with that firm to bury bis father's body. Priest & Dougherty sent to Kramer for the remains, bnt Kramer refused to give them up until a charge of 85 for em balming was paid. Horace Bond claimed that he did not authorize this expense, but Kramer contended that at the time be embalmed the body it bad not been l(lentified,aDd this service was performed to preserve it until friends could identify it. Bond cot ont a replevin writ, and to-day Justice Everett said tbat be knew of no law tbat gave an undertaker a lien on tbe body of a dead man for burial expenses. He said if the dead man had any estate he could collect it out of this, and if the son had promised to pay tbe amount Mr. Kramer could recover it by judgment. The son or nearest relative of the deceased was entitled to the possession of the body, however, and could di rect the funeral without hindrance. He Can't Train 6nlllvan's Month. From the Chicago Tribune. l Muldoon has done marvels In his training of Suillran, but he will be powerless to hold his mouth in check now. TBI-STATE TEIFLES. In Philadelphia the dam-juice fad bas faded. A ORBAT many people down In Ohio used strawberries as a dentifrice. It is said to be elegant for the teeth, as the sand takes off the tartar. A regular customer in a Philadelphia res taurant poors mayonnaise dressing over bis boiled cabbage, which he eats for lunch every day. A deaf and dumb life insurance agent down in West Virginia is running all the other agents out of the country. Men know a good thing when they see it. Somebody put a lighted fire-cracker in a letter box m Allentown, Pa., on tbe rth. It was found by the postman on his rouuds, but luckily the fuse was imperfect and it failed to explode. A HAH down In Markam, W. Va nearly died of thirst the other day. He will drink nothing but rain water, and, as they had a dry spell, his supply gave out. He could not be persuaded to drink anything for a week, but his neichbors got tired ot his foolishness and held him down and poured water down his throat. Ho was pretty far gone, but is getting along nicely now. An Infirmary for dumb animals covering 100 acres was recently opened at Bustleton, Pa. Tbe patients will be principally horses and dogs. THE vicinity ot Stroudsburg, Pa., is one of the most honest sections in tho country. In proof of it, George Rheinfels has an umbrella he. has carried for over 40 years. The only cross-eyed cow in the country Is owned by George Williams, of Comley, O. While Pete Woodall was lying in the grass back of bis borne in Kunzville, O., in a drunken stupor, a rooster picked quite a large hole in his cheek. The doctors fear ha will die of blood poisoning. A familt In Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, was poisoned by eating fish which had been Ignorantly rolled in cornmeal tbat had been mixed with rat poison. All will recover. One of the inmates of Altoona, Pa., jail night before last proved to be a musical cenlus. He took off bis shoes and, with one of them in each band, proceeded to render "Call Me Back Again," with the latest variations, on tho iron bars of bi3 cell. THE family of W. F. Strouse, of Shamokin, Pa., bare odd luck in birthdays. His wife was born on ChrMmas, his second daughter on St. Valentine's Day, his third on tho Fourth of July and his only son on Thanksgiving Day. C A. Bell, a dime museum manager In Wilkesbarre, was washing two rattlesnakes In a bathtub the othor day, haying been assured that they were fangless, when one ot them bit, him on the hand. A doctor cut the bitten part away. A han who lives nVar Lima, Ov, wears his long beard in plaits. CUIIOUS C0KDENSATI0KS. California will have the largest grape crop this year ever grqwn. and Spain reports the same prospects, Chinese commissioners are examining American systems of electric fire and police) alarms with a view of introducing them In Chinese cities. It is said that Cullman county, Ala., is the only level, arable and fertile tract of land in tbe Southern States in which there are virtually no negroes. In a census population of more than 15,000, including an area of over 1,500 square miles, there are only 14 negroes. A big fire cracker was dropped into the water at Devil's Lake, Mich., by the side of a sailboat loaded with people, and when the cracker went off it blewsuch a hole into tbe boat tbat it sank. The occupants of tbe boat were all saved, ringing wet and bopping mad. A man named Cole fell asleep while sitting In a cart in Alcona county, Michigan, the other day, and when he awoke both his jaws were broken. His head, while he slept, rested upon the side of the cart, and the borss walked under a chute, which caught tbe man on tbe jaws. The whole apparatus of the new electro pneumatic signal balloon.Includlne the machine for making tbe gas. weighs only 52 pounds and can be conveniently carried by one man. Ths balloon Is held captive by two wires connected with two electro-magnets acting on a cylinder of compressed air which works a set of signal arms. An English paper says: Another case bas occurred ot a premiere danseuse's dress catching fire. Happily tbe lady Is said to have been only "slightly burnt," but even if that bo so, tbe fright occasioned must have been seri ous. When will our ballerine make up their minds to abandon tbe dangerous stiff skirts which have disfigured tbem so long? Witb tbo clinging skirts of the more modern danseuse there is much less likelihood of accident. The metric system is slowly, but surely, becoming established throughout tbe civilized world. The English-speaking countries, how ever, are slower In adopting it than these of other lands, and in our own country there is as yet comparatively little use of the system ex cepting in scientific circles. Tbat it is extend ing, however. Is shown by figures presented ac a recent meeting of tbe French Academy of Science. Countries representing 802.000.000 of people bave adopted it a gain of 53,000,000 in ten years. Green Dodd, of Atlanta, Ga., believes in luck. He is having a foundation constructed in tbe part of -bis building which is to be used as a bank. A few days ago he placed a sliver quarter nnder a stone for luck. Next day bo overheard one of the negro workmen say tn the other: "I tell you dat was a good find, picking up dat quarter from under dat rock. How does yer reckon It got Uere?" Mr. Dodd said nothing about tbe quarter to the workmen, but banded one of them a nickel It was as much as he cared to go on a second turn and said: "Put this nickel under a stone for luck." And he stayed there and saw it sealed away under tbe masonry. The conductors on the Third and Sixth avenue surface lines, in New York, tell of tbe curious clientage they have every evening from 8 o'clock until midnight sometimes. On the open cars during these hours, and espe cially on the Third avenue line, whole families ride up and down the avenue for an airing. They take the babies with them. After a while the babies go to sleep stretched out on the mother's lap. It costs 20 cents for husband and wife for a good long ride. Tbe time consumed is two hours and 40 minutes. "It is much better than being shut up in an Easulde tenement these hot nights," said the conductor the other night. An Italian peddler, called Americus Vespuclus, ana his basket of counterfeit dogs is one of the street figures of Atlanta, Ga. The dogs are so fearfully and wonderfully made tbat they almost growl at each other. CatSare frightened into epileptic fits by these dogs of clay. An impounding officer was only kept from putting tbem into the doe wagon because tbe shrewd Italian had painted a collar and tag on each one of their necks. Batnrday Ameri cus Vespuclus finds a larger sale than on other days, and last Saturday he filled his basket witb big does, little dogs and dogs three sizes, ana started up street, smiling and happy. An ugly-looking bull-dog that was not well siebted the fictitious dog tbat Americus carried in his hand, and there was trouble. The bull, witb a growl and a snarl, made at the vender, and the, latter tried to defend himself. The emente attracted tho attention of all the other dogs in the block, and by tbe time the trouble was ended tbe dogs had all slunk off, leaving tbe bull master of tbe situation. Americus had fled, leaving his basket and toe remains of a dozen counterfeit dogs, assorted sizes, scattered along the pavement. George M. Fleming and wite went to the country near Smyrna, Ga., the other day in a buggy. The top was up and they were driv ing leisurely along. Behind tbem. some dis tance off they thought, tbey heard a cow belL It rang as persistently as the locomotive bell rings when tbe engineer wants you to clear tbe track. Mr. Fleming was conversing with his wite as pleasantly as one could, when suddenly he fonnd that the rear end ot the bucsy was being lifted into the air, and then suddenly it dropped back again while the top ot the buggy was torn off. Amazed and dumbtounded he looked to see the cause of this creat disturb ance, when be found that bis vehicle bad been telescoped by a cow. Fastened on ber bead, in front of her eyes, was a large board, while around ber neck was the bell that was ringingr, at a fearful rate. The board bad prevented her from seeing objects ahead, and sbe unin tentionally run Into tbe rear of tbe buggy: ber horns beim; fastened under the top of the buggy, sbe was determined to extricate herself at all hazards, and she did so in a vigorous way. Save the top of the bucgy beiug demol ished, and the scare it gave Sir. Fleming and wife, no other damage occurred. CLIPPED BITS OF WIT. A good resolution is a fine starting point, bnt as a terminus It bas no valoe. Scranton Truti. What a glorious world this would be if people lived up to the epitaphs on their tomb stones I JJuteMman '.Kan.) Atwt. IN A NUTSHELL. Luck seeks success, fails and regrets it. lHuck falls, but tries spain and gets It. Philadelphia Pruj. A GHASTLY REASON. A skull unearthed appears to grin To such a horrible extent. Because it sees what virtues you Have graved upon Its monument. -Philadelphia Prttt. Likely to Remain at Home. Ella, where will yon pass the summer? Are you going into the country? Bella I don't knov, I'm sure. Papa said something about bis going into Insolvency, and. If be says so, I suppose we shall bave to go there. Bolton ilernld. Mr. Popinjay My dear, I have invited Mr. Forlnland. tbe distinguished explorer, totes to-morrow. Mrs. Popinjay "Whatever put It Into your head to do thatr Mr. Popinjay I want to tee If he can find that collar-button IlostlastMon day. Burlington trte Prttt. Turn About FairPlay. A So he kicked you, did he? JJ-ves. he did tbat very thing. And yon didn't kick him back?" "No, Indeed, in had then It wonld have been his tarn again. Texat Sifting l. Squibley I am writing a book 'about the barnstorming actor. Don'i yon think that "iiefore the Footlights" would be a good name forlt? Makeshift (who has been there) 'Before , the Headlights" wonld be more appropriate It seems to me. Lawrence American. . AFRAID. The ragman dreamed . .- A garment seemed This statement to hare made; "Ot when I'm new I don't dreal you. But when I'm old I'm Traycd. " . rhlladetpMa Frtit. JUVENILE JOT. The urchin now released from school aits on the wharf all day. And with a bended pin and worm .brings out the finny prey. i He catches Hippies" by the score, enjoys the . summer air. And catches something from his pa when home he doth repair. . Alast how often in the life of every little boy. Tbe bitter lesson he must learn, that sorrow waits onjoyl Botton Courier. A DIFFICULTY- ABOUT WITNESSES. "Air. Smith," said the electric light man ager toUfs foreman, "we want som men to testi fy to tbe absolute harmlessness of the electric light current as used By us. You might send Rob erts ' Foreman He was killed while fixing a wire last night, sir. "Well, Jackson will do then." "He accidentally grounded a wrong wire last week, and Is scarcely expected to live, sir." "Such awkwardness I Send Williams." Sorry, sir, but he was paralysed while fixing an electric lamp on Thursday." Beslly? Ifs most annoying. Employ somenew men at Ones and send them to testify to the com jnlttee berore they have time, to get theaselvw killed -Ai Tort Hmu """" killed. "-Orae lort Herald, ru .US: