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PITTSBURG, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1888.
ENGLAND'S B0YAL BEVENTOS.
The debate in the English House of Com
mons last night upon the report of the
Royal Grants Commission is remarkable not
bo much for the opposition that Mr. Labou
chere and his Radical allies offered to the
enlargement of the royal revenues as for the
tone of the Government leader, Mr. "W. H.
Smith, in asking for the grants. Since
early in the seventies, if not from a remoter
date, members oi Parliament have been
found with courage enough to speak plainly
about the extravagant endowment of the
royal family. 2fo doubt Mr. Xabouchere
spoke more bitterly and with less regard for
the royal feelings than his predecessors in
the same cause. Mr. Smith, however, cer
tainly marked a new departure on the part
of a Cabinet Minister in pleading almost
piteously for the House's approval of the
new grants.
It is very significant to find a stolid and
r religiously loyal Tory like Mr. Smith ai
mitting that the provision for the royal
grandchildren is open to discussion at all.
He wasnot happy in comparing the English
system of government with other systems.
Mr. Laboucbere promptly and aptly pointed
out that while the English royal establish
ment cost the British nation $3,500,000 p:r
annum, the United States pays its President
$50,000. In short, Mr. Smith blundered in
his accustomed style through a speech that
chowed in every line a deeper respect for
democratic views and Totes than a Tory
Cabinet Minister has ever exhibited before.
It will not be very long before Mr. La
bouchere's suggestion to drop the useless
lord Chamberlain, Lord High Steward,
Master oi the Hone, Master of the Buck
hounds, and all the other lords in waiting,
from the royal pay roll will be accepted by
royalty itself. For the present larger
questions are in the way, and the conserva
tive attitude of Mr. Gladstone may postpone
the reduction of the royal revenues till after
his death. But the day oi reckoning will
come in this century, and the English peo
ple will take back their own, peacefully and
by parliamentary measures in all proba
bility. PATRIOTIC ME. SLADE.
fc . It seems really sad that Mr. F. L. Slade
TJ should be wasting his fragrance on the
postoffice of Norfolk, Va. He is a patriot
from the boots up. The nation has need of
Vuch a man in the highest place in its gift.
blade would be at home on the roof, as it
were.
I i
Mr. Slade knows exactly how the Gov
ernment of the United States should be run.
He is no theorist. His methods are as prac
tical as a starfish's in an oyster bed. A
public office is to him a heeler's just
reward. The postoffice and the naval yards
and the "Washington departments were
created to provide soft berths for the
"boys." George "Washington and the rev
olutionary patriots founded the Republic to
satisfy a craving for office that the politi
cians of that day properly designated patri
otism. Now that Mr. Slade has pointed it
out, we observe the accuracy of his view that
it is the first duty of the patriot to carry
his own ward; and how can he do this if
the spoils are not to be distributed among
the victors?
Mr. Slade at present is striving to make
the President understand that this fashion
of running the Norfolk Jfavy Yard in the
interest of the navy is deleterious to the
Republican party. Places for hustling
heelers and hungry bosses, and not iron
clads, arejwhat Mr. Slade wants the yard to
supply. Commodore Brown and Naval
Constructor Bowles have somehow got it
into their heads that they are doing their
duty in employing men to build ships for
the United States navy. Naturally Mr.
Slade desires the decapitation of these
officers, in order that patriots free from any
buspicion of naval knowledge, but capable
of carrying the primaries, may be housed in
the navy yard. "We hope that the Presi
dent will attend to Mr. Slade. The post
office at Norfolk is too small a place for
him. Give him leave to exhibit his patri
otic ideas at his own expense throughout
the land, Mr. "Wanamaker.
POPULAR MILITARY TEAIKIHO.
A rather novel idea, in which there may
be something worthy of consideration, is
presented, in the memorial of a hundred
military companies of Georgia, to the Leg
islature of that State, asking for the en
actment of a law providing for one year's
compulsory military service to all the male
population of that State. The idea of com
pulsory military service ii generally re
garded as foreign to our institutions, al
though in the early days of the Republic
the entire population were subject to the
law requiring attendance at the training
days of the militia. The same regulation
was revived for a short time throughout all
r sections of the country during our civil "War;
but since then it has fallen into desuetude.
It is worth considering, not only for the
purpose of national defense, but for the
effect upon the population itself, whether a
year's military training for the entire popu
lation would not be beneficial. To require
this to be taken out of the period of life
when the citizen has engaged in business
of industrial vocations would be expensive
and injurious; but ii all able-bodied males,
say between the ages of 18 and 22, were re
quired to be in military service for a year,
it would furnish a steady military force
ready to repel all sudden dangers, and
large reserves composed of those who had
pone through the year's training. Beyond
that, it would give every able-bodied man
the benefit of the discipline, both of mind
and body, which would be furnished by in
telligent military training. "With the whole
population imbued by military discipline
and trained to the use of weapons in the
latest and most skillful manner, thu country
would be twice as dangerous to attack as it
is at present, and would possibly make a
decided gain in the personnel of its citizen
ship. FINE WEATHER POLITICS. ,
"With the sky bright blue and a breeze
breathing coolness into tho summer sun
shine a man may be excused for being
sanguine beyond measure. Hopes are born
of such weather and misanthropy has not a
chance these days. So the utterances of Mr.
Price, the well-known attorney and Pro
hibition leader, may be accepted as the hon
est opinions ot a sanguine enthusiast in
spired by the superb weather. "We will ad
mit that there is a chance that Mr. Price
speaks by the card and has a clearness of
vision and a grip upon the political wires
that enable him to distinguish clearly the
battlefield of the next election. But we
suspect the weather is not innocent in Mr.
Price's case.
If we are to believe Mr. Price, who talks
very entertaining! on the subject in another
column, the cause of prohibition is not in
jured by the gigantic defeat it received in
this State six weeks ago. Mr. Price says
that the last campaign and its ending par
ticularly taught the Prohibitionists how
vain it is to make alliance with politicians,
whose hearts are set on spoils rather than
moral principles. This lesson is certainly
valuable, and this leader of Prohibitionists
says that his party will show how well it
has learned it by upsetting the ungodly
politicians' plans this fall. It is doubtless
true that the prohibition question in its
moral aspects has never been so clearly pre
sented as it is to-day, and Mr. Price's rea
soning on this side of the question is power
ful enough.
Perhaps the perusal of Mr. Price's pro
phetic remarks may not add to the comfort
of those politicians to whom he pointedly
alludes. Still the sun shines for everybody,
and the cool wind misses nobody's brow.
Let n all be happy while we may.
PB0TECT OUE HEIRESSES.
Something in the shape of a tax is needed
to curtail the exportation of American girls,
and their dowries, to Europe. The sugges
tion has been made that a prohibitive tax
be put upon foreign noblemen and other
glittering creatures who invade these shores
bent upon wedding American heiresses.
But it is not clear how this tax could be
collected. Indeed, the mischief would not
be stopped even if the immigration of titled
paupers were. American heiresses go
abroad. Each year sees more of them lend
ing sunshine and financial support to the
European capitals. The foreign fortune
hunter has not to seeK his prey. The prey
too often seeks him.
Here is this case of Miss Caldwell and
the Prince Murat. Not only a great beauty
and a lovely woman are thus to be taken
from America, but a fortune of more than a
million dollars. Gallantry might mdrce
us to pooh pooh the financial side of the
case if it were not for the fact that by hedg
ing in the fortune very often the fair
American might be saved to her native
land. Our proposition is, therefore, that a
heavy tax should be levied on the fortune of
the American girl who Insists on throwing
herself away upon a foreign princeling. This
would make the guardians ot our heiresses
more careful of their charges. It is too
often the fault of the guardian that the
heiress mates with a foreign bird of doubt
ful antecedents.
A PRIZE PBIO.
If we were asked to give a young man
starting out to college the finest chunk of
advice we have in our cabinet we would
say to him: Don't be a prig!
Priggishness isa blight that falls upon some
of the most promising young trees in our
orchards of learning. It is a blight that kills,
if measures to counteract its mortal effects
are not taken in good season. Though yon
can recognize it at a glance or in the utter
ance of a dozen words, pricgishness is not
easy to define. It may show itself in an
assumption of moral superiority, or mental
exclnsiveness, or in some simple social way.
But everybody knows a prig when he sees
one. Everybody keeps out of the prig's
way.
In a college paper a very exemplary prig
writes that lie believes he cannot afiord to
read Roe, Haggard, etc., while Hawthorne
and Eliot are unmastered. He adds that he
cannot afford to read Swinburne, Harte,
Morris and Rossetti. while Homer, Virgil,
Dante, Goethe, Hugo, and Shakespeare are
unmastered. He also proposes in philosophy
to confine himself to Plato, Rant, Bacon
and Spencer.
This is prime priggishness. If he had
said merely that he could not afford to wade
through the diluted drivel of Roe or the
African yarns of Haggard he might have
passed for a young man of sense, though
the declaration of his personal preferences
would still have savored of bumptiousness.
It is not necessary to say that Swinburne
and Rossetti or Harte would contribute as
beneficially to his mental equipment as
Dante or Goethe, or indeed to seriously
take him in hand at all. He will not read
what he can afiord to read; nor will he
touch what he says truly enough he can
not afford to read. He is a prig. That's
all. If he could afford or would afford to
pay a man, a strong man, to kick him for a
few weeks, there might be some hope of
his r-demption. But the rule is, once a
prig, always a prig.
These is a premium on twins in Omaha,
The .Eepuoltcan of that city offers to every
child born between January 15, 1889, and
April 15, 1890, whose parents subscribe to
the Republican, one chance in a drawing
for a building lot, worth now $1,600, and
guaranteed to be worth 510,000 before the
child becomes of age. Twins, of course, get
two chances, and unscrupulous parents will
try to ring in triplets.
The Signal Service bulletins are working
splendidly just now. The weather this year
has been nothing if not contrary, and it
seems that so long as the bureau continues
to forecast rain we shall enjoy the beautiful
weather we have had for the past week or so.
"We are glad to hear that Minneapolis is
continuing to grow, although we cannot
truthfully say that the announcement that
its growth far exceeds that of St. Paul fills
us full of delirious joy. Pittsburg, by the
way, is setting a splendid example to all
American cities in the line of healthy
crowth. Not growth by wholesale annexa
tion, either.
It is hlghlyprobable that before all those
gigantic transactions in which American
mills, breweries and factories are being ex
changed for British gold are concluded,
"Uncle Sam will be found to have the money
and Johnny Bull the experience.
Ministeb Whixklaw Reid doesn't
like having- to follow picayune Soufh
American Ambassadors in to dinner. But
Mr. Reid should not forget that hef'has
THE
the superb privilege of leaving the table
first if he pleases. Ho would, perhaps, best
preserve his dignity and his digestion at the
'same time by doing so,
Consul- Johk Jabkett, of Binning-'
ham, England, denies the sloppy sentiments
ascribed to him in an interview which ap
peared in the Time of that city. English
interviewers seem to have powerful imagi
nations, too.
OmsroKEX Sam Jones, in a recent ser
mon, said that a man could not get lower
down in the world than the druggist who
hid himself behind half a dozen old patent
medicine bottles to deal out whisky by the
quart. It is a fact that Mr. Jones may
have overlooked that the whisky is usually
as bad as the druggist
As educated rooster is to travel with Kale
Claxton next season. It ought to make a
good advance agent, but it will probably
find that its education is against it.
A photogbaphsb named Bower is
being sued for heavy damages by the widow
of Frederick fisher, for causing the latter'a
death. Bower is said to have claimed to be
a'physician and treated Fisher for lung dis
ease when he had typhoid fever. Photog
raphers generally stop at killing likenesses.
TriE Pittsburg club won a game yester
day. The fates were kindly, though a
Cleveland product named Faatz tried to
make himself a stumbling block.
Stilt, another echo from the crash of ruin
in Johnstown. The failure of Lewis Bros.
& Co., the great drygoods merchants of New
York, is attributed in a measure, not a very
great one probably, to the destruction of the
"Woodvale "Woolen Mills in the Johnstown
flood.
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.
Secebtabt Whtdosc and Secretary Trtcy
returned to Washington yesterday from 'New
York. r '
The will of the late Millionaire Wythe, of
San Francisco, which is being contested by his
heirs, gives $110,000 to churches and Lsneficial
societies. I
Louts S. Hartman, a prominent Republi
can leader in Lancaster, Pa., bears a nvost re
markable resemblance to Colonel Robert G.
IngersoH. . '
Senator Hiscock, of New York, fluctuates
between Saratoga and the metropolis, His
colleague. Senator Evarts, is at his summer
home in New York. I
Auoust is going to be a red Jetter month In
the birthday calendar. Tennyson celebrates
his 80tn birthday on the 6th and Dr. Kolmes
his 80th on the 23th. '
Mr-Loeino, thocow American Minister to
Portugal, yesterday proceeded to Cintra, where
the Ring is sojourning, and presented hU cre
dentials to His Majesty. )
These are in the Treasury vaults at "Wash
ington nearly a pint of diamonds and (other
psecions stones that were presented to various
Presidents by admiring friends.
"W'akner Millee is devoting this summer
to miscellaneous reading. He was alwayn fond
of literary pursuits and recently said) to a
friend: 'If I had devoted more time to letters
and less to politics I would have been better off
to-day."
Senator Hiscock, who is really a 'very
handsome man, is not looking well this (sum
mer. His f aco is pale, his cheeks are a Title
sunken, and beneatb his gloomy eyes are dark
circles. There is nothing the matter with him.
however, excepting lassitude caused b; ' the
weather.
The departure of Miss Bessie Hainsubrtb,
of Lawrenccville, for her new home in Seattle.
Washington, which occurs next week, will be
the cause of genuine sorrow. Miss Halns
was a leading member of the Butler Strei
E. Sabbath school, and a prime favorite
the members of all the classes.
William Van Eps, the wealthiest citizen
South Dakota, was always a rolling stone.
learned the printer's trade when a boy, a
was afterward in various kinds ot business
many different Western towns. In 1871 bra
located at Sioux Falls, where he is now a merV
chant and bank President, besides being identli
lieu mm uiaiijF uuiuiuuib uuiiucss euicrpfiaui
elsewhere.
The Rome correspondent of the Catholic
News cables that Bishop Walsh, of London.
Ontario, has been elected Archbishop of
Toronto. The new Archbishop was appointed
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Archblsbop'Lynch, which occurred on May 12,
1SSS. Kingston, which was one of the suffragan
sees of Toronto, has been made an arch
diocese. The Need ot fho Hour.
From the Detroit Journal.!
"Now we've got a Sugar Trust," Bald Old
Simmerdown. "what we need most isa Beat
Sugar Trust,"
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Charlemagne Tower.
Philadelphia, July 25. A private dispatch
from Watervllle, N. Y., announces the death at
his summer resident there of Charlemagne
Tower, of this city. Mr. Tower was in hl elthty
nrst year, and his death was due to paralysis. He
leaves four daughters and a son and an euormous
fortune. Mr. Toner was oom in Oneida county,
N. Y. He graduated from Harvard University in
1830, He studied law in Mew York City, where be
practiced his profession for some time. Some legal
questions that arose in connection with his prac
tice took htm to Pennsylvania, in 1S1S for the ex
amination of the title to large bodies of mineral
land 1) lug chiefly in the county of Schuylkill.
Mr. Tower was the leading counsel In the
famous trials that arose out of questions relating
to the Munson and Williams estate, in Schuylkill
county, comprising a large body of coal lands, the
litigation In regard to which he carried along for
morethanzS years. He mastered and perfected the
title to these lands, which are now the property of
the Philadelphia and Beading Coal andiron Com
pany, and bis footsteps maybe traced through
many other great legal battles in different coun
ties of Pennsylvania.
He became the owner ot large bodies of coal
lands anl was a director in several corporations.
He was actively interested In the construction
and management of the Northern Pacific Koad,
and a member ot its Board of Directors for sev
eral years. The greatest and most successful un
dertaking, perhaps, of Mr. Tower's long business
career, was bis development of the iron resources
of Minnesota, now well known to the world as the
Vermillion range. It was about IS years ago that
Mr. Tower learned of the existence of iron ore
deposits near Vermillion Lake, a body of water 90
miles northwest of Dsluth. The country was
then a wilderness, the forest almost without
paths, and exploration a matter oi great difficulty.
An expert was, however, soon sent out by Mr.
Tower In ISTSto make a thorons-h examination.
and the report was so favorable that be de
termined to ouy some land and build a railroad to
bring the ore to market. He accordingly pur
chased about 20,000 acres of mineral land near the
lake. Years were required to get things into
shape and It was not nntll 1833 that Mr. Tower bad
things In readiness for the construction of the
railroad. He laid out a line of road from the lake
to a point on Lake Superior, about 30 milts north
west of Duluth, called Two Harbors. Here Mr.
Tower bought property, constructed docks and
acquired terminal facilities. The mines were
oDened and a force of men set at work digging
ore. Meanwhile the railroad was being built. AH
through the winter of 188J-S4 a force of 1.500 men
were laboring In the mines, felling trees, grading
andlayingtles. The expense was enormous, but
Mr. Tower was equal to the demands upon his re
sources. Hundreds of thousands ot dollars were
expended and not a cent was coming in. Through
the spring ori834 the work was pressed with vigor
and late in July the road was completed. On July
31, 18SL the first train load of ore passed from Ver
million lake to lake Superior, whence It was
shipped on barges to Cleveland. Before the close
oftheyear, (3,000 tons 'of ore had been shipped
from the mines and by 1837 the annual output had
been increased to 400,000.
On Junes, 1S87, Mr. Tower disposed of his large
Interests in the Vermillion range to a syndicate
which proposed to extend the railroad and de
velop the mineral resources of the district to the
cast and northeastof the property which lie bad
developed. On that day in this city Mr. Tower
handed over to the syndicate the stork and bonds
of the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad and the
time deeds to some 20,000 acres of land and re
ceived In return certified cheeks on banks and
.financial Institutions to the amount or over
(0,000,000. The syndicate to which Mr. Tower dis
posed of his property was composed of General
It. H. Porter, of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany; J. C. Morse, of the Union steel Company,
of Chicago: Marshall Held, of Chicago; U. O.
MlUs. of New York; J. D. Bockefeller, of . the
Standard Oil Company, and a number of others.
Mr. Mary I.upton.
Mrs. Mary Lupton, of 507 Wylie avenue, far
over SO years a member of the M. E. Church, died
at 11 o'clock last night, after a year's Illness. She
leaves t famu of six girls: Mrs. Joseph Phillips,
of Brooklyn. K. Y.: Kev. tttu L. B. Taylor,- Cal
ifornia. Pa.; Mrs. W. A. JEsston, Oakland: Mrs.
c. B. Callahan, Mrs. 1 nomas OrlsUhs and Miss
Myra Lupton, of Pittsburg, all of whom were at
her bedside when she died.
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.PITTSBTIRG - DISPATCH;
THE TOPICAL TALKEfl.
How Visitor Are Entertained In the Royal
Palace of England,
THOUGH Pittsburg; contains a wonderful
variety of men, you would hardly expect to
find anyone possessing an intimate knowledge
of the ways of English royalty. Strange as it
may appear, however, I chanced to meet a man
yesterday who was just chock full of such
peculiar information.
At this particular time, when the papers are
full of the grand doings of Prince Russell Har
rison, as all good Democrats love to call him,
at Windsor and Sandrlngbam, when the polite
ness of Queen Victoria to the President's son
and the well-aired condition of the beds at
Windsor are a leading topic of conversation in
this land of the free, it may not be amiss to re
peat some of the points about palace life in
England as they were given to me by a British
subject yesterday.
How the persons to be honored with an Invi
tation to the royal presence are selected de
pends upon circumstances. It may be taken as
a general rule that a suggestion is made to
Queen Victoria by some Minister of hers or by
one of the Princes of the royal family. The
selected individual receives an intimation that
the Queen is graciously pleased to invite him
to dine, or stay, as the case may be. This "inti
mation" is almost equivalent to a command,
and very few can afford to disregard it. A
story is told of an English peer, recently de
ceased, who one night while starting out to a
jovial party with some boon companions, re
ceived a message from King George IV. re
questing his presence at one ot tho stnpid
royal feasts, which in those days were little
better than orgies. The daring peer, deter
mined not to lose bis night's amusement and
knowing that an ordinary polite apology would
only Irritate the King, hit on a happy expe
dient, lie scribbled on a piece of paper:
'Lord 15 .would feel happy to accept His
Majesty's kind invitation, bat he happens to
be going to a much jollier place."
The very audacity of the message quite dis
armed George's wrath; and the end of the
matter was that the King gave up his own
party1 and carried off his guests en masse to
the "much jollier place" lu question.
But, of course, no one would think of writing
such a note to the prim puritanical Queen who
r.ow sways the scepter. Ail engagements must
give way before the mandate of majestv. If
the invitation be to Windsor, a carriage meets
the visitor at the railway station, and he is
whirled into the castle courtyard. If
he be a visitor of great Importance,
he is immediately brought bsfore the
Queen; but with visitors of a lesser
degree, the hour of arrival determines the
time of introduction. Should he come in the
morning he will meet the Queen before lunch
eon; should his advent be in the afternoon, he
must perforce put off that pleasure until 6
o'clock tea,or even until dinner hour.
In all cases, however, the tyro is first closeted
with the equerry in waiting the indispensable
Sir Henry Knollys, who gives him full and
complete Instructions regarding bis behavior
in the presence of "the little great lady," as
the English Radicals call Her Majesty.
When the ordeal at last' arrives he is letter
perfect, and makes his bow and pretty speech
quite as well as anyone could have expected.
The Queen asks a few questions, and just as
the newcomer fondly Imagines be has begun to
interest her with his replies, he finds himself
Interrupted and his place usurped by some
other notability, who has also got to be intro
duced. Unless he be a very big man, Indeod
like the Shah, for instance he will not sit near
the Queen at dinner. When dinner is over the
gentlemen do not remain over the wine, but all
follow the Queen to the drawing rooms.
Dinner begins at 8-30 p. st,and the Queen
has barely time for a short desultory conversa
tion with her guests in the drawing rooms
afterward, before it is her time to retire.
Everyone ostensibly follows her example; but
Sir H. Knollys knows how to take care of the
men, and very few of them get to bed early.
There is often a good deal of secret in
triguing among the great folk to get placed on
the Queen's right or left hand during dinner.
Not many years sfnee an Oriental Ambassador,
In England for the first time, was diced during
his first Windsor dinner on the Queen's left.
Next day. however, M. Waddington, the French
Ambassador, arrived, and it was felt that he
ought to have bis turn in the seat of honor.
Bat what was the consternation of Sir Henry
Knollys when the Eastern Minister who, by
the way, had some of the notions of our friend
Hassein Ghooly Khan came to him and re
fused point blank to cede his place to anybody.
Questioned as to his reasons for such a rude
course, be replied that when he entered the
palace he was given a place in accordance with
the rank ot his sovereign master, and that
yielding up of that place to any other am
bassador would imply the superiority of the
ither ambassadot's nation. The affair was
ettled through the civility of M. Waddington,
ho declared that the honor of his country
:as too assured to be pat in 'jeopardy by the
position of its representative at a dinner
table.
v
Queen very seldom appears at a
Windsor breakfast; but in her Scottish home
Baunoral she is always one ot.the first at tho
mattrtinal meal. This is accounted for by the
Highland air, and by the fact that an early
start is necessary for those mountain excur
sions sae loves so much. It Is well known that
thoso long, dreary drives, with Her Majesty as
ciceroni have scared countless visitors away
from Brimoral.
At thcu'rince of Wales' houses no ceremony
Is observed, beyond the ordinary rules of
English loclety. Sandnngham Hall the
Prince's .Norfolk seat is just like any other
wealthy nouemau'a residence. In the Irish
Viceregal Ivdge, or in Dublin Castle, very
little of the lourt is kept up. The levees and
drawing rooms, which are held in the castle,
are about to last shreds of the old vice
royalty. Evan tho ancient and extremely
enviable privilege formerly enjoyed by the
lord Lleutenait, of kissing every young lady
presented to hen, upon the right cheek, has
been allowed tovtall into dls.use within the last
few years. ItiJSpnlyin the Queen's house
hold that the old Worms and regulations sur
vive In all their poBipous entirety.
No CaHie for Alarm.
From the Washlngto,
Press.
the rush of English capl-
. Don't gat scared a
talto this country
Money is a good
nna investments here.
ilng, no matter where it
comes from. All tU"
capital in the United
States is under the ci
itrol of our own laws. , It
will be our fault if it
us.
Not Thfclr Way.
From the New York WcVld. J
A dispatch from LondVn says that the police
of that city have recoveiled their equanimity.
We doubt it The Londdn police never recover
anything after it is once thoroughly lost.
Burke' Counsel Tiilk To-Day.
WwirrPEO, July 25. Tle appeal caso of
Martin Burke was adjournecl, at the conclusion
of Mr. aoweirs argument! until to-morrow,
HUeasui&DBliuiiUHiniii uauiaiu.
SOME SUMMER THOUGHTS.
Okce In a while the weathen clerk makes a
signal failure. JSoslon JPM.
These be the days when two gallons of ico
cream knocks out a whole picnic. Wbrl Worth
Gazette.
Oy course the gay and festive mo&lqulto whets
his little whistle at mosquito bars.-VBaUfmore
American.
This is the time of year when two qlg cucum
bers are sold for 1 penny and yet people live.
Brooklyn Times.
Extremes of heat or cold are equally fatal
to mental activity, wnetner or writer ortreader.
Milwaukee Journal.
Flies are so scarce at the Vineyard tiat the
boarding house butter looks lonesdme.
ilartha't Vxncyara Herald.
The average girl is not afraid of dancer) and
the reports of exploding soda water fountains
and poisonous ice cream do not interrunKthe
delightful placidity of her appetite. BaltinXre
American.
The way to keep cool is to be temperate
all things. To eat little or nomeatoratron
starchy foods and to drink as little ice water ol
iced drinks ot any kind as possible. To fill the'
stomach with fluids far below the temperature
oi uo Doay ana men io correct results by swal
lowing Jamaica ginger and alcoholic remedies
ought to disqualify a man from making a wilL
But, then, there Is no nte in talking people will
read this, say it Is all true,"- but Co it all the
same. Kama City Journal.
PEIDA.T, ' "JTJIiT
THEI WANT THE FAIR.
New- York Appoint Committee to Sea That
Columbus Discovery I Celebrated.
New Yoek, July 23 At the meeting of busi
ness men in City Hall to-day Mayor Grant pre
sided and said If New York expected to have
the exposition to commemorate the discovery
of the New World she would have to mo ve fast,
as other cities were eager for the honor. Im
mediately, on motion ot Boswell P. Flower, the
Mayor was made Chairman and Wm. M. Spear
Permanent Secretary of a committee to move
in the matter. Then Edward Simmons. Presi
dent of the Board of Education, moved that a
world's fair ba held In New York in 1S02, and
it was carried enthusiastically. President
Charles S. Smith, of the Chamber of Com
merce, offered as a substitute the appointment
of four committoes-of 25 each one of perma
nent organization, one on finance, one on legis
lation and another on site and buildings. The
President of the committee and the Secretary
were, on motion, made members ex-offlcio of
the four committees, andthe meeting was ad
journed subject to the call of the chair.
The Chamber of Commerce this afternoon ap
pointed a Committee of Sixty to co-operate
with national. State and city authorities in pro
moting the projeot and making a success of the
Exposition, Among the names on that com
mittee are these: Grover Cleveland, Levi. P.
Morton, John Bigelow, Wm. M. Evarts, Carl
Schnrz, ChaunceyM. Depew. Wm. Stelnway,
Hamilton Fish, J. Pierpont Morgan. John T.
Agnew, Frederick P. Olcotr, Henry B. Hyde,
Samuel Sloan, Cbas. B, Flint, Jesse Seligman,
John D. Rockefeller, Alex E. Orr, John Claflin,
J. Edward Simmons, Francis B. Thnrber. Eu
gene Kelly, John F. Plummet, John D. Cnni
mons, John B. Inman, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Abram S. Hewitt, Francis Leggett, Brayton
Ives. Vernon H, Brown, Erastus Wiman, Wm.
P. Clyde, A. A. Low. Cbas. L. Tiffany. A. D.
Jullliard. Jackson S. Seoul tz. Isaac Ickelheims,
Boswell P. Flower, Andrew Carnegie, Cyrus W.
Field and Charles M. Fry.
WAR ON THE MOSQUITO.
A New York Doctor Ha a Flan for Exter.
, mlnallna; Hinu
NewYoek, July 23. Dr. Robert H. Lam
born, of No. 32 Nassau street, has been much
bothered by mosquitoes .this summer. A low
estimate of their robbery of him places his loss
of blood at 97.136 milligrammes. These figures
may seem large, but they are not exaggerated
in the least ana must be believed. It is not
wonderful, then, to find the doctor a deadly
enemy to the little vampire.
Recently the doctor sat himself down and
ruminated. "Mosquitoes and housefiies," he
said to himself, "are the most numerous, widely
distributed and persistent of the creatures that
attack the health ana comfort of human beings.
Who knows whether or not the mosquito can be
exterminated by breeding swarms of strong
enemies to destroy him? Gadzooksl 'Tis worth
the effort. I have seen dragon flies gathering
in scores around my camp in Minnesota to feed
on mosquitoes. Why may not the active,
voracious, harmless, "mosquito hawk pounce
on, seize, carve, rend, demolish, destroy and
forever exterminate the mosquito T"
Dr. Lam born is a great man, bat he is not an
entomologist. To answtr his simple problem
was too great a task for him. Whereupon he
wrote oat a check for $200, sent it to President
Morris K. Jesap, of the American Museum of
Natural History in this town, and decreed that
it should be divided and paid by him in three
prizes of (ISO. S30 and 20 for the three best
essays based on original observations ana ex
periments on the destruction of mosquitoes
and flies by other insects.
DROP A NICKEL FOR A DRINK.
Novel Scheme Worked br a Saloon Keeper
In n Prohibition Town.
Vxs Wert, O., July 25. At Shane's Cross
ing, this county, tho citizens recently passed a
prohibitory ordinance, and as a result the
saloons were all closed ana the thirsty had to
drink what they could get and where they
could get it. Now it happens that Shane's
Crossing is situated on the banks of the St.
Mary's river and that the bank nearest the
village is the corporation line. A small island
is located in the center of the stream under
neath the' wagon bridge, and on this island
there is now a flourishing saloon called "Okla
homa," which is reached by a small footbridge.
xne ingenious proprietor nas aiso arrangea a
"dummy" elevator! rom his saloon to the -n aeon
bridge above, on which the farmers and other
dusty mortals deposit their nickels ana in re
turn have their beer elevated to them, where
they drink it in the wagon. It is not an un
frequent occurrence for the bridge to be com
pletely blockaded by teams while their drivers
are awaiting their turn to work the "dummy."
ANOTHER CELESriAL "WANDERER.
FroC Davidson, of Queensland, is the Man
Who Found It.
Bostox, July 25. A cable message received
to-day from the European Union of Astrono
mers, announces the discovery of a bright
comet in the southern heavens by Prof. David
son, ot Queensland, on July 2L A position
secured there the following night is as follows:
July 22, 961, Greenwich mean time, right as
cension 12 hoars, IS minutes 9 seconds; declina
tion south 32 2S7. It has a motion northward
of nearly 3 a day. This cannot be the comet
which was reported yesterday as being
Barnard's comet, as seen from Sidney, N. S. W.
The comet discovered by Prof. W. B. Brooks,
of Geneva, N. Y., has been observed at Lick
and at Cambridge. A rough orbit, computed
by Prot. a C. Chandler, Indicates that it is
Erobably a comet of short period, passing perl
el ion in August. It will not become at all
bright.
THE AMERICAN NAYI.
Onr Effort Seem Inslsulflcant Compared
With Those of England.
From the Lancaster New Kra.I
One would think from the f ass which is made
in the newspapers that this country was build
ing the most powerful navy in the world. We
believe about half a dozen ships are either
completed or on the stocks, and over their
trials and their slow progress we have become
wildly enthusiastic. These little efforts sink
oat ot sight compared with what Great
Britain is doing in the same direction atj the
present time.
The keels of S3 war ships of all kinds have
been laid daring the present year and still
more are to come. That makes oar efforts
look insignificant in comparison.
Fresh Fact From Mexico.
Crrr of Mexico, July 2 Ine first tram on
the Monterey and Gnlf Railroad reached
Montemorelos yesterday.
Ex-Speaker Carlisle was given a reception at
the American Legation yesterday.
On Saturday President Diaz win give a ban
quet to the new American Minister and the
new Minister of the Argentine Republic
English capitalists are buying mines in the
Bute of Hidalgo.
Rich coal discoveries have been made in the
State of Guerrero.
820 for a Wife.
New Yoek, July 25. Commissioner Stephen
son to-day got a letter from a German farmer
of North Bradley, Mich., named August C.
Gablst. asking him to ret the latter a wife
from the old country. He will give the Com
missioner 820 If he can get one for him.
Not So Bad a It Blight Be.
From the Troy Times.l
Rheumatism of the lungs, it is said, has at
taked the Prince of Baden. Thi3, of course, is
serious, but notso serious as the rheumatism of
the pocketbook, which so often assails
European princes.
American Whlslur Abroad
From the Chicago Herald.
Her physicians have ordered the Queen to
drink whisky instead of champagne. The
great American drink is rapidly extending its
power and gaining in popularity. It may yet
swell all the crowned heads of Europe.
Chlenso Grocers Fail.
Chicago, July 26. The Q. W. Loverin Com
pany, wholesale grocers, doing business at 57
and 59 Wabash avenue, made an assignment
this morning to John Roper. The liabilities
are estimated at between H0,000 and 60,000,
with assets about the same amount.
Clawed by a Bengal Tiger.
Portsmouth, O., July 25. Willie Wamser,
aged 8 years, while standing near the tiger cage
of the John Robinson show, which exhibited
here to-day, was frightfully clawed about the
arm by the Bengal. Blood poisoning is feared.
Striking; (he Lyre.
From the Boston Herald.
Poet Laureate Tennyson, on the verge of SO,
mast find his lyre a little squeaky as he tunes
it np for the wedding of the Queen's grand
child. However, what Tennyson says goes.
The Knickt Have Gone.
IOAOO, July 25. The members of the K. of
.Executive Board have all left the cltr.
BITS OF GOTHAM GOSSIP,
Caused a Check In Hi Career.
(JEW TOBX SUZEAU SrEOjU.S.3
New Yobk, July 25, Last April Frederick
WilliamStokes Palmer, an Englishman, intro
duced himself to Mark Jacobs, a Canal street
merchant, as the agent ot a London syndicate
of millionaires, who wished to buy up a lot of
profitable enterprises in America. He showed
Mr. Jacobs letters of introduction over the
names of the Lord Mayor of London and other
English big wigs. Pretty soon he succeeded in
having the Canal street merchant cash his
checks for HJ0. Before M Jacobs presented
these checks at the bank Mr. Falmertookthem
nP by giving him a check for 3700 on Kountz &
Co. Mr. Jacobs gave him the $250 change in
bank bills. The S700 check was dishonored.
Palmer was arrested in bis young wife's pres
ence at the Astor House this morning. In
court Palmer claimed that he had brought an
action against the United States Commercial
Company for 51,000 salary due him, and that
Mr. Jacobs would bo paid when be got the
money. He could give no explanation about
the bogus check. He was remanded.
Termination of a Curious Case.
The decree of divorce granted to-day to Mrs.
Herbert Nutt, of Brooklyn, terminates a curi
ous case. Herbert Nutt marred Miss Carrie
A. Batsett, a young woman of high social
standing, four years ago. Before tho honey
moon was over he began to remain away from
home evenings. Of tener than not he was at his
club after midnight. Young Mrs. Nutt re
monstrated in vain. Then she began to enter
tain the friends of ber girlhood days, notably
young Edward Bushnell. The frequency of
Mr. Busbnell's calls caasedr comment. At mid
night last December 20, Mr. Nutt went home
and started into Us wife's room. Just what
happened then has never been explained. Mr.
Nutt fell or was thrown down. He received
dangerous injuries. For weeks he lay between
life and death.at his fathers house. When he
recovered, he went West without a word to his
wife. After he had been absent some tune she
sued for the divorce she has just obtained on
the ground of infidelity. He did not oppose
her petition.
Careless Driver la Jail.
Last night Josephine Overhuly.4 years old,
was run over and killed by a Third avenue
horse car. This afternoon Joseph Israel, 4
years old, was run over and hilled by a wagon.
Both drivers are in jail.
Prefer Something Easy. Near Home.
Brigadier General Emmons Clark, late com
mander of the Seventh Regiment, has declined
the Havre consulship. His principal reason
was that learning French and being Consul at
the same time would have been too hard work
for him. He also thinks he would be lonely
and homesick so far away. As Secretary of
the Board ot Health General Clark does not
have to bother bis head aDout foreign lan
guages, or, indeed, much of anything.
Caught a Half-Wild Stan.
A crazy and half-wild vagabond, barefooted,
clad in rags and with matted hair and beard a
foot long, was captured after a desperate
struggle in the mountains near Flainfield this
morning. He had assaulted a man and a
woman in a farm house. His pockets were
loaded with stones. Four men overpowered
him and carried him to the North Plainfield
lockup in a wagon. Ho talks only in a strange
gibberish..
A New Archbishop for Toronto.
The Rome correspondent of the Catholic
Jiewi cables that Bishop Walsh, of London,
Ontario, was to-day elected Archbishop of
Toronto. The new Archbishop was appointed
to fill the vacancy, caused by the death of
Archbishop Lynch, which occurred on May 12,
1858. Kingston, which was one ot the suffragan
sees of Toronto, has been made an arch
diocese. Killed an Old Woman With a Cat.
Mrs. Eidel Beck, 70 years old, scolded Jesse
Abraham, 13 years old, for tormenting a cat in
the corridor before her door last Saturday.
Young Abraham, it is said, caught up the cat
by the tail, swung ber around his head, and
struck 3f rs. Beck full on the side ot the head
with it. The woman fell to the floor and the
boy ran away. Saturday evening Mrs. Beck
fell ill of inflammation of the brain. Two aoctors
were called, but they ;ould not help her. Last
night ber case becam t hopeless. The Coroner
was summoned this afternoon to take'her ante
mortem statement.
Filled Out tho Bill Minutely.
The Hon. Frank Duffy wants a job. The
other day he went up to the Civil Service Com
mission and filed his application. This isa
copy of the filled out blank:
Q. What was your business or avocation? A.
Machinist, volunteer fireman, grocery .clerk, Icttar
carrier, policeman, messenger in tueMayor's office,
newspaper carrier, soda water and root beer ped
dler, shouler for Tammany Hall, candidate for
the Assembly and Alderman, bpeclal Deputy
Sheriff, bouncer in theater, chair warmer,
hanger-on, and utility man generally.
Q. What place do you seek? A. Messenger, or
some other soft, easy fob.
Q. Were you ever before In the public service?
A. Yti; on the police force under Fernando
Wood.
Q. Cause of your dismissal? A. Kepnbllcan Job
bery. Q. Were you ever arrested? Yes: because Ire
turned a watch which I stole, and because I
talked loudly on the streets, and because I shot a
man who told lies about me to everyone.
Q. Do you drink? If so, how much? A. Moder
ately: as often as I am invited.
Q. Are you healthy? A. I am, thanks to God;
He takes care of me very well In that respect.
Q. How old are you? A. Only 56.
Duffy says that Richard Croker. Mayor
Grant, Sheriff Flack and Commissioner Gilroy
know him well.
Gossip Getting in Their Work.
A writer in a weekly paper to-day says:
"There is a most natural desire on the part of
Mary Anderson's friends to disguise the seri
ous nature of her mental trouble, and the con
tradictory reports that have been flying about
for several months have only fomented the
public's curiosity, while leaving it entirely in
the dark as to the actual truth of the case.
I am, nevertheless, reliably informed that the
handsome Kentucky cirl is at this moment in a
private mad house across the sea, and that
there is little reason to hope that she will ever
be seen again on the stage, her trouble being,
after all, paresis of the most malignant type."
Preparation for a Quintuple Hanging.
The fixing by the courts of the same day for
the hanging of five murderers. Ferdinand Car
otin, (Charles Glblirf, John Lewis, James Nolan
and Park Packenham, in the Tombs prison, is
unprecedented. Under-Sheriff Sexton is al
ready making arrangements for the quintuple
execution, and has decided to use the same
gallows upon which three colored men expiated
their crime. In case the Governor does not
Interfere and change the date, the men will be
hung on August 23, in two batches, three men
in the first batch and two in the last. In such
case the first three will probably be Lewis,
Packenham and Nolan. Hangman Joe Atkin
son will do the hanging. All lire men were in
a cheerful mood to-day. Lewis, the colored
murderer, danced a plantation break-down on
the stone corridor. Tackenham, who looks
like a harmless old fellow, says he ls.ready to
die.
Failed Beloro it Began.
Lo?rooir,Jnly25. The project of forming a
syndicate of paper manufacturers here has
been abandoned.
THE fclLEXT DEAD. .
XAr eandlts are all out. "-Macbeth.
What hap dismays the dead? Their couch is low,
And over it the summer grasses creep,
Or Winter snows enshroud It, while and deev, (
Or long-prevailing winds of autumn blow.
They hear no rumor of our Joy or woe
The ways we treact are perilous and steep;
They climb no longer free, at last, to sleep
Our weariful, vext life no more to know.
Do they forget their loves of long ago, ,
And the glad hopes that made their glad hearts
leas?
Or the spent Joys for which they used to weep,
When Love and Sorrow buffeted them so?
On us, by winds of Fate swept to and fro.
Do they have pity, whom no rude winds sweep?
How can 1 tell? Their mystery they keep.
Beneath the blossoms, as beneatb the snow.
And yet, I think, from that deep rest below.
They would be glad to rise, and love, and weep
One more the thankless harvest field to reap
Of human Joy and pain Life1 Whole to know.
LouUtClumdler Moultvn, in Xouth'i (fovipan-ioni
A LAWRE5CEYIUE WEDDING.
The Home of E. W. Bate TransCorned Into
an Arbor far HI Slater.
The homo of Mr. E. W, Bates, on Forty
fourth street, was transformed into a floral
arbor last evening. The occasion was the mar
riage of his sister, Miss Anna M. Bates, to Air.
James E. Adams, of Bolivar, Fa. Dr. Pearce,
pastor of the Butler Street M. E. Church,
united the happy couple, and Miss Mashenheim
brilliantly executed Wagner's Bridal March
prior to the ceremony.
There were 30 guests present to witness the
nuptials, including Mrs. L. D. Bates, mother of
the bride, and Mrs. L. F. Matson, a sister, from
Vermont, Mr-JamesErskine, Mr-John Erskine,
Mrs. James Davidson. Mr. ana Miss Nessel,
Mr. David Davies. Lowellville, O., Mr. ana
Miss Bole. Mr. and Miss Le France, Mr. Jesse
Ferjey. Miss Cora Tate and Miss Essie Fraden
ick. of Pittsburg. Mr. L. Erskine and Miss M.
Pettlgrew acted respectively groomsman and
bridesmaid.
Mr. and Mrs. Adams received many presents.
Tbey left the city for their new home in Lowell
ville amid the congratulations of their friends.
Hagan did the catering.
Bbnyle-Cuiler.
Mr. Charles Cutler was married last evening
to Miss Maggie 8. M. Shayle, daughter ot Mr.
J. B. Shayle. at her home, SO Forty-fourth
street. The Rev. Jd. D. Lichllghter. pastor of
Liberty Street M. E. Church, officiated at the
marriage. Numerons and costly presents were
received by the bride. The gnesu included
Mr. J. B. Shayle, Jr.. and wife, Mr. and Mrs.
J-a O'Donneil. Mrs. Thomas, and Mr. Will
Thomas. Miss Jordan acted as bndesmala and
J.'T. O'Donneil groomsman. The bride and
EToom'have famished an elegant house on
Forty-fourth street and immediately go to
housekeeping.
HALF HIS LIFE SPENT IN JAIL.
A Hoosler Convict Who la Serving HI Ninth
Term In Prison.
Lapobte, Isd., July 25. Henry Brown has
been received at the Michigan City Peniten
tiary from Fort Wayne to serve a term of three
years. Brown is the banner Indiana convict,
and is now serving his ninth term. He is about
10 years of age, and has been serving hi the
prison in Michigan City for the past 20 years.
He has never received any long sentences, three
years being the longest. From the time be was
first sentenced he has not been outside at any
one time for longer than two or three month.
One thing strange in the career of the crim
inal is that he never committed a crime in any
other than his own county. When he is released
from prison he makes a bee line for Fort Wayne,
his home, and, after renewing old acquaint
ances, commits some theft, and comes back tor
a year or two. He follows no occupation oat
side, and on the prison record, where the pris
oners were registered, the word "thief follows
the name as his occupation.
BEGINNING TO UET HUNGRY.
The Indiana Faster1 Appetite Coming Back
After Forty-One Day.
iNDlANArOLis, July 25. Robert Marvel, the
octogenarian faster, finished the forty-first day
of his abstention from food yesterday. He
looked better than for some days. Sunday he
partially broke his f tst by eating two pieces of
pie, which he seemed to relish, and which
seemed in no way to disagree with him. Tues
day morning Mr. Marvel arose from bis bed
without any warning to the family and marched
out on the porch, where be stood for a few sec
onds, apparently greatly enjoying the prospect.
Then bo returned to his bed. This perform
ance was repeated without variation yesterday
morning.
Although very weak and scarcely able to walk
Mr. Marvel appeared to experience no evil ef
fects from the exercise. Thoucb still unable to
converse the sufferer seems brighter and more
cheerful than heretofore, and some hopes are
entertained for his recovery.
DIED OF NOSEBLEED.
An Accidental Blow From a Sloeplag Boy
Kill a Wllllamsport Man.
Williamspoet, July 25. Warren Fausey,
aged 24 years, living in Du Bolstown. opposite
Williamsport, died in the hospital here to-day,
the result of bleeding at the nose, which began
on Monday morning and continued ever since.
His little son, who was occupying the bed
with him, accidentally threw his hand over In
his sleep, striking the father on the nose and
starting the bleeding which produced fatal re
sults. Jockex Murphy Under the Sod.
MOTT HAVEir. N. Y Julv 25. The fnneral
of John J. Murphy, who for a quarter of a cen
tury has been the most famous jockey in the
world, and trainer of the fastest horses at
Fleetwood Park, took place to-day. Mayor
Grant, Mr. Bonner and others whose confiden
tial trainer of horses Mr. Murphy was, were
present at the funeral, as were also a large
number of tbe deceased's professional friends.
Hi Scythe Cat HI Throat.
AU.ENTOWN, July 25. Prof. E. S. Dieter, ot
Muhlenburg College, met with a severe acci
dent at his farm near Kresgeville, Carbon
county. Mr. Dieter had been mowing, and,
becoming tired, hung tbe scythe on the limb of
a tree and lay down to rest. In soma manner
the scythe fell, the blade cutting a long and
painful gash in his throat.
Habeas Corpus for Henry Ives.
New York, July 25. Judge O'Brien to-day
granted a writ of habeas corpus in the case of
Henry S. Ives, now in Ludlow Street Jail, in
the suit for the recovery of S2.553.32S brought
against him and George H. Staynor for alleged
misappropriation of the funds of tbe Cincin
nati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company.
Guaranteed Work for ThreeVYear.
New Haves', July 25. Forty ex -employes of
the Bran ford Lock Works, left here this morn
ing for Florence, Ala. whither they have been
induced to go by Charles Foster, agent of a
manufacturing concern m Trenton, N. J. The
men are guaranteed work for three years at
wages ranging from $1 75 to 53 per day.
Restored to Their Place.
WASnraQTON, July 25, D. 8. Melntyre, of
Blinois, formerly a special examiner in the
Pension Office, and George W. Carr, Jr-of
Kansas, formerly a principal examiner in the
same office, hare been reinstated under modi
fled civil service rule 10.
Hay Set a Barn on Fire.
West Chzstek, Pa., July 25. Spontaneous
combustion in hay started a fire this morning
that totally destroyed the fine barn of
Nathaniel Ring, at Chadd's Ford, with the
crops of John Glates, a tenant, causing a loss
of $10,000.
TRI-STATE TRIFLES.
A fmzEir of New Brighton recently re
ceived from Gettysburg a bottle of applejack
over 25 years old. It seems that while in that
place during the war, he had a four-gallon keg
of tbe beverage, and when the rebels got too
close he was in such a hurry to got away that
he didn't want to take it or give it up, so he
dropped it in a porthole. It became covered
up, and while excavating there a few days ago,
it was dug up and his name discovered on the
keg. A portion was taken oat and sent to him,
tbe finder keeping the balance.
Taxtdebmist W. W. Stoet, of Harristmrg,
is mounting a white egret, a bird seldom seen
in this locality. It was shot in the vicinity of
McCormick's Island. Though only a young
specimen it Is 34 inches in height A full
grown bird of this species attains a height of
43 inches.
Jobsax Blair, of Montrose. Pa., is a col
ored man possessed of remarkable courage.
He was afflicted with gangrene in his leg and
foot, and the doctors said he would die if they
performed amputation. Blah: thereupon cut
off his leg with a jackknife and Is now limping
along the road to recovery on a crutch.
Miss Simpson, of Ayr township, Fulton
county. Pa., placed eight eggs under a turkey
hen that was tting In a field of grass on the
farm, and a few days ago she found mother
turkey demurely sheltering eight plump young
turkeys and two frisky young rabbits.
Dr. A. C. Mover, of Bethlehem, Pa., has
100,000 heads of cabbage under cultivation, and
among minor crops two acres of horse-raalsb.
Tw flhla ennnfrr VT- Va. n. mln and hi wita.
both past 0 years ot age, are sick ot the
measles.
A CADIZ o.) cat tried to kill a 3-foot Black
snake. She didn't succeed, but was choked to
death In the attempt. V
An East Liverpool man who states that he
hasold an average of GOO lies per year for the
'last 20 yeirs,-annoujaces that he will never
speak anything but the trii thereafter.
COBIOUS CUKDENBATI0iT3r
David A. Thompson, of Columbus,
swallowed his false teeth, and it is feared h
will die.
A. novelty at Earragansett Pier Isa
lady who teaches whist professionally, and ad
vertises for pupils.
A Danbury (Conn.) photographer hasa
greenhouse the glass roof of which is composed
of old negatives from his gallery.
The doll appears to have been the play
thing of prehistoric times. A large wooden one
has just been unearthed in a Roman sarco
phagus. A San Francisco jeweler has just re
ceived $700 for diamonds which he sold 25 years
ago. The purchaser was honest, but he had
bad luck.
An Elizabeth, N. J., man being pnr
sued by the police leaped from the third story
of bis home to the ground, and ran off. He
wasn't injured in the slightest.
The most original swindler of the day is
the one who has been telling the colored peo
ple of Georgia that tho world will come to an
end August 16, and has sold 150 pairs of "angel
wings" at S10 a pair.
The unusual sight of a rat np a tree and
several birds after it, was seen in an Xenia door
yard recently. Tho birds chased the rat up a
high limb, from where it sprang upon the roof
of the house ana was lost from the sight of
those watching.
Two former Vassar students are the edi
tors and publishers of a weekly paper at Atlan
tic Highlands. They are said to be practical,
enterprising girls who are running their jour
nal on strictly business-like principles, and are
making it a success.
A cow belonging to Mr. Clinton Martx,
near Boonsboro, MtL, while on the mountain
was bitten in the tongue by a snake, The
tongue swelled so that for several days the cow
was unable to eat. By applying proper reme
dies the swelling has been reduced,and the cow
is liable to recover. ,
A plumbago mine has been discovered
in Somernlle, 12 miles west of Augusta, Me.
Specimens have been analyzed and are pro
nounced almost pure black lead. The mine
was discovered accidentally. The road ran
over a portion of the deposit and the dirt would
notremaininpL.ee,. Digging down the min
eral was found. A mile sqaare of land has been
leased, and the mine is to be opened at once.
A novel method of raising funds has
been tried by a Sunday school in Burlington,
N.J. Sometime ago 250 new 5-cent pieces!
called "talents." were distributed among tho
scholars and teachers, with instructions to dp
whatever in reason they could to increase tho
sum. Last Thursday tbe talents were callejd
in, and. notwithstanding all the scholars dill
not make returns, the sum received was $537.
During a heavy thunderstorm the other
night, Mrs. J. K. Blattenberger, of Liverpool,
a town fa Perry county, Pennsylvania, saw a
fiery ball drop from the clouds and land on the
street in front of the Commercial Hotel. There
it lay like a piece ot red-hot metal or a live
coal, but gradually lu brightness died. At
daylight she went to the place and found it to
be a meteoric stone, or an aerolite, 9 inches in
circumference.
The largest number of wild beasts
which have ever been shipped on board one
vessel from Hamburg has recently left that
port for the new zoological gardens at Buenos
Ayres. The caravan consists of two male and
two female lion-., two tigers, eight panthers
five bears, two Indian elephants and camels
seven kangaroos and antelopes, a coople of
ostriches and a large number of birds of prey.
The v-Jue of this lire stock is $27,500.
Bar Harbor society women have made a
home run in fads, and tbe very latest and most
novel fad is to become a student of Christian
science. Mrs. Cushman, wife ot Charlotte
Cushman's nephew, is the leader of tbe craze,
and a Miss Barker, ot Boston, is closely identi
fied with It. Tbe modest fee is JoO for 12
lessons, and the ability and willingness to pay
that sum are ail that is necessary to gain ad
mittance to the class, which is oddly mixed.
A Chinese gambler arrested in Saa
Francisco had a clever arrangement for cheat
ing on his person. It consisted of a steel "clip,"
which was fastened inside of one sleeve. Two
cords reached up the sleeve, across the breast
and down tbe other sleeve to the hand, when
one was fastened to the thumb and the otbc
to one of the fingers. Br a pull ot one cord the
clip reached out and took in a card, which w&
at once drawn up the sleeve. Pulling the other
cord caused tbe card to be shot vut into the
hand of tbe player with lightning rapidity, and
without exposing any part of the mechanism.
The will of Edward O'Connor has been
admitted to probate at Lawrenceburg. Ind.
The instrument attracts attention on account
ofdts peculiarities. The old gentleman desires
Qrstnhis will that his body sha'l be taken to
the grata in a spring wagon, and that a Catho-"
lie pries9ecornpany the remains; for so doing
he to receive fie sum of Si After the funeral
he desires tfWit all who attend the interment
shall stop at his late residence on their return
from the graveyard and partake of t good
dinner. He bequkaths to his son Edward the
old family Bible, bu,binds blm to provide each
one of bis three slsters,with a BihM. Edward
is also to have his goldheaded cuie, and the
three daughters are each to receive a quilt, the
work of his first wife. '
Nature has enabled some animals to
see objects behind them as well as in front with
out turning around. The hare has this power
in a marked degree. Its eyes are large, promi
nent and placed laterally. Its power of seeing
things in the rear is very noticeable in grey
hound coursing, for thouch this dorismntn
while running, the hare is able to judge to a
nicety :he exact moment at which It will be
best for it to double. Horses are another in
stance. It is only necessary to watch a horse
anren invariaDie wnnour, oiinaers to notice
this. Let the driver even attempt to take tho
whip in hand, and if the horse is used to the
work he will at once increase his pace. The
giraffe, which is a very timid animal, is ap
proached with the utmost difficulty, on account
of its eye being so placed that it can seeas well
behind as in front. When approached this
same faculty enables it to direct with great pre
cision the rapid storms of kicks with which it
defends itself.
FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES.
"Will you marry me, Bridget?"a widower
of year askedThls cook. "How many afternoons
a week out kin I have, sorrr" she asked in
reply. Marpcr't Baiar.
It "Would Seem So. Ted Is love really
blind?
Ned I suppose so. Yon know a fellow seldom
goes to see bis girl until It's dark. Stto Xork
Evening Sun.
Ground for Doubt Prospective Tourist
I'm going West because I have reason to believe
that It's a great place to settle in.
Eeturned Tourist I'm not so sure of that. Ilfrcd
there ten years myself, and never paid ablH while
I was there. fhitadtlpMa Inquirer.
Of Little Consequence. I'll sue you for
ro.ouo, you scoundrel! cried old Brown. "You've
drawn the wrong tooth."
'Doo't grow so excited about a little thing of
that kind, "returned the dentist. "It will cost
you only 5 to have it put back. "Judge.
A Foolish Question. Browri It is a very
strange thlnr about that suicide last night. Ho
apparent motive can be found.
Mrs. Brown Was the poor man married?
Brown Didn't I just tell you there was no ap
parent motive. Acta Xork Evening Sun.
Not Like Other Girls. Miss Gusbinggirl
Ob, dear, no. Mr. Curious, I never read any
thing. The fact Is, I'm not a bit like ether clrn.
Young Gnahlnzgtrl, across the hall That's a
fact, Mr. Curious. Other (Iris have a little com
mon sense occasionally. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Mrs. Gilhooley 1 understand that your
dangbter Kate said I am a gadabout and other un
complimentary things.
Mrs. McOlnnla You should pay no attention to
what the simple child says. She Is always repeat
ins everything the neighbors tell her. Omaha
World.
Simpson "Well, my boy Li through col
lege now, and I guess I will start him in one of
tbe professions. Sampson I think he win mats
a good physician. Simpson WhyT Sampson In,
the next two years that boy is going to have as
fine a set of side whiskers as you ever iiir.Ttrri.
JUautt Express.
Woman's Bites. Mr. Kewhasbande (of
California) Have you bought that pretty house
you wanted so much?
Mrs. Xewbusbande No; I've got to wait till
day after to-morrow, then I get the monthly
allmouy from my first three husbands; and it will
be Just enousrh. Judg e.
Mr. Plaintalk Have you traveled much,
Miss Elderly?
Allss Elderly Indeed, I have. Every summer
since my 16th year dear papa has taken me off for
a trip abroad.
"Is that so? Well, I don't suppose there Is any
country that you have not visited. " Ta
Sittings.
He came with lace upon bis coat,
With fancy fez and banners;
lie said his purpose was to note
Our customs and our manners.
The customs were not hard to find
The tariff furnished many
But as for manners,- to his mind,
We simply hadn't any.
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