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PITTSBURG. SATURDAY. AUG. 3. 1888.
ANOTHER QUAY STOEY.
Another of the reports floating around the
local atmosphere credits the usually genial
junior Senatorwith serving notice on his
opponents that if they should secure from
the President the nomination of their, man
for Postmaster) he will prevent his con
firmation in the Senate.
This represents the urbane Matthew Stan
ley iu quite another light than the report
which put him in the attitude of coaxing
the Presidental lightning to send a bolt in
his direction. A man who is trying to pla
cate and attract supporters for a future
political boom is not likely to indulge in
flourishing any such gratuitous red rag be
fore the bull's eyes. The report is much
more consistent with Senator Quay's char
acteristic affection for the solid realities of
official patronage; but even that estimate of
his political methods must credit him wtth
intelligence enough to see that the plan of
controlling the administration by antago
nizing it in the Senate, has its limits.
Most of the reports about the Senator
should be taken with considerable dilution.
We do not think that he has indulged in
such unnecessary threats. He may have
quietly suggested to the recalcitrant Home
Rulers that Senatorial courtesy is a nice
thing to have; and so it is, for those who
regard the spoils as the one cogent fact in
politics.
FACTITIOUS AMITY.
Tne young Emperor of Germany is visit
ing his relatives in England. The German
squadron, bearing its imperial ruler, has
been saluted at Portsmouth harbor, by the
thunders of the English ironclads and forts;
while the Emperor's uncle, the Prince of
"Wales, has gone down to welcome to En
gland his absolute nephew, whom only a
few months ago he was refusing to meet
upon the neutral soil of Austria. This
looks as if the old family quarrels are to be
healed over, and private as well as inter
national peace is to stretch its white wings
over the relations of the imperial and royal
families of Great Britain and Germany,
Bat quarrels are not so easily healed up as
that England may seek to impress the
German ruler with the magnitude of her
naval power, and the occasion will, of
course, overflow with the usual assurances
of amity and esteem. But after the junket
ing is over, the respective royalties and
statesmen will return to their regular busi
ness of pursuing the policy which will ac
complish most Jor their own ends. If the
selfish interests of Germany and England
do not unite them, the effusions of the pres
ent occasion will accomplish little in that
direction.
PEZPABATIOH- TOE POLITICS.
Genial Chauncey M. Depew is reported
as still in London, where he has been lunch
ing with the Speaker of the House of Com
mons,andotherwise enlivening the entertain
ments of the aristocracy of Great Britain,
This recalls the fact that when Mr. Depew
left this country he declared that he was
unable to accept invitations to visit va
rious cities in the West on account of the
excitement and wear upon the nervous sys
tem, which such dissipations would entail.
We do not intimate any inconsistency on
the part of the genial railway President,
Evidently he has discovered by experience
that association with the nobility and gen
try of England does not cause any mental
stimulation, but is an unqualified season of
somnolence and abstention from all exer
tion of the mind. Thus Mr. Depew will
obtain the rest and recuperation required to
fit him for jumping into politics, as the re
.. port published elsewhere says that he in
tends to do.
IN A NEW PLACE.
So it seems that the Louisiana Lottery is
a feature in Wheeling'sfinancial circles also.
Seybold, the teller, who took a $24,000 pack
age from the bank in May last, and who is
now under arrest, told his friends, who were
amazed by his sudden wealth, that it came
from the lottery. This was just like Flann,
of the Marine national of Pittsburg, who
accounted for his affluence by similar smiles
from fortune. To him also the Louisiana
Lottery had been good.
Both Seybold and Flann would have been
useful advertisements for tho lottery If it
did not fall out that they got their funds
from the bank countersand that the im
puted beneficence of M. A. Dauphin's wheel
of fortune was purely imaginary. True,
conservative business people would rrefer
'banking in'institutions whose officials do not
patronize lotteries; but had the success been
real the case would not, to a good many people,
have looked half so bad. It is betting on the
horse which doesn't win that shows up to
the full the iniquity of betting. The cash
iers and the tellers and the other responsi
ble business people who get caught on the
wrong side of tho market are those whose
cases have to point the moral. William N.
Kiddle, of the Pcnn Bank, said after the
famous collapse of the institution that if he
could have held out a little longer until oil
took a rise, he would be one of the wealth
iest men in the city, and that certain large
philanthropic designs he had in view would
make his name known for generations as a
public benefactor. So it goes. It is but a
thin partition of circumstance which some
times divides success from failure in the
eyes of the speculators.
However, speculation in stocks and com
modities, of which the buyers know little
or nothing, have enough ruin to answer for
without charging fictitious cases to their
account. So as to the wicked lottery.
Numerous though the instances are where
men have been ruined by these devices, it
does not appear that the case of Seybold at
Wheeling was one of them. That seems to
have been rather, for the most part, a series
of very common thefts, over the proceeds of
which the mantle of the lottery was thrown
as a most convenient cloaft.
THE PENDING COKE STBIKE.
So far as current statements on bothsides
afford a basis for judging of the coke strike,
they fail to give much reason for believing
that the strike is likely to prove either ad
vantageous to the interests oflabor.or just as
regards the equities between labor and cap
ital. In the first place the developments of the
strike have brought out with tolerable clear
ness the fact that it is not unanimously sup
ported by the laborers. Of the two labor
organizations in the coke regions, one
orders the strike, and the other
disapproves of it A strike in which labor
is divided against itself is not calculated
either to streugthm labor organization or to
benefit labor. The only circumstances
which can justify that last resort in labor in
conflicts must be such as unite all the labor
interests in support of the struggle.
Beyond that it is also evident in the re
ports of the strike that its practical effect is
to direct it against a single firm; and with
the incongruity that has previously appeared
in coke strikes, it is directed against the
firm that in 1887 conceded an advance
that was denied by tho other firms, and has
for a considerable portion of the past two
years paid 12 per cent higher wages than
its rivals. Whatever other reasons
there may be for criticising the policy of
the Frlck-Carnegie interests, it is clear that
labor organization should not seek to inflict
a penalty upon them for paying better
wages than their competitors. Probably the
labor leaders may not have intended to
strike at one firm alone; but if the actual
effect of the division among labor organiza
tions is to confine the strike to the works
of one firm, and to demand higher wages
of it than its rivals will pay, the perception
of that practical injustice ought to have its
weight. If, as reported, the strike is in vio
lation of an agreement that the present scale
shall last to the tnd of the year, the wrong
is only the more glaring.
A strike is, in industrial matters, what
warfare is in international matters. It
is the last resort only justifiable for the
most urgent reasons. Unless there are
causes of which the public is yet nninformed,
the pending strike in the coke regions can
not be considered to have such a justi
fication. TESTING THE NEW ELIXIE.
No invention ever won so rapid a celebrity
as that of Dr. Brown-Sequard for making
the old young. No one need feel astonished
that in this enterprising country where men
of science are as keen as men of business,
numbers of physicians began experimenting
even before it was fully known whether the
Brown-Sequard story was bona-fide, or but
the imagination of an old man arrived at
the age which to less vigorous minds some
times brings dotage. Curious to, eay, the
reported experiments so far give strong
color, if not real support, to the efficacy of
the new elixir. The comic possibilities, a3
well as the grotesqueness of the whole sub
ject, predispose to humorous and skeptical
consideration rather than serious; but the
report from Dr. Hammond, of New York,
and from two Pittsburg physicians of good
standing, back up the Brown-Sequard pre
scription right strongly.
"With curiosity not at all lessened by in
tense doubt the people who ore growing old
will watch for the results of these continued
experiments. That there is some medical
basis for belief in at least the partial efficacy
of the elixir is proved by the trials
which American physicians consider worth
making. Dr. Brown-Sequard, at his great
age, might be pardoned for doting, if he
really was not at himself in giving his im
mense recommendation to the "elixir;" but
the numerous other physicians who have
since given complete or qualified indorse
ment of his experiments bring in testimony
that fairly establishes the subject as within
the realms of serious and general profes
sional investigation.
The account in our local columns of what
seems to have been an entirely honest trial
of the prescription in this city yesterday is
interesting reading.
THE TBT7E CEITEEI0N.
The public discussion arising from the
opposition of labor leaders on the one side
and the strong exertion of Mr. Bussell
Harrison's influence on the other, concern
ing the appointment of a former Pittsburg
detective to the head oi the Secret Service
Bureau of the United States Treasury, calls
for the comment that theTnatter should ho
decided neither by the wishes cf Mr. Bus
sell Harrison nor of the Knights of Labor,
but by the character of the applicant him
self. Young Mr. Harrison has exactly the same
right to recommend appointments that any
other American citizen has, and no more.
The labor leaders have an identical right to
object to such an appointment But the
crucial test, and the one which will react
with much force in determining the position
of the supporters and opponents of the ap
plicant, is the character which the applicant
himself has earned by his previous career.
It might be possible for a detective who is
entirely conscientious and honest in his
methods to- earn the dislike of labor
organizations by his work during a
strike; but if thir applicant for the
secret- service position in the Treasury
Department is a character of that sort
THE PITTSBURG
he is a most woefully slandered man. If
Mr. Bussell Harrison's protege is, as as
serted by rumor and the representations
of his critics, one of that class of deteotives
that show less anxiety to secure even-handed
justice than'to obtain the convictions that
are well paid for, the objections of the labor
people are well founded. Such a reputation
lends color to the statements that his serv
ices to the son of the President, which have
secured that influence in favor of his nom
ination, were not oi the most reputable char
acter. ,
The appointment of a man of that sort to
a" high detective position cannot be but dis
tinctly discreditable to the administration.
If the appointment is secured by family in
fluence, it will only bring the discredit
closer to the President and his personal
surroundings.
CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.
The Canadian press is indulging in mina
tory and perhaps naturally ill-tempered re
marks over the seizure of Canadian sealers
in Behring Sea. The burden of 'the Cana
dian warning reminds this nation that
while our internal strength is sufficient to
"swallow np any army of invasion that com
bined Europe can send against us, we are,
upon the high seas, at the mercy of any
naval power.
This is true enough; but yet we can still
rely upon immunity from the fact that war
would be as ruinous for England as for this
nation. The weak point of the administra
tion is not so much our naval weakness as
the doubt whether the claim of sovereignty
over a whole ocean is well founded. We do
not allow Canada to make any subclaim
over the Gulf of Newfoundland, or even the
Bay of Fundy; and the American people is
not likely to place much faith iu such a
claim over Behring Sea, especially when it
is asserted for the benefit of a rich corpora
tion. Beyond that the United States ought to
possess intelligence enough to see that the
way to create a sentiment in Canada favor
able to annexation is not to distribute un
necessary kicks to the Canadian people.
One of the most pathetic features of the
race now going on between various cities
for the possession of the World's Fair of
1892, is presented by the frantic efforts
which the energetic St. Louis Post-Dispatch
is making to get its city inside of the dis
tance post before the flag drops.-
Coitceeninq sharp remarks of Bepubli
cau newspapers about the necessity of re
ducing the tariff on staples that are con
trolled by trusts, the New York World says:
"The skies will fall and everybody can lave
lark pies when a Bepublican Congress shall
strike an. effective blow at these tariff trusts
and monopolies." It also seems just to re
mark that the public will be able to enjoy
the luxuries of cloud pudding and potied
larks when Democratic Congressmen are
ready to strike off the sugar duties and hit a
death blow at the Whitney and Paine
Standard Oil Trust
Pittsbubq extends its sincere sympa
thies to Chicago, with the remark that
boiled and filtered water may be a rather
flat drink; but after you get used to it
you are ready to concede that it is much
better than diluted sewage or extract of
flood sufferer. '
References in these columns to an al
leged Presidental candidacy on the part of
Ex-Secretary Whitney make it no more
than fair to notice the fact that Mr. Whit
ney has just written a letter to the New
York Herald, in which he declares "I am
not and shall not be a candidate for the
nomination," and further goes on to state,
"The item is absurd on its face, and I object
to being thought capable of such nonsense."
It is also necessary to credit Mr. Whitney
with the ability, when he declines a nomina
tion, to decline it so that he who runs may
read.
The suggestion that Boulanger's political
career should be made the subject of a bur
lesque opera is impracticable. The trouble
with Boulanger is that his reality beggars
burlesque, and renders imaginative sarcasm
wholly pointless by its own surpassing
absurdity.
One of the crying evils of the day is illus
trated by a report, which comes from a
Michigan town, that a drunken young ruf
fian who fired at a girl and struck a boy by
mistake, will not bg prosecuted, the boy's
mother "haying accepted a pecuniary con
sideration to refrain from prosecution." In
such a case as that both .parties to the trans
action ought to be prosecuted for compound
ing a felony; and the public officers who tail
to institute such proceedings should be given
to understand that their official heads are in
danger.
The energetic manner in which Boulanger
raises the cry of fraud over his recent defeat
in France, may be taken as proof corrobora
tive of his intention to come over and
mingle in the politics of the United States.
Tub statement in a city paper that
Southside business men are opposed to a
cable road because it will make it easy for
the people to come over to town to trade,
may state the private opinion of some of the
trade barnacles. But it seems that even
that class should know better than to fur
nish for publication such a strong argument
for the mass of the people to favor the
project
TnE illness of Manager Phillips, of the
Allegheny Baseball Club, like so many
similar seizures, ia an impressive warning
against the dangers of overwork and worry.
It is now stated that Senator Evarts
wrote the draft for the constitution which
was presented to the North Dakota Consti
tutional Convention, for a fee ot $500. This
fact, as well as the study of the document,
has convinced the members of the North
Dakota Convention that the $500 was fur
nished by some other interest than that com
posed of the people of the new State.
Political deals now crowd the atmos
phere wherever the imaginative reporters
most do .congregate.
The extension of the park at the Hiland
reservoir is well worth the money that has
been expended on it, but it does not supply
the most urgent need for parks. Pittsburg
does not want a park where rich people may
drive in their carriages so much as one
where poor people who cannot otherwise get
fresh air and open views can go on foot or
in the 'street-cars.
Know What He's Talking; About,
From the Providence Journal.
Chairman Jones' remark that "the Green
back party is unanimous" brings tho comfort
ing assurance that the gentloniau knows his
own mind. '
Train In Few Words.
from the OU City Bllzzard.1
Many'men are honored who deserve but to be
kicked. '-
DISPATCH; SATTHiDAT,
THE PLANETS IN AUGUST.
Interesting Facia Regarding; the Heavenly
Bodies for llio Gnldanco of Amateur As
tronomers Occullatlon of JnpltcrVSat
cllltes. rwniTTEit roa this dispatch.!
The sun is now moving southward rapidly,
and the hortening in the length of the day
thus produced is easily noticed. On tho first
day of tho month the sun remains above our
horizon for 14 hours 15 minutes, whilo on the
31st his visit lasts only 13 hours 5 minutes. This
decrease in the day's length, united with the
fact that the sun's altitude at noon decreases
ly nearly 10, leads us to expect cooler weather
in tho latter part ot the month. The earth is
now approaching tho sun at the lata of 15,000
miles a day, and on tho 15th of the month will
ha 93,222,000 miles from him. His apparent
diameter ou the same date will be 31' 41".
K. A. Declina
tion. Klses. Souths, sets.
Aug. 1.. Oh. 03m. ISWN. 5:23 0:28 A. M. 7:29 P.M.
AUK. 15.. ll.41m. 13 !. 6:32 0:24 A.M. 7:16 P.M.
Aug. 2S..10h.l8m. 10" 33'N. 5:12 0:22A.M. 7:02 P.M.
Tho Moon During August.
Luna does nothing unusual for this month.
She occults a few stars and is in conjunction
with planets as follows: With Jupiter on tho
7th, at 3:15 p. x., Jupiter being a few minutes
south othe moon's edge: with Neptune on the
18th, at 11 p. 1L, Neptnne being 2 north; with
Venus on the 22d, at 5 P. M., Venus being 2
south; with Saturn on the 25tb, at 3 P. Jr., Sat
urn being 2 south: with Mercury on the 27th,
at 5 P. M., Mercury being 5 south; with Uranus
on the 29th, at 6 1'. M., Uranus being 5 south.
About midnight on the 18th the moon will pass
through the group of stars known as the
Hyades, in the constellation Taurus, and will
hide from view two stars. One, of the fourth
magnitude, will bo concealed from view for
about half an hour, and the other, of tho fifth,
for about an honr.
The moon ,1s nearest the earth on the 9th,
when her apparent diameter will be 33' 05":
farthest on the 21st, her apparent diameter
then being ZK 31". bho presents the following
phases:
First quarter August 4, S7r. M.
i'ullmoon August 11, 9:43 a. m.
Last quarter August 18, 3:62 P.M.
Hew moon August 26, 7:00 P. M.
Phases of Planet.
Mercury is morning star in the beginning of
the month, but passes from the western to the
eastern side of the sun on the 7th. This is
called "superior conjunction," and makes Mer
cury an evening star. When he passes from
tho eastern to the western side of the sun this
passage is called ''inferior conjunction;" in the
former case the planet is on the far side of the
sun; in the latter he is almost directly between
the sun and us.
Mercury will not be visible to the unassisted
eye this month, as he will not get far enough
away from the sun; he may, however, be seen
with a good telescope in the daytlmo If the tel
escope be mounted with graduated circles on
the polar and declination axes and the position
of the planet be known. His apparent diam
eter is 5".
K. A. Dec. Klses. Tran. Sets.
Auk. 5. 8h. Mm. 19H'N. 5:06 A.M. 0:18 P.M. 7:30
Auk.P3.10Ii. 14m. 1236'N. 6U0A.M. 0:57 P.M. 7:45
Aug.25.Uh. Im. 5 OS' N. 7:02 A.M. 1:23P.M. 7:44
The Anagram of Galileo.
Venus is morning star, but waning, though
she is still quite bright, and rises several hoars
before the sun. Her apparent diameter is 17"
and the phase is gibbous. The phase of Venus
was one of the first discoveries of the newly in
vented telescope in the hands of Galileo. Coper
nicus had predicted in advancing his theory
of the solar system that if Venus and Mercury
could bo clearly seen they would show phases
like the moon. Galileo found this was the
case with Venus, but, fearing that someone
else might claim a prior discovery if ho made
his observation known immediately, ana de
sirous of gaining time for further research, he
announced his discovery in the form of an
anagram, which he could transpose at some
future time. His anagram first read. Hacc
immaluraa me am Jrustra teguntiir o. y.z
"These unripe things are now vainly gathered
by me." A few months after he transposed
it into its true form, Cynthlae ftguras
aemulatur mater amorum: The mother of
loves imitates the phases of Chnthia," Cynthia
being another name for Diana, who represented
the moon. And though for nearly three cen
turies since then telescopes have been pointed
at Venus, scarcely anything more has been dis
covered on that planet, which to the naked eve
is the most beautiful and interesting of all.
The planet is supposed to be encircled by a
dense layer ot cloud, which hides th true sur
face from us, and forms a brilliant' reflector for
the sun's light.
Aug. 5..51i.S8m. S105'N 2:01A.M. 9:21A.M.
Aug. 15. .60. 43m. 2l16'N 2:08 A.M. 9:29A.M.
Aug. 25..7h.33m. 20S3'.N 2:19 A.M. 9:37 A.M.
Mars is still far away from us, on the other
side of the sun, and will not be visible for some
time.
Jupiter, Prince 'of Plnnets.
Jupiter is evening star, rising before sunset
in the evening and attaining a-convenlent alti
tude for observation in the early evening. He
is the most interesting of all planets at present,
and those who are so fortunate as to own tele
scopes, even though they be of modest dimen
sions, should not loss the opportunity of seeing
all there is to be seen about the Prince, of
planets, as he will not be well situated for star
gazers in a few months. Jupiter's quartet of
satellites may be very easily seen, more depend
ing upon the keenness of the oye than upon
the sfze of the telescope; in fact, these bodies
have been seen with the unassisted eye on cer
tain occasions, and several cases have been
reported of people who were able to see them
regularly, and give their varying positions
without a mistake.
These satellites were one of the early discov
eries of Galileo with the telescope. He ob
served the eclipses of the satellites by the
shadow of Jupiter, and snggested that the ob
servation of these eclipses might be made use
of In determining the longitude ot a place, a
method which answers very well on land, but
cannot be well used at sea.
Study of the Satellites.
The eclipses, occultatlonB and transits of
these satellites are very interesting for the
amateur to watch. A telescope cf two inohes
aperture will show some of these phenomena,
and one of three or four inches' aperture will
. show about all. A few are noted below for ob
servation. The Roman numeral designates tho
satellite, L being the one nearest Jupiter, IX.
the next, and so on.
August 4. 9:321. M. Shadow of 111 leaves disk;
10:20 P.M.. shadow of I enters upon disk; 12:43 P.
M., shadow of I leaves disk.
Augnst 5, 10:02 p. M. I reappears after being
eclipsed.
August 10, .9:44 p. M. II reappears after being
eclipsed.
August 11, 9:21 P. M. Ill leaves planet's disk;
10:31 p. m., shadow or 111 enters upon disk; 11:20
"P. M., 1 enters upon disk; 12:22 p. M-. shadow of 1
enters upou disk.
August 12,8:40 p. M. 1 disappears behind planet;
11:57 p. M., 1 reappears from shadow of planet.
It. A. Declination. Booths.
Auk. 5..17b.56m. 23 23' 8. 9:18 P.M.
Aug. 15..17h.54m. 23 24' S. - 8:15 P.M.
Aug. 25..17h.53m. 23 28' 3. 7:55 P.M.
Saturn cannot be seen now, nor for some time
to come, as ho Is hidden in tho overpowering
beams of the sun. He passes from the eastern
to the western sido of the sun on the 16th, and
takes rank as a morning star.
Uranus, at best scarcely visible without a
telescope. Is now too near the snn to be of
much account. Ho is evening star, in right
ascension 13 hours 11 minutes, and declination
about 6 607 south.
Neptune is jnornlng ctar, but can never be
seen without a telescope. He shines like a star
of the eighth magnitnde. with a disk subtend
ing an angle of only 2.0". His position is
almost the same throughout the month: right
ascension 4 hours 11 minutes, declination 19 26'
north. Beet E. V. Ltrrr.
PE0PJJB OP PROMINENCE.
Commissioner Tanneb says ho will attend
the G. A. R. union at Milwaukee.
Secretary Proctor will make an address
at tho Fletcher .family reunion in Tremont
Temple on August 28.
Prof. Sumner, who is not yet 0 years old
has held .the Chair of Political Economy in
Vale for the past 17 years, and is tho author of
half a dozen books on that subject.
A grand reunion of students, teachers and
friends of Antloch College, Yellow Springs, O.,
is called for June 18, 1890, at which an oration
will be made by the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett
Hale.
"When Mr. Andrew Clark entered London
Hospital as an assistant, he was in poor health.
"Poor Scotch beggar," said one of 'the faculty,
"let him have a place; he cannot possibly livo
mora, than six months." He is now, after these
many years of eminent service. Sir Andrew
Clark, perhaps tho most famous physician in
England.
If reports be true, Emma Abbott has had made
the costliest dress known to the modern dress
maker. It cost $4,000. This Is moro than three
times as mnch as Sarah Bernhardt's best gown,
which cost 1,200, and nearly seven times as
much as Mme. Doche paid, SCOO. for all the cos
tumes sho used in creating the "Dame aux
Camellas."
Elaborate" preparations are being made in
Hartford, Conn., for a repetition of tho his
torical pageant of national victories which was
lately displayed in Boston. It is to be presented
In honor of Mrs. Harriet Beecber Stowe, some
time late la September. It is also announced
that a similar demonstration 'will be made at
Newport on August 13, In honor of Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe.-
'AOOTST 3, -1889.'
PLUCK AND BRAINS COMBINED.
Interesting VeraonnI History of a Well
Known Pittsburg Man.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Robert Pltcairn, who Is at the Bellovue, illus
trates what brains, pluck and industry will do
in this country. Mr. Pitcairn, who is now one
of the railroad magnates of the land, like his
friend, Andrew Carnegie, came to the United
States a poor Scotch lad. His father obtained
employment in the Pennsylvania Railroad
shops at Altoona. There young Pitcairn was
taken into the office of Henry J. Lombard,
First General Superintendent- of tho road, as
messenger, and while serving in that capacity
learned telegraphing, and became operator and
clerk. Ho gained the confidence of Mr.
Lombard, and, upon tho transferor the latter
to another post at Philadelphia, became as
sitant to Enoch Lewis, who was Lombard's suc
cessor. He subsequently bocamo master of
transportation at Altoona, and when Andrew
Carnegie resigned the Superintendence ot tho
Western Division along abont 1865, Pitcairn
was appointed his successor, with headquar
ters at Pittsburg. Later, upon the transfer of
tho late J. McCrelghton to the West Penn
Division, Pitcairn was made General Agent,
and he has sluco held both tho offices of Super
intendent and General Agent.
TO POPULAR ALASKA.
A Scheme to Kemove tho Icelanders to the
Ynkon River.
Washington, August 2. Among persons of
a scientific turn of mind a certain project of
International importance has been quietly dis
cussed. It is nothing mora nor less than tho
transplanting of the entire population of Ice
land. 75,000 souls, to the most habitable part'of
Alaska. Many of them, it is said, are willing
to move away to a moro genial climate, or at
least to a more fruitful territory. Their fdea is
not to go to a region wholly different, where all
the conditions of life will bo reversed, but to a
land nearly in the altitude of Iceland.
The proposition is one of vast importance, as
it involves the removal of an entire people,
and. that an old, renowned and cultivated
people. It has behind it strong influence in
high quarters. Senator Piatt, of Connecticut,
it is said to-day, has agreed to defray the ex
penses of an Icelandic minister in making the
arrangements. The valuable wooded and fer
tile region on the great Yakon river is sng
gested as the new habitat of the Icelanders
if tho consent of the Parliament of Iceland
and the Danish Government oan be obtained.
THOUSANDS OP WITES WANTED.
Washington Territory Send a Novel Appeal
to the Mayor of Boston.
Boston, August 2, A novel appeal for wives
was received1 to-day by Mayor Hart from Wr
A. Wheelwright. Mayor ox xacoma, Washing
ton. The writer says that the Territory of
Washington, and the city of Tacoma in partic
ular, are filled with sober, industrious and
enterprising men, mostly young, who are desi
rous of marrying.
The lettsr says that there are about ten men
to every woman in the Territory, and is fol
lowed by a resolve "that the Mayor and Com
mon Council of Tacoma appeal to the people of
Massachusetts to send all the women of mar
riageable age that can Da spared to the Terri
tory and city, with a view to making pleasant
the homes of thousands of ablebodled, indus
trious voung men, who wonld be glaa to
marry." Another resolve is to the effect that
the proclamation be forwarded to the Mayor of
Boston, with the urgent request that it be
published broadcast throughout the State.
THE BEST DRESSED LEGISLATOR.
Ho is From Allegheny City and Is Hon.
Charles W. Roblsou.
tTrom the Philadelphia Inqulrer.i
C. W. Robison, member of the Legislature
for the First district of Allegheny county,
stopped in the city yesterday for a brief period
on his way from Long Branch to Atlantic City.
Mr. Robison, who is accompanied by his sister,
is doing the seaside resorts. During his stay in
the city he called on Chairman Andrews, of the
Republican State Committee, and talked pleas
antly about the last Legislature and the chances
of tho next.
He was said to be the best dressed man on
Capitol Hill, and his costume yesterday justi
fied his reputation. He wore a blue tweed suit,
the coat a sack, neat fitting and charmingly
cool looking. Necktie, gloves and other acces
sories were in entire harmony. He left for the
seashore at 4 o'clock in the evening.
A NOTED LINGUIST DEAD.
Noadlah M. Hill. Who Understands
so
Different Languages.
The Albany Journal contains the following
item dated North Chatham, July 30:
Noadlah M. Hill died here yesterday at the
age of 73 years. He was a merchant here about
50 years ago, and had lived a retired life for a
number of years. He conld read and under;
stand 60 different languages and dialects. Mr.
Hill read and understood the Hebrew, Arabic,
Syrlac, Chaldee. Samaritan, Maltese Arabic
Mogrebln Arabic, Persian, Armenian, Turkish,
HindoosUn, Orenburg, Tartar, Estrangelo Syr
lac, Trans-Caucasian Tartar, Greek, Latin,
German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch.
Fleml8h,Angln-Saxon, and many other tongues.
LOADED MS GUN WITH WATER.
The Lender of a German Band Adopts a
Peculiar Method of Suicide.
New Yobs, August Z Gottlieb Helns, of 53
Avenue A, killed himself last night at his homo
by shooting himself with a shotgun. He was
the leaderof a curbstone German band and bad
been drinking lately.
After loading tho gun he filled the barrel
with water, put the muzzle to his bead, and
pushed the trigger with bis toe. His head was
almost blown off. This is said to be an old
fashioned German way of committing suicide.
An Office That Bought the Man.
from the New York Herald.l
A great monument to tho memory of theMay
flower pilgrims was dedicated at Plymouth.
But if William Bradford, who was elected
Governor by the colonists 31 times, should come
to life again, what chance would he have to get
a public officer Just think it over.
How to Get a Completo Record.
From tho New York Tribune. 3 "
An earnest seeker after truth inquires of a
cotemporary: "Will you please tell me how to
traco up a family history!" Perhaps as good a
way as any Is to get one of tho family whose
history vou wish to trace np to run for office in
a close district.
Using Up the Tnll Timber.
From the Ohio state Journal.
From the amount of timber used in the con
struction of La Tosca parasols and dude's
canes this season, it looks as if the forests of
the country would be denuded sooner than
anticipated..
A Missouri Marvel.
From the Kansas City btar.1
An apple tree at Carrollton contains blos
soms, green apples and ripe fruit. There is
also something growing on ono of the top
branches that looks liko an apple dumpling.
A New Figure of Speech.
From the Cincinnati Commercial Uaiette.1
The Chicago News usually knows as much
about Ohio politics as a speckled pup does
about a parallax.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs. . BL Nelson.
Sirs, Eliza M. Kelson, wife of Samuel D. Nel
son, died at her residence. Lemington avenue,
East End, last night. She was 'the mother of Air.
H. C Nelson, of the hardware firm of Hall & Nel
son. Mrs. E. O. MacGonUle and Mrs. Dr. J. 8.
Espr. of the East End. One funeral will be held
at tfio residence bunday at 2:3) r. M. The deceased
has been a resident of Pittsburg rrom her youth,
and was well known and respected by all.
Mrs. Agnes Young.
In the obituary column or Thb Dispatch Is
notice of the death or Mrs. Agnes Young, at the
age of years, at the borne of bcr diughter, Mrs.
Woolslaycr, pf the Sixteenth ward. Mrs. Young
had been a resident or this city since 1827. In that
year she came with her husband, James Young,
from Board Mills, County Down, Ireland, where
she was married in 183). She was a faithrul help
meet to her life partner for upward of a half cen
tury, and had been a widow lor nearly years.
George II. Jameson.
WieniNOTON, August 2. George H. Jameson,
a good writer and popular newspaper man, died
In this city early this morning. Ha was 39 years
old and Is well-known in the West and In Wash
ington, Sir William Ewart.
London, Augusts, Sir' William Ewart, M. P.
for the North division of Belfast. Is dead. He wu
1 CoUscrvatlYoln politics.-'
MATTERS METROPOLITAN.
Family Fends to the Death.
ISJtW TOKK BUKEAU 8FECIAJ.8.1
New York, August Z War to the knife has
long existed between tho Noonan and Grimes
families, who occupy the same tenement house
in Long Island City. In return for many potty
annoyances, James Noonan knocked James
Grimes senseless with his fist in the corridor
last Tuesday. While ho was jumuing on bis
unconscious enemy, Mrs. Grimes attacked him
with an ax handle. After a bloody scrimmage
Noonan retired with a bruised forehead and a
sprained wrist Last night, at midnight,
Noonan, his brother and four others broke into
Grimes' bedroom. They tore the bedclothes
from the bed in which Grimes and his wife
slept, and beat them both with clnbs for sev
eral minutes. Grimes was beaten senseless.
Mrs. Grimes threw herself on his body to pro
tect him from tho blows of Noonan and his
friends. James Grimes, who tried to help his
sister-in-law. was thrown downstairs. Miss
Burns, a boarder, was thrown after him be
cause she protested against tho brutality ot
the Noonan party. After an hour's work of
this kind, Noonan and his friends left. This
morning the police fonnd Mr. and Mrs. Patrick
Grimes unconscious on a bed saturated with
their blood. Tbey, as well as James Grimes
and Miss Burns, wero taken to a hospital. Mr.
Grimes will probably die. Tho others will re
cover. A Mother's Awful Mistake.
Mrs. John Eastman unintentionally poisoned
her 5-year-old daughter to-day by giving her
carbolic acid instead of a liquid opiate. The
child died within an hour. Mrs. Eastman's dis
tress may make her insane.
Another Chicago Novelty.
Mrs. Leslie Carter will not be the only "fem
inine novelty" from Chicago offered to theater
goers next season. The latest aspirant to sen
sational notcrioty on the stage is Mrs. McCrea,
a danghter of Banker Snell, the Chicago mill
ionaire who was murdered by Tascott. Mrs.
McCrea is said to be extremely handsome,
young and moneyed. She is tho wife of a rich
Stock Exchange man of Chicago. Mrs. McCrea
has been studying diligently for some time with
several dramatic coaches, and is said to havo
very dramatic ideas. She wants a manager,
and wants a play. Among tho managers with
whom Mrs. McCrea has been negotiating is J.
M. HilL though it is said that nothing has been
settled between the two as yet.
Baseball a Care For Lunacy.
Some weeks ago the baseball nine of tho
American Actors' Amateur Athletic Associa
tion was crnshlngly defeated by the baseball
nine of the Middletown State Insane Asylnm
The score was 20 to 8. To-day the actors' nine,
with their manager, Digby Bell, and some 30
prominent professionals, went down tq Middle
town to get revenge, and they got it. They'
beat the six lunatics and three attendants who
played ball for the asylum by a score of 17 to 2.
During the game numerous pretty tents were
spread out on the lawn for the use ot patients,
and they were filled mostly by the female wards
and their attendants, while the men lounged
about in the samo way as the ordinary baseball
enthusiasts do. In fact, they were a great deal
moro self-possessed than the cranks at the Polo
grounds. The players were attired in neat bine
uniforms, and did no moro shouting or grumb
ling than rational ball players, Dr.Tascott, of
the asylum, thinks he has discovered a new
cure In baseball for certain kinds of lunacy.
He says: "You can scarcely realize the benefit
that the sport yields; not only to the players,
but to tho other patients. It furnishes them
with a beneficial, healthful excitement. Two
ot the players are victims of melancholia, and
there are a large number who scarcely speak a
word during the week until they come out to a
game. Then tbey aro full of healthy Interest."
Beats Her Own Record One Honr.
The steamship Augusta Victoria, of the
Hamburg line, has again broken tho eastward
record from New York to The Needles. A
cablegram to the packet lino states that tho
Augusta reached Southampton at 1:30 A. M. to
day, Greenwich time. As the time between
The Needles and Southampton is one honr and
a half, she must have passed the latter at 12
o'clock, midnight. The Augusta left Sandy
Hook bar at 5 p. jr. last Thursday. Her whole
time, therefore, between Sandy Hook and The
Needles, making Eastern time correspond with
Western reckoning, is seven days, two hours.
The previous record made by horse! f. was seven
days, three hours. She, therefore, breaks her
own record by ono hour.
What Sullivan's Friends Expect.
The colossal benefit,which was to have helped
John L. Sullivan in a financial way, has been
indefinitely postponed. A large nnmber of
tickets had been sold for the Academy of Mu
sic It is not known yet what will be done.
Editor Lumley, of tho Illustrated News, said
to-day that the benefit would be given sooner
or later. Personally he knew nothing of the
arrangements, but he expected to see Sullivan
back iu New York in a very short time. Liko
most of the sporting men here, he thinks that
Sullivan will be let off with a light tine, after
an immediate trial, or will bo released at once,
under light bonds.
Not a Bad Idea.
From the Baltimore American. 1
Chicago is not entirely bad. It frequently
famishes new ideas that are worthy of adop
tion. One of these is the appointment of five
women to serve as sanitary police. They will
inspect factories and tenements, and their work
is expected to improve and protect tho health
of working, women.
An AntI-Prohibition Pool.
From the Chicago News.:
There is a certain deep pool in a stream near
Boonton, N. J., from the botton of wnich wells
up a flood of natural champagne. It is not sur
prising, therefore, that General Fisz has about
concluded that the Prohibition party cannot
hope to carry the State very soon.
The Itrport Not Credited.
From the Washington Post.
The report that "the Chicago Anarchists are
still at work" would have more influence on
the public mind if it were not so generally
understood that a Chicago Anarchist never is
and never was either still or at work. "
TRI-STATE TRIFLES.
Mr. James Laffertt. of Altoona, while on
his way to Scotch Valley, had an exciting en
counter with two rattlesnakes. His attention
was first called to their presence by the shying
ot his horse, -which came near throwing him
off. The snakes ran into a pile of cordwood,
when he called to his assistance Mr. Roy
Moore, who was plowing in a field near by.
With the aid of poles they succeeded in routing
the reptiles from the wood, and dispatching
them. They were four feet in length and fully
two Inches in diameter. Ope had eight rattles
and a button and tho otlior six rattles and a
button. -One was yellow and the other black.
A fuq dog that eats huckleberries and black
berries from the stalks is the latest thing New
Bloomlield has in the dog line.
A FUiA-ri.ETjaED ghost is doing effective
work In keeping street gamins at home after
nightfall in the vicinity of tho City Park ou tho
West Side, in Erje. The apparition is arrayed
in robes ot spotless white and floats noiselessly
through the air over chimney tops,
T. K. Yoteias, a Bethlehem barber, lately
bongbt from an old citizen there a number of
ancient razors to have them ground down, the
steel being better than that of to-day. In ex
amining the case of ono he found in it a bank
note of the Easton Bank, dated May, 1838.
Mna. Joseph Tebo. living near Newelton,
Pa., was helping her husband to load hay whan
a bugo rattlesnake flopped around from her
fork-load and thumped her on the back. She
was not bitten, but tho thump frightened her
into a bed ot sickness.
SOME supposed eagles captured at Lewis
town while gorging on the carcass of a bear,
have been examined by an ornithologist, who
calls them buzzards.
Fotjr postoffices within eight miles of West
Chester are filled by members ot tho Moore
family.
The old apple tree planted by the Moravian
missionaries, at Gnaddenhutten, O., 115 years
ago. blew down in a recent storm. It bors
apples to the last, and bad considerable unripe
fruit on it at the time.
CURIOUS C0NDMSATI0B8." ;
A Cigarette Trust has been formed by
tobacco dealers in Salem, Ore.
One McDonald, of Beloit. Heb., gives
his age as 103, and says that his father lived to
boU7.
A Cincinnati couple named respectively
John Sweet and Millie Honey were married in
that city recently.
Charley "Wheelock, when in the Coast
range, Ono, Cal killed a 700-pound grizzly at
300 yards, the first fire from his rifle.
A dozen drivers and conductors on the
Atlantic avenno horse car lino in Brooklyn
wero suspended recently for flirting.
the Lee brothers, of French- creek, B.
C were building a road last week, when they
noticed their dog acting curiously near a large
stump. A second later ho was seized by a full
grown panther and carried into the woods.
The streets of Albuquerque, N. Hex.,
are so deserted at night that the cottontail rab
bit bas taken possession of them. A number
aro so tame that they go into the Democrat
office every night to get fed by the printers.
A miner of Hassayampa district, Cal.f
found a bee tree sometime since, cut it down
one afternoon, went next day to get the honey,
and found that three bears two old ones and a
cub had been thero and- taken every thimble
ful full of the sweet stuff.
A large oak tree stands on the Ken
tucky ranch, somo 12 miles west of Paso
Robles, CaL This tree measures 30 feet In cir
cumference at the base, 12 feet in diameter,
and Is about GO feet high. Some of the limbs
are large trees in themselves.
George 'Williams, a noted hunter of
Virginia City, has discovered a deposit of fossil
Ivory in the Sierra Nevada range. His first
snowing consists of two large tusks of an ele-
Shant. Tho ivory is in perfect condition, and
e is going back for a wagon load.
A Des Moines, la., youth, under the in
spiration of sensational novels, purchased an
outfit of small arms, a false beard, and then
held up several travelers in highwayman style.
His vaulting ambition o'erleaned Itself, and bo
is at present in the care of the police.
Sally Kennett, of Madison, N. H., and
Jacob Tuttle, of Alton. N. H.. are twins and 84.
Robert, late husband of Mrs. Kennett, who
died three years ago, was 81. His twin brother,
George, survived him one year. They were of
a family of 10 or 12. Mrs. Kennett and Mr.
Tuttle wero of a family of H, some still living.
Mrs. Phineas Clawson, of Hopwood,
Pa., was picking huckleberries In the moun
tains a few days ago with a pet dog at her side
when a copperhead snake crawled up and bit
the dog. The animal fled frightened into the
bushes and the Bnake escaped. A day or two
later the dog returned apparently none the
worse for the bite.
A Meriden, Conn., authority declares
that street musicians are a serious thing to a
manufacturing company iu that town. A
gypsy girl who played the tambourine recently
passed their establishment, "and it is estimated
that she cost the company about S200. Every
employe in the factory flew to a windew. and
work was suspended for fully 15 minutes all
over the shop. Every circus parade costs every
one of the large manufacturing concerns hun
dreds of dollars. If costs them from J25 to $50
every time a minstrel brass band marches by."
Dr. Jutt, of Coral, Mich., thinks that
he bas one of the oldest horses in the United
States. Twenty-four years ago be bought him
of Dan Rice, the showman, and then the horse
was said to be 22 years old. The other day
State Veterinarian Grange made a careful ex
amination of the 46-year-old, and pronounced
blm perfectly sound of body, wind and limb,
and apparently good for 20 years more. Dr.
Just uses the old horse daily in his practice,
and ho shows not the slightest signs cf his
great age.
An old Indian trail has been discovered
at Bhawangunk Mountain. leading from War
warsing. N.Y., into the Wallklll Valley. Where
the trail runs down themountain on the Gardi
ner side, it passes a clef t in the rocks. Some
thing in the shape of a staircase had been
formed, so the Indians could slide down the
declivity from projection to projection. With
out this staircase it would be impossible to go
down the mountain at that point. On the oppo
site side of the mountain there is another stair
case or "ladder," as ltis called.
Quite an amusing instance of somnam
bulism occurred in Morgan, Ga., some nights
since. A 10-year-old boy was discovered fast
asleep climbing into bis room through a.
window some distance from the ground. This
alarmed his father, and procuring some large
wire, he made a casing on the outside, and
some nights since, a crash being heard, a rush
was made for the boy's room, when; beholut
the, young man was half way through the
wire with the window sash resting gracefully
on his spinal column. He did not hare to be.
awakened. . '
One of the most picturesque and re
markable bodies of water in the world is
Henry's Lake, in Idaho. It is sitnated on tho
dome of the continent in a depression in the
Rocky Mountains called Targee'a Pass. It has
an area of 40 sqnare miles, and all around it
rise snow-capped peaks, somo of them being
the highest of the continent's backbone. In
the lake Is a floating island about 300 feet in
diameter. It bas for' its basis a mass of roots
so dense that it supports large trees and a
heavy growth of underbrush. These roots are
covered with several feet of rich soil. The
surface is solid enongh to support the weight
of a horse anywhere, and there are places
where a house conld be built. The wind blows
the island about the lake, and it seldom re
mains 21 hours In the same place.
Queer names certainlv are found in the
London general registry of births, at Somerset
House. For example, young scions of the
families of Bath, Lamb, Jordan, Dew, Dear,
and Smith are christened respectively Foot,
Pascal, River, Morning. Offspring, and Smith
Follows. Mr. Cox called bis son Arthur Wolles
ley Wellington Waterloo. Mr. Jewett. a noted
huntsman, named his Edward Byng Tally Ho
Forward. A mortal that was evidently unwel
come is recorded as "One Too Many." An
other of the same sort is "Not Wanted James."
Children with six to ten names are frequent,
but probably tho longest name In the world,
longer than that ot any potentate, is attached
to the child ot Arthur Pepper, laundryman.
The name of his daughter, born 1883, is Ann
Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude
Hypatla Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora
Ophelia Quince Rebecca Starkey TerezaUlysis
(sic) Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeus
Pepper one title precisely for every letter of
the alphabet.
FDNNY MBN'S FANCIES.
A prize fighter buys his victory by the
pound. Boston Oasette.
The potato is said to be deteriorating, but
It made many a mash in its better day. Terrs
Hants Express.
What becomes of the old pianos? "Well,
some uniortunate fellow's next door neighbor
buys one for torture, while others are sent to the
heathen. Aio lork Journal.
Grammar teaches as that relatives usually
refer to antecedents.
go does the cannibal.
He eats his relatives and so did his antecedents,
Philadelphia Press.
Though ever busy ben ye bee,
Exceeding brisk and sprye,
H ne'er exceils In industry
Ye early mornynge aye.
Washington Capital.
Yeast Don't yon think Crimsonbeak has
a taking way about blm?
Bacon Most decidedly I do. I never knew any
one to ask him when he didn't take something.
Xonters Statesman.
"If they abolish the nobility in England,"
remarked Mrs. Fhnnnyman, "the London bridge
will have to go."
Mr. Phunnyman How do yon make that out?
Mrs. P. Because It Is sustained by piers. Phil
adtlphla Press.
Sure preventive of mosquito bites: Take
the cover off your cistern, crawl Into the cistern,
replace the cover, and duck under the water. As
long as you remain there entirely submerged in
water wo will stake our reputation for veracity
that you'll not be bitten by a mosquito. Dans
vllls Brttis.
Brooks T hear that yon and the boys
were out hooking watermelons. Did you get a
good load?
Crooks Voujust bet we did. Brooks; aud every
bit or it was buckshot, too. Charleston Sunday
Sews.
TUB OLD, OLD 8T0BT.
He anchored fast his fishing boat,
Be made a cushion of his coat.
And sat and watched his bobber float
From early morn till night.
As honr on hour thus idly spent
In slow succession came and went.
He passed the time In sweet content
While walling for a bite. t
When shadows badehlmnshnomore.
Be piled the lasy dripping oar
And sought a lad upon the shore.
His string of bass to buy. ,
Next morning in the busy mart
Be told a tale all knew by hurt,
Xet told It with such wondrous art - -float
knew the old, old lis. -.
Washington Post,