.yjsa 'ra- -v " rt ;f , 3F v'r v tV ft I Jm Bigpfoij. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1S18. VoL44, lia 183. Entered at Pittsburg Postofflec, XoTember 14, J&S7, as second-class matter. Business 02ce97 and 09 Fifth Avenuo. News Booms and Publishing Houso 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street. Eastern Advertising Office, ltoom 43, Tribune Building, hew York. Average net circulation of the dally edition of The DisrATCii for six month! ending July 81, 1SS9, us sworn to before City Controller, 29,914 Copies perlssuc Average net circulation of the Sunday edition of The DlsrATCS for three months ending July 31, isss, 54,897 Copies per Issue. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAGE FBEE IN THE POTTED STATES. DAILY DisrATcn, One Year f 8 00 Daily DIsrATCII, Per Quarter 2 CO Daily Dispatch, One Month 70 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 year. 10 00 Daily DisrATCU. Including Sunday.Sm'ths. 2 50 Daily Diepatcii, Including Sunday. 1 month to Eludat DisrATC.ii. One Year 2 50 "Weekly Dispatch, One Year 125 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at ;5cent per week, or including Sunday edition, at 20 cents per week. . PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14, 188a TIME FOB BEFLECTIOH". " The probability that a long and bitterly contested strike in the window glass indus try will commence on September 1, is made prominent by the failure of the manufac turers and men to agree upon the scale at their conference yesterday. The determination to disagree is said to be final, but there are still two weeks and a half in which both sides may take time to think better of it Statements of the ina bility of the employers to pay the wages de manded and of the amount of money which the employes have in their treasury, are as abundant as blackberries; but in tie next 20 days one side should reflect whether it is not better to make a (compromise than to stand idle, and the other whether the money that is in the treasury might not be better invested than in supporting universal stag nation. Compromise is always better than conflict in industrial matters. BATHES TOO PRIVATE. The tumble in Sugar Trust shares which took place on Monday, was based upon an item of Stock Exchange gossip to the effect that an injunction had been applied for to prevent the payment of the coming divi dend by the Trust. One story had it that the receiver of the North River Refining Company, appointed by Judge Barrett, who has decided against the legality of the trust, was the applicant for the dividend in the interest of that company; bnt another undercurrent of gossip was to the effect that the trust itself had applied for the injunc tion in order to keep its funds on hand for a fight that is expected to come up when Clans Spreckels gets his big competing sugar refinery in operation. Either report is equally uncomfortable for the holders of trust certificates. The public are begin ning to see the truth of Mr. Blaine's asser tions that trusts are private affairs, and to conclude that their management iB alto gether too much a private affair for the wel fare ot the common investor. DEALING IN LASQE SUMS. The latest trade report is to the effect that the Sugar Trust has entered into a negotia tion with a European syndicate to buy up and control the sugar plantations of the en tire world. One hundred million dollars is the amount stated as required for this pleas ant little scheme; and when it is carried out the consumers of the world will have to pay prices that will yield a big return on th.t very neat investment. Let us see. A hundred millions needed for this scheme, as much more for theproject of buying the wheat crop of Dakota and Minnesota, and smaller sums for the pur chase of various manufacturing enter prises are likely to place the total invest ments for syndicate schemes that are pend ing for immediate action, at 250,000,000 in cosh. The reports have failed to state where the people who have this supply of funds ready for the enterprises of monopoly liave got it deposited. It would be much easier than furnishing this sum of money, to float $250,000,000 of paper securities at whatever they will bring under the pretense that they are to repre sent the profits of monopoly. But recent events show that even that game can be worn gauzy. BASEBALL AND FOOL SELLING. The fact that the selling of pools on base hall games has become quite the rage in Boston, where a total of f 100,000 per day is reported to change hands on those events, is referred to by the N ew York Herald as some thing that should be stopped. It will be difficult to prevent the pool sellers from taking anything as the subject on which they offer an opportunity for the people to gamble so long as the pool rooms are allowed to bo open. But the Her ald is undoubtedly right in the position that the baseball business should be sepa rated as widely as possible from the business of gambling upon it. The connection of baseball with the pool rooms has always proved demoralizing ami discreditable. Only a few years ago the prevalence of the gambling business in the baseball interest, Drought it to a condition of utfer disrepute which very nearly took away all public in terest in the game. This is one of the ten dencies of professionalism which baseball managers have recently tried to guard against They cannot act more wisely than by preserving a wide and clear line of de marcation between their organization and the business of betting on their games. F0BEIGNEBS AND AMERICANS. The movement of the Italians of New York City to prepare for political duties, by taking out their papers of citizenship,is ap proved by ourbrilliantcotemporary,the New York Sun; but that journal makes a perti nent point by telling them that "They must, however, go into politics here not as Ital ians, but as Americans, not as a body of Toters apart from other citizens, but as one of the constituent and intermingling elements of the great American, Republican Demo cratic community." This is very cogent advice for the Ital ians, and it might pertinently be ex tended so as to Include all other na tionalities. The policy of this coun try in allowing immigration from other parts of the world looks to the assimilation of the immigrants, and their conversion into American citizens.. It is not for the preservation of conflicting nation alities and the continuance of international jealousies and factions. The maintenance of German, Irish, Italian, Polish or any other foreign interests in American polities is opposed to the purposes of naturalization. The transferor foreign political issues and international jealousies is inimical to the peace and prosperity of this country. All our foreign born citizens should under stand that when they take the oath of alle giance they become, first of all, American citizens. C0BP0BATE DIS0EDEBS. The disposition of corporations, where their material interests are in conflict, to levy petty warfare and indulge, by means of hired agents, in disorderly conduct, re ceived an illustration in this city a few days ago, .and manifested itself in a still more significant shape in Philadelphia on Sun day. The disorderly corporations were no less important ones than the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Baltimore and Ohio Bail road. Between them both they managed to present a fine example of disregard for legal proceedings and disrespect for law and order. One railroad wished to lay a switch to con nect its tracks with certain manufacturing establishments, and the other railroad did not wish to have it do so. Accordingly, while the workmen ot one corporation were absent a force employed by the other ap peared on the ground,, tore up the track and built a board fence across it The employes of the opposing company then appeared upon the ground and -attempted to restore the destroyed work. This, of course, led to blows, and a small riot went in operation very promptly, which was only quelled by the appearance of a squad of police, who succeeded in enforcing,! cessation of hos tilities. It would have been very easy for the dis puting corporations to -have determined their legal rights by an appeal to the courts, or by reference to an impartial lawyer. In fact there is little reason to donbt that each corporation knew its legal rights, and if it had not been for the desire of one or both i to prevent the other from a fair opportunity to compete for the freight of the manufactur ing establishments, it would have been very easy for them to have compromised their dis pute without the necessity of either litiga tion or disorderly conduct. But the corpo rate policy is to seize whatever is wanted by tlje strong hand, without regard either to natural justice or legal actions. The result is that they hire men to indulge in disorder and resort to violence. Yet, when these same employes, in a dis pute which affects their own vital interest in the matter of wages, apply the lesson which the corporations have taught them and re sort to force in support of their claim, the corporate magnates who ordered this viola tion of good order will be vociferous in pro claiming their conviction of the necessitv of enforcing the laws and preventing all dis orderly proceedings. Is it the corporate theory that breaches of the peace of which they are the victims, are the only disorders which the law should stop? A GBEAT SOCIAL PB0BLEM. " It is no new thing to hear that there are thousands upon thousands of men in the far "Western States who want wives and cannot get them for the simple reason that there are not nearly enough women in those re gions to go aronnd. Equally familiar is the statement that many of the Eastern States, and notably those of New England, possess a superabundance of spinsters who would marry if they could. The Mayor of Ta coma, "Wash., puts one side of the case strongly in the following appeal which he recently sent to the Mayor of Boston: Send us yonr girls, thousands of girls. We have thousands of young men wanting wives wbo cannot go East to find and court them. Send all chat will come. Wo guarantee bus bands. Please publish this for threo weeks or a month. Other appeals pf a like nature have reached the East lately. In the very nature of things such appeals are not likely to be answered Beriously by many women; cer tainly by no desirable women. General proposals of marriage at wholesale cannot avail with intelligent and good women. .Pernaps, nay, very probably, there are many spinsters in New England who would gladly marry any decent pan, but very few of them indeed would be willing to cross the continent to the matrimonial altar un invited by their husbands-to-be. The femi nine nature, the traditions of the sex, and the customs of society forbid a woman to seek marriage openly and directly. But any subterfuge or pretense will serve to cover husband hnnting. There must be an excuse of some sort, however, though it matters not how thin it be. All the conere gations of the sexes, at dances, balls, the theater, the lecture room, by the sea, on the mountains, even in the churches, are in part at least opportunities of which women cheer fully avail themselves to hunt a husband. And the world approves. But neither women nor the world would sanction the direct search for a husband which the "West ern men wish the Eastern women to make. Consequently it is plain that all that is needed to bring these lonely bachelors and lovelorn spinsters together is an excuse for meeting. We suggest that the "Western men should invite the fair ones from the East to a gigantic reception, without allud ing to the matrimonial question at all. To conceal the real issue further it might be well to add in the invitation that a tour through a part of the "West would follow the reception, "We will wage a good deal that most of the invitations would be ac cepted, and that moreover not a single woman would return. If she ever did re turn she would not be single. The genial Joseph Howard informs the public through the New York Press that "Clara Louise Kellogg has grown quite stout." "With similar enterprise, Joseph will be able before long to tell his readers that Mr. Blaine has been defeated for the presidency. Clara's accession of adipose and Mr. Blaine's disaster were very nearly cotemporary events. It is presented as an evidence of coming success in the arrangement to start the World's Pair agitation in New York, that the Finance Committee, whose djity it will be to raise the necessary funds, is made up of the millionaires, from Cornelius Vander bilt and Jay Gould down to Brlce, Rocka feller and Ogden Mills. But the trouble with putting ,New York millionaires on committees of this sort, as illustrated in the matter of the Grant monument, is that the millionaires are apt to think that their ser vices on the committee absolve them from service on the subscription lists. New York should understand that the true way to get success for her World's Pair is to appoint tho Vanderbilts, Goulds and their associates to prominent positions on the list of gentle men who have pledged themselves lb furnish large amounts of the necessary funds. . Tee Emperor of Bussia has determined to visit the Emperor of Germany, and de clare, like Sampson, in "Romeo and Juliet," that he does not bite' his thumb at Ger many; bnt be bites his thumb. We move a great deal faster now than formerly. It took several centuries for some one to inform the world that the story of William Tell was a myth, and it has re quired scarcely as many weeks for a news paper to tell the country that the story of "Cattle Kate," her pranks in cleaning out the herds and gambling dens of her neigh bors, and her final end at the hands of lynchers, is entirely.the creation of an im aginative reporter. This enables us to hope that in due time we shall learn .that the train robber, who holds up an entire rail road train single-handed, is an invention of the enemy. TnE deliverances of the 'German Em peror and the Prince of Wales to the effect that the English navr and the German army wilf be factors in the preservation of peace, indicates the statesmanlike deter mination to give every person who shows signs of breaking the peace a very sound thrashing. I Itistbue, as the Chicago Times sug gests, that it is a good deal of a farce for the French Government "to waste time trying a man whom they haven't got and can't get" This is the way it appears to the Anglo-Saxon mind; but in view of the fact that the Precch Government don't want to get him, and are using the trial as a means of preventing themselves from getting "the unwelcome Boulanger, that peculiar and celebrated case is not entirely without its usefulness to the French politicians. De. Hammond's assurance that "it will take a hundred years of experimenting" be fore it will be determined, whether the new elixir of life is of much use, provokes the reflection, which may be comforting or otherwise, that most of us by that time will not care whether it is of much use or not It is calculated to provoke reflections upon the limited nature of literary fame to find a Philadelphia cotemporary, in a column devoted to the republishing of old songs, publishing as "a song with local interest," and one whieh was "sung by a Philadelphianon board of a vessel leaving the wharf fbf the gold mines of California," a slightly Americanized version of what has been supposed' to be a poem of universal note, called "Auld Lang Syne." The annulling of that Flack divorce by the New York judge who not only granted it, but appointed a disqualified person to act as referee and fix up the transaction, is a sign that "trying cases in the press" is not always certain to have such a bad effect They are getting out warrants for the arrest of some prominent business men in Buffalo who are accused of making away with some 1300,000 worth of other people's property. This would seem to be a viola tion of all the precedents; but the further lact remains, that the accused business men have lost their money, which makes them eligible for criminal prosecution. The resort to infernal machines in Ken tucky reduces the rest of the world to dumb .astonishment, that the Kentucky stock of pistols, shot guns and whisky cannot keep the death rate high enough to suit th. taste of all the blue grass citizens. We hope that it cannot be possible that the light of protection journalism and ed itor ot official organs of the administration, the Hon. Bussell Harrison, is going to deluge this country with a lot bf pauper made English clothing. If we remember right, something was said about' the excel lence and cheapness of American clothing, during the last campaign. PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE. Leo XIIL. although 78 years old, works harder than any European sovereign. He rises between 4 and 5 in summer, and between 6 and 6 in winter. Tennyson and Swinburne write wretched hands. The laureate's chlrography is large and uneven, woile Swinburne's looks Ilk the work of a school boy. B ayabp Taylor was ambitious to be known as a poet, but his misfortune was to be known" as a traveler one who succeeded in seeing Europe with littlo money. He complained that "the chief merits accorded him were, not pas sion and imagination, but strong legs and economical habits." A special passport such as are issued to distinguished citizens Intending to go abroad, was signed at the State Department yesterday for Senator E varts, of New York. Th e Senator will visit Europe, it is said, to consult special ists on the continent about his eyes, whose con dition is such as to give him much concern. EX-GOVEKNOSJ ALOHZO B. CORNELL, of New York, and Governor J. B. Foraker, of Ohio, arrived In Buffalo Monday evening and spent a few hours veryleasantly as the guests of Mr. Henry M. Watson. A few Buffalo gen tlemen were invited to meet them at dinner. Mr. Foraker took the midnight train for the West k Tiiomas Bailet Aldbich's dainty little poem. "Baby Bell," was .refused' by the Knick erbocker Magazine and other periodicals, and was finally published in the lie w York Journal of Commerce, a strange place for the publica tion of such a poem. The poet was paid to for it He has since received as much as 81,200 for . a short poem, not so long and not so good as "Baby Bel).'' Such is fame. Speaking of the author of "Kobert Elsmerc," a correspondent says: "In private conversation Mrs. Ward can be either gay and humorous and richly so or impressive and refreshing. Her power of conversation ex tends over many topics. She bas essentially an resthetic rather than a philosophical or sci entific mode ot looking at everything, and, I fancy, would be liable to apply standards of taste where more syllogistio logicians would In sist upon colder methods ot investigation. Mrs. Ward is pungent, brilliant and witty." Genebal Grant was receiving 600 a year for keeping the books of "a tan yard when the Civil War broke out He started for Washing ton to offer his services to the War Depart ment and his application for a commission was thrown into the waste basket He hung around, however, until, to get rid of him, he was sent West with a commission as Colonel of volunteers. He was in the way out there and President Lincoln had signed his recall, but be fore he could be found, Vicksburg hadsur. rendered. After that he was in a position to dictate, and he did. A Wicked Old Microbe. From the New York Bun. An Italian savant Dr. Malinconlco, of Na ples, pretends to have discovered something better yet than the elixir ot Prof. Brown. Sequard. He bas Just discovered the microbe of old age, and he is now engaged in thinking about the best way to kill him. When one thinks ot the' length of tune that this hoary headed old microbe, bas been in concealment the value of Dr. Malincomco's discovery can be easily appreciated. . War Ramon Follow Him. From the Philadelphia Times.: As the German Emperor is said to secure new guarantees of peace wherever he goes, and as he has gone nearly everywhere, it is singular that the war rumors continue all the same. Fntlle and Foolish. From the Troy Times. Struggling for the last word In a quarrel Is about equal in brilliancy with prodding a dying mule in the nonsensical hope that an other kick may be fetched out of him. i Immigrant Willi Honey Wanted. From the Philadelphia Press. Canada is dreadfully angry because a colony of Mormons have settled within her borders. None hat boodlers are 'really 'welcome "over there. ' ' . , ; THE PITTSBURG .DISPATCH, THE TOPICAL TALKER. Bare la tho Charitable Speaker Fleeing From Alcohol Into tho Arms of Forgery. Veby rare indeed s the human being who never says an evil word about anyone, but always seeks to see somefcood everywhere. Recently a certain rascally individual was being discussed by a largo family circle, every one in which had something bad to say ot him. One referred to his mendacity; another to his dishonesty; a third to his Immoral nature; a fourth to his audacity in crime, and so on. But one old lady, the senior of all present was silent till the indictments were all In. Then she said gently: "But he was a beautiful tenor singer!" . It was toward the close of an Imperial drunk, tho last act of a melodrama in whisky, that the young Fittsbnrger came to the conclusion that whisky was not worth the money or the head aches that it cost He had been there before several times. When the mockery of maudlin ness had been brought home to him the thonght struggled through his disordered brain that he ought to swear off. Where! His previous experience had taught him that the temple of a city Alderman was the most solmn place open to him. Many a ten dollar bill had be laid upon the Aldermanlc altar. To an Al derman's office, therefore, he went with such directness and speed as the duplicity of bis eye. sight would permit V The Magistrate sat behind bis desk recount ing to an attentive audience of constables and courtiers his conquests and cavortlnes at the sea shore In the month of July. Bnt with the gracionsness for which the Alderman is famous that luminary cast laovse from his satellites, and asked the shaky and haggard young man at the rail what he wanted. "I want to swear off," said he. "Tom, bring me an affidavit" said tho Alder man to a constable, economizing time, and in about 30 seconds the oath bad been admin istered. In another minute the form had been filled ont and tho young man was signing his name, when the Alderman said with automatic concern: "Fifty cents." , To a man with a half a plug ot chewing to bacco, a latch key and three cents as his total assets, the call for half a dollar must always sound appalling. Tboyotfthful reformer was so situated and so appalled.' "I haven't got 60 cents, "x er Honor," said the unfortunate suitor, "Then you can't swear off here," was the sen tence from the Bench. Then the young man went out and passed into the saloon which, appropriately, adjoined the temple of justice. He walkectup to the bar and said hoarsely "Glass of beer, please?" No not at alt Yon forget he had but 3 cents. Els petition was: "Len me a pen and ink and a scrap o' paper, BUI?" Bill, the bartender, recognized a good cus tomer, and complied with his request The young man wrote: "Please give the bearer the affidavit. I will pay the 50 cents," and signed the name of a friend who was also on intimate terms with the Alderman. This, after a suit able interval, he took back to the Alderman, and the latter, -on the strength of the forced order, permitted the young man to take away the affidavit This absolutely true story of to-day exhibits a singular confusion of moral ideas. Forgery is a novel life-belt for use in the sea of drunk enness. PBOFITABLE R00ST-K0BB1NG. Chicken Tbleves Who Employed a Dos aid a Team to Assist Them. Franklin, Ind., August 13. Charles Pat terson and his wife Anna, of Indianapolis, and Isaac Christy, of Trafalgar, this county, were arrested and lodged in jail here this morring on a charge of stealing chickens from the farmers of White Biver township last wtek. Tbev had a two-horse rig and had a dog fol ow ing them. They would send the dog after the chickens along the road. He wonld catch them, and then the two nen, who seemed to be following out the inst-nc-tlons given by the woman, would pull the heads off the fowls and conceal them in tieir vehicle. After securing a load of several dczen they would drive to Indianapolis, dress tlem and put them, on the market I KAILE0AD beds sinking. 'J A Strange Phenomenon That Renders Schedules Practically Useless. Pottsvtlle, August 13. Tho settling of the surface along the Lehigh Valley and Philadel phia and Beading roads on the outskirts of Ma banoyCity, is extending so rapidly and Is at taining such proportions that traffic on both roads is Interfered with, and schedules are of no use. The depressions this morning are greater than yesterday, when hey bad made great progress already over the condition of Saturday. - " Swift-Footed Justice. From the Public Ledger.l If Mrs.Maybrlck had poisoned her husband In this country sho could have counted on two or three years of the law's delay, even though ultimately sent to the scaffold. In England they do things with more respect to the, effect ot an execution as a warning to others. She was arrested fn May, tried and convicted last week, and her execution has been fixed for August 26. - They Could Get it Cheaply, From the Akron Telegram. Why is trouble always "brewing?" If this thing isn't stopped the English syndicates will be after it DEATHS OP A DAT. Dr. Alexander Brown Blott. NEW Yobk, August 13. Dr, Alexander Brown Mott, one of the most noted of American surgeons, and a son of the famous surgeon Valentine Mott died at his country teat near Yonkers, yesterday morning ,of pneumonia, after an Illness of tiro days. Dr. Mott was born In New York, March 31, 1816. When 10 years of age he was taken to Europe and there received a classical education. He wasappolntedvlsltlngsurgeonto St Vincent's Hospital In 18SS. From 1855 to 186J he filled a similar position In the Jewish Hospital, and for 14 years was head surgeon in the Charity Hospital. In each of these Institutions his work was of the highest order, and although comparatively a young man, he became known as one of tho most expert of surgeons. In 1859 he was appointed at tendlngsurgeon awKellevue Hospital, and subse quently Consulting surgeon to the Bureau of Medicine and burg leal Relief to the Outdoor Poor of J err York. In 1841 Dr. Mott undertook tbeor ganlzatlou or the medical corps of the regiments that were sent to the seat of war, and afterward, with the assistance of many of New York's patriotic leaders, he founded the United States Army General Hospital, of which he was the medical director. In 1862 be received the commis sion ot Burgeon of the United States volunteers, with the rank of Major. Toward the close of the war Dr. Mott acted as medical Inspector of tue Department of Virginia, and was attached to the staff of Oencral Edward O. V. Ord. -He was pres ent at the conference between Oencral Grant and General Lee, when they arran ged the terms of sur render of the Confederate-forces. He was mustered out or service July 27, 1385, with the brevet rank of Colonel. Hon. W. H. Newton. SDTEBIOB, WIS., August IS, Hon. W. H.Hew tondled hereto-dayjfromlnjurles received by a fall from his buggy three weeks ago. lie was one of Superior's most prominent businessmen, and was well known throughout the Northwest and Bt. Paul, where he owns considerable property. He was earlier at work on New-York canals and Ohio railways. He was largely interested lntne Consolidated Land Company, and will be missed In business circles. He leaves a Ma . daughter and two sisters. He made several sue. cessiui inventions in sue way ox canal drainage, etc. W. Edward Hunter. At 2:30 this afternoon the funeral services over the late W. Edward Hunter will he held at the residence of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Hunter, 114 Irwin avenue. Allegheny. The Inter ment will be prliate at a later hour. Edward was a hrlght nor only years of age. His death was caused by rheumatism and heart trouble. He will be carried to his resting place by bis brothers Harry, Percy, James and Bamuel. Frank Glass. IBPICTAL TXLEQBA1C TO THE DISPATCH.) Willsbubq, W. VA., August It Frank Glass, editor of the Panhandle Kwt, of this place, died last night of diphtheria. Mr. Glass was 41 years of age, altd was connected with the Aewi for S3 years. He is a son of Alfred Glass, who was many years ago connected with the Pittsburg Pott. Fred Leslie. . Chicago, August IS. -A private dispatch from London annpunces.the sudden death there from' blood poisoning of Fred Leslie, the leading comedian of the Gaiety Company. Dr. Jacob Z. Bowman. rsrSCTAI. TELEOHAH TO TUX SI8PATCS.1 Cbahbxbsbubg, Pa., August 12. Dr. Jacob Z. Bowman, a prominent physician of Meyersdale, died here this afternoon of typhoid fever, aged 3d years. ' Dr. James L. Cabell. OVXBTON. - August 13.-Ur. James 'L. CabelL senior member of the faculty of the University of VtrrtBlsutiHed hen this asnku. . - V 1 VJrftata, died here tils morula. , V-i WEDNESDAY, AUGUST THAT BDRNIMG IN EFFIGY. Mr. Clarkson Says No Action Will be Taken by the Poatoffice Department. WASHiNOTOiTAngust 13. A reporter called J uu awmu a ustiuasfcer uencrai uuuuvu wmj for information in regard to the appointment of a negro clerk by the new postmaster at At lanta, Ga., General Lewis, which resulted In much excitement and the burning in effigy of Postmaster Lewis and General Buck, a leading Bepublican of the State. General Clarkson said: '-The story, as it was printed in the At lanta papers and sent North, was to the effect that Postmaster Lewis bad appointed a negro clerk and assigned him to duty at the same desk with a young white woman. The real facts, however, are these: After General Lewis was appointed as postmaster one of the registry clerks resigned. The postmaster then appoiat ed Charles O. Penny, colored, who stood at the bead of the clril service list of ellgibles. as he was com-pelled by the law to do. He was assigned to work in the registry division, not in the same room with the young lady, hut in another. This young lady and ber father, who was Superintendent of the Registry Division and had the assignment of the clerks, both re signed, simply because a negro had been ap pointed to a place in the office, and not because an attempt had been made to place a negro at the same desk with the young lady. From this grew all the trouble In Atlanta. There were five neero clerks in the Atlanta postoffleo under the Democratic postmaster, and for six years a young white lady has been at the stamp window selling stamps to all people, black and white. "There is nothing in tho matter for the De partment to act upon, and there is nothing in the action of Postmaster Lewis to be criticised by fair-minded people. Instead of doing any thinz violently against the Southern prejudice toward negroes, the postmaster sought in making the appointment to obviate any ground for objection on account of such prejudice. In the postal service we find many of our efficient men are among the colored men. We have probably hundreds of them In the service alto gether, and they make a good average record." GOLD IN THE MOUNTAIN. Lost Treasure Recovered From a Hldlng g Place Amons; the Rocks. "' NewbueS, N. Y., August 13. Auntie Havens, who resides on tho Shawangunk Mountain, back of the little hamlet of New Vernon, is ono of the old fashioned people who have no faith in banks. She was for many years housekeeper for the late Colonel Hopper, bnt after his death she did not care to live ba the old house aVne and removed to the home of an old friend in the valley below. One of the first thoughts Anntle Havens had when preparing to leave the old house was that she had hidden $2,700 in gold some time aco In the rocks on the mountain side, and she rested secure in the opinion that it was safe in the bcoom of old Mother Earth. But she finally concluded to start out and find her hoardings, not having the slightest doubt that she could walk directly to the rock at whose base it was. But in this idea the old lady was mistaken. She diligently searched tbo mountain side, going first to one huge bonlder and then to another, only to meet with repeated disappointment Finally Auntie Havens confided in some boys in the neighbor hood and enlisted them in the search'inthe hope that younger and sharper eyes might find the landmark that she seemed to hare for gotten. The boys, directed by the old lady, searched long and diligently, and at last Johnny Hobart the bright son of Hannibal Hamlin Hobart said he would go to a certain rock some dis tance from where the search was being prose cuted, but Auntie Havens assured him it was no use, for it could not be there, bnt must be near the spot where they were standing." The boy, however, skipped away, and in a short time delighted and astonished the old lady by crying out "I're found it Auntie!" and sure enough there beneath the stones and dirt at the base of a great rock, lay Auntie Havens' wealth 32,700 in bright gold pieces. The joy of Auntie Havens knew no bounds, and her pleas ure and appreciation took a practical form, tor her first act was to take from the bag of money ten 810 gold pieces, which she banded to bright little Johnny Hobart who was as proud of his newly acquired wealth as the aged lady was happy in the recovery of her little fortune. BULLETS FE01I BATTLE FIELDS. A Regular Traffic In Them at an Alexandria Jnnk Shop. Alexandria, VA., August 13. A quarter of a century has elapsed since the. war, yet many of the farmers of Virginia are still real izing from Yankee lead and brass quite a revenue. It is tbe children of these farmers living nearest the "great battle fields that bring to light most of the buried relics of the cruel past Their tiny fingers, sometimes in play, again with the hope of adding to the family coffers, unearth pounds of lead. I In strolling through this historic town, the writer came across a veritable old curiosity Bhop down by the wharf. It la-kept by an old junk dealer, wbo, yielding to a deslro for a glimpse at the latest curiosity, brought to light a big box which had just arrived from the country that morning. There, in reckless con fusion, were bullets, musket balls, old pieces of tons, all battered and bruised and corroded by tbo earth in which they had been buried for so many years. This box, the dealer said, would weigh about 150 pounds, and was but ono of many that he was constantly receiving. From the midst ot the debris a bntton was fished out upon which was Inscribed the arms of Vermont (Freedom and Unity), showing that they must have belonged to some member ot the first militia that was mustered into service, as the troops were afterward uniformed by the United States. These war relics come from the battlefields Manassas, Cnlpepper, Fredericksburg and tbo Valley of Virginia, and are sold simply for their value in old lead and brass. Occasionally an invoice ot shells arrives which throws tbe down town Inhab itants into a state of consternation. Not so very long ago quite a batch of these wicked looking things were promptly hustled out of town by command of the Mayor. FOE POLITICAL EFFECT. Tho Democrat of Montana Will Elect County Officers This Fait Helena, Mont., August 13. The conven tion to-day finished consideration of the article on State institutions. It was placed on final passage and adopted as part of the Constitu tion. In tho afternoon session the convention passed a proposition by which ail county officers will have to bo re-elected. Tbe vote was strict ly partisan, as the Democrats hope to strength en their State ticket with county nominations. Intense excitement prevailed in the town after the result became public Candidates have become numerous since this re-elects them for threo years. The convention is ex pected to adjourn by Saturday. Tho First Sleeping Cars. From the Harrlsburg Telegraph. Suppose you tell us wnere the first sleeping cars were used and when? Be careful there; steady don't jump at tbe answer and say they were Pullman cars and were run on a Western road, because you are wrong. The first sleep ing cars were used on the Cumberland Valley railroad from isne to 1848. And, strange to say. at road doesn't run sleeping cars at this day. Nothing: Pleasant About Trusts. From the Chicago Herald. 1 , Tbe photographers in the .East who have formed a trust will probably find that it will hurt their business. People who are compelled to pay trust prices do not wear that pleasant expression of countenance necessary for suc cessful photographs. . FACTS FBOH FOREIGN SHORES. The cost of Princess LouIseTs trousseau was 4,000? Tnir vintage of this year, In both France and Germany, promises to rival that of 1S6S. The Stuart exhlbltion.of last winter will be followed by a Tudor.exbibitlon next year. The total number of bodies registered as buried in cemeteries used by London is 1,778,875. THE rumor is that Princess Victoria of Wales will marry Viscount Chelsea, the eldest son of Lord Cadogan." At Patti's farewell in Buenos Ayres in the "Barber," she was called out 33 times, and the receipts were 23,000. The Queen's sole emblem of royalty at her granddaughter's wedding was a small diamond crown, worn over the cap. The Duke of Fife was revealed lately as a partner in the banking firm of Henries, Far quharfb Co., as well as in Scott & Co. The Sultan of Turkey wishes to reduce his weight Prof. Schweninger, of Berlin, who '.cured Prince Bismarck ot his too pronounced tendency to stoutness, will, at the request of the Sultan, instruct, two Turkish physicians In ,his special method of treatment The great bell of Hung-wu, which has long aln ball Duned in tbe ground, bas at lengxn en lilted by foreign machinery and bung in a pagoda built of iron "by a foreign firm. Ao- g to prophecy, this bell was never to be Hiked until Cbtea h entered upon a new OIMMHWf,. -v. 14 1889. EYOLTJTION OF THE "WATCH.' The First Pocket Time-Piece About as Large as a Dinner-Plato Wonderful Pieces of Mechanism Presented to Klnga and Balers CIocU-Makors Con sidered Wizards.! Nuremburg, Bavaria, tbe European crado'of invention, claims the dignified honor of being the birthplace of the individual in whose fer tile brain the "iarum." or "pocket clock," re volved as a thing of fancy long before it be came a material object of, beauty and utility. The first watch was a curiosity that could be viewed in at least two different lights. Its wilderness of wheels was an everlasting source of wonder and amazement while its size was something awful to contemplate; some of the first measure as much as nine inches in diam eter, or about the size of a common dinner plate. Think of carrying such a thing In a pooket which the old Nnrembergers surely did, for tbey called them "pocket clocks." Great size was absolutely necessary, both on account of tho maker's inability to construct anything of intricate or delicate workman ship and from the fact that weights were used instead of springs. It was in 1477 that the old clock-maker of Nuremberg finished the first of his wonderful '"pocket clocks," after 23 months of almost ceaseless labor. The first man wbo wore one of those dainty little (7) ornaments, says a writer in tbe St Louis Jiepublic. was a meek and gentle priest Prior to bis "pocket clock" venture it seems that tbe old clock-maker bad incurred the en mity of tbe clergy by constructing "an heret ical and heathenish device" in -'shape of an eagle, which flew out to meet a certain Em peror or King who was at that time "doing" the first-class European cities. The Edison of the Middle Asos. The old clnckmaker was tbe Edison of his time; he was a great inventor and wonderful stories were relatedjof his. marvelous mechani cal contrivances. For years he was looked upon With suspicion, but never'until his deft fingers and active brain contrived and conceived the miraculous "flying eagle," was he thought to be a genius of sufficient importance to bring before the tribunal. At the trial it was not proven that he was a magician or a dealer in the black art However, he lost a great deal of his prestige among his fellow worshipers, they considering him a person whose state was little bitter than that of absolute disgrace. In tbe seclusion of his workshop the old man brooded over his misfortunes and worked "as one with out hope" until his ingenuity bad fashioned the pocket clock, which was forthwith presented to tbe priest who conducted the trial as a sort of peace offering. Within 70 or 80 years after the Invention of the "pocket-clock" its use had spread to Eng land; but of course, the carrying of such oddi ties bad not become general. In the accounts of Edward VL of England we find mention of the pocket timepiece, and also tbe first re corded instance of the use of the word "watch." The account, which bears date of 1552, says that be "bad one larum or watch ot iron, the case being likewise of iron gilt with two plum mets of lead." The writer of the account goes on to say that It was of the finest possible workmanship: that it had an "arm'r which pointed to figures on a brass dial; that one winding every five hours was all that it re quired to Vkeep it going finely" and lastly that ic was only six inches la diameter, "being on that account quite neat and handy." Curiously Shaped Tlme-PIecos. Tor more than 200 years after watches had become a part and parcel of the royal parapher nalia they wero such rarities and the prices were so fabulous that few could afford such luxuries. Before the watchmaking art had nassed the first century mile-post designers and Constructors of oddly-shaped time-pieces had become quite numerous. In 1540, when the Widow Diana of Poictiers was the mistress of Henry U. of France, she was presented by the courtiers with a remarkable collection of curi ously shaped and strangely designed watches. One of these, in shape of a coffin, would only run when standing on tbe small end or foot of its ghastly looking case. The crystal, which corresponded with tbe face-plate of a coffin, opened directly over a ghostly death-head watch-face, upon the bony cheeks, forehead and chin of which were painted the numerals indicating the hours of the day. Into the empty eyesockets one could gaze like into the wells of despair and see the twisting, writhing motion of tbe wheels. A post protruded from the flesnless nose, to which was attached an arm or band. As if to add to tbe general horror of Um -wlito ma chine, the grinning teeth slowly opened five minutes before tbe end of each hour and closed with tbe opening of the hour following. Lugu brious styles seem to have been the fashion of the day, her entire collection being composed ot watches in such shapes as skulls, coffins, etc Wonderful Workmanship. In 1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, presented her maid, Mary Letoun,with tbe famous "Memento Mori," a silver watch of rare workmanship, shaped like a skull. This famous relio is still in existence and was on exhibition two years ago this summer at the Peterborough (En gland) Exhibition, which was held in memory of the three hundredth aniversary ot the exe cution and burial of Mary. A description of the relic can best be given in the language ot one of the many letter-writers who saw it upon the occasion mentioned. , "The watch," says the writer, "has a silver casing in form of a skull, which separates ar tbe jaws so as to expose tbe dial, which is also of silver, occupying abont the position of the palate, and Is fixed In a golden circle with tbe hours in Roman letters. The movement ap propriately occupies the place of the brains, but is inclosed in a bell, filling the hollow of the skull, which bell is struck by the hammer to sound tbe hours. Tbe case is highly orna mented with fine engravings, snowing on tbe front of the skull. Death, standing between a cottage and a palace; in the rear is Time, 'devouring all things; on one side of the upper part of the skull ?re Adam and Eve In the Garden of Eden, with tbe serpent tempting Eve: on the opposite side the scenes of the crucifixion are represented. Inside tbe plate or lid is the holy family in the stable, with the infant Jesus in the manger and angels administering to Him. In tbe distance are the shepherds with their flocks, etc" Tbe case and works are said to be in as good repair now as they were 300 years ago. A Terrified Household. For years old Dr. Allan, the Scottish physi cian, was suspected of being a wizard, an opin ion which was all but confirmed when in 1630 he provided himself with a silver watch of the regulation size and style. Chancing to stop with a neighbor over night and it being some what cold, he laid the watch near his body and covered it with the bed quilts so that tho chilly weather would not affect (he works. Next morning he arose rather abruptly and left the house without removing his treasure from its cozy nest in the bed. In rid ding up the room the servant discovered "the infernal chattering thing" and immediately concluded that it must be the old doctor's "fa miliar spirit" conclusions which were hardly arrived at before she had fled wildly from the room. Other servants were called and tbe whole array charged the "chattering thing" In tbe bed. Clubs and tongs were freely used, bnt tbe case was strong and the thing still chat tered defiantly.. One of the girls, more courageous than the others, finally agreed that she would take the tongs and carry the thing to the moat and drown it a proceeding fraught with danger, but at last decided upon. Tbe others followed at a respectable distance with hoes, clubs and shovels with which they proposed to pounce tbe thing should it attempt to attack tbe heroic girU. When the old doctor returned for bis watch be was informed of wbathad been done, one ofihe servants leading the way to where the thing had been drowned. It was found hanging on a bush on tbe bank of tha moat The failure to beat or drown tbe thing to death fully convinced the servants that it was in reality the old wizard's spirit and they could not be persuaded to touch it A Russian Empress' Watch. At the time ot her coronation at Moscow, In 1721, Catharine L, Empress of Russia, was pre sented with a watch as wonderful in every par ticular as the famous Strasburg clock; even more wonderful when the delicacy ot its con struction is taken Into consideration. It weighed seven ounces, and was both a repeater and a musical time keeper. On the opposite side from the works or time-keeping part of the wonder there was an exact coun terpart of the holy sepulchre with a carved image of the Roman guard; this scene could be viewed through the glass in the case. Upon opening the case the imitation stones would roll away from the mouth of tbe minia ture sepulchre, tbe guard would kneel, angels appear at opposite sides of the opening, and about this time the music wonld start up and play in soft sweet strains, the Easter songs so well known to all Russlals. Tbe maker of this wonderful piece of mechanism is said to have worked upon It almost uninterruptedly for a period ot nine years. They're Fond of Kolas. from the Philadelphia Inqutrer.l -Tbe Canucks who are howling for a war over .the Beh ring Sea row would sjiit the air with ones it peaee h a war wo wws swsitii. THE: GOS&P OP GOTHAM. Temptation Too Great lor Him. tSIW TOBK BUBXAU SrECZALS. NEW Yoke, August 13. Edward Leblom, bookkeeper in the office of George W. Fuller, Jr., President of the New York Clearing H,ouse, Is missing. So are $8,100 belonging to Mr. Fuller and (900 belonging to Burtin Skid more, a broker who has desk-room in Mr. Fuller's office. Leblom is a colored man, 25 years old. Four years ago he was a bootblack. Mr. Fuller took a fancy to him and helped him along by taking him in the office ot tbe brokerage firm ot Fuller 4 Whitney, of which he was a member. Mr. Whitney died two years ago. An implicit confidence was placed in Leblom. He was then placed in charge of tbe office. Mr. Fuller, who spends but little time in his office, the Clearing House demanding His entire attention, was accustomed to draw bis checks in the moping, to Leblotn's order. Leblom then filled them out as he pleased, and indorsed them, so that he experienced no diffi culty in obtaining all the cash he needed. Last Thursday he left tbe office as usual, and bas not been heard from since. Tbe police are looking for him. . Too Apt to be a Nuisance. Captain Richard Howells, of the Salvation Army, several subordinate officers and dozens of indignant civilians crowded the Jefferson Market police court this morning. Nine or ten persons who live near the army's Westside bar racks said that Captain Howells and his troops raised such a row nights that they could not sleep. -About 20 other persons wished to give the same testimony, but the Police Justice stopped them by dismissing Captain Howells and bis comrades, with the warning that an other complaint against the army would lead to the closing of the salvation barracks by the police c A Bis; Job Ahead of Tbem. Dr. John S. Billings, who is helping Robert P. Porter to take the census of 1S90, was ar ranging a sanitary headquarters to-day for the tabulations! the vital statistics of New York City. He and his staff will begin shortly to overhaul the records ot the last five years in a room set aside for this use by the Bureau of Vital Statistics. His task Is of overwhelming magnitude The death certificates alone, which he must look oyer, number 200,000. On August 3, JamesSutton, through tho bank of Drexel, Harjes & Co,, on the Boulevard Haussman, In Paris, sent to Antonln Proust tbe representative of tbe French Government for the Department of Fine Arts, a check amounting to 580,650 francs for Millet's "An gelus," in the name of the "American Art As sociation." A delay of 15 daj s had been given Mr. Sutton to settle this business, but the gen tleman cabled his agent in Paris to have the picture insured and put in a box upholstered with blue silk, then to leave it in care ot Mr. Drexel, and to pay the bill elgbCdays before the time fixed by M. Proust In a letter writ ten to Mr. Sntton, M. Proust acknowledges re ceipt of tbe check and begs to be allowed "to express, in the name of French art the grati tude of his friends and bis own for the homage paid by the United States to one ot the greatest and most unfortunate artists of modern times." Bought a Bis; Farm for n Brickyard. Patrick King and Francis Lynch, of Ver planck, have purchased the "Boland farm," comprising about 275 acres, at Peekskill, for $57,000. The deed was signed by Archbishop Corrlgan. The farm had been used as a branch of St Patrick's Male Orphan Asylum, this city, conducted by tbe Brothers of Our Lady of Lourdes. while the older boys were taught to be farmers. A year ago the farm was closed on account of its non-productiveness. It was a failure. The. new owners will start a brick yard. Death Watch on Five Murderers. The death watch was set to-day on" the five murderers condemned to be hanged on the 23d instant At 8 o'clock this morning each mur derer was dressed in a new suit of clothes, after he had been carefully searched for concealed weapons. Ten deputies, wbo constitute the death watch, were introduced to tbe prisoners, and shook hands with them. Deputy Carraber then made a neat little speech to the effect that bs expscted.tbs-zlv doomed men, while in his charge, 'to behave like gentlemen." Tbe whole party finally moved from Murderer's Row to a new big steel wire cage, in which tbe five murderers will live their last days. All ot the condemned men have become very relig ious of late, and are attended daily by two priests. The Ocean Record Agnln Broken. Tbe officers of the Inman line received a dis patch to-day annonncing that the City of Paris bad lowered tbe record again on her eastward passage, which she completed last night The City of Paris passed Sandy Hook at 4-05 P. 31. Wednesday last She was sighted off Fastnet Light at 6 p.m. yesterday, Greenwich time. Allowing two hours and three-quarters, the usual time for her run to Roche's Point, ber apparent time for the trip would be 6 days, hours and 40 minutes. Allowing I hours and S3 minutes for the difference in time between New York and Greenwich, her actual time would be 5 days, 23 hours and 44 minutes. The record was 6 days and 29 minutes. The City of Paris' record westward (tbe best) is 6 days, 23 hours and 7 minutes. THE TWINE TEUST SAFE. No Chnnco of Running a Competition In the Minnesota Penitentiary. St. PADL, August 13. As a possible solution of tbe problem of utilizing convict labor to tbe best advantage tbe last Legislature appointed a committeee to investigate as to the practica bility of introducing the manufacture of twine in tbe Stillwater Penitentiary. It was then sug gested that if this could be successfully accom plished all the twine required by the agricul tural interests in the State could be supplied at moderate cost and thus emancipate the farmers from the clutches of. twine combina tions and trusts. Edwin Dunn and E. W.Tem ple, of the Board of Managers of the prison, were appointed as the committee, and pro ceeded 5ist to investigate After visiting Chi cago. Cincinnati. New York and other points and interviewing a number of twine manufac turers and dealers, they have returned and re ported adversely to the proposal. The reasons on which the report Is founded are briefly: Tbat the cost of plant and material for one year sufficient to keep 75 men employed would amount to $1,245,000. It is pointed out tbat the cost of binding twine to tbe manufac turer Is from U to 15 cents per pound, of which not more than 2 to 3 cents Is for labor and power, the balance being consumed by cost ot material. These figures are for the manufac ture of mantlla or sisal twine hemp twine be ing still more costly. In the second place the work is chiefly performed by women and chll dren.anditls argued thatconvlctlaborcouldnot successfully compote with this. Thirdly, a twine manufactory requires too much room. Fourthly, owing to the material used being chiefly derived from foreign sources, the prices fluctuate considerably, and the committee does not tbink that such a large share of tbe State's funds should be invested in anything specula tive and uncertain. TBI-STATE TRIFLES. Thomas Tbeseb who keeps a cigar 6tore inChester, a few days since placed in his win dow a plastefof-paris duck which proved to be so life-like that two dogs crashed through the plate glass to get at it A small dog belonging to a Steubenvilla gentleman was attacked and killed by rats the other night Mas. Helex RAY, of Columbiana county, Ohio, has the silk dress which her great grand mother wore when sho was married. It is still a handsome garment but rather old-fashioned. M. L. Welsh and" sister, of Philadelphia, have visited Columbia in a tandem bicycle Tbe lady wears a gold medal for having made 100 miles in one day. A cow walked into a Wheeling store tbe other day, but not teeing anything she wanted proceeded to another shop. She smashed, two boxes full ot bits but made no purchase. X " "" "" " A btaxs of colors taken from the Royal Grenadiers la a hand-to-hand encounter at the battle ot Monmouth, June 22, 1778, by Hon. Wilham Witton. then a lieutonant in the rev-' olutionary army. Is in possession ot soma ot his rela tires, at Bellefonte Miles WirturKY, of Shickspinlnny, was walking through tbe woods when a rattlesnake bit him 'on the-foot. The. reptile's fangs cut right through hi fboe sMd into the flesh. The ltatr began to sweH, hat a doctor was soon kosJtoiwiMttstataWhKaar tmlT through. CURIOUS COBDEKSATIOKS. New York City has a debt of ?9V 000,uOO. -rA goose with several links of a gold chain In its craw was killed at San Lucas, CaL, recently. John Lyons, a farmer of Carroll county, Ma, found a tin can containing 90 five dollar gold pieces while Meaning out his well a few days age A violin which bears the data 1517. and which, the owner claims, once belonged to the King ot Spain, is the property of a citizen of Harrisbnrg, III. A farmer in Muskegon county, Mich., who was stung on tbe ear by a bumble-bee while mowing in his field, has gone crazy. His doctor thinks tbe stinging was tbe cause A finger that was carried off Martin Frand'f hand by a small cannon in Camden on the Fonrth of July was found Monday on tbe root of a two-story house two blocks front tbe scene of the accident Sea Cliff, L. I., ought to be a rival for the elixir. The village cemetery was re cently closed because there wasn't enough deaths to make it pay. Fifteen burials in four years sent the gravedigger to tbe almhouse Thomas Curley.of Troy, is the possessor of between 2,000 and 3,000 letters which are carefully packed away In trunks. Many of these represent a correspondence with his father, a resident of Ireland, wbo, though 8" years of age, is able to write legibly. Of 43,000 Italians that landed in Castle Garden last year, 34,000 were males. The emi gration ot females from Italy is smaller than from any other country, averaging bnt 13 per cent of the whole number who land. From Germany the percentage is 40; from Ireland 45. Three sisters (all under 18 years of age) in Missouri, weigh together 893 pounds. Lydia,, 18 years old, is the heaviest, tipping the beam at 373 pounds. Two of the trio have six fingers on each hand, and tbe same number of toes on each foot Their parents are ot ordinary size A crab that climbs cocoanut trees is the birgo latis. or robber crab, of the Fanning Island. It cracks the nuts with its claws and waxes fat on the milky elixir found therein. A fine specimen has lately heen added to the shell-fish collection in the State Museum of California. Tho Women's Christian Temperance Union, of Oakland, Cat, has a "Cigarette Com mittee," tbe business of whicbJs the suppres sion of the cigarette habit A petition to tho City Council in favor of the prohibition of the sale of cigarettes was brought under debate at a recent meeting of tbe union. According to a French physiologist the wing ot the ordinary housefly makes 330 strokes in one Becond; the wing of the bumble bee 240; the wing of the honey bee. 190; tbe wing of the wasp, 110: the wing of the dragon fly, 28; the wing of the sparrow, 13: the wing of the wild duck, 9; the wing of the house pieon, 8; the wing of the osprey, 8. It is a singular fact that California has no Sunday law. There was such a law, but it was repealed In 1SS3; yet it cannot be" said that there is any less observance of Sunday since tbe repeal ot tbe law. On the contrary, an in vestigation shows tbat Sunday is observed more as a sacred day the present year than it was the year the law.was repealed. The big stone cross on the south tower of the Cologne Cathedral was struck and smashed by lightning recently. Great pieces ot h fell to the pavement with such velocity that they were crashed to powder. Two men lost their lives in placing the cross originally. The perilous job of repairing the damage just dona will be undertaken within a few weeks. Liquor saloons do not have a monopoly of sporting news In Brooklyn and thus attract youngmen within their doors. The young men of Brooklyn in passing by the doors of tbe flns building of the Young Men's Christian Associa tion nowadays see displayed upon either side of the door placards with the words printed, upon them in large letters of "Baseball returns inside." f Friends of a man elected to the Legis lature from Louisville hired a band to serenade him. The musicians went to his house anl played for four hourst Nobody appeared, and the players began to get tired. About that time a neighbor came ont of his house and in formed the crowd tbat the man who was being serenaded bad moved out ot tbe bouse the day before, and lived several blocks away. Among the guests at a down-town hotel In San Francisco last week was Connssss Mario Edie von,Ameline who arrived ontheBelgla from India. The Countess bas ben traveling for tbe past three years and has been amusing herself by bunting tigers and other large game, in the jungles ot India. Tbe Countess is but 35 years of ape. is worth a million or more, and carries with her diamonds and jewels ot great price A Georgia paper is .responsible for the following: A negro died near Alapaha last week of a rather mysterious ailment His caso excited some suspicion, and tbe Coroner or dered an inquest at which an autopsy was mado by Dr. Smart In tbe negro's stomach the doctor found a live rattlesnake with nine rattles a and button. Jnst as they were about to bury the negro, smothing was discovered moving about under the skin ot the fleshy part of the left arm. An incision there with tbe doctor's scalpel revealed a live scorpin crawling aronnd J between tbe flesh and the skin. At the Lancaster, (O.) campmeeting the other day Jennie Smith related her experi ence to a very large congregation. She" was born at Vienna, Clark county, Ohle Sho joined the church when a child. In 1857 she i was taken sick with typhoid fever, which re- ' suited in spinal disease Dnring her first sickness she did not walk for six months. Dnring her second sickness she did not walk for 18 months, and daring ber last sickness she did not walk a step for 15 years. She was taken from place to place for treatment and tried all known reme dies without avail. At the time of her miracu lous enre she was In the Homoeopathic Hospi tal at Philadelphia for treatment Her physi cian there could do nothing forber. He was a Christian man, and while navlng prayer with her on the 23d of April, 1873, sho wis healed by faith, and was at once enabled to walk. At the time of ber healing she weighed 90 pounds. She now weighs 153 pounds. FUNNY MEVS FANCIES. The Beason. Jepson Why is it that men marry widows? Jobson-They don't. It is the widows that marry them. Hotton Courier. Just the Opposite. Friend (to returned vacationist) Well, my boy, have you been off for a rest? Keturned Vaeatlonlst-Xo, my boy, I've come home for one. Hotton Courier. Not Morally so. Mrs. Pilfer What leads yon to think 1 am so very strong? Neighbor's Girl 1 heard pa say he believed you'd make a shoplifter with a little training. Omaha Wortd-UeraUt. Most ot ns kick when times are close And business In a luu, But the scissors grinder makes the most When everything is dult Omaha Wortd-UeraU. Bound to be in the Swim. City Nephew What in thunder are you standing In that water for. Uncle? Uncle Enoch I'm soakln th blackln off my old cowhides, so as ter make 'era look like them jailer shoes yon city folks wear. Puck. .Not Consoling. A countryman had con suited a fortune teller as to his future ' 'You'll be poor, kind sir. until you're 30, vf aa the prediction of the Pythoness. "And then?" "Oh, after that you'll get nsed to it" Judge. The Difference. Fatty Spacer Where are your family this summer, Desque? Ed Desque They're stopping at a little hamlet down on Long Island. 8pacer And you? lfsq.ue I'm boarding at a little bam and egglet on Park Bow. Puck. Blue Blood. Loud voices came from the nursery ot a ainjrrav Hill residence The last ut terance was: 1"rtell you he didn't have agranu fatber." De Peyster turned to his wife and remarked upon the youthful appreciation of blue blcod. "Who were von talking about!" he asked of Oracle who just then entered the room. "Oh, 'boutAdam.'.'-Jurfa-e. law vs. ruamax law is supreme, without a doubt The brain is mightier than the list; John bares bis arms and knocks Jake out And Is the champion pugilist: But law steps in behind the fray: A different tune the "scrappers" sing; And Governor Lowry is to-day. The champion of the ring. Sotton Courier, A HAD 8PELL. "This, then, is the end of all my hopes," He murmured with dismal groan; "This, your final answer?" he queried again With lingering hope in his despondent tone. "It is, Mr. Von Chump," replied the maid. While freezing- hauteur held sway; 1 can never marry a Ban, " she said, "Who spells cucumber wIlS a K." , r Wmg10 Poti, &i. . 4'!."S l-.sflt