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PITTSBURG. MONDAY. SEP. 2, 1SS8.
A TOOL'S FEAT.
Another of that discouraging class of hu
manity -which seeks fame by the exhibition
of pre-eminence in the line of daring idiocy
made an exhibit yesterday of the fact 4hat
it is possible lor a man, sealed in a close
barrel, to go over Xiagara Falls, and yet
come out alive.
If any contribution were made to the wel
fare of the human race by such a feat; if
there were any gain to the sum of useful
knowledge, or any addition to the arts
which contribute to the means of lie, such
an act would be heroism. Aeronauts, scien
tific explorers, inventors and seekers after
medical discoveries all hare that justifica
tion for incurring the peril that they brave.
But in this act there was no such motive.
The next man who goes over the falls is
j nst as liable to meet death as before this feat,
The loolhardiness was simply to gain the
notoriety of having done something that no
one else ever did before; and the darintj of
the act in the minds of all sensible men is
overslaughed by the utter and hopeless vul
garity of the ambition.
Beyond that the result of the act is to very
much lesson the public respect for Niagara
falls. That great wonder of the world is
in danger of losing its hitherto unchal
lenged supremacy as a fool-killer.
POLITICAL F0EGI7EKISS.
An interesting undercurrent of political
character is furnished by the appearance of
a report that the influence of Senator
Mahone in Virginia last year was the cause
of the defeat of the Republican electoral
ticket It is, therefore, declarea by the
2Jew York Times that the President shows
an extremely forgiving spirit in lending his
support to Mahone, whose enmity to the
dominant Republican faction in Virginia
prevented the President from getting the
electoral vote of that State. It is hardry
practicable to give this administration the
credit of running its political policy on the
platform of forgiveness. It is more likely
that the alliance with Mahone is based upon
the substance or things hoped for, and a de
sire that he shall not, in coming elections,
repeat his late feat of defeating the Repub
lican national ticket in his own State. The
means adopted for that purpose are rather
unique. They seem likely to produce the
result that, at the next Presidental election,
the other Republican faction may do what
Mahone did at the last one, on account of
their remarkably good chance of being left
on the outside.
BASEBALL MASCOTS.
The indications of a stern reform in the
baseball business shine out between the lines
of the report that Captain Back Ewing re
cently bounced the mascot which has been
retained for the purpose of securing victory
to the New York team. The mascot busi
ness has heretofore been regarded as one of
the essential features of professional base
ball. Bat that daring innovator Buck
Ewing has flung mascots to the dogs, and
proposes to base his hopes for baseball glory
on the simple and daring principle of
making his men play ball.
The mascot superstition was wholly in
harmony with a good many other Yahoo
isms which entertain the bleaching boards.
If the reform were to be consistent, Captain
Ewing might with equal or superior timeli
ness have tackled some of the other
idiosyncracies of professional ball play
ing. That of lynching the umpire,
or instance, is much more suscepti
ble of abuse than the one of sup
porting a mascot The two things bear
about the relation of the inspiring
principles, brutality and mere silliness.
Still anything in the direction of reform
is welcome, and the public would be grate
ful to Mr. Back Ewing if it were not for
the suspicion that his real reason in bounc
ing the mascot was that it had lost its merit
us a drawing card to catch the groundlings.
PB0FESSI0NAL ETHICS.
The capability of what is known as "pro
fessional courtesy" -to cover some examples
of monumental meanness is illustrated by
the aspiring funeral directors of Jersey City.
Xn this case an undertaker went to the
length of taking the body of a dead child
out oi the coffin and carrying off his para
phernalia, because he feared he would not
be paid promptly; and another undertaker
who committed the offense of burying the
corpse, on the order of the poor authorities,
was censured by the undertakers for "un
professional conduct" Heretofore the fu
neral directors have been generally regarded
as comparatively innocuous, except for the
habit of making pompous style cover up the
idiosyncracy of charging a dollar for a ten
cent pair of gloves. Now that they author
itatively state it to be "unprofessional" to
let any opportunity pass for grinding the
faces of the poor, in connection with the in
terment of their children, the public will
be apt to take them at their own obnoxious
estimate of themselves.
THEY HAVE GOT IT IT0W.
It is rather interesting to note the authori
tative statement that the settlement of the
auairs of the famous Broadway and Seventh
avenue street railway in New York results
in leaving it in the hands of the Philadel
phia syndicate and ex-Secretary Whitney.
"When the excitement over the famous
boodle transactions in connection with that
corporation was at its height, intimations
that Mr. "Whitney was somewhere in the
back ground of the scheme were made and
indignantly denied. The final acquisition
oT the property by the ex-Secretary and his
associates does not of course proye that he
was connected with it in its purchase of
Aldermen and rights, of way. But it has a
sort of harmoniousness with the reports and
the "private business" which took that very
smart gentleman to New York at the time.
It is at least a curious coincidence, that
the two most astute members of that late re3
form administration should have fallen heir
to the property that afforded the most no
torious example of corruption daring their
official career.
CANALS AND FBEIGHT CHABGES.
An illustration is given at once of the
effect of canal competition on charges for
heavy freights, and of the result of abandon
ing it, by the recent closing of the-Chesa-peake
and Ohio Canal. The Washington
Star reports that people living along its line
who could get Cumberland coal at ?2 CO per
ton while it was in operation, are now
forced to pay 55 per ton under railroad
transportation. The same change in the
transportation of the agricultural products
and food staples of that section is noted.
There is little doubt that the railroad policy
has steadily tended toward the abandon
ment of the canal, with Just this change in
freight charges in view as an essential re
sult The people of Maryland, who have per
mitted the work of abandoning, instead of
improving the canals, to go on unchecked,
must now bear the cost of enhanced freight
charges on the heavy staples as the legiti
mate penalty of their negligence. But' the
example,added to the scores of other demon
strations that water transportation is' far
the cheapest for heavy freights, should
not be without its lesson for Pittsburg.
There is no city in the country to which the
cheap transportation of freights susceptible
of being moved in immense bulk by water is
more vital than it is to Pittsburg. Fortu
nately no combination of railroad policy
can take away our rivers for the movement
of coal. But the value of a canal which
would bring ore from Lake Erie to Pitts
burg and take back coal is of immense im
portance. Such a water route, in the cheap
ening of the freights on the millions of tons
of coal and iron that are now moved, would
yield a return on several times its cost; and
the expansion of the traffic that would result
from cutting the freight charges in half
would multiply the benefit by an almost in
finite factor.
The city which moves the largest amount
of heavy freight in the country, and which
has more capital in proportion to its popula
tion, ought not to let the full opportunities
of water transportation go unimproved a
year longer than is necessary to raise the
money and do the work.
A TOO-ACTIVE ELIXHL
The death of a man in Washington who
had subjected himself to an incautious use
of the Brown-Sequard elixir reveals possi
bilities of that new discovery which will go
iar from increasing the popularity of that
discovery.
Doubtless an elixir which kills us will ef
fect a permanent cure of all the ills that
flesh is heir to; but that is not the cure
which humanity is seeking, ty is also pos
sible, on the orthodox theory of a future
state, to recognize the claim that such an
operation will introduce its subjects to eter
nal life; but they are not ambitious to secure
that advancement Mankind is willing to
endure the ills we have, as long as possi
ble, rather than to hurriedly fly to the eter
nity that it knows not of.
The elixir that kills may be classed in the
line of heroic treatment; bnt it is not des
tined to become popular with this mundane
and unphilosophic generation.
The opinion of the lawyers in the Cronin
case at Chicago with reference to the selec
tion of a jury, is yery plainly defined to
the effect than any man who would be harsh
enough to hang another for murder is not
the man for them.
N EW Yoek is bothered with a plague of
fleas; and the sanitary police are endeavor
ing to account lor the appearance of the in
sect It does not seem possible to account
for it on the ground that the fleas have
heard that the "World's Fair is to be located
in New York, and arc putting in an appear
ance in order to be ready to bleed the visit
ors. That would be too grave an indictment
of the sharpness of the fleas.
"With regard to Mr. Elliott P. Shepard's
oratory, the opinion is spreading that he
makes his greatest hits when he lets his
money do his talking for him. In other
words, his brains are to be found in his
bank account
The wayjn which 1 per cents have been
offered to the United States Treasury dur
in the past week, at 128, is a good evidence
that the sharp crowd of speculators who
bought up the bonds at 129, with the inten
tion of making the Treasury pay 130 or
more, have now got more experience than
they had, while some other fellows have got
the cash.
China is now ordering Americans to
leave her territory. Some American news
papers are commenting adversely on the
policy, bat it seems to show that China has
a tolerably clear idea of the lex talionis.
The fatality by which Southern crowds
are impelled in times of excitement to bring
their light artillery in action was illustrated
anew in Louisiana yesterday. As usual,
the casualties are principally on the side of
the negroes, which proves that either the
whites were the aggressors, or that they were
much the best marksmen.
. Another bank out in Iowa has failed.
Speculation, as usnal. The bank was a
small one, and the speculation will go
right on.
"We learn from our esteemed cotempora
ries that a barbers' national convention,
which was to have been held in Pittsburg
recently, was indefinitely postponed for
lack of attendance. Pittsburg can draw a
long breath at learning, after the danger is
pasthow narrowly she escaped from being
talked to death.
The dog-days have put in thdr appear
ance with an evident determination to make
up in September what they lost in August.
The latest syndicate ghost story is that
an Enclish combination is going to buy up
all the tanneries of the country. The hun
ger of English capital for American tan
neries must be charged to the widespread
reports that our Tanner is going to have the
spending of the surplus.
Sumhee travelers are now coming home
in time to enjoy the only really hot weather
we have had so far this year.
The Democratic State Chairman is alleged
to be figuring on methods to elect a Demo
cratic State Treasurer this year. With due
allowance for shrinkage, this means that he
is trying to see his way clear to hold the
Republican majority down below 50,000.
The London strikers maintain good order,
and by doing so they maintain their hold on
public sympathy. ' ,
The Southern Republfcan members will
not bolt the caucus. All they wish is to
have it all their own wayin the little matter
of revenue reduction, and they will remain
in perfect discipline. Of course the offices
come in as a make-weight
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.
SecretabyWintjom and his family have
been traveling through N ew Hampshire by
carriage.
Colonel Murphy, of Texas, has been in
Washington seven years looking for an office.
He is still looking and longing-.
'Empeeok William has bestowed the deco
ration of the Order of the Black Eagle on his
cousin. Prince George of Wales.
Bishop Gilmoue, of Cleveland, has been
selected by Cardinal Gibbons to preach the
sermon at the dedication of the new Roman
Catholic University at Washington on Novem
ber 13.
Colonel North, who began life in En
gland as a humble laborer, is now tbo nitrate
king, and pays Chile $1,725,000 per year export
duties on nitrates produced by one of his
works in that country.
Sin Edward Arnold is coming to'Amcri
ca. He Is the editor of the London Daily Tele
graph, and is one of the most learned
Sanskrit scholars in the .world. He is best
know as the author of "The Light of Asia."
The Rev. Dr. S. W. Boardman will be in
stalled as President of llaryville College,
Tennessee, next Thursday. Dr. Boardman was
15 years the pastor of a Presbyterian church In
Auburn, N. Y., and served for two yean as
Professor of English Literature at Middlobury
College? Vermont.
The old Cat living graduate of "Williams Col
lege is the Rev. Herman Halsey, of East
Aurora, N. Y., upon whom the degree of Doc
tor of Divinity was recently conferred. Dr.
Halsey is 96 years old, his last birthday having
been on July 16, and the college has been estab
lished the same number of years. Otherwise
comparatively well preserved, the old man is
blind.
NO LONGER A EISSER.
Gallant General Sherman Neglects a
Splendid Opportunity.
From the Chicago Tribune. 1
General Sherman was somewhat fatigued by
the review, but he was in the best of spirits
and chatted continuously with General War
ner and General John C. Anderson, who stood
at either side of him. The head of the column
passed the reviewing stand at 10:40 o'clock, and
it was 12:10 when the Wisconsin division, oc
cupying the left of the line, came in sight. The
Badgers prolonged the procession an hour and
ten minutes longer. General Sherman sat down
once after standing nearly an hour, but soon
got up again. A few minutes later he called
tor a chair, and reviewed the balance of the
procession sittine-.
"Are you sick?" asked General Anderson,
solicitously.
"O, no. I find it hard work standing,
though."' 'su
You aro old," jocularly returned General
Anderson with a wink in bis eye; "you'll be too
old for the cirls pretty soon," Old Tecumseh,
whose sparse brown hair phows hardly a gray
thread, though his closely cropped beard is
snowy white, gazed a moment at the white
haired veteran at his side.
"Let's see; you must be over 100 yourself
now," he retaliated. 9
But the rumor las gone forth that General
Sherman has lost bis ambition for Kissing
pretty girls. A murmur of wonderment swept.
awuaa wc grami Bia.nu wusa ue mi&beu me
opportunity of his life tu-day. As pretty a
girl as any one could desiro to kiss came across
the (street through the lines at some peril to
herself, bearing a silver decanter of ice water.
She was clad in a becoming costume of red,
white and blue, and the national colors were
reflected in her checks and eyes. A soldier
gallantly helped her up tbo stairs, and thou
sands watched Old Tecumseh as he drank the
refreshing and welcome draught and then
thanked the maiden for her courtesy. Tho
crowd waited breathlossly to see her receive
the guerdon ot merit, the fatherly kiss which
Old Tecumseh is wont to bestow with fatherly
readiness, but ho did nothing of the kind.
Perhaps he didn't think of it. but the crowd
did, and was intensely disappointed. Perhaps
the young lady was, too.
AN MIR 100 YEARS HENCE.
The Extrnordlnnry Provision Contained In a
Wealthy Man' Will.
Columbia, S. C, September 1. An extraor
dinary will was filed yesterday iu the Probate
Judge's office in Spartanburg county. Two
bachelor brothers named Wakefield lived near
Reidsville. Spartanburg county. They wero
were wealthy and owned about 8,000 acres of val
uable lands in and around that town. They do
nated the land on which the Reidsville College
was founded. This school was named in honor
of a Mr. Held, a prominent citizen, and the
Wakefields never forgave the trustees tor not
giving their name to the college. When ono of
the brothers died he willed the whole property
to his brother. The surviving brother died last
Monday. His will leaves the whole property to
his sister during her life, then to the Judge of
tho Probate for Spartanburg county in trust
for 99 years, and after that time the whole es
tate, with the accumulated interest, is to go to
his heir living 100 years hence.
If his will can be carried into effect the prop
erty around Reidsville will be tied ud to a hurt
ful extent, but It is not probable that the lat
ter clanse of his will will be sustained by the
courts. The law in this State seems well set
tled that a man can not direct the disposition
of his property after death longer than the life
of a person living 21 years after the death ot
that person.
HE INHERITED THE HABIT.
A Sorannmbulhit Who Needs to be Fenced
In When Ho Sleeps.
From the Philadelphia Fressl
The short, fat man who studied a railroad
time table in tho Girard corridor last evening
was Henry Ferguson, who Hf es near Duluth.
The grain fields of Minnesota have yielded har
vests of dollars to Mr. Ferguson. When ho
went to the "zenith city of the unsalted seas"
he had very little money'buc with a big stock
of brains and energy he soon began to lay np
wealth. Mr. Ferguson is a somnambulist and
always sleeps with the lower sash of his bed
room window fastened down and a temporary
wooden bar placed across the open space to pre
vent him from climbing into space at the dead
of night. One night Sve years ago h'e was missed
from bis berth in a sleeping-car on a Rock Is
land train.
When found be was on -the platform of the
last couch in his nightdress, having walked
even while be slept through the train as it was
dashing over the rails at the lively gait of 40
miles an hour. He says he inherited his som
nambulism from his grandfather and great
grandfather. Both served in Highland regi
ments of the British army and both could take
a comfortable sleep while tramping up and
down on guard duty.
WALKER BLAINE'S OWN BUSINESS.
No Ono Else Needs be Interested In His
Whcreabonis.
ISrECIAI. TEIEQ1UM TO THE DISP1TCII.1
Washington, September L A prominent
official of the State Department said to the cor
respondent of The Dispatch to-day: "It is
true that Mr. "Walker Blaine left Bar Harbor
for Washington abont two weeks ago, ana that
many queries have Deen made as tewhy ho
hasn't arrived, but his absence is his "own busi
ness, and there is really no mystery about it I
have known his whereabouts every day, and I
know where ho dined to-day."
The gentleman nuotei, however, refused to
say where Mr. Blaine dined, or to give an
opinion in regard to the probable time of his
return to his duties.
It Depends Upon Circumstances.
From the l'btlad'elphla Press.',
"Can the mosquito be exterminated?" asks a
writer in tho Sorth American JlevieteS To our
mind it seems to depend altogether upon
whether your club strikes the bird or merely
.the place where tbo bird was.
Courageous Colonel Quay.
From the Boston Herald. V
Matthew Stanley Quay Is probably the only
prominent inanln this country who doesn't
want to be President some day and who has
the courage to say so. P. 8. Perhaps Quay is
fooling.
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Took Them Easily.
From the Chicago Herald.
Milwaukee has been a sort of Behring Sea to
the G. A. R. they captarod all the schooners
there were in sight" -
EARLY KIVER REMINISCENCES.
The Rapid Increase and Decline of River
Transportation Pllteburg nt a Ship,
building Center Noted Steamboats
Old-Timo Pittsburg Navigators.
To rivermen nothing can prove of more vivid
interest than Captain E. W. Gould's "History
of Riyer Navigation," a volume just published
at St Louts, the home ot the author. Tho vol
ume deals with the "Rapid Increase and De
cline of River Transporatlon,'' and it must be
confessed that the author has Imparted a sin
gular interest to his narration of an epoch in the
use ot steam as a motive power. The story, al
though somewhat disconnected, is studded
with" interesting reminiscences of Pittsburg,
and the halcyon days of steamboating here
abouts will be vividly recalled by the many
allusions to the enterprising citizens of this
locality. In the author's preface he aeknowl.
edges his obligations to the files of The Pitts
bubo Dispatch, apparently the only Penn
sylvania paper from whicli excerpts were
culled.
The.first allusion to Pittsburg is in regard to
the initial mall route across the Alleghenies,
ordered by Congress in 1786, from Alexandria,
Va., to Pittsburg; also from Philadelphia to
Bedford. On the 20th of May, 17SS, Congress
established a fortnightly mail to run from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg. So that 100 years
since a letter took as many days in transporta
tion as hours are now consumed. The neces
sity for still farther Western mall service be
came apparent, and in April, 1791, Mayor Isaac
Craig, ot Pittsburg, and Colonel O'Hara, army
contractor, nut into commission 21-foot row-
boats, traveling SO miles a day against the cur-.
rent ana aoumc tne aisiance witn it, mo crew
of five men being armed to the teeth to frus
trate redsEin attacks. There were four relays
between Pittsburg and Cincinnati, and the
time of passage ranged from six to 14 days.
The history of steamboating In and around
Pittsburg, as set forth by Captain Gould, show
conclusively that the city atjthe junction of the
three rivers was not only tbe head, but the
home of the navigation of the West, an'd full
records show that it enjoyed the prestige for
many years of being the greatest shipbuilding
city in the country. That that glory has de
parted may be attributed to the rise of other
industries, in which, in deference to past tradi
tions, she still rules the country.
History ot Early Boatbuilding.
The first steamb6at constructed to run in
"Western waters was the New Orleans. She
was 116 feet long with 20 feet beam, and her
cylinder bad a diameter of 31 inches. The
total cost was 33,000, a fortune in those days.
The launch was mado in March, 1811. Her
first voyage was to Louisville in October of the
same yeai, and the running time was only 61
hours on the trip, something unprecedented in
those days. She struck a snag near Baton
Rouge on July 13, 1SU, and went to the bottom.
The innovation soon superseded other methods
of river navigation. Other boats were quickly
under way and in a few years tho industry had
become very Important. In quick succession
were built the Comet, of 25 tons, owned by
Samnel Smith, and built by Daniel French, on
the stern-wheel pattern; tbe Enterprise, 45
tons, by same builder; the Etna, 340 tons, built
in Pittsburg, and commanded from 1815 by
Captain A. Gale; tho Dispatch, 25 tons, built
on the French patent, and commanded by Cap
tain J, Qregg; tho Buffalo and James Monroe,
built in this city by Benjamin H, Latrobe,
Sr., the distinguished architect of the
Capitol at Washington; tho Washington, of
Wheeling, had an engine and boilers built at
Brownsville, Fa., which were placed on tbe
upper deck, the first vessel of that pattern; tbe
Franklin, 123 tons built at Pittsburg, by Shiras
& Cromwell, in 1816, tbe engine being a George
Evans patent; the Oliver Evans, built by
George Kvans, which exploded a boiler off
Point Coupe, and killed 11 passengers, tbe
owner being George. Other Pittsburg boats
were the Harriot, owned by Armstrong; George
Madison, 1818, built by Voories, Mitchell, Rod
gers & Todd; General Jackson, 1818. owned by
R. Whiting, of Pittsburg, and General Carroll,
of Tennessee: James Ross, 830 tons, 1818. owned
by Whiting & Stackpole; Frankfort, 320 tons:
Expedition and Independence, built for a Gov
ernment cxpeditltion up the Missouri river,
and tbe first boats that stemmed the strong
current of the Missouri river; the AVestern En
gineer, built for an expedition to tho Yellow
stono river, and drawing only 30 inches of
water, and was commanded by Major S. H.
Long, United States Engineer, ana Major
Thomas Biddle, of tbe United States artillery.
FiiIiou'b Pisbt for Steam.
Robert Fnlton, the putative inventor of the
steamboat, fought existing prejudices at Pitts
burg for several years. He camo to this city as;
the leading ship-building community in tho
country. The decision to try Pittsburg was the
result of an understanding between Chancellor
Livingston, Robert Fulton and N. J. Roosevelt.
The latter built a barge and with his bride
made a trip to New Orleans to estimate the
currents, etc In the spring of 1810, Fulton and
Livingston commissioned Roosevelt to go to
work. Tho keel of the vessel was laid under
the Boyd's Hill bluff, where tho Pittsburg and
Conncllsvllle depot was afterward built. It
was the famous New Orleans, and was a com
plete success. The voyage down the river was
a continued ovation diversified by ridiculous
occurrences indicating tho Iright of the
"natives' and Indians.
A citizen of Pittsburg wxota a letter to the
National Intelligencer, of Washington, under
date of April 22, 1814, describing the furore
created by the launch of the Vesuvius., It was
4S0 tons burden, and was to run to Louisville.
After several trial trips on Saturday, April
23, the Vesuvius went np the Monongahela "in
front of the town, to its eastern limits, and re
turning down the opposite shore went down
the Ohio firing a salute. Most of the citizens
were assembled on the bapk." The writer
being desirous to ascertain her speed, mounted
"a very elegant" horse and tried to teep
abreast. He rode 8 miles in 19 minutes and
gave it up as a bad job. "In one hour and 30
minntes she reached Middleton, 12 miles below
Pittsburg."
Some other interesting scraps of news aro as
follows: "Tbo steamboat Enterprise went from
Pittsburg to New Orleans in 227 hours. She at
times reached the astonishing speed of 10
miles an hour." "John L. Sullivan, of Boston,
has obtained a patent for the uso of steam
power in towing luggage boats." Nilea Megis.
ter, 1S14. "in ISfo Jonas Kpoir built the ship
Scott, tho first vessel to reach the falls of tbe
Ohio." "Tho steamer St Charles, built at
Pittsburg in 1814, for the New Orleans and
Nashville trade, was the first boat ever to uso
a steam whistle."
A quotation of Andrew Carnegie's "Tri
umphant Democracy" says: "Tho records of
1884 show that there are owned in the city of
Pittsburg, for use on the rivers, 4,323 vessels,
includine barges, with a tonnage of 1,700,000
tons." A point in controversy Is settled as fol
lows: "Tho truth of history justifies this cor
rection: The Valley Forge, the first Iron steam
vessel? was built at'Pittsburg by Robertson &
Mimrns, engine builders, and was owned by
them and commanded by Captain Tom Bald
win." "Mr. "William French, of Brownsville, Pa.,
placed the first high-pressure engine upon a
Western steamboat."
a bo First Iron Wnr Vessel.
Pittsburg can lay claim to the honor ot tho
first iron war vessel, which Captain Gonld says
was the Alleghany, a 4tgun steam frigate,
ship-rigged, and propelled by Lieutenant Hun
ter's plan, launched in 1815. The designer grew
to be Commodore Hunter, and the Alleghany
was in service for many years. The W. y.
Fry, an iron steamboat ISO feet long, 23 feet
beam, and 8 feet depth of hold, was brought
over from Liverpool In Jane, 1S39, and trans
ported to Pittsburg, where sho was put to
gether a clear case of carrying coals to New
castle. Captain Gould avails himself of two lengthy
quotations from The Dispatch, ono signed
by "A. D. R.," giving a correct list of Pitts
burg's achievements in the boatbuilding indus
try, and the other being one of tho series ot
recollections of fresh water "old salts" which
have, from time to time, been printed in The
Dispatch.
Captain Gould says that the first boat to as
cend the Allegheny river was the Alleghany,
which left Pittsburg going up river on May 11,
1830, and mado the trip to Warren, 2u0 miles
above Pittsburg, In five days' time. On May
20, it reached the village ot tbe Indian King
Cornplanter, then nearly 100 years old. He
came aboard the wonderfnl visitor.
Tbo biographical portion of tho book treats in
terestingly of the following Pittsburg captains,
appending excellent portraits in each instance:
Captain C W. Batchelor, Commodore William
3. Kountz, Captain William Doan, Captain R.
C. Gray, Captain Isaac M. Mason, Captain Bur
ns D. Wood, Captain Morgan Mason and Pilot
Henry A. Ealer.
Captain Gould's book will certainly bo read
with rare pleasure, conta!ning,as It doe3,count
lcss references to Pittsburg's earliest days.,
Quito a Common Oacnrrcncc.
From the Chicago Nens.l
A New Hampshire couple were married In a
balloon the other day. They probably thousht
they were undergoing a novel experience, but
the fact Is that most people's heads aro la the
clonus wnentney get marriea. - i
HIS WHISKEB8 WEEE GREEN.
A Queer Looking Prisoner Excites jLaagtf
tcr In a Pollco Court.
New York, September L A general
snicker was indulged in by the spectators at
tbe Essex Market Police Court yesterday
morning as Policeman Meehan came In leading
one of tbe strangest looking objects Imagin
able. The object was Edward Reilly, of No. 67
East Tenth street, though his wife and chil
dren, had theyseen him atthat moment, would
sever nave suspected his identity, uu raut
tache and whiskers were nainted a beautiful
grass green, while his ears were coated with a
most piratical-looking black. He had been dec
orated by a painter who found him In a drunk
en sleep. Justice Power thought tho punishment
sufficiently fitted the crime and let Reilly go
without a fine. Tjjo Justice had leaned back
in his cbair and laughed a Edward was brought
np to tbe desk and charged with' intoxication.
The policeman said that on Friday night he
found the prisoner on a stoop at Grand and
Essex streets. He was lying on his face and
bad every appearance of being dead. A large
crowd were about him, Tbe policeman called
an ambulance, thinking that tbe man had
taken Paris green. The ambulance surgeon
stuck a pin in Reilly and elicited a very robust
howl.
A little boy in the crowd then told tbe police
man how Reilly had got his rari-colored decor
ations. He said a painter came along with two
paintpots,and8eeIngRelllysittIngagainstapo3t
with his mouth open.stopped, and, taking out his
brushes, painted Reilly as described. "When
tbe painter had finished his task he left with a
grin on his face nearly a yard wide.
"You've been punished enough, I guess," said
tbe Justice to Reilly. "Go home and take a
bath. It will need a day's washing to get that
paint out of your whiskers."
Reilly departed at at rapid gait. Outside the
court tbo street gamins caught sight of him
and followed him, yelling, "Get on to his
nibs."
KOJTAXCE OF i REFORMED CROOK.
He Weds a Wealthy Girl and Becomes an
Influential Citizen.
On? ciu KATi, September L Court House De
tective George W. Ryan, who has just returned
from California, saw a number of old-time
crooks during his visit to the Pacific coast. One
of them "Brocky" Horton, who was impli
cated with Lou Hauck in tho murder of a
traveling man in Ohio several years ago is
doing well. Horton and Hauck were both
hotel sneak and sure-thing men, and Hauck is
still In the Columbus penitentiary for the
murder. Horton was pardoned and went West.
He landed in Fresno, CaL, where Le Blanche,
tbe prize fighter, trained for his late fight with
Dempsey. Horton was "on the skates" there,
but . did not have a pair of shoes to
cover his feet. Somehow or other he met
a Spanish girl of wealthy parents who
was attending the Sisters' Convent
at Fresno. Horton is a tall, lanky, ill-shaped
fellow, and his facets eoooyered with smallpox
pits that it looks like a sieve. .Besides, he has
an ugly crescent shaped scar on his forehead
the result of a loathsome disease. Notwith
standing all this be succeeded in winning the
Spanish girl, and the day after sbo graduated
from the convent Horton married her. She
proved to be worth J100.000 in her own right,
and "Brocky" was not long in finding it out.
To-day he drives the streets of Fresno behind a
spanking team of horses and lives In the finest
residence in tbe country. He even has a large
vineyard attached, with the words "B. Horton.
Proprietor," over the entrance. Ho is looked
upon as one of the best and most influential
citizens of the place, and but very few people
there know him as the thief who has done time
in nearly every large prison in tbe country.
HOT MUCH OF A TRAVELER.
A Kentucky Blan 63 Yean Old Avr ay From
Homo for the First Time.
BunoiK,Ky., September L Mr. George
Vanarsdale, of this place, started to Missouri
yesterday, and it was a big event in Mr. Vanars-
dale's life. He is 63 years old, but he had never
been away from home before. He is worth
over SJO.OOO, andis intelligent and well informed,
having accumulated all his property by his own
exertions. Mr. Vanarsdale was born in Mercer
county,. which adjoins this (Boyle) county, at a
place about ten miles from Bnrgin, and early
in life moved here. He was once in Fayette
county, which likewise adjoins Eovle, but he
has never been in Anderson, Washington, Gar
rard or Lincoln, which are also neighbors. He
was never in a town in bis life, as this place is
only a small village. A railroad runs through
his farm, and has been there for years, but
until he started to Missouri be was never on a
railroad train. His farm is a beautiful place of
300 acres, worth over?100 an acre. Here bo
dispenses a fine hospitalltytand no man in this
region is held in greater esteem by his neigh
bors. Mr. Vanarsdale might never have taken a
journey had it not been for his daughter. Some
time ago a handsome young Missourian camo
a-courtmg her and sho married him. They went
to Missouri to live, and she has since been writ
ing back to her father, urging him to visit them.
Tho old gentleman was very anxious to visit his
daughter, but it wasa long time before he could
be prevailed upon to undertake a journey to
Missouri.
THE GODDESS OP WATER.
An Ancient Piece cl Olexlcnn Art is Novr to
bo Resurrected.
.'EPECIAI, TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Citt of Mexico, September 1. The statue
of tho Goddess of Water that has rested for
ages near the Pyramids of the Moon at San
Juan, Do Teotihucan, 27 miles northeast of this
city, has been raised from its bed and is now
being worked toward tho Vera Cruz Railroad
for transportation to the National Museum. In
the monolith American archaeologists recog
nize the almost forgotten fainting stone spoken
of by Brantzmayer in his works. In 4.866 Maxi
mllllan sent a commission of Pachlca scientists
over the pyraments to make some explorations.
Their report contains a full account of the dis
covery of the celebrated Goddess of Water,
which they found lying on its face, and placed
on its feet. They refer in their report to the
fainting stone, and they could not find it.
Moreover, from that day to this, the archaeolo
gists of Mexico have been universally agreed
that tbo fainting stone, on account of its sup
posed malevolent qualities, had been broken
up and destroyed by tbe Indians.
Bat an American has, by the aid of drawings,
shown that the Goddess of Water and tho
fainting stone are one and the same, and Mr.
Leopoido Batres, the inspector and conserva
tor of monuments, is organizing an excursion
of newspaper men to go out to tho pyramids
next Monday. Two hundred soldiers of tbe
First Artillery are busily engaged in transport
ing the monolith by easy stages to the railroad
station.
THEI WILL WORE TOGETHER.
Southern Republicans Hustling for the Re
peal of the Rorcnuo Lares.
ISrEClAl, TELEGRAJI TO THE DISPATCH.
WAsmNOTOM-, September L Several of the
Republican members of Congress from tbe
South are now in the city and are canvassing
tlio advisability of holding a caucus to discuss
the organization of the House in advance of
tho regular party caucus. Neither Honk nor
Brower is here, both of whom have been wide
ly published as the leaders ot the independent
Southern movement, but such men as Evans
and Logan, who are on tho ground, profess to
be averse to doing anything that will seem to
antagonize tbe regular caucus. They are
anxious to secure tho election of a Speaker
who will be favorable to the repeal of the inter
nal revenue laws, and their only united action
will be in support of such candidate for presid
ing officer.
ft has not been finally decided to hold a
caucus, but that will almost undoubtedly bo
the conclusion of correspondence and confer
ences that are now in progress. Tho Southern
Republicans are determined to leave no stone
unturned to accomplish the repeal of tbe inter
nal revenue laws, and at tbe same time they
will probably lay their plans to capture a fair
share of the offices of the House. -
A BANQUET TO KIMBERLT.
Tlio'Amcrlcnn Commander at Samoa Hon
ored by the Foreign Residents,
Apia, Samoa, August 15. A banquet was
given last night to Admiral Kimberly and his
two staff-bearers Lieutenants RIttenhouse
and Merriam. It was attended by a representa
tive body ot American and English residents
of Apia.
Chiefs Manga and Asi, who, with Malletoa,
have returned from exile on tbe Marshall
Islands, state that when Malletoa was taken on
board tho German gunboat Wolf at Joluit, to
be returned to Samoa, he thought the Ger
mans were going to take him back to tho
Cameroons and jumped overboard, but was
afterward rescued.
This Might Account far It.
From tbeXouisvlUe Courier-Journal.
The world is astonished at tbe fortune of the
4ady of Chili who has KOO.OOO.OOO. Possibly
thero aro no drygoods stores In Chill.
Practical Wisdom.
from the Somorville Journal, j
It Isn't wise to tar always all that vou think.
but it is wise always to think "carefully over
everything you say.
LETTERS TBAT-KIYIR1 COM,
Tbe Writer Geaeralfcr e Btaae Aec4
Acuta That Hake bmh Missive Mta
carry How Others do Astray Tan
Fate of tbe AiuilMta Beoth.
. J ICOBEESrOXDElCE OT TBS DISPATCH. l'
Washimqton, August 3L A letter reached
me last week which had been addressed tot
"New .York" Instead of "Washington." It
had been held over one mall and then for
warded to meby the New York postoffice with
out being sent to tho Dead Letter Office, as I
should have expected. I showed it to tbe
Superintendent of the Railway Man Service,"
J.Lowrle Bell, and asked him bow it happened
that it was forwarded so accurately and so
promptly, and how it had' escaped the
'"morgue," "That," said Mr. Bell, "is what we
would call 'nixie' matter. The Railway Mail
Service and postofflces of the country handle
an enormous amount of it every vear. When.
ever a letter comes into' the hands of a postal
clerk insufficiently or incorrectly addressed! he
throws it aside , for future examination- He
can supply the address himself if he Is certain
ot it; but he Is. not allowed much discretion.
The clerks of the Railway Mail Service are in
structed to turn this matter over to the Super
intendent at the headquarters of their divis
ion. If any of tbe clerks in the mailing di
vision of this nostofficecan deciDher the ad-
'dress or supply a needed deficiency in it, the
letter Is forwarded. Only a small proportion
of the 'nixie' matter gets to the Dead Letter
Office.
Mistakes of the Public.
"The mistakes that tho railway mall clerks
make are very few compared with the number
that tbe public makes," continued Mr, Belt
"The service is not perfect It never will be per
fect. We can only hope to reduce the number
of mistakes to a minimum. We expect a cer
tain number of mistakes to occur in each divi
sion every month. We look for them so regu
larly that when no errors are reported we look
upon the clerks with some suspicion. I have
just' finished signing a number of letters to
clerks asking why no reports of errors have
come from them in tbe month of July. Each
clerk is ordered to report the number of errors
committed by other clerks and discovered by
him. If a clerk reports no errors, the conclu
sion is that he is trying to screen other clerks
from blame. I believe that under my prede
cessor there had grown up a system of tnis
kind, by which, of course, a good showing was
made for the service in tbe reports, out which
necessarily encouraged carelessness. Tbe men
had understandings with each other that they
were not to report each other's faults. Now,
when a' man does not report any errors I ask
him why not. 1 know tht errorsmust have
been committed, except in very rare cases, and
I wish to have these men understand that they
must report all errors that occur.
"If vou could go on the cars as I have, you
would understand what I mean when I say that
there must be errors. I have gone through tbe
packages of letters before the clerks have ban
died them and tried to read the addresses, and
it has surprised me to see with what rapldity.and
yetwithwhataccuracy.theclerksperform their
work. If the great public would only under
stand that the clerk makes very few mistakes
compared with those that are made by the
senders of letters, there would not be so much
impatience over va exceptional error when it is
discovered. When a man Is handling letters at
tbe rate of 12 a minute for hours at a time, and
deciphering with almost unerring accuracy
hieroglyphics that an expert would be puzzled
over, it is not surprising tbafbe should make
an occasional slip."
Only Official Complaint Noticed.
Borne time ago there appeared in a Western
paper a Dumber of complaints of merchants
about letters mishandled. I asked Mr. Bell if
they had been investigated. For reply he took
from his desk a bundle of little slips, all type
written. "Here are the reports on all of
them," he said. "We do not answer newspaper
charges unless they come to us in official form,
butl instruct the superintendents of divisions
to investigate all of them thoroughly. The
only way for us to learn what defects exist in
tbe system is by tracing every mistake to its
source. Many appearances of error are de
ceptive. One of the cases brong'bt to my atten
tion by this paper was that of aletter addressed
by the Anhenser-Busch Brewing Company to a
town in Texas, and which was finally delivered
at its destination after a voyage to Belfast.
Now, that looks like a pretty bad case, does ft
noir i naa it investigated very carefully, ana
the following lacts developed: The letter was
oneofannmber of letters addressed at the
same time, and as it was placed under another
letter while the ink on it was still
fresb, and as the ink was rather thick,
tbe two letters stuck together. Tbeirunionwas
so close that it was impossible to tell without
close examination that there was more than one
letter there. The letter was thrown into a
closed pouch. It was attached to a letter
which bore the address of a Belfast firm, and
so into the Belfast noucb It went undiscovered.
The pouch went through to Belfast without
being opened. Whon it reached Its destination
the letter was taken out with" its companion
and with it was delivered, without the knowl
edge of the Belfast postoffice. It was not until
the man to whom the letter was addressed
opened it that the presence of the Texas letter
was discovered. Then it was returned to this
country and In time reached Its proper destina
tion. Now in this instance tbe letter did not
pass through tbe railway mail clerk's hands
at all The mistake, if any. was that of the St.
Joui3 Postoffice, and I do not think anyone
would claim that that offico was responsible for
the miscarriage ot the letter."
The Pate of J. Wilkes Booth.
There has always existed in tbe minds of
thousands of people a serious doubt as to the
fate of J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Presi
dent Lincoln. Although history states that he
was found in a barn at Gannell's farm, about
20 miles from Fredericksburg, Va., 12 days
after the surrender, and was there shot and
fatally wounded, and although the remains
were brought to Washington, identified and
burled by tbe United States authorities, there
has been a lingering suspicion in the minds of
many Americans that the identification was
not complete, and tnat J. Wilkes Booth suc
ceeded in evading entirely his pursuers. Sen
sational newspapers publish perenially inter
views with people who are quite sure they have
seen Booth in the flesh, and many people
are found to believe them. A bit of
testimony which came to my attention this
week, and which I am told has never been pub
lished, may serve to convince tbe doubting
Thomases. In tbe city of Washington lives Dr.
May, the father of Fred May, of New York,
who attained notoriety some years ago by fight
ing a duel with James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the
proprietor of tbe New York Herald. At the
time of tbe assassination ot President Lincoln
Dr. May was one of tbe leading physicians of
Washington. It was known that lie bad been
treating Booth shortly before the assassination
occurred, and when tbe remains, sunposed to
be those of Booth, were brought to Washington
and placedon board the United States steamship
Monitor he was asked to assist in their identi
fication. Judge John A. Bingham, of Pennsyl
vania. Judge Advocate, and afterward Solici
tor of the Court of Claims, had been appointed
special Judge Advocate in tho trial of tbe as
sassins, and it was under his guidance that a
small party of tbose interested in the Identifi
cation went aboard the Monitor. When Dr.
May was brought to thespot where the remains
lay he said:
"I was treating J. Wilkes Booth for a tumor
on the back of the neck just before he shot Pres
ident Lincoln. 1 performed an operation on it
so successfully tjiat I told him there would be
no scar remaining. He went away. A short
time afterward he returned and showed me tbo
spot where tbe operation had been performed.
There had been a serious rupture and the
wound was in bad condition. I asked him how
it had occurred. He was playing with Char
lotte Cusbman at the time, and be explained to
me that in the course of a performance it had
become necessary for her to throw her arms
violently around his neck. In doing so she
had ruptured the wound, which had not bad
time to heal thoroughly. When I had exam
ined the wound I told Booth that the promise I
had mado him before could not be fulfilled,
and that tbe wound, as It would heal then,
would undoubtedly leave a near. If this is
the body of J. Wilkes Booth that scar will bo
found on the back of his neck. Furthermore,
you will find on bis arm tattooed the initials
'J. W.B,"'
The remains were examined. Dr. May him
self tnrned the bead about, disclosing on tbo
back of the neck the cicatrice left by tbe sur
geon's knife. On the arm were fonnd the
initials of Booth's name. They were faint, but
there was no questioning their presence. More
than one witness to this identification h now
living. There is no doubt In their mlnSsthat
the assassin met his just fate.
O'BBTEX-BAirr.
A BRIGHT EVENING.
It was a gorgeous evening,
The moos was full and bright,
Tbe ajr was soft and balmy
A perfect summer night.
Across the park they wandered,
A young man and a maid; '
lie was a little timid,
bjic not a bit afraid.
Tbe walks were half deserted
(The hour was growing late);
Fond lovers on the benches
Were sitting tete-a-tete.
Tbe sweet perfume of flowers
Welfhed down tbe evening breeze;
Tbe electric lluht shone brightly
Among tne dark-stemmed trees.
"Now, isn't It dcllghtlnll"
The simple young man said: '
"These lights amonir the foliage,
Tbe full moon overhead."
She hesitated sllghjly,
Then glanced about tba park;
"Well, yes," shesild-"ormher-
Jt would be If tws dark."
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bom domestic
fttterfrit tofefiapBte, coIum; wtata iHrnitJ
artMw turn ska' yen of mmm C ta MH
rifted writers of the dn . mtU an
nteat of etwlw read matter ntmrpaM by
the contest ocaay periodical iaiMtoMk nt
lacrmstee-araar of. regular rcxtwaC m
I Dispatch K Sunday edrtfwi afaW
vaiaawe morwwon.
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TheICattei4rHie eofitiaues to be tbe at,
sorbteg the"of; conversation 'in 1Babi
The strikers are Una, aad unless their deuttad
are agreed to their raatawfll soon be kmlr
recruited. Prtee .Albert Victor gafeff h
,10013 to bbb Bfefs. mi. TOayBneK'S Beana,
Is failing rapidly. Bettn capitalists are seek
ing Investeeats la JteHtofc Columbia. 3lfoarv
by an adrott move, a sveeeeded la gajeisg tbe
support of Use PaHwHrte. 'The European K
ua'tlon looks, warliks.' Oersciny, Fraaee a4
Raseia are increasing: their. military foreM. '
Arehbisbbpr, Corrigaa yesterday Issued a pas
toral calling to the present situation of the
Vatican and potetlDjr 'out tbe danger ot it
being deprived of twporal power. He de
Bounces tbe, Kieg of Inly aad prosounees
secret so eietfe dangerous laititatlous. The work,
of securing a jury, for the'; Cronin murder trial
promises to bo dbBeolt as not a single juror,
has been accepted yet. Howard HeaaiBft a
wealthy young man of Ke&disg.wM att&eked
by a yoaag woman who tried to throw vitriol is,
his face. Two Massachusetts men have aeeota-,
plished the seemingly lmpeesible feat of travel
ing to Europe and back: without spending a,
cent of money. A review of State 'pelWps was
furnished by a Philadelphia eorresetstl'
Jay Gould is said to favor wanamakefs pla
for establishing a system of postal delivery far
telegrams. Holzhay, tbe noted Wiioonsln
highwayman, has been-captsred.
( Pittsburg- woTk"ingmen will petition Con
gress to make Labor Day a national holiday!' A
body of sharp-shooters from four1 Western
Pennsylvania regiments left for Mt, Gretna to
take part in the State contest Consul Stewart
gave an interesting talk about Belgium. Tho
WestJnghonse Electric Company is likely to
get the contract for. lighting Allegheny. Pitts
burg artists will make a fine showing of their
pictures a the Exposition. Mr. Carnafran,
master in the case of Join R, Qlonlnger againK
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, In
volving a $10,000,000 loan, recommends that the
bill be dismissed.
Tbe Pittsburgs lost one game Saturday, and
tbe other was a tie. Scores: Pittsburgs 1, Chi
cagosD; Pittsburgs 11, Chicagos 11 13 Innings.
EI Rio Rey has again beaten the record. Other
sporting news was of an interesting character,
nr.
Frank G. Carpenter's letter from Athens,
in the second part, described the home life of
the King ana Queen of Greece. Bill Nye told
how he was bored by tbe hospitalities of Lon
don society. A novelette, by Bralnard Garn
der Smith, was published complete. Its title
was "A Tragedy of High Explosives," and the
plot was strangely fanciful and romantic.
Kamera sketched scenes at fashionable Tux
edo. Oliver Optic, in an entertaining paper,
save some insight Jnto the peculiar ens
toms of Mohammedan countries. Olive Wes
ton gave a pleasing chat abont'noted women,
and how they dress. A. C. Hallbeck con
tributed an article on the gymnasts of an
tiquity. "Sour Grapes" was the title of an in
structive religions lesson by Rev. George
Hodges. A. M. H. described tbe curious prac
tices observed by sailors while crossing
tbe line. M. C. Williams' paper was
ono interesting to every lover of hunting,
as it gave much interesting information re
garding tbe habitat of various species of wild
game In this country. Ernest H. Heinrichs
furnished a pretty ske'eh entitled "The King
of tbe Forest." Dr. Jackson pointed oat the
dangers arising from the use of unwholesome
meat. Shirley Dave gave the ladies a column
of information about cosmetics. F. A. Elwell
recounted tbe experiences ot tbe American
bicyclists in Europe. Clara Belle's letter,
"Every Day Science," "Sunday Thoughts,''
and several other original articles, together
with the usual departments, completed au ex
cellent number of a newspaper that always
contains a great quantity of good literature.
A SENATOR WHO DROYt! DOGS.
He
Was a Hooslor and nil Clothes Were
Covrred With Mud.
From the Chicago Journal.!
Oliver Hampton Smith was elected Senator
from Indiana "in 1S3& When tho election was
over Smith, who was a good lawyer and had
been in Congress eight or ten years before, took
a drove of hogs down to Cincinnati, going on
foot all the way. On the way he arrived at a
tavern, covered with mud, unwashed and un
shaven for many days. The crowd surrounded
him. eager for news otthe election.
"Who's eleoted Senator? HendriofcsT"
"No."
"Nobler'
"No."
"Who thenr
"lam!"
There was a dead silence for a moment and
then someone asked, "Who are yon?"
A stump speech, with all tne mud still cling
ing to his clothes, was necessary to convince
them of his right to tbe title of Senator in the
Congress of tbe United States.
A DEBT L0SG DDE.
Illoney Borrowed to Bnlld tbe White Home
Still Remains Unpaid.
rSVXCIAI. TXLXORAX TO TUX DISPATCTM
WASnirroTO, September 1. M. B. Harlow,
Secretary and Treasurer of the Mt. Vernon
Avenue Association, hopes that the White
House addition project will be pushed before
Congress. " When It Is," ho savs, "our associ
ation, to which tho Virginia Legislature has
transferred its claim against tbe Government
for money borrowed by General Washington to
build the present structure, will present that
claim, which is for $120,000, and has neTer been
denied by the Government, nor can it be. for
we have the promise of the Government, mado
through Washington, to pay the money back to
Virginia, should it ever be able to-do so.
"We will not perhaps ask that tbe claim be
paid in money, but will probably suggest tbit
Congress defray the expenses of building tbe
proposed national highway to Mt. Vernon. If
they agree, wo will transfer the Virginia mort
gage on the White House as our contribution
to the project "
TRI-STATE TRIFLES.
MAirxoirD. De Tube, of Oley, six miles
from Reading, is the owner of five large fish
dams. Of late he has been greatly troubled by
the depredations of fish hawks, which hare
made frequent descents upon his fish pre
serves, where swim some 3.000 or 1,000 German
carp of various sizes. Theotherday.intendmg
to abate the nuisance somewhat if possible, be
took down his shotgun, and with a supply of
buckshot secreted himself in the bushes beside
one of the dams. Presently au enormous bird
sailed overhead, and, after circling around
slowly three times, made a rapid descent into
the pond. Jnst as it emerged from the water
with a fish in its talons Mr, Turk let drive at it
with a load of bucksbot, and Jellied itinstantly.
Instead of being a fish hawk, as he supposed, it
proved to be a bald eagle, and measured five
f eqt six Inches from tip to tip of its wings.
A thief at Parkesburg. Pa, dug up a field
of potatoes during the night and carried them
off.
Jons Palm, of Bowmansville, Lancaster
county, who bad worked at blacksmlthing for
20 years, has quit that business and will enter
Franklin and Marshall College next week to
preparo for the ministry in the German Re
formed Church.
A pear tree at Sandy Hill, Pa., Is well filled
with fruit, and one bough is covered with blos
soms. Peoplo go miles to see it.
ASTOjrrRurr(Pa-) cow has just died from
over-indnlging itself in a lot or pastry. A
baker's wagon was npset in a stream, and the
cow ate several plea which floated down.
A PoTTSTOWir lady expecting company made
some ice cream a few days ago, and accident
ally flavored it with a dash of laudanum Instead
of lemon. Her guests detected the error in
time to save their lives.
At Rtenbenvlllo a vacant honse, reported to
bo hauntrd, has been found to be occupied by
a colony of cats. '
A West Virqinia man suggests that the
new postage stamps ha adorned with the
picture of Baby MoKee,
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-At Belfast, He.,. taObaal
the harbor tbe otber day, Mi mt
went oversewd. His 1-yaar-aM i
ittgba tba bank. ernJalm "i
Stand r'ght on 'your feet. Tmn
as soon as I can set my ebees a
esty aad sbe proceeded to areaatcia to' taaj
tiwuau
Fref. Harsferf, f CaakUg hw, after
a a study, lees, ted tbe site of nerewbeaa. tba
"lestoKyof NewBBgland,"sapaese4te,belt
Maine, at taa Beats of B tony Brook, WaMbao.
He b been tbe erection there of a taaad
sfoMfteMtoTvrJt be B feet lreWttsr;"
baa,aBd Jaet fcagb, aad to oaataEa a tts-M ot J
stidifiaatae to tbe top far a lookout. ' Ji .
The featares of tbe Poetess Sappfeo &-
perhaps ibeeo dfeeovwred te-a sseeaJc reeeat
unearthed at.Sjwrta. The gmiir part ot a
mcwafcflooriaa private hs, k"iakrs.
ration, contains a' sqaare witfe a mbh'i bast
labeled BaDsbo.- The head is- era
wreath, and the face Is handsease.
traits were in the same mosat&bMit
nately that which we labeled AlbiialMj
mo portrait Keen.
These are some of the queer
passengers who arrived In New York
Umbriaa few days ago: Mr. Old aad
Yocng, Mr. Geise, Mr. Lamb aad Mr. Fes; I
Thoiaand Mies Tabb, Mr. Day asd Mr. J
Mr. Peacock and Mr. Crow. Mr. Stoat. Mr;
Long andMr. Btrong, Mr. Rose and Mr. BasbS'i
and Miss Hawthorne, Mr. Whltehoasa aad
Mr. Whiteside. Mr. Wood and Mr, Loekwood,.
jir. j.oaa ana mt. .Beers, Mr. irown, J&r. uray,
nr. noiraanamr, ureen:ir. rise saaai,
Cake, Mr. Garrett and Mr. Gates, Mr. Wise
and Mr, Witt, Mr. Hart and Mr. Lave. T ' '
"An extraordinary statement," 'tayfla
Japanese paper, "was made the other day by a
man from Mlyagai-ken. He stated tbat'ia
SendaL since the 11th and 12th ult, the fpeefte
have been much troubled with akidof;:pe4s-'-enons
butterfly. To touch one of tbeseaaseV
the flesh to itch anov if scratched, to sweS aad
remain swollen for a very long time. In tba t
daylight, he says, they do not make their '.ap
pearancejiut at twilight they swarm iflto tbe
nouses. With the approval of tbe autberiMee
fires are now burned at the entrances ot bouses
and yards to attract the Insects and destroy
them."
A. clock that has been in the coach house
at EUersIie, N. Y., for more than 25 years Is re
markable. It was made in Kondoat by a Ger
man long since dead. It was put In the coach
house during the ownarship of William Kelly,
and was used to reenlate all tbe farm bands as
well as tbe movements of everybody on tba
place. Its striking could be beard for three
miles around. Thomas Collyer, of RbinecIIff,
who was in Mr. Kelly's employment for 30 years,
invented an apparatus to make a sttike on the
bell in the tower that stands a hundred yards
away. Mr. Collyer owns tbe clock and the ap
paratus. The two weights weigh 40 pounds. -
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The clocJr Is as bright now as It was when awj
Haunted houses In China must bee-' j
sirable places of residence. The Tientsin Bhth, ,L
pao reports that not long ago a man named fa
Yang moved into ahauated house whichnobody
dared live in, he being ignorant of Its char
acter. Daring the firsc two weeks a ghost, ter
rlblo in appearance,made himself visible in the
nlgbt. Vang, being a young man of bravery
and having learned the professional ways of
taming devils, did not care for it. One night,
when he Saw the spirit unusually rampant and
he undertook to drive it oat. tbe devil suddenly
became a ray of red light and entered into the
ground. Yang was greatly surprised at thb.
and digging into the ground, found more than
10,000 taels of silver in the place where the .
spirit entered.
Near Jackson, Mich., is said to be a
lake of hair dye. A doctor who went thero and
remained three weeks tells of tbe marvelous
effect its waters had upon him. When he went
there his balr was as white as a badger, but be
washed his head several times a day at a cer
tain place in the lake, and his balr commenced
to turn black and la now as black as a raven's
wing. A red haired Jackson girl had ber locks
turned black by tbe same process. A company
has been secretly formed to buy the right to
use the lake, build a hotel and start a resort
for red-headed girls and white-haired men, but
the particular point on the lake where tbe
water is taken which makes .this wonderful
change in one's hirsute is kept a secret.
Last Tuesday morning "Warren Schell,
of fcSomerville. N. Yt, noticed that the grass in
one of his fields looked 'as if some animal bad
been eating it. About 6 o'clock in tbe evening
he returned, armed with his Winchester re
peater, and found-s. whole family of bears in
tbe field. Tbe two old ones were grazing; tta
cubs, about 2 months old. were playing arounn-
their mother. Mr. Schell whistled, wMch
caused her to raise her bead, and he planteu a
bullet In her breast. Mr. Schell thea turned
his attention to the cabs, ono of which rose oa
bis haunches and showed fight, while the other
climbed to tbe top ot tho fence and watched
their dying mother. A bullet apiece killed
tbem, and as the last one fell the bo bear,
which bad made no attempt to defend his fara
iiy, turned tail and ran for bis life. ,
HUMOROUS HITS. -
"Are these clams fresh?" y
"Well, theyOughtto be; they've been resting
right where they are for three weeks," Jiarptr,t
Baiar. v J
The Judge's Trade. "Judge Lynch Is not
a real Judge, Is he?" aaked Mrs. Fangle. '-
"No," replied her husband: "he's usually la
the suspender business." Time.
"Are yon not afraid to play ball? I
notice that a noted physician says ball playing Is
conducive to heart disease."
"Ho, I'm not afraid. I belong to the Washing
ton Club, "-Timt.
Angry Father If you wish to continue
yonr visits to my daughter, sir, you must wear a
frock coat
Suitor When you chain up your dog, sir, I shall
be happy to. Clothier and FurnUtur.
"How many times have yon been en
gaged this summer?" asked one seaside girl ot
another. "Seventeen. How many have you!"
Twenty-one." "Well. I didn't get here until a,
week after you did." lftuAfnton Capital.
Tommy Say, Mr. Dryleigh, you can try
It on me if you like.
Rev. Mr. D.-I don't understand you, my child.
Try what?
'Why, ma says you can put anybody to sleep la
Ave minutes." (Tatleau.)-rrip.
Quite the Other "Way. "Aren't you
ashamed to be seen fighting wTth that brutal Jen
kins boy on the street?" asked Johnnie's Irate
mother.
"Ashamed?" repeated Johnnie in surprise.
"Ashamed? No, why should. I be? I licked
hlm."--SomCTrMt Journal.
Not Mutual. "I have a little poem here,
and I want to see the editor, " said the long-haired
stranger at the door of the sanctum.
"Is that so. now?" said the office boy.mnslngly,
as he ran his inky ringers tbrongh his hair.
"What an awful pity it Is that the editor doesn't i
feel that way. "Somtrellie Journal. '.'
In the Early Dawn. Proprietor of Mri;
teum-Iamgladtoseethat you are looking after
my Interests so well. That last freak-the girl
who hasn't slept for It years Is a dandy ,".
Manager-Shh! Not so loud. Sbe has Just!,
gone into tbe next room, andihe told me not tor"
wake her until half an bour"beforo show time.'
Texat Sifting.
TrampMadam, will you please glveme
something to cat? " fX
J-ady-XeSr I -will give you somethlngjlfjyoa
will work for li 4Ja4.
Certainly,-madam,-1 will be pleased to. work for
yoo in the line of my trade.
What Is your trade?
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