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. PITTSBURG, MONDAY, SEP. 23, 1S83.
THE FBEKCH ELECTI0KS.
The first returns from the French elections
of yesterday look as if Boulanger might be
restored to a leading position in French
politics. The number of districts, however,
in which the result is finally ascertained is
so few -that, even more than in an election
in our own country, it is necessary, for a cor
rect conclusion, to await the final returns.
The election ot Boulauger himself from
the Montmartre district has much the same
significance as the election of a leading
Democratic Congressman from Kentucky,
or of Hon. "W. D. Keller from Philadelphia.
It was Boulanger's stronghold; and in the
other Parisian districts a considerable
strength for the Boulangist candidates was
to be expected. The Tote shown for him in
Paris is not surprising, nor does it give him
any decisive victory. It will depend on the
other parts of France to show whether the
fugitive hero will be restored to his pedestal.
The indications, from the large number
of districts in which second ballots are nec
essary, is that while Boulanger is not by
any means sweeping everything before him,
he is not so entirely squelched as was ex
pected by his opponents. If neither party
wins a decisive ictory, the possibility that
the contest may be indefinitely extended,
affords the rest of the world a promise of
prolonged amusement in studying the
eccentricities of French politics.
One point deserves to be set down to the
creditof the French people. The elections
passed otfquietly and with good order. That
would be nothing unusual for this country;
bnt it shows decided progress by the French
in the art of self-government
NEW Y0BK SYLLOGISMS.
The wrestle into which New York has
been pluunged by the report of its Commit
tee on Site, that a portion of Central Park
will be needed for the "World's Fair, is
unique. The residents along the park are
horrified that their darling pleasure ground
should be desecrated by an Exposition, and
appeal earnestly to the State law forbidding
the use ot that ground for such purposes.
The dispute reduces the "World's Fair busi
ness in New York to very nearly the follow
ingsylIogism:The fair cannot be held in New
York without using Central Park; Central
Park cannot be used for the "World's Fair;
therefore, the "World's Fair cannot be held
in New York. The conclusion agrees ex
actly with that drawn from a similar syllo
gism touching the impossibility of holding
a World's Fair without money and also the
inability to raise money for it in New York.
B0UBBOKISM IK GE0SGIA.
A rather unique feature of the Southern
race question is presented by the attitude
recently taken by State Senator Gibbs of
Georgia, to the effect that, on behalf of the
South, he wishes to drive the negro out.
This Southern statesman is evidently of the
most Bourbon type. Emancipation has
rained the negroes, according to his view,
and "there is not room enough in the South
for the negro and the Yankee."
Yet it is a singular feature of Southern
legislation that the first step which Senator
Gibbs would take to carry out his darling
idea of removing from his sight the hateful
spectacle of free negroes, is the repeal of
the remarkable law which forbids emigra
tion agents from operating in the State.
The legislation of Georgia has been so
decidedly in favor of keeping the negroes
there to supply labor that the remarkable
step of forbidding any man to come there
and offer them inducements to settle in the
"West or North has been enacted into law.
This is exactly the same in effect as
if Pennsylvania legislation should for
bid any attempts in this State to
interest either Pennsylvania capital or
labor in the iron industries of the
South. Such legislation is illiberal and
sectional, wherever it appears; but it is a
singular feature that the proposition to re
peal it is inspired by an even more illiberal
and reactionary hatred of the labor which
under freedom has doubled the productive
capacity of tbe South.
"When one element of Southern opinion
declares that the negroes must not leave the
South if ther wish to, and the other de
clares that they have got to go whether they
wish or not, the practical result is likely to
be that they are free to go or stay as they
please. Bat the justice of that conclusion
is not to be credited to either element of the
dominant race, as far as can be perceived at
present.
DECENT TREATMENT "WILL PAY US.
The recent remark of a missionary re
turned from China upon the possibility that
the Chinese, after organizing a navy, will
develop such power as to attack the
United States, calls forth an argument from
the New York Tribune to show the utter
hopelessness of any attempts to make China
a great military power. The argument is
hardly needed. The unwieldy nature of
tbe great Empire, its conflicting elements
of population, and above all the utter
incapacity of her people for developing the
military spirit, make it as unlikely that
China will seek to conquer this country, as
that Egypt in its decadence should have at
tempted to subjugate the military Persians.
But that does not at all diminish the
silliness of unnecessarily and wantonly de
ranging our relations with China. The
reasons for cultivating friendlyfeeling with
that empire are not military but commer
cial. There is an immense and almost in
exhaustible field for American enterprise
there, if our national policy can ever be
made to look beyond the object of carrying
the next election. The opening of China
by railroads and telegraphs, the markets
that could be obtained there for our manu-J
factures, and the products that could be
brought back in return, are prizes well
worth a decently courteous treatment of the
Chinese Government. Other nations can
see the importance of conciliating China;
while our nation, which is most advanta
geously situated for that trade and once
held a great share of it, is now throwing
away her chances.
It is not necessary for us to throw open
our gates to Chinese immigration. That
matter can be properly regulated by the
treaties which China is willing to make.
But it will be worth our while to use a de
cent decorum toward the Chinese Govern
ment in securing such treaties. It is neces
sary to remark that such decorum was en
tirely lacking in the proceedings of last
year.
IT IS THE TJMPIBE'S TUBS.
The baseball umpire is aroused. Even
the worm will turn some day if trodden
upon with persistency and a heavy shoe,
and the empire has this disposition also.
He has been trodden underfoot long enough
this season under shoes with spikes in
them. The playful Anson has sworn at
him; the cultured Kelly has put out his
jaw andhis jeers upon him, and every player
in the diamond has upon occasion thrown a
kick or a curse at him. The home plate
has received gentler usage than the umpire.
So long as the end of the season was afar
off the umpire swallowed the insults, curbed
his anger and hoarded his resentment. Now
it is in sight he has grown several inches,
his chest bulges out and he stands in awe of
no man. He calls balls and strikes without
calculating the cost. To this pitcherhe says
"play ball!" and the pitcher plays
ball; and to that catcher he says "go
to 1" and he goes to without a murmur, for
they both know that the umpire has his
fighting clothes on and will fine their salaries
into nothingness at the smallest show or in
subordination. Managers are no longer
autocrats, captains are of no more account
than the small boy hanging to the cross
arm of a telegraph pole outside the fence.
Captain Hanlon, of the Pittsburg Beauties,
knows this now. Other captains will know it.
The umpire has many scores to settle,
bnt from the way he has begun it looks as
if the game would be several hundreds to
nothing in his favor before the season
closes. "We are with the umpire every time.
GAMBLING FOB BE VENUE ONLY.
The report that General Mahoue's plan for
the settlement of the Virginia State debt,
which is an issue in the State canvass, is tbe
establishment of a lottery, ont of the profits
of which the bankrupt State will be restored
to solvency, should be interesting to the ad
ministration. If a frank and open policy
were adopted, we should think a faro bank
run by tbe State or a detail of Virginia
experts to play poker with the bondholders
would be prompter and on the whole prefer
able. Perhaps, however, the necessity of
giving the ontside players a square deal in
those games would detract from the large
sum which is required for the payments of
coupons and matured bonds. Still, what
ever tbe most available form of gambling for
steady revenne.it might be expected tnat the
President and Mr. "Wanamaker would feel
that they ought to be consulted in its selec
tion before they furnish the office holders,
whose patronage is to be used in its behalf.
THE LEAST DESIBABLE FLAK.
The conclusion which the administration
has reached of building in the navy yards
the 3,000-ton cruisers on which Congress put
a limit of cost so low that the contractors
will not take the job, is not likely to prove
an improvement on the previous state of af
fairs. Building vessels in the navy yards
has generally proved a good thing for polit
ical workers; but in the way of turning out
first-class vessels such work has always been
more expensive, less prompt and generally
inferior to that done by private firms. The
Secretary of the Navy had the very obvious
course open to him when he found be could
not let the contracts at the limit fixed by
Congress ot letting Congress decide
whether it would increase the amount or
not. The plan, which is said to have been
chosen will probably make the cost exceed
the legal limit, give inferior work and re
sult in more than the usual jobbery.
Finding the assertion that "the conduct
of the Agricultural Department has been
for years a national scandal," in the es
teemed Louisville Courier-Journal, the pub
lic wonder is aroused first as to the nature
of the scandal, and second, as to the genius
in that line which created a scandal for years,
in a department which was brought into ex
istence about seven months ago.
The mighty issues of metropolitan jour
nalism are disclosed by the vie orous para
graphs which the New York Sun and World
are hurling at each other concerning the
vital point whether the name of the noted
field in Paris is "Champ de Mars" or
"Champs de Mars."
The information that "the "Window Glass
Trust seems in danger of breaking" is re
garded by the Buffalo Express as warrant
ing the comment "Fragile stuff that." But
the information being wrong, owing to the
fact that the "Window Glass Trust has never
been organized, and therefore cannot break,
its fragility is as purely a matter of the im
agination as its existence.
The Bev. Joel Hicks having committed
himself boldly to the prediction of violent
autumnal storms and atmospheric changes
for the 23d to the 26th, the weather is doing
the usual rule full justice by settling down
to a period of bright, calm fall weather.
Me. Suxxivan's canvass for Congress
has started out with his usual vigorous suc
cess in drinking the greater share of the
potables in his prospective district and
cleaning out the crowd wherever he may be.
Mr. Sullivan's campaign methods are vig
orous, but they are nothing to the way in
which he will get his little bill through
Congress.
Paris can rejoice in her superiority over
tbe United States in one respect. Her na
tional canvass only lasted a few weeks.
But the rival parties fought for position be
fore it came off, even longer than our states
men wrestled with the tariff question.
The discovery that Sunset Cox lived at
No. 13 East Twelfth street; that he was a
member of the Thirteen Club; that he was
buried on September 13, and was five times
13 years of age, is published as "a morsel
for the superstitious." The last fact should
convey the instructing conclusion that it
took a good deal of the thirteen nonsense to
kill him.
The reported discoveries of lead ore in
Iowa may be an addition to our mineral
wealth, and they may represent eligible real
estate for sale to the Lead Trust.
Boulanqer recognized that there was a
time for disappearing, some months ago.
He bobbed up once more at the electionsl
yesterday, but before determining whether
he has a new lease of political life, it is
necessary, in France as in this Kepublic, to
wait lor tho returns from the rural districts.
Notwithstanding the abundance of
Bepublican harmony on Saturday, the re
port crops out that the late leader of the
Home Bulers is going to cut the ticket.
Whether this is an invention of Sir. Ma
gee's enemies or not, it indicates that the
harmony is not universally harmonious.
The report that a combination of baseball
players, instead of a combination of man
agers, is going to run the business next year,
is calculated to make the professional um
pire seek some light and safe business, like
throwing torpedoes into oil wells.
It is insisted by the Cleveland Plain
Sealer that Judge Thurman'a heart "still
beats strong for the Democracy." Most
probably; but that does not demonstrate
that Democracy's heart in Ohio beats as
strongly for Judge Tburman as for the bar
rels of the Standard Oil and Beer Trusts.
The equinox has come and gone; the
summer has ended and the baseball season
is drawing to a close, with the Allegheny
team clinging desperately to its position of
second place from the bottom.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
The German Emperor has given his portrait
to Lorn Salisbury.
The equestrian statue of General Robert E.
Lee will be unveiled at Richmond, Va., on De
cember 5.
Milan Obrenovttcu says that ho left Ser
via in order to teach his beloved people how a
crown may be laid aside without repining.
Minister Reid has met with great social
success In Pans. He has so many invitations
that be is able to accept but few of them. He
and Consul General Rathbone have become
great chums, and Mr. Reid will greatly regret
tbe Calif ornlan's,departnro Irom France.
'When Frank Hiscock was at school," says
a veteran story-teller at Syracuse, "he trusted
everybody, and the hoys were always playing
practical jokes on him. But be is changed since
then, rather) He used to be considered homely,
too, but be outgrew that before it got a good.
hold on him."
Miss Wanamaker, who is now visiting the
Harrisons at Deer Park, is a tall, lithe young
woman, who looks as though she could fence,
row or wield a racquet She is rather hand
some, and her face indicates perfect health.
She is clever and witty and is a great reader.
Mrs. Harrison has taken a great fancy to her
and is anxious to have her with her as much as
possible. Miss Wanamaker is not fond of gen
eral society, but likes to meet people of intel
lect, and can hold her own in conversation with
the cleverest men and women in Washington
society.
Three big ships, tbe Umbrla, Alaska and La
Gascogne, brought to New York yesterday
1,251 cabin passengers, mostly American tour
ists. Ada Rehan, the actress, arrived on the
Umbria. Also J. Macdonald Cameron, mem
ber of Parliament; ex-Secretary of War W.
C. Endicott, who has been visiting his son-in-law,
Joseph Chamberlain, and F. W. RIne-
lander. On the Alaska were Cyrus W. Field
and Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Van Renssaeler; Will
iam Ludwig, formerly of the American Opera
Company; Mme. Adelaide Mueller, Miss Annie
Layton, and Mr. Henry Beaumont Singer.
English noblemen are beginning to invest
largely in real estate in Australia. The Duke
of Manchester, who has paid many visits to the
antipodes, first set the example, which has
been promptly followed by Lord Rosebery and
Lord Brassey. Lord Carnarvon, too, owns city
property in Melbourne and has an estate in
Western Australia. But long ago Lord Sber
brooke, then Mr. Robert Lowe, barrister-at-law
at Sydney, bad purchased landed property
in New South Wales, some of which he still
holds. When the gold fever broke ont, how
ever, his agent, thinking it presaged the ruin
of the colony, put the larger portion on the
market, when it was sold at a sacrifice. Had
Lord Sherbrooke retained it, he would now be
numbered among the Australian mlllionaries.
AS COLLEGE G1EL AGAIN.
Mrs.
Grover Cleveland's Pleasant Remind
ers of School Days.
BuFFALo.September 22. Mrs. Grover Cleve
land's friends have done all they conld to make
her stay in her girlhood's home a pleasant one.
Every day has been marked by a dinner, a
lunch, or an entertainment of some sort since
her arrival. Prominent among these was a re
union of Wells College women given by Grace
Carew Sheldon in honor of Mrs. Cleveland on
Wednesday.
The occasion was first cousin to the frolic
held in the now burned precincts in and near
"Goose Alley." The same old pasteboard
placard, marked "Positively Engaged." hung
on the door, the crackers went round in paper
bags, tbe pickles were present in large num
bers as of yore, and the same shoal of sardines
floated in the cans and waited to he eaten with
the fingers. The women, or "girls,' as they in
variably called themselves, were in harmony
with tbe occasion, and although, as one re
marked, tbey were "better fed in these days
than in those gone by," the lunch disappeared
with the old-time rapidity.
As a sauce reminiscences were served, one
guest telling of the night when she fried oysters
with a fork over the gas jet in her room, and
another bringing to mind tbe olives which
would always roll on the floor, but which were
invariably picked up and devoured. Mrs.
Cletcland was disposed to discuss tbe senons
side of school matters, and tbe question of
raising money for the new building as pre
sented. She said:
"I am told that if the cresent nlans for the
building are earned ont we shall have the
handsomest college building in America. Isn't
that something worth working forT I think
you ladies in Buffalo ought to raise SLOOO of
the 6,000 we are trving to make np in the
Eastern association."
On Monday night Mrs. Cleveland will return
to New York, where she will immediately go
about the settling of her new house at 816 Mad
ison avenue. While in this city she has done a
good deal of shopping, and old chairs, draper
ies, china and the like have been sent by her
from hero for tbe New York home.
A MIGHT! METROPOLIS.
New "Vork Given a Popnlntlon of 30,000,.
000 for the Yenr 1090.
From the Engineering-Building Hecord.
General M. C. Meigs has published in a re
cent number of Science a paper entitled: "The
United States, their Growth in Population in
Two Hundred Years," in which be estimates
the progress of our population for the next
century on the basis of an increase of 313 per
cent every ten jears, which is a little less than
the mean rate of increase for the last hundred
years, and thus compntes the following table
of population in future censuses:
1890 G7,240.O0O 1930 381,763,837
10 S9, 633, 333 1950 509,018,449
1910 H9.7i7,777 1970 6-8,691,:5
193) 1S9,650,K7 1980 804.92!,C8i
1930 111,867.177 1930 1,206,562,243
1940 233,822,877
In a private note to us, referring to the above,
he says: "Tbe child is now born who in his old
age will be one of l.oou.ouu.uw 01 people in
the United States, of which 80,000,000 will be
blacks, or of African descent."
After pointing out that the cities will in
crease tbe population at least as fast as the
rural districts, and that, therefore, New York
City will contain over 30,000.000, he alludes to
the work 01 architects, engineers and me
chanics that will be required to provide for the
increase of 68,000,000 people.
The present population of the whole earth Is
between 1,500,000,000 and Lb00,000,000.
As Viewed From Afar.
From the Alt. California. J
The Ohio campaign is hot enough to cook ap
ples on the trees, Foraker is fighting like a
wild cat, and the situation is so torrid that the
cooling presence of Senator Sherman is prayed
for by the whole people.
Unsuccessful ns an Incubator.
From the Chicago Hcws.l
New York has been brooding over the World's
Fair idea for two months and hasn't batched
anything yet It looks as if that city were be
stowing its attentions on a nestf nl of door
knobs. Blatbrw J. Forsr.
ilathew J. Forse, of JOS Jackson street Alle
gheny, died yesterday morning at his home. He
was a young man or great natural talents and a
well-known and popular member of Allegheny
society.
THE CRITIC.
Next Centnry's Peace Trusts Might Manage
Intervening- Conflict Stockton and
Stevenson Lost in Recent Work
Detective Stories' Popularity A Cooper
Wanted Crimford and Italy.
According to Mr. Bellamy's "Looking Back-
ward," it is the great corporations which are
going to make tbe millenlum possible. By the
time we get into the twentieth century wo will
have learned the lesson which the trusts teach;
we will discover that the combined Industries
of the nation can be as successfully managed
as the combined ovens of the coke trade. And
then we will take the business of the country
into our own hands, as we took its Government
some hundred years or so ago, and set up the
monopoly of monopolies.
Mr. Bellamy has not much to say in "Looking
Backward" about war. I supposo that when
tho twentieth century Is fully here, war will be
as obsolete as cannibalism. There may, how
ever, be tbe possibility of a war or two between
now and tho mlllenium. It may chance some
day that the fish of the Atlantic or the seals of
the pacific will get usinto trouble with Canada.
Mr. Stockton, in the "Great War Syndicate,"
has predicted tho way out in such a case.
Our side of the war will be conducted by the
Great War Syndicate, a company of alert cap
italists. They will make a contract with the
Government to put the war down in so many
months for so much money. Tbey will agree
that in the event of the least harm coming to
any American town, even the invasion by land
troops from Canada of the obscurest frontier vil
lage, they will forfeit Jl.OOO.OOO. Then they
will take two small boats, a "repeller" and a
"crab," and getting out in front of some large
Canadian seaport, they will proceed to exhibit
the energies of the "instantaneous motor
bomb." They won't, kill anybody, but will
quietly content themselves with showing how
easily they could blow the whole town with all
Its suburbs into the planet Jupiter. "At the
first aggressive movement" they will say, "we
will do that," then they will take a repeller
and several crabs and attack England. In a
single battle they will disable and defeat the
united British Navy. Finally, as an unques
tionable proof of the power of their new ex
plosive, tbey will fire a bomb or two into a sea
side mountain and leave a hole there where the
hill stood, big enough to made a harbor for all
the ships in the English Channel. That will be
the end of the war.
There is nothing so very Improbable in that.
War, for now these many years, has been ap
proaching the condition of impossibility. I
saw the other day'the photograph of a great
fort, whose huge walls, 18 feet in thickness,
look grimly out from the coast of California
toward Japan. That fort is good for nothing.
It is as strong and solid to-day as it was when
the last stone was set, but they have taken tbe
cannon out and turned tbe fortress into a
pleasure ground. Because a few years ago
some quiet, peaceable, bespectacled German
discovered a new explosive, and they make
guns to-day which would have to fire only once
at that fort to make it into a dust heap. By
and by all the forts will havo to come down,
and all the soldiers, armed with swords and
guns, will become as useless as the Iron-shlrted
warriors of the middle aces, when powder was
invented. War will mean annihilation. Mr.
Stockton tells his story charmingly, as he
always does. It makes one think of that bright
little sketch which somebody wrote not long
ago in one of the magazines, "Tbe End of New
York."
.
Mr. Stockton tells us what may be expected.
That is pretty near the title of a story of his
which Dodd. Mead & Co., have just pnt into
new covers, and which is dated 1874. "What
Might Have Been Expected" is not quite what
most readers who bail Mr. Stockton's books
nowadays will he likely to expect. It is not in
the line of '-The Lady or the Tiger" at all; nor
is it like "Tbe Lato Mrs. Neill," or Mr. Stock
ton's larger stories. Mr. Stockton has said
that a good many of his stories were written
for children, but that the children's fathers
and mothers sot hold of them and somehow
liked them better than the children did. Bat
this Is a boys and girls' book all the way
through. It is a good, stirring, and inspiring
book, a good story with an unobtrusive good
moral, and the small readers will enjoy it
Here and there are bright places which re
mind one of Stockton, but for tbe most part
there is Httlo to mark the book as being the
child of the author.
This is pretty gqod.
"How old are you. Aunt MatildaT" said
Harry. (Aunt Matilda was an old colored
woman.)
"I 'spect about 60," sala the old woman.
"Oh, Aunt Matildal" cried Harry, "you're
certainly more than GO. When I was a very
little fellow, I remember that you were very
old at least 60 or 70."
"Well, then, I 'spects Tse about SO," said
Aunt Matilda.
"But you can't be 90," said Kate; "the Bible
says that 70 years is the common length of a
person's life "
"Them was Jews," said Aunt Matilda. "It
didn't mean no cull'd people. Cnll'd people
live longer than that. Bnt p'raps a cull'd Jew
wouldn't live very long."
There is no particular connection between
"What Might Have Been Expected"
and "The Wrong Box," except that
as it is hard to find Mr. Stock
ton's style in the one, it is almost equally diffi
cult to find tbe peculiar marks of Mr. Robert
Louis Stevenson's pen in tbe other. Only in a
page or two can I detect the author of "Dr.
Jekyll" and "Thrown Janet" and "The Now
Arabian Nights." The plot, however, is
Stevensonesque enough. It is a continnation
of that complicated fantasy which begins with
the "story of the young man with the cream
tarts" and winds in and out till the reader gets
fairly dizzy. Mr. Stevenson constructed the
plot; but Mr. Lloya Osbourne wroto the story.
We have just had a revelation of the method
ot work of one celebrated pair of co-workes.
Erckmaunand Cbatrian have dissolved part
nership, and Erckmann has told the secret
Cbatrian made tbe plot; Erckmann filled in the
details and did the writing. Every morning at
9 Chatrian went into Paris, getting back at 6.
Erckmann stayed at home with pens and
paper. After supper Erckmann read over to
Chatrian what he had written, and Cbatrian.
who is no writer, but a capital critic, criticized.
Then they discussed tho next day's work. And
great interest thoy took in it. "So we often sit
together till midnight and aftor, pencil in one
hand, notebook in the other, and exchange
our thoughts half audibly. At 12 o'clock the
housekeeper has orders to come in and tell us
it is bedtime. If wo do not stir, she puts tbe
lamp out. Sometimes we are so full of our
subject that we cannot go to bed, and we sit on
till 3 o'clock in the dark. If the housekeeper
finds we are not in bed at 1 o'clock, sbe has
orders to make a racket in the room, to bang
the door, knock over the chairs, rattle the fire
irons to drown our conversation and drive
ideas out of our heads." That was how they
did it.
Mr. Stevenson must have been the Chatrian
of this partnership. Nobody but tho author of
the "New Arabian Nights" could havo con
structed such a mad plot
Another book with two names on Its title
page is "A Dangerous Catspaw," by D. Christie
Murray and Henry Murray. This is a good
stralghtfoward detective story. It is not so
complicated as Gaboreau's classics, butthen It
does not stop in the middle, as Gaboriau is fond
of doing, and go back on another switch to the
start. Gaboriau gets tbe story into such a
snarl tbat it seems as if there conld be no pas
sible unwinding; then he takes one thread and
beginning back, follows it ont all the way
through. There Is no snarl about "A Danger
ous Catspaw." It differs here f rbm most de
tective stories. You know who the criminal is
from the beginning. Thus the books lacks tho
peculiar fascination of "The Leavenworth
Case" and Miss Green's other stories. Never
theless, it is quite interesting enough. The
story is well told, and as nothing else is at
tempted in the book, if you want a good story
here it is.
Tbe popularity ot tbe detective stories is slg.
niflcant Mr. Prlckett, Mr. Gryce and Mr.
Byrnes are very interesting characters just
now. The true stories, as Mr. Julian Haw
thorne's, are not quite so Interesting as the
others which are only ideally true. Because
real life lacks tho balance, proportion and
gradual growth toward a climax which lire
has when it is idealized. Still, Mr. Hawthorne's
books have a 'wide reading.'
Tho truth is, wo all like storle'. Wo are able,
I hope, to appreciate and enjoy the books
which, along with the story, give us a good deal
to think about and even those in which tho
telling; of the story is quite, subordinate tp tho
studying of the people of the story; still, the
plain story, told for the story's sake, Is very ac
ceptable indeed.
V
American literature began with tbe telling of
an interesting story. James Fenimore Cooper,
if he had lived as long as a few men llvo, would
have been 100 years old a week ago. In 1820
Cooper wrote "Precaution," and followed it
with "The Deerslayer," "The Pathfinder," "The
Last of the Mohicans," and the other delight
ful adventures of Leatherstockmg. Cooper
wrote stories. He looked at life from the out
side. And we haven't outgrown that kind of
book, even yet.
It ought to be noted in these days, when
Cooper's centennial brings him especially to
mind, that be began a kind of writing in this
country which has only of late found worthy
followers, and which we ought to have a good
deal more of. Cooper took a condition of life
which was quite peculiar to tbe land In which
he was born, and having made a study of it,
put it into his books. It was tbe kind of work
which Mr. Cable has been doing for Louisiana,
and Miss Murfree for Tennessee, and Mr. Har
ris for the plantation negro. This is a kind of
realism which is worth while.
,
We get a lone way off from Cooper'slndlans,
and from the life which Cooper's heroes lived,
when we open "Bant' Ilarlo." Between a Mohi
can wigwam ana a Roman palace, between
Leatberstocklng and Saracinesca there is not
much in common.
There are not many of us who know much
about either Indian chiefs or Italian princes,
but we can all see that Coopea knew a good
deal about Indians, and that Mr. Crawford
knows a good deal about Italians. Mr. Craw
ford, indeed, seems to be at home, and to have
tbe faculty of making his readers at home, in
several qulto different countries. Tako "Mr.
Isaacs," and "Zoroaster," and "The Tale of a
Conntry Parish," and "Grelfensteln," and
"Marzio's Crucifix." and you will see that In
dia, and Persia, ana England, and Germany
and Italy become in turn the background of
tbe scene. Some people, mostly critics and
"amateur authors," seem to think that writing
novels must bo pretty easy work. And so per
haps it is with novels of a certain sort which
are often pretty hard reading. But when one
comes to consider what is involved in locating
a story in a distant country, or in another cen
tury, bow much knowledge of history, and
geography, and scenery, and customs, and
dress, and ways of talking and of thinking,
novel writing gets tobe a ratherserious matter.
Mr. Stevenson begins "The Wrong Box" by
remarking upon "the hours of toil, consultation
of authorities, researches in tbe Bodleian, cor
respondence with learned and illegible Ger
mans." which tbe novelist has to go through
before be can even begin his novel. This Is a
bit of fun on Mr. Stevenson's part and will do
very well for him who gets most of his material
out of his inner consciousness, but you may be
sure that Mr. Crawford did not get his intimate
acquaintance with his various backgrounds
without some work.
Edna Lyall is another cosmopolitan novelist.
"Donovan" is an Englishman, the "Knight
Errant" is an Italian, while her last hero tbe
book is in press Is "A Hardy Norseman."
"Derrick Vaughn, Novelist," however, needed
"no special knowledge, and, in fact, is a slight
story, not amounting to much. It is a kind of
diluted "Donovan." After tho fine banquet of
"Donovan" and "We Two," here is a cold
lnnch on what is left over. Still, Edna Lyall
has never written anything yet which is not
helpful and healthful reading.
Sir. Crawford, to come back to Saut' Ilarlo",
seems to prefer Italy. "Marzio's Crucifix," "A
Roman Singer," "Saraclnesea," and now this
latest, have Italian backgrounds. The sentence
has been widely commented on in which Mr.
Crawford affirms that all foreigners who have
written on Italy have misunderstood Italians.
They have written up Italians after the fashion
of a contributor to this month's Fortnightly
Jieview, who begins a series of papers on "Rus
sian Characteristics," with "Part One Lyingl"
Mr. Ciawford thinks that he understands
Italians; and who will gainsay him?
At any rate, Mr. Crawford has done in "Sanf
Ilarlo" some of the best work of his life. The
story is strong, full of spirit and interest,
dramatic, and holds one's attention from start
to climax. The characters are, without ex
ception, people worth knowing. The reader
lives for the time being In tbe Rome of the days
of Garibaldi. One is given enough to see. and
enough to think about. To get inside one of
these Roman palaces and see how family life
goes on there, after a fashion quite fts own, is
worth while. As for the deeper side of the
book, Mr. Crawford has never written anything
better than his stndy of Bant' Ilarlo and Corona
during that critical time of their misunder
standing, and ot the old librarian during tho
days after tbe murder. This is work of no
common kind.
And then, too, the story ends well; and in
these days, when it seems to be a popular
fashion in fiction to write the last pago so that
the reader, when he comes to it, will throw the
book across tho room, that 13 something to be
thankful for.
A PBETTI "WOMAN IN A BAGE.
HIsbly Indignant at n Question Concerning
the Cost of Brr Teeth.
From tbe Cincinnati Times-Star. I
In a Vine street cable car, the other day, were
an old gentleman with an ear-trumpet and a
very pretty young woman, accompanied by a
little boy. She smiled at intervals on the boy,
and showed her pretty teeth in a bewitching
way. All at once tbe old man, in tbe way pe
culiar to so many deaf people who do not know
how to modulate their voices, said in tones so
loud as to be audible all ovpr the car:
"I only paid ?5 for my upper teeth. What
did yours cost7"
To say tbat tho pretty woman was mad is
putting it mildly. She flounced around with a
flush of anger blazing in her cheeks, and sig
naled tho conductor to let her out at the next
crossing.
No Dlntcli for Chinese Cunning
From the Baltimore American. 1
It seem rather odd tbat tbe Government
officials in Ran Francisco cannot keep out the
forbidden Chinamen. Tbe Yankee loves to
think himself the shrewdest fellow in the
world, but he seems forced to admit his inabil
ity to copo with the despised Celestial.
Well Worth Picking Up.
From the Baltimore American. 1
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain intimates that Glad
stone has lost his bead. It would be tbe
luckiest thing that ever happened to Joseph
to find it
ODD ITEMS FROM ABEOAD.
An English plasterer has been staggered
with a fortune of 1,400,000, left to him by a
clergyman who emigrated and prospered In
Sydney.
Mr. Laeotjcheke attempts to be the
pioneer in a reform of portentous difficulty.
He wants to abolish the chimney pot hat for
use in London.
The smokeless powder that Austria is using
makes such a fearful smell that it will have to
be abandoned. At a recent practice shoot sev
eral men fainted from it
A TOTJNa woman of Southport puts tho
most deliberate method of suicide on record.
She walked into tbe water and sat down. Af
ter a while she lay down, and the tide rose and
carried her off.
The Bishop of Worcester lately attempted to
prevent a clergyman of his parish from speak
ing at a Baptist chapel, but the clergyman
spoke for all that, and the situation excites
considerable Interest
The Afghan Ameer's method of vengeance
on his rebel prisoners is pretty hlchly devel
oped. One batch, numbering 300, were put to
death three a day. One of the trio was always
hanged dressed in yellow and green, another
was dressed in black and blown from a gun,
and the third was dressed in red and cut up
with a sword.
A pamphlet, thought to be from high
sources, has just been published in Berlin, say
ing that the reasons whloh prevented Germany
during the days of Emperor William from
bringing matters to a crisis between Russia
and France on one side and the Triple Alliance
on the other have now disappeared, and a pre
cipitation of the contest may be looked for at
any moment
A Frekch woman invented one of the most
original methods of dealing with a refractory
child ever revealed to tho public She fastened
on tho hat of her 8-year-old daughter, who bad
been naughty, a placard inscribed with tbe
words, "Mademoiselle is a thief and a liar." and
walked her through the streets. It took a
policeman to rescue tho lady from the mobbing
of an indignant crowd.
002 MAIL POUCH v .'
Tho Cause of Baldness.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Is there any remedy for premature greyness
and baldness! I refer to young men 25 to 35,
or good birth, sound constitutions, correct
habits. Myself and many of my friends are
fast becoming grey haired and gaining high
foreheads. What is the probable cause,
heredity, tight hats orbraln work? For myself
I have lived out of doors, never was sick,
seldom wear a tight bat and live plainly and
correctly, and finally greyness is not heredi
tary, l.
Pittsburg, September 2L
One of the last opinions on baldness is that
it is sympathetic with dyspepsia or visceral in
flammation, added to the intense mental strain
of business. The loss of phosphates from bolted
flour also robs the brain of tbe supply needed
for its constant labor, and the physical de
mands of the system. Close sleeping rooms in
jure the hair, as well 'as the brain it covers.
very few young men have really correct habits
of eating, or sleep enough to recruit the
nervous forces. They eat and sleep just
enough to prevent them from feeling any
failnre of force, but an unconscious drain
limits and lessens it It would be interesting
to know just how many hours by the clock that
young man sleeps in a fortnight, and just what
is his bill of fare for that time? A strict ac
count might throw light on the matter of cor
rect babits without further advice. If young
men will demand the strong bread and cereals
which keep up nerve and muscle, will not
grudge sleep, and wear hats only when indis
pensable, tbey will find hair staying on their
beads. Tbe habit of weanng hats In offices, in
hotel rotundas, wbenever possible, injures the
brain and hair more than anyone is aware of.
If men should return to antique usage, and lift
the hat more frequently to ventilate the head,
it would benefit more than their manners.
Another Word About Manufactured Honey.
To tbe Editor of the Dispatch:
A letter appeared in a recent issue of The
Dispatch in reference to some statements
made in the article by the writer on the subject
of sugar and honey. It had been my intention
not to answer this letter, but at the request of
many friends the writer wishes to make the
following affirmations:
First, that be has found a comb honey (T) on
the market which contains no evidences of the
presence of any bee product whatever. There
is no hearsay evidence about it tbe specimen
was handled and microscopically examined by
the writer. Second, that each and every one of
the adulterations stated in these articles to
have been found, were detected by tbe writer
himself in sample obtained as stated. In all
cases where posslble,samples of the adulterated
foods have been retained, with proof of the
adulteration found.
The one thing above afl others that Is
claimed for these articles is accuracy; and
when anything has been asserted on hearsay
evidence, it has been so stated. Tbe writer
does not care what the supplement of the en
cyclopedia mentioned said or did not say. He
knows what he has seen, and he can prove it
But he declines to enter into a controversy, as
he does not wish to go into the detective busi
ness or compete for prizes. However, if tbe
doctor who wrote tbe letter referred to, or tbe
gentleman who is offering prizes, or any one
else will come to the writer's office, he may see
a sample of adulterated comb honey with irre
Bistable proof tbat It is such.
Chevalier Q. Jackson, M. D.
Ptttsb-oeo, September 2L
The Name Great Britain.
To the Editor of The Dispatch. 1
Why was England called Great Britain 7
Mansfield, September ZL Fred.
IThe term "Great Britain" was first applied
to England, Scotland and Wales at the union
of two crowns, October 21, 1601, when James L
was proclaimed "King of Great Britain,
France and Ireland." The legal application of
the term commenced at tbe legislative union
agreed upon by the commissioners, July 22,
1706, when it was provided that the two States
should form one "United Kingdom of Great
Britain." Of course, Great Britain is only an
enlargement of the term Britain. The origin
of the word Britain has excited much con
troversy. Aristotle B. O. 384 322 is the first
writer who makes direct mention of the word
Britain. Herodotus uses the term, though he
declares that be can give no information on
the subject of its origin. In early native poems
it is called tbe Isle of Prydhaln, of which Carte
conjectures Britannia to be the Latinized form.
Aristotle mentions two large islands. Albion
(England) and Ierne (Ireland) called
Britannic, in the ocean beyond the Pillars of
Hercules.
Origin of West Virginia.
To thA Editor of The Dispatch: v
What were the causes that led to the organ
ization of the State of West Virginia. It
Uniontown, September 2L
The people of West Virginia had from the
beginning of the Civil Titer been opposed to
secession, and tbey persisted in refusing to
place themselves under the rule of tbe Confed
erate Government and the State Government
of Virginia, which bad seceded. On June 11,
1861, representatives from about 40 of the west
ern counties of Virginia met in convention at
Wheeling; and on tbe 17th they declared West
Virginia independent of the rest 01 tne State
and elected Frank Pierpont to be Governor.
On December 31,1852, Congress passed an act
admitting West Virginia into the Union as a
separate State, and it took its place among tbe
states on June zo, lbo&j
London's Population.
To the Editor of The Dlspatcn:
Please answer through the columns of your
paper, which has the greater population, the
city of London or tbe five largest cities of the
United States combined, according to the
latest obtainable reports? McG.
Pittsburg, September 21.
The latest official census returns are those
of 1880 in this country and those of 1881 in En
gland. The figures are: New York, 1,206,299:
Philadelphia. 817,170; Brooklyn, 565,663; Chi
cago, 503,185; Boston, 369.832; total for five
American cities, 3,193,119. Population of Lon
don, 3,832,441.
ON OBJECTION WAS MADE.
A Report ns to Ibe First ftlarrlnge of Jeffer
son Davis Denied.
Atlanta, September 22. The published
details ot tbe first marriage of Jefferson Davis
are contradicted by Major JobnF. Edwards,
of this city, at tbe home of whose grandmother
the wedding took place. Mrs. Allison
was the sister of General Taylor,
and at tbe General's request the
marriage took place at her house. The license
was procured by Mr. Allison. General Taylor's
objection to the marriage of his daughter
sprang from bis reluctance to part with her
company, and not from dislike to the man of
her choice. Says Major Edwards:
"The weddinc came off auletly at my grand
mother's house, with the consent and good
wishes of all tbe relatives of tbe young people.
Tbe witnesses were Colonel Hancock Taylor,
Genera) Taylor's brother; Captain Allison, bis
brother-in-law, and my brother and grand
mother." Dlerely Geographical Information.
From the Tr'ashlnjtton Star.l
Tbat was a smart girl in Alexandria who
wrote to her young man, who was forbidden to
loaf around tbe ranch, tbat her ma was coing
by boat to Washington, but that her pa would
be hanging around home base, presumably at
the corner grocery. The old man read the let
ter and delivered it himself, thinking it con
tained merely a little geographical information.
It read: "Marseilles to Washington over 3,000
miles, but Paris not so far."
Anotber Error Exploded.
From the Boston Herald.
The Becretary of State will shortly return to
Washington. The suspicion that he was lost,
and gone forever from the administration, is
thus hungup alcngstde tbe reports concerning
his failing health.
FOUR PHASES.
Golden ringlets, hazel eyes.
Deep and dreaming, fixed afar;
Thoughts that to tbe zenith rise,
Life the sky and he a star;
This the boyish poet's rapture
Ere the hours bis being capture!
Chestnut locks about tbe brow;
Lore and beiuty ripe and real;
Lore, a faith the heart to bow,
lieauty, a divine Ideal;
These the poet's manhood gladden
Till the years his spirit sadden I
Silvery gray the clustering curls;
Darkling clouds in autumn's sky;
Youthful gems but melting pearls;
Beauty dead and lore a lie;
This the poet's fatal after
Bitter tears or blithesome laughter!
Snowy hair and froty beard.
.Kindly glance and iheery saying;
Fair the pliant in once he feared
W bile the soul was still a-Majlnz,
Poet chant celestial measures;
Kapt tho realm that holds thy treasures!
Vavia Gratiam Adee, in WatMngton Critic,
r-z. A-1TAMM8TK SDMBI84 L'f
Brief Review of tbe Contests of Yester
day's 30-Page Dispatch.
Tus Dispatch of yesterday was a great
newspaper in every tense of the word. It con
sisted of 20 pages, 160 columns, filled with fresh
news from all porta of the globe and special
articles, by prominent writers, on topics of
general interest There was not a dull page,
or a dull paragraph, in tbe whole mammoth
edition. A library of useful information for
half a dime that is what Tub Dispatch is
giving and will continue to give to Hi readers
every Sunday.
1.
Tbe interesting question in European poli
tics at present la. What will be the result ot the
French election f Bonlanger claims be will get
30 seats. It Is thought tbat other English labor
ers, encouraged by the success of tbe dock
men, will soon strike for higher wages.
Preparations for war are steadily going on, and
It is thought that the yisit of the Czar to Ger
many will have no effect on the relations of tbe
two countries- Smokeless powder is declared
to be a great military acquisition. Another and
superior powder has been Invented In Russia.
A formal protest has been made against the
American Consul at Berlin, but he is under
stood to be supported by Blaine.
ChalkleyLeConey, of MerchantvUle, N. J,
has been arrested. for the murder of bis niece
Annie. The efforts Of the Quay men to cap
ture the Berks county convention resulted In a
bolt. Two conventions were held and two sets
of delegates stolen. It is now charged against
General Mahone tbat he was a coward daring
tbe war. Virginia Democrats propose a scheme
to try him for campaign effect Senator Hls
cock's candidates were defeated in a nominat
ing convention at Syracuse, in his own county.
Dissatisfaction with tbe distribution of local
patronage was the cause. Thomas Jordan, df
Braddock, died while under the lnfldence of an
anaesthetic. The Coroner was called upon to
investigate the case. Banc robbers have
stolen 810,000 In Northern 'Wisconsin. There
is no clew.
n.
An interesting review of local politics was
given on the second, page. J. J. O'Reilly; the
agent says the English syndicate has paid f60,
000.000 for American breweries. The question
of postal savings, banks was discussed, pro and
con, by Postmaster Larkln and others. A
music hall is talked of by the Exposition man
agers. The appointments made by the African
M. E. Conference were given. The Trades
Council has asked Mr. Marvin to resign as
President of the Exposition Society.
The Pittsburg club played tbe Indianapolis
team and was defeated, 9 to 8. Other interest
ing baseball news and sporting gossip filled
portions of the sixth and fourteenth pages.
m.
Parts IL and HL (pages 9 to 20) were rich In
entertaining and attractive features. A very
complete history of the old Wyandot mission
in Northwestern Ohio, finely illustrated, was
furnished by a staff writer. Henry Haynle
gave a series of graphic sketches ot life in
Baden-Baden. "The coin craze" was the sub
ject of M. M.'s paper, which contained much
information of interest to all collectors. A
night ride on the locomotive of a limited ex
press was described by X. W. X. The Eiffel
tower and the impressions Mrs. Frank Leslie
formed of it were charmingly set forth.
Charles O. Stickney told how sweet corn is put
up for the market in the big factories of Maine.
Shirley Dare furnished a common sense talk
that will interest both men and women. Rev.
George Hodge's essay on "Fatal Ignorance"
contained abundance of food for reflection.
Dr. Jackson discussed the Impurities of milk,
and the adulterations practiced. The life of a
racer was the subject of an article by George
F. Dobson, which every lover of fast horses
should read. Other papers In the second part
were by G. H, Wilson. Bessie Bramble, J. T.
Hatfield and anonymous authors.
The third part contained two excellent com
plete stories "The Woman With Three
Roses," by E. D. Beacb, and "The Duke and
the Witch," by Ernest H. Heinrlchs. Other
original matter In this part of the paper in
cluded the following: "The Saltan of Turkey,"
by Frank G. Carpenter; "A Soldier's Bride,"
Elizabeth Bacon Custer: "Select Socialists."
M. M. Dtlke; "The Third Degree," Benjamin
Northrop; "A Day With a Pope," Frederick,
Sanborn; "Sunday Thoughts," a clergyman;
rAppIes and Actors," BUI Nye: "At Nag's
Head,"W. Cotten Downing: "Gossip," Clara
Belle; and "Those Royal Women," Olive Wes
ton. It was a greatand excellent number.
PBE81DENT- BARNARD'S WILL.
Yalanhlo Brqncsts to tho College Over
Which He Presided Blnny Years.
rsrzcLU, tzxxoilui to Tin DisrATcm.1
New York. September 2L Surrogate Ran
som has admitted to probate the will of Fred
erick A P. Barnard, President of Columbia
College, executed January 25, IS88. Dr. Barnard
gives his microscopical apparatus to his wife
daring her life, and at her death It goes to the
trustees of Columbia College for use in tbe
physical department All of the books his
wife does not care for are to be sent to the
librarian of the college. He bequeaths bis gold
cosmic time watch to bis friend, John K.
Rees, for his work in meteoroloeical reform.
The residue of his estate will be held by the
executors in trust for his wife, who is to re
ceive ine income aunng her nie. At her
death small bequests will be made to nephews
and servants, and the remainder bequeathed to
Columbia College. Of this fund left to the
college 10.000 is to be used for the foundation
of tbe "Barnard Fellowship for Encouraging
Scientific Research."
THE EOSAKI DISCONTINUED.
Woodwork in St. Paul's Cathedral Makes
the Church Daneerons.
Owing to the great amount of scaffolding in
St Paul's Cathedral, necessitated by the work
of cleaning the church, it has been decided
that it is too dangerous to light tbe vast edifice
at night as the woodwork might catch fire.
The service of reciting tbe Rosary in the even
ing has therefore been discontinued untittho
work is completed. The recitation will take
place each morning Immediately after mass,
instead of In the evening:
Nearly every person who went to the chnreh
yesterday had his or her peace of mind ruffled
by the condition of the pews. Tbe latter were
covered with dirt and mortar, and were in a
dirty condition. The ladles (fathered their
dresses closely about them, hut could nut pre
vent their garments from being soiled.
Just What Is Wanted.
From the Washington Post;
Scales so delicate tbat they register the
weight of an eyelash or a man's signature have
been perfected. This fills a long-felt want
Just such a pair of scales are needed to weigh
the ante-election promises of political candi
dates. TBI-STATE TRIFLES.
AnsHEBHAir atDoylestown sawasunflsh
swallow a bee, and a few minutes later saw the
fish on tbe water dead. He cut is open and the
bee flew off.
Dr-O. L. SAtxor, of Bethlehem, owns a
cocker spaniel that can pick President Harri
son's photograph from a group of pictures.
A Cleveland woman climbed a tree In one
of the public parks just because a wild Texas
steer chased her.
At the Berks County Fair Common Council
man John C. Hepler had 124 cases containing
34,000 buttons, no two of which aro alike.
A colored man had a lively time of it in
Willlamsport Thursday nVornlng. He attempt
ed to remove some honey from the heart of an
elm tree tbat bad just been cut down, when the
bees attacked him. They stung him about the
face and bands, and even got under his clothes.
After this he naturally lost all interest In the
honey, but others cleaned out the tree, getting
at least 75 pounds of the sweet deposit.
There was fun at a Weston, "W. Va., ball
the other day. Someone threw a pint of red
pepper on the floor of tbe dancing hall, and
while tbe dancers were holding on to each other
and sneezing and weeping great scalding tears,
tho rascal further complicated matters by
biding all the hats, bonnets and wraps. Some
of these articles were found up the chimneys,
and others were never found at all.
A cistern built about 120 years ago by the
Moravians of Bethlehem, and which stood on
the premises of the village blacksmith, was
discovered Friday by workmen.
A 2 konths-ols calf raised on the farm of
Thomas. King, of West Chester, weighed 240
pounds.
GUJUtMH
?ii. .
Ner.. sofcoeHHKae test FsMaf aWenteoa a4
waskflled. f
The new FrasbsMB aloes at PissMMtes
is tbe largest that evecere4taoeH. It
numbers 200.
Lenawee couaty, XM,, k at jweseat
paying ont something like Hi a day U fcentsea
A farmer in Fraaklia OMatf, Vt,
picked a second cropoffteW stzawfeesies aad
raspberries the first ot but week.
There are 60 paper towns ia gefterm
Callferni, cemprialae 79,388 tqwa lets, MMltfca
whole 60 have only 2ffiiakabftaat&,
The Government drr dock, jwt opened
at tbe navy yard In Norfolk, Vs., io MSieet
over all. and wUlhoid8,089,09e gaHeM ot water.
It has cost over 1689,009.
The .Mayor of Litchfield, I1L, was re
lieved of bis cash and valuables tbe otter (War
by a lone highwayman ia the presesee of six
policemen. The robber eseaped.
Charles Lambeieden, a Milwaukee la
borer, kept bio little fertsae of ,9e fat' a
stocking. The other oay when be weot to leek
for it both stocking and money were geae.
Woodbridge Cllfferd, Aa postmairtir at
North Edgecoab, Me was appelated nadf
Postmaster General Amos Kesidat! Oetefeeri,
1880. and has held tbe offiee ever ataee kM
date.
Bagdad, on tbe Athom awl f aetCa
road. is said tobe tbe hottest ttatiea, ea the
road. The thermometer has steed at WPim
the dining room and 128 at mMaigSto Mm
coolest side of tbe depot
Lieutenant Schwatka eetlsMtes tie
numberofUvingcBff-dwellershebMtHseeTered
in Southern Chihuahua at from 8,609 to IS,.
They are wild and shy, and upon tbe aaareaect
ot white people flee to then: eaves in a harm
The giant diamond lately discovered let
Cape Colony, and now at the Paris Hxposlttcn,
weighs 160 carats, and is valued at S4.0es.66a. It
Is said to be of tbe first water aad as pare-so
the famous Regent is the Freaea crown dta-
sionaa.
A hill making it illegal for anyone to
let or sell houses unless a certlBoate furnished
by a Government Inspector is produced, show
ing that the premises are ia a perfectly sani
tary condition, is tobe introduced In the Brit
ish House of Commons.
One of the most remarkable old ladies
in Cobb couaty, Ga is Mrs. Olive Haaby. She
Is now 75 years old, and the mother of ulna
children, six of whom are Mriag. She has 68
grandchfldren, and can resell all of tfeenta two
hours' ride, except two who resjdeia Arkansas.
She can teM tbe age aad nasse of every efeBd
and grande&Hd, givteg dates with aarfeK
clearness.
"While a French girl was phrtB-'.wfe
a rope about her neck tbe ether attewtooa at a
Lake Village (N. 2.) teaeeaet ;'
building was struck by lteBtirfnc. aad, as tie
story goes, the rope was destroyed by the etee
trio current but the child eeeaped naietafed.
A month ago, it is added, the sasse gfrl dm
struck and thrown into a ditea by tbe (eeeese
ttre of an express train, but was not hart
AJBuSalo carpenter committed saleide
last week and left a letter allegteg as Ms Ma
son for the act that ,haTlog been engaged a
the carpenter trade for many years, be bad de
cided upon doing tometblag higher aad better.
The Bible, be continued, says tbat ""In my
Father's house are many aaasioas,' aadseae
of them must need repairing. So bavteg beea
a good carpenter on earth he guessed be eesld
get along in heaven." He then abet htaeetf.
DisproportioDableaeM, with 21 lettett,
is said to be the longest English word. Other
languages furnish numerous exassfles et
longer ones. For instance: Oaeof tbevffiagea
in the north of Wales is called LllaatsJrpwH
gyngllgogerpwllandypilwgoga. On tbe Isle ot
Mull, in Argyllshire, there .is a pJaoe eaZM.
Drymtaidborickbillichartaa. The two leeeeet
worris in the German Iaagnage are: Gasesd-.
h e i t swiederhersteUungszusaBHBenmisebaBoa
verhaltalssknndiger and CoBstanttBopeH
tan Ischerdudelsackpfelfergeselleehaltsvftreffl
macber. A discovery referring to tbe Ires Age
has been made at Gloppen, on tbe coast of
Norway. A burial chamber, 12 feet in length
and formed of stone slabs, has beea uncovered,
containing the remains of a man. Aroesdtbe
neck of the body was a cloak in a perfect state
of preservation which revealed wondertejiy
rich embroidery of images of. animals., la tbs
hands bad been placed three interlaced wooden
rings, resembling tbe well-known pscate riags,
an object never before discovered taancioat
graves. The dtoeovery has gives Netwagtatt,
arefeJBo-logtsf much food for,specnJeMn,ai -
Tuesday, as Dr. P. S. Chapman aad S.
A. Lewter. ot Orlando, Fla were driTteg abamt
two miles east of the town, they setteed.
large rattlesnake lying at the mouth ot a
gopher hole. Mr. Lewter jumped down from
tbe buggy and fired. The smoke from hie gun
had no more than cleared awav when IS to 20
small snakes, anywhere from 12 to 20 Inches
long, came out of the gopher hole and grabbed
bold of the old snake and dragged her back
Into the hole. Mr. Lewter caught hold of tbe
snake's tail, but the rattles broke off, letting
her free. He then aimed bis gun into the bole
and fired both barrels. He then obtained a
long stick and commenced poking down lato
tbe hole, and succeeded In pulling out 13 dead
small snakes, besides the large oae he flat
fired at
Mrs, Cheek, daughter of one ot the
earliest missionaries to Stem, recently returned
to San Francisco. Speaking of tbe people of
Laos, in the northern part of the country, she
said: "Wages ot common laborers range from
$3 to $4 per month. It Is dangerous to know
too much in Laos. Skilled mechanical work IS
done by men drafted by the Government or by
prisoners. These drafted men get very little
for their services, and perhaps receive IS
rupees for a year's labor. The form of religion
consists principally in worshiping spirits.
Laos people believe that different families have
different spirits which watch over their safety.
Once a year spirit dances are held, bnt only
women participate In them. The dance is kept
up all day, and as the women drink heavily
their movements toward nightfall are rather
'groggy.' All missionary work In Laos has beea
done by Presbyterians, i
FUNNr MEV8 FANCIES.
Sir Edwin's Lightness. McCorkle Tsea
that Sir Edwin Arnold says Ireland has no griev
ance. aleCrackle-Yes; he made ''Light or Asia," and
now he makes light of Ireland's straggles. Sew
York Bun.
First Chappie Good heavens, Cbawles!
Yon are not sending a cheek to your tailor, are
you? Second Chappie Naw; I'm sending him a
note to tell him that I may send him a check next
month. Most bweat it to him gently, doncber
knowf Amtrica.
An'Iowa man has a theory that sunshine
can be bottled on or lmnrlsoned in such -& war
that llcsn be utilized on gloomy days. Eo has
oullt a great tank for storing It bnt It looks a
little qnecr to- see him groping about with a
lantern to tee how h la sunshine is getting on.
Texas Sifting 1.
"Young man," said a minister to a mem
ber or his congregation, "do you know what re
lations you sustain la this world?" "Well. Just
at present tbe only relation I am lustalninfFjin
this world is my father-in-law, bnt you can Just
gamble on it 1 am not going to sustain him very
long," was the reply. Texas Giftlags.
The Vein She Was In. Papa "Which of
your suitors do you think you will accept, Maris,
Jones or Smith?
Maria-Which woaldyou favor, papa?
Well. Smith has a fine .vein ot humor.
But Joneahas a fine vein of anthracite coal upon
his farm. papa. I think I'll take him.
Sensible tx Texas Sifting t.
Friend How are yon and your creditors
coming on? Do they dan you as much as ever?
Impecunious Party 0. 1 am fixed now. I have
rented a room up la the attic It has no stairs at
all.
How do yoa get Into yonr room?
With a ladder. When I am out I leave the
ladder standing. When I am In the rooml pull
up the ladder. Texas Btflings.
HE KSOWS IT 'V7XXA.
Observe the youth as argument
His emptvhead engages,
Dispose of questions held in doubt
lly gray savants and sages;
Some twenty summers may have tinged
His cheeks with color ruddy;
And yet he seems by means occult
to nave oDtalned the net result
Of centuries of study.
-PkUadelpMa Prus.
THE BAD SEASON.
The melancholy days have cornel
With grief oar bosoms tbrlll
As we light the gas at 5 o'clock
And calculate the bill.
No more we hear the "sad aea waves"
As on the Snore we rove:
Tls time to pack the window screens
And set the parlor store.
Onrfntureshowsnorsyoflhjht,
But deeper grief we'll know
When we must rise at A- "
To shovel off the snow. JStJ-
Jrey Tpaag,
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