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PITTSBUBG. WEDNESDAY. DEC. U, 1839.
BEATER'S CHANCE TO EXPLAIN.
. There is much interest in the report that
Governor Bearer is shortly to reduce his
'view of the Johnstown relief business to
cold type. The way in which the Governor
looked at that matter is likely to contain a
number of interesting and novel features;
and the public will await-with wild expecta
tion the appearance of the Executive doc
ument foreshadowed in our "Washington
dispatch.
' As to the relative positions of the Gov
ernor and his Adjutant General, they are
by no means the most important aspects on
which the Governor can throw light
"Whether Hastings tried to make capital by
his presence at Johnstown, or whether
Beaver tried to redeem the capital that he
lad lost, by rushing up to "Williamsport
and representing that he had rescued a
stricken city from starvation there, we can
afford to leave to be fonght out between
these gentlemen.
But there are some points on which the
Governor can, if he will, afford a good deal
of explanation. Thus he may state the
view by which he was led tij advocate tak
ing money from the State Treasury in an
'unconstitutional and unauthorized manner
rather than adopt the constitutional method
of calling a special session of the Legisla
ture to meet an unparalleled emergency.
Having done that, be may "next ventilate an
interesting subject by showing how he came
to represent that he had 51,000,000 available
for the State work at Johnstown, while
subsequent events showed the sum to be but
300,000.
These points made clear, the Governor
'will have accomplished a task big enough
to warrant his adjourning the job of mak
ing mincemeat of General Hastings to a
piy future day. Some things are difficult to ex-
plain; but until the Governor bas smoothed
- out these little points, he had better abstain
from other controversial literature.
-- , SEEDS AHD STATESMANSHIP.
The experience of Mr. Enloe, of Tennes
see, with the Agricultural Department, cer
tainly demonstrates the necessity of Reform
with a capital letter. Nothing can be more
discouraging to a statesman of industrious
habits than to secure a constituent by hard
labor, and then to have a perverse and un
regulated seed bureau destroy the work at
one fell swoop by sending the constituent
cauliflower seed when, a first-class article of
cabbage seed was called lor. This is a clear
, proof of the necessity of selecting clerks in
. the Agricultural Department by merit in
stead of by political favor; and a competi
tive examination which shall insure that
the clerks knows the difference between
cabbage and cauliflower will protect the
Congressmen for the future. Such unbal
anced workings of the great machinery of
government are almost as bad as when the
people elect the Congressmen under the im
r.pression that they are statesmen, and they
turn out mere spoils-grabbers.
A COSTLY MEHAGEBIE.
From the proceedings in one of our Com
mon Pleas Courts yesterday we learn that
Mr. "William Garrick and "Mrs. Mary Ann
Garricr. of Mifilin township are the nappy,
or just now unhsppy.owners of three rabbits
. and a flock of geese. "We envy anyone
who has the privilege and the premises to
maintain a small bnt choice collection of
animals. One of the great drawbacks of
city life Is that it is not possible to even ex
periment zoologically within the limits of a
lot, fifty by one hundred feet It is painful
to learn that even in the freer air of Mifilin
township the raising of three rabbits and a
flock of geese is attended with discouraging
difficulties. In fact the difficulties were of
such importance that a resort to the courts
of justice to settle affairs had to be made.
Xt seems that the trio of rabbits, and eke
the wise descendants of Home's saviors,
verenot content to browze upon the estate
of their owners, but broke through the
bounds of propriety and the property of Mr.
-George B. McKee, a neighbor of the Gar
ricks. There they lived high. The rabbits
with energy worthy of a better cause de
voured the bark of three apple and four
quince trees, and no less than sixty heads
of cabbage. That is to say each rabbit ap
plied himself or herself to one apple tree,
one and a quarter quince trees, and twenty
Leads of cabbage. Nor were the geese idle.
They made a general invasion of the
kitchen garden and after the greedv fashion
of geese devoured everything in the line of
march. A jury yesterday estimated the
total damage done to Mr. McKee's property
at thirty-three dollars.
"We are afraid that these rabbits and geese
are in the soup, so to speak, or soon ought
to be. The menagerie is evidently too ex
pensive for a man of modest means.
THE OLD FIGHT AQAIK.
The sentiment of the Grand Army is
aroused, in the reverse of a pleasant man
ner, by the reported declaration of one of
its Louisiana members that, as a representa
tive of the order, he will join in the honors
paid to the memory of Jefferson Davis. As
these honors are wholly based on Mr. Davis'
leadership of the Southern Confederacy, the
proposition is decidedly adverse to the prin
ciples of the order. But it is hardly neces
sary to turn the order npside down over it
A member in Louisiana may have taken
the idea into his head that the way to heal
the bloody chasm is to fraternize with the
ghost of secession sentiment He ii, how
ever, but one man; and his foolishness
does not call for the Northern members to
keep that ghost waiting, for it is nothing
more by formal and prolonged dennncia
' tions of treason and traitors. Let the South
enjoy its burial of the Lost Cause, which it
Is practically doing now, with as little
waving ofthe red flag before it as possible.
HASHES OF CAPITAL.
That story of the 3100,000,000 bank to be
started in this country, under the immedi
ate 'supervision of the Borneo Catholic
, Church, has been thoroughly riddled by tho
explicit denials of thehighest church au-
(UJoritigs Thif,(ik ;addjU6n to the prima
SacieproBa'bility ,o'fl"ty1ng!he church' to a
big banking- scheme, readers it unnecessa
ry to say anything more of it as a probable
event Bat one feature of the imaginative
scheme deserves a little comment.
The story was spread evidently with the
idea that a bank with such a magnificent
capital would occupy a position of remark
able strength. This is the same belief that
lies at the bottom of all the current stories
of 25,000,000 or (50,000,000 syndicates to
buy up various interests. But the fact is
that experience proves just the opposite.
The idea that the business power is multi
plied in exact ratio to the increase of capital
is always born of ignorance. Especially in
the banking business, the proof is abundant
that overwhelmingly big capital is likely to
be the reverse of a strong feature.
The Banks of France and England, whose
combined capital is not much over that
fixed by this story for the religions banking
concern are, by the size of their capital, en
abled to discharge certain fiscal functions
in connection with the Government; but lor
real commercial banking they are not so
profitable and scarcely more reliable than
many smaller concerns. In this country
the most successful banking system of the
world has been built up on the principle of
supervision over a vast number of banks of
such capital as the circumstances of their
business should prove to be most successful.
The result of that experience is that the ma
jority of the most successful banks have less
than a million dollars capital. In Cali
fornia the big five and ten million dollar
'banks have nearly gone to pieces, while the
national banks of a million dollars capital
have been prosperous and solvent This
city has for years recognized as its most
prosperous banks those which were by no
means of the largest capital.
The fact is that a capital such as is fixed
by imagination in this case -would produce
weakness instead of strength. Even sup
posing its management to be good, it would
make that close inspection of loans and the
thorough supervision of all its business,
which is the first essential of sound bank
ing, absolutely impossible, while the mere
fame of all that wealth would make it a
mark for the designing.
CBA0S ADD OFFICES.
The members of the Bepublican side of
Congress who, after getting control of the
administration, are anxious to use it for
their private advantage through a dishonor
able violation of party pledges, are showing
considerable activity at "Washington. Con
gressman Alf Taylor, of Tennessee, who
has heretofore earned fame as a fiddling
politician, takes occasion to put himself on
record as follows:
1 was talking to a gentleman the other day
about this, and he asked me if I would like to
see a condition of chaos such as would ensue
if the law was repealed. I replied that if it
was a case of "no chaos, no offices," I was in
favor of chaos and offices."
It would be hard to formulate a more
brutally frank statement of the utterly sel
fish views of the spoils hunters than this.
Chaos will be welcome; the public business
may fall into confusion, and incompetent
politicians may be put in charge of import
ant public duties. All this is of no moment
to the politicians so that they can advance
their own interests by distributing the
offices as bribes to their followers. Con
gressman Taylor, of Tennessee, is supposed
to be a Bepublican, bat as he repudiates the
Bepublican platform, it is evident that he
is only one of the spoils-hunting ring bound
together by the cohesive power of public
plunder.
As a result of this agitation on the part
of men who wish to use the offices as politi
cal bribes, it is stated by the "Washington
Star; that much uneasiness is felt in "Wash
ington. The good effect of awarding offices
by merit, and taking them out of politics,
has been felt there in the form of better ser
vice for the Government, more efficient work
by the clerks, a more secure tenure of posi
tion and consequently a better foundation
for business operations. That these good
results may be turned upside down to give
Congressmen the usufruct of office-brokerage
is naturally disquieting.
But the uneasiness is not necessary. There
is still too much respect for public decency
to permit the Republicans to violate their
pledges in order to satisfy such brutally
selfish disregard of public rights as is avowed
by the fiddler of Tennessee.
TIPS ABE ELACKMA1X.
The waiters of New York do not like
"tipping" the head waiters. The "Waiters'
Union has stated emphatically that the
head waiters' habit of exacting fees or
"tips"irom the waiters they employ is black
mail. The word is pretty strong, but we
agree with the waiters that it is blackmail
that the head waiters exact
"We expect to hear presently that the
public upon whom the waiters wait and
for whom the pnblic very often waits is
about to seek the abolition of the system of
tipping waiters. This, the waiters will now
be ready to admit, of course, is another form
of blackmail. The public, indeed,
has been saying that "tips" are
extortions, and still keep on paying
"tips" for many years. The trouble is that
the public has not the power of a solid,
though solitary, labor union. Everybody
the people who pay them, the waiters who
demand them, and the hotel keepers who
wink at the practice or deliberately fosters,
it, each and all of them know that tips are
blackmail.
Perhaps some day a hotel keeper or res
taurateur will realize that a fortune awaits
him if he pays his employes fair wages, and
makes it a hard and fast rule that no one in
his service shall even take a tip, much less
ask for one. Pittsburg needs a bonifaceof
this sort as much as any city in the Union
THEY WANT A SHWEB MAEKET.
Hon. "W. H. "West, the Chairman of the
Ohio delegation to the St Louis silver con
vention, uses very plain talk in his official
report concerning that meeting. He says
that it was disclosed in the opening address
of the convention that the movement origi
nated with and was managed by the St
Louis Mining Stock Exchange, and was dis
tinctly representative of the miners and
speculators in mining stocks who have
pecuniary axes to grind in getting the Gov
eminent to boost the market for silver.
Of course this fact does not detract prom
the validity oi sny legitimate argument for
the increased use of silver; but it reduces
the value of the deliverances of the conven
tion very nearly to a cipher. The declara
tion of a lot of men who have silver to sell,
that the Government ought to buy more of
it, is about as good an indication of sound
public opinion as would be given if a lot of
iron manufacturers should resolve that the
Government ought to doable its purchases
of pig and bar iron.
Feosi a reported interview with Governor
Beaver it is evident that he does not favor the
candidacy of General Hastings for Governor,
and it might be inferred from what he has said
that Senator Quay is adverse to anyone but
Delamater. But Senator Quay, though not
given to speaking over-much, kaewe how to ex.
press bis own prefereaeee,a4K' is noticeable
mat so zar, at lewt, as? efcefM M stay have sa
.em'
'THE
among the three candidates, Del&mater, Hast
ings or Montooth. k largely a matter of as
sumption rather than of direct expression by
the Senator. It was Senator Quay who once
addressed a laconic bit of advice to Governor
Beaver on the golden qualities of a judicious
reserve In the matter of speech.
Thk Monongahela House will be rebuilt.
It will also be repaired in its present shape,
and it will be replaced by a flre-proof business
block. "With all these .reports verified, it is
evident that buildins operations on the corner
of Smithnela and Water streets will be ex
ceptionally active next year.
Mb. McAdoo's proposition to cut down
all the foreign missions to the Consulate Gen
eral rank, is a deadly stab at the diplomatists,
which may be construed to mean that Mr. Mc
Adoo does not expect his, party to have the dis
tribution of these positions very soon again.
The New Jersey statesman had it In bis power
to introduce the bill during the Cleveland ad
ministration, bnt he omitted to do so.
PlO iron is stiffening, steel rail mills are
running to their capacity with orders ahead till
next spring, and heavy iron goods are booming.
The only thing in the situation that is not as
everyone could wish it is the risk that the boom
may overdo itself.
The newspaper biographies of Speaker
Reed report that he reads every new book pub
lished in Paris. The charaeter,-oJ,the Speak
er's mental f eod thps.to31cs.ted is highly spiced;
but we could hardly blame Mr. Beed if he feels
that the man who made the fact public com
mitted an unwarranted breach of confidence.
The most sensational feature about the
big real estate purchases which the local rail
roads are daily reported to be making in Pitts
burg is the flat-footed way In which the railroad
officials say that there is nothing in them but
wind.
The report that Senator Xngalls is in
dulging in sarcasms at the expense of Presi
dent Harrison's last message would be quite
credible if it were not for one difficult point
It is hard to understand bow the Senator is
able to bring himself so nearly to an agree
ment with the majority of the people.
The proposition to give each member of
Congress a phonograph in lieu of a private
secretary overlooks one great and necessary
qualification for the duties of the place. Tho
phonograph cannot draw a salary.
Ms. Goodwin, of "Litchfield, one of
the weather prophets, has come out on the side
of a bard winter. This would be regarded as
strengthening the cold weather side If it was
not damaged by the company of Hicks, of St
Louis; and Hicks' cold weather predictions are,
as It were, soup for worms.
As TO the varieties of weather which we
are enjoying, or the reverse, we can be sure that
those who ever experienced anything like it be
fore, never wish to again.
Still the statement which the Lawrence
Bank should nave made the week it suspended
is conspicuous by its absence. It may not be
wise to leap to conclusions; but it is a natural
inference that if it takes so long to find out the
assets and liabilities of a bank there is some
thing out of adjustment
Mrs. Quay is authentically reported to
have winning ways. It seems to run in the
family.
It is remarked by the Louisville
Courier-Journal that "the thermometer rarely
takes a drop too much." It has not done so
since the blizzard of last year, to be sure; and
that is probably regarded as an unwarrantable
duration of abstinence In the latitude of Ken
tucky. Is the next sectarian division to be be
tween the revised andunrevised Presbyterians?
A man in Onondaga county has been
found to be possessed of a unique breath,
which by scientific test has been found to be
composed principally of inflammable gas. The
strange part of it is that so far as learned ho is
neither an Anarchist nor a spoils politician.
The explosive nitro-glycerine factory is
making itself heard in the land. ,
President Harrisox and, Patti were
the two attractions at the Chicago opening; but
Patti was the highest priced one. Prima
donnas are a great deal more expensive than
Presidents; and yet there are some people who
claim that women are unfairly kept down.
PEOPLE OP PBOMINMCB.
Lillian "V. Fox, of Cambridge, Mas&, has
just received $225,000, which represents her
share of the estate of William Valentine, of
Providence, who died CO years ago.
R. B. Bicharsson Lawrence. Professor
of Greek at Dartmouth, will be the annual
director of the American school at Athens for
the year 1891, succeeding Prof. Orris, of Prince
ton, who returns to this country in the fall.
William E. Wharton, Assistant Secretary
of State, who has just recovered from a long
and severe attack of typhoid fever in Boston,
will reach Washington to-day and resume his
duties after an absence of several months. -
A Br. Peteesbueq paper reports that Dr.
Maccdo. the Brazilian Minister there, will be
transferred to London. Joachim Manuel de
Macedo is one of the most distinguished men
of .Brazil, a literary man of great reputation
and a professor of history.
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, ,1s not
certain of. re-election, Proctor Knott and
James A McEinzie are both anxious to suc
ceed him, and are making an open canvass for
his place. The contest will occur in January,
and the Kentucky Legislature expects a lively
time.
Brazilian titles of nobility are only held
for life, and are easily pnrchaseable. The
Emperor Dom Pedro, who was a humorist in
his way, built and maintained a lunatic asylum
with the product of the titles he conferred in
the course of his long reign.
Count Herbert Bismarck, 'during his
sojourn in the Orient, learned a new proverb,
which he repeated in a recent speech: "There
are three things with which no' man should
play: The fire, because it can burn him; the
viper, because it can sting him; a woman, be
cause she can love him."
The two notable inter-African explorers of
modem tunes, Mr. H. M. Stanley and Com
mander Cameron, are physically small men.
They are, in fact what are called little. But
both are very square about the shoulders and
of elastic movement. Stanley's most striking
feature is his eye. The man's power over his
fellows is in his glance. The steadiness of his
eye is quite unaided by the setting of the mouth
or the brow. It fixes yon and bespeaks the
character of its owner. When Stanley "found
Livingstone" his hair was brown and curly;
when he set out to relieve Emln Pasha It was
white, scanty and) straight as bristles. So
much for fever.
IT PAIS 10 BE LIBERAL.
No Strikes or Labor Dlfflcahles Among the
Kmppe' Employes.
Trom the Glasgow Man. 1
On the death of the elder Krupp one of the
first acts of his son and successor was to give
to the town of Essen the sum of 15,000 for
pnblic improvements, which be followed by an
other donation of 50.000 for the creation of a
fund for the benefit of bis sick, disabled or in
firm workmen. Tho interest in the welfare
of tho employes, which was shown in this
and similar ways has been very beneficial to
the firm's interests. The Krupp Gun Works
has the pick of. the labor market at the or
dinary wages, and during the recent strikes
in Western Germany they were In no way
affected.
While 100,000 workmen from the majority of
the large establishments in the neighborhood
were on strike, causing an entire suspension of
work, Krupp's work never bad to suspend op
orations for an hour, tboozh tbe total number
of persons employed exceeds $5,000.
Net. For Sale.
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that will never ttlfeat to m BeglMi syadloMe.'
PJTTSBTJRG -DlaPATOH, - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
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THE TOPICAL TALKER.
The Music Charms, a Short Story From-a
Little Weit End Girt Notes on the Mat
ter and Style of This New Novelist His
Klml.
A few days ago The DISPATCH received a
letter from a little 'girl who signed herself
Florence Whalerv 191 Steuben street, West.
End. The letter needs no introduction, and it
follows exactly as it was written:
"Sub. The magic charms. Dear Sin I am
a little girl audi am ancious to bo an author. I
am going to write a story. Once upon a time
there was a man who had a wheel-barrow foil
of provisions to eat tho mountain which he
was going to climb was very steep and was hard
to get his wheel-narrow up, but at last he got
up on top he saw a wizard who told he had bet
ter beware of snakes, then he started on and
soon came to an old looking man with white
locks, while he bad been going np the second
mountain, who told him there is a spring at
the bottom of the mountain, he said he must
drink some of the water or else he must die.
the man did not want to go to the bottom but
he did not want to die, so her went down and he
saw the spring he drank as ranches he want
and all at once he was raised to the place where
he met the old man, he started on nis journey
and soon came to the top and ha saw A witch
who told him he better go on for all kinds of
animals were around the man went on and
soon met a fairy who he asked to marry him
she said she would would but he better be quick
about geting down off there to get married
she Bald a tiger would be after him they went
to a church but a tiger and a snake came and
threw him over the church he was dead but
the fairy by her charms' made him alive again"
they were married and they lived happy tor
sometime, but at last he displeased her and
she put him in a dark place and a man with
horns he stayed thero for sometime when she
thought she had punished him enough she toot
him home and they all lived happy."
Miss Whelak's little story has many merits
which are too conspicuous to heed' pointing
out but upon one happy departure from pre
cedent she must be especially congratulated.
She does not let her novelette end at the altar.
"And so they were married and lived happily
ever after" does not seem to have satisfied Miss
Whelan as a finale. In this she has no less dis
tinguished a writer than Mr. William Dean
Howells to support her. He has inveighed
often and bitterly against the conventional
marriage finale of the modern novel,-and of all
novels, in fact ancient and modern.
V
It is true that Miss Whelan admits that her
hero and heroine finally attained happiness,
but not coinciden tally with their wedding day.
They were happy for a time after their mar
riage, and then, how true to life 1 the man
failed in his duty. We are not told what his
dereliction was; it may have been merely that
he tired of the monotony of married life, and
allowed his supernatural wife to perceive the
change in hisleelings, or the offense may have
been grosser, tippling, club dissipation or at
tention to the hired girl. With judicious deli,
cacy Miss Whelan refrains from painful par
ticulars. She states the consequences of the
husband's misbehavior clearly enough though.
There is no ambiguity about her description of
his fate. "She put him," Miss Whelan says,
"in a dark place with a man with horns. Ho
stayed there for some time."
How delighted some wives would be to haver
the power our little authoress ascribes to the
interesting fairy.
HIS RIVAL.
"She Jilted me-Jes' left me sudden like;
Went with an old-time rival that I knew.
Hurt?" You should have seen-the hammer strike
The glowing iron. Sakesl how the red sparks
flew!
Blame her? Not II" the smith his hammer laid
Upon the forge; "The day that she was wed
I walked with her an' by her grave I prayed
That 1 might soon find there ay marriage bed."
"Yes up yon road that winds so white in dust
Among them pines, and on around the hill
They carried her that day-an' soon my rival must
Take me. Till then I work and .wait His will."
H. J.
CLaBA M0ERIS IN HELENE.
A Clever Performance at the BIJou Mrs.
Scott-Slddons' Reading.
A fair-sized audience last evening witnessed
the performance of "Helene" at the Bijou, with'
Miss Clara Morris in the title role. The
authorship of the play is credited to a lady
with the' American name of Miss Martha Mor
ton, but the scene is located in France, and the
motive of the play is exceedingly Gallic in
spirit Miss Morris assumes the character of
'the beautiful daughter of a Nihilist, whose life
has been declared forfeited to the law. The
character is one which calls for the expression
of love, scorn, self-sacrifice, and, in fact all the
womanly passions, and in the hands of such an
actress are delineated with great force. While
Miss Morris' rather robust person and some
what harsh voice do not Immediately impress
her audience, her powerful acting and change
ful expression soon place her en rapport with
the audience and compel applause.
The company is well balanced. Frederiode
Belleville, as Dr. Maurice Clermont, Is an im
pressive physician and a fond lover. J. M. Col
Tine is a clever nineteenth century, wicked but
full of repose. Miss Beatrice Moreland makes
a bright Yankee youth, with a penchant for
poker, while Miss Mittens Willett Is a very
beautiful and disdainful American girl, who
has captured her British Lord. Her husband.
Lord Carylsford, as interpreted by Mr. Verner
Clarges, is a clumsy specimen of the landed
aristocracy, and it is no wonder he calls forth
the contempt of his wife. The other members
of the company are clever and the whole per
formance is smooth.
Bin. Scott-Slddons Programme.
The demand for reserved Beats for Mrs. Scott
Slddons' dramatio recitals at Lafayette Hall
next Friday evening continues brisk. Mrs.
Slddons will givo an unusually entertaining
programme, as will be seen by reference to the
advertising columns.
Jay Gonld is Making Money.
New York, December 10. The Executive
Committee of the Western Union Telegraph
Company to-day decided to pay an extra divi
dend of Ji per cent in addition to the regular
Snarterly dividend of li per cent and the
irectors will accordingly declare the two divi
dends to-morrow, making 2 per cent to be paid
to stockholders as soon as the books close.
Mean Enough for Anything.
Trom the Harrlsburg Telegraph. i
It is now said that a cigarette started the
Monongahela House fire In Pittsburg. We
don't donbt it A cigarette is mean enough to
do a trick of that kind.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
John Darragn;
Captain John Darragh died at his residence,
corner Hill and Klrkpatrlck streets. Thirteenth
ward, Pittsburg, Jfa., Monday, December 9, 1889,
at 4:15 r. M in his 79th year. The deceased was
at one time one of the best known steamboat cap
tains on the Ohio riTer. He was Interested in tho
steamers Great West and Bastings, and built and
commanded the Ill-fated steamer Financier,
which was burned to the water's edge near- Jfree
dom, Fa., on the Ohio river, April 12, 1SE9. a
number of passengers on board'were lost; two of
the number drowned being the Captain's, wife
and youngest daughter. He came from Ireland
when quite young and followed his occupation,
that of engineering both on land and water, and
by diligence and straight forward business prin
ciples he rose to the position of commander.
Blncetbelossof his wife and daughter he has'
Uvea a retired life, enjoying good health until
last spring when he caught a severe cold which
settled upon his lungs. It was thought at that
timehecouldnotrecorer, but he Improved grad
ually, and was able to fie out occasionally. On
Thanksgiving llav no attended tne runeral of
.James laiierson. 4q. wucu uu, caugut a. rresn
cold, which terminated in death. lie leaves a
family of grown up sons and daughters and one
brother. His sons are Captain John J. JJarrarh.
United States inspector, Memphis, Tenn.j Cap.
Jas. h. and Thos. J. Darragh, of Little Bock,
Ark.: Mrs. Wm. Nesbltt, of ManorviUe, Arm
strong county, Pa.: Mrs. Eliza Morris and Mr.
Annie M. Thorn, of rittsburg, Fa.: Mrs. N. D.
Armstrong, of Allegheny, Jra.; and his brother,
James Darragh, offlraddock, fa.
Bev. H. E. Thomas.
The Bey. H, E. Thomas, D. ii., or the First
Welsh Congregational Church, on Fifth avenue,
near Chestnut street, died at1 Ms home at Idle
wood station yesterday. Dr. Thomas was one of
the best .known clergymen in the city. He came
to Pittsburg In 18S8, and has been pastor of the
same church ever since. He was an author of no
mean ability, and a popular writer In the 'Welsh
tongue. He was a regular contributor to tbe
prominent Welsh Journals both In this country
and Wales. At one time he was Ibe associate
editpr of 1 Was 3, tbe Welsh Journal of tbls
cltv.
He was In the GOth rear of his age, and his death
was dne to nervous prostration, neuralgia and
sciatica. He leaves a. wire and six children. His
oldest son. T. 1. Tliomas. Is now aelermnan at
-nemuu raus, u, Arunng ur, audium' auminiS'
tration he tmllt a now church Md established sat.
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An Experimental Vessel to be Launched at
Brooklyn Ta-Day Hydranllo Pares is
to Furnish Ih Motive Power.
New Yore; December 10, To-morrow morn
ing a most remarkable craft will be launched
from the shipyard of James Lennox, South
Brooklyn. The boat has been named the Evo
lution, and was built by Mr. Lennox for Dr. W.
M. Jackson, the designer of the craft and pat
entee of the novel machinery with which she Is
to be equipped.
The Evolution is built on a new plan, there
being no knees or frames used in her construc
tion, and with the exception of two or three
deck beams her hull is free from all obstruc
tion. She is 108 feet over all, S3 feet beam, and
e$i feot deep, from underside of deck to the
bottom planking. Owing to the tremendous
spread the hull takes from the keel, she will
draw, it is claimed, less than four feet of water.
The inside skin of the boat is built of two
layers of cedar planking. The first layer Is
run diagonally from stern to stem, and the sec
ond in the same way from stem to stern. The
outside skin is of narrow strips of mahogany,
running from stem to stern. She is a beauti
ful model.
Only an Experiment.
The keel of the boat was laid March 12, 1888,
"Blizzard day," and the work of construction
has been going oil ever since. She is only in
tended as an experimental craft, but it is said
that when her machinery has been placed in
position and everything in readiness for the
trial trip she will have cost her owners not less
than 200,000. The boat is to be run by hydrau
lic power by forcing out a vast quantity of
water through a small pipe under a great pres
sure. To carry out this plan a pumping engine
of 1,500 horse power has been constructed.
The water is pumped Into the vessel throngh
8-inch pipes on either side of the keel about
midship, and is then forced out through -inch
pipes at the stem or stem, according1 to the de
sired motion of the vessel forward and back
ward. The ends of the latter pipesare covered
with moveable collars, which can be turned in
any direction desired, and by this means the
vessel is steered. Instead of a wheel, the pilot
steers with two levers, one for forward action
and the other for a stern movement of the ves
sel. The levers are connected with the revolv
ing collars, and the direction of the craft is ob
tained according to the angle of the volume of
water ejected from the -inch pipes in stem or
stern, it is claimed that the boat can be given
a broadside motion by turning both escaping
jets of water (stem and stern) either to port or
starboard, as desired. It will thus be seen that
a rudder would be a superfluous attachment.
The boat, however, has been supplied with a
rudder made of solid brass, which is so ar
ranged that when not in use it can be hauled
upon deck through a groove. It will only be
used when the vessel Is under sail.
The Sfotive Power.
The boiler of the vessel is about 11 feet wide,
11 feet from end to end, and 8 "feet high, has
two fire doors at either end, and contains nearly
i miles of steel pipe, every inch of which is
exposed to the fire cbntained within the boiler.
With this great heating surface, it is not
strange that the great pressure thus obtained
forces the water through and out of the three
quarter inch pipes at the rate ot about 600 feet
per second, or over 36,000 feet about six knots
per minute.
A little launch that was fitted out with like
machinery, though, of course, on a very much
smaller scale, it is claimed, made over ten
knots an hour. The engine used on this boat
was only of about 18 horse-power and the
volume of water forced out or her measured
lcs3 than one-quarter of an" inch in diameter
and was ejected at the rate of 200 feet per sec
ond. It was on the strength of the perform
ance ot this boat that the Evolntion was built.
Her outside surface is of polished mahogany
and will offer very little resistance to the
water. From the speed made by the small
launch, it is confidently expected that the
larger craft will be able to run at least 25 miles
anhoar and possibly at a much greater speed.
PLACES FOB NEW SENATOES.
Their Membership on Committees Settled
by tho Bepnbllcan Caucus.
Washington, December 10. The Bepubli
can Senatorial caucus this afternoon adopted
the report of Mr. Piatt's committee upon the
reorganization of the committees. The new
committees are as follows (the Bepublican
membership): ' '
On Immigration (standing) Chandler, Hale,
Evarts, Squire. Pettlgrew.
Quadro-Centennlal Celebration of theDlscovery
of America (special) HIscock, Sherman, Ingalls,
Cameron, Hawley, Farwell, Wilson of Iowa.
Indian Depredations (special)-Moody, Pad
dock, Chandler, Allen.
The new Senators are gjven membership as
follows:
Mr. Chandler-Immigration (Chairman): Naval
Affairs. Epidemic Diseases, Indian Depredations.
Air. Dixon, orKhodelsland-Postomces and Post
Boads,, Patents, Revolutionary Claims, Ad
ditional Accommodation for the Library. Mr.
Moody, of Bonth Dakota Indian Depredations,
(Chairman); Mines and Mining, Pensions, Immi
gration., iir. Squire, of Wftshington-Coart De
fenses. Public Buildings and Grounds, Immigra
tion, Fisheries. Mr. Pierce, of North Dakota
Territories' Pension, Census, Civil Service and
Retrenchment. Mr. Allen ,of Washington-Public
Lands. Claims, Woman Suffrage, Indian Depre
dations. Mr. Pettlgrew, of South Dakota Indian
Aflairs, Immigration, Esllroads, Improvement of.
Mississippi Elver. Mr. Casey, of North Dakota
Kallroads, Organization and Conduct of Execu
tive Departments, Transportation Boutes to Sea
board, Immigration.
To provide these places the caucus commit
tee had, in tbe first place, vacancies on tbe fol
lowing committees:
Epidemic Diseases, Improvement of the Missis
sippi Elver, Naval Affairs, Pensions, Kallroads,
Additional Accommodations for the Library,
Patents, Postoffices and Post BoadsJBevolutlon
ary Claims, Woman Suffrage.
Then the following resignations' were se
cured: Mr. Morrill fron the Census Committee, Mr.
Manderson from Civil Service and Retrenchment,
Mr. Hoar from Claims, Mr. Trie from Orgarrtza
tlon and Conduct and Expenditures of Executive
Departments, Air. Stockbridge from Kallroads,
Mr. Dawes from Transportation Kontes to Sea
board, Mr. Allison from Immigration, Mr. Wol
cott from Indian Affairs.
Finally, the membership of the following
committees was increased as stated, none of the
more important committees being changed:
MlWs and Mining, Coast Defenses, Public
Bnllalnirs and Grounds, 7 to 9: Fisheries. S to 7;
Postoffices and Post Uoads, Territories, Public
Lands, and Pensions, 9 to 10.
The Democratic Senators will meet in caucus
shortly to arrange the minority representation
on the committees, so that they can be reported
to the Senate before the adjournment for the
holiday recess.
A HEHOfilAL STBUCTUEE
Which Shall Illustrate the Progress of the
Lust Hundred Years.
Washington, December 10. An adjourned
meeting of the Governors of the original 13
States was held here to-day to take some) action
looking to the erection In Philadelphia of a
suitable memorial structure commemorative of
tbe achievements of this nation during 100
yesrs.of Independence and Constitutional Gov
vernment. A bill was adopted for presenta
tion to Congress. It provides for the appro
priation by Congress of a sum of money to be
hereafter inserted for tbe purpose of erecting
in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, a suitable
memorial structure wmen snail do monumental,
ornamental and commemorative of all the
great scenes and events ot the nation's history
during the last 100 years.
The second section of the bill provides that
the President ot tho United States shall ap
point a commission consisting of one citizen
from each of tho several States and Territories,
to be nominated by the respective Governors
thereof, and 13 citizens of tbe city of Philadel
phia, which commission shall have full charge
of the erection ot the memorial structure.
MAN'S MADNESS.
BrNGHAMTON Leader: Many a poor man
manages to keep pup, even though be knows he
is going to the dogs.
Burlington Free Pren: It Is curious that
when a man drops his voice It makes less noise
than when he raises it
Baltimore American: It is odd how often
a brave man will face a thing after he has re
fused to countenance It
JPuck: .It's a great thing to be a poor man.
Why, inability to buy an opera box is alone a
clear saving of about $5,000.
St. Loots Republic: A popular man is ns
nally what he is called, bnt a popular subscrip
tion Is usually very unpopular.
it is the man who orders the room on the
top floor who takes up the most room in writ
ing his name on the hotel register.
Atchison Globe: Nothing suits a cross
man more than to find a button off hi coat
when his wife has not time to sew it on.
BrNGHAHTON .Herald: Tbe wife of a bald
headed man is constantly shadowed by the sug
gestion that she Is not an amiable Woman.
SojiEBVUiLE Journal: The man who has
dominion over himself Is very great, but even
he cannot always control his youngest child.
Death always loves' a shining mark,
Most truthfully 'tis said. -
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,. YE OLDEN TY&E."
"Ye, Great Concerted for the Benefit of the
Onion Ex-Prlionera a' Success Wigs
(bnt Were Dreams of Ugliness,
"Looking Backward" was Indulged in by
enough people to fill Curry University Hall last
evonlng. "Ye great concerto of ye season" was
the attraction and ye big quyrewas kept in
time by ye Father BInehart. The organizer
of the concert was Prudence Nlmbleflnger and
ye woman singers were Wealthy Butterfleld,
Caroline Lookpleasant Polly Willingenougb,
Hulda Waring. Fannie Doollttlefornothing, So
phia Stitchemin, Betty Splint Nancy Button
hole, Kitty Fussandfeathers, Experience Bill
ings, Annie Makebutter, Polly Snuffbox, Jeru
sha Slacklntime and a great companle of other
gentle mayden folks from the same taown.
Ye men singers were Obadlah Holdenough,
Adam Cheatemqulck, Crawford Bralnpacker,
Andy Hydepounder, Billy Littlewitt, Darius
Green, Tommy Growlenough, Felix Makem
sick, Darwin Blowhorn and many other men
folks known as sweet singers in ye parish.
Ye doors were open at early candle light by
Deacon Warmho use, while ye musick began to
sounde at 8 of ye clock. The entire company
were costumed in the style of 100 years ago, and
formed a very attractive tableau, the ladies
with their quaint gowns and powdered hair,
many of them wearing spectacles and improv
ing the spare moments in knitting. The gen
tlemen were all in velvet suits made with the
knee breeches of ye olde tyme, and their wigs
were simply appaUng.
The concert proper, consisted 'of old
fashioned choruses, quartets, duets, some
solos,tand "Between part ye first and part ye
second, a recitation by one man." The one
man was rroi. ayron lung, and so satisfactory
did he render his recitation, an army piece,
that a second one was called for by the audi
ence, and very pleasantly granted by the gen
tleman. iSach number of the programme was en
tbnslcally received and many were encored.
The audience was composed principally of
Grand Army people, and there was a glitter of
gold braid and buttons, as the ushers wete in
uniform.
The entertainment the proceeds of which
will be devoted to the benefit of the Union ex
prisoners, was under the management of
Messrs. B.A.A. Patterson, J. B. Hutchinson,
jx. a.. Junes ana a. u snea ana was a nnanclal
success. The members of the quyre In the
present century are Mrs. F. G. Fncke. Mrs. E.
icKe,
Armstrong, Misses Fannie Cuddy, Katie Tay
IV. naue Tav.
lor, Belle Blackford, Emma Urine, Mamie
Sawyer. Lizzie Bonhanr. Mrs. Hunt. Mrs. Raw.
yer, Mrs. J. Donald Balfe and Messrs. C. C.
BInehart, E. E. Rlnehart, Jr., W. C. Wrigley.
B. H. LIddell and W. E. Adams.
The ushers were CaDtain H. A. Davis. W. n.
Patterson and Will Scott.
-xne pianist of the occasion was Miss Mamie
odvrjrer.
HIGH-LIFE IBANELIN NUPTIALS.
The Mitchell-Osborne Wedding to be Sol
emnized This Evening.
An elaborate wedding that will interest
many Pittsburgers and take a number of them
to Franklin this evening will be that ot Hiss
Stella Venetla Mitchell to Mr. Bryan Hill Os
borne. Miss Mitchell is the daughter ot Mr. Foster
Mitchell, one of Oil City's wealthiest bankers.
The family, however, have always made their
home in Franklin, and there, in St. John's
Protestant Episcopal Church, the wedding will
be solemnized. Four bridesmaids, a little
flower girl and innumerable ushers will con
duct the bride to the altar, where the groom
and best man will be in waiting.
xne wedding will be followed by a reception
at the Exchange Hotel and all the appoint
ments are faultless, it is said. The floral
decorations are in charge of A. M. and J. B.
Murdoch and as they were not limited In
regard to expense, the church and the notel
will be a perfect bower of beauty and fragrance.
The bride will carry the pretty, modest violets,
two of the maids, mermet roses, the other two,
perle roses and tbe dainty little flower girl will
carry a pretty French basket of Illy of tbe
valley.
The costuming of the bride and her fair
attendants will be something to make the little
town of Franklin open wide its eyes, so dame
rumor says, and a large number of people will
wltr"SS the ceremonies and nartirlmfn in tho
festtr ties following. Gemerts orchestra will
discourse sweet strains of music during the
evening.
A Pleasant Concert Given.
The Allegheny Musical Association made its
debut last evening in a concert for the benefit
of the Allegheny General Hospital.
A small but select and appreciative audience
greeted the chorus which numbered about 100
voices, with an orchestra of 10 players, as
sisted by a number ot the most prominent so
loists. The programme included wedding chorus,
"Legend of St. Cecilia," Benedict chorus; avis,
"The Love Too Deep for Words to Speak,'1
, Mr. D. S. Thompson; violin solo, (a)
'Walther'sPreisLied."(b), ''Mazurka Carac
teristique," John Gernert: soprano solo, (a)
"Love Lily," (b) "The Violet" Mrs. Jean
Wallace-Webster; piano solo, "Scherzo in D
Flat." Mr. Beveredge Webster; Boprano solo,
"In Dreams I Heard the Seraphs," Mrs. Jean
Wallace-Webster.
Society Chatter.
The parlor entertainment given last evening
by the pupils of Mrs. Anderson's school was a
very enjoyable one. Tbe programme consisted
of elocutionary and musical numbers, all of
which were well rendered. The proceeds will
benefit the school library.
The J. B. Clark Circle No. U will hold a flag
reception to-morrow evening in the post rooms,
19 West Diamond street, Allegheny. A cordial
invitation is extended to all circles Sons of
Veterans and the G. A. B.
Cards are out for tbe second reception of
tbe Normal Alumni Association, to be held at
the High School Hall Friday evening. The
Original Royals will be in attendance. Hours
from 8 to 2.
Private dances will be held this evening at
the residence of Mr. J. K. Lanahan, Center
avenue and Boup street and also at Mrs. Por
ter's residence. Western avenue, Allegheny.
The third of tne series of germans at the
Park Place Hotel, Sewickley, was given last
evening The Gernert Orchestra furnished the
music.
Mrs. Durbht Horns will receive her
friends between the hours of 1 and 6 to-morrow'
afternoon at her home on Bidwell street, Alle
gheny. Mas. U. B. Hogg's reception this after
noon. Two Big Crops of Potatoes,
New York, December 10, The grand prize j
of J500, offered by the American AgricullurUt
lor the best acre of potatoes, has been awarded
to Charles B. Coy, of Aroostook 'county, Me.
His crop was 738 bushels. Tbe second prize
was given to Alfred Boose, of Peon Yan. N. Y.,
for a crop of 669 bushels. Similar, prizes are
offered for tbe coming year.
Tho Bonds Rapidly Vnniihing.
Washington, December 10. Bond offer
ings to-day, 31,828,10013 at 127, and $112,000 is
at 101. All the offers were accepted. Since
the inauguration of Secretary Wlndom's policy
of reducing the amount of Government de
posits in national banks, $4,182,000 bonds have
been surrendered by the banks.
A Bedstead of Sliver.
From the London World J
The bedstead which the German Emperor
and Empress occupied during their visit to tbe
Sultan was of solid sliver, with Oriental cur
tains of surpassing richness, heavily embroi
dered with gold.
Long Live the Queen. I
From the Hutchinson News.
Queen Victoria has a lot of stories and
poems which will probably be posthumously
published. Long live the Queen.
BLIGHTED HOPES.
Dark is tbe season or reaping
The flight of the promlseful years
Denied the sweet solace of weeping
O'er sorrows too deep for our tears!
Heaping that chaff when we dare not
Even dream of the full ripened grain;
Grieving o'er fair hopes that are not,
And Joy-bells that ring not agalnl .
Bad is the season of reaping
When shudders the soul In the blast,
And shadows come stealthily creeping
, From storm-shrouded vales of the past! ,
Before us the future lies yawning
With anguish, heart-hunger and pain;
And valnly'we yawn for tne dawning
Of days that will come not agalnl .
Drear Is the season of reaping
When hushed are tbe laugh and the longj.
When harv cstliymn echoes are sleeping
Tnobpursare so lonely and longl
The dream-field of life all deserted,
Then why should the reaver reaala ,
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A GEEATCIITS GOSSIP.
Stormy Times on the O'eeaa.
INXW YOBK BUBXAU SFXCXALSV
New York, December 10. The North Ger
man Lloyd steamship Ems got into port to-day
with a battered and seasick lot of passengers
in her cabins and a pair of new-oom twins in
her steerage. The Ems had a terribly rough
voyage. She encountered a gale on December
2, almost immediately after putting to sea. On
December 3 the gale increased, and on the fol
lowing day blew with hurricane force. The
sea was running very high, and continually
swept over the decks of the steamship, carry
ing everything moveable overboard. Two sa
loon, passengers Leopold Eutside and Ben
jamin Walters ventured on deck during tbe
height of the storm. A wave picked them up
and threw.them against a deckhouse. Mr. Eut
slde's arm was broken and Mr. Walters' leg
was fractured. The same wave smashed one of
the forward starboard lifeboats and washed
everything portable into the sea. Tbe storm
continued unabated till tbe Ems came within
sight of tbe Sandy Hook lightship.
Disappointed la Love; Dranli; Dead.
, James Fitzgibbons, a salesman, 23 years old,
dived from a third story window in his uncle's
house on the east water front early to-day.
His body shot down until it struck the swing
ing sign on the .ground floor. The sign was
torn trom its fastenings, and came crashing to
tbe ground with the body. Fitzgibbons rose,
staggered toward tbe building, and toppled
over dead. His body was removed to the
morgue. Fitzgibbons had ruined his health by
excessive drinking, and had been disappointed
in love.
A Kellgloas Quail Hunter Fined.
The case In which the Bev. Dr. W. S. Bains
ford, rector of St. George's Protestant Episco
pal Church, was charged by Ellas White, a
farmer near Southampton, L. L, with shooting
quail out of season, was set down for trial this
afternoon before Justice Foster, of South
ampton. Dr. Balnsford settled the case by
paying a fine of 25, and there was no trial.
Talks With a. Weli-Knowu Trio
Henry W. Grady.of the Atlanta Comtitution,
Chris Magee and ex-Congressman Townsend,
of Ohio, passed to-day in town. Mr.. Grady ar
rived here with several prominent Southern
merchants in a special car, this morning, and
left this evening for Boston, where, on Thurs
day evening, he will deliver an oration before
the Merchants' Association. He declined to be
the orator at Jefferson Davis' funeral in order
that he might fill the Boston engagement To
day he said that Mr. Davis' death would have
no effect whatever upon the country, because
the time had passed for stirring the dying
embers of a strife long since over. Chris Magee
was too sagacious to talk politics. He would
scarcely even acknowledge that he had heard
of Senator Delamater's candidacy for the Gov
ernorship of Pennsylvania. Mr. Townsend was
f nil of the Ohio campaign forgery. He was in
Washington recently, and saw Congressman
Ben Butterwortb, who, he said, was decidedly
anxious to have Congress investigate the
matter. The imputation against members of
Congress was too pointed, and Congressman
Butterworth did not propose that it should go
by unnoticed. Mr. Townsend inferred from
his conversation with him that he would move
to have a thorough investigation.
Funerals of tho Pier -Fire Victims.
The funerals of the four men killed in the
burning of the National Line pier were held
to-day. Booker and Jo,hnson, the colored men,
were buried In Evergreen Cemetery; Barry and
Whalen in Calvary. All of the other men
burned in the fire are doing well, with the ex
ception of Daniel Hopson,upon whom the opera
tion ot tracheotomy was performed on Sunday,
who died in St. Vincent's Hospital to-day.
Dlggs, tbe aged colored man, is convalescing,
despite his TO years. Tbe others will be able to
leave the hospital in a week or ten days.
The Last New Yorker to Hang.
James Stone, the colored jockey who shot
and killed Hermann Miller, a Coney Island bar
tender, In a saloon fight in June, 1888. must
hang. The Court of Appeals to-day affirmed
the decision of the lower courts' against him.
Stone's defense of an alibi, to prove which an
appeal was taken, was completely broken down
by three new witnesses for the State, who saw
him m Miller's saloon shortly before the shoot
ing. Stone will be the last man hanged in tbe
Btate. In the cases of; all the other persons
now held for murder tbe crimes were commit
ted since the electrical execution law went Into
effect
IK MB. HOBTON'S BOX.
How a Chicago Clerk Attended the Opening
of the Auditorium.
Chicago, December 10. Frank G. Kam
merer Is a popular Board of Trade man, and
moderately well to do. In spite of the latter
fact, however, Mr. Kammerer thought that
ordinary ?30 opera tickets were good enough
ior himself and family, and accordingly dis
patched his settling clerk an exceedingly
bright young man to the box office of the
auditorium several days ago. The tickets,
which called for seats in the family circle, well
to the skyward,-were purchased in good form.
The settling clerk, who got tbe bits of paste
board, got carried away with the opera fever,
and made np his mind that he wonld go too.
Not having the $30, he waited till he had
gathered the money and when he appeared in
the line at tbe box office last night he was
resplendent in evening costume. The line was
very long and when the time for the opening
ofthehaU arrived, the hero of this story was
away down toward the end of it with little
prospect that he would get to the ticket
window. At this stage of tho proceedings.
Vice President Morton's party drove up and
the officers in charge ordered a break in the
line. Mrs. Morton, who -was attired in evening
dress, encumbered with wraps, train, etc., and
a large bouquet stepped to the sidewalk.
"Oh, dear,1' she exclaimed, "I wish some one
would hold my bouquet"
The balance of the party we,re engrossed in
taking care of their own accoutrements and
did not hear the remark. Not so the settling
clerk. He grasped the scene man instant.
With Chesterflelden grace, he tipped his bat
and offered his assistance. "Thanks." mur
mured Mrs. Morton. The settling clerk tnpped
lightly by her side, bearing the bouquet aloft
and, of course, passed the doorkeeper without
question. Down, down, down" tbe aisles they
sailed until they reached the private box set
aside for Mr. Morton. Tbe settling clerk
gently ensconced himself in the box and pro
ceeded to look pretty for the benefit ot the
audience. Ho even'bad the supreme effrontry
to borrow Mrs. M6rton'S opera glass with
which ha might the better see his employer,
perchedln the upper circle.
Save Money br It.
From the'WasMngton Post.J
Since we have learned from a London journal
that General Bonlanger is positively coming to
America to lecture, we feel it to be our patriotic
duty to suggest to tbe hotel-keepers of this
land tho wisdom of putting up f resh,legible signs
to the effect that guests without baggage are
expected to pay in advance.
TKI-STATE TfilFLES.
After having devoted seven months to
training a running dog a Girardville man en
tered the animal in a race and tbe dog would
not run a step. ,
Roeert Hf Coleman, President of the
Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad Company, is
having a large L-shaped iron mansion erected
at Cornwall, near Beading. It will be one of
the most novel and costly residences in tbe
Btate. The roof will cost alone about $30,000.
The entire building will be flre-proof, and will
have no counterpart In the East
In .Williamsport a bulletin board contains
the Information that "Maglnty died In New
York this morning from an overdose of chest
nuts." Near. Wapakoneta, 0. two brothers -were
married, one marrying the daughter of a widow
and the other the widow.'
The ghost1 of Mme. Gautard, the French
suicide, IS safd' to walk on dreary nights at
Youngstown.
The device ot a lad, Herbert Price, has
caught six chicken hawks In seven days; It Is
a steel spring trap on a pole, and after it is set
be lays a chicken at the end of the pole. The
hawk will see tbe chicken, but will invariably
settle on the pole before alighting on its In
tended victim.
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Minnows two inches long are said to
have been taken from a 71-foot well at New
Iberia, La.
Jules Millet, a nephew of the celebrated
French painter, lives in New York and makes
brierwood pipes for a living.
A Salem county, N. J"., woman, past30,
years of age, saw the railroad and took bernrst
ride ma passenger train a day or two ago. "
Farmer Harms, of Kent, Kings county; ,
Ore., cut down a Cottonwood tree last week; '
from which he took 700 pounds of fine honey. -'
The largest salmon ever taken from the' - "
Tweed were caught recently. The weight of ,.
four of 'them were as follows: 43,4113 and SB- r-.
pounds.
Phonographs are to be put in the post- 4
offices of Mexico, to be used by persons unable'; -'
to write, in order to send messages to friends . '
through the malls. , . -L
A wealthy Colorado woman says that -
the begging letters which have reached her "
during the last six weeks called, in the aggro- - ";
gate, lor a sum ot money as large as her entire
fortune. .-', -
A citizen of Hawkinsville, Ga., who,
was suffering from asthma, was advised to try a' .
remedy sdmetimes used by the neToes.- He
got a hornet's nest, boiled it, made alea, drank'
the liquid and was completely cured.
An Augusta, Me., whist crank has oc
cupied his time during the past two years in.
the construction of an elegant whist table oh -which
he bones to win a good many rnbberiu.
It consists of 500 pieces of wood, no two of the
same size and of nearly every variety that
grows.
The feat of playing 20 games of checkers
simultaneously and winning all but one, which,
was a draw, was accomplished bv Clarence A,
Freeman, in Providence, B. L, a 'few days ago.
His contestants were experts from all over
Rhode Island. The play lasted jusl hour and
10 minutes.
Mrs. Bootman, of Hoosick Palls, N.
Y., will be 91 years old on Sunday, the 15th inst,
Bhe Is in good health, and a woman of much
physical and mental activity. She confesses to
being an old, if not a great sinner, and having
been recently converted, will, on her Wth birth
day, bo admitted to membership in the Metho
dist Church on confession of faith.
George Hardy, a poor hostler, who
picked up a lot on the edge of Bar Harbor a
few years ago for J150 and sold it for 5600, built
a livery stable on a half acre of ground bor
dering on the site of the Malvern Hotel. As
his stable became more objectionable to the
Malvern's guests the price of Hardy's prop
erty climbed up. He absolutely refused offers
ot from JS.000 up to as high as J18.000. and finally
thought he was doing the Malvern's owner a
great favor when he sold out for $20,000.
O. H. Clark, a dealer in pictures,
opened a store in Lancaster a few weeks ago.
He tried to get a license to sell: his goods by
auction, bqt a local law prevented him. He
was determined to have an auction, and he got
around tbe law by having his clerk issue an ex
ecution against bim for LOCO, and now the
Sheriff will sell his goods at auction. The local
picture dealers are greatly exercised about the
matter, but can do nothing toi prevent the
Sheriff from selling the goods in that way.
Clark will realize mors from his goods in this
way than if be had an auction of his own, be
cause a Sheriff's sale will draw a big crowd.
Frank Gibbons, who died recently at
Hibemia, N. YM was the greatest guesserot
the age. His faculty was first developed in a
homely way and did not attract a great deal of
attention. It became a recognized character
istic when the boy would stand at the end of a
row of potatoes and guess with singularly close
approaches to accuracy how many of the vege
tables would be lound In each hill. He could
guess the number of eggs in a basket tbe quan
tity of milk in a pail, the number of sticks ot
wood In a load, bow many bushels of corn
would be husked from a patch, and in a hun
dred instances be guessed within one or two
how many grains of corn there were on an
ear.
The boys of Middletown, N. T., have
organized a kite flying club. They haven't yet
got so deep into the business as they intend to
go, but the other day the -club put up a kite
16 feet high and 12 feet wide, that was covered
with 64 yards of canvas and weighed 50 pounds.
Its tail was about as long and luxuriant and
sweeping as that of the frightful comet of a
few years ago: and as the marantic fabric
soared aloft swaying, fluttering, snannfn?. and
now and then slicing with sudden jerk tbe
whole western perspective of the universe, as
seen from Terryville, while its tail. did float;, -. ;
anddowln tangled coils longer than the Con-
cregational Church steeple, a good many unre
pentant Terryville sinners, looking above in v.
unprepared "astonishment entertained the
horrible suspicion for an instant that the
avenging angel was sliding down Into the
village, and would blow his horn in about a
minute.
There wa3 quite an amusing incident
near Oakland, Ky., a few days ago. The Dunn
ana Edwards families are considerably at outs,
bad feeling having existed for sometime be
tween them. Mrs. Thomas Dunn had a dog
that was accused of killing sheep belonging to
the Edwards family. The Edwards concluded
to kill the dog, and so publicly expressed them
selves. Olie Edwards rodo up to Dunn's door
with gun in hand ready to carry out the threat.
Dunn's wife, taking time by the forelock, hid
the dog, and Edwards went off without carry
ing out bis design. Mrs. Dunn then set down
and wrote a letter to Governor Buckner, set
ting forth all tbe facts in the case, and re
quested him to pardon her dog. Governor Buck
ner replied in a very sympathetic letter, stat
ing his regret at the animosity of tbe two fam
ilies, but declined to issue a pardon for the dog
for lack of jurisdiction in the ease, and hoped
that if her dog was innocent he would coma
clear.
The extensive cultivation of the canaigre
plant which is found growing without cultiva
tion or irrigation in many portions of New
Mexico, is contemplated. The tubers produced
by this plant yield a large percentage of tannin,
superior to that extracted from hemlock bark;
and not Inferior to tb e oak bark product This
plant like tbe mesquite, thrives in the dryest
seasons and in soil where, apparently, there is
very little moisture. After maturity the tubers
dry in the ground, and often remain for years
without decaying. The properties ot this plant
like the soap weed, tbe root Of which is used
by the natives instead of soap, have been
known to tbe natives of Ner Mexico for years.
The properties of the soap weed are only just
beginning to be known to Americans. While
the Mexicans have used tbe bruised roots of
tins plant for toilet and laundry purposes for
years without attempting to get it in a more
convenient form, enterprising Americans have
succeeded In extracting the useful part, and a
variety of toilet preparations having the Mexi
can amole or soap weed as a basis are on the
market-
BOSTON1AN HUMOR,
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The ball season is here again and sad to
say many a man who goes to a ball gets on a est
before It is over.
The way to keep a husband home even
ings la to give him the baby to hold Just for a
minute, then stlp out and go over to mother's
and spend tbe evening.
Fires Are Eaging Everywhere. First
Small Boy We had a are at our house last night
Second Small Boy That so?
7. S. B. Yes. Pa fired sister's beau.
NEVER.
The urchin who sees the legend "Paint,"
Can never pass it by
Without putting out his fingers
To see IX the paint Is dry.
The Reason. Tellowly It seems strange,
tome, Brownly, that Whltelv always enjoys the
most perfect health and yet takes no exercise.
Brownly Nothing strange about It at all.
White! y Is too lazy to catch any disease.
Bather Ambiguous. Lowton Yes, sir, I ' A
expect to be able to live like a gentleman some
day.
E.eenedge1 doubt it. .
L. Why so? l
K.-Beeause I've never seen you trying to reach ;
such a desirable condition. ;
This is about the time that the advice is I
given, "Never go to bed with cold feet," Where , -vj
then Is one to go with them? Down In the eeUar.qu
or out In the street, or to the hospital and have Vf,B
thsmeutoff? We should Imagine the best place forMjt;' ;
cold feet would oe in bed where tney nave a oenar;
ebancetoget warm than by sitting with them on
me stoop. v n
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They stood at tne gate in tne paiemooa
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Observers, there were none;
He pressed her hand and said, "Goodnight'";.
And added. 'Kate, lust one."
"Juitonel" the said In assumed surprise, '.i;jJ
And the dropped her lashes then V
And curtained the bright love beaming ere-ii
'Well, I should say, just ten.'
'All right!" he cried with a rapturous look,
And did not a moment wait, , v. ,
nut arew ncr to nun auu icu us ."v- -iM
Ere she could expostulate. i3?r
e tned for breath as she fixed her bat. c
; iAnd her blushes came and went j, ajfcM
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