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PITTSBURG, SUNDAY. JAN. 5. 1890.
SETTLE XT THOROUGHLY.
The attitude which the overhead electric
Trire question has taken within the past few
days contains some interesting features.
The interviews with representatives of the
various electric companies, apropos of the
order by the Department or Public Safety
to remove all dead wires, produced the as
sertion by the experts that there are no dead
wires. Experience may induce the public
to take statements of this sort with consider
able discount But it must be said that the
statement does not improve the situation.
If there are no dead wires then it must have
been a live wire that killed a horse in Alle
gheny the other day, and consequentlv the
necessity for putting the live wires under
ground is all the more urgent.
The proposition to lessen the danger by
adopting the plan of overhead cables is an
other feature which naturally evokes unfa
vorable comment. The overhead cables
doubtless secure more perfect insulation at
the start than the ordinary wires; but, like
them, they are subject to wear and deteriora
tion. They present far more obstruction in
case of fire, and more disfigurement of the
streets, which are the constant and vital ob
jections to all overhead wires. The resort to
river-head cables would therefore be but an
aggravation of one great objection to over
head wires, and only a postponement of the
other peril.
It is not necessary to resort to makeshifts
in disposing of this question. The exam
ples of European capitals show that the
electric wires can be put underground with
practical success. Mr. Westinghouse has
announced the value of a new system of un
derground wires. Pittsburg might as well
settle this question on a permanent basis
when it is once taken up.
A CHEEEFUL OPENING FOE 1890.
Notwithstanding the unprecedentedly
poor state ot the health of the community
with so many houses turned into hospitals,
and few families without some one suffering
from the epidemic of distressing colds the
2 ew Year 1890 opens up rather gayly than
otherwise in Pittsburg. Last night the
Duquesne Club celebrated brilliantly the
taking possession of its commodious and
elegant quarters; to-morrow night the Bar
Association will gather at the festive boards
in cheerful annual reunion; and, later in the
month, the Press Club will have its yearly
banquet and reception lor representative
people from at home and abroad.
These are but a few of several such events
on the programme. Collectively and sev
erally they sigpify, in their way, the growth
of Pittsburg from small to large proportions.
It is not merely the numerical or material
growth, either, which is significant; but,
far more than that, the growth of good feel
ing. "Whatever the competitions of business
or of the professions, these reunions of
clubs and associations are not only a demon
stration of numerical strength, but a recog
nition that there is room enough in each
calling for all who hare the talents, the
capacity and the conduct to commend them.
This spirit does much to eliminate petty and
unworthy jealousies. It substitutes, in
stead, constant suggestions of the value and
possibilities of concerted, co-operative efforts
for jvortby purposes. Its expansion in so
many directions in Pittsburg is one of the
' features of the recent development of the
town.
ASTE0N0M1CAL LAWS ASKEW.
The case of weather prophets who, either
by themselves or their admirers, make a
great flourish when they come within speak
ing distance of the weather, has been often
commented on; but less is said of the horde
of guesses by the same gentry, which fly
wide of the mark. It is a public service,
therefore, to call attention, as the Chicago
Tribune does, to one of the most pretentious
of his class who claims to base his weather
"predictions "according to mathematical cal
culations based on mathematical calcula-
STABLISHED FEBRUARY
- 'tions." This worthy opened his predictions
X for Jast year by asserting: "We gave warn-
'.: ing of the drought of 188G and 1887; now we
NnT ivc '"'arnnP of tne Et'H greater drought of
' 1889." The same prophet predicted a mean
i hf temperature 25 degrees below the average,
k.',ibr last month. A prophet who set up a
- 2Kl3great drought for 1889, and predicted acold
Vv' December to close the year, should conclude
'lethal something has got askew with his as
. ' J" "tronomical laws.
TEEM US ALL ALIKE.
The proposition of Secretary Windom to
O furnish a guaranteed market for the silver
producers, evokes the following qucrv from
ihe St. Iiouis Gto6e-.Deniocrai: "if the
(Government is to serve as a market for
buvh uuniua on iTuica it issues guaranteed
.certificates to be used as currency, whv not
fturn it into a huge warehouse for the receipt
. .of cotton, corn, hay, lead, zinc and other
Vj-products?"
Of course the principle of equitable treat-
ELment demands that if this is done for one
producing interest it should be done for all.
kn u interesting 10 notice mat suDstantiaiiy
ItbJs proposition has been made by a writer
Jin .the National Economist, the economic
jf organ of the Farmers Alliance. A recent
Kfissue of that journal contains, as a solution
of the currency question, a detailed proposi-
s.tib'n that the Government shall establish
warehouses for the reception of cotton, and
tissue guaranteed certificates for its value.
jTwhich are intended to be used as currency.'
iThis wiLL of course, be scouted b- the
Bffinancial and silver class as .the wildest in
teatSnnioonshine; but; it is ,. practically
what is proposed by the Secretary of the.
Treasury with regard to - silver. If it is
done for silver, why not for cotton? And if
for silver and cotton, why not for wheat,
corn, pork, lard, iron, coal or any other ot
a hundred staples of production? In short,
why not let the Government be the ware
house for all classes of production and let
the people trade warehouse receipts as a
means of'carrying on commerce?
How such a esheme would work we are
not likely to learn from experience: but it
is, only fair to insist that when the Govern
ment goes into the business of furnishing a
market to one industry it shall do it for all
alike. -
FASHING OB BOAD. MAKING.
IJ is the opinion of the special committee
of the Prison Board which looked into the
facts that the best thing to do with the
workhouse inmates is to make farmers out
of them. We do not know what lights the
committee bad on tbe subject, but it is more
than doubtful if tbe public will agree with
that view. The most practical suggestion,
at least the one eliciting the greatest volume
oi indorsement, was to put the workhouse
people upon the roads of the county, which
are in a simply atrocious condition. To this
the sentimental objection was offered that
putting offenders on public view would
harden and disgrace them; but, again, that
was met by the obvious suggestion that
only the repeaters, the second, third and
fourth termi men need be included; while
the additional argument presented itself
that whoever esteemed road-making a dis
grace would the more sedulously avoid the
qualifying criminally for that useful but
apparently obnoxious industry.
The board has not yet acted on the com
mittee's report in favor of an extension of
farming at Claremont. If the object aimed
at is merely to put the workhouse folk at
some calling in which they will not compete
with free labor, farming is as good as any
for it is doubtful if enough enthusiasm will
be inspired into the new departure among
the detained citizens to produce anything
more notable than a deficiency in the annual
financial exhibit of the operations. The oc
cupations of the field are only too apt to
prodnce upon that class of labor philosophic
reflection and leisurely contemplation of the
landscape. Neither the wheat fields of the
Northwest nor the market gardens of Florida
or Neville Island would tremble with the
apprehension of any possible surplus of
agricultural product escaping from Clare
mont into the general markets.
If farming is to be the vegue at our penal,
reformatory and eleemosynary institutions,
it is also in place to remark that the land
now occupied by a number of them is en
tirely too valuable for the purpose. Both at
the workhonse and at the City Farm the
investments in land have grown so greatly
in value as to warrant the early sale of the
holdings and the selection of cheaper
grounds. The Prison Board will doubtless
look carefully into the whole matter before
acting; but they will look long before hit
ting upon a work so absolutely needed in
this part of tbe country as the building of
good, solid and lasting macadamized roads.
EAILEOADS A5D THE IE0H TBADR
The statement of the statistics that 5,000
miles of railway were constructed in 1889,
shows that a material diminution has taken
place from tbe mileage of new railway in
the two previous years. The decrease need
not be regarded as an unfavorable sign, as
the probability is that the construction of
double that total in 188S and 18S7 was some
what in advance of the national require
ments. Beyond that there is little doubt
that the variations in the mileage of new
railways brought to completion, generally re
flect the financial conditions of two or three
years previous to the date at which they are
reported. The large totals of 1887 and 1888
reflected the activity of 1883. The decrease
of last year was caused by the contraction of
1887 and 1888; while the present expansion
of business will doubtless produce a belated
effect in an increase of rallwav building
which will increase the totals of 1891 or 1892.
So far as its local effect is concerned, the
showing contains a gratifying fact for Pitts
burg. It is that with the demand for new
railway construction cut down to the small
est total for several years, tbe iron and steel
industries of Pittsburg have attained a
period of the utmost activity. The demand
from other sources has been so great as to
make our leading industries practically in
dependent of what used to be considered a
controlling factor in the trade. That rail
road consumption of iron has entered the
market once more, and has filled our mills
with orders for a great part of next year, is
not to be questioned; but the fact that our
industries have made last year's splendid
record, with this factor of demand reduced
to a minimum, contains the best promise of
uninterrupted prosperity with the expan
sion of that consumption during the next,
two vears.
THE ABSENT ICE HAEVEST.
The abnormal tardiness of winter weather
in making itself felt in the temperate zone, at
least of this hemisphere, is producing its
Ubual efiect in the talk of the ice dealers
about an ice famine next year. Talk ol a
short ice supply is not by any means con
fined to open winters. It is customary for the
lords of the ice houses to inform the people
at about this stage of the winter that they
must pay dearly for the luxury of solid cool
ness in tbe next summer, even when they are
preparing to fill their storehouses to over
flowing on tbe next cold snap.
They have a little belter reason than usual
for singing their familiar song this winter.
Cold wave after cold wive has been heralded
from the West, and dissolved in mere damp
ness upon contact with our unshakeable
mildness. So far the only intelligence con
cerning ice is that a boy ont in Iowa dis
covered enough ice to, break through
and get drowned. Yesterday the news
from the far West, told us of snows and
blizzards beyond the Rocky Mountains,
severe enough to cause the loss of life; but
whether this will meet the fate of former
cold waves that have started from the region
of blizzards only to meet with early dissolu
tion, is yet to be determined.
Nevertheless it is net discreet for our
friends ot the ice trade to leap to the con
clusion that ice will be almost as scarce next
year as the more imperishable diamonds, or
that it will command a corresponding value.
There are many days yet to come in which
blizzards of greater vitality than these so far
experienced may sweep down on us and fill
the ice houses to overflowing. 'Of course
the ice men will continue to be the lords of
the torrid months whether the ice harvest
will be small or great; bnt it is not yet time
to predict that the people of the United
States will be condemned next summer to
the consumption of tepid soda water, and
un-iced sherry cobblers.
The formation of a mutual protection so
ciety of tbe young women of Plymouth
against the wiles of that designing creature,
man, is a warning to the trifling persons of the
male persaasion In that towru. The informa
tion that a young man cannot court a young
.woman unless his character will stand invest!--
Ration and unlef a ho has got a release card
from the last girl hawent with, is of the class
of protection that is prohibitory. After tho
Plymouth young ladies have found that the
strict enforcement of this standard will deprive
them of male attentions, the organization may
be expected to como to a sudden if not tragic
end.
Justice Beeweb will take the oath
next Monday. The public may do permitted
a mild hope that his Now Year's vow will In
elude tho swearing off from tailing quite so
favorable a judicial view of the .schemes of
corporation manipulators.
Among the other interesting disclosures
with regard to theNew XorkStar is the fact that
in addition to having cost Mr. C. P. Hunting
ton $810,000 it owes tho Grant monument fund
81,000. which it had collected and failed to turn
in. Steps should be taken at onco to secure the
payment of that little balance. The Republi
can millionaire may be able to afford 610,000
for the pleasuro of owning a Democratic'organj
but the Grant monument does not possess any'
such amount of wealth that it can lose 11,000
for the pleasure- of telling that organ to collect
the money. Mr. Huntington should make its
losses 611,000.
The Chief of the Department of Public
Safety does not propose to have tho city pay
81,000 moro for an engine house site than the
property is worth when ho finds it out, and ho
found it out this time.
Pennsylvania has on her records the
case of a man who stole the roof off a public
building; but the ambitions young State of
South Dakota shows its ability to beat that
record by a call for military aid to prevent a
town sito from being stolen. It is true- that the
site has no buildings on it; while in view of the
danger to the real estate it is fortunate for the
men who might have owned the buildings.
When roofs and sites are subject? for Che depre
dations of thieves the security of the property
left between them is not satisfactory. What
good would there bo in a house with neither a
roof to cover it nor a site for' it to stand out
Some of the newspaper stories about the
grippe require, the remark that the best way to
euro the sufferers who get a bad cold in the
head, emphatically is not to scare them to
death.
A New Yobk paper proudly points to
the fact that the District Attorney's office ot
that city has secured 1,963 convictions daring
the past year, with only 335 acquittals. But the
trouble is that the acquittals contain so large a
proportion of people who should have been
convicted; while the much larger number of
convictions was principally made up of persons
for whose conviction there was no more decided
public need than that of some of the people
who were acquitted.
The cold wave, which really comes after
the repeated predictions, will be as unexpected
as tho wolf in tbe story, who had been the
subject of so many previous false alarms,
"It is against the law to sell liquor in
South Dakota, but there is no penalty for doing
so. It need scarcely be said that 'drunks' are
to bo found there," remarks a Philadelphia
cotemporary. It is also against the constitu
tional law for railroads and teleeraph com
panies to buy no parallel and competing lines
in Pennsylvania, but the penalty is not en
forced; and the suppression of competition
goes on just as usual.
Russian influenza and Russian Nihilists
are products of the Muscovite empire, which
wo should mildly, but firmly, object to having
sent to us.
The reported purchase of a big tract on
Brunot's Island may indicate a new location
for suburban lots, but it more probably in
cludes the addition of an important manufac
turing suburb on that former garden spot of
tho Ohio. With the command of railroad and
river facilities that can be obtained there the
new manufacturing suburb ought to be a
prosperous oho.
If the grippe produces a financial panic
in London, we supposo that all the rest of the'
money markets of tho world mnst go to sneez
ing. The statement that 1,800 pass books of
the defnnct Lawrence bank are still out and
that, therefore, a statement cannot be made
up, is doubtless meant to express the limita
tions of tbe assignee, but it speaks in more ex
pressive terms of tho fearful and wonderful
condition in which the bank's ledgers must
havo been left.
Spanish plots are getting almost as nu
merous and quite as shadowy as the Russian
Nihilist variety.
The man who can keep track of the re
ports and tell whether Peters js alive or mas
sacred, according to the latest story, can solve
tho mysteries of chaos, and might even be ex
pected to have a clear idea of all the successive
class pools, otherwise called "associations."
PEOPLE OP I EOMINBNCE.
That Tennyson is ill is denied. He walks
about dally.
IjtrtJENZA has found out the New York de
faulting banker, John C. Eno, in Quebec.
England is to have Charles Bradlaugh
again. He is on his way there from India.
Justice Hablak's daughter Mary and
Chief Justice Fuller's fifth daughter, Mildred,
were among tho recent debntantes at Wash
ington. The date of the dinner to be given by tho
President to the judiciary has been changed
from Tuesday, Fcbrusry 4, to Thursday, Feb
ruary 6.
11b. Gladstone is at work upon six impor
tant articles for magazines, one of them being
a critical review of Lord Tennyson's poems. A
great literary man. was spoiled when Mr. Glad
stone became a statesman.
. TunEK of the most noted horse lovers of the
Senate are Stanford, of California, Btockbridge,
of Michigan, and Don Cameron, of Pennsyl
vania. Stanford and Stockbridee are famous
as horse breeders, nd both own noted stock
farms.
Tub marriage of Miss Clara Bigelow, the
younger daughter of John P. Bigelow, of Lon
don, formerly of Washington, to Edward Fan.
vel Powers, son of the Rev.. Mr. Powers, of
Newburgb, N. Y., is announced to take place
in London this week.
Olive Logan is doing literary work In
Washington this winter, though she has not de
cided how long she will stay. She has written
a "Washington novel of 40,000 words, and His
said that tbe story has a good plot and is full of
interest. Mrs. John A.Xon is doing remark
ably well withhor new magazine. She is living
at her home in Calumet Place, and she has her
regular hours of editorial work.
THErovivaVof tho question of the removal
of General Grant's remains to Washington
calls attention to the General's family.
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., was there a few days ago.
His rosy face is now shaved as clean aa a baby's
cheek, and it is wonderful how like his father
he now looks. He has the same cast of
features and the same thoughtful eyes that are
seen in the photographs ot General Grant.
JOURNALISTIC CHANGES,
James Gordon Bennett's London Paper
Has a Sbahlae Tip.
IBY CABLE TO THIS PIBFATCII.I
London, January 4. Copyright. Some im.
portant changes have been made in the staff of
the London Herald, this week. John C. Held
and Joseph Hatton have retired from the
paper, and Louis J. Jennings has been placed
in control. James Crcelman, of the New York
Scrald, has arrived to assist Jennings as news
editor.
Held, whose health Is not good, will spend
tho winter in Africa, and expects to arrive In
New York in .May.
The Svrn tarn's .Commander 111.
Washington, January i. The Navy De
partment is Informed that Commander John
McGowan, Jr., commanding the United, States
steamsDipjjwaiara pu me Asiatic station, nsa
been condemned by a'medical board of survey.
No one has yet been selected to succeed him in
command of the TeSreL
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
A Curiously III. Informed Man The Ohio
Situation PathetC Incidents of Sir.
Bapp's Death Other Mniters.
TT would be supposed that a man absolutely in
Ignorance of McGinty's identity could not be
found in Pittsburg.
At a meeting of ' the elders of a suburban
church before New Year's, one of them re
marked that the janitor hold several times re
cently left the trapdoor leadlnginto the furnace
room open. "One of theso days soma of us will
meet with McGinty's fate," be said.
"Oh, Mr. B ," broke in the pastor with
a mild curiosity, plainly marked in bis ques
tion. "Who is this Mr. McGinty everyone is'
talking about?"
Elders are not supposed to laugh uproari
ously, but they did on this occasion. The pas
tor laughed, too, when he learned the profane
origin of the gentleman whose body Is still
missing.
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EVEBTBODY'S FAVORITE.
This man has his Thomas,
That man hashls Brice,
Bnt surer still, they whisper
Each man has his price I
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TWTiss Minerva How wonderfully cheap
things are getting. Why, I Baw a set of
Lamb's works for S3 00 to-day.
Miss Dressy Oh! that couldn't be. Why,
Korne's have 'marked theirs down, and
Persian lamb capes are 123 00, dear I
THBBUENT CHILD DBEADS, etc.
I've looked at the words you've wrlten, John;
It seemed like a bit or the dear old past.
Your awful writing again to con.
Again on a single word stick fast
1 don't mind telling you either, sir,
Your writing's worse for writing to her.
The old year's gone, as yon truly say.
Gone for good wonld I call It back?
Not for a month or a week or a day,
Not if to-day were ever so black I
So she's false she never was falrl
Sham from her soul to her yellow bait.
Lucky for you that you found her out.
The goddess for whom you deserted mo;
Proud of your choice, sir, I've no aoubt,
My! how proud should your handmaid bel
Chosen. Jilted and chosen again
Your lordship's preference makes me vain.
And yon want to solder the chain anew?
To mend the links of the bonds yon broke?
You've painted me, sir, a pitiful view
Of an ox who yearns for the lifted yoke.
You say: "Let's bury old '89,
Forget and forgive and and be mine!"
I courtesy, John, and I give you thanks;
I ought to jump at the chance, I know,
I'm a veteran now in the maiden ranks;
lint I'm unselfish, and I say, No!
Your shop-worn love I refuse to don,
It would not fit if I tried it on.
'THESE were some quaint and touching inci
dents about the death and burial of the
venerable Miss Rapp, one of tbe presiding
spirits of Economy in her day.
She was at chnrcb, as usual, on the Sunday
before Christmas, and she was as well as usual
till tbe festival itself. But though she was un
able to attend divine service on that day her
illness was not serious. So it went on till last
Sunday, she lying in bed and a girl waiting on
her. It was after midnight when this attend
ant, noticing that Miss Rapp seemed unusually
quiet, entored the room. To her horror she
discovered at once that the old lady nad quietly
passed away. Unaccustomed to see death even
in such quiet guise, tbe girl ran into the street
shrieking for heln.
Only those who have slept in Economy can
realize what an unusnal thing it was thus to
havo the dead stillness of "the night broken. As
sistance soon came. Mr. Henrlci.who sleeps on
the other side of the old house where Miss
Kapp died, was summoned. He entered tbe
room, and after searching for the pulse, told
the weeping witnesses that their beloved sister
was dead.
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'The next day one ot tbe oldest members of
tho Economy Society, an old lady who is
greatly beloved, went to Mr. Henrici and be
sought him to break for once tho well-known
rule in Economy that the dead shall be burled
before tho next going down of the sun. She
pleaded that Miss Rapp had come into contact
with the world more ofton than most of them,
and had many friends outside tbe society who
would like to be present at her funeral. Mr.
Henrici consented, and so the funeral was set
for Tuesday at 1 o'clock, and word was sent to a
chosen few of the friends Miss Rapp loved.
They were representative people ot tho oldest
and best families in the county.
Visitors to Economy know that old-fashioned
parlor in the residence of Mr. Rapp, the soci
ety's founder, with its hardwood chairs, Its two
pianos, the dazzling chandeliers, and a rare old
stove, tbe like of which is no more to be seen.
You remember, if you've been there, the dark
oil painting Dy West of "Christ Healing the
Sick," and the more beautiful copy of one of
the old masters' Madonnas; and the white silk
curtains made by tbe society, and many other
curious things. But best .and brightest of all
you must rocall the picture of kindly neatness
in the person of Miss Rapp herself.
In this room the coffin was laid when the
time for tbe last ntes came. It was a very plain
coffin of wood, painted black, but the loveliest
flowers covered everything In it but tbe calm
face of the dead. Twelve of the society's coun
cillors sat around tbejbead of the coffin, and
the rest of the room was filled with visitors and
members of the society. Mr. Henrici passed
in and out of the room constantly. But no
word was said over tbe coffin there, and pres
ently after a solemn period of silence far more
impressive, a witness, says, than the most elo
quent speech six of the councillors took tho.
coffin and carried it out to tbe hearse.
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Pvebyone in the room followed the hearse
to the artless, simple cemetery which lies
op the eastern outskirts of Economy. It is a
beautiful orchard with soft, velvety turf a
lovely .spot in spring or summer. There the
mortal dnst of the good woman was laid in the
grave. Jonathan Lcntz spoko briefly of her
virtues in German, and those around tbe grave
cast flowers in abundance upon her. Three
simple hymns were sung. Mr. Henrici did not
speak at all; bis emotion prevented him.
One of the last things Miss Rapp Hid before
her death was to think of her people's comfort
at church. She chose a carpet and brought it
down and superintended the making of it, and
the worshipers will be reminded ot her kind
ness every time they kneel in church. This is
the first carpet ever laid in tbe church.
Hepbubn Johns,
NEW YORK'S WORLD'S FAIR BILL.
Ex. JIajor Hewitt Prepares the Document,
and Dr. Dcpew Praises It.
New York, January 1 The Committee on
Legislation of the World's Fair Committee, at
a meeting in tho office of Chauncey M. Depew
bis afternoon, received the memorial to Con
gress which ex-Mayor A. S. Hewitt had pre
pared. It will be presented to the Congres
sional Committee on Wednesday by Messrs.
Hewitt and Depew.
Mr. Depew said: "It presents the claims of
New York for the World's Pair In an admirablo
fashion. It sets fortb, without fresco or flow
ers, why this city Is the only place where tbe
fair would be a succors, and shows conclusively
how elsewhere it would meet with unsurmount
ablo obstacles."
Rushing the Benson.
From the Chicago Ncws.1
Now is tbe time to plant garden seeds and
put your lawn mowers in repair.
DEATHS OE A DAY.
Herbert Smith.
rnr cable to tui dispatch.!
London, January 4. Copyright.-Hcrbert
Smith, of Philadelphia, died attbe Victoria Hotel
yesterday ofbronchltls. Mr. Smith came over on
the Umbrla, arriving in London Sunday, to meet
his wife and children, who have been traveling
abroad for a year, and were in Switzerland. He
was taken sick. Tuesday, and Wednesday tele
graphed for bis wife, who arrived after his death
last night, without previous knowledge or his
sickness. Ur. Smith's body wilt be embalmed,
and Mrs. Smith and her family will sail with It for
America next Thursday.
Captain Rafns P. Btnniels.
Coscobd, N. n., January 4. Captain Rufus F.
Stanlels. a prominent Insurance and Grand Army
man, died to-day, aged 63. He was attacked with
la grippe yesterday, wbtch-daveloped into typhoid
pneumonia in the evening And terminated fatally
this morning, lie leaves a widow, who Is Presi
dent of the State Women's Belief Corps.
Gcorgo C Sheerer.,
Lawrence,! 8an.( ,! January , -George u."
8hearer;'&ft oldrandwealthy'cltlzenv died this
"morning from caneer In the throat.; ' , ,'is-'.;
IT STANDS WITHOUT A PEEK.
A Cotemporary'a High Opinion of the Merita
' , of tho Dispatch.
From the Urcensburg Tribune-Herald.
Many of our readers in the country have some
knowledge of the kind of newspaper The
Pittsburg Dispatch is. Its dally now occu
pies a leading position among the journals of
the country as a live, newsy sheet. The pro
prietors leave nothing undone, of energy or ex.
pense, to get hold of all that will interest or in
struct the reader. They are, so to speak, master
of the situation in news-getting machinery,
having leased telegraph lines to all the princi
pal points, from which to gain the intelligence
the people want, on all matters pettaining to
the affairs of our country. It maintains an in
dependent position on all public topics, at the
same time i progressive. As a matter of course
its daily issue la sought after and taken by all
who have access to it by railroad facilities, in
every town and hamlet for hundreds of miles.
Those who patronize Snnday papers never
fail to arrange for its weekly visit. The Sun
day'Dis patch has had a wonderful growth,
increasing In popularity with the masses, un
til its edition is now over 60,000. Each number'
may be said to be a monster magazine of choic
est pen productions, as well as an accurate and
elaborate chronicle of current news in letters
from abroad, as well as from all prominent
points in our own country, furnished by con
tributors of tho highest merit and reputation.
Not the least attractive of its contents are
the pictorial illustrations, always chaste and ,
free from deserved criticism. Tbe writer of
this can scarcely resist the conclusion that he
must be getting old, when he calls to mind the
fact that when he first bad anything to do with
newspapers THE Dispatch was but an
infant, so to speak, just being nursed by his es
teemed friend of those days, J. Herron Foster,
who years ago passed to the beyond. But he
and his co-laborers on it imparted to it an im
pulse from which it grew into vigorous man
hoodattained its majority longsince, and now
stands forth without a peer at least west of
the Alleglienics.
A UNIQUE PUBLICATION.
Editor Stead's New Magazine Ecvlcwed
From Its Proolsheets.
IBT CABLE TO THE DISFATCIt.J
London, January 4. Copyright. Stead's
new JReview of Reviews will be issued next
Wednesday, ah edition of 0,000 being under
way. Ho allowed me to see the proof shoe ts to
day. The new periodical is what its name im
plies. Tho articles in tho first issue are simply
reviews of other magazine articles, with Stead's
opinion thereon. The frontispiece is a portrait
of H. W. Johnston, the young English Consul
who is disporting himself, as elsewhere related,
in Central Africa, with his autograph at the
bottom reading: "A Souvenir in Case I Get
Killed Picturesquely in Africa."v The first
pages of the Review are devoted to fac simile
autographs from men of such diverse political
views as Gladstone and Balfour, Davitt and
Salisbury, Laboucbere and Churchill, with
those of Tennyson, Fronde, Huxley and a score
of others, all acknowledging the necessity for
such a publication as Stead has introduced.
Tbe articles reviewed include several from
th e North American Review, and others from
the Atlantic, Harpers' Scribner's, The Forum
and Joseph Cook's Our Day. In the review of
"Whv I am an Agnostic," Stead calls Ingersoll
a "curious amalgam of Henry Ward Beecher
and Mr. Bradlaugh."
A unique feature of the Review of Reviews is
a confessional established at tho end. Stead
invites "any among the readers who feel a
craving for counsel, sympathy and consolation
of pouring out tbe soul's grief." and who "re
ject priestly guidance, but long for friendly
counsel," to apply to mm ana he win enacavor
to arrange matters for them.
BERKS FABMEKS WILL KAISE BEETS.
Thoy Claim That Wheat Cnltnro Is No Longer
a Paying Business.
(SPECIAL TILKOBAM TO TUJS DISPATOIt.I
Reading, January 1 The farmers of Berks
county intend to go extensively into sugar beet
culture. At the meeting of the County
Agricultural Society, this afternoon, a special
committee of five appointed to Inquire into the
subject, reported that they had thoroughly
canvassed tbe county; that nearly every farmer
promised to put out during the first year two to
jllre acres in sugar boots, and that total would
amount to thousands' of Nacres.' The farmers
have obtained assurances .that Claus Spreckels
will erect a sugar factory near here and
consume their products. The society at once
appointed another committee of 150 well-known
farmers to push the proiect.
The farmers are thoroughly alive on the sub
ject. They seo that farming wheat no loneer
pays, and they are anxious to go into
something else. In a letter written here
recently Mr. Spreckels assured tbe Berks
farmers tbatsugar beat culture would pay them
twice as well as well as wheat. The Sheriff is
selling farms and farm stock nearly every day.
Many farmers will retire in spring, while
numerons farms are for rent. Tbe farmers
who will remain in the business are eager to go
into anything which will pay them better.
MARRIED EARLY AKD OFTEN.
A Wmnn Bays Her Husband Had
Four
Wives In Tureo Years.
POTTSVrtLE, January 4. Mrs. Louis Michael,
a fashionably dressed young woman, yesterday
asked tbe Shenandoah police to arrest bcr bus
band on the charge of bigamv. Sho says that
in February, 1687, sho married Michael in St.
Louis. Fourteen days after the marriage he dis
appeared. After a tireless search she learned a
week ago that her husband bad a clothing store
in Gcrmantown, a suburb of Philadelphia,. and
a store in Shenandoah. Sho charges that
Michael, under different names, has since mar
ried threo other women, and'Sqniro Monaghan
issued a warrant for Ids arrest.
Tho police watched his Shenandoah store,but
be could not be found. He is said to be in
Philadelphia, and Mrs. Michael will go there to
ask the aid of Chief of Detectives Wood.
Michael was worth $35,000 when he skipped
from St. Louis.
A Good-Nnturcd Father.
From tbe Kansas City Star.
A Dickinson county farmer, who is tho father
of seven rosy, healthy daughters, goes to Abi
lene once every three weeks and buys a box of
chewing gum containing 200 pieces. And he
never kicks unless be happens to want to sit on
tho fence around thehouso, and then ho thinks
there can be too much of a good thing.
no Thanks the President.
Washington, January 4 Jnstice Brewer
to-day resigned as United States District Judge
in Kansas, and afterward, in company with At
torney General Miller and Associate Jnstice
Field, called at tba White House and paid bis
respects to tbe President, taking occasion to
thank him for the honor conferred in bis ap
pointment to tbe Suprome bench.
Grip Stops n. Town Clock.
Pottsville, January 4 The "grip" has bro
ken out in the county jail berc. Warden Toole,
several of the assistant matrons and a number
of the prisoners havo it badly. For the first
time in years the town clock has stopped. Offi
cial Clock Winder Green has tho "grip."
SATLNGS OF STATE KCHAKGES.
On. Crrr Blizzard: If at first you don't,etc
Flip over another leaf.
HABKlSBirr.G Catl: These days many polit
ical tomahawks are receiving keen edees.
Greenville Progress: A quiet Secretary
of State may become a very loud candidate, for
President.
Johnstown Tribune: As the South is now
raising something else than cotton, tbe protec
tion sentiment in that quarter is rapidly grow
ing. Somerset Democrat: "Coming events cast
their shadows before," and the rumblings of
the political earthquake in Spain and Portugal
may portend tbe ultimato overthrow of mon
archial absolutism In Europe.
Mt. Pleasant Journal; Three thousand
kegs of .beer for tbe Christmas celebration
wasn't doing so awfully bad for prohibition ML
Pleasant; now, was it? Perhaps the warm
weather excited an undue thirst
PunxtutawneY Spirit: "Four things,"
says the Caliph Omar, "come not back: The
spoken word, tho sped arrow, tbe past life and
tbe neglected opportunity." Had the hardy
old Arab lived in this age be might safely have
added Sllcott to tbe list.
Chestee Sews: A Georgia, court lias de
cided that patent medicine proprietors are pe
cuniarily responsible for alt the injuries in
flicted by .their nostrums. This will be a death
blow tetbelr business. Heretofore the patients
have had topay doctors to cure themafter tak
ing the patent infalllbles;
GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE.
Stories About Cnl Brier, Who Wants to be
Ohio's Senator How He Lost 8175,000
and Made a Fortune Some Famous
Women.
ISPECIAL C0nlIESr02rDENCI or THE SISPATCB.l
Washington, January 4. Cal Brice, the
New York millionaire, is making bis can
vass fortbeOhioSenatorshipat Columbus in
a silk bat, broadcloth coat and patent leather
boots. He cuts a different figure now than be
did when 1 knew him there nine years ago.
He was building tbe Ohio Central Railroad,
ont of which he got his start in 18S0, and be
used to come around the Ohio State Capitol
with his pantaloons in bis boots, a rustic
coat spattered with mud and a slouch bat
pullod over bis steel-blue eyes. He worked
with a will and came np to Columbus' to scheme
for millions witb Charlie Foster, who was then
Governor. Ex-Congressman Lamlson, of Lima,
who has long been one of Bnce's right-hand
men, tells me that Brice lost in the first in
stance on tho .Ohio Central, and when
It was done he owed Charlie Foster
115,000. Foster and ho had been
engaged in railroad building before, and Brice
had cleared 60,000 out of tho strip of road
which runs from Fremont to Lima. He bad
put this Into the Ohio Central with Foster, and
ho had lost this as well aa the amount above
mentioned. Foster, however, bad confidence
in him, and the result of tbe plottmgs was that
they ran a branch from the Ohio Central into
the great coal fields of the Sunday Creek Val
ley. This branch paid so well that Brice was
able to pay Foster tbe 8115,000 he owed him
and to have $135,000 left It was after this that
he originated the Nickel Plate scheme, pushed
It through, and made, in connection withev
eral others, abou: 13.000.000 out of It" Since
then he has continued his railroad specula
tions, has lost somo money and made more. He
moved long ago from Ohio to New York, and
he now owns a house there which cost him
2S0,0CO. He is worth at least 85,000,000. and is.
I am told, getting richer every year. All of his
prosperity has come within tho last ten years.
ana a aecaue ago ne was a red-wniskcreo, Diue
cyed young lawyer of 80 odd years on the
ragged edge of a country practice.
Brico's First Diamond Purchase.
TT was at this time that Brice made, an invest
ment for his mother, the story of which I
heard last night His father was, you know, a
poor Methodist preacher and money meant a
great deal to the family. His mother inherited
a small sum, and when Cal told her that he saw
a good place to invest it, she gave every cent of
it to him, although she bad four young children
yet to educate. She warned Cal to be careful,
but Mr. Brice, witb tbe sanguinity which has
made his future speculations a success, put the
money into tbe Ohio Central, and, by the aid
of the Sunday Creek branch, trebled it
Ho received his profits from the deal
somewhereUn the East, and he was so pleased
with the success of his mother's investment
that lie put a third of tbe money into dia
monds, and when he returned home and his
mother timidly asked as to tbe state of her in
heritance, Cal pompously banded her tbe case
containing the gems. Mrs. Brice was in de
spair. She thought the purchase very foolish,
and she said that, notwithstanding he had in
creased her Investments and had got her back
twice as much in money as she gave him, she
could not see how any good could como from a
man who squandered his first earn
ings on anything so useless as jew
elry, "sne had," says my inena, "tne nnest
diamonds iu Lima, but her income was still in
sufficient for her to carry out tbe education of
her children. Her predictions of her son, how
ever, aid not como true, and his successful
career soon supplied her with all tbe money
she needed."
How Brice Became a Fraternity Han.
JJEPRESENTATIVE Owens says that when
Brice went to college he was by no means
rich, and be often found it hard work to make
the ends meet The D. K. E. Fraternity was
the swell one of the college, and its members
embraced such men as General Sam Hunt, of
Cincinnati, and others. A number of tbe boys
saw that Brice was a brainy fellow and his
name was proposed. The rule of the society
was that one black ball would prevent tbe
election of a candidate, and Brice'a name was
twice blackballed. Tho members of tbe Fra
ternity demanded who had cast the opposing
vote and they found that it was a young aristo
crat named . Flsk, of Covington, who said he
didn't want Brice in the Fraternity because be
was a poor fellow and bad not what be consid
ered a high enough social standing. The re
maining members of tho Fraternity were, bow-
ever, so desirous of admitting Brice that they
Informed Fisk that tbe question had resolved
itself Into one of himself or Brice, and that if
he again voted against Brice be would be ex
pelled from tbe Fraternity. The result was
tbat Brice became a member of tho D, K. E.
and tbat Mr. Fisk voted for him.
Kate Field and Her Pnno Pot.
'The noted women of the country are making
an onslaught upon Washington. Kate
Field has established herself at the Shofeham.
The first edition of her journal numbered 25,
000, and she tells me she has come to stay. She
has a den on tbe sixth floor ot Vice President
Morton's flat, and when I called upon her last
night I f onnd her grand piano turned into a
library table, and it was covered with piles of
newspaper clippings, stray bits of manuscript,
a paste pot as big as a two-gallon crock, and a
pair of scissors as long as your arm. An
antiquo mahogany writing desk in a corner
near the window and under the gas jets was
likewise filled with proofs, and copy, and 1
noticed that tho ink on Kate's quill pen was
still moist as she arose and bade me good even
ing. Sbe took me from her den into her recep
tion room. It i3 one of the coziest and most
characteristic of tbe parlors In Wash
ington. Its walls are lung with rare
engravings and beautiful etchings, and
just opposite the den shows out
an autographic receipt of Alexander Pope for
the 2 guinera which be received for bis transla
tion of tho Iliad. This is no index of the
prices which Miss Field will pay for literary
matter. Just now sbe is running her journal on
a business basis, and her first edition, in addi
tion to the salaries of her editorial force, cost
her but 1 60. Sbe isgoing to make It pay if
hustling will do it. She is a hustler, too, and, in
the forties she has as much energy and youth
as when she stepped out of her teens into her
twenties as 3 corresnondent of tbe Philadelphia
Press and tho New York Tribune in London and
Paris. Later on she became an actress, and I
understand sho even did some of the song and
dance business, inheriting a remarkable dra
matic talent from ber father, who was an actor,
editor and play writer. Sbe was a success as a
lecturer, and, though she failed in the co-opera-tivo
dress roform scheme, there is no reason
why sbe should not make a good thing out of
this Washington journal. She is a tight bright,
wiry slender lady of about medium height, with
brown bair. bright eyes and a tongne which can
talk for two hours at a stretch and advance a
new Idea in every sentence.
Susan B. Antbonr and Phccbo Canzins.
T CALLED upon Susan B. Anthony last night
at tbe Riggs House, and found her firmly im.
planted on her women's rights fortifications,
with her guns pointed toward Congress and a
lighted fuse in her band. Sbe looks not a day
older than sbe did ten years ago. Her hair has
grown no whiter, and th.ere are no more
wrinkles in bor face. Sbe is In good health and
spirits. During the past summer she stumped
tbe Western States In favor of women's rights,
and sbe tells mo the Strength of bcr party in
Congress Is growing.
With her I adjourned to another parlor and
called upon Phoebe Couzins. Miss Phoebe has
not been well for two years, but though the
gray strands are creeping into the black hair,
sne is as bright as a dollar and she still has
enough iron in her blood to make tho life of tbe
present Controller of the Treasury decidedly
miserable. Tbo Controller's office seems to
be run on the principle of bow not to do it.
Miss Phoebe's complaint relates to about 1,300
of lccral marshal's fees, which some of the cler-
ical whipp?rsnappers have 'disallowed, notwith
standing that they have been sworn to by half
a dozen clerks of courts and district attorneys
away out in Missouri. Miss Couzins has been
hero for several weeks trying to right her
claims, and sbe seems as far from her end as
she was when she came.
Feank G. Caepentee.
HIS DEBTORS TO BE GARNISHEED.
Peculiar Proceedings In the .Case of tho
Mlstins Banker Dllnmn.
Philadelphia. January 4. Lawyer Shields
to-day brought a peculiar and unusual proceed
ing in tbe Common Pleas Court under the do
mestic attachment act of June, 163d, on behalf,
of Charles H. M. Stoever, and against Joseph
G. Ditman, the missing bank president, who it
was supposed had committed suicide by drown
ing in tbe Schuylkill river. The writ on this
domestic attachment has issued, and all parties
Indebted to Mr. Ditman will bo served as gar
nishees. Tho affidavit made by Mr. Stoever sets forth
that Ditman 13 Indebted to bim in tbe snm of
S900 and avers that Ditman. on December 11,
lty, absconded from his usual place of abode
iu this city and has concealed himself else
where with design and intent to defraud his
creditors, and. that tbe said Joseph G. Ditman
has not left in Philadelphia county sufficient
estate to pay nis aeDis. xoe .writ u returnable
on Monday next, and when the return is made
IH PITTSBURG SOCIETY.
Pleasant Social Events Occurring Daring;
the Past Week.
Small dinners, teas and luncheons have the
most prominent part in the resume of the
week's doings in society. Of them there baa
been an unusual number. One of tbe most de
lightful was given by Mrs. C. L.Magee on
Thursday at 1 o'clock at the Hotel Duquesne.
Sixteen young society ladies enjoyed the hos
pitality of tbe charming hostess.
A very pretty pinKuinner was given Dyjars.
W. E. Schmertz, of the East End, to a few
friends on Tuesday evening.
A 7 o'clock New Year's dinner was given by
Mrs. Frank Clark, or the East End.
Tbe Monday evening dances were inaugurated
last- Monday in tne Pittsburg Club assembly
room.
A number of young friends enjoyed a 4
o'clock tea with Miss Agnes Dickson on Mon
day afternoon.
Fur Mr. and Mrs. George C. Smith, of New
York, a dinner of M covers was given during
tbe week by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sever
ance, Jr.
A very pleasant dance and reception was
given by Mrs. John M. Kennedy, of Wilkins
avenue, on Thursday evening in honor of Miss
Elizabeth Tindle.
From 3 to 8 Mrs. Henry Hays received
friends, and served them with teaauddelicioui
light cake Friday.
The Tuesday Night Club filled the Pittsburg
Clnb Theater with a stylish audience, and pre
sented two plays, entitled "An Old Master"
and "Barbara."
Avery pleasant party was given Monday
evening last by Miss Alice Wood Tindle at the
residence of her father. Dr. Tindle, on Penn
avenne. A number of the little folks. who wittr
tbe young hostess, assisted at tbe newsboys'
benefit, were present wearing the quaintly
fashioned, elegant costumes in which they ap
peared on the stage.
A pleasant dancing party was given by Miss
Martha Miller, who is home for holiday vaca
tion, at ber home on Lincoln avenue last Mon
day evening.
LADIES WIN A MORAL TICT0RY.
Steubenville Women Compel Showmen to
Tear Down Objectionable Bills.
rSPECIAL TXLEOBAM TO THE DISrATCH.1
Steubenville, January 4. The ladies of
Steubenville's Social Purity Society, who on
Thursday had Duncan Clark's Female Minstrel
Company arrested and fined, have this after
noon won another victory. The Rose Hill En
glish Folly Company, which are booked to ap
pear at the City Opera House here to-night,
have scattered through town and plastered the
bill boards with pictures and show paper which
was objectionable to the Social Purity Society.
Accordingly its Superintendent, Mrs. Dora
Webb, together with Mrs. R. L. Brownlee, an
other prominent member, called npon tbe
Rose Hill Company's manager and had a con
ference. They objected to the show bills, but
said that if they were either all Immediately
taken down or covered up that they would sot
prosecute on that score. They did not want
those bills to remain up, especially over Sun
day. This the manager agreed to, and in a
short time men were around covering up and
removing the objectionable bills.
Tbe ladles will attend tbe entertainment to
night, and if it appears to be a show which
seems to them to be proper, there will be no
trouble, but if they think that it is Immoral
and within tbe ban of tbe law, they will en
deavor to put the statutes for such cases into
effect
PERFORMING BEARS ARE TOOLS.
Collector Erhardt'a Decision Reunites the
Animals and Their Plcdmontese Masters.
rSFECIAL TILSOJtAH'TO HIE DISPATCH.!
New York, January 4. The two young per
forming bears chained in the bold of tbe steam
ship Lake Huron bad an affectionate meet
ing with their four Piedmontese proprie
tors on Friday night when the proprietors
arrrved here from Boston on a Fall river
steamer. They were compelled to spend the
night with tbe bears by the customs Inspectors
in charge of the bears.
Collector Erbardt decided to-day that the
bears, being practically tbe tools of trade of
the Piedmontese, were not dutiable.
He also decided that tbe Piedmontese,
since they had bears, to say noth
ing of money, were not paupers.
The men thanked tbe Collector and escorted
Victor Emanuel and Garibaldi to this city.
Tbe sextet will delight outdoor audiences in
rural towns where there is no law against
bears.
TEN AMBITIOUS OFFICE-SEEKERS
Want tho Wooster Postmattersblp, Bat Are
Apparently Left.
rSriCIALTKLXOBAM TO TH UMPATCH.
Woosteb, O.. January 4. Congressman
Smyser left for Washington to-night He has
decided to recommend Samuel Metzler for tbe
Wooster postmastershlp. There were ten can
didates, &nd several swear vengeance. Metzler
is a farmer, residing several miles out of tbe
city, aud does not pay taxes in the township,bis
farm being in another township, He gets his
mail at the Wooster office, however.
Henry W. Grady's Successor.
Atlanta, January 1 Mr. Clark Howell
was to-day chosen by the stockholders of the
Constitution Publishing Company to succeed
the late Henry W. Grady as managing editor.
Mr. Howell was formerly night editor, and has
for the la3t year been assistant managing
editor.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Judge: Boulangcr fires off nothing but
paper wads nowadays. Lacking bullets, he has
to content himself with bulletins.
Chicago News: "La grippe" does not travel
by contagion, but leaps all over a country at
once. It seems to be really, as is claimed, a
Rushin' disease.
Baltimore American: The police of a city
seem to be the first to catch the "grip." But
what Is the use of arresting it, when nobody is
willing to give it a trial?
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Roger Q. Mills
is still trying to smash the tariff, but tbe records
show tbat the tariff continues right along build
ing up tbe industries of Mr. Mills' own State
and the rest of tho country.
Chicago Inter Ocean: Governor D. B. Hill
may not bo tbe Democratic nominee In 1SS2,
but before tbat time Grover Cleveland and his
friends will smile on him sweeter than spring
violets. It's policy, my boy. The Governor
holds the poker at the cold end.
Memphis Appeal: An eminent scientist says
tbat the grip Is simply the old horse complaint,
"pink-eye." Pink-eye is somewhat of a nov
elty" in this country; if it Is anything like the
disease called by courtesy "rod-eye," we join
tbe Kentuckians and take off our hat to it
St. PAUL Pioneer Press: As an efficient
arm of attack or defenso in modern warfare,
the mnsket of 40 years ago is considered use
less. Bat if you hang it up In your honse as an
article of bric-a-bracW virtu, nine tides out of
ten It will explode and kill you, your wife, or
somo of your joint relatives.
Chicago Times: Senator Teller proposes
to make the fight of his lifo this winter in the
attempt to abolish the secret sessions of the
Senate. If the Senator succeeds he will be en
titled to the thanks ot every woman in the
land. Tbe only proceedings of Congress that
the women are Interested in are tbe executive
sessions' of the Senate, held behind closed
doors.
EXPIATIOX.
In farther Ind, where Ganges' waters rott,
On throne or gold a soldier King I reigned,
selfish and strong, each passion unrestrained,
I lived my realm to curse, to soli my soul.
The prayers and groans by burdened, subjects
sent.
Hose dallr to tbat Tower swift to bear.
But fell unnoticed on their despot's ear;
My hand I slackened not till life was spent
From earthly splendor centuries sgo
I passed, yielding to never vanquished fos.
In the still tomb Justice can overtake;
At Vishnu's vivifying touch, an age
Thereafter. I, bewildered much, awake
To find myseir imbedded close in rocky cage.
A hundred years I breathed its fetid gloom.
Loathing myself, and starving for the light.
At length, mid blinding flash 'and thunder boom,
My dungeon door wis oped, and sick with fright,
1. many leagues by somo resistless iorce.
Was hurled away, i Inlshed my unknown course,
Gasping, I found myself In sunshine bright,
A black and venomous, disgusting toad,
Whose loathsome presence all do shun and hate.
This garden set apart for my abode.
My task la now In these blooms to watch, and
wait
The bidding of a base pariah's shade.
One gnat or fly tbat feeds the flowers among
From morn till eve. mast not escape my tongue.
Else on my back his cruel whip Is laid.
Belentlcss Fate, thy Hied decrees are item;
'But owning Heaven's awfnl vengeance just,
A wise and kind Intent I still discern.
Since in my dally bondage sea I mast
That quenchless and eternal truth unfold.
Which even Brahma's kingdom doth uphold,
"Serve other souls and count thine Jown. but
dust" - W. A. HOLXAN. ,
PmflBCEOi.Jannary 4, ' v .
CURIOCS CONDENSATIONS.
A Chester, Vt, woman dislocated her
shoulder in making hrr bed. -'
Vienna's death rate has increased 50 per
cent above normal in one week. "
The New York Bible honse since April;
1 last has issued 725,000 volumes.
All the Jamaica railways have been.'
taken by an American syndicate.
The imperial cable from Bermuda, to
Halifax will be completed in June.
It requires 23 volumes to register the '
different cattle brands of Arizona.
A pear raised at Modesto, Cal, meas
ured 8 Inches high by 19 inches around.
New South Wales and Queenslandhavo
erected 8S7 miles of rabbit-proof fences.
A letter containing ?9O,O0O has been,
stolen in transit between Vienna and Pesth.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works expect
this year to turn out not less than 1,000 locomo
tives. The commission of French engineers to
investigate the Panama Canal has arrived on
the ground.
New York last year spent 117,000,000 on
ber public schools, biring 31937 teachers to in
struct 1,800,667 pupils.
The International Electric Exhibition
to be held at Frankfort has been postponed
until the spring of 1891.
The Baltimore Committee of One Hun
dred have fixed upon iLOOOas the full retail
license fee for that city.
At Tucamche, in Guatemala, the boys
In a school recently seized the master and
banged him in the schoolhouse.
While walking through the woods last
Snnday, a woman of Alliance. 0 saw and
killed a blacksnake four feet long.
A letter was recently received by a
Kansas Congressman at Washington which had
eight special delivery stamps on it
The condition of a certain cat in La
molne. Me., is literally at sixes and sevens.
She has seven toes on her hind feet and 'six on
her fore feet
The police detectives of New York made
1,578 arrests last year, resulting in sentences ag
gregating 802 years. (298,718 worth of property
was recovered.
A tree was recently cut on the land of
J. E. Widdowson, in Banks township, Indiana
county, Pa., making 15 sawlogs, the largest of
which scaled 3,600 feet.
A Salem, Ore., man sold a three-quarter
short-horn cow to a Portland butcher last
Wednesday. It weighed 1,630 pounds. Tbe
same farm owns a sheen that weighs 283
pounds.
Here is journalistic enterprise. Ayoung
man has started a newspaper on the Sioux
reservation. There are no white peonle there
yet but they will have a newspaper when they
do arrive.
The two tallest convicts in the Salta
Penitentiary were sent from Jackson county,
Ore. Caldwell, a life-termer, stands 6 feet 5
inches, and Roten, who went in for one year
last week, is 6 feet 4 inches.
A telegraph message costing $2 37 a
word was recently sent from Portland to Hong
Kong, and an answer received in 13 hours. It
was first sent to New York, thence to London,
across tbe continent to Yokohama,
The late Thomas Parker, of Washing
ton, became so attached to a cane, which he
had earned for years, that be kept It in bed
with him all daring bis illness, and before
dying expressed a wish that the favorite stick
be buried with bim. His wish was carried out,
the cane being put in the coffin.
An eccentric old German living in the
town of Milwaukee recently went to the city
and chartered a street car for his exclusive
use. He rode all over the line and would
not permit anybody to get in the car with him.
Atanptber time be attempted to charter a
special train to take bim to bis station, somo
four or five miles north of the city.
Fish charms have been met with among
many nations. The fish called the bullhead is
used by some of tbe Russian peasants as a
Charm against fever. Many kinds of fish have
two hard bones just within tbo sides of the
bead: and one species, the malgre, has these
bones larger in proportion than most others.
These two bones, called colic stones, are re
garded to possess medicinal virtues. Tbey were
mounted in gold and hung round the neck.
if aster Henry Butter Bair, son of Col-"
lector C. G. Bair, of Pottstuwn, is tbe owner of
a gun which is ICO to 150 years old, and is now
in tbe fifth generation of tbe family since it
was first purchased. It belonged originally to
young Harry's great-great-grandfather, who re
sided in Douglass township, in lower Berks;
from him it descended to his son, Harry Bair.
then to Harry Bait's son, Henry L. Bair (father
of C. G. Bair), who gave it to the present
owner.
Medicinal rings were at one time yery
seriously believed in. Physicians were wont to
wear fingerxings in which stones were set and
these stones were credited with'the possession
of many virtues. Sometimes the patient was
simply touched with tbe ring; sometimes ,he
put it on bis finger for awhile. Many a patient
has worn such a ring to stop hemorrhage. If
the desired result followed, the ring ym unre
servedly regarded as the healing agent; if the
cure did not follow, we are told nothing about
it
A peculiar result of the drinking of ice
cold water from a spring in Stonington, Conn
is reported. The water flows from a crack in a
high rock, and tbe veins of the man who drink
from it begin to swell, and he looks and feels as
though he were about to burst for tbe next ten
minutes. The swelling gradually subsides and
no serious effect Is felt, except a slight buzzing
in the ears. It is tho talk of tbe neighborhood,
and everybody is eager to try the efiect of the
water. A specimen has been sent to Boston
for analysis.
Sergeant Cnrtwright, of the Atlanta
police force, tells of a man named Christian,
who was cured of rheumatism by the burial
treatment Somebody told tbe family that if
they would dig a hole and bury young Chris
tian in the earth for 43 hours, first putting on
him a mixture of turpentine and other homely
medicines, it would cure him. They decided
to try the remedy as a sort of last resort and
they went to work to carry out the heroic
treatment prescribed. They dug tbe hole and
placed tbe poor fellow in it, all bat bis bead,
which was not affected, and after packing the
dirt around him, they remained to watch the
effects of the cure. He endured tbe confine
ment for the prescribed period, although suf
fering intensely during the wbolo time, and
when tbey took bim ont he hardly looked liked .
tbe same man. But from tbat day forward he '
bean to improve. Tbe rheumatic affection
disappeared, be began to fatten up, and finally ,
became as sound and hearty as any man in tho r
community.
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AS YOU LIKE IT.
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Odd Having stopped sneezing, you aw
grateful because you have lost your grip. Judgi.
While the tine American does not be
lieve la a king be will bet his last cent oa four of
them. Xerre Hants Express.
A cold-weather present. Ted They say
Dolly bandied Dejlnks without gloves.
Ned-Yes; she gave him the mllltn. Judge.
"Golly 1" gasped little Johnny at he fin
ished the second crock of stolen perserves, "I
feel as If I bad been smoking pa's pipe. "Judge.
A necessity. Architect Now, sir, do
yon wish any bow-windows? ,
Pater-Beau-wlndows? Wett, I should say I
did. Put in one for every daughter I have got I
Time.
Ponsonby I understand that Dighy's,
ih . 4A-?aY jmh. el. Th.l rt? 1 iron -
der If she converses with her flngersf Ponsonbyjgf -
vtuessso. uigDyisaDouswieu--"----,Y '
saw. uuriington Frtt Press .
"Did you read in the papersjhis morning
that aeeonnt at A Rmnnea ot a Checkl "
"No-o (sadly)t but did you see anything in the ygSr
samepaperaboBtthecheckofaromaneercWear- j3a. '
lly): I proposed last nignt. ""'
A soft thing. Proud father Charles,
why don't you study at school? What will become'
oryou when yoa grow up?
Rn-r. I'll bo a araadfather. I'll Just sit
around and do nothing and have the best thaVs.-
on the table.-Tzo tnrtmgi.
XN ROUTE.
YoS hear the sweet, faint echo of a klsri
t itodi.-nrffle fifths water In funneL
And tou realize that someone's tasted bills "VU
In the gloom and lasting darkness of the tunnel. Vl
Aim-. :
OMNIA YTNCIT amok!
When I with rhyllis fell in love,
Did 1 the realms of itif Invade,
Or with guitar 'neath moon above .
' 'I-.. Tbeivaerenade?
Ob, not A staple way I learned
Tbat did tbe Muse's sway deter,
Andalfs'uch fancies overturned
I married herl
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