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PBEEDOM BESIDES BEAUTY
Keep-Off-the-GrasS Signs Defeat the
Very Objects Sought.
THE BREATHING SPOTS OF EUROPE
Parks is the word now. Pittsburg is going
to have a park, or a half dozen of parks
a few more or less don't matter since we
have gotten the craze on. Almost every other
person seems to have their own choice of a
spot where a park sbonld be. Firstly and
foremostly we have the splendid Schenley
contribntion with the purchased annex,
which, with careful management, good
taste, good engineering, and scientific land
scape gardening will in ten orl5 years on an
outlay of $100,000 or ?200,000 per year make
a very fine park for its sie. The "Jay of the
ground" is all that could be desired for nat
ural scenery, without the aid of the trans
forming hand of man, assisted by the natural
growth of trees and shrubbery skillfully plant
ed. It now contains beautiful vistas, lovely
valleys, mountain heights from which grand
views can be had. The situation and mate
rial are there. Uext for the man and the
money.
The vast space occupied by the Twenty
second and Twenty-third wards is a magnifi
cent field for a park, as that region is the
Switzerland of Pittsburg, and to make a
grand park some enthusiasts on parks want
both wards condemned and included. This
is, of course, absurd. The property now in
hand is ample for all park purposes for the
present, anyhow. In the far-off years to
come, after the city has gron in population
and wealth, it will be time enough to talk
about a larger park. The adjacent farms
can wait. If there are any private specula
tions in view, they can wait also. We b.ave
now parks all around the reservoirs on
which much money has already been spent,
and more is to be spent; parks about school
houses; parks are talked of at Point Breeze
and at Shadyside, the latter a contribution
from the Government ; parks along the river
fronts; parks in the Eleventh and Thir
teenth wards parks everywhere and on
everybody's property. Thev will soon be as
common as Virginia mineral springs if pres
ent desires are carried out.
There is a great difference between a
pleasure garden and a park. The pleasure
garden isdevoted to the symmetrical arrange
ment of shrubbery, of flowers of special
kinds, of rare plants, ot trees, and even of
particular kinds of grasses, with the espe
cial object of delighting those people who
take pleasure in flower gardens. But the
majority of mankind don't care particularly
lor such things. They want the general effect;
and the constant irritation to the eve of
"Keep Off the Grass" or "Don't Touch the
Flowers" in a botanical or pleasure garden
takes away one-half the pleasure one would
otherwise enjoy.
The park is a far different place, and is
coming in this conntrv to be a real pleasure
to the people, containing grassy meadows,
shaded by groves of grind old forest trees,
intersected by running brooks, having here
and there lovely nooks and corners, dark
and bilent glens filled with the music of
birds and rippling water, with lovely vista
showing distant dissolving views of forest
animals reveling in nature; mosses and
lichens, wild violets and daisies, and other
flowers scattered all arouud in unexpected
places to please the senses and delight the
eyes, free to all who come, the best to the
first.
FEEEDOM -WITH BEAUTY.
"When the pleasure garden, with its stiff
primness, is combined with the elorious
freedom ot the great public park, where in
wandering along a quiet path one comes
suddenly upon a beautitnl bank of flowers
no matter whether they are rare plants or
not arranged with taste and carefully
tended; or upon emerging from some nar
row, lonesome gorge one comes suddenly
upon a beautiful lawn, closely clipped anil
having beds of flowers, and shrubbery with
lovely walks through itj the senses are rav
ished and the whole being is set tingling
with pleasure. It is a great mistake
to shut up a public park virtually
with "Keep Off the Grass" signs stuck all
over it The park should, in the first place,
be large enough to aliow a large body of
people to walk over the grass daily if they
wish to, for therein lies their pleasure. Most
of the large parks in Europe are so shut up.
Grass is considered sacred and the pleasure
to the eye of those iu carriages is of more
importance than the pleasure to the minds
of those who have a desire to walk and roll
over it The Garden of the Tuilenes is very
small compared to the number of people in
Paris, and it being the favorite promenade,
so many feet go over it daily that not a
blade of graj can ever be seen on it or in it
But it selves its purpose a large number of
people pass over it with pleasure daily
without any restraint The Spaniards in
many ot their towns have long shaded
walks overarched with splendid old trees in
their suburbs which they call Alameda.
Who that has been in oar New England
cities has not noticed their grand avenues
of monarch elms, reaching far skyward and
spreading their gigantic arms across the
streets until thev interlace and form a per
fect shade. Who has been for four
blessed years at dear old Yale that
does not cherish deep down in his
boyhood's heart a fond recollection of those
grand old elms and maples around the
college campus, nnder which they sat npon
the lamented fence and sang and talked
and passed many idle hours away. There
are other parks around beautiful New
Haven, but none so sacred to many
thousands of graduates as the old campus.
It was theirs at will. There are many other
instances of beautiful old elm and maple
avenues, or Alamedas in this country, but
principally in the older parts of it New
England and New Xork possess the most of
tbem.
Public parks in old American cities were
adopted, and came to be known as public
property by common usage by the original
inhabitants themselves. Although they had
plenty of fresh air and places of recreation
near their sparse settlements, they still
found it convenient to have a place of pub
lic assembly and enjoyment, and so they
came to be in many cases the little parks of
to-day throughout many cities. The Bat
tery, in New York; 'the Bayside, in Char
leston, and the Boston Common are exam
ples. The City Hall Park in New York was
originally the common playground lor the
bovs and voung men, and was never beau
tified until tBe City Hall was built, when a
great hubbub . was raised because it was
Ienced. in, and for the future ball playing
was ienced out
NETS' TOBK'S PIEST PAKE.
Large parks in America were first com
menced by both Philadelphia and New
York in 1857. New York bad to buy a
strip of rocky, ledgy ground with much low
marshy land two and a half miles long and
half a mile wideband in 1858 put 4,000 men
at work upon it to carry out the admirable
plans of Frederick Law Olmstead and
Calvert "Vaux. The large city reservoir
within the park occupies 142 acres
while there are six beautiful artificial
lakes occupying about 43 acres. The whole
park contains -about 840 acres. There are
many lovely glades and much copse and
shrubbery with fine young forest trees in
abundance. There is a large amount of the
park in lawn or in condition for it. There
are 9 milesof carriage roads, 60 feet wide,
&i miles of saddle horse roads and about 30
miles of paths. There are 46 bridges of
tingle arch for roads and walks. The Grant,,
terrace is a beautiful design and was the
first ol its kind bnilt in the United States.
The Brooklyn Prospect Park is a beauti
ful park of C50 acres, situated on high
lands back of the city and commanding
splendid views ot the bay and of the ocean.
Its completion was due to the same two gen
tlemen who finished the New York Central
Park. Every inch of it is so situatedasto
be available for park purposes. Artificial
lakes, covering CO acres, are supplied by
steam power".
Fairmount Park, lu Philadelphia, was
commenced in 1857 by several gentlemen
purchasing and presenting to the city a fine
tract of land, which was soon fol
lowed by another present by -the
owner of the estate of Georges Hill,
and then it came by purchase and
present until there are now nearly 3,000
acres of the finest park In the world. It
seems to have been made by nature for the
especial delight ol the people who need a
little relaxation. There has been less money
spent in its ornamentation than upon any
other according to size. Nature has done
and is doing every year wonders for it
There it no sacred spot in it and the foot
of age and of childhood is alike free to go
anywhere within its borders. Picnics
abound within it in the pleasant weather
and bright, happy family parties are seen
everywhere. There are many laby
rinthian paths and roads through
it, bnt the grass and soft sod are
more grateful to tired hot feet, and it is
delightful to roll on the graja nnder the
shade of its beautiful groves'of grand old
'forest tree. The bright Schuylkill river,
covered with boits. separates the Est from
the West park, which are connectedly the
beautiful Girard avenue bridge. It is a
great convenience that the prk can be
reached at almost any point by street car or
steam transportation. The' Wissahickon
creek, flowing throush a picturesque rocky
glen, through forestsof beautiful old native
trees and climbing vines, is a favorite and a
very romantic drive ior all ages and condi
tions. BOSTON'S OLD ENGLISH ELIS.
Boston Common and the Public Garden
occupy together nearly 70 acres. The old
English elms contained in tbem are as old
as the city itself and are supposed to be the
finest of their kind in this country. The
common is free to all, but its neighbor, the
Botanical Garden, is rather reserved and
particular. It contains a small lake, a con
servatory and some very fine statues. There
are a tfreat many small parks throughout
Boston. Commonwealth avenue is a beauti
iul park itself, being one mile and a half
long and 240 feet wide, having in the center
double avenues of trees and lovely walks
through shrubbery and flowers.
The park system of Chicago was not com
menced until after 1864. The plan was
quite extensive and is being annually
pushed to completion. There are six parks
of 250 acres each, extending around the city
on the north, west and south. These six
parks are connected by parkways which
art 20 miles iu length and 250 feet wide, con
taining fine roadways and elegantly ar
ranged shrnbbery and flower beds. The
trees have all to be grown, bnt they are
making rapid progress. The park contains
about 1,900 acres, including the parkways.
Cleveland is called the Forest City on
account of the beauty of her streets or park
wars. She has four central parks, beauti
fully ornamented and tastefully kept
Many of her streets are very wide and well
shaded. Euclid avenne is a splendid park
way, lined with elecant residences and rows
or beautilul shade trees.
San Francisco has had,a hard battle with
the winds from the Pacific, which under
mine the grass on the sandbanks of which
her park is composed. Patience and con
stant watchfulness, planting grass seed and
many times replanting it, have 'conquered
at last and now she has a sod and trees
started which promise to make a fine park.
Golden Gate Park contains 1,000 acres, and
wherever skill and energy are shown a
beautiful return repays the labor.
Cincinnati has several fine parks. Bur
nett Wood has 170 acres, mnch of which is
rough ground, containing considerable
virgin forest and a lake. Eden Purk,
which lies on the highlands along the Ohio
river, contains about 200 acres of very
finely-kept grounds, on which much money
has been spent and wnicn has well repaid
the efforts made in lis behalf.
XX THE OLD WOULD.
In London the vast population requires a
large area of park room or breathing space
for ber overcrowded population. There are
seven great parks and many smaller ones.
But in very lew of them are carriages and
horses allowed, there being no roadways
made for them excepting in two or three,
Hyde Park being one of them. The most
of the space is devoted to pedestrians.
Several have botanical gardens connected
with them, the Kew Gardens being cele
brated all over the world.
Paris is blessed with a beautiful park and
with, especially, many lovely parkways or
grand promenade avennes, which no people
know how to, and do enjoy like the French
people. The great Bois de Boulogne was
once a splendid forest containing 2,250
acres, much of which was of original growth
of timber. It was in its glory when the war
of 1870 commenced and the fine ancient
forest was ruthlessly slaughtered to accom
modate the army of defense with a view of
the Germans, it is fast coming back again
to its old beauty. Carriage drives and
lovely promenades are laid out through it
in every direction, while four beautiful
artificial lakes are a charming attraction,
the Buttes Chaumont is a new park of 62
acres, which was cut, dug and leveled out
of a most unpromising ojd stone quarry,and
is now one of the most beantiful parks in
the world. The Park Monceaux and the
Luxembourg and Tuilleries Gardens are
very popular with the Parisians, who
swarm over them on Sundays and holidays
like bees. There are many other parks
throughout the city. In the neighborhood
of Paris are St Cloud, Vincennes, Fon
tainebleau, and, last but most giorious,
Versailles, the BeautifnI. Nowhere in the
world is such a magnificent park and gar
den combined.
Vienna has a park all around the city, on
the site of the old city walls. The Govern
ment, in order to surround it with beautifnl
residences, offered Ireedom from taxation
for ten years to anyone who would build a
house ot certain value, along it The plan
worked admirably.
PHONES. PABKHT DUBLIN.
And Phoenix Park in Dublin. Whatlrish
man's heart does not tingle and throb at that
name dear to his early memories and the
traditions of his native landl "Phaynix"
Park has within it 2,000 acres, much of it
in original forest and a large part of it in
lawn or turf, on which the Queen's birthday
is celebrated every .year on the 25th of May
in grand style, by all of the troops in tha't
vicinity, who fight a sham battle and are
then reviewed by the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland. The land in some
places is quite rough and well
adapted to such parades. That won
derful Irish sod is apparently made to be
tramped on by the multitude, and well do
they avail themselves of their privilege.
There are many beautiful groves, among
which are to be seen great herds ot deer and
other animals, which lend an additional
charm to one of the finest parks in the world.
In the parts nearest the city there has been
much attention paid to floriculture, and the
walks and drives are rendered very beauti
fnl. Dublin has many public parks or
squares which are very well kept and re
freshing to the sight
And so we could go on with short his
tories and descriptions of parks all over the
world. Parks have a tendency to get
smaller or else larger. The high rates of
taxation in these days constrain people who
have beantiful private parks to either give
them away, or sell them in small plots as
building lots, -and our method of dividing
properties npon the death of the owner, in a
lew"generations destroys all traces of what
were once beautiful private parks of time
honored ancestors. If city governments
would offer inducements like Vienna to those
who beautify their private residences and
grounds, instead of taxing them to death for
each additional ornamentation, there wonld
be far more green spots and delightful'
sights to rest the eyes upon in our suburbs,
and people would strive to outdo each other
in the loneliness of their residences.
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NYETALKSOFCANADA
The Paragrapher is Making Our
Northern .Neighbors Neryons.
THEY EEJOICEINEEASTUSWIMAN.
Entirely Too Grra t a People to be Annexed
to Anybody.
AN ANCIEKT 10TB P0KK TTJBNS UP
iwsrrrxx roa the dispatch.:
CANADA con
tains about the
same superficial
area as the United
States, and al
though it has just as
much average rain-
lb LJfl fall and as mean a
Xgfkjf 1 temperature, it has
JBIwL i no' 80 xnanT inhab-
JK itants, especially
on Presidental
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years. Canada has
many attractions, especially for those who
like winter sports or a quiet place in which
to spend the money stolen from poor widows
and servant girls who trust the banks or lay
up treasure in the hands of the Uriah
Heeps and Qnilps of our own fair land.
Let me say here that Canada is getting a
little nervous over this matter I mean as
nervous as a Canadian generally gets over
anything, for he is not a nervous man.
Canadians do not like to have the finger of
scorn pointed at tbem by the paragrapher,
and I must say in this place, God bless the
paragrapherl You cannot shut him up.
He is the true mirror held up to nature.
The long and smoothly flowing editorial is
the artistio and polished work of a master
mind, but the paragrapher makes or mars a
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man, be he President or comedian. The
three-line item, well written and at the
proper time, void of personal spite, for that
is soon discovered, is the power that turns
the tide in public opinion, especially in
America, so far as the press is concerned.
POWER OP A PARAGRAPH.
The cold-hearted and selfish man, be he
actor, author or President even, soon makes
himself known to the keen-eyed para
grapher, and good-by to his aspirations at
that moment I care not who makes up the
columns of the Congressional Record if I
may write the country's paragraphs. Un
fortunately 1 cannot do it. Bnt these brief
epigrams or bon mots, whatever they may
be, the outgrowth of our age, touch the
heart of our humor-loving Republic, and
are the pebbles in the stream of time which
change the course of many a great political
river. Conkliug was a paragrapher. So is
Ingalls.
The paragrapher has caused the Execu
tive to grow cold to his own appointee,
turned the tideof opinion against a man who
rested, as he thought, secure in the arms of
a great corporation or in a political house
hold.. He has called attention to the egotist
and emphasized the selfish motives of an
ostensible philanthropist He has, in three
lines, killed the aspirations of half a century.
He has burned down the structure of a life
time by finding a straw brick in the base
and touching it off with a stanza.
He may not be always jnst, or he may
have some personal motive. In that case
the paragraph is harmless in the end, bnt
the bright free lance paragraphed with no
ax to grind, ready at all times where he
sees a head to hit it, with his compliments,
wields a power in this country of which he
himself knows little, and which, I regret to
say, is not in general commensurate with
his salary.
But I was speaking of Canada. Public
sentiment will soon, on both sides of the
line, demand an arrangement by Which it
will be as easy to get a criminal across the
border as it is to get him out of a neighbor
ing State. Then, I trust, the sleek custo
dians of other people's money will have to
bock the bucket shops with their own lunds
or make shoes under strict surveillance.
SOMETHING ABOUT HOTELS.
Canada was discovered at about the same
time America was and by the same parties.
Some think that the World's Fair should be
held at Montreal for that reason. I do not
think she cares for it She has so much else
to attend to that "the fair would not receive
the attention it deserves. She has a large
and beautiful hotel, and I do not see why I
should not speak of it I am not backward
in speaking of bad hotels, and the United
States is full of them. The Windsor is
well conducted, it seems to me, and the
rates are not out of proportion. We travel
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The Landlord's Devotion.
so mnch in this country that I do thick we
ought to give more attention to our hotels.
Some hotels ran all to dining rooms, others
to office, and still, others to bar. To please
tbe general traveling public, yon cannot
allow any one department to usurp the other.
Ihave stopped at a hotel where the only good
feature was the laundry. Ot what use was
that to a man who was simply hungry?
Some hotels have only a gentlemanly,
genial and urbane landlord. He loves you
and falls on your neck when you enter, "but
there hit devotion ends. He conceals him
self when you pay your bill, and a stern
cashier charges you $4 SO for mackerel and
tea. I stopped, unfortunately, at a hotel in
Boston where kind words were on tap all
tbe time, and the smell of paint was ever
present While I was out of my room a
waiter. I presume, who thonght I had been
a little slow in my tips, though I had given
him $1, stole $60, and in the language of
Bichard Malcolm Johnston, "Vanished
himself away."
I snppose that the proprietor thoaghf I j
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THE ' PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
deserved it because I did not leave ray
money at the office. However, judging from
the way the matter was handled afterward,
if I had left the funds in the office I would
have simply saved the burglar a disagree
able job. I speak of this because Boston is
a city of good hotels, notably so, and I only
regret that I did not go where I already
knew they were good. I stopped at the
Tremont
Speaking again of Canada, the Dominion
was founded in 1867 by the nnion of East
and West Canada, and in 1872. New Brans
wick and Nova Scotia.
VERSATILE EBASTUS ym&XX.
People of Toronto especially love to tell of
Erastus Wiman, who, besides being a neigh
bor of mine on Staten Island, is regarded
among Canadians as a phenomenon, because
he started there as a newsboy or peanutter
and is proud of it yet He was brave and
venturesome and with a cool head and
Yankee enterprise, for although the million
aire of to-day was born on Canadian soil, his
parents were American and he was born in
the Dominion while they were visiting
there. We will let that co. Sufficient that
he makes a good speech, lecture or railroad
deal on the spur of the moment, and to
show, his democratic methods I will
only add that last summer, during
the great "Washington celebration, he, not
only furnished the boats for an army of,
Governors from North and South, Senators,
Judges and statesmen, but when he found
that seats were coarce, he took off his coat
and dusted 200 chairs so that his guests
could be comfortable. To-day he has 100
irohs in the fire at once, and yet none of
them suffer. He can make a good speech,
open a bottle of Mr. Elijah Halford's justly
celebrated sauce, walk four miles, deliver a
lecture, buy a telegraph or railroad, pay for
it and come home by the 10 0 boat He
proposes now to have direct communication
via the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad to
England, the freight being rehandled only1
on the shores of Staten Island.
A DISCOURSE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The Dominion buildings in Ottawa rank
first, in my estimation, in the line of public
buildings outside the Capitol at Washing
ton. They are even more artistic and beau
tiful than tbe State House at Columbus, O.
The capitol at Colpmbus, considering the
great men who have graduated from it, is
what Mr. Tennyson would call quite rocky.
The base is flat and some like the Tombs in
New York, though not so picturesque. The
tower is a large, round band-box, which is
out of all proportion to the rest of the build
ing. Nothing bnt the warmest and truest
loyalty can keep the populace from pulling
it down, as did the French, with much less
reason, the beautiful Yendome column in
Paris.
The buildings at Ottawa are grand ex
ternally and beautiful internally, comforta
ble in arrangement and a great credit to the
young Dominion. Should she ever risk to
join hands with us, she can always point to
these buildings with pride, even as the Bey.
Joseph Cook does to himself.
However, Canada considers herself too
great a country to unite with any other,
and she very likely will not Moreover,
the United States is a Bepublic already
large enough, and it would be now almost
unwieldy for me to govern, together with
my other work. We do not need area now
so mnch as we do good government and
good times. Good weather and imported
maladies we have already, duty free. If
the authorities would confine la grippe to
the street car lines I would be very much
obliged. I've had more tban my share of
it for three months.
A CAXADIAN NEWS ITEM.
I saw a queer fashion item in a Canadian
paper the other day. It was not in the
fanny page, bnt it should have been, I
thought It was this:
"There has been a great falling off in side
whiskers this season, and now full beards
are to be seen on every hand." I did not
know that thev were to be worn there.
Looking over this letter I see less about
Canada than I had at first intended to say,
but the printer will expect me to stop pretty
soon, and so I will close with a little poem.
There is nothing that soothes and lulls to
rest the weary reader at the end of a long
letter, filled chiefly with- statistics, like a
sweet little poem that one can readilyunder
stand a love poem and so I give one here
that I found in an album an albuminous
poem, as it were which I wrote many years
ago and round yesterday on tbe center table
where I used to "spark," but where now,
alas! she is another's:
Pint Verse.
0 my darling, O my darling.
Wilt jou ever think ot me?
For my darling, for my darling,
I will of ttimes think of thee.
And my darling, oh my darling;
When I of ttimes think of thee
It will be indeed a pleasure
If you erstwhile thick of me.
Thns my darling, oh my darling.
Should you erstwhile think of.mev
'Whilst my darling, oh my darling,
I shall ofttlmes think ot thee,
"We will think about each other
Till the bright eternity.
Second Verse.
It is fun to write a poem
While I pause to think of thee.
For I know you'll not forget me
While you pause to think ot me.
Thus adown life's sunburnt pathway
Loiter I to think ot thee.
For I hope and trust that also
You may sometimes think of me.
27ifrtl Verse.
It is not so very wearing
On tbe thinker, i can see,
Jnst to think of you, my darling,
As yon doubtless think of me.
6b, my darling, as I stated,
If your thoughts are true to me,
1 will do some heavy f hinking.
Oh my darling, just for thee;
And we'll tblnk about each otner
Till the bright eternity.
Yours truly,
Bill Nye.
20W 0TEE A GAME OP CARDS.
Two Member of tbe Southern Society
Figure in n Snooting Bcrnpr.
New York, January 11. There was a
shooting affray on tbe steps ot the Southern
Society Club last night There had been a
dispute over cards inside, and two men
came out togethir. They were talking in
loud tones. One called the other a liar.
Tbe assaulted man was finally heard to say
in a louder voice than before, and in a
threatening manner: "Will you tako that
back, sir?" The other promptly replied in
an equally loud tone: "'No, sir; I will not"
Tbe last words had hardly escaped when
the first speaker raised his arm and struck
his traducer a stinging blow square in the
face, which almost sent him reeling down the
stone steps to the sidewalk. As soon as he
recovered his balance he drew a revolver
and began to blaze away at his assailant,
who ran like a deer to get out of
range, and succeeded in escaping
unhurt It was learned by the police that
the names of the contestants were William
H. Clark, of the Department of Public
Works, and William Bandolpb, an insur
ance broker. No arrests were made.
SUBURBAN CULTURE.
A Town That Adds Rending to the Apostolic
Injunction.
A circulating library, the nucleus of
which was a reading club formed last year,
has been established in Coraopolis, with
headquarters in J. D. Hamilton's store.
Mrs. Hamilton states that its membership
grows daily, but that the proposed removal
of the president Bey. Lawrence, is greatly
regretted, as he was not only well qualified
for the position in 'every way, but was in
defatigable in work to make it a success.
There is one nnique feature about this
library. The cost of membership is $1 60
for initiation fee, and each member as taken
in, is allowed to dictate the purchase of any
standard work not already in stock, and, in
consequence, the association will soon have
a variety seldom seen except in very large
publie libraries.
Tbo Progressive West
Detroit 7ree Frets.
A few years ago the word "'joint," as ap
plied to a drinking saloon, was hopeless and,
to many, unintelligible Jiang, .now the
Western papers have dropped the quotation
marc worn it.
SUNDAY, JANUARY ' 12,'
TO BALANCE BOOKS.
Bessie Bramble Discusses tbe Advent
of a New Society Fad.
SCORE BOOK OP ENTERTAINMENTS.
A System of Debit and Credit That is
to ha Deplored.
TRUE BASIS OF SOCIAL PLEASURE
iwuhls ros rax disfjltcbvi
Among the prettiest appearing gift
oooks of the season were those devised for
visiting lists, engagement memoranda and
hospitality records. Bound in beautiful
soft leather and dead gold, they made a
handsome and useful gift to those whose
chief pursuit is society, and the cost, as
might well be supposed, was above the
average purse. When open they look some
thing like a commercial ledger, and the red
ruled columns and headings show that hospi
tality in society has at last been put on a
basis ot figures, and been reduced to a mat
ter of accurate bookkeeping.
Social intercourse, as conventionality
dictates, is now to be more a matter of
merchandise than of friendship a system of
debit and credit if barter and exchange by
which nobody need entertain another with
out receiving a like return dinner for
dinner, luncheon for luncheon, wedding
gift for wedding gift The old-fashioned
notion which still preyails outside of
society organized on a business basis
holds that the pleasure ot a guest's
company, or the enjoyment it gave
to him was the only payment a host could
ask or desire. To "invite your friends to tea
or to dine and to give them the best the
house could afford, and thus secure mutual
enjoyment "to him that gives and him that
takes," has usually been considered the
square thing. But to get even, under tbe
adoption of the new and coming code, the
social accounts will not balance until a re
turn tea or dinner has been given at equal
expense and trouble on the other side if
not more.
THE FEELING IX ENGENDKBS.
"Oh, heavensl there are those Smiths. I
owe them a dinner, and must invite tbem,
though I wish they were in Jericho or
somewhere lar enough off to never hear of
them again," was what a hostess said when
poring over her book before inviting some
friends to an entertainment "And there are
those Browns the stupidest lot under the
shining heavens but they must have a
card because I owe them a reception, and I
mnst get tbem off my mind some time."
Then for the weddings the books are gone
over, and tbe names are scanned and re
scanned, and studied and restudied, as to
their commercial value, and as to how they
may perhaps pan out in the line of presents.
This is usually a large traasaction, and mav
ultimately prove to be a bad bargain as
many have found to their sorrow because,by
the new code, weddine presents are not
given so much ont of desire to help the
young folks along, or as tokens of love and
food will as formerly, butratheras things to
e recorded and returned when the proper
time comes. Many a bride, glorifying over
her wedding presents and rejoicing in the
beautifying of her house therewith, finds it
afterward a terrible trial to pay for
inem auer me same lasnion, so as to keep
her social books balanced.
Then by the fashionable usage the ex
penses of entertainments even, enter into
the account A woman of wealth invites
a number of her friends to a dinner per
haps. She loads her table with luxurious
delicacies, with an unconscionable number
of courses, costly menu cards, and favors.
She adorns her house with extravagant
display, and fairly weighs down her guests
with a sense of obligation as the thonght of
return burdens some of their minds'like a
nightmare.
When the time comes for each guest to
balance the account brains are racked, bank
accounts are strained, family rows may be
raised by the master of the exchequer, but
the obligation, as understood, must be met,
for what woman, ambitious ior society
honors, likes to be posted as a bankrupt or a
dead beat any more than a man does among
his fellows.
It is the same old story as to treating. One
man invites his fellow man to take a drink,
then the fellow man feels bound to return
the compliment and stand treat likewise4
neither one ot them perhaps caring a cent
about the other.
TEETH OP THE GUT HORSE.
There used to be an old proverb to the
effect that it was not courteous or advisable
to look a gift horse in the mouth ; but the
new code of society rather puts a quietus on
this ancient piece of wisdom, since at every
fashionable entertainment are heard esti
mates of its cost per plate. "Ice cream and
cake are a very slim sort of a 'layout' for
people who have suph loads of money," said
a guest at a recent reception. "With their
wealth it might be supposed they would
have something more filling and substan
tial." "Well, I think it a good idea said the
other; "and it is Very comforting to me,
since I need do no more in return. v
Snch vulgarity and manners in return for
hospitality wonld seem to be incredible were
they not so common. They are tbe compo
nent factors of tbis new commercial code of
hospitality thai! is growing in society.
Solitude is not good for man or woman
either. They need company. Theyfind in
tercourse with their fellows a delight and a
source of joy, until each association is so
hemmed around with conventional restric
tions that it becomes a bore ratber
tban a pleasure. If women in society
had power to think, or judgment to consider,
they would find in this conventionalized
merchandise method the reason why men of
sense hate their entertainments, and are
bored beyond measure at receptions which
they are compelled to attend.
MEN PEEPER STJBSTAXTIALS.
Men are'not given to display and care but
little for grandeur. They prefer the good
things of life without too many frills. The
petty details in which women are buried
and smothered are fo them mint, anise and
cummin,and not the weightier matters of tbe
law. The most sumptuous dinners, which
men get up for themselves, and from which
they exclude women, are those where the
speeches and responses to toasts count for
more than the menu printed in Preach,
and tied with satin ribbon, and the favors
at the plates, and the satiny fineness
of the linen, the Eoyal Worcesterness of the
china, the sterlingness of the silver, and the
depth and fine points of the cut glass. In the
accounts of a famous dinner in New York a
few days ago nothing was said as to all these
matters; the eloquent speechesof Chauncey
Depew, General Howard, Genral Sherman,
Dr. Brown and others on subjects concern
ing the country and the welfare of society
occupied nearly 12 colnmns of a New York
paper, while the dinner, as an event, was not
mentioned in the society notes.
This should show women or give them an
idea on entertaining.
"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is,
than a stalled (ox and hatred therewith,'"
says the Psalmist, and many a man puts the
sentiment another way when he declares he
would rather have a plain, good dinner
even corned beet and cabbage with a friend
or two without style, than any French
menu and fripperies that can be set np with
all the luxurious appointments that hath
entered into the heart of a woman, or a
caterer to conceive.
TTNPBETENTIOr3 SIMPLICITY.
People of moderate means should culti
vate independence. Nothing is more de
spicably vulgar than a parade of shabby
gentility which apes tbe rich without the
means to make more than a sorry counter
feit Sensible people can well afford to be
independent, since anyone who thinks less
of them for their unpretentious simplicity
is not worth knowing or receiving. Some
Tears ago we met a prince, a real, live, bona
m wlaee. who mow, they sy, dwells' in
1390.
regal splendor upon his ancestral acres in
Europe. In fashionable society he would,
have been bowed down to and worshiped;
but in the family where he was entertained,
he was treated simply as a guest among
others. No special favor was shown on the
score of his rank, but he was hail lriend
with all. The simplicity of bis entertain
ment was admirable. The hostess hadn't a
fluster and the refreshments were not beyond
tbe common there Was no straining to put
on style they consisted simply of Boqne
fort cheese and crackers and beer. The
Prince enjoyed himself amazingly, and it
is much fo be doubted if he ever had a more
royal evening in his life amid the pomp of
courts and the servility of those who hang
upon his favors.
Simplicity, sisters, is a virtue. "In
character, in style, in all things the su-
reme excellence . is simplicity," says
tongfellow, while a connterfeit of hospi
tality, a sham of friendship, a display of
richness unjustified by means, as exhibited
according to the code of fashionable society,
are simply lies reduced to practice.
Bessie Bbamblk.
A PECULIAR STOEY.
One of the Bangs Sinters Wants Ber Has-
band to Support Her Bow She
IHade Him Wed Her After
a Mock Mnrrlnge.
Chicago, January 11. May E. Graham
has begun suit in the Circuit Court against
Henry H. Graham, her. husband, for sepa
rate maintenance, and in her bill of com
plaint she tells a peculiar tory. The com
plainant is one of the Bang sisters, the
spiritualists who hae figured a great dea
in the newspapers. Graham, whom she
claims as her husband, is a manufacturer of
flavoring extracts, and is said to be the pos
sessor of considerable wealth.
Mrs. Graham says that on November 9,
1888, she was married to Graham in New
York City. The marriage, or what she sup
posed to be marriage, ' took place iu the
office of a Justice of tbe Peace. She lived
with Graham, she says, until last summer,
when he told herthttt the New York mar
riage was a bogus one; that the man who
performed the ceremony was not a Jnstice
of the Peace at all.
After receiving this disagreeable informa
tion, she savs she demanded the alleged
marriage certificate, but Graham wonld not
give it to her, nor would he tell who the
man was who had impersonated the Justice
of the Peace. The complaint says she then
made the demand on Graham tha't he marry
her legally, and persisted and insisted until
he finally consented. On tbe 13th of last
November he went with her to Bacine and
they were legally married.
Since the real marriage took place, Mrs.
Graham declares Graham has not supported
her, and has remsed to live with her, and
endeavored to have her agree to a divorce.
The complainant says Graham has $40,000
in bonds and mortgages, which he threat
ened to pack up and carry out of the State.
She therelore prayed for a writ of ne exeat,
which was issued by Jndge Collins. Gra
ham was arrested this morning and brought
to the Sheriff's office, where he was required
to give 10,000 bonds to answer the suit'
HES.AH LEE'S PHILOSOPHL
Sbe Explains Why Chinese Women So Kot
Like to Go Shopping.
A Chinese tea merchant in a small town
in California came home from San Fran
cisco one day with his new wife, for whom,
according to custom, he had paid a great
amount. It soon appeared that she was as
proud of the trade as he was.
Ah Lee permitted the wife and daughter
of his chief customer, 'Squire Hadley, to
pay bis young wife a visit of courtesy an
unusual privilege.
"How do you like our little city, Mrs.
Ah Lee?" asked Mrs. Hadley. "It must
seem very quiet here after noisy San Fran
cisco." "Me no hear heap noisee down Sa F'an
'sco," replied Mrs. Ah Lee, with dignity.
'T suppose not," said Dora Hadley.
"Your women and girls are not allowed to
go abont in the way we do. I should think
you'd just hunger and'thirst to go shopping
and buy thing;; don't yon ever? You no
bnvee, no shoppee?"
There was a light of pride in the dark, al
mond eyes, a haughty turn to the queer
shaped head, and Mrs. Ah Lee replied with
feminine emphasis:
"Melican lady walk, walk, walk; buy
heap dresses; spend heap dollars. Chinaman
lady cost heap dollars, for why Chinaman
lady stay by she."
A TRADITION OP THE HAEPEES.
Each San of the Great Publishers Given n.
J In His Name.
New York Stsr.1
A constant figure around Franklin Sqnare
is that of J. Thor'ne Harper of the great
publishing house of that name. He is a tall,
handsome, blonde gentleman, with tbe mus
cles and gait of a professional athlete. Al
though the possessor of a great fortnne, he is
as assiduous in his attentions to business as
any clerk in that vast establishment He
is very popular among his employes. A
curious feature about him and the other
members of his family is that they are all
addressed by their middle names ratber
tban by their first or last.
On account of a tradition in the house
hold, nearly every male child is given a
first name beginning with a J, and in order
to distinguish themselves among one an
other they use the first initial and the
middle name. The habit started in the
early family, and has extended all along
the line. A stranger calling there and
asking for Mr. J. Harper would probably
be met by a blank look of astonishment
Only by knowing the middle name and
asking lor the person who bore it, could he
easily find ont the gentleman he wished to
see.
MR. KISBET EX0SERATED.
Chief Brown Sjnis tbe sontbslde Councilman
Is Blameless.
Chief J. A. Brown, of the Department of
Public Safety, sent a letter to Councilman
W. W. Nisbet, of the Thirty-second ward,
Friday, in which he fully exonerated
that gentleman of the charges which had
been made against him by political enemies
who claimed that he had been instrumental
in having the city pay a double price for a lot
on Allen avenue on which to erect an engine
honse. Iu a letter which the Chief has ad
dressed to the Select Councils, and which
will be presented next Monday evening, he
claims that the lot which he first selected is
the more suitable, although it may be
higher priced.
CRAZED SI THE INFLUEHZA.
Victims of the Grip In the Lackawanna
Valley Driven Insane.
Scbaktoit, January 1L The sweep of
influenza through the Lackawanna Valley
bas added greatly to the death rate, and tbe
Scranton Board of Health has arranged to
take a physicians' census of the grip suf
ferers. Patrick Burke, jt prominent hotel
keeper, in Taylorville, has died of it Pre
vious to death he raved so furiously that six
men were required to hold him in bed.
Thomas Watkins, the leading shaft sinker
of this region, died Thursday in Old
Forge, the same symptoms showing in his
case, and John Fallon, a wealthy 'resident of
the same place, is not expected to live till
morning. ,
Strongest Man In Chicago.
Chicago Times.
Comparatively few people know that
George W. Felton, the tall, sinewy, athletic-looking
manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, Is the strongest
man in Chicago. Yet such is the fact Mr.
Felton can lift 1,200 pounds with bis bare
hands, without harness, and has frequently
done so. Numerous instances are recorded
of his great strength and weaierfal agility,
ETERT DAT SCIENCE.
t
The Modern Teacher Must Eecogniza
Modern Progress.
CHEMISTRY IN RAILROAD WORK.
A He-w Process for Obtaining Fresh Water
on Shipboard.
J0TTI5GB FROM MANX IHDUBTRIES
Beaders of The DISPATCH wbo desire
information on subjects relating to indus
trial development and progress in mechani
cal, civil and electrical engineering and the
sciences can have their queries answered
through this colnmn.
IFSlrABID TOR TUB DISPATCH. 1
Dr. H. Hensoldt, in an eloquent incul
cation, before the Franklin Institute, of the
imperative, necessity of the study, teaching
and dissemination in tbe widest sense of
natural scieqee, which has advanced at so
gigantic a pace in recent years, said: "To
day the education of the rising generation
should be so directed as to prepare it in the
best possible manner for the contingencies
of nineteenth-century existence, to equip it
for the desperate struggle which it cannot
escape. To-day we cannot afford to teach our
children a complicated ancient language like
the Latin, however perfect, grand and
beautiful, because we have to teach them
things of much greater importance, not
only in a direct and material, but in a dis
ciplinary and intellectual sense. Some of
our modern pedagogues, no doubt, will re
ply: How can we teach astronomy, geology,
physiology, botany, etc., when we know
nothing aboutthese things? We have never
bothered our heads about the stars, about
minerals, rocks and fossils, about insects
and plants. We have taught our pnpils
how to solve quadratic equations ana have
devoted the rest of our time to the parsing of
long sentences.
My answer would be: It is not too late
for you yet to turn to natural science. You
may not master it after the manner of a
Huxley or Tyndall, who themselves excel
only in certain directions, but you may
learn what bas been done in a general way,
and master the chief results of inquiry in
every department of natural science, and
become adapt in their interpretation. Ac
quaint yourself with the best popular
science literature of the day; there isa whole
world of fascination and delight in store for
youl Bead tbe popuIarlectnresofHuxley on
man's place in nature, on a piece of chalk,
on the lessons of paleontology. Bead what
Sir John Lubbock has written on the won
derful relations between insects and flowers,
on the habits of ants, wasps and bees, where
it is shown tbatthe plant produces the flower
for no other purpose than to attract the in
sect, in order to make a tool of it in effecting
cross-fertilization. Bead the essays on
evolution of Grant Allen, that charming
interpreter of Darwin and Herbert Spencer;
the works of Bichard Proctor on the
marvels of tbe stellar world, written in
language as beautiful as tbe very 'Flowers
of the Sky' of which they treat They will
fascinate yon more than any novel ever
perpetrated; more than yonr"'She, 'King
Solomon's Mines' and 'Count of Monte
Christo.' Then your horizon will he
widened beyond measure, and you will per
ceive the boundless opportunities you have
for the dissemination of knowledge.
Katural history is knocking at thn door of
our public schools, clamoring for admission;
be wise in your generation, make some con
cessions; do not let it plead in vain 1' "
Chemistry Applied to Railroads
The part played by chemistry in the
management of railroads has become of such
importance that a paper on the subject by
C. B. Dndley, chemist, and F. K. Pease,
assistant chemist of the Pennsylvania Bail
road, has been largely circulated. One of
tbe illustrations of the application of chem
istry to bad results obtained in service is
that a special car after being cleaned by the
car cleaners was noticed to look badly. On
examination by the foreman of painters, it
was declared that the varnish had nearly
all been removed uy tbe cleaning.
As a matter of discipline, the foreman
car-cleaner was asked to explain why the
varnish had been so badly used, and he
claimed that he could do no better with the
soap he had. A sample of the soap used
was submitted W the chemist, who found
not less than 3 per cent of caustic soda and
7 per cent of carbonate of soda, in addition
to the soda combined with the fat as a legit
imate soap. This, of course, explained the
peculiarity and justified the foreman, as the
soap solution used in washing the car was
in reality a concentrated solution of sal soda
and lye which readily dissolves varnish.
Another field for tbe activity of the chem
ist of a railroad is to protect against fraud.
Attempts are frequently made to sell at ex
cessive prices, under some special name,
common articles which can be obtained in
the market at very low figures. One of tbe
most common of these attempts is that of
sellinc some cheap material for use as
anti-incrustatiug boiler compounds. Dry
material has been offered at25 cents per
pound, which, on examination, has been
found to be nothing but sawdust and sal
soda. Again, boiler compounds have been
offered at SO cents per gallon, which have
been found to be apparently spent tan
liquor containing a little sal soda, 95 per
cent of the material being water simply.
The principal work of the railroad chem
ist' consists in the examination of samples
taken from shipments, to see whether they
fill requirements. To give some idea of these
examinations, it may be stated that in the
Pennsylvania Bailroad laboratory, at the
present time, fonr chemists are engaged on
this work the largest portion of each work
ing day. Samples from some 4,000 ship
ments per year are examined, the average
number of determinations per sample being
about five. This work, in addition to the
examination of miscellaneous samples of
materials, either for investigation, or to set
tle'some point connected with the service,
makes the total number of determinations
in the Pennsylvania Bailroad laboratory
somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000 per
year.
Development of the Mineral Industry.
Tbe consumption of coal, iron and sul
phuric acid may be counted as the exponents
of civilization. The increase in this con
sumption indicates development of industry
which involves an improvement in the con
dition of the wage earners and improved
surroundings for the existence of all classes.
From this standpoint, tbis country can look
back on tbe last few years with considerable
satisfaction. The increase in the production
and consumption of the chief min
erals and metals in the United
States 'is quite unexampled in the
history of the world. This increase has
been dqe to several causes, chief among
which,- of course, is the fact that this is a
new and undeveloped country, rapidly fill
ing up with industrious, energetic inhab
itants. Railroads are built m every direc
tion, opening up to settlement new parts of
the country, and greatly lessening the cost
of living and producing the minerals and
metals by the reduction in transportation
rates. This in turn greatly widens the
markets for these products and brings their
cost within the means oi whole classes
formerly unable to buy.
Thus, anthracite coal goes from Pennsyl
vania to nearly etery portion of the West
ern States, and is carried at rates of one
quarter to one-half cent a ton-mile, whicn
lorraerly would have been considered im
possible. Bituminous coal and coke are
carried at equally low charges. Over a
great part of the country a rate of a half
ceat to three-quarter cent a ton-mile has
takes the place of 2 to 3 cents a mile, which
was ia vogue not many years ago.
American and English ItoeonMtlyes.
It'll possible that tfcew my be itgt-
It!
land next year a trial between English and
American locomotives. One great" ad
vantage of a side-by-side comparison of
locomotives as a whole and?of their individ
ual parts lies in the possible improvement
in minor details. For instance, giving the
American locomotives their just due, there
can be no question but the English locomo
tives have larger and more durable wear
ing surfaces in proportion to the loads...
Their driving boxes and shoes and wedges,'
while having less work to do, have:
over 50 per cent more wearing surface-
The ends of the connecting rodjv. J
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lurougnout ina macnine n is just to say ,
that greater attention is paid to the dura- -,'M
buityof the working parts m tbe English,.-,'
man in tne American locomotives. .How
ever, on the other hand, our engines are
superior in the general mountings of tho
boilers and in the accessibility of tho
parts for repairs. The English locomo
tive costs something over $12,000 at a low J
rate for labor, while our own for harder
service scarcely reaches $8,000. It ia
doubtful if the additional $4,000 is war
ranted by tbe increased durability of tha
English engfne.
Metallic Sleepers Instead at Wooden. -
In a discussion before the South. Waled
Institute of Engineers, on a paper'on "Me
tallic Sleepers lor Permanent Way," Mr.
Archibald Hood pointed ont that the gxeat
desideratum was a sleeper and chair in ona,
piece. Steel sleepers were the cheapest and
best for underground operations, and, if tha
price were not forced too high, steel props
might be introduced. This was a subject
which he thought should command earnest
attention, because he believed that the fu
ture trade of the country depended
to a large extent npon the adop
tion of steel for all purposes to
which it could possibly be put. This view is
confirmatory of the opinions on the subject
which are 'largely entertained in this
country. In view of the rapid deforesting
of certain territories, and the enormous con
sumption ot wood in mines, an effective sub
stitute for the wooden prop has becomes
very serious consideration, and the possi
bilities of the profitable employment of steel
in ways hitnerto nnthongbt of, are dally be-
coming more and more apparent
Sea Water Dlnllatlon.
An apparatus for producing fresh from
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board snip, nas recently been invented la
England. It is designed for the production;
of pure fresh water, either cool and filtered
for drinking, or hot and nnfiltered for mak
ing np the loss of fresh water to the steara
boilers. In this distiller, the supply of
water, is of course, primarily drawn frora
the sea, and the bulk is nsed for the pur
poses of cooling and condensation in tha
apparatus itself. One commendable feat
ure in this apparatus is that evaporation ia
effected nnder a vacuum, so as to reduce tha
riennxitinn-of solid matter to a minimum.
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unpleasant taste and odor of water distilled
at a high temperature. The capacity of tho
apparatus is said to be 50 gallons per hour.
Baking Powder Residues and Digestion.
That all baking powders have, to a greater
or less degree, a retarding action on diges
tion by reason of the salts as residues after
the process of baking, is well known; but
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only comparatively recently has there beea
made any attempt to decide the question,
"Which of the constituents nsed in tha
baking powders have the least injurious .
effects?" A zealous worker ia this field
sums up the result of his investigations ia v
the statement that the least harmful baking
powder is one containing the bi-carbonato
of soda and cream of tartar, and that the)
presence of any other chemical substance,
however harmless it may be in itself, tends
only to increase the complexity of the resi
due and impair the activity of the gastria
jvice.
Sew Treatment for Cancer.
A new treatment of cancer advocated by
Dr. J. Mortimer Granville, consists ia
very frequent administrations ot papain,
and thallin and their combination in tha
form of pills. The aim is to get absorption
of the drng, not local action on the stomach.
In cancer of that organ, Dr. Mortimer
Granville gives, besides the pills, papain,
suspended in water with thallin and an
alkali. The patient must be fed exclusively
on a veeetable diet The vitality of tha
morbid growth seems, to be depressed by
saturation with the thallin and papain
locally, and this is effected by applying a
strong paste of the two drugs in combina
tion, or, where practicable, by their in
unction. New Solid Steel Wheel for Street Cars.
The increased weight of the rolling stock:
now employed on street railways, particu
larly in the case of cables and electric lines,
has made the use of wheels ot a longer
lived and tougher nature than formerly,
wheels which will not break or give out
nnder the increased strains upon them neces-
sary. Snch a wheel has been produced, and
is now being largely used, for street railway
service in Kew England. It is stated that
these wheels are practically unbreakable,
and that they will outwear five of th,e ordi
nary stock. They have a finished tread,
and weigh 220 pounds.
Reputed Core for Diphtheria.
It is stated tbat the following is an effect
ive cure for diphtheria: At the first indi
cation of the disease in the throat of a child
make the room close; then take a tin cup
and pour into it a quantity of tar and tur
pentine, equal parts; then bold the cupt
over a fire, so as to fill the room with fumes.
The little patient, on inhaling the fumes,
will cough np and spit out all the mem
branous matter, and the diphtheria will
pass off. Tbe fumes of the tar and tnrpen- ,
tine loosen the matter ia the throat and
thus afford relief.
Etrctrieat Claims oCthe Nations.
Among the great successful inventions ia
the practical application of electricity; tha
United States may claim the teIegrapb,Hha
telephone, the incandescent light, and un
questionably the microphone also. This' is
a brilliant record. To France belongs tha
credit of the accumulator and the Gamma
ring; to Italy, the battery and the Pacinotti
ring; to England, the self-exciting dynamo'!
to Germany, the drnm armature," and to
Bussia, the commercial arc lamp. 1
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Etectrto Lighting at Twelve Miles.
A significant and Interesting installation t
of electric lighting is about to be made at'l
Portland, Ore. That city is to be lighted
for the first time by electricity. The current J
is to be carried 12 miles before being dis-
tributed, a thing never before attempted ia 'j
this country. A specially constructed ma-.
to be used.
HEE L0XG-L0ST HDSBASD.
AByracnso Man Claimed by a Woman H0
Calls an Impostor.
Stkactjss, J5T. Y., January 11. Mn.
Eliza Glenn, who has been a resident of
this city since last Jnne, claims Thomas''
Glenn, who has been in this country ever
since the war.and a resident of Syracuse tpr a'
number of years, as her husband, whom she
says she had not seen for 27 years, nntil a
day or two ago. She says that Glenn left
ber and her three children and two daugh
ters in England.
Glenn, who is regarded by his acquaint
ances as an honest and industrious man,
says that the woman is an imposter. Ha
bas buried one wife since he came here to
live, ana is now living witn ms secona one. p:
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She Knew Ir, Too.
xoutn'i Companion.
"Marion." said Henrr. proud of his
t1l1v rrin(rl VnwTrTia 'Ma wam Vm 4!
that the earth turns round?" ffi
vi 10s it aoesr answered Jianoa. pj
"Xaavi tfce maoa I tumbles oat of bed,'
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