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PITTSBURG. THURSDAY. JAN. 16, 1890.
THE DEATH BY EXPLOSION.
The explosiob. of the boiler of a steam
shovel on thePittsburg and Lake Erie road,
at Fallston, yesterday.added itself to the list
of fatalities from that cause which is al
ready beyond the limits of computation.
The details of the explosion, so far as re
ceived, do not permit any decisive opinion
as to the responsibility attaching to it. But
the reflection which forces itself upon the
mind, in connection with all such events, is
that at this day of the world, the science of
steam engineering should be able to conduct
operations, so as to be wholly beyond the pos
sibility of explosions. "While immediate
neglect or culpability may not be apparent,
somewhere or other, either in the making,
managing or handling of that boiler, there
must have been a fault.
It is to the prevention of all such fatali
ties as are preventable, that society should
address itself. The prosecution of industry
ought not to require the sacrifice of human
life that is now made to it
WALKEE BLAISE'S DEATH.
The sudden death of Mr. "Walker Blaine,
from a severe attack of the epidemic in
fluenza, will call out the universal sympa
thy of the public, without regard to party
feelings, for Secretary Blaine in the loss of
the son who was always nearest to him in
official and political life. Mr. "Walker
Blaine's public reputation was of course
only a reflection of that of his father. The
public knowledee of bim was that he was
an estimable youife man, full of industry
and ability, and devoted to the interests of
lis father. Every one will join in regret
ting the sndden termination of a career
marked by promising and commendable
qualities. To the Secretary of State the
death of his favorite son and closest com
panion for the past few years will be a
heavy blow.
EKFOBCEMEHT, HOT LAW, KEEDED.
Governor Dowery, of Mississippi, is ex
hibiting a very common tendency just now
in calling upon the Legislature for more
stringent laws against prize-fighting. Yet
no one more than the Governor is in a
position to perceive that so long as a
State will not enforce the laws which it al
ready has, it is useless to pass new ones. It
is possible to go through the motions of en
forcing a law without actually doing it.
"When a Judge sentences a criminal and
then di misses him to pra-tice bis illegal acts
in other States.or when a contractor of State
labor gives out that if the men have to serve
out their sentences he will see that they
have a good time, the example of hauling
the prize fighters back to Mississippi does
not exercise much of a deterring influence
on that offense.
If Governor Lowery wants to stop
prize fighting in Mississippi he can do so by
seeing that the present law is enforced. Let
bim see that the sentences of the courts are
carried out in earnest, and when those who
have charge of State prisoners announce
that they will practically nullify the pen
alty of the law, let him see to it that
such persons, however influential, shall
have a severe lesson as well. If he does
that, prize fighters will steer clear of Missis
sippi hereafter. Bnt when one law is use
less because it is not enforced, the passage
of further dead-letter legislation is little
better than idiocy.
SELLING MOffOPOLIES.
In accordance with what appears to be the
accepted theory at "Washington, that it is
necessary for the Government to grant a
monopoly for the Alaska seal fisheries, the
course of Secretary "Windom in putting that
privilege up to the highest bidder is the
only one that could honestly be taken. But
it is not, as some people appear to consider,
an advance in administration to go back to
the fendal system of selling Government
monopolies. The sale of just such privi
leges was considered one of the legitimate
methods of government under the Tudors
and Bourbons, and their results were among
the causes which led to both the English
and French revolutions. Even if there were
no other way of preserving the seals, it is a
question whether the revenue from seal
skins is sufficient recompense for a reversion
to the idea-of getting revenues from monop
olies. But as the seals could be preserved
by establishing a close season covering the
greater part of the year, with payments for
licenses to take seals during the open
season, the resort to the sale of a monopoly
cannot be regarded as progress, but is rather
a retrograde movement.
POIHTS ABOUT POETS.
If all men could come to the age of
eighty years with such contentment, cheer
fulness, peace and sanity as invests the
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, longevity
would be a greater privilege it is. Dr. Oli--ver
"Wendell Holmes is a grand example of
a man with a young heart in an old body.
The tissues may be triturated, the joints less
flexible, and the circulation of the blood
may be znorelanguid,but Br. Holmes' mind
swings along at the old gait that carried
him out oi the ruck of writers as long ago
a 1858. Such mental virility in the even
ing of life is not unprecedented, but it is un
usual. As we find it in him, and in such
an all-around leader as Mr. Gladstone, this
survival of the mental powers is most re
"markable. Dr. Holmes writing of this very subject
in the Atlantic Monthly and most graceful
is all his gossip '"Over the Teacups" gives
some statistics which show that the popular
impression that poets are not a long-lived
race is hardly sustained by "facts. Prom
these statistics, it appears that twenty
English poets lived to the average age io
fifty-six years, and a little over. The eight
Americans on the list averaged seventy
three and a half, nearly, and they are not
all dead yet The average of the whole list,
including Greek, Latin, Italian, German,
American and English was sixty-two years.
So Dr. Holmes exclaims "Our young poets
rneed not be alarmed." They can remember
'ihatr Bryant lived to be eighty-three, that
aWfellow reached seWnW.fi J W.I.,
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leck seventy-seven, while "Whittier is living
at the age of nearly eighty-two.
Tennyson is still writing at eighty, and
Browning has but just left us after a life
vigorous until its end came at seventy
seven. Dr. Holmes a poet himself whose
lyre is still in excellent tune, flourishes like
a green bay tree at eighty. Verily the
prosaic side of life seems more deadly than
the poetic. And yet so often we bear the
poet grumbling about his hard fate. A
young lion of the magazines has been lifting
up his voice in great distress lately, beg-
, ging us to see what a beggarly showing the
proceeds of his poetry made upon his ledger.
As we do not know his name we cannot
judge whether six dollars a week, the size of
of his income, were his deserts. Host of our
magazine poets would be overpaid with
such a stipend. If they are not poets they
should take to pork-packing, digging!
ditches or some other congenial pursuit; but
if they are poets they have the satisfaction
of knowing thai long life is assured to them
and in the end more than six dollars a week
will be their reward. Longfellow it may be
remembered left an estate worth over one
third of a million.
ELECTBICITYAND CABLES.
A very interesting and timely interview
on the relative adaptability of the electric
and cable motors appears elsewhere from Mr.
Bice, the engineer of the Citizen's and Cen
tral Traction roads. The difference between
the two methods is stated there tersely and
clearly.
Ontheonehandthecapabilitiesofthecahle
roads, their regularity of performance and
the certainty with which they do their work,
is a clearly known and demonstrated quan
tity. It requires a large investment to start
one, but when started itreauires practically
no more power to transport 1,500 people in
an hour than to transport 500.
On the other hand, the possibilities of the
electric roads are large bnt indefinite. There
is less expense in the investment, more elas
ticity in the running of cars, hut more doubt
as to the cost and success of operation. Mr.
Bice correctly says that the storage battery,
if made successful, will be the ideal motor;
but its successful use on the high grades of
Pittsburg streets is as yet a matter of ex
treme doubt.
The cable roads have been demonstrated
to be an immense success in Pittsburg. The
practical and full trial oi the, electric roads
is about to be made. If electric roads can
do as much for the city as the cable roads
have done, they will command an immense
success.
MES. POTTEE'S DISAPPOIHTHENT.
For the present the American stage must
elevate itself if it can; Mrs. James Brown
Potter declines to come to its assistance.
She has left the English stage also to its
own devices, and has sailed for Australia
presumably with a view to raising the wind
on the stage there, rather than the stage
itself. It is observable that Mrs. Potter is
in a disagreeable frame of mind. This is
the natural result of her way of life.
She stepped upon the boards here
proclaiming her intention to elevate the
stage. Artistically, morally and socially she
annonnped the stage would have to move
upward at her impulse. She miscalculated
her strength. As an artist she proved a
rather interesting failure, a sensational fizzle
prolonged till it became agony. Her social
prestige died at the stage door, and with re
gard to the moral aspect of the case it is
charitable to be silent. The stage has not
benefited by Mrs. Potter's patronage. It is
pitiful to remark that Mrs. Potter has cer
tainly reaped nothing good of her career as
an actress.
The history of Mrs. James Brown Potter
should be a warning to women whose dower
of beauty and high social station tempt
them to seek for greater praise and fame
than their circle of society supplies. The
stage is only too likely to be the tomb of the
society beauty. It is unfair, also, that the
public should be invited to witness the
funeral. It is dismal; it elevates nothing
and nobody, and it is no longer profitable.
"We extend our sympathies to the Austral
ians in their impending affliction.
It is a rather remarkable, though not ex
act, coincidence that the storm which over
turned tbe Willey building last year, and tbe
one which made such havoc in the West this
week were just four days more than a year
apart Is January becoming our cyclone
season!
Mb. C. P. Huntington expresses great
satisfaction at the election of Calvin S. Bnce
to the United States Senate. Mr. Huntington is
supposed to be a Republican,but his broad views
are not hedged In by partisan lines, as has been
shown by his investment of $800,000 in an al
leged Democratic organ, and less sums in cer
tain professed Democratic statesmen, as set
forth in the Huntington-Colton epistles. No
doubt Mr. Huntington thinks that his plea for
a free gift of the Central Pacific debt to him
self and partners will strike an answering
chord in the breast of Senator Bnce. Tbe
readiness of the corporation magnates to dis
card party lines where their own interests are
concerned may suggest to the people the pro
priety of doing the same thing on their own be
half. It is painful to observe the tendency
among the apostles of 'scientific culture to con
troversial heat. Prof. Marsh and Prof. Cope
are each occupying the columns of the New
York Herald with throwing missiles of geolog
ical lore at each otheT anentthe Geological Sur
vey; while the Chicago Inter Ocean, in tackling
the question of the Sublime in Shakespeare,
with Prof. Swing on tbe other side as the ad
vocate of Sophocles, proceeds to the length of
accusing its antagonist of being affected by
"literary diathesis." Let us recommend tbe
exponents of abstruse science that they should
not enter Into competition with United States
Senators in hurling mysterious and polysyllabic
insinuations at each other.
Senator Ttjbpie joins the howl about
the recognition of Brazil. As the people of the
United States are entirely willing to wait and
see whether Brazil has a free government or
not, tbe effort of the Democrats to make polit
ical capital over the affair will be a grand
fizzle.
A EEMAT.kaule illustration of the talk
abont "Harrison's ingratitude" is furnished by
a Washington letter which tells the story of a
rich German of Evansnlle who actually gave
$4,000 to tbe campaign funds of 12SS4, and wanted
as a result to name tbe Consul at Cologne.
Four thousand dollars as the price of the Con
sulate at Cologne is very good, and, the Presi
dent who would refuse to let it go out at that
price must1 be "disgracefully" outside of the
ethics of politics.
Judge Stowe's decision intimates that
the dissenting corporations must pay tbe three
mill tax. The Judge's ruling on the disputed
points' is not decidedly positive; but, like
Mercutio's wound, it is enough; it will serve all
present purposes.
It is pleasant to learn of the progress on
the Government building, as reported by Mr.
Malone in another- column. Still, the drop of
bitterness remains in the sweet things prophe
sied by Mr. Malone. He tells us that the build
ing cannot be occupied next October, and that
he does not know when it will be. As tbe occu
pancy of tbe building is the main thing; the
public will continue to lire on the hope that
the postoffice will get there in 1892,
"Wiri, not the esteemed but somewhat nn-
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season of steadily predicting warm and moist
weather! That might induce the perverse ele
ments to alleviate the situation by a little gen
uine winter weather.
Ex-Consul Sewei.Ii regards the lack of
sensitiveness concerning our .honor abroad .to
he one of this nation's greatest drawbacks.
Possibly so, but in view of the efforts that are
necessary to create a greater degree of sensi
tiveness concerning our honor at home, as Il
lustrated by Senatorial elections, we may have
to let honor in foreign lands go until the, do
mestic article is more fully developed.
The peach crop destroyer goes to work as
usual, notwithstanding variations in the
weather. All times and seasons are the same
to the prevaricator who deals with and In
peaches.
Apeopos of the postponement of the
Columbus celebration, there is pertinence in
the suggestion of one detail in which it would
be slightly out of harmony. Columbus had a
great many discouragements and difficulties to
overcome; and if history is not misinformed
some of his crew wanted the main event post
poned; bnt the important fact of his career re
mains, that he got there in 14921
If this mild weather keeps on, some meas
ure will have to be introduced in Congress for
the rescue of the distressed coal barons ana ice
companies from the ruin that stares them in
the face.
The Silcott committee of the Honse.finds
no difficulty in coming to the agreement that
Silcott did what be ought not to have done;
and, with some honorable exceptions, that they
want the United States Treasury to pay the
members the House the 573,000 he took. The
taxpayers must, of course, bear the loss when
the Congressmen's pockets are touched.
If the Knights of Labor keep on expell
ing each other there may be danger that they
will become the proverbial successors of the
Kilkenny cats.
It is rather amusing to observe, after the
avowal of all the Democratic authorities that t
Mr. Btice resides in Ohio, that the apparently
official biography of the Senator-elect, evi
dently furni.hed by authority close to that
gentleman himself, concludes with the state
ment: "He has a beautiful borne in Now
York."
The "Heart of Gold" Company appears,
from the disclosures, to have been troubled
by altogether too much heart and altogether
too little gold.
PEOPLE OP PB0MINENCE.
Robebt W. Peattie, managing editor of
the Omaha World-Herald, is dangerously ill of
la grippe.
Frank Hatton is a typical American. He
commenced life as a newsboy, and was Post
master General under the administration of
President Arthur. He has been everything on
a newspaper, from newsboy to editor, and
would ratber be the editor of a live newspaper
than President of the United States.
A. K.SPOFFOED, the librarian of Congress,
has the face of a Slav, but the brains of an
American. His knowledge of books Is phenom
enal; what he does not know about books isnot
worth knowing. But lie is no mere bookworm;
he enjoys the social life of Washington, and is
fond of attending the literary rennions there.
Louise M. Alcott received 5 for her first
story, which was written when she was 16. She
lived to receive $3,000 for one Btory. She worked
long and hard before she made much money.
In 18C4, after 12 years of literary labor, she
made only 8476. Mies Alcott was a devoted
sister and daughter, but never knew the joy or
sorrow of love.
David D. Lloyd, author of "For Congress."
"The Dominie's Daughter," "The Senator,"
and other successful plays, was once the private
secretary of Chief Justice Chase. It is a rather
singular fact, showing how small the world
really is, tnat Jacob W. Bchnkers, Eugene L.
Didier and David D. Lloyd, all former secreta
ries of Chief Justice Chase, should reside, not
long since, in the little town of Belleville, N. J.
William Morris, the Socialist poet, is 56
years old, of medium height, with broad shoul
ders, crowned by a fine bead. His eyes are
large, dark and penetrating. He is a man of
undoubted honesty of purpose, and with a
strong personality. Beside being a poet he is
also a scientist, an essayist, an antiquarian, a
lecturer, a merchant, a manufacturer, a work
man, the editor of the Commonweal, and, in
fact, one of the busiest men in London. He
reserves Saturday and Sunday for writing
poetry.
It is remarkable with what rapidity certain
names become household words, and are known
all over the world. As a case in point, there is
Major Serpa Pinto, wbo has suddenly become
prominent in connection with African affairs
and the complications into which Portugal has
become involved with England. He was born
in Douro, Portugal, in April, 1816, and was edu
cated at the Military College. Lisbon. He
joined the Portuguese army in 1863, rose pretty
rapidly, and became an aid de camp to the
King in 1880. He was in the Zambesi war in
1869, commanding the African native troop.
During 1877-79 he crossed Africa from Benguella
to Durban.
A RE ALL GREAT XEWSPAPEB.
A Cotemporary Telia Wfay the Dispatch U
Popular Everywhere.
From the Morgantown (W. Va.) New Dominion.
Among the really great papers of this coun
try and well up in the front rank, is the Pitts
bubg Daily Dispatch. Beside all the news,
presented in the most readable way and sound
editorial comment on all the leading topics of
the day. The Dispatch contains some of tbe
choicest pen productions, in Its purely literary
departments. The Dispatch deserves the
wonderlul growth and popularity which it en
joys, because it is sparing in nothing that will
make it a leader in tbe great field of journal
ism. The Sunday Dispatch has attained a bona
fide circulation of over 50,000 and is growing
weekly. Although already well equipped the
rapid growth of the daily and Snnday editions
of The Dispatch has necessitated the addi
tion of another marvelous donble perfecting
press. The Dispatch, as it deserves to, enters
upon tbe new year witb bright prospects of
increased popularity and -circulation.
POINTERS ON PATENTS.
Wont the Inventory Wilhln 200 Miles Have
Been Doing.
The following patents were issued to West
ern Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and West
Virginia inventors, for the week ending Tues
day, January 14, famished by O. D. Levis,
patent attorney, 131 Fifth avenue, Pittsburg:
Phlneas Arnold. Canal Dover, O., driver-car;
Walter C Beckwlth, Fostorla.O., car seal; Horace
G. Kender, Akron, o., printing machine: Jacob
E. Blackburn. Frcderlcklown. O.. haklnc or
roasting pan: William Bulluck. CentraUa, Ta.,
draft annunciator formines; Ammon M. Ewers.
Edison, O.. weather strip; John L. Faulbaber,
Fostoria. U., roofing: Nicholas S. Hill. Shllllng
ton. Pa., pump; Joseph H. Huber, ttreensbnrg.
Fa., shade for Incandescent electric lights;
Eugene Ingold, Pittsburg, mining machine:
Ernest Mayer. New Brighton, potter's block and
baiter: William MeMalns, Mrmowrahela City,
band-printing roller. William H. Pickett, War
ren, Pa., carpet sweeper; IMlUara L. tScalfe, Alle
gheny, lockgate and dam: Oliver li. BballenberK
er, Kochester, Pa., meter for alternating electrle
currents.
A QUEEELI CONSTRUCTED BDLL.
It U the Frond Pouesaor of Two Tails and
Pour Hind Legs.
IFTXCIAJ. TXLECBJLM TO TUX DISFATCO.1
New Yoke. January 15. Robert Taggart
keeps a storage warehouse at 603 Hudson street,
with a stable in tbe rear, and a bull is one of
the queerest of many queer possessions that
have from rime to time been left with him for
Bafe keeping. The peculiarity of this bull is
that, though ho is normal from bis head to his
waist, he possesses two tails and four hind legs.
It is nearly three months since the animal
was left nn storatre. A farmer, who said his
name was Haw or Yaw, brought the freak, and
said he and tbe bnll were from Montana. They
bad come to New York to make their fortunes
together, but bad fallen among thieves and
"gone broke."
DKATHiJ OF A .DAT.
Charles B. Danfonli.
Boston, January 15. Charles B. Danforth, for
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oj pneumonia luii bkhjuus, wv j
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
We Hove the File Still With us Precnu-
tlon Acnlnst Them In Sow Houses
Popnlnr Concerts a Success Elsewhere.
Condor Exemplified by Mntbew Arnold.
The Dearth of Good short Stories.
Qne of the luxuries this winter has allowed
us to enjoy is flies. Healthy bluebottles and
lusty bouseflies make known their survival in
familiar ways in every household. The few
brief hours of cold weather interludes of
frigidity have sent the buzzing nuisances into
retreat, but every time the succeeding warm
spell has brought them out again.
A curious innovation in house building has
been brought about this winter by the plague
of flies, and by the activity of their fellow con
spirators, the moths and millers. In two man
sions now in process of erection in the East
Ena the two finest houses of the year prob
ablyscreens are to be put at once into the
windows and doors. It is deemed unsafe to put
off these defenses against flies etc., till the
nominal time for warm weather arrives.
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Qne of the opponents of the scheme to give
popular summer concerts in the Pittsburg
Exposition building says that it is impossible to
hire great artists to sing at them that the ex
pense would be too great. The plan of the pop
ular concerts proposed properly contemplates
the hiring of a first-class orchestra only. But
it is thought by Mr. Johnston that vocalists of
the first rank could be secured also. There are
plenty of precedents supporting this view. At
popular concerts in many cities during the
summer months artists of the highest rank
have sung for moderate compensation. It is
after the close of the regular season, and the
high salaries are marked down.
A notable example of success in concerts of
this sort is the series of Promenade Concerts
given every year at the Covent Garden Theater
in London. The admission pnee charged is
I shilling, that is 25 cents, the figure proposed
for Pittsburg. The concerts are tremendously
popular. At them the very best orchestra in
England is always engaged, and the soloists
have included Mm eAlbani, Miss Emma Juch,
Minnie Hauck, Sims Beeves, Edward Santley
in short artists of world-wide reputation.
jlTis heresy in Pittsburg, of course, to say
that one does not care a brass farthing for
iron works, or glass bouses, or gas wells, or any
other material evidences of nature's bounty to
man and man's skill, yet, when a young college
man who dropped in to see me a week or two
ago. made such a confession when I proposed
to take Mm out to seethe lions it seemed
rather refreshing. Candor is admirable al
ways. Matbew Arnold could not be Insincere if he
tried. He spoke the truth always; even when
it knocked down politeness and shattered the
proprieties.
The great English philosopher was here
abont a year before he died. He was. the
guest of Mr. Carnegie, and it was only natural
that his host should wish him to see the great
works at ttraddock. I do not know whether
Mr. Carnegie personally conducted Mr. Ar
nold to the mills or not. All I know is, that
when Mr. Arnold got there, one of the first
men he met, and was introduced to, was an
Englishman in charge of an important depart
ment. With this gentleman Mr. Arnold began
a' conversation which interested tbem both.
Mr. Arnold was reminded that the works still
remained to be seen.
"The truth is," said Mr. Arnold, "that I
don't care to see machinery and furnaces and
the other things. 1 prefer to stay here with
Mr. and talk."
And stay he did for a full hour.
Tt would be interesting to know why the short
atones In Marper's, Scribner's and the
Century magazines have been, as a rule, so out
rageously bad for the last three months. Tbe
cheapest kind of sensationalism or the dead
liest of commonplace seems to be all these
publications can get There is a frightful ex
ample of tne condensed 'penny dreadful" in
the January Century a story of a Southern
tigress in human shape, who explodes with
jealousy, rage and meanness one minute and
sacrifices her life to save ber rival's the next.
Last month Harper1 had several thousand
words of similar rubbish. What is the matter?
Are all the clever story writers trying their
hands at grander work, or are the editors losing
their discernment?
In delightful contrast to these cheap and
tawdry tales of horror or humdrum are the
sketches of New England life which Sarah
Orne Jewett is drawing in the Atlantic
Monthly. She has a deliriously humorous,
quaint and uncommon study of life in this
month's Atlantic called '-The Quest of Mr.
Teaby." You ought to read it.
FAR ABOVE THE AYEEAGE.
The Increase of Gross Postal Receipts at
the Pittsbnrjr Offlce.
Washington, January 15. A statement has
been prepared at the Postoffice Department
Bhowing the gross postal receipts during the
quarter ended December 31, 18S9, as compared
with the corresponding quarter of theprevious
year, at SO of the larger postofflces. The gross
Smstal receipts for the last quarter were $6,278,
18, as against 5,692,002 for the corresponding
quarter of 1888.
The per cent of increase at the principal
offices is as follows: New York, 9.4; Chicago,
14.1; Philadelphia, 8.1; Boston, 10.2; St. Louis,
10.6; Cincinnati, 8.7; Brooklyn, 10.0: San Fran
cisco, 4.2; Baltimore. 12.9; Pittsburg, 13.6;
Cleveland, 16.2; Detroit, 9.0; Kansas City, 9.2;
New Orleans, 32.7; Milwaukee 6.0; Minneapo
lis, &4; St. Paul, 1.2; Louisville, 13.1; Indianap
olis, a4; Toledo, 17.9.
The average increase for the quarter was 10.3
per cent.
Be Lives on Liver.
From the Detroit Ijjree Press.
Secretary Noble is the only member of the
Cabinet who does his own marketing, and per
haps the only one who eats liver. His daily in
quiry of the butcher is: "Have you a calf's
liver this morning?" If so, he buys one. If not,
he depends on the cook making hash. Can a
man who preiers liver as a steady diet ever be
come a great man?
POINTS IN STATE POLITICS.
Billdohti: News: The people of Penn
sylvania desire a good executive leader for the
next four years and General Hastings is just
tbe man to choose.
Philadelphia. Kecord: It is said that Sen
ator Quay has a favorite candidate for Con
gress In the Fourth district in place of Judge
Kelley. But Senator Quay resides in Beaver
county. The people of the Fourth district are
capable of selecting their own member of Con
gress. Lancaster Intelligencer: Quay has found
another chance to taunt Congressman Dalzell.
Both have candidates for the census offices of
tbe Allegheny district. The Senator, in med
dling with tbe appointment of janitors, tax
collectors, etc., will soon find tbe bottom of his
cup covered with dregs more bitter than gall.
Philadelphia Inquirer: General Hast
ings has been Invited to a fox hunt in Delaware
county on January SO. There is a great deal of
political instruction to be gotten out of a fox
hunt, and the occasion will confirm General
jastinga in nis nauifc oi nut irjiug to run with
I tbe fox and ride with the hounds at the same
time.
On, Crrr Blizzard: The truth of the mat
ter probably is that Mr. Quay will not use his
position to advance the interests of any par
ticular candidate for tbe nomination, at the ex
pense of another, but the man wbo secures the
nomination, whoever he may be, will receive
the vigorous assistance which the Senator is in
the habit of giving Republican nominees.
Philadelphia -2Tmej; It is now evident
that Martin is in the fight for Lieutenant Gov
ernor to stay, and he shares tbe faith ot several
candidates for Governor and of several candi
dates for Lieutenant Governor that Senator
Quay has him quietly slated for the position.
Well, Quay is a man of big political possibill
ties.but he isn't equal to tbe task of nominating
more than one man for each of the State offices
to be filled.
Johnstown Irioune.' At this stage of the
game the contest seems to be between Dela
materand Hastings, with Delamater in the
lead. They are both young men, compara
tively, and pleasant, agreeable, able gentlemen.
Delamater, however, is in the lead, one reason
being that Hastings' belongs to thosame county 1
and town as uenerai ueaver, the present in
cumbent; Is his partner in private business, and
is his Adjutant General officially. It Is hardly
probal)(e that the rct of the btato will talco
kindly to giving that locality two Governors iu
succession: there U every probability tbat it
will be considered the part of wisdom for Gen
eral Hastings to reconsider 'his present inten
tion to be a candidate for the nomination, and
bidenis time for great honor which."-i? cure to,
tcameinthonewfuture. tAIihJSfije,
Nina, . &ti.y jaaaBssiexjsTAs8HiSsSAjBiiS8
AS ELIZABETH HaERIAGE.
Bliss Alice Vankirk Weda George Thomas, a
Young Engineer.
An important wedding was solemnized yes
terday in Elizabeth, when Miss Alice Vankirk
became the bride of Mr. George Thomas Rich
ards, of this city. Miss Vankirk is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mm. S. W. Vankirk. of Eliza
beth, and a very popular and talented young
lady. For the ceremony, which was performed
by Bev. Dr. Norman, otMonongahela City, tbe
bride was dressed in a handsome traveling cos
tume, and presented a very stylish appear
ance. The groom is a rising young railroad man,
and was late chief engineer of the McKeesport
and Bellevernon road.
Precisely at 8 o'clock, to the merry strains of
the wedding march, from Miss Kate Walker's
skillful fingers, the couple entered the parlor
and were united in the holy bonds of matri
mony. The residence of the Vankirks was
filled with guests to witness the marriage rites,
after which an elaborate wedding spread was
served by Kennedy, and later the young folks
left for their future borne in the East End.
ST. KTEIAN'S TEA PAETT.
ThB Lawrenco Turner Hall tbe Sceno of a
Successful Hopper.
One of the largest and most successful tea
parties ever giren by tbe Catholics of this city
took place last night at the Lawrence Turner
Hall.
The congregation of St. Kyrian's Church,
Eighteenth ward, organized tbe tea party un
der the able management of Mrs. Geoghegan,
Mrs. Burns and Mrs. Mclntyre. Their efforts
were crowned witb success; fully 2,000 people
paid SI each for their supper. It is estimated
that at least (1,500 will be netted, which will be
used to wipe out the debt of the church.
The supper was elegantly served. Boast
turkey, beef and ample dessert. The tables
were beautifully adorned with flowers.
The only drawback in the entertainment was
the over-crowded condition of the rooms. Peo
ple were so packed that it became irksome to
move about.
A PLEASAKT H0U8EWAEM1SG.
Police Sergeant Metz Entertains His Friends
In HU New Home.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Metz, with a number of
friends, celebrated their housewarming last
evening at their new home. 135 Third avenue.
A. very enjoyable ana sumptuous repast was
served, and a complimentary speech was made
by Judge Gnpp, m which he voiced the com
pany in wishing tbe newly married couple much
joy and bliss in their wedded life.
A number of handsome presents were given
the young sergeant and bis bride, and a good
time generally enjoyed. Among those present
were Judge Gripp, Assistant Superintendent
O'Mara, Inspector McAleese, Captain Dan
Silvis, Captain Mercer, Detectives Shore,Bob
mson, McTigbe, Coulson and others, including
the police press reporters.
TBE PLANETS.
Dr.
Bernard Talks Abont Them nnd Their
Inhabitants.
A highly cultured and refined German.audi
ence enjoyed an intellectual feast last evening,
in the German Library Association Hall, on
vt ooa street.
They were addressed by Dr. Berrjard on
'Planets and their Inhabitants." In a very
interesting pleasing manner the doctor pre
sented tbe subject to his hearers, it being the
third of a series of lectures with which he is
favsring tbe members of the German Library
Association.
Married by Father Sheedy. ,
In St. Mary of Mercy Chnrch yesterday morn
ing at 9 o'clock a very private wedding united
Miss Jennie May McMillan, danghter of H. Mc
Millan, and Mr. J. Mahon, of the firm of Mc
Mabon Bros. fc Adams. The ceremony was
performed with a nuptial mass by Bev. Father
Sheedy, pastor of tbe church.
Fecial Chatter.
The Marvin Mutual Benefit and Protective
Association, at its meeting on January 6,
elected its officers for the coming vear as fol
lows: President, Mr. James H. Fricke; Vice
President, Miss Lena Hoburg; Secretary, Mr.
K. Crawford; Treasurer, Mr. C. B. Bonnett;
Trustees, Mrs. McCaig, Miss Jennie Fay, Miss
Emma Hoburg, Mr. James L. Miller and Mr.
H. D. Harold. The association, though but
eight months old, has a membership of 175, and
20 applications on tbe book, upon which It
justly congratulates itself.
The Woodside Missionary Association will
give a musical and literary entertainment to
morrow evening at the First Reformed Presby
terian church, Allegheny. Tbe talented people
that will Insure a pleasant evening are Prof.
George M. Sleeth, elocutionist; Miss Ida Lind
sey and Mr. E. H. Dermitt, vocalists; Mr. C. E.
Stewart, clarionet, and Mr. Sam Brown accom
panist. To those who have beard Miss Johnson, the
famous Chicago singer, the news will be ap
preciated that she will favor Pittsburg with
her presence and her songs on February 14, at
Prof. Whiting's concert. From here she will
go to New York and appear before the Phil
harmonic Society, of that city.
Mb. Hunter, the Pittsburg tenor, wbo
studied in Italy and scored a great success in
the opera "Faust" in London, is expected to
set sail for America soon, and will be in the
city inside of six weeks. He will undoubtedly
contract for a season in America upon his ar
rival.
A oebman that will undoubtedly be one of
the pleasantest events of the season will be
given at the Fittsbure Club Theater on tbe 27th
of January by Mrs. T. M. Carnegie.
Me. Fbank Kino, with his mother, Mrs.
Thomas King, as chaperon, gave a very en
joyable theater party last evening. The supper
was served at the Hotel Schlossor.
Corpohai. James Tanner to-m orrow even
ing at Old City Halh The late Commissioner
of Pensions is very Interesting and brilliant as
a lecturer.
A charming 12 o'clock breakfast will be
given to-day by Mrs. W. W- Patrick, of Ridge
avenue, Allegheny, to a number of her friends.
A dance will be given this evening by Mrs.
Davidson, of Avalon, f orwhich several hundred
Invitations have been issued.
A number of Pittsburgers will visit Con
nellsville this evening to be present at the
Torrence-Overholt nuptials.
Max O'Rell at Old City Hall to-night. The
witty Frenchman will speak upon "Jonathan
and His Cousin."
MBS. -Bikbee, of Fremont street, Alle
gheny, has issued invitations for a dance next
Tuesday evening.
The Carrol Club will hold their second an
nual reception at Orpheus Hall this evening.
The Poverty German will dance at the
Bailey residence on Cliff street on the 22dL
Mbs. T. L. Shields, of Edgeworth, will re
ceive this evening.
AN ALDERMAN'S TRIBULATIONS.
Reduced to Poverty by Polities, He Aiki
Aid From the Poor Board.
srscur. txxxobaii to tttk dispatch.!
New York; J anuarm 15. Edward I. Rapp,
who was an Alderman last year, entered the
dispensary for the outdoor poor at Bellevue
Hospital to-day. Rapp was elected Alderman
on tbe Republican ticket in the Tenth district
in 1878. He was at one time a prominent mem
ber of the Jacob M. Patterson Tenth As
sembly District Association. He owned a
small saloon at 166 -Essex street where his
family lived. Ho owed some money for ex
penses incurred iu the campaign when he was
elected, but altogether it is not believed that
he was ever 2,000 in debt One ot his creditors
is ex-Alderman Christian Goetz, to whom he
owed 250. Ex-Alderman Goetz said this even
ing that Rapp was a type of a steady, thrifty
German until his head was turned by politics.
He was proud of the distinction of being called
Alderman, and was too free with bis money.
In tbe year tbat Rapp served as Alderman,
the district almostpestered the life out of bim.
Hardly a day passed that be did not have to
buy at least $2 worth of ball tickets or picnic
tickets. He bad to stand the affairs, make a
good appearance and. treat the boys. All this
cost money, and be borrowed everywhere.
His Majesty's Diversion.
From the Chicago News.
The Ring of Soain is so greatly improved in
health that he will probably be able soon to
play marbles again with the Prime Minister.
Where fJer Demonstrations Stop.
From the Boston Herald.3
Portugal comes down promptly, if nit grace
fully. Sbe can make up f.icoj r.t Great lirltain,
but that's about alt.
A tock Hxchnae Qaolullen.
Prom the Jfew York World.
" As reeardg'stock a notations. Readimr maketh i
S'f eW f ull men and manyemptv pocketbooks,
THE STROLLER'S STORIES.
Odd Opinions and Quaint Observations Oath'
ered From Curb and Corridor.
TT seems that Mr. Charles W. Mackey, of
Franklin, was misunderstood by tbe Stroller
in his references to Senator Delamater in a
chat held at tbe Hotel Anderson Tuesday even
ing, ifr. Mackey says that his friendship for
Senator Delamater has been life long, and that
be did not mean to imply in any possible way
tbat Mr. Delamater' candidacy would be in
the slightest degree repugnant to him. He
says, on the contrary, that if the Crawford
county Senator should become the nominee of
the party, he would have Mr. Mackey's heart
iest support Meanwhile Mr. Mackey sustains
most friendly relations with all the candidates.
Being engrossed In business, he is not taking
any part in the preliminary canvass now m
progress. ,
heavily built man, with a Btrong face,
fine brown eyes and a full dark brown
beard, who Is stopping at the hotel Anderson,
is ex-Senator T. C. Snyder, of Canton. He is
in the city on business, being an iron manufac
turer in that progressive Ohio city. Speaking
of tho election of Colonel Brlce to tbe Senate,
he said: "The Democrats in our part of the
State do not say much about it Borne of tbem
are dissatisfied, bnt Ohio Democrats are capa
ble of eating any amount of crow. Brice's
election was procured in a very different way
from Payne's. In the Payne campaign mem
bers of the Legislature were bought outright
Brice's canvass was conducted on a much
shrewder plan. Ho secured influential men all
over the State, and they influenced the little
fellows wbo were members of the Legislature. If
a man showed signs of revolt many influences
were brought to bear on him, and he was
pulled into line either by persuasion, promises
or threats. Brice got the support of the Demo
cratic newspapers by subscribing for all of
them, and by liberal distribution of paid read
ing matter. He could have had more votes in
the caucus, on the first ballot than be did have
if they had been needed. Mr. Monnot one of
the members from my county, voted for
Thomas, but that was only for effect He was
really forBrice, and afterward moved to make
Ins nomination unanimous."
"pHE Republican party in Ohio," said the ex
Senator, '"suffered no serious injury by
the defeat of Governor Foraker. We are In
good shape and will beat them the next time.
Foraker's defeat was personal, because of the
antipathy to a third term, and his attitude In
regard to Sunday closing in Cincinnati. I am a
great admirer of Foraker, but I advised against
bis candidacy."
J suppose," ho continued, "that the Demo
cratic Legislature will re-dlstrict tbe
State so as to make a majority of the Congres
sional districts Democratic. It is the time for
the decennial apportionment and if they
gerrymander the State it will put the Repub
lican party in an embarrassing position. We
will either have to wait until 1900 or do what
we have been condemning the Democrats for
doing, re-district tbe State in an intervening
year.' '
Qolonel R. M. Milleb, an attorney of Chi
cago, passed through tbe city yesterday on
bis journey to Washington., where he will join
tbe Chicago envoys already at work in that
city who are trying to procure the location of
the World's Fair in Chicago. Colonel Miller is
sanguine of success for his town. If Chicago
gets it be says, there will be no necessity for a
postponement beyond 1892. The enterprise of
the Western city can be depended upon to
have all things ready on time.
YESTEEIAT afternoon an immense block of
granite, beautifully carved, was lifted to
its position as the keystone of tbe large arch
over the front of the new Postoffice and Cus
tom House. The operation required about an
hour, and demanded the services of two dozen
men. The stone weighs over seven tons, and
its cost was about $1,850. Hundreds of people
crowded the sidewalk on Smlthfield street and
watched the work during the rain. There is al
ways danger in the lifting of such a mass of
granite, but the men engaged in the work ap
pear to feel not the slightest fear. They stand
on narrow cornices at dizzy heights and work
with the same ease that they would feel were
they on solid ground.
AT the weekly prayer meeting held last even
ing In Rev. E. R. Donehoo's Presbyterian
church, in the West End, a stranger took part
In the services. He wore a slouch hat, was
bearded like a Colorado miner, and his rubber
coat and high rubber boots were splashed
thickly with mud. His appearance indicated
that before entering tbe churcn he had found
his way into a West End "speak-easy." He
trod loudly up the aisle and slammed himself
down in a front seat He leered drowsily at
the minister du!ng several hymns and prayers.
Finally he arose and said: "Preacher, I want
you to pray ior me." Rev. uonenoo re
plied that be would be glad to do so. "But
I want you to pray right away and pray hard,"
the stranger said. The minister answered that
if the gentleman would sit down and be quiet
the church would pray for him. The stranger
sat down, and the services proceeded. Fifteen
minutes later he again arose, and delivered
himself thus:- Now, preacher, I need praying.
Pm a farmer from away back here In the coun
try. It was a job I got Into town to-night You
never saw roads so all-fired bad in yonr born
days; you never did, preacher. Why they're
over the hubs a dozen times 'tween here and tbe
place. They're so bad that coal's 25 cents a
bushel out-there. We can't get to market
preacher, and we have to eat pork and ram bos.
The wheat's out so far it's sure to be froze.
Preacher, we all need praying for, I tell you.
Good night" He tramped out and the con
gregation sang, "Pull for the Shore."'
V gentlekan whojoccupies an official posi
tlon in this city, said yesterday afternoon:
"I see tbat Mr. McKean is down in Washing
ton trying to arrange for more postoffice room.
It is greatly needed. More space can be very
easily secured for postoffice purposes right in
the builalng. There are in the large, fine
rooms on the second and third floor, a nnmber
of officers wbo could be very easily moved out
and put Into quarters on the opposite side of
Smith field street or somewhere in tbe vicinity.
It is not so necessary that they should be kept
in the same building, as it is to nave all de
partments of tbe postoffice under one roof.
Tbe pension examiners could very easily be
moved to Third avenue, where the pension dis
bursement officers are located. The District
Attorney's office could also be moved without
any inconvenience to the public business. Some
of the prople upstairs have more room than
they need." The Stbolleb.
BOUGHT A PIG IN A POKE.
Amerlcnna May be Denied Fishing Prlvl
leges Purchased In Canada.
t SPECIAL TEtlOBAK TO TBI DISPATCH -J
Montreal, January The Americans who
recently purchased fishing privileges from the
Quebec Government have been surprised by
the statement that there.waaa question as to
the validity of their purchases. The Dominion
Government claimed tbat It alone, under the
British North American act, possesses exclu
sive control over the Inland, as well as the
maritime fisheries of the country, and tbat in
buying and paying their money against this
warning, purchasers have done so at their own
risk.
Tbe question has eiven rise to a great deal of
dicussion as to tbe law of the case.
SEXT WEEK'S PLAYS.
Seats will commence to be sold this morn
ing at the Bijou Theater for the coming en
gagement of the Carletou Opera Company in
two of the best and most melodious operas,
"Nanon" and "The Brigands." The engage
ment will begin on Monday with Mr. Carleton's
usual excellent performance of "Nanon," and
this opera will ba repeated at the Wednesday
matinee and evenlnc. On Tuesday evening
and other nights of the week and the Saturday
matinee '-The Brigands" will be given. By
special request Mr. J. JC. Murray, well knoirn
in Pittsburg, will assume therole of the brigand
chief on Tuesday, and his friends have pre
pared a surprise for him by securing 300 seats
for that nlgbt to give him a royal welcome.
Tbe Carleton Opera Company is at present in
New York City, and scored a veritable triumph
for their artistic performances.
The Casino .Opera Company, with Pauline
Hall and the original cast, cumes to the Opera
House the week of .February 3 witb an inter-
estlnr? repertoire.
"ABrass Mokket." a new farce-comedy by
I the author of the best farces America haspro-
deced. Mr. Hovt is tbe attraction aojfoaaced
'for the Grand Opera House next woek.'ifV,
OUS MAIL POUCH
A Problem for Presbyterians.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The Presbyterian Church is agitated from
center to circumference over the question of
revision of the confession of faith. Fifteen
Presbyteries overtured the General Assembly
to take action on this question. The assem
bly's Committee on Overtures made this re
port: Because in the minds of many of our ministers
and people some forms of statements in our con
fehlonof faith are liable to misunderstanding.
and expose our system of doctrine to unmerited
criticism; and
Wheeias. Before any definite steps should be
taken for the revision of our standards it Is desir
able to know whether there Is any jeneral desire
for such revision, therefore,
Besolved, Thattnls General Assembly overture
to the Presbyteries the following questions:
1. Doyou desire a revision of the confession of
faith?
2. If so, In what respects, and to what extent?
This action of the General Assembly opened
the floodgates. The religions papers teem with
articles on revision, and at all the meetings ot
the Presbyteries the questions submitted are
discussed with vehemence, and in some case
acrimoniously and with partisan fervor. Some
favor a mere change in the verbiage, by which
the doctrines of grace consonant with the Cal
vmistic system of divine trust embodied in the
confession shall be more clearly expressed, so
aa to avoid ambiguity and render them less
liable to adverse criticism. Others favor radi
cal changes corresponding to the advanced
thought of the present age. The five points of
Calvinism are inter-dependent, and any
change affecting one point In tbe same degree
affects them all. If one be revised so as to
change its tenor all must be subjected to re
vision or the whole system of doctrine would
be disjointed and vazue.
Although all candidates for licensure and
ordination answer in the affirmative the ques
tion "Do you sincerely recaire and adopt tun
confession of faith of this church as containing
the system of doctrine taught in the Holy
Scriptures," yet tbe present discussion reveals
the fact either that many of these candidates
answered with mental reservation, or it proves
tbat their views have undergone a radical
change since the hands of Presbytery were laid
upon them. Pastors of prominent churches,
professors in tbe theological seminaries, ruling
elders and laymen, in open Presbytery and
through the religious press, boldly advocate
views far from being in accord with the con
fession of faith.
The doctrine of predestination is one es
pecially obnoxious to those desiring radical
changes. Predestination is thus expressed in
the confession of faith:
By the decree of Uod for the manifestation of
His glory, some men and angels are predestina
ted unto everlasting life, and others foreordained
to everlasting death. These men and angels thns
predestinated and foreordained are particularly
and unchangeably designed; and their number Is
so certain and definite that It eanhot be either in
creased or diminished.
Some wish the following statement changed
in such a way as to avoid obscurity, that It may
not seem to teach the damnation of any in
fants: "Elect infants, dying In infancy, are re
generated and saved by Christ through the
Spirit, who worketh when and where and how
He pleasetb."
A majority of tbe Presbyteries thus far have
voted in favor of appointing a committee of re
vision. What the result of this apple of dis
cord thrown into the halls ot our highest
ecclesiastical court remains to be seen. Soma
predict division, if radical revision results.
Many have become liable to ecclesiastical cen
sure for the utterance and dissemination of
ultra views not in harmony with the standards.
It behooves the Presbyteries to send wise and
discreet commissioners to the General Assem
bly which wdl convene at Saratoga Springs. N.
Y next May. by which body this question
of revision will be considered.
John H. Atjgitex.
WestBkidgewater, January 15.
An Invitation to Visit Montana.
To tbe Editor of Tne Dispatch:
Will you kindly send me one dozen copies of
your issue in which you make the "bigmsdicine
talk" about Eillie Lynch presenting the Helena
Journal with a pitcher of egg-nog?
I would like to send you some if I could de
pend on the weather, but it takes mountains to
hold it If yon could only imbibe some of it
with our Montana ozone it would take the
mountains to bold you, and instead of a few
lines complimentary to myself and the nog, you
would have devoted at least a column to its
praise.
,Now, if you should come ont here sometime
and escape tbe wolves, lions, cayotes and In
dians. I will ba pleased to show von the cltv in
all its crimson beauty, and have a delegation
consisting of X. Be idler. Bloody Knife, Mor
phine Frank. Crow Pete and several others of
our good old-timers to meet you.
i wk. e. lynch.
Helena, Mont., January 12.
SO MOfiE PUBLIC HEARINGS.
Secret Sessions of the Ways and Means
Committee Hereafter.
WASHTNaTON, January li Charles H
Clark, of Pniladelnhia, a manufacturer of
surgical instruments, was the first witness be
fore the Ways and Means Committee this
morning.
The Chairman and Messrs. Flower and
Breckinridge were the only members in at
tendance. The witness advocated the lmnosi-
tlon of a duty of 40 per cent on catheters and
bouges. i
Bernhardt Baron, a cigar manufacturer, of
Baltimore, advocated the abolition of the in
ternal revenue tax so far as it appertains to
cigars and tobacco in all its forms. He con
sidered It nnjust to raise the tax on Sumatra
tobacco. If Congress protected the farmer by
placing a duty of SO cents on Sumatra tobacco
it was all he conld demand. Why should be
be more protected than the farmer who raised
vegetables?
The committee decided, in secret session, to
have no-more public hearings after to-morrow,
although interested parties may file written
statements concerning industries which have
not oeen heard from.
A favorable report has been ordered on the
Breckinridge resolution, calllns upon the Sec
retary of the Treasury for a statement of the
German tariff duties, with an amendment
including French, Austrian and other Euro
pean tariffs.
A SWITCH OP HAIE MISPLACED.
Miss McGIIl's Raveo Tresses tho Caase of
n Troublesome Snlt.
rSFXCIAI TXXXOBAX TO SHX DISPATCH. 1
New Yoke. January 15. Miss Annie He
GUI's back hair is causing her and Carl
Mnller, a Brooklyn hair dresser, a heap of
trouble. Fire weeks ago she had Muller cut
oil the hair and ordered him to make it up Into
a switch. To-day sbe called for the switch. It
was brown, whereas her hair is black. The re
sult of this discrepancy was a row which was
aired in the Gates Avenue Police Court. The
switch was placed In evidence, and the justice
was asked to decide by the color whether the
manufactured article bad originally come from
Miss McGIIl's head.
There was an apparent difference in the color
of tbe two exhibits, but tbe magistrate said
tbat be was not an expert and declined to de
cide tbe delicate question. He also revised to
give a warrant for Mullers arrest Miss Mc-
Gill thereupon hurried oil to ner lawyer and
bad him prepare papers for a damage suit
against the hair dresser.
. FAITH CURE A PAILURB.
A Man Who Helled on It Now an Inmate
oT an Asylum.
rsrxciAT. TstsPBAK to thi dispatch.!
Nobbistotvn, January 15. Michael Webb,
of Bridgeport who last week claimed he had
been cured ot epileptic fits by faith, tbe core
having been revealed to him, as he alleged, cy
a vision, in which the Virgin Mary, St Antho
ny, Bt Joseph and Father Mollinger, of Alle
gheny, figured, was to-day placed in the State
Hospital for the Insane here. He was adjudged
insane by a commission In lunacy. Webb Is
abont SO years of ago and is a son of one of
Bridgeport's Town Councilmen, Joseph Webb.
Last Marcn he discarded medicine and fol
lowed the directions of a faith curist, with the
result tbat he is to-day in an insane hospital.
His mind was Intently set upon his honed-for
recovery from the affection of 12 years' stand
ing, that tbe strain proved too great Much
sympathy is fait for his family.
1I0DEEATE DOSES.
Washington Capital: Isn't the nun who
paints a fence a hne-er of woodr
New Hampshire Patriot: Who kills all
the dead letters? MUs Direction.
Atchison Globe: There are so many things
you can't do without and can't have.
Binghamton Leader: When schemes are
on foot tbe politicians are generally on hand.
MrLWAtTERE Sentinel: It is not good form
to discuss tbe weather, but just no w it is legiti
mate to jistcuss it
BrNOHAMTON-RepuoHean? OldTowser never
learned to speak a piece, but he Is continually
practicing his bow.
Kearney Enterprise: When a man is at
tacked by U grippe tt makes him weak in his
knees and strong In his 'neeze.
BaltkioeK American: It must ba some
thing of ahandlcap' to a singer to have a soft
voice, as naturally, sbe would find it difficult to
smghMttwasle?
CUB10US CONDENSATIONS;
Fifty-seven million yards of doth were
woven in the Lewiston, Me., mills last jear,
Paris sends to foreign countries an
nually 5400.000 worth of bonbons.
Beturns show that Fayette county, Pa.,
has 9,000 dogs, and one township alone contains
LOOOofthem.
The oldest woman in Vienna is Fran
Magdalena Fonza,who celebrated ber Utth
birthday last Christmas. She Is cared for by
her 80-year-old daughter.
The statistics ot wild beasts for India for
1883 show that they do not grow any less dead
ly. Twenty-two thousand nice hundred and
seventy persons were killed in 188S, an increase
of 600.
A hew contrivance has been applied to
watches called an "appointment reminder." A
small dial is set into the watch's face upon
which one can set the hands at any hour
required.
The Persian Prince Keyknbah Decuman
ilirza, a cousin of the Shah, has just been con
victed of counterfeiting in Moscow, Russia, and
has been condemned to five years of hard labor
in Siberia.
Stories of the finding of gold continue
to come from Maine, the latest being that an
Indian squaw picked up S5C0 worth of the
precious metal in the Franklin county hlus
and sold it in Portland.
In various parts of Laurens county, S.
C an nnusual quantity of "honey dew" is re
ported to have fallen, and ba some cases tha
phenomena of a shower of sweet water from a
cloudless sky caused not a little alarm.
The Vale of Avoca has been bought by
an English company, and the woods will be
swept away in order to make matches. There
is great consternation in the district where tho
memory of Tom Moore is cherished with fer
vency. MAKTDT Tobey, of Mt Morris, Mich.,
lost a valuable cow the other day, and when ha
conducted a post mortem examination of the
remains, found in her stomach 17 pieces of
nails, a screw, a piece of iron rod and a section
of wire six inches long.
One of the fire department horses at
Ann Arbor, Mich, during a recent sick spell
showed himself a very game animaL Every
time an alarm was rung in he would stagger to
his feet and make a feeble but determined
effort to reach his enrine, until bis strength
gave out and ho fell exhausted.
H. Palzer, of Sangatuck, Mich., cut
from his raspberry bushes this week a stem
tbat bore green shoots four Inches long. It Is
said that In tbe woods tho raspberry bushes are
leaving out in an uncommon manner for this
time of the year, and that along the banks of
the river the maple trees are beginning to
blossom.
The fifth Uative Indian Congress met
in Bombay December 23. Two thousand dele
gates were present a fow of them being
women. On tbe same day there was a meeting
of Mohammedans, presided over by the East,
the chief officer of the Mussulman community,
and a resolution was passed declaring the
Mohammedans to ba opposed to the Indian
National Congress.
A few nights ago Farmer Jones, of
Portemlle, Cal lost a fine sheep by coyotes.
He turned in tbe fields a drove of wild hogs
and left tha carcass. In hopes the coyotes would
pay another visit Sura enough, tha next
night three came for another feast but the
hogs took a hand, cornered the varmints and
mangled them so badlv that their mothers
could not recognize their babies.
At a recent meeting of the Society of
Aerostation In Berlin Prof. Griese entertained
the assembly with a description of an Inven
tion of his, by means of which a man witb his
own muscular power only may leap up into tha
air and fly for a short time. The machine is
called a sprungflngel. Several scientific men
have become convinced tbat Herr Griesa's in
vention is serious, and that it will aid consid
erably in solving the problem of navigating tha
air.
A good deacon of the town of Perry,
Me., tells a startling story regarding his curious
experience while killing fowls last Wednesday
morning. He was preparing for an extensive
dinner, and killed three fowls; the last one, in
stead of flopping around like an ordinary hen
and dying when its bead was cut off, got up
and walked abont ten feet laid an egg and
give up tha ghost In the meantime the fowl's
sad cackled for nearly a minute before that
too. became quiet
Our present methods of embalming are
so superior to those of the ancient Egyptians
that a modern embalmer might leave a human
body so perfect that after 3,00(1 years, says the
Lancet, "not a lineament need be wanting for
identification tbat would not satisfy even tha
cotemporary of tbodead person." The mum
mies unrolled nowadays are dried up out of
recognition. But tha embalming process Is
liable to go out of use before the advancing
practice of cremation.
Part of a Persian poem, written to wel
come Prince Albert Victor to Bombay, which
he was "graciously pleased to accept" hi trans
lated thus: "A Prince independent in dlenity,
high in beauty and grace, as lovely as the moon,
the World boasts of the abilities of him de
scended from a royal line most exalted. Born
to an heir apparent at whose feet the highest
heavens do reverence, to whom the world far
and wide pays homage, the confronting enemy
yields readily to his sword. Descended from a
line of Emperors who are fit to occupy the very
firmament of heaven as their throne, for tha
display of whose glory the world is not wide
enough, Victoria, whose righteousness has
made the world like Arztang."
Violets sell in New York nowadays for
SI 60 a bunch. There are about 50 violets in
a bunch. Notwithstanding the price there is
great demand for them, and florists say that
there would still be considerable sales if they
were S10 a bunch. In every florist's establish
ment there are men and girls employed whose
chief work is to fasten artificial stems on flowers
intended for large bouquets and floral pieces.
Ordinarily, flowers do not require much hand
ling. Bat owing to its frail stem, every violet
must have a support even for a small bouquet
This is one reason why violets coma so high.
The end of a bit of fine florist's wire is inserted
into the flower from below and twirled around
tba stem. It takes a good while to prepare a
very small bunch for sale.
The way tbe Bussian Minister of the
Interior moves against an unsympathetic jour
nal can be seen from a Ministerial order which
has just been issned to the following effect:
"Whereas, the European Messenger in a whole
series of articles conducts itself In nootberway
than In a spirit of condemnation of tne most im
portant acts of the Government and that tbe
articles of M. Sole vieft", published in that peri
odical, entitled. The History of Russian Con
science,' and containing exasperating criticisms
directed against tho Russian Church and State,
in their historical development inculcate falsa
Ideas on tbe subject and shake respect for tha
principles of their foundation and for the prin
ciples of Bussian nationality in general, tha
Minister of tbe Interior announces a first warn
ing to the editor of the .European Messenger in
tbe person ot tbe actual State Councilor,
Michael Stasoolevich." m
BOSTONIAN WITTICISMS.
love is a species of intoxication that swells
the heart Instead of the head.
Diamonds have a great deal of influence
where hearts are concerned. So they say who
speak by the card.
A True Gentleman. "What is your idea
of a gentleman, Yellowly?"
"A true gentleman always laughs at the joke of
a story and never says that he heard il before."
THE LAMBKLSS.
"". I love to tee the little lambs at play
in summer on the flowery, verdant leas, ."
Bat on a wild and wintry, stormy dav
1 lovo the little lambs served up with peas.
He (about to ask for a kiss) I have an
important qne stlon to ask you.
8he(playruUy)-IknowwhatItls, Oeoree. lou -.
want me to be your wife. Well, take me.
He (rather taken aback)-Thls Is somewhat iad
den, Isn' tit? . .
She (tenderly)-I don't know, George, whether
it Is sudden for you or not but I hare waited for
it for three years.
A. WIABT NIOHT.
Within the grate a bright fire gIowinj,3
Around Its ruddy comfort throwing,
A single rocking chair
A hand, a soft and sweet band pressing,
A tender arm a waist caressing,
A head with rippling hair
Contented on a shoulder lying.
On wlnrs of bliss the moments flying
Ah! who would not be there?
THE HATTER'S HARVEST.
"When cooler grows the blood,
And clearer are the skies, '
When thrown Is all the mud
And nailed are all the lies.
When speakers cease to spout, "Sk
AQU UUUC4 .v,avu v v.m, r
When heelers cease to go aoom
And Sift are taken In.
When ceased of war's the tug
And all becomes serene.
Pull many a new silk plug
"l" ;TfIU on the street be seen.
-i All Irom Bolton Court
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