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THE PITTSBUBG DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1890.
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PITTSBURG. WEDNESDAY. JAN. 29, 189a
THE REPUBLICAN CITS' TICKET.
The Republicans put their city ticket in
the field last night, and an easy time they
had of it, asGourley for Mayor, Denniston
for Treasurer and.Morrow for Controller were
all without opposition. In the last two
named instances opposition would have
been futile. Denniston and Morrow are
two straight-out, faithful public officers.
Every one. without regard to party politics,
knows that they are honest and capable, and
that they attend to the city's business with
rigid fidelity. It is a worthy compliment to
both and an encouragement for office-holders
built on that plan, that they continue to get
the indorsement of both parties.
Mr. Gourley has not hitherto held an ex
ecutive office in the city government, bnt he
served long in Councils, and there are few
citizens better known or better regarded. In
the 25 years during which he has taken part
in public affairs no complaint has ever been
made that he was lacking either in intelli
gence or honesty. He will have a strong
opponent to meet in Jndge Bailey, but it
will prove a serious mistake to regard Gour
ley as a weak candidate. His capacity is
unchallenged; his manners are amicable,
and so far nothing is alleged that will be apt
to lose bim any considerable number of Be
publican votes, if, indeed, be lose any at all.
The only ground upon which the opposi
tion can draw votes from Gourley is the
general argument that, with the remainder
of the city government Republican, it might
be well to have a Democratic Mayor. But
bow far that will work, it remains for .the
canvass to show. At present Gonrley's
chances look pretty well.
TEE LEAGUE'S BACK-SET.
The decision against the League in its
application for a preliminary injunction
against John 'Ward, the leader of the
Brotherhood players, is a backset to the
pretensions of the older organizations to a
fee simple ownership of the players whom
it has employed in past seasons. "While it
is only the preliminary injunction that has
been refused, and the League has the ability
to resort to similar suits in other States, the
decision bears out the general impression
that baseball players are their own property.
Contracts which reduce them to the level of
merchandise and make their transfer a mat
ter of barter and speculation are so repug
nant to the spirit of our laws that the courts
cannot be expected to enforce them. The
pnblic position of professional baseball
players may not be an ideal one; but it will
gain a decided improvement from this as
sertion that they own themselves.
PROFITLESS POLICIES.
The outpourings of oratory in the Senate
over the Aberdeenr outbeak of pro-slavery
brutality, was an advance on its prede
cessors in the exhibition of some conces
sions from each side, to the position of the
other. Senator George admitted that the
Aberdeen affair was an unjustifiable out
break of the mob spirit. Senator Spooner,
on the other hand, conceded that it was nat
ural lor the Southerners to bury the leader
of the lost cause, and the cause with him, in
a spirit of public mourning. This presents
tbe hope that the North and South may, in
time, reach a common platform.
Nevertheless, the debate was, as a whole,
profitless wind. Tbe Southerners dodged
the fact that a graver thing than the glorifi
cation o! a dead issue was present in a bru
tal violation of individual rights. Both
sides lost sight of the truth, that the pursuit
of instances of ignorant and stupid mobs,
burning or hanging public men in effigy, is
wholly unworthy the attention of a high
legislative body. The Republican Senators
also avoided the point, that whether it is
constitutional or not, tbe attempt of the
national Government to expose and
punish violations of perianal rights
in any State will be wholly useless.
This is the real point which makes all
fighting over the Southern question profit
less. The North long ago learned by ex
perience that the policy of forcing civiliza
tion and enlightenment upon the South by
national authority cannot succeed. The
South has been left to work out its own sal
vation. If the Southern States will guar
antee protection of individual rights and
political liberty, tbev will receive an influx
of immigration and capital that will make
them great. If they permit such acts as the
Aberdeen and Barnw ell county outrages to
go unpunished, they will be avoided by the
enterprise and industry of the nineteenth
century. The South will suffer more from
such exhibitions of pro-slavery barbarism
than any punishment which the national
Government could inflict. On the other
band, Georgia and Alabama are learning
the progress that can be gained by good
order and enlightenment.
The Sonth must choose for itself between
mob barbarism and government by law.
The attempt to make a national issue of its
choice was abandoned by the people four
teen years ago.
MBS. PABNJiLL'S CIBCUESTAHCES.
The renewal of reports that Mrs. Parnell,
the mother of Charles Stewart Parnell, is in
a destitute condition will cause some com
ment on the peculiarity of the case. "When
the last report of tbe sort was current it was
stated that friends ot the lady had made
provision for her comfort. If the present
Etories are true, either some persons are
plundering Mrs. Parnell, or the statement
that her friends had relieved her was false.
If the latter is true the friends of Ireland
ought to act; if the former, steps should be
taken to place tbe lady's affairs under
proper guardianship. The friends of Ireland
have shown their readiness to come to the
rescue of their leader and his mother; but
they have the right to make sure that their
contributions are not perverted to the flat
tering of harpies and blood fuckers. The
renewal of the publications calls for prompt
action.
VAKBT.-RS,
There is no doubt about it any longer. A
wise man of Boston has settled. Playing
marbles is the ruin of our yonth. Juvenile
depravity is no longer a puzzle. Marbles
are another form of tbe forbidden fruit.
The Bostonlan authority says: "Playing
marbles and all games that bring the face
and hands forward and down, tend to de
grade children in many ways. In the first
place the position cramps the vital organs,
narrows and shortens the front thoracic
cavity, and widens, lengthens and bends the
back, which is just the reverse or what is
desired. It also makes tbe head shoot for
ward, all of which are injurious to health
and morals."
Besides making the head shoot forward it
must be added that tbe playing ot marbles
has been known to induce the fist shoot out
and collide with the head of another boy.
It has also led to spasmodic kickings, and
other phenomena of an over-excited nervous
system. Bnt we are hardly prepared to say
that all these terrible consequences are ex
clusively peculiar to the game of marbles.
All sports popular with boys are liable to be
productive of painful tendencies toward
destructiveness and combatlveness. Toys
sometimes suffer; sometimes other boys.
There is one objection which can sensibly be
advanced against the use of marbles, and
this is that marbles are easily swallowed
but not as easily digested by the infantile
members of the family. As a steady diet
marbles are not wholesome. Marbles have
been known to produce awkward complica
tions when used internally. All the same,
and perhaps because of the objections,
marbles will continue popular.
ENGLAND'S FUEL.
The remarkable contrast which has lately
been presented by the advance in the En
glish iron market to a point which has even
permitted the shipment of American iron to
England in exceptional instances, is gener
ally attributed to a disproportionate and
speculative boom on the other side of the
water. Trade reports from England, how
ever, give intimations of another change in
the factors of iron production, which, if it is
permanent, may produce a reversal in the
relative positions of the iron trade of this
country and Europe.
That change is in the price of coal. A
statement is published that the London and
Northwestern Railway, which has hereto
fore been making contracts for coal at the
rate of 6s per ton, has been forced
to renew them at 10s as the lowest price ob
tainable. Such an advance in the price of
the fuel that has created English manufac
tures, just as the same fuel has created
Pennsylvania's industries,may have the most
far-reaching effects. The difference between
$1 44 per ton and ?2 40, may involve the
difference between the command of the
world's market for iron manufactures and
the necessity of yielding the market to bet
ter sitnated rivals.
If, as seems possible, this increase in tha
cost of fuel is due to the redaction of En
gland's unmined reserves of coal.it is likely
to be permanent; and if it is permanent, it
implies the transfer of the iron supremacy
to Pennsylvania and the Southern iron dis
tricts. Our stock of coal is inexhaustible
for centuries. "With freedom from coal
trusts and railway pools, the iron industries
of the nation can command fuel so much
cheaper than that indicated by the advanced
price in England, as to more than overbal
ance the difference in the cost of labor. Such
an alteration in the conditions, if perma
nent, implies that Pittsburg can take the
place of Birmingham in the world's com
merce. The presumption that this change in the
cost of fuel abroad is of such importance as
to tend toward an industrial revolution is
reduced almost to a certainty by the sale of
30,000 tons of coke from "Western Pennsyl
vania for delivery in Belgium. If foreign
industries are compelled to obtain their fuel
in "Western Pennsylvania, the transfer of
the supremacy in those industries to "Western
Pennsylvania is only a question of time.
Such a decisive indication makes it a prac
tical certainty that Pittsburg, with a proper
improvement of her natural advantages,
will become tho manufacturing center ot the
world.
The magnitude of these possibilities is
sufficient to invest the change with the
keenest interest to this State. The foreign
markets for iron and coal should be watched
with the closest attention. They may indi
cate an approaching expansion of our possi
bilities by almost infinite exponent,
HOME-MADE DBAMAS FOB ITS.
It is" surprising how many friends of the
American drama and the American dram
atist are turning up, and where they might
be least expected. Only a year or so ago,
lor instance, the magnificent managers and
impressarios of New York, who determine
what the dramatic diet of the whole country
shall be, sniffed and turned up their noses
when native works and authorB were men
tioned. Some of them still sniff and sneer,
but they do not choose the Bialto for the
exhibition of their contempt for the Ameri
can drama. They sneer in a whisper and
sniff pianissimo. But as we have said, a
year ago a tragedy, a comedy, a farce, a
melodrama or an opera was nothing worth
except it had the stamp of London's or Paris'
approval upon it. New York managers
imported all their plays and some of them
recently have wished that they could import
their audiences too.
"Well, we have changed all that. It is a
race now between the exalted theatrical
janitors as modern managers have been
irreverently termed to see who shall bo the
first to pose as the original patron, pay
master and defender of the American
drama and the American playwright. The
unctuous apostle of cheap cookery and high
dramatics, Mr. J. M. Hill, has taken the
fever, and announces his intention of mak
ing his theaters in New York the temples of
native art. "We may expect the conversion
of Manager Palmer almost any day. And
why?
Plain as a pikestaff: The American
drama, American comedy, American farce,
are beginning to pay. The dividends from
native efforts are large. American play
wrights are opening bank accounts, and the
managers who are lucky enough to get hold
of American plays are coining huge sums
likewise. There have been three or four
prominent examples of this change in stage
affairs lately. The American people have
declared their preference for American
characters, language, life and scenery in
their plays. "Who will regret saying goodby
to the lords and ladies, the villainous
counts, and tbe other caricatures of Old
"World people? "We are producing almost
all we need to support life and make it com
fortable and beautiful, and it is pleasant to
know that we are to have more dramas of
home manufacture now.
The purchase of the McKeesport and
Bellevernon road gives the Pennsylvania Rail
road an entrance to McKeesport and makes it
a competitor for the business of that thriving
town against the Baltimore and Ohio and Pitts
burg, McKeesport and Youghlogheuy road.
Tbi! will be decidedly for tbe advantage of
McKeesport; but it can hardly fail to be no-
tlced that the corporata law, by which railroads
in Pennsylvania were not to be permitted to I
set up competing lines against each other, only j
holds good when the Pennsylvania Railroad
Is the line that is opposed to the competition.
The Coroner's verdict in the Kniflen
mystery at Trenton, N. J., does not tell who
committed tho murder; but It practically de
clares that tbe accusations against the dead
woman's husband and cousin are unsupported
by proof. The officials who arrested those rela
tives of tbe victim on the terrible suspicion,
may now perceive that the practice of accusing
someons of murder, merely because no one
else can be found to accuse, is likely to have its
drawbacks.
ITve-oext fares by the Pittsburg Trac
tion Company, following the samo rate by the
Citizens' line, shows tho effect of a good ex
ample and competition. This reduction of
rates will be appreciated by the East Enders
and will be made up to the companies by the
growth of their business.
And we are informed that one of the
Democratic claimants from Montana for seats
in the Senate is worth $20,000,000. The unwrit
ten law that no man shall aspire to the Fenate
who is not possessed of a barrel, seems to in
clude the whole continent.
It is interesting to learn that Mr. S. "W.
Allerton. ot Chicago, is presenting himself as
a farmers' candidate for the Senatorship. The
spectacle of Mr. Allerton with a big barrel pro
duced by the notorious "eveners discrimina
tion" of the railroads posing as an anti-monopolist
and friend of tbe farmers, while attack
ing tbe inter-State commerce law which cuts
off bis rebates, wonld discount any previous
exhibition of our politics. As a boodle and
corporation anti-monopolist Senator Allerton
would distance tbe field.
It is understood that the fighting quali
ties of the two parties in tbe House will be
tested on tbe contested election cases to-day.
The previous conflicts have been mere skir
mishes; but this fleht is expected to be a
pitched battle. As Mr. Dalzell will be the lead
er of the Republicans, the question, which sldo
will display the winning generalship, bas a local
interest to Pittsburg, in addition to its na
tional import.
The free bridge question popped up
irrepressibly in the Committee on Resolutions
of tbe City Convention last night. Its form of
presentation may have been untimely; bat the
subject is one to which both good policy and
good politics might give a friendly considera
tion. The silence with which the other New
York papers have celebrated the arrival of
Nellie Bly and tbe big advertisement that tbe
IFbrttf bas got out of it, is so eloquent that
its speaking stillness can be heard clear across
the continent.
After all the detailed proofs which were
made during the Ohio Senator canvass, that
Mr. Brice resided in Lima, and always did re
side there, it is interesting to be informed, as
the country has lately been told by authority,
that he intends to build a fine residence there
in tbe spring and will then "remove there with
his family and make Lima his permanent resi
dence." It is well that Senator Brice thus vin
dicates the assertions made in his behalf, even
if the vindication is of an ex post facto charac
ter. The fact that the Topeka "Water Company,
just sold to a New York syndicate. Is described
as the best paying corporation in that place is
regarded by the New York Herald as proof
that Prohibition in Kansas Is not a failure. It
may mean That but its most evident signifi
cance is tbe value of a water company in the
financial operations of the New York syndicate,
And now the talk about that fire engine
test bas a note in it that suggests squawking as
well as talking. Gentlemen, since the test has
been agreed upon, please come up to the
scratch for a fair set-to. This was to have been
a test 'of fire engines and not of oratorical
powers.
Some of the suits against school teachers
which Have come np in the courts lately are
calculated to create tbe impression that dis
cipline in the school system is reserved for tbe
teachers, and bas nothing to do with the
scholars.
"A gxts weighing 110 tons and costing
nearly 100,000, that breaks down after half an
hour's firing, as did that of the British ironclad
Benbow, is not a model for use in arming
American battle ships," remarks the New York
Press. This is true. It is also worthy of con
sideration whether it la good policy to spend
numerous millions in constrncting the costly
and unwieldy vessels built to carry such guns
after they have been demonstrated in Europe
to be so clumsy as to be practically useless.
The practical agreement that the "West
Virginia contest will be settled by men who
will vote according to their party interests
rather tban according to the proof of wbo was
honestly elected, emphasizes the need of a new
breed of politicians, with enough fidelity to
republican institutions to be in favor of seating
the man whom a majority of the people elect.
The New York court takes the view that
the business of selling those fancy articles of
bnman merchandise, known as oaseball play
ers, is one that must be carried on by tbe play
ers themselves. In other words, tho law seems
to be that baseball players own themselves.
The Irish-Americans will be glad fo see
that the posterity of Stewart and tbe mother
of Parnell is not left in want; bnt they will also
wish to see that no one takes advantage of that
lady's confidence to fatten on her slender re
sources. PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
AT A meeting of the House Committee on
Military Affairs yesterday, a favorable report
on tho bill placing General John C. Fremont
on the retired list of the army, with the rank of
Major General, was ordered to be made to the
House.
Among the Fittsbnrgers at the N ew York
hotels are: William Addison, St. James; S. W.
Black, T. M. Black, Dr. J. B. Chantler. Captain
Harry Brown and L M. Arnold, Hoffman; J.
R. McUinley. Thomas R. Gillespie and George
T. Oliver, Fifth Avenue.
Sultan Abdul Hamid lives in constant
fear of his life. When he goes to the Mosque,
which he is required to do every Friday, the
Mahometan Sabbath, he is surrounded by a
guard of 10.000 men, who are loyal because
tbey are well paid. Abdul Hamid is 43 years
old, with a dark beard and swarthy com
plexion. The Empress of Austria's faco and figure
will be a surprise to those wbo have beard of
ber "witching the world with ber noble horse
manship," and of her hunting feats in merry
England, where she bas so of ten led tbe hunt
and always been in at the death. Her face is
exquisitely delicate and refined, and ber figure
of almost girlish sweetness and grace. The
tragical death of ber only son, Prince Rudolph,
last year, crushed all the life and joy from the
heart of the beautiful Empress.
Margaret Fuller was a school mistres
before she became a Marchioness. Sbe swayed
men and women, not by her personal beauty,
for sbe had none, nor by tbe magic of ber
voice, for it was not euphonious, but by the
sheer force of her royal intellect. Roe had
some personal peculiarities which were neither
agreeable nor attractive. One ot these was a
fashion of moving her neck, and looking at ber
shoulders as If she admired them. This gifted
woman is scarcely more than a tradition in
American literature to-day, but the time was
when she was a power dreaded by Longfellow.
Richard Henry Stoddard, who is some
times called "one of our younger poets," is 65
years old. His first poetical effusion was an
Ode to a Grecian Flute, suggested by Keats'
Ode to a Grecian Urn. This was offered to
Poe, who was at the time, 1MB, the editor of
tbe Broadway Journal, but was declined with
out thanks. But upon the strength of tbl3
slight acquaintance, the enterprising Mr.
Stoddard had made f 1.000, writing about his In
terview with Poe. Mr. Stoddard has not what
Is usually regarded as a poetical face, but he
bas a warm and generous heart, and loves Mr.
Stedman and Mr. Didler like a brother.
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
A New Idea of Nelly lily's Feat A Coinci
dence In tbe Theaters.
A couple of women were among the passen
gers in a Manchester car on Saturday
night, and they were tbe loudest talkers in a
general discussion of Nelly Bly. Everybody
was talking of tho plucky little woman's jour
ney. Says one woman to the other: "Who is
this Nelly Bly they're talklne about?"
"Why she's a former Pittsburg girl," the
other woman replied, "and it seems she's run
ning a race around tbo world with another
girl."
"Around the world, did ye say t"
"Yes going in opposite directions and one
going 'round by rail and tho other by water!"
and the woman spoke with ill-concealed con
tempt for tbe ignorance of the other, and with
evident confidence in her knowledge.
JT Is a rather curious coincidence that while
Miss Cora Tanner is acting at the Grand
Opera Honse, her old play the play in which
Bhe first starred, I believe the not very valu
able "Alone In London" occupies tbe stago at
Harris' Theater next door.
Miss Tanner bas a genuine love for her pro
fession and an honest ambition to shine among
larger stars than sbe has yet been classed with.
That's why a more generous consideration of
her work is dne ber, tban women who look
upon the stage with mercenary eyes alone can
expect from the critics. There is certainly no
need foryMIss Tanner to stay upon the stage to
make money. Her husband. Colonel Sinn, bas
the best theater in Brooklyn, and it is some
thing like a gold mine. His income Is, I have
heard, from that theater alone, over 30,000.
A CHIHESB STUDENT'S TEAYELS.
Educated In Americn, He Comes Back
After Havlns Ronmed tbo World Over.
New Yoke, January 28. Among tbe passen
gers of the steamer Servia, which arrived from
Liverpool yesterday atemoon, was a young
Chinese student, named Y. T. Woo. This is
not his first visit to America. He was one of
the SO boys sent over by the Chinese Govern
ment in tbe summer of 1872 with a view to ob
tain the best educationat advantages which
American colleges and scientific schools could
afford. For nine years he pursued bis studies,
first in Fair Haven and afterward in Hartford.
In 1881 be was ready to enter the School of
Mines in Columbia College, and passed the en
trance examination without a single condition.
But in the summer of that year the Chinese
Government suddenly recalled all the students
from this country, and Woo retnrned to bis
native land with tbe rest. His education, how
ever, suffered only a temporary interruption.
Alter remaining in China three years, tbe
greater part of which was passed in the coal
mines at Kalping, in North China, he deter
mined to carry out bis original intention of
making a mining engineer of himself. He
could have come back to America if he chose;
but the Chinese restriction act, which had just
then been passed, raised tbe temperature of bis
proud Chinese blood to so high a point that,
turning bis back upon the country where he
had spent his boyhood, he decided to finish his
conrse in England, and to England be went.
He entered the Royal School ot Mines at South
Kensington, London, and graduated last year
from that institution after completing the
regular course of three years. Then he went on
a tonr of England, Wales, Norway, Sweden,
France and Spain, visiting the principal mines
in those countries.
His stay in this country will be short. He in
tends to remain only two weeks, just long
enough to enable him to pay a flying visit to
his New England trends. Then be will proceed
to Mexico. Ho expects to spend six months
with tbe lmurls Mining Company at Sonora,
and hopes that during that time he will be able
to obtain sufficient practical knowledge in re
gard to the proper methods of working coal
mines. After that he will go Dack to China by
way of San Francisco. The Chinese Engineer
ing and Mining Company at Tientsin bas made
ready a place for bim against his return. He is
now stopping at the Brevoort House.
A WHITE HOUSE EECEPTION.
CongTess nnd tho Judiciary Far Their Re
spects fo lbs President.
Washington, January 28. The President's
reception to Congress and tbe Judiciary this
evening attracted a good, but not unusually
large, assemblage to the White House. Tbe
East room and the corridors were well filled
with ladles and gentlemen in evening dress.
Tbe members of the Supreme Court and of the
Senate and House, in whose honor the recep
tion was given, were not present in as large
numbers as at the Diplomatic reception. The
East room was elaDorately decorated with a
profusion of palms and ferns, banked against
tbe walls, and masses of roses nnd flowers
adorned tbe mantels. The Marine Baud in the
lobby played popular selections during the
evening.
The President was assisted in receiving by
Mrs. Harrison and the ladies of tbe Cabinet,
with the exception of Mrs. Blaine and Mrs.
Proctor. Behind the line a largo number of
pretty girls stood, and received a few callers
after they had shaken bands with tbe Presi
dent. NELLIE BIiT ENGAGED.
The Story of Her Romantic Betrotbnl to
nor Doctor.
Logansport Dispatch to Cincinnati Enquirer.
Friends of Dr. Frank Ingram, of New York
City, are clalmine to have heard from reliable
sources that be is betrothed to Nellie Bly, the
famous globe-trotter. Dr. Ingram was born and
reared here. He was one of tbe expert medical
men wbo examined Miss Bly touching her men
tal condition at the time she was seeking release
from an Insane asylum, where sbe had caused
herself to be sent in order to personally investi
gate the workings of the institution.
Their acquaintance began in this way, and
their friendship was cemented by the energetic
manner in which Dr. Ingram insisted upon her
sanity.
THE BEST PENNSYLVANIA PAPER.
What a California Journal Thinks of Tho
PIttabnrjr Dispatch.
From the Sacramento Evening Bee. j
Among the brightest and best papers in the
Union is The Pittsburo Dispatch. It is
undeniably the best paper in Pennsylvania.
And yet Pittsburg is not nearly so large as
Philadelphia. It is the bnsler city ot tbe two,
however, if we are justified in judging tho
activity, enterprise and push of the communi
ties by the activity, enterprise, push and vigor
ous intellieence of their respective journals.
And More, Too.
Prom the Baltimore American.!
A writer, after elaborate investigation, as
serts that it costs from 5100 to 81,400 to bring np
a girl. Well, the average American girl is
worth every cent of tbe cost.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Mrs. Bnrnh Balubrldse Hnyes.
NEW YOBK.Jannary 23. Mrs. Sarah Balnbrldge
Hayes, the last surviving child of Commodore
Ralnbridge, who commanded tbe frigate Consti
tution in tho latter's celebrated fight with Uulerre
In the War of 181i died this moraine at the resi
dence of her son-in-law, 72 West Twelfth street.
She was In her eighty-seventh year. Her husband
was Captain Thomas Hayes, of the United States
Javy, out he resigned shortly after his marriage
and became prominent in Pennsylvania politics.
Mrs. Hayes was born at the Charleston Nary
Yard.
DInJor William Gordon.
SPECIAL TBtlOnAK TO THE DISPATCH. '
Newcastle, Pa., January 28. Major William
Gordon, orthlsclty, died very suddenly of heart
disease at Ashvllle, N. , this morning. Mr.
Gordon and family were spending the winter In
the Sonth. Major Gordon was a prominent Dem
ocrat and was appointed postmaster of New
Castle by President Cleveland. He was a member
of the famous Roundheads and was well-known
all over the State. The remains will be brought
here for Interment.
Peter Conley.
Peter Conley, well-known throughout this city
and vicinity, died yestcrdav In the old Pitt ward.
Ho was 83 years old, and came to this country 33
years ago Irom Ireland. He was Superintendent
of Locks at Snarpsburg from 1850 to l8o5, and was
the last Supervisor of Uaxland. He was quite a
politician.
Rev. Lyman, N. Freeman.
Kalamazoo, January 23. Kev. Lyman N.
Freeman died at 11:15 o'clock last night, after an
illness often days, following an attack or influ
enza. He was born in Essex, Chittenden county.
Vt., Maris, 1808.
Rev. 8. T. Glllett.
Indianatolis, January 28,-The Kev. S. 1.
Glllctt, D. D., ono of the pioneer Methodist
preacher! of Indiana, died here yesterday, aged
81 years,
Riley Burdetr.
Chicago. January 28. -Kiley Bnrdett, the well
known organ manufacturer, died In this city Ban
day night, aged 71 yean.
OLD LOVE LETTERS.
A Braco of Comediettas Caplinlly Played
by tbe Tuesday Night Club.
A very pleasant meeting in the interest of
dramatic art and courteous 'fellowship took
place last night between the Tuesday Night
Clu b and the Sewickloy Valley Club in the tat
ter's theater at Sowickley. The Tuesday Night
Club held tbe stage with "Old Love Letters,"
that delightful sketch in comedy written by
Bronson Howard, and "Barbara," Jerome K.
Jerome's one-act comedietta. The Valley Club
and a good many of tbe Tuesday Night Club
formed the audience.
AS to "Old Love Letters" the preface must
naturally be that no more telling, natural and
piquant little piece Is to be found in the Ameri
can portfolio of plays. It is simply a dialogue,
and, in fact, begins in a monologue. Like most
things that look simple, it is not. "Old Lovo
Letters" bas as much art in it as many a stan
dard tbree.act comedy. It requires very skilful
artists to bring out its delicate humor and pre
serve its perfect naturalness. Last night the
Hon. Edward Warburton, was played by Mr.
Will Frew, and Jfr Florence Brownlee by Miss
Julia Harding. It may sonnd rather high praise
to give amateurs, but it must be said tbat Mr.
Frew and Miss Harding let very little of tbe
charm and mirth of tbe little comedy escape
them. The ease and composure of Mr. Frew
and bis mastery of the by-play were bis" strong
points. Miss Harding made a very charming
widow, but she did more: her angry petulance
was very real and she Bbono exceedingly in tbe
exchange ot conversational rifle shots over the
old love letters.
Tho second piece, "Barbara," is a slightly
more serious work, and Miss Hagaman bore
the chief burden in it. The pathetic side of
tho character made a formidable demand upon
ner out sne responaea Draveiy, at tbe same
time succeeding in the light comedy touches
which relieve the title role. Miss Julia Morgan
made a bright little ingenue, and Mr. Arter a
dashing lover, with no little dramatic power.
Mr. Burgwin showed a wonderiul make-up as
the benevolent old doctor, who is tbe good
fairy in the play. Altogether both plays were
very cleverly done.
Before tbe performance, the visiting actors
were entertained at dinner at the Park Place
Hotel by the committee ot the Valley Club.
The scenery set for both plays was very pretty,
and the settings were unusually tasteful and
fine, owing to Mrs. J. B. Oliver's kindness in
loaning furniture, etc To Miss Dickson and
Miss Whiting the credit of managing this
pleasant affair is due.
Miss Nells Brown.
Miss Nella Brown stepped out on the plat
form at University Hall last evening and
greeted a very enthusiastic audience. And
they wpre not disappointed, for the lady held
their interest up to an absorbing point during
the entire programme. Sbe is a talented elo
cutionist, a charmingly graceful lady, and her
rendition of tho various numbers testified to
her ability to portray every emotion that hu
manity is capable ot feeling.
Social Chatter.
The dinner-dance was held last evening and
tho German dance at Mrs. Mark Watson's
home.
Miss Maud M. Bters gives a tea this after
noon In honor of Miss Baldwin, of Detroit, who
13 at present her guest.
The second annual reception of tbo First
Battalion Hibernian Rifles will be given at
Imperial Hall next Friday evening.
In a society note in The Dispatch yester
day an error was made, and corrected it is tbat
Miss Sophie Wetzel will be wedded to Mr.
Justus Mnlert on February 13.
Miss Annie Marks, of Allegheny avenue,
Allegheny, was married last evening to Mr.
Charles Byron Strohm, of Worthington, Kan.
Rev. Dr. J. R. Sutherland officiated.
A theater party from the East End at
tended the performance of "The White Slave"
last evening. Tbe party was given in honor of
Mrs. Harry Kennedy, formerly Miss May New
man, who has many friends in the city.
A grand Salvation Army rally will be given
at Homestead on Monday evening, February
3, in the Opera House. The entertainment will
be a tremendous war demonstration, led by
Marshal Booth and Colonel Evans, Chief of
Staff.
At Odd Fellows' Hall, Eighteenth street,
Southside, Wednesday evening, February 6,
"Damon and Pythias" will be given lor the
benefit of Castle Shannon Council 297, Jr. O.
U. A. M. Mr. George S. Gallupe and Miss
Clara Davies, as the stars, will be supported by
an excellent cast of local talent.
Ms. A. P. Kirtlaxd, the late General Sup
erintendent of the West Fenn Railroad, will be
presented with a handsome presentnext Thurs
day by the employes of tbe road. Just what
form this testimonial of respect and regard
will take is not known, bnt rumors of a silver
tea service are floating around headquarters.
SOME VERY HIGH LICENSES.
Tbe Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord
Salisbury as Publicans.
From the Boston Traveller, j
The Archbishop ot Canterbury, the Primate
of all England, has had to take out a license as
a common publican, says a London letter. The
church house, which is being erected in com
memoration of the Queen's jubilee, furnished
the occasion. The house is intended as a sort
of church club, particularly for the conveni
ence of country parsons visiting London. These
gentlemen reqnire "light refreshments" on ar
riving in town as well as at other times, and
these could only be obtained in the house by
observing tbe usual local forms.
The Primate demurred to taking this re
sponsibility on his shoulders, and was about to
refuse point-blank, when Lord Salisbury, the
Lord Chancellor, came to tho rescue. He as
sured His Grace that he was in no worse case
tban he. who had to take out a license for tbe
Law Courts, in which there were 42 drinking
bars. He might have added that no less a
nersnn than tha Oneen herself carries on thn
business of a publican.
it usea to De mat tno servants in me differ
ent royal households were allowed every day so
much beer, wine and ardent spirits. Prince
Albert, not long before his deatb, put a stop to
this waste. Instead, he allowed each servant,
according to his status, so much money, and
opened bars at Buckingham Palace, Windsor,
Osborne and Balmoral, where each could go
and have what he or the desired by paying for
it. The Queen is said todenve considerable in
come from this source, but, being sovereign,
is exempted from paying a license.
ANDREW CARNEGIE AGAIN.
Ho Is Once More Snld to be Encased in n
Rallrond Project.
JSFECIAL TBIBOBAM TO THB DISPATCH.!
Greensburg, January 23. A new railroad,
to tap the rich coal fields In the northern end of
this county, is contemplated. Engineers are
now surveying the new route. The road will
begin at Milltown, north of Turtle Creek, and
continue down Thompson creek to apoint about
a mile below Murrysville. From there the line
will continue up Turtle creek to the farm of
John Stark, where it will take a southerly di
rection and will cross tbe main line of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Penn station and
run into the coal fields in the southern end of
tbe county.
It is believed tbat Andrew Carnecie is at the
bead of the company. The new road will not
interfere in tbe least with the Turtle Creek Val.
ley road, now being constructed.
A Theatrical Question Answered.
Tbe announcement of the return of the Ru
dolph Aronson Comic Opera Company to the
Grand next week, and that two operas would
be presented during the engagement, bas been
the cause of many inquiries being made at the
boxoffice if all tbo artists appeared in "Nadjy"
and "The Drnm Major." Manager Aronson,
in presenting "Nadjy" and "The Drum Major,"
was most careful that the casts would contain
all the favorites, so the public would see the
same artists In each opera but in entirely dif
ferent characters. The following is tbe en
semble for both "Nadjy" and "The Drum
Major:" Pauline Hall, Georgie Dennln, Eva
Davenport, KateUart, Grace Golden, Flor
ence Bell, James Powers, Edwin Stevens, John
Brand, Cbas. Campbell, A. W. Maflin, Ellis
Ryee and others.
Confli motions by tbe Senate.
Washington. January 2a Tbe Senate to
day confirmed tbe following nominations:
Richard Guentherm, of Wisconsin, Consul Gen
eral at the City of Mexico; John F. Winter, of
Illinois. Consul at Manheim; Lewis Gottschalk,
of California. Oonnl at Stuttgart: Jacob
Yoas. of Arkansas, Marshal for the Western
district of Arkansas.
A nenrina; for Montana Contestants.
Washington,. January 28. The Senate
Committee ou Privileges and Elections to-day
took up the Montana Senatorial election con
test, but did nothing more than to set it down
for a hearing on Saturday, February 1. Messrs.
Clark and Maginnli, the Democratic Senators
elect, were present to hear the determination
of the committee.
THE STROLLER'S STORIES.
Odd Opinions and Quaint Observations Gath
ered From Curb and Corridor.
'There are at present, in this city, two
smooth gentlemen from Chicago, who have
a big scheme under way. Just now, when the
scheme has been set well afoot, tbey are occu
pied in giving a wide berth to a tall blonde
gentleman, with overhanging eyebrows, blue
eyes with a steady glare, and a firm,
close mouth, with a light brown mus
tache overshadowing it. Tbe other name of this
gentleman, whom they are trying to avoid, is
Roger O'Mara. The scheme which the Chi
cago gentlemen have in hand is as follows:
Their monthly magazine, the subscription price
of which Is S3 a year, secures to each subscriber
a coupon check good for $190. This check has
attached to it coupons for small amounts which
are exchangeable for groceries, drygoods and
other forms of merchandise. The solicitors
for the magazine aro supposed to arrange, in
each town, with one house of amusement, one
drygoods house, one grocery house, and so on,
for a definite percentage off, and all subscrib
ers to the magazine must deal with those
houses to get the reduction. The reduction. In
certain lines, is very heavy. In tbe theatrical
business SO per cent is off, and in the drygoods
business 23 per cent. Tbe agents of this maga
zine are circulating around the public offices
and wholesale establishments, gathering sub
scriptions. The basis of the affair is similar to
that of tbe Sovereigns of Industry.
JJ arold P. Brown, of New York, was at
tbe Hotel Duquesne yesterday. He de
parted last evening for Buffalo. Mr. Brown is
an electrical expert, and has won a great deal
of unenvied reputation in connection with the
experiments recently had in New York to es
tablish the certainty that alternating currents,
of 1,500 voltage, will destroy human life. Mr.
Brown had just come from San Francisco,
where be was looking after certain electrical
matters. Mr. Brown says that electricity Will
be a dangerous element for many years, as
steam transportation was for a time, until the
people become accustomed to its use. A line
carrying a current of 600 volts, ordinarily not
destructive, may, be freely admits, become
mortal by the irregularity of its power. The
voltage may be Increased at any moment. Mr.
Brown believes that overhead wires are less
liable to irregular voltage than underground
wires.
ATR. Jakes P. Witherow, the engineer and
fnrnaco builder, departed last evening for
Philadelphia, where he will spend about three
days looking after business affairs. Mr. With
erow has become one of the busiest men in
Pittsburg,
M'tTTz do not watch our guests," a clerk in one
of the first-class hotels said yesterday to
the Stroller, "therefore it Bometimes happens
that we are beaten. The fellows who beat us,
strange to say, are traveling men, wbo are sup
posed to care little for their expenditures. We
charge a man according to the time he quits the
house. As we run breakfast from 5 JO to 10.-00
A. K. it happens sometimes tbat a man eats two
breakfasts on us. Tbat is an actual fact. An
other fake is for a man to pay us in the evening
simply to Include lodgintr. get up early in the
morning, eat early breakfast, come down and go
out, without saying a word. One moraine I
chanced to arise early and go Into tbe breakfast
room. Right opposite to me sat a drummer for
a glove honse, who bad paid tbe evening before
for lodging only. Ho went out of the house
without a word. The next trip I called bim
down for the breakfast. Did he blushf Well,
1 should say not. But he paid."
Paptain George C. Hamilton, of Warren,
was in the city last night to see General
Hastings in regard to the Cambria county
primaries. Two or three other gentlemen were
here on the same business. One of them said:
"The event of Monday, at Ebent burg, ends all
this talk about a friendly campaign."
The Stroller.
A BEHARKABIiB PROPHECY.
How Commodore Manry Doscribed a Talk
ine Machine Fifty Years Ago.
From the Washington Star.
Nearly GO years ago the late Commodore
Maury in a jesting mood spoke of recording
human speech by speaking through a trumpet
upon a sheet of paper, and in a General way
described tbe phonograph or graphophone.
This cnrlous prophecy, made In a joke, was
discovered the other day by Dr. G. Brown
Goode, director ot the National Museum, In
looking over the life of Commodore Maury
recently published in London. It is contained
in a letter written by Commodore Maury to a
relative in New York, dated May 12. 1844. At
that time Commodore Maury was Superintend
ent of tho Naval Observatory in this city. If
Commodore Maury had been alive and present
when Prof. Goode read this letter be would
have been astonished to see what the professor
did. He turned and took np a trumpet and
talked into it. He was speaking not upon a
piece of paper, but upon a light wax cylinder.
When he bad finished speaking be inclosed
this little cylinder in a little pasteboard case or
box and mailed it to Mr. E. D. Easton, the
President of the Columbia Phonograph Com
pany, of this city. Mr. Easton put tho cylin
der on a graphophone, adjusted the earpiece
to his ear, and then read what Prof. Goode's
voice had written on the cylinder. It was a
copy of Commodore Maury's letter, in which
he wrote:
"What a pity It is that M. DaGuerre, instead
of photography, had not invented a process of
writing by merely speaking through a trumpet'
nnon a sheet of paper. What a glorious thine
it would have been. I could then have mailed
our letters in the boldest band and at any time.
Instead of saying 'I wrote you a letter last
Monday,' the phrase would have been 'I spoke
yon a ream last Tuesday.' The world would
become a mere scribbling shop a vast book
machine. When out visiting and you wonld
wish to give tbe cook an order, you would only
have to haul down tbe pipe and the cook would
have a written order at her feet, and then there
could be no mistake about the pudding. What
a convenience that would be to housekeepers.
Such a consummation, though, must be left to
the generation of our children. It would be a
carious thing if tbey were to canyon their
courtship in this way."
A STEAM TROMBONE WILL PLAI
On
the Day That Barnaul's Giant Weds n
Salvation Army I.ass.
Schanton, Jannary 23. James Gilbert, re
cently a giant of Barnum's circus, and now em
ployed as a private watchman here, will be
married on February 15 to a young Hyde Park
woman named Williams, who several months
ago was prominent among the Salvation
Army workers.
Tho giant, who towers nearly 8 feet high, says
his bride is little more than 4 feet high, and
that his love romance, which started from the
moment the couple first saw each other, seven
weeks ago, was somewhat hampered by tbe
yonng woman's mother, who forbade bis coming
to the house. But tbi3 was smoothed over
finally, and her consent was given to the match.
Tbe wedding march is to bo played by a steam
trombone, which bas been secured for tbe oc
casion. SAVED PROM SIBERIA.
Hermann Kemplnski Released From Prison
by the Rmslan Government.
Bridgeport, Conn., January 28. A cable
dispatch was received here to-day by J. B.
Klein, the counsel for Hermann Kemplnski,
stating tbat tbat the latter bad been released
from prison by tbe Russian Government. The
dispatch is as follows:
EALiscn, Russia, January 27, 1S9&
Kemplnski bas just been released.
Mrs. KiKFlNSXI.
Kemplnski, wbo bas resided in this city for sev
eral years, was on a visit to his native country
pariTiast summer and was arrested and confined
In a Government prison near St. Petersburg, as
reported at the time. It was claimed that he had
been a member of the Kasslau army and bad come
to America berore reaching his majority. The
Russian Government proposed to banish bim to
Siberia. Lawyer Klein appealed to the State De
partment, presenting proofs that Air. Kemplnski
was a naturalized American citizen, and the mat
ter was formally called to the attention of tne
Russian Government, which has now rescinded
tbe order for his banishment.
A SHORT STRAWBERRY CROP.
The Winter Supply in tbe South Curtailed
by Frost.
Charleston, S. a, Jannary 23. The straw
berry crop, which gave abundant hope of being
very large, has been materially injured. Tbe
heavy frost of Friday morning killed all the
flowers on tbo plant, and for the present tbo
only supply can come from the undeveloped
berries now on the bushes.
Those who bave had considerable experience
In berry growing say tbat there will be no
chance foe nsw flowers before the regular
spring season opens, as frosts aro to be, ex-peoted.
our. MAIL POUCH
Ladles and Saleswomen.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
There is a paragraph from the pen of Sallie
Joy White, In Wide Awake, quoted in your
issue of to-day, in which in tbe veriest abandon
of pitiful snobbery, Mrs. White flings another
handful of muddy sarcasm at a class of young
women who, of all tha girlhood of America,
most enlist our sympathy and admlratlcri. This
foolish woman objects to tbe young people
behind the counters styling themselves "ladles"
because tbey are not persons of "leisure?1
though by what etymological somersault Bhe
leaps Into this conclusion, I am at a loss to
imagine, for never in the history of the word
had it snch a significance. It comes
possibly from the Saxon "hljef-dasg," the
loaf-giver, or more probably from the
Gothic "blad" covered, meaning the one wbo
stands in the presence of others with the head
dress on. But even supposing tbat lady means
a person of leisure in its derivation. Its modern
acceptance id very different. The word wife is
from the Saxon weof an. to weave, and means
tbe weaver; and Mrs. White might jnst as well
berate us for calllngonr spouses wives, because
tbey do not spin, as whine at our calling these
commercial maidens ladles, because tbey are
not frivolous, empty-beaded, novel-reading, do
nothings wbo, in ber opinion, are alone worthy
of tbe exalted title.
May I give my definition of a lady f Sbe is a
woman of some culture, good manners, i clean
life and a modest bearing. The very no plus
ultra essence of disgusting snobbery Is this
assumption of superiority on tbe part ot
American women "of leisure" to look
with condescension on their sisters wbo
earn their living. lam on visiting terms with
a lady, whose husband began life as an errand
boy and ran up tbe whole gamut of positions
tin ne Decame possessor ot a gigantic store.
Now, the orphan daugbter of a clergyman, a
girl who had been educated at one ot our best
women's college?, happened to be engaged in
that store as "saleslady." Tbe next time I
visited the city, I called on Mrs. B.. wbo pro
fessed to be under great obligations to me, and
asked her to show some little attentions to tbe
charming girl, who was so bravely fighting the
world. "Ask ber to your house, Mrs. R," I
said, "and you will thank me lor introducing
you to a very delightful acquaintance."
"What, one of my husband's clerks you must
be jestingl" I shall not soon forget ber un
affected horror. Yet this lady this woman of
leisure's antecedents were very humble, and
her husband bad occupied a similar position to
tbe rejected object of my solicitude.
As society In America is changing, as we are
creeping to tno Deautuui state ot sstneticism
that produces ladies' maids, liveried servants
and page boy, it is becoming tbe proper thing
to despise labor; to class all persons, as Mrs.
White does, wbo have to earn their bread, as
outside the pale of genteel society. To her
mind the counter-girl and the washerwoman
(see her concluding anecdote) aro one and the
same beings. Let me tell her through your
columns tbat behind store counters are women
of all kinds, and tbat many an Intellectual,
bigbbred girl, who would bo an ornament in
any drawingroom in tbe country, sells ribbons
and laces for a living; nay, tbat tbe majority of
the assistants in tirst-class stores, are earnest
sweet-lived gentlewomen, who are only looked
down upon by silly "ladies of leisure," and
I regret to add, sometimes by their own em-
Eloyers, the latter being an anomaly incompre
ensible, as surely selling velvet for oneself is
not more debasing tban selling velvet for an
other. Have I any right to touch on this question 7
Perhaps. For years I have done my best with
my pen to elevate these young people, and In
tbe columns of the public press to ameliorate
their condition. My profession as a platform
speaker leads me into all the great cities of the
country, and I bave been fortunate in meeting
some of the "salesladies" everywhere. I bave
many valued friends among tbem, as I have
among the wives of their employers and tbe
writers in magazines, and I could not eat my
breakfast this Sabbath morning, after reading
Mrs. White's little display of snobbery, until I
bad relieved my mind by writing this hurried
protest. B. B.
Washington, Pa., January 28.
Referred to Our Lady Renders.
To the Editor ofThe Dispatch:
Will you kindly inform me if there is a regu
larly arranged programme for a Mrs.Jarley's
wax-work entertainment, founded upon TJfck
ens' famous Mrs. Jarley, and if so, where copies
of it may be obtained?
anxious Inquirer.
Allegheny, January 23.
Information Wanted.
To the Editor or Tbe Dispatch:
Please state who the proper person Is to ap
ply to, and what the examination consists ot,
for entering the railway postal servicer
A.B.
Allegheny, January 28.
THE DRESSED BEEF INQUIRY.
Railroad Men Testify Regarding Prices
Fold for Transportation.
Washington, January 28. The Vest com
mittee, engaged in investigating questions re
lating to dressed beef Industry, resumed Its
sessions this morning, and examined a number
of railroad men. J. H. Dutcher, general live
stock agent of tbe New York Central Railroad,
testified that the Central used a stock car of its
own and did not use palace cattle cars. The
company had made experiments with tbe pal
ace cars, and from the reports of shippers, he
did not believe there was any less shrinkage in
cattle from the use ot palace cars tban where
ordinary cars were used. On the contrary,
when shipped in the patented cars the cattle
were more brnised and damaged than when
shipped in tho ordinary way.
Jobn Harriett, Traffic Manager of the Balti
more ana Ohio; H. J. Hayden, Second Vice
President of the New York Central, and Frank
Thomson, Vice President of the Pennsylvania,
were other witnesses. The time was princi
pally taken np in explaining why J of a cent
mileage was paid on refrigerator cars, against
the agreement of tbe Trunk Line Association.
Mr. Hayden said tbat tbe dressed beef business
started years ago, and tbe shippers built their
own cars. The railroads had not much confi
dence in the Industry and. therefore, never
built cars of their own, so tbat when tbe busi
ness became a large one, the companies bad no
cars. The railroads bad cattle cars, however,
before cattle owners began shipping in their
own cars, so that tbey were able to transport all
cattle offered.
Frank Thompson. Vice President of tho Penn
sylvania road, stated tbat tbe Pennsylvania
had determined not to carry patent live stock
cars, regardless of what action the Trunk Line
Association might take. It would not only not
pay mileage but would not take the cars. Its
trouble was to move the traffic, and as empty
cars took up as much space as loaded ones, it
as tbey could be sent back to Chicago loaded
with coal and Iron.
A Golden Weddlne Celebration.
ISPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISFATCB.I
Sharon, January 2S. Rev. and Mrs. Charles
Dame, of Portsmouth, Me., celebrated their
golden wedding to-day at the residence of their
son. Prof. S. P. Dame, whom they are visiting
here. A largo number of rclatlt es from differ
ent parts of the country were present. Rev.
Darnels a distinguished clergyman of Maine
and bas been preaching for 62 years.
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES.
Greensuurg Record: Quay will name tho
Republican candidate the Democratic candi
date will be named by the people.
Wileesrarre Record: Two Pattlson del
egates have been elected in Lawrence county.
Tbecx-Uovernor's boom is thus floated in due
time.
Oil Crrr Derrick: The fact that ex-Governor
Pattlson declares no one is authorized to
say he will decline the Democratic nomination
for Governor, makes it appear that Mr. Pattl
son is by no means a disinterested spectator of
his own candidacy.
Warren Mirror: From surface Indications
ex-Governor Pattlson will be tbe standard
bearer of the Democratic party this fall for the
great State of Pennsylvania. If tbe Republi
cans act wisely tbey will nominate Hon. C W.
Stone, and victory will be assured. Otherwise
it will be a battle. Facts, gentlemen.
Washington Star; It appears to bo ac
cepted in Pennsylvania tbat ex-Senator Wal
lace's candidacy for Governor on the Demo
cratic ticket means the snecess, so far as Penn
sylvanla is concerned, of the Randall-Hill com
bination for the Presidency in 1892, while tho
candidacy ot ex-Governor Pattlson or ex-Lieutenant
Governor Black signifies a Cleveland re
nomination, with William L. Scott engineering
tbe Keystone end of It.
Scranton Republican: Ex-Governor Pat
tlson Is a characteristically coy candidate
for Governor. A Philadelphia paper, which
probably speaks by the book, says
Mr. Pattlson is an aspirant, bnt in tha
sense tbat be will not seek the nomina
tion; "if it comes to him unsought, and be sees.
any prospects of an election, ho will accept.
"Prospects of an election" probably means that
f he should sse signs of a rupture in the Re
publican party, resulting in an independent
ticket being placed in the field, Mr, Pattlson
will consent to run. If he waits for that be
might as well retire at once.
CURIOUS C0KDMSATI0KS.
Maple molasses is now being manu
factured In some o tho Interior counties of
West Virginia.
Orrin Heath, of North Conway, N. H.,
has jat killed another bear, making 40 tbat he
has slain since he became a hunter.
A farmer of TTpshur county, "W. Va.,
who owns a number of guinea bens, found a
nest where they bad been laying containing 387
eggs.
Bats were found so plentiful in a barn
near Willlamsport that tha men wbo baa been
engaged to do some thrashing were driven from
their work.
An Allentown cement company is buy
ing muck land in Springtown, Warren county,
where tbe shelly stone under tbo surface soil is
said to make good cement.
Wilbur Eamsev, aged 16, and Miss
Minnie, the beautifnl lo-year-old daughter ot
James L. Mitchell, County Auditor, were mar
ried at Greenfield, Ind., tbe other day.
A man out "West thought he was very
smart when he presented his wife with a bil
liard table as a present, but be felt pretty mean
when sbe gave bim in return a sewing machine.
A trapper at Lebanon, Conn., found,
recently, a strange animal in one of bis traps.
It had tbe feet and tail of a skunk, but queerly
enough not a single bair on all tbe res: of its
body.
An English scientist propounds the the
ory tbat the grip epidemic arose from tho con
tamination of the air by the decaying bodies of
tbe million Chinese drowned in the (neat floods
of 1888.
A 4-year-old son of "William H. "Wood,
of Center Square, Montgomery county, who
swallowed a carpet tack in March, 1888, coughed
it up a few days ago. His throat ailed continu
ally in the interval.
Oklahoma seems to have greater attrac
tions for the negro as an emigration field than
tbe banks of the Congo. There are already 22,
000 colored people tbero, and by the middle of
spring this number will be doubled.
The island of St. Helena is again to be
used as a political prison. This time, instead of
affording shelter to another world-dictator, it
will be the home ot certain Zulu chiefs who
dared to fight against England in defense of
their fatherland.
A half demented hermit, who is supposed
to be a victim of the Johnstown flood, has been
found living in a hovel in a gulch near tha
Carbon Hill bunkers not far from Tacoma.,
Wash. His name is Jasper Milton, and he de
clares that soft coal is all that he eats.
There are in this country and Canada
645 miles of electric street railway, on which
1,280 cars run. Ohio bas tbe greatest number
of miles of any State 93. and runs 161 cars.
while Pennsylvania has but 3 and yet runs
84 cars, more than three times as many in pro
portion. Important banks of marine sponges, in
cluding all the kinds most valued in commerce,
have been discovered on the southern coast of
Sicily. They extend from 15 to 18 marine
leagues in length, and are from 20 to 31 ells in
depth. Greeks and Italians are hastening to
the spot.
An old lady in New Haven died tha
other day and left 52,000 "to James Brown, of
Stonington," and when James was notified,
five of bim appeared to claim the cash. As
sbe didn't particularize tbe James she wanted
to make happy they will bave to divide tha
money between them.
Milton Houser, of the vicinity of Shen
andoah, Pa., bent his head to drink from a
brook, whep be felt a lizard pass his lips, and
quick as thoncht closed his teeth upon it. Then
be tried to extract it by grasping its tail, but
finding it too slippery and observing tbat it was
making toward his throat, he Pit the reptile in
two.
The way immigration has impressed
itself on Minneapolis is shown by reference to
the new directory of that flourishing city,
which contains 2,000 Ole Olsons. 1.910 Erick
Ericksons, 1,215 Nels Nelsons. 1,011 John John
sons, 1,010 Peter Peterson?, 956 Jurgen Jnrgen
sons, 900 Paul Paulsens, 898 Swan Swansons and
210 Andrew Andersons.
The black-head bug has appeared by
the millions In the turpentine forests of South
east Georgia and is doing alarming damage.
Great tracks of pine woods already show blight
and are dying. The bug starts in a pine where
it is boxed and works under the bark, then
around the trunk. Its boring prevents the sap
from going up in the tree and eventually the
tree dies.
Colonel Hart, a farmer in Bradford
county. Pa., has discovered a deposit of min
eral paint on his land and has given an option
to a Portland, Me., syndicate to purchase It
for 2,500, A geologist who examined it reports
that there are at least 2U0.001 tons of tbe sub
stance and that Deneath it mere is a bed of Una
polishing putty. A factory will be erected, of
which Colonel Hart will be superintendent.
George Moffat, who has no home, was
seen by a Philadelphia officer going to tho
doors of the residents along Thompson street
and drinking the milk that had been placed
there by the milkmen. For the past few weeks
the residents have not only found their pitchers
empty, but also missed their supply or bread.
Moffat, wbo is an habitual vagrant, admitted
last evening that he had subsisted oh tbe bread
and milk ho had stolen for the past two weeks.
A house near Newton, N. C, known as
the Reep honse, is causing a good deal of ex
citement in Catawba county. It is claimed that
it is haunted. A great many people go there at
night, and not a few of these seekers after
spooks have some very qneer experiences. The
place is over 100 years old. The present house
is only half that old, the one first built having
been torn down and its timbers burned in order
to drive away the ghosts. A few nights sinca
a party of men were in tbe bonse. when, with a
fearful noise, something appeared to leap from
the top of the stairs right among them, yet
they could see nothing.
An oil portrait of ex-President Grover
Cleveland, mounted In a gilt frame, Is to be
hungup In the White House at an early date.
An estimate of $5,000 for the procuring of it is
contained in tho Treasury estimates for tho
Executive branch in tbe coming fiscal year, in
serted probably at tbe instance of tbe engineer
officer In charge of public buildings and
grounds, who has control over tha arrange
ments of the Wbite House and Its belongings.
This is the first time that snch an item bas ever
been embodled-in the official estimates to Con
gress. Heretofore these pictures have been
either furnished gratuitously by the distin
guished onsinals, donated by friends, or paid
for out of tbe contingent fund set apart for
Executive expenses.
AS YOB LIKE IT.
"When a young man is fired by his best
girl he surely doesn't go off In a blaze or glory.
Kearney hnttrprUe.
"Was "Willie good at the party, nurse?"
Yes, mam. Be only kicked three little glru
and broke two goblets, mum." Stto Xork Sun.
Lot of the Amateur Actor. Stick
Were you in the cast?
fakir Yes; I was cast adrift at Starveboro.
Boston Herald.
"What shape is a ball?"
"Round."
Always?"
"Well, this year the snow balls ain't 'round."
Sew Xorl Bun.
Miss Gotham I don't like young Mr.
Dolley. He fairly talked tbe arm off me last
nUht.
Miss Boston Yes, be also performed verbal
amputation on me. Sew XortSun.
"Fine night," said Smith to Jones as they
came out of the dab.
"Yes." answered Jones as the clock began
strlslnz tbe hour of 13. "It is a fine night, bnt I
expect It will storm when I get home." Boston
Courier.
SHE DIDN'T EITHES.
I cannot see
What there's in me
To make you love me, love, said be.
Then answered she
Quite candidly.
That's what my friends all say to me.
Boston Courttr.'
Penelope They tell me you are an exceU,
lent swimmer, Mr, Boczaway. ,-j,
Tom-Do theyf -.-frf
Penelope-Indeed they do. Sow tell me what?-.
you would do If you were on a yacht with six '
yuunz ladles and It should capsize. Could yon
tare them all? ........
Tom-I wouldn't try. I'd grab the richest and
save her. Uunsty's Wtttly.
YOUTH AND AGE.
In youth's bright morn he feels ambition's
thrill
And la the field cf hnman strife engages
Resolved to'mske a glorious name that will
Go thundering down tbe ages.
When age has carved Its wrinkles on his brow
And he bas drank In lire more gall than nectar.
He's very happy If he gets a place
As custom honse Inspector. ' '
Boston Courier?