THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1890.
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PITTSBURG. THURSDAY. JAN. 30, 1890.
C0NQEZSS IK CONVULSIONS.
The great fight, of which the recent noisy
debates have been merely the picket
skirmishes, began in the House of Repre
sentatives yesterday. "When it will stop,
or after what unseemly turbulence, nobody
can say now. The halls of Congress are
likely to bear a striking resemblance to a
circus, wherein the wild animals have es
caped lrom. their cages, for many days to
come.
The combat began yesterday when the
first of the contested election cases was
brought up by Congressman Dalzcll for con
sideration according to the Republican pro
gramme. But the battle was not allowed to
remain upon the field for long. The real
question at issue was declared by the Demo
cratic members to be the extent of the
Speaker's powers in the House so long as no
rules had been adopted. The argument was
heated and extremely personal, and to all
sensible intents and purposes, for the
present, profitless. Speaker Eeed asserted
and maintained, with the Republican ma
jority at his back, his right to define a
quorum. As far as logical reasoning was
concern ed,theDemocraticspeakers,Mr.Crisp
of Georgia, in particular, had the best of
the debate, but theadvantage and irresistible
logic of superior numbers remained with
the Republicans, although at one point in
the debate Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, was
constrained to admit the righteousness of
the Democratic cause. In spite of hours of
argument no conclusion of moment was
reached, and it seems entirely probable that
a repetition of yesterday's waste of time
will occur to-day. It is extremely unfortu
nate for the country; but the spectacle of
Congress fighting or fooling away the coun
try's time is not new.
THE PEESS AT PLAY.
The third annual dinner of the Pittsburg
Press Club, which took place last night,
was crowned with success in all its aims.
Alargeandrepresentative body of the work
ing newspaper men of this city was present;
the guests of the evening were not only en
tertained, but entertaining; the banquet was
in itself perfect, and a spirit of
genuine good fellowship pervaded the
whole affair. The benefit of such a
feast, gracea with the wine of wit
and the food ot sound sense, to say nothing
of the terrapin, is apparent to the dullest
intellect It is good ior busy men, and
journalists are the busiest of men, to play,
and it is still better for men striving apart
in the diverse paths of a grand profession to
take a common assignment and work it up
together.
The community's progress, moreover, W3s
mirrored, we are impelled to say, in the
pictures presented in the personnel of the
banqueters and in the speeches which
formed their desert. s
Happy the day that brought such a
knightly editor as Mr. "Watterson to speak
to the newspaper men of Pittsburg for the
"boys who do the work," and the Press
Club has never enrolled a more honored
member than the Kentuckian. Mr. More
land's powerful description of the progress
Pittsburg has made will be of permanent
value, and the influence of all the oratory,
serious and merry, wise and witty, will be
good and great upon the makers of Pitts
burg's newspapers, and indirectly upon the
general public The Press Club can con
gratulate itself candidly upon the third
annual banquet in its history.
A CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM.
The plan of co-operation adopted by Mr.
Alfred Dolge, a large manufacturer of
felt shoes, in New York State, is an in
teresting experiment, and is evidently of a
kind to strengthen the unity of interest be
tween the employers and employed. It
differs from other plans of co-operation and
profit-sharing in material respects; but it is
inspired by the same motive of increasing
the interest of the workingmen in the estab
lishment where he works, and in providing
him with provision against old age, sickness
or adversity.
Mr. Dolge's plan is based on the idea of
rewarding length and fidelity of service, and
thus obtaining from his employes the better
work that can be expected from those whose
Suture is identified with their employers,
and know that fidelity will meet with full
recognition in the end. To this end provision
is made for (1) pensions ranging from SO to
100 per cent of the wages of the workman in
case of disability after service of from ten to
twenty-five years; (2) insurance of 51,000
for each five years of service up to filteen;
and (3) an endowment depending upon the
record of the workman for amount and
quality of work done.
The operation of this system clearly is
toward making all the workingmen who
partake in it capitalists on a small scale.
The employe who reaches old age after a
life-time of work under this plan, has his
pension, his life insurance and his endow
ment, which jointly ought to be a comforta
ble provision. "What are the provisions for
insuring the advantages, against the possi
bility of Insolvency, or for commuting the
Interest of the workman, if his circumstances
should require him to change his employ
ment, do not appear from the reports; but it
is evident that these points must be equita
bly guarded in order to make the plan a
success.
The progress of this experiment will cer
tainly be watched with great interest It is
by such efforts as these that the final and
satisfactory solution of the relations of labor
and capital will be reached.
nuxldtyhiG constitutions.
It is disturbing to learn, on the authority
of the Philadelphia Press, thatthe Constitu
tion of the small State of Delaware would
provide political equality and prevent the
practical disfranchisement of a certain class
of voters, if it was enforced. But it is as
serted by our cotemporary that the Consti
tution of Delaware is nullified, which is
Tery correctly declared to be a wanton and
unjustifiable policy on the part of the domi
nant party in Delaware.
The esteemed Frets is quite right in that
respect, and it would be no less right if it
declared that it is unjustifiable to nullify
the Constitution of Pennsylvania. The
fundamental law of this State which con
trols much larger interests than those of Del
aware, has a number of very salutary provi
sions concerning the regulation or corpora
tions. Yet those provisions are reduced to
a dead letter, and notwithstanding campaign
pledges the dominant party has done noth
ing to enforce them.
The people who nullify the Constitution
in Delaware, and those who do the same
thing in Pennsylvania should be held up to
the reprobation of all those who believe in
constitutional government for the benefit of
the people.
VIOOEOUS OHIO POLITICS.
The extreme to which partisan politics is
so often carried in the neighboring State of
Ohio was again illustrated yesterday. A
few years ago Lieutenant Governor Ken
nedy, now a Congressman, decided that 17
Senators, in a contest proceeding, consti
tuted a majority of a body whose total mem
bership was 37, and yesterday, in the same
branch of the Buckeye General Assembly,
the presiding officer, who now happens to be
a Democrat, distinguished himself by
supplying some new aad seem
ingly original parliamentary decisions.
For instance, when an appeal was taken
from one of his rulings, he himself voted,
thereby causing a tie, upon which he de
clared his action sustained. On the other
hand, his opponents now declare that they
will carry the case which involves the sec
ond office in the State to the Supreme
Court, and base their hope of ultimate suc
cess not so much on the justice of their case
as the fact that this tribunal is unanimously
of their particular political laith.
Another feature of the proceedings wan
the appearance of onee Snator who has been
and is now seriously ill, but who was taken
from his couch by the necessities ot his
party. And this is in the face of the fact
that since the assembling of the Ohio Legis
lature three of its members have died of the
same general complaint, in one case death
being undoubtedly hastened, at least, by a
precisely similar exposure.
Without entering at all into the merits of
this particular case as to which individual
should be Lieutenant Governor of Ohio it
must be apparent that some method should
be adopted by which a matter of this nature,
which should be judicially determined upon
the facts, can be in some degree withdrawn
from purely partisan action upon either side.
OPPOSING GERMAN EMIGRATION.
The cablegram which appears in this
issue of The Dispatch, announcing that
the German Government intends to inter
pose stringent regulations as a preventive of
emigration, will not be surprising to those
who have observed the recent utterances of
German statesmen upon the subject It has
been apparent for some time that the great
tide of emigration from the Fatherland,
chiefly toward America, had alarmed the
authorities of the German empire. Pre
ventive measures were to be expected there
fore, although we were hardly prepared for
their production so soon.
"With the scant information at hand we
can barely surmise what the effects of such
legislation are likely to be. It is certain
that the movement will not be popular with
the masses of the German empire. The
reasons for emigration are perhaps nowhere
more urgent and important than in army
burdened Germany under the rule of a war
like Prince. America offers great induce
ments to all the peoples of the Old "World,
but to none greater than she offers to the in
dustrious, liberty-Iovin.- Teuto.i.
If the refusal of passports to youths under
the age of 19 is the keynote of the proposed
restrictions, then severity is clear. Un
doubtedly a very large number of German
emigrants to this country are under that
age. That the German people will resent
this curtailment of their liberties we do not
doubt And they will have the sympathy
of America in the struggle, if it come.
SWITZERLAND'S DILEMMA.
Poor little Switzerland hemmed in on
every sidj; by greedy countries immeasur
ably her superiors in point of power, is not
unnaturally prone to fall a victim to hyster
ical scares. Of late her principal fears have
been excited by the unfriendly attitude of
Prince Bismarck, manifested in a multitude
of petty ways. Switzerland reads in the
disposition of the "German Chancellor to an
noy her through diplomatic channels, a de
sire on his part to pick a quarrel with the
little Republic which bars his way to a
western invasion of France.
There really seems some ground for
Switzerland's uneasiness. The Swiss rail
ways are virtually owned by German bank
ers, who, probably by the instigation of those
at the head of affairs, advanced the money
for their construction at suspiciously low
rates, underbidding English capitalists who
expected to obtain the contracts. In case of
a war with France there is no doubt that
Germany would seize upon and make use of
the roadbeds and tunnels, with or without
going through the farce of demanding the
reimbursement of the sum expended upon
them, in an incredibly short time. The Swiss
Government has become aware that it is a
matter of vital importance to redeem its rail
ways from German control, even at a con
siderable outlay for such necessary inde
pendence, but it may be expected that Ger
many will throw every obstacle in the way
of a consummation so desirable for the Re
public. Switzerland is determined to find a
remedy for this state of affairs, and her
counselors seem to think that the best plan
is to borrow enough from England to buy
back the Swiss railroads from their German
owners. But the purchase might be very
difficult to effect if Prince Bismarck op
posed it. And oppose it Bismarck is pretty
sure to do.
At present California seems to enjoy the
unlqne distinction of having the only big snow
drifts In tho country. Evidently California is
adept at "raising the wind."
It is certainly fortunate for the much
abnscd and plucky Prince Ferdinand of Bul
garia if the report that he is about to marry a
wealthy American girl be true. It is a novel
pleasure also to congratulate our country
woman upon ber choice of a husband, for
Prince Ferdinand has revealed many admira
ble traits since he ascended the shaky throne
ot Bulgaria.
The gentleman who declared yesterday
that he did not think his American citizenship
worth fifty cents is probably right His value
is clear.
Actobs, when business is bad, are accus
tomed to live on very little with great fortitude,
but it strikes the players who are imprisoned
In the great Central Pacific snow blockade as
very hard that In the middle ot a prosperous
season starvation, should stare them in the
face.
The Press Club banquet of the future
will not be complete unless it has Mr. Georgo
Welshons to illuminate it with wit and satire.
The busy reporters, editors and newspa
per proprietors learned last night that the
power of the knife and fork is second only to
the power of the pen. What they will learn of
indigestion to-day will swell their stock of
knowledge still more.
The progress of the iron market toward
a conservative bnt marked improvement In
prices is one of tho best signs of the times.
Bdkglaes are at work in all the nearby
villages in the Ohio valley. The need of an
organized police force In those suburbs of
Pittsburg is growing daily inore apparent. The
residents should bestir themselves in their own
defense.
How do you enjoy this spring, summer,
autumn, we mean winter, anyhow?
A Philadelphia editor goes to the
penitentiary for five years for stealing more
maney than the average editor ever saw. And
yet he misappropriated only $9,000.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
The late Robert Browning translated parts
of Homer into English when be was 8 years
old.
Horatio Alger, who has spent his life In
writing books for boys, has made a comfortable
fortune in this line of literature.
Louis Walker, of Meadville, a brother-in-law
of Senator Delamater, is registered at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City.
"Calamity" Weller, well known In con
nection with Iowa politics, has been seriously
sick for several weeks, and is not expected to
recover.
during the changeful weather of the past
month Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has re
mained in-doors nearly all the time at her
Hartford home.
Axosa the Pittsburgers at New York hotels
are: Henry Sproul. the broker, with his bride,
at the Brunswick; F. W. Oerdcs at the Albe
marle; Marvin F. Scaife at the Hoffman.
Hartford, Conn., was qnite a literary cen
ter on Sunday. Amelia B. Edwards was enter
tained by Charles Dudley Warner, and Will
iam D. Howells was the guest of Mark Twain.
Auonq those who have accepted invitations
to the banquet to be given on February 13 by
the Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta. Go., are
Messrs. Cbauncey M. Depew, William R.
Grace, Edward Atkinson, William C. Whitney,
Joseph H. Choate. J. Edward Simmons,Charles
S. Smith and Cornelias N. Bliss.
Ferdinand Ward, whose financial Napo
leonism landed him at last in Sing Sing prison,
looks like a physical wreck. He is bent and
lifeless, and bis cheeks are sunken. His face
has become white and he looks ten years older
than when he entered the prison. He has be
come a very expert typesetter.
Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton and other
more or less prominent women have organized
tho Lucy Webb Hayes Temple Association.
Their aim is to erect in Washington a monu
ment to the lata Mrs. Hayes. They want 5,000
charter members at $5 a member. Several hun
dred members have already been obtained.
Rev. J.H. Dtnsvobb, D. D.. who died at
Washington, Pa., last week, left JS.000 to Wash
ington and Jefferson College for the founding
of four scholarships for students who contem
plate entering the ministry. Mr. Dinsmore was
a professor in the Washington (Tenn.) College,
and spent many years of his life among tho
struggling churches of Kentucky. He was a
graduate of Washington and Jefferson College
and of the Western Theological Seminary.
Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, the last
love of Edgar A. Poe, was a woman of ex
quisite beauty, whose face was a poem, and
whose life was a romance. She mourned her
poet lover for more than 30 years after his
early death, and defended bim from first to
last, with all a woman's deep faith and undying
love. His friends were her friends, his
enemies her enemies. He was an idol, en
shrined in her heart of hearts, to be wor
shiped there for ever more. In her latter
years, she always dressed in white, with a veil
of the same color thrown over the back of her
head, and she sat in a room lighted by alabas
ter lamps, whose shades wore lined with rose
color.
THE P00E OP HER NATIYE PUCE
Gcneroasly Remembered In the Will of a
Wealthy German Lady.
Philadelphia, January 29. Among the
wills probated to-day was that of the late
Theresa Christina Kinike, widow of the late
Joseph Kinike. who died several years ago, and
who was well-known for the interest he took in
the different German institutions in this city.
The testatrix died on the 16th inst.. leaving an
estate estimated at over 300,000: 1250,000 of
which consists of personal effects. The will
bequeaths 44.000 to the various charitable insti
tutions in this city in amounts ranging from
2,000 to 5,000 and contains the following
clause: "I direct my executors to pay over to
the proper civil authorities in Germany the
sum of 30,000 as a permanent trust fund. The
said authorities shall invest and reinvest said
trust fund in lawful securities, and shall apply
the income thereof to the support, mainte
nance and assistance of the aged and infirm
poor of the native place of my deceased hus
band and myself, namely the town or villa of
Erkelu. in the district ofJHoxter, Kingdom of
Westphalia, Germany."
After making a number of private bequests
to relative, many of whom reside in Germany
and in different parts of the United States,
ranging in amounts from 5,000 to $500. the last
mentioned sum being devised to a servant in
ber employ, the will is as follows: "And as to
all the rest, residue and remainder of my
estate, of whatsoever kind and wheresoever
situated, I direct my said executors to dis
trionte the same among such charitable insti
tutions and in such proportions as they shall In
their discretion see."
JONES LOST A POCKETBOOK,
Bnt He Donbts Whether an Iowa FIiu Ever
Swallowed It.
rEFECIAL TZLBGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. I
Johnstown, January 29. John J. Jones,
who is referred to In connection with the story
ot the Iowa fish that was said to have swallowed
bis pocketbook and money, was interviewed to
day. Mr. Jones lost his house and all its con
tents, among which was a pocketbook contain
ing some money and valuable papers; also a
slip of paper containing his name and address,
but he could not give the exact amount lost.
Mr. Jones takes very little stock: in tho story,
but would not say positively that the pocket
book was not his. He thinks the coincidence
is, at least, very remarkable.
THEATKICAL NOTES.
AN invention for the purpose of making the
theater-going public happy, is the way the
latest musical farce, "The Fakir," which comes
to the Bijou next week, is announced. The
piece will be illustrated by Hamlin's Farce
Comedy Company, which has among its
comedians Charles V. Seaman, Flora Moore,
Edward Morris, Mario Canill, Charles Ed
wards, Sylvester Cornish, Edward See, Leona
Fontalnbleu, Leslie Edmunds, Florence
Stevens, Fred R. Perry. Annie Pomeroy,
George Dunlap and Mildred Meriditb.
The large number of orders received in ad
vance of the opening sale of seats, and from
personal application being made at the box
offica of the "Grand Opera House," fndicates
that the opening this morning for the "Ru
dolph Aronson. Opera Company, will be at
tended with moro than the ordinary demand,
on the part of the nublic Already many mes
senger boys have been engaged to stand in line
to purchase seats. Mr. Askin, who represents
Manager Aronson, has instructed tho ticket
sellers not to sell more than ten seats to any
one person. All orders received in advance
will be held 24 hours only." As Injustice to
the general public, who have not written in ad
vance, it would not be fair to hold the seats
longer. Keats are now on sale for both
"Nadjj" and 'The Drum Major."
Chnrlcs Edward Lester.
Detroit, January 29. -Charles Edward Lester
died In this city this afternoon of consumption at
the age orSO. Early In life Mr. Lester nu prom
inently identified with the abolition movement,
havlnir as color - bearers In the work
Henry Ward Beecher. Wendell Phillips and Will
iam Lloyd Garrison. "While In England as one of the
delegates from this country to the Exeter Hall
Convention Mr. Lester gathered data- for a work
which he afterward published under the title of
"The Glory and Shame ol England." The book
was hit greatest effort and created a
sensation on both sides of the Atlantic.
The object oi Mr. Lester's book was
to gfcre England its share of credit for emancipat
ing the slaves In the West India colonics, but to
scourge It lor the fearful slavery that existed at
home In the lactones and coal mines. Mr. Lester
received a UonsulihlD to Italy under President
Pierce, lie leaves a widow and ono daughter.
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Bomelnterestlns: Reminiscences of tbo Actor
Forrest Told by Joe Jefferson.
Come advance sheets of Jefferson's autoblog
raphy now being published in the Century
Magazine, reached me yesterday, and some
reminiscences of Forrest which occur therein
may be interesting.
Mr. Jefferson describes Forrest as a handsomo
fellow, with tho form of an Apollo and strength
of a Hercules; his deep, musical voice under
perfect control, and, in pathetic scenes, full of
tears.
"During my long professional life I met him
frequently," adds Mr. Jefferson, "and I should
say that much of his unhapplness for be was a
very unhappy man came from an irritable tem
per, under little control."
"At the conclusion of the Richmond engage
ment," writes Mr. Jefferson, "tho company
journeyed to Washington, where we were to
open with Forrest as JUetamora a character
that he detested, and one that the public ad
mired. Forrest was always in a state of intense
Irritation during the rehearsal and performance
of this drama. Irregularities that he would
hare overlooked under ordinary circumstances
were now magnified to an enormous size, so
that when he donned tbe buckskin shirt and
stuck tbe hunting knife ot tbe American
savage in his wampum belt, he was ready to
scalp any offending actor who dared to cross
his path. Ihe copper-colored liquid with
which ho stained his cheeks might literally
have been called 'war paint.'"
.
AS the curtain rises on the last act the tribe
ot Metamora should rush through the
woods as thoir leader calls them; but by this
time the braves were so frightened that they
had become demoralized, and as the foremost
rushed through tbe opening in tbe woods his
long bow got crosswise between two trees.
This not only precipitated the redskin over it,
but the entiro tribe followed, tumbling head
over heels into the middle of the stage.
"I trembled now lest the "big Injun would
refuse to put in an appearance. At last, to my
relief, the audience quieted down and Forrest
strode upon tho stage. If 1 remember the
story, at this point Metamora! a wife and chil
dren had been stolen away and murdered.
His pathos was fine, and by bis magnificent
acting he reduced his audience to attention
and enthusiasm. All was now going well, and
I looked forward to a happy termination of the
play, which I was thankful to know had nearly
reached its climax."
A nWERAi, pile of burning fagots was then
brought on, at which some pale face
was to be sacrificed. The two Indians in charge
of this mysterious looking article set it down so
unsteadily that a large sponge, saturated with
flaming alcohol, tumbled off and rolled down
the stage, leaving a track of fire in its wake.
"'Put it out!" said Forrest, "put it out',
whereupon the two Indians went down on their
knees and began to blow alternately in a see
saw motion, singeing each other's eyebrows at
every puff. The audience could not stand this
comical picture, and began to break forth in
laughter. 'Let the theater burn!' roared For
rest" V
iiAt last one tall Indian, supposed to be second
In command, majestically waved off the
two who were blowing, and stamped his foot
with force and dignity upon the flaming
sponge, at which a perfect fountain ot burning
alcohol spurted up his leatherlegs. He caught
fire, tried to put himself out, rubbing and
jumping about frantically, and at last danced
off the stage in tbe most comical agony. For
rest made a furious exit; the curtain was
dropped, and the public, in perfect good nature,
dispersed. I mingled with the crowd as it went
forth, and I never Baw an audience, at the end
of a five act comedy, wreathed in such smiles."
IT HAS FEW SUPEEI0ES.
The Detroit Journnl Think the Dlspntch
on Excellent Newspaper.
From the Detroit Journal.
The Pittsburo Dispatch is making de
cided improvements these days and now ranks
with the leading journals of the East. Its
news columns are carefully edited, and its edi
torial comments are sharp, incisiro and belong
to tbe latter day way of thinking. Current
events are discussed in an easy, comprehensive
way, and its opinions are worthy of and receive
respectful consideration from all classes,; From
a literary point of view The Dispatch has
but few superiors certainly none in Pennsyl
vaniaand its Sunday edition affords its read
ers the means for securing a liberal education.
It used to be said that Pittsburg papers were
fit only for circulation in cemeteries; that was
before The Dispatch began to live. It would
certainly make things interesting in a ceme
tery these days.
CONFIRMATIONS BI THE SENATE.
WnlterLyon and the Monongnbeln City Post
mnster Anions' the Lacky Ones.
Washington, January 29. Among the nom
inations confirmed by the Senate to-day were
tbe following:
To be United Btates Attorneys-John W. Her
ron, Southern district of Ohio; Walter Lyon,
Western district of Pennsylvania; George O.
8turglss, West Virginia.
Postmasters Pennsylvania, W. K. Galbralth.
Canonsburg; Lewis Zeigler, DuBols; W. C. Kob
inson, Monongabela City; L. L. Haas, Northum
berland; Davis Kltzmlller, Gettysburg; Ohio,
Julian O. Converse, Chardon; Calvin btarblrd.
New London; M. B. Doollttle, Palncsrille; J.C.
Beattv, KaTenna; Nathan C. Hawley, Geneva: J.
A. Howells, Jefferson: H. C. Marshall, Girard;
Frank McCord, New Lisbon: James Keed, Ashta
bula: G. D. Smith, Garrelsvllle; West Virginia,
D. W. Eoughmcr, Clarksburg.
Compensation for Losses.
From the Washington Star.l
Somebody has taken the trouble to go
through the garden of European royalty and
find that nearly all the plants are dying of dry
rot Somebody else has discovered that the
earth is steadily enlarging itself by additions of
meteorites and cosmic dust It seems that the
world is steadily losing in kings and steadily
gaining from tbe material beavens.
Mississippi Booms Chicago.
Jackson, Miss.. January 29. Both Honses
to-day had before them the question of tho
World's Fair, and adopted a joint resolution
favoring holding the fair west of the Alle
gheny Mountains. An effort was made in tbe
Senate to obtain an expression favorable to St
Louis, but it failed. Chicago seems to be moro
generally favored by the people of Mississippi.
SOCIAL CIIATTEK.
Tho Era of Enclire and Theater Parties
Being Well Utilized.
MRS. A. M. Bters will give a very large
theater party next Friday evening. At the
conclusion of the play the company will be
transferred to the Hyers residence, and an ele
gant supper will be served by Mr. Riley, the
new steward of the Duquesne Club.
The Arbuckle Superior Minstrels will give a
grand entertainment for the benefit of the
Superior Bras3 Band in the Ninth ward school
hall. Allegheny, on the evenings of January 31
and February L
The Pennsylvania Railroad Department
Young Men's Christian Association will give
its third of tho winter's course of entertain
ments to-night in their rooms on Twenty-eighth
street
AN elocutionary and musical entertainment
will be given at the Fourth ward school house,
Allegheny, to-morrow evening by the pupils of
Mrs. Anderson's school.
Miss Bella Bbown will delight a large
audience at University Hall this evening. The
lady is equal to any emergency in the elocu
tionary line.
The East Liberty branch of the T. M. C. A,
will give a delightful entertainment to-night in
tho East Liberty Presbyterian Church.
At the residence of Mr. A. E. Nieman, on
Fifth avenue, next Friday evening, a merry
company will play cards and dance.
Mes. Frank E. Moobk, at her home on
Franklin street Allegheny, gave a delightful
afternoon euchre party yesterday.
The great organ recital occurs to-night at
the new Freemason's Hall for the Scottish
Rite members and their ladies.
Miss Ella Harper, daughter of the late
Samuel Harper, will be wedded to-day to Mr.
Stanley Neely.
The annual examination of the work of the
pupils of tbeBcboolof Design will take place
this morning.
Miss Eiima Webster, of Main street East
nu, wiii euLciMiu uicLua wuj;ub vfiiu carus
and dancing.
The Southern editor, Henry Watterson, will
lecture to-night in Old City Hall.
AMERICAN ACTRESSES' TROUBLES.
Agnes Huntington and Minnie Palmer Can
cel Their London Engagements.
IBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, January 29. Copyright Agnes
Huntington has retired from the cast of "Mar
jorio" at tbe Prince of Wales Theater, though
her namo has been kept on tbe advertisements
and programmes. To a Dispatch correspond
ent she said that she had taken this step after
maturo deliberation and under legal advice.
Miss Huntington thinks that Augustus Harris
has not treated her with proper consideration.
She said: "A groat many reasons lead me to
infer that the management is endeavoring to
injure my professional reputation. They know
that I shall not remain with tbem after my
contract expires, and are, I believe, attempt
ing to hurt my chances in future. The part of
Wilfred in 'Marjorie' is a tenor part and when
I was cast in the operetta Harris agreed to
have the part rewritten to suit my voice. Tbey
put off rewriting it day after day, until it was
too late, and then all the change that was made
was to lower my music one octave. The result
is a fearful strain upon my voice, and one that
it cannot stand. Then I was not given the last
act until two days before tbe performance, and
wo bad only one rehearsal before the first
night All the others had their parts in plenty
of time, and there was no reason why 1 should
not have had the words and music before I
did."
Another reason why Miss Hnntington's
friends believe that the management of the
Prince of Wales Theater do not desire that she
should increase the reputation she made in
"Paul Jones" is that the title is taken from tho
secondary part played by Camilla Darville, In
stead of oeing called after tbe leading role
snng by Miss Huntington. In spite of her
withdrawal from the theater wbero she
bas mado her English success, Miss
Huntington was In tbe best of spirits, as she
had this afterneon received big offers from
four managers.
Minnie Palmer got in her fine work in Her
Majesty's Theater to-day, where she has been
playing the title role in "Cinderella." Minnie,
it will be remembered, left the theater ten
days ago because she could not get her salary.
To-day she led a strike and all the performers
went out The theater is closed, with no pros
pect of reopening. It comes out that the little
American's contract was for 375 per week and
2i4 per cent of the gross receipts. The first
week sho received 1,340 and the second $1,430,
then payment stopped and so did she. There
is now due her 51.075, which she says she will
give to other members of the company If she
gets it The profits of the performance, it is
said, havo been seized by olaor creditors of Her
Majesty's.
Mrs. Langtry is still suffering severely with
bronchitis, and no date is set for tbe postponed
first night of "As You Like It" Her physician
says that her disappointment at not being able
to keep faith with tbe public last night has
aggravated the trouble.
MITCHELL ON FREE SILVER.
He Calls It a Contention Between the Rich
and tho Poor.
Washington, January 29. Mr. Mitchell ad
dressed the Senate to-day on the bill for the
free coinage of silver. It was. he said, a sub
ject involving a contention, in the main, be
tween tbe rich and the poor, between the cred
itor class and the debtor class. It involved a
gigantic effort (or perhaps the term "conspir
acy" might not be inappropriate) on the part
of a special class and its allies to depress
values, in order that the price of creditors'
bond and note mortgages and gold coin might
be increased in value and their power ol ab
sorption augmented.
The pending bill. Mr. Mitchell said, was not a
demand for tbe issue of an unlimited supply of
money, as all agreed tbat such a policy would
be suicidal. It was a bill, however, to provide
for a sufficient amount of circulating medium
bywbich to meet the largely increased and
largely increasing business of the country, and
which would tend to check the alarming de
cline in the value of farms, farm products and
other commodities. Tbe question was whether
the double standard of money should be re
established, or whether gold alone should con
tinue to be the monetary standard. Was the
financial ship of America to sail only in the
wake of the golden tramps of Great Britain f
CHICAGO MAKES A BIG BID.
She WIII Swell Her World's Fair Fund to
Ten Million Dollars.
Chicago, January 29. At a prolonged meet
ing of tho Executive Committee of the Chi
cago Exposition this afternoon. Mayor Crieger
was instructed, after the passago of a resolu
tion, to send tbe following telegram to Colonel
George R. Davis at Washington:
By action of the Executive Committee of tbe
Chicago World's Exposition It Is proposed to In
crease the fund to 110,000,000 by the Issuance of
15, 000, 000 In bonds.
1. C. Cregiek, Chairman.
This matter has been in contemplation for
some time.
ANOTHER CALL ON THE BAN KB.
A Redaction of the Public Balances to be
Mode by tbe 1st of March.
Washington, January 29. The Secretary
of the Treasury to-day issued a second call on
the national bank depositories for the reduc
tion of the public balances held by tbem, to be
paid on or before March L 1890. The call is for
about tbe same amount as the first call.
The Secretary will purchase from these
banks United States i per cent bonds at 124, if
offered bv the banks named on or before Feb
ruary 20, 1890. The number of banks affected
by this call is 80.
The News Far From Home.
From the St. Paal Globe.
There are indications that Pennsylvania will
repeat the experience of 1882, when a Republi
can bolt enabled the Democrats to elect Gov
ernor Pattison. If Quay puts up his man for
Governor the reform Republicans will kick
over. These 80,000 majority States are not alto
gether reliable.
Short-Slghtcd Gothamltcs.
From the Chicago Times. 1
Tbe New York World believes tbat there is
actual danger of an ice famine next summer
unless the Hudson river freezes up. This be
lief is on a par with every thought of a New
Yorker. There is no city on tbe globe but
New York, and the Hudson river is its mouth
piece. i
Hard Ones to Settle.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The scientists cannot account for tho extra
ordinary weather of the past year or two, but
the cranks can. In their minds electricity set
tles the problem. If olectricity would only set
tle the cranks, now, we might be happy yet
Death of the Smallest Unman Being.
Ban Francisco, January 29. Lucia Zaretta,
the Mexican midget, said to be the smallest
human being in the world, a passenger on a
delayed passenger train, died at Truckee, from
gastric fever, yesterday.
One Effect of Mild Weather.
From the Chicago News.
Spring has begun so early that the age ot this
year's crop of spring chickens by the time they
reach the table will be dreadfully uncertain.
MEIIITABLE JONES ON WIMIN'S
KIGI1TS.
Well, yes, I'mlnferwimln's right
I 'lowed that all the wlmin wnz.
For who kin know a womin's wants
Better'n a womln does?
Most folks that talk on womin's rights
Git up and froth and howl and rant
And say the men won't let us vote
Because they think we can't.
And say that womin's classed the same
As Injuns, UJlls, babes and slch,
And ain't got half the privileges of
The drunkard In the ditch.
And tbey contend that wlmln ort
To be allowed to have some say
About the laws and vote tbe same
As men, on 'lection day.
Now mebby this Is so, bnt la I
This alnt the pint that's troublln' me,
Fer 1 don't know so many men
That's smarter'n wlmin be.
And when the men want sympathy
Er kind advice, you know,
It alnt to ldjlts nor to babes
They're gen'rally apt to go.
Bat this Is what's pester'n me,
To see a man thet's vile and low.
Expect to git a wife that's Just
As pure as drlftln' snow.
They seem to think a gal must be
A sort of angel In a dress,
Tho' common gals with all their faults
Are good as men I guess.
I claim that wlmln Ut right
To get as good as what they gives,
And angel wlmln ire too good
Tor any man that lives.
EtaDonakltonin Botton Courier.
THEIR 0WNRACE PROBLEM.
What Lending Negroes of tbe Country Say
as to Their Fatnre and ths Proposed
Exodus Ex.Minlster Langston, the En
glish Llbcrlnn Minister) John M. Lynch,
a Negro Ex-Consul to San Domingo;
John n. Smith and Others Dlscnss the
Great Question.
ISFECIAL TELEOBA5I TO TUB DISPATCH. 1
"X7ashington, January 29. Copyright.
The recent discussion in the Senate in
regard to tbe future of tbe negro has caused
treat excitement among the colored people all
over the United Btates. Tbe most noted of tbe
race are found here at Washington, and dur
ing tbe past week I have interviewed repre
sentative negroes from every part of tbe
country. John M. Lynch, of Mississippi, ono
of the Auditors of the Treasury, in reference to
the proposed exodus of tho negro, said:
"I think all such movements nonsensical and
ridiculous. The colored people are here to
stay. They are a part of the permanent popu
lation of tbe United States."
"Has the race progressed as rapidly as was
expected 25 years ago T" I asked.
"In every material sense they have made just
as much progress as their most ardent friends
could have expected or desired. In a political
sense the colored man's vote is effectually sup
pressed, not so much because he Is a colored
man as because he is a Republican. The
elections in Mississippi, as in a num
ber of other Southern Btates,
are nothing more than farcical
formalities. The race question is a myth, and
the leaders of tbe Democratic party are insin
cere and dishonest when they bring up the race
question, so called, to account for election
frauds in the South. No law will correct tbe
evil of tbe practical disfranchisement of tbe
negro in tbe South. Just think of it! Almost
four-sevenths of the population of Mississippi
are colored Republicans, and yet tho Missis
sippi delegation in Congress Is solidly Demo
cratic" vxThat are your ideas about intermarriage
between the races, Mr. Lynch?"
"Undoubtedly the law to prevent intermar
risge promotes race intermixture, but Is most
intolerant Where the law prohibits lntermar
riage you will find more race intermixture than
where there is no such law. A law bas been
passed in Mississippi making it a criminal
offense for whites and blacks to ride in the
same coaches. The law is disgraceful. My
judgment is that it is clearly unconstitutional,
so far as It applies to inter-State roads and Con
gress should pass a law covering the point
Aside from politics, however, tbo colored peo
ple are doing well, and they will continue to
progress until they obtain the political and
social privileges which are theirs under the
Constitution of the United States."
TViTb. H. C. C. ASTWOOD, an ex-Consul to San
Domingo, for seven years United Btates
Consul there is a bright mulatto. He
states that the negroes are very well off
here, but if they must emigrate, says be, there
is no place like Ban Domingo for them. Said
he:
'Slavery was never introduced Into San Do
mingo to any considerable extent, and thero is
no prejudice whatever against the blacks there.
Contrary to the laws of the Haytian republic on
tbe other side of the island, foreigners can hold
property in San Domingo and tbe Constitution
is as liberal as that ot tbe United States. The
President is a colored man and tbe Vice Presi
dent a white man. The population is anout
350,000 and I know of no other country which
offers so manyadvantages for the negro."
Hon. John H. Smyth was for Fix years the
United States Minister to Liberia. He
does not think tbat tbe emigration of his raco
to Africa wonld be of any benefit to them, and
it is the result of bis observation that snch of
our colored people who bare gone to Liberia
have degenerated. He said:
"I do not think the great majority of the
negroes of tbe United States wonld be bene
fited by emigrating to Liberia or to any other
part of Africa. The negro bos undoubtedly
made remarkable progress in this country since
tho war. I do not believe tbat it is tbe senti
ment of the white people of tbe South that the
negro should emigrate, forthe reason that they
could get no one to take his place.on the cot
ton and sugar plantations. There is no other
race tbat can stand the exposure to tbe heat
which the negro undergoes in the South."
Speaking of Liberia, Mr. Smyth said: "The
kind of negro who wonld be benefited by
migrating to Liberia is the educated negro. He
would find an excellent field in Liberia, to de
velop its resources and make money for him
self. Tbo material progress of Liberia re
cently has been very great and tbe increasing
quantity of coffeo and sugar which tbe Libe
Mans export is of very high grade. Their'cof
fee is considered even superior to Mocha, and
the rum made from their sugar is of excellent
quality.
T)r. Edward W. Bltden is, perhaps, tbe
blackest of the notednegroes now in
Washington. He is booming Liberia for all it
is worth, and is here to promote negro emigra
tion to that country. He is a man of advanced
ideas, and bas been the Liberian Minister at
the Court of St James. Said he:
"In my opinion it would not do to deport
these people to Liberia in large numbers, bow
ever willing they may be to go. Their de
parture might be a relief to certain congested
conditions in the South, but it would be a
grievous wrong to Africa. Liberia is in a con
dition to assimilate and utilize 2,000 emigrants
a year, provided a generous assistance is
accorded by the United States Government
"Africa is not so much imperiled lrom the
nctivitv of Europeans and Arabs as is some
times supposed," continued Dr. Blyden. "The
only danger that may arise from tbe operations
of tbe Europeans in tbe Congo may come from
tbe liquor traffic The King of the Belgians is
a humane and philanthropic man, and is anx
ious to neutralize by every means in his power
the baieful influence of an unprincipled trade.
The area of country claimed by the Congo
Free State is 33 times the size of Belgium, and
it will be impossible for tbis generation or the
next to exercise any very extensive influence
among the 18,000,000 or 20,000,000 who inhabit
that region. By a wise instinct tbe King bas
recently sent to this country for negroes to as
sist in tbe great work be bas undertaken.
Europeans alone cannot do it.
"It is truo that recent reports say th it of late
years Arab slave raids have nearly depopulated
vast regions in tbe district of Tanganyika and
Nyassa Lakes and the upper region of the
Congo; bnt it is a mistake to suppose that tbe
Arabs could do tbis without the will or consent
of the natives."
'The Hon. John M, Langston has for years
been noted as one of tbe representative
thinkers of the negro race. He was for a long
time Minister to Hayti, and he speaks in glow
ing terms of tbe advanced condition of tbe
negro in that Republic Ho says you will find
as cultured and as brainy men behind the black
skins of the Haytians as behind tho white skins
of the Anglo-Saxons. Ho glows over the
beauty of tbe colored women of Hayti, and his
observations in that country lead bim to be
lieve, though he does not openly sav so, that
there may in the future be an amalgamation of
tbe blacks and whites in the United States. As
to the condition of the negro in tbe South and
his future in tbe United States Minister Lang
ston spoke at length. He said In a nutshell:
"Instead of making public appropriations to
advance emigration on tbe part of the colored
people of the United States, I think it would
De lar preierauio n pumic bwiibj is io ue useu
in their behalf, to use it to provide for the pro
tection of their civil and political rights first of
all just where they are; and, secondly, to pro-
vlue ior iiieir euuuiuuu m muuMnai anu
scientific channels to fit them for life in this
country. I do not believe in holding
ont inducements to tho negroes to
move here and there, according to the
intention of the Butler bill, as it tends
to unsettle tbem In tbe South, where they are
an indnstrial necessity. The whites of tbe
South forget tbat the colored people are Amer
ican citizens who have always stood ready to
defend tbeir country. It Is proper thatthe
Government should uso its money to make it
practicable for the negro to do blsdatytotbe
Government. Tbe objection to the negro at
present is solely on account of bis politics, and
this question will be solved wben he affiliates
to a certain extent with the Democrats, which
he will, sooner or later."
TVTr. Henbt P. Cheatham, of North Caro
Una, Is the only colored man In tho Fifty
first Congress. He Is a bright young mulatto,
and he is well Informed on the condition of his
people in the Carollnas. Referring to Senator
Morgan's bill, he said that Morgan was not a
friend to the negro'in any sense, and tbat tbe
negroes expected nothing from any bill which
originated with him. He spoke in glowing
terms of the rapid Improvement of his people in
tbe South, and quoted Representative Skinner,
of North Carolina, as saying that the colored
men of that State are saving moro money than
the whites In proportion to their chances.
"In the connty where I reside," said Repre
sentative Cheatham, "almost one half of the
property on the tax books belongs to the col
ored people, and on every hand throughout
tbe State can be seen ths thrift of tho negro."
"Whatabout tbe future of the negro in con
nection with intermarriage among the
whites 1"
"There seems to be no tendency among tbe
negroes to amalgamate with the whites, even
if it were possible to do so without incurring
any ill feeling. They are entirely satisfied
with marrying among tbeir own color, and, as
a witty darky said recently. The colored
people are made up of such a bouquet of
colors from which to select a wife or hus
band, that we ought to have no trouble
in making a selection. The colored people
havo seen tbat the whites do not want an asso
ciation of that kind, and tbey have sufficient
pride not to make any advances. Generally,
the people are doing excellently and at a late
fair held in our section tbe Governor took oc
casion to par our peonle a decided compliment
for the excellence of tbeir agricultural prod
ucts." "Is the prejudice against tbe race as great in
the South as reported?" 1 asked.
"No." he said, "there is not so much race
prejudice in the Sonth asmany people suppose,
or as mucb as many leaders of tbe Democratic
party wonld have the country believe."
Mr. E. P. McCabe, the colored State Auditor
of Kansas, gives me the condition of the negro
in tbat State, to which the race has so largely
emigrated. Said he:
"we have a total negro population of about
60.000 in Kansa, and all of tbem are doing well.
Kansas is conspicuous as a State for its fair
treatment of its colored ci.izeas. We have
three clerkships of courts heU' by colored men,
and this cannot be said of any other State in
tbe Union. I want to say right here, regarding
Liberia, tbat never, to my knowledge, has any
colored man gone from the United States to
Liberia and made a success. I think the negro
will never voluntarily leave this country to
emigrate in anycnnsiderable numbers."
Mr. William E. Matthews is one of Washing
ton's most prominent colored lawyers. He
said regarding tho Morgan bill:
"I think Senator Morgan does not look at this
question seriously, and that be is playing tbe
role of a politician to engender race hatreds.
It would be for tho worst Interests of the whites
in the South if tbe blacks were depopulated,
for the reason tbat tboy are the only laborers
there to mako their sugar and raise tbe crops."
Frank G. Carpenter.
BEATEN BI ABOUT FOOfi DAIS.
Miss Blsland's Trip Aroand the World as
Compared With Nellie Sir's.
rSPZCTAL TELEOBAH to thb dispatch. '
New York, January 29. Tbe steamship
Bothnia, of the Canard line, may get into port
late to-night or early to-morrow, carrying Miss
Elizabeth BIsland, the young woman sent ont
by the Cotmopolitan magazine to do the circuit
of the world in 75 days. Sho would have ar
rived here Sunday night, beating ber schedule,
and a day behind her rival, but for an unfortu
nate accident tbat caused her to mis the fast
sailing La Champagne at Havro January 18.
While Miss Bly succeeded in making the trip
in less time tbanMiss Bisland, wben all tbe cir
cumstances are taken into consideration tbe
latter's achievement is in many ways tbe moro
remarkable. For months prior to November
14. the day she started, arrangements had been
making for Miss BIys trip, and they were as
complete as money could make them. Not so.
however, with Miss Bisland. She had just five
hours in which to make ber preparations. She
left New York just nine hours after Miss Bly
bad started, and if tbe steamer Bothnia arrives
to-morrow she will be f onr days behind her suc
cessful rival in making the circuit of the world.
Miss Blsland's delay in getting here is un
doubtedly due to the incomplete arrangements
which were made in such brief time. She
missed one steamer and took the wrong one at
Hong Kong, this mistake delaying her four
days. At Hong Kong she was to bare taken
tbe steamer Prussian for Brindisi, but took a
boat which left three days .earlier, but required
f oar days longer to make the trip. Again, at
Havre she missed the steamer La Champagne,
whose owners had been paid $2,000 to wait sev
eral hours for Miss Bisland. She bad had time
enongh to catch the boat but was not informed
that it would be held for her, and therefore
made no effort to catch it
OUR COMPLIMENTS TO BRAZIL.
The New Republic Formally Recognized by
President Harrison.
Washington, January 29. Tbe formal rec
ognition of the United States of Brazil by this
Government was completed this afternoon,
when the President received the credentials of
Senhor J. G. de Amaral Valente, tbe new Min
ister accredited by tbe provisional Govern
ment and also tbe credentials of Senhor Sal
vador Mendonca, as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary on a special mission
to the United Btates. The ceremonies were
marked by great cordiality. Tbe two Ministers,
with their joint suit of four Secretaries, made a
fine appearance, in their rich and brilliant uni
forms. Secretary Blaine presented the two
Ministers, and they in turn presented their
Secretaries. The ceremonies were in the Blue
Room. The President in receiving Mr.
Valente. said:
31b. Minister: I receive you as the representa
tive of a new Republic always a grateful duty to
the Government of the United States. The peace
ful conrse of events tbat has transformed the Em
pire or Brazil into the United States or Brazil has
been observed with deep interest by the Govern
ment and tbe people of this country. It Is a
source of profound satisfaction to the American
people tbat the provisional Government or the
Brazilian .Republic came into power without
bloodshed and without violence. I trust this cir
cumstance may prove a happy angary of peace,
progress and prosperity In the career which now
opens to the United States of Brazil. Speaklntc
for the people or this conn try. It will be my con
stant aim to cultivate the most friendly relations
with your Government: to Increase the personal
Intercourse, and to enlarge the commercial ex
changes between the two Republics.
I trust. Mr. Minister, that you will And In this
capital a pleasant residence, as 1 am sure you will
receive a warm welcome.
DR. FLOOD'S BIG CONTRACT.
He Takes Charge of All the Chautauqua
Publishing Business.
ISFECIAL TXLXOBAX TO TBS DISPATCH.
Meadville. January 29. Negotiations were
completed to-day and the contracts signed by
which Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Flood, editor and
proprietor of the Chautauquan, assumes
charge of tho entire book publishing business
of Chautauqua and the Chautauqua Literary
and Scientific Circle, amounting to about
half a million books annually. These publica
tions are now in tbe hands of Now York and
Boston bouses, but will be removed to tbis city
as soon as practicable. The present chautau
quan building, an imposing brick, will be ex
tended through to Walnut street constituting
abnilding300feetlong by 60 feet wide. The
Chautauquan will bo published as formerly,
and tbe other bonks as tbe work of the CAau
lauquan Century Press.
Mr. George E. Vincent, of Buffalo, son of
Bishop Vincent and Chancellor of Chautau
qua, will be closely identified with Dr. Flood in
tbe Century Press publications. Dr. Flood's
contract is for 18 years.
A HUGE TIME EXPECTED.
Insnlls, McKlnley and Others to Speak at
Nnshvllle In March.
Washington. January 29. Xhe Executive
Committee of the Republican League of the
United States, which has been in session here
for several days, called upon tho President in a
body this morning. Senator Ingalls, Repre
sentative McKinley and other prominent
speakers have accepted invitations to speak at
the third annual convention of tho league, to
be held at Nashville, Tenn.. on tbe 4th of March
next. . ,, , .
Wnn John M. Thurston, of Nebraska. Presi
dent of the league, predicts a large and en
thusiastic meeting there.
EDITORIAL IXPRESSI0NS.
Philadelphia Timet: Mr. Quay bas gone
fishing. But he leaves his rod behind him in
pickle.
Chicago -Vei. All tbe new Congressmen
are hard at work trying to decorate their dis
tricts with a new public building on every
quarter-section. A few disappointments will
mako them less sanguine.
St. Loots Globe-Democrat: The Republican
party has reason to be well pleased with
Speaker Reed. He fs emphatically the right
man in the right place, and knows how to de
feat all the little games of the Democrats with
neatness and dispatch.
Chicago Herald: Mr. Cleveland takes a
hopeful view of the Democratic party in IS92,
and well he may. The people of this country
will not forget that the grip and the agreement
of tbe tailors to give only 60 days' time on
clothes were both incidents of tbe Harrison
administration.
Trot Timet: Anarchist Most will appeal
from the decision of the New York General
Term, under which he must serve a term of one
year in prison. For a man who professes con
tempt for all laws, Anarchist Most shows re
markable readiness to Invoke "the law's delay"
in his owu cose.
Boston Herald: Astonishment is manifested
by some people at tbe discovery that neither
Mr. Blaine nor Mr. Randall ever studied law.
One began bis career as a journalist, and the
other in mercantile pursuits. Tbis seems to
demonstrate that it is the man, and not the
profession, that makes the statesman.
Philadelphia frm: There are vague
rumors to the effect that Hon. W. L. Scott is
preparing to re-enter politics again as a, sup
porter of Hon. Robert E. Pattison as a candi
date for Governor. In the case of his doing so
the event would be one of the most interesting
in what soems likely to bean immensely inter
esting campaign. The spectacle of Colonel
Scott introducing Brother Pattison as the anti
monopoly candidate for Governor would be
tremendously edifying to the workingmen, and
would; make the marines simply laugh their
teeth loose.
CURIOUS COBDEKSATIOKS.
Mrs. Dros Ickes, of Columbus, O.. is 14
years old and a widow.
At Fresno, Cal., a couple whose ages
are 75 and 6i are the principals in a divorce
suit
The expenditures of the London Time
in the Parnell case are said to already exceed
81,000,000.
Last year the product of Idaho's mines
was worth 517,000,000. The Montana mines
yielded 132,000,000.
A Meadville man only 23 years old, is
refused drinks over all bars in that city on the
grounds of his being a "known habitual drunk
ard." A mail bag was recently found in the
old law courts at Frank! ort-on-the-Maln, Ger
many, containing 175 undelivered lotters dating
back to 1585.
A Saugatuck, Mich., housekeeper dis
covered tbe other day that a fowl she was
dressing was supplied with two hearts and two
livers, all perfectly formed.
The Chinese Government has just or
dered a new edition of the famous encyclo
pedia which was originally compiled daring tba
reign of Kien-Lung. The index alone fills 13
folio volumes.
Th France there are upward of 20,000
applicants for 300 vacancies in the public, serv
ice in tbe Department of the Seine. Four
thousand persons applied for the places of
three office boys at tbe Hotel de Ville.
A Madison, Mich., widow kills three
birds with one stone by inserting in the same
issue of the Adrian Times her husband's obitu
ary potice. a card ot thanks and a notice that
she will auction off her late partner's personal
effects.
During a terrific storm recently the
lighthouse keeper at Tillamook Rock, on the
Pacific coast says tbe spray Was thrown clear
over tbe lamp chimney, 130 feet above sea level,
while a piece of basalt 62 ponnds weight, was
lodged on the roof of his house, 110 feet from
the sea.
The heaviest man in Franklin county,
Pa-. George Potter, of Waynesboro, who
has . died of the 'grip." His weight was
127 ponnds, and tbe coffin made for him is enor
mous. Its measurements are: Length, 74K
inches; width, 33 inches, and depth, Z7
Inches. He leaves an invalid wife and six chil
dren. An organization called "The Medical
Defence Union" has been formed in London,
whicb, upon tbe annual payment of ten shill
ings by a doctor, guarantees to defend him
against any charge made with a blackmailing
or other improper purpose during tbe year.
Branches of the organization are to be estab
lished throughout Great Britain.
A West Chester doctor told his patient,
a young man. to stay at home a night or two
since. Tbe patient replied that he must go
out at 7-20. At 7J5 tbe doctor called, placed a
white powder in a glass of water and said: "If
you will go, drink this before yon start It will
prevent you from taking cold." The youth
took it and never woke till late in tbe night
The loyalty of the dumb brntes receives
a fresh illustration in an incident on Staten
Island the other day. A boy was found to have
been drowned in a pond where he bad been
skating tbe day before. Near him was found
tbe dead body of bis St Bernard dog. who
had rnn to his master's assistance and lost bis
own life in trying to rescue his master.
A young Englishman who went to clerk
it in the Argentine Republic was so unfor
tunate as to Indulge In public intoxication soon
after his arrival in the country, and was aston
ished when, after being arrested and arraigned
in court be was sentenced to eight days' labor
on the streets instead of to a fine. He coulan't
face his acquaintances after bis term bad ex
pired, and left tbe country.
Ont in St Lonis an enterprising burglar
broke into a house while the family were at the
cemetery. Ho became drowsy while going
through the silverware, and wben the master of
the honse came home he caught tbe thief fast
asleep and with his pockets bulging with silver
ware and other booty. The burglar i3 very re
pentant now, and says he will never go to sleep
on duty again.
The losses by the burning of the palace
of tbe King of Belgium include all of his great
collection of maps and his geographical library,
said to be tbe finest in the world. Tho library
contained 7.000 volumes, among which were a
a manuscript work of Walter Raleigh, an
original edition of the letters of Captain Cook,
and tho first edition oftbeSpanisn reports of
Christopher Columbus. Beside tbe maps thero
werelLOOO photographs, taken In all parts of
the world.
A coincidence that is very remarkable
is reported from Boston. A teamster who had
been hurt by a car running into hi3 wagon
brought suit for damages against the railway
company. Tbe case came up a few days ago.
and the jury decided to visit the scene of tho
collision a steep hill. Tbey embarked in a car
belonging to the defendant and bad just
reached the hill when the car ran into a furni
ture wagon, breaking two of tbe windows and
sknkingnptbe jurymen. The teamster received
a verdict for $1,100.
A big strike has lately been made in the
second or middle tunnel on the Minah lode at
Wickes. Mont The shoot encountered is a
continuation of the rich vein of carbonates
discovered at the grass roots years ago, and
which was worked by a whim and horse-power
ana made to produce enough money to more
than pay the original purchase price of tbe
mine. The new strike is reported to be about
three feet wide, of solid Galena ore averaging
2140 to the ton. and it is estimated there is $100.
000 worth of ore between tbe upper and middle
levels. The lower level is now said to be within
ISO feet of this rich chute, and when that dis
tance has been covered and the ore fonnd in
place, both above and below, the amount in
sight can be safely estimated at near 51,000,000.
What was at first regarded as a joke on
the part of Mr. Mercier in connection with the
proposed bounties upon children in Canada has
passed into the domain of actual fact by the
legislative enactment of the bill entitled "An
act to confer a privilege upon fathers of fami
lies who have 12 children living," the preamble
of which contains the following: "Whereas It
is advisable, following the example of past
centuries, to give marks of consideration for
frultfulness in the sacred and civil bonds of
matrimony; therefore Her Majesty, by and
with tbe advice and consent of the Legislature
of Quebec, enacts as follows." Then come the
provisions ot the bill granting 100 acres of pub
lic lands to "every father of a family, whether
he be bom or naturalized in thi3 provlrce, who
has 12 children living, Issue of a lawful mar
riage," who, in order to. benefit by tbe ad
vantages granted by the act must "present a
petition to tbe Provincial Secretary, accom
panied by his certificate of marriage, a certifi
cate of baptism of each of tbe children, as well
as a certificate, sworn before a Justice of tbo
Peace giving the number and names of hi
children."
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE.
Many a youngster keeps shady to prevent
getting tanned. Bolton Tranteript.
Speaking of grammar, criminals and
Judges difier widely in opinion In regard to
the length of sentences. Cotton Courier,
Maid Your wife is out, sir.
Husband Well, give this kiss forme, wben she
gets back. I'm going to town. Botton Herald.
A New York girl who was attending
cooking school got so Infatuated with the culinary
art that she went off and marrlea a supe. Botton
Courier.
Where Did He Go? Jaysmith Goodbyl
I'm going away for tbe winter.
McCorkle-If you find it bring it home with yon.
So long. Acts ?orJt Sun.
Dialect. ""What a queer Dick Tom isl"
said Miss Lively, from the West
"Yes," replied Miss Beaconstreet of Boston,
"Thomas is an extremely curious Richard."
Sew Xort Sun.
Colonel Eliot F. Shepard gravely asserts
that "the patriotic citizens or a republic are Re
publicans." According to this dictum the pa
triotic citizens or the Sultan's dominions are tur.
Xeja.PMlatialpMa Times.
A WAItNINO.
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining mlnntet
And sometimes, too, be has his fun.
But friend, don't you begin It.
lAJe.
Eev. Dr. Primrose If von throw away
that nasty cigarette butt I'll give you a cent.
Little Johnnie All right mister.
Eev. Dr. Prlmrose-Jtow, what are yoa going to
do with the cent?
Little Johnnie But a whole one. ujt.
THE NEXT MORNING. '
Next morning in his easy chair "K;
All bent with woe he sat
He sighed, and smoothed his ruffled hair,
"Where did I get this batf"
WatMngton Post.
Unsatisfactory. The Batcher Did- you
tU Mr. Gore that his bill had been running for s
long time?
Collector-Yes. sir.
The Butcher-Wbat did he say?
Collector-Be said: "For heaven's lait let It
stand little while. "-X,f. . "
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