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Though the fight in the national House of Representatives during the week past was esteemed a party question by the excited Congressmen, it is just this sort of question which the public cannot and trill not be persuaded to look at through partisan glasses. The organization of legislative bodies for working purposes is the very be ginning of government. It has been the rst step in every parliament since parlia ments began; and the voice of the people in elections can have no force or effect unless this organization is 'airly conducted. It is therefore not merely because the public like fair play, and will tolerate none other, but because, without fair play in organizing Congress, the voice of the ballot is sooner or later sure to be stifled by force, that a very general protest is now heard against the po sition which the Bepublicans have taken at "Washington, and which the Democrats have assumed in Ohio. By common understanding and custom all parliamentary bodies have a right to make their own rules for the government of their proceedings. The Constitution of the United States expressly vests this power in the House of Representatives. Yet, though the House has now been nearly two months in session the spectacle is presented of the Speaker continuing not only as a law unto himself, but also to the House. He decides what he pleases, or rather what he thinks will suit his party, and refuses the ordinary privilege oi appeal. Undoubtedly there is a period during which tne Speaker, or the presiding officer of a newly organized legis lative body, must be supposed to govern under general parliamentary usage, and to possess for his own part wide discretion. But that period can bi no longer than is reasonably needful for the House to prepare and adopt its own rules. Particularly is this true where known division of senti ment and conflict of interests exist. The duty of introducing rules, and the power to do so bave rested with the Bepublican majority in Congress. The Bepublicans should have performed this duty long be fore now. They should cot in the face of the Democratic protest, have brough; on such pronounced partisan issues as contested elections, without having es tablished rules for debate, and for voting. The will of Speaker Beed has been unduly and inexcusably raised up into absolute domination; and that be has chosen to violate all former prece dents in deciding what constitutes a quo rum is but the smallest reason for com plaint. The great and assured danger is that Speaker Beed is hlmsel! setting a pre cedent of abuse of might and abuse of posi tion which may later be used disastrously to the public interests by less capable and even less judicious men. The Speaker's contention that filibuster ing and obstruction should be ended is en tirely correct. But he is wholly wrong in assuming that the Speaker must end fili bustering in place ol the House. It is the House, by its rules regularly adopted, which alone is capable of deciding how legislation shall be passed. The Speaker of the British House of Commons is always much less of a partisan than the Speaker of our House of Repre sentatives; yet, when the wheels of legisla tion were blocked for years by the National ists at "Westminster, the British Speaker never dared assume the arbitrary power which Speaker Beed now claims. On the contrary, the British Government had to "bsjng in what was known as the Cloture bill, a long and tedious enactment specially made to shut off filibustering. It took a long time to pass this; but when passed it Tras effective. There cannot be any party fight over this matter outside of Washington, no matter how high the temper rages there. Bepubli cans as well as Democrats are interested in maintaining fair play. Otherwise they can not tell what is going to happen to-morrow; but can look for frequent and serious mis chief, commotion, fraud and danger to the public peace. A O00D BECOBD. The transrer of the postoffice management from Mr. Larkin to Mr. McKean, during the past week, warrants a lew words con cerning the record of the retiring postmas ter. The four years of Mr. Larkm's in cumbency of the office have, as was shown by the statistics published yesterday, been a period of remarkable expansion in the postal business of Pittsburg; and it is because of that gentleman's business-like method of admin istering the place that the enlarged traffic has been so well handled. "While Mr. Xar kin's antecedents on assuming the office were political, he has conducted the post office strictly on the principle of securing the highest efficiency, and has made a very gatisfactory and convincing example of what can be done with the civil service when op erated solely to get the best work done. This record is one of which Mr. Larkin has a right to be proud, and which his successor may profitably emulate. PAEWELL'S POBEBODDm Senator Parwell's remarks on the subject 0f patronage always contain novel and gen erally startling political tenets. The last interview in which he declares that Presi dent Harrison ought to respect the will of the people, is peculiarly Farwelliaa in its implication that Senator Farwell is the vox populi. On the other hand Senator Farwell makes a stab close to the vitals of the question when he points out the revenge which the President appears to be taking on those Bepublicans who had the hardihood to support Greiham for the Bepublican nomination when a Bepublican Senator makes that charge and couples it with the prediction that this course will disrupt the party, it is sufficient .to create a doubt whether political wisdom and harmony are reigning supreme in the councils of the nation. "With regard to the Senator's gloomy pre diction, when the party is divided between those who use patronage for personal re venge and those who rebel because they can not control it for personal advantage, the question is likely to be asked, if it deserves any better fate than disruption? THBkaDBABE TBTJST PLEAS. The series of opinions on trusts which are published elsewhere, is principally valua ble as showing the persistence with which the interested advocates of those combina tions insist on the misrepresentations with which they have been clouding the subject ever since it has been up for public discus sion. It is nothing new or nothing remark able for Messrs. Dodd, Parsons, Dos Passos and the rest of the combination school to indulge in the old fables about the purpose of the trusts being to secure economic pro duction and their effect being to cheapen prices; but it is rather significant that they should display such a concerted disposition to insist on them, after every investigation which has probed the subject has proved the contrary. No better proof of the falsity of these con tentions is found than in the history of the trusts, or in their methods. It is cot econ mic production to make the public pay the cost on idle plants which every successtul trust has done; nor is the perfection of organ ization attained by paying immense sala ries to trustees, who when called before legislative committees testify to their own ignorance ot the important details of the business under their charge. The utterly fictitious nature of the claim that trusts cheapen prices is shown by the fact that whenever a trust fails to raise prices, its de feat is acknowledged, and it eventually goes to pieces. The chorus of the trust advo cates, that the Standard Trust has cheapened the price of petroleum is an old plea and has often been answered. The price of the crude petroleum has fallen, but the propor tion of the price which the Standard Oil Trust takes for refining and distributing petroleum to consumers, has always been larger than it would have been under com petition. The conclusive proof of this is found in the well-known fact that when competing refineries have ever had any thing like an even chance in the matter of transportation, the independent refining interest has been prosperous and the margin between the price of crude and that of re fined petroleum has fallen. Mr. Catcegie is quite right in declaring that the general resort to trusts is like that to quack medicines, and where there is freedom of competition "combinations and trusts write the charter of their own defeat." In that case the wrong of the trust lies only in the disturbance of business caused by their temporary supremacy, until competition has defeated them. But where the effect is successful to shut oft competition, then they are able to create a privileged class in commerce, and exact undue profits from the mass of industry which must obtain its living subject to the action of competition. All the sophistry of the trust advocates is intended to conceal the one pivotal fact. The purpose of tbe trusts is to prevent com petition and thus enhance the profits of transfering products from the producer to the consumer. If they succeed in this they oppress the public by means which have been denounced by the law, ever since the law took account of the popular welfare. A CIVILIZED SYSTEM. The question of convict labor on the public roads is considered in a special ar ticle elsewhere. The review etf the systems which are in vogue in other States furnishes much light on the subject, although the re sults of the different plans, as regards the improvement of highways and the effect on the prisoners, are not fully made clear. It is not only clear that the idea of put ting convict chain-gangs on the highways, wonld be repugnant to the civilization of Pennsylvania, but it is quite doubtful whether as much improvement of the high ways could be got from such labor as from well paid free labor. But the question which intelligent study wishes answered, is whether tbe labor on the roads cannot be made so much more attractive than labor in prison walls, as to make it a reward and stimulus to good conduct. The example of Kansas affords a strong indication of what might be done. "With work on the roads, in the open air, made an advance from the confinement of the prison, and paid for at a rate which would induce faithful service, the convict might be bene fited by such a system. In addition to that the improvement of the highways would certainly make the experiment worth trying. It should be understood that the inquiry into this question is cot in the direction of reviving barbarism. But if it can be made to benefit the convicts and tho public, the fact that the system was abused in former times ought not to be permitted to prejudice public opinion against it PUBLIC AND PBITATE BUSINESS. It is a significant and remarkable fact that the entire squabble in the House for the past few days could have been entirely avoided, except for the vice of absenteeism. If all the Democrats had been in their seats during the past three days they would have had a majority, and could have adopted fair rules for the government of business. If all tbe Bepublicans had been present they would have had a quorum and could have gone on with their business, without getting into a fightover the quorum question. But, as neither party could command its full force, the light has gone on, and the business of the country has stood still. Partisan control is ol such importance as to cause the neglect of public business ; but it does not weigh enough to induce all the members to neglect their private business for the duties which they have undertaken. THE CHICASAW IDEA. The Chicasaw Nation, one of the tribes in the Indian Territory that has progressed to the point of framing its own legislation, is determined to show that it can keep step with the most advanced measures of civili zation. It may have lagged behind the age heretofore, but they have put themselves in rank with tbe white man by a law which taxes every white farmer and mechanic who comes into tbe Chicasaw territory a per capita tax of five dollars. This may not seem to be very wise legisla- tion for the whites who are subject to it, but is it not exactly what the statesmen of the United States have perfected as the acme of political wisdom? It is proposed that we shall levy a per capita tax on the laborers who come to us from abroad. "Why should not the Chickasaws protect themselves in like manner from the competition of the pauper Anglo-Saxon immigrants who ponr into their territory from the effete and over crowded East? The aboriginal method of demonstrating its idea that what is sauce for the Caucasian goose is sauce for the Chickasaw gander, has the merit of being a forcible illustration at least. . Afteb Mr. Farwell has declared that President Harrison "seems to regard the offices as personal perquisites," it is reassuring to be informed that there is no quarrel betwoen the President and the Illinois Senator. The as surance is needed to correct misapprehension. The decision of Mr. Beed that, "accord ing to the rules now governing tbe House," Mr. O'Ferral could not read from the record in the contested election case, beats tne prac tice of the King of Hearts in "Alice in Won derland." The King of Hearts took the trou ble to write down his rules when he manufac tured tbem for the occasion. It was said in Mr. Reed's favor, when he was elected Speaker, that he would not lose his head; but such de cisions as this indicate tbe falsity of the expec tation. It is a suggestive contrast to tbe loudness of the other partisan squabbles that is furnished by those Ohio legislators who took ThomaB' money, tben sold out to Brice, and are keeping as quiet as mice about tbe charges at present It is rather amusing, after the Demo cratic organs bare been arraigning tbe Bepub lican party because they do not give colored people enough of the offices, to find them pitching into tbe administration for giving ex-Senator Bruce so good an office as the re cordership of tne District of Columbia. Your partisan organ is consistent in just one respect; and that is in abusing its opponents whether they do one thing or another. Does the science of politics consist solely In squabbling over the spoils and fighting for partisan controlT It seems possible that it might be broadened so as to occasionally take in a few measures for tbe public welfare. The statement appears that the Roths childs have squelched the Czar's project of a railway across Siberia by refusing to float a loan of 220,000,000 on tbe line of 4,600 miles. As this Is only about $50,000 per mile, tho world is left In doubt as to whether tbe Rothschilds do not consider It sufficiently watered, or whether they have adopted the platform of the Ameri can money kings ana determined to stop this pernicious practice of building new railroads. The news from Zanesville, O., that the adoption of standard time is tbe 'all-absorbing topic there, reveals the not unsuspected fact that Zanesville is some years behind the time. The creditors of the Allegheny Valley Railroad who think that after the road has been in a receiver's hands tor six years, some thing snonld be done with It, are not altogether unreasonable; but tbey should remember tbat the wild haste which would settle up a railroad bankruptcy in six years' time is not at all ac cording to the precedents of railroad litigation. Now let the groundhoe turn in and see whether he can come any nearer hitting the weather than tbe preceding failures in tho weather prophet business have done. "The anthracite mines are idle," says tho Philadelphia Press, "becauBO bituminous coal is cheaper." And the reason why bitu minous coal is cheaper Is tbat no combinations or pools nave ever yet been able to control the trade In order to make It yield profits on such a vast amount of water as is contained in the total of tbe anthracite coal stocks. A bio gas well at Washington, Pa., gives another contradiction to the Cassandras of the press who have been arguing tbe exhaustion of the gas supply. The Chicago newspapers regard it as rather remarkable that Mr. S. W. Allerton should be considered a poor man in New York when he enters politics with only a few mil lions. But it is even more striking to find him represented as an anti-monopolist, after having obtained these few millions directly from the source ot railway favoritism. The announcement that "Waco, Tex., is to bave a water carnival, suggests a novel and unique form of enjoyment. Are the Texans going to try the delights of washing themselvesT The claim is made that the famous Con necticut goose-bone has been more successful than any one else in predicting the weather of this remarkable season. This permits the hope tbat Hicks and the rest of the prophetic tribe may finally be of some value as weather proph etsafter they have become skeletons. The report that the Sugar Trust is water ing Its stock is evidently a fabrication of tbe enemy. It Is impossible to spoil decayed eggs. The indignant objection of the members of the Whisky Trust, to the effect tbat tbey have thrown up the sponge, is well founded. It is decidedly unkind to use, in such close con nection with their organization, a term which expresses the idea of a large capacity for hold ing water. PEOPLE OP PK01IIKENCE. Dr. McGlynn is critically ill in Chicago, and was unable to fulfill bis engagement to lectnre Friday evening. Mb. James Btuaet, member of Parliament and professor of mechanism and applied mathematics in tbe University of Cambridge, has resigned his professorship. Jules Febry has returned to Paris from the south of .France very much changed for the worse. His whiskers are snow white, and his face Is marked by lines of age and care. Fbank M. Wallace, cashier of the Bank of Claremont, S. Dak., is visiting his friends in Allegheny. He is very enthusiastic over the prospects of tbe Dakotas, and emphatically denies tbe reports of distress and starvation, as printed in many Eastern papers. Bill Nye and James Whltcomb Biley, the famous combination of wit and dialect poetry, have separated, and will appear in public together no more. The cause assigned is Biley's love for the bottle, his appetite for strong drink, it is said, having completely mas tered.him. The Queen Begent ot Spain shows the re sults of her recent excitement at the bedside of her sick son. Her pale complexion is whiter than ever. The Queen Regent Is a very intel lectual woman. She can converse in Spanish, French, German and English. She is very fond of music and literature. It is said that the memoirs of M. Hyrvolx, the chief of the private police of Napoleon ILL, will soon be published, unless his executors are prevailed upon by members of the Bonaparte family not to reveal the Inner life of theTuiler- ies during the lifetime of several of the people referred to in the memoirs. GeneBal Botjlanqeb Is slowly recovering on tho Isle of Jersey from tbe Injury his head recently rccelvod from contact with a chan delier. His skull was not fractured, but an ugly scalp wound resulted, and he was much prostrated by tbe sight of his own blood. The bray' General is very sensitive as regards gore. THX Czarowitz has been appointed com mander of a squadron ot the Imperial Guard, tbe Grand Duke Paul, brother of the Czar, to command of a regiment of hussars, and tbe Grand Duke Nicholas NIcolaevitch, cousin of tbe Czar, to tbe command of a brigade of ar tillery. Manager J. M. Hill has concluded an arrangement with Nellie Bly for a series of lectures on her recent record-breaking tour round tbe world. She will give three lectures In New York, and will then be heard In Boston, Philadelphia. Chicago, St. Loch and other large cities. She wants to lecture in Pittsburg, and will probably arrange to do so. THE TOPICAL TALKER. A Society Girl's Impertinence KebuUed Tbe Use of Force Tho Habit ofBorrow. Ids Is Not Only the Poor Man's A Joke With Mary Anderson. T t Is the fashion of some women to keep visitors waiting an Unconscionable time for ab solutely no reasou at all but to gratify a caprice or fad of theirs. Heaven knows where they got tbe idea, but some of tbe dear creatures imagine that it is a canon of high-bred etiquette to let a caller cool his or her heels in the parlor for half an hour or so after the servant brings up the card. This churlish impertinence is most often offered by women to women. A Buperb young woman who bad high birth and abundance of money, saucily told a girl in her set recently, that she always kept callers waiting 20 minutes before she appeared. The girl who received this valuable piece of news called upon tbe golden calf a few days after ward. She sent up her card and the footman returned with the message that Miss would be down in a few minutes. The caller took out herher watchand when seven minutes bad expired wrote upon one of her cards: "I have been cone just 13 minutes." Loavine this card on the table, the young lady took her departure. V FORCE. They said he was a man of force Tbe handsome new cashier Some fellows doubted it, of course; Tbey grant It now. I hear. The new cashier, so well Indorsed, Was quick to take his cue: And so his balances be forced And eke a safe or two. And then by marches forced he fled To Canada, and there His forceful nat urc aforesaid Was welcome everywhere. ho member of tbe Force restrains His dinners or his dances; "I'm exiled, ladles," be explains, 'J5y force of circumstances." V Tde great army of borrowers is not made up entirely of those "who walk, by blazes" the gentry "who ride in chaises" are sometimes as great adepts In negotiating loans as the Celtic gentlewoman who asks her neighbor to lend her the loan of a gridiron. Once it was my fortune to live In a little vil lage near New York City and still nearer the romantic neighborhood which the glorious Hudson and tbe beautiful memories of Wash ington Irving make one of the loveliest spots on this earth. We occupied one of a croup of half a dozen villas and our next door neighbor was an old soldier; a jolly old fellow, brave as a Hon I doubt not, a splendid story teller, but an incorrigible borrower. He bad an income ample for all his needs, but he was always bor rowing. His wife, an angular lady, who wore girls' hat", had much sweetness of manner and a temper and tongue easily equal to any emer gency. She was also a borrower from 'way back. One summer night as we were all enjoying the cool air from the river on tbe porch a mes senger from our friend the Major appeared with a request tbat we would lend him several packs of cards, as some people from tbe city had drooped in upon him unexpectedly. The cards were sent over. In five minutes tbe mes senger returned with a request for a card table. The table was lent. At regular intervals of about 15 minutes for two hours that messenger, a small housemaid, returned, each time with a new request. Teaspoons, cake, candles wero asked for in turn. Tben tbe emissary announced that tbe visitors bad decided to stay all night, and Mrs. Major D would be bo much obliged if we would lend her some bedclothes and two pillows. Tbe lady who presided over our house bold was a most good-natured soul. She lent everything that was wanted. About midnight she came upon her husband reading in the library. "Why don't you go to bed, Charles?" she said. "I can't go to bed; Major D may want to borrow my bed, and I don't want to have to get up and dress." V TT was this same military hero, or rather his wife, who sent over one morning before breakfast to borrow a griddle greaser. Do you know what a griddle greaser is? It is a piece of fat skin from a bam, used for greasing tho griddle on which the buckwheat cakes are to be baked. The cook remitted tbe griddle greaser, saying to the colored boy who brought tbe request: "Tell your missus that it's a gift, not a loan." Another housekeeper of my acquaintance, lent an apple butter stirrer a weapon greatly in request in the fall to a woman worth a million dollars at least. The latter not only failed to return the stirrer, but when the owner asked for it the lollowing year only consented to loan it to her. V IT sounds queer to hear of anyone playing practical jokes on staid Mary Anderson, but J. H. Bowe, the actor of this city, says that he did and tbat she liked a joke herself years ago. Said Mr. Bowe: "Mary Anderson, in the summer of 1876, her first season on tho stage, came to Baltimore, Md under John T. Ford's management, and played a three weeks' en gagement between Baltimore, Washington and Cumberland. Miss Anderson used to be very fond of 'guying' and candy. In 'Borneo and Juliet,' in the scene with Friar Lawrence, which I bad to play, she would deliDerately walk down the stage with her back to the audience and make faces at me during the Friar's long speeches. This was all done in good humor, but it is no small task to wrestle with tbe Friar's very bard lines and bave Juliet make faces at you. So I was bound to have revenge. I was very fond of spring onions, Mary Anderson was not at least she did not like their odor, and I knew it "So one night in Cumberland we were playing 'Bvadne.' My scones as Ludovico wero mostly with her, so I took an extra share of on ions that day, and smoked a dressing room pipe to back it up. and gave her the full benefit of it when I could. It is hardly necessary to say it was too much lor her. She said nothing to me, but the next day her stepfather. Dr. Griffin, came to me and asked me if I wouldn't stop. I said I would, conditionally if she would let up making faces and chewing candy. "John W. Morton, who was in the company at the time, was heartless enougn to christen her 'Long Mary,' but I doubt if she ever knew where the name came from." A reputable citizen of Pittsburg tells me that when he was in New York a week or two ago he saw on Broadway a man who hob bled along on two wooden legs, while with his left hand his right was gone he turned the crank of a barrel organ. The sight touched my friend's heart, and he gave the man a quarter, asking at the same time: "How's busi ness?" The mendicant looked at the quarter, and tben at bis two wooden stumps before he re plied: "I can't kick, sirl" Hepburn Johns. CHARMIXG WIDOW DUO Again Forms a Matrimonial Alliance, Wed ding Her First Husband. Sr. Loins, February L A romance was ap propriately ended to-day In tbe marriage of Captain James Corbett, of Gardiner, Me., and Mrs. Nora Dunn, of St. Louis. Mrs. Dunn Is CO years of age and Captain Corbett is 7a In 1814 Mrs. Dunn was Nora Benton, of Gardiner, Me. Captain Corbett was master of a trading vessel. The couple were married and Corbett sailed away on a vovagetoSouth America. He was not beard of for ten years and tben Mrs. Dunn, giving bim up as lost, married Thomas B. Dunn aud moved to this city. This was in 1857. Corbett returned the same year and learning of his wife's action, secured a divorce and married another woman. Mrs. Dunn became a widow a few years ago, and on visiting her early home discovered that Corbett had lost his second wife. She returned to St. Louis, and two weeks ago Corbett ar rived. Tbey were married over again yes terday, and as both are wealthy they are pre sumably happy. DEATHS OP A DAY. Stratford Ncwmarch. NEW YORK, February 1. Stratford Newmarob, tbe well-known artlst,dledonThursdayafternoon at St. Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn. He was one ot the lounders of the Brooklyn Art Clnb, and the last works from bis brush are on exhibition at the club's annual exhibit In the Association galleries. One of Mr. Newmarch's best-known pictures is ' Tne Home of William Cullen iiryant.'He leaves a mother, aged 92 years. George E. Dame. Newport, N.H.,Februaryl. George E. Dame, Superintendent of the New England Division Railway Mall Service under President Cleveland's administration, died at bis home here early this morning of softening of tbe brain, lie was 43 jcaia viu. . i i.i --. A I0DTHFDL PICTDEE-MAKBK. A 6-Year Old Boy Possessed of Wonderful Skill as nn ArtUt. Portsmouth, O., February L This city has a young artist whose natural talent amounts to a phenomenon. Little Freddie McAleer, the 6-year-old son ot Mr. and Mrs, E. K. McAleer, produces without apparent effort work which would be a credit to artists of maturer years. When asked for the reproduction of a picture, however difficult, the little fellow seizes the crayon in bis left band, follows intently with bis eye tbe lines ot his copy, and the hand, without any attention, reproduces them ex actly. Tbe writer tested the little fellow thoroughly on animal pictures, landscapes, eta, which seem to delight him most. Tbe results were rapid and true to nature. But we expected to discomfit tbe curly-bead when we offered bim a map of tbe United States. Not the least disconcerted he went at it as a matter of course, and in a short time had tho map complete, wonder fully accurate in outline and detail, every river and State in proper position. He was tben given a map of tbe State of Ohio. This was executed with equal promptness and ex cellence, with counties, rivers and cities cor rect y located, and even the names, which he could not read, were reproduced without an error. But Freddie is not simply a mechanical copyist. He will produce a bouquet or other intricate design, filling in the colors with exact truth to nature. All this is tbe more remarka ble since be has never had the least attention or instruction in drawing, and bis knowledge seems to be intuitive. Tbe little fellow is mod est, and objects to an exhibition of his marvel ous powers. If he discovers anyone watching bim down goes the crayon or brush, and no amount of coaxing can induce bim to proceed. Freddie McAleer is a wonder, and those who know him and have seen his work do not be lieve bis equal can be found elsewhere. He revels in pictures, and every new card or chromo tbat comes into tbe house is eagerly seized and copied at once. He has made a few efforts at portraits, copied from photographs, and, while his work in this line is good, being generally recognizable, the fine work of facial expression seems a little too difficult for his baby band. WASHINGTON'S WORLD'S FAIR BILL. An Appropriation of $15,000,000 to be Asked for tbe Capital City. Washington. February 1. The special House Committee on tbe World's Fair held a meeting to-day, and spent two hours in going over the draft of the bill prepared by the sub committee, correcting the phraseology and making slight amendments. When tbe point of adjournment was reached, the committee had gotten as far as section 10 in the bill. The Chicago men were not satisfied at the rato of progress, and endeavored to procure another meeting of the com mittee this afternoon, but failed. There was the usual exchange of sarcastio remarks between tbe representatives of com peting cities. When Mr. Hitt pressed speedy aotion Mr. Hatch, the St. Louis representative, insisted tbat tbe bill should bave the most ma ture consideration, and when Mr. Hitt pointed out tbat delay in the committee endangered tbe success of the bill, Mr. Hatch was opposed to having any bill presented to the House during the present state of affairs. Mr. Hitt said that be might be willing to allow the St. Louis bill to foe reported, but Mr. Hatcb re plied that he would not make an exception, even in tbe case of a report favorable to St. Louis. Mr. Wilson presented the draft of tbe bill prepared by tbe local Washington committee, and cave notice tbat it would be presented to tbe House as a substitute for the special com mittee's bill. This measure proposes an appro priation by the Government of $15,000,000 to de fray the expenses of holding the fair in Wash ington. NATIONAL GUARD DECISION. GenernI Hastings' Ruling In the Case of Lleutennnt Snyder. Adjutant General Hastings has ren dered a decision which not only necessarily changes the general plan of National Guard elections as now carried on in this city and throughout the State, but is of vast interest in many other respects. It was brought out by a requisition for tbe discharge in orders of Lieutenant Chris. Snyder, of Company F. Southslde. Mr. Sny der, while Second Lieutenant of his company had been elected First Lieutenant, but an ex amination by tbe Brigade Board last fall bad been adversely reported. As the military code distinctly states tbat when an officer accepts tbe result of an election which has promoted him, he vacates the position he bad previously held, it was of course presumed that Mr. Bnyder had been relegated to private life by the report of the board. General Hastings has decided, however, tbat the failure to pass the examination for tbe first lieutenancy did not deprive bim of his commission as second lieu tenant, and consequently he is still an officer In Company F. Mr. Kaercher, who was elected second lieutenant the same evening to fill tbe presumed vacancy caused by Snyder's promo tion, bas since been promoted to tbe first lieu tenancy, ana oi course win noia mat position If passed by the board. Mr. Letzkus, however, who is now supposed to be second lieutenant of the company,accordingto General Hastings' de cision, is still an enlisted man. Mr. Snyder hold ing that Junior commission. The decision mixes up the affairs of the company very badly, and no doubt many other companies in the State will be affected in the same manner. THE 8ILYER MEN OF ENGLAND Holding Numerous Heelings to Advance the Cause of BI-9Ielalllsm. BY CABLE TO TUB TJI8PATCH.1 London, February 1. Copyright. The ap proaching opening of Parliament has given a stimulus to the silver men. Meetings in favor of a bi-metallio standard are held dally all over the country, and the columns of the news papers, from the Times downward, are full of aisenssions on the same subject. Monday week, the day before tbe opening of Parliament, a convention will be held at Westminster to de cide upon a line of action to be followed during the session and to elect a Parliamentary leader In the place of Mr. Chaplin, who, having be come a member ot the Government, can no longer lead. The private party gathering will be notable, many Peers, Members ot tbe House of Com mons, ex-Governors of the Bank of England, financiers and merchants having promised to attend. WORKED BETTER THAN MEDICINE. A Child Thnt Doctors Had Given Up Cared by Fnlllnc DoWustnim. Williamsport, February L A 3-year-old son of S. Charles Emerson, an Insurance agent of this city, swallowed a toy whistle two months ago, and, after hovering between life and death for several weeks, apparently recovered. Tbe physicians resorted to every known remedy to remove tbe obstruction, but without success. Last evening tbe child fell downstairs, and, after complaining of pain In the stomach, was attacked with vomiting. To the surprise and joy of tbe mother tbe long-missing whistle came to the surface, and the child bids fair to become as healthy as ever. Whose Fault Is It? From tbe Punxsutawney bpIrlt-1 The voters of this country are constantly complaining about tbe large number of dis honest and incompetent men who are elected to office simply becanse they happen to bave money. There is certainly a good deal of ground for such complaints, but it might be pertinent to inquire in this connection who elects men to office in this country. Jnst Like Ordlnnry Mortals. from the Springfield Republic-Times. Human nature breaks out in tbe National House of Representatives just as It docs any where else. To stand in the center of the bear pit at the so-called popular ond of the capital, and strain the larynx and make a holy show of himself in the sight and hearing of a great audience, is a temptation that more than one of the statesmen can't resist. Progress In tbe Contests. Washington, February 1. The House Com mittee on Elections to-day heard the final argu ments In the Alabama contested election case of Treel versus Clarke. Next week the com mittee will hear argument In tbe case of Posey versus Parrett, First Indiana district, and Bowen versus Buchanan, Ninth Virginia dis trict. . A Party of Patience. From the Pioneer Press. "It Is a long time till 1892," observes Mr. Cleveland. True, but no camel on tbe desert of Sahara is more patient than tbe Democratic party. It waited 25 years once upon a time. Euongli for One State. From tho Chicago Tribune. We protest against Senator Brice consider ing himself a candidate for the Presidency. New York has two candidates already. A Modern Wonder. From the Philadelphia Times.; To see a kite flying with banks for bobs would bave interested Sir Isaac Newton. A BUSINESS MYSTERY. Besnlt or a Visit to the Oil Exchange-A Puzzle to the Uninitiated How Prison en In tbs Steel Sing Are Punished A Remarkable Oulburtt With No Apparent Cause Great Interest Aroused by a Boy, a Piece of Chalk, and a Blackboard. rWRITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH. J-Juen-Lono, of Pittsburg, to the Most Worthy Mandarin, Bing-Lo, Becretary of State to His Imperial Transparency, Greet ing: According to your esteemed commands I have gone forth into the busy places of this city, and noting accurately what I bave seen, am prepared to transmit the same unto Your Highness. One of the first spots that I visited was that called the Oil Exchange. Oil, most worthy sir, or more correctly speaking, petroleum, is produced in this part of our monarch's realms in great quantities, and it Is in tbe Oil Exchange of Pittsburg tbat tbe most Important business, in connection with this petroleum, is transacted. Learning this from your Ignorant slave, Wah-Jung, the catalambaniser, in whose reeking hovel I am sojourning, I hastily donned certaic European garments lately purchased by me, and hastened in the direction of the Exchange. An im pertinent minion stopped me as I passed up the stairway leading to tbe Exchange: but remem bering tbe advice that Mr. Hop Sing, of Wash ington, gave me, I promptly said that I was a newspaper reporter. Instantly bis domineer ing expression changed to one of hnmble apology and I was allowed to pass on my way. Hence, ob Sing-Lo, be wary lest any news paper reporters ever enter our master's em pire. Tbey will become a haughty pampered class, and make afraid even the Brother of the Sun himself. The Charmed Circle. p uksuing my way up the stairs, I reached tbe portals of a large and lofty hall, in which there resounded an uproar as of many men shouting and stirring, the one against the other. In the center 9! this hall was a ring formed by a rail of burnished steel, and around this ran a narrow platform raised somewhat above the level of tbe floor. Within the ring sat an Individual, evidently a political prisoner. His back was turned toward me, and I could not observe in what manner he was bound. It was tbe first time 1 had seen in America our enlightened mode of public punishment. Standing on tbe platform were several men, evidently upbraiding him for his crimes, as tbe loungers are accustomed to do in the streets of Pekin. His bowed bead showed tbe humilia tion which he suffered. Even from tbe limits of tbe ball some persons joined In tbe attack, and in words wbich my limited knowledge of the language prevented me from understand ing, showered abuse upon tbe culprit. I had expected to find this Exchange a place of business like our great marts, where buying and selling would go on and money pass from band to hand. But In this I was disappointed. I could see no signs whatsoever of anything ap proaching to what we call commerce. As I bave said, tbe hall was spacious and lofty. Its walls and ceiling were finely decorated, and a gallery, reached by a spiral staircase, stood over the upper extremity. At one side of the ball there was an office, from which issued tbe sounds of tbe telegraph needle. I observed that boys bore yellow papers from- this office and gave them into the hands of many of those present. Studying Balls nnd Bears. at the lower end of tbe hall was a railed-off space, in wbich were chairs and benches. I took my seat and watched tbe movements of the throng. Around the walls were rows of chairs, and in these sat gentlemen not engaged in reviling the criminal. Mustering up the best English at my command I asked a person sitting near me what was the crime of the man who sat with downcast looks within the steel ring. But tbe man whom I addressed either did not understand my question or did not de sire to answer it, for be shook his bead and gradually shifted himself away from me. Sub sequently I noticed him talking to anotber gentleman near where the prisoner sat. He was pointing in my direction and tapping his forehead. 1 am altogether at a loss to divine bis meaning. My national pride prevented me from repeatmg the question, and I contented myself with watching the scene before me. After a while the gentlemen surrounding the ring ceased to upbraid the prisoner, and descended from the platform. Then a boy began to make in chalk various marks upon a blacHBoard close to the entrance. As be wrote he uttered certain words, of wbich I did not catch the meaning. Great interest was mani fested in his work by many of those present, and quite a little crowd collected round tbe board. The coming and going of boys with papers from the telegraph office became more lrequent. The boy first shouted out a name, and on the gentleman so named making a sign, carried tbe paper to him. A little by-play went on in some seats close to the railing behind which I sat. A few gentlemen there were play fully struggling over a newspaper and ad ministering sundry good humored blows and buffetings in tbe process. Meanwhile the prisoner within his ring was enjoying compara tive peace. Some few would occasionally lean over tbe bar and taunt him, but the crowd for tbe moment had tired of tormenting him. If we had been in China, we would have fired him In a cage and fettered him hand and foot, but here tbey are contended with placing bim In a public position and leaving him to the scorn of tbe mob. A Tamull, But No Business. Ail this time I had been on the lookout for business, but had failed to discoveranythlng approaching thereto. The messages from the telegraph room indeed I might have considered as such, save for tbe carelessness with which gentlemen thrustthem into their pockets after perusal. Just as I was about to leave tbe ball, some further detail of the prisoner's crime must have arrived, for some twenty persons rushed madly towards the center of the hall and began to roar furiously at bim. I was. actu ally terrified by tbe vebemence of these gentle men. Their faces flushed, their eyes gleamed, a few even shook their fists, to such a pitch of Indignation bad tbey been raised. Their bodies swayed to and fro, till I feared tbey would topple over and fall from the narrow platform. It was fortunate for tbe prisoner that tbe bar protected him from their on. slaught, I could not understand wby they did not pelt him, as Chinese mobs do, with every available missile. Perhaps tbe very eccentric laws of tbe land prohibit such a course. As soon as tbey had quite spent their force they again left the platform and adjourned in groups to their seats. Were they merely re tiring in order to gather force for a new attack on the writhing culprit within the ring? I was very desirous of ascertaining how much tbey are paid by tbe Government for this regular abuse of prisoners, but remembering tbe former rebuff I bad received, I desisted. After waiting a little while and seeing no further storm of words. I arose and left tbe so-called Exchange. My visit had left me ignorant of what I desired to learn tbe methods of tsnde here but it gave me a deeper insight into the manner of punishing offenders. Brenan. Compelled to Confess It. From the Boston Herald. It looks as if tbe 400th anniversary of tbe dis covery of America by Columbus would be cele brated by a confession on the part of the American people that politics takes precedence of patriotism in this conntry. It is a rather humiliating situation, but we sball probably have to own up to it and go without a fair. An Unparalleled Record. From tbe Washington Star.) New York is not only ahead as a monument builder, but leads all American cities as a bank wrecker. Three banks at one time beat tbe record. It is well that the new extradition treaty with Great Britain is so nearly a law of two lands. Preventing n Surplus. Fiomthe Minneapolis Tribune.l Mr. Clark, one of the quartet of Senators from Montana, owns a number of gold and sil ver mines, several stamp mills, a bank and a newspaper. Ho purchased tho newspaper to prevent the accumulation of a troublesome surplus. AULD LANG SYNE. It singeth low In every heart, We hear it each and all. A song of those who answer not, However wc may call: They throng the silence of the breast, We see tbem as of yore, The kind, the brave, the true, tbe sweet, Who walk with us no more. Tls bard to take the bnrden up, When these have laid It down; They brightened all the Joy of life. They softened every frown; But ob, 'tis good to think of them, When we are troubled sore; Thanks be to Uod that such bave been. Though tbey are here no more ! More homelike seems tho vast unknown, Since they have entered there. To follow them were not so hard Wherever they may fare; They cannot be where God Is not. On any sea or shore; Whate'er betides, Thy love abides. Our Ood, for evermore. -John W. ChadKtck, SOKE MORE HIGHLY JTALUBD. The Dispatch Among tbe Best of tbs Lead ing American Newspapers. From the York Dally. Among all our exchange, and we receive many good ones, there is none that we value more highly than The Pittsburg Dispatch. It is attractive in make-up, its news Is clothed in chaste language and written in attractive style. Tbe daily edition for 1890 will continue to offer tbe best things going In the news line. Its reliable market reports, vast news-getting machinery (including leased wires to all tbe principal points, with bureaus in tho chief cities), and its earnest, progressive and inde pendent policy, has earned for it a national reputation and made it a household word in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. With the newyear the already large facilities enjoyed by The Dispatch for producing a progressive nineteenth century newspaper will be added to. The rapidly growing circulation of both tbe daily and Sunday issues bas neces sitated tbe building of another marvelous double perfecting press for its already well equipped pressroom. Hoe fc Co. will soon place this wonderful machine alongside tbe other swift presses, thereby giving The Dis patch puplishing facilities only enjoyed by a few of the metropolitan plants. The improve ments in other departments will be on a scale in keeping with this extraordinary addition to the advantages enjoyed by The Dispatch. The Sunday edition has attained a wonderful growth and popularity, its bona fide circulation reaching considerably over 50,000. The matter selected for tbe literary columns of the mam moth 20-page Sunday issue Is supplied by scores of contributors of the highest merit and repu tion. Each number is a monster magazine ot choicest pen productions, as well as an accu rate and exhaustive chronicle of current news. The special cable letters and tbe sporting and business reviews are also attractive features ot the Sunday issue. It is a newspaper for the people and tbe borne circle. With the new year come new features. A HOODOO DOCTOR'S POWER. Strange Testimony Brought Oat Daring a Trial at West Chester. rSFXCIAL TZLXQBAK TO TUB PISrATCB.) West Chester, February L "Doctor" or Professor Alfred Browne, colored, of Wilming ton, Del., charged witn practicing medicine without a diploma by resorting to incantations, by which he Imposed upon bis patients, was tried here and convicted. Tbe plaintiffs in the case were John W. Burnite, a white farmer, re siaing in Franklin township and his daughter, a comely married woman about 40 years, Mrs. Annie Smith. Brown, who was called to visit Burnite, "worked a spell" on the daughter, Mrs. Smith, who complained of having a needle iu her foot. The evidence of the father and daughter showed that the doctor bad extracted S17 from tbem, and also some chickens and eggs, and that he had obliged tbe father to re tire from the room while he anointed bis daughter withjsome bad-smelling oil, after she had first removed her clothing at his bidding. He remained there all mgbt and prayed while going upstairs backward. He claimed be was capable of sending all tbe devils in tbe neighborhood to Bhode Island, where they had a home, and to Mrs. Smith he proposed switching her husband back to ber. but this she prayed him not to do, as she did not want bim. Tbe woman testified that she was hopelessly in his power, that he had exerted an influence over her which she could not resist, and all his biddings she was forced to obey without hesitation. A COUNTERFEIT PROPOSAL. The Heartless Joke Played oa a Young Lady of Pottstovrn. Pottstown, February L Annie Estrlcher, a rather prepossessing young lady of this place, has been made the victim of a cruel joke. A few months ago she received a letter from Scranton, Pa., signed by Jacob Berkowitch, a former acquaintance of tbe Estrlcher family, containing an avowal of love for the fair Annie, and begging for ber heart and hand. The maiden was surprised, but not dis pleased on reading the contents of the letter, and soon an epistle was on Its way to Scranton freighted with tbe assurance tbat bis suit was favorably received. Tben came a formal request to the father of me young iaay ior tne uaugnter s nana in mar riage, and this, too, was answered in the affirm ative. Letters flew thick and fast, tben. be tween Scranton and Pottstown from the lover to the sweetheart, full of endearing terms and expressions of love. The ardent lover was invited to pay a visit to Pottstown, and accepted tbe invitation, but postponed the coming from time to time. Mean while the wedding preparations were going on In the Estrlcher home, and when tbey had neared completion, it was learned that the girl bad been corresponding with Maurice Berko witch. who baa been using his brother's name as a joke. The girl's father threatens to bring suit against the heartless joker. AGED PAUPERS MARRIED. Two Old People Elope From a Poorbouse nnd Are Made One. Teot, N. Y., February 1. Mrs. Ann Duffy, 67 years old. was sent to tbe county house bere about three years ago. About the same timo Peter Bateman was sent there. As time passed Mrs. Duffy and Bateman became fast friends. Bateman is about the same age as the woman. Tbe poorhouse keepers little thought Cupid was shooting nis fiery shafts into their aged hearts, but such was the fact. A few days ago Mrs. Duffy's son sent her some cloth for a new dress, and Keeper Dunham's wife bad tbe gar ment made. Mrs. Duffy left the institution yesterday and said she was going to a store near by. Bateman disappeared about the same time. These aged lovers met on tbe street and eloped from the poorhouse. They hastened to tbe minister's and were married. They had no money to pay tbe minister bis fee. but tbat made no difference. Wbere tbey are spending their boupymoon no one knows. It is surmised they are walking toward the Capital City. Cfalcngo Becoming Civilized. From the Washington Post. A Chicago man took a Turkish bath Saturday and his funeral took place on Sunday. Still Chicago is an enterprising city and will not al low a little thing like tbat to prevent the intro duction of tue latest fad out there. The Turk ish bath is no doubt destined to obtain a solid footing In Chicago. 1 Brazil Officially Recognized. Washington, February L Mr. Valent, the Brazilian Minister in this city, to-day receivod an official communication from the Mexican Minister, stating tbat the Mexican Govern ment had formally recognized the Republic of Brazil. THAT CONGRESSIONAL CIRCUS. Washington Star: Secret sessions in the House at this time would redound greatly to its credit. Cincinnati Enquirer: The Bepublicans of the National House are now all ready to turn out 18 elected Democrats. No rules. Philadelphia Record: What good would It bo if the House bad rules. A Speaker like Beed would be a higher law unto himself "as a matter of leglslatlveiecesslty." NewYosk World: Speaker Beed is neither a Cromwell nor a Bismarck. He is simply a preposterously inflated and unprincipled poli tician who is digging with bis gavel the grave of his party. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: Bully for Reedl He is tbe sort of usurper we rejoice in. His tyranny delights us. His despotism fills us with joyful emotions. It was a prona day for the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representa tives when Beed adopted his 8th of January ruling. Philadelphia Times: When Speaker Beed refused recognition to a member of the body when he rose to a question of the highest privi lege tbat of correcting tbe Journal as to his own public action he was guilty of tbe most insolent abuse of tbe privileges of the Chair ever witnessed in any reputable deliberate body. Philadelphia Press: Tbe Speaker of the House of Commons has counted the members to find if there is a quorum present for two centuries. It is nonsense to suppose tbat there can be any risk in intrusting the right to count members to a Speaker acting under the watch of tbe minority and before tbe eyes of the country. Chicago Mail: a. great outcry has been made about the outrageousness of overturning a precedent a century old. Tbe point Is point less. If a precedent is founded on error it ought to be reversed, and the fact tbat no Speaker has bad tbe courage to do so Is a re flection on the Speakers of the past, not on the present one. COBIOUS C05DEHSATIOK8.7 Michigan has 78 furniture factories, half of which are in Grand Bapids. A flock of wild swans was seen in a Pickaway county, (O.) swamp the other day. A six-year-old ox that weighed 2,235 pounds was sold in Parkersburg the other day A number of medical students at Har vard are about to take a course of lessons at the Boston Cooking School. An enterprisirg fisherman of Glouces ter, Mass., intends making a trip to Norway iu search of cod. which are said to abound there. Two years ago it cost the Boston and Maine Railroad 1100,000 to keep its tracks dear. This winter the snow-plow has not made a single trip. A statistician calculates that the total tonnage of the world, steam and sail, is, in round numbers, 21,000,000 tons, ot which 60 per cent is British. A Beaver Falls woman was knocked down by the explosion of a bottle of ketchup. It burst in her hands as she was bringing it up from the cellar. The last run of shad will soon cease to be a figure of speech in Massachusetts: the hah commissioners find a decrease of SO per cent in the catch since 1373. Iu the Barow collection, soon to be sold, there is a plan for a greenhouse at Mount Vernon, drawn by Washington, with instruc tions in his handwriting. Those people who have wondered where A- Blizzard originally came from are Informed that be has been editor of the Geneva, Ala., Record, and bas just retired. A Nebraska farmer says that when his bogs lose their appetites he takes them out riding in a lumber wagon and jolts them over the roughest places he can find. A business man of Painesville, O., is afflicted with paralysis or a very singular kind. His leg are powerless from dark to daylight, when he recovers the use of them. A Frankford man is training his hens to lay their eggs in tbe kitchen, where he has placed a cradle for their accommodation. This saves the labor of hunting the eggs. A student of Dickinson Seminary was so nervous since the preaching of his first sermon tbat he got into tbe wrong church and entered the pulpit before discovering bis mis take. It is said that almost all ot the postal clerks and carriers who become thieves begin by stealing letters addressed to lottery agents, which they know are almost sure to contain money. A sensation has been created among New York gastronomers over the alleged dis covery that they bave been eating black squir rel bash, done in old sherry, at diamond-back terrapin prices. Poultry fanciers will be interested to learn that a breeding pen of eight white Lang sban fowls arrived at New York on Tuesday afternoon from London on the steamship Lydlan Monarch. The eggs of such fowls are scarce at SI apiece. An English religious paper publishes the following advertisement: "A lady wishes to hear of a good school for girlj. wbere tha birch rod, now coming into fashion again, is used in the old way. Also of one for boys. Mrs. Griffiths, Church Times office." Amish weddings, to a certain extent, rival Polish christening parties. Among tho pranks at one of them a few days ago in upper Berks county was tbe throwing of tbe groom over the fence, the placing of his best man in a bakeoven and some like familiarities with the bride. Leonide Apostoloff, a Cossack engineer, is at work on a new boat, which he says will make 80 knots an hour on the surface of the sea and 123 knots at f nil speed nnder water. His idea is to nse tbe motive power of the screw to tbe fullest extent. The boat 13 shaped like a spindle. During the warm weather of a few days ago grasshoppers made their appearance in vast numbers in Southern Indiana. Tbey did great damage to wheat, and had the warm weather continued the crop would hare been badly injured. A great many persons think tbey will renew the attack If tbe warm weather returns. B. G. Sanford, of Five Mile creek, Wasco county, Ore., while digging a well, started a blast with a two-foot fuse. The ex plosion took place when he was within 18 feet of the surface, and the conenssion raised him about six feet and let bim fall very suddenly. He was badly scared when hauled out, and as pale as a ghost. In the stomach of a cow which was butchered at Washington C H.. O.. the follow ing articles were found: Several nails, 2 and 3 Inches long; screws. bras nails, carpet tacks and a number of small stones. Tbere was fully a quart of these articles in tbe animal's stom ach. The cow was apparently in good health before being butchered. A gentleman arrived at Palatka Tues day having in his possession a tooth weighing over six pounds, which was taken from tbe bed of Peace creek, in South Florida. It looked aged and its enamel was nearly gone from tha wear of tbe water. Four weeks ago a similar tooth was discovered and sent to tbe Smith sonian Institute. It weighed 2G pounds, and the scientists at tbe institute pronounced it to be an extinct species of tbe elephant. At the second annual meeting of the Morris Befuge Association for homeless and suffering animals, Philadelphia, a report was presented showing a large increase in the num ber of animals. There were 11,189 cats, 3.003 dogs, 18 birds and other small animals, swelling the total to 17,371 received at tbe refuge. 1224 Lombard street. A temponry borne for dogs was also established at (126 South Twelfth street. Tbe receipts for the year were 53,007 08, and the expenses $2,869 43. J. S. Manly is a newcomer at Flint, MIcb and the following story Is told of him: A year ago Manly, then a resident of Sr. Louis, was dying ot consumption. One day tbe fam ily dog, a valuable greyhound, made his way to the sick man's bed and licked his face and hands. Manly was too weak to drive bim off. and it's mighty lucky that he was, for, con trary to the predictions of the doctors. Manly began to improve. Tbe poor dog, however, bad absorbed tbe disease, and tbe animal is now in the last stages of consumption, while Manly is as well and strong as ha was In early manhood. Photographs of the dog before and after taking tbe consumption wonld dd to the vividness of this story; but Manly vouches for it word for word. , A few weeks ago T. W. . Martin, of Elizabeth. Pa., lost a plain gold ring which he valued highly, and for wbich he made most diligent search. Some notices were posted, and a sharp lookout was kept for the ring wherever it was thought likely to be f onnd. But it was not found until this week, and then it was in a most unexpected place. One of his horses became lame, and in examining its foot Mr. Martin was surprised and pleased to find bis lost ring snugly fitted around one of tbe calks of tbe horse's shoe, where apparently it bad been wearing it for some time. Itjwas worked off with a little difficulty, and was not much the worse for its unusual experience. Mr. Martin supposes tbat the ring dropped from his finger in the stable, and tbat the horse set his foot down on it so as to drive It firmly on in the manner found. HUMORODS HIT:-. Many an actor begins with big bill boards and ends with big board bills. Lift. Discouraging. Miss Chicago And you are the artist who painted that beautiful picture? Mr. Boston (proudly)- Yes, miss, I did It. "Now, do tell me what It Is." Time. Down in Kentucky. Minnie Oh, Charley, wouldn't it be delightfully wicked to run away and get married? Charley (who Is up to snuff) Splendid! We'll do It. Did the old folks fix any xlmtl Texas Sif tings. ""What's this I hear about Johnson's hav ing a relapse? Bow did it come about? 'Ob, he met an acquaintance on the street, and stood so long talking about bis wonderfully rapid recovery that he took cold." Ttmt. Tit for Tat. Disgruntled Boarder (to landlady) If I were In your place Mrs. Taflern, I'd discbarge tbat cook. Landlady (with splrl)-lf I were In your place, Mr. Owen, I'd discharge that board bill, Time. His Precedent The Peacemaker Don'tf youknowlt Is very wrong to fight, little boy?' What does the good book saj? Tommy (who has Just polished off the class bully) ldunno. I ain't read it no further than David and Oerllre. PueK. Mr. Bnsset Spatts That's a queer look log dog of yours. Miss Unbbelle. Isn't It what tbe Enjcllih call a "turnspit?" Miss Auburn Hubbelle (severely) -I don't know what the English may call It, ilr. Spatts, but I call It "a rotatory expectorator." Pack. A Lie Out Somewhere. A Jones wife) has had no education whatever. She can't even read. JJ Sbecan'tt Why.be told me that when, be came borne late tbe other night she readhlnva lecture that made his eyes bulge out. Ttsat SVtings, r
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