pt & THE PEDTSBLIRGr DISPATCH. THURSDAY, l FEBRUARY 27, 1890. vr- f Mje SiMEtg. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY S. 1MB, Vol.43, 10.3). Enterctf at Plttsbnrg Postofflce, November H, 18S7, as second-class matter. Business 0ScOt-97 and 89 FifthAvenue. News Booms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street. Eastern Advertising Office, Hoom 45, Tribune Building. Hew York. TERMS OF THE DInPATCfl. POSTAGE FIIEE IX THE tjxtted states. DAILT lliRrATCn, One Year. 18 00 IUILT Dispatch, PerQuarter 5" DAIXT DISPATCH, One Month -. 70 Dailt Dispatch, including tiunday, lyear. 10 00 Dailt Dispatch, IncludinsrSunday.Sm'ths. 2 to DAILT DISPATCH, Including Sunday.1 month 80 SnjfDAY DISPATCH, One Year 1 M Weekly Dispatch, One Vear 125 The Daily Dispatch is delivered by carriers at 5centsper week, or including Sunday eaition, at 3) cents per wee. PITTSBURG. THIIBSDA Y. FEB. 27. 1890. THE FHTEEH HIXI. BATE. The meeting of the City Finance Com mittee places before the public a report in faror of filing the levy for next year at fifteen mills, an increase of three mills over last year. It is announced that the senti ment is quite strong against any further ad vance of the rate, which is certainly satis factory as far as it goes. It hardly seems that the assurance of re ducing appropriations in order to bring ex- penses within the revenue from that rate, is exactly what the occasion requires. That some increase is necessary to meet last year's deficiency and the increased expenses for parks, is conceded. But, as The Dispatch has already said, a reasonable measure of economy in the regular appropriations, should enable an increase or 1 or 2 mills, to meet the extra requirements. The schedule of appropriations given elsewhere shows that the increase of the total, beside the two leading items of parks end the deficiency of last year, consists of enlargements in the ordinary appropriations for the bureaus, all of which were liberally supplied last year. The increase for the bureaus of fire, police, health, engineering, highways, water supply, lighting, contin gent fund and street repairing sums up 5167,000. "When an addition to the levy is necessitated, it appears that theie should be economy instead of increased expendi ture in those respects. "With the increase of revenue of about 100,000 to arise from addi tions to the tax duplicate, the need for all these enlarged expenditures ought to be very pressing before the levy is permitted to go beyond 14 mills. The subject -is now open for public dis cussion. Pittsburg can afford to pay a 15 mill tax levy if it is necessary. But when the people are called upon to bear an in creased tax rate, the levy should not be en larged by expenditures which a reasonable economy can avoid. THE D0WX-BT7EB FLOOD. The vagaries of flood and wind are shown by the fact that while Pittsburg has had of late hardly more than usual amount of rain which has kept our rivers at a moderately high stage all the winter, the Ohio "Valley to the south of us has had so much rain that the Scioto, Hocking, Muskingum, Kanawha and Bis Sandy are flooding the lower river very nearly to the danger line. Five feet more of a rise will flood some of the railroad tracks at Cincinnati, and only a few feet beyond that will submerge the bottom dis tricts of the city which have suffered from previous well-remembered .floods. It is to be hoped that the knowledge of the danger will prevent any serious loss, and that the flood will halt short of rendering any share of the population along the lower Ohio homeless. Pittsburg can congratulate her self that wind and flood during the past nine months have subjected her to nothing worse than the reign of mud. THE ABirrS WEAKNESS. .Nobody doubts the wisdom of building a new navy; the efforts made in this direction have been appleuded by statesmen of all parties, and the people are very willing to see their money spent on ships of war, worthy of the name. "We would not counsel for a moment any abatement in the gener osity of our national policy in naval affairs, but is it not also nearly time that something should be done for the army? There is a great deal to be done, and some of the re forms are instantly needed. It is somewhat surprising that General Wesley Jtlerritt, in his article on the United States Army in the March Harper's, does not allude to the obsolete character ot its armament. The United States soldier is very little better off in point of weapons than his pre decessors at the end of the Civil "War. He has a breechloading rifle of antique pattern; the artillery have guns out of date judged by .European standards, and most of the heavy guns in our forts on the seacoast are relics of the last war. "While all the old countries have been advancing to the pres sent stage of magazine rifles, small bullets and smokeless powder, the United States has stood still. The old flint lock of "Wash ington's day is hardly less fitted to be op posed to the modern magazine rifle than the arm which the American infantryman relies on to-day. There seems to be a delightfully cheerful view taken of the army 'by the "War De partment and the big generals. But the rank and file wno will have to stand the brunt of an invasion cf a foreign foe with modern arms cannot be expected to see the joke in so happy a light. It is not at all humorous to be killed in battle, even if it is made plain at the subsequent Congres sional investigation that inadequate arms were-responsible for the mortality. One of the favorite arguments of the day in this connection is that this country is so great and resourceful that 'she could afford to wage war for year or two and then come out victorious. Perhaps but a host of victims must be sacrificed while the country is getting into modern armor. "Who will volunteer to engage a foe who has twenty shots for his one, a deadly range oi three miles, where he cannot kill at over a mile? Twenty-five years behind is too far in the rear of the procession for safety. TOUT AND TJKaTOEMITT. Some of our esteemed cotemporaries, es pecially among the class journals devoted to building, are arguing inavor of unity in the architecture of cities. The construction which some of them give to the term indi cates the belief that unity means uniform ity. This has been illustrated in New York and Philadelphia by the construction of whole squares of houses of 'Identical de sign and more exact resemblance to each other than a line of toldleri on parade. Ex tunples of this sort ire to be found in our own city. They hare the recommendation of utility and the cheap and better work secured by building a number of homes on tho tame plan, but can hardly bi said to meet tbt Bithctlo requlrtmtot which ii piffled at by tbt preachers of tha gotptl of architectural unity, rottiwy it would b4pMjt)U to n bine the character of a block of houses that while each separate tenement shall preserve an individual character they should come together into an imposing and harmonious- whole; but it is necessary to remark that modern building has never attained that ideal. A short time ago we quoted the sestheticcomplaintof a journal in Edinburgh of the heterogeneous nature of a new and fashionable street there. That being the case the issue in architecture is the same as that between socialism and individualism in social organization. Between the devel opment of individual characteristics in city architecture even at the risk of incongruousness.andtbedulln ess of uniform ity, there is no halfway point. The best and most artistic architecture, because the most useful for its purposes, will probably be attained by letting each individual build ing fix its own character, and trusting to the similarity of circumstances and even the laws of fashion to maintain their unity. A TEAHS-ALLEGHEHY CANAL. The letter from a gentleman interested in river navigation, suggesting a canal to con nect the Monongahela river at Morgan town with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Cumberland, puts a project before the public which is somewhat novel in engineer ing characteristics and fairly startling in its commercial possibilities. The project of a tunnel for such a canal is not so much beyond the present achieve ments of engineering as might bethought at first sight. Many American readers have recently read a description of just such tun nels, through which immense volumes of English traffic pass, in "William Black's "Strange Adventures of a House Boat.'.' The English tunnels are not so long as this one would probably be; but they are long enouch to show the practicability of the idea, and are in constant use to prove its value. Of course the engineering question, on which the whole project must stand or fall, is its cost; and that cannot be accurate ly fixed except by surveys. Of the commercial possibilities of the project too much cannot be said. It is a material fact that the main factor in the growth of New York, Buffalo and the cities lying between them, has been the Erie Canal. Snch a project would make Balti more a rival of New York and give to Pitts burg and the Monongahela and Potomao valleys the wonderful inspiration of the cheapest transportation possible. The com mercial and industrial results of such an advantage, are beyond computation. But their immense importance can be perceived by seeing what the same factor has done in New York with little more than half the natural advantages for manufacturing and Commerce. The idea is certainly worthy of discussion. Such a canal connecting Pittsburg with the seaboard and the other canal connecting it with Lake Erie would make it the in dustrial center of the world. A TIP FOB SEHATOES. The gentle remarks of Senators Chandler and Call about some things which the latter is said to have put into the Congresiional Record report of a speech will naturally in crease the public confidence in that' valua ble ii sensational journal. Mr. Chandler alleges that Mr. Call interpolated in the official report of the Senate's proceedings a paragraph that had not been spoken and which was unparliamentary and personally offensive to Mr. Chandler. In less ambig uous language Mr. Call preferred to re serve the expressions of his contempt for his brother Senator until he could put it into cold type. "Very considerate behavior on the part of .Florida's fiery Senator. He was not afraid of telling Mr. Chandler to his face what he thought of him, of course, and he knew and Mr. Chandler onght to appreciate this that by putting his remarks into the Record they would be seen by very few persons. Indeed, Mr. Call may have wished to spare Mr. Chandler's feel ings. If all offensive personalities were reserved for publication in the Record, the business of both branches of Congress would be greatlv expedited. At present many days are given up by the Senators and Congress men to personal contention, the bandying of epithets, and the exchange of parliamentary billingsgate. The people are "neither bene fited nor edified by these displays of Con gressional bad temper and bad taste. But if Senators and Congressmen must call each other names let them do it in their own time and in a department specially set aside for such outpouring in the Record, where they will never be seen by anyone but the authors and their victims. No parliamen tary rules need hamper the passions and imaginations of legislators in these literary combats. If the honorable Senator from Florida thinks the Senator from New Hamp shire has not the brains of a toad, the de cency of a Hottentot, or the courage of a cockroach, and he wishes his honorable friend to know what he thinks, let him print his thoughts, in the columns of the Record. The Record will thns be made of some use, and the debates of both Houses will be of far greater value than they are now. A TABTAB KEMEBY. Dr. Bapahinski, a medical man of great repute in St Petersburg, has discovered that diphtheria can be cured by inoculating the patient, with erysipelas. How he dis covered this singular fact, of which our less enterprising doctors do not yet know the ex istence, we are not told. "He may have tried it on himself, but that is not likely. Probably he tested the theory on somebody else; possibly on a dog. There is no telling what a dog will stand. Inoculating with erysipelas to cure diph theria sounds oddly. It is the sort of treat ment one would expect a patient in Dix monf seriously "advocate. To our grand fathers and elder forbears such a prescrip tion would, as Mark, Twain showed ns recently by quotations from a doctor's book of practice in the last century, seem rational enough. The old idea was not so much to save the life of the patient as to attack the disease with all possible violence. If the patient died, the doctor could often say with truth that the disease had been beaten, too. More men use to die by physie than by disease. Perhaps Dr. Bapahinski is work ing on that plan. The erysipelas is used as a counter-irritant to the diphtheria. The diphtheria may be cured and the patient still die ot erysipelas. This must tickle Bapahiniskl and very few of the patients will live to complain. Bustian medicine and therapeutics show too much of the Tartar in their originators. ''Cuius SrsECXELS advises the Ways and Menu Committee not to refuse the duty on raw sugar. Although Claus, by his fight against tbe trust, has won the record of the country, he cannot be gratified In this request The duty on both refined and raw sugar must be cut," says the Ht Louis Ulobe-Dmocrat. As Bprecktls Is a rcflnnr, and wonld be Individ ually biDoQitd by the reduction of duly on raw near, It mar be assumed thai bis adrlca was Inuillrsnt as well at tltlatereaitd. Conse quently It It vMtwtlr aimed against thai pre. eJoM km gt p for tse btwfilof toe Bnear Trust to cut off the duties on raw sugars and let' them stand on refined. The Globe Democrat is also qnlte right in declaring that the sugar duties must go. Ahoxheb big gas main, to be laid to the Bcllevernon field this year, evinces the confi dence of tbe experts in the business that the gas supply is not going to give out Money talks when It Is put In to tho permanent works of the Dullness. One of those scientific sharps who spends his time in discovering new and awful organ isms, announces the discovery ot an ice worm, which lives upon ice, and reduces that crystal commodity to uselessness as thoroughly as a hot day In July. The discovery has no terrors for this country at present. If any ice worms have descended upon the United States this winter they are bound to undergo the terrible fate ot starvation. Some of the New Yorkers are bearing it bravely; but it must go hard with Mr. Waldorlf Astor to reflect that the World's Fair will be held in a city which perpetrates the awful vulgarity of sending servant maids to open front doors. The mission crusaders have been fined five dollars each, which they should pay, and then deTote their energies to electing officers ot the law who will gee that illegal saloon keepers are arrested and fined also for every offense they commit -If they will be as ener getic in this as they were in destroying saloon property, they can stop the liquor business in their town. Sheffield gushers are contributing to the uncertainties of the petroleum market in a way to sustain the old theory, which asserts that there is always plenty ot production when oil can be sold above a dollar. It is really unjustifiable for the wicked Louisville Courier-Journal to suggest that when Henry George has his land scheme adopted, he will demand that all men shall have an equal allowance of hair. ' A glance at Henry's portrait will show that this is de scending to the level of personal politics. Cyclones in the South, blizzards in the West and spring mildness in Pittsburg prove that this country can enjoy all varieties of weather at the same time. The reported discovery of salt wells in Ohio, which are owned by the Standard Oil Trust, is principally important as typifying the fact that if the original trust gobbles up the salt combination, it has got as much water as salt to put Into the new stock. "Water is more necessary to tbe trusts than salt The renewed illness of the baby King of Spain indicates that the King, as well as tbe kingdom, needs an improved constitution. The characteristics of the Astor will are comparatively modest bequests to charitable purposes, and tbe descent of an immense and undivided property to a single successor. The democratic principle of the aestribation of great estates does not seem to be working very well in this era. PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE. Patti has lost none of her passion for billiards, and spends much of Jier time in play ing with Nicolini. The Sacred Congregation at Borne has em phatically declined to grant General Bou langer's application for a divorce. Mb. J. M. Studebaeeb has placed on his farm at South Bend, Ind.. a nig which cost him $2,000. Of course he bought it in New York. The Royal Geographical Society has in vited Thomas Stevens to send a paper describ ing how he reached Henry M. Stanley in East ern Africa. It is said that the marriage ot another daughter of the Prince of Wales has been arranged, and that it will be publicly an nounced in April. Q,ttekh Victoria, Invited no clergymen to the amateur theatricals at Balmoral. It Is said that she does not approve of clergymen! at tending snch performances, which is lucky for them. Beceetaet TaACT has sight in one eye only. When young he taught school in North ern New York, and an unruly pupil threw a slate at him, striking him in the eye and de stroying the sight Balph DianAExr, a brother' of Lord Beaconsfield, has retired, at tbe age of SO, after SO years ot public service, from the office of Deputy Clerk of the Parliaments, to which he was appointed Dy Lord Beaconsfield. Edwin Booth has sent a check for $1,000 to the Vincent Hospital, at Boston, an institution for tbe rcliet of working women and girls, established under the patronage of Trinity Church as a memorial of the late Mrs. J. R. Vincent, for many years an esteemed and ac complished actress of the Boston Museum Company. THE SOUTHERN QUESTION. Chandler Raises Another Little Breeze In the Senate Chamber. WASHruaTON, February 28. In tbe Senate Mr. Chandler presented a petition from Union county. Ark., representing that at the Stats election there in September, 188S, a systematic reign of terror prevailed; that reckless mobs paraded the county, night and day, terrorizing whites and Bhooting and whipping colored voters; that schools and churches bad been de moralized and ballot boxes carried off; and ask ing for the protection guaranteed by the' Con stitution. Mr. Harris asked Mr. Chandler whether the statement which be was making was such a "brief statement" as the role con templated in the presentation of petitions, and added that It was in direct violation of tbe rnle. Mr. Chandler replied that he understood the rule and bow tbe rule was construed. He was not reading the petition, bnt was reading from as condensed a statement of it as he could get in justice to the petitioners. Mr. Harris desired the ruling of the Chair. Mr. Berry asked Mr. Chandler whether he had himself prepared tbe statement he was making or whether somebody else had done so. Mr. Chandler replied that be had written it him selt Mr. Berry I thought so. It is not a petition, but a collection of rot and filth, which the Sen ator has collected himself. Mr. Chandler It is a statement which I make on my own responsibility, of tbe sub stance of this petition. It was prepared by my self. I do not wish to violate the rules of the Senate. I am only sorry that the Senator from Tennessee should not hare taken occasion to comment on the practice of making full state ments of petitions on some other petition than one which concerned the rights of citizens. Mr. Harris again called on the Chair for a ruling. Tbe Chair sustained Mr. Chandler. Mr. Berry II the statement comes from the Senator from New Hampshire himself, I do not think that It can injure either tbe State of Arkansas, or the people of Arkansas. Mr. Chandler I am very much obliged to the Senator from Arkansas for the pleasure of being informed that a petition on this subject can be presented in the Senate of the United States with tbe consent of the Senator from Arkansas. The statement was then completed and the resolution (with several others from Arkansas on the same subject) was referred to the Com mittee on Privileges and Elections. A GEEAT SHOWMAN'S SON. Young Adam Forepuugh's Character Illns trsted by a Chariot Ride. As illustrating the versatility of Adam Fore paugb, Jr., who becomes manager of his father's show, Charles A. Davis, of tbe advance force, tells the following to the Philadelphia Press: Last September, In Springfield, IIL, one of tbe three women engaged to drive In a Chariot race revolted at tbe last moment and said sbo wonld sot ride that bight Young Kotepaugb wasted no words upon ber, merely saying, "There'll be three women In that raoe to-night, all tbe same." Only SO minutes remained until time for the race. Korepaugh hastened to his dressing room, shared oil his mustache, got himself up In feminine attire and rode In tbe raco himself. He repeated the act at every performance for tbt remaining two weeks of the season. Prohibition Hale Tleket, FnoviDKNOE, February Sa-The Htate Pro hibitionists put In nomination tbo following tlcktt to dart Governor, liar, John Larryi Lieutenant Governor. Joshua U. tirowni mere tar ol Hut. John w, Maeaari Attornsy Gen tral, Jobn T. MetftHi (moral Treasurer, John 1'. J.aiaru. THE TOPICAL TALKER, Cable Car Can Make Express Time With out the Cable Mr. Landry Solid With Rojnltr Ag-nln A Picture of a Genuine Dude-Miss Pixley's Pluck. v rpHE entanglement of the Center avenue grip I with the Fifth avenue cable at the Wood street crossing on Tuesday night canned a good deal of trouble, and repetitions of the accident will prove very expensive. One of the many who walked home 'that night tells me that as he reached Fulton street be was surprised to see a cable car come whooping down Wylle avenue. The cable was at a standstill, and the car, of course, was running by gravitation. The steep incline of Wylle avenue above Fulton street had given the car a great impetus, and it was beating cable time out of sight A couple of women were waiting at tbe corner, and one of them stepped off the curb to ball the car. Bnt tbe car was a tbroagh ex press; there was no possibility of stopping it, and as it flew down the hill the women's faces grew very long. The steep grades of the newest cable line promise to make a, journey downtown some what exciting until the grlpmen get used to tbe road. An airbrake of the sort described in The Dispatch last Sunday would be very useful on the Center avenue line. jOthino seems to impair Mrs. Langtry's " popularity with royal and titled personages in London. When she produced "As You Like It" at tbe St James Theater on Monday night, the Prince of Wales, his daughter, the Duchess ol tile, and her husband, and no end of folks with handles to their names were present. But even the aristocratic audience could not inspire the Lily to make her Rosalind more than an exhibition of fine physical proportions. One critic says that she was very "awkward and stagy." That is her abiding fault. But since ber compatriots, the swells mostly, are as ready as ever to pay to see her behind the footlights, the best thing Mrs. Langtry can do is to stay in England. She seems to know that Americans have soured upon professional beauties. prrrsBUEClEKS who stay at home really do not know what a real howling dude of the latest pattern looks like. A good many young men in this city try to be dudlsb, and to a cer tain extent succeed In making sights of them selves. But when a dude comes here from New York the place where dudes flourish most the difference between a tendency toward idiocy and idiocy Itself, as manifested by apparel and other exterior signs, may be noted readily enough. Yesterday I had the privilege of seeing what I have little doubt was a New York dude on Fifth avenue. Perhaps it may interest some of my readers if I give a careful description of it without exaggeration. It had on a little derby bat with a flat brim, beneath which on one side closely cropped hair bristled and on the other was a dear little nose I could not see its fore head. Ahtgh collar and a tie of some quiet color (the single sign of good taste) divided the head from a tightly-fitting overcoat reaching to about an inch below the waist. The coat was of gray and black diagonal, cut In a presum ably English style, for it was hideous. The shoulders were padded evidently. Beneath this trousers a world too wide for any dude's understandings, striped broadly In white and dark gray, led down to a pair of patent leather shoes. Gloves, dark tan in color, completed the clothing proper of this funny creature. But there were accessories. It carried an Immense cane) about six Inches too long for its use, with a shepherd's crook handle. In its month was a cigarette. Many people turned around to look at the model dude. at the close of tbe second act of "22, Second " Floor." last night, a little skye terrier car ried realism to extremes, and in the excitement of the noisy situation bit Miss Annie Filler's arm. The wouniLwas not serious, but natur ally an unpleasant accident to the plucky actress, who Is battling with a good many foes this week. A doctor was sent for and Miss Pixley played out the comedy. Miss Pixley is deserving of great credit for her courage and her fidelity to the public. She will not allow ber admirers to be disappointed If she can help it. I know of no worthier woman upon the stage to-day. A BEIBE OP $79,000,000.- 1 That Is' What Senator Reagan Calls the Blair Educational Bill. Washxkgtok, February 26. In the Senate to-day at 2 o'clock the Blair educational bill was taken up as unfinished business. Mr. In galls inquired as to tbe time when the bill was likely to be disposed of, remarking that it stood in the way of many important measures, and giving notice that be would insist that its consideration should proceed with dispatch. Mr. Beagan addressed the Senate In opposition to the bill. He said that he bad presented to the Senate in the last Congress such views and authorities as seemed to demonstrate that the passage of the bill was not warranted by the Constitution. It was not hi purpose again to en ter on a full discussion of the character and prorisions of the bill. Even if he had not before done so, the learned and able discussion of the subject by the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Faulkner), and by bis colleague (Mr. Coke) had made it unnecessary for him to do so. He should, therefore, limit his remarks to presenting some of the authorities which he had then used, to show that there was certain ly no exDress grant of power in the Constitu tion for such legislation, and that legislation as to local and domestic questions in the States was left exclusively to the States. Speaking nf Mr. Blair's assertions as to illiteracy and barbarism in the Southern States, Mr. Beagan made a statement to show that so far as Texas was concerned, that State bad done and was doing its full dutv in the matter of free com mon schools. It was, therefore, not fair, he said, to arraign her for a neglect of duty on that subject He described the bill as offering a bribe of $79,000,000 to the States if they would consent to accept it as a price for the destruction of tbe right of local self-government and as im posing on them the humiliating condition ot approving, by an affirmative act of legisla tion, the policy of the bill. In the interest of the cause of education, to prevent the Federal Government from being converted into a des potism and to avoid an additional fruitful canse of sectional strife and agitation, he hoped for the defeat of the bill by the Senate. Mr. Wilson, of Maryland, also argued against tbe constitutionality of tbe bill. Mr. Blair re plied to Mr. Wilson and said he did so because no other Senator desired io speak upon the bill to-day. 3IISEEI AND STAETATION. Powderly Says the People or Scrntiton Close Their Eye to tbe Spectnclr. BcBANTOir, February 28. Mr. Powderly, speaking' with reference to the articles he is writlne on the conditional the mining class in this region, said that the first one, which was printed last week, had brought him many let ters from all over tbe country. "A man in New Jersey," he continued, "has written me that he will care for one family it 1 will send them on. I thought I know tho family and made them the offer. Wltn tears in their eyes the husband and wife told me that they could not accept the generous offer. Tbey were Hying in a house which they had partly paid for, and to leave it would be to sacrifice all that they had laid by during years of toil. I will have to hunt up another family. I also have received letters from Illinois, several of them coming to-day, asking If the surplus miners cannot be sent away from here. There is plenty ofork out West they say. It is probable that our poor people would not leave Scranton if furnished the means with which to go." "Business seems to be booming quite nicely in the heart ot tbe city," suggested tbe Inter- "That is true," said Mr. Powderly. ''Fortu nately Scranton has not reached that stage when its Varied industries do not render it wholly dependent on its mines, therefore every thing looks well in tbe central wards. Yon will have to go to tbe outskirts If you want to see gaunt want Beally any amount of our poor people do not get enough to eat Misery and privation stalk abroad, and we of ten close our eyes to the spectacle." To Keep Prom Lnnuhlng. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Minerva turns ber bead when the wise men of tbe Senate begin to investigate the manner in which reports of secret sessions leak out DKATflS OF A DAY. Dr. TfcoMat Scott. Dr. Thomas M. Heott, tbt well-known physician OfNo.COSJ'irthavsnue, died yesterday morning; it his home. lit contracted typhoid fiTir a ftw months ago, and was conralrsccut but suffrred a rclapit and contrasted a complication ofdlictsrs. f )r. Heolt was born neiir Munoni aiieia Cllr, At tin o of 50 ha cams la this eiiy anil Itsntcdtnt Erlmlni trsdt. In ins meantime ht ladlnl itdlcint and (rsdnattd fruiu ins Ktlumort ItdlealUellM. .Htwat a man of mnr noelt guaWtt and bis ilettt it rtfNHt4 by aU whe bare MISS PJXIiErS NEW PLAT. Number 23, Second Floor A Comedy of No Little merit. Mr. G, H. Jessop's new comedy, "22, Second Floor," was performed for the first time In Pittsburg last night. It Is a bright, thoroughly impossible, comedy of errors, and the dual role, which is the backbone of the play, seems to have been well built for Miss Pixley's use. In these two characters Mrs. John Ellis, demure wife, whose affec tions are centered in the home circle, and Miss Flora Feotherslone, a sprightly actress of tbe "London Frivolity" and has a capital Chance to draw two distinct characters, and she im proves the opportunity. The wife and tbe actress are twin sisters, separated in youth, each believing the other dead. So closely does one resemble the other that their most Inti mate acquaintances and relatives are deceived, and the troubles begin as soon as Miss Flora Feathertlane takes room 22, second floor, in the Jinkerson House, directly above the apart ments occupied by the demure Mis. Ellis. Tbe actress' advance agent scolds tlra wife for her extravagance in dresses, and Mr. Flits chats with tbe actress about their baby. Impetuous suitors Invite Mrs. Mils out to dine, and the spriehtly actress listens to gossip about people of whom she never before bad beard. Miss Pixley is naturally well equipped for fntlt Ii n nvn Dti 4i.Ana xantfallir Stan sing a light song well, and has lots of bubbling fun at her command. Thus she easily gives us the actress and her appearance as the quiet; domesticated sharer of Mr. Flits' joys makes a rare contrast. She acted wonderfully well last night as those whp know all tbe circum stances can best testify. The company is well cast in the play, too. Mr. C. Daly was oleaginous and seductive as a broker, Amphytrion Smith, and John Flits, the jealous husband who mistakes the actress for her sister, bis wife, was well presented by John F. Burke. Miss Annie Douglas made a good deal out of a nursemaid's part, and her bibu lous exclamation after a glass or two of un wonted champagne. "We are all here!" brought down the bouse. The play ought to take a place In Miss Pixley's regular repertoire next season. The dialogue Is bright though not often witty. A little modification and touching up would make the story less mani festly impossible. Even a comedy ought to now and then come within the bounds of possi bility. Mr. Jessop should get out his blue pencil. We had nearly forgotten'the angel treasure" of the play, an admirable baby. A more engag ing baby, with a smiiofor everyone and clap ping its hands with the audience, was never seen on tbe stage. This rising star comes from Philadelphia. A large audience. Including many Elks, witnessed the play and applauded it heartily. News of the Sense. The benefit given to the Order of Elks at the Grand Opera House to-morrow afternoon promises to be one of the big theatrical events of the season. The programme is varied and most entertaining. Beside the three great plays from each of which an act will be given, viz: Miss Annie Pixley. in tbe second act of the "Deacon's Daughter;" Joseph Haworth. in the ghost scene from "Hamlet" and the reci tation, "Shamus O'Brien," and the fourth act of the "Legal Wreck," several new specialty features will be introduced, among them being Anna Leah Dickinson, tbe great whistling so loist: Slguor G. GI111, the well-known tenor; tbe Mandolin Troubadors; Miss May Hornby, tbe inimitable eccentric dancer; ,Miss Etta Cole, a wonderful contortionist; Collins and Danzh erty, acrobats; Kennette and Mathews, black face and acrobatic dancers; the pretty little Collins children, in their neat fancy dances, and other features. The Great Western Band of 60 pieces, under the direction of Prof. B. Weis, will, as usual, open the entertainment A few more reserved seats can be had by apply ing at the box office. On Friday morning gal lery tickets will be sold for SO cents. Miss Amelia. B. Edwards, who is to lec ture here on Tuesday next on the discoveries made under her superintendence in Egypt, is not merely an arcpiBologlst and explorer. She is a wonderful talker: ber gift of graphicnarra tion is known to all who have read her delight ful novels. Her first novel was "My Brother's Wife," published in 1835, followed at intervals of about two years by "The Ladder of Life," "Hand and Glove," "Barbara's History," "Half a Million of Money," "Miss Carew," "Deben ham's Vow," "Monsieur Maurice," "In the Days of My Youth" and "Lord Brackenbury." Her first great success was in "Barbara's His tory," and many of the other stories wilt be familiar to all, while her last novel, "Lord Brackenbury," has already passed through IS editions, and has been translated into French, German and Russian. A volume of poems, under tbe title of "Ballads," appeared in 1865, while the mere enumeration of her miscella neous literary work-would fill a column. She is the most remarkable woman England has ever lent to us. Tbe sale of seats for the lecture will begin on Saturday at Kleber's. The concert to be given on Friday evening next by tbe Handel Musical Association for tbe Home for the Friendless promises to be a great artistic treat to those who aro wise enough to go to Carnegie Music Hall. Allegheny. Tbe programme is very big. Tne Handel Society, under the direction of Mr. Amos Whiting, will render several choruses, and the soloists for the evening are Miss Genevra C. Johnstone, soprano, of Chicago; Miss Mand Morgan, harp ist, and George W. Morgan, organist, of New York. The Hume for tbe Friendless Is a most deserving institution and with such able laborers working for it, it ought to receive the substantial benefit it deserves from this con cert. , The Jefferson-Florenco Comedy Company, in Sheridan's comedy of "The Rivals," will be presented on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights of next week with a Jnatinee on Saturday. The sale of seats will open on Monday morning at the box office. The cast of characters is the strongest this great comedy has ever had, and it is here published: Bob Acres, Joseph Jefferson; Sir Lucius CPTrig ger, W. J. Florence; BlrM Anthony Absolute, Edwin Varrey: Captain Absolute, Frederick Panlding; Faulkland, George 1 rederlck Kash; David, George W. Denham; Fag, Joseph War ren; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. John Drew; Lydia Languish, Viola Allen; Lucy, -Agnes Miller. Next week for the first three days at the Opera House will be produced that realistic play by Denman Thompson and George W. Byer called "The Two Sisters." It Is very like "The Old Homestead," that has run now for two years in New York, and they are fitly termed companion) pieces, "The Two Sisters" photo graphing city life as its companion play photo graphs rural life. "Jed Prodty," a realistic picture of New England life, is tho Bijou Theater's attraction next week. A MINE OF INFORMATION. The Dispatch n Pnper Tbnt Should Find - n Place In Every House. Frorn the f"reeport (Pa.) Journal. Keopiug abreast of the times, or, rather, leading the procession in enterprise and prog ress, is what The Pittsbuho Dispatch is doing. There aro very few dallies in the large cities that compare with it in .amount ana quality of matter given. The daily is brimful of tbe very latest news, and It never misses any thing worth mentioning. Whether you want a reliable market report, sporting, political, re ligions or general news, you can find It in the daily; while the mammoth 20-page Sunday edition, that has reached a circulation of over 53,000 copies, is an almost inexhaustible mine of information. It contains more good reading matter in each issue than the average 25 or SO cent book, and only costs a nickel. It is a very creditable representative of the most important manufacturing Center in the United States, and should find a place In every home. PAID AN ELECTION BEL Joseph Geyer Had to Banquet His Friends In the Sixteenth Ward. A delightful banquet was held, last night at tbe Friendship House, Bloomfield. A large number of prominent Republicans, of the Six teenth ward, were present to partake of a fine spread. Joseph Geyer presided as host having lost an election bet with Select Councilman Robert Warren, of tbe Sixteenth ward. Several post prandial speeches wero made, tbo principal toast being "Oar Councilman,'1 by Mr. Warren. The floral decorations and mnslo were the other features of tho evening's entertainment. An AlUAroBBd newspaper. From the New Cumberland (W. Va.) Indepen dent! There are few papers that eome nearer filling the bllt at an all-around newspaper than Tub PirraDUito Dispatch, A Mil n Who Nrrilt llslp. jTrout tbt Philadelphia ilocord.) Au Aitlttaut Hterttary of War and an As stiuat Vict I'rctldint might bo well eaousui butanatslUMt tmtoi Wak lltHtet taf Brftar A GRAND CANAL PROJECT. The Union of lbe Chesapeake and Ohio and Mononfnheitl Wnterwnys How it Could be Effected Vast Possibilities oi Benefit to Pittsburg, Washington and Baltimore In tbe Scheme. 'TBAHSPOBTATioif on our Western rivets x will never reach a high degree of pros perity until the eastern terminus of the water route Is extended to the great foreign and coast commerce centers on tbe Atlantic sea board, which is tbe advantage now posse'sed by all the great trunk railways. Fromthese coast cities came tbe greater part of the commerce whicb furnished employment for tbe river steamboats during the palmy days In the forties, but which was deviated from the rlrerbythe extension of the Ohio and Penn sylvania and other railroads to tbe West, To regain this lost commerce it will be conducive to the river interests to extend their trunk waterway to the coast, which can be accom plished by the union of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal at Cumberland, Md., wltb the Monongahela river at Morgantown,. W. Va., by means of a subterranean and open-cut water way about 40 feet wide and 60 miles in lengtb. As the width of this tunnel canal would not permit boats to pass in opposite directions, it would be necessary to pass trains ot boats east and nest about every alternate 13 hours. These trains of barges could be towed by coke burn ing, screw-propeller tugs. Tbls canal could be doubled If it should prove Inadequate for the traffic tonnage. Washington by Water. Jock and dam No. 9 on the Monongahela. lately completed, together with a series of others, afford continuous water Communication to Morgantown, between wblch Bo'nt and Pittsburg a line of sldewheel boats ply dally. The completion of tbls short waterway project would reunite onr Western Pennsylvania waterways with the Eastern Pennsylvania canal system, and the same class of boats which now transport coal from Mauch Chunk and other points in the heart of the anthracite Coal region to New York and Philadelphia could then come to Pittsburg. In fact, boats could come from almost any county in the State east of the mountains. Think of the fact that our great Mississippi system, comprising 20,000 miles of navigable rivers, is separated from the chief Atlantic sea ports by a missing link only 60 miles in length. This is the mlniatqre ob stacle which prevents Washington and Balti more from possessing a waterway entirely across tho Appalachian Highland and hinders them from sharing an equal position with New York City as a natural gateway to tha Great West, granted it by Hudson river ana Erie Canal to tbe great lakes. Also, it retards it from securing an inland water route to New Orleans and obstructs intercourse with tho great trunk waterways tho Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri, and all their tributaries, and after the completion of the proposed Ohio river and Lake Erie Canal the city will fail to enjoy the benefits of a bee line waterway to the great lakes and a consequent water connection with Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Dulnth and all other lake ports. How It Would Benefit Commerce. TDEiiovE this impediment and then the great bulk of the river traffic of the Mississippi system will be focal at Washington and Balti more, as will also the great bulk of foreign im ports and the coast trade. The huge piles of granite blocks Contained in our1 new postofnee, county Court House, Carnegie Library and other buildings afford an example of the im mense feeder to the proposed waterway the latter trade would be, as a great portion of these granite blocks were carried by schooner from the quarries in Maine to Baltimore. Tbe last named port would immensely Improve its position, and would probably rise to tbe lead in foreign commerce. The Potomao Valley, adjoining the Chesapeake and Ohio Cabal, would beoome as available for manufacturing purposes as the Monongahela Valley, and prop erty values would enhance along its entire length. We would then witness large fleets of huge barges, similar to those of Gray's Iron Line, and the Mississippi Valley Transporta tion Company laden with grain, flour, cotton, sugar, molasses and many other products of tho West, Northwest and Soutbwest includ ing also cattle and other lire stock, comforta bly stabled and cared for on model barges in tow Of powerful steamers Up tha broad bosom of the Ohio, up the Monongahela in tow of smaller boats and by screw propeller tugs through the tunnel, down the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (after enlargement) to Washington and Baltimore, where the cargoes could be transferred directly to the steainshlps for trans port to foreign ports. A Grent Thing for Pittsburg. "JJS would probably witness great tows of model barges equipped with apparatus and cold storage apartments, engaged in tbe dressed beef trade between the slaughtering stations in the far West and Baltimore. It may be here mentioned, as explanatory ot the immensity of the capacity of our great water ways and the boats that navigate them, that the powerful towboat W. W. O'Neil Is now en route down the Ohio from Pittsburg to New Orleans with 40 pieces or boats Containing" a cargo of 725,000 bushels or acres of coaL The Henry Lowry is en route to New Orleans with tow of model barges laden with cargo of 350,000 bushels of grain. The Percy Kelsey is en route from Alabama down the Tennessee river with tow and cargo of 5,000 tons of pig iron for Pittsburg. The capacity of the huge cotton carrying steamers on the Mississippi is about 10,000 bales. This Is tbe class of boats we would observe at our Pittsburg wharves, together with numerous others with miscellaneous car goes, rcsbipplng on through model barges to the Atlantic ports. Stretch our water routes to the East by establishing the Cumberland and Morgantown Canal, and then we -will bave obtained the remedy for reviving our river commerce to a wonderful degree of prosperity, and be possessed of one of tbe most important artificial waterways that could be conceived by our Imagination. KrvEBHAW. Dil. KKAUSfcOFF'S LECTDEB. A Talk to tho Hebrew Association oh lbe Possibilities of Youth. Rev. Dr. Joseph Krauskoff, tha Hebrew Rabbi, of Philadelphia, delivered a very enter talnlng and Instructive address last evening at tbe Eighth Street Temple, under tha auspices of the Young hen's Hebrew Association. He chose for his subject the "Possibilities of Youth." and said: "Originally it was a legend that tbe period f man's life was limited to 30 years. Man not being satisfied with his short term nf exltonco prayed to God to lengthen it and He answered man's prayer and took 20 years from tbe life of tbe mule and gave it to man. Man still prayed for more, and God added 20 years from the life of tbe dog. Not being satisfied, man prayed for more, and his prayer was answered by 20 years from tbe life of tbe ape being added to his. "This was, ot course, only a legend, but it illustrates wonderfully the four states of man's existence. First his youthful life of tbe first 80 years full ot vigor, ambition and grand acts; then 20 years of the slavish, brutish life of tbe mule, then 20 wore of the faithful, obedient life of the dog, and last the child-like, sim- Sle and merely animal existence Of the ape. be first 30 years of life are the greatest of all. They make uo a period, in which all great things are achieved and all good seed is sown. If this period is allowed to go by without hav ing been profitably utilized, it is a loss never td be regained." ENDLESS LITIGATION MAT AEI8B. Every Measure Passed by tbo Koilh Dakota Legislature Pronodnced Illegal. Bissiakck, K. Dae., February 26. The best parliamentarian in the Legislature says that every measure passed by that body Is illegal. Tbe ground for this startling proposition is in the organization orthe Legislative Assembly. The Governor convened the Legislature on the 19th of November, as protided in the schedule of tbe State Constitution. That section says the Uorernor-clect of tbo State, Immediately upon his qualifying and entering upon the duties if lift office, shall Issue his proclamation courening the Legislative Assembly, which, after organizing, must proceed to elsct two United Hiatet Senators. The section says noth ing about any other business tban the election ot Senators, The Governor, la his proclama tion, was very careful in defining the object of the meeting of the Legislature. Alter tbe election of Senators, In tbe Interest of economy, tbe Legislature, acting under the advice ot tbs Attorney General, took up its regular work, and proceeded as in regular session. Tha mistake was In calling the tptclsl teuton tbe regular session, and a further mistake was made, when the legislature met in January, that It did not rmraanlsa and enttr upon a regular session. Now it It neither rptrlal nor regular. If tptctal, II le aacttdlM Its pewsr, E, If ruUr, it It werfctat; tHHttr the etna Ion ot a dead ittslsa. Ciatttssa M Ml lltisassssAlasal MUs sssllssssV nwKwwvw istrwy prism OOP. MAIL POUCH. Looking Backward. To tbe Editor of TheDlsp&tcb: tn view of tbe approaching semi-centennial of the Incorporation of tbe city ot Allegheny, the following facts, most of which are of official record, may be of interest: At a special meeting of the Borough Council of Allegheny, held January 17, 1S39, it was re solved, That, in view of the great and grow ing increase of tha population embraced within our corporate limits, and the many advan tages to be derived from It, that tbls Council, as an expression of their opinion, do recom mend to tbe next Council the propriety ot memorizing the Legislature for a city char July 1, 1839, a copy of the charter bill, as amended, having passed both Houses of tbe State Legislature, was read before Conncil. The Borough Bnrgess, John Morrison, made bis appearance and read tha written opinion ot the borongh solicitor on the subject A reso lution was offered to arrange to hold an election for Mayor, Select and Common Coun cilmen oa the first Tuesday In July, Burgess Motrlson protesting against the undue haste. Yet tbo resolution passed 4 votes for and 3 against. After tbe vote tbe matter was discussed. A noisy wrangle was followed by a call to-order and a vote to reconsider, resulting in deferring the time of election to the fourth Tuesday, by a vote of 5 to 3. Tuere was a great deal of feeling displayed arid some harsh expressions used. All this was useless, as the bill bad not yet been signed by tbe Governor. The election was postDoned Indefinitely. A year later, June IS, 1840. the Council ar ranged for the first city election to be neld on the second Tuesday of July, pursuant to act of the 13th ot April, 1840, incorporating tbe cltv and providing for tbe election, as follows: First ward, election to be held at the bouse cf H. DeHaven; H. Irwin and W. A. Charlton to supervise tbe same. BeCond ward, at the house of John Goeriug. under superrision of Robert Stewart and Peter Beard. Third ward, at tbe house of Charles Vlck; L. O. Reynolds and William A. Irwin, supervisors. Fourth ward, at the house of Hugh Sweeney; William Rob inson and James A. Gray, supervisors. General William Robinson. Jr., claiming to be tbe first wbite child born within the borough limits, was elected Mayor. I Du McCAKDLESS. AlLegHeky, February 26V Sfnrrloil's Law Explained. To the Editor of The Dispatch! While anM.D. In your issue of this date states Marlott's law correctly, his explanation proves that he falls to understand it. The law applies to atmospheric pressure only, which equals IS pounds per square inch. Perhaps the most easily understood explanation ot the law is as follows: A vessel Of 1 cubic foot dimen sion at atmospheric pressure will contain 1 cnbto foot; at IS bounds above atmospheric pressure it will contain 2 cubic feet: at 30 ponnds above, 3 feet; at 45, 4 feet; at 60, 5 feet, and so on, a cubic foot of gas going into the vesserfor every additional 15 pounds of pressure applied. It will thns be seen that a cubic foot Of gas at 60 pounds treasure Will expand to 5 cubio feet at the pressure of the atmosphere. AS there are 240 ounces In 15 pounds, gas will ex pand or contract just onctwd hundred and fortieth its volume for every dunce increase or decrease in pressure, and as meters are ad justed at a pressure not exceeding one-fourth of an onnca tha consumer gets the advantage of all contraction in volume while being meas ured at any pressure exceeding one-fourth of an ounce. John YotjNd. AI.LEOIIENT, February 25. A Central Traction Route. To the Editor of Tbe Dispatch t "It is easier to go around a hill than to climb over it' IS an old saying full df the practical. Hence this bint to the Central Traction Com pany: That the extension to the East End be by Thirty-third, Rldga and Craig streets, to Center avenue. This would secure tbe traffic of the hilltop that would come were tbe road built over tha apex of Herron mountain, and being midway between base and apex wonld se cure the patronage of some hundreds of bouses now occupied on tbe route suggested, and would build up several additional hundreds of houses for wblch there is ample space. This plan would take possibly three minutes more time for a Car to cover than would the straight line over the peak. ThibteBhtH WAED. Pittsbubg. February 28. Pensions nnd the Corn Crap. To the Editor orThe Dispatch: I have corns, and they not only Impede my movements, bnt they cost more or less for oint ments. I suspect those corns were got in marching during tbe war. Can you tell me if I am entitled to a pension for partial disability a to walking? iYott will sea at oncatbatiam cutoff from belnga policeman and from many other metbods of earning a living in which foot labor Is a requisite. IhPAKTET, PrrrSBtntG, February 23. - A Tradition of Oldi-n Times. To the Editor of Tbe Dispatch: Can any old inhabitant give information as to tbe statement that the Allegheny river at Pittsburg froze over on the 1st Uay of April about TO years ago, and on the third day tbe ice was so thick that coal wagons passed overT Tbe above I heard wbeb a youth of 10 years in 1830. I have never seen any referenda td it PMTSBUEG, February 26. H. A. W Ask the Gymnasium Officers. To the Editor ofTbe Dispatch: How much does it cost to join the East End Gymnaslnm? Constant P.EAD2B. PmaBDKG, February 28. She Will be at the BIJon. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Is Emma Abbott aud her opera company coming to Pittsburg this season? Jsquimb. PittsbubO. February 26. CE8SSA A CANDIDATE. He Will Endenvor to Defeat Congressman Scttll la His Own Connlr. ISrEClAl. TEUGHIX TO THS DISPATCH.! Bedford, February 26. A special to a Phil adelphia paper from Pittsburg relative to tbe fight in the Twentieth Congressional district in whicb candidates from every county in tht district were announced, the name of Hon. John Cessna, being Bedford county's aspirant, was shown to Mr. Cessna by your correspond ent to day, and be was asijtMto talk as to his chancofortlin nomlnatlon'Hesaid: "Atthe present time I am not prepared to talk on tbe object, but by this time next week I will give you something that ulil interest the voters in the district I g6 to Somerset next week to try several cases I have pending there, and will then consult with my friends there as to my candidacy." A gentleman well posted on matters political, after being told of Mr. Cessna's coming caucus with bis Somerset county friends, said: 'It is Uncle John's' intention to make the fight of his life for this nomination. He will be urged by General Koontz, aiid 'life friends will make a desperate light t carry Congressman Scull's own county against Mr. Scull. I know tbls to be a fact." EDITORIAL COMMENTS. NewYobk: Star: While New York was wrangling over the umpire, Chicago "played ball." LOTJISVIXM Courier Journal: A black Re publican will rote for a white Republican, but a white Republican will not vote for a black Republican. PniEADELPHiA Record: Boss Piatt says that he is sorry the World's Fair goes to Chi cago. What IS expected of him on this oc casion by tbs people of New Yorkisnot sorrow, bdt repentance. CHICAGO Inter Ocean: Democrats who are sneering at "the way Carnegie got his money to give back to the public" bare nothing to say ot the railroad wreckers, the tax dodgors and Standard Oil speculatois, who are the head and front of the Democratic party. ClHcrHNAtl Commercial Gazette: It is hard lines for Mrs. Terry. She does not create a sensation any more. Yesterday in court she made the remark that Deputy Marshal Frank, pointing him oat killed her husband, and thsre Is no doubt she told the truth Chicago News: Now tha Hon. Cbauncey M. Depew isn't quite as much of a Christopher Columbus at be ws just after be" had finished patching up the Albany bill, if the amiable Mr. Dopew still desires to bo Director General of the World's fair he should forward his ap plication to Chicago at once so as to avoid the rush. PHttABitPHU JPrm: Jones, of Ntw York -Jones-he-pajs-ths-freleht-lsn'thalt as big a man at Jones Editor Jones, of St Louis, sine tbe tatter's spates ber ore tht dinner of tha Southern Society, of New York, on Saturday evtnlna And for this one reasont Thst whereas Jonei-oMllngrmmton has weighed (IrorcrClOTelarul In tbe bur scales and fuumt lilm wanting. Editor Jontt, of HL Louis, wtlabtd drover Vlevelaad in hit ims InaUos and found tiotMntf waftMnfr K4Mf Joms la a ftM tx blotW.kwMitftMatwiwkMlii Mm MtX MSSsMsl IsSSB tAssSSSSsMttSSSSsl kalbitLl ttrrB tP PsrrnpiV 0SHtltkrW$ CURIOUS COflDEKSATMSr A popular Brooklyn preacher says that he can 1ee no objection to smoking If the maitf smokes the cigar, and not tha cigar the man."i The variations of tha British nobleman? are limitless. One has just taken out a license, as a barkeeper, and another has won a bride as a laborer. A Yankee genius has invented and patented a machine for buttering bread. Tbs michlnn cuts and batters 750 loaves of bread, in an henr. All the Czech women's associations are about to address a monster petition to the Aua trlan Reicnsratb in favor of the admission of women students to tho University. In South Carolina two superstitious colored persons, becoming frightened by tbo darkness which preceded a storm, sank to the ground and expired almost instantly. In his biography of Lord Houghton, Mr. Wemyss Reid has over 20,000 letters re ceived by that helpful literary man from friends on which he will draw. Lord Houghton never kept a diary. The various branches of one of the most distinguished Russian families are about to get together at Moscow to celebrate tbe five hundredth anniversary of their attachment to the Imperial service. Bev. Fergus A. Dennis, pastor of a church in New Brunswick, N. J., used to be a lawyer and resumed practice in that city on Monday long enough to appear as counsel in a case that was bon-suited. The sudden appearance of a mouse on the floor of the English House of Commons a f Aw nights ago upset the dignity of the emi nent gentlemen near it, and led to a little panlo that made it necessary to drop business for awhile. Prince Albert of Monaco Is said to in tend to devote the 1150,005 per year that ha gets, from tbe gamblers to the completion of tho Cathedral and other public Improvements. He is vary wealthy himself, aud has an enormously rlfih wife. A locomotive on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was run a long distance a few days ago without a smokestack, a barrel being substituted. The engineer says all be needs to pull a train is a steam chest, a pair of driving wheels and a fireman. A kind-hearted woman at La. Crossa bought fire cords of wood and three buck-saws and gave all trami.ta a chance to earn a meat Tbey stole the saws and boys stole the wood, and one day a tramp entered the house of tbe k. b. w. and scared her most to death and stole her Watch, Three women, one of whom is a well known artist and another the author ot a very successful hew novel, were aiscttsslnp the question ot smoking among women. Said tbe artltt: "1 tried it once, when I was a young girl up In Maine, and tbe person who aided and abetted me was Tommy Beed, now Speaker Reed. , i English stoats and weasels are being ex ported to New Zealand from England In large numbers to kill off the rabbits, and tbe rats. which have been food for tbe stoats and weasels in England, are Increasing enormously in some districts. There is a talk of a move ment to prevent the exportation of any mora rat destroyers. A German of some note who was travel ing ib England said that tbe Panama Canal was Germany's safety, meaning that the French had dropped so much money In that ditch that they could have no thoughts of war for 20 years to edme. While he may have been right he reached home to be arrested and sent to prison for six months. Charles Johnson, of Mbrfistowd, aged 18 years', tied a companion named Harry Dig nan In a bag head foremost on Saturday as a joke. Dlgnin angrily tore the bag off, and drawing from his pocket a two-pound weight struck Jobrtsoh Id the small of the back with it forrlblr. The costs were evenly divided be tween tbe two by Burgess Grady. On a half acre of land in Middlesbor ougb, Ky.t the town which is now having a boom, there are 24 distinct varieties of trees, as follows'. White oak, walnut red oak, poplar, cherry, sassafras, persimmon, plum, maple, mulberry, pawpaw, water beech, bickoty, dog wood, sycamore, willow, ash, elm, red haw. box etder, sweet gum, spicewood. black gum, black haw, In a recent sale of old books and manu scripts in New York a letter written by Chris topher Columbus sold, for $2,000. It consisted of 11G lines and 84 words, and very easy words at that, were spelled the most convenient way. Mr. calumbaS was good at sailing bus ml'hsy poor at spelling, though in Ms day It was Muss as proper to spell cat with a "k" as hi any other way. A Portland, Me., correspondent tells abdut an Impecunious speculator in Portland who has rhade as good a thing in bis way, this winter, as have the Kennebeo ice men. He went around, tbe first of the season, and got contracts to keep a large number of sidewalks clear of snow tor tbe winter. Until witnin a few days he has bad no work to do, but hfs pay has gone right on. Jav Gould pays $2,600 a year for hit pew in Br. Hall's church. Although fairly regular at the morning service, he never ap pears in tbe evening; Russell Sage-, on the contrary. Is in his slip at both services. The combined contributions of these financial Christians are estimated at 10,000 a year. Or 51,000 a montb. All nameless offerings of $300 or more, wblch are by ho means rare, are at tributed to these gentlemen. The information which a celebrated writer on fashion conveys, that hot curling irons more frequently bring on graynessof hair than any other cause, is information worth spreading. A great many women are abso lutely reckless in their haste to curl their hair, and tbey migbt undergo the more laborious process of putting it up in papers over night if they were assured that the hot tongs really turn the hair white before its time. A candidate for postmaster in Belle ville, N. J., originated a novel method in can vassing for a political appointment. He at first started out to make a house-to-house can vass-, but, finding that his two opponents were liable to beat him. ha hired an organ grinder and bis monkey. The wandering musician passed from house to nouse ana at eacn tna monkey was banded an envelope with one of the candidate's circulars In it, which ha carried to the window of the house, and if the window was not open he left it on the sill. In this way the candidate placed his claims before the) people. SELECTED WITlCISSIS. "' It was a Chlca go in the House yesterday. Washington Star. Chicago has called the first turn In our Fiir-o game, Washington Star. A Cbicaeq View. New York There'll be no ralr by a d stunt Chicago No, bat there will be by a Chicago site. Washington Star. "Yon got off a brilliant thing just now," said an editor to a professional humorist, as tht Utter arose from sitting od a pair of shears. Sevt Xork Horning Journal. Colonel Ingersoll says himself that as long as ha Is in this world he will smoke. As to the next It is the opinion of a good many he will smoke there. oo. Philadelphia Time. Caller How have you managed to get such a big circulation for your paper r Editor or Penny Sheet-Ob, we sell them by the poind. Bigmeb take an unlimited number of copies. Binghamton Republican. Experience Teaches. "Do yoa think it will rain to-day, General Greeley r" "Oh, no; there Isn't the slightest danger. By ihe war, I'd like to borrow an umbrella for an hduri I fort ot to bring mine.' -ffw JTort Ban. "Was my name brotight up last night?" res." 'Would yoatolnd saying what was done?' "1 was there. The Treas jrer was lnstrueted.ta) buy three quarts oi Diacsoaus lor mo use vi many tti3.-Lve. & ItOTHXS GOOSE RSVrVKD. Hey dlddle-dlddle, Tom Piatt's fiddle Flayed tunes so Wild and rare, That Republicans laughed To see suelt soort And Chicago ran off with tht ralr.l Stu Tort Telegrams Easily Repaired. She (erTlng)-2H5d nowyon're home In this beastly eondUlouTo5t more. 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