THE PITTSBUEG- DISPATCH. SUNDAY. MARCH 2, 1890. BiMfcjj. 75 -, st ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 1S4B, oU4i. o.I3. tntcretfat Pittsburg rostoince. ocmberl4, JSe7, as second-class matter. Business OfSce--97 and 99 Fifth Avenue. News Rooms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street. Eastern Advertising Office, Itoom 10, Trlbnne Building, Jiewiork. TERMS 01" THE DISPATCH. rOTAGE FREE IN THE IMIKB STATES. DAlii Dispatch, One 1 ear. $8 00 Daily Dispatch, I'erQuarter :m Daili Dispatch, Onellouth TO !) Dispatch, includingundav, lyear. 10 00 Dailt Dispatch. lncludingS5unday.3m,tlis. IS) Daili DisrATCii, including bundiy, I month 90 fcWDAI DicrtTcn, Onelcar 150 Ei.M.1 Disi atch. One l ear. . . I 25 1 he Daily Dispatch is delivered bycarrlersat Jarentbper week, or including Sunday edition, at 20 cents per w eek. 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It is interesting to observe that Dr. Xor Tin Green is so wrought un over Postmaster General Wanamakcr's efforts in behalf of postal telegraphy as to denounce him before the Congressional committee as having is sued an .order of confiscation, and to declare that he had no right to "coach the commit tee." As to the first point if it can be dignified bv that term we do not observe by the stock quotations that either Mr. Green or his associates have made any difference in the price at which they will sell their shares in the confiscated property. As to the sec ond, it is likely that the country will recog nize the same right on the part of the Post master General to coach a Congressional committee on a matter of postal policy, that Mr. Green has to coach it in the interest of tbe "Western Union telegraph. Norvin Green's bitterness against Mr. Wanamaker's project, can be taken as evi dence that the Postmaster General is work ing for the public interest, Mr. Green's attitude for years has been that this country was made for tbe enrichment of his especial corporation. A GOOD SETTLEMEHT. A Washington correspondent who claims to have authoritative information, asserts tbat the forthcoming tariff bill will settle the sugar question by reducing the duties on raw sugar to half a cent per pound, with a bonntv of a cent on sugar produced here, defined sugar will have a duty of three quarters of a cent. As this will be a reduc tion of two and a quarter cents on the refined sugar ued by the people, it will be a practi cal redemption of tbe pledge of the Repub licans and would break the grip of the Sugar Trust on the market of this country. The bounty and tariff together will give sugar growers the same protection as under the present tariff; but the ability of a re finers' combination to engross the market would be entirely destroyed. It is to be hoped that section of the bill will be adopted. CANADA'S INDEPENDENCE. The formation of a league to achieve the independence of Canada, as reported from Montreal, is a straw indicating tbe move ment of public opinion in the Dominion toward loosening tbe rather easy ties that bind its people to England. As that coun try is now nearly independent of England in everything but name, the appeal to other American powers contemplated in tbe movement, implies a cultivation of relations with the United States which would be tantamount to annexation. The lact is, however, that when the Cana dian people wish independence they will be able to get it without any conflict with En gland. That Government has enough on its hands in Europe and Asia without trying to coerce Canada into an allegiance which she discards. "When the whole of the Canadian people declare for independence, they will get it without difficulty; and when they are ready to become a part of the United States they can do so. The formation of a league does not by any means show that the majority of the Cana dians are ready to take that step. But it does indicate a working of public opinion that promises important changes in the future. AGAINST NATIONAL PRINCIPLES. The bill which Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, has introduced to regulate im migration, contains some remarkable pro visions in the way of excluding certain classes from coming into this country. Be sides shutting out lunatics, panpers and criminals, which is already provided in the existing law, it excludes "polygamists, anarchists and socialists." This, if enacted, wonld be a definite abandonment of the fundamental pnncipls of our system that any man can hold what opinions he chooses so long as he does not act in violation of the law. The attempt to make the law take cognizance of what people think, under Senator Chandler's provisions, would shut out men of the class of John Burns, of London, Herr Bebel, of Germany, and Ed ward Everett Hale and Bellamy in this country. It is not yet time for the country to abandon its standard principles because Senator Chandler is afraid of a name. A POINT WHICH THEY DODGE. The renewal of the attack on the long and short haul clause of the inter-State commerce act brings out the St. Paul Pioneer Press to a protracted recapitulation ot its arguments against that measure. The sum total of its contention is that the law prevents the reduction of rates on the trans portation of the products of the far "West, and thus prevents the shipment of grain from tbese sections. Yet this esteemed cotemporary omits, as do all the assailants of this clause, to make one point clear. This section only forbids tbat rates from the extreme points shall be reducci, unless rates from intermediate points are reduced to the same charge. But if 35 cents is a prohibitive charge on grain from Dakota to the seaboard, "c is evident that 35 cents must be equally a prohibitive charge on grain from Minnesota or Wiscon- sin; and all that this section enacts is tbat if the rate is reduced to 30 cents from Dakota it must also comft down to 30 cents from Minnesota points. Does oar "Western cotemporary wish to have Minnesota bear a prohibitive rate on its grain in order tbat Dakota may have the benefit of an actually lower rate on the longer haul? BOD VERSUS CHILD. The question whether economy in the rod is compatible with improvement of the boy, forms the subject of a number of inter esting interviews with tbe educators ot the city. "An indication of the difficulty of de termining tbe matter is to be seen in the fact that some of the leading teachers think that corporal punishment should be abolished altogether; while others are equally positive that for certain classes of raisoehavior it is the only effectual corrective. A good way of settling the question would be to inquire as to the results in turning out orderly and intelligent citizens where whip ping is practiced and where it is not. But unfortunately on that point the testimony is as divergent as the a jiriori opinions. Some of the teachers point to the high qualities of the generation turned out by a whipping system; while tne others claim with equal positiveness tbat a better class has been produced by the gradual abandonment ot the rod. There is no dispute that miscellaneous thrashings arc an evil; but, with that point conceded, the discussion as to the practice may continue indefinitely with the practical result tbat when other means are found in adequate, a rood switch may prove an effi cient last resort. ME. BELLAMY'S IDEAS. Mr. Edward Bellamy sets forth in an arti cle elsewhere the principles and purposes of the Nationalist party, or the school of social ism which has its foundation in a work of the imagination by Mr. Bellamy himself. The article is interesting as showing the way in which erroneous deductions can build up a system of mistakes in what ought to be exact sciences. Of Mr. Bellamy's promises namelv, the concentration of great fortunes to the disad vantage of tbe many; the dangerous power in politics of corporate organizations of wealth; the contrasts of luxury and want in our cities; and all the details which show tbe perversion of demo cratic ideas by the growth of wealth, it is only to be said that they afford food for tbe gravest thought. But Mr. Bellamy's error is that of supposing that it would remedy these evils to concentrate further power in the hands of those who have neg lected to defend democratic principles, namely, the politicians. If our govern mental agencies have permitted abuses of the corporate system for a share of the spoils, what fatuity it would be to place them in a position where the inducement to the abuses would be multiplied by the ability to fatten on the whole of the plunder! The trouble with Mr. Bellamy is that he fails to perceive that the abuses of "which he complains are traceable directly to tbe vio lation oi the principles on which the Gov ernment is founded. "When he recognizes that fact it is to be hoped that even Mr. Bel lamy will be logical enough to see that the remedy is to maintain the violated princi ples of democratic society. A POSSIBLE VISITOR. The statement that the young Duke of Orleans will convert his French failure into a triumphant tour of the United States shows a variety of ways in which this country can utilize the hcirof theBourbons. Though one republic refuses to have him on any terms, the other will receive him with open arms, and instead of refusing his ser vices in the army, will give him permanent employment among our millionaires as a lion. We hasten to acquit the young Dnke of any such sinister intention, to take tbe lecture field, as was credited to Boulanger. His means render it unnecessary for him to seek an American heiress, as the thrifty descendants of the thrifty citizen King are reported to be in exceedingly comfortable circumstances. Nevertheless the ambitious youth, is marriageable, and we should heartily encourage the project of a family alliance between himself and some railway king, on tbe principle tbat tbe American millions would at last be getting a title that is genuine. "When the Hatzfeldt and Murat titles have ruled so high, of course, no fortunes less than those of a Van derbilt, Gould, Astor or Rockefeller could purchase the Bourbon title to royalty. The aspirant to the throne may be well off; but with a hundred million more at his command, he could renew his campaigns for the objective point of the throne with a comfortable knowledge that he could com mand the sinews of war. Beyond that with such close relations to our monetary sover eigns, he might learn the art of making even Republican governments complaisant to his schemes. Let the Duke come to the United States. We can promise him even better treatment than the punishment which he received in France, of confinement on a diet costing S150 per week. DHCOUBAGING P0R BEALISM. An advertisement which recently ap peared in a New York paper revealed the hardships which confront the apostles of realism and showed the necessity of an en lightened treatment on the part of the Gov ernment in encouraging the drama. The triumph of the realistic drama in procuring professional burglars to perform the safe cracking act has already been widely com mented upon. It outshone the glories of the tank, which, after all, was only an en larged version of Mr. Vincent Crummies' "two wash-tubs and a pump." It met with great popularity and held up to the bur glarious interest a bright example of the rewards in store for industry and eminence in that profession. But as the story goes, the attempt to mantain artistic realism has been wrecked upon a gross and unfeeling policy on the part of the law. The dramatic exponent of high-class burglary, thoughtlessly attempted to fill a date in which its star owed a term of service and labor to the penitentiary. There is a feeling that the law displayed a very short-sighted disregard for the school of realism; but that tails to take in tbe whole scope of the proceeding. Tne legal interference made the realism 'more com plete. The inevitable and legitimate result of the real burglar's performances followed in an exceedingly realistic seizure of his person by the officers of the law; and it is to be trusted that his imprisonment in the pen itentiary will exhibit the same quality of realism in the most artistic manner. But this is the adversity which made it necessary for the managers of the realistic combination to advertise for a first-class burglar, who"musthave done time." When they get their burglars we presume tbat the advance agent will be instructed to avoid making dates in places where the star Ini with sheriffs or UNCLE SA2TS SAIL0ES SLIGHTED. The squadron of evolution which repre sents Uncle Sam's new navy in European waters is making a good impression all around. It is lots of fun evoluting to judge from the reports of our sailor boys' doings. Whenever the squadron enters a harbor, preparations are made on board the vessels for a ball, and tbe polite inhabitants on shore make ready for similar festivities. This exchange of balls is in pleasant con trast to the exchange of cannon balls in time of war. A French Admiral at Toulon made his American visitors very welcome the other day; gave a great ball in their honor at which he told the young American officers not to wait for introductions, but to go ahead and dance with the prettiest girls they could find. We hope that Americans for once obeyed a foreigner's orders to the letter. But we are pained to notice that a corre spondent, presumably one of the officers of the flagship Atlanti, has to complain of a lack of courtesy in the French officials at the arsenal and navy yaid in Toulon. These officials took a party of American officers through the department named at Toulon, and hurried them so that they could see nothing which would enable them to form any idea of the recent advances made by France in the art of ship building, manu facture of projectiles, and general important naval matters. We would have supposed that these French guides would have been delighted to donate any or all their military and naval secrets to such excellent waltzers as the young officers of the Atlanta. It is sad that an Admiral who tendered the prettiest girls to our lieutenants and midshipmen did not see fit to give them all the information they desired about the building of ships, the making of projectiles, and the plans of France, for instance, in case of war with Germany. Secretary Tracy will be justified in calling Brother Blaine's attention to the churlishness of the French Government's menials at Toulon. Here is a chance for Ambassador Whitelaw Keid to pluck out some pin feathers from the Gallic rooster. Since the tendency of collegiate education is to turn out high class baseball and football plavcrs, it is an interesting indication of tbe universal farce to observe tbat military educa tion at West Point seems to be preparing the future heroes of the nation to carry on warfare by pugilism. As English caper, in commenting on the World's Fair, thinks it a sign that Hew York's commercial and social supremacy has passed away, Tho British inmd is rather quick at jumping to conclnsions. It is a fair inference that if New Yorfc continues to be swayed by the politics of plunder and tbe financial policy of stingme-s, her commercial and social su premacy will go. But New York is still quite a town, and if she can learn to enlarge her ideas a little, she may bo tho chief city of America for a good many years to come. The report that the extremely good Elliot F. Shepard was to be the next Republican can didate for Governor ot New York suggests a singular dilemma. With tho choice between Hill and Shepard, tbe voters of New York would bo placed between the d 1 and the deep sea. Srous City has already signified that it will make a corn palace exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair, at which aScwYork paper turns up its nose, and wants to know whether this is "to be an International Exposition or an Illi nois Fair." If it is the former tho New York idea that an exhibit of United States products is out of place tbere is calculated to create satis faction that New York did not get the fair. This enterprise is intended to support the be lief that the United States is a very consider able portion of the world. While the agitation for eight hours' work is going on, it is pleasant to observe that the Lancaster Cotton M-Jls have reduced their hours of labor to ten hours. This may not be fully ud to tho ideal, but it shows progress from tho old 11 and 12 hour plan. The case of Flack, of New York, who ran one of the courts of that city as a machine for securing bim a fraudulent divorce, is an nounced to come up this week. The New York District Attorney is so anxious to see the law vindicated that he is conducting the prosecu tion by proxy from the long range distance of Hot Springs, Ark. The way of the transgressoi may be harden New York if tho transgressor is not a politician with a pull. Chicago should not try to make the Government swell its appropriation for the World's Fair with so much freshness. In this caso the camel's attempt to get bis whole body inside tbe tent may result in getting kicked out altogether. The Government officials of Chicago have been shocked by the discovery that some whisky dealers have been watering their whisky after the Government had guaranteed the proof. This bad conduct was peremptorily punished by the seizure of the oilutoa liquor. Tho official idea is very clearly to the effect that no people can be permitted to water their stock except the trusts and transportation companies. The petroleum market has let go in a way which creates a suspicion that tne nower sus taining the market for tho past six months or more has concluded that it will bo wise to take on a stock of crude down in tbe eighties. The public library movement is spread ing. Scranton has an offer from tho Albright family to donate the land and buildings for a public library, if the citizens will supply the books, and the citizens are going to work to do it Tho recognition is becoming universal that there is no better way to elevate the people than to bring the means of information close to them. PEKnArs the unanimous confirmation of Warmotk was based upon the Senatorial hope that the duties of bis office would keep him from spending his time in lobbying for lottery schemes in different parts of the country. President Eliot, of Harvard, appears to have been deriving bis ideas of journalism from unfortunate examples. Or elso tho Presi dent's ideal is based on those sleepy and emi nently fossiliferous examples of alleged news papers, the time-honored dailies of Boston. Does the eminent educator read the Arizona Kicker or admire the Boston Transcript t THE Tory Idea, in the Labouchere case, will be impressed upon the public mind as to the effect it is a breach of privilege to press with too much energy any exposure of the rotten ness of the aristocracy. And now we hear that a new rubber trust is being formed. The Ireanency with which rubber trusts are organized is rather striking; but from tie results, no one need object to the rubber manufacturers getting up such combi nations every year. It seems to amuse them ana it hurts no one else. And now the liquor license business will again exhibit the popularity of the business of furnishing alcoholic refreshments among those who get on the inside of tbe bnsmess. A very timely editorial in the New York TTorM starts off with tho exhortation: "Let us be Generous." Good advice. Butsince justice goes before generositv, suppose that New York makes the effort to enlarge Us heart and keep its promises concerning that long-neglected Grant monument. unfulfilled engagements wardens of penitentiaries. THE TOPICAL TALKER. A Pittsburg Appetito in Columbus Revolv ers Needed With bnrtlcnl Instruments for n Doctor Out West Gossip Abont a Rrcat Gnclishmnn The Verb Amo., AXT1IEX Campbell was inaugurated as Gover- uur ui uiiio a little pariy ui jriLisuureia went on to Columbus to seo tbe parado ot troops and clubs and generally to liavo a good time. They wero fortunato enough to get a front room at the Neil House. It was black, unpleasant weather.you will remember.and the Pittsbiirgers stayed in their room all tho time, save when tlfey walked forth to get refresh ments from time to time. The difference of time Columbus i3 an hour slower than Pittsburg by the clock had a painiul effect upon one of tho party a young man, who beside other excellent qualities, pos sesses a splendid appetite. "You see," said ho the other day, 'I went to Columbus with a Pittsburg appetite, and all tho time I was there I was hungry one hour before mealtime according to Columbus time it was very ag gravating, very." a touno doctor of this city, some little time ago, went out West, and, having a love for outdoor life and no fear of hardships, settled down as the resident physician and Surgeon of a mining camp. He has done well, I am glad to say. although tho rules of practise prevail ing in mining circles wonld sound a little odd to regular doctors in civilized places. Recently he wrote to a friend in this city describing his w ork. Although I am unable to quote his ex act words, and I can convey their subsance. "Most of my patients," he writes, "come to me suffering with injuues to limbs, eta, result ing from mine accidents, demanding lurgical treatment. I find it necessary to add a revolver to my surgical inetrnments. The miners can not always be made to understand tint it is sometimes necessary to give thenV con siderable pain in reducing fractures, am putating fingers and the like. They have, too, an cmbarassing way of interrupting an operation by knockinr down tho surgeon. So I take the revolver wan me, and before I begin to operate I take ut the revolver and lay it somewhere handy aid well in sight of the subject. It always hast calm ing effect, and as yet, though I have been near it onco or twice, I have not been obliged to inject lead as an anesthetic. In a merchant's office in this city the other night four or five clerks and a lady who is a typewriter were forced to work late ilto the night in order to clear off an accumulation of business. About 8 o'clock, without anr warn ing, the electric lights with which the office is supplied went out. Perfect darkness and silence reigned for several minutes. Then the only lady present said to the chief cltrk in a voice quivering with suppressed ejiotion: "Mr. B , do you never swear!" Then the lights blazed out again. Jate to-night I learned that a statement in another column to the effect that JiO worth of tickets in advance for Miss Edward'c lecture on Tuesday night is inaccurate. Orer $400 worth had been sold when the sale closed for the day last evenmc APittsburgerwho heard iliss Edwirds lec ture in Boston lately said to me yesterday: "Miss Edwards is rather a small woman, but has a carnage so erect and graceful that she appears to be quite above the average size of her sex. Her features are strikingly clean cut, yet soft, and tho eyes so brilliant that they ap pear to illuminate the entire face. Her back hair, tinged with gray, is brushed straight back from a high, but not broad, forehead. Miss Edwards does not look her ase. "She was dressed in plain black, unrelieved except by a V of old gold lace let in at the cor sage. Not a jewel did she display. It is in her voice, however, that her great charm is found. Never did woman or man speak from that stage In tones sweeter or more distinct. English woman is stamped, however, in every sentence she utters." AMO. T' was in your pages long ago, O rapped dlctiomry, I sought and found the verb amo; I learned to conlugate It. though, , With pretty cousin Mary. Our school room was some woodland way, Or meadow by the river. Two's company, bo peoDle say. But with U3 went nor said we nay A child with bow and quiver. We thought we studied Audubon, And knew by flight and feather TVhich bird was which and then anon To deeper subjects wandered on. But always close together. But Mary faster learned than I, Her ardor neverwilted; She loved too much excuse a sigh Another fellow caught her eye. And I "H ell, I was jilted. I never look now for amo In yonder dictionary; By heart 1 learnt It long ago z My tutor was mr wife, you know. Whose front name isn't Mary! IlEpnunN Johns. Why Chicnso Is nappy. From the Chicago Mail The blizzard is again abroad in the land, and those who have entertained the notion that "tho whole tail feathers o' winter time was all pulled out an' gone" are revising theindoas. Tho agi tation anent the World's Fair kept the weather folks "rattled" during the winter, but now tho slate is clear and we may expect to have sleigh ing and skating thrown at us in a lump. It would be a churlish Chicagoan, indeed, who would object to a little capneo on the part of the weather sinco wo have within our grasp the great World's Fair. A Great Lock of Perorations, From the Cumberland Sentinel. We said elsewhere thai there wero no decora tions. Tins, we are told, is a mistake, as our informant sa)s that Captain Shaw has one of his eyes beautifully decorated. PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE. Mr. Joseph J effeeson is building an at tractive house on tho shoro of Buzzard's bay, which will be bis summer home. Robert Gaekett has returned to Balti more from Fortress Monroe. This week his physicians are to take him to Cuba. Corporal Tanner is making money in Washington. He employs a force of 12 clerks, and his practice is worth 520,000 a year. The City Council of Charleston, S. C, has adopted a resolution inviting Vice President Morton to visit Charleston on bis trip to the South. Queen Victoria is very fond of potatoes boiled with tbe skins on. She eats a great dpal of tapioca and has been obliged to givo up tea and coffee for cocoa. Robert Louis Stevenson walks several miles every day, takes long horseback rides, interviews no end of people about Samoa, and is, altogether, in unusual health. Herbert Ward, tho African explorer, who is about to marry an American heiress, is broad shouldered, bronze-complexioned, and 27 years old. Ho dresses picturesquely. When General Alger goes out to the Pacific coast this summer on his tour of inspection Mrs, Logan, widow of General Logan, will ac company him as the guest of Mrs. Alger. Conorfssjian Springer, of Illinois, is wiry of frame, and has a pointed gray beard and a stentorian jroice. He is 64 years old. He is seldom without a red rose in bis button bole. Dr. Rooee Whxiams, of Ht Bartholomew's Hospital, London, has found that out of 12,363 cases in which chloroform had there been used during tbe past ten years, ten had resulted fatally, while there had beon only three deaths out of 12.5S1 cases in which ether had been used. Ex-Mayor Carter Harrison caught a burglar Friday. He was notified by a neighbor that two strange men had entered one ot his bouses. Leaving his friend to guard the front door, the ex-Mayor went to the rear and inter, cepted the thieves as they emerged. Mr. Har rison grappled with one of them and held on to him. Georqe J. Parker, of Mifflintown, Pa.; Pnngle Jones, of South Charleston, O.; James C. Meyers, of Columbia, Pa , and Georgo R. Wallace, of Sewickley, Pa., of the American Whig party, and Samuel Semple, of Philadel phia; M. M. Minassian, of Constantinople, Turkey; G. H. Stephens, of Montrose, PaM and Edward W. Evans, of Trenton, N. J., of the CHosophic Society of Princeton College, have been chosen to take part in tbo annual prize contest of oratory in June. MISS KITTY DEAD. Crowley's Former Fiancco fenccumbs to Consumption. New Yoke, March 1. Misi Kittie, the former fiancee of Crowley, died in her cage in the Old Arsenal building. Central Park, this morning of consumption. Yesterday Jake Cook, her keeper, noticed tbat her appetite was beginning to fail. She had been in the habit ot eating a pound of grapes every day, but yester day she ate only half a pound, and tbat with evident difficulty. At C o'clock last evening, when Mr. Cook was going home to dinner. Kittle did not look so bright as usual. When he returned he Baw that her eyes were sunken, and that she breathed with difficulty. All night long Jake watched by the bedside of bis charge, holding her bands and trying to soothe ber. She suffered greatly ana frequently tried to expand her chest, while she looked beseech ingly at her faithful friend, as if begging him to relieve her. At 2 10 o'clock she arose sud denly, turned away from her keeper and fell to tho floor, gasping for breath. Jako quickly raised her bead, but saw in a moment that she was dead. When Miss Kittie arrived she was bnt 2 years old. In accordance with tho traditions of the Chimpanzee family marriages between mem bers of the family must not take place until each of the contracting parties are 4 jears old. A courtship of two years was, therefore, in prospect for Mr. Crowley, who immediately started in upon the labor of love. From that time on dates the romantic story of the Crow ley engagement. Every thing seemed to be pro gressn g as happily as the proverbial marriage bell, and apparently the hopes of both the Chimpanzee lovers were to be sealed by mar riage within a few short months, when, about August 1, 1SS8. Mr. Crowley bad an attack of indigestion, which weakened him, and when he caught cold a fow dajs afterward, pneumonia set in His lungs had always been weak, and on August 31 he succumbed to the fell destroj er, and uicd at tho early ago of 5 years, a vie tun. to the variable climate of the Metropolis. BIG PENSION FOE A C0L0EED MAN, An Inmato of the IXnrrNbnrff Asylum Se cures S10.248. Reading, March 1. Possibly the largest pension ever granted to a colored man by the United States has just been awarded Alexan der Craig, of Lancaster county. For years Craig has been in the Harnsburg Asylum, while his family. who were in verv poor circum stances, still lived in Lancaster county. Craig enlisted in the Northern army during tho re bellion, arid a shell exploding just above his head at Morris Island, b C, so injured him that he was sent home in ISOT. His brain be came affected and for years he was a burden on his poor wife and finally he was sent to the asylum. A short time aeo it was succrcsted to Mrs. Craig that a pension might be secured, and to day 310,243 was received from tbe Pension De partment, together with an allowance of S72 per month as Jong as Craig lives. Tms will be paid over to the struggling wife and her chil dren. The award dates from November 1, 1S65, to September 12, 1S79. at the rate of SS a month, and from September 12, 1S79, to the present tiiuo at S72 a month. HE IS AN ARTIST AGilN. A Man Who Has Been Several Things Chisels Onco ftlore. Tampa Journal. Theodore Kemcnsky has come to bis own. He writes to his wife- "I am happy. I am an artist again " There is a ring of exultation in these words that one can appreciate who knows tho story of his life. Once the greatest of living sculptors, the exponent of liberty,' later a self exiled man, a farmer in Kansas, then an humble innkeeper at Clearwater, later a teacher in the New York bebool of Art, again an artist. Through all the trials and vicisoi tudes always the same, a simple, earnest man. Perhaps his latest triumph is his greatest. In Russia ho was the favorite of tbo Grand Duchess Marie, sister of tho Czar; in New York, an artist struggling for recognition. In Russia his works, reproduced in marble, adorn the winter palac In America his works will adorn tho State House of Kansas, and will be to tho coming generations a historical study. In the contest for the modeling of tho facade ho won the prize. AMONG THE VERT BCST. The Dispatch Gives All tho Sewn, Vot Cnr- inc ho illnr be nit by it. From the Wayncsburg Messenger. The Pittsburg Dispatch is among tho very best newspapers in the State. It is a Republi can journal, but by no means a narrow guage sheet. It gives the news, political and other wise, without reserve, or caring who may be hit by it. It is just the kind of a newspaper that deserves to succeed, and wo are pleased to know that it has already met with abundant success. Its circulation is immense, and rapid ly extendinc. While, as we have said. The Dispatch is a Republican journal, we always turn to its ample pages with the pleasing as surance that we will get all the news political and otherwise, and on all sides from its col umns. ASK NO ODDS OP BOREAS. riUsburttcrs Will be supplied With Ice Kotwlthatnndins BncUscti. From the i-rie Herald. The Pittsburg ice companies ask no odds ot old Boreas and propose to supply the consumer! with tho manufactured article. Largo machines have already been ordered and the claim is made that the artiticial article is far sunerior to the product turned out by Dame Nature. It is said that ice can be made for SI a ton and a Southern company claims to be able to mako it for 75 cents. The process of manufacturing artificial ice U a simple process and promises soon to become a prominent industry in Pitts burg, althoueh the machinery required is rather expensive, the largest machines having a capacity of 125 tons per day ranging in price from J75.0C0 to 5100,000. FORTUNE AWAITS A POOR JHN. A Former Caihondnlc iHci chant Left S10O, OOO by n Relative. Carbondale, March 1 Adolph Joseph is an illiterate Hebrew who formerly owned a littlo clothing store in Forest City, a village four miles above Carbondale. Ho left there last October for Chicago, and last month left Chicago for St. Louis. The police of the latter city have been asked to find Joseph, ,who, by the death of a cousin, Michael Aaron, of St. Petersburg:, has been beqne.itbed a fortune of &05 000 ruble', or nearly S400.000. Tho property which it is cleircd to turn over to Joseph is rul and personal, and he can only secure possession of it by returning to Russia on or before April S next. In Favor of tho Anti-Trust BUI. From tne FhiladelDhla Record. The difference between Sherman's anti trust bill with tbe penalty clause stricken out and the stuffed club used by pantomime per formers ostensibly to spatter each other's brains upon the awe stricken audience is slightly in favor of the anti-trust bill in point of innocuous advantage. Chicago Should Shotv Her Gratitude. From tho Mew York Hcrald.i If Chicago docs not have a largo statue of Tom Piatt and as imposing a ono as the subject will admit, in a conspicuous position in her World's Fair, it will be an evidenco of the in gratitude of windy cities. No Cause for Rejoicing. From the Philadelphia Call. If George Francis Train goes around the world in CO days there will not be the same cause for rejoicing as there would be in case he went half way around in 30 days and stayed there. THE SNOWDROP. Through days of rain and nights of snow A flower grew silently and slow, Till all around was white; Then clad in robes of tender green, With fairy bells that peep between, 'I he snowdrop seeks the light. What kindly hand has tended thee In thy dark cell where none could see The future promise bright? How could we know while nature slept, A treasure like thyself she kept To gladden winter's sight? Only a drooping flower of snow! It sets the beating heart aglow With hopes of brighter times; And while the little snowbclls rln?, c hear tbe music of the spring Float on the airy chimes. A flower so tender, yet so brave, That springs from out a wintry grave, Jieeds not the praise of song. I hear thee whisper, flower or snow; "Through days pf sorrow, nights of woe, Be hopeful, and be strong 1" Chambers' Journal. SEEDS SOWN IN CHILDHOOD. The Tendency of Parents to Encourage Their Little Ones to Snj Cutting: Things Result in n Harvest of Tares The Man Who Dislikes Everybody. TITnAT is dearer to the human heart than an infant? AV hat is sweeter to the parent than the childish prattle of a baby, and what is more delicate than the fairy like touch of its velvet fingers? Happy is the house that has ono in it. If babies would only stay babies and contmne their loving way. what a blessing they would be; but, alas! time passes, and the innocent baby soon becomes a sharp observer, an invet erate talker and retailer of conversations not intended for repeating. Longer words, am biguous phrases, hieroglyphic, innuendo, nods and blinks gradually come into use, but he soon sees the meaning of them and startles the family by not only understanding what is going on. but by reading tho very thoughts, and then, oh! what a smart child! At that period o a child's life commences his making or his destruction. Then is his intel lect keenest, his wits sharpest, hU watchfa' ness and observation all agog. He criti cises everything and everybody, and the innocence of his babyhood is destroyed by an encouraged smartness or tendency to say smart things which eventually touches persons, and mako pert comparison' and pre cocious criticism', very often at the expense of some person's feelings. The innocence of childhood is soon perverted and its beauty de strojed bj tlm tendency. Children soon find they arc amusing older folk", and they are not "low to find out the mental caliber of their audience. C RiTiciSM in childhood leads to cynicism in maturuy and to scornfulness in old Age, without a thought of friendship or a feeling of chanty for anyone, inspiring dislike, avoid ance. di3trnst in the minds of old and young, rich and poor, and fear and hatred iu the minds of the weak. Criticism and cynicicra are entirely different terms Intelligent criti cism in those who have the knowledge of what thevspeakisa corrective of the inind and of wrong, and is hea'thy, while cjmcism is olten malice or a desiro fof sport, which often cau-es thoughtle-s remarks winch destroy happiness and frequently even life itself. Parents and the rest of man and womankind think it smart to hear the child say that he don't want to go to heaven if grandpa is going there; or if he refuses the embraces ot the aged, which most children are inclined to do; or if ho criticises tho visitors at the house, whether in their hearing or not, or when he de rides the pastor while coming home from church. These things sound very funny at the time and show tho wlttines of the cnild, but tho tune is surely coming when it will send a shiver through the parents' thoughtless souls, when they behold theirchildgrowingupand be coming an insurable, heartless critic, often bringing the blush of shame to their cheeks and causing no end of remorse at the thought that thev encouraged the child and were the direct cane of the cold cynicism their own dealings with it have brought out in their own homes. It don't sound so funny then. But it is too late to change the nature of the child, and as he has been taught so he will be. "pHE impish school girl of 15 is a very distress ing creature at home and abroad if she only know it, but she never appears to think so. She can make more misery at school among deli cate, shrinking, homely, homesick or poverty stricken girls than can be spoken or dreamed of She can cive a twist of her pert nose or a raise of her scornful lip, or a strong stare from her cold, unfriendly, hostile eyes that would make many girls change into statues of crys tallized homesickness, or wish tbat the earth might open and swallow them. And so with bo, m a measure, but different ly. They have not the keen, cntting. razor edged tonguo which many girls have and use on both sexes alii e. By their teaching and gallantry they would not use it on the other sex. By their intuition they know that the other is tho weaker vessel. But they have another kind of devilment about them which is almost equally hard to bear. Openly are the clothes of new students criti cised. Their manner of speech, their personal appearance, tbe size of their hand", their feet, nose, mouth, ears, eyes, their religion, their name, family, eta, etc. New students are not allowed to associate with their malicious critics for a longtime, until they fight their way into fame and recognition. But one thing is sure, the chief of their tormentors will be alwavs re membered with a fierce, unfriendliness which will only die with time. The gil and the boy who thus think of maklnc themselves great and famous by sitting on the top ronnd of the school gate, will one day be those who will apire to sit upon the top of the fence and crush all who are beneath them. TJeartless criticism, by both boys and girls, causes more misery among themselves than any other canse during their school lives. During the time in which their characters are forming an evil influence in their midst, like a merciless, heartless critic or Hector, will in jure them more than a whole life time of moth er's influence can correct or balance. As tbe child grows up he increases in that very disagreeable habit of mocking or criticis ing until his own companions shun him; until his own family are annoyed bv him; until no one wants to cat, sleep or go with him. becanse of his annoying propensity to maliciously, un truthfully and heartlessly ridicule or cnticiso the action", the appearance, the clothes or other attribute of ome unfortunate. No one likes bim. all are afraid of him. and he has no close, true, warm friendships; but as he grows older he notices that people shun and slight him. Thev avoid him or become silent and distant at bis approach, until he gradually becomes sullen and suspi cious himself and becomes more malicious be cause he knows of his unpopularity. He don't try to undo what he has done, and make him self more loved and respected, but ho gradual ly works himself Into a feeling of dislike for everjbody: he finds something wrong in every person's life. He sees dishonorable motives in even thing going on about bim Everything bo sees is wrontr, aud everything he hears is false. Every assertion he contradicts in a boorish manner, and all that he reads is atrociously wrong and excites his utmost indignation. LIE GROWLS' at tho weather, whether hot or cold. He thinks it sent especially to thwart his intentions He grojvls at his meals and at the servant who got them. He finds fault with his wife and family. Tho rugs are not laid right and he falls over them. Tho rocking chairs are out of place and he barks his shins on them; he lights the tire and raises tho man tel on his head when ho gets up; he hangs a curtain and fall3 off tho stepladder; lie walks around the house m tho dark and embraces a door: he goes to tho cellar and bumps his head; ho goes on the street and gets rnn over, or a steer chases him, a dog bites him. or the rain drenches him. and everything he does or every where be goes misfortune toys with him: "Dis ister on disaster Follows fast and Follows taster." TJe thinks that everything has been spe cially set up to do him an injury; that "all of the world and the balanco of mankind" 13 engaged earnestly in an attempt tJ throttlo him." His diseased imagination sets up before him and crystallizes the thought that he is a badly abused man and that tbero is no fnrtber use lor bim here. And all of this is brought on him by tho tollies of his parents in allowing him to be smart, and encouraging his smart and witty sayings in bis childhood. The child soon after infancy Iearn3 to watch, to observe, to analjze the actions, tho thoughts and feelings as portrayed In its presence by those older than itself, and it soon learns to play upon those feelings so as to repro duce tbe same emotions which it knows they have produced before. Its younn intellect is then brightest and keenest, and everything done or said in its presence will soou be re flected as in a glass. Criticism then, of all said or done, soon leads to close observation, and then imitation, and then the child reflects. 'THE seeds sown in childhood will become shortly a crop of sorrow; more tares than good grain: more sorrow and tears than smiles; more of the unutterable sting of tbe serpent's tang tbat follows ingratitude than of tbo blessed dream of love between the parent and the child. There could be nothing more appro priate said in this connection than the old Arabic legend : W lien thou didst sit on parent's knee A naked, new-born child, Thou then didst often fret and cry "Whilst all around thee smiled. So live that when thon com'st To take thy last long sleep. Then thou may'st smile Whilst all around thee weep. BUSIBALO. The Clean Newspaper the Successful One. From the Reading Times. The clean newspaper has in the long rnn the most permanent patronage and circulation. The paper which goes into the homes and is read by the families is the paper which counts Its subscribers by the year, instead of depend ing on the fluctuating sales of the news compa nies, and it is after all tbe family newspaper which swings tho power. Sir. Carneele's One Great mistake. From the ltoston Herald. Mr. Carnegie deserves to be complimented for having presented his Pan-American guests with a bill of fare in plain English'. But why did he stop with the eatables, and add bontonnieres, and champagne sec,.and champagne frappe, and Chateau Lafitte.and Chateau Yquem? He ought to have kept up the symmetry to the end. RANDALL AND BUTLER. An Episode Iu Congres. Recalled by tbe Formei's Recent Conversion. A group of Congressmen were discussing Mr. Randall's prospects for complete recov cry the other day In one of tho cloakrooms ot the House, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune, when tbe conversation turned upon the recent "oonversion" of the Pennsylvania statesman and his formal recep tion by baptism into tbe membership of a cer tain church. Just then tho well known figure of General Benjamin V. Butler passed the door. It reminded someone at once of an episode in Congress in the famous deadlock over the civil rights bill, in which both Randall and Butler were conspicunns figures. The question of adjournment was nmier con sideration, and General Butler bad stepped over to Mr. Randall's desk for a private con sultation. Bntler favored a bunday session. Randall onposed it. "Bad as 1 am," said Randall, "I have some respect for God's day, and I don't think it proper to hold a session t f Congress on that dav." "Pshaw." responded Butler, "doesn't the Bible say that it is lawful to pull your at or your ox out of a nit on the babbath day? You have 73 asses on your side ot this Houe tbat I want to get out of a ditch to morrow, and I think 1 am engaged iu a holy work." "Don't do it. Butler." pleaded Randall: "I have some respect for you that I don't want to lose. I expect some day to meet you in a bet ter world." "You'll be there as you are here," retorted Butler, quick as thought, "a member of the Lower House." FULL TERMS OP THE SETTLEMENT In the Suit of tho Tennessee Coal, Iron and Raltro-id Company. New York, March 1. The following are the f nil terms of the settlement in the suit of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company versus John H. Inman: "Since the commence ment of this action, the complainants having made a more thorough investigation of the transactions involved ana havng satisfied themselves that the information which was assumed and relied UBon by them was inac curate, and tbat there is the liability by reason of tbe matters stated in the complaint, on tbe part of the defendant and his associate, and it therenpon having been agreed between the parties that tbe complainant, bill should be dismissed, without costs to either party as against the other, upon the conditions herein after container!. It is agreed between the complainant and the defendant that without costs to either party as against the other, the bill of complaint be dismissed; that an order to that effect be en tered, and that this is in foil withdrawal or anv claim on tho part of the complainant by reason of the matters In the bill, complainant alleges.the understanding beiuc that no future suit shall be brouzhr, but that the agreement herein made termi lates and settles all ques tions and is final." ASTOR'S ONLY SALE. How William B. Obtained a BIe Hotel for a Mlver Dollar. From the New York Evening Telegram. One of the most stringent real estate rules of the Astor family Is to "never sell," and only one sale is recorded in the entire life of old John Jacob the first. In 1S30 lie tore down his house on Broadn ay, cleared the whole block from Vcsey to Barclay streets and built the huge gray Quincy granite hotel that to this day holds the name of tho Astor House, ono of tho most notable landmarks in the city, and also one of the best paying pieces of property. A few days after it was finished the ola gen tleman and his eldest son. W llliam, were walk ing through City Hall Park where the post office now stands and stopped a moment to ad mire the building the finest hotel in America at that time. Pop, that's a mighty lino bnilding." said William, "I wish to gracious it was mine." "So?" answered his father. "Well, Billy, give me a dollar and you can have it." Out came the dollar a big silver dollar 'hat is cherished by the family to this day as the dollar of our daddies, and within an bonr the deed of the property was made out and re corded. This was old Mr. Astor's only sale of real estate in his life. HUGH J. JEWETT. The Old Ago of a Ulan Ones Politically Prominent. New York Correspondence Detroit Free Press. I saw Hugh J. Jewett in Broadway yesterday, his heavy, smooth, statesmanlike face set in a frame of snow white hair that banc: far down on bis neck, giving bim a distinguished appear ance. He must be npward of 75 years of age, but is well preserved and has tbe appearanco of robust health. It is only four or live years since he laid down tho presidency ot the Erlo Railroad to retire fromactive life. He was not a great success as a railroad man, but he was not a great failure. Mr. Jewett was once a prominent figuro in politics. Tbe Democratic party looked on bim with favor as a possible Presidental nominee. He was in Congress when Invited to the head of the Erie road, and resigned to accept the place. But politically be now ranks with the "has beens." He lives auietly on his old home place in Maryland, is wealthy, and hi3 face says ho is contented and happy. PHYSICIANS FORM A TRUST. They Sign a Contract Not to Bid for tbo Caro of tho Poor. SrKCTAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Janesvilie, March 1. The latest thing in the form of a combine, or trust, has been formed in this city. For several years the County Infirmary directors have let contracts to tho lowest bidders among physicians for the care of the poor among tho various townships, also the wards of this citv. The physicians of the city bvro signed a contract that they will not bid for the caro of the poor in any town ship or ward, and a meeting has been ap pointed for Tuesdaj, at which a committee of physicians will meet tho infirmary directors to adjust tbe matter. It is thought this will bo done by Inrming a schedule of prices to govern all tho physicians of tbe city in their attendance upon the out poor. THE HARBOR AT CHICAGO. Tbo Project of Filling It In for the World's Fnlr Purposes to bo Opposed. Washington, March 1. Tbe projector fill ing up the harbor of Chicago, ostensibly for the World's Fair, and really in pursuance of old jobs heretofore blocked, continues to attract attention here. The Government has expended about ?2,0u0.000 in establishing that harbor. The becretary of War, however, has never fixed harbor lines at tbatpoint under the general law which gives him sneb authority. It is possible that his attention may be called to this matter, and that he will be asked to in terfere. Under the law ho may, whenever he is led to believe that it is proper to do so. appoint a board to fix tbo harbor lines, outside of which no wharves can be constructed or earth de posited. Earmarks of tho "-nme Family. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Pittsburg's City Councils have given tho con trol of all tbo streets in that city to a syndicate of street railway companies. Tbeyare to uso tbe streets as they please and make their own arrangements and regulations. It is estimated that the franchises thus given away are worth from 550,000,000 to $o0,000,000. This deal must be an older brother of the Schuylkill Water scheme; it has the earmarks of the samo family. Burial of Miss Lizzlo Lnughlln. Tho last sad rites over the remains of Miss Lizzie H. Langhlln wero performed yesterday afternoon. The services were held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Homewood, and the interment was in the Homewood Cemetery. Miss Laughlin was for 12 years tho principal of tbe Homewood School, and was loved by pupils, associate teachers and friends alike. The most magnificent floral tributes testified to the love and esteem in which the deceased was held. St. David's Day Remembered. The St. David Society celebrated the an niversary ot tbe canonizing of St. David, the patron saint of Wales, last evening by giving a concert in Old City Halk The hall was crowded to the doors with a very enthusiastic audience. Those who made the evening enjoyable were Miss Mamie Renck. Mrs. Adah Thomas. Miss Ella W. Semple, Miss Bessie Thomas, Mr. W. T. English. Mr. E. H. Dermitt, Mr. D. J. Da vies, Mr. John Prltcbard and St. David's Glee Party. Not Stayiuc nt Home This Tear. From the Philadelphia Press, j Major Montootb. of Pittsburg, is visiting various counties of the State in carrying on bis canvass for Governor after the manner of Messrs. Delamater and Hastings. Tbe Repub lican candidates this year are not staying at home waiting for tbe nomination to come to them. "" CUKI0US COSDKSSATIOIS'Sl A movement for the establishment of free Turkish baths has been started in Brook lyn. round-up of stray dogs was made in Fresno la3t week and SI dogs were lassoed In two days. At PittsCeld, Mass., the high school principal suspended six Catholic scholars be cause of a dispute concerning the study of tho history or tho Reformation. Separation from his wife is sought for by a Chester, Pa , man, and he backs bi3 claim for it br the statement that she danced for joy when he chopped his lingers off. An At sonia, Conn., druggist has an electric bell in a cabinet containing poisons. When the door is opened the bell rings, re niindirg the compounder tbat he is handling poisons. A Michigan man buried his wife.putnp a headstone, repainted his house, married a see on I wife, and dutr five acres of potatoes withm 17 days, and yet he sajs he can't begin to hnstlo s his father used to. Leo XII. iias directed that his monu mental toinb shall only consist of his figure re cunibent.in white marble npon a sepulchral urn ot norphjrv. on the sides of which are to be the statues ui Religion and Justice. A smart little boy in Georgit, who was kicked by a mule, instead or Faying naughty words or going hoire crying to h mother, tied the mnle within hva feet of a bee hive, backed him around to it and let him kick. James Bortz, residing near Macungie, Pa., one day Kt week took a pair of boots to a cobbler for slight repairs. He said that he had owned them for 19 vears, but had used them only ou Sundays and on special occasions. The cold has been so intense at Burcha rest that wholo packs of starving wolves have invaded the towns and villages. In Bessarabia a mailv cart was attacked, and the postman, with his horses, was eaten up by the ravenous brutes. A curious character in Paris is a man who makes his living by strolling along the boulevards, and makingwagerswith men at tho cafes that he can answ er correctly any question that relates to the history of France. He al ways wins the bet, it is said, In Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri you can bore a hole in a stick of firewood, ping it up after filling with powder, and leave it where a thief may get it and blow his bouse up. These arc tbe only three Slates, however All the others have laws making such a thing a misdemeanor. A Canton, China, paper estimates that TSO.OOO people die every j ear in China by fire and flood,bnt it is not satisfied. "The fact is," it remarks with cold-blooded cynicism, "the great need of China is the sudden removal 012,000.000 or 3,000,000 Inhabitants to make elbow-room for those who are left." A Michigan paper tells of a farmer catching a fellow going out ot his pasture one night with a sheep on bis back, and blazing away at him witn a shotgun. The paDer naive ly adds that the fellow dropped the sheep.went to Ann Arbor tho next day, and when he re turned he had a glass eye. The gambling spirits of Paris are dodg ing the gaming laws with a marble board dotted with shallow holes numbered liko those on a bagatello board. The board is laid in the angle of a billiard table and the balls are rolled over it by hand, winning or losing according to the hole in which they stop. They call it "baraqne." A fox driven by the hounds in a recent hunt upon tbe estate of Lord Granville at Walmer Castle, England, bolted right before Lord Granville's eves through tbe hall ot the castle, and into tbe drawing room, with the honnas in full cry after him. They ran him down, and killed him in front of the mantel piece. The man who was forcibly ejected from a car in San Francisco after tendering m pay ment of his far a 5 gold piece, which the con ductor refused to accept, bas just recovered a big verdict against tbe company. The Supreme Court held that S5 was not an unreasonable amount for the agents of a corporation to change. A farmer in Palmer township, North ampton county, was told by a "pow-wow" doc tor that if he would go to his barn at midnight, and make a racket with the flail and threshing machine, it would scare all the rats out of tbo place. He made the racket, and alarmed the neighbors, who turned out to ascertain the cause or the noise, 'he rats are still there. Tbe rag ball at Vienna at the close of the carnival season was a great success and netted S0.000 for tho poor of tho city. Tho hichest members of tbe local aristocracy, in costly caricature of ragged costume, danced at the ball, grand ladies assisted as beggars, there were ragged quadrilles of honor, three imperial archdukes figured as scavengers, and military officers, dressed as blind beggars, danced a can can. James Connelly, of East Hickory, owes a vote of thanks to nothing more or less than his whiskers. Tbe Tionesta Cinclicafor re ports that one day last week, while cutting down a tree. Connelly struck a large vein ot tree gas, and ignited it to see it burn; ho struck anotner stroke and freed alarge amonnt oi gas. which scorcnea mm severely anout tno face, but owing to heavy growth of whiskers the burn was superficial. An English court ha3 just decided that a wifo married in Japan after tho fashion of 'hat country is a legal wife in England, on tbe ground that "Japan bas long been recognized as a civilized country." A previous decision in a case where tbe wife was a Hottentot and was married after tbe Hottentot fashion, had upset tho union on the ground that the Hottentots were heathens and polygamists, and did not know what marriage, in the civilized sense, meant. Mr. James L. Pennypacker, ot Phila delphia, has a curious collection ot clovers from different States. The clovers are mounted upon a card so as to represent a four leaved clover. Ono leaf is madn up of eleven four-leaved clovers, another of nine five leaved clovers, an other of nine six-leaved clovers, and the fourth of six seven-leaved clovers and four eight leaved clover:. The stem is represented by a series of clovers containing cap or funnel leaves, and at tbe very end is one clover having nine leaves and a cup andanother clover having thirteen leaves. SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT. The new Captain-General of Cuba is named Chinchilla. We should think the climate of that Island would make a linen dnster more ap propriate. Mngltamton JlepuoUcan. Yeast They raise some wonderful bij beets out in California, I'm told. Crlmsonbcak Yc; but thev don't get Into the banks like they do In .New York. XonKcn State i man. Father Locke My son, what rank do yon take in college.' Yale Locke(proudly) Third In thepjattlnz aver age and first In fielding. ilitford. Sews and A1 vertiser. Barnnm is bringing 300 ballet girls home from London with him. Dancing girls usually have bear arms and shoulders, but we didn't sup pose that would warrant putting them in a me nagerie. Llnghantoa Kepublican. Heading Off the Servant Girl. Sumway Here's an interesting article on shot-proof suel plates. Shall I read It to you, dear? Mrs. fcumwav Yes. indecJ. I'd like to get & dozen that Norah can't break. ieio York Sun. Visitor Tommy, I wish to ask you a few questions In grammer. Tommy Yes, sir. Visitor If I give you the sentence, "The pupil loves Ms teacher," what Is that Tommy Sarcasm. Texas &if tings. ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT. 0ne3 modesty is often pride; Place strength and weakness si le by side, Vt eakness goes on and gives the facts. But strength keeps still, observes and acts. lugitlte Poet. On the Plains. The Groom Much 'bliga ferspllcln' us, Parson, but Broken Tooth Hank don't swaller no Insults. The Parson-Ah-er wha-wha-what's the mat ter' lhe Groom-Kiss th bride or I'll shoot.'-Xf. A Good Automaton. "Have yon any au tomatic toys"" "Yes, a large assortment. How do you like this" "It appears to be broken." "No, madam: yoa do not understand the idea. It Is an automatic tramp and does not work."-. Sew For San. Mistress (kindly) Jane, I hear you hare been seen in the part with my husband. Jane (deaantly)-Ycs, ma'am; I have. Mistress (still more klnoly)-AVeU, Jane, you area good girl, and 1 dislike to lose you. but I cannot have anyone about the bouse who keeps bad company. lenotrine Seles, Irene (old time rival) Maud dear, that's a beautiful ring on your finger. May I ask how much it cost? Maud (maliciously) I didn't ask Harry how much It cost, Irene, love. Irene (sweetly) I always had a curiosity to know. When 1 was wearing It myselt yon know, 1 couldn't very well ask him, Chicago Snbunt,
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