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PITTSBURG. MONDAY, MAR. 3. 1S30.
THE "WASTE OF "WATER.
The facts set forth in the report of the De
partment ot the "Water Bureau with regard
to the waste of water in Pittsburg, snould ar
rest the public attention. It certainly in
dicates a profuse use of our city water when
Pittsburg, with one-quarter the number of
consumers, uses more water than Boston.
Perhaps the first view of the matter taken
by the public will be akin to Hip Van
TTinllc's declaration, "I'm glad I know
when I've got enough; and I'm glad I've
cot enough, too." It is well to know that
vie are wasting water; and it is not wholly
unsatisfactory to know we can waste water.
A liberal use of water is a good thing, and
Pittsburg's laboring population requires
abundance of it to wash off the grime of
dailv toil. But when the waste has reached
a stage that taxes the full capacity of the
works, and would cause a shortage if one of
the engines should become disabled, it is
e'early necessarv to call a halt.
The suggestion of Mr. Browne, with re
gard to the water system, is undoubtedly
correct The charges for domestic use should
be so low as to put no check on a liberal use
of water for all purposes where it is needed.
But those who wantonly waste water should
be made to pay for it; while those who use
it reasonably should have the advantage of
the saving. The probability is that the
greater part of the waste is in the mills.
That interest can well afford to pay for the
consumption of water; and if the water sys
tem should cause the mills to pump their
own water from the rivers, it would only
increase the supply available for domestic
use.
Hardly any principle of action can be
clearer than that when one part of the city
is suffering from the need of a pure water
Euppfy-, the other portion should not be per
mitted to waste a water supply which ought
to be adequate for a city of twice our popu
lation. CHICAGO'S DUTY.
The effort of. Chicago to secure an appro
priation from Congress, in aid ot the World's
Fair, outside of the necessarv expenditure
on the Government exhibit, will, if per
sisted in, amount to an act of bad faith.
Such an immediate violation of the pledges
on which the Fair was located would go far
toward imperiling the entire enterprise.
The understanding was clear that if tne lair
was located at cither of the commercial
cities, the money necessary to protidc
against less would be raised by the city
gaining the location. Thefai" was given to
Chicago on thejallegation that it had raised
an ample guarantee fund while Xew York
was squabbling over it. To turn around
now and ask the Government for aid is
either an admission of false representations
concerning that fund, or a repudiation of
the pledges. The country should help the
success of the fair by fine exhibits; but the
Chicago people must understand that their
agreement to furnish the funds is one that
cannot be shirked or dodged.
FIFTY MILLIONS OF WATEE
The announcement that a number of
Newark, If. J., manufacturers are organ
izing a 50,000,000 exporting trust looks
like an effort of the imagination, as ap
plied to commercial matters. To any
one with knowledge of the subject, it is
evident that the trust tactics aie wholly in
applicable to the business of exporting
manufactured products ot the United States
to foreign markets. No means are within
the reach of any organization for taking ex
clusive control of the business cither of
finding markets or of shipping manufac
tures. Any one with money enough to go
abroad or send agents can hunt the markets.
Any manufacturer, whether of glassware,
rails, plows or sheetings can ship them to
the markets that will take them.
Indeed it is announced with regard to
this alleged trust "that it is limited to no
monopolistic concern." As the sole pur
pose of the trust device in active business
is to maintain a monopoly, it must be con
cluded that its $59,000,000 capital, has
relerence to the other end of the later trust
business which consists in feeding out paper
values to the class of speculators who used
to bite crecdily at anything bearing the
name ot trust. That one concern can use
$50,000,000 more advantageously in carry
ing on exporting than a hundred concerns
can use half a million apiece is all non
sense. That 50,000,000 of lona fide cap
ital is likely to be put into this concern is
equally gauzy. But that stock, purporting
to represent such a capital, will be sold to
those who arc so foolish as to want them is
shown by the financiering exploits of the
age, to be more than likely.
Nevertheless even that aspect of the
scheme is considerably behind the times.
The game of floating water on the name of
trust was seen through a year ago; and if
Kewark really thinks of floating its 50,
000,000 scheme, it can save valuable paper
and the wear and tear of its printing presses,
by abandoning the gigantic delusion.
DOUBTFUL JUSTICE.
The very hard case of the Xavassa rioters
is very justly made a matter of public agi
tation by the Boston Transcript. Under
what law a United States court assumed
authority to sentence to death and imprison
ment men who are charged with committing
crimes on an island a thousand miles away
from United States territory, it is rather
hard to see, unless it be by the unwritten
law that the Maryland corporation employ
ing these men must have its interests fos
tered by the nearest court. That view of
the case is strengthened by the very slight
consideration given to the hard treatment
and infringement of the rights of these men
by the masters, who seem to have assumed
absolute power over them on that distant
island. To send fourteen men to the peni
tentiary and three to the gallows in such a
case is a very questionable proceeding.
EAB-P ULLING AHD PISTOL PRACTICE.
The Kentucky method of ear pulling has
heretofore made itself prominent at the Na
tional Capitol; but the Kentucky response
of shooting the pnller, had not forced itself
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on the attention of the country until last
week. The practical demonstration of Ken
tucky ethics to the effect that when one
gentleman pulls another's car, it is the lat
ter's duty to make the first a target for short
range. Yet rather scattering pistol prac
tice is a new revelation ot the curiou3 views
which maybe entertained, of the logical
sequence of cause and effect.
Northern theories would not naturally re
gard the legitimate response for a pulled
ear to be the violent impact of the fist of the
pullee upon the nose of the puller. In ibis
case the blood necessarv to wash away dis
honor would flow freely; while the time
necessary to go and get a popgun would not
be wasted. The Kentucky idea may be
more chivalrous; but it has the disadvantage
of exhausting the remedies and leaving
more serious pullings without any ade
quate vengeance. Everybody will agree
that it must be more injurious
to a nice sense of honor to have
one's nose pulled than to have
the car tweaked. Yet the Kentucky code
seems to leave no remedy adequate for the
greater wrong unless it is to bring out a
shot-gun. Again, the slang of the day
takes cognizance of an act known as "pull
ing a man's leg;" which as it touches that
most sensitive point of humanity, the pocket,
could hardly be defended by any less
weighty firearm than eight-inch artillery.
Leaving these interesting, but rather ab
stract fields of speculation, permit ua to
hope that the rampancy of Kentucky cus
toms at "Washington will stop at ear pulling
and pistol practice. The transplantation of
the rifle practice of a Breathitt county feud
to the porches of the Capitol, would be
wholly unjustifiable, except as a resort for
breaking a partisan deadlock.
A DISHONORABLE STEP.
The effort which is being made to remove
the Southern, or Uncompahgre, Utes from
their reservation in Colorado to the arid
lands, against which the Indian Bights As
sociation is protesting, will, if successful,
furnish a remarkable example of the wanton
injustice which has characterized our deal
ings with the Indians. The foundation is
the universal one of the possession by this
tribe of land which is wanted bv the white
settlers. In order that the fertile and wa
tered territory which has been given to
them by the most solemn of compacts
can be taken for settlement, it is proposed
to transfer them to unwatered territory,
where they must be subjected to the alter
native between slow starvation and perpetu
al pauperism.
But there is even worse in this movement
tban the selfish injustice which is the gen
eral characteristic of our Indian policy.
When the outbreak of the Northern Utes
occurred a dozen years ago, the Southern
Utes remained loyal to the Government.
They not only refused to be drawn into the
hostilities, but by their influence over the
Northern tribe, brought about peace with
out subjecting Colorado to the horrors of a
prolonged Indian war. Capability for
gratitude ought to make the United States
quick to defend the rights of the Utes in
stead of taking away their property. Yet
th prospect appears to be that the Govern
ment will probably add another item to its
century of dishonor in dealing with the In
dians, by robbing the faithful Utes of the
property which is coveted because it has be
come valuable.
Kentucky ear-pulling and Kentucky
pistol practieo both appear to be marked by
indiscriminate and superfluous qualities.
AS Eastern Republican organ says: "Evi
dently the Alaska Commercial Company did
not have such a 'pull' on the United States
Government as tbc enemies ol both have as
serted." Perhaps not; and again perhaps tbc
opposition may claim that the result shows, not
that the Alaska Company's "pull" was less, but
that tbc North American Company's pull, ex
erted by Piatt, Alger and D. O. Mills, was
greater. Still it is comforting to know, since
the decision is that the seal business must be
run by a monopoly, that the pnblic agitation of
tbo matter Mill result in a pull by the Govern
ment of from fifteen to twenty millions out of
the successful company.
The official wrath of Kussiabeca .se Aus
tria has helped Bulgaria to pay oil its debt to
the Czar, is the latest example of demanding
tbo payment of a debt under the belief that it
cannot bo paid and then getting angry because
it is discharged.
The completion of the arrangements for
refunding tl o debt of the Mercantile Library
Hall Company prevents the public discredit of
permittinc a property founded for public pur
poses to be sold out and the public interest in
It wiped out. The Library Association will
now be enabled to keep a public library open
till Mr. Carnegie's gift is put m actual opera
tion. When that time comes, it is not hazard
ous to predict that the present library will have
its foundation in such shape as to cither be
come a valuable part ot tlio new institution or
to strike out a new field of public usefulness
under an independent organization.
Cincinnati got one of its biennial doses
of superabundant cold water last week. Tbo
result is that Cincinnati used other fluids in the
intervals between tbo floods. The Fans of
America knows when it has enough water.
The experience which the Central Trac
tion Company is now experiencing with broken
grips and attempts ot too ambitious gripmen to
run from one cable to the other without throw
ing off their crips, is probably no more than a
severe case of the troubles which every new
transit company meets when it goes Into opera
tion. But the rule should be, wben accidents
of that sort occur, that will delay traffic for
hours, to announce the fact and give passengers
the privilege of walking home.
Bismaeck's determination to retain office
on account of the Socialist success in Germany,
is probably based on the philosophy that if a
man aids his employer to sit on the safety valve
they are both bound to rise together.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has released
some prisoners who have been shut up for
eighteen j cars without trial. The example Is
commended to the Czar of Russia; but it may
be hoped that neither monarch will go to the
length in tho other direction exemplified by
New York justice of not shutting up notorious
offenders at all, and tben letting them go
without either trial or imprisonment.
TnE press correspondents of "Washington
do not hold executive sessions to prevent the
Senate from learning the secrets of their busi
ness. Perhaps the Senators might learn some
thing from that fact.
It is an amusing instance of the old pot
and kettle controversy, to find a New York pa
per accusing Chicago of "squabbling already"
over the World's Fair. Since New York fell to
squabbling before it got the fair, and lost it
thereby, tbc accusation from that source gives
new proof that the moto in a neighbor's eye is
a great deal bigger than the beam in your own
eye.
TnE leonine qualities of March's en
trance promise a return to mild spring weather
wbea this month goes out if weather proverbs
are more to bo relied upon than weather
prophets.
Emin Pasha's declination of the Gov
ernorship of Suakiin.is held to be an expression
ot his determination to return to WadelaL
But since his last experience at Wadelai was
that of a prisoner, it is a question how he can
find any way to get to that remote locality with
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BouiiANGEK's telegram of thanks to
Constnns for the latter's retirement from tbo
French Cabinot is based on the broad ground
that eiowono who opposes tlio Carnot Govern
ment Is an ally of Boulanger. It thus appears
that Boulanger is still laboring under the
delusion that be is a-live issue.
PEOPLE OF PEOlIIliENCE.
Robert Browning left an estato valued at
?S3.W. but it was by no means accummnlated
through poetry alone.
Mrs. Dilke believes confidentially that
England will adopt woman suffrage in advance
of its adoption in this country.
One of tho exhibits in the Paris Salon this
spring will bo a portrait of Minister Reid, by
the artist G. P. A. Healy.
It is reported that Dom Pedro has accepted
the offer of the Emperor Francis Joseph to
siiend the summer at the Imperial castle of
Hitzendorf.
Colonel Thurston Wrioht is working
up a quiet boom for the Granger nomination
for President in 1S92. He is Thurston to be
both Wright and President
General Maiiom: is living in comparative
retirement in Washington. He does not hob
nob with bis former cronies at Chamberlain's,
and ho spends a great deal of tune in long soli
tary walks.
Ea. Governor George S. Bout well, of
Massachusetts, is past 72 years of age. Ono
day last week be made r. ten-hour speech be
fore the Supreme Court at Washington, in a
pitent case.
Me. Charles Emory Smith is tbo sixth
Fcnnsjlvanian in the late j ear to be honored
with the Russian mission, his predecessors
haungbeen Messrs. Boker, Curtin, Cameron,
Dallas and Wilkms.
The rumor goes forth that Sir Julian Pauncc
fote, British MinUter to the United States,
may boon be superseded because be is not in
sympathy with the English Government on
the codfish question.
Thomas A. Edison has engaged rooms in
Charlotte, N. C, for the uso of himself and his
assistants, who will for the next year pursue
investigation in the mining districts of North
Carolina, which Mr. Edison is convinced is the
richest mining region in tho world.
Miss Mary Morris, daughter of "William
Morris, tho English poet and socialist, pos
sesses a great talent of embroidery and design
ing. She is turning it to account by starting a
regular business, where sbo receives orders for
work and gives steady employment to a num
ber of women.
PAN-AMEKICAiN DELEGATES.
A Final Adjournment Will Probnbly Tnko
PIncc Abont April 1.
"Washington, March 2. The delegates to
tbo International American Conference are be
ginning to talk about final adjournment, which
wili probably take place about the 1st of ApriL
Nearly all of tbc committees have made their
reports and several of them have already been
adopted. The report of tho Committee on Cus
toms Union, which considers reciprocity
treaties, is in the bands of the printer. Tho
threo Committees on Postal and Cablo
Communication on the Atlantic, Pacific and
the Caribbean Sea have their reports prepared,
and they are now being translated. The reports
of the Committee on Customs Regulations and
the Committee on Port Dues are both about
ready to submit to the conference. The Com
mittees on Extradition and Banking will finish
their labors within a few days. Tho Commit
tee on Arbitration has agreed to recommend
the adoption of that raeibod for settling inter
national difficulties, but bas not yet arrived at
an agreement as to the details of tno plan for
its report The Committee on Monetary Con
vention will make two reports, one of which
will recommend the coinage of a common sil
ver dollar to be legal tender in commercial
transactions between the citizens of tho several
nations. Tho other report, prepared and pre
sented by Mr. Cukhdge, of the United States
delegation, will recommend the issue of cer
tificates by the United States upon any bullion
that may be deposited in the United States
Treasury bv the citizens or authorities of the
Central and South American btates.
These reports aro both in the hands or the
printers, and will be submitted for action very
soon. The reports of the Committee on Rail
way Communication, Sanitary Regulations and
Weights and Measures have been already
adopted by the conference.
B0EN BLIND.
A Simple Remedy That Often Will Prevent
This IWifortune.
Iron the London Figaro. 1
It is distressing to learn that out of the 7,000
persons blind from their birth in this country,
who owe their loss of sight to Inflammation of
tho eyes, at least two-tbird3 might now have
been in the enjoyment of their sight but tor
the ignorance or neglect of their earliest guar
dians. It socins that the remedies for the In
fantile, inflammation which cause3 blindness,
aro both many and simple. Thus it cannot be
too widely made known that tbo ees of a
newly born child, if inflamed, should be washed
with pure warm water, and that then a single
dropof a 2 per cent solution of nitrate of silver
bhould be instilled into each with a drop tube.
In Geriuany midlives are enjoined to adopt
the above remedial treatment, unde.- oath, and
since this has been done the decrease in tho
number of blind children has been most ap
preciable. PLE.MI OP OFFICE SEEKERS.
Mnny Citizens of Readlne Willioc to Give
Up Permanent Positions.
Reading, March 3. Mavor-elect Merritt,
after the election left for Old Point Comfort,
Va , to take a rest and avoid tho first rush of
applicants for offices that he will have to fill
under tbo new municipal bill. During his ab
sence hundreds of petitions have been circu
lated by applicants lor positions, and when ho
comes back in a few dajs ho will be over
whelmed with office seekers.
In spite of the fact that all of our industries
are running full and employment is plenty
there are more aspirants for offices than ever,
and hundreds seem to be willing to give up per
manent situations which afford them good
wages to accept an office that will at best be but
temporary ami pav them no more than they
are now receiving. Mr. Merritt has given no
intimation as Tet as to whom ho will appoint to
the various offices.
Rrtniinlion on His Own Hook.
From the Boston Herald.;
Mr. Taylor, of Gananoque, tho Canadian
member of , Parliament who has issued a proc
lamation of retaliation on bis own hook against
the people of the United States, seems to have
an abnormal development about tbo cheek.
Ho probably belongs to the famous tailors of
Tooley street, who always signed themselves:
"We, the People."
The nmo Alone Is Enough.
From the lcw lork Herald, j
The Chairman of the mass meeting at Cooper
Union, held for the purpose of denouncing the
Czar, was a Mr. Stolctchnlkoff. If that name
ever explodes under the Czar's windows Alex
ander will think ho has suddenly become an
astronomer, and that all the constellations
in space aro busy throwing asteroids at him.
Tho Fin In tlio Army.
From the 2cw ork Telegram
Tbo mother of a soldier who died during the
war from eating a pie is to receive a pension.
This will meet the approval of all veterans who
remember the dangers that encompassed them
after payday, wben the sutler opened bis
stores. The total mortality from pies during
the war has never been estimated.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
SirEdwnril Bntncs,
Lovdov, March 2. The death is announced of
Mr Edward Baltics, proprietor of the Leeds Mer
cury, one of the most Influential Liberal organs In
the .North of Kugland. He was born in 1800, was
member of Parliament for Leeds from 18S9 to 1874,
and was knighted in 18S0. He was the author of ft
number of works bearing upon the Industrial
progress and commerce of the nation.
Ex-Governor Jnnies Edward Enslisb.
New Haven, Cow., March ! Ex-Governor
James Edward English, died at his residence in
this cltv to-day. Ho contracted cold early this
week, which developed rapidly Into pneumonia.
He was C3 years of age, and leases a widow and
one son. At the tlmeofhlsdeathhewas president
ordlrectoi in several of the strongest local banks
and a number of manulacturlng concerns.
Thomas Coleman.
rSPKCTAI. TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH-. I
Wheeling, March 2. Thomas Coleman, the
oldest resident of Jackson county, died at his
ionic, near Kavenswood, to-day, at the age of 89.
I7c was born at l tart Falls, Va., Jnlv 12. 1801.
a forco enough to sustain him wben he
there.
THE CRITIC'S REVIEW.
Hubert Howo Bancroft's History or Ulnb
Some Questions ilio Book Does Not Fully
Answer Tbc Bagpiper, n Plcnsnnt Story
of Pcnsant Life Near Novels.
tretty volume, bearing the imprint of the
History Companj, San Francisco, with
Hubert If owe Bancroft for author, bas for its
title History of Utah. It is one among many
other pretty volumes In which Mr. Bancroft
has set down his gleanings in the harvest fields
of ancient and modern American history as it
has been enacted on the other side of the
Mississippi river. For some years back this
busy gleaning has been going on. "With a
corps of industrious clerks, turning over old
books and manuscripts, jotting dow n notes and
memoranda, Mr. Bancroft has made a regular
business of recording what can bo found out
about the history of the Pacific slope and lands
adjacent. Mexico and New Mexico, Texas
and California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado,
Wyoming, Oregon. Washirgton, Idaho, Mon
tana, have all been written up. Mr. Bancroft's
researcho havo extended as far south as Cen
tral America, and as far north as Alaska. Utah,
however, pre:1ents a subject for tho historian
which Ins at least tho charm of noveltv. There
are Indians, and idols, and queer myths and
hardy settlers, and gold seekers grouped pic
turesquely in tho background of a good many
pictures of early Western life, whether the his
torian sets up his camera in the North, or
South, or East, or West. But there is nothing
quite like Utah in all the wide stretch of coun
try with which Mr. Bancroft has made us ac
quainted. "There is only one example in the
annals of America," says Mr. Bancroft, ' of tho
organization ot a commonwealth upon the prin
ciples of purodemocracj. Thcro is here: one
example only where the founding of a Stato
grew out of the. founding of a new re
ligion. Other instances there have
been of the occupation of wild
tracts on this continent bj people flying before
persecution, or desirous of greater religions
liberty; there were the Quakers, tho Hugue
nots and the Pilgrim fathers, though their
spiritual interests were so soon subordinated to
political necessities. Religion has often played
a conspicuous patt lu tho settlement of tho
New World, and thcro has at times been pres
ent in some degree the theoratic. if not indeed
the hierarchical idea: but it bas been lone;
sinco the world, the old continent or the new,
has witnessed anything like a new religion suc
cessfully established and set in prosperous
running order upon tho fullest and combined
principles of theocracj, hierarchy and patri
archy. V
AlB. Bancroft found, as every historian
will and especially when bis subject is the
record of a people against whom almost every
man has set his hand that thero were
two possible paths for him to follow,
tbo path of lies and tho path of truth.
A great many people have found it very easy
to tell lies about the Mormons, and not a few
books, whose fittest librarian is tho garbage
man, havo been manufactured out of these lies.
The Mormons, also, in the opinion of some
Gentiles, have found it well to tell some lies
about themselves. There are lies enough on
both sides to provide the historian who desires
to fill 700 pages, and cares comparatively little
what he fills tbein with, with plenty of material.
The path of truth, however, along which Mr.
Bancroft, being a reputable historian, wishes to
go. is not so easy. Nobody who is unacquainted
with the literature ot the subject can know
wbat a task the historian must have with his
"authorities." It was a foregone conclusion
that no history of Utah could bo written which
would satisfy both a Mormon and a Gentile
critic Mr. Bancroft has wisely decided that
he will be content with satisfjing himself. Ho
could not have done better. Tbo result is a
careful, well-considered, just and permanently
valuable contribution to American history.
This book contains all the facts which aro
verifiable, all the facts which aro asserted by
respectable authorities upon the Mormon side
with the questions by which respectable Gen
tilo authorities have doubted their right to be
called facts, and all the arguments pro and con
which havo any reason in them or any reput
able names behind them. The reader can make
bis choice.
Tns story begins with tho first sight of Utah
by Europeans in the persons of Francisco
Vasquez de Coranado and his companions in
1540, who seem to bave bad a bard time of it
and to have seen very little, but who, never
theless, discovered enough to set tho map
makers at work. Tho Utah of 1510 was as
unknown to civilization as tho regions of tho
Congo were a lew years ago. And the map
makers wpre just as fertile in imagination and
as generous of hills and rivers as they bave
been within our own memorj. Tboy set down
a great lake in the midst of tho west, bigenough
to cover Utah and Idaho combined.
Into tbo valley of the Great Salt Lake, which
trappers and explorers had brought within
more accurate limits of latitude and longitude,
came in the year 1817 tho great Mormon migra
tion. Mr. Bancroft traces the rise of the move
ment, beginning with Joseph Smith and Mar
tin Harris, and Oliver Con dry, recounting tho
persecutions and tragedies which accompanied
the spread of tho new religion, and the circum
stances wbicb turned the faces of the leaders
Northward. With 1817 the modern history of
Utah begins. Henceforth its fortunes are
within the memory of men still living.
V
pnERE aro three questions which we avant
answered b anjbody who tells the history
of the Mormons: What of polygamy ? What
of tho theocracy ? What of tbo future ? These
questions are not answered in tho book at the
length which many readers will desire. There
is a chapter on "Mormonism and Polygamy," in
which the practice is founded on the example
of the Old Testament patriarchs and on the
curious belief of Mormons about spirits which
are awaiting incarnation. In thi3 chapter the
Mormon argument for polygamy is stated, and
tho custom is defended from some ot the most
common and most unsavory of the assertions
which are made about it, as ior putting it
rtnan -Mr. Bancroft does not favor coercion, as
invitintr social tvrannv.
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In tho matter of the theocracy, upon which
such writers as Mr. Strong, in "Our Country,"
lay great stress, Mr. Bancroft sajs little. Mr.
Strong's description of Mormonism shows It as
a state mthin the state, which is at entire vari
ance with our institutions, which is reaching
out by persuasion and emigration after political
power bejond Utah, and which really threatens
the future well being of tho West. The facts
are all in the book,butthereisno assembling of
them together. That, however, the historian
might consider to bo outside his province,
l'rophecy. too. he declines to indulge in.
When Joseph Smith, tho prophet, died, tho
12 apostles of the Mormon Chnrch were these:
'Brieham Young, the lion of the Lord; Heber
C. Kimball, the herald of peace: Parley P.
Pratt, the archer of paradise; Orson Hyde, the
ollvo branch of Israel; Willard Richards, the
keeper of tho rolls: John Taylor, the champion
of light: William Smith, tho patriarchal staff
of Jacob; Wilford Woodruff, the banner of the
gospel; Georgo A. Smith, the entablature of
truth; Orson Pratt, the gaugo of philosophy;
John E. Page, the sun-dial, and Lyman Wright,
the wild ram of the mountains." it is to the
courtesy of the vcnerablo Wilford Woodruff
that tho Critic is indebted for his copy of the
"History of Utah."
ww
TN the long evenings, to
grinding of hemp. Pere E
tho sound of the
Elienno Dcpardieu
told the story of peasant life which George
Sands set down in her novel, Une JSagpiptrs.
(Roberts Bros.: II. Watts & Co., $1 50.) At
least that was the way of it according to George
Sand's own account in her dedicatory letter to
Eugene Lambert. It was nearly forty years
ago that that fortunate young gontleman re
marked in the very dajs when George Sand
was writing this story of "Tho Bagpipers"
"Bye the bye, it will soon be ten years since I
came here, intending to spend a month. I
must be thinking of leaving." Ho.foundtbat
the country and Georce Sand were unflaggingly
interesting, and several generations of inter
ested readers have agreed with bim. Tho list
of George Sand's books would rival, it Is said.
Homer's famous catalogue ot ships. Some of
them aro not worth reading. Some of tnem
are worth reading a good manv tunes over.
'The Bagpipers" is one of the good ones.
The people in tho "The Bagpipers"' are peas
ant people. The translation misses, as any
translation must, much which adds pleasure to
tho original expression. There is a pretty
heroine'and two hordes. Misunderstanding
arises, doubts and misgivings chase each other
across the pages; one of the heroes loses faith
for a little while In the heroine: the other, who
shon s the constancy of his love by his constancy
of confidence, wins his appropriate reward.
This volume of Georgo band is uniform with
the other which Messrs. Roberts Bros, havo
Eublisbed, and also with their handsome set of
alzac
V
"TVTT name is Christopher Orchardson, of
Sunbury, in Middlesex, and I have
passed through a bitter trouble, which I will
try to describe somehow, both for my wife's
sake and my own, as well as to set 'us straight
again in tho opinion of our neighbors, which I
have always valued highly, though some
times unable to show it. It bas
not been in ray power always to
do the thing that was wisest, and whenever
this is brought up against me, 1 can make no
answer only to beg those who lovo blame to
look at themselves, which will make their eyes
grow kinder, before thfey begin to be turned on
me." In this winning and naive style begins
Mr. Blackmore's Kit and Kitty. (Harper &
Bros.: J. R. Weldm & Co.) And the same
charm of expression which marks Mr. BlacK
more's work, and would make it a pleasant
privilege to read him, no matter what kind of
plot might go with it. Is as evident and attrac
tive in bis new book as it was in "Lorna
Doonc." "So all who are well disposed can
wish mo nothing more complete than this"
tho story ends "that I may livo with her long
enough to discover some defect in her. And
in return I will inflict no moral but that of all
true love let eery Kit l constant to his
better self bis Kltt." From which the
reader may infea that the trouble wbicb is
promised at the'beginning is but a passing
shower, whose presence serves but to make tho
sunshino more enjoyable.
T-nE disasters of the story prove to be a lit
tle raoro seriou, when tho reader really
finds out what they are, tban the first chapter
would lead one to imagine. There is a wicked
step mother, and a disappointed lover or two,
who came in as very unpleasant and malicious
characters, and, it must bo said, a very foolish
hero who could have spared the heroine and
himself some of the severest passages in tb el r
experience if only he had had a little more
sense. He makes a confession in that opcniuc
paragraph which we quoted, which proves to bo
a true as it is frank, when ho owns up that he
was not always so ise as be micht
have been. Indeed, he is sometimes such
anmnusually obtuse specimen of unwisdom
not to use a more emphatic monosyllable that
the reader gets into an exasperation which pven
the hint that we ourselves are not absolutely
wise does not finite allav. However, it all comes
out right in tho end, and they lived happilj uver
after, and deserved all the joy they ever got.
TVTK. William Black has written a good
many books, but never a better one than
Prince Fortunalus (Harper Bros.: J.R.Weldm
&. Co.) It carries the reader back to "Madcap
"Violet" and tho others which camo close after,
when you could bo snre before you opened the
covers of a new novel by Mr. Black that
you would find within a wise man
who would talk ir oracular epigrams, and
a pretty young woman who would behave her
self in some kind of unconventional way, and
the salt breeze of tbo sea, and the clear air of
some great Scotch mountain, with a good deal
of broad Scotch dialect thrown in, and two or
three splendid sunsets. There is a wise man in
"Prince Fortunatus." and a trip up north for
groue shooting and fishing, with gillies for
guides, and a very pretty and charming young
woman, upon whom adjectives might be wasted
to any extent, and who is certainly as uncon
ventional as can be desired. Tho plot is sk'l
ful, the conversation very bright and sprigbth;
tbo characters are not only made Known to ut,
but aro such people as are pleasant to know.
.
A theater is background for much of tho
story. Tho hero, liko the "Knight-Errant"
of Edna Lyall, is a singer iu opera. The book
Is set out admirably with pictures, which aro
all good to look at.
0DR MAIL TOUCH.
Sepnrnic Use Trusts.
To the Editor of The Dispatch: '
It is very strange that there is so much mis
apprehension about a late decision of the Su
preme Court upon wbat is known in law as "a
separate use trust estate." Surely this de
cision could not have been a surprise to any
well read lawyer. Such estates bave existed in
Pennsylvania since it bas been a Common
wealth. A separate use trust is created by
deed or will, and is desmned for the protection
of tho wifo during coveraturc. It would be
very strango indeed if a father could not, in his
will, protect bis married daughter from a
spendthrift husband.
Chief Justice I'arson in a late case says: "It
is true the married women's act of lisJS, as it is
called, secures to eveiy married woman the
legal control of her own estate. But every one
knows that it is not a difficult thing for a hus
band to swindle his wife out of her separate
estato bv his blandishments, or forco
it from her by bis brutality. It is
done every day. And this is whero the
value of a separate use trust comes in to pro
tect a married woman from ber ignorance, her
folly, or her overweening confidence in her hus
band." Such a trust becomes executed upon tho
death of the busband, and the widow thereafter
has an estate freely alienable.
If thn rgal estate devised to a wife is incum
bered by a separate use trust, and she desires to
bell the same, if it is unproductive she can do
so, under the act of 18J-S, and the proceeds of
sale can be invested for her and the interest or
income therefrom paid to her during her cov
erature, and after her husband's death she can
receive tho principal absolutely.
Witbour any relerence to the case so lately
decided by the Supreme Conrt, It can be truly
said that a separate use trust is the greatest
protection and blessing which the law gives to
a married woman. Lex.
February 28, 1690.
Lnvr Student Defended.
To the Editor of Tho Dlspatcl :
If J. C. i. had read the Constitution of the
United States and its amendments ho would
not have waxed so sarcastic at the expense of
"Law Student," who is certainly correct in
saying that "a child is a citizen if born in the
United States." Tho first section of the Four
teenth Amendment declares that "all persons
horn or naturalized in tho United States and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens
of the United States and of the State wherein
they reside." A recent writer on tho subject
says: "All citizens are not necessarily entitled
to tho exercise of tho right of suffrage, for the
term 'citizen,' in the constitutional sense of the
term, means one who owes the duty of alle
giance and is entitled to the correlative right of
protection, and it therefore includes persons,
who, by reason of sex or ac", may not bo quali
fied to vote." Peterson's Federal Restraint on
State Action, p 252.
There is. moreover, a judicial decision In this
State which declares that, for the purpose of
voting, a minor becomes of age on the tlay pre-
redinc the 21st anniversary of his birth. So
that law student is backed by very respectable
authority.
F.
Pittsburg?, March J.
Thins Theatrical.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Will you kindly inform mo through your col
umns: 1. The size ot the stage in tho Academy
of Music, Philadelphia. 2. The size and cost
of tho front curtain in the Bijou Theater, Pitts
burg. 3. The size of the Bijou stage. P. D.
LeechiiUho, March L
We havo not measured tho theater stages,
nor examined the curtain bills. The managers
might tell you.
Wrllo to the Congressman.
To the Editor or The Dispatch:
Can you inform mo as to the time when ap
plication can be made to ga on examination
for admittance to West Point from this dis
trict? I noticed in one of the morning papers
that our Congressman had a vacancv to nil.
Pittsbubg, March 1. Reader.
A Ilnril One for J. C. P.
1 o the Editor of Tbc Dispatch:
Will J. C. P. please explain why a youth be
tween the ages of 18 and 21 is subjected to mili
tary duties if ho is not a citizen until 21 years of
age? C. K.
Pittsbubg, March 1.
At Lcnst S2.000.
To the Editor or The Dispatch:
Will j oukindly inform me throughyourpaper
what a saloonkeeper's bondsmen must be
worth, under the Brooks law?". (J.
Pittsbuko, March I.
C0UN1I COMMITTEE MEEriKG
To Fix n Onto for Holillnir Republican
Primary Elections.
r8PEClA(. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCrr.1
Franklix, Pa.. March Z E. W. bmiley,
Esq .Chairman of the Republican County Com
mittee, returned from attending a meeting of
the chairmen of the Republican connty com
mittees of Venango, McKean and Warren
counties, held in Warren Saturday. The meet
ing was for the purpose of fixing' a date for
holding the Republican primary elections In tbe
several counties of tho Twenty-seventh Con
gressional district, as required by tbe rules.
Saturday, May 10, was the date selected. It is
safe to say that every county in tho district will
send delegates to the Republican State Con
vention instructed for Senator Delamatcr for
Governor.
A Convalescent Rumor.
From the "WashlnRton Tost.
Tbe rumored retirement of Assistant Post
master General Clarkson is again convalescent.
But tbe chances are that it will be flat on its
back in a day or so.
Cnrlons Spring Novelty.
From the Washington Star.
A Senate secret with a nermetical seal on it
would be a curious spring novelty in the north
wing of tho Capitol.
In the Snmo Bonti
From the New York Herald.
"1 am melting, dearest, melting," is a senti
ment which tbe lover and the iceman now hear
with varying emotions.
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THE SKIESJN MARCH.
A Few of tho Wonders Revenled to I lie Eye
of the Amateur Auronomcr Tbo Ap
proncbing Tqiilnnx Pbnses of Ibe
Plant ts Curious Facts About Saturn's
ItingM.
WHITTEV FOB THE dispatch
"pnE sun is now but a few degrees south of the
equator. On the 20th he will cross the
equator, at which time tho earth will be at that
point in it's orbit known as the Vernal Eauinox.
To-day tho day's length is 11 hours 21 minutes;
the sun rises at 0.51 a. 3T. and sets atCi3p. M.
On the 20th the day's length is 12 hours; the
sun rises about G28 A. M. and sets about G.2S p.
31. It might have been supposed that he would
riso promptly at 6 A. M. on this date and set 12
hours later; but such is not the case. In the
first place, the time we use here is 20 minutes
3 seconds faster than local time, so that when
our clocks show the time to be 20 minutes 3
seconds after 6 A. a. for example, it is really
but 6 o'clock. Moi eovcr, the sun does not keep
paco witn our time, being sometimes more
tban a quarter of an hour ahead or behind it,
and being even with it only twice in tho year.
Without explaining more fully, it may be
sa'd that this disagreement is due to
tho earth's moving in an elliptic
orbit about the sun. On the sun dial mounted
in the Allegheny Park near the greenhouse will
be seen a table shoing how many minutes and
seconds tne sun is "olf" for each day In the
year. If this table were not given, the time
determined by the dial might sometimes be as
much as a quarter of an hour slow or fast. 'On
the 20th of the month tho sun is 7 minutes 30
seconds behind time, and hente rises at 0.28 a.
m., crosses the meridian at 12.23 and sets at 6:23
P.M.
Tbo Sun's Face Llttlo Spotted,
p bom what the writer has been able to see of
the sun, despite the cloudy weather that
has prevailed lately, there are no large spots on
the disk of his solar majesty at present. This
is somewhat unusual, as the period of greatest
solar activity is approaching. The time of
maximum sunspots comes every 11 years, and
will come in 1893. About this time the sun
seems to be very active, while midway between
these maxima the sun maybe without any
spots at all for many days. The period seems
to correspond with that of greatest and least
electrical disturbance on the earth, pointing
to a connection between the two.
Mornlnc nnd Evenlnc Stnrs.
fyj ebcury will not be visible to the unassisted
eve this month. He is morning star, but
is too far south and too near tbo sun to be seen.
Ho reaches superior conjunction on the 0th
of next month. Venus is likewise invisible.
She passed superior conjunction in February
and is now evening star. On tho last day of the
month she sets 50 minutes after tho sun. Her
apparent diameter is 10". Mars is morning
star, rising just now about 1 A. M. He passes
through the constellation Scorpio and enters
Ophiuchus. On the night of March 4 Mars
passes 6' north of Beta hcorpif. This star is of
the third magnitude and may easily be found,
being the northernmost of a row of three stars
about 4 apart, lying about 8 west of Antares,
tbe brighteststar in the southeast heavens at 2
or 3 A. 31. Mars will appear brighter than the
three stars, and will resemble Antares in color,
as thi3 is a noted red star. Jupiter is morning
star, but near the sun and far south, so that he
is in poor position for observation. He rises in
tbe southeast about 5 A. jr. this morning, and
will rise about four minutes earlier eich suc
ceeding day.
Saturn's Wonderful Rings.
Catubn is evening star, rising now about 5
o'clock in the afternoon and remaining
visible nearly all night. He is in Leo, two
degrees east of Rogulus. There can be no diffi
culty in identifying him, as he is the brightest
star in the neighborhood. Tbo wonderful
rings of Saturn aro still an object of great in
terest to the astronomer. These rings resem
ble a flat disk, about 100 miles thick and about
165,000 miles in diameter, with a circle cut out
of the inside 100,000 miles across in which is
placed tbe planet. Tho ring is divided into
several parts or separate rings. Tbe innermost
of these rings is not s.o bright as the rest; it
has, in fact, a nebulous appearance, which led
to it getting tho name of the "crape ring."
The question as to whether these
ring3 could remain in equilibrium bas
had the attention of mathematicians
since the time of La Place. They cannot be
solid, and it is thought they must be composed
of a vast number of satellites, too small and
close together to be seen separately. It bas
been thought that the inner ring is closing up
and will finally fall upon tho planet. If it does
It will mako a giant hail storm, a little too
grand for tbe Saturnian inhabitants to ap
preciate. Uranus nnd Xepinne.
Uranus is evening star, rising about 9.30 in
the evening. He Is in Virgo, about 5 east of
Spica, in R. A. 13 hours 38 minutes, dec. 9 34'
south. Neptune 13 evening star. He is in the
constellation Taurus, about half way between
tho Pleiades and Hyades. He cannot be seen
with tho naked eye, but may be easily found
with a good telescope mounted with circles
from the following position: R. A. 4 hours .00
minutes, dec. 18 57' nortn.
Bert. E. V. Lutt.
Alleghem", March L
THE DKEA1I NOT FULFILLED.
Sirs.
Cyrns Gnston Stll'l Lives, In Splto of
Prophetic Visions.
Washington. Pa., March 2. Mrs. Cyrus
Gaston, of Finleyville, is still alive and well,
although she and her neighbors confidently ex
pected her to dio ten days ago. when she was
a girl 12 years of age, 52 years ago, sho dreamed
that she would die on the 19th of February,
1MK). Tho date was strongly impressed on ber.
Sho dreamed that an angel, with a pencil
dipped in fire, wrote the date across a
black curtain, and then pulling aside
the pall, showed her a coffin, and
within its satin lined cushions she saw her
self. Her maiden name was McVey, but when
the coflin lid was raised she saw tbe name
"Gaston" on a silver plate, and this only made
her think Jt was only a foolish fancy. Bat ten
years afterward she married Cyrus Gaston, and
on her wedding night she dreamed tbe dream
again: saw the coflin scene once more, and this
time the name "Gaston" seemed a prophecy
fulfilled.
The night after her baby daughter was born,
now grown to womanhood, she dreamed it all
over again, repeated it like a photograph, with
out change of a single feature or coloring.
This made an impression on her mind not to be
disregarded.
Last week letters of farewell were written to
her friends, and every preparation made for
tho fateful 19tb. 'Squire Harper was
called and wrote ber will. She prepared for
death and the funeral, but sho had the courago
of faith and went on tbo even tenor of ber
wav, doing household work as usual and spend
ing'her leisure in quiet meditation. The 19th
is long past, Mrs. Gaston is as well as ever,
still alive and happy, and nothing camo of the
dream.
SCEANTOM'S FREE LIBRARY.
A movement to Equip Ibe Albright Memo
rlnl Institution.
Scranton, March 2. The people of Scran
ton have taken hold of the equipment of tho
Albright Memorial Library with an earnestness
that promises a fond of at least J50.000. This
gift, which. is provided by the children of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Albright as a free public
library, contemplates tho transfer to tbo city of
the homestead property of the family, which
will be replaced during this year by Joseph
Albright, Jr., of Buffalo, with a suitable build
ing costing 575,000.
baturday night a public meeting was held,
Melvil Dewev, Litrarian ot the Stato of Now
York; Ex-Judge Alfred Hand, Colonel H. M.
Boies, Hon. T. V. Fowderly and John E. Bar
rett, editor of tbe Truth, being tbe speakers.
Subscriptions to the equipment fund were
made at the close of tbe meeting amounting to
jlO.bOO. which, with pledges seenred by a Board
of Trade committee, make tbe total sum raised
for the purchase of books over $30,000.
Duty on Coffee Imposed,
San Salvador, March 2. Congress has
issued a decree that from the 26th nit. a duty of
$1 per qui atal be imposed on all coffee exported
during one year, the proceeds to bo used in tho
reconstruction of the National Palace.
MARCH.
Light-footed March, wild maid of Spring,
Your frolic footsteps hither stray.
Smiles blent with tears will April bring
Tls April's sentimental way
But vour wild winds with laughter ring.
While young and old your will obey;
A moment here, then on the wing.
Coquettish March, what games you play I
I know a maid as blithe as you
Child of the Ice-King and the Sun
At her fair leet fond lovers woo:
She flouts and Jeers them, every one.
And then she smiles once more they sue;
Then blows she cold they are undone.
Oh .March! could you or she be true.
Then all were naught, so you were won.
Louise Chandler Moulton in Ladies'1 Home
Journal,
A BEAL1I OF FACT AND FANCY
Explored by the Multitudes of Dispatch
Rrndera Ycsterdny.
The man or woman who read the triple issue
of The DisrATCli jesterdav cared pot for the
chilling bl ists of a belated winter and heeded
not the flakes of snow that burned to seek
hiding places in chinks and crevices, as if
ashamed of being three months behind sched
ule time. An easy chair beside a grate glow
ing with the bright flames of nature's fuel, and
a copy of The Sunday Dispatch, with its
full and gossipy record of the current events of
the world and the choicest gems of literature,
embracing almost every conceivable subject,
illustrated by talented artists, placed the
reader beyond the reach at a March blizzard,
aud allowed the least imaginative mind to
roam uutrammeled through pleasant paths.
The contents of tbo 20 pages covered a wide
range of subjects, the more striking being
mentioned below.
I.
The news from across the ocean was more
than usuallv interesting. In England La-
bonchere charged the Government with con
niving in the escape from tbe country of the
titled principals in the recent scandal. For
this he was suspended from the House of Com
mons. The Home Rulers declare their confi
dence in the ultimate success of their cause.
The recent Socialist victories in Germany have
rather nonplussed the Emoeror, and has re
sultetl iu the restoration of Bismarck's ascend
ency over that monarch. The prospects for
the success of the International Labor Con
gress are not very bright, and a Cabinet crisis
has arisen in Franco over the question of send
ing a delegate to the conference. An investi
gation into the affairs of the Boston wool firm
of Brown, Theeso & Clark, which recently
failed. John Griscom, a New York in
ventor, after spending a fortune
on experiments, ended his life by
inhaling illuminating gas. A Dispatch cor
respondent interviewed State Factory Inspec
tor Martin at Philadelphia, and the latter
stated that he would soon have his office in
working order to correct the many abuses known
to exist. The Baltimore and Ohio Is reported to
be trying to gain access to Chicago in order to
compete with tho Pennsylvania lines for busi
ness west of Pittsburg. A prominent New
York engineer intimates that New Orleans is In
danger of being wiped out by the flood.
Pringlo reviews at length tbe situation in tbe
sporting world. Peter Pnddy defeats C. E.
McClelland in a three-mile footrace for 750
a side at Recreation Park, while Wizard
Scbaefer is defeated by Slosson in the big
billiard tournament at New York. A test case
by the Cleveland League Club against John
Strieker and AI Johnson is instituted.
II.
Edward S. Stuart, of Philadelphia, is men
tioned locally as a candidato for the Presidency
of tbe National League of Republican Clubs,
Geologist E. C. Beardslcy gives his reasons for
bis faith in the future of Allegheny county as
an oil field. President Samuel Gompers, of
the American Federation of Labor, pauses m
Pittsburg to speak of the progress of the
eight-hour movement. Tbe strike at the Glass
ville Glass Works has been satisfactorily
settled. The views of our city educators on
the use of the rod upon refractory pnpils are
given at length. A lively contest is inaugur
ated npon tbe Southside for the position of
Police Magistrate. Both sides of a sensational
story about the We3tmghouse Airbrake Com
pany are given.
Iir.
The first of a series of intensely interesting
papers by Roger Casement, describing Stan
ley's wanderings in Central Africa, appeared in
tbis issue. W. A. Boyce describes Claud Stan
ford's career from farmhand to millionaire.
The ancient drinking bouts of Erin are depict
ed by Brenan. Julius A. Truesdell writes in
terestingly about statesmen who ride to
hounds. Oliver Optic gives advice to boys on
choosing a profession. Edward Bellamy, the
famous author of "Looking Backward," dis
cusses nationalism. Wilf. P. Pond describes
some wonderful bicycles for traversing land,
water ana air. Inspector Byrnes talks enter
tainingly about criminals and their methods.
Scenes on the Gold Coast of Africa are vividly
pictured by Claire A. Orr. Bill Nye
gives his own peculiar views on tbe theories of
Delsarte. and Theodore Stanton talks about
literary French women. Experts discuss the
proper method of popping the question, and
Faunio D. Ward relates some incidents of
horseback travel in Central America. Other
notable writers who conlribnted articles of in
terest were Rev. George Hodges, Hepburn
Johns, Bessie Bramble, .Frank G. Carpenter,
Mis3 Grnndy, Jr., B. P. Shillaber, Shirley Dare,
Paysle, Clara Belle and Henry Norman. The
current Installments ot "Beatrice," by H. Rider
Haggard, and "Come Forth," by Elizabeth
Stuart Phcips, continue to increase the interest
already felt in these romances.
ONE OF THE 'FINEST.
Tho Dispatch Holds n Position That Is Sec
ond to None.
From the Jcflcrsonian Democrat.!
When speaking of tho newspapers of Penn
sylvania one of the first referred to is The
PiTTsnur.o Dispatch The paper has earned
a position that is second to none m tbe matter
of giving its readers all the news of the day in
tbe most readable form. It employs all the
ordinary agencies for gathering news, and be
side, bas its own bureaus at all prominent
points, thus enabling it to always be at the
bead of its competitors. Tbe Sunday edition
is a most popular favorite with the masses. It
is a monster magazine of tho day in which tho
choicest literary productions are found, as well
well as tbe latest news and other special feat
ures. The Dispatch is increasing its facili
ties to meet the demand npon it, and will, with
the introduction of new presses, etc, have a
plant surpassed by few newspapers. It may
always be depended upon to keep abreast of
the time'.
.PLANTING WHITE FISH.
One
Hundred Thousand Fry trnt to
tho
Small Lakes in tbe Dfonntnlns.
ISPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TnE DISPATCH.!
Eric March 2. The State Commissioners are
planting tho 10.000.000 white fish which are being
hatched In the Erie hatchery. The Commis
slonerswill make a trial of raising white fish
in the inland lakes ot the State. Ono hundred
thousand fry bate been sept to the small lakes
in the mountains iu the vicinity of Scranton,
Pa.
The Erie hatchery will be devoted this spring
to the batching of wall-eyed and blue pike, for
the stocking of tte wat-rs of the interior of the
State. Tho roe will bo obtained at Sandusky.
No Facilities for Immersion.
From the Akron Republican.!
A Pennsylvania man convicted of murder
and sentenced to be hanged, insists on immer
sion before his execution. As tbe Sheriff bas
no warrant to remove his prisoner from tbo
jail and no facilities for immersion in the jail,
be is In a quandary. Such scrupulousness on
the part of a murderer is rare.
COMMENTS OX THE FAIR.
Atlanta Constitution: Tom Piatt should
be made director general of the World's' Fair
at Chicago. He did it with his little battle-ax.
A Kentucky paper leads an editorial: "No
Politics in It," referring to the choice of Chi
cago. Thisprovesitagain. When aKentuckian
asks for It and wants it ho generally likes it
straight.
Boston Herald: Chicago is just howling
itself hoarse with delight about tho fair. Per
haps by and by it will be howling the other way
about the cost. Chicago dances, and must pay
the piper.
Piiovidence Journal: There is a growing
suspicion that, the Government will sanction
no World's Fair for 1S92. and thero is another
growing sentiment that if it does it will choose
Washington for its site.
Eoston Herald: The tidings come from Chi
cago that her citizens are intoxicated with suc
cess. So long as they don't take anything else
with this beverage tbe country is safe. It is
mixed drinks that are an abomination.
Washington JPost: Congressman Pendle
ton voted for Chicago, but Chicago did not vota
for Congressman Pendleton. Citizen Pendleton
Is now engaged in reflecting on the Windy
City's defects in tbe matter of reciprocity.
ST. Louis Ulobe Dispatch: A great many of
the Missouri papers are trying to mako it ap
pear that Chairman Jones, of the St. Louis
Committee, is the cause of"tlie failure of St.
Louis to secure tbe fair. This is a mistake.
Jones is at present the champion ass of tbe
United States, but St. Louis would not bave
secured the fair, even If it had placed a man of
brains at the head of Its committee.
COKIOUS CUSDE5SATI05S.
The gardens of Santa Monica are full of
ripe blackberries.
The United States Government has paid
out in round fUnrts S 1.000,000,000 in pensions
sinco the beginuiug of tbe Civil War.
The negro has gained 75 per cent in
property during the last decade, while the)
average gain ba3 been only 50 per cent.
T. Johnson, of Englewood, Humboldt
County, California, owns a calf with three
horns. Tbe animal has two more started.
There is a girl in Caldwell who' can put
a wholo egg in hpr month and close ber montn
over it, and sne is not a bad-Iookinggirl, either.
Mr. Eichardson, of the Maryland Lower
House, says he can get LO.00O signatures in Bal
timore to have any member of tbe Legislature
hanged.
A statistician calulates that the total
tonnago of the world, steam and sail, is.
in round numbers 21,000,000, of which 50 per
cent is British.
Russell Sage, who makes a heartr meal
off a piecp of ginger bread and an pple. Is said
to havo subscribed 50,000 to the funds of a
church he attends.
A doctor of Cremona, with a large band
of peasants from its neighborhood, has just
started for Uruguay, where he proposes to es
tablish them as an exclusively Socialist colony.
An inmate of a lunatic asvlum in Bres
cia. Italy, was released on February L after a
seclusion of 40 years. Oaring this period his
cost to the institution footed uo more than
5,000.
The mother of Homily, a famous Indian
Chief, died last week at the Umatilla reserva-
tion. She was the oldest woman in Oregon, be
ing 113 years of age. Homily is 73 years old,
and bis mother was 40 wben be was born.
A cottonwood tree about 100 feet long
his straddled the second piers from the north
end of Sacramento river bridge at Anderson,
and unless cut away before tbe next rise in the
river may do serious damage to tnat structure.
It is said that four years after the fight
at Chickamauga the battlefield shone like
bright moonlight, even on tbe darkest nights.
Tho light came from the phosphorescent ex
halations of the decaying bones of the heaped
up dead.
A little girl, 5 years old, has arrived in
Paterson, N. J., having traveled by rail alone
from Saginaw, Mich. Tbe child, at the request
of her father, was shipped as express matter.
with a tag about her neck giving her name and
destination and also the key of her trunk.
A lawyer in Pennsylvania was badger
ing a woman during tbe cross-examination,
when she charged him with having sent his
father to the poorhonse, robbed his mother and
deserted bis first wife, and the lawyer grew so
quiet that a pin could bave been beard to drop.
The Florida sponge fleet has done ex
ceedingly well this winter. The weather has
been favorable and the supply is inexhaustible,
as tbey grow as fast as they are gathered.
Some ot the sponges aro as large as a nail keg.
One boat gathered 3,000 in a few days.
Tne famous old mountain fortress of
Asirgarb, which was formerly regarded as one
of tbe principal defenses of Central India, a
about to be dismantled. It stands on tbe sum
mit of an almost inaccessible mountain, and
has many interesting and romantic historical
associations.
A Georgia man who had to have his leg
amputated refused to be rendered unconscious
that he might realize and describe tbe sensa
tions. He says that the only hurt was when
the knife struck tbe nerves. After it got into
tbo meat there was no particular feeling, and
he didn't "holler" when the saw worked away
at the bone.
It is said that the number of pearl
oysters collected last year at the Ceylon fisher
ies will barely cover tho cost of bringing tbem
from tho sea bottom. One reason for tbe fall
ing off In tbe returns, is the circumstance of a
shark carrying off one of tbe divers. His fellow
workmen, fearing the same ghastly fate, re
fused to enter tbo water.
A Congo native, who has been taught to
read and write, has just sent a letter, his first,
to the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is as fol
lows: "Great and Good Chief of the Tribe of
Christ, greeting: Tne humblest or yourservauu
kisses the hem of your garment, and beg4 you.
to send to bis fellow servants more gosp.l and
less rum. In tbe bonds of Cbrist, Ugallo."
The new cantilever bridge across the
Colorado river, 13 miles below Needles, CaL,
will reqnire 3,200,C00 pounds of iron to complete
it. It rests upon two massive stono piers that
aro C5 feet below the bed of tbc river, and the
center span is the longest unsupported one in
the world 600 feet between the cantilevers. The
contractors expect to havo the bridge finished
by May 1.
D. W. Felshfield and C. Dent, two En
glishmen who set out to tbo Caucasus to search
for some clue to tho fate of Donkin and Fox,
tho English explorers who were lost there soma
time ago. bave returned and report that the
lost men set out to ascend Mount Dychtall.
which Is nearly 17,000 feet high. Tbe searchers
attained nearly 11,000 fee', wben tbey came
npon tho last camping place of the unfortunate
men.
At a late.meeting of ike Eoyal Botanic
Society an interesting sweet-scented fern from
tho society's garden was exhibited. The per
fume closely resembles that of fresh bay, and,
like it, is retained after the frond is dry, and
lists lor many months if not years, imparting
its fragrance to anything in contact with it.
Tbe secretary thonght it might bo grown as a
source of perfume by amateurs, If not commer
cially. At an examination for speed certifica'es
held at tho London Phonetic Shorthand
Writers' Association on tho 30th of January,
Mr. Bernard de Bear, of tbe Metropolitan
School of shorthand, London, successfully ac
complished the task of writing from dictation
2.C00 words of ordinary newspaper matterin tea
minutes (being at tbe rata of 200 words per
minute), and afterward correctly transcribing
bis notes.
An extensive society in Vienna, devoted
to Pan-Germanism, is engaged in diffusing tha
German language among tbo opposing nation
alities of the Austrian empire. Its efforts ara
at present being concentrated against the Slavs
of Bohemia, Moravia and Styria, as it was
found necessarv to abandon the attempt to
eradicate the Italian language in those of tha
empire's provinces where its vitality bas always
been strong and is now increasing.
WITH THE POINTED END UP.
"Mr quondam friend," said the orator.
Order! Order!" cried his hearers.
"Skip tbe profanity," whispered the Modera
tor. Aew lork Ann.
"I'm no sardine," said the Maine herring;
but they pnt him in a box all tbe same, with
French name on mm tnat ne comun't i.ave pro
nounced to save his spine. Jue.
Modern Dialogue "Arrange my hair,
Fellclc, while I take a lunch." "Very well,
madame; wbat color will you wear?" "My black
hair; I am going to a funeral." Le Figaro.
Young Mr. Scheinstein Do you dine dot
marriage vas a vallure, Oncle Moses?" Uncle
Moses Off you make monlsb py marrying. It vas
as goot as a vallure, my poj.Jtouetl Citizen.
A farm journal advises: "Save the nicest
eggs for Incubation." This is valuable aavfee.
Any old back number egg Is good enough for the
barn-storming "Hamlet" combination. Korrls
tovm Herald.
Boss You run the place for a few weekj
and let me be bartender.
Bartender Whatjer want to do that for?
Boss I'd like to bave a crack at the profits.
Kew lork Sun.
Not Prompt in His Payment Gilhooly
Pat, yez 'ud betther be lookln' afther Brophy.
lie do be tellln' me he has a tnrrlble grudge fur
nlnst yez.
Cuddlby Musha. who cares' Brophy nlver paid
me annytblng be owed me yet!
Mrs. Figg Is Mr. Peck at the lodge this
evening?
Mrs. N. Peck-No: he's downtown getting
drunk. I always let him have this dayfor bis own
enjoyment. It's our wedding anniversary, yon
know. lerre Haute Express.
Dreadful "Why did you leave your last
place?"
"The missus called mc names."
" hat did she call you."'
"She said 1 were a domestic, mum; and me as
hard-workin' ana honest a woman as ever lived.
Harper's Bazar,
Father My son, you must not dispute
with your mother In that way.
Boy-But she's in the wrong.
Father That rnes no difference, and yoa
might as well learn, my child, once for all, that
when a lady says a thing Is so. It Is so, even If It
Isn't to.-Pick-Ste-Up
Too Awfully AwfuL Boston Mother
Why. my child, yoa look very much evcltcd.
What Is the matter'
Boston Daughter-Nothing, mother, nothing.
Boston Mother Hut that explanation does not
satisfy me. 1 must liave.an answer.
Boston Daughter (hoarsely)- Well, then,
mother, the beans are burned to a crisp Rochtt
Ur Vast-Express.