THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH. ' THURSDAY f MAKCH ' 6, " 1890. ft f jr Wlte Biwcl. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY E. 1S16, Vol. 45, No.". Entered at Pittsburg Tontofficc Js'ocinbcrH, 1SS7, as second-class matter. Business Offlce97 and G9 Filth Avenue. News Rooms and Publishing1 House75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street, Eastern Advertising Office. Koom , Tribune Building. New .York. TERMS OF THE DIcPATCU. rOFTAQE FKZB IN the united states. lUlir PisrATCn, One Year. S 8 00 Daily Dispatch, 1'erQnartcr soo Daily Uibi'atch, One .Month 70 DAILY DierATCII, includlngSondar, lycar. 10 00 Daily DISPATCH, ineludingSnnday.3m'ths. 150 DAILY' DisrATCH, Includingbunday.llnonth 90 tCNDAY Dispatch. One Yeir I M Weekly DI6PATCH, One ear 123 The Daily Diepatcii Is delivered by carriers at IScenucer week, or including Sunday edition, at 20 cents per week. PITTSBURG. THURSDAY. MAR. 6, 1S90. THE MOST M0DEEN INSTANCE. The situation on the canal question in Maryland is an interesting example of the relative importance in modern politics of public rights and corporate interests. The business interests which furnish the greatest amount of traffic for transportation in Maryland demand the preservation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The high est judges declare that it cannot be legally turned over to a railroad. But a railroad interest strongly affiliated to the political ring that lias mismanaged tne canai jor years declares that the canal shall be de stroyed, and appears to own the Legislature and the Governor for that purpose. The possibility of a trans-Allegheny canal with the Chesapeake and Ohio tor its eastern outlet enhances the importance of preserving this water-way and increases the 1opular interest in the defeat of the meas ures for its destruction. But the same con sideration probably adds to the determina tion of the railroads that it shall be put out of the way for the defeat of the trans-Allegheny project But is it not a fearful sarcasm on govern ment for the benefit of the people, by a political machine, that the nearest repre sentatives oi the people should be so solidly and stolidly subservient to the interests that are attacking the public welfare? IT WILL BE SH0BT LIVED. The report that the wholesale grocers of New York are going to form a sugar com bination which will establish a minimum price for sugar, and impose an increased cost upon that staple, amounting to 57,000, 000, sounds rather imposing. But the actual amount that the new combination can effect will not be important enough to pay for the stationery consumed in forming and keep ing up the combination. There are several hundred wholesale grocers in the leading distributing cities of the country. Experience has proved that any device to keep that number of inde pendent business men from competing with each other is almost as hopeless a task as making water run up hill. Nothing short of absolute consolidation will do it. and if that impossibility could be effected between hundreds of wholesale concerns, other hun dreds of new concerns would spring up like mushrooms the Tery month in which the margin on sugar at wholesale was advanced to the rich margin of He per pound. The only way in which a combination of that sort can be maintained is to have a monopoly back of it, which will punish the evil-doers that sell at the competitive margin, by withholdintr thcirsupplies. Such a combination was the legitimate offspring of the Sugar Trust and aided it in the work ot advancing the retail cost two years ago from G to 9 cents per pound. Bnt the Sugar Trust having evoked its own destruc tion, the subsidiary combination went to pieces. The moment people can buvof some one else, all such combinations become futile. So long as there is competition in the re fining of sugar, the reported combination will only be an example of the way in which foolish men strive after the unattain able in the shape of a monopoly. A NEED FOE CIVILIZATION. The capacity of the mob spirit to exhibit the most stupid and ignorant brutality has long been recognized; but the record is beaten by the achievement of that sort re ported from Guihrie. Because certain peo ple in thecflort to conciliate the negrophobia of the South have proposed the colonization of a negro State "in some Territory like Ok lahoma," the people of that Territory have become excited about an attempt to make Oklahoma a negro State. They adopt the usual mob practice of sending parties of masked night-riders around, taking negroes out of bed and whipping them until they promise to leave the Territory. No one imagines that the Degroes who were whipped had anything to do with a colonization scheme. No colonization scheme proposes to take Oklahoma. But the mob got pos sessed by a wild idea, and evidently thought it would be a good thing to whip the nig gers, with the result probably that the smartest of the mob leaders took possession of the colored people's claims. Yet the peo ple of that Territory think they are civilized ! DOES CHICAGO BACK DOWN? An interview with Mr. Joseph Medill, of Chicago, represents that gentleman as say ing, on behalf of Chicago: "We never ex pected to pay all the expenses of the fair. We will raise $10,000,000, and we will ask Congress to appropriate a like amount" If Chicago did not expect to pay all that the fair would cost over and above the re ceipts, her representatives and papers took a great deal of pains to create a false im pression. The understanding was very clear that whatever city gained the local advantages of the fair should provide for all hazards of loss in the enterprise. It was the claim of greater promptness in raising a five million guarantee fund which some of her boomers claimed to be eight millions that gave Chicago the preference over New York. To ask Congress for 510,000,000 now, amounts to a repudiation of the whole un derstanding. It warrants a suspicion that when our Chicago friends have examined the magnitude of the enterprise, they are willing to take the least humiliating method of backing out Chicago has reached the point where she must either put up or shut up. If she can not do the first, a wise discretion should teach her to do the second with neatness and dispatch. LOSS OB LUXTJEY1 The discussion of the rewards of fanners' labors brings out some curious views as to what the farmer has a right to expect A Lehigh county farmer has recently made a statement that on balancing his year's ac counts,and deducting expenses he found that what is left gave him only ten cents a dav for his expenses. To this the Media Ameri can and Philadelphia Inquirer rejoin that he has forgotten to credit the good living which his family got off the farm. Those papers even go farther and accuse the Eastern farmer with extravagance in abuses oi agricultural machinery, buying costly artificial manures and keeping horses and carriages mciely for pleasure. It is impossible to say how accurate the accounts in this single case were, without inspecting them. It is evident that they for get to include the board of the farmer and his family, as that item alone would amount to more than 53G 50, which is given as the annual result of the farmet's labors. It may be hoped that other items were forgotten which may make the farmer's case look less desDerate. But it is no less wide of the mark to accuse the farmer of extravagance because he puts money into the implements of his business snehas machinery and fertil izers, than it would be to accuse a newspa per proprietor of waste because he busy the best presses and spends money on tele graph tolls. To enlarge that charge by representing the farmer as a nabob who keeps his horses and carriages is even more ridiculous. Ilorses are as necessary to farm work in the East as steam is to manufactur ing. The same sort of reasoning would ac cuse a railway brakeman of wild reckless ness because he is constantly riding on the railways or a steamship stoker of a life of leisure because his whole time is given to ocean voyaging." We hope that the farmer's case is not so hard as the statement from his side makes it appear; but it can be taken for granted that it is not a life of such ease and luxury as is alleged by the cotemporary which asserts that, "the average business man whose bus iness would pay its expenses, furnish such a living for himself and family and permit the luxuries which the farmer takes as a matter of course would have attained a suc cess which is reached by few." None of the common workers in any of the great in dustries are in peril of being spoiled by luxury and extravagance. The people who are on the inside of corporate management and trust combination have heroically re solved to assume all such perils. INSUFFICIENT EXAMINATION. The hearing in the case of Mr. Minnick resulted in his discharge from the custody of the Dixmont officials. Hardly any other result was possible after the testimony of the physicians upon whose certificate the man wa9 committed. Their own evidence showed the examination, so far as it contributed to an independent and impartial judgment of the condition of the man, to have been a shallow farce. It cannot be profitable to discuss the fam ily scandals out of which this case grows, and in which, so far as the evidence goes, the complainant does not appear very favor ably. That is a private and by no means savory matter. But it is a public matter if men can be consigned to an insane asylum on such an examination as was made. The examining physicians testify that they talked with the man for ten minutes upon the weather, improyements in Braddock, and cognate subjects, and then certified to his insanity on the assertion of third parties of matters concerning which the certifying physicians had no knowledge. In other words, the physicians testified that Minnick was insane because his family told them that he was. But this does not satisly the requirements ot the law. If the assertion of the family was sufficient the law wonld not require the examination of the physicians. It is exactly for the pur pose of preventing improper action by rela tives that two physicians are required to satisfy themselves by their own examination that the alleged insanity is real. As ful filling that requirement this examination was even more farcical than thatsketched in Charles Eeade's "Very Hard Cash," which caused a revision of the insane laws of En gland. In that story the examining physi cians had at least enough respect for the law, in , their examination, to refer to the delusion which the patient was supposed to have. In the real case here they did not take the trouble to probe deeply enough to ask the man they were examining anything about himself. The cae certainly shows the necessity ot more care in examinations of this sort in order to carry out the intent of the law. Whether Minnick's ideas are delusive or not, it is plain that the examination on which he was committed was wholly in sufficient to determine cither his sanity or insanity. DYNAMITE IN THE CITY. The dynamite explosion at the corner of Neville street and Center avenue, yesterday, was a fatality which closely parallels pre vious disasters of the same sort. The death of the men who were working where the ex plosion occurred, renders the matter to a certain extent one of conjecture; but it seems to be certain that the dynamite was taken to a fire to be thawed oat, with the result that has so often attended the same experi ment Besides the loss of two lives the explosion brings out a remarkably striking fact It appears that from eighty to a hundred pounds of dynamite are kept at that point, for use in blasting on sewer work. The place is the geographical center of the city. While the land immediately about it is un occupied, there are many residences within a few hundred yards. If we are not mista ken the explosion of that amount of dyna mite would wreck every house within half a mile of the spot; and snch a casualty was only averted yesterday by the fortuity of the freezing weather. We are also under the impression that there are some laws with regard to storing dynamite within the city, to which it would be salutary to call the attention of contract ors and others using that dangerons explo sive. DEPEWS CHIEF TEOUBLE. It is interesting to learn from the witty and eloquent Chauncey M. Depew, through the medium of an interview, that he is not going to resign the Presidency of the New York Central Railroad in order to chase the ignis fatuut of the Presidency of the United States. Sensible Dr. Depew, as wise as he is witty and as clear-headed as he is elo quent! He perceives, if he is to be believed, that a railroad Presidency in the hand is worth more than a bigger but more transient Presidency in the bush. He asserts that he is not seeking that preferment, and is not even worrying himself about the political organizations which may name the delegates for 1892. But and Dr. Depew's but is almost as important as a young lady's postscript if the orders of the party should command him to take up the burden of a Presidental nomination, he could not say that he would feel at liberty to refuse obedience. With re gard to taking pains that there shall be no unnecessary obstruction to a free expression of the popular command, it is not certain but what something in that line will be done by Mr. Depew's friends. It is to be observed that those lights of the Yanderbilt connection, Dr. Seward Webb and Elliot F. .Shepard, are industriously nominating Mr. Depew for President, at every public dinner, at which they can get a chance to air their high-toned and ten-course boom: Why should Mr. Depew wish to exchange the permanent situation he now has as the President of a great railroad and as the illuminator of the otherwise heavy feasts of plutocracy for the place of President, where he will be reviled by nineteen out of twenty office seekers for not giving them the places they want? His wish to stay where he is, if genuine, is wise; but Mr. Depew shares the misfortune of other men to an eminent degree, in the possession of fool friends. A vigorous and combined effort of the compositor and proof-reader made The Dis patch of yesterday, refer editorially to Major Montooth, as "Pillsbury's candidate for Governor." What dark and mysterious mean ing might be supposed to attach to that phrase, by those who do not understand the adverse influences that sometimes prevail for the prodnction of typographical errors, we cannot say. Rut we trnst that the utter idiocy of the phrase, as published, made it clear to all our readers that TnK Dispatcii referred to that highly esteemed lawyer and soldier as "Pitts burg's gallant and popular candidato for Gov ernor." A wholesale sugar combination, which fails to take into account the fact that an ad vance of one-fourth cent per pound in tne margin for handling sugar at wholesale, will call into existence a hundred now competitors, is not managed with enough intelligence to make it very dangerous. When Chicago permits itself to ask a ten million dollar appropriation from Congress to aid its World's Fair, the only fair thing about the matter is to take tho application as a notice that Chicago has concluded that it does not want the show. It is now explained by Speaker Reed that his refusal to visit Kentucky on the plea that his life had been threatened there, was merely a joke at the expense of a Kentucky Congressman, and was not intended to be taken seriously. Most humorists complain that when they intend to speak in earnest their efforts are taken as a joke; bnt Mr. Reed bas the unusual and not wholly flattering experience of a humorist whose attempts at wit aro construed in the most serious manner. The announcement that if Judge Paxson enters tho political field ho will have "the powerful support ot tho Pennsylvania Rail road" behind him, may not universally bo re garded in tho light of a recommendation. It is generally believed that tho Pennsylvania Rail road knows its friends. The Attorney General of Dakota seems to regard investigation into tho bribery of pub lic officials in the interest of lottery corpora tions, as tho latest form of attack on vested rights. There was a small-sized riot in a St. Louis theater over a play in which eortaln ante diluvian females appeared as the counterfeit presentment of fairies. To get np an actual outbreak ot disorder over a Door show is not regarded as in good taste. But it is pertinent to reflect that a show which a St Louis audi ence conld not stand must be so bad as to jus tify almost anything. Thawing out dynamite sticks is an old form of what was recently described as invol untary suicide. The wonder with regard to tho case occurring yesterday is not that two men were blown into the next world, but that others in the immediate vicinity are alive to tell of it The outcome oi the arrest of J. D. Walk er at his father's funeral indicates that the pri vate detective agency business may have been putting its foot in it once more. Canada construes the treaty between Russia and tho United States, by which Alaska was acquired to mean that it does not include Behring Sea. That is all right from Canada's point of view. But the United States construes itself to mean that it wants that ten dollars royalty" on each seal that is caught in those waters, or elso it wants the reason why it cannot be got It is interesting as well as instructive to be informed by the press dispatches that the Eastern railroads have perfected a plan by which they Intend to evade the legal prohibition of pooling their earnings. The evasion will con sist of pooling their earnings. Mb. Smith is said to be booked for a peerage. He has certainly earned It if the titles of England aro to be distributed to designate an order of ignobility. The order that the letter carriers must wear clean uniforms and white neckties will bo highly appreciated by tho public and the car riers. Of course provision will be made to fur nish the carriers with a fresh supply of orna mental haberdashery, free of expense, after their old uniforms and ties have been spoiled by being out in the storms. The reported declaration of the Rev. Sam Jones, that he is not going to farming m Ken tucky because he is "making more money than any ten bishops in the Methodist Church," shows a very keen appreciation on Mr. Jones' part of what be is thero for. Belated winter is trying to make up for lost time; while humanity wonders whether it is moro possible to reform tho winter than the calendar. Patti is about to sing for another season of opera in Chicago which will bo galling to the sore spots in New York's mind. But New York can console herself with the thought that when the Fatti season is over, the amount of money which Chicago can put into her World's Fair fund will be seriously reduced. PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE. George Pickett has tho watch his father wore at the famous charge at Gettysburg. A pobteait of Minister Whitelaw Rcid will be exhibited at the Paris Salon this season. The Empress of Germany bas inherited 17 rows of pearls from tho lata cx-Empres3 Angus ta. Pbksident Cabnot, of France, considers Americans the most interesting foreigners who visit Paris. Lord Lonsdale recently astonished his friends in England by appearing in a canary colored coach. Edwabd Bellamy does not like to have bis followers called Bellamites. It sounds too much like Bedlamites. Jaues Dudley Field recently threatened to chastise a pompous swell who struck a New York newsboy for importuning him to buy a newspaper. The health of the King of Holland, who is now 73 years of age, is much improved, to the disgust of the people who were arranging not long ago for a regency. Hall Caine, the anthor of "The Deem ster." is a thoughtful-looking, slim, graceful man, with long auburn hair and a pointed chin beard. His manner is very quiet. Charles Emobt Smith is the sixth Fenn sylvaman in late years to bo honored with the Russian mission, bis predecessors having been Messrs. Bokcr, Curtin, Cameron, Dallas and Wilkins. Sib Henry Pabkes, ono of the foremost figures in Australian public affairs, landed in that country SO years ago, and the first money be earned was a sixpence given him for hold ing a horse in front of a tavern. He still has the coin. Mrs. J. C. Cbolt (Jennie June), founder of the New York Sorosis, has presented each member of the latter with a photograph of the members of the Sorosis Club of Bombay, most of whom are native Indian women, in the cos tume of their country. - A Lout Opporlunlly. From the New York Commercial Advertiser. It is queer that Reed didn't think of it in the recent troubles, but he might have got a quorum at a bargain at WanamaKer's, and saved a row. THE TOPICAL TALKER. Fisnrea Confuso Even It Truthful Tho Blrdi Are Not to Blame Tho City Ilnll Clock'a Eccentric Behavior Goaalp. A poob woman of this city met with a great disappointment the other day. It hap pened in this way: In a certain Pittsburg clothier's window there are signs bearing this inscription: : 20 per cent discount on all : : these goods. : The poor woman in question saw theso signs and possessing not the clearest idea of percent ages and discounts. Imagined that the pretty boys' suits were for sale at $2 00 apiece. It was not strange that she decided at once to buy one of these dirt-cheap snits for her small son. Sho at once entered the store, and her disappoint ment when she learned the true state of the case was at once amusing and pitiful, a specta tor tells mo. AT IBS Larcom, who has written so many pretty hymns and poems, has collected under the title of "Easter Gleams" a number of her pieces peculiarly suitable for tho coming Eastertide. One of yie littlo poems tells ns what the birds propose to sing for us when the author ized edition of spring is published. It Is always well to be posted on the programme before the concert begins, so I will give you one verse: "Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's gentle king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu-we, to-wltta-woo." Miss Larcom is probably right in her prog nostication. Tho birds may bo excused for singing "cuckoo, jug, jug, pu-wee, to-witta-woo," or any other idiotic medley this spring. The weather has turned better heads than theirs. ' Thebe aro several water color paintings worth looking at in the collection Mr. Pettes is showing this week at Gillespie's. One little bit of deliciously peaceful and sunny English landscape, with some sheep lying in the shadow of a creat treo in the fore ground, by Charles Collins, an English painter of note, is as good as a visit to Surrey's hills and dales. The peculiar brightness of an En glish landscape in late spring is admirably brought out There are other pictures of varying value, but not ono that will light up a room like this meadow sketch. TXTiiat's the matter with the City Hall clockT Or, to be strictly accurate, what is holding back the clock's hands? The clock itself is running on time, it appears, for it divides the 12 hours into quarters with the single stroke correctly. The hands, how ever, have an independent schedule, which al lows them to fall about six or seven minutes be hind the works. The difference between the two departments of the clock, political or so cial, temporal or spiritual, or whatever it may be, has now been in existence for two or more days. Trains have been missed, engagements and tho third commandment broken, since tho City Hall clock has taken to bearing false wit ness. Einco writing the above I am informed the clock has gone crazy. "There is, a bookseller tells me, a demand for Sheridan's play, "The Rivals," which the Jefferson-Florence Company will play here this week. Vcryfew plays. Indeed, make good reading. Of course Shakespeare's have as great a valuo in the study as in the theater, and, indeed, a greater value in the former perhaps. "Tho Riv als," like Sheridan's other classic, "The School for Scandal," however, is as interesting as any good novel. The clearness of the plot and the brilliancy ot the dialogue, mnke the "The Rivals" capital reading. Still the play is seen at its best throngh such interpreters as we are promised to-night. . At Alderman Shafer's ofHco on Tuesday a colored man was brought up to the bar of justice upon a charge of cruelty to animals. He had shot a dog and the plea put in by the prisoner's counsel was that the killing had had been done in self-defense. Alderman Shater asked the prisoner this question as a starter: "Did you shoot tho dog in self-defense?" The prisoner looked at the Magistrate, then at his lawyer, and then at the ceiling. Alder man Shafer repeated the question and the prisoner replied: "No, sir, I shot the dog in the bead!" EATING TWO BIG SALMON. Why tho Senators Would Not Obey the Orders of Senator Ingalls. Washington, March 5: In the Senate to day the bill Increasing the pension of tho widow of General Warren was taken up and on the question of its passage the vote was: Yeas, 19; nays, 6. As thero was was no quorum voting there was a call of the Senate, when 36 Sena tors (still less than a quorum) answered to their names. Thereupon a motion was mado by Mr. Piatt, and was agreed to.dircctingtho Sergeant at Arms to request the attendance of absent Senators. The names of absentees were fur nished to the Sergeant at Arms, who then pro ceeded to the executive order of tho Senate. After some minutes, tho presiding officer (Mr. Ingalls) Informed the Senate that thebergeant at Arms had just reported to him that thero were 22 Senators In the restaurant; that they had been all notified to attend; and that they had declined to do so. This report clouded the face of tho presiding officer with a portentous frown, but it was dis sipated a few minutes later when some of tho disobedient Senators explained to him that when the Sergeant at Arms appeared they were discussing the merits of two Columbia river salmon, weighing between 85 and 40 pounds each, which had been shipped to Colonel J. P. Montgomery, of Portland, Ore., who is visiting Washington, and by him served up for the delectation of friends in the upper xiouse. A HUNGRY MAN'S EXPEDIENT For Attracting Public Attention to Ills PovcrtT-Strlcken Condition. New York, March o. A strange and pitiful expedient of a hungry, poverty-stricken man came out at the Tombs police court to-day. The man was FredRoberts.and ho was arrested on Broadway with this placard on his back: I am not Bret Harte. Berry 'Wall, or Ueorge Frauds Train, simply a married man, a street railroad employe out ot work, who has used every means to And employment. I don't wish to say an) thing against the J,'ew York l'ress. lam an earnest, hard worker, willing to do anything, i'lcasc do not stare at me as 1 am modest. Yours very truly. THE bAXDwicn. Roberts told the Justice be was out of work, and had an invalid wife depending upon him. The odd sign he put on to draw attention to his case. He was discharged. Bishop O'Connor's Successor llecomuionded. Omaha, March 5. The Catholic clergy of the diocese ot Omaha met here yesterday, and unanimously agreed to recommend to tho Council of Bishops at Rome Bishop Scanlan, of Salt Lake, as Coadjutor Bishop of Omaha, with a possible succession to Bishop O'Connor, Going for the Fnlr. Chicago, March 5. The committeo selected by the Executive Committeo of the World's Fair Association to visit Washington to assist in framing the bill to be presented to Congress regarding the fair left this afternoon over the Pennsylvania Railroad. DEATHS OF A DAY. Conrad Kulin. Conrad Kuhn, who for llveyears has been Presi dent of the Gambrlnus Brewers' Association, died Tuesday afternoon, of consumption, at his home, No. 18 Vlnlal street. Allegheny. Ho was S3 years old and leaves a wife and one child. Ihe funeral services will be held at 9 o'clock this fore noon. In tit. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Alle gheny. Doacon Cook. rsr-ECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Toungstowx. March 5. Deacon Cook, a well known stock dealer and the largest man in the county, died to-day at his home in Ureen town ship, aged 65. He was In robust health until recently he received an Injury to his foot which was followed by gangrene, resulting in his death. A casket of special slie was ordered. Dnvld Anderson. rsriCIAt. TELEGRAM TO THE DI8PATCH.1 Younostowit, March 5. David Anderson, a wealthy farmer and prominent Republican politi cian of this county, died yesterday at his home In North Jackson, aged 74. The deceased was the father or William S. Anderson, a leading criminal lawyer of this city, and he leaves a large estate. Allen A. Cltapuinn. BALTIMORE, March 5, Allen A. Chapman, a prominent merchant and financier, died last night of congestion of the lungs after an Illness of about three weeks. He was born In Connecticut In WIS," but came to Baltimore when 17. COMMENCED TO CELEBRATE. Beginning of Festivities in Connoctlon With I ho Fcnst of Pnriui. In numerous ways the Hebrews of this city commenced the celebration ot tho Feast of Purim last evening. In all the synagogues "Maellla," the history of Esther's intercession for Hainan before King Ahasuerus and Mor decai's downfall, was read, as thecelebiation is commemorative of the emancipation of the race from the wicked King. Tho Disraeli Sooial gave its first annual masquo ball at New Turner Hall last night in honor of the celebration. The hall was lighted by calcium lights, and several handsome prizes were awarded to the ladies. The one wearing the most original costume received an elegant manicure set; tho most historical, a pair ot fine opera glasses; the roost comical, a lovely fan. Tho committee having the arrangements m charge was composed of the following gentle men: A. J. Adelsheiiner, Ben Biggard, L. Bick art. Max Bendix, Henry Finkelpearl, Joe Frankfurter, Lew Haber, Joe Italic, Herman Klotz and Albert Goudsticker. The Young Men's Hebrew Literary and De bating Societywill give, to-night, a grand cai nival at New Turner Hall, Forbes street, with music bytbo Gernert orchestra. Tho Execu tive Committee includes G. Oppenheim. M. Horn, A. Cohen S. Shaffer. L. Sheuken and A. Frankenstein. Tho Reception Committee con sists of S. Cohen, L. Scheinman, J. Fincberg, S. Bcrnbaum and J. Finkelpearl. BACK FROM THEIR T0TJR. Rev. J. B. Koehno and Brido Tendered a Warm Welcomo Home. Tho congregation of the Cumberland Presby terian Church, corner of Wylie avenue and Congress street, last evening gave a reception in honor of their pastor, the Rev. J.B. Koehne, and his bride, formerly Miss Mary Milligan. The couple had just arrived from their wed ding tour in the East. Tho Ladies' Society of the church had charge of the affair, and tho evening wa3 a pleasant one. A social was fol lowed by lunch, after which Mr. E. W.Morrow, on behalf of the congregation, presented Mr. Koehno with a purse containing ilOO in gold. Mr. Koehne expressed his thanks in a fitting speech. Among those present were Dr. W. M. Beach, of Allegheny; Prof. J. M. Wissman, of tho Curry University; Kelly Buchanan, Frank Murray, Mrs. Bryan, widow of the former nas tor ot the church: Mrs. Milligan, of Chicago; Miss Annie Cox. of Brownsville, and Mies Lide Milligan. The church is in a flourishing condi tion, 40 new members having been received within the last two months, and the attendance increasing; overy Sunday. Mr. Koehne, the pastor, is very popular, especially with the young people. A QDIET BEDFORD WEDDING. Mils Carrie Sill United to Dr. W. C. Miller. rSPECIAL TELEOKAMTO THE DISPATCH. 1 Bedford, March 5. A quiet home wedding was celebrated to-day in which Miss Carrie Sill, youngest daughter of ex-County Treasurer Jas. Sill, and Dr. W. C. Miller, of Everett, were the contracting partios. The ceremony was per formed by Rev. J. F. Diener, of Shellsburg, in tho presence of the friends of both parties. The bridal party left for the East for a ten-day trip. A Plensnnt Party. The residence of Mr. John G. Stevenson, North avenue, was bright with many liphts and ringing with the melody of youthful voices Tuesday evening. Mr. John Stevenson, Jr., was 19 years old on that day, and the social club of which ho is a member, consisting of seven couples, all under 20 years of age, made it an unusually joyful birthday by a well arranged surprise party. Dancing was the chief feature of the evening, in connection with a delightful repast. The company, wishing Mr. Stevenson many happy returns ot the day. and Mr. Steven son, wishing manv happy returns of tho com pany, was the last act of the pleasant drama. A Plenaant Family Reunion. A family reunion, which is almost remarka ble in its way. was celebrated last night at the residenco of Mrs. Heck, on Smaliman street, near Thirty-fifth street. The occasion of the celebration was the sixty-first anniversary of the hirth of Jacob Heck. His family, consist ing of Harry, Charles, William. Edward, John, Henry, Sophia, Rosle and Kate Heck wero present to aid their father in his birthday ob servances. They came from all over the coun try, one being from California, another from Montana, and tho others from other Western parts. Music, dancing and refreshments were features of the entertainment. . Nellie Bly to I.ectnro Here. "Nellie Bly" will relate her experiences on her famous trip around the world, to a Pitts burg audience, in Old City Hall, on the even ing of Friday the 14th inst. The fact that Miss Bly, whoso name is now a household word all through the United States, is a Pittsburg girl, and began her journalistic work in this city, will insure her an enthusiastic bouse outside of the fact that her lecture will bo very inter esting. The youug lady comes under the auspices of the Press Club, of which she is a member, and a reception will doubtless be tendered her while in the city. Schwnmb-McGuIrc. Miss Delia McGnire and Mr. John Schwamb, both of this city, were privately married in St. Paul's parsonage last evening. Miss McGuire is a very estimable little lady, and Mr. Schwamb, formerly of Philadelphia, but now an employe of Tun Dispatch, is worthy of the bride he has obtained. Social dinner. The Young People's Society of Christian Endoavor of the Shady Avenue Baptist Church will entertain an audience this evening in their sanctuary. The programme will include num bers by -tho instrumental quartet composed of Messrs. Will Schmertz, L. Schmertz, F. C. Ewart and T, Hoffman; vocal sol03 byA-H. Brockett, Miss Carrie Tomer, Miss Rata Cook, Aple Switzer and C. F. Harris; a vocal duet by George H. Brown and D. H. McFredericks: a banjo solo by Miss Maria Cook; a vocal trio by Switzer brothers; a vocal duet by Miss M. A. Lloyd and D. J. Davis, and recitations by Miss Allie McElreo and Mr. John Reynolds. Me. asd Mrs. Herman Schloss at their homo on Locust street celebrated the tenth an niversary of their marriage last evening. A very delightful time was the result of the gath ering together of a few intimate friends, and many remembrances of the pleasant anniver sary remain in tho Scbloss residenco presented by their friends who spent the evening with them. Dn. T. M. T. McKennan, who sailed for Eu rope on the steamer Servia some weeks aco. has been enjoying the balminess of Southern France, and is now in London taking a three months' course on nervous diseases. The Bellcvuo Dramatic Clnb, of Bellevue, will produce "Waiting for the Verdict" under tho auspices of Sewickley Valley Council No. 110, Jr. O. U. A; M this evening at the Sewick ley Opora House. The Monongahola Club will have a reception in Cyclorama Hall this evening, Gernert's Orchestra will bo in attendance as usual, and a pleasant evening is expected. The Chinese wedding entertainment that was to have taken place in the Second Presby terian Church on tho evening of tho 14th is postponed indefinitely. The "Dairy Maids" will hold high carnival at the Fifth avenue M. E. Church this evening, and will entertain a largo numbor of friends at their social. TnE Ladies' Aid Society of the Thirty-ninth Street Presbyterian Church will bold a fancy bazaar in the church to-night. TnE Guenthor Orchestra gave a very enjoy, able concert at Dixmont last evening which was followed by a dance. The lecture this aftornoon and evening is by Mrs. Margaret Shepherd in Old City Hall. IF THERE BE ONE. If there be one, in all the world. Whose heart is true, O be not sad, Tho' all the rest fall oil from thee. If one he true, give thanks, be glad. Say not that love is bnt a He. Day not that men but play a part, If thou dost find a place that's thine In but one faithful human heart. While ono star shines to lamp the Night Thou canst not doubt the sky'll be blue; Thou dar'st not doubt that Cod is good While thou dost find one heart that's true. Nor dost thou die when thou dost to DowW to the crave tho' thou art torn From loving arms-thou llvest on. If llitrc be one that's left to mourn. Thou.lfrcst on in that fond heart, Forever younfr. forever fair; At, e'en In Time's and Death's despite, Tho' mortal, thou'rt immortal there. And tlio)tliou dnell'tt among tho saints. Thy mission here It Is not done. While still, to hold thee in his heart Of hearts, there hanly be but one. Jf. If. B in Boston dlobi. THE CAT Oy-IISTORY. An Animal Once Regardod With Reverence Feline Mnmmlei In Ecypt Carious Beliefs About tho modern Household Pet. "There maybe some who do not know that our commonest household pet, tho cat. was in remote ages regarded with profound rever ence and even deified by the Egyptians. How many parents, while watching their children fondling and caressing a kitten, tbmk that the history of this domesticated animal could be traced back to many centuries before the Chris tian era? Yet we are told by men eminent in tbeir day, whose profound knowledge on the subject has been indorsed bymodern scientists, that the cat was a sacred animal in Egypt long before its advent to Europe. Many discoveries have been made in the land of tbo Pbaroahs which tend to dispel all doubts as to the an tiquity of this quadrnned and show how close ly it resembled in shape and form the common household pet of the present day. The most recent discovery was mado by tho fellaheen whilo at work digging on some land at Beni Hassan, which is about 100 miles south of Cairo. They came across an immense pit which contained tho mummies of thousands of cats. This pit was evidently one of the places that had been set apart for the final resting place of the embalmed remains of the animals, which wero honored with 9olemn rites and burial. It is a natural supposition that the cat was as useful in the destruction of vermin in the granaries of tho ancient world as they aro in thoso of the present day. A Crlmo to Kill Cats. Jliodorus, a historian of the East, wrote that to kill a cat was a crime that was pun ishable with death. The animal was not only reverenced, but it was an object of devotion. Temples were erected In its honor, and after death its body was carefully embalmed and in terred with great solemnity. To those who are in the habit of throwing bootjacks at cats on their back garden fences this must sound pass ing strango and have the semblance of a myth ological story. But there is evidence in En gland now that this is true. It is on record that the great burial place for these mummified cats was on the east bank of the Nile, says the New York Evening Sun. In spite of all the searches that have been made, however, tho earthen tomb near Bern Hassan is tho only. one that has as yet coma to light. The enormous number of these mummies dis covered in this pit would seem to indicate that it must have been one of the chief burial places. No fewer than I9 tons of the em balmed cats were shipped from Alexandria to Liverpool by a firm of gnano merchants, all of which were taken from the tomb at Beni Has san. They are not in as good condition as when tbey were first discovered, exposure and rough handling having caused a good number of them to crumble to pieces. Mummified Tabbies. TnERE was a tradition afloat that the mum mies had been adorned with trinkets of precious metals and stones. In their greed for gain the fellahs toro the mummy cloth from tho bodies of tno cats. Tho result was they crumbled to pieces, and scarce a perfect speci men remains. It has not yet transpired if any articles of jewelry were found by the desecrat ors. The remarkable c. rgo which was landed in Liverpool a few days ago is supposed to con sist of the remains of 180,000 cats, which must have been embalmed about 4,000 years ago. They are now being ground up into fertili zers. The workmen engaged in this prosaic duty occasionally find a good specimen or por tion of one, which is carefully preserved, as the firm is literally inundated with letters from all parts of tho world, asking for mummied cats. The firm is trying to comply with as many re quests as possible, and will send at least a frag ment if not a whole cat. Tbo custom of wor shiping the cat indulged in by the ancient Egpptians is brought to mind by this sacrileg ious incident. It would seem supremely ridicu lous if any one wero to suggest that the cat be not only cherished and venerated during life, but be embalmed and buried with all tho pomp of funeral rites after death, in the present age. Ancient and Extraordinary Beliefs. "pnE cat's resemblance to the moon was one of the causes assigned for its being wor shiped. Its eyes dilating and contracting with the waxing and waning of the goddess of night. Be the causes what they may that led to its sanctification in that far distant period, and all sorts of reasons are ascribed, it is beyond question or doubt that tho cat has always been an object of superstition if not always of re spect. It formed a portion of tho symbol of the Roman goddess of liberty, the goddess holding a cup in one hand and a broken scepter In the other, and having a cat at her feet. The most prominent of the superstitions con nected with this frequently abused animal, al though common to most people, will bear repe tition. Who bas not heard that to have a black cat in the house is lucky: that if a cat dies in the bouse it is an omen of ill luck, or that a cat washing its face and ears is a sign of ralnT Block Cats Honored. fJuT the black cat in the mediaeval ages was supposed to be typical of Satan, and was tho companion of witches. In the tenth cen tury of the history of Great Britain a law was passed that any one who killed a cat shonld forfeit a milch ewe, with tho flccco and lamb. Various pains and penalties were imposed in other countries for offenses of a similar nature. Thus, however lightly the cat may now be val ued, there is ample prooi mat was long an honored animal. TANK CARS KNOCKED OUT. Railroads Must Not Discriminate la Rates la Their Favor. COLUMBUS, March & Two cases were do cided by the Supreme Court yesterday: The State ex rcl Attorney General against the Cin cinnati, Washington and Baltimore Railroad; also ono against tho Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad, instituted by Georgo Rice, the oil refiner of Marietta. O., who has been in opposition to tba Standard Oil Company during tho past 21 years. The ground of action was alleged discrimina tion in rate in the different modes of shipment. The tank car and barrel methods. The de cisions oust the franchise and privilege of dis criminating in the methods of carrying petro leum. TRAVELING WILL BE CHEAP. Western Rnllroads Sinking Savace Cats In Passenger Kates. CniCAGO, March 5. Tho action of the Mis souri Pacific Railroad in announcing a rate of So from St. Louis to Kansas City and SiO Irom Kansas City to Pueblo carries the passenger rate war into the territory boyona tho Missouri river. The new out to these points will be promptly met by the Chicago and Alton, and the Santa Fc, Chicago and Northwestern and the Union Pacific, so that the 510 rate west of the river will apply from Omaha as well as from Kansas CItv. This will make tho rate from Chicago to Denver 13 first class and 15 second class, against tho former rate of S30 Ci. A Smln on Kentucky's Xnmc. From the I'hiladelphla Review. The barbaric Hatfleld-McCoy feud ha3 been tho cause of another murder. It is a stain on the name of Kentucky, that tho actors in this J wretched business, which would have done credit to the darkest perindof tho Middle Ages, aro not brought to justice. An Obllglns Candidate. From the Boston Herald.: They are nominating Mr. Depew for Presi dent again in New York, and he consents to ac cept until tho next National Convention meets, then he promises to give way to some other fellow. AJ1ESE11ENTS TO COME. TnE latest comic opera from the hands of Gilbert fc Sullivan is to bo the great attraction next week at the Bijou Theater. It will be played by a company which Western cities have uniformly praised, and probably we shall bo shown tho new work under far better auspices than the New Yorkers were. The scenery will be tho best Chicago and Now York painters could paint, and the orchestra of the Bijou will bo greatly strengthened for the occasion. The picturesque costumes of Venetian fashion are said to be exquisite. It ought to be tho greatest event in tho way of comic opera this season has produced. That sterling actress. Miss Rose Coghlan. will visit this city for the first time as a star, next week. She will appear at tho Grand Opera House in her new play. "Jocelyn," and In "Forget-Me-Not" and "Peg Wofflngton." Her company is said to bo very good, and the engagement has many very attractivo features. Miss Nelwe Bly will tell how she went around the world, at City Hall, on Friday, March 14, nnder tho ausplcos of the Press Club. Nellio Bly can naturally rely upon a warm wel come here. Georob A. Baker's Bennett - Monlton Comic Opera Company will play a largo reper toire of light operas at Harris' Theater next week. . OUR MAIL POUCH. Unltarlanlsm Defended. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I wish to correct, by your courtesy, some of the many mistakes of the Rev. Joseph Cook in Monday's Dispatch. Mr. Cook is always an advocate, never an impartial critic Mr. Cook speaks of the decay of Unitarian ism, when in the last fly6 vears Unitariauism has built more churches than in any 20 years of its previous history. He declares that it 13 harder to find ministers to fill its pulpits in the presence of theifact, that there are more students in its theological seminaries and more ministers coming from other denominations, than ever before in its history. I receive fetters constantly from orthodox ministers asking: "Can you find mo a place in the liberal ranks?" or "I am complete ly in sympathy with the views you teach." Mr. Cook does not see that while Unitarian progress is slow in the building of churches its progress is very fast In the percolation of its thought. How many, many ministers of the orthodox churches are semi-Unitarian in their belief? Can you go into the study of any thoughtful young minister and not find Mar tineau or Parker, or Emerson on his table. Orthodox ministers to-day largely are fed from the table of Unitarian thought. As to tho nrocress of Unitarianism In Janan all may see who read tho daily press bow wide, spontaneous and general bas been the welcome given by the educated classes in Japan to our missionary. Mr. Knapp. The educated classes say that Unitarian Christianity will be the religion of Japan, and at tho last the religion of the educated becomes the religion ot the people. Mr. Cook calls Unitarianism. humanitarian ism. Wo accent the thought. We are humani tarians. We want no church so full of God that it excludes man. We are sure that God is not far from thoc who love man, and that he who takes a little child tenderly In his arms is very near the kingdom of heaven. James G. Townsend, Pastor Unitarian Church, PlTTSBTJRO, March 5. Edward Bellamy's Principles. To the Editor of The Dlsp&tch: In the last paragraph of your criticism of Mr. Bellamy's ideas, you say: 'The trouble with Mr. Bellamy is that he fails to perceive that the abuses of which ho complains aro traceable directly to the violation of the prin ciples on which tho Government is founded." Please allow me, as one of Mr. Bellamy's disci ples, to say that he. so far from failing to per ceive this fact, was one of the first to recognize it, and. as I think, the first to propose a practi cal and effectual remedy covering details as well as general principles. The theory of our Government is that the Declaration of Independence constitutes its basic principle; that the Constitution must be in harmony with this declaration, and that all laws. National, State and municipal, must be in harmony with the Costitutlon. This is Mr. Bellamy's theory, and he proposes to let the Declaration of independence stand forever; 'o remove Only those laws (and tbeir name is legion) which tend to defeat its great object, and to enact others in their stead which will indeed insure to the whole people a practical realization of the "inalienable rights to lite, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Tho genius, if not the inspiration of Mr. Bellamy bas given to the world the light of a most important principle in moral science which many reformers have failed to recognize, viz: that man's actions etc-. are usually molded by bis environment, and that the pres ent evils of society arc the result of bad laws tnd bad systems, instead of any inherent defect in human nature. Even the corrupted poli tician of whom you speak, is a creature of our present pernicious system, who, under Mr. Bellamy's plan of governmental co-operativo industry, would be transformed into a good and profitable citizen. Charles Boxsall. Pittsbubo, Marcn 5. Lorelto, Cambria Couaty. To the Editor of Tho Dispatch: In what town in this State is Mt.AIoysius Academy ? R. Allegheny, March 6. Yes, Before the War. To the Editor orTlicDlspatch: Was Jefferson Davis ever a citizen of the United States? Emmett. Gallitzin-, March 4. THE WORK OF BUSY BRAINS. New nnd Ingonlons Inventions on Which Patents Have Been Iftvned. List of United States patents issued to West ern Pennsylvania. Eastern Ohio and "West Vir ginia inventors for tho weekendinc March 4, 1S90L List furnished by O. D. Levis, Patent Law yer, 131 Filth avenue, Pittsbnrg. Frederick T. Adam?, Toledo, furnace; H. 31, Altlck, Dayton, O.. camera; Altera A. Armstrong, Kent, O., device for attaching umbrella tops to bows; G. L. JIarrett, bpnngfleld. O.. time Indica tor; F. II. BisseU. Orwell, O.. stretcher for wire iences; I. W llntterfleld, Columbus, cylinder FTlntlnp presst Harrison Cole, Columbus, device or hltcblnj; animals; Anon Dean, Kenton. O., fence: Andrew . Fisher. Bedford, padlock; Will lam Forjl, Washington, P.u. wrench foroll wells; T. 15. Howe, Scranton, bottle fastening; James rhonias..IIraddock, apparatus for marking rails; M. Katbauch, Lebanon, Pa., car eoupllnz; Emma K. Koehler. loledo, card game; John Llgon, doner's hick, W. Va., fence: John A. .McUraw, Allegheny, scraper bar for composite rooting machines: Lewis Miller, Akron, grain binding harvester; Kicliard Oswald, illoomneld, Pa., inamilacturing chilled car wheels; Joseph .N. Pew. PltUburg. incandescent gas lamp; Chas. bwan. Corry.machineformolding target pigeons; Ira Wagner. Sew Castle, attachment for lawn mowers; William Williams. Williamsburg. O., grading and ditching machine: Vttn. Wolton. ticottsburg. W. Va., tobacco hanger; Albcn P. YarniU, Ashbourne. Pa., adjustable filtering and Eercolatlng stand; Francis J. Tarrano, Allegheny, ath tub; Allchael M. blialianberger, Hearer Falls. wire fence; It. .N. Robinson. Mldney, O., grain weighing and registering machine. AFTER AJf OFFICE. J. C, Maloncy Wants to be Ono of Ohio's Itallroad Commissioners. ISfECI.lt. TELEORAM TO Till DISPATCH.! YovyaSTOVm. March 5. Councilman J. C. Maloney is an applicant for one of the appoint ments of Railroad Commissioner and bas been saccessfnl in securing the indorsement of the Democratic committees in Mahoning. Trum bnll and Columbians counties and also Shpriff Sawyer, ex-Mayor Farley, Major Gleason and other prominent Democrats nf Cleveland. Mr. Malonoy, accompanied by Jud;e E. M. Wilson. William Jlolme, Bailes M. Campbell, A. J. Woolf and other prominent Democrats, have left to-night for Columbus to present his application to Governor Campbell. Prior to locating here Mr. Maloney was employed as yardmaster for the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad at Kent. Not n tronft Indncemenl. ..From the Jicw York Evening Sun. Commander McCalla is quoted as being in favor of "offering inducements to American boys of good character and associations to on list as naval apprentices." It putting a man In irons and then chopping him with a sword is one of the "inducements" in Commander Mc Calla's estimation, it is safe to say that Ameri can boys will be able to restrain their ardor for naval distinction. POLITICS AND POLITICIANS. FHn.ADEi.prnA Record: If speech bo sil vern, the bullion output to Mr. Blair's credit will bo unprecedented. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Democrats like Henry Watterson who decline to be exuberant in their predictions as to Democratic chances In 1S92 are setting the politicians of their party an excellent example. CniCAOO Herald: General Alger's tonr of tbo G. A. R. posts of the United States has be come a triumphal march. The journey over the conntry of a President from the White House never attracted moro attention. Lotxisvule Courier-Journal: U Mes3rs.Har rison, Depew and Alger do not keep a sharp lookout some purse-proud ico man will get among the delegates with his wealth and carry off the '02 nomination. This does not refer to Mr. Sherman. Fhiladeltiiia Press: Tho Democratic Legislature of Maryland does not appear to have sized up to all of its opportunities in gerrymandering tho Congressional districts of the State. It left one district for the Republi cans to carry. Bostox Herald: Kx-Governor Dick Ogle3bv. of Illinois, declines to enter the race for the United States Senate, but he will take tho stump for any other good Republican. One toot upon Roaring Dick's bassoon is enough to till the whole State of Illinois. Chicago Tribune: Mr. Cleveland-did well to sell his Washington suburban property. Ha will never need it as a conntry residence again. He bas made a profit of $100,000 ont of it, which is just 1100,000 more than a Democratic nomina tion would bo worth to him. Mr. Cleveland is no fool at figures. Chicago Times: General Alger is learning fast these days. He has just informed the Grand Array that the people will not enact a service pension bill. Now wheu he learns that all the gold be will find at tbo base of the Presi dental rainbow is what he takes there he will be fitted to graduate into the ranks of every-day, unambitious and sensible citizenhood. CUEIOUS CONDENSATION'S. Olean is advertising for a couple to offer themselves for public marriage at a fair in that city in April. Apples are selling for 7 cents a pound at Vancouver, Wash., while "spuds" can bo had for SI a bushel. Harrisburg cars were running back ward a few days ago. the turntable in the street having been frozen np. A new borax deposit was fonnd recently 20 miles from Independence. Inyo county, CoL The lucky finders took 260 tons from less than three acres of the marsh. The Atlantic and Pacific Eailroad Com pany use only Mojave Indians as section hands and in ordinary construction work. They are much better than Chinese. Hydraulic power at a pressure of 750 pounds to tho square inch is now conveyed about beneath the streets of London 03 steam is conveyed in this country. Michigan has a population of about 2, 600.000 and a mortgage debt of f-500,000,000. In 1870 the State bad a population ot 1,350,000 and a mortgage debt of 572,000,000. Fifteen thousand people in the Rogua River Valley. Ore., have been without letters or papers for the past month, and they may not get any for the next six weeks. A3-year-oId child walked off a rapidly moving train near Elkhart, Ind., a day or two ago. and, strange to say. when the train ran back the little one was found standing in tha middle of tho track uninjured, except for ft slight scratch on one ear. The Yreka, Ore., Union office ran short of white paper during the recent snow blockade, but it came out regularly every week. Ono Issue was on purple paper, another was printed on a light bull wraDping, while the next showed up on regular Manila such as is U3cd in gro cery stores. J. W. Nance, a Texan, advertised that he would be at Slurfreesboro. Tenn., one day last week, to buy all tho hens ho could get at 25 cents apiece. He came along in a poultry car capable of holding 5,00", and ho had to telegraph for another, as there were 10000 pullets waiting for him. The oldest lawsnit on record, perhaps, is one now being tried in the highest Russian Court at St. Petersburg. It was brought 500 years ago.against the city of Kamanez-Podohk, by the heirs of a dead nobleman, to recover many thousand acres of his estate, which had been confiscated by the municipality. Tho written testimony is said to weigh 45 tons. On the 'Willamette river, near Dundee. Ore.. In li'Gl, a man chopped a notch in a tree at high water mark, and since then thousands of people have said they didn't believe the water ever got up to that notch, but last Tuesday some of them saw the waves running over that very spot an the tree. So it is said. It is in order now to ask whether or not that treo has grown any since 1SCIT After a delay of nearly five years the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund have received their firman granting permission to excavate on a site previously approved by tho Forte. It is nnderstood that all objects (except duplicates) found in the course of tbo excavations shall be forwarded to the museum at Constantinople; but that the committee's agents shall have the right of making squeezes, sketches, models, photographs, and copies of all such objects. At Mumbles Head, "Wales, a crowd awaited at the church tne arrival of a bridal narty. After a long delay the bridegroom's friends went to the house of the bride to see why she did not come. They were warned off, and found that the bride's parents, being op posed to the match, had, after she was dressed for the ceremony, locked her in her room whilo one of the family mounted guard at the door and threatened to shoot anyone who ap proached. The wedding was postponed. A young woman in Waterbnrv, Conn., attributes her loss of sight to coal gas, which escaped from a stove in her bedroom daring the night- Before retiring she removed the lids from the stove, and the next morning sho awoke with the sight of the right eye much dimmed. As the day wore on the sight got weaker, and at 3 P. x. it disappeared entirely. Then the left eyo began to grow weak in sympathy. Physicians were summoned, but they were powerless to check the departing power of tho eyo or give the sufferinggirl relief in any way. It is feared that the youn woman's sight is lost forever. Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, in a lecture before the Geogranske Selskab at Christlania. explaining his plans for a North Pole expedition, advocated the employment ot a ship built with a special view to strength, and having lis sides constrncted at such an angla that, instead of being crushed by the ice. tho vesel will be raised by it. The route proposed by Dr. Nansen is throngh the Bearing Straits, where advantage is to be taken of the favorable current to carry the vesel northward and thus attempt to reach the New Sioerian Islands as soon as possible. Here the vessel would enter the ice floes and wonld proceed toward the North Pole, in which direction the current would probably carry it. The discovery of a lode of uranium at the Union mines, Cornwall, was announced sev eral months ago. This is believed to bu the only known lode of that metal in the world, as it bad previously been fonnd only in isolated pockets and patches. Since the discovery was made stcoa have been taken to develop the lode and to work the mine. Experimental works for procuring the metal from the ore were fitted up in London, and there the ore has been sub mitted to treatment in order to determine the best and most economical method of extrac tion. The market price of the metal is about 210.000 per ton. It is proposed to substitute it for gold in electroplating, and it is also expect ed to prove useful in electric light installations. There has been a terrific tuss at Con stantinople in consequence of a German pho tographer having rashly attempted to take an Instantaneous photograph of the Sultan as His Majesty was proceeding on horseback to the Mosque. The guard rushed upon him, smashed all his instruments and dragged him off to prison. The Koran forbids the depicting of tho human form, and his attempt to photograph the Sultan was regarded as high treason of a peculiarly diabolical kind. If be had not been a foreigner he would probably have been quiet ly strangled, or otherwise got rid of; but, thanks to the energetic Intervention of his ambassaaor, he was released after a month's imprisonment on condition that he quit Turkey at once and forever. The Rattle of Flowers, a sort of carni val celebration, took place at Nice just before Lent began. The occupants of more than 200 carriages pelted each other and tho bystanders with flowers. Minnie Hank had 2.000 bouquets in and noon her carriage. Colonel North, tha "Nitrate King," was also conspicuous in the parade. After it was over there was found on a lonely road just outsido the town the dead body of a man costnmed as Pierrot, who had been stabbed to death. Not far away lay two Pierrot costumes and a hat. It is supposed that tho dead man bad been one of tho masquers in the parade, and that he was either muruered for money or that ho f ell In a duel with some of bis fellow merry-makers. His identity is unknown. SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT. With a Large D. Binks She must ba getting old. Her wrinkles are evidence. Klnxs Yes, the evidence certainly is d naginj. "Whar's Dem Chickens? Hre. Giving It's a puzzle where all the chickens have gone. Miss OlTlng A puzzle? Why, 1 should think it might be an enlx. ma." Singularly Devoted. Binks is a singu larly devoted man. "How so?" Always looking out for Number One." Bather Mean. Miss Yellowleaf All the gentlemen I met while out walking this afternoon smiled at me. Miss Caustlque Laughed, you mean. Often the Case. Convict I started out in life to walk the narrow way. Bev. l'rlmrose Well? Convict The world switched me off on a siding. Entirely Different. Giles I hear yon have found marriage a failure. Cobwlgger Well, rather. Before marriage I had to ask the girl for her hand. Wow she gives It to me without asking. A charming young damsel of Md., An ardent believer in fd.. Once said: "When Idle 1 know I will file To that mystic and moonlit and ad." Not Built That Way. Judge (to police man) llow could anyone throw a stone and break a window around the corner? rollceman But. Your Honor, please remember that the prisoner Is a woman. Took Her at Her Word. Mrs. Brown You bad boy, why didn't you tell me you had broken the window? Little Johnnie Why. an, didn't you tell ma not to nse another woru the whole evening? Young Musician. I came in answer to your advertisement for a soloist, sir. Iharcrrf erences from 'Iheodore Thomas, Antou Scidl. HerrNlklscli. Herr Orchestra Leader-Ach! I haf a manforder blace encaged alrettyt (Aside) 1'otstauseutl Dot's besser he shafe his het all der hair off ! All from Drait't Hagaxin, Z A.lsj ,
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