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PITTSBURG. FRIDAY, MAR. 7. 1S90.
DIVISION WITHOUT SILElfCE.
The principle of Congressional action on
which Mr. Clunie, of California, supported
his modest hill for a 5200,000 postoffice at
San Jose, yesterday, was in clear accordance
with the ethics of bargain and sale. It is
calculated to restore faith in human nature
that Mr. Clunie's tiust in getting a consider
ation in return for his vote, was not mis
placed. Jlr. Clunie is a Democrat; but he is not
tied up by narty lines when the chance for
a rake at the Treasury is concerned. His
bill to spend 5200,000 for a postoffice in a
town about as large as McKeesport, being
questioned, he gracefully called attention to
the fact that he had voted for all the grabs
coming from the Republican side, and he
did not think the Republicans could now be
so mean as to refuse his share of the surplus.
The argument was convincing to the Con
gressional mind. The compensatory grab
went through by the usual legislative means
of Speaker Heed's count ot a quorum; and
Mr. Clunie's faith in the possibility of a
fair division of the swag, is vindicated.
It is pertinent to remark that a very short
continuance of legislation on that principle
will relieve the nation from any future
worry about the surplus.
C0MM0K SENSE AND THE LAW.
The observance of the ilrooks law by
druggists forms the subject of some inter
views with the members of that business,
bringing out two points. The first is that
some druggists will take a physician's pre
scription for alcoholic liquor and refill the
bottle as often as it is presented, with the
idea that this observes the law; the second
that others will refuse to sell liquor, even
where they know that is needed wholly for
medical use, unless the applicant first goes
and gets a prescription. There is nothing
like using common sense in the application
of law. "Without it the first practice shows
an evasion of the law, and the second shows
a hardship which is unnecessary. If drug
gists satisfy themselves that no liquor is
told except to be used in sickness, and ad
here conscientiously to that rule they need
not fear trouble. .No law can enact that
suffering shall go unrelieved while some
one hunts up a physician to get a prescrip
tion for what may he the most obvious
remedy.
WHAT ACTOES NEED.
Mrs. Kendal, the English actress, could
hardly have failed to notice the great differ
ence between "behind the scenes" and the
auditorium of our theaters. She expresses
herself very mildly. "American theaters
as a rule arc very much handsomer in the
auditorium," she says, "and very much
more inconvenient and plain behind the
scenes." It is not necessary to compare
American and English theaters to discover
how bad the accommodations for the actors
arc in the former. Innumerable actors have
declared that the majority of American
theaters do noi contain dressing rooms fit for
the reception of pigs. The theaters of Pitts
burg, unhappily, are no exception to this
rule, although we believe that some attempt
to keep the dressing rooms fairly clean is
made by our managers.
Considering how particular actors usu
ally are about their quarters in the hotels
we are surprised that they have not long
ago taken combined action in this matter.
Individuals have protested often enough,
but what is needed to procure the relorm is
a united movement in the theatrical profes
sion. The dressing roams should be clean.
comfortable rooms furnished with special
view to the needs of their occupants.
It would work to the advantage of
the manager as well as the actor, for the
latter's health would be better, and his work
more evenly good, and the public wonld be
less often disappointed.
HEED'S UNEXPLAINED SOMEHSADLT.
The discussion ot the new rules breaks
out again in the shape of articles on each
side from Messrs. Iteed and Carlisle, pub
lished in the Aorti American Eevicw. As
to the question of "the invisibility of the
visible" which is made the subject of Mr.
Heed's sarcasm, in connection with the
Speaker's right to connt in a quorum, it is
not necessary to say much except that
common sense seems to sustain Mr. Heed's
position. But the grave feature of Mr.
Heed's attitude is wholly avoided in his
article. It is that the Speaker himself is on
record as most earnestly and forcibly advo
cating the doctrine that the right of the
minority to refuse to be counted is "a valu
able privilege for the country." If princi
ples are something to be thrown overboard
at the dictates of party convenience, and
constitutional opinions only furnish the
arena for turning flip-flaps, Mr. Heed is all
right Otherwise he must be set down as a
public character whose avowed principles
and beliefs are changeable to fit each emer
gency. COWBOYS IN HOME.
Buffalo Bill and his cowboys are showing
the Homans how to live in Home. The
Romans will soon be doing in Rome as the
"Wild "Westerners do an absolute reversal
of the usual plan. The thing which has set
all Home talking abont the cowboys is the
latters' success in taming some wild horses
belonging to the Duke of Scrmoneta.
Twenty thousand Romans, with all the
bloodthirstiness of their ancestors, went out
to see the cowboys killed by the wild horses
the noble Duke had dared them to ride.
They were disappointed, for the horses were
lassoed, saddled, bridled and ridden around
in less than five minutes. Although hot a
cowboy was killed, the Roman popnlace
cheered, which shows tbey have acquired a
little more generosity than their predeces
sors had in the last days of the Empire.
If Europeans are desirous of taking ad
vantage of the presence of the cowboys fo
the full they should set those lively young
men to taming other animals beside horses.
Bipeds endowed with human intelligence
who .exist in large numbers in the cities of
the Old "World need taming. The cowboys
will do it quickly and economically. They
have been trained to such feats, into which
they throw their hearts and best energies.
It wonld afford the Romans a more thrilling
sensation than that produced by the sub
jection of the horses, if the cowboys were "to
hold up" the Imperial city after true "West
ern fashion. The popping of revolvers, the
clatter of hoofs, the yells and profanity
would glorifv a Roman holiday.
THE OTHEB SIDE OF IT.
In connection with a proposition for an ir
rigation and hydranlic company in New Mex
ico.the Chicago Times, after speaking of the
need of irrigation and the legitimate char
acter of the enterprise, says: "But just
wait a few years, and the atmosphere of
New Mexico will be laden with curses on
the corporation now so eagerly welcomed
and the voice ot the 'reformer' will be heard
proclaiming that everybody has an equal
natural right to the company's property."
That is one way of putting it But that
does not tell the whole story. Let us
imagine that the 20,000,000 capital of the
proposed company contains as much water
as it will ever get in its ditches which is
by no means an unprecedented thing and
that by exclusive grants or the engrossing
of all the sources of water supply, the com
pany is enabled to impose upon the public
charges which yield large nrofits on this
purely fictitious capital. In such a case
the ability to exclude other people from en
gaging in the business of furnishing water
for irrigation comes from the Government
grant; and to just the extent to which it in
creases the profits above n fair competitive
rate, it is using the Government to take the
earning of the people for the benefit of the
corporation.
Of course such a state of affairs should be
guarded against in the chartering of irriga
tion companies as carefully as they were in
the original charters of the railroads. But
as the original provisions for the pre
servation of free competition in railroad
transportation have been nullified and ig
nored, it does not appear to be deemed worth
while to place any check on the creation of
irrigation monopolies, which may, perhaps,
produce such results as our cotemporary
foretells. If it does the development of the
communisticiidea will be justly chargeable
to the preceding existeuce of a monopoly.
At present no considerable body of "re
formers" claims that "everybody has an
equal right" to any company's property.
But many earnest and thinking men are
able to see that no company should have the
right to exact other people's earnings from
tbem without giving the full and honest
return that is fixed by free competition.
WHOLESALE POISONING.
During the past twelve months the Pitts
burg public has been reminded more than
once how general the adulteration of articles
of food is. The Dispatch revealed the
fact that some ingenious rascal bad found it
profitable to foist artificial eggs upon the un
suspecting purchaser. It will hardly sur
prise our readers to learn that an investiga
tion conducted by experts under the direc
tion of the Agricultural Department at
"Washington has shown that more than fifteen
per cent of the food supply of the United
States is adulterated. "We trust it will spoil
no appetites if we cite a few of the adultera
tions discovered.
Pure maple sugar is an article greatly in
request upon our tables, and we are told that
the various samples examined were found to
be extracted from anything but maple trees,
to the extent of from 25 to 75 per cent. A
hotel keeper ot this city said recently that
he found it practically impossible, pay what
hewould, to getpure maple syrup. Molasses
is no easier to find in a pure state, for the
Washington experts discovered adulteration
in 33 out of 50 samples examined. In one
sample of molasses salt of tin, an active
corrosive poison, was detected in large quan
tities. The spices and condiments werenearly
all fonnd to be very impnre. Of Bologna
sausage one is naturally suspicious, but
who would dare eat it if it were known that
it might contain decomposed meat doctored
with borax, Venetian red, alum and salt
peter, as some samples of this article were
found to include.
The list of adulterated articles might be
indefinitely extended. A new practice of
cheating purchasers of coffee was among the
awful discoveries. The essence of the coffee
beans having been taken for sale as an ex
tract of coffee the squeezed beans are soaked
in salt water to make them swell, and then
treated to a bath of liquid lead, Prussian
blue and other chemicals to restore the de
sirable color and fragrance. Only 140 out
of 32(i drugs examined were found to be
pure, so that if the adulterated foods make
us ill we fly in vain to adulterated medi
cines for relief. Hanging would be too
good for some of these wholesale poisoners.
A SENSIBLE AMUSEMENT.
Social amusements in Washington have
not been very lively this season. It is hard
ly to be wondered at cither. There have
been a great many distressing events in the
capital since last summer, in which many
of the natural aud official leaders of society
there have been involved personally. Per
haps it is to the peivading gloom of the so
cial atmosphere that a strange and novel
diversion has been instituted in fashionable
circles in Washington. It is a polite ver
sion of the first aid to the wounded lectures
which have been delivered to policemen and
other guardians of the public in several of
our large cities.
The audience is made up entirely of ladies,
who have been hitherto most active in more
frivolous amusements. A physician presides
over the meeting, which occurs once a week.
He tells them how to treat simple accidents,
such as burns and sprains, and to apply the
remedies for sudden sickness.
This is an improvement upon many of the
fashionable fads which society in Washing
ton and elsewhere has taken up. The best
amusement, in itself and in its results, is
that which works to some practical and
beneficent end. "We are always glad to see
the public interesting itself in lectures of
the informing sort, and the many Pitts
burgers who turned out to hear the eminent
Egyptologist the other night, need not to be
told that they improved an excellent and
rare opportunity. Serious matters can be
made vory entertaining, and we have no
doubt that the Washington women will
have reason in after years to be thankful
that they obtained a knowledge of medical
and surgical science, under the guise of
recreation.
The fact that Benjamin Harrison has
been in the Presidcutal chair just a year from
last Tuesday, is made the subject of striking
comment by Democratic cotemporaries. But
not very much is said by the Republican organs
about it except those whose editors have got
offices.
The fact that a party of Swedes and Hun
garians passed through the city yesterday on
their way to the West, where they are going on
representations from agents of steamship com
panies in Europe, that bouses will be given
them free of cost, is reported in the local
papers. Tbis makes a striking illustration of
the enforcement of our immigration laws. The
bfflcials who admit such deceived and destitute
paupers and keep ont clergymen, musicians
and skilled laborers, furnish a singular illus
tration of our political system.
The ladies at the Stoddard lecture in
Kcw York the other evening removed their
hats and were highly complimented by the
gentlemen for doing so. If the ladies who go
to the theaters will show equal good breeding
the male half of creation will unite in their
praise.
The movement to raise a fund for the
building of a newsboys' home is one that should
appeal to the philanthropy of the public
There can hardly bo any better investment in
the line of charity thin the provision of refuge
and education for these hardy little waifs,
whose vigor and sharpness indicate that they
will be positive influences for good or for evil
when they reach maturity. Thesum needed to
carry on the plan should bs raised without
difficulty.
An exchange intimates that the confirma
tion of Warmoth was a renewed illustration
that the game ot politics is a lottery. If so, it
was a lottery where the drawing of prizes is
set up in advance.
When the Democratic Committee on
Ways and Means took until the first of March
to report their tariff bill to the House, the
country justly regarded it as a remarkable ex
ample of dawdling. But the Republican com
mittee manages to beat the record by reaching
the second w eekin March without reporting the
bill from the sub-committee. At the present
rate it is about an even thing if a tariff bill is
passed bef oro Harrison retires to private life.
TnE delegates of Northern Republican
clubs will now have to come back and testify
that Southern Democrats are capable of bet
ter things than getting up mobs aud lynching
Republicans.
A Chicago dispatch denies that the
World's Fair enterprise of that city asks more
from the United States Government than a
million and a half or two millions to make a
creditable Government exhibit. In that case
Chicago should suppress its fool friends who
aro raising the cry lor a ten million appropria
tion from Congress.
Perhaps the proposed abolition of the
press gallery in" the Senate might be a good
thing. It wonld be likely to restrain the im
petuous rush of Senator Blair's eloquence.
The statement that the Missouri State
Treasurer has lost a considerable amount of
State funds at poker, coming on the heels ot a
similar announcement with regard to a Louis
ville bank teller, Teveals a surprising need for
a college of poker in order to teach Ken
tuckians and Missourians how to play the
game.
THE .Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ap
pears to have gobbled West Virginia a little
more completely than the Pennsylvania rail
road has gobbled Pennsylvania.
The objection from Philadelphia that the
revision of the Presbyterian creed would over
turn the standards of belief is doubtless a
weighty ono from the standpoint of the ob
jectors. But it is exactly tho same logic as tho
old Southern objection to the constitutional
amendments, that they were unconstitutional.
Perhaps Chicago might have been able
to raise that World's Fair fund if the business
of selling baseball players had not been choked
off.
The Chicago Timet alleges that natural
gas will be piped from Indiana to Chicago
"with special reference to the needs and pur
poses of the World's Fair." Considering the
present aspect of Chicago's fair bom, tbis
looks like a supererogatory attempt at gilding
refined gold and carrying coals to Newcastle.
What in the world can North Dakota
want of another lottery, when the very crop
prospects furnish one for the entire State?
The trouble with Ludlow street jail is
not only that tho rich prisoners can get out
when tbey wish, but that the wardens and depu
ties can. Quis custodes euslodiett Of what
advantage is it to build jails when men are
put in charge of them who ought themselves
to be under lock and key?
PEOPLE OP PE0MINENCE.
Mary Anderson is always a welcome vis
itor at Tennyson's bouse.
Mrs. Senator Pettiqrew believes in co
education and all things that will assist woman
in earning her bread.
Edouabd Rothschild, son of the head of
the great European banking firm, is visiting
Chicago. He is traveling through the United
States on a sight-seeing tour.
W. S. Gill, who for 12 years has been In the
retail department of Reynier Brothers, will
leave to-morrow, with his family, for Washing
ton, where he embarks in business for himself.
Miss Patncefote. the eldest daughtor of
the British Minister at Washington, has done
much, by her personal example, to make walk
ing fashionable among the girls ol the Capital.
Marshal jucMahon, twice President of
the French Republic, sent his hearty congratu
lations to the young Due d'Orleans upon tho
step he had taken In going to France in defi
ance of the law.
Me. Isaac Watson Cate, who is to accom
pany Rev. George L Fernn to Japan as one of
the representatives of the first foroign mission
ever sent ont by the Universalist denomination,
was ordained Wednesday.
Bismarck will be 75 years old on the 1st of
next month, should he survive till then, and he
is not unlikely to see many another year of
life, though he has some superstition to tho
contrary himself.
JIrS. Senator Hawley is one of the notice
able figures in Washington society because of
her pure English ways. She is said to have
warmed up, if not thoroughly converted, her
husband to equal suffrage.
Colonel Dudley has not yet been invited
to eat dinner at the White House, but be con
soles himself with the knowledge that he is
making loads of money out of the pension
business in Washington City.
Edwin Cowles, editor of the Cleveland, O.,
Leader, was a man of implacable hatred. He
never forgave anybody who disagreed with
bim, and never admitted that an opponent
could possess either honesty or virtue.
Captain Mtjrrell, the rescuer of the ill
fated Danmark's passengers, sailed on Wednes
day on the German steamship Trave for South
ampton. He will be given command of the
new steamship Michigan. An interesting
rumor regarding the Captain is to the effect
that ho will wed a Baltimore belle.
JIINISTEK LLKC0LN MAI BESIGH.
He Merely Accepted the English Oliaslon to
Flense His Family.
Chicago, March 6. Intimate friends of Min
ister Robert Lincoln express tho opinion that
Mr. Lincoln, in view of the death of his son.
will soon resign his office and return to his
home in Chicago.
Mr. W. G. Boale, Mr. Lincoln's former busi
ness associate, was seen by a reporter. Said
be: "It has continually been my hope that Mr.
Lincoln would resign his position and return to
Chicago, but further than to remark that he
disliked to allow his business to remain un
cared for, Mr. Lincoln has never stated
positively that ho would avail him
self of the first opportunity to resign.
It wonld not surprise mo in the least if I were
to hear he had taken such steps. It is true be
accepted tho position of Minister to England
with some reluctance. His family, how ever,
he knew would derive great benefits from a
stay in England, and it was to please tbem that
he departed for London. TLe death of his son
places the matter in an entirely new light, and
will no doubt cause bim to resign as soon as
the diplomatic affairs of his office will per
mit." The Better Side of the Soutb.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer. 3
Vice President Morton has seen tho hotter
side of the Soutb, and it is refreshing to read
his summary of the progress that section has
made in material prosperity since the war
closed. The more prosperous the South the
better for the whole country, without regard to
politics.
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THE TOPICAL TALKER.
A Timekeeper Congratulated Stamps at
Ilnir Price Slippery Streets and Pretty
Poor Blotching.
""ongrattjlations to the City Hall clock on
having recovered the uso of its hands are
In order. The recovery is timely. Order and
morality will be benefited, and the venerable
keeper of the city's timo regains at once the
confidence of the thousands who look it in the
face a dozen times a day.
The clock may congratulate itself that it is
above the reach of human law. Had it been a
citizen and a voter, a writ of habeas corpus
mljht have been necessary to restoro it to its
high estate.
Tm beautiful trust and childlike confidence
which some people put in the Republican
party is happily illustrated by a veracious
story which reaches me.
In the hill district of the city there lives a
colored man who keeps a small stationery and
news store. He also hugs close to his bosom
faith broad and deep in tho Republican party.
As a matter of convenience to tho neighbor
hood he sells stamps. When Mr. McKean was
made postmaster our hero on tho hill an
nounced that the millennium was approaching;
that there was to be fatness and much merri
ment in his abode.
But a few days after this announcement a
change came overthescene. In the meanwhile
the stationer on the hill had seen Mr. McKean
and bad tried to make a deal with him. He
only wanted to get three 2-cent stamps for a
nickel that was what he understood the Re
publican party had proposed.to do for its sup
porters when it got into power. Mr. McKean
was sorry he could not comply with the request,
and the interview ended there.
Now I am told you can buy two 2-cent stamps
for a nickel in a certain little news store on tho
hill. "I must make somethin' out of Uncle
Sam," the storekeeper says.
Mm
The slippery streets for the last two days
have been a novelty with which most of us
would dispense. There does not appear to be a
general appreciation of the obligation which
rests upon every storekeeper to keep tho pave
ment in front of his place of business in a safe
condition for pedestrians. Tho consequence is
that a very large portion of the city sidewalks
are in a dangerous state, especially when, as
happened yesterday, a partial thaw by day is
succeeded by bard frost at night
"
'pALKiNO of slippery pavements, a good
biurjr is iuiu iu me eiieui. kiiitb uuu iujr uigui.
In Boston the late Charlotte Cushman and
Lawrence Barrett came out of the theater
together. The steps were dangerously slippery,
and it was with difficulty that they kept their
footing at all.
As they totterlngly descended, the great act
tress said to her companion, quite in her Lady
Hacbclh manner: "Take a good grip of my
arm, Lawrence, and if I slip, hold on like grim
death; but if you slip, in tho name of Heaven,
let go!"
Luckly for them both ho did not slip and
they reached tho bottom in safety together.
V
A lthouoh the livery stables had no difficulty
in letting out all the cutters, sleighs, bob
sleds, and in fact everything that was equipped
with runners, not a great many gentlemen who
own their sleighs cared about risking tbem, or
themselves in them, over such a very thin
layer of snow. The roughness of tho roads in
the country prevented sleighing from being at
all a pleasant exercise. There wero too many
bumps to the square inch.
BEST AND MOST RELIABLE.
The Dispatch n Household Word In West
ern Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
From the York Age.
One of the best and most rellaolo of tho many
exchanges that come to our table is The
Pittsburg Dispatch. It stands second to
nono among the great journals of the country.
It gives all tho news of tho dav, foreign and do
mestic in the most attractive and readable
shape; it gives dally reviews of all matters of
interest in the financial, legal, religious and
sporting worlds; it has a large staff of home and
foreign correspondents; its reliable market re
ports, vast news-getting machinery (Including
leased wires to all the principal points, with
bureaus in the chief cities), and its earnest,
progressive and Independent policy has earned
for it a national reputation and made It a house
hold word in Western Pennsylvania and East
ern Ohio. Its Sunday issue has attained a cir
culation of over 53,000, which is not to bo won
dered at when it is understood that its mam
moth 20-page issue is supplied by scores of con
tributors of the highest merit aud reputation,
and that each number is a monster magazino of
choicest pen productions, as well as an accurate
aud cxhaustivo chronicle of current events.
Those of our readers who desire a first-class
paper should subscribe for The Dispatch.
BENEATH A SNOWY PALL
Tho Remains of Ex-Governor Encllsh Were
Removed to the Tomb.
New Haven, Conn., March a Tho worst
storm of tho season prevailed during tho hours
of the funeral services of the late ex-Governor,
James E. English At 2 p. M. services wero
held at the house for tho relatives. After
this tho remains were removed to St. Paul's
Episcopal Church and a public servico fol
lowed. The large church was filled.
Amone the prominent men present were
Daniel Dougherty, of New York, ana ex-Governors
Bigelow, Harrison. Lounsbury, Hawley,
Ingersoll, Andrews and Waller.
Somcthluc Unheard Of,
From the Nashville American.
Our local Republicans will long cherish this
day as the most notable in all their lives. Five
hundred Republicans with clean shirts on is a
sight that not many of them will live to see
again.
New York's Second Great Loss.
From the Philadelphia Press. 1
New York has at last rid herself of tho
bucket shops. Peoplo who want to gamblo in
stocks must hereafter do it on a scale that will
make it an object to the fellows who run the
game.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Ezra L. Stcrons.
ASBTJRTPARK, N. J., March 6. Ezra L.Stevcnfl,
of Washington, D. C. died here to-day at the
Ocean Hotel of heart failure. He was for nearly
30 vears Chief Clerk oT the Indian Department.
He originated the present system of schools for
Indians. Mr. Stevens was one of the most promi
nent Freemasons in this cAuntry. He lnd risen
to the thirty-third decree, aud It is sild that he
ftt In Masonic lodges with moru Presidents of the
unuea aiaies man any .Mason now living.
William Backncll.
rnn.ADEi.ru i A, March 6. William Bucknell,
the philanthropist, died suddenly or appoplexy at
hla residence In this city last night, aged 79 years.
Mr. Bucknell's gifts to Bucknell University at
Lewlsburg, Pa., amounted to 142,Ka Sinco 1S51
ho has given awav for church and missionary pur
poses over S525.000, and It has been estimated that
his disbursements of money in helping his fellow
men will aggregate over 1,000,000.
Pctor Ii. Cnsslily.
Peter I). Cassldy, of Wylle avenue, near Francis
street, died Wednesday evening. The funeral
will be held at Boyle's undertaking rooms, on
Webster avenue, to-morrow morning, and the
body will be taken to St. Augustine. Cambria
county, for interment. Mr. Cassldv was Second
Lieutenant of Company K, One, Hundred aud
Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania volunteers.
Rov. Clement M. Bntlcr, D, D.
Philadelphia, March 4. Rev. Clement M.
Butler, D. D., died In Gcrmantown last night,
aged 80 years, llurlng his rectorship at Trinity
Church, Washington, lie was Chaplain of the
United States Senate, and during the rebellion ho
was employed by the Government In several Im
portant and delicate missions. He was an intimate
friend of Webster, Clay and Calhoun.
Cnptaln Jnmcs Itloorehousc.
rsrlCIAL TELMRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.1
HOLLIDAYSBCfto, March 6. Captain James
Moorchouse, the olaest c.tlzcn of this place, died
this morning after a severe stroke of paralysis.
He was in his 90th year, had resided In this place
60 years and was once a station agent on Hie old
Portage Railroad.' He was the father or tteoriro
H. Moorehousc, assistant Superintendent of the
Adams ExpreBS Company at Harrlsburg.
Mrs. Rebecca Dodgo Nye. '
rsrjtCIAL TELEGRAM TO Till DI8PATCII.I
Marietta, March 6. Mrs. Kebecca Dodge Wye.
wife of the lato Anselin I. Nye, died here this
morning in her 85th year. She was born at Hamp
ton Falls, U. H.. and was the daughter of Jona
athan Croin and Salla E. Dodge, who caine to this
city In 1816. numerous relatives remain In .New
England.
Dr. . C. Putnam.
.SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCn..
MAS8ILLON, March 6. Dr. "W. C. Putnam,
Eractltloner at Justus for many years, died from
eart falluro to-day. '
HOMAGE TO KING AflASUERUS,
Tho Ken- Hebrew Association's First Carni
val Last Nlg-hr.
A grand carnival, nnder the auspices of the
Young Men's Hebrew Literary and Debating
Society, was held last evening at New Turner
Hall, Forbes street. The ball was the first one
given by the association, and was a success in
every particular.
About 200 couples were present. None but
tboso wearing masks wero allowed on the danc
ing fioor, and as a result the on-Iookers sought
the galleries to observe the gayly dressed fol
lowers of King Aha5uerus. Every conceivable
character was represented, almost from tho
timo of Adam and Eve to tho present day.
Staid old monks flirted and danced with god
desses, while Greeks and Egyptians cave the
rising generation points on how to trip off tho
latest society steps.
The music was furnished by the Gernert or
chestra and the dancing was kept up without
intermission until 2 o'clock in the morning. A
calcium light in the gallery greatly heightened
the effect of the many showy costumes on the
floor. Tho hall was tastefully decorated for the
occasion. Tho names of the members of the
Committee of Arrangements are as follows:
G. Oppenheim. M. Horn. L.Shenken, A. Cohen,
A. Frankenstein, S. Shaffer, L. Scheinman, S.
Cohen, J. Fineberg, S. Bernbaum and J. Finkle
pcarL Souvenirs In the shape of dainty little per
fume bags wore given tho ladies.
PLEASUKE ON THE SNOW.
Several Sleishlnc Parties Celebrate
the
Opcnlnc of Winter.
A large amount of merriment has been the
result of the heavy fall of snow night before
last. The sleigh bells jingled all day yesterday,
but became fairly deafening in tho evening.
Every available sleigh or cutter in the two
cities and the East End was filled with happy
people, who, to tho music of their own cheery
voices, and the accompanying bells made the
streets resound with joyousness. Vari
ous sleighing parties wero out, one
of the largest was composed of 30
couples who were chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs.
D. C. Williams, of the East End. With sleighs
or different sizes, accommodating duets, quar
tets and full chorusc. they made their way to
Heating's, out the Perrysvillo road, and re
galed themselves with the toothsome bivalve.
Another party, consisting of ten couples, un
der the management of Mr. Charles Yates,
made the road to Wllklnsburg wish it had
donned the mantle of snow earlier in the sea
son that many such parties might have sleighed
over it.
Attain In the Harness.
Tho reorganization of the Bellevue Dramatic
Club, that has been in a dormant condition for
several years, resulted in their presenting
"Waiting for the Verdict" at tho Sewickley
Opera House last evening under the auspices
of the Sewickley Valley Council No. 110. Jr. O.
D. A. M. The cast was as follows: Jasper Rose
blade, Mr. George Holmes; Jonathan Rose
blade. Mr. Landis Cameron: Rev. Owen Hilton,
Mr. Charles Straw; Jonas Hundle, Mr. A. H.
Neal: Humphrey Higson, Mr. R. T. Neal;
Blinkey Brown, ilr. E. C. Sykes; Lord Viscount
Elmore. Mr. Thomas Braddow; Lieutenant
Florville, Mr. Georco G. East; Sir Henry Har
rington. Mr. E. W. Davis; Lord Chief Justice,
Mr. J. E. Stuart; Sergeant Stanley. Mr. H. E.
Thomas: Grafston, Mr. E. Hackwelder; Martha
Roseblade.Miss Blanche Oswald; Sarah Sawyer,
Miss Lee Tower.
A Hlsh School Entertainment.
Cards are out for the annual entertainment
of the Dean Literary Society of tho Pittsburg
Central High School, to bo held in the old
chapel of the High School building Friday,
March 14. Tho society has spared no time or
labor to make tbis entertainment an over
whelming success. The performers of the even
ing will be George B. Moroland, Edith Harper,
William Stanton, T. Harry Richard. Alberta
Dal by, Frank Hays, Jessie R, Burns, Nellio R.
Nobbs, and Hartley M. Phelps.
A Flcnsuro In Prospect.
Under the auspices of two young missionary
societies a musical and literary entertainment
will be given to-morrow evening in the Sixth
U. P. Church. A special feature of the even
ing will be the Alpino Quartet, composed of
Messrs. Nuttall, Edstrom, Boggs and Strauss,
with J. A. Bell as accompanist Miss Alice
Mav Reed will be the toloist, and Miss Florence
Walker the elocutionist. Tho evening will be
one of rare pleasure to those who attend.
An Entcrtnlnlnc Affair.
Tho fancy bazaar given last evening in the
Thirty-ninth Street Presbyterian Church by
the Ladies' Aid Society, was a financial and
social success. Prettily arrangod booths, con
taining everything imaginable in fancy articles,
were presided over by attractive ladies who
with no apparent effort disposed of their
wares. And the hungry people, with no more
apparent effort, disposed of the excellent sup
per which was served.
Invited to Lecture.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Pittsburg Art Society, held at the Pittsburg
Club last night, it was decided to invite Mr.
Frederick Keppol, of New York, to- deliver a
lecture at an early date before the society. It
is hoped that Mr. Keppol will accept the invi
tation, Decause he is an eminent authority
upon matters pertaining to art, and especially
etching, being the author of a number of well
known works upon the latter subject.
Social Chatior.
Otto Hegneii, tho tiny pianist, will attract
a largo audience at Old City Hall to-night and
interest said audienco during the entire pro
gramme with his wonderful performance. Miss
Mamie Reuch will render several violin solos
also.
Rev. Hiram J. Kudeh, of this city, gave
hi3 popular lecture on "High Sounding
Shams," in Mt. Zion Lutheran Church,
Allegheny, last evening.
The Monongahela Club gave an enjoyable
reception at Cyclorama Hall last evening.
Pittsburg Citizens nt the Metropolis.
rSFECIAL TELEOltAM TO THE DISPATCH.J
New York. March 6. E. A. Myers and H.
H. Byram. of Pittsburg, are at tho St. James.
Theto gentlemen sail Saturday for South
America via tho Friendly Islands. They will
be absent six week. Air. Myers Is slightly In
disposed at his hotel, but nothing of a serious
nature. A. H. Allen, M. J. Fielding andHoraco
Crosby, of Pittsburg, are also at the St. James,
while A. Lee Weil is a Hoffman guest, and T.
C. Kenney. of Scottdale, and James B. Oliver
are at the Fifth Avonue.
A Sontbrrn Ticker.
From the San Antonio Express.
For President in 1892. Benjamin Harrison; for
Vice President, T. B. Foraker. Platform:
We've got 'em again.
PASSING EVENTS.
The first snow storm of the season here
abouts must he pronounced a howling success.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmaoe gives a year's
salary toward the building of Brooklyn Taber
nacle. Considering the fact that the eloquent
dlvlue receives more than 1 1.000 a year, the dona
tion is a good one.
When a Coroner's jury is sitting on a case
the coolest person connected with the affair Is the
corpse.
An inventive genius has discovered the fatt
that a man loses ono day out of the seven look
ing for change in the wrong pocket.
AN Ohio weather prophet has been called
hence. One of his predictions proved true, and
It Is generally believed that the surprise was too
much for him.
The .Daily Crisis, of East Liverpool, O.. is
nearlng Its fourth year of usefulness, and it looks
as though a financial crisis will never overtake it.
La Mouna is the name of a new disease
which has broken out and which causes Its vic
tims to fall Into a deep sleep aud remain so for
days. Headers of Philadelphia papers are the
greatest sullerers from the plague.
Ex Goveknob Glick, of Kansas, believes
that no man should he permitted to make $1,500,
000 a year. If that rule should become a law many
an editor would be compelled to Issue his paper
but six m onths out of the 12,
Senator Blair gets his revenge out of the
Government printers by having his eight day
speech printed In the Congressional Record. As
a cockroach exterminator the Record is par excel
lence. The great contest between tea and coffee, as
to which is to he the universal beverage. Is gradu
ally leaning to tea. As long hack as the memory
of maniocs, "cold tea" has always bad the call.
A lone cake of ico was seen- floating down
tho Allegheny river yesterday. Unbidden tears
from the eyes of three or tour Icemen standing on
,the bridge fell on the wanderer and it soon
melted.
A TRUCE PROPOSED.
Senators Anxious to Make Peace With the
Correspondents The Secret Session
Farce Other Notes From the Capital.
IFIIOH A 8TAJT COHEESPOSDENT.1
ttashinoton. March 6. Nearly all dav the
Senate sat gravely and solemnly in execu
tive session, and talking of almost nothing ex
cept the vital question of the hour, which Is
whether newspaper correspondents shall be
permitted to continue sending out reports of
executive sessions. An idea which sprang
from the fecund brain of Sonator Ingalls was
ranch thought of, and it may be that before
further steps are taken in the direction of war
bis peaceful suggestion may be discussed dur
ing a truce. It is merely that tho Senators and
the correspondents hold a consultation and at
tempt to arrive at some nnderstanding. AS a
result of tho deliberations to-day, it is probable
this proposition will be made. What is ex
pected to bo gained by it only a Senator could
tell, for certainly no correspondent will prom
ise not to send out reports of secret sessions,
and that is what the Senators profess to have
in view. This failing, several propositions, all
of them wild, are held in view. One is to com
pel certain correspondents to reveal the
medium through which they get reports
of votes and speeches from the star
chamber, and to imprison them for contempt
in case of refusal. Tbis would so highly delight
any of the correspondents that it is improbable
the Senate will proceed so far. One of the
amusing features of this affair is the assump
tion of personal proprietorship over the prop
erty ot the people by Senators. They assume
absolute ownership regardless of the rights of
the real owners. They do not remember for a
moment that the people want the news; that in
recognition of this popular want an army of
correspondents has been sent here, and that
as the representatives of the people, in a
broader sense than Senators are representa
tives, these correspondents were provided with
accommodations, having quite as much right,
serving tho people as they do, as the Senators
themselves, who often fieece the people. The
general opinion seems to be that tho farcical
Sroceedlcg of the Senators will end as a farce,
ut it is a square contest. It Is an absolute
inai oi strengtn petween tne correspondents
and the Senate, and the people here, if not
elsewhere, who know one element as well as
the other, are greatly interested in the combat.
Tho Civil Service Investleatlon.
'T'nE cross-examination of ex-Postmaster
Paul, of Milwaukee, was resumed this
morning by the House Committee Investigating
the charges against the Civil Service Commis
sion. Commissioner Roosevelt conducted the
cross-examination. Ho pressed Mr. Paul for
an explanation as to bow it happened that at
one time in the Milwaukee office, in each of
six certifications for appointment, they were
so "cooked" that six men entitled to be certi
fied were not certified, and six men not entitled
to certification were certified and chosen. Mr.
Paul answered that that was a matter for
tho local board to answer. They
were evidently improper certifications,
ho admitted, on the face of the
testimony in the possession of the commission.
While all the certifications appeared to be
signed bv him on the same day, he contended
that it did not follow that ho bad selected or
appointed the persons on that day. Repre
sentative Boatner asked witness if any of the
six persons above referred to. and who wero
appointed on February 16, 1SSS, were appointed
in violation of civil service rules, or as tho re
sult of any undue influence brought to bear
upon him. The witness replied that he did not
know any of the six men appointed at the time;
no favoritism was shown, and that in making
the appointments ho did not knowingly violate
civil servico rules.
The TnrilTon Hops.
"The Ways and Means Committee to-day
hoard representatives of the Brewers As
sociation in opposition to an increase of the
duty on hops. President Lef ens, of Chicago,
presented a number of statistics and argued
that an increase of the duty would not benefit
the American hop grower, as they produced
normally all the hops required for domestic
consumption except a few imported
hops used for flavoring beer. Their
hops were the best In the world
and large quantities wero exported. The duty
would cause the brewers to suffer severely in
tho3e years when there was a failure of the do
mestic crop. The brewers were satisfied with
the present duty of 8 cents per pound, which
in 1SSS amounted to an ad valorem
duty of nearly U per cent, but if
there was to bo an increase In tho
duty on hops then a corresponding increase
should be made in the duty on imported beers.
H. D. Scharmann, of New York, Vice Presi
dent of the Brewer's Association, argued in
confirmation of Mr. Lefens' statements. Chair
man McKinley read from a memorial jointly
drawn np by the brewers and hop growers, in
which the former agreed to assist the hop
growers In securing and maintaining adequate
protection for their product. The witness ad
mitted to Mr. Dingley that this was the result
of an agroement by which the hop growers
were to aid the brewers in preventing the en
actment of prohibitory liquor laws. He main
tained that as a result of prohibition more
liquor was drank than in States where licenses
were granted. Mr. Dingley. who comes from a
prohibition State, was much interested in this
testimony and. endeavored to controvert it.
He said that the distillers had sided
with tho brewers in their opposition to
prohibition, which would not be a consistent
course if moro whisky was consumed under a
prohibitory law than In its absence. He did
not believo that the witnesses argument hung
together. Mr. Scharmann persisted, however,
in his statement that prohibition decreased the
consumption of beer aud increased that of
whisky and said that he was fully borne out
In tbis by practical experience. The discussion
was brought to a close by Mr. Bay no's objec
tion that it did not concern tho committee.
A Railroad Question.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission to
day gavo a rehearing concerning the case
of Hervey Bates and H. Bates, Jr. versus the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The rehear
ing was ordered Upon an application by the de
fendant road and the ilaltimoro and Ohio Com
pany for a suspension of the order of the com
mission mado February 7, 1S90, directing these
companies to cease discriminating between
corn and corn products from Indianapolis east
ward to tho seaboard. Tho record in the case
shows that tho Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago Railway Company, which had been
cited to appear at this rehearing, in a communi
cation to tho commission, dated February 17,
gives tbe information that tho rates have been
made to conform with the commission's opin
ion, ine Las.o r-no ana western company,
also cited to appear, has informed the
commission that it bolieves that the rates
on grain and its direct products in
shipments of carload lots from Indianapolis to
Bcaboard should bo the same. It asserts, how
ever, that it has no control ol rates beyond the
terminus of its own line, and therefore asks
that it may he dismissed from tho case. The
railroad companies introduced evidence tend
ing to show that the difference in rates betweon
corn and corn products gives no advantage
whatever to millers on the seaboard, as alleged,
and tbat tho interests of tbe carriers and of tbe
producers of corn require and justify a lower
rate on corn than on its products, as well from
inland points as from points on or near the
great lakes. Tbey also maintained its decision
of February 7, tbe commission has mistakenly
assumed the corn reaching Indianapolis mar
kets is not affected by water competition, the
truth being that it is being effected directly by
water competition, both upon the lakes east
wardly and upon the river southwardly.
PKEPAEING FOR THE PEAT.
Tho Campaign for Places on tbe Republican
County Ticket Begins.
SPECIAL TELEOltAM TO THE DISPATCU.l
Franklin, March 6. The campaign for
places on tho Republican county ticket began
to-day, when the following announcements ap
peared in the Citizen Prew.the official organ of
the party in Venango county: State Senate. W.
J. Hulings and Isaac Ash.'Oil City; Assembly,
F. W. Hays. Oil City, and H. F. James, Frank
lin; Prothonotary, John H. Evans, Franklin;
County Treasurer, F. M. Allison, W. H.
Hughos, A. W. Alsbaugh and M. R. Poden;
Register and Recorder, Frank Barr and A. J.
Ward; Commissioners, T, B. Lame, J. M.Black,
W. A. Maitland, S. A. McKinney and George
Bowman. This list will be greatly augmented
during the next few days.
Hon. J. W. Lee will probably be the only can
didate for Congress from this counts-, although
Hon. C. W. Gilnllan is being urged by his
friends to come forward.
AS EVANGELICAL CONFERENCE.
Members Under Suspicion to bo Kept In the
BacbsTound. '
York, PA, March 6. The flfty.flrst annual
session of the Central Pennsylvania Evangeli
cal Conference was begun to-day. No Bishops
wero present. M. J. Carothers, of Milton, was
elected Chairman. Tho jlay was devoted prin
cipally to examinations as to the moral and
official character of preachers: hearing preach
ers reports, and granting licenses.
The resolution was adopted tbat no member
having charges pending against him would be
considered a proper person to preside.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Esther and Human.
To the Editor of The DlSDatch:
In this morning's paper appears, in connec
tion with tho Feast or Pnrim, the following:
"The history of Esther's Intercession for
Haman beforo King Ahasuerus, and Morde
cai's downfall." Evidentlyyour correspondent
has the matter somewhat mixed up. Esther,
Instead of interceding for Haman. pleaded In
behalf of her own people, the Hebrews, of the
Persian Empire, and instead of Mordecai
suffering a downfall, he was exalted to a high
position of honor, while Haman was dlcgrared
and banged. Hebraic.
Pittsburg, March 6.
Margaret Mather.
To the Editor ofThe Dispatch:
Did MUs Margaret Mather play In Pittsburg
last season, or has she played here more than
one engagement this season? Reader.
FlTTSBUKQ. March 6.
She played here one week last season and
one week recently.
Itecnrdlnit Cocaine.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
What is cocaine? What is it made from,
what are its effects and its medical uses? Can
some of your scientific readers enlighten me?
Pittsburg, March 6. R.
United States Recruiting Office.
To the Editor of The Ulspatcb:
Where is the United States recruiting office
in Pittsbnre? Jones.
Pittsburg, March 6.
Peun avenue, opposite Garrison alley.
For the new pare.
The City Preparing to Bny tbe Leases of
Sebenley Park Tenants.
A special meeting of the Finance Committee
has been called for this afternoon, to consider a
resolution offered at a recent meeting of Coun
cils for the purchase of tbe leases held by ten
ants of the farms inclnded in Schenley Park.
Several meetings of the Park Committee and
tbe tenants have been held, with a view to fix
ing upon a fair consideration for the release of
the property, and the tenants have finally con
sented to accept $1,000 per year for their leases.
John Schmitt, who has a six-year lease, will get
8,008 to give up possession of his farm on
April 1; Louis Biers will get $3,000 for a three
year lease; Adam Schneider and Adam Zender,
tLOOOeach.
The resolntion to he considered authorizes
tha payment ot those amounts, and provides
that the money shall be taken from the park
appropriation.
THE STATE HAS NO JURISDICTION.
A Missouri Judge Decides That Civic Llqaor
Legislation is Supreme.
Jefferson Crrr. Mo., March 6. Judge
Woodson, of the Criminal Court, decided that
the State has no case against tbe saloonkeepers
for violating the Newberry law. Tho first case
in which the decision was rendered, was called
yesterday. He stated tbat under tho law which
the prosecution was being made, it was first
necessary that a saloon man should have a dram
shop license from the -State and county before
he could violate the Newberry law bv running
a pool table in bis room; that the revised stat
utes took tbe control of saloons from the coun
ty and State and placed them entirely under
the jurisdiction of tbe city. None of the men
indicted had any State or county licenses, and
had therefore violated no State law. The case
will be appealed.
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.
Annual Examination Tnklng Place the
Present Week.
The annual examinations of the College of
Pharmacy took place dnrlng the first three
days of the present week. About 60 candidates
came before the instructors. Profs. Stevens,
Koecig and Blanck. The examination is said
to have been tbe most severe that has 'ever
taken place in the local school. The names of
the successful ones will not be announced be
fore next Monday.
Tbe commencement exercises will be held In
the First Methodist Protestant Church on tbe
I9th of the present month, which will be fol
lowed by a reception at Masonic Hall on the
21st.
MR. GOURLET'S FIRST TASK
To bo tbe Appointment of J Ivo Police
magistrates.
Mayor-elect Gourley will appoint the five
Police Magistrates from th; list of 36 Alder
men, about the first thing ha does. John Grlpp
will be re-appointed for tne First precinct, al
though Alderman Donahoe, of the First ward.
Is a candidate. Alderman McKenna Is pretty
certain to succeed himself in the Second pre
cinct. In tho Lawrencoville district Aldermen Leslie
and Means are the candidates. For tbe South
side tbe applicants aro Aldermen Brokaw, Mc
Gcary and Succop.
NOT FAR 0DT OF THE WAT.
An Easy Task to Rr-Eilnbllsh Lines Be
tween Two Counties.
D. J. McAdams, A. J. Gilmore and Charles
Davis, who were appointed by tbe courts of
Allegheny and Washington counties to estab
lish the boundary line between the two coun
ties, filed their report yesterday. The report
states that tho true line was found not many
feet from the spot generally accepted and that
they re-established the 21 monument stones.
The report was accepted and an ordc- made
that if no protests are filed within 80 days the
rule will become absolute.
A Good Tlrar In View.
The annual meeting of general passenger and
ticket agents will be held thismnnth in Mexico.
Special trains of Pullman cars will leave Chi
cago and St. Louis March 10. The aeents wil
travel in luxuriant style. General Passenger
Asent A. E. Clark, of the Lake Erie; C. W.
Bassett. of the Pittsburg and Western, and
lames P. Anderson, of the Allegheny Valley,
will represent local roads.
Vlrlno Is I's Own Reward.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Tbe Democrats of Rhodo Island come up
smiling with a platform declaring for reform In
all directions and a ticket headed by John W.
Davis, distinguished from other men by the
rare title, "Honest." Well, tha Democrats of
Rhode Island ought to be virtuous; they get no
other reward than that of virtue.
An Earthqnako at .Sen.
Boston, March 6. The captain of the bark
Charles G. Rice, from Caleta Buena, Novem
ber 8. reports that on tho second day out, an
earthquake was experienced. It was accom
panied by a rnmbling noise and lasted nearly
a minute. The vessel was shaken like a twig.
Reached the Top Ransr.
Prom the San Antonio Express.1
After years of strenuous endeavor and the
closest and most intelligent business applica
tion, Mr. Carnegie, of Pittsburg, has reached
the top rung of tbe ladder of fame, and can go
no further without jumping off. He has had a
hat named after him.
STATE EXCHANGES.
Williamsport Sun: It is said a Pittsburg
man has nearly perfected a machine that will
locate a dude's brains.
Philadelphia Call: If Chicago expects to
hold that World's Fair she must also expect to
foot the bill. Tbat is what Philadelphia did.
Altoona Tribune: No one who now has a
vote should be disfranchised. But laws ought
to be passed permitting no one to voto after
the year 1900 who cannot read and write the
English language.
Hollidaysburg Hegister: From present
appearances it looks as though tbe fight for
Congressional honors in this district might be
decidedly interesting, since Uncle John Cessna,
of Bedford, had shied his castor into the arena,
Philadelphia Dispatch: If "history re
peats itself." Chicago will wish she hadn't. We
had a big Centennial in '76 and wo know
whereot we speak. The show only lasted six
months, but it took six years to straighten
matters out.
Lancaster Examiner: A postoffice In Wy
omingis called Poverty. So far as the signifi
cance of the word is concerned, plenty of other
postofflccs could he called by tbe came title.
Still, poor as they are. many such offices, in
fact all, are sought after and they play an im
portant part in the political world. In many
cases there la nothing in a name.
Erie Herald: The recent extensive sale of
water lots and the plans In contemplation for
utilizing them insure a great future for tha
Gem City. Erie has tho best harbor on the
lakes, and the time will corns when, with the
exception of Chicago, she will lead all other
lake cities In trade and commerce. This city
is on the threshold of a boom such u it his
never enjoyed before.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
. Congressman Anderson, ot Kansas, says
that Jay Gould Is the brightest man in America.
Three pounds and a half is the combined
weight of twins presented to a happy couple at
Topeka, Kan.
The hen of the United States was worth
to this country on her own personal account
last year J200.000.000, according to tbe Bureau of
Industrial Statistics.
Lebanon is having a novel walking
match. Two cripples, one having two crutches
and the other a crutch and a cane, are contest
ing for a purse and the championship of the
county.
A curious use has been found for the
phonograph. It was produced at the funeral of
a clergyman m order that a sermon of the de
ceased npou himself might be beard by the
mourners.
Adam LeFeyer, of Hayfield township,
Crawford county, aged 02 years, has never set
foot on a railroad train. He has been oat of
that county but twice in his life, and then but
for short day trips.
In Peterboro, Ont, two men watching a
corpse were terribly surprised by tbe appear
ance of a ghostly figure at tho window. It
proved to be a woiiian who was walking in her
sleep. She was half dead from the cold.
The Empress of Germany has under
taken tha protectorate of tbe Berlin soup
kitchen, the lato Empress Augusta having for
a considerable number of years been at the
bead of these institutions.
Shares in the Revue des Deux Mondes,
which paid 5 per cent dividend in ISIS, are now
returning a profit of 150 per cent per year,
making tbe journal one of the most profitable
publications in the world.
In a library in Paris, the largest in the
world, i3 a Chinese chart of the heavens made
about 600 years before Christ. In this chart
1,-iBO stars are found to be correctly inserted, as
corroborated by the scientists of the present
day.
White county, ArR., claims the cham
pion big girl. Her name is Nellie Arilda Ma
lone. She was 9 years old on August 11, 1SS9,
and now weighs 230 pounds. Her father is dead,
but she has two sisters and a brother, all young
er than herself.
Harry Burgess, a 10-ye3r-old Hying at
Martin, Allegan county, Jlich., can draw a
caricature almost equal to Nast, and Olive
Williams. 6 years old, living in the same town,
can reproduce any piece of music she bears,
no matter how difficult.
Chief Justice Fuller stubbornly refuses
to shave off his mustache. Ever since be was
appointed to his present position he has been
urgea on all sides to take tbis step, but up to
tbe present time he maintains on his upper lip
a flowing hirsute adornment.
The famous old mountain fortress of
Asirgarh. which was formerly regarded as one
of the principal defenses of Centra India, is to
bs dismantled. It stands on the summit of an
almost inaccessible mountain, and has many
interesting historical associations.
There is a good Methodist in Connecti
cut, according to a religious periodical, who
boxes the compass every time he writes his
full name anil address. He is Crandall J.
North. New York East Conference, No. 90
West avenue. South Norwalk, Conn.
A man of Morgan county, O., has a cat
which, is known by tbe neighbors as tbe "solar
spectrum." From tbe tip of its tail to the end
of its nose there are distributed all tbe colors
of the rainbow. Its nose shines like a car
buncle, and there are several shades of violet
on the fore legs.
A nniqne dinner party is soon to be
given by one of tbe leading society men of
Rome, Ga.. at which the young ladles will at
tend. 12 in number, and will wear gowns of dif
ferent colors, with flowers of the same shade.
The souvenirs will be bandsomo fans, imported
for the occasion.
A young woman who was married in
Stokes county, N. C, a few days ago discovered
that her hnsband bad taken a drink of whisky
just before marriage. She was an ardent tem
perance woman, and believed her lover to do a,
teetotaler. Fiuding tbat she bad been deceived
she refused to livo with him.
Kebecca Schwab, of Bradford, was
standing in the cloak room at school and wasj
engaged in removing her rubbers, when shei
slipped and fell to the fioor. As she went down '
her hair, which was braided, caught on one of
tbe books on the wall, and one braid of her
luxuriant tresses was pulled from the scalp.
In honor of the young Duke of Orleans
it Is intended to make the gamelle, or private
soldler's-pannikln, the fashionable receptacle
for Easter eggs In Paris. At tbe chief confec
tioners' shops quantities of orders have been
given for Gamelle Bonbonniercs for Easter
use in silvered cardboard, silvered tin aud cop
per. The records of deaths in the city of New
York show tbat there were killed by street cars
during tbe year 1SS8. 04 persons; by omnibuses
and wagons, 53, and by illuminating gas, 23;
making tbe number killed by the electric cur
rent (5) insignificant compared with tbe deaths
of individuals from any one of the other causes
named.
The Coronerof a certain county in Geor
gia owned a potato patcb, and the other night
be caught a man stealing the product thereof
and shot the thief dead, no was arrested, bnt
secured his liberty on a writ of habeas corpus
and proceeded to hold an inquest on the dead
thief. The verdict returned exonerated the
Coroner, and the Coroner signed It.
In Canada there is a company which
has a nickel mine. The' ore Is mixed with cop
per and after the dross is taken off the alloy Li
called matte, which contains about 70 per cent
of uickel and 30 per cent ot copper. This is
shipped to Germany and Swansea, in Wales,
where the secret Is jealously guarded of tbe
process by which the two metals are separated.
Mrs. A. F. "Wood, of Kennebunk, Me.,
a lady who bad been lame for several years,
went to tbe barn loft to gather some eggs, and
in sliding down upon the hay, with her lame leg,
hearing something crack, she felt she had
broken some bone. She called to her husband
for help, and when he came and helped her up
she found she could walk better than before.
Tbe ligaments which had adhered to each other
by non-use were broken apart, improving her
lameness.
The carpenters, in clearing away the
rubbish from the old Postoffice building at
Waycross, Ga.. preparatory to laying tbe foun
dation for Mr. Wilson's new brick building;
discovered a package of old papers, and upon
investigating they were found to be old repster
envelopes, which were opened and rifled wben
the postoffice was robbed. The thief had buried
them under the building, hoping thereby to
cover up bis tracks more thoroughly. Mr. Mor
gan now bas the papers and envelopes in his
possession.
SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT.
Eggs are so plentiful this year that they
are no longer being scrambled for. nuHcan
Qroctr.
Little drops of water
Little grains of sand
Make the grocer's business
The finest In tne land. Fuct
"You're an old reprobate!" exclaimed aa
Indignant and much-abused wife to her husband.
Hold on there!" he shouted; "1 object to the
word o!d.' "Judge.
Gnest (at country hotel) Good heavens,
waiter, here's a fish in my milk I
Walter Well! ir that darned cow ain't been la
Bwlmmln' aglnl American Qroctr.
Mrs. Teaknm Strate I see that boiling
the hair In a solution of tea will darken It.
Teaknm titrate So I've heard, my dear, bnt I
prefer to have my tea darkened la some other
way. American Grocer.
" 'Kastus, where are those two chickens I
bad In tbe cellar?"
"Duuno, sahl Perhaps as 't was very cole
night, sab, they done got froze, an' then melted
away Jus' melted away, sab-" Puck.
Overheard at the grocery clerks' ball:
"Java good time, my dear?"
"What Alochary for you to ask! you know I
did."
"Klolyr lam so glad!" etc.tmrtea Grocer.
Elegantly Attired Spinster I see you ad
vertise for cash girls.
Merchant Yes, ma'am: but
Elegantly Attired Spinster Well. I have fifty
thousand in my own right. What's wanted.
Judge.
Mrs. P..E. Kirke Don't yon think you
ought to give up something. Harry, daring these
Lenten days
Mr. Klrke TJm yes; I'll walk home from busi
ness on Wednesday" and Fridays, and sea IT I
can't get np an appetite for that confounded fihl
ruck. '
Mrs. Bourne John. I wish yon wouldn't
come la so late as you did last nlgbt. Can't rou
come home earlier.
Mr. Bourne Maria. It was Z o'clock when I
got In. That Isn't late; that's early.
Mrs. Bourne Well. John. I wish you wouldn't
come In so early then; do come late, that's a good
UUott, Judge.
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