? VF; T ffBVi 'ffipiS' ,"ssF5t,,r?er- TP) "? another great one! . a:othergoodonei to-morrow's issue OV THE DISPATCH WILL ONCE MORE CONTAIN TWENTY PAGES. TWENTY PAGES. TWENTY PAGES. IN ADDITION TO ALL THE NEWS IT WILL OFFER THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL FEATURES WORTHY OF SPECIAL MENTION. SEETHE RICH TREATS TENDERED! ADVETURES IN AFRICA. Roger Casement. TWO AMERICAN PRINCES. A Popular Writer LIFE IN RUSSIAN PRISONS. L. LORIS. B. C. P. ORATORY IN THE SENATE. Frank G. Carpenter. A DESCRIPTION OF BOGOTA. Fannie B. Ward. THE FOUR RICHEST AMERICANS. A Nor Contributor. THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. Astronomer Davis. BEAUTY AND GRACE. actress Emma V. Sheridan. THE STORY OF BEATRICE. II. Rider Haggard. ROMANCES OF STATESMEN. Miss Grcndv. Jr. IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. Mns. .Madge Kendal, MANY KINDS OF BREAKFASTS. F. J at Kate. THE GREAT BIBLICAL STORY. ELIZARETII STUART PHELPS. PRACTICING ON PIGEONS. A Sporting Writer. A BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALE, Patsie. BLIND MEN WHO SUCCEED. Rurus R. Wilson. 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One Mouth TO Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 year. 10 00 Dailt Dispatch, lncludingSunday,3nrth6. 250 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday I month 90 fcuxDAY Dispatch, One Year 550 Weekly' Dispatch, One Year 1 3 The Daily DiSPATcn is delivered by carriers at :: cents per week, or including bunday edition, at cents per week. PITTSBURG. SATURDAY. MAR. 8, 189a FOREIGH CAPITAL HEBE. The old cry about "British cold." which has done good service in many a political campaign, is coming to have a far more real and important meaning in commercial affairs. Hardly a day passes bnt the arrival or English capital in some new American channel of trade is reported. Making al lowance for the exaggeration and sheer romancing incidental to the reports of this invasion of alien capitalists, it cannot be doubted that there is a genuine movement of English money toward investment in this country. Following upon the heels of the author ized announcement of the organization of a gigantic British-American syndicate to operate in a multitude of ways, involving a capital of many millions, comes the news from the Chester Valley in this State, that a number ot cotton manufacturers from London, Edinburgh and Birmingham, En gland, are going to erect there a large num ber of cotton mills, and a small town out of band for the operatives. The outward sign of this great transaction at present is con fined to the obtainingof a number of options upon several farms, including a thousand acres or more, by an Englishman who says be is empowered to buy the land for the site of the proposed mills and town. Perhaps the people of Lenover, Chester county, had better wait a little while before they rejoice over what maybe a great windfall of fortune for them. The English cotton factors are said to be bent on this transfer of their capital and en terprise for the sake of avoiding the duties which keep their manufactures out of American markets. It is somewhat curious to note that while capitalists of this State and of other States in the East are building cotton mills in the South, foreigners are stepping in to raise factories for the same purpose in the East A KEW GAS. It is no new thing for Pittshnrgers to be told that they are to be supplied with an artificial fuel gas at a far lower price than is asked for natural gas. The novelty in this direction would be to produce the artificial fuel gas. to offer it for sale at a low figure. That the wonderful and novel is to take place at once we are not informed certainly. All that can be said is that there are divers reliable signs of vitality in the promise made anew by Mr. M. V. Smith and the Pittsburg Metallurgy Company. These promises are that M. V. Smith has secured the final patents on his process of making the cheap artificial fuel gas, and the Pittsburg Metallurgy Company is ready to make the generators after Mr. Smith's de signs. The company guarantees that it can erect plants and make gas so that it may yield the producers a profit if sold at five cents per thousand feet. Our readers need hardly be told bow much cheaper this would be than the natural gas. The differ ence in favor of the artificial article would be fully a hundred per cent. In order to introduce this gas at once, the capital of the company which will make the generators was yesterday raised from 10,000 to 5100,000. This is the encourag ing sign to which we have alluded before. "We trust sincerely that theprocess and the product will be all that is promised. The advantages ol a cheap artificial fuel gas as an ally of natural gas, or some day as its successor though no such event is prob able for years to come are many and great for Pittsburg. Additions to the great en dowment of Pittsburg, nnturaily and arti ficially, as far as ,uel is concerned, will make the c tv's material progress more rapid and substantial than ever. F0R STATE LIBRARIES. We have received from the Association ot State Librarians some interesting and timely resolutions passed at a recent convention of that body. This association bad its origin Wire Bi8Mc. in a widespread conviction that the proper scope and dignity of State libraries was not yet fully recognized in most States; that there was no uniformity in laws governing State libraries and regulating exchanges of public documents, and that it was desirable to bring about by legislative enactment an approximately uniform system of laws, usages and rules for their management, A State library should not only be a complete reference library for all branches of the Government, execu tive, judicial and legislative, and the renositorv of all materials for local history and biography, but it should also contain and furnish abundant facilities for using all desirable books of information re lating to special industries and pursuits of the State or calculated to lead to the intro duction of industries and pursuits suited to it but hitherto neglected. In short, it should be fitted to serve nil interests of the State by infusing into their conduct the highest intelligence and skill. With these high aims in view the associa tion, which has for one of its officers by the way the gifted and diligent librarian ot this State, Dr. W. H. Engle, is making an at tempt to interest State and national offi cials, legislatures and members of Congress in the improvement of the libraries of all the States. Uniform legislation regulating the publication of State documents, statutes, law reports, etc, is to be sought from each State and territory. From Congress sundry reliefs and privileges are sought, such as free transportation by mail between State libraries, lower postage on books, and the exemption of foreign books for State libra ries from import duties. The Dispatch recognizes the import ance and practical value of having in the State libraries, legislative and Govern mental records of other States and of foreign countries,standard writers on public finance, public charities, agriculture, manufactur ing industries, and other topics which come before Governor and legislatures for action. The effort ot the State Library Associa tion has our indorsement. SPRING-TIME BOOMS. President Harrison bas been in office a year and several tender little booms have been set out already to catch the first beams of the Presidental sun, which will come to its zenith in 1892. The hardy annual, Mr. Cleveland, seems to divide the attention of the Democratic party with that rather rank weed, Mr. Hill. Bat the Democrats, being out of office, are not so eager to begin to make garden as their opponents. Conse quently we are treated to the interesting spectacle of a floral display in the Repub lican pasture before the night frosts are out of the way. The principal blossom to put forth a bud or two among his leaves is Chauncey M. Depew. The first bud is to be, when it bursts, the Mayoralty of New York, the second the Governorship of the Empire State and the third and greatest is the nomination for the Presidency in 1892. The gardeners who have the Depew plant under cultivation hold that as long as corporation caterpil'ars crawl about it, no hope of its winning favor in the West cau be entertained. To get Dr. Depew out of the Presidency of the New York Central they intend to run him for Mayor of New York next fall. Because the Democrats of that city are at odds over the spoils, the Tammany tiger having been as greedy as usual, tbe Republican candidate for Mayor is thought to have a reasonable chance of election. Dr. Depew is expected to use his power and patronage as Mayor to put him in the Gubernatorial chair. The precedent established by Mr. Cleveland is thought to augur favorably for Dr. Depew's elevation to the White House from Albany. Without examining the situation in the city and State of New York, we can see a flaw in this lovely scheme. The removal of Dr. Depew from his position at the head of a great railroad will not make him any the less a corporation candidate. In politics, as in other things, it is impossible to ex punge yesterday's record, when it becomes inconvenient to-day. Dr. Depew bas thrown in his lot with the corporations, and the mere fact that he will resign a certain place in the pay of one of the largest ot them to take a more potential position in the peo ple's gift, will not alter his record. That is what the West thinks and a good bit of the East, too. A PABK IK QUESTION. No one wiil question for a moment the de sirability of giving this city breathing places in the shape of parks, but a little more information is desirable about the three ordinances passed by the Councils Committee on Finance, yesterday, authoriz ing Chief Bigelow to buy twenty-six acres of land adjoining the Highland avenne reservoir, to be added to the new park. We have no doubt that Chief Bigelow thinks that the purchase of this land is good policy, and there are good reasons for believing that the city is getting them at a very reasonable price owing to the good offices principally of Mr. Bigelow. Bnt the talk about buying the land to square off the property already held by the city in that neighborhood which seems to have been square enough already and of purchasing the land to stop a leak in the reservoir, is not likely to impress the public favorably. The ordinances are recommended for enactment, and there is still time to have the matter discussed and its history made plain. It will be just as well for Council men to consider whether the expenditure of this sum 539,215 is advisable at the pres ent juncture. The park at the Highland reservoir is greatly to be desired. The ques tion now is, Is the enlargement of the park as proposed advisable? We hope it is, but the public will be none the worse for being thoroughly informed of what is being done. ICE IN SIGHT. The specter of an ice famine in the com ing summer has been effectually laid by the cold weather of the last few days. The chuckle ot the iceman is no longer heard in the land. There is small prospect now of ice driving diamonds out of the market in the dog days. The reverberation ot school girls' ecstatic joy can plainly be heard, and the groans of the young men who were look ing forward to a season of affluence, without ice cream, are louder still. Generous.philantbropic Maine will not be forced to stint herself in order to supply her sister States with ice. Prohibition cocktails will have the usual quantity of cracked ice in them in the Pine Tree State. Senator Edmunds will not have to go to the Korth Pole to find a congenial atmosphere New Hampshire has lots of ice. In fact while some men may be disgruntled at the ap pearance of winter at this late day, more will smile tbe smile of contentment as they look forward to a summer well-iced. But we trust that none of our readers will allow tbe sangninity of their new-born hopes to influence their financial estimates for tbe coming summer. Blizzards may come, or blizzards may not come, the lakes and ponds may ripple with unfrozen faces, or THE shine with ice three feet thick, but the ice man in the gold and ivory salon of his palace will figure to the same purposes. Be assured, whatever happens, the lordly purveyor of ice will be able lo give chapter and verse to account for the usual increase in the price of the shrunken cake of ice which he will leave beside your door in the sweltering morns of summer. Do not forget this; put your pennies in the bank against the delivery of the deadly ice bill! Geoss carelessness had a good deal to do with the terrible railway accident at Hamburg. A strict investigation should be maae. THE refunding of the direct tax will shortly come before the House of Represent atives. The Senate lias already approved the bill which Mr. Cleveland vetoed. The prospect of a veto is dim, but a sharp test of the new House rules is likely to bo made during the de bate if the Democratic contingent which op posed it before do so again. The trivial sum of 10,000,000 is all that Is involved. Lord Salisbury can hardly hold on much longer. The tide of popular disapproval is orcrwhelming him. Senator Blair and his good old bill had the floor again in the Senate yesterday. The Apostle ot bis Own Ideas was compara tively mild in his remarks,excepting a prophecy of the Republican party's ruin if it did not make his bill the law of the land. Senator Hale unkindly opposed the bill and Invited ruin for his party. TnE jingle of sleigh bells mingling with the clamor of car gongs make Pittsburg streets strangely musical. The quality of the performances of "The Rivals"is a great way beyond anything that tbe younger comedians are able to give us. They wrote better comedies a hundred years ago.and the men of an elder generation play them bet ter, than authors and actors of to-day can do. Russian Nihilists who emul ate" Jack the Ripper" will not obtain the approval of civil ized nationalities. A vert interesting contribution from a valued correspondent upon the proposal to connect the Chesapeake and Ohio canal with tbe Monongahela at Moreantown. appears in another column. The arguments and facts adduced deserve careful consideration. The ice machine's nose is out of joint. Jack Frost can beat any device of man at making ice. The inhabitants of the remotest parts of the earth are eager to know Mr. Carnegie's address. Letters addressed Andrew Carnegie, United States of America, will reach him. PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE. Prince Carolath Schoexaich has been elected Grand Master of the Freemasons in Prussia. Senators Cameron and Butler left Friday morning for Beaufort, N. O. They will be ab sent for two weeks. Mrs. Cleveland was asked by a schoolgirl friend if ber husband intended to rnn again for President. She diplomatically said that Mr. Cleveland was not in politics. Jay Gould pays 2,500 a year for his p3w in Dr. Hall's church. Although fairly regular at the morning servlce.-he never appears In the evening. Russell Sage, on the contrary, is in his slip at both services. Roscoe Conklinq said of Jay Gould: "Had be not gone into business, but instead had taken up politics, he would have been the mas ter politician of the country, and, I think, the greatest diplomat in either continent." Claus Spreckels, the sugar refiner, has returned from Florida. Daring his absence be examined the lands reclaimed by Mr. Disston, and speaks enthusiastically of them. Ho thinks that sugar can be raised there in great quantities. Doctors, as a rule, are reticent about their fees, but Dr. Willard Parker was paid 5100,000 for the successful removal of an excrescence from the face and neck of the son ana heir of one of the wealthiest families in the vicinity of New York. Senator Dolpii. of Oregon, who is in a great state of mind over tbe fact that the se crets of the executive session have leaked out, is described as "ahandsome old gentleman with a poetic face and the beard of a viking, but pos sessing nu sense of humor." The home and office furnitnre owned by Abraham Lincoln has been purchased by a firm in Chicago and Is now on exhibition there. Tbe only office desk he owned is there. It is a plain table surmounted by an old-fashioned book case, with the first law books Lincoln read. AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL, The DIi patch a Necessity in All Wcll-Reen-1 iteil IJonsebolds. From the Tloncsta Republican. In tnese days of extreme radicalism and hot partisanship. It is quite refreshing to pick up a decidedly independent journal and read tbe news from an unbiased standpoint; a jonrnal which can and does deal calmly, yet forcibly, with the great issues of the day in an unpre judiced manner. Such an one is The Pitts burg Dispatch, one of the very first papers of the country. The Daily Dispatch has become an actual necessity in this office, and the mammoth Sunday edition is a decided wonder, and its great growth has been one of the astonishing features of journalism. The literary columns are supplied by the best writers of the country, while its special cable letters, sporting and business reviews, are features that are greatly appreciated by its more than 53,000 readers. The Daily Dis patch prints the news as it finds it, and it has a knack of finding it that gets away with all its great cotemporaries, making it the newspaper of Western Pennsylvania. Representing the greatest iron city in the United States as it does, its market reports are strictly reliable; likewise all its news pertain ing to that great industry. Politically, inde pendent, yet never wavering in its support of .the great question of protection to American industries. Those who would bo well informed of tbe world's doings must have it. No paper enjoys greater popularity with the people and no paper deserves to. ROOGn ON RATS. Iowa Citizens Waging it Wnr ofExtcrminn tlon Acnlnst the Rodents. Milton, Ia., March 7. The citizens of this city bave suffered so much from the ravages of rats that a grand rat hunt was organized. 'Cap tains were chosen and they selected sides. Each side consisted of 105 men and boys over 15 years old, whilo boys under 15 were allowed 1 cent for thefr rats. The hunt began Friday, Febrnary 21. and Is to close to-morrow with a grand street parade and supper, which is to be paid for bv the side showing the least number of rats killed. At some barns as many as 17S were killed, while one man killed about 500 on his premises. Saturday, March 1, the rats killed up to that time were counted and it was found that the total tally was 3,076. and that William Crockett's side was ahead of Dave George's forces uy D2 rats. Lectures, Past nnd Coming. Mrs. Margaret Shepherd lectured yesterday afternoon to a number of ladles at Lafayette Hall, on the "Celibacy of the Priests," which she claims is only alleged. In the evening she talked to a mixed assemblage on the subject, "Shall America Become Catholic?" a reply .to Archbishop Ireland. "Nellie Bly" made a great hit In hpr lecture In the Quaker City last evening. She wore her famous blue cloth gown and had her hair plaited and tied with black ribbon. The lecture to be given In this city nextFriday eveningby the little lady will afford her many admirers an op portunity of listening to her adventures in her trip around the world. Bonnd to Ilnve a Dandy Force. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. 2 Tbe new postmaster of Pittsburg has ordered that the letter carriers must wear white neck ties and polish the buttons on their uniforms. But why polish the buttons and let the boots go nnblacked. or why have the neckties white and tbe bands which bold the letters dirty Postmaster McKean is bound to have a dandy force of letter carriers. PITTSBURG - DISPATCH. THE TOPICAL TALKER. r fill T.nMna ft'Trlfrlrer Ilpnrs n Recitation nnd Gives Thirty Cents nnd Somo Good Ad vice Women's Wnys The Price of Rab bit.. " J2ILLY Florence, the genial, big-hearted actor, likes a joke. Victim or victimized, It's all tho same to Billy. It's tbe fun of tbe thing be enjoys, you know, and he welcomes a diversion of.this sort at all times and under all circumstances. Billy called on some young friends yesterday afternoon, and during his re cital of the mishaps of "The Rivals" during the journey to Pittsburg and the good nature of tbe fine audience that greeted them, a tap on the door of the audience room cut short tbe narrative. He who answered tbo call returned with a twinkle in his eye, and asked Billy if he would grant an audience to a femalo aspirant for honors tbespian, who took great pride in her ability to roll off Shakespeare by the yard and minor authors by the perch. "Certainly," said O'Trigger. "show tho lady in." A comely, though antiquated, woman glided over the threshold and faced the great actor. He turned his blue orbs ceilingward, and a soft sigh escaped him. To relievo his embarrass ment the usher turned to the lady and said: "Are you going to see Jefferson and Florence to-night?" "No. I'm not. re going to see Nellie Bly when sho comes, though." This, in a rich feminine brogue, that caused O'Trigger to face the visitor. "An' is this Florence Billy Floronce? Are you an actor who plays Shakespeare?" "Not Shakespeare, my good woman not now, at all events. I like William and his works, but tho dear public didn't agree with me. Shako didn't go, you know," mournfully replied Billy. "Now would you like to hear somo Shakes peare? Just close tho door and I'll show yon what I can do, I understand you want to hear me, and I would like to get your opinion of my powers. I'll just speak a little piece for you to judge me." . T3ILLY glared at the small company and then struck an attitude. With one hand upon a table and the other restingbetweentbe buttons of his coat he calmly awaited the agony. With out further ado the Shakespearean fiend cut loose. Billy evidently expected a scene from "Hamlet" or "The Merchant of Venice." When the first lines glided from between the set teeth of the awful example of tho power of drama he was startled. She had evidently forgotten her cue, and, instead of tragic blank verse, sbe galloped through the jancle of "Alonzo, the brave, and the fair Imogene" not the parody but the or iginal In Its entirety. Moments grew into min utes and tbe ceaseless monotone continued, broken only by the groans and sichs of O'Trig eer.who frequently interjected such comments as: "Ob, the dear, pretty creature;" "Heaven help us; what crueltyf ' "How does it come that Alonzo, and even I, should have to endure such torture;" "Good woman, this calls for tears." etc Sudden as the shock from an electric light wire on which a dead companion has settled, tho woes of the fair Imogene were brought to a close with "Well, Florence, my lad, what do you think of that now?" iTiTTell," said Billy coolly, "to be honest with yon, my good woman, I don't think much of it at all. I thought you wanted me to see you act, not bear .you trot through a jingle without any action at all. at all. I get paid for acting, not for racing through long speeches or monotonous posy. Seriously, my dear woman, you should throw acting into your work. Don't stand with your hands crossed on yonr apron, and no more expression in your face than a book agent. Now when you come to the part about the horse, you should have acted like a horse. Where the awful lines about the worms crawling through the skull of the fair Imogene occur, you should have acted like a worm. Demosthenes and others like him advocate action not words. Action is the mainstay of oratory, my good woman. Remember this in future. Good day, not goodby." "Twenty-five cents, please." piped the shrill voice of the elocutionary artist. "Well, this Is a gol" said O'Trigger; "twenty five cents for giving you good advice. Here's thirty. Boys, chip in. Think of the fun you've had!" "May you never want for a bite or a bed!" were the words wafted through the doorway as the elderly stage-strnck woman departed. This is the joke on Billy: It cost him SO cents. Tbe others were let off for 25. . Mot many weeks ago a leading retail dry goods store in this city received a con signment of spring dress goods. They were tbe latest styles, and a ready sale might have been expected. But though they were dis played upon the counters of the great store to the best advantage, and a great many ladles turned them over, worried the salesmen and saleswomen about the price, and so on, at the end of the week very few yards of them had been sold. Tbo manager of the store was equal to the oc casion, however. He took the goods and cut them into dress patterns the term applied to sufficient material for a single dres3 boxed them, and displayed them cautiously to good customers. In two days every bit of tbe stuff was sold. Why? Every woman who bought a dress pattern imagined she was buying something her sisters could not get. My fair readers will not deny their weakness for a dress that cannot be duplicated. . A lady who had vivid recollections of help ing ber brother catch rabbits when the snow lay on the ground thought that the snow fall of the last few days ought to have glutted the market with rabbits. Sbe asked ber butcher yesterday what rabbits were selling at. "Fifty dollars each, ma'am," was his answer. "Fifty dollars I What do you mean?" "J ust what I say. If you will pay the penalty of So'j for killing a rabbit out of season, which tbe game law imposes, I'll get you a rabbit, ma'am." EVANGELICAL CUDRCfl. Second Dtrj'a Session of tbe Pennsylvania Conference at York. YORK", Pa., March 7. The second day's ses sion of tbe Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church was opened by Chairman M. J. Carothers. A half hour's de votional services followed. Rev. B. J. Smoyer, Presiding Elder of the East Pennsylvania con ference and Rev. J. Max Longsdorf, or the same conference, were "received as advisory members of this conference. Reports of com mittees on church affairs and on delinquent missionary assessment were heard. A letter from Bishop Dubs, of Chicago, the reading of which caused much display of emotional leel ing. tozethcr with other letters, was referred to a committee of 13 lor action. Bishops Esher and Bowman, it has been learned, will not visit this conference. To Solve llie.Tramp Question, From tbe Philadelphia Press. Judge Sadlor, of Cumberland county, pro poses to solve the tramp Question in his district by putting tho vagrants',to work at breaking limestone, under the supervision of the sheriff. This plan may work well as a local treatment, but unless It is made general tbe result of its application will probably be fewer tramps In Cnmberland county and more in the counties adjoining. Qnecr Incident of tbe Flood. From tbo Altoona Times. J A queer incident of tbe Johnstown flood was the finding on Wednesday of a $5 greenback lodged tightly In the twigs of a bush a few miles below that place. It had been washed down by tho water and lodged in tho bnsb, and strange to relate, notwithstanding all the rain since the flood, it was still in a pretty fair state of preservation. DEATHS OF A DAY. Representative McGrengor. tSPECIAL TELEQRAV TO TUB DISPATCH.! ZANESVILLE, March 7. Representative Mc Greagor, Iteidlng Clerk for tho Ohio House of Representatives, died at his home In this city at noon to-day of diphtheria. Ills wife and four children have died or the same disease, and his youngest son and his father are lying In the house with tbe same ailment. Mr. McUreaeor came here to care for his son, but has himself been stricken with the malady. Mrs. Henrietta Ego Watts. SPECIAL TZLXOBAII TO TUB DISPATCH. 1 CARLlSLE.March 7. lira. Henrietta Ege Watts, wife of tex-Judge Watts, or this district, who for many years was President ofthe Cumberland Val--lev Railroad company, died here to-day alter a brief Illness, axed".! years. SATUEDAT, MARCH A YOUTHFUL PKODIGY. Master Otto Hegner nnd His Wonderful Musical Abilities A Lnrso Aadlcneo Surprised Ills Marvelous Execution of Difficult Selections. Within the past few seasons musical centers in Europe and America have been aroused to an extraordinary degree over the piano playing of two boys possessed of talents so precocions as to be quite generally compared only with each other and with Mozart. Jozio Hofmann, who came first to this country and created an unprecedented sensation, was booked for Pitts burg, but could not get away long enough from the clamorous crowds on the seaboard. Otto Hegner, who came second and of course could not make the same popular sensation, but whom many of the best critics con sider the musical superior of bis Polish rival, has at last come hero to show us of what stnff these century-plant prodigies are made. The goodly audience gathered In Old City Hall last evening evidently appreciated to the full the exemplification of prodigy-playing given by the little Swiss lad, who presented, with the assistance of Miss Mamie Reucfc, the following programme: 1 Sonate Op. 53 Beethoven Otto Hegner. "r-Violln-Seventh Concerto DeBerlot Miss M. Henok. 3 Grand Polonaise Op. SI Chopin Otto Hegner. 4- Violin Cavatinu Raff Miss M. lieuck. 1 (a) Rondo Caprlccloso, od. 14. ..Mendelssohn 5 Mbjsplnucrlled (Klyingjjutchraan) I ... )VUK":r-iji3b (c) Valse Caprice Knbinsteln 6 A theme or air suggested bv anyone present will be taken up and developed Into bcau- tirul piece of music Otto Hegner. In listening to this graceful boy's playing you are quickly led to forget the impression left by tbo whole brood of callow fledglings that have been palmed off hitherto as planistlc prodigies; presently you bave to rub your eyes and pinch yourself to be assured that it is in sober verity a mere boy, clearly not older than the 13 years admitted, who sits tbere making that grand piano eloquent with tbe voices of the masters. On tbe authority of several connoisseurs present from the beginning, it can be said that the Beethoven sonate received a smooth and surDrisincly mature interpretation, one enthu siast even saying that he really preferred Heg ner's conception of the work to that of Eugene D' Albert, who played it here some weeks ago. In tbe Chopin polonaise there was a too great eccentricity of movement and a tendency to slide all too nimbly over detached phrases here and there; but op the other hand, there was a remarkable vim and dash In it, combined with .a rare degree of delicacy and tinish. The final passage work was taken at a lightning pace, and with all tho dazzling distinctness of the lightning's flash. The group of three pieces was well nigh faultless In execution. To search out faults in them would be like scanning the sun for spots. Nothing could exceed th pearly daintiness of the scherzo part of Mendelssohn's rondo; its reposeful introduction, also, was beautifully played, the pure, full tone of the melody being especially notable from such tiny fingers. Perhaps the most nearly perfect number of the evening was the familiar Wagner-Liszt "Splnnerlied." Its normal tempo was breath lessly rapid, givine; fine display of the lad's technique in that direction; and yet there was an easy, wanton swaying in the movement that well avoided the music-box style. A better per formance of this piece could not be asked. The Rubinstein waltz was given with electrifying energy and abandon, without for an Instant losing control of Its entire content; the inner voices are not often so well brought oat. Mr. Gittlngs then announced that an original theme just banded up by Mr. Ad M. Focrster would be first taken as the subject for extem porization. It was a diabolically knotty theme of two measures in F minor, time, synco pated and ending abruptly on the point of a rather remote modulation. For any player to be able at all to retain such a theme through tbe course of extemporization implies a large degree of musical talent. While certain stereotyped cadenzas and passages were freely used, that boy's im provisation on that theme was more free and sustained man one nau anv ngnt to expect. The air of the "Suwanee Rlbber" was then taken up and handled by little Hegner with surprising variety and coherence. Miss Mamie Reuck quite surpassed herself on this occasion; her increased freedom and mustery of style betrayed faithful study. The andante of tbe concerto and the lovely cavatina were simply exquisitely played, arousing the audience to enthusiasm. Arrangements have been hastily made where by little Hegner will be heard at a matinee at Old City Hall this afternoon, playing Beetho ven's sonate. Op. 90, a MS. Toccata of his own, and eomposttions by Chopin, Godard and Liszt. Mr. Harry B. Brockett will assist. C. W. S. THE LINCOLN OBSEQUIES. Funeral Services Held Over the Remains of tbe minister's Son. London. March 7. The services over the re mains of Abraham Lincoln, son of Minister Robert Lincoln, were held to-day at the resi dence of Mr. Lincoln, and were conducted by Rev. J. Monroe Gibson. The coffin was hidden beneath a mass of flowers. After the services were concluded the body was placed in the catacombs in Kcnsal Groen Cemetery. Among those present were all the members of the American Legation and the Consulate, except Major Post, the military attache. They were all accompanied by their wives. PASSING EVENTS. NOW that Ben Butler has got two good Sun day eyes an anxious public wonla like to know which optic he will wink when he wants a stick In bis lemonade. A bad penny always returns. If there are no fatal collisions on land or sea George Francis Train may be back ere the bluebirds are singing la the parks attain. Still, accidents are liable to happen, but why anticipate? ONCE in a while politicians, like lawyers, are known to tell the truth A couple or Representa tives called one another thieves during the past week. Cornelius Parsons, after serving as Mayor of Rochester. N. Y for 14 consecutive terms, was defeated on Tuesday. A clear case of going to the well once too often. It is believed now that Silcott and Tascott are looking for Stevens, who went In search of Stanley. Many a man believes he could beat the editor running a newspaper. After he has squan dered several hundred thousand dollars In his en deavor to prove It, and Is panhandling for a drink, he will discover, when too late, that the successful publisher knowed a thing or two. Iowa is not worried over a short ice crop or a shortage In water. The supply that iscutoffby law Is what Is bothering the Legislature at the present time. Mrs. Seymour Howell was greeted with a very large audience at Warren on Tuesday even ing, but the collection only amounted to 814, Just a third less than enough to pay her expenses. War ren Is a "dry" town. One Senator says that either the Senate or press gallery must go. If It should ever come to a vote of the people It Is a moral certainty a large majority would be cast for tbe former to adjourn sine die. Buffalo Bill has made "Rome howl," and Is now ready to return homo and take a seat In Congress. Captain R. F. Kolb, candidate for Gov ernor of Alabama, is the Inventor of a choice variety of watermelon. The negroes will support him to a man. THE SEVEN STAGES. Only a baby, Kissed and caressed. Gently held to a mother's breast. Only a child. Toddling alone. Brightening now Its happy home. Only a boy. Trudging to school, Governed now by a sterner rule. Only a youth, LIvlug In dreams; Full of promise life now seems. Only a man. Battling with life. Shared In now by a loving wife. Only a father. Burdened with care, ' Silver threads In dark brown hair. Only a greybeard. Toddling again, Growing old and full of pain. Only a mound, ,0'ergrown with gran; Dreamt unreallzed-rtstat last, -Milton TraxtlHr. 8, 1890. GREAT WATER ROUTES. Useful Even In Theso Days of Railroads A Biff Enterprise la England How Government or Private Capital Conld Connect Pittsburg With Seaboard Cities. To the Editor of The Dispatch: 'PHEframers of the Constitutions of Maryland and Pennsylvania made a vital mistake when they failed to embody a clause providing for tbe perpetual management and control of the canals by tbe State, as is tbe wise provision in tho Constitution of the State of New York, which is now legislating for the enlargement of its canals, while Maryland Is endeavoring to enact a law which will crush out of existence its water route, which, by improvement and ex tension, could be made the most immensely im portant artificial waterway on this continent. There are numerous localities throughout tbe world that are seeking the advantages of navi gable water at enormous cost. For one in stance, Manchester, Eng., located 40 miles in land, as a remedy for its commercial salvation against Liverpool, Is constructing a deep water way to the coast. Thi3 project is being prose cuted at tho expense of a private stock com pany, at a cost of 50,000,000. The construction of this canal suggests a pertinent question in comparison with that of the proposed Cumber-laud-Morgantown canal; that is. if the pro jectors of the Manchester canal, after caret nl calculation and investigation, determined that they were justified in a monetary sense in in vesting their millions in a waterway that is to connect only one city with the ocean, how much more would our State and national Gov ernments or a private corporation be justified in completing a waterway that would join the numerous cities and landings on our Western rivers with those on our Atlantic seaboard, in cluding also all the foreign ports of the world? TnE construction of the proposed tunnel water-route should not be considered a great engineering feat. Such work is going on every day. It would be unparalleled only In resard to its length and perhaps also as to its height, which would be 40 feet to the top of the arch, and tho cost would be trifling when the benefits aro considered. The expense of constructing large tunnels is considerably less in proportion to tho excavation than small ones, as there is more bench, which can be quarried at about tbe same expense as surface rock and conld bo sola for building and other purposes. The prosecution of work on this tunnel would fur nish employment for boats on tbe present canal east of Cumberland, In transporting stone to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other points, and likewise on the Monongahela river. Its completion could be hastened by first driv ing an ordinary sized railroad tunnel, which could also be hastened by sinking shafts at in tervals to the tunnel level, and working two gangs toward each other on each section. After this small tunnel was cut through there tbe bencb conld be lowered gradually. The shafts could be preserved and maintained as ventila tors for the tunnel, AS the Monongahela river flows at right angles to the proposed water route, the west terminus of the latter could be at such a point on the river as would Insure a continuous level pool to Cumberland. The water supply would be famished at both ends by backwater from dams, therefore tbere would be no cur rent. Aside from the model barges, withont power, tbere could be long, easy model, screw propeller freight barges, built expressly for navigating between Pittsburg; Washington and Baltimore, via the Chesapeake Bay, Chesa peake and Delaware Canal and Delaware river to Philadelphia ail Inland navigation. It could be so devised that It would not be neces sary to use the steering gear of these fast freight barges after they enter the tunnel by placing wheel3 on projecting braces, one on each side, fore and aft of the barge. These wheels would be about six feet In diameter, and wonld roll again tbe smooth sides of the tunnel and keep the boat in position in the center of the canal, which possibly would not be possible by using the rudders in conse quence of the high rate of speed. The tunnel snonid be straight between the termini. Qovernor Jackson claims that the Penn sylvania Railroad Company lost $150,000 last year In keeping open the canal3 under its control. This is no argument against canals, as we admit that only a small proportion of the original 880 miles of the Pennsylvania Canal system were worth preserving. We know that not one mile of canal (excluding improved rivers) in Western Pennsylvania was worth keeping, as in consequence of their routes, rail roads are superior. But our ancient built canals Bhould not be compared with our modern built railroads. The canals, to meet tho require ments of the times, should also be improved by enlargement. His Excellency cites an instance of his having been in the lumber business near Norfolk and transporting bis product by means of his own tugs and barges to Baltimore, there by saving 23 cents per ton, and lastly that tbe railroads camo and offered to carry it at the same rate. In this caso the available water route was the cause of tbe decrease in rail rates, and it still remains as a scarecrow acainst the railroads' returning to the old rates. The Governor refers to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal causing Maryland to lose $250,000 a year. We claim it pays tbe State to lose that amount by preserving it, even in its miniatnre condition, as a scarecrow against railroad ex tortion. The first railroad built West from Pittsburir. the Ohio and Pennsylvania, ended in tbe backwoods of Ohio. It lay dormant for years. Some wideawake men conceived the idea that it was favorably located for becoming a good paying investment, they bought the stock low, then extended and connected It with otber roads to the West, and we now bave a great trunk line, the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railroad, and the men who engaged in the enterprise are millionaires. Tvjowthe above is the exact condition, posi tion and situation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. It is admirably situated for be coming a section of a grand trunk water way by enlarging and extending it west to the Mis sissippi river system, when tbe charges on the transportation of coal from the Monongahela river to New Orleans, a distance of 2,000 miles, is 52 cents per ton, or about 1-5 of a mill per ton per mile. It is absurd to attempt to compare railroads with the cheap rates afforded by our natural and modern artificial water ways. Anyone who attempts it will be knocked out every time by the presentation of facts to the contrary. The Manchester, England, Canal Company is now spending $50,000,000 against tbe position taken by Governor Jackson. Tho contractor, Mr. Walker, Is doing the whole work, and has an army of 12,000 workmen em ployed and dredging and otber machinery that save the labor of ten times as many men. The contractor has not sublet any part of bis con tract, but conducts it all himself. He will completo his contract in 1S91, and nill then have been engaged about four and a half years at the job. The contractor has built, at inter vals ot five miles along tbe route of the (anal, cottages, chapels and gymnasiums for the use Of the workmen, and schools for their children. This canal is intended to float tbe largest rteamsbips direct from tho ocean to Man chester. Mew York State as a measure to save its commerce from the free canals of Canada, made its canals free also, and Is now maintain ing them at great expense as a protection against exorbitant freight charges by the rail roads. The New Yorkers are now legislating for the enlargement of the Erie Canal. They think, as a great portion of the products of the State, west of New York, passes through this canal, that the general government should be at the expense of enlargement. As it was the original object of the projectors of the Chesa peake and Ohio Canal to contlnne it through to a connection with our Western water ways, and as Pennsylvania and our United States Government subscribed over SI.WK),000 to tho project nitb that object in view, leads us to think that it is a point of inter-State law whether the Maryland Legeislaturo possesses the legal power to Injure or make such disposi tion of the Chesapeake Bay and Ohio River Canal, as would obliterate the desired expecta tions anoV designs of its projectors. We will estimate that the cost of the Morgantown and Cumberland tunnel would be the same as the Manchester, England, canal, $00,000,000; that the tramc through it wouiu oe 93U,uuu,uuu tons (a low estimate). This at 10 cents per ton (toll through Welland Canal is said to have been 40 cents per ton), would be $3,000,000 or 6 per cent on SG0.000.00a It Is evident that tbo traffic tonnage that awaits the completion of this pro posed water way Is inconceivably great. Tho coke traffic on the upper Monongahela river alone would be immense, proably greater than Manchester will feed to its costly canal. It therefore would sorely prove a paying invest ment for private stock company, which would be subsidized, by the general government and the States benefited. TN respect to bearing all our waterway im nrovements to a perfect state, it is suggested that'our National Government Issue perpetual lovf Interest bearing waterway, improvement jonds to any amount necessary not exceeding roar national debt. These bonds could be is sued In large denominations for use as the foundation of our national banking system In piatu v ww !"""" uuuua, wmga are ueiag called in gradually, xnese bonds could ceis- sued also in small denominations tor the ac commodation of the bone and sinew portion of our people who would likely gladly purchase them as a safe investment for their Idle earn ings. The advantages to be derived by the people would be manifold. Ihey would pro vide our Government a remedy for perpetually securing all bank notes through the medium of its national banking system; people would receive a small Interest on their ldlesavings and our Government would be in a position to per manently improve our great commercial water routes, which would return benefits after tbe investing of money in the Improvement just as tbe crops are returned to tbe farmers alter he has scattered seed for growth. T'nis proposed water route would be of na tional importance as a means for tbe strategic movement of tbe monitors to our Western rivers and great lakes during war In dependent of its national character as a high way for commerce, the transportation facilities for which are becoming more cramped as the age of our nation progresses. Let us be taught by the experience of cities in older countries, as Manchester, Eng., for Instance, although Ic possesses all tbe rail facilities that can find space, discovers they are Inadequate and is now constructing its great canal as a last resort for its commercial salvation. RrVERJIAN. Pittsburg. March 6. AN OFFICIAL BALLOT. Hon. Chauncey F. Black Favors a Move ment for Genuine Reform. New York, March 7. Tho following letter from the Hon. Chauncey F. Black, of York, Pa., President of the National League of Dem ocratic Clubs, was received too late to be read at the ballot and electoral reform meeting of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Brook lyn last .Monday evening. Mr. Black is a son of Jeremiah Black: Yofk, PA., Febrnary M, 1300. My Dear Sib I bave J ust received your letter relative to the work done and proposed to be done by the Young Men's Democratic Club of Brooklyn toward the achievement of gennlne ballot reform. I agree with yon and with the club that a real and complete reform is impossible wltboat the ex clusive official ballot. Personally, and alter very serious reflection, I am convinced that the Aus tralian system, specllically and explicitly, with out excisions or additions. Is the measure for which every ballot reformer should steadily and uncompromisingly contend, and they should con tend for It, not merely until they bave compelled opponents to meet them half way, but nntil they get it straight, complete, entire. Tried long and severely, not only in Australia, but In England, andnowagilnin America, there Is no question remaining or Its perfect adequacy. It will pro duce pure and free elections, and so far as we know nothing else will. In countries where cor rupt political machines and great monopolies. In partnersblp with Government, stand ready to bribe and to terrorize. In Pennsylvania the Australian ballot cannot be bad, because our constltntion reqnires tbe bal lots to be numbered by election officers. But such is the force or publfc opinion in this Mate in favor or the Australian ballot unimpaired by sub traction or addition that many of ourpeopfe are even now seriously considering tbe wisdom of calling a constitutional convention for the sole gurposc of placing it in the constitution Itself, eyond the chances of ordinary politics and above the reach of partisan Legislatures. 1 wish the Young Men's Democratic Club of Brooklyn speed and success in its timely and patriotic undertaking. And I remain, very truly yours. chauscey '. Black. Frederick I. Lee, Esq., Young Men's Dem ocratic Club, Brooklyn. A0K3LAL SCHOOL EEDNI0N. Celebration of tbe Twenij-Filth Anniver sary of tho Sonthwestern College. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUE DISPATCH. California. Pa, March 7. On the 11th of April the California State Normal School will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its opening under the charter name of the "South western Normal College." The occasion will bring together a large number of the old students and friends of the school. The exer cises will take place in the spacious normal chapel at 10 A. M. and at 2 and 720 p. M., April Among those who will bo present and speak aro tbe first two principals of the school, J. R. Gilchrist, a prominent educator of Iowa, and C. L. Ehrenfeld, of Ohio, formerly State Li brarian of Pennsylvania; Hon. Henry Houck, of Harrisburg; City Superintendents Geo. J. Lucky, of Pittsburg, and Jobn Morrow, of Al legheny; J. J. Miller, Esq., of Pittsburg, a former student of tbe school, and Colonel Chill W. Hazzard and Hon. Geo. V. Lawrence, of Monongahela City, two of the normal trustees. A J0DRNUI EKDS IN A WDDIXG. Miss Elva Belle Galbralth to Marry Mr. E. C. Morrison nt Los Angeles SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.! Mansfield, March 7. The marriage ot Miss Elva Belle Galbralth, daughter of E. Ed gar Galbraitb, formerly a prominent Pittsburg attorney, to Mr. D. C. Morrison, will be sol emnized at tbe Bethany Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, Cal., Wednesday evening, March. 19, at 8 o'clock. The groom to be is a law partner of bis pros pective father-in-law, under whom he studied for the past two years. He is a nephew of the late 'Squire John Moorbead. late of Cecil township, Washington county, and Young Morrison became heir to a considerable portion of tbe large estate. He met Miss Galbralth on the train which carried the Galbraitb. family to their home In Los Angeles. The bride-elect is not yet 1!) years of age. She attended Curry In stitute and eraduated from the Normal De partment in IS87. She is highly accomplished in music and social attainments, and is well known in Pittsburg and vicinity. Uncle Jerry's Weakness. From tbe Boston Herald.' Uncle Jerry Rusk appears to be assuming concurrent jurisdiction with tbe House in the matter of contested seats in that body. He bas omitted to send to the Democrats occupying tbe contested seats their proportion of garden seeds for distribution among their constituents. It is a small loss to tbe constituents, but Uncle Jerry ought to be above such picayune busi ness. Mr. Vilas Heroic Effort. From the Washington Post. Hon. William F. Vilas is engaged in a most heroic effort to convince himself that the Dem ocratic party has been greatly strengthened by the loss of power. Does Brother Vilas mean by this that the Democratic party must go through another pi years of strengthening pro cess? No Truth in the Rumor. From the Harrisburg Patriot.! Captain Thompson, it is said, will not get the McKeesport postoffice because he plays poker. In other words, the powers that be have called tbe Captain, and have found him in possession of a poor hand. STATE POLITICS. Meadville Tribune: Ex-Senator Wallace Is sailing the high seas these days on his way home from Europe. He will open up his cam paign as soon as he reaches Philadelphia. Altoona Tribune: If William L. Scott really has asked Mr. Black to retire in favor of Mr. Pattison. it looks as if Mr. Cleveland was taking a hand in the fight for Governor in this State. Philadelphia Inquirer: The Wilkesbarre Leader has been interviewing the Democrats of that city in order to find out their political favorites. Eckley B. Coxe seems to be the popular favorite for Congress. Bradford Star: Hon. G. B McCalmont, of Bradford. McKean county, hopes to be ap pointed a United States Circuit Judge of Okla homa. Mr. McCalmont is a lawyer of ability and stumped New York State in 1S8S. Mercer Dispatch: Hon. Samuel M. Wherry, of Cnmberland, bas formally announced him self a candidate for tbe Legislature. Evidently Hon. Samuel M. thinks a Legislative bird in the hand is worth a whole flock of Guberna torial birds in the Democratic bush. Altoona Tribune: Wo do not think the Paxson gubernatorial boom is a very substan tial affair. Judge Paxson bas recently fathered somo judicial decisions which have rendered him decidedly unpopular with a very consider ablo element In tbe Republican party. Philadelphia Prett: The Hon. Scott, of Erie, is devoting half his time nowadays to completing arrangements for strengthening nls monopoly of the coal trade in the lake region and the other half to finding a man to run as tbe anti-monopoly candidate for Governor on the Democratic ticket. The versatility of that man Is amazing. Clarion Democrat: An interesting contest is going on in Clarion county now between Quay and his adherent) on one side and the friends of General Hastings on the othnr, to secure tbe delegates to the Republican State Convention. We will venture tbe prediction that the Btate boss will come oat ahead, and Delamater, his candidate, will bave the votes of tbe Clarion county delegates in the State Convention. I CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS, Children are punished for coughing in school in Brooklyn. At McKinney's station. Lake Tahoe, up to the 6th inst., there was registered IS inches of rain and 412 inches of snow. A North Carolina man got the names of ft) of his relatives on his petition for a post office, and presented it to tho President. The spread of the English language is indicated by the fact that it was used in the framing of a recent treaty between Russia and China. A court at Kansas City,Mo.,has decided that a colored man can be refused admittance not only to a theater, but to hotels, public balls, etc Two boys of La Harpe, 111., engaged in a banana-eating contest. One of them ato 16; the other closed with IB, and is now under a physician's care. Eight vjrieties of leprosy are recognized ia China and the disease is regarded as con taiious. infectious and hereditary, but is said to disappear in four generations. A London confectionery store gives to every purchaser of a shilling's worth a ticket entitling the purchaser to have one photograph of herself taken at an establishment upstairs. Martin Corcoran and Mike Monigan went out deer hunting a few day3agonear Ver non, B. C. Before the day was over tho former was taken for a deer and shot dead by Monigan. Henry Zimmerman was plowing in a field near White River, Kern county, last Thursday, when he turned up an old-fashioned flint-lock musket. The barrel was nearly ruined by rust. An English naval officer has invented a pneumatic line-throwing gun, very light and portable, which fires a hollow shell, bearing tho cord to a wrecked vessel, or Into burning build ings on dry land. Runaway marriages are so common in Georgia, an exchange reports, that many parents deposit injunctions with the licensing officials forbidding tbo Issuing of marnags licenses to their children. A Parliamentary investigation into the running of trains on railroads entering London from the south shows that upon an average only about CO per cent of all the passenger trains enter the city ou time. Some Bay City young men have formed a World's Fair club. Their scheme is to pay 00 cents a week each into a general fund until tho fair is held, when the money will be used by the club to attend the bigshow. An English traveling harpist has been discovered cheating the railroads by carrying his little girl done up in the green bag with his harp. Ho had traveled so all about England, and had paid no fare for tbe child. The sudden appearance of a mouse on the floor of the English House of Commons, a few nights ago, upset the dignity of the emi nent gentlemen near it, and led to a little panic that made it necessary to drop business for awhile. A wooden vase, charred by fire, that was taken from the burned residence of Secretary Tracy in Washington. Is an object that attracts considerable attention in the window of George L. Weber's crockery store, 197 Gratiot avenue. Tobacco smoke quickly contaminates delicate fruit of all kinds. A few whiffs blown upon a box of raspbetries will entirely destroy tbo delicate flavor of the fruit and render it un palatable. The same may In a degree be said of strawberries. A native movement to break up certain Hindoo customs has been started In Bombay. By It no sons are permitted to marry under 1(1 and no daughters under 10. No man is to marry after 50 or marry a second wife during the life time of the first. M. Nicolai, the engineer at the head of the commission that has been investigating tho auestion of a Siberian railway for the Rnssian nvernment. bas reported that the whole lino can be completed "by 1900, at an expense of about $130,000,000. The old-time practice of red ink cancela tion in the matter of back tax entries has re ceived a severe set-back in Detroit. The City Clerk has discovered that the taxes on six lots for 1S82, 1833 and 1S34 nave been canceled by some interested party. Many Mormons do not accept their de feat very gracefully, as several respectable gen tile families have been notified to gee out of their houses, and in several cases they tove been notified they would be thrown out if they did not get out In time. There are 100,000 conveniences which the traveler through older portions of the State uses, and hardly appreciates, but at Atlanta, Montmorenci county, every man. woman and child knows that tbe first hotel register ever used there has just been brought to town. As an instance of the growth of the Australian colonies, it may be noticed that during the last seven years the land under tillage In Victoria has increased by 1,000,000 acres, and the ratable value of country lands has increased from o5,OTO,COO to 95,000,000. Ia Siam you can get good board for 45 cents a week, and this includes washing, the use of two servants to run errands, tickets to shows, three shaves and all tbe cigars you can smoke. This sounds delightful until you learn that It is almost impossible to earn 43 cents a week in Siam. Monday was washday for two gangs of tramps who have established winter quarters just outside of Belleville, Mo. They live in dugouts and keep big bonfires blazing day and night, and aro well supplied with food, includ ing chickens, eggs. etc. On Monday they bung out their clothes lines and the variety of their apparel attracted the attention of all passers. Secretary Balfour, 'while in Dublin re cently, met a Catholic priest who did not belong to tbe Nationalist party. "Are the Irish people as bitter acainst me as certain newsnanerssav they are?" asked Balfour. "Since you have asked me I will tell you the truth," answered the priest. "If our flocks hated sin half as cordially as they bate you there would be no use for priests In Ireland." William Mason, of BInehill village, Me., thinks he has a gold mine on his farm. He keeps ducks, and the ducks pend most of their time in a certain newly-deepened pool of water not far from the farmhouse. Several ducks killed this winter have bad bits of gold in their crops, and William thinks this rich f o jd comes from tbe pool, so he is going to dig it out this spring. A Fairfield, Me., pastor took for his text last Sunday the words: Gold and silver have I not. but such as I havo I give unto you." One of the pillars of the church listened at tentively to the discourse, and when tbe box was passed fonnd that tho. text exactly de scribed his financial condition, so he' wrote it on a slip of paper, signed his name and put it into the contribution box. A farmer in Ludington, Mich., owns a pig which is a marvel inUsway. "The animal is of tbo razor-back variety, fleet as a gray hound, and its peculiar usefulness lies in its ability and skill as a rabbit hunter. The pig always follows its owner on his rabbit shooting trips and will chase tbe game with as keen s scent and round it up within gunshot with as much skill as any dog a hunter ever shot over." FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES. Capitalist I've concluded to Tent no more of my buildings for saloons. l'roblbitlonlst-Olad to hear ltt Capitalist Xes, you see the saloons cannot pay as high rent as otber lines of business. Wat Shore. "What brought yon to such a state as tnis?" kindly asked an old man. as he viewed a negro through tbe grating of a cell door. "De train, boss, fetch me hea'b, but en kin get out I'll promise yo' dat yo'll nebber ketch me in dls State ergln." Atlanta Constitution. " Platform Crank I tell yoa, my friends, If all the clgarmakers in this country struck to-" morrow, the poor man could live! Auditor Come off I Why the poorman couldn't support his family a week. You forget tbe great cost of real Havana cigars. American Grocer. "I see you've got a new man in yonr era ploy." "Yes." "Is he trustworthy?" "I should say so. He'll stlek to any kind of a story you maywUh him to tell." Washington Pusl. Watts I've got a good one for you. Potts, me boy. What Is the marked point ofresemblance between a Broadway blockade and a barrel of your flour? Potts Because your an ass. Watts No; because they both make a hundred wait. See? American Grocer. Hoffman I don't believe a word of that malicious story tbe fellows are telling on Adonli Ureatshape. Madison Squeer What Is It?. "Why. they say that at the last club entertain ment, when tho speaker quoted the word-, 'Beauty unadorned Is most adorned, Donny ripped off his coat and called out. Take my cloihcs, there, mister, I don't want 'iml'"-" Amtrlcan tfrwir.
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