THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH. SUNDAY. MAEOH 9, 1890.
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PITTSBURG. SUNDAY. MAR. 9, 189a
AN IMPERIAL THEEAT.
The young German Emperor's speech, in
which he compares the powers of his throne
to the talent given to the servant, in the
parable, and asserts his intention of "add
ing many another thereto," with the further
promise: "Those who oppose, 1 will dash
to pieces," calls ont a variety of construc
tions. The pener.il disposition is to take it as an
intimation of the Emperor that he will rule
Germany without the Reichstag, if he can
not do so with it. That is a natural deduc
tion from recent events in Germany; and
outlines a policy which may make that
country the scene of exciting events. But
may not the expression be also a reflex of
the tendency of the imperial will, tpward
adding to his store, by the accession of new
territory and the extension of his military
powers?
"Which significance is the most probable
makes little difference in the fact that either
promises lively times in Europe if the
yonng monarch is not roaring too loudly in
the index.
DRUGGISTS AND PHYSICIANS.
The long-standing dispute over the re
spective responsibility of druggists and
physicians, for mistakes in the administra
tion of medicines, has caused one of our city
druggists to produce examples of prescrip
tions, which if filled literally would
be very likely to cause an increase in the
mortality rates. The physician for instance
who ordered twenty grains of a deadly drug
to be put up when he meant a twentieth,
made a slip of the pen that would have been
fatal but for the intervention of the pre
scription clerk. JThe examples illustrate
the need of care in the writing as well as the
filling of prescriptions. As to the respective
responsibility for errors, it is probably about
equally divided; and with regard to their
frequency we are glad to believe that the
cases cited constitute the exceptions, to the
care which marks the services both of the
profession that gets up at all hours to pro
vide ns with drugs, and the one which as
sists us into the world, and, the cynical
might say, assists us out of it.
PROGRESS CRAB-WISE.
Philadelphia has lately presented a strik
ing example at once of the progress which
can be made by an intelligent policy in re
gard to widening narrow streets, and of the
municipal stupidity which is capable of
throwing all that progress away. Some
time ago an ordinance was passed in that
city that all future buildings on "Walnut
street should conform to the lines giving it a
width of sixty feet. The result was that the
gradual process of widening the street was
going on slowly, but surely. The Phila
delphia papers all testify that the experi
ment had progressed far enough to insure
its success; but all at once the Councils re
pealed the ordinance and restored the old
fifty-foot lines.
As this subjects to material loss those who
conformed to the sixty-foot lines andinjured
the city by stopping the work of widening
one of its principal streets, the inference Is
very plain that it was inspired by some in
fluence that wanted to rebuild on the nar
row line. It is a remarkable example
ot the very slight respect that is sometimes
shown for the public interest by the repre
sentatives of the public Pittsburg has
several streets that might well be widened
by the process adopted for "Walnut; but
with Philadelphia destroying her own ex
ample by throwing its benefits away, the
difficulty of overcoming the conservatism
that stands in the way of giving us modern
streets will be infinitely enhanced.
NO CASE FOR PARDONING.
It is announced that a very Btrong in
fluence will be arrayed on behalf of securing
a pardon for E. L. Harper, the Cincinnati
speculator and bank wrecker. It is not
known that any reasons exist why Harper
should be pardoned, except the usual pre
texts of deep contrition, failing health and
destitute family, with the actual reason
behind them, that the man has powerful
friends. nevertheless, if there is one class
of convicts who should be made to undergo
the full punishment prescribed by the law,
it is the class to which Harper belongs. His
offense was the double one of betraying a
trust and stealing the funds intrusted to his
bank to use in gambling on the necessaries
of life If the President releases such a
criminal the act will afford decided justifi
cation to the frequently heard declaration,
that there is no real punishment for the
offenses of men who have wealth and in
fluence behind them.
H0RXGAGES AND CURRENCY.
Senator Leland Stanford is reported to
have taken up a new idea that of putting
the Government into the business of loaning
money on real estate mortgages at 1 or 2 per
cent interest, for long periods. As the
money thus loaned would be the Govern
ment's own notes, the plan would be the es
tablishment on one hand of an agency where
the people could negotiate approved mort
gages very cheaply, and on the other, for an
indefinite expansion of the national currency
on a basis of landed security.
It is rather surprising after twenty years
of fighting over the question of papermoney, J
to find a Senator from California who has
been supposed to be a citadel of the solid
money policy developing a policy that dis
counts the wildest propositions of the soft
money school. Such a reversal of what
have been supposed to be Senator Stanford's
settled views can hardly fail to evoke inti
mations that the immense landed estates
which are held by the corporations he rep
resents, mar have something to do with his
new views.
Nevertheless the arguments by which
Senator Stanford supports his ideas have
enough foundation to furnish a valuable
suggestion. The country is now considering
the question what securities shall take the
place of the Government bonds as a basis
for national banking. The plan has been
presented by a citizen of this city of mak
ing approved real estate mortgages at the
valuation of assessments for taxation the
new basis for national bank circulation.
As Senator Stanford says, there is hardly
any more stable foundation for values than
that of land. With the safeguard proposed
against inflated appraisals, it is question
able whether any more universal or satis
factory substitute for Government bonds in
national banking could be found than this
one of good real estate mortgages.
The idea is certainly worth considering.
Senator Stanford's rather expansive idea of
an indefinite volume of currency on land
mortgages, might be brought into practical
shape by making those securities the basis
of national banking.
CROSSING VERSUS LOOP.
The repeated occurrence of accidents where
the cable roads cross each other, which have,
fortunately, so far inflicted nothing
more serious than delay and interruption of
business on the roads, should convey a
lesson not only to the traction companies
but to the public. At present the points
where motor lines intersect down town are
eight. But with the completion of the new
projects, every corner from Third avenue on
one side to Seventh on the other, from
"Wood street to Grant in the other direction,
will offer the excitement incident to the
crossing of one line by others.
This occupancy of nearly all the down
town streets by various lines is the result of
the theory that each individual line has ex
clusive rights in the streets which it first
preempts. There can hardly be a doctrine
more at variance with the public character
of a street than this; but it is not the legal
but the practical aspect of the matter to
which we desire to call attention. The in
tersection of two companies at Fifth and
"Wood has already occasioned several
costly and vexatious accidents, which may
at some time in the future develop fatal
qualities. What will it be when by the
building of two additional lines, the same
conditions will be reproduced at four cross
ings on Wood street, six on Smitbfield street
and two on Grant street, at some of which
three and perhaps four different lines will
aggravate the crowding and enhance the
blockade, if any mishap ensues? Moreover
what will be the outlook for the general
public when every one of these street corners
exposes the driver or pedestrian to the
chances of being run over by cars bearing
down on him from four directions?
It wonld be of no use talking of this mat
ter if the remedy had not been plain to a
foresighted public policy, and were not still
within reach. A single loop open to all
motor lines, wonld insure all cars
go in the same direction, so that they could
not meet with the accidents that have taken
place frequently. It would let the public
know in which direction to look for the cars
and would concentrate the motor business
on certain streets and leave the others free
for ordinary traffic Both safety and con
venience would be increased by an arrange
ment which would send all these cars
around a single loop, and abolish all such
crossings as those which are now making
the trouble
It would have been very easy to provide
such a belt line by intelligent legislation
in the first place; and it should not be im
possible now. Perhaps, after the companies
have run into each other a few times more,
they will perceive the economy of such an
arrangement to themselves.
RUSSIA'S DESPERATE CONDITION.
The story which is told elsewhere by an
escaped Bussian political prisoner, of the
arbitrary imprisonment which he suffered
simply on account of the suspicions of the
imperial police, is a striking corroboration
of the disclosures made by Mr. Kennan. It
is not to be wondered at that educated men
and women who are subjected to such
tyranny should seek the revenge of dynamite
conspiracies and assassination. Yet, how
ever much the sympathy of democratic na
tions must be evoked for the victims of
absolutism, it must be also the verdict of
those who perceive the value of law in the
establishment of popular government, that
the means of agitation which consist of
dynamite and arson, do not afford the vindi
cation of their cause.
It is inevitable that revolution shall come
in Bussia. There is hardly any other way
in which a military absolutism can be over
thrown. To the men who sacrifice them
selves in educating the Bussian peasantry
for a revolution which shall establish cons
titutional Government no less exalted posi
tion than that of political martyrs can be
assigned. But when that revolution comes
it must succeed by civilized warfare in
the name of the people. To seek its success
by dynamite is simply to substitute the
despotism of secret assassination for that of a
military empire; and who can say that the
change shall be for the better?
For the present it is clear that Bussia
must continue under the present reign of
absolutism and injustice. When the up
heaval comes, it will be a social cataclysm
that will make the French revolution seem
like a mild and conservative reform of
political abuses.
It is interesting to observe that the long
standing hatred between France and Germany
has settled down into a rivalry as to which can
most effectually kill off the Africans and absorb
their territory. Captain Wissman is conduct
ing the campaign on the East African coast,
while the French are making their attack on
Dahomey. This diversion of the European ap
petite for war is advantageous for France and
Germany; but it is so hard upon the Africans
that it may give them prejudiced views of civil
ization. It is now reported that the Louisiana
lottery people are going to try and get a loca
tion in Nevada. The State which sells its Sen
atorships regularly will probably make no
bones abont selling lottery privileges, except
as regards the price of the job.
Ix is understood that Postmaster General
Wanamaker will have nothing to do with
Stone, the McKeesport nominee for postmas
ter, on account of a reported fondness of the up
river politician for the game of pots and pairs.
But along comes some wicked gossiper and
says that President Harrison m his Senatorial
days was not a bad poker player, either. Will
this report lead the Postmaster General to
suspend relations with the head of the admin
istration ?
Between the actual loss of seats and the
reduction of Tory majorities at the by-elec-
lions, the Tory Ministry can clearly recognize
that their only chance is to hold on as long as
they can. But even if they do that, the hand
writing is on the wail.
A fine ot 5126,000, accompanied with
eighteen years' imprisonment in the peniten
tiary, applied to a defaulting County Treasurer
in Ohio, looks like a punishment that tends to
deter the conversion of public funds to private
use. It is the result of the Ohio law which pre
scribes a fine of double tho amount of the de
falcation, and as such attains the rank of the
biggest fine on record. It may make embezzle
ment unpopular if the man is not pardoned
out of the penitentiary too soon.
Senator Dolph, ot Oregon, made'a
hit the other day by giving his fellow members
a dinner of Columbia river salmon. Salmon
being a brain food, the universal opinion is that
the Oregon Senator has shown bow to fill a long
felt want.
The renewed announcement that the
Treasury authorities have ordered the new
postofflce to be finished by October, with an
intimation that if it is not done some one will
wish to know the reason why. is gratifying evi
dence that things do sometimes move. It
holds ont the hope that the buildlne will bo
finished in the short space of fifteen years from
the time it was begun.
The Allegheny postoffice wants more
clerks, but it does not want enough to bring it
under the operation of the civil service act.
Thus are our political friends induced to recog
nize the wisdom of sticking to tne golden
mean.
Of course the Ke publican Senators re
port in favor of seating Sanders and Powers
from Montana, and the Democrats in favor ot
seating McGmnis and Clark. If Senators could
be found who would report in favor of the men
elected, regardless of party dictates, there
might be some belief in the disinterestedness of
party government.
The public building pork barrel looks
very full at present, but by the time every Con
gressman has got a piece of the pork, the sup
ply, or surplus, bids fair to be utterly ex.
hausted.
It is interesting and touching to observe
the logic by which tho esteemed Chicago
Herald argues that bogus lard is really superior
to the genuine. That may be so, and yet the
public might claim the right to have it distin
guished otherwise than as "strictly pure lard"
In order to be able to pay the higher price for
the better article.
Congress having provided an Assistant
Secretary of War, the head o( that department
will now have some relief from his arduous
labors in the line of doing nothing.
The Senate's threat to imprison the news
paper men for contempt of the Senate has
been sicklied o'er with the pale cast of the
thought that if the Senate gets to imprisoning
the men who are in contempt of that lofty body
it will be confronted with the rather largo con
tract of putting the majority of the nation un
der lock and key.
The new cruiser Newarkis to be launched
on St. Patrick's Day. This ought to be an
omen that the new fighting vessel will be a ter
ror to sea snakes and Britishers.
Chaeleroi's big plate glass works are
being promptly tut under contract. The
progress of the work will do more to boom tho
new town than all the real estate sales that
could be held in the coming season. Nothing
builds a town up so convincingly as the build
ing itself.
The fact that the thermometer at different
points in this country on Wednesday showed a
range of 116 degrees, enforces the lesson that
this is a big nation.
The politics of the First ward have
reached a condition of strained relations that
promises some very pretty revelations before
the License Court. It is reassuring to leant
that the politics of that section can have any
results that will inure to the benefit of the
public
The important question, whether the
streots belong to the telephone or electric rail
road companies, seems likely to be brought to a
direct issue.
PERUArs by the time that the cable roads
have run into each other a few times moro it
may dawn upon the minds of their managers
that it would have been wiser to have bad one
belt line for all motor cars to run upon in the
crowded portion of the city.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
Prince Carolatu Schoenaich has been
elected Grand Master of the Freemasons in
Prussia.
James Russell Lowell's physician says
that be is slowly improving. The probability
is that the distinguished author has been more
seriously ill than anyone except his physician
realized.
Mb. Henry EL Abbey says that he has
never thought of bringing suit against Miss
Mary Anderson for breach of contract. There
is no misunderstanding which will not bo amic
ably settled.
The reports of Governor Hovey's illness are
greatly exaggerated. Be has almost entirely re
covered from what was not regarded as a seri
ous sickness, but is still weak and remains in
his room to guard against a relapse.
Speaker Reed has received at least one
novel by every mail since it became known
that he is fond of light literature. .Duplicate
copies of tho same work have sometimes
reached him from the author and publisher.
Jhe Prince of Wales when going on a jour
ney always takes along whole boxes of hats and
huge trunks of dress suits, morning coats and
other changes. He makes a point when visit
ing anywhere of not being seen twice in the
same coat.
George William Curtis Is CS years old,
but he looks younger than man- men of 50.
He is of the medium height, well built, well
dressed and well mannered. His large gray
eyes have a genial expression and his manners
have a hearty, engaging warmth.
Rev. Clement M. Butler, D. D., who died
in Germantown, Pa., Thursday night, aged 80
years, during bis rectorship at Trinity Church
in Washington City, was Chaplain of the
United States Senate and was a warm personal
friend of Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.
Pope Leo uses a gold pen for his corre
spondence, but his signatures are always at
tached with a quill from the wing of a dove or
stormy petrel, opinion is divided as to which.
This penbas been in use by the Pope for 40
years, and is kept by him in a case of ivory.
The newspaper publishers and editors of
Philadelphia have tendered to Charles Emory
Smith, recently appointed Minister to Russia,
a public dinner, to be participated in by news
paper men and brethren of the fraternity.
Mr. Smith has named Monday evening, March
SI, as the date for the dinner.
Action of Conncll to bo Applauded.
From the Johnstown Tribune.
The decision ot the Conemaugh borough
Council not to sell the borough property is to
be applauded. The objections which were
raised were received in the spirit in which they
were offered, and the unwisdom ot the sale was
seen; and now, when the final amalgamation of
all the boroughs takes place, they will come to
gether into one harmonious whole.
Not nn Amerlcnn Question.
From the St. Louis Republic
The annexation of Canada is not an Ameri
can question. The violent attacks of some of
the Canadian journals upon the United States
in this connection are very amusing. The
only effect they could possibly have, under the
circumstances, would be to incite another
Fenian raid. If there is an annexation issue
let's have some runout of it.
A Ciinnce fur Scnalor Sherman.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. J
The manufacture of artificial ice will be a
great industry in this conntry this year. What
a magnificent chance for John Sherman.
THE TOPICAL TALKER,
Ignorance la Bliss, So ia Impudence Some
times Chata With nnd Abont Mr. Flor
ence. "The cable car was passing Boss street, when
the bright-eyed young woman said to the
wooden-faced young man beside her: "Look!
there's the Bridge of Sighs."
The stolid youth directed his gaze toward
Richardson's exquisite link joining Court
House and jail, and remarked: "That bridge
ain't much of a size."
'-Ob, that's not it they call it a Bridge of
Sighs," rejoined the owner of the bright eyes,
"because it's like another Bridge of Highs ta
inIn Spain. The Nihilists cross over it on
their way to Siberia it's the last one they
cross, and so and so they call it the Bridge of
Sighs."
"Oh!" said the young man, a look of deep re
spect for his fair instructor lighting up bis
vacant face for a moment.
When ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
TTThile the Hon. W. J. Florence was giving
audience to a few of his friends yesterday
afternoon in front of the Grand Opera House a
man with a fair cargo of drink aboard caught
hold of his arm and murmured:
"Say, 'souse me, Billy, I "
"Stop ! I know what you want," said Flor
ence, thrusting his band deep down into his
trousers' pocket.
"I'm a blank blank son of a gun," apologeti
cally remarked the inebriated one.
"Yes, you look liko one," assented Florence,
as he pulled out a half dollar and continued,
"Now go away 1"
The man took the coin, smiled faintly and
faded away.
"He's a friend of mine, sure! He called me
Billy!" was Florence's final remark.
A pbopos of a story which Mr. Florence told
yesterday concerning the release of a
prisoner from Sing Sing but which it were
hardly in good taste to tell here, thougn it re
dounds to the credit of the warm-hearted actor
a Pittsbnrger related the following: "A
young fellow who worked in tho same office
with me, and was generally liked by all of us.
nnhappily fell into evil courses, and at last the
law got hold of him. He was tried and con
victed, but sentence was deferred for a few
days. In tho interval I went to see the Judge,
and told him all the good I could about the
young man. I laid particular stress upon his
brightness and ability, and the promising ca
reer which his crime had blasted. The Judge
listened to all I had to say patiently. Then he
asked me: 'He is an intelligent, well-educated
fellow, is he 7' 1 assented.
" 'I am very glad you have told me this,' the
Judge remarked, very glad. I was going to
give him four years.'
"So I went away well satisfied. The prisoner
was brought up for sentence and the Judge,
after a few remarks about the prisoner's evi
dent intelligence and ability to tell right from
wrong, sentenced him to six years in the peni
tentiary, the limit of the law.
"Since that day my services as an intercessor
with the juriciary have not been in demand,
strange to say,"
.
The memory which Mr. Florence possesses is
not tho least among his endowments. Law
rence Hutton.tbe author and critic, relates that
at the time of the first production of Robert
son's admirable comedy of "Caste" in this
country the play was the subject of some litiga
tion and of considerable newspaper discussion,
which will be still remembered. Mr. Lester
Wallack bad purchased the manuscript of the
play from its author, but before the regular
Wallack season of 1867-68 opened, it was
brought out, as has been shown, by Mr. Flor
ence at the rival house. Although Mr. Wal
lack, as it appears, had the best moral right to
the comedy in this country, be could not, in the
absence of an international copyright law, pre
vent its being played by other people.
"Caste" at that time had never been pub
lished in England, and Mr. Florence, who
claimed to have seen it only on the boards of
the London Theater, is said to have committed
it to memory as an entirety, scenery, costumes,
dialogue. Stage business and ail, a feat in
mnemonics almost without parallel, but not
altogether impossible to Mr. Florence, for a
season or two later here, when Mr. McCullongh
for the first time played Spartacus at Booth's,
he repeated great portions of the tragedy ver
batim to a party of gentlemen present, al
though he had never studied it, read it, or
played in it, and had not seen it played for
many years.
Vesterday when I showed Mr. Hutton's
statement, which The Mirror of this week
contains, to Mr. Florence, he acknowledged
that the mnemonic feat bad been so accom
plished by him, as had many others like it.
"Yes," said a gentleman who was present at
the moment, "last year when Mr. Florence was
playing in Cleveland, I went behind tho scenes
to see him, and found him testing bis memory
on the lines of Sir Lucius (Trigger, and he
was nearly letter perfect in them. You hadn't
played tho part for a good many years, had
yon, Mr. Florence.
"It was twenty-six years since I had played In
The Rivals,' " was Mr. Florence's reply.
Hepburn Johns.
BOOJI IN JAPANESE TEAYEL.
Sir
Edwin Arnold'a Delightful Letters
Brine Abont the Result.
tDY CABLE TO TDK DISPATCH. I
London, March 8. Sir Edwin Arnold's de
lightful letters from Japan to the Telegraph,
of which ho is'editor, have created a boom in
Japanese travel, and many English people are
journeying thither this spring. Arnold, as all
who read his letters know, is charmed with
Japan and its people, but few of his friends
would care to believe that he would give up
Europe for Cathay. Nevertheless an attache
of the Telegraph informs me that it is believed
in that office that Arnold will take up his resi
dence and spend the rest of his days in Japan.
"Sir Edwin." said my informant, "is an Ori
entalist by disnosition and temperament, and
tho hurlyburly of the practical world has al
ways jarred upon bis sensitive moral organiza
tion. He Is a man of the gentlest character. I
never beard him use a harsh or discourteous
word. He is polite to a crossing sweeper or a
cabman. He would be courteous to a woman
who annoyed him in the street. In Japan hehas
found the exact environment he has always
craved, and we very much fear that he will not
return to Europe."
MARSHAL 1IENRY A. BARNUM
Tendered a Reception in Recognition of Ills
Many Tublic Services.
New York, March 8. The members of tho
staff of the New Yori brigado In the inaugural
parade of President Harrison, nnited to-night
with other friends. Democrats as well as Re
publicans, in a recognition of the many public
services ol the Marshal of the brigade. General
Henry A. Barnum.
They held a big banquet at tho Windsor Ho
tel, and presented to him a magnificent
Juergeson enameled gold watch, with a dia
mond locket and chain. Chauncey M. Depew
made a felicitous presentation speech and
General Barnum replied happily. Colonel E.
A. McAlpin presided, and among those present
were Generals W. T. Sherman, Slocum,
Sickles, DI Cesnola, Martin T. McMahon; Wm.
H. Seward, ex-Postmaster General Thomas L.
James and Senator J. Sloat Fassett.
O'BRIEN'S PRISON BOOK.
It Deals With Fenians, and Several Irish
Amerlcnn Characters Aro Introduced.
fEY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
London, March 8. The book that William
O'Brien wrote in prison is to be brought out
soon after Easter by Longmans, Green & Co.
It is a historical novel, and the title is, "When
We Were Boys." It deals with Fenians, and
several Irish-American characters are intro
duced. Part of O'Brien's book met with an
accident similar to the one that befell Carlyle's
"French Revolution." O'Brien lost the first
eight chapters, and at one time it seemed as If
bis health would not allow him to rewrite them.
He has, however, just now completed the miss
ing part The book is in process of translation
Into French and Italian.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Conrad F. Sblndle.
Tauaqua, Pa., March 8. Conrad F. Shindle. a
prominent Schuylkill county lawyer, who had
been seriously III for several weeks, died at his
residence in this city yesterday mornlug. He was
born iu Columbia county In 1838.
Prof. Edwin D. Bancs.
OALESBUna, 111., March $. rrof. Edwin D.
Bangs, aged 74 years, died yesterday. He gradu
ated from Amherst College In ISM. and taught at
Princeton 10 years before coming to this state.
GLADSTONE AND TXNDALL.
The Former Mnkea a Statement Concerning
Their Little Dlaputc.
rov cable to' the disfatcii.j
London, March 8. Mr. Gladstone, being de
sirous that tho American people should know
the merits of the controversy over the charges
made against him by Prof. Tyndall, asked me
to call upon him to-day. The Grand Old Man
wa3 watting in his library beaming over with
goodnature and in high spirits. Before him
lay a telegram announcing the result of the
Stamford election and his first words were:
"Have you heard tho good news?" Then he
spoke of the encouragement these repeated ex
pressions of public opinion 'from the noils gave
him and said that they strengthened him to
work until home rule was accomplished. Mr.
Gladstone gave me an exclusive copy of a let
ter he has to-day written to Prof." Tyndall. in
response to a letter of Gladstone written Jan
uary 29 and answered to-day. Gladstone's first
letter was as follows:
Mr Dear Sir. If you are correctly reDortedto
have said at an Ulster meeting where Lord Lon
donderry appears to have been the chief speaker
that 1 have called Mr. Pitt a blackguard. 1 have
to request that you will at your early convenience
supply me with your authority for that state
ment. Six weeks later Prof. Tvndall answered this
letter in a communication, that would fill two
columns of The Dispatch, in which he re
views Gladstone's entire Parliamentary career,
having evidently crammed historv for the occa
sion, concludinc with a postscript to the effect
that he intended to send the letter to the press.
Tho substance of the response to Mr. Glad
stone's request is in the first paragraph of Tyn
dall's letter, thus:
I did not ay you had called Mr. Pitt a black
guard. The exact words as reported In every
newspaper to which I have had access were these:
'Ire waited until he was 76 vears old to discover
that Pitt was a blackguard and the Union a
crime." For your opinion of Pitt and his work,
expressed when your Intellectual power was at Its
maximum. I quote a statement made by yon In
September, 18o6: -'It is hard to say what might
not have been anticipated from his iMr. Pitt
vigor and wisdom, combined with a continuance
of peace, but the hurricane of the French Revolu
tion swept over the face or Europe and drew him
on to a war, which aealn postponed for a quarter
or a century all attempts at legislative progress,
with the splendid, but Isolated, exceptions of the
union with Ireland and the abolition or slave
trade." In the heyday or your manhood, when
your vision was clearer and your temptations fewer
than they are now, von bore emphatic witness to
Pitt's vigor and wisdom, and Dolnted ont the
splendor or his achievement In passing the act of
union.
This is Gladstone's reply:
1 thank you for recalling to my memory the ex
act words which were used by von at Belfast
respecting Mr. Pitt, nnd which Implied that I had
connected the word blackguard with bis name.
But 1 recret that after the labors or six weeks
have allowed you to satisfy yourself that 1 had
not so employed It you have not been able to pre
vail upon yourself to confess your error, in lieu
of this you have spent your time in the study of
some among my many political delinquencies,
and have proved that 33 years ago. when my con
tact with Irish questions was limited to thoseof
religion and finance. 1 shared the general Ignor
ance and gave utterance to the then classical
opinion of Englishmen about the union. I sin
cerely thank you for setting out at so much length
the language In which, ever since making the
union a subject of special study, I have endeavored
to bet forth Its true character, and I contentedly
leave you to revel In the wealth of that vocab
ulary which you have almost exhausted in your
effort to anticipate the condemnation that history
is to pronounce upon me and my doings. It seems
to give you pleasure and it causes me no pain. My
only desire is to meet you on the terms on which
long ago we stood, when under my root you gal
lantly offered to take me up the Matterhorn, and
guaranteed my safe return.
THE KENDALS TERI GRATEFUL.
They Are Called Beforo tho Curtnla
nnd
Rcapond to tho PInudlts.
New York, March 8. Mr. and Mrs. Kendal
concluded their engagement at the Fifth Ave
nue Theater to-night. Mr. Kendal made a
speech at the end of the performance in re
sponse to tho plaudits of the audience, in which
he spoke of the kind treatment ho had received
in America, and expressed his extreme satis
faction that the sincerity of their efforts in pre
senting to the American publicthebest at their
command had met with such strong approval.
"To-morrow night," he said, "wo begin a jour
ney which wo have looked forward to for
some months with much apprehension a six
days railroad ride across your great American
Continent. The size, extent, wonderful re
sources and enterprise of this country had
always been a subject of wonler to him, but be
said be had not supposed when he first landed
on these shores that be should find the oppor
tunity to go tnrnugn tne experiences oi wnat
appeared to an Enclishnian so lone: and wonder
ful a journey. He further said, that at the
other end of tho trip be was told be would meet
audiences, who in spite of the great distance
from those Eastern shores would receive them
with critical attention; who would be generous
and hospitable if he andr Mrs. Kendal pleased
tbem. They would work hard, he said, to re
ceive the same indorsement from the citizens
of the Golden Gate, if hard work would bring
it, that they bad the honor of receiving on the
Atlantic side.
Calls for Mrs. Kendal brought her to the
front also. She said: "I am what I am. I ap
preciate what I have seen In my audiences as a
test of their affection. You have laughed with
bs and cried with us, and , no slncercr testis
wanted by an actor than this. Your social gen
erosity has beon without limit. You are as
cenerous in heart as you are large in country.
But tbero were others who watched with
anxiety and solicitude our advent among you.
I left behind mo in England five children who
were loath to let us go, 'But don't be fright
ened, mother,' they said, 'the Americans will
like you and father,' and I was joyfully enabled
to cable them last summer that the Americans
did like 'Me and father. "
EYANGELICAL CONFERENCE.
The Central Pennsylvania College Reported
in a Flourishing Condition.
York, Pa., March 8. Chairman Carothers
called the Central Pennsylvania Conference of
the Evangelical Church to order this morning.
The Visiting Committee to the Central Penn
sylvania College, at New Berlin, Pa., reported
tho institution in nourishing condition, and
recommended an additional bulldinc. The
trustees of the college also roported, and it was
decided to invite the Pittsburg Conference to
share in the management of the college, and
a two-sevenths interest was donated them by
this Conference. Trustees of tho college were
elected a? follows: Isaiah Bowers for three
years, J. F. Thomas and E. Kohn, conditional
trustees.
Corn Cxcbango Member Condemned.
Baltimore, March S. The Board of Di
rectors of the Corn and Flour Exchange to-day
adopted resolutions strongly condemning the
action of members of tho exchange who aro en
deavoring to secure legislation creating a State
Board of Commissioners for the inspection of
grain and to be appointed by the Governor.
Alvrn j Thoncht it Wns Fenced In.
From the Philadelphia inquirer.
One reason why this city Isn't fenced in and
whitewashed is because Councils do not think
it could afford to pay for tho fence.
CURRENT TIMELY TRIFLES.
A GENTLEMAN in Washington county. Pa.,
hired two men to drill 2,200 feet In the grouna for
him and got a dry hole, it is not stated what he
wanted the hole for.
America ships more than half a million
gallons of whisky to Africa every year. Many a
million headaches are thus saved Uncle Sam's
sons.
A petition weighing something less than a
ton has been presented to the Albany Legislature.
It Is the first petition ever presented that a mem
ber was afraid to have It laid on the table.
The deadly spare bed has slain its thousands,
and is still at It. How happy the good housewife
should leel who makes a "shake-down" lor her
unexpected and at times unwelcome guest.
The Rev. David Utter is a Chicago clergy
man. He Utter go to New York and preach to her
disapnolnted people.
The Baltimore papers fear that tho oyster
will soon disappear altogether and are suggesting
several wajs of keeping up the supply. The easi
est and most feasible plan would be to have an act
passed prohibiting their use only in church socials
for a year or two.
Onion & Co., ot Baltimore, havo made a
deed of trust. Thus do the strongest American
firms come to grief occasionally.
THE Dec-ocrats of Lewiston, Mo., elected
their candidate for Mayor by ouo majority. Two
Republicans who walked out Into the suburbs to
take something out of a bottle, failed to get back
before the polls closed, and are now blamed for
tne Democratic success. The name of the success
ful candidate Is McUIUIcuddy
Jay Gould will shortly make a trip to for
eign lands. He is busily engaced at present char
tering all the Trans-Atlantic steamers to bring
the earth hack with him.
In Paris you can get cremated for 60 cents.
In Jersey tnrcc drinks go fur 25 cents. America
against the world.
A law has been passed fixing the salary of
United btates Judges at (3,000 per annum. It Is
no more than Justice that a Judge should get a sal
ary equal to the hired' man around the editorial
room. i
ELECTRICITYIN MEDICINE.
A Pnper From Dr. Andrew Grayson, of
Philadelphia, Defending-Itl Proper Uae
A Remedial Agency Thnt Should Not be
Abandoned to Quacks.
'Pheee is a great struggle to-day amongphysl-
cians concerning the use of electricity in
the science of medicine. When little was
known concerning the mysterious agent which
bas given to this period the name of "The Elec
tric Age," charlatans, calling themselves
medico-electricians, used it to humhugpatients.
Now, however, when a greater knowledge of
the electrical current has been gained by scien
tists, its remedial qualities have become recog
nized, and physicians of the highest standing
are contending that its beneficial uses should
not be abandoned to the fraud and the quack.
A majority, however, of the most conservative
of all professions, stand aghast at the suggested
innovation. In Philadelphia, naturally the
war rages most bitterly. That city of great
medical colleges is famous for narrow-minded
ethics of its doctors. There the physician who
consults with the member of another school is
expelled from his medical society, and the
same fate befalls him who advertises even a
change in the location of bis office or, worse
than all, who permits the nse of his name in a
newspaper interview.
A tew Philadelphia physicians of renown,
regardless of consequences, introduced elec
tricity in their practice, and the result has been
a bitter warfare in the County Medical Society.
The new, progressive school, however, has at
its head such an eminent man as Dr. Roberts
Bartholow, formerly of Cincinnati. He is the
physician to whom recently was forwarded a
check for 510.000 to pay one visit to Plankinton,
the dying millionaire pork packer, and who re
turned the sum and refused to make the jour
ney toMilwaukee because he was too busy with
his studies. Were a less prominent man at
their head the new school of progressists would
doubtless have been professionally ostracised
ere this. Enthusiasts among them even con
tend that electricity can, to a large extent,
take the place of the surgeon's knife. Dr.
Baitholow's leading follower is Dr. Andrew
Grayson. He is so fervent in his belief that,
in defiance of conventionalism, be has written
for publication the annexed defenso of bis
creed:
JN reply to the frequently uttered statements
that have been made that electricity is but
an instrument of charlatanism, used by un
principled men to mystify and delude, it gives
me great pleasure to write as a progressive
man seeking the truth of the matter. Among
the many remarkable developments of our age
none exceed the adaptations of electricity to
the treatment and cure of disease. Mankind
does not conceive of the manifold benefits that
aro being worked out daily among the ills of
hnmanity; of the cures that are being accom
plished without pain or danger to the patient.
The prejudice against electricity that is found
among the masses also prevails to a certain ex
tent with physicians. But this latter is giving
way to the scientific precision and accuracy
that is evidencing itself in the manipulation of
the agent.
The mention of electricity to many means
simply shock, pain. Some time in their lives
they have been experimented upon by some
f nnny man on the corner, or at the county fair,
or perhaps by some ignorant charlatan pretend
ing to drive out disease by inflicting pain. The
memory of that awful grip and twist of the
muscles, that grasp of death, powerless to free
themselves from that rigor mortis, has never
left them, and that is their idea of electricity.
That was electricity, but it was the abuse of it.
Physicians who have spent years upon the
study of its proper application are not using it
In that manner. It is given with measured ac
curacy, carefully dosed.
A physician never allows his patient to
guess at the dose of medicine by drinking
it from the bottle, but the graduated medicine
glass gives the dose without any mistake.
And so with electricity. A meter is used that
always measures tho dose with care and pre
cision. And in giving it the physician does not
hurt his patient. In fact be gets his best re
sults without hurting him. It is a very Import
ant point both to the patient and as to results
not to cause any pain. Gentle methods, best
effects, has become an axiom in elcctrical treat
ment, l'ain is alleviated, surgical operations
rendered unnecessary, tumors reduced, bleed
ing stopped, debility replaced by vigor and
strength, and all without pain or danger.
Strong treatments dofeat the very object you
are after.
There is anolherpoint upon which the public
is not informed. The mention of electricity
brings to mind visions of wet sponges, bath
tubs, etc Now, it is a well-proven fact that
tue verv Desc ot results arc oDtaineu oy means
of one form of electricity which is drawn di
rectly through clothing of any description. A
patient goes into the doctor's office and is
treated and results obtained which he can
recognize without the removal of any article
of clothing not even his overshoes. Pain has
been gotten rid of from every part of the body
without any inconvenience to the patient. This
important feature will commend itself to the
ladies as doing away with a great annoyance.
This mode of relief applies largely to that pain
from which almost everybody suffers, more or
less headache. It vanishes under its applica
tion. And in many kindred troubles or the
head and brain it does marvels. Merchants,
professional men, actors, men and women who
are driving their brains beyond their capabili
ties, are given new vigor and power and by
methods which are devoid of the slightest dis
comfort or danger.
'Piiere are some few progressive physicians
who aro daily using electricity in their
practice, but quietly because of the existing
prejudice They do not want to be known as
electricians, and they are not, but by using elec
tricity, together with medicines and according
to the principles of their profession, they know
they are obtaining results which cannot be had
from anything else and wltn no danger to the
patient. They are progressive enough to face
and down this opposition on account of the
good results which their patients receive. And
these very happy consequences give rise to in
credulity. But these physicians do not claim
"cure all" properties to be connected with elec
tricity. They use it as an adjunct in their sen-
era! practice, because it is valuable in its own
direction.
It makes the treatment all tho more satisfac
tory because It is in the hands of one trained to
know what rases it will benefit and what ones
it will not. He is not like a non-medical elec
trician who can administer electricity or noth
ing. The medical profession does not always
stop to consider the significance of this fact
and to recognize that it is much better tor
trained physicians to handle this agent than an
ignorant person with the one solo idea of mak
ing money regardless of any consequences that
mav come in the use of a force which requires
that a perfect knowledge be had of it.
T nste ad of disbelief there should be the spirit
of investigation. Unbelief in this matter
cannot, in Mr. Podsnap's manner, sweep it out
of the world, results are convincing
to the ones concerned, patient and physician.
For instance, in a long line of diseases by
which womankind is peculiarly afflicted and
that manifest themselves in backaches, pains
in right and left sides, cramps at times, "the
miseries," as they express it, for which the
knife was thought to bo the only remedy, elec
tricity has demonstrated its ability and power
to cure, anu in tno curingto remove a very im
portant factor of danger from the cases.
It has been said by some and taught by many
that electricity was life. This has never been
proven. .hut it seems a3 if it supplies to those
almost lifeless a new lease of life. When the
busy man in any pathway of life is using his
vitality with prodigality, this agent will restore
him. When sleep forsakes the woman of
society, or the housewife: or when she rises
from her bed unrefreshed by slumDer, and her
nervous system is a mass of tangled sensibili
ties unstrung and out of tune with her life,
electricity will soothe and make tense those
relapsed strings, will cause them to vibrate
with new life and tone and harmonize with her
environments. BntI can only say inclosing
that if I have succeeded in making clear the
value that some physicians put upon electricity,
which is not misplaced, and why they thus
esteem it, I am satisfied.
Andrew Gravson.
WAITING.
He Is coming! be is coming! in my throbbing
breast I feel it;
There Is mnslc in my blood, and It whispers all
day long
That my love unknown come3 toward met Ah,
my heart he need not steal It,
For I cannot hide the secret that it murmurs in
its song.
Oh! the sweet bursting flowers! how they open,
never blushing.
Laying bare their fragrant bosoms to the kisses
or the sun!
And the birds I thonght 'twas poets only read
their lender gushing,
But 1 hear their pleading stories and I know
them everyone.
"Helscomingl" savsmy heart; I may raise my
eyes and greet him;
I may meet him any moment shall I know him
' when I see?
And my heart laughs hack the answer I can tell
him when I meet him.
For our eyes will kiss and mingle ere he speaks a
word to me.
Oh, I'm longing for his coming-in the dark my
arms outstretching;
To hasten you. my love, see, I lay my bosom
hare I
Ah! the night wind! I shudder, and my hands are
raised beseeching
It walled so light a death-sight that It passed me
In the air!
John Boyle- O'ReiUyin the Pilot.
WINDING UP THE CREDIT 1I0BILIEE.
The Corporation Una no Aaaeta or Liabili
ties and la Ready for Dissolution.
Philadelphia. March 8. Charles R. Mc-
Michael, Esq., to-day made application to the
Court of Common Pleas No. 4. Judge Wiilson
presiding, in the matter or the petition of the
Credit Mobilier Company, of America, tor dis
solution. The accounts show that the corpora
tion is possessed of the account and office
books and papers used by it in its business,
which are of no valne. and that the corpora
tion bas no outstanding obligations of any
kind, and is not indebted to any person, firm or
corporation.
Mr. Benjamin F.Ham, who has been the
treasurer since 1872; avers that prior to 1S72 and
during said period the corporation bad no as
sets or property except claims to certain lands
in Iowa and Nebraska, and claims against the
Union Pacific Railroad Company and its suc
cessor, the Union Pacific Railway Company, all
of which claims were contested. In Decem
ber. 1889. the corporation entered into a settle
ment with, the Union Pacific and gave up all
claims against It, it in return giving a general
releasotothe Credit Mobilier. The corpora
tion, prior to 1800, was a party to various suits
and proceedings in the State and Circuit
Courts, but in December, 1SS9, an adjustment
and settlement of all suits and proceedings was
had, and they were dismissed or discontinued.
There are now no pending claims in demands
against the corporation.
Tho petition for the dissolution is signed by
Artemns H. Wohnet, President, and John
Rodgers. Secretary. It states that the Credit
Mobilier was created under the name of the
Pennsylvania Fiscal Agency by an act of Leg
islature of Pennsylvania annroved November
1, 1859. The name was changed to "The Credit
Mobilier or America" by act of March 26. 1861.
The petition is presented with the consent of a
majority or a meetintr of the corporators, and
with the consent of all the directors, stock
holders or shareholder', duly convened. All
taxes due the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
have been fully paid into the State treasury,
and the certificates of the Auditor General, the
State Treasurer and the Attorney General to
the effect are appended. Mr. McMichael moved
to appoint an auditor, but the Judge thought
that where there were no accounts to audit an
auditor would be of little use. He took the
paDers and held tbem there under advisement.
A MOURNING CITY.
The Remains of (be Lnto Minister Pendleton
Laid to Rest la Spring Grove Cemetery.
Cincinnati, March 8. The city was in
mourning to-day over the demise of one of her
brightest citizens. Last evening Mr. Pendle
ton's remains arrived In this city and were de
posited in the chancel of Christ Church. A
detail from each company of the First Regi
ment, nnder commando! Lieutenant Hanamen,
stood guard of honor during the night.
The funeral services this morning in Christ
Church were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Gibson
and the Rev. Dr. Forest, the latter rector of
Calvary Church, Clifton, where Mr. Pendleton
worshiped. It was attended by the family
and friends only. Meantime one of the most
imposing corteges ever seen in Cincinnati
formed to escort the remains to Music Hall.
It was headed by a detachment ot police, then
followed the First Regiment, O. N. G.. and
Governor Campbell and staff. Then came the
hearse surrounded by the pallbearers, and
they were surrounded in hollow square by
members of the Old Woodward Club. After
the hearse were carriages containing the fam
ily and friends, and following them came
Mayor Mosby, Governor Buckner, ot Ken
tucky: ex-President Hayes, ex-Governor For
aker, ex-Governor Cox. ex-Governor Noyes,
ex-Governor Bishop, ex-Minister Taft and ex
Lieutenant Governor Lyon.
On arrival at Musiu Hall that magnificent
building was found to be tilled except the
space reserved for those in the procession. As
the casket was borne down tho middle aisle to
the catafalquo in front of the center of the
stage, the lung line of pallbearers separated
and faced inward, while the audience arose
and remained standing: Meanwhile the great
organ sounded a funeral march. The hall had
been beautifully draped with national emblems,
and the space about the casket was decorated
with palms.
After prayer by the Rev. Dr. Forest and an
anthem by the choir of voung ladies of the
College of Music, led by Prof. Foley, the ora
tion was pronounced by the Hon. Isaac M. Jor
dan. This was a carefully prepared eulogy of
the deceased, and was full of eloquent praise
ot the many endearing qualities as welt as of
the principles and work or the beloved dead.
After these services were ended the casket was
placed in the hearse, and. followed by the fam
ily and friends, was borne to Spring Grove
Cemetery, where final interment was made.
AN ENERGETIC NEWS GATHERER.
Impossible to F-onineralo All the Feulures
of the Dipntcn.
From the AVaynesburg Democrat.
The Pittsburg Dispatch is oneamonethe
most energetic newsgatherers found in the field
of journalism in this State. Its correspondents
are numerous, and its telegraphic reports are
full and complete, receiving, as it does, each
day many special reports from various sections.
The pgrson who reads the Daily Dispatch Is
kept informed of the transactions of men
tbroughont the world. Its markets are also a
feature which demand the attention of many of
its readers, and which are always referred to by
those directly Interested in such reports. The
Sunday edition is an Immense affair, and has so
many features that it is impossible to enumer
ate them here. Ic has 20 pages each week,
which gives an amount of reading matter equal
to that or a good sized volume. It has now up
ward of 53,000 of a circulation each week. Its
literary features make it much sought alter,
and taken all in all it provides for every taste
and condition of life.
UNCLE SAM'S NEW GUN30AT.
The Concord Snccefully Launched nnd
Witnessed by Mnny Prominent People.
Chester, Pa., March 8. The United Btates
gunboat Concoard was successfully launched
this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Roach's shipyard.
Miss Minnie Coates. daughter of the Mayor,
christened the vessel. The launch was wit
nessed by many people, including a large dele
gation of citizens from New York, prominent
gentlemen from Concord. Mass., from which
place the vessel takes its name.
Judze John S. Keyes and David Chester
French were among the latter, and brought
with them a handsome statuette representing a
minnte man from tho citizens of Concord as a
present to the officers of this recent addition to
the navy.
More Pnblic Schools Wanted.
From the Philadelphia Call.
It Philadelphia had more public schools she
would havo fewer youthful thieves. Thousands
of children have been unable to get Into schools
because of lack of room, and the training they
receive while running the streets and associat
ing with other boys furtberadvanccdin vice
fits them for evil deeds rather than for good.
A Rcainnnblo Conclusion.
from the Bradford Star.
A wealthy Pittsburg man has disappeared
with plenty of cash in his pocket. It is ex
plained that he has recontly Decome intensely
interested! in spiritualism and is therefore in
sane. It is a very reasonable conclusion.
STATE POLITICS.
Bradford Star: Ex-Senator Lee has been
talking up Phillips for Governorsome time, but
now the tables are turned, and Phillips Is talk
ing up Lee for Governor; at least, the Pittsburg
Commercial Gazette says he is. Well, one good
turn certainly deserves another.
SCRANTON Sun: Republican journals are
devoting a good deal of theirspace to eulogistic
comments on the first year of the Harrison ad
ministration. But tho large Democratic gains
in the recent Now York and Iowa elections are
good indications of general public comments
on the same subject.
Tttusville Citizen: Delamater and Stone
will contest for Erie county's delegates, and it
is safe to say that Congressman Culbertson will
not exert his influence in favor of Quay's can
didate. The recent election in Erie city shows
that the Congressman wields no little power
there and in the county, the Quay and anti
Cnlbertson candidate lor Mayor. Downing,
losing half the Republican vote to his success
f ul Democratic opponent.
Oil City Blizzard: The editors of two or
three newspapers published less than a thou
sand miles from Oil City, are pursuing a course,
with reference to the Gubernatorial nomina
tion, which, to a casual observer, seems some
what erratic and inconsistent. Their enthu
siasm for their own favorites appears to becloud
their sense of fairness to such an extent that
they are unwilling to accord to others the same
privllego which they themselves claim and ex
ercise thatof saying a good word for some par
ticular aspirant for the Governorship. The
Republicanism of these editors cannot be
doubted, but they are certainly pursning an in
judicious course when tney nndertake to make
capital for any one of the candidates at the ex
pense of another.
CDBI0DS C0NDEKSAT105S.
A twenty-two pound carp was caught at
Dickenson's Ferry, in San Joaquin county, last
Thursday. It was said to be 8 years old.
Thick deposits of ice are iound in the
Stevens mine, on Mount McClellan, California.
Geologists say that the ice is 80,000 years old.
Oscar Wilde reads in bed for several
hours daily. He reads himself to sleep, and
reaches for his book on awaking. He is a very
rapid reader.
Lansing's chewing gam factory Is boom
ing to such an extent that a removal to another
city may be necessary In order to secure suffi
cient factory room.
The question of allowing chickens to
run at large Is the issue in the municipal elec
tion at Norwich, Kan., and there are already
two tickets in the field.
After 40 years of Jlormon rule all the
city of Salt Lake has to show is some set3 of
books that the most expert bookkeeper in the
universe cannot balance.
When Jesse D. Carr went to South Caro
lina last year he imported 200 head of fine Dur
hams and put tbem on bis Modoc county
ranch. This winter has proved fatal to every
one.
A Simon-pure Jaeksonian Democrat,
Aaron Burnham, of Essex, Mass.. who voted
for "Old Hickorv" in 1821 and again in 1828.
celebrated his 03d birthday anniversary last
A one-legged negro in Egbert countv,
Ga., has produced the first bale of cotton every
season in that county for several years. He la
properous and is accumulating a handsome in
dependence. Millions of youthful brook trout and
other fish are being planted in Michigan waters
now. The Fish Commission is in the midst of
its sowing, that the rest of us may reap at some
time in the future.
A huge squash that had been exhibited
in an Auburn, Me., store window for several
months, being cut open, it was found that the
seeds had commenced to sprout, and there were
a number of well-formed leaves,
A travelog dramatic company per
formed so execrably in an Indian village in
Michigan that the audience chased them from
the exhibition building; but held on to the
orchestra andspent the evening in dancing.
W. J. Pennington, of Tiffin, O., has a
yearling calf which was born without a tall,
and has none np to date. Last summer when
the flies were bad the animal would lie down
and roll around, and not enjoy itself at all.
It came out in an English court a few
days ago that 100 worn out horses had just been
shipped from that country to Germany and
Belgium to be used in the manufacture of
sausage, and that such shipments were a regu
lar thing.
Rev. J. M. Deitzler, of Annville, Pa.,
pulled from his pocket a 510 bill recently and
threw it in the fire, under the impression that
it was a slip of paper containing the numbers of
the hymns he bad, that day, announced from
the pulpit.
The engineer on the south-bound pas
senger train leaving Kalamazoo, Mich., on the
8th, says that two wild ducks kept abreast of
the train for four miles until tke first ston was
made. The distance was covered in a little leas
than six minutes.
A resident of Bemus Point says he has
kept an ice record for nearly 30 years, and that
the ice was 28 inches thick on Chautauqua
Lake on the 26tb of March, 1871. lie says that
the lake has not been completely frozen over at
any time this winter.
A picturesque character who recently
died in Washington county, Ga was noted for
trading jack-knives. On the handle ot every
knife he ever owned, he made a little private
mark, by which he could recognize it if it ever
came into his bands again.
The Anaheim, Ore., Budget started a
society column last week with the following:
"An immense bullfrog ha3 taken up bis resi
dence in the culvert at tho corner of Center and
Los Angeles sti eets. and when it rains he makes
music for the neighborhood."
Mr. Davis' sorrel horse was iu the lot
at tho back of Lightsey fc Lewis' livery stable,
at Fort Meade, Fla., and one of their two
pigeons was flying around. The horse watched
his opportunity, and nith a deliberate kick
killed the pigeon "on the wing."
A boat has been invented for the use of
duck hunters, in which the oar is thrust through
the middle and bottom in a contrivance not
unlike a centerboard. The leverage obtained
is enormous, and the inventor claims that a
small boy. through the use of his device, can
beat a professional oarsman in a shell.
The English army and navy is being
outraged by the sight of men in the uniform of
the highest officers parading about the streets of
London at the head of processions of sand
wich men advertising soap, and it is found that
there Is no law to nrevent anyone from wearing
any uniform except that of a policeman.
Detective John T. Norris, of Spring
field, O.. is about to submit to a painful sur
gical operation. AtGordonsville,'Va., in 1S63.
he attempted to take a mule from an aged
colored man, who shot Norris in the left arm.
The shot havo gradually worked down to the
Salm of his hand, from which they will have to
e cut our.
During a storm which recently raged in
the canton of Neufchatel, in Switzerland, a
shower of living caterpillars fell on the hill of
Cretes. They were in myriads, and of three
species some yellow, the others black, and
varying in length. Among the caterpillars
were many other insects. The source from
which the gale conveyed tbem is unknown.
This singular announcement appears in
the Fergus County Argus: "Wanted In Phil
brook, a resident pastor: no questions asked as
to religious belief; only men of the finest
ability need apply; to the right man a wealth of
promises will be guaranteed, and if he survives
the year more promises will be promised. We
can promise this to be a promising neighbor
hood." The shipment of a carload of baled
alfalfa from Rocky Ford to New York is a
matter of no small import to Colorado. The
freight is S1S0, but even at this rate the alfalfa
will cost but J19 a ton at New York City, as
against SIS to 520 for timothy. The shipment is
an experiment for the purpose of feeding milch
cows, very little being known practically of the
value of alfalfa as a fodder food for cows.
BLIZZARD PICKINGS.
The man who swears off is gloomy for
awhile, bnt It Is not long before he begins to smile
again. Boston Courier.
A dentist of this city puts in false teeth
so naturally that they look and ache exactly Ilka
the originals. Philadtlphia Press.
When President Ingalls wants a Senate
quorum he sends to the restaurant and usually
finds a nice full one. Washington Post.
Lady I want my bangs cut, By ths
way, what are they wearing for bangs now?
Hairdresser Well, some are wearing hair,
others Jnte. ioiceW City.
A Prool of Her Love. He Do you
really love me, darling?
She Tes, really. To prove it I'll name my dog
after jou.1'ankn Blade.
"You don't seem to be getting along very
well," said the man In the operating chair.
"No," replied the dentist; "I have struck a
nag." Muntey's Weekly.
"Oh, look," exclaimed the Chicago girl
at dinner. 'Here's something in the soup."
'Look at It closely, "said her brother, "and tea
K it Isn't New TCork." Washington Post.
"We've got a better scheme now than
holding up a wholo train," remarked a Western
train robber to a friend.
"What Is it?"
"We simply kidnap the Pullman porter, and
hold him for ransom."
Wile: John, if we go to the theater to
night will you have to go out between act3 to sea
a man?
Husband: I'm jery much afraid I shall.
Wire: Well, here's a dollar and a half extra.
Get a ticket for him, and lethlm sit with us. Life.
Judge How could you assault this simple
old farmer In such a way?
Prisoner Well, you see. Judge, I spent all last
summer at his rarm In the country, and 1 wanted
to get even somehow, so
Judge Tou are discharged. Lawrence Amer
ican. "What is youropinion of cranks?" asked
Miss Brighton of (Jus Ie Jay.
fCandldly." nld the dainty Augustus, "I
don't like Cwanks much, you know."
"Why not?"
"I cahn't appwove of the way they weah thelah.
halah."
"Aw nl accident at the museum."
"What was It?"
'The wild dog from Borneo got loose last night
and ate up three-quarters of the ossified man
while he slept."
'Does the ossified man know It?"
"No; they're afraid to tell Mm." Lift,
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