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EXPERTS ON THE CANAL. The literature of the canal question is en riched by a summary elsewhere of Colonel Merrill's report of sixteen years ago, on the practicable routes for a canal from the headwaters of the Ohio to Cumberland. The testimony of this engineer is decidedly in Javor of the Youghiogheny route in prefer ence to that nh vouhl connect with the Jlonongabela. V :her the extension of the Monongilm.. tiackwater to Morgan town would alter that preference is a ques tion to be settled by further surveys; but engineering opinion at present is on the side of the Youghiogheny route. The im ..nrtnnt f.ipt is set forth that S25.000.000 Mould connect thousands ol miles of river transportation with the ocean, and probably ?10,000.000 more would join the great lakes with that system. Such a cost in compar ison with the magnificent benefits of the scheme, ougnt to insure the early prosecu tion of the work. POINTS OF PUBLIC SAFETY. The report of the Chief of the Depart ment of Public Safety, which is summar ized fully elsewhere, contains two points of controlling interest. It has many others of much importance; but the two referred to are of such magnitude that they should en gross the attention of thoughtful citizens. The first is the statement that there -are eight hundred illicit liquor sellers in the city. This presents the crave aspect of almost universal immunity in the violation of the law. It is somewhat difficult to agree with the position that this is no business of the police. The eight hundred illicit liquor sellers are violators of the law, just as keepers of gambling houses are, and they indirectly evade city revenue. It may be conceded that it is more especially the duty of constables to attack the speak-easies. But the trouble is that all those whose duty it is to prosecute violations of the law. evade the duty. That is the reason why the illegal business flourishes and the law is a dead letter. The sanitary condition of some portions of the city is also a vital question. Nothing is more necessary for the protection of pub lic health than that thorough sanitation be enforced. That a system of garbage collec tion is necessarr for that purpose is unques tioned; but it does not follow that the busi ness should be put into the hands of a monopoly. If the health officials are active in prosecuting everyone who permits garbage to accumulate, the people will be prompt to give their garbage to the haulers who will take it and dispose of it at compet itive prices. To put that business in the hands of a single company by municipal contract might open the door to excessive charges and extortionate practices. The report is certainly a valuable docu ment in calling attention to these important matter. Everyone will agree that the illicit sale of liquor should be stopped, and that the thorough sanitation of the city must be secured. CUSTOM HOUSES AND ILLITERACY. The latest outbreak against civil service reform is m de y Collector Erhardt, of New York, in response to a complaint that some articles in transit through the Custom House were stolen. Mr. Erhardt asserts that the civil service law does not allow him liberty in the selection of detectives to ferret out the thieves. He complains that applicants for detective positions have to go through an examination for general culture, and de clares: "I have found that the best detec tives are often illiterate." "When we review the Collector's argument exhaustively, it assumes the character not so much of a boom against civil service reform as of a boomerang for the detectives. The very strong intimation that illiteracy is one of the necessary qualifications for the detec tives may chime in with what the public has observed of certain members of the class; but it is hardly what was tobelookedforbya man who puts his trust in detectives. Never theless Collector Erhardt avows that he can not stop the stealing because the law shuts him off from that species most dear to his heart, the illiterate detective. Nevertheless the uncharitable public may suggest that there is still a remedy for the thefts which does not seem to have occurred to the political minds of the Collector and his organs. That is to have a class of em ployes at the Custom House who do not steal, and for whom the supervision of detec tives is unnecessary. THE RESULT OF EXPANSION. The reduction of the surplus reserve, shown by the New York bank statement, indicates that the process of expansion has gone to a point where it will be necessary to call a halt in order to avoid worse con sequences. The time of the year is one when the movements of trade generally leave a good margin above the legal re quirements in the New York hanks. But the Blight margin previously existing was so narrowed down last week that the reserve was, on Saturday, only 5351,000 above the limit fixed by law. The statement of the previous week showed that the specie and legal tenders held by the banks were the same as a year ago; while the loans and de posits, by a decided enlargement had re duced the proportion of reserve. The risk of such an expansion of credits was made apparent during the past week by an out flow of $4,000,000 in specie and legal tenders, which brings down the reserve close to the legal minimum, and warns the finan cial world of the necessity of keeping busi ness on a solid basis. REPUTATION AND NOSES. It is instructive to observe that the nose palling epidemic has extended to North Dakota, where that new species otargu mentum ad hominem appears to have been adopted for the purpose of vindicating the nose-puller against the. aspersions of the un just. The puller in this case was the Attorney General of the new State, who had written a letter intended only for private consumption, asserting that certain members of the Legislature were mixed up in the lottery job. This letter was read in the Legislature, apparently with the purpose of making the Attorney General odious. One of the members named in the letter per ceived the necessity of vindicating his reputation. He promptly sought the At torney General, and having tweaked the nasal organ of that official, went on his way in the proud consciousness that his honor was unstained. It may be asked by chronic objectors, who find fault with everything, how the pulling of the official nose proves the legislator never to have dallied with the lottery jobbers. Such persons evidently have not that nice perception which recognizes nroof of unstained character in the act of shooting a man, or the vindication of a corporation, or that purification secured by a legislative investigation setup for whitewashing pur Doses. Nose-pulling rests upon the same basis as the vindication of honor by duels or Senatorial investigations ; and it has the additional recommendation of being, less deadly than the first and more prompt and economical than the second. Besides, there is a peculiar fitness in the resort to that method in such cases as this. In connection with the last case of nose-pulling the possi ble relations between pulling the nose of one man and the leg of another were hinted at. This case brings out the relation in all its force and beauty. The fact that the legislator had been engaged in pulling the leg of the lottery people doubtless lent strength and efficacy to his attempt at pull ing the nose of the official who charged him with it. One more point in this case enables us to establish by the inductive process a very important conclusion. The ear of a Sena tor and the nose of an Attorney General have been pulled with safety and satisfaction to the puller; while a similar attempt on a newspaperman has placed the puller liors dc combat. Can anvthing be more clear than that when anyone feels a desire to vin dicate his reputation by toying with the features of his opponents it will be wise for him to select Senators and State officials as the objects of his experiment and leave newspaper men strictly alone. A GREAT PROSPECT. The interesting feature referred to some time ago of sales of iron and coke for ship ment abroad, has been added to by another transaction. Six hundred tons of eastern pig iron have been contracted for shipment to England at prices which are asserted to be satisfactory to the seller. The interesting point whether the price was at a reduction from the American market, or whether our market rates on certain grades or iron per mit exportation is left in the dark by the suppression of the exact figure paid. Nevertheless, this transaction adds an other point to the corroboration furnished by previous sales to the report that the cost of making iron and steel in England has ad vanced so that for the present at least it is equal to, or exceeds, the cost of production in this country. In two years the advance in new materials is put roundly at 65 to 70 per cent on coke and over 100 per cent on iron ore. The actual cost of coke at the ad vance is about double its cost here, while that of iron ore is still lower than Lake Su perior ore delivered in Pittsburg. These changes are important enough, if they are permanent, to reverse Jthe position of American and English iron interests. Instead of fearing the competition of En glish iron at home we should, under the changed conditions, be able to seek it abroad. If the cost of fuel to make pig iron is great er there, the further expense of fuel to make finished iron and steel should enable Pitts burg to meet the English manufactures in South America and the Oriental countiies. What we need is to wake up to our oppor tunities. 'We must perceive that, with a study of foreign markets, we can expand our field to an almost infinite extent; and that by keeping prices on a conservative basis we can most surely command the increased business. The one thing that would prevent success in reaching these new markets would be to boom prices. That might destroy the gold en prospect by the disposition of people who wish to realize their profits all at once. ArrLEJACK as the favorite drink of New York swells, conves the comforting assurance that if the fashionable world cannot adhere to the virtues of American simplicity it can at least preserve the sterling and indigenous vices. The proposition to admit "Wyoming and Idaho as States is met by the objection that those Territories havo not population enough to justify their admission. This is a good ob jection if true. We want no more pocket borough States in this Union. But does not the objection show tbo equity of a general law admitting all Territories as States, when they shall show a prescribed population and develop ment Ol material iuuusiiius. jiua Dbuiiujbj auu injustice of making tbo admission of Territor ies a matter of political tavor, has been abund antly proved in our history. It is understood that Scotland Yard is to send over some detectives to work up tbe Niagara Falls murder. This promises the mur derer the same immunity that has been vouch safed to Jack the Ripper, Tascott and the others. "TnE gerrymander is the best device yet invented for defeating the will of the people," says the Philadelphia Inquirer. True enough; and when Republican organs are as outspoken in opposing Republican gerrymanders as the; are in denouncing tbe Democratic kind, there may be some hope ut stopping the use of such devices for defeating popular government. There seems to be a determination on the part of Congress to solve the tariff reduc tion problem by doing away with that trouble some surplus through the most direct method spending It. OxE.Ohio Democrat who made an appli cation for appointment to an office which is not yet created, is made tbe subject of sarcasm by the Governor. But inasmuch as the news comes in connection therewith, that another Ohio Democrat is slated for tbe place, it ap pears that the matter is a question of persons rather than of offices. If 525,000,000 will build a canal from our rivers to the navigable waters of tbo Chesa peake, the great interests involved ought to insure that tbe sum will be forthcoming at once. The perseverance of the crop destroyer may be perceived by the fact that the cold snap of last week has already brongbt ont the asser tion that the Delaware and Maryland fruit crops have been destroyed. This is a sure omen that they will stay destroyed until tbe time comes lor shipping the fruit to market by the train load. Afteb the civil service investigation is completed, it looks asif Hatton may havo to follow the example of the Pacific railroads, and have another investigation to vindicate him. The New York papers are jumping on the Commissioner of Public "Works of that city because he is replacing block pavements by asphalt a single square at a time. Pittsburg is not saying an thing about the general em ployment on its streets, of the block pavement which New York is so anxious to discard. Perhaps the Senatori can squelch the wicked newspapers and secure a wider publica tion of their speeches by offering premiums on the circulation of the Congressional Record. The information that Colonel Elliot F. Shepard has been put in nomination for Mayor of New York by a local political organization of tbe city, places the religious editor in tbe attitude of the great universal candidate. If there is anything that Sbepard is not a candi date for it can hardly be worth mentioning. The backbone of winter appears to have broken about the time that it established the evidence of its existence. . , , . -v- -, Thirty degrees below zero in New En- land last week, and yet Pennsylvania is in doubt whether she will get a good crop of ice. Tbe rain may fall equally on the just and un just; but tbere seems to be a decided inequality in the distribution of blizzards. PEOfLE OP PK0MJNENCE. E. H. House, tbo novelist, has won his suit against Mark Twain over tbo dramatization of "The Prince and Pauper." The Duke of Connanght will start from Bom bay for England on Thursday next. He willj travel via China, Japan, Vancouver. "Piq Iron" Kelley's old home, at Phila delphia, called the "Elms," is a brick house, tbreo stories high, covered with stucco. It contains 21 rooms, and all the woodwork in it is of solid walnut. Mr.s. Cakoline Donovan, who has given 8100,000 to Johns Hopkins University, was such an admirer of General R. E. Lee that at the time of his death she was just on the point of giving him $100,000. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is said to be writing a book of which her younger son, Lionel, is the hero. Lionel is as much a won der as an enfant terrible as is his brother in tbe opposite role. The death of Count Peter Atexandrovitch Valoaieff at St. Petersburg, recently announced by cable, removes one of the last survivors of the liberal statesmen who surrounded the Em peror Alexander IL Ex-Senator Allen Graio. is presented as a Democratic candidate for governor of Penn sylvania in the Lehigh Valley. He is a man of recognized ability, bnt he ha3 not been much in politics of late jears. MRS. Margaret C. Bislajcd, of New Or leans, is both a writer and musical composer. She is the mother of the three Bisland sisters, who have, at an early age, achieved so envia ble a reputation in journalism. DeWitt Talmage, son of the Rev. Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, lectured at Newark, N. J., Thursday evening on "First Impressions" received in his travels about tbe world. He is a good speakor and somewhat of a humorist. Postmaster General Wanamaker and wife, accompanied by Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Rus sell Harrison and Mrs. McKee. will leave "Washington this week for a trip to Florida. They expect to be gone about two weeks. The lite James E. Knglisb, of Connecticut was a double third-termer. Ho ran for Gov ernor six times and was elected three times. Ho defeated Hawlcy and was beaten by him. In four races with Marshall Jewell, the honors were easy. One of the decorations at the dinner to be given at the Union League Club, Washington, to General W T. Sherman on April 17 will be a painting of the battle of Atlanta on July 22, 1S64. donein pure India Ink, by James E, Taylor, for General Granville M. Dodge, Its Pet Tin me. From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. "Pennsy" is the pet name applied to the Penn sylvania Railroad by its coupon-cutters. Pennsy kept up with the procession last year. Its business footed up $122,000,000, an increase of 56,000,000 over 18S8. The annual betterment of the roaa is about 10,000,000. Tbe Jersey and Western lines in the system are at last showing a balance on the right side. JUST A TRIFLE TOO PKETI0DS. Governor Campbell Will Not Make an Ap pointment Before tbe Offl.cc la Created. SPECIAL TSLEOBAM TO TUB DISrATCH.l Youngstown, March 9. Councilman J. C. Maloneyand tbe Democratic delegation which went to Columbus to secure bis appointment as Railroaa Commissioner has returned without it, and with little hopes of having his political ambition gratified. "Governor Campbell, after receiving rhe petition and tbe delegation, and : "Considering the appomtmert to an ofneo which had not yet been created by the Legisla ture is a good deal like thinking of what one will have for supper next Fourth of July." D. C. Coolman, of Ravenna, defeated Demo cratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor tu o years ago, w ill probably get the appointment if any is made. Where It Beats Philadelphia. From the Denver Times. Some of the Eastern papers try to discourage Chicago by stating that Philadelphia was five years preparing for tbe Centennial celebration in 1S76 and then didn't get thoroughly ready. But the ratio of two to five, as botween Chicago and Philadelphia, puts tbe odds largely in favor of the former. UNCLE SAM'S A'AVY. Two Mora Ganbonts to bo Lannched During the Prrsent Month. Philadelphia. March 9. Within a month three war vessels for the United States navy will be launched from the shipyards on the Delaware river, and after that, for the first time in a number of years, thoro will be no Government vessels on the stocks in these ards. The first of these new boats to take tbo water was the gunboat Concord, which was launched at Chester on Saturday. On the 19th the cruiser Newark will receive her baptism at Cramp's yard, in this city, and soon after the gunboat Remington will be launched at Roach's vard. In addition to these interesting events, the nflicial trials of the Philadelphia and of tho Vesuvius dynamite guns will take place Boon. An Uprislnj In ilie Rnrnl District. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Senator Cullom's bill to lend Government money to farmers at 2 per cent is a Republican recognition of tho fact that there is a tremen dous political awakening going on m tho rural districts. IT WILL U0T DOWJi. Tbe McKecport I'osiofilce Fight Becom ing Fiercer nnil More Complicated. ISPECIAL TELLGKAM TO THE DISPATCII.1 McKEESroRT, March 9. The postofllce fight will not down. Wananiafcer's statement that he will name a man if Ray does not, after he allows the latter a reasonable time to do so, was the means of introducing a new candidate into tbe field, in one Robert Bailly. who is col lecting influence, and hopes" to come in as a dark horse. The delegation of McKoesporters who leave for Washington to-night will probably try to prevail upon Captain Thompson to allow tbeni to name a new man, providing tbe Captain has no show. That man.it is said, will be none of the present candidates. Not n Ilnlr of Ills Hend Harmed. From tbe bavannah News. The attention of Speaker Reed and Post master General Wanamaker is called to the fact that tho Vice President has reached Florida, after visiting South Carolina and Georgia, and that not a hair of his bead has been harmed. M0THEE AND DAUGHTER REUNITED. An Auecllnp; Meeting Between Parent and Child After Many Yenrs. SPECIAL TELEGUAM TO THI DISFATCn.l IoungstON, March 9. Miss Mary E.Bag nell, a young lady of 20, who, when a mere child, was lost sight of by her mother, and who was recently located in Omaha, returned to-day to visit her mother. Miss Bagnell has been well educated by tboso who adopted her. The mother was prostrated with joy on meet ing her daughter, whom she supposed was lost. Died Serving a Good Caasr. From the New York World. A citizen of Brooklyn died yesterday while cleaning tho sidewalk. There is no danger of our city authorities or their emplojes meeting with such a visitation while performing the same duty. Mrn. Emma L. Wear. Mrs. Emma L. West, the wife of Dr. M. H. West, of Homestead, Pa., died at Los Angeles, California, yetterday. THE CRITIC'S REVIEW. Delightful Bit of Verso and Timely Fnpora In the Mncnzlnca Poetry, Gennlne and Spurious War In Modern Daya Fiction, Ulstory nml Folltica. If all the trees in all the oods were men. And each and every blade of grass a lien; If every leaf on every shrub aud tree Turned to a sheet of foolscap; everv sea W ere changed to ink. and alt earth's living tribes Had nothing else to do but act as scribes. And lor ten thousand ages, day and night. The human race should.wrlte and write and write, Till all the pens and paper were used op And the huge Inkstand was an empty cup. Mill would the scribblers, clustered round the Ucall for more pens, more paper, and more Ink. f Drink, "T)R. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of kUU UlCttkiiUh lilUlC, 4il.wvvi ji. .ub .um- cups, who, like the enviable Herr Teuf elsdroch, is "Professor of Things in General," and who might go on dipping a whole forest of pens in a whole ocean of ink for a whole millenlum and nobody would get tired of reading bis prose or his poetry, closes thus his contribution to the March Atlantic Tho chief topic of discussion which prevails this month amongjthe "teacups' as the company about the table stylo them selves where there is plenty of feast of reason and sow of sonl, anyway is the writing of poetry. Almost any kind of human creature can write some kind of "poetry," In the case of most human creatures, how ever, tbe poetry will be the kind which needs to be entitled poetry," with satirical quotation marks. The leading paper in the Atlantic is Mr. William R. Thayer's account of "Tho Trial, Opinions and Death of Giordano Bruno." Bru no's narrative of bis life, and his statement of his philosophical opinions are given in a trans lation of bis own words before the inquisitors. The whole account is full of interest. Bruno would have been at home in this progressive century. His ideas sound singularly modern. We realize that we are a Ion way back In his tory, partly by the intolerance of the inquisitors and partly by Bruno's reconciliation in his own mind between his accepting certain doctrines "theologically" and rejecting them "philosoph ically." Intolerance has, for the present, gone out; and the separating of a man's mind into two rooms, without any door between, and put ting "faith" in one loom and "reason" in the other, with strict orders to hold no communi cation one with tbo other, has gone out also. We live in a generation which is more intel lectually truthful than Bruno's. However, tho stake vindicated Bruno. Intolerance was helped out and truth helped in by that death in tbe Campo di Flora. "Peradventure jou pro nounce this sentence against me with greater fear than 1 receive it," he said, in words pro photic. 1 ho Atlantic has a papar by John Trowbridge on "Dangers From Electricity" which is the most readable of the many recent articles on that subject. Tbe safest place of all, in these days when forked lightning lies in wait at tbe street corners, seems to be inside an electric car. Qenekal Henry L. Abbot, in the March .Forum, writes about "War Under New Conditions." He sums up the new conditions of infantry fighting as follows: "L The bullets will havo much greater penetrative power and will thereupon he less readll) stopped bycovering obstacles, whether natural or artificial. 2. The trajectory is fattened: that is, the bullets at de cisive battle ranges riso less above the ground, thus not only widening the dangerous space, and reducing the number of misses due to a defective estimate of distance, but also extend ing point-blank range, and thus in a measure doing away with adjustments of the sights un der heavy fire. 3. The power of firing a few rounds with excessive rapidity when needful, will make charges more bloody than ever be fore. 4. The reduction in tbe weight of am munition will enable the soldier to carry about double tbe number of rounds, and to receive fresh supplies in action with corresponding greater ease. 5. The use of smokeless powder will make it more easy to overlook the ground in front by reason of the absence of the clouds of smoke that heretofore have spread a merci ful veil between modern armies In tho death struggle. Finally, tho use of smokeless powder can hardly fail to increase the local horrors of tbe battle field, and thus to subject to greater tension the nerves of young soldiers." General Abbot says that the arms which wero used in our Civil War aro as much inferior to present day fighting machinery as wero the bows and arrows of the aborigines to the filnt-Iock musket of Miles Standisb. The current discussion of realism in fiction is helped on in a paper by Mr. Mallock on the side of reasonable idealism. Archbishop Far rar, who is in favor of tbe Drotberhood move ment in the Church of England, shows that there are present in it none of tbe lcatures which made mediaeval monkery a delusion and a spiritual tragedy. His paper is entitled "Tho hpecter of the Monk." Frederick Harrison, tbe Positivist, writes of "France in 17S9 and lbS9," things are considerably better in France to-day than when Arthur Young made his memorable journey of inspection 100 years ago. pilE Joseph Jefferson autobiography con tinues to interest the readers of the Century. In the March number are several capital illustrations of Mr. Jefferson in char acter. We have so long associated Joe Jeffer son with Rip Van Winkle, that his part in "Our American Cousin," and various other dramas, is almost forgotten. There is a good picture of Sothern as Lord Dundreary. Mrs. Van Rensselaer and Mr. Pennell, in text and picture, take us about Gloucester Cathedral. jAhn La Fargo continues his "Artist's Letter From Japan." From Tokio to Nikko is the journey this time. "The Merry Chanter" comes too soon to a conclusion. Mr. Edward L. Wil son, with pen and camera, describes "Some Wayside Places in Palestine." Frederick Schwatka has a paper on "The Sun Dance of the Sioux," witu illustrations by Frederick Remington. Dr. Fisher contributes tho fourth and concluding installment of his papers on "Revelation. These papers have been written with the grace and precision which havo uniformly characterized Prof. Fisher's work. It is somewhat unfortunate, however, that they were not made more popular and more generally readable. These solid paees. with their long sentences and their prodigi ously long paragraphs, have not an attractUe look to the magazimst. They are too solid. "The Self-Protection of Mr. Littlcberry Roach" is, however, not at all too solid. Rich ard Malcom Johnston, whose name has enmo to be alwajs tho promise of something out of tho way, interesting and worth while, is the writer. "Prehistoric Kcmains in the Ohio Vallej"istbetitIeof a paper by Prof. F. W. Putnam. Ancient earthworks at Marietta and at Newark are illustrated in sketches, and mounds in various places ana oi various lorms are described. A paper is to follow in the next number on tbe famous "Serpent Mound." . Purple waves of evening play Upon the western shores of nay. While babies sail, so s no aud iree, 'Jvcr the mystic slumber sea. Their little boats are cradles liRbt: 1 he 6aits are curtains p'irc and white; The rudders are sweet lullabies; The anchors, soft and sleepy sighs. They're outward-bound for Slumbcrland, Where shining dreams He on tue sand. Like W bisp'ring shells th it murmur low The pretty fancies babies know. Ahd there, amonjt the dream-shells bright, 1 he little ones will play all night; t'ntil the sleepy tld turns; then 'they'll all come sallln? home again! V 'pnis pretty litle poem, under the title "Off for Slumberland," written by Caroline Evans, is one of the good things in BL Nicho las lor March. Fighting wolves with dynamite is the adventure with which the number opens. "Jack's Cure," by Susan Curtis Redfield, with excellent pictures by W. A. Rogeis, is a capi tal little story of a boy who ran away from home to get out of doing work, and brought up in a place where he had to descend not quite to keeping the pigs, like another prodigal but to the disgrace of washing dishes, that effectually cures Jack. It hardly seems possible to some boys and girl3 that tbe great and immortal George Washington was ever really any small child's grandfather. But he was: ana in Mrs. Preston's account of "George and Nellie Cur tis." we are told something about the Father of His Country as the grandfather ot a real boy and girl. Harry Stillw ell Edwards tells a good negro story, "Noray and tho Ark." There are some suggestive and useful studies in natural hlstcy. "The Crow's Military Drill," 'The Screech Owl," and "Mother Nature's Babes in the Wood." ... xTith tho March number Outing complotes another volume. This breezy magazine, with Its brief and entertaining sketches, and its capital reproductions of photographic work, grows constantly better. "Our Horae-Made Trip to England" is a bright paper, in which a reporter and a record-breaker aro the chief figures. Athletics at Cornell are well written up, with good pictures of "teams" and build ings. Prof. Austin, with an instantaneous camera, upholds the art and practice of box ing. "Flycatcher," tho serial, ends in this number. TJekbert Spencer's recent paper on "Abso Into Political Ethcs" is reprinted in the Popular Science Monthly Tor March. Lot's wife and her warning pillar of salt are stillin process of being battered down by Dr. Andrew D. White. Ir. M. F. Armstong takes exceptions to Frank Allen's recontpaper on the "Woman Question." The Mission of Educated Women" is the sub ject of her paper. "The Laws of Films," by Sophie B. Herrick," will be doubly interesting to anybody who has heard Prof. Brashear's lecture on "Soap-Bubbles." "A Chemical Pro logue," by Prof. Henderson, shows how the questioning spirit of childhood can be made a help to teaching the truths of nature. Prof. Henderson sees the future physicist In tbe baby who Investigates the breakableness of gob lets, and the tearabfeness of clothes, and tries to find out what dolls are made of. "How to Make Knowledge Real," and "The Recogni tion of Truth" are discussed in the "Editor's Table." "ide Awake for March has history in it, and poetry, and science, and stories, and pictures, and all, so far as we can see, which anybody between the ages of 6 and 16 can think of to desire. Everything in it is good. It is all in the direction of intellectual and spiritual uplifting. Wide Awake, month by month, is making the boys and girls wbo read it do some honest and valuable thinking, and is making them better bojs and girls. If the young people who go home from school laden with straps full of books could carefully hang these burdens on the door knob, or leave them in the entry till tbe next morning, and take Wide Awake or SL Nicholas or Harper's Youna JPeonle for their nnt-of.scht.ol text books, they would not only enjoy themselvos better, but they would know more that is worth knowing. "The Beautiful EmilvMarshall" is described in portrait and text, "Poor Lady Ursula" is a true story, and like a good many true stories in this uncertain life ends sadly. "Animals at School" is set ont with pic'turos. Joaquin Miller tells of some far Western rabbits. "Among tho Tall Palms" takes the reader awav far into the other side of the world, into the East. "A Picnic Near the Equator" is an account of sights in Panama. Mrs. Catherwood begins a serial story, "Boney and Bare." "prtE Limitations of the Speakership" is the discussion in this month's North Amer ican Review which will have its pages cut first in the copies by most readers. Speaker Reed defends bis position in a very effective fashion. Ex-Speaker Carlisle is heard from. The Speaker cites many precedents. His comment upon one of them is that "a sense of the ridic ulous sometimes rises to tbe diguity of effectual saving grace." The case in point is when tbo Chair in the Pennsyl vania Senate in 1S80 decided that he was not present himself I The JJevieu;i3 unusually full of good things this month. Mr. Westingbouse has a comment upon Sir William Thompson's recent remarks on electric lighting. A daugh ter of Brigham Young shows wbat a long line they had at borne with 50 brothers and sisters. Max O'Rell has some pleasant things to say about American newspapers. Edward Bellamy defends "Nationalism" against some of tbe oo jections which have been urged against it, Justin McCarthy, in a lively paper, has some thing to say about "Coming Men in England." Senator Morrill continues the free trade con troversy. P. T. Barnum thinks tbe coming centennial celebration ought to be made the greatest show on earth, even greater if possi blethan his own great moral sbow. ... n'pwo Soldiers" is tho complete novel in JApvincotCs for March. Captain Charles Iving, whose military stories aro well known and deservedly popular, is the author. The two soldiers did their fighting with Apache Indians. W. H. Stacpoole has au ingenious "Hint to Novelists." He suggests some such reconstruction and re-writlng of tho lines ot classic characters in fiction as has been done of late in history. Mr. Froude has made a new Henry VIII., and it Is maintained now that Nero, instead of fiddling while Rome was burning, only fiddled afterward at an enter tainment given for tbe benefit of the sufferers. Why not make a new Becky Sharp? Why not reconstruct the veracious history of Ivanhoe after tbe fashion of Mark Twain with Sir Thomas Malory? m iTerlin, tho City of the Kaiser." leads this month in tbe Cosmopolitan. Frank G. Carpenter describes an Easter in Jerusalem. Soldiers and signal codes have papers. Brown ing is discussed by Emily Shaw Foj-man. Prof. Boyesen has a novelette entitled "A Candidate lor Divorce," which ba3 a heroine almost too unmotherly to be real. "The Evolution of the Gondola" is described by Herbert Pierson. 'Das Dnya of Some Use. From tho Boston Herald. 1 There isn't much of a chance that Congress will adjourn before the dog days. If it does then. Thero are 13 Democrats yet to bo de prived of tho seats to which they have been elected, and this promises to absorb all the energies of the average partisan member for a good while yet. It is a pretty small business, but it seems to flourish just tbe same. A SHORTAGE OP M0NEI Will Prevent a Bnll Coinpnlgn in tbe Stock Mnrkem. ISPECIAL TELEGUAM TO THE DISPATCH. New York, March 9. Henry Clews & Co. will say to-morrow in their weekly circular: "The money market is tbe dominant factor upon the Stock Exchange. For weeks past we have pointed out this was an insuperable ob stacle to any bull campaign: and the situation is still such that no upward movement, except such as might happen from an oversold condi tion of the market, can be expected until tbe monetary situation becomes much clearer. Tbe surplus reserves have suffered another diminution, and now stand at only S2il,S50, which means that nearly all the banks are be low legal requirements. It i3 truo that the re tention of large amounts of funds by tbe inte rior, which in tbe ordinary course of affairs ought to have flowed to this center, will some what diminish the outward movement when it again commences. The facts are that at a time when the business interests of the country de mand tbe more active employment of money, the supplv is unequal to the demand, and the Treasury is absorbing funds at a rate which, if continued, cannot but produce uncomfortable results. It is safe to sav tbere has been a con traction of over tlO.000,000 in our currency dur ing the single month of February. "Outside of tbe money market the situation is essentially unchanged. Business in some re spects is rather less active than a year ago, and railroad earnings aro hardly showing as large proportionate gains as then. But this is to be expected. Trado has its dull seasons as well as active oues, and a period of rest and reflection will ho wholesome after the recent rush. While money commands better rates than stock", the latter cannot legitimately rise; and, until both the financial and mercantile out look assumo a brighter appearance, we can only advise against tho carrying of stocks on borrowed capita). When stocks become better relative bargains than now, then it may be safer to thus get Into debt." A Wnrnlnj? to Confiding Democrnts. From the Chicago Times. We warn all confiding Democrats that the John M. Palmer brand of maplo sugar which they are expected to swallow greedily is not worth investing in. It is old stock, common brown sugar imitation, worked over from last season, and it wasn't fresh then. MAI OWN MINING STOCK. Tho Supreme Court Mnkca nn Important Decision AflVctlng Railroads. fSrLCIAL TKLECF.AM TO THE PISPATCIl, Brockvayville, Pa., March 9. Tho Su preme Court bas just banded down a decision in a caso that greatly affects the coal interests about here. A case has been pending for a number of years of tbe State against tue Erie Railroad and tbe Northwestern Mining and Exchange Company. The issuo involved was the lands held by the coal company here and elsewhere. According to law a railroad com pany may not hold lands to operate them for minerals. The case was decided against the company,bnt the Legislature came to its rescue and allowed tho company time to mine its coal before the law became operative. With this aid, the Erie company, nnder tbo name of tbe Northwest, has been doing business ever since. Tho case again came to the Supreme Courts, and the decision was given that tho road does not own the land, but simply tho mining stock of tbe company, and It is therefore not a viola tion of the law. . This is a great victory for tho company, though lawyers say the decision is merely strict interpretation of tbe law. Once Where Thirteen Was Lucky. From tbe New York Tribune. Wben tbe State Senators met yesterday morning, and found that there were just 13 ot them present, they were seized with supersti tious fears and adjourned post baste, rejoicing that 13 do not make a quorum. THE FLORIDA CHAUTAUQUA. Children's Day Celebrated by nn Interesting Mn.lcnl Festival. DEFUNIAK Speings, March 9. The third Week of tbe Florida Chautauqua closed with Children's day; 1,700 children from schools in Western Florida had a grand musical festival yesterday. Among tbe prominent leoturers for this week aXe J. A. Green, of Cincinnati; Dr, J. H. Potts, of Detroit, Micb.tDr. C. E. Dargan, of Charles torn and Dr. M. M. Parkhurst, of Indiana. An EnclMi Kclcntlst Driiiff. London, March 9. Prof. Owen, the scientist. who as reported convalescent a few days ago, af tei a serious Illness, has had a relapse. All the i tembers of his family ate assembled at his beds A MIRROR OF EVENTS Which Reflects on Its Polished Surface All That Is Best and Brightest In the World of Newi, Literature and Art. 'TnE mammoth triple issue of The DiS patch of yesterday may be likened to a highly polished mirror without a flaw which reflects without the slightest distortion any ob ject within its range, reproducing tbe local coloring, bnt neither adding to nor detracting therefrom. Neither was it a flattering mirror. It was simply perfect, and reproduced events as they really occurred, and gave without bias tbo thoughts and opinions of some of tbe brightest minds in the world. TnE telegraph columns tell of a fearful famine in Virginia, owing to a failure of crops, entailing suffering upon thousands. Al Graham, tbe defaulting auditor of Warren county, O., received tbe unexampled sentence of 18 years to the penitentiary and a fine of S12G.422 18. The test of emmensite, a new ex plosive invented by Captain Eminem, of Pitts burg, made at the Washington Navy Yard, proved highly satisfactory. The mystery sur rounding the murder of F. C. Benwell in On tario, is being dispelled, and discloses a re markable story of crime. The Democratic leaders bave declared for Wallace as against Pattison for tbe Guberatorial nomination. An ambitious woman's diplomacy has tided over a crisis in France. In Germany the Emperor's recent speech has been subjected to consider able criticism, and political chaos bas resulted. Pnngle gives a very comprehensive and inter tainlng review of tho week's sports. A famous trio of sporting men drop into town, but do not stay long. The League magnates threaten a number of new suits against Brotherhood stockholders. Considerable talk is going on over the prospects of saloonmon for licenses at tbe next term of court, and it is threatened that politics will be introduced into the matter. Two mothers-iii-law make things lively for a married couple, who airtbelr grievances man alder derman's court. Ex-Congressman Crouse talk3 entertalnly of tbe feeling of Europeans toward the United States and its citizens. The rollers and heaters protest against an advance in waces to tbe ronghers and catchers. An expose Is given of tbe careles3 manner in which some physicians write prescriptions, and the conse quent trials of druggists. It has been decided that applicants for positions in the Allegheny postofllce will not have to pass a civil service examination. An interesting account is given of the escape of prisoners In late years from Allegheny county institutions of detention and correction. 'TSE second and third parts of The Dis patch are devoted mainly to articles of a literary character, well illustrated by compe tent artists. Roger Casement writes of his wandering in African wilds and his unsuccess ful bunt for elephants. Interesting facts and figures concerning four very rich men are given H. I. S. Bill Nye. in bis quaint and humorous manner, describes tho topography and resources of Wyoming. Bessio Bramble thinks that many Washington women are slaves to society, and does not hesitato to say so. Oliver Optic tells the boys how to succeed in life, and gives tn instance in point. Rev. George Hodges dis courses on tbe need ot seeking for the truth. L. Louis speaks from his own experience of tho barbarities practiced in Russian prisons. Fan nie B. Ward, an adventurous lady explorer, de scribes the quaint old city of Bogota. Frank G. Carpenter gives pen pictures of a few of the orators of the Senate, and Bumbalo talks about men we could dispense witb. Herman S. Davis describes tbe method of taking an eclipse. A romantic but true account of how an American citizen wooed and wedded a haughty Castillan Princess is given by C. R. a, while Miss Grnndy, Jr., tells how" statesmen win their wives. Mrs. Madge Kendal, tho eminent En glish actress, talks in a pleasant strain about this country and some of the scenes which have impressed her. F. JayKaye gives tbe bills of fare for breakfasts he has eaten in many parts of the world. Among the other contributors to this remarkable product of tbo nineteenth century are Hepburn Johns, Thome Branch, Axel C. Hallbeck, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, H. Rider Haggard. Paysie, Rufus B. Wilson. Christine Terhune Herrick, Meg, Mrs. M. C. Hnngerford, Clara Belle, B. P. Shillaher, Emma V. Sheridan, and an accomplished corps of staff writers, reporters and correspondents. Now Give Them n Chance. From the Hilladelpbla Inquirer : The Cambria county jail contains ten boys, from 11 to 17 years old. who are awaiting trial on various charges. Not one of them could read or write at the time of being committed. Mr. William Tate and Rev. Mr. Bowman fur nished them with books and writing materials, gave them daily instruction, and bave taugbt most of tbe boys to read and write fairly well. It Is a pity that these boys should have had no body to look after their moral and mental training before they got into jail. THE COUNTY W. C. T. U. MEETING. It Will be Graced by tbe Presence of the National President. , The quarterly convention of the Allegheny County W. C. T. U. will be held in the Third U. P. Church to-morrow. Two sessions will be held morning and afternoon. The forenoon will be taken up with the reports of depart ment superintendents and an address by Miss C. M. W. Foster, of Johnstown. In tbe after noon the reports from tho local unions and county organizers will be heard. In the even ing Miss Frances E. Willard, the National President, will deliver a lecture in the Smith field Street "M. E. Church. Miss Willard will also be present at both sessions of tbe conven tion. A Urge attendance is expected. A circular letter has been addressed to tbe women ot tho County W. C. T. U. within the past week. It is signed byMrs.AgnpS Spencer, President; Miss S. E. Gemmill. Vice Presi dent; Mrs. A. F. Bryce, Corresponding Secre tary; Miss M. E. Stevenion, Recording Secre tary, and Miss M. A.McCoonell, Treasurer, It is intended as a blow at the non-partisan fiction, and the women aro entreated to not forsake the old union. In it it is claimed that the W. C. T. U. aims at total prohibition. It cares not which party works toward this same result, but would rejoice to see all parties united in one effort for temperance. New York's Dense Ignorance. From tho Chicago Times. Chicago must mildly but firmly protest against the New York assumption that the World's Fair is to be financed vicariously by this city. New York has exhibited to an ad miring world what it did not know about get ting the fair. It is now simply displaying Its misinformation about managing a fair when secured. THE WOODPECKER'S KOTKS. At winter's decline ere the early spring comes, When the morntnzs break frosty and clear. The woodpecker's shouts and clattering drums In tbe forests with gladness I hear. From np where tbe morning sun paints the hills Wltb the glow of his roseate light; From sheltered ravines, with their gnrgllngrllls. Where linger the last shades of the night. And from all the wide scope or the lowlands 'round. Their notes on the throbbing air ring. Waking Joyous waves of musical sound; Tbe heralds of the coming spring. High up on the top of a storm-riven oak See the qnalnt llttls drummer bird stand. Tapping his drum that tbe red lightning's fierce ftrosc Made ready for this rude sylvan band. The old trunk vibrates with a loud, cheerful sound. Then he listens for answering notes; '1111 from splinter and snag and limb, all around, Tbe melodious answer floats. Each bird to its fellows thus merrily calls. And from all do the blithe answers ring; Till o'er valley and hill there rises and falls This musical token of spring. W. T. PniSTON, M. D. Alliance, O., March 8. ON SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY. Cardinnl Gibbons Defends tbo Catholic Dogma of Transnbstantiation. Baltimore. March 9. Cardinal Gibbons preached the third of his series of Lenten (I sermons to-day. tils theme was tbe "iioiy Eucharist," His Eminence made the declara tion that tbere is no dogma of tho Catholic Church which rests on stronger scriptural authority than the doctrine nf the real pres ence of Jcsiib Christ in the Holy Eucharist, taking his arguments from tho Scriptures, "the real presence of Christ in tbe blessed sacrament." Ho also cited the texts which speak of the promise of the Eucharist, of its institution, and "of its use among the faithful." ODE MAIL POUCH. Labor Statistics Wanted. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Will you please answer the following ques tions through jour paper? First About how many men belong to labor organizations in the United States? Second How much has the Knights of Labor society decreased in the last two years? Third How many men were involved in the railroad strike, on Gould's Southwest system, about two years ago; and about wbat was its cost to the em ployes? Fourth About how many miners are employed in tbe Monongahela Valley? Fifth How many telegraphers were interested, or in volved, in their last strike? Have they an or ganization of any kind? Sixth What States regulate all labor controversies by an arbitra tion committee appointed according to law? I cannot secure tbe information Involved in the above questions, therefore apply to your paper. W. B. Fayette city, March 8, Write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Washington. D. C Cocaine and Its Uses. To tbe Editor or The Dispatch: I see by a recent number of The Dispatch that R. desires information on tbe subject of cocaine. Cocaine is tbe alkaloid or active orin ciple of the leaves of the erythroxylon coca, a shrub which prows in Peru, Bolivia and other parts of South America. It is crystalline and has a bitter taste. Cocaine is alocal anaesthetic, that is, it causes a loss of sensation when ap plied to muconi surfaces or injected under the skin. The anaesthesia is produced by paraly sis of the ultimate filaments of the nerves of sensation. It is used as a five per cent, solution of tbe hjdrochlorate of cocaine in smaller sur gical operations, as the amputation of a finger, etc. It is applied with a brush to the mucous membrane of the nose in nasal catarrh, hay asthma. It is used as a spray in some throat affections. N. Allegheny, March 8. Cnble Road Crossings. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I think your suggestion to make one terminus for all cable roads a good one. The crossing of two cable roads, however, can be made a suc ces. It is understood that tbe cable of the "crossing road" is carried beneath, that of the first road. Tbe grip on tbe car of tbe crossing road is supposed to ride free and above the cable of tbe first road. Tbere is tbe trouble. Now suppose the cable of tbe first road is carried low, as well as the cable of the "cross ing rdad." The vault would then be free of cables and the grips of each road would ride tbrongh free. Engineer. Pittsburg, March 8. It Is Unnrccssary. To the Editor of The Dispatch: If a gentleman has received permission to call upon a lady, is it proper for him to notify the lady whenever he wisbes to make calls upon her. C. P. C. Allegheny, March 8. You Are on the Long List. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Inclosed please find P. O. order for which please mall me tbe best paper in the State of Pennsylvania TnE Dispatch. J. W. S. Grafton. W. Va., March 7. Who Knows? To the Editor or The Dispatch: Wbat is tho lowest point tbo thermometer has reached during tbe past ten years? Braddock, March 8. A Reader. The Epizootic. To the Editor or Tbe Dlspatcn: Wben was tbe epizootic epidemic in Pitts burg? w. a Sheridan, March 8. CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS. It is stated that 4,000 speak-easics eke out a living in Philadelphia. Tbat Is a good many for a small village, but here In Pittsburg there are so many tbat the police are unable to count 'cm. There is no good reason why Chief Justice Fuller should remove his mustache. It's ail his own and it has stood by him through adversity, and be is not the man to part with It now that he Is on top. The American people are threatened with one of the most gigantic trusts on record. The plumbers and ice men are talking about consoli dating their forces. Bishop Bowjian bas betn asked to resign. The good Bishop in turn got mad and stepped down and out. The season fast approaches when baseball players will again be wearing masks. Servant girls will then be compelled to fall back on news papers for bustles. Gould and Scott are a great pair to draw to. The former Is buying up the earth ami the latter all tbelakc fronts. Jubal Early hss a fad that be will accept no bill with General Grant's likeness upon It. For the same reason Jubal takes good care tbe thou sands of patrons of bis big swindle draws nothing but wind. If tbere is any little town in the country that bas not asked for a Government building no time should be lost. There Is no telling how big a "loan" Chicago intends 3sklng for. Laziness is a premature death. And yet the professional ball player lives on forever. Whisky and a stranger knocked out John L. Sullivan last week. The Bostonlan still retains possession of the belt, however.and dares any one to tread on the tall or bis coat. Nearly 100 new physicians were let loose in Ohio on baturday. Uncle Jerry Rnsfc, In his re port last week said that hog cholera was epidemic In certain sections of the State. PEOPLE CLAMOR FOR IT. The Pittsburg Dispatch Treats oq Every Subject Under the San. From the 1'enneld Sentinel.! Words are inadequate to convey a tithe of the magnitude and popularity of The Dis patch. Tbe Sunday edition has attained a circulation of more than 53,000. The matter contained in each Sunday issue is supplied by an army of tbe most reputable and meritorious writers of our times, and tbe subject matter includes ail the current news, and treats of every interesting subject under the sun science, travel, fiction, romance. The special cable letters and the sporting and business re view are also attractive features of tbe Sunday issue. It contains 29 pages. Each number is a monster magazine of the choicest productions of tne best writers. The daily issue has gained a reputation, all on its own merit, that bas so endeared itself to its army of readers tbat they are completely lost without It. Tbe peo ple clamor for It. Its facilities for gathering news are the most complete, and it is always in the advance in furnishing it to the public. A year ago it placed a new prcs3 in its new office witb a capacity of 40,000 impressions an hour, and Hoe & Co. are now building another mar velous double perfecting press for its already well equipped press room, wbich has become necessary on account of its wonderful growth and increased circulation. Enough cannot be said of it. .The Dispatch is a modern mir acle; and common minds must regard it as such, for it is beyond common comprehen sion to conceive of the possibilities of such a wonderful journal. A Knvy for Columbia. fEFECIAL TELEGRAM TO Till DISPATCH.! Brownsville, March 9. Axton & Son, of this place, bave completed one of the boats for Commodore Stegman, of Baranquilla, United States of Columbia. South America. It has been packed and shipped to New York, from which point it will be sent by sea to its desti nation. SUIKG FOR A MILLI0K. Asking for Damages for Failure to Deliver Dividend-Paying Stock. Ban Francisco. March 9. The suit of Charles Hansen against Henry B. Slavln, the well-known Panama Canal contractor, to re cover 11,210,000, began iu the Superior Court yesterday. Realleges that in 1882 he agreed with Henry B. Slavln and M. B. Slavin, since deceased, to subscribe for 2,000 shares of the stock of tho American Contracting and Dredg ing Company, wbich tbe Slavins controlled. Tho stock, howovnr. was never delivered, though he stopd ready to pay for the tame. The value of the shares and of the dividends declaied would now amount to tbo sum sued for. H. B. Slavin states that Hansen never paid a dollar for any ot the stock, nail had sever even asked for any. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. A very large letter was recently mailed in Australia. It weighed 238 ounces, and the value of tho stamps on it amounted to $35. Mrs. Langtry does not believe that a corset closing in front is of any use to the fig ure. Hers are made in Paris, and cost 840 apiece before the duty is paid on them. Lincolnton has a fat rabbit that runs about the street unmolested by anyone. The boys play with it, the girls kiss it, and tho merchants feed It with all sorts of good things, Lebanon is to have a novel walking match. Two cripples, one having two crutches and tbe other a crutch and a cane, are contest ing for a purse and the championship of the county. South Georgia barbers have a rule that is universal. A stranger is required to pay 15 cents cash for a shave, while a resident pavs 10 cents, and can even get credit if he wishes it at that rate. Perhaps the most powerful electric light in the world is in use in the Houstholm lighthouse on the coast of Jutland. It is ot 2,000,000 candlo power, and is visible at a dis tance of 40 miles. The following curious advertisement appeared not long ago in a newspaper in Paris: "A lady having a pet dog whose hair is of a rich mahogany color desires to engage a f oot man with whiskers to match." Although Connecticut is but 90 miles long and 70 broad it is so well supplied with railroads that you can travel in its cars close upon 1,000 miles, it Is said, without crossing its borders and without "repeating." About hall of the electric clocks in Danbury. Conn., stopped a morning or two since. Investigation showed that thecircnit bad been destroyed by a man wbo cat off a, piece of the wire to tie up bis stove pipe. At the Carlisle Iudian school, the de bating club of tbe Indian students recently argued the subject of woman suffrage. The committee voted at tbe conclusion tbat tbe young women had the better of tbe argument. At Auburn, Cal., a woman was watch ing her hens which were scratching In tbe gar den, when sbe saw them unearth a bright ' object and try their bills upon it. She took it into tbe house and it proved to be a chunk of gold worth S57. Dr. S. "W. Webb thinks that natural gas may bo found in Vermont, and he proposes to sink an artesian well 2,000 feet on his estate in Shelbnrne, believing that when the well gets down between 900 aud 1,200 feet natural gas will bo reached. Stanford Crapo, of Flint, gets tbe credit of clearing (60.000 out of this open winter, lie went East and sold an immense quantity of ice and then traveled to Northern Michigan whero he contracted for the stuff at terms to make the profit named. A Boston book canvasser named Daniel D. Blake bas received information tbat he is tbe sole heir to tbe estate of the late Sir Henry Blake, of Norfolk. England, and tbat 51,250,0(0 is at bis disposal. Blake is 40 years of age and has a wife and daughter. Elizabeth Peister, of Sidney, O., was taken sick and the doctor was called. He pro nounced her dead, and her relatives were sum moned. While they were talking abont tbe suddenness of her supposed death she revived, spoke, recovered and is out of danger. For nearly a century there has existed in New York City a society for the "relief of poor widows with small children." It was formed by some of tbo foremost people of the city, and for three generations the daughters havo taken the place of the mutheis in its man agement. Fifty shillings an ounce was the price paid in England tbe other day for an Irish toilet service in silver of tbe time of William and Mary. It was not very highly ornamented, hut it sold for (3,560. All the glut of silver from all tbe mines in America cannot alter the price of good work. During the late snow blockade 600 pas sengers at Reno, Nev., to amuse themselves, issued a handsome little paper entitled. "The Snowbound, a Souvenir of the Sierra." It contains very handsome illustrations of the place, and recites the efforts made to pass the two weeks of waiting. The police rules of London forbid an officer to arrest a drunken person unless the latter is trying to do someone an injury, and it is not an uncommon thing for an officer to have six or eight "drunks" asleep at intervals along his beat. They may all sing, whistle or shout, but be cannot arrest them. To prevent your glass jars from crack ing when putting in hot liquid stand a table spoon up in them. Thero is a prevailing idea tbat this process bas something to do with electricity, but the truo solution is that the spoon absorbs some of tbe beat, and also car ries some of it out into the open air. A woman who signs herself "Tekbri kova," has written to the Czar to tell him that unless he modifies his reactionary policy he will share tbe fate of Peter III., Paul L and Alexander IL A copy of the letter was sent to each of tbe Ministers of tbe Empire. Tbe police are searching for the writer. Two foreign women, noted for their prowess as huntresses, are traveling in this country namely. Lady Marie Ede von Ame line, famous as a tiger killer, and Lady va Wyndbam Linn, who slew six man-eaters dur ing a visit to her uncle, the Governor of Se fauL Lady Ameline killed four tigers ia ndla and has their claws aud skins. The Government Printing Office is now engaged in filling one of tbe largest orders la its history. This is for 13,000,000 blanks for the use of the 40,000 enumerators of tbe eleventh census, who will begin work in May. It will take 15,000 reams of paper and 20 presses will bave to be worked 22 hoars each day for six weeks befoie the order will have been com pleted. A Hartford hardware merchant named Hill Is responsible for tbe invention of the American lawn mower. He sent a number of tbe clumsy English mowers to a Philadelphia man and overcharged him 75 cents for boxing. The Philadelphian refused to pay for them, and sat down and invented a lawn mower of bis own. which has driven out the English con trivance. WITH TnE POINTED ENDS UP. "What are yon going to do next summer, Mackey?" 'Oh, I'm going to work at playing baseball." XorrUtouni Herald. "Did you ring for a messenger?" Yes-last October. How is It you are here so quickly?" 'They told me at the office it was a quick call." Harptr's Baiar. "I understand yon have opened a coal yard In connection with your undertaking estab lishment, Mr. Solor."' "Jessie, you see, so many of oar best families are going in for cremation." Xtw Xort Sun. "What can you do?" asked tbe editor. Well, I can't write, and I can't edit, and I ain't got no literary Judgment: but if yerwant a man that's all muscle to blame fer wrltln' libels, I'm tbe feller yer want-see?' 'Harper's Bazar. "You say that the young man hadn't a cent when he married? Why, be was left a fortune only a few months before." "Yes, bnt his courtship was quite long, and be denied the young lady nothing tbat bar appetite craved." Chicago Times. "How far back can you remember, Bobby!" asked bis uncle. "Well," said Bob, "I can remember when I didn't know bow to play marbles." No further back than that?" "Oh yes; lean remember when 1 couldn't re member at all. " HarperfM Bazar. Gazzam (just introduced) And how are things generally, in Philadelphia, Mr. Jaysmltb. Jaysmlth Beg pardon, but I'm not from X'hlla del puta. Uazum Pardon me; my mistake. I'm a trifle near-sighted, and I thought that was a paper collar yon have on. Xtw Xork Sun. Judge Prisoner at the bar, before I pass, sentence npon you I cannot refrain from express lug my surprise that a man wbo bas bad all the advantages of a collegiate education sbould be found at the bead of a mob of drnnken rioters. Prisoner Why. great snakes. Judge, that was a part or my collegiate training. Terrs Haute Ex prtss. Governor I want you to accept a prom inent and highly honorable position wtthln my gift. Citizen What's the pay? The place is entirely honorary and without emoluments." "Then 1 can't take it. I really haven't tbe ability to fill an office which has no salary at tached." Chicago Times. Prospective Employer What pay have you been getting? Applicant (from Ikston)-Doyouallade to the remuneration hitherto awarded me in recognition of my services? "Yep." "In the neighborhood of 2,000 a year." ' Well, what was your pay?" Tour dollar a week."-CAIcojo Ntwt, tiMif-mwmmamSiMKamSBKnSagBSB
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