HM -y3w'ri nynpjgf" 3PjBri57: ,' J Wfl'riW THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, "WEDlSfESDAY. MARCH 13, 1890. i If V ! ; 14 At K "Si e hippie ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 1816, ol. -w, No. 33 Entered at 1'ittsburg rotomcc ovcinberH. lssT, as second-class matter. Business Office 97 and 99 FifthAvenue. News Rooms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street. eastern Advertising once, Koom 46, Tribune Bulldiug, NewYorL. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAOE FREE IT TOE UMTED STATES. Daily DisriTCn, One iear S S 00 Daily DlsriTCit, l'er Quarter 2 00 Dailt Dispatch, One Month TO Daily DisrATcn, includingtunday, lycar. 30 00 Daily DisPATcn, lncludingSnnday.3m'ths. 150 Daily DisrATcn, Including bunday.lmontb 00 S-INDAI Dispatch, One Year 150 Weekly Dispatch, One lear IS The Daily Dispatch is deliTered b-vcarrlersat jr cents cer -week, or Including bunday edition, at 10 cents per week. PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY. MAR. 12, 189a 3-On or nbout April 1 the DC-INEsS OFFICE or THE DI-sl'ATCII will bo re moved to Corner of Smiihficld nnd Diamond strccti. AH INVOICE OF CHEAP LABOR. The report of the landing of some six hundred Hungarian laborers in New York, reported to be bound for this section, is in teresting, although the deduction drawn in Xew York that they are intended to take the place of native labor, is not clearly es tablished. The evidence as to the locality where this unassimilated and cheap labor will be put to work does not show beyond dispute, that it will be in the neighborhood of Pittsburg. The supposition that they are to displace labor now employed in the coke industry, is debarred by the fact that the coke firms a month ago signed a scale in which advanced wages were paid avowedly for the purpose of retaining the better class of labor. It is hardlv to be expected that these for eigners can be a factor in the impending dispute between the coal miners and operators, because such laborers in the railroad mines would be dear if ihey worked for nothing. If these men come to Pittsburg their employment is likely to be on some of the new enterprises where the demand for common labor has been in excess of the supply. These men are not likely to displace any of the native or assimilated labor ot this section, though their presence may retard the advance in the wages for common labor which was almost inevitable, unless new labor had been brought in. That this large influx of cheap labor is brought here under some sort of contract is more than probable, and furnishes a telling commentary on our immigration law which lets in labor of this sort as a sieve lets in water, ana only sends back the labor that is wanted. THE KAVIGATI0K COMPANY'S CLAIM. The argument of the representatives of the Honongahela Navigation Company before the Hirer and Harbor Committee yesterday, was directed to the question of valuation on which the proposed appropriation of their locks and dams should be made. The prin ciples that should govern the appraisement are hardly open to dispute. The Hononga hela Navigation Company has property rights, of which it cannot be deprived even by the exercise of eminent domain, without due compensation. Included in those prop erty rights is its franchise; and not even Congress itself can take away the franchise except for abuse or misuse without com pensation. Of course opinions may differ widely as to the value of the franchise; but that is a question to be decided by the tri bunal wnich makes the condemnation upon the evidence presented. "We think that both the river interests and the Navigation Company can stand together on the ground that the company is entitled to compensa tion for its property, and that when the property is taken, it should be condemned as a whole and not by driblets. COMBINATION AND DISCSIMINATION. It is announced, apparently on behalf of theassociafcd railroads connected with Pitts burg, that they have decided not to make any changes in the coal rates. This is un derstood to refer especially to the group rates. It is no: clear whether it also carries the meaning that the gross discrimination permitted by the Central Traffic Associa tion in favor of the Hocking Valley is to continue. Some ot the coal men refuse to accept tue decision as autnoritative; but the manner of its announcement leaves little expectation ot the remedy sought after by them. This result is an illustration of the practi cal workings of. railroad combination. Some of the railroad officials have shown that they consider the present adjustment of rates an unjust one; and there is no doubt that if each line were to act by itself the inequalities would be rectified. But it has been so sedulously inculcated by railroad ethics that it is the unpardonable sin for a railroad to make such rales solely with reference to the best interests of itself and its snippers, that these railroad men will let the injustice continue rather than, by taking independent action, to break it up and brave the enmity of the lines that are interested in its maintenance. The discrim inations are distinctly sustained by the Cen tral Traffic Association. "Without that com bination they would not last a month. The responsibility of the combination for the discrimination is made all the more direct by the fact that it violates the princi ples which the advocates of combination profess. An organization which pretends to oppose discrimination and really sustains it, furnishes its own condemnation. A PEACTICABLE C0MPE0MISE. The meeting of coal miners yesterday was made the occasion of a declaration by some of the leading representatives that the miners of this district must take their stand for a 90-cent rate, because the Ohio, Illinois and Indiana miners are taking strong action to obtain proportionate rates in their dis tricts. This sounds like good logic, pro vided the miners of the other States succeed in obtaining their rates. "We have little doubt that the operators of this district would concede such a rate if they can be guaranteed that competing coal fields will pay wages equally high. On the other hand, the miners can see that, if the "West ern districts pay no more than they have been doing, to establish the high rale for mining here would simply condemn the mines to idleness. "Unfortunately, previous efforts of the "Western miners to obtain good wages have resulted in defeat. "With theBe facts recognized, a compromise, making the rate for the Pittsburg field conditional on the success of tbe miners in competing dis tricts, ought not to be hard to agree upon. SPINSTEES AND THE SENATE. It is evident that occasionally a Senator of the United States is in demand. This has been revealed in a manner decidedly peculiar. Several weeks ago The Dis rATCii published an article upon the bach elors and widowers in the Senate, and lj nmong others there was a sketch of Senator Pbiletus Sawyer, of "Wisconsin. His por trait and the account of his new home, his wealth and amiability, appear to have made a deep impression upon no less than seven thousand two hundred and thirty seven females. Every one of these confiding maids and widows Jias written to Senator Sawyer, putting her heart .tnd hand at his disposal. It is a beautiful exemplification of the holy, disinterested ambition of woman to minister unto lonely and unwived hu manity. Think of it ! over seven thousand heroines willing to share the sorrows, the tmls, the responsibilities, to say nothing of tbe bank account, of an elderly gentleman with a seat in the United States Senate. While the American woman is equal to such efforts no one need despair of her glorious destiny. Senator Sawyer, strangely enough does not appreciate the great compliment paid to him. He turned over all the letters he re ceived to the Hon. "W. B. Allison, his brother Senator, with the request that the correspondents should be accommodated if possible by him. Of course neither Mr. Sawyer nor Mr. Allison can make all these women happy unless both Senators are willing to move to Utah and defy tbe Fed eral restrictions of polygamy. But they can, and our fair readers will say, we doubt not, that they should marry as many as pos sible, say one apiece. The Senate wonld be of some use to the country if it would, that is to say as far as the bachelors in it are con cerned, reduce the deplorable surplus of spinsters. The spinsters seem to be willing enough, in all conscience. IMPEEIAL EXPECTATIONS. It is an interesting report which comes from Germany that the letters of the Em peror to Herr von Boetticher indicate his purpose to make that official the Prime Minister in place ot Bismarck. The declar ation of the Emperor that Herr von Boetti cher has been his main supporter in the effort to carry out the social reform movement certainly looks like an indirect assertion that the old Chancellor has not supported the movement, and that the Emperor is getting tired of being held in leading strings by the old statesman who created his grandfather's empire. This adds a new and remarkable sig nificance to the recent speech of the Em peror. If the young "war lord" has taken the bit between his teeth to a degrpe which leads him to throw off Bismarck's guard ianship, the determination of the latter to remain in office for the Emperor's sake may subject him to a gratuitous rebuff. "What if the threat to "dash in pieces" those who oppose the Emperor should include both the Iteichstag which fails to adopt his measures and the veteran Prime Minister who fails to carry out his pet hobby. It is only necessary to remark that if the impetuous Emperor should undertake to "dash in pieces" the Iron Chancellor's policy, and the Reichstag's authority at one and the same stroke, he may find other features ensuing than those which he promises. THE EDLE NOWADAYS. The question which has just been raised as to the name of the Concord, the new cruiser just launched at Chester, is an in teresting one. The name of the predecessor of this vessel showed an intention to name the ships of that class after the Revolution ary battlefields, the other ship having been named the Yorktown. Nevertheless, the Secretary of the Navv in arranging for the launch exhibited a belief that the vessel was named after the town of Concord. N. H.: which has elicited the reverse of compli mentary expressions from the village in Massachusetts, where the embattled farmers fired the shot which it is hoped that the new war ship may emulate if occasion arises. Nevertheless, the people of Concord, Mass , must hold Secretary Tracy excused for his mistake. Ex-Secretary and Senator Chindler hails from Concord, N. H. The education of a Cabinet officer at present in forms him that while Revolutionary reminis censes are all very fine, the thing that really counts nowadays is Senatorial and political influence. Secretary Tracy did no more than to recognize the prevalent in fluence of the day in supposing that Senator Chandler's town had the pull and that the historical village was ignored. The refusal to permit the interment of a Chicago Alderman whobad belonged to a secret society, in a Catholic cemetery, has raised a great deal of excitement in that city. The only party to the matter who is not raising a lus over it is the corpse. To judge by its equa nimity, it does not care bow the dispute is settled. The failure of the vigorous effort to keep the principal witness in tint Flack scandal from going on tho witness stand moves Joe Howatd to indignantly inquire: "By what right were detect he sergeants detailed to carefully guard and closely -natch Mrs. Mary E. Flack in her country home T' " Perhaps the right to compel tho attendance of witnesses in criminal cases may have something to do with it. Another pertinent inquiry might be: What influence makes tho genial Joseph fo very restive when the law shows any signs of pinching the crowd which turns out bogus divorces to order ? Pennsylvania's example in letting railroad proprietorship of the canals send them to decay is pointed to by Maryland as an indi cation of what she should do. Because one State puts the wolves in charge of the fold, this sort ot logic argues that the mutton is worthless except as wolves' meat. Peiyate Dalzell plumes himself in the matter of a victory on the allowance of ex tra pay pension, for which his claim has been allowed, while his original position which was made tho subject of sarcasms has been sus tained. This is a triumph for the Private; but is it not a rather inconsequent course to come out as a Congressional candidate on the heels of it? As the job which Private Dalzell under takes is the overcoming of 600 to 1.000 Demo cratic majority, it will probably necessitate his confining his outbreaks of self-exploitation to bis own district until the election is over. That Pittsburg glassblower who is dis tributing his money among the Virginia negroes has one point of superiority over emi nent gentlemen who have engaged in the same line of effort. Ho is not asking the negroes' votes in return for the money. The class of arguments which are used in Kansas to secure tbe repeal of prohibition is illustrated by the fact that one says the law is a dead letter, anyway; and the other is that it keeps away immigration from tbe State. How a dead-letter law can keep away immigra tion is something that the opponents of prohi bition have not yet explained: but the argu ment is no more inconsistent than the usual efforts of logic on many public questions wqere money is to be made. Consistency Is a jewel, and it is about as scarce as most precious stones. Pittsbueg stands ready to furnish the Chicago World's Fair with tbe iron and glass necessary for the biggest exposition building in the world. All it will ask in return are tbe regular market prices on a cash basis. THE purchase of street railway lines in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse by a Pittsburg capitalist, Mr. H. Sellers McKee, who is also interested in the Birmingham line of this city, shows that Pittsburg will not be left behind s.a.Au. ii i-tfSir, , it ilk: isfetnnilsflfcYT hVt,Jtf;'- ----' --- li-- " Sa111&-iJJai . , Philadelphia in the ownership and operation of the moans ot municipal transit. We will venturo the prediction that Pittsburg capital will give the cities where it is represented first class service In the line of electrical railways. The separation of church and State in Brazil looks like progress, and encourages the hope that Brazil may eventually establish a republic by adopting a constitution and letting the people e.ect a government. It isa comfortable thing to note thatwhile the New York bank reserve is down unpleas antly close to tho minimum tbo last statement of the Pittsburg national banks shows an in crease of reserve during the past threo months. Let us hope, however, that tho habit of the Controller in calling for a statement at set periods did not induce our banking friends to fix up their reserves so as to make a good show ing. Talk about the failure of the various gas fields is cheap, but a new SOU pound well at Belleveruon and another 500 pounder at Mur rysville talk louder than words. The Democratic idea of electing Presi dental electors in tho various Congressional districts is a Roland Tor the Oliver of the Re publicans in tho measure to prevent Demo cratic gerrymanders and perpetuate the Re publican kind. But if both parties keep on passim: election laws for the avowed purpose of securing party success, what will become of government by the people? The Dakota idea at present seems to be that if any man says the Legislature is cor rupt he must bo impeached, for fear ho might prove it. Tatjlbee's death makes his dispute with Kincaid a rather serious amusement for both of the disputants. Death for one of the fighters and imprisonment, as the mildest penalty which the other can expect, are results of a controversy which indicate that it would have been much better for both of them to have kept the peace. There is reason to suspect that the novel attitudes of tbe joung German Emperor are duo to an attack of enlargement of the head. Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson's year's work is summed up in the chopping off of 31,000 Democratic heads. Clark son is as vigorous a civil service reformer as his Democratic predecessor. Both of them clearly demonstrated their conviction that the only way to reform the civil service is with a meat ax. PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE. Senator Quay's son, Richard, is said to bo slated for nomination for the Legislature from Beaver county next fall. It is said that General B. F. Butler is inter ested in a scheme for a railroad through Pales tine from Port Said to Damascus. Dr. Brown-Sequard is still engaged on his youthlul elixir at Paris, and persists in believ ing that his experiment will at last be success fully established. Attorney General Trowbridge, of Michigan, is reported to have shown symptoms of insanity forsometimo past, and it is under stood that he will be compelled to resign his office. Riper Haggard has created as the central figure of his new story, a Zulu King, for whom be chooses the unregal name of "Charcoal." possibly because the name suits bis com plexion. Mr. Parnell will prosecute the editor of the Gazelle for publishing tbe first forged let ter printed by iho Times in its articles on "Parnellism and Crime," and copying the rimes' articles day by day. General Sherman has once more given the country an examplo of his practical good seuse by buying his own monument, a thousand dollar one, and ho sajs: "The moment I am buried it will be clapped on over me." William K. VanderbilI desires a nice station at Oakdale, L. I., so he trill have one put up at a cost of $10,000, and present it to tbe Long Island Railroad Company. It will be known as tho one that Mr. Vanderbilt built. Berry R. Sulgrove, the Indianapolis ed itor who died recently, coined tbe phrase "Tall Sycamore of the Wabash," as applied to Sena tor Voorhees. First used in derision, it has come into general use by both friends and enemies. Rev. E. T. Jeffers, D. D., of Philadelphia, has formally accepted the call to the pastorate of the Fir.st Presbyterian Church of Oil City. Owing to his duties as Professor of Theology in the college where he is employed. Dr. Jeffers Kill not commence bis labors in Oil City until the 1st of June. A BELL WITH A HIST0EI. The Interesting Relic in the Top of a Buckeye nostelry. rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.! FlNDLAT, March 11. On tho top of the littlo hotel at Elmore, a small ullage north of this city, is a bell, with a peculiar and interesting history. It is now the property of Mr. D. B. Day, the proprietor of tbe hotel, who takes pride in reciting its origin and subsequent tribulations. In 1S32 Jarvis "spafford built a tavern in Pcrrysburg, once the site of old Fort Meigs, of the war ot 1812 fame In those days a botel was not complete without a bell, swung on the top, to call the guests to their meals. Bell foundries were not so plen tiful then as now, but after considerable search ing Mr. Spafford heard of a man in Detroit who cast bells. Detroit, then in the Territory o Michigan, was quite a remote point, as dis tance -was then calculated, but Spafford had to have a bell, and he finally made his way thither to have it cast. The bell foundry was found, and the job undertaken, but when Davis, the foundryman, endeavored to make the cast it was discovered that there was not enough metal for the purpose. Here was a dilemma, but Spafford was equal to the emergency. He threw SO Spanish dollars into the molten mass and the bell was cast. With his treasure, worth almost its weight in gold. Spafford returned to Pcrrysburg, and hung the bell up m a tree in his yard, so that it might be investigated by the curious. The In dians, who were then quite plentiful in and about Perrysburg, were caught by the novel at traction. They climbed tbe tree and kept tbe bell goine day and night until the thing be came an intolerable nuisance, and Spafford had about concluded to take the bell down when tbe Indians relieved him by stealing it and tar rying it away. This act made Spafford f uriou and he determined to recover tbe bell if it cost him his life. Securing the services of Sam Brady, an old scout who had killed a Fcorc or more of Indians, and Frank McCalllster. the first white man who had settled at Perrysburg, they started toward Upper Sandusky. They traveled three days and nights, and on the morning of thefourth day, while they were eating break fast, they beard tbe bell in tbe distance. Hastily finishing their meal tbey hurried iu tho direction from whence tbo sound came, and soon beheld a sight that was laughable, a he Indians had tied the bell around the neck of a pony, and the whole tribe, bucks, squaws and youngsters, armed with hickory switches, were running that poor animal around an open space at the very top of its speed, and yelling like demons, as an accompaniment to tho furious ringing of the bell. Spafford and bis companions made a charge on the crowd and succeeded in driving the pony away from the village, where they could secure the bell without trouble, which they did and got safely home without being pursued or having any fight with the Indians. The bell was taken back to Perrysburg, where it re mained for many years performing the duty for which it was cast. When Mr. Spaffora died his daughter, now Mrs. Day, claimed the bell, and, as her husband became a hotel keeper at Elmore, the old reiio naturally reached its present position on the top of tho house, where she is the landlady. DEATHS OP A DAY. Benjamin It. Font, ISFKCIAL TELEQBAM TO THE DlgPATCILl Huntinqdox, PA., March 11,-BenJamln B. Vout, ex-member of the Legislature, died at his home at Mill Creek this moraine of Bright's dis ease. Mr. rout was elected on the breenbick Democratlc ticket in 1878. W. II. Brown. CHICAGO, March ll. V. II. Brown, General Manager of the Btudebaker Carriage Company, was stricken with paralysis yesterday, and died from its eflccts this afternoon. Prof. Glldemelster. Berlin, March 11. Prof. Glldemeltter, a noted Orientalist, died to-day at Bonn THE TOPICAL TALKER. A New Way to Fnrnlsh a Honae Expen sive n Good Name for It Chicago's Great Fent Opernlle Gossip. QiEof tho prettiest houses I was ever in." said a Pittsburger who has just returned from the Capital, "I saw last week in Wash ington. 1c was not in architecture or anything of that sort that the charm of tbe house lay. Its furniture was responsible for the good effect of every room in the house. The family who live in it are not people of great means. Their moderate resources made me wonder how they had been ablo to furnish their home so elegantly, so richly, and with such variety and pleasing contrast. I knew the mistress of the house well enough to ask her to explain. "'lam not surprised that you ask me how we managed to furnish tbe houso in this style.' she said. "Every stranger to Washington life who visits me asks me the same question, which is easily answ cred. When wo first came to Washington to livo wo took a furnished house, and in that we stayed a year or so. Then I wanted to get a house of our own although our funds for buying furnlturo were low aiid wo finally took this house. We furnished it piecemeal. When wo moved in wo bad enough furniture to meet most of our absolute necessi ties. It was the end of the session of Congress and tbo transient population of Washington was moving out Households wcro being broken up on all sides, and in every part of tho city auctions for tho sale of furniture, silver, linen and china were being held. I attended as manj of these auctions as I could, and bit by bit collected all the furniture, tableware, and indeed pretty nearly everything there is in this house. You admire the result and it is true the furniture, silver and china are all finer than I could have afforded to buyin tbe stores. My husband admires the result also; he has an other reason I saved him many hundreds of dollars.' The opportunities at tho rising of Congress, ot tbe sort I have indicated, are really wonder ful." iQn, ma'am," said a nursemaid to tho East End lady who employed her, the other day, "I made such a mistake this after noon. I had Master Freddy out in the peram bulator, and Mrs. Jones stopped me and asked what ailed the child. I couldn't think of tbe word the doctor used, and 1 says, says I: "He'vo got expensive.' " "Well, Mary," said her mistress, laughing, as she thought of what an attack of eczema would amount to in doctors' bills, "expensive is about to lat it amounts to alter all." CHICAGO'S GREAT FEAT. The great feet of Chicago's fair Have brought her fame: doth glory Await her greater feat? Nay, there Her Fair's another storj I Several good points of the performance of "The Gondoliers" were passed over, owing to the circumstances of a first night criticism. Tbo orchestra's part in the evening's work had a great deal to do with the smoothness of the whole performance. Sir Arthur Sullivan's compositions perhaps demand a larger or chestra than the traveling company can us ually afford to carry, but the musicians led by Mr. Adolph Liesengang, acquitted themselves very well on Monday night. The following schedule in rhyme is contrib uted by a fair correspondent and may serve to guide some of her sisters: TO SPINSTERS ONLY. Time for maidens, time In plenty For to marry when they're twenty. Free of heart they still may thrh c. When thev've birthdays twenty-flve. If at thirty they're unmarried, Long enough they'll find they've tarried. Should tbey single reach two score, They'll rap hard at Hvmcn's door. .,v Qilbert & Sullivan's opera of "The Gon doliers," now being performed at the Bijou, like all the previous works of those two talented gentlemen, consists of charming in consistencies coupled to melodious strains. While the Gilbertlan philosophy is as quaint as ever and as full of satire, it is perhaps deeper than usual, touching, as it does, in an off-hand way. the socialistic question, which is now de manding the attention of the statesmen of tbe world. The position of the dual Kings of Barataria, who attempt to inaugurate a radical monarchy, if such a term ma) be allowed, is probably one of tho most remarkable ideas ever introduced into an opera, and yet has a solid basis of common sense. Gilbert, perhaps unintentionally, has perpe trated a little joko upon tho play-eoers who want to reach tbe sidewalk just as the curtain goes. Toward tho end of tho last act there is a tableau which might reasonably bo interpreted as tho finale, but is followed by several conceited pieces. List evening, as usual, about 200 of tho Bijou audience started for the door as soon as the King came to his own, but hesitated midway when they saw tho opera take a fresh start. Several of them re turned toxheir seats, which thoy hadno sooner reached than the curtain went down, and, much to their distrust, they bad to fall in behind a long and slow procession to the street. Wnim Gluo Needed. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. The seats of Democratic Congressmen should be treated to warm glue. The Democratic party expects every Democratic Congressman to be.in bi3 place. A BIG W. C. T. U. MEETING. Tho Old Organization In Good Slinpo Yet Tho Report of the AIcDonald Y With drawal Dropped Like a Hot Potato To Slop Bird Killlnc. At tho quarterly convention of tho County AV. C. T. U. yesterday Mrs. M. E. Worth made a short addres or report on her work as buper intendent of Scientific Temperance Instruction. Tbe manner of teaching studies bearing on this subject in tho public schools was particu larly commended, and tho text books relating to physiological matter were indorsed. Miss McConneU, the Superintendent of Press Work, also made a report of her work, and Miss C. M. W. Foster, of Johnstown, made a short ad dress on general work iu and near her borne. Miss Frances Willard made a few remarks, saying she had visited 21 towns In the past SO days and Pittsburg mado as good a showing as any of them. Tbe National organizer of tbe Good TemDlars, Colonel Demaree, of Ken tucky, was introduced. Tho report of the treasurer for the quarter showed the expenses to have been $94 69, the receipts $13. Tho report was approved, and bills amounting to $22 88 were ordered to bo paid. Miss Anna Gordon, tho National Associate Superintendent of Juvenile Work, made an address about Bands ot Mercy, Bands of Hope, Loyal Legions, Willing Workers and other organizations composed of children. Her work was to encourage the workers in these bands to continue. She believed in recognizing the boys and the girls in all manner of meetings ana Gatherings, looking out for their likes and dislikes, and creating interest in the proceed ings for them She spoke of a plan of drill by manual in the Loyal Legion, where the boys went through simple evolutions and liked 'it well enough to attend weekly meetings where their hearts were also drilled. Mr. A. F. Bryce announced that she had re ceived notice from the McDonald "Y" that they had left the county organization and joineomhe new porty. Miss McConneU made a motion that tbo resignation be accepted with regrets, and that the matter be dispensed with at unco without discussion. The motion car ried unanimously. Mrs. Mair then asked If there was anybody who filled the position of Superintendent ot Mercy. She said there was much work to be done'by such an one in visiting the sick and poor in tenement houses, hospitals and other places. Mrs. Mair said the field was a large one, and would necessitate some action being taken to stop tbe abuse of killing birds to aJorn hats and bonnets, and keeping horses in agony by a high check rein and bobbing their tails, as well as visiting the sick. Miss McCon neU moved to lay the matter over for a month, which was done. Tho next quarterly meeting will be held in Verona. Thirty-nine unions were represented out of the 03 in tbe county. STABS AT TUE UMBRELLA PURL0INEE. Washington Post: A Pittsburg, man has been sentenced to three years in the peniten tiary for the larceny of an umbrella. It served him exactly right. Ho should have organized a syndicate and gobbled up all the umbrellas in the State of Pennsylvania, and then he would have had a hotter standing in; the courts. Wilkesbakre Record: A PutshurgVIudge recently sentenced a man to three j cars' im prisonmen c for stealing an umbrella. It is safe to surmise that tho Court had recently met with a serious loss ot steel and black silk or else had not recently got caught out in a shower with a tempting opportunity to get home dry at somebody else's expense. ORANGE IN EVEBI WAY. A Delightful Entertainment nt tbe Bellcfiold Presbyterian Church, Very becoming to the bright brunettes and slightly trying to the fair blondes were the decorations of the Bellfield Presbyterian Church last evening, which made the "orange festival" held there orange in reality as well as by name. Orange was everywhere, and oranges too, both manufactured and natural. Beautiful evergreen trees, placed at intervals through the lecture room, were laden with the bright yellow fruit that in appearance rivaled nature's productions, but con tained everything imaginable inside tijeir yellow covering. From the retreshment room the aroma of the genuine article reminded one of Pullman cars (where someone is always de vouring an orange), or probably of past battles with the perverse fruit before tbe fashion originated of eating them with a spoon when the nnd would stick closer than a brother. Tho lemonade booth, which occupied a corner, was a very attractive affair with its cut glass and handsome china punch bowls and silver ladles, to say nothing of the luscious beverage. The prevailing color was used in tho draping and trimming of this inviting booth as it was in the manufacture of the candy booth, which was "cornered" in tho opposite portion of tho room. The sweetness of that particular corner was conducive to the rattling of silver that de lighted the ladies intorested in tbe enterprise. The supper tables were very pretty and the supplies were like the fishes, sufficient for the multitude that made demands upon them. 1 ho fancy tabic and icecream table wero both decked in the golden color, and were in har mony with tbe dainty articles of necdlo work, which wero all of tho samo hue aud the rich, golden cream. The festival was for the benefit of the home and foreign missions of the church, and those in charge of it wero Mrs. Anna S. Jack and Mrs. Charles Zue at the supper tables, with a number of young assistants. Mrs. Hengst, Miss Davison and Miss Orth robbed tbe trees of their fruitage and delivered it to purchasers for a moderate price. Miss Zug and Miss King supplied the ice cream to those desiring it, and Mrs. Howard Nelson. Miss Daulcr and Miss Baldwin gave the assemblage "taffy" and much moro expensive confectionery at liberal price-. Mrs. Zug and Mrs. Holland were general managers. The Schmertz Orchestra was in attendance, and a large crowd of generous pcoplo. who enriched the mission coffers of the church considerably. A Q0IET WEDDING. Miss Margaret R. stoney Bccoines Mrs. E. IT. Dingier. A fashionable but private homo wedding in the East End, last evening, united Miss Mar garet R. Stoney to Mr. E. H. Bingler. Tho ceremony was performed in the spacious draw ing room of the Stoney mansion, at Roup, by Rev. George Hodges, of Calvary Eniscopal Church, at 8 o'clock. There were no attend ants, and tbe bride was dressed in a sweetly pretty white silk costume of danc ing length. She carried a bouquet of bride roses, but wore no veil. She is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Stoney to be married within the past six months, and it was at her own desire that ber weeding was unostentatious instead of like brilliancy to ber sisters, four of whom have preceded her in matrimony. Mr. Bingler is associated with Mr. Stoney, in the Anchor Savings Bank, and claims for his sister Mrs. Emma Bingler Wolfe, the talented .songstress. Tbe guests included onlv tbe relatives of tbe families and the immediate friends. The wedding supper, which could not bo excelled, was served bj Kuhn. Ihe collection of presents embraced everything that would please a con noisseur of tine wares, and will assist wonder fully in rendering artistic and beautiful the home of the young couple on Wylie avenue, of which they will assume possession immediately. TWO SEASONS ENJOYED. Fnst and Future Pleasures Talked Over by a Fishing Club. Tho past season's pleasure was enjoyed last evening in retrospect, and the future season's in anticipation, by members of the "Iron City Fishing Club," who were entertained at the residence of Dr. G. L. Simpson, No. 213 North avenue, Tbe genial host is an amateur pho tographer, and improved, tho opportunities offoied bim, while the club was reveling in the joys of camp life and temptine the beauties of the sparkling water last August, to render I Jimortal many of tho pretty scenes presented. And last evening, by tbe aid of a stereopticon, tbe company was transported to the various places they visited whou tbo thermometer was up in the nineties. An elegant repast was served, however, which broke tho spell and convinced the guests that they were not out in tbe wilderness, dependent upon the commissary tent and camp cook for eatables, but in the land of caterers. A Benefit for Iho Widow. A benefit entertainment will be given at tbe Lawrence School Houso on Friday and Satur day evenings for the family of the late Pro fessor Stephenson. A very interesting pro gramme will be presented, and the occasion will be the calling forth of a representative gathering of educational people. Apropos to n Proposed Banquet. In connection with the coming visit of Miss Nellie BIy to this city it is stated that a ban quet will bo tendered her, but no official action has ben taken to that end, and if it 13 given, unless different arrangements aro made, it will bo under the auspices of no organized commit tee. Social Chatter. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at tho Swedish church on Plumer street, be tween Forty-fifth and Foity-sixth streets, a grand bazaar and entertainment will be in pro gress. TnE Carroll Club will give a reception at Orpheus Hall, Monday evening, April 7, 1890. riTTSBDRG 0iIMANDEUr ELECTION. List of Officers Chosen Last Eveniujr for the Ennnlnc Term. Pittsburg Coinmandery No. 1 held its annual election last night at Masonic Hall headquar ters. Tho following ofittcers were chosen : Eminent Commander, James Ji. Youngson; Generalissimo, David R. Torrence; Captain General, Fager J. Shidle; Treasurer, Richard R. Barrows: Recorder, William T. Riter; Trustees, Oscar C. Ganter, Henry T. Brodle and M. M. Fclker. By tho choice of Mr. Youngson. Postmaster James S. McKean will become Past Eminent Commander when the now officers are installed in May next. During Mr. McKean's term 75 new members have entered the Commandery. giving it a membership of over 500. No. 1 has enjoyed much distinction within the last year, It had the great honor of showing a greater membership at tho Triennial Conclave in Washington than any Commandery in the United States. In the parade No. 1 had tbe ost of honor, leading the Sixth Pennsjlvania ivislon, as the personal escort of Torrence C. Hippie, Grand Commander of Pennsylvania, AGAINST WILLIAMS' GR0TE. Tho Opposition Fair This Ycnr Will be Hold ac Mt. Gretna. x ISPICtAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCIt.1 Harrisbcrg, March 11. A joint committee of farmers and agents of agricultural imple ment manufacturers, at a meeting here to-day, unanimously decided to accept the proposition of Robert H. Coleman, for tbo holding of tbe farmers' encampment at Mt. Gretna. Mr. Coleman agrees to erect an auditorium with a capacity of 5,000 people, horticultural and flori cultnral halls and platforms for exhibitors, who will bo permitted to display their manu factures witnout charge. Tho encampment will bo held on August 17. This movement is a blow at Williams' Grove, where tho implement manufacturers have for j ears had spates. Big Plate Glass Works nt Charlerol. IBFECIAL TSL2QBAM TO TUB DISPATCH.! CiiARLEnor, FA., March 11. The contract for tbe building of the big plate glass works has been let and work will begin at once. The cost of the building will be $750,000, and the plant will be about 1,200 feet long by 800 feet wide. NOT DLAD, BUT SLEEPING. Tho Americas Club May Yet Build New Clubhouse. The discharging of. the Clubhouse Committee at the last meeting of the Americus Club has not put a quietus upon the clubhouse scheme. It Is now certain that at the next meeting of tbe club a new committee will bo asked for, and that a very strenuous effort will be made to formulate a plan which will tread on no body's toes. The resolution to have a clubhouse is still spicad upon the minutes, and was not repealed, the committee being merely ended. All sorts of sites have been inspected and the desire for a clubhouse seems to bo more ardent than ever. There are 175 members of tbe club out-, side of Allegheny county, representing nine Btates, and it is the determination to provide a home for them at an early day. The project u "Hot dead but sleepeth." nA. ?' OUR ABANDONED CANALS. Illnrylnnd Points to Them as an Einmple of Losses Sbe Mny Suflei The Effect oa Population nnd Business New York's Great Waterwnr and Its Advantages. IFKOH A STASY COKBESPOXDENT.J (Cumberland. Md , March 11. The friends of tbe Chesapeake and Oblo Canal are using the State of Pennsylvania as an example of what usually results from tbe destruction of a great canal. Tbey are collating some facts and figures comparing the interior towns of Penn sylvania with those of New York State. This data they aro drawing largely from speeches made four years ago in the Senate of Pennsyl vania by Senators Wolverton, Lee and Emery. A bill was pending in that body permitting the Pennsylvania Railroad to abandon 16 miles of tbe old Pennsylvania Canal east of Hunting don, Pa. These Senators produced figures showing that the policy of fostering canals in New York, bad given wonderful growth and pros perity to the interior towns of the State, wbilo the towns in tho interior of Pennsylvania, or at least those along tho Pennsylvania Railroad the line of the abandoned Pennsylvania Canal were insignificant alongside of them. It was stated that the census of 1880 gave to the towns on the Erie Canal in New York this popula tion: Rochester, 81,811. Svracuse, 51,791; Utica, 32,070: Osw ego, 20,910. Tbe towns in the interior of Pennsjlvania had in the same year populations as follows: Lewistown, 3,220; Huntingdon. 4 125; Holidavsburg, 3,150: Al toona, 19,710; Johnstown, 20,000; Blairsvllle, 1,162. Cumberland peoole claim that, without great railroad shops to denend upon, such as Altoona has, they possess over 15,000 population, which growth thev credit as much to tbe Chesapeake andOh to Canal as to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road. The) say Altoona could not have even that many residents were it not for her railroad shops. Pennsylvania's Situation. Tn the Pennsylvania Senato discussions on tbe bill referred to Senator Emery, of McKean county, said. "The system of canals was more complete In Pennsylvania in the early.hlstory of our State than the canals of any otber State of the Union. But. by a foolish act, the Legislature wiped out of existence tbe entire competition of the waterways against the railroads. And I believe, as has been stated on this floor, that this is but the commencement of an entire abandonment of tbe whole system of canals in tho State of Pennsylvania. Why, sir, the canal leading from the Hudson, in the State of New York, to Lake Erie, in the same State, has upon its line cities every 10 or 15 miles, manu facturing the raw products of the State of Pennsylvania, because of cheap transporta tion. Besides that four trunK lines of railroad have been laid along its banks and are busily engaged transporting the entire products of the west. And do you presume to say that Pennsylvania could not havo reaped the same harvest that New York is reaping to-day had be retained her public works bad it been a constitutional requirement, as it is in the State of New York, that the canal system should Be retained by tbe State. You are all aware. Sena tors, that attempts have been made from time to time to wipe out the Erie Canal, but the Con stitution steps in and prohibits it." "I repeat that tbe Erie Canal has been to tbe State of New York, such an ally as that It has been impossible for the railroads to take possession of the commerce of that State. I simply say that the corporations of this great Republic of America are so greedy that if they could dry up the Mississippi river or the great highways ot this country they would do it." Maryland Mar Suffer Too. tT is urged by persons here that Maryland's 'interior will also lag in the race for com merce if the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is handed over to tho Washington and Cumber land Railroad. Senator Stake and other mem bers of the Maryland Senate, at Annapolis, havo received from a Baltimoro publishing house, a pamphlet entitled: "Canals and Their Economic Relation to Transportation." It is written by Prof. Lewis N. Haupt, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. The writer is a warm advocate for the continuance of canals, be cause, as he proves by such great railroad authorities as Commissioner Fink, canals regu late the freight tariffs of railroads. For this reason alono it pays the public interest to keep waterways open, even if they are operated by tbe State at a loss. The Estimated Cost. Come people are frightened by the estimate of Engineer Merrill of $25,000,000 for a canal from Cumberland to the Ohio river. It is worth while to note that tbe great Erie Canal in New York cost over $50,000,000 when it was fully completed. The plans for the $25,000,000 trans-Allegheny canal contemplated a 7-foot ditch larger in every way than the Erie. Colonel Merrill's estimato was made 16 years ago. and he added 3,000,000 more to the esti mate than his colleague Colonel Sedgwick) thought necessary. After this lapse of time, and with tbe im proved machinery for dredging out a ditch and uoring a tunnel, it is a question whether the same plan could not now be carried into execution for a greatly reduced sum. Stofiel. THE PRIDE OP THE PEOPLE. The Dispatch Lacks No Feature of n Flrst- Clnss Pnper. From the 'Wilkcsbarrc Ec'cord. J While Philadelphia is celebrated for the ex cellence of its newspapers. Western Pennsyl vania is likewise favored, though by a less nu merous list TnE PrTTSBTJRQ DISPATCH lacks no feature of a first-class journal. It Is a model well worthy of imitation by somoof the flashy would-be great papers further East, for it covers every department of news. Its tele graphic department is superb, and ts market reports unequaled. In tbe line of local news gatherer it is remarkably successful, every col umn showing tbe work of first-class talent. In office and printing department it leaves noth ing unprovided, and its work is good in propor tion. Its Sunday edition is over 50,000, and contains as cboico a collection of interesting matter as can be found in any similar publica tion. AH Pennsylvania may well take pride in The Dispatch, as a most worthy representa tive of tho high civilization of our Keystone State. CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS. AN exchange asks, "What shall we do with our girls'" Dress and send them to school. Af ter they reach the age of sweet sixteen some young man will rellcte you of further responsi bility. The man who looks down a gun barrel to see if it is loaded Is becoming as numerous as the man who throws a wet stick of dynamite in the stove to dry. TnE Cincinnati Times Star says Harper's place Is In prison. As the man Is now doing a lucrative business and living on the fat or the land, with no rent to pay, he probably thinks his place is in prison. Sam Jones says "ho Is making more money than any ten bishops in the Methodist church." There Is positive proof that Ignorance has the call on Christianity and learning. Emin Pasha offers to return to tnebead waters of the Nile for J123,00O. If Emin will over haul Iraln and take and leave him among the sav ages, the orlce Is not an extravagant one. TnE grip has finally seized Cbauncey M. Depcw. It Is the first time the great after-din ner talker was canght napping. A Michigan man has mistaken his wife's foot lor a burglar and shot at it. His wife Is an ex-Chicazo belle. A Rouseville, Pa., man tried crude oil and au egg to remove dandruff. It proved a success, but he Is now using a wig. PIGEONS AND POULTRY. A Stnte Association of Fanciers to be Or ganized at Hnrrlsburg. tSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THS DISPATCH.1 Harrisbuhg, March 11. To-morrow a State association of poultry and pigeon fanciers will be organized in tbis city. The object of tho association is to encourage and promote im provement in the breeding and management of poultry, pigeons and came, and the preserva tion and protection of the latter; to ascertain by experiment and the collection and dissem ination of reliable and practical information relating thereto; to work in unison with tho State Board of Agriculture and all poultry and agricultural societies throughout this State that may be governed bv its rules; to recom mend competent persons as judges, to act if called upon for advice or to settle disputes that may occur at poultry shows. A Southern Ticket. From tbe San Antonio Express. For Governor in 1690: Attorney General Hogg. Platform: A baa the railroads: hoch die ox-cart. AtttjSasVssk. SOCIAL PDEITY. Miss Willard's Lecture In Iho Smlthfleld Street 01. E. Church A Collection for the White Cross Lrglon. Tbe audience room of tho Smithfield M. E. Church was taxed to its full seating capacity and chairs were placed in the aisle to accom modate those who went to hear Miss Frances Willard. the President of the National and World's W. C. T. U., deliver her lacture on "Social Purity" last evening. A massive bou quet of lovely roses placed on the table near Mis3 Willard testified to tbo thoughtfulness of ber own sex. The lady herself never appeared to better advantage than sbe did last evening. and as one looked at her commanding figure arrayed in a neat, well fitting dress of black material, and ber expressive countenance framed with soft, wavy hair, reverence and admiration was inspired even before a word was spoken. Rut when her clear, distinct and powerful voice penetrated the corners of the rooms, carrying with it conclusive evidence that by the aggrandizement of women a state of social purity would result that could never be accomplished in any other W3y, the silence which reigned betokened the great interest with which her remarks were received. Miss Willard spoke of the vast amount of good that has already resulted from the efforts of the organized societies for the elevation of womankind, but spoke more fully upon the order of tho "White Cross," whose first pledge is "I will maintain an equal standard ot social purity for men and women." Of the order Mrs. Josephine Butler, the wife of an En glish clergyman, was tho pioneer some 20 years ago. Robbed by death of an idolized daughter, she devoted ber time to the elevation of women who aro commonly called aban doned or outcasts. Miss Hopkins, another En glish woman, followed in her footstens, and William Stead was a great power in the same work which has become a step child of tho W. C. T. U. Miss Willard paid Mr. Powderly a deserved compliment for the assistance be had given the W. C. T. U.in bringing the subject before tho workingmen of the nation. She claimed that with perfect homes the desired state of social purity could be effected. Homes where confidence between husband and write and parent and child would be a safeguard for all. The only way to accomplish such a result, in the opinion of Miss Willard. is to educate the woman and give ber equal rights and privileges with man, thus making her a companion with whom ho may discuss any and all subjects, thus doing away with the necessity of goicg out to see a man or sitting with his paper up before bis face, buried in its contents. With perfect confidence existing between husband and wife and loyalty to each other, a strong foundation for tbe children to lean upon and learn from would lessen much of the crime and suffering that abounds at present. Miss Willard advocated strongly intimato rela tions between mother and child. Sbe referred to tbe passage in "Ben Hut" which says "God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers." Tbe influence of tho mother to assist a child over the dangerous rocks of sin that beset his youthful years, in ber opinion, could not be orcreatimated. "Virtue must be based upon knowledge," the lady said, "and is proof against any and all temptations." Innocence is always the result of ignorance, and more easily influenced. Tberefore.tShe argued, a child should be taught and counseled with regarding all forms of sin that might present itself to him. Forewarned is forearmed, so the lecturer said. In speaking of the typical borne of to-day. Miss Willard said at the present time a woman was forced to marry, hedged into It by prejudices, but man of his own free will selected that method of living, though every profession and avenue was open to him. From that she drew ber con clusions that no matter bow highly educated and competent to make her own way in the world a woman might be In the future, she, too, would listen to tbe voice of love and enter the matrimonial, bnt able to be a better wife and companion to the man she honored with ber hand and heart. And when society has reached that state it will be found more of a compliment to tbe man when a woman signifies her willingness to as sume the responsibilities of wifehood than at the present time when she is forced so often to enter tho married state. At the close of the meeting a collection was taken for the White Cross Legion. IN HEARTY ACCORD, Action of tho Microscopical Society on tbe Now Academy ot Science. Tho Iron City Microscopical Society held Its regular monthly meeting last night in the par lor of the Pittsburg Library. Mr. James IS. Cherry read an interesting paper on "Tho Angnlar Aperture of Lenses." Among the exhibits of tho evening were: Young horseshoe crab, by Mr. C. C. Mellor; rapbides, or plant crytals, of Tradescan tia Virginlca; section of cat's lung, by R. H. Grube, M. D.; diatoms from soundings of Chal lenger expedition, by J. A. Moore; section of nummilitic limestone, by C. G. Milner. Apro pos to the granting of a charter to the Acad emy of Science and Art, the following resolu tions were unanimously adopted, the Iron City society being tbe original promoters of the idea of an Academy of Science and Art for Western Pennsylvania: Whereas, The Academy or Science and Art of Pittsburg has been duly Incorporated under ths laws of this Commonwealth, and M hxreas. One of the objects designed to be ac complished bv the organization of toe academy la to bring together into closer relation the various scientific societies of this city, and to foster their growth aud ncefu!nes. Resolved, That the Iron Cltv Microscopical So ciety desires to avail itself or tbe advantages to be secured bv a co-operation of the various societies In the academy, and does hereby signify to the Council of the Academy Us willingness to become a section of the same under the provisions of the ny-iaws presenica to tnis societr, ana approved by it at its regular meeting. January 14 hfcio, aud to take and assume as Its alternative title that of The Section of Microscopy or the Academy of Science and Art of Pittsburg;" provided, that this action aliall be understood as in no wit inter fering with the autonomy of tho Iron City Micro scopical boclety: and Resolved, That the committee of delegates (vizi President Holland. Messrs Clapp. Milner and Mellor) be continued and authorized to confer with the Council of the Academy as to farther arrangements. American Block Tlo. From the Cleveland I'laln Dealer. The first block of refined tin produced from an American tin mine has been received at Pittsburg. Tho tin was mined in South Dakota. It is said that tbo block demonstrates that the tin can be taken from the mines there and melted into pigs ready for market at a cost of $2.15 a pound. The cost of producing tin of the same quality from the mines at Cornwall, England, is SlII a pound. HE WAS SUPERSTITIOUS. An Actor Frightened br the Imaginary Howling of n Dog. A leading singer with one of the opera com panies, at present in this city, went Into a dress ing room yesterday morning and began to try his voice, which is really a good one, on prac- i ticing scales and cadences, and, tbe most diffi cult rnns and trills in tne opera, when, accord ing to an old practice in vogue among the stage hands at the house, when anyone of their num ber sings, several of the stage bands, who did not know that the star wa3 in the bouse, set up fairly good imitations of tbe howling of a dog. The practicing came to an immediate stop, as did the alleged canine chorus. Out steps the vocalist from his room, and inquiries of the stago carpenter, who happened to bo near, if be had heard a curious noise. The carpenter answered in tbe negative, and the vocalist, wearing a reassured look, returned to tbe room and resumed his singing, and again the bowling began. This time the singing stopped for good, the singer saying to tbe carpenter, as, he made his way hurriedly out of the house: "I'm sure I heard a dog howling somowhere, and a thing like that alwajs makes me nervous. I'm afraid something's going to happen." SEVERAL NEW ASSEMBLIES. Miners in Division 4 Hnvo Made a Demand for Increased Pay. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Scottdale, March 11. A large and enthusi astic meeting of the miners of tbe Smithton district was held last night at Smithton, and addressed by R. D. Kerfoot, John Nugent and Peter Wise. A largo assembly of Knights of Labor was organized and attached to Division 4. Tbey wilt demand a material advance in av ages o er what tbey are now being paid. Thev havo given the operators of the entire district the necessary 60 days for the advance, and if not conceded a strike can be looked for on MayL The Knights of Labor of the coke region are still spreading out Four new- assemblies will be organized this week, viz.. Lamont, Lippln cott, Smithton and Stonerville. Late advices from the Punxsutawney district are that the strike is still on, although the works aro oper ating in fulL Ihe national organization and tho Federation of Labor aro supporting the strikers. THE MARYLAND CANAL CASE. Consideration of tho Lense mil to bsBesnn To-Morrow. SPECIAL TELIOBAM TO TUB DIBrATCH.l Annapolis, March IL-Tha canal lease bill was to-night in the Senate mado the order of the day for Thursday next. .rfjfcfr -'i i. nVi.- r-te&MSl.. rf"!!-5 CURIOUS C0KDE5SATI05S. Palatka, J?la., boasts of a turnip thai weighs 22 pounds. An Englishman named Laird, who has a yearly income of $750,000, was arrested at London for knocking down and kicking a woman. By the new rules just issued, no one who owns to more than 23 years Is eligible to admission as a student of the Royal Academy schools. All the tramps in the Battle Creek, Mich., lockup were offered $2 a day to eo out to Goguac Lake and cat ice, but every one of them declined. Colored men of Boston are organizing a Cnspus Attucks Club, in memory of one of the black martyrs who fell before lUng George's minions in Boston streets 120 years ago. A Michigan paper, speaking of the death of an esteemed lady, says: "She leaves a husband who did everything in his power to save her life, and gave her an elegant funeral." The landlord of a public house at Bir mingham has a canary bird that can speak sev eral words distinctly, having learned them from a parrot with which it bad been brought up. The belle at a recent dog feast on an Indian reservation in Dakota wore a jacket trimmed with teeth from 150 elks, which she herself had slain. She is the ganddauzhter of the chief of the tribe. Beerbohm Tree, the London actor, gave a dinner to a number of friends recently at which, instead of nosegavs, falso noses were furnished to the guests, which they were re quested to wear during the banquet. A Graysville, Ga., young man who ad vertised in the Cincinnati Enquirer for a lady correspondent, received a proposal of mar riage from a mulatto girl, who described her self as "bright, pretty, and sweet sixteen." Admiral Albini, of the Italian navy, says that the man-of-war of the future will have double screws and a helm at each end, so that it can turn around without losing any time. Its sides, he says, will be unarmored. A bridge across Eagle creek. Ore., was finished recently by Baker county tax-payers, who paid $2,600 for it Before it was a week old a drove of cattle were driven upon it, when tbo whole structure collapsed and oO animals were drowned. President Allen, of the Letter Carriers' Association, of New York, has been presented with a banner on which are shown the photo graphs ot over 1.700 letter carriers belonging to tne union in Brooklyn, Newark, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington. A couple of St. Louis, Mich., men have Invented a concern to nse up sawdust as fast as a mill can turn it out. Tho Invention takes tbe dust from tbe saw and shoots it straight Into the furnace, where it takes the place of one third of tbe coal or wood usually burned. The Chinese merchants of Phcenix, Ariz., contributed $200 in money, a wagon load of provisions aud hired a physician to go to the relief of their countrymen who were injured by tho accident at Hassayampa. If any bodies were found they were to be given a decent buriaL A return has jnst been issued showing that 412,310 English ladies are entitled to vote in County Council contests, this number in cluding 65,161 women voters in London alone. In municipal elections tbe total nnmber of ladies entitled to a vote in the boroughs of En gland and Wales is 213,413. The Princess Letitia, the late Amadeo's widow, is living in Rome, where she is already said to be prospecting in a Napoleonic way for a new and young husband. She is very young herself, and was opposed to marrying her old uncle, aud only did so at the insistence of her mother, who wished to please her favorite brother. While the officers had Henry "Wallace, of near Oxford, Mich., in the Oakland county jail the other day they found among his per sonal effects a receipt showing that he hadn't married his wife in the ordinary way. but bad acquired her from one Fisher by right of pur chase, 23 cents being the price of the woman as set forth in the document. The number of gondoliers at Venice has been much diminished since tbe introduc tion of steam launches in the canals, which form its thoroughfares. The few gondoliers left in service, however, are not complaining, as they receive better wages through lack of competi tion in their own special line, and their skulling is much in demand by visitors. II. Ville, a professor of chemistry at Paris, announces that ho has discovered a now compound, consisting of a mixture of phosphite of chalk, carbonate of refined potash, and sulphate of chalk, which, placed around the roots ot the vines, will defy tbe attacks of the pbyloxera. and will at tbe same time greatly increase the abundance of tho crop. The Landgraf of Hesse is about to con tract a marriage with a young and beautilul actress of the Frankfort Theater. The lady is of noble descent, and the daughter of a distin guished officer. The Landgraf is an accom plished musician, and much beloved iu societr. He has been totally blind from his birth. Charles John Gay, an English cartman, after a good record of If years, has jnst been sent to prison for a month for stealing two oranges, worth 1 penny, from some goods he was carting for a large firm of jam makers. The Court solemnly announced that tbe gravity of the offense did not lie in the value of tha goods, but iu tbs breach of trust toward an em ployer. The man who blows out the gas has a rival. He recently stopped over night at a Michigan hotel, and tbe smell of burning cloth prompted a search for him. After rapping up several guests tbis man finally peered out ot tbe darkness of bis room and confessed that he had tied a towel around tbe electric lights, and It bad scorched it. "I tried to blow it out." he said, "but it wouldn't go out." A soldier was court mariialed lastmonth at Venice for breach of discipline and con demned to six months' imprisonment. When informed by the Court that be could appeal, he contemptuously tore off his number and otber insignia, threw them on the floor and shouted: "Cursed be your army! You are a lot of assas sins!" For tbis he was condemned to seven years' close confinement in prison. Away back in the dim and misty past somebody poisoned Mr. Drew's cattle, down in Berrien county, Mich. Ho thought it was his neighbor, Mr. Sbeppard. and Mr. Sheppard was arrested. The case has been dragging along for years, has cost 'he county about J10, 000, and may not be settled yet, as the jury dis agreed last week, notwithstanding the over whelming evidence of the accused's innocence. The English Conntess of Carloty recent ly died in Paris at tho age of 70 in ber room where she lived alone and apparently in pover ty. She was found dying in her chair by ths janitress, and the police were summoned, as it was supposed that she was utterly destitute. In removing her from the chair a bag fell to the floor, and in it was found $10,000 in gold: $10,000 innoteswas afterward found in a drawer. FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES. Edwin Booth in his dejection resembles Hamlet more and more as he grows older. He leaves his "melancholy prints" wherever hegoes. lexas Sitings, A driver of an ice wagon explained why there was a period after every word In the letter ing on hli vehicle It was because ne had to stop so often. Ttxaa Sijtingt. There is said to be a period in the life of every Intelligent individual when there is In his mind a tendency to skepticism. He Is In his doubt-sge as It were. Texai bljtingt. Mrs. Jones (a widow, to her lazy son) John, you'll lay around here until the wolf comes to the door. Then what'll yon do? John (literally) What d'you suppose I'm kcep lh' that 'ere gun loaded terlHest bhore. Tommy (studying his lesson") I say, pa, where does the Oshkosh rise, and Into what- river does 11 empty? .Fa I don't know, my son. Tommy You don't know, eh? And to-morrow the teacher will lick me on account of your lznor ance. Texas biftings. "I bought a pair of blue stockings here tho other day." "Yes, I recollect." "You said that th colors were fast." "1 believe I did." "Well they colored my feet sky-blue, and I can't wash It off." "Well, what are you kicking about? Didn't I guarantee ths colors to he fast? Home people never are eatafled."-ra Sitings. "I hyah dah.wns a pooty libely time down till da pokah 'scmblage at Mlstah Jenkins las night." "Yes; I don' quit de game fob. lebbea o'clock." "Whuffoh?" "Well, I couldn quite un'stan some ob da pecoolyahttes ob de pack of kyahds." "U hut wns it roused yoh splchons?" "thclTohJacLs.'- "Yes." "An1 lnabsen' mindedness, drawed foh ernad dah." "Yes." "An' filled de ban WasMngton Put, ---iaii'iW'-aTi iim
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