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ifflRVtKVS CHANGE OF BULEBS.
The change in German affair! which is
foreshadowed by the retirement of Prince
Bismarck from the position of Prime Minis
ter is portentions of almost infinite possibil
ities. "What may or may not occur in
European politics with the great Chancellor
relegated to private life is beyond human cotn
pntation;but the certainty that the powerful
mind and iron will which has ruled Ger
many so long is no longer to control its
affairs carries with it the probability of
exciting events.
As the world knows, Bismarck has for
thirty years been the actual ruler who has
raised Germany from its position of a second
rate kingdom to that of the leading mili
tary empire of the world. His policy of
blood and iron not only made him the real
head of Germany but the actual arbiter of
Europe. "While his politics have been those
of absolutism, and thegreat power which he
won lor Germany was gained by sharp and
bloody warfare, his old age has been de
voted rather to the maintenance in peace of
what he has achieved than to permit
further conflicts. It is doubtless due to
Bismarck's desire for peace, backed by his
power and great ability that Europe has not
already been plnnged into new wars. With
the new vestment of his policy removed and
with the fiery and ambitious young Em
peror, left free to use his powerful army to
further his passion for renown, there is no
assurance that Europe may not soon be
turned upside down, and the shock of armi
be felt from the Rhine on one side to the
"Vistula and Danube on the other.
It is a striking coincidence that the resig
nation of Bismarck should come almost
simultaneously with the fall of the French
ministry. In this respect the fact that
France has become accustomed to the
changes of a representative ministry gives
her a decided advantage. A new French
Cabinet can take the place of the old one
without disturbance; but what Germany
will do, after losing the great mind and iron
will that has ruled her for a generation, is
something that the future only can disclose.
CONCENTRATION IS THE "WORD.
Mr. Andrew H. Green's plan to include
the county of Kings and parts of the coun
ties of Westchester, Queens and Richmond,
in the city of New York has been again
brought forward in a bill now belore the
New York Legislature. It is merely pro
posed by this bill to inquire into the plan,
and examine its feasibility.
This metropolitan movement, if it takes
definite and active form, may lead other
communities to consider the advisability of
concentration. "Why should not Alle
gheny and other outlying dependencies of
Pittsburg devote a little serious thought
to the advantages of consolidation. It
is the tendency ot the times in the
new world as in the old. .London and Paris
have responded recently to the demand, for
concentration; so have Boston and Chicago.
Pittsburg has plenty of excuse for consider
ing the question. Braddock and McKees
port are knocking at Pittsburg's gates in
one direction, Chartiers in another, and
many others beside. The great city of Alle
gheny with its manifest destiny pointing to
a union with Pittsburg, ought to lead in the
movement.
How would it do to follow New York's
example, and at the next meeting of the
Legislature have a bill passed appointing a
commission to consider the consolidation of
Pittsburg and her satellites? It wonld do
no harm to discover the obstacles, if they
exist, to ascertain the desires of our people,
and to prepare the way lor the inevitable
event.
A UNIVERSAL OBLIGATION.
The criticisms of the lady of the "White
House, indulged in at the Woman's Club
yesterday, indicate strained relations rather
than good judgment or correct taste. It
seems that the offense of Mrs. Harrison con
sisted in the fact that after receiving some
members of the Women's Suffrage Conven
tion, she put them in charge of a servant to
show them over the White House, while she
retired to her private duties or pleasures.
No one but Mrs. Harrison herself can
tell exactly what urgency there was
to her private engagements; but the
public is well enough qualified to judge
that there is no imperative requirement,
either of good taste or duty, that, when she
extends to other people the privilege of in
specting her residence, she must act as
cicerone. When the irate ladies have cooled
off somewhat it is to be hoped that they
will perceive that it is no more than good
breeding to concede to a lady occupying the
position of public hostess the right to put
into subordinate hands the function of open
ing doors and showing the rooms to sight
seers. The lady of the White House should
be a lady; and so should all other Ameri
can women.
THE CET OF THE VICTIMS.
It is instinctive, but hardly surprising, to
learn from England that the investors who
put their money into the shares of the great
brewing syndicate are now making their
complaints loudly that the dividends which
they are getting from their property do not
come up to the representations when the
shares were sold.
Of course they complain. No one can blame
them for complaining. We do not muzzle
the plaints of the victim when he discovers
that the artistic green goods which he ex
pected to get for a song, are simply a wad
of brown wrapping paper. Nor do we sup
press the anathemas of the man
who finds that the gold brick which"
he has purchased contains an hum
ble interior of lead. Wherefore, then,
should we stifle the complaints of those who
permitted themselves to be taken in by the
threadbare game of declaring large divi
dends on a corDoratioc's shares for a season
or two, until the puD.ie came tumbling over
each other, in orderto dump their money
into the laps of tb promoters, for shares at
two or three times their real value. That
they have a right to indulge in the privilege
of grumbling no one will dispute. But in
telligent minds will equally perceive that
when the inflated property is all unloaded
on the dear public the reduction of divi
dends to the normal earning power of the
corporation must inevitably follow; and the
investors will hare to take returns not on
the ten pounds of pretended values which
they were persuaded to take, but on the four
or five pounds of property which their shares
actually represent.
This is what The Dispatch has pointed
ont as the inevitable result of the syndicate
operations of which we have heard so much.
The brewery stocks were the first to start the
craze; and the complaints over their unsatis
factory dividends are only the prelude to the
mighty chorus that will be heard, when the
old discovery is made anew, that taking one
dollar's worth ot property and calling it
three dollars in the share certificates, can
not make it yield an additional cent of
revenue.
THE ALLEGHENY CONTEST.
The filing of a bill for a contest of the
Mayoralty election in Allegheny, which is
announced in our local columns, makes a
nnmber of interesting averments, which, it
substantiated, will produce remarkable dis
closures as to local political methods.
Of course the burden of proof that
enough illegal votes were cast for Wyman
to overcome his majority lies with the con
testants. To make that matter clear is be
yond doubt no slight task; bnt the assertion
that 600 such cases can be shown in a single
ward proves that the lid will be lifted from
a very interesting, if very malodorous, stew.
The outcome of the case is of course de
pendent upon the proof; but every honest
man will join in the hope that, if an elec
tion has been carried by illegal voting, the
fact will be proved and the illegality and
corruption held up to public scorn and rep
robation. THAT SPEAK-EASY LIST.
The light in which that police list of
speak-easies was placed in the License
Court yesterday was not calculated to in
crease respect for its accuracy. The fact
that the first case in which it was brought
publicly into question, necessitated an al
teration of the list, suggests the explanation
that the police were not willing to com
mence prosecutions on the basis of their list,
because they did not have evidence enough
to establish a case against the alleged
speak-easy proprietors.
It is not remarkable that a list containing
so many names should require alteration
and retraction. The force of the assertion
that there are eight hundred illicit liquor
sellers in the city is very much modified by
the discovery that this total is reached by
including every case reported by the police
in which "they had reason to think" liquor
was sold without making further investiga
tion. That warrants a decided discount
from the rather startling total reported by
the head of the police department, and it
also indicates the necessitv of revision when
the accuracy of the list is brought into
actual question.
But there would be even more interest if
the issue could be raised before the courts
as to the accuracy of the theory that it is
not the duty of the police to prosecute when
cognizant of violations of the law that are
prejudicial to public order.
FLOWEEY SWINDLERS.
Flowers are lovely everywhere. Dwellers
in cities in these latter days are able if
possessed of tolerably long purses tocompass
one of the greatest delights of rnral life,
and surround themselves with flowers.
Conservatories and convenient florists
have made the transformation of city
houses into veritable bowers ot Flora,
Pittsburg has long enjoyed these sweets of
rut in urbe in a marked degree, for this
city is one of the greatest of floral centers in
the country. For this reason the failure of
Klnnder, the pre-eminent florist of New
York, whose reputation is national, should
have peculiar interest 'here. It is hardly
the failure either in itself which is so inter
esting, as the peculiar causes thereof.
In the exclusive circles of New York
society Klunder has been Flora's high
priest for years. No dinner table, no ball
room, no fashionable event of any sort
was complete or correct except Klundcr's
ministrations were had. He had the cream
of the fashionable trade. His customers in
cluded the great Four Hundred and as
many more of New York's blue bloods as he
was willing and able to supply. On the
face of this condition Klunder's lot would
appear to have, been enviable. But the
truth is said to be that the very fact that
his trade was so exclusively patrician was
his undoing. The leaders of society who
ordered hot house flowers by the acre, the
fair creatures who had to have orchids in
their bouquets, the dandies who wanted the
rarest roses for their ooufonnt'ere did not
always pay their bills. So many of them
did not gratify Mr. Klunder with the sight
of the desirable legal tenders that he was
forced to make an assignment.
This is a mournful commentary upon the
morality of the golden youth and reigning
queens of the metropolis. It is beautiful,
of course, to cultivate an aesthetic taste,
lovely to decorate one's house and one's
person with flo wers;but it is hard on the florist
if these desirable tendencies are gratified at
his expense. Before this it has been noticed
that a swindler is apt to be flowery. Under
certain circumstances it seems a bouquet
may be the badge of a deadbeat.
It is a pretty story for the latitude of
New York, which is told by the New York
World, representing two men sitting in an
elevated railway car telling about the hard
ships of the miners atScottdale, Pa., as learned
from the brother of one of them, ana then re
lating that W. L. Scott, the owner of the mines,
walked past the men and sat down in the same
car. But for this section the local coloring is
thrown sadly out or harmony by the inquiry
what mines W. L. Scott owns at ScottdaleT
The sale of the American rights to
Henry M. Stanley's book at 10.000, indicates
that the literary quality which pays the best is
world-wide fame. Stanley writes a good book;
but the quality which sells the book is the way
in which be marches into the midst of the
mysteries of Africa.
The most striking, qualification of New
York's political system Is the triumphant man
ner in which it is demonstrating its ability to
tnrn oat criminal scandals faster than the
Legislature can investigate or the courts pun
ish them.
The assessment for the widening of Cecil
alley follows that for Diamond street. The
cost of 1113,000 for opening Fifth avenue
tbrongh to the Allegheny river does not seem
excessive, especially when over 100,000 of it is
assessed on the property abutting the improve
ment. Let us hope that the opening will bring
with it another bridge to Allegheny City, which
would insure its use as a new avenue of trade
between the two sides of the river.
It begins to be apparent that Tammany
Hall has done Its best to strengthen Repub
lican weakness in New York by its own crook
edness. When the greatest strength ot each
party consists of the corrnption of its antago
nist the political outlook is by no means sweet.
Dr. Sayre, of New York, is quoted as
expressing his opinion that everybody ought to
lire a hundred years. We do not believe that
tho majority of mankind will object to that pro
gramme, if the choice Is offered them.
Senator Sherman proposes that the
apportionment trouble shall be settled by
drawing straight lines and making just so
many squares of equal area in each State.
That would be a more honest method than the
present one of gerrymandering, but it would
also be a strange confession of political inca
pacity to make honest apportionments solely
with reference to population and contiguity of
territory.
The industry with which the Central
Traffic Association is holding meetings on that
coal rate question is only equaled by the per
sistence with which it does not do anything to
stop the discrimination ot 25 cents per ton in
favor of the Hocking "Valley.
With Pennsylvania certificate oil down
to SO cents and Ohio oil up to 27, it begins to
look as if the odoriferous fluid was going to be
a factor in the market despite the false proph
ets of two years ago.
While it may be true, as an esteemed
Eastern cotemporary remarks, that "Chicago
continues to raise more wind than cash for the
World's Fair." it is also evident that New York
continues her favorite occupation of throwing
cold water on the Fair project, just as she did
on her own scheme. New York's ability in
sneering at public enterprise is undoubted.
The liberality of Councils on the matter
of street railway franchises appears to have
been cut rather short yesterday by the Com
mittee on Corporations. Is it the intention to
make flesh of one corporation and fowl of all
the restT
TnE coal miners' strike in England is
making things generally uncomfortable. It
begins to look as though the strikers will make
a hit.
The Indiana G. A, B. men's notice to
the President that they will not support bim
any longer unless he advocates a tl25.000.000
service pension bill comes rather late. The
President got support enough to elect him two
years ago, and we have beard of no one who
imagines that he will be in a position to ask any
support two years hence.
The Mayor of New York called ex-City
Chamberlain Ivlns a liar before the Senatorial
investigation the other day: but the investiga
tion is bringing out the fact that if city officers
do nothing worse than lie, the public may be
thankful.
With Bismarck out of office, it will bean
interesting thing to see what capers the young
Emperor will cut.
It is reported that the noonday sermons
of Rev. Phillips Brooks, at Trinity Church, are
having a great effect in Wall street. If Dr.
Brooks' sermons can make Wall street abjure
watered stocks and trust deals, it will demon
strate the power of divine truth as nothing else
has done for many years.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
Congressman Bayne, of Pittsburg, is said
to be the best horseback rider in Washington.
Lord Wolseley's tenure of office as Adju
tant General will soon expire, and it is believed
that he will succeed Prince Edward in Dublin
as Commander in Chief.
Prof. George Lincoln GoodALe, Har
vard Professor of Botany, will have leave of
absence next year for 12 months on full salary,
and will spend the time traveling in Europe.
Captain Barr, who came over from En
gland with the yacht Thistle, was so pleased
with this country that he has returned to make
his permanent residence at Marblehead, Mass.
Mrs. Hodgson Burnett is now in Italy.
She has nearly recovered from the accident she
met with in London, but will not return to this
country until autumn, and possibly not even
then.
Ms. Latortue, the Minister Plenipotenti
ary of the Haytlan Republic to the Court of St.
James, is a full-blooded negro, the first man of
color ever accredited to the Diplomatic Corps
of tho Court of Great Britain.
John Ruskin is getting rounded at the
shoulders, ana his straggling beard is whiter
than it was, but his eyes have not as yet lost
their luster, and his friends say: "He does
not look half as old as he is," which is 71.
Rev. Eugene R, SnirrEN, son or Rev.
Rush R. Shippen, of Washington, has been in
vited to the pastorate of the old and famous
First Parish of HIngham, Mass., taking the
place formerly filled by the Rev. H. Price
Collier.
Queen Victoria has become a good deal of
a physical wreck. She Is aging rapidly and
her dumny figure is no longer upright. Her
cheeks are puffy andher complexion unhealthy.
She is unable to walk without the aid ct a
stick, owing to chronio rheumatism in her left
hip.
The President and Mrs. Harrison on Tues
day evening. April 8, will give a state dinner to
the Justices of the Supreme Court, and on
Tuesday, April 29, they will give a reception in
honor of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
A week later a reception to the public will be
given.
Avar Under Obligations.
From the Philadelphia Record. J
The special reason urged for making young
Mr. Delamater the Republican candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania is that he has con
trived to place Senator Quay under particular
personal obligation for favors conferred. If the
Grand Old Party can pay Mr. Quay's debts with
such a trifle as a Gubernatorial nomination, it
will, ot course, make hrste to do it.
A PROGRESSIVE PAPER.
What n Competent Jndgo Una to Say of
the Favorite Paper.
From the New Lisbon Buckeye State. 1
THE PlTTSBURa DAILY DISPATCH has a
sale in New Lisbon equal to all other dailies
combined. The Dispatch is a wonderful
paper, and is authority on all matters pertain
ing to the news of this country. The Sunday
edition, although brought here with some diffi
culty, has an immense and increasing list of
readers. The wonderful growth and popularity
of the Sunday edition, which has attained a
bona fide circulation of considerably over
50,000. The matter selected for the literary
columns ot the mammoth 20-pago Sunday issue
is supplied by scores of contributors of the
highest merit and reputation. Each number
is a monster magazine of choicest pen pro
ductions, as well as an accurate and ex
haustive chronicle of current news. The
special cable letters and the sporting and busi
ness reviews are also attractive features of tho
Sunday issue. It is a newspaper for the people
and tho home circle.
The daily issue of The Dispatch, which
has ever maintained the lead, wiL continue to
offer the best things going in tho news line. Its
reliable market reports, vast news-getting ma
chinery, (including leased wires to all the
principal points, with bureaus in the chief
cities), and its earnest, progressive and Inde
pendent policy, has earned for it a national
reputation and made it a household word in
Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio.
The already large facilities enjoyed by The
Dispatch for producing a progressive nine
teenth century newspaper will be added to.
The rapidly growing circulation of both the
daily and Sunday issues has necessitated the
building of another marvelous doubleperfect
ing press for its already well-equipped press
room. Hoe & Co. will soon place this wonder
ful machine alongside the other swift presses,
thereby giving The Dispatch publishing fa
cilities only enjoyed by a tew of tho metropoli
tan plants.
Protecting Ex-President.
From the Detroit Free Tress. J
A member of the Ohio Legislature has Intro
duced a bill making the robbery of a henhouse
a felony of the same grade as burglary. There
lives in dignifledretirementat Fremont, in that
State, a gentleman of.whom it has often been
said that he has no' Influence. This bill gives
the lie direct to any such charge.
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Tho Trials of a Car IJrlvcr Ono Tor
mentor PnnUued Morn, Noon nnd Klglit
Whnt Gllbertlnn Characters Need.
Qne of the autumnal days last woek. when
the wind was wet and raw, and the city
streets were nicely greased with mud. an un
kind fate compelled me to ride a mile on the
front platform of a Manchester car. As the
horses stumbled and strained up the Federal
street approach to the suspension bridge, the
driver of an empty wagon just ahead provoked
the car driver to profanity by refusing to go
ahead.
"Some drivers just like to hold back that
way," said tho car driver to me, "and nine
times out of ten the fellows who give us trouble
are driving empty wagons. When a man's got
a load for his team to pull he will pull out a
deal more willingly than if his wagon were
empty."
"Why is itr
"Just cussedness, as far as I know but it's
so," the driver replied.
""Then the driver went on to give me Instances
of the ugly customers he bad to meet daily;
fellows who drive wagons on the line of the
Allegheny and Manchester cars, and delight to
annoy car drivers.
"One of them got his deserts lately." con
tinued the driver; "I was driving alone Federal
street, and there was a man on the platform be
side me who wanted to catch a train at the
Fort Wayna depot. I knew him to be a big
iron man, and when he asked mo to hurry a
bit I did so as well as I could. But there was
a tough with an empty wagon ahead of mo
and whistle as I would ho wouldn't turn out.
He stuck in the tracks and kept the car back.
of course. The gentleman beside mo per
ceived the difficulty and was mad enough, you
bet. 'If I bad a man in my employ who did
that, said he, "I'd Are him.'
"At last the tough in the empty wagon con
descended to turn out. I whipped up the
horses, but my man had lost his train. As we
passed the wagon be looked bard at it and said:
'Why, that's one of my wagons.'
"Somebody else's driving that wagon now,
and all the men employed by that firm are
never deaf to my whistle."
MAN'S LITTLE DAY.
Man's but a senseless thing when he Is born.
He winks and blinks and life -'TIs morn 1
He comes to learn life's empty pleasures soon,
For youth must have its fllng-'TM noon!
And when, perhaps, he learns to live aright,
'TIs time to die and that Is night!
H. J.
pnoBARLT Mr. Pruette will hardly esteem
it a compliment, but I never see his hand
some face or hear his voice but I am reminded
of his impersonation ot J'oobah in "The
Mikado." Of all the Foobah's that the Amer
ican stage produced not one to my mind com
bined so many delightfully lauEhable qualities
as Mr. Pructte's. It always seemed tame that
Mr. Pruette realized to the very utmost Gil
bert's idea of tbe Lord-Hlgh-Everybody rolled
into one.
Gilbert's lines and his characters always
suffer unless they are given to actors possessing
keener intellect and more refinement than most
of those engaged in comic opera can boast. Of
the few who bave the brains and the taste to
undertake Gilbertian characters, only a small
percentage hare voices or musical training.
Mr. Pruette Is fortunate enough to own a voice
as well as histrionic abilities.
Whnt Pluck nnd Energy Will Do.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
George H. Higgins, in 1876. was cutting stone
for a living, and was employed on the new
court house at Warren, Pa. While at work
with hammer and chisel Mr. Higgins thought
he would rather work inside tbe building tban
outside, and began to study. In tour years from
tbe day he conceived the Idea of reading law
he was admitted to practice in the very struct
ure his hands had helped to erect. From that
time on his upward progress has been rapid,
until to-day he stands in the front rank of
Warren county's Bar. He is now a Republican
candidate for President Judge of that county.
PERUVIAiNS ELECTIONEERING.
Severn! Thousand of Bcrondes' Adherents
March In Procession.
LlifA, March 18 Via Galveston. A mass
meeting was held here on Suncjay byievcral
thousand adherents of Colonel Remigio
Morales Beroudes, Vice President of the Re
public, and Presideutal candidate at the com
ing election. The supporters nf Beroudes
marched m procession through tbe principal
streets accompanied by many veterans of the
armv, statesmen and representatives of the
laboring classes. Perfect order was main
tained. The adherents of tbe civilian party's
candidate. Doctor Francisco Rosas, will soon
bold a similar meeting.
No trouble is anticipated at tbe elections.
The people here do not seem deeply interested
in politics and little enthusiasm exists for any
of the candidates.
CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS.
Commander McCalla threatened to kill a
seaman because he t nought be smiled at him. No
doubt the Commander had been 'smiling" him
self. Sugar will soon be cheaper, but that is no
reason why the sand will be of a better quality or
less or it used.
Chicago expocts that the United States
census will show a roost wonderful growth in its
population. There are plenty of men willing to
gamble that It will show a decrease lr a St. Louis
man is allowed to take the figures.
The French hoopskirt has reached this
country. They come high (IS but that is a small
amount for the average American servant girl.
"It is just as easy to tell the truth as a He,"
says an exchange. But If every person stuck to
the truth there wonld be no further use for law
yers, and, as Hungarians and Italians are now
building onr railroads, what would become of the
disciples of Blackstone?
Missouri Democrats wero inclined at one
time to assist State Treasurer Noland, but when
they heard he opened a Jack pot for ft on three
aces, and then lost the pot, they kicked, and now
Noland has no friends but hlB bondsmen.
The member of the Manitoba Legislature
who talked 18 hours on the school question is no
relation to benator Blair. Their bills, however,
are blood relatives.
THE SUGAR TRUST ACTIVE.
The Court Is Asked to Set Aside tho In
jnnction Obtained by Stockholders.
New York, March 18. Before Judge An
drews, of tbe Supreme Court, at 10 o'clock to
morrow morning, tbe trustees of tbe big sugar
trust will make a desperate effort to have re
moved tbe injunction restraining them from
paying dividends. The injunction was ob
tained by several of the stockholders of the
Trust, with the aid of the Attorney General,
and ever since the trustees have been quietly
but steadily working to have it set aside.
Lawyer Elinu Root, on behalf of the trus
tees, late yesterday afternoon quietly appeared
before Judge O'Brien and requested an order
to show cause why the injunction should not
be set aside. Judge O'Brien granted tbe order,
which is returnable before Judge Andrews at
10 o'clock to-morrow morning ana the papers
were reserved upon the enjoining stockholders
this morning.
The Plttsbnrtt Magistrate.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
A local magistrate in Pittsburg has held
under advisement the case of a street car con
ductor who was charged with assault and
battery by a passenger who refused to move
up, and was consequently ejected from the car.
It was admitted that there was room on both
sides of him, so that if be had moved a few
incbes one way ort the other, a passenger who
was standing could bave obtained a seat, but
he was churlish and refused to move. The
conductor then adopted heroic measures, and
put him off the car. That was exactly what
ought to have been done, and the local magis
trate "stretched the law to his authority" and
discharged the conductor, with the thanks Of
the community.
NATIONAL GUARD ENCAMPMENT.
It Will be Held at Sit. Gretna From Jnly 19
to 20.
ISrlCIAI. TX1IOKAM TO THE BISP ATOtl.!
HARRISBURG, March 18. Notwithstanding
the objections ot Governor Beaver to a dieisinn
encampment of the National Gnard this year,
Brigadier Generals Snowden. Wylie and Gobin,
in this city, to-day decided to hold one at Mt
Gretna. Adjutant General Hastings partici
pated in tbe conference.
The encampment will begin on the 18 th of
July and end on the 26th.
MRS. HARRISON CRITICIZED
At Yesterday's Meeting- of the Woman's
Club of.Thls City.
Tho regular meeting of the Woman's Club
was held in the Teachers' Library yesterday
afternoon. Mrs. Charles I. Wado presided,
and Mrs. Irvine Reynolds, with pencil and
paper, took notes for another chapter in tbe
history of the club, in which will be chronicled
tbe entrance of a new and very interesting
member, by name, Mrs. Schnvan. Tbe ladles
who were "on the list" for papers regarding
Spain were all excused from the reading there
of, for good and valid reasons, by tbe Cbalr,
and an informal discussion of Washington
social lifo, and some of tbe Presidents' wives,
engrossed the time and attention of tbe club.
One member, who but recently returned from
Washington, was not very well pleased with
Mrs. Harrison's reception of the delegates
to the Woman's Suffragist Convention that was
held there not long asro. By special invitation
of Mrs. Harrison they all repaired to the White
House, wbere tbe "first lady" greeted tbem,
individually, with the stereotyped hand shake,
and then, evidently thinking ber duty as host
ess performed, suggested to tbe ladles that tbey
promenade throngh the rooms and survey tbe
beauties of the White House. This the dele
gates were anxious and willing to do.and as they
disappeared in one of tho rooms Mrs. Harrison
and Sirs. McKee were seen fiying up
the stairs as if the hospitality they
had extended had been very irksome
to them. Simultaneous with their
disappearance some White House servants ap
peared and actually shoved the entire body of
delegates, many of tbem old, silvery haired
ladies, out of tbe bouse, not permitting tbem
to look at anytbine. Some very tart criticisms
upon tbe treatment were expressed, and it was
informally resolved that Mrs. Harrison ought
to be a lady, .even if she was the President's
wife. Her unladylike treatment was con
trasted very unfavorably with the courtesy
shown the V. C. T. U. delegates by Mr. and
Mrs. Hayes, when they honored the Whito
House- with their presence.
Some facts revealed concerning the Wash
ington newspaper correspondents made tbe
members of the profession in Pittsburg, who
were present, congratulate themselves upon
the tact that they did not have to write np
receptions for Congressmen and other influen
tial men who, if tbev were not written up in
glowing terms, would see that the poor news
paper correspondent was discharged. This
fact, it was asserted, is responsible for the
supremely gorgeous accounts of dinners,
toilets, residences and .people, with which
Washington newspapers teem. The social
life of Washington, from the reports given,
does not differ materially from the ultra circles
of any large city, only, perhaps, in the enforced
round.
After the preceding discussion a very inter
esting paper on Spain as a whole, country and
people, was read by Mrs. Dr. Schlenderberg.
The Secretary was instructed to enter into cor
respondence with members of the Sorocis
Club, of New York, relative to swelling the
strencthand numbers .of tbe Federation of
Woman's Clubs by the enrollment of the Pitts
burg club.
Dalles of Women at llomr.
Mrs. G. W. Kates, who is officiating as the
medium for the First Spiritualist Churcn dur
ing March, held a special service for ladies
only yesterday afternoon at their hall. No.
6 Sixth street. The meeting was largely at
tended, and the lecture proved to be of intense
interest, mainly treating UDon the duties of
women at home and in society. The domestic
relations were enlarged upon, and in no sense
was it a "woman's rights" affair. It evidently
is trne that Mrs. Kates is a woman of superior
powers, be it herself or spirits that furnish the
intellectual treats ber lectures afford.
Social Clinttrr.
The second anniversary of Acme Council No.
219, Jr. O. U. A. 31., will be celebrated at Odd
Fellow s' Hall Friday evening, March 23: Toerge
Bros.' Orchestra will be in attendance, and
among the soloists will be Mrs. S. C Ford and
Mr. Homer A. Moore, of Cleveland.
Tbe Pittsburg German Club held a reception
at tbe Slack Davis dancing parlors, on Penn
avenue, last evening.
Carnegie Hall will resound next Friday even
ing with Scottish songs and humor, rendered
by the Baltimore Choir, from Glasgow, Scot
land. Proceeds will be used for charitable
purposes.
The Y. W. C. A. of tbe East End will celo
brate its fifteenth anniversary next Sunday
evening by appropriate exercises in the East
LibertyTresbyterlan Church, corner of High
land and Penn avenues.
Tbe marriage of Cora Emma Hayes and John
P. Amend will be solemnized In tbe Fourth
Avenue Baptist Church this evening at 7:30
o'clock.
Miss Lillian Amelia Evans was married yes
terday afternoon to W. S. Thomas, Esq., at
Parker, Pa.
AN EC0N0J1ITE ROMANCE.
The Little Love Story Brought Ont by
the
Death of SIlss Slmera Ilerre.
ISrZCIAL TXLXOBAM TO TUB PIRFATCR.l
Economy, Pa., March 18. Miss Slmera
Herre. one of the oldest members of the Har
mony Society here, wbo died Friday last, at the
advanced age of S3, and who was laid to rest in
the beautiful grounds for the dead of tbo
society on Sunday, with simple, but impressive
service, is said to have been a particular friend,
and. some say, a sweetheart of tbe late Jona
than Lenz.
The deceased lady came from Germany In
1817, at tbo age of 10, and went to work in a
hotel kept by the. society, and there she re
mained for E0 years. Of late she has bad
charge of the hotel. It is said Mr. Lenz has
spent many a quiet, pleasant afternoon in the
little hotel parlor, sipping his wine and con
versing with Mies Herre, who was very pretty
and a most agreeable companion. That she
bad a strong preference for the kindly gentle
man is evinced by the fact that when he died
she tookit to heart very keenly, wept bitterly
and from that hour began to decline in health.
She now lies at his side, there being but one
gravo between them, for it is the fashion of the
Economltes to lay their dead side by side as
tbey die.
No tombstones mark their last resting place,
nor is there any mark ever made in order that
the gravo may bo distinguished from another,
not even allowing flowers to bo planted or
placed on any loved one's grave. Death is tho
creat leveler here, and it is pathetic, yet a
solemn thing, to see them lay side .by side, un
marked and unknown, awaiting tho Great Day.
Opening; the Flshstorx Season.
ISrECIAL TZXXQRAM TO THE DIBPATCH.I
Beaver Falls, March 18. This afternoon
Harry Graham, of the Metric Metal Works,
"snoodled" a salmon in the race leading from
tbe Beaver river. It weighed 11 pounds and
bad evidently run up tbe race to spawn. It is
thought to be the largest fish ever taken out of
the Beaver river.
CITIZEN TRAIN STARTS.
no is Confident That Ho Can Beat All Previ
ous AroumWbe-World Records.
Tacoma, Wash., March 18. Soon after 5
this morning, George Francis Train left the
Tacoma Hotel for bis trip around the world,
and was driven rapidly to the steamer Olympia.
Cannons were fired at the start; bells rang and
stcara whistles blew on all sides. Four hundred
people accompany bim to tbe steamerAbyssinia,
which be will board while at anchor oil
Victoria, B. C
Mr. Train says he is fixed so he can buy a
steamer in case connections fail. He is in fine
health and spirits, and confident he will land
at tbe starting point within 60 days. Ho starts
at a disadvantage in going by tho Abvssinia,
which is three days slower tban the Farthia be
tween tbe Sound and Yokohama, but will make
up some lost time by special train from New
York to Tacoma.
Bora in Mid-Ocean.
New York, March 18, While the steam
ship Scandia, which arrived to-day from
Hamburg, was in mid-ocean, two little pass
engers were added to tho list of 918 in the
steerage. Olga Ascarvitch gave birth to twins.
The family left for Chicago this afternoon.
PART OP THE NATION'S I1IST0RI.
Tbe Death of Governor E. W. McComas
Revives Memories of the War.
SPECIAL TZLEQBAM TO TUB PISPATCR.I
Charleston, W. Va., March 18. The death
of Governor E. W. McComas, at Fort Scott,
Kan., last Wednesday, removes a man illustri
ous in Virginia belore and during tbe war. He
was a native of Cabell county, and was Lieu
tenant Gorernorbf Virginia in 1858 and 1S39,
under Henry A. Wise, as such signing the
death warrant of John Brown.
Both in Virginia and in tbe West, he built up
a great reputation in law, literature and poli
tics, and his death will revive many memories
in the two Virginias.
WANT TO BB BLESSED.
Tbo Inducement Held Out to the Delegates
to Schwelnfarlb's Convention.
Kansas City, March 18. A delegation of
Scbwelnfurthians, tbo followers of George
Schweinfurth, tho "Second Christ," left this
city to-day for Rockford, 111., to attend the
general convention of the believers to be bold
in tbat city.
The delegates, seven In number, will return
with Schweinfurth's blessing, which bas been
tbe inducement held out to those who will
attend the convention.
JUST A LITTLE TAFFY.
Senator Hawley Explains ibo Meaning of a
Political Platform Sherman Presents a
Snb'lilalo for Uls AntUTrnst BUI.
ITn-ASHiNOTON, March IS. In the Senate to
day the Blair educational bill was taken
up as "unfinished business," and Mr. Hawley
addressed tbe Senate in opposition to it. He
said the bill was in no sense a party measure.
There was nothing on the record of tbe Na
tional Republican Convention tbat showed the
bill to be a party measure. He knew exactly
what was on tbe record in tbat connection. It
was notbing more than a general declaration as
to what a nice and lovely thing education was
just like the polite recognition of ladies who
wanted women suffrage. Tbat was the extent
of tho indorsement tbat was contained in
the platform of the Republican convention.
Tho Republican party, he declared, was dis
tinctly a State rights party. Coming down to
the provisions of tbe bill, he analyzed and
criticised tbem, and then summed all up by
saying that 22 Northern States did not want
the bill. They had no need of It. They would
be ashamed to say that they wanted money.
In fact, they would be giving more than they
cot perhaps every one of tbem. Seven
Southern States bad two Senators each
opposed to tbe bill distinctly and expecting to
vote against it. That made 29 States tbat did
not need the bill, and It left twelve or thirteen
more to be accounted for. Of tbe 16 Southern
States, seven bad both Senators opposed to
bill; and the other nine were equally divided.
A nit nt Congress.
poNGRESSdld not govern so well that it
should undertake to do everything. It did
not know how to get along with the steam
railroads in the District of Columbia, which
occupied streets without permission and with
out compensation. There were not school
bouses enough In the city of Washington
( wbere Congress had exclusive jurisdiction) . a
large number of children having to "ride and
tie" half to attend school in tbe forenoon and
half In the afternoon. So tbat Congress showed
tbat it conld not run the common schools of
the District of Columbia. He found, too, tbat
Congress was not a success in the management
of the Indians, for he read every day charges
tbat Congress was robbing the Indians, and he
had read recently an eloquent protest from the
Chief of the Cberokees, tbat tbey were being
crowded out of their lands. He found that
Congress was imbecile so far as tbe coast
defenses of tbe country were concerned.
Tbe Government bad a few cast-iron guns and
had nc protection against a first-class or a sec-ond-olass
ironclad. Three or four years ago
there had been notbing but tbe ruins of a for
mer brilliant navy some poor, old, broken
down, ragged cripples of ships. Now the coun
try was beginning to have a navy, but still it
was practically defenseless. He found a Su
preme Court loaded down with neglected busi
ness so that there was practically a denial of
justice all overtno United States, and Congress
had not been able or willing to reorganize and
relieve tbat court. In short, be found every
where proof tbat Congress was not absolutely
wi3e.
The bill was bad enough, and went far enough
In the direction of trespassing on State rights
and on State duties; but, as somebody bad well
said, it was not tbe distance it traveled, but tbo
direction in which it went, tbat was objection
able. Tbey Are Not Good Indians.
In tiie Senate a resolution was offered by
Mr. Hale authorizing the use 55,000 for the
relief of tbe Turtle Mountain band of Indians
at Devil's Lake Agency. Mr. Teller said tbat
when he was Secretary of the Interior he had
investigated tbe case of the Turtle Mountain
Band of Indians, and there were tben but 500
of tbem mostly half breeds. That number
bad now. according to the published statements,
swelled to over L900. but these were not Ameri
can Indians. They wero Manitoba Chippewas,
and if tbe doors of general distribution were
thus opened to them all the Chippewas in tbat
country would flock into the United States. The
British Cbippewas now on this side should be
sent back to wbere they belonged. He wanted to
put on record his denial of the statement,
whether it came from a pulpit or anywhere
else, tbat those Indians had been improperly
treated by tbe Government of tbe United
States. The Government bad paid tbem for
tbeir lands and was now supporting tbem in
idleness and vice, not wbere they ought to be
supported but wbere tbey bad selected to go.
He continued: "I do not object to this appro
priation. I object to the statement made tbat
in esc people are sunering Decause oi misgov
eminent. It is absolutely untrue, and the man
wbo makes it whether from the pnlplt or In
the press is either ignorant of the facts, or is a
willful falsifier."
Sherman nnd the Trusts.
ATr. Sherman, from the Senate Committee
on Finance, reported to-day the following
substitute for his anti-trust bill. In the shape
presented to-day, Mr. Sherman thinks he has
met and overcome all objections to tbe measure
on the ground of unconstitutionality. The
members of the committee reserve the right to
express their opinion ot the bill when it comes
up for consideration. The substitute pro
vides: ,
That all arrangements, contracts, agreements,
trusts, or combinations between two or more
citizens, or corporations, or both, of different
States, or between two or more citizens or corpo
rations, or both, of the United States and foreign
States, or citizens or corporations thereof, made
with a view or which tend to prevent free compe
tition in the Importation, transportation or sale
of articles Imported Into tho United States; or
witnaview or wnicn tena to prevent mil ana
free competition In article, growth, production
or manufacture of any &ate or Territory of the
United States, with similar articles of the growth,
production or manufacture or any other State or
Territory, or in the transportation or sale of like
articles, the production of anr State or Territory
of the United States. Into or within any other
State or Territory or the United States, and all ar
rangements, trusts or combinations between such
citizens or corporations, made with a view or
which tend to advance the cost to the consumer of
any such articles, arc hereby declared to bo
against public poller, unlawful and void. And
the Circuit Court of the United States shall have
original tun jurisdiction or all suits ora civil na
ture at common law or In equity arising under
this section, and to issue all orders or writs prop
er and necessary to enforce Its provisions. And
the Attorney General nnd the several District At
torneys are hereby directed, lu the name of the
United States, to commence and prosecute all
cases to final adjudgment and execntlon.
Section: That any person or corporation In
jured by such arrangement, contract; agreement,
trust or combination defined in the first section of
this act can sue for and recover In any court in the
United States of competent Jurisdiction, without
respect to the amount involved, of any person or
corporatlon.a party to a combination described in
the first section of this act, twice the amount of
damaees sustained, and the cosU or the suit, to
gether with a reasonable attorney's fee.
The Poslnl Telegraph Flan.
Mr. Edward Rosewater, editor of the
Omaha Bee, and a practical telegrapher,
was before the House Committee on Fostoffices
and Post Roads to-day and made an argument
in behalf of tho establishment of a postal tele
graph. Mr. Rosewater said he came not to ad
vocate any particular bill, nor to antagonize
any particular telegraph company. He said be
was convinced tbat the time nad arrired for
the Government to endeavor to secure control
of tbo telegraph. He presented figures show
ing tbe expenses and pronts on a given wire,
and said bo tbought a 15-cent rate for messages
ongbt to be remunerative. In regard to the
statement of Dr. Green that it took eight years
for a telegrapher to become expert, he con
tended tbat a telegrapher wbo became expert
at all was one wbo became so in four years.
Mr. Rosewater advocated tbe proposition that
tbe Government buy up all tbe telegraph lines,
then advertise for proposals to bave a private
corporation operate the postal telegraph system
under tbe control of the Government. This
would give tbe people a cheaper and more
efficient service.
Chairman Bingham laid before tbo commit
tee a letter from Dr. Green and in which thev
say tho Executive Committee had instructed
them to invite tbe committee or so many as
ma v be able to accept, and especially the snb.
committee.to vi'it the Comnany'sheadquarters
and principal offices in New York, and examine
tbeir general operations and multiple and auto
matic system in daily use. They suggest tbat
tbe committee, or any members thereof would,
in a personal visit to the principal offices, see
and learn more of what is required to make a
telegraph system than it w.uld be possible for
tbem to learn from statements in the commit
tee room. The letter concludes: "We court
the most thorough investigation, and are will,
ing you should employ experts to go through
our books, accounts and statements. Biuco
your committee have set about a patient and
thorough Investlcation of the telegraph busi
ness, we respectfully suggest tbe propriety of
completing the work from the best sources of
information to be reached."
Tho Love Is Mutual.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Really It is too bad tbat Commander McCalla,
of the Enterprise, doesn't like newspaper men.
His hatred of them seems to have been excited
by the discovery of tbe fact that tbey cannot
tell a lie, even to shield a heartless officer from
the consequences of his brutal treatment of his
subordinates.
Tempcrnncr Revival nt IHnnflrliI.
ISFECIAL TELEGRAM TO THK DISPATCH.
Mansfield, PA., March 18. A gospel tem
perance revival is being enthusiastically car
ried on here. More than 100 men have already
signed the pledge, and interest still increases.
MINISTERS IN CONFERENCE.
Annual Session of Ihe 31. E. Cliarch of Cen
trol Pennsylvania lo Convene To-Doy
Cnndldates to be Examined Why a
Preacher Wants a Change.
ISPXCIAL TILEGBAK TO TUB DIBPATCIT.l
Carlisle, March 18. Tbe annual session of
tho Central Pennsylvania Conference of tbe
Methodist Episcopal Church will convene to
morrow morning, and will be iD session for six
days. This conference is one of the largest of
the ereat Methodist Church, embracing in ter
ritory the larger portion of Central and South
ern Pennsylvania, divided into five presiding
elder districts Altoona, Willlamsport. Harris
bnrg. Danville and Juniata. Its ministry is
composed of 221 ministers, among whom are
some of tbe ablest and most efficient in tbe
church or nation. Each member of the confer
ence will make a report as to tbe material and
spiritual interests committed to bis charge, and
both bis character and his work will be exam
ined. Candidates for admission to the Chris
tian ministry will be examined, as will also
those who are pursuing a four-years' course of
study after admission on trial. Bisbop Ran
dolph 8. Foster, wbo will preside, at tbe time of
his election to the Episcopacy in 1372 was Presi
dent of Drew Theological Seminary. Previously
be bad been President of tbe Northwestern
University at Evanston. Del. As a pastor he
had held some of the largest pastorates in New
York City and elsewhere.
Among some of tbe prominent clergymen al
ready here are Rev. Jame M, Blrckly. D. D..
LL. D., editor or the New York Christian Ad
vocate; Rev. A. B. Leonard, D. D-. Missionary
Secretary; Rev. A. J. Kynett. D. D LL. D..
Secretary of the Churrh Extension Society;
Rev. J. L. Hnrlbut, D. D., LL D.. Secretary of
the Sunday School Union; Rev. J. L. Hartzell.
D. D.. LL. D., Secretary of the Freed men's Aid
and Southern Education Society; Rev. C. H.
Payne, D. D . LL D., Secretary of the Educa
tion Society: Rev. A. H. Buttz. D. D., LL. D..
President of Drew Theological Seminary; Rev.
Gejrge R. Crooks, D. D., LL D.. of Drew
Theological Seminary: Rev. J. W. Wendenhall.
D. D., LL D.. Rev. S. Hunt. D. D.. LL D..
rtev. Thompson Mitchell. D. D.. Rev. S. L.
Baldwin. D. D Rev. G. W. Gray, D. D-, Rev.
J. H. Correll, D. D., Rev. J. M.
Freeman. D. D, Rev. J. C. Berchenridgp,
D. D., Rev. William Swindells. D. D.. Rev. J.
H. Harges, D. D.. Rev. H. L Steves. D. D.,
Rev. S. L Bowman, S. T. D.. and Mr. T. H.
Murray, the lecturer.
Tho officers are Rev. D. S. Monroe, Secre
tary; Dr. W. W". Evans. Recorder; Rev. P. P.
Strawinski, Statistical Secretary: Rev. M. P.
Crosthwaite, Treasurer. It represents a total
of 66.647 prohibitionists. 41,970' members. 137
local preachers, 501 churches, valued at $1,978,
025, 139 parsonage, valued at 32,100. and the
present debt is 8108,290. There are 639Suudav
schools, 9,787 teachers and officers and 59,708
scholars. The churches gave S3S.8S0 to mis
sions, and 51S3.230 to ministerial support.
Bisbop H. J. Becker, of tbo United Brethren
of the Pacific coast, lectured this evening at
Boiling Springs on his famous lecture, "Five
Hundred Miles on Horseback Through Pales
tine and Syria." He was attired in oriental
costume and showed the costumes of the
people.
HE WAS HOT IX HARMONY.
A Minister's Reason for Seeking to
be
Transferred la Another Conference.
Baltimore, March 18. The Methodist Con
ference to-day admitted, upon his own appli
cation, Rev. W. 8. Holland, of the Tennessee
Conference. He had been a member of the
Central Pennsylvania Conference and an elder
in the church in Nebraska.
He asked tbe change on tbe ground that be
was not in harmony with some of the ideas ot
government in the northern branch of the
church.
The Lnlty Mast be Modest.
Millville, N. J., March IS. The New Jer
sey M. E. Conference to-day by a vote of yeas;
47; pays. 117, disposed of the question of equal
representation of the laity and clergy in the
General Conference.
Stone, Graving in Strength.
From the Bradford Star.
The feeling in this county in favor of Hon.
C. W. Stone is steadily and continuously grow
ing in strength, and it is a rare incident to hear
an expression in favor of any other candidate
for the Gubernatorial nomination. No public
demonstration is needed to arouse the public
enthusiasm in bis behalf.
SOME TENSION STATISTICS.
A Kinsas Congressman Makes a Warm
Defense of Commissioner Tanner.
Washington, March 18. Mr. Morrow, of
California, in charge of the bill which appro
priates 598,427,461 explained Its provisions in
detail, and in reference to tbe general subject
of pensions said that it might safely be as
sumed tbat tbe nnmber of pensioners would
reach its maxtmum about July 1. 1SW. when
tbe expenditure would reach 3112,000,000. On
that date, under existing law, the number of
pensioners on the rolls would be 750,000. Mr.
Sayers, ot Texas, discussed tbe pension sys
tem as effected by both acts of Congress and
the administration of tbe service. He cited
statistics to show tbat from July 1, 1SG0, to Jan
uary 1, 1890, the expenditures of the
Government for pensions were l,103.33fl,171;
that the expenditures for pension for tbe fiscal
year were 39.131,968; that the expenditures for
pensions from March i. 1789. to June SO. 1S6I,
throughout a period of 72 years, were JS0,73S,
S27; and tbat tbe excess of pension disburse
ments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 18S9,
over the pensions from 1789 to 1&61. a period of
72 years, was 3,393.641. He stated further
tbat the cost of tbe War of 1812 was 8112,912,
543. and only an excess of 114,485,082 over tbe
disbursements for pensions for tbe last year,
and that tbe cost of tbe war with Mexico was
597,705,860. and was S721.G06 less than tbe
pension disbursements of last year.
He severely criticised the administration of
the Pension Offlco and cited many instances
where be claimed tbat tbe decisions of the
bnreau were incorrect and Improper. He
wished to call tbe attention of the House and
the country to tbe manner in which tbe pen
sion system was being administered. He thought
there should bo a thorough investigation
of this system, in order tbat complete justice
should be done to tbe men who had fought for
their country, and tbat tbe bounty jumpers,
tbe men wbo bad been laggard, might be
stricken from the roll, so that a place on the
roll might be evidence of loyalty, of bravery
and of service to the country.
Mr. Peters, ot Kansas, said tbat for the first
time in tbe history of the country the House
had before it a careful and concise estimate of
what the expenditure of the pensiou bureau
would be during the next lineal year. He de
fended the administration of tho bureau, ana
asserted there was reasonable increase in tho
pension which bad been made. So far as tbo
aggregate of Increase was concerned, it re
flected credit and not discredit jpoi the bu
reau. While ho did not defend all tbe acts of
Commissioner Tanner, he conld onlv say tbat
tbat officer bad followed in the wake of his
predecessor, General Black. If any odium at
tached to Commissioner Tanner for re-rating
the emnloves In his office, it must attach in
greater degree to bis predecessor, for he bad
Inaugurated the practice. And It should also
be said tbat when tbe attention of the present
Chief Executive was called to the practice be
had promptly stopped it.
One of the Queer Things.
From the California Alta.J
A "Hungarian" convention was held In Pitts
burg last week, and excited no comment. It is
a quite remarkable fact tbat the only conven
tion in America which is derided Is an Amer
ican' convention. Somethings are queerer than
others.
Southern Ores Reieeted.
From the Washington Star.
Pittsburg rejects Southern ores as unservice
able. Pittsburg bas some ores of her own.
TIIE WORLD'S PAIR FIGHT.
Chlengo Secures a Decisive Tictory in the
Houso Committee.
Washington, March IS. The World's Fair
Committee of the House held what w.ll prob
ably be its last meeting this morning. The re
sult of the session was a complete victory for
tbe Chicago people. Mr. Beldon's proposition,
which requires the Chicago citizens to present
to the lommittee an absolute guarantee of a
10,000,000 fund before the bill was reported,
was defeated owing to the presence of Mr.
Wilson, of West Virginia. In its stead be
offered a proposition to amend the ninth sec-
tion of tbe bill (which authorizes tho Presi
dent upon notice that provision had been made
for the grounds and buildings to announce the
time when the exposition will be held) so as to
provide tbat he shall Issue bis proclamation and
invitation to foreign nations whenever tbere
has been filed with him satisfactory proof to
him tbat not less f 10,000,000 has been raised or
provided for by the Illinois corporation.
Tne consideration of tbe bill was tben
completed, and it was ordered to be reported
to the House immediately without further
amendment. Tbe dates for tbe exposition,
April SO, to October 10. 1892 n ere left as fixed
upon yesterday, but tbe Chairman, Mr.
Candler, has given notice tbat be will move
in the House when the bill is under considera
tion that it be so amended so as to provide
for the dedication October 12, 1892, and the
holding ot the lair the following year.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
A California farmer has just plucked a
37 pound cabbage from his patch.
At Sherlocks, Mariposa county, Cal.
lions have killed all the bogs, goats, calves and
donkeys tbat are not kept under lock and key.
Tombstone county.Ariz., contains 4,461,
080 acres of public land. Tbe reservations of
Fnrt Bowie and Huachuca contain 23,040 and
44,800acres each.
In the neighborhood of Hart's road
Fla.. two families with 18 boys, one bavin"
nine and tbe other seven, and none of the
parents are yet 40 years old.
The Mayor ol New Orleans recommends
that gambling should be licensed in tbat city
and made to contribute to the finances of that
city or to the charitable institutions.
"William Beck, of Grand Kapids, and
Clara D Barr, of Greenville, who were married
when tbey were young, but had been separated
f or lOyears.called upon the preacher recently to
make tbem one again.
The British War Office has decided that
when it becomes necessary to handcuff a sol
dier in uniform he must not be marched
through tbe streets, but a covered conveyance
shall be provided.
Calvin Hemstreet has had a well put
down in the north part of Akron, O., 190 feet
At the depth of 150 feet he found three feet of
coal, and one foot further another body of coal,
making five feet at least
A New Bedford clergyman who has
been in service a long time, advertises 700 ser
mon for sale, covering all subjects, and appli
cable to any locality. He only wants $1 a piece
for tbe lot, if taken in a lump.
Michigan University has 17 graduates
in Congress the largest nnmber of any insti
tution of learning In the country. Harvard has
16 and i ale 1L This is the greatest blow that
Western colleges have received lately.
Jane Simmons, a little mulatto woman
living in Milledgeville. Ga., is said to be the
first woman in the South to become a butcher
by profession. She can kill, clean and cut up
more hogs in a day than any man in the county.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has
decided that wine made in that State from
grapes grown there may be sold in the State
even in probibltorv counties. The laws of the
State encourage the manufacture of native
wines.
The librarian of the New Tort Free
Circulating Library states that Germans read
better books than Americans and boys than
girls; In fiction "Uncle Tom's Cabin" leads all
competitors in tbo main library and three
branches.
The Indian ponies on the reservation
near Yakima. Wash., have been dying very
fast this winter. One Indian, who entered the
winter with 128 head of cayuses. reports that
be bas but 49 left, and they are reduced to
mere shadows.
There is a young man of 21 near Tic,
Irwin Co., Ga., who was never intoxicated,
never spent but 10 cents for drink (and tbat
Was for lemonade for his sweetheart), never
used an oath, never carried a pistol and never
sparked but one girl.
The food of a "Zoo" hippopotamus is
estimated to be about 200 ponnds a day in
weight and consists chiefly of bay. grass and
roots. The daily provender of a giraffe weighs
about 50 pounds. Tbe linns and tigers obtain
abont eight or nine pounds of meat a day.
J. V. Wesley owns a foothill ranch
near Pomona. Last September be Invested 43
in some chickens and has spent one hour a day
in looking after tbem. His receipts from this
single branch bare been 387, and he cannot
supply all his orders for eggs aid chickens.
John Ray, of Eaton Rapids, Mich., 60
years old, is the son of Renben Ray, wbo en
listed under General Washington when be was
but 16 years old. and went thronch the entire
war. He lived to be 100 years old. John Ray
was born when his father was 75 years old, and
served during tbo late rebellion.
Last Tuesday night 30 members of
the Washington Legislature went to a theatre,
and the Portland Oregonian says tbey made a
show of themselves. They acted like a lot of
school boys, and threw paper balls, rubber over
shoes and orange peelings at each other, and
hooted andguyed the players.
Mr. G. W. Williams, of Rochelle, Ga.,
says that while pruning apple trees the other
day he observed one tree tbat forked a few feet
from the gronnd, and about 14 incbes above tbe
two limbs or trunks were connected by a small
limb growing from one and centrally into tha
otber, perfectly uniting the two together.
A farmer over in Carroll, county, Mo.,
wbo bought a receipt for making wheat weigh
double, and signed a contract for dividing tha
profits with tbe gentlemanly agent who sold
bim the process, is not advertising the fact that
tbe contract materialized in one of the Car
ronton banks as a promissory note for 309,
which be quietly paid.
A sensation was created at Fort Myers,
Fix, by a party of hunters bringing in a very
large leg bona of an animal supposed to be tha
meggotturisus or mammoth. Tbe weight of
this bone Is 70 pounds; it is 6J inches in diam
eter at small end, 16 inches at large end, 4
inches long, and apparently about six or eight
inches of i: bas been broken off.
The first white settlement in the State
of Missouri was made at St Genevieve, below
St Louis, between the years of 173S and 17ft.
the time not being dennitely determined. Tha
city of St Lonis was settled by Pierre Lmquest
Laclede in 1761. Laclede wamnrdered by an
Indian who was bribed by an Englishman, who
paid him for tba horrible deed by giving him a
parrel ui nuis&y.
While two women were seated in a
honse in Emanuel county. Ga., they saw a
negro trying to approach the house without
being seen, by rolling along tha ground like a
log. He knew tbe ladies were alone in tba
bouse. Miss Marrie seized her father's Win
chester, drew a bead and pulled down on bim.
She did not bit him. but at tba report of tha
gun the black rascal jumped up and ran like a
deer.
A Florida fisherman recently baited
his set books with small green frogs. Ho left
his hooks In the water all nicely floating hav
ing been told tbat this was tho best or Dait
expecting to return next morning and find fish
by the dozen. He returned, and to his surprise
all of his baited books were setting out on tha
banks looking at bim. and as be came close to
tbem tbey would jump back into the water
"kerchunk."
SOMETHING TO LAUGH. AT.
Agent I'd mnkc you my my janitor, only
1 must hare a married man.
Applicant Keep the place open for an hoar and
I'll fix that. It's easier to get married than to ge
ajoh. i'pucA.
When single taxites cease to chin,
orBellamy and old McGlynn:
When every husband wears the pants.
And John St. John sells stimulants;
When ltu;slans drop their "vilch"and "koff,"
"The Parlor Match" will be called off.
Minneapolis Timet.
"How is your brother getting along?"
asked one gentleman of another in Washington,
flic one that was sent to Congress;"
"Yes."
" Well, not very well. He's been In Washington
a rear, and he ain't even a colonel yet. H'otA
ington Pott.
"What's the trouble here?" he said to a
large crowd assembled In front ot a Third avenue
table d'hote restaurant
"An Italian count ha9 Just died," volunteered
one of the crowd; "wMle eating bis macaroni ha
got some of it woundaroundblsneckand strangled
to death." Epoch.
Millicent (after playing a difficult opt
ratlc selection) How do yon like that uncle?
Undo Illram Splendidly. I've alius liked it
jlllllcent Always liked ltl lalda't know that
you ever heard It before?
Uncle Hiram Why, bless yonr heart, child.
I've been beariu' "Yankee Doodle" ever since I
wuz so high. Chatter.
"You a very vacillating sort of fellow,"
said a department clerk to Willie WIshlngton,
'You never seem able to reach a conclusion."
"Oh. I don't know abont that. I wemembah of
wcachlng a conclusion once when I was quite a
small child."
"Bow was tbat?"
"I pulled onah dog's taU." Wathtngton Pott.
Chicago father You say you, love my
daughter.
Eastern suitor Yes, sir; passionately.
Chicago father How did you stand on tba
World's Fair question?
Eastern ialtor-lf any other city than Chicago
had got It I feel that it would have been a national
calamity.
Chicago father Take her. Phila. Ledger.
Willie (to older sister) Say, Ireneyou
get me a cooky on tbe sly or I'll gtTe you jd
away.
Older sister-What do you mean. Willie
Do you s'pose 1 don't know Mr. Hanklnson
was here last night? , "
Well, what of It?
What or It? othln only I put a hunk or cum
OTi ttiitiTlnrtil.l. tk. '-.. uuu0 gUia
and it's sol therel ita? ?.
morning;. Taata u,
Chicago TrUtvni,