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CHICAGO'S PLANS AITD PROSPECTS.
Our special correspondence from Chicago,
which is the first of a series that will ap
pear in The Dispatch concerning the
progress of the "World's Fair, states thatpub
lic discussion there is concerning the site,
opinion being divided between the lake
front and one of the parks. The imprac
ticability of obtaining sufficient room on the
Jormcr site, wonld seem to be conclusive in
favor of the latter, although our Chicago
friends bare not yet reached that conclusion.
It is also stated that Mi. Medill's eflort to
strike Congress for a larger appropriation
did not represent the majority of the Chicago
people, who are ready to stick to the original
understanding that the city which gets the
profits of the fair shall put np the money.
This is a satisfactory attitude and it will
doubtless indnre the rest of the country to
agree in the opinion whi-b. seems to be gain
ing ground in i- .-j that the holding of
the Exposition should be postponed till
1893. The New York Sun, which takes a
creditable stand in recognizing, after the lo
cation is decided, that the reputation of the
-whole country is at stake in this enterprise,
gives some verr cogent arguments to that
effect. It points out that the event which it
celebrates, namely, the discovery of the new
continent by Columbus, did not take place
till October 12, 1492. To commence the cele
bration of that even: six months before the
actual date, would be little more reasonable
than to dedicate the en -.prise on the date
and hold the fair six months thereafter.
The decision must be in fav -r of the latter
course when the extra year means the differ
ence between success and failure. Had the
matter been decided at once upon the meet
ing of Congress, it might have been possible
to get ready by April SO, 1892. But -with
four months wasted before the House has
disposed of the matter, it is plain that Con
gressional dawdling will make a creditable
lair impossible before the same date in 1893.
FATHERED BY THE WISH.
Discnssion in the press, as to the various
sites proposed for the Central Carnegie Li
brary building, is very useful. It is the
surest way of arriving at an intelligent de
cision on that very vital part of the enter
prise. But representations that any site
has been decided upon either by Mr.
Carnegie or a majority of the Board of
Trustees, may be set down as produced by
the active imaginations of the supporters of
that site. Mr. Carnegie has shown a char
acteristic and catholic appreciation of the
merits of all the various sites suggested;
but the one positive expression that he has
made is at the site must be chosen by the
Board, after full investigation and discus
sion. That body has done no more than
refer the subject to the Executive Committee
for investigations with the result of its in
vestigations to be discussed and acted upon
by the full Board. Until the question has
been fully discussed by the light of investi
gation, it is safe to set down every report
that any particular site is selected, as a case
where the wish is father to the thought
BRAZIL'S GOVERNMENT.
The latest news from Brazil does not at
all weaken the position of The Dispatch,
at the time the recognition of that Govern
ment was under discussion, that -while the
new Government must be recognized de
facto, it would be well to let it demonstrate
the existence of a constitutional republic be
fore indorsing it as such. There does 4not
seem to be any evasion in the reports of the
fact that the present Governmentis a military
dictatorship, the only question being as to
-whether the Government will revoke the de
cree for a constituent assembly and keep
itself in power indefinitely. The latest out
burst of frankness in the dispatches also dis
closes that a military tribunal has been es
tablished for the past three months "for the
trial of persons accused of political crimes."
It is to be hoped that the new Government
will make haste to remedy this. A country
ruled by a "militaryjunto" and trying
whatever the junto chooses to consider
political offenses in a military court, pre
sents a brand of political liberty which ii
deservedly unpopular.
HONiST, BY PROCLAMATION.
Philadelphia is congratulating herself
upon possessing a civic official of stern
integrity. Louis Wagner, Director of
Public Works, is the wonderful man, and
for the discovery of his integrity, our es
teemed cotemporary the Worth American is
indirectly and unintentionally responsible.
It is a very interesting story all through.
A member of the North American staff
recently took it into his head to send his
tailor something on account. He sent two
ten-dollar bills in an envelope addressed to
Louis Wagner, the tailor in question. This
iu itself was somewhat remarkable; tailors
are so seldom paid. But the Philadelphia
poitoffice could not tolerate the idea tha
there could be more than one Louis Wagner,
the .great Wagner, Director of Public
"Works. The two ten-dollar bills were there
fore delivered in the envelope to Director
"Wagner. Ho sooner had he opened the
letter than his bosom, his virtuous bosom
began to swell. Here was some hireling of
the press, who wished to buy the Director
of Public Works for twenty dollars! Think
of it! A public mar. of such terrific im
portance as the Director ot Philadelphia's
Public "Works, for twenty dollars! Mr.
"Wagner thought of it. He thought it was
dirt cheap. But the opportunity it afforded
him to exploit his honesty seemed cheap
also. He seized it the opportunity, not
the twenty dollars and sent the money in
the original envelope to the Mayor request
ing him to institute an investigation imme
diately. The editor of the A'orth American was
informed by the Mayor of what had oc
curred, and he, the editor, assisted Director
"Wagner in publishing his purity and scorn
of twenty dollar bribes to the world, by
printing the official correspondence in fall.
The editor expresses his belief also that Mr.
"Wagner could not be bought for thirty
dollars, let alone twentv, and conclndes by
requesting Mr. Wagner to forward the
money to his namesake, the tailor.
"We are afraid that Mr. Bipelow, the head
of Pittsburg's Department of Public Works
must be content to rest bis claims for honor
upon such things as the satisfactory report
which he has just made. There may
be tailors named Bigelow in this city, al
though we do not know them, but if any
letters intended for them reach the offiee of
Public Works it is probable that they will
be re-directed without fireworks or tooting
of one-cent trumpets. It is the lot of some
men to win a reputation for honesty without
resort to circus advertising.
NOT LIKELY TO BE DAHGEROTJS.
The rapid rise of the rivers yesterday
raised some apprehensions that the flood of
1884 might be repeated. But such fears are
ill-fouuded, and were not entertained to any
extent among those who are well Acquainted
with the riTers.
The great flood of February, 1884, was
produced by an extraordinary conjunction
of conditions. A snow storm of remarkable
duration had covered the country to an ex
ceptional depth. Upon this a warm rain
storm came down, not only melting the
deep snow, but adding its precipitation to
the waters Which ran off through the rivers.
The result was the highest water on record
at Pittsburg. The present flood is due to
similar causes on a greatly reduced scale.
Instead of several feet of snow there was
barely a foot, and in place of several days'
rain there has been but one.
The snow, thaw and rain of the past week
will doubtless produce very high rivers; but
they are not likely to reach, much less pass,
the danger line of 2S feet.
THE NEW PIPE LINE PROJECT.
The project of a new and independent
pipe line from the petroleum fields io the
seaboard Is revived with so much vigor as
to indicate the possibility of its early mate
rialization. There is no doubt of the legiti
macy and usefulness of the enterprise.
Even when the independent line only came
to Pittsburg the competition which it
brought in the purchase of etude petroleum
produced a premium ot 15 to 20 cents per
barrel. A line reaching to the seaboard
will increase the benefit very greatly.
But, as the project wisely includes the
building of independent refineries, it would
be good policy for the independent organi
zation to consider an improvement on the
present methods that would give them
material advantage over the Standard. The
project, as discussed, located the refineries
at the seaboard end of the new pipe line;
but a material economy might be effected by
locating them at this end and pumping to
the seaboard a uniform grade of export oil.
The average of crude oil required to make
a barrel of refined is one and three-tenth
barrels; but of the refined product only a
share is of the export grade, the rest being
the higher quality nsed in domestic
consumption. The proportion of export
oil varies in accordance withthegrade of the
petroleum. The lower the proportion, the
greater the economy of the plan proposed;
but supposing it to be as high as 60 per cent,
the volume to be moved through the pipes,
would be half of that if the crude were
piped. In other words if the plan contem
plates the moving of 3,000,000 barrels annu
ally of crude, it can accomplish the same,
or even better, results by moving 1,500,000
barrels of refined for export. It costs far
less both for investment and running ex
penses to pipe 1,500,000 barrels than 3,000,
000; and the saving would give the inde
pendent interests a material advantage in
competition with the Staddard.
Western Pennsylvania is the natural
point for refining petroleum; and the plan
which keeps the refiners near to the produc
ing districts with a great economy in trans
portation will be the surest to afford perma
nent relief from the yoke of the Standard.
SIR JOSEPH VS. BTCALLA.
The evidence, before the court of inquiry
into the discipline of the United States ves
sel Enterprise, leaves no doubt that the
policy adopted on that fighting machine was
decidedly the reverse of that upheld by Sir
Joseph Porter, K. C. B. That naval mag
nate besides placing his captain under arrest
for the use of the large-sized D, expressed
bis opinion as to the tone that should pre
vail on board of a war-ship to the effect that
"I hold that on the seas
The expression 'If you please,'
A particularly pleasant tone implants."
Possibly the Porterian ethics of the cour
tesy which a naval officer should show to
his crew is slightly impracticable; but an
attempt at its realization would be more
likely to produce good results than the
McCalla method. The latter specimen of
American naval progress may or may not
be upholding the honor of the flag by his in
dustry in forcing himself into the society of
the aristocracy and royalty of Europe; bntit
does not appear that the spare moments which
he devoted to the discipline of his ship were
applied to the best advantage. It may not
appeal to the nautical sense of duty to pref
ace every command to a sailor with "the
expression, if you please;" but we can hardly
perceive how it is likely to inspire cheerful
ness or loyalty into our naval heroes to
swear at them for not cleaning out boats in
no time at all, to hammer them over the
heads with belaying pins, or to cut them
down with sabers. The sentiments of cour
aee, cheerfulness, readiness for duty, or affec
tion and reliance upon superiors, do not seem
to have been successfully cultivated by the
McCalla method, whatever the result of Sir
Joseph's idea might be.
Possibly, our naval officer might be a suc
cessful diplomatist, as the function oi the
American variety appears to be to establish
social relations with the foreign nobility.
But if Captain McCalla is given command
of another vessel, be should be instructed to
try Sir Joseph Porter's method. It might
improve the discipline of his ship, and could
not make it worse.
The information comes from California
that an old Indian, irrttio almshouse of Mon
terey county, has just died at tha rip age of
151. Supposing the figures to be authentic, it
will be a matter of dispute whether the
longevity was due to the glorious climate of
California or the absenco of rich and indigest
ible food from the fare of the almshouse where
he resided. Whichever is entitled to tho
credit, will secure a great vindication: for if
the aged Indian had not sbortcned his life by
becoming hopelessly enslaved to the tobacco
habit ISS years ago, or three years before Fort
Duquesnc was nuilt, ho might have rivaled
Methusaleh.
Loitn Salisbury is reported as threaten
ing to dissolve Parliament; but it he ever said
anything of tljat sort it was a bluff. His Lord
ship has distinctly demonstrated that tho last
thing he will do, in more senses than one, will
be to permit the people to kick him out of
office.
The painstaking carefulness with which
the Mississippi Supremo Court rales that tho
indictment against John L. Sullivan is defective
because it charges Sullivan with beating, bruis
ing and striking Kilrain, but says nothing
about Kilrain's beating, bruising and striking
Sullivan, is tbo finest case of hair-splitting on
record. Perhaps the indictment was drawn
that way in order to prevent it from being
traversed with proof that Kilrain did do
any beating or bruising of Sullivan, that was
worth mentioning.
THE Russian deliverance concerning the
assertion that Rnssia was fomenting plots in
Bulgaria, is to tbe effect that StambulofT, the
Bulgarian Premier, lies when he says so; but,
at the same time, Russia proposes to make it
very unhealthy for him if he does not behave
himself.
TriEHE seems to be humane policy in the
orders of the British and German authorities
in East Africa that the sale of firearms to tbe
natives shall be stringently stopped. But when
it is accom'panied by the fact that German ves
sels have recently lauded 7,650 case of gin at
Bagamoyo, it makes tbe rule look as if the civ
ilized authorities were only anxious to prevent
the natives from securing anything with which
they can kill their Invaders, but are perfectly
willing to let them have all the self-destruction
they want.
If North Dakota and Montana do not
reformtheirways.it will soon be time for tbe
United Statos to take into consideration the
devising of some constitutional means by which
misbehaving new States can be suspended
from the Union till they learn to behave them
selves. Two of the residents of the Eighteenth
ward are so worked up over tbe condition of
the unpaved streets in their locality as to pro
pose legal measures against the Chief of Pub
lic Works. Their disgust is pardonable; but
they should not vent it entirely on Mr.
Bigelow. He is doing the best possible to rem
edy the matter, and if tho citizens will give
him time and come up with tho assessments he
will give them all good streets.
Betwees the late democratic Emperor
and tbe absolutist republican dictator, who re
fuses Dom Pedro permission to reside in the
country, and governs by military tribunals,
Brazil way well be in doubt whether she has
gained liberty or lost it.
George Alfred Townsend's visit to
our city has disclosed to him more things
about the importance of Pittsburg than ho had
imagined, and as will seen by an interview else
where he is overflowing with praises of our
progress and enterprise. Oath will be able to
inform bis readers tbat facts iu connection
with the industries of Pittsburg are more sur
prising than a good many works of the imagi
nation. Residents on the Bellevernon gas belt
declare that there is abundance of gas there
and some to spare. This is good news, and will
permit the hope that cheap and clean fuel for
Pittsburg is not going to be a matter of tho
past
The case of a Wylie avenue barber who
suddenly lost his voice might bo suspected of
advertising intentions for bis barber shop if it
were not for the additional information that he
has regained his conversational powers. As it
is, the public must rest content with tbe warn
ing to tbe tousorial profession contained in the
detail tbat the loss of voice came on while be
was talking to a customer.
Db. Moeell, Mackensie givea such
harrowing details, elsewhere, of the evils
brought on by excessive smoking, that the old
smoker will have to light a fresh cigar to con
sole him in the contemplation of the picture.
The report that Bismarck has declined
the titles and honors which were offered to
salve over his retirement, is disagreeably con
tradictory ot tbe official announcement tbat
the Iron Chancellor insisted ou resigning on
account of his old age. But it is more har
monious with his declaration, only a short time
before his retirement, that he had determined
to remain in office.
An independent pipe line will make the
Standard hustle once more, if it is carried out,
and wilt be only second, as a means ot improv
ing competition in the petroleum trade, to the
establishment of independent refineries.
It is satisfactory to learn that the United
States Treasury authorities have officially ap
proved the bill of a United States marshal for
burying a man who was shot while resisting ar
rest. This is a notification to the whole coun
try that, if tbe officers of the Government come
across men who defy the law, tbey are author
ized to tarnish both tbe corpse and the funeral.
Feeight wrecks on the Pennsylvania
Railroad are getting almost as numerous as the
sites which are stated by our esteemed cotem
poranes as having finally been selected for the
Carnegie Library.
The statement is made that the cattle
men who have been ordered off the Cherokee
strip will drive their cattle to Kansas in order
to take advantage ot the snpply of cheap corn.
This indicates that better uses can be found
for tbat crop than using it for fuel. A staple
of universal use will nearly always attract de
mand, when it is cheap.
Somehow or other, there does not seem
to be much doubt left by the latest news from
Brazil, tbat the Government of that country
for the present, is a military dictatorship.
With fifteen governors of Scotch-Irish
descent, coming to tbe Pittsburg convention
next month, the Americans of that extraction
will be able to sound their own trumpets
lustily. And Pittsburg will be glad to join in
tbe magnifying of that Industrious and sterling
class of our citizenship.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Cspt. Brlce X. Blair.
Captain Brlce X. Blair, of Huntingdon, Pa.,
died of heart disease Friday, March 21,1830. He
was bom September 20, 18 at Shade Can,
Huntingdon county, Pa. His parents were John
Blair and Jean Cree. He was married to Amanda
Welstllng October 14. 1S41; enlisted in the volun
teer service of tho army in 1SK, and was commis
sioned captain of Company "L" One Hundred
and Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Vilunteers, by
Governor A. U. Curtln, Augusts, 1802; served In
the Army of tbe Potomac in numerous engage
ments; took part in the Forced march to Gettys
burg, and under Reynolds on the first day of the
battle was severely wounded in the lert arm; dur
ing the second and third days of July was a priso
ner at the Beminary without any surgical atten
tion; the week following bis arm was amputated
by Surgeon Hunter, ot Kentucky, and, after a
very protracted period "of suffering, recovered.
Tbe amputation was of a kind that bat one in a
hundred survive. His wife died Octobers, 1875,
leaving two children -J. C. Blair, of Hunting
don, Pa., and CoraB. Jacket, of Hollldaysburg,
Pa., who lias since died.
The death of Captain HIair, the youngest of
four brothers, viz., Alexander I)aid, John and
Brlce X., leaves but one of the brothers still liv
ing, viz.. John, of Blair's Mills, Huntingdon
county, i'a. The grandfather of the brothers was
Aie-rander Blair. St.. who came from Cumber-
lind Valley to the upper end of Shade Valley In
liftf. xuey were orjyea
from tbelr homestead
manv times by the Indians,
brlgfnally settled upon.
but retained It as
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Look on This Picture and oa That A Beauti
ful Wot k by Gerome The Value of Fivo
Letters Alt Patrons and Knmre A
Loyal rtewleklcynn A Yellow Don nud
Other Tiifles.
pwo things will strike the plain layman
who examines tbe Hazeltine collection of
pictures now on exhibition in the Gillespie
gallery. One thing is that the reputation of the
painter Gerome is splendidly upheld by his
picture of the tigress and cubs in the moonlit
desert, and the other is that tbe reputation of
the painter Corot must have been gained by
eflorts far superior to the miserable little daub
which bears his namo in this collection.
Thero is a most extraordinary quality In tbo
Gerome, to which I have alluded;
an atmospheric effect which can be felt, as a
breath of cool air from a shady valley on an
August day. 1 mean tbe air of tbat dreary,
dreamy expanse of sand comes out of the pic
tureand if you are not partial to tigers at lib
erty and nearby jou may be excused it that
coucbant beauty makes you feel a little ner
vous. The beauty of the pale sky, in which the
stars' brilliancy is diminished by the flood of
moonlight the moon is beyond tbe picture's
verge the empurpled distance, make such a
peaceful scene that the tiger starts out from
tho foreground as a surprise terrible and blaz
ing with color. It is Blake's tiger:
"Tiger, tiger burning bright
In the forests of tbe night."
How many thousands of dollars are wanted
for that Gerome I don't know. It Is worth al
most any sum.
T3UT the other picture, the Corot where are
its merits? The streaked canvas is worth
many dollars, no doubt, because C-o-r-o-t is
written in tbe lower right hand corner. Tho
noplars in the landscape look as if tbey were
drawn from tho btiff and slightly conventional
works of art that come securely wrapped in
brown paper with tbe pink pigs and red hoises
of tha toy farmyard.
Nothing is too bad to sell in the portfolio of
a famous painter.
Tn another corner of tbe gallery one may snn
oneself npon a Venetian quay, and watch
tho soft winds stir the yellow sails of the boats
upon tbo canal. There is tbe sharp, high light
of Italy in this picture, painted by one Santoro
and a gay, colorful scene it is.
One who looked at the picture when I did
he was a prospective purchaser, and it was ac
cidental of course that I breatbed the same air
with him bad little time for Venice. Speak
ing of tho sky flecked with puffs of white
cloud, he said: "He's spoiled his sky with
white," and passed on. Nature, as well as Mr.
Santoro, has a way of spoiling her skies with
white. But then nature is not catering to rich
patrons and painters must remember tbat
they are.
ah the morning tbat tho papers announced
that Chicago bad won tho World's Fair a
little girl at a Sewickley breakfast table asked:
"Papa, who's going to havo tbe fair J"
"Chicago, my dear," be replied.
'Oh, I'm sorry," responded the child. "Why
didn't they have it in Sewickley, where every
body could see it?"
Who can say why?
Tto Italians boarded a Fifth avenue cable
car in East Liberty tho other day. One of
them carried a small dog, yellow in color and
general characteristics. When tho conductor
came around be collectoil live cents from one
Italian and ten cents from the other who car
ried the dog. The two sons of the Sunny
South engaged in a furious conversation in
their own tongue at once.
Then tbe one who carried the dog called tbe
conductor to him: "What for ten centa he
five?"
"Five cents for the dog," said the conductor.
"Why you not tella me before, and I droppa
the dog before I got on?" was the Italian's re
ply. He was not fond of tbe dog to the extent
of a nickel. It is not nice to be a yellow dog,
anyhow.
Qni Cincinnati Southern train coming North
the other day, a Pittsburger observed a
singnlar incident.
In tbe same oar with htm was an old man, who
by his speech and gestures showed himself to
be upon tbe borderland between crankiness and
insanity. He explained to his fellow passen
gers thathebaa sold a piece of landtotbeCin
cinnati Southern for an annual pass to bo issued
to him each year till be died. Tbe pass was
there, sure enough, and the conductor vouch
safed the information that the old fellow spent
most of his time riding up and down the road.
The intervals between some of the meal
stations on this railroad are long, and at one of
the way stations a boy with a basnet of sand
wiches boarded tbe cars. He did a good busi
ness, and among the first to invest in a sand
wich was the aged crank. He managed to eat
half of it at least be fore the boy asked for tbe
ten cents due.
"Ten cents !" repeated the old man. "I pay
for nothing on this road, young man; look at
tills 1" and he flashed out tbe pass. The sand
wich boy argued and expostulated, but all in
vain. The train moved oat with tbe old man
calmly munching tbe last morsel of bread and
ham, and waving the pass at the car window
for the benefit of the discomfited boy.
Hepbuiut Johns.
PEOPLE OP PKOULN'ENCE.
Sfeakeb Reed will, it is said, soon inaugur
ate his Presidental candidacy.
Postmaster General Wanaiiaor is
said to look worried and weary.
The Hon. J. D. C. Atkins declines to become
a candidate for Governor of Tennessee.
Mayor Fitleb, of Philadelphia, would like
to succeed ex-Senator Palmer as Minister to
Spain.
Ms. Andrew Carnegie has forwarded
1,000 toward the building fund of the Aber
deen Free Library.
TnE Rev. Dr. C. F. Thwine declines the
Presidency of tho University of Kansas, to
which he was recently elected.
Announcement is mado of the wedding
engagement of General Rosecrans' daughter
to Governor Toole, of Montana.
Sin, George A. Pillsbuhy, of Minneapo
lis, has given $30,000 in his wile's name for a
now building for the Concord (N. H.) Hospital.
Simon Yasdes, of Indiana, has just given
$50,000 to Wabasn College, making a total of
$100,000 that be has given to that institution of
learning.
It is evident tnat the British Government
has no lear of an outbreak in Ireland. Lord
Wolseley is to be appointed to the command of
tbe forces there.
John Russele Young left Nice a few days
aco for a cruise of tw o or three months, as
James Gordon Bennett's guest, aboard the tat
ter's yacht Namouna.
General Hawlky's riewof the surplus is
a striking one. He thinks that it will be $73,
000,000 below par if all tbe appropriations that
are looked for go throngh.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies has de
cided, on motion of Premier Crispi, to erfct a
State monument.to Mazzini in Rome. King
Humbert, it is saul, will contribute .'00,000.
E. A. Abbey, the artist, who is soon to
marry Miss Gertrude Mead, of New York City,
is to receive $10,000 Irom tbe Harpers for illus
trating the entire series of Shakespearian
plays. Mr. Abbey will reside in London after
his marriage.
Baron Edward de Rothschild, who is
touring the principal cities of this country,
stipulates with the hotel clerk, when engaging
a suite of rooms, that his name shall be kept
off the register, and that the reporters shall
not be told of his presence.
Two Old Hearts That Brat ns One.
From the Philadelphia North American. J
The impetuous West Virginia lover of 90
who walked 20 miles to tho house of a giddy
young widow of 6a, introduced himself and
proposed and was accepted on the spot, evi
dently realized that if the thing was to be done
it wonld have to be done quickly. When aman
reaches the ripe age of fourscore and ten be
has no time to waste on long courtships, and
the widow probably felt the same way about it
Get Out Your Shot Gnn.
From tbeTIonesta Democrat.
Willie Kepler, tbe genial and accommodating
associate editor of this paper, embarked on
Sunday as first mate on a river fleet bound for
Pittsburg. We hope the fraternity at Pitt
bure will take good care of the boy and sb3w
him the sights. Doubtless next year be will fill
tbe responsible position of pilot. This is the
young man's first trip down the river. Pitts
burg papers look out for him. , ,
THE IiAST SAD HOMES.
Arrangements for the Interment of the Late
lllnjor General Georco Crook.
Chicago, March 22. The body of the late
General George Crook, clothed in the full-dress
uniform of his rank as Major General of tbe
United States Army, is lying in state in tho
parlors of the Grand Pacific Hotel. The casket
is covered with purple broadclotn. and on it
He tbe sword and the insignia of rank. Tbe re
mains are watched over by a military guard of
honor. This afternoon the parlors were thrown
open and a largo number of friends ot tbo de
ceased viewed tbo face of the dead General,
which retains a wonderfully lifelike appear
ance. The body lies thus in state nntil tbo
fnneral, which will take place at the hotel at 1
o'clock to-morrow. Rev. W. McPhersnn will
officiate. The procession will move directly
thereafter to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
depot, with General Fitzsimmons as marshal.
The military escort will be as follows: Bat
talion of police; First Regiment Infantry, L N.
G.; catafalque; family and staff ot the General;
armv officers; Second Regiment Infantry, I. N.
G.; Fourth Regiment Infantry, L N. G.: D Bat
tery. I. N. G.t Loyal Legion; Grand Army of
tbe Republic.
The fnneral car will be attached to the 2:55
train, and will reach Oakland, Mil., at 10
o'clock Monday morning. There the inter
ment will be made directly after arrival.
Colonel Corbin is in charge of the arrange
ments and will accompany tho funeral party
with Colonel Heyl, Colonel Stanton, Major
Randolph, Major Roberts and Lieutenant
Kennan.
Following Is the list of honorary nail-bearers;
Colonel James F. Wade, Fifth Cavalry;CoIonel
Thaddcus Stanton, Pay Depanmcnt: John
Collins, of Omaha; General Soov Smith. Potter
Palmer. ex-President R. B. Hayes, Marshall
Field, W. C. D. Grannis. Wirt Dexter, Colonel
J. B. Sexton. Judge R. S. Tuthill. Mayor D. C.
Cregler, John B, Brake, General M. R. Morgan,
General Robert Williams, Assistant Adjutant
General; P. E. Stndebaker, J. Frank Lawrence,
George Dunlap. Judge W. Q. Gresham. John
B. Carson, General W. K. Strong, John M.
Clark, W. Penn Nixon, H. J. MacFarland and
C. D. Rnys.
At Oakland tbe funeral party will be met by
General Schoflcld. the Secretary of War, the
Representatives and Senators from Ohio, but
the burial will be private.
A telegram was. received by Adjutant Gen
eral Williams to-day, notifying him that Gen
eral Schofleld has been ordered to take com
mand of the department from Missouri in con
junction with his present command until
further orders. General Schofleld will remain
in the East.
A Plea for Senator Blair.
From tbe Philadelphia Times.
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, could be
mado a most useful leader, for tbe party in the
present political emergency. Let Senator Blair
he put in charge of all tbe profligate appropria
tion bills which the party has promised but
can't fulfill without peril, and he will beat
them. He can talk any or all of them to death.
PDN AND THILOSOPIII.
Tbe Little Things of Life Dressed Oat In
Bright, Gay Colors.
IWRtTTlSJf TOn THE DISFJLTCn.J
A Happy World.
Philosophers long have declared it a fact
That man his own fallings can't see.
But by those of his neighbor his feelings are
racled
If they only would act as be thinks they should
act.
What a happy old world It would bel
The Last Hope.
She (archly, after having accepted him as her
lover) Suppose 1 had said no?
He (with a shudder) It would have been terri
ble. She (smiling tenderly upon him) Do you really
love me so much, then?
He It Isn't exactly that, bntl had proposed to
Mamie Hautle and Kittle Cutter and both bad re
fused me, so you were my last hope.
Paraphrases of Old Sayings.
I.
He'll ne'er the pangs of banger know,
Who In the field or garden delves
To live, but prosperous will grow.
For God helps those who help themselves.
II.
The man who needs a loaf of bread.
And takes It from the baker's shelf.
And Is found out, bas cause for dread.
God help thoman who helps hlmselr.
Aa Amiimrnt for College Education.
With Just enough the father was content,
Tbe son determined that he would be richer
If possible, so he to college went,
And now he Is a famous baseball pitcher.
Another of the Snme.
Oh I send me not to college pray I"
The father's gloomy brow grew darker,
'I will, "he cried. He had bis way.
And now the son's a billiard marker.
He Disliked Prohibition States.
Drnmmcr(In railroad tralntto clergyman) This
is a prohibition State, Is it not?
Clergyman It Is, my friend; it has been a pro
hibition State for several years, I am happy to say.
li.l can't say IllKe to travel in prohibition
States.
C. -Why not?
D. Because the whisky is not half so good as in
those States where tbey bave a license law.
YIo Womnn.
They say love adds to young men's sighs.
If It be so, what then?
No sinicle woman, who Is wise.
Opposed is to Hymen.
Snro to Follow.
"Does young Drywhlssel drink?"
"Drinks like sixty."
"Then he'll soon look like it, too.'
She Is Cominc Out Shortly.
Tbe fashions arechanglng improving, no doubt
A time for which women have waited:
And the strong minded lemale will shortly be out
With the skirt of her dress bifurcated.
Couldn't Believe It.
"I understand that young Ward Heelab is be
coming quite a power in city politics. "
"Is that so?"
"it Is, Indeed. I understand that he bas more
knowledge of municipal politics than any other
man In the city."
"Impossible. He never bad the opportunity to
acquire such knowledge."
".No?"
'So, he was never In a barroom in his life."
The fltidp.
A leading role in lire he'd take:
He'd be above the rowd.
And In the world a noise would make
He therefore dresses loud.
A Smnll Race.
"Do you believe tbat people existed on this
earth before Adam and Eve were created?"
"Ethnologists say so."
"They must bave bean a very small race."
"Why do you think so?"
"Well, whenever they are spoken of they are
called pre-Adam-mltes."
A Parnpbrase.
Your false friends fly yon when ceases to shine
Tbe sun of good luck; yes, at once take wing;
But lawyers are like to tbe ivy vine
The greater the ruin the closer they cling.
Sure Enousb.
"When does a man experience that 'all gone
feeling?"
'When he is cleaned out in a gambling room,"
The Worse .lll.flt of All.
A misfit coat evokes a curse
Sometimes, tbe tailor knows;
But a misfit marriage Is a worse
Misfit than misfit clothes.
Ho Was Probably Right.
"I hear that the grocers are resolved to sell
sugar no longer for Just the price tlpy pay for it;
they are bound to bave some prefll for their
trouble."
"They are quite right."
"Yes, sir, and when they pnt down their feet
they will carry out their object."
'Oh I I've no donbt of it; they've got the sand,
the grocers have."
Tlie Urnson .She Didn't.
First Gentle ilaldcn (engaged) It is very pleas
ant to have a young inan waiting upon one.
Second Gentle Maiden (also engaged) It Is, in
deed, and makes one very happy.
F. G. M. (hesltatlngly)-Do-do you ever sit in
your beau's lap?
S. G. M. (blushingly) N-no; he sits in mine.
F. G. il.-Isn't tbat rather Indelicate?
S. G. M.-Itmay be, but It can't be helped. I
can't sit In his.
F. G.M. Why not?
S. G. M.-He's bow-legged.
A Contradiction.
By temperance men
'Tis orten said
The man who drinks
Ne'er gets a bead.
The man who drinks
And paints all red
Tbe town, is sure
. To get a head.
QEOllQE RUSSELL JACKSON.
YARNS ABOUT STATESMEN,
Colonel Knox Spends a Few Hours la (he
Congressional Restaurant and Comes
Away Loaded With a Choice Stock of
tbo Illost Amnslnic ntorlrs.
tWRITTEXFOR TDK DISPATCH.1
Qne of tbe best known members of Congress
ja xhcjiresemiibive .aiarim, oi J.exas.
Visitors in the gallenesin the House invariably
ask to have him pointed out. When his con
stituents sent him to Washington be was
known but by few outside of his district.
Although a brainy man, he is modest and un
obstrnsive. The morning after he arrived in
Washington he awoke and fonnd himself
famous. At his hotel the night before he had
blown out the gas, and the doctors bad to
pump out of him about 100 feet of expensive
illuminating gas that was not on the Risgs
House bill of fare, and tbat he had no right to
absorb. At least so the story went in the Asso
ciated Press at tho time, and the statement was
published in all the principal newspapers in the
country. Judge Martin denies that he blew out
the gas. and I was warned not to refer to it as
be is said to be tonchy on the subject.
Representatives Cumuiings,of New York; the
above-referred-to Martin, of Texas; Laidlaw,
Chairman on Committee of Claims: Roswell P.
Flower, of New York, and some other Solons
were trying to make things pleasant for me in
the
reaiauraut oi me House oi itepresenta-
tives when Colonel Tom Ochiltree came io and
joined the party. Colonel Ochiltreo is a man of
versatile talents, ercat diplomatic ability and
enicurean tastes, but is best known as theauthor
of tbe touching poem beginning:
Mary had a little lamb, i
Potatoes and mint sauce, ,
And then she ate cucumber.
Which filled ber wltb remorse.
"Why, Jndge Martin, how do you do, sir?"
said Ochiltree. '! have long wished for this
meeting, because now I can have settled some
thing of importance to my well-being and
peace nf mind something, sir, that you only
can settle."
"It will lie a pleasure to me. Colonel, if I can
serve you."
"I know you will serve me in this matter.
Judge, if only on my late father's account."
"1 knew him well, sir a most excellent man
and now, bow can I honor myself by serving
his son?"
'In this way. Judge, you can tell mo why tho
devil you did blow out that gas."
Then tbe Judge, in a voice the chilling tones
of which froze the smile upon every face around
the table and put a stiff frappe on a bottle of
wine tbat the waiter was opening said, "I did
not blow it out, sir, but 1 confess that on the
occasion ou refer to, I was partially asphyx
iated by an undelivered speech on the tariff
that Roger Q. Mills had carelessly left lying
exposed on toe bureau when ho vacated the
room prior to its occupancy by myself."
Amos Cnmmlngs la Action.
JF I saia there were not some good stories told
around the table durinetbe next two hours,
I would be guilty of telling a deliberate lie.
Amos Cummings told of personal adventnres
daring the war, of how ho captured six Confed
erates with tbe aid of an old shotgun, loaded
with italic type; He said he used italics merely
to emphasize his loyalty to the Union, and to im
press the Confederates with the fact that he
was in earnest. There was also nresenta trentlx-
nian whose name I shall not give. 'Thero is
nothing, gentlemen," said he, "that Nature
docs tbat is not well done. She makes no mis
take. She creates everything for a specific
purpose; and, gentlemen, she has never struck
a failure yet. Man fails in his purpose, but
Nature, never."
Mr. Roswell P. Flower took advantage of
the'pause to say, in tbat smooth, conciliatory
voice tbat be uses when he is differing with a
London backman as to tbe distance between
Temple Bar and Trafalgar Square: "My boy, I
will not dispute your statement, for I have
great respect for Nature. She furnishes us the
raw material for the breakfast tbat we are now
absorbing, and many other things that I wish
were on the table now; but I will call vour at
tention to tbe fact that Nature gets le'ft badly
on one thing. Statistics inform me tbat in
New York City last year 60,000,000 dozen eggs
were consumed. Now, Nature employed a vast
number of hens to lay those esgs for the
specific purpose of having every egg produce a
chicken. Nature proposes, hut man disposes
at prices varying according to freshness. I
grant you Nature is all right in" the matter of
weather, and icebergs, ana in arranging tbat
every year begins exactly on the first day of
January; but her purpose is a dead failure when
it comes to e-double-g-s eggs."
Senator Reagan's Law Lleease.
'pHEN Ochiltree, apropos of some legal refer
ence, told us how Senator Reasran, of Texas,
pa-tsed his examination in lawand was admitted
to the bar. It was about 40 years ago. and at
that time Reagan was a blacksmith in a small
village in Anderson county, Tex. Ex-Governor
Roberts, better known as "tbe old Alcalde,"
was then holding court in the neighborhood.
Reagan applied for a license to practice law in
tbe Texas courts. Judge Roberts himself had
worked at tbe forge in 1m younger days, and
wneu tieagan appeared oeiore mm seeding a
license, tho following was all the examination
that was held:
"Youns: man." said Roberts, "what have von
read in the nature of law books?" and Reagan
replied, "Well, Judge, I have not read any yet.
You see I am a busy blacksmith and have not
had time to read much, but my friends all say
that 1 shonld be a lawyer, and thev told me
tbat all I would have to do was to come before
you and ask you for a license. If I get it I
could study tbe law business afterward."
This answer rather staggered the Court, but
the examination was continued, "You say,"
said Roberts, "that you are a blacksmith. Now,
if you should be era n ted a license and sbonld
secure a client, what would be the first thing
yon would do?"
"First? Why, the first thing I wonld do
would be to get my fee, and then"
"That will do. young roan. If you know
enough to shoe a horse correctly, and to secure
your tee before you take the case, you'll suc
ceed. Mr. Clerk, issue a license to Mr. Rea
gan." How Ochiltreo Got Ills.
hJid you ever hear how Tom Ochiltree
passed his examination," said Judge Mar
tin. "His father was a celebrated lawyer, and
Tom was supposed to be studying law and stor
ing up enormous quantities of legal lore for a
year before the court met, and every one was
expecting him to pass a brilliant examination.
He had not read a line of a law book. He baa
spent his timn bunting and fishine; and attend
ing to other matters not necessary to enu
merate. He did not know a bite of law, but he
had heard others examined and knew tbat the
first question invariably asked an applicant for
license was, "What is law?" and on that one
question he prepared himself thoroughly in
two das by tbe aid of his extraordinary mem
ory. With tbo EncjclopediaBritannicaas bis
only companion he secluded himself m a barn,
amldurinsr 43 bours committed to memory
verbatim the 0,000 words given in tbe Encyclo
pedia as a definition of law. When the dim
mer asked the first question, he started off at
the rate of 200 words a minute, disgorging pages
of what be had memorized. While tbe exam
iners admired the eloquent, forcible and logical
answers tbat he was giving, they tried to stop
him, but be kept right on, and even wben tbe
dinner bell rang there were still two pages of
the Encyclopedia Britannica to be repeated,
and Ochiltree refused to desist, until the
judges, to choke him off. unanimously a creed
tbat be should have bis license, and it was
handed to him justashexame down on the
homestretch on the last page."
A Passntrc at Arms.
As Judge Martin concluded his story a
page brought a document to Mr. Cum
mings to sign. He laid it on the table and
Cummings; without looking at it, signed it
"See here," said Mr. Laidlaw, "Amos, do you
know what that was you signed."
"No, but he would not have brought it to me
if it was not all right."
"Well, now, I will tell you, some day some
body wilt come along and jam a temperance
pledce undT your no-c. You'll sign it, auu
where tbe deuce will you be then ?"
After tbo usual "mucn laugnier" at wum
mings' expense, he turned to Laidlaw and
Baid, "Do yon support jourself t"
"I suppose so."
"Then you oueht to be abolished by the
Board of Health."
"For what I"
"For maintaining a nuisance."
A Newspaper In the West.
h'TValkino about poker," said Senator Call,
of Florida, who had just dropped in as the
laugh at Cummings' reply went around, "you
all know Scott, of Chicago, but, probablv, you
don't know tbat lie was started on his way to
wealth and success in the newspaper business
by losing all he had in tbe world at a game of
poker. It was about 20 years ago that Scott,
with only a few dollars capital, began to fill a
long-felt want in a cross-roads Western town.
He tried to fill it with a small evening paper.
All the material with which it was printed be'
got on credit in St. Louis. It was with extreme
difficulty that he cot enough revenue out of
the paper on which to live; few people bought
it, and be bad to take payment for most of bis
advertising in trade. When he wanted cash he
was offered hardware and tinners' supplies;
when he needed bread be had to accept a
stomach pump in payment for a yearly adver
tisement. He told me that ho has subsisted for
weeks on a lawn mower that bo received and
then traded off for restaurant tickets, and,
that, in like manner, on a subsequent occasion,
be had clothed himself with six grindstones
and a clothes wringer.
One day he sat down to poker game with
tbaMavnrnf the town, who was a rich man.
With Jimi it was a game of chance; with the J
Mayor it was a game of science. Scott's few
dollars soon passed over tbe table to tbe Mayor,
and he aokuowledged tbat he was broke.
"Well, what's the matter with putting up
some of your 'printing material?" said tbe
Mayor.
"None at all," saia Scott, and then and there
tho Mayor began in real earnest to feed Jim
with face cards and aces, and so one by one,
Gordon presses, imposing stones and fonts of
type became tbe property of the Mayor, and on
the last jack-pot, which consisted of a ran of
paste, the office towel and a box of dead adver
tising electrotypes. Jim lost.
Didn't Mention the Mortgage.
AS he laid down his two pair, Jim said: "Now
you havo tho whole outfit and as complete
a one for an evening paper as there is in the
West."
"But what will I do with it?" said the Mayor.
"I don't know how to run a paper."
"Hire mo to run it for you."
"I suppose I have cot to." said the Mayor.
And, so, thereafter Jim drew a salary of $50 a
week and lived hi a state of affluence that for
many moons he had been a stranger to. Tbe
Mayor had to pour into the concern $100 of his
wealth every week to make the receipts and ex
penses balance. He was about getting tired of
this at the end of the year, wben the mortgage
which was held by the house in St. Louis was
foreclosed. That was the first the Mayor had
ever heard of the mortgage. "Holy smoke!"
said be to Scott "Is there a mortgager'
"Why. 'course there is. Did you ever know
a country newspaper office without one?
Thought you knew that, or 1 would have men
tioned it wben we played the little game a year
ago. I am a poor hand at poker, but I know
enough about newspaper business to get out
from under and be an employe when it doesn't
pay to be a boss."
Beine afraid that this story would suggest a
game of poker, at which I might be suczested
to take a band, I left J. Armoy Knox.
Should Harry Vp nud Pass It.
From the New York Telegram.
Tbe Ohio Legislature is considerng a bill
providing tbat if any person convicted of crime
has a wife or children under 18 years of age de
pendant on him for support the family shall re
ceive GO cents a day from the county for sup
port One of the sad things connected with
many convictions for crime is that tbey reduce
innocent persons to destitution. While the
convict is kept warm and well-fed by tbe State,
his wife and children shiver and starve. Tbey
are the persons whose punishment is the most
severe.
DR. MOFFAT'S IDEA.
Washington and JrfTersoa College to Have
a Gymnnslam Building.
tSFZCIAI. TELKOILUt TO IU1 DISPATCH. 1
Washington, Pa., March 22. The greatest
scheme which Dr. Moffat, of Washington and
Jefferson College, has devised for obtaining
subscriptions to tbe college gymnasium fund,
has just been divulged to the junior class. He
has decided to ask the students as a body to
give 810 apiece. Unless every student can afford
that amount Dr. Moffat will not ask money
from any one of them. There about SO stu
dents in the cnllego at tbe present time, and
the sum of 52,500 would be a handsome addition
to the fnnd, which it is understood now
amounts to 12.000.
It is tbe intention to erect a building that will
cost $23,000, the main part of which can be used
as a gymnasium and commencement ball. For
commencement purposes the room would be
used but seldom, and would havo a seating
capacity of 2,000, furnished with movable
chairs. Another plan that is nnder considera
tion is to erect a building with a suitable com
mencement hall and a basement fitted for a
gymnasium. Whatever may be tho general
plan it Is a settled fact that there will be a
gallery running all the wav around the build
ing wltb a race course provided. Tbe building
is to bo of brick and stone, and will be located
in tbe corner of tbe campus now occupied by
the observatory, and if necessary the latter
will be removed. It will be of handsome arch
itectural design, and a great improvement to
the town.
A Shot at tbo Ticket Broker.
From tbe Philadelphia Kecord.
One of the proposed amendments to theinter
State commerce law is directed against the
ticket brokers, and provides that anyone sell
ing a railway ticket without due antborltysball
be fined $.3,000. This is altogether too moderate.
Why shouldn't the ticket scalper be boiled in
oil, plunged into melted lead, skinned alive, or
something of tbat sort? What punishment
could be too severe for tbe awful crime of sell
ing a railway ticket unauthorized!
THE IDEAL NEWSPAPER.
Typographically Tbe Dispatch Is the Neatest
and Editorially the Brightest.
From the East Brady Bevlew.
Tiik Pittsburg Dispatch has attained a
popularity tbat is exceeded by few, if any,
papers in tho State. Tyovgraphically tho neat
est editorially tbe brightest journalistically the
most enterprising, it deserves tha place it has
won in tbe ranks of the great newspapers of
the Union. It is truly a paper for the people.
The 20-page Sunday issue is a veritable maga
zine, and no sack collection of live news
reaches this place as that contained in the daily
issue. The cable letters, reliable market re
ports, special news matter, sporting and busi
ness reviews are features that make The Dis
patch of double value.
Wallace Is n Democrar.
From the New fort Sun.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania, if left to
themselves, will undoubtedly nominate the
Hon. William A. Wallace, or Clearfield, for
Governor. They could n3t do better. They
could not put np a stronger candidate in a State
where Republican dissensions may give the
Democracy this year a fighting chance. Sena
tor Wallace is a Democrat
A Prrlty Compliment.
One of the most graceful compliments re
cently paid to a young lady was the dedication
of a gavotte, entitled "Water Lilies," com
posed by William H. Rees, of Philadelphia,
and dedicated to Miss Florence Love Davis,
daughter of Assistant City Controller John J.
Davis, who is well known in tbe best society
circles of Pittsburg. Tbo piece is as pretty as
the compliment paid the young lady.
tHnbonc and tlir Coualah!p.
From the New York AVorld.l
It Is difficult to believe tbat tbe administra
tion means to send ex-Confederate General
William Mahone to Paris to succeed Mr. Ratb
bone as Consul General. Mr. Ratbbone bas
made a creditable official. His popularity is
great and to turn him out to make a place for
such a man as Mabone will greatly lower the
standard of tbe Consular service.
Not Impervious to Public Opinion.
From tbe Philadelphia Record, j
Iu its present shape tbe tariff bill in the Com
mittee on Ways and Means provides for a re
duction of the duty on structural iron from its
present rate of 123 a short ton to S12 a ton a
reductiorTwhich shows that tbe committee is
not wholly impervious to public opinion in be
half of tariff reform.
THE CAREFUL MESSENGER.
A pound of tea at one and three.
And a pot of raspberry jam.
Two new-laid eggs, a dozen pegs.
And a pound of rashers of ham.
I'll say It over all the way.
And then I'm sure not to forgi-t
For if I chance to bring things wrong
My mother gets in such a pet
A pound of tea at one and three
And a pot of raspberry jam.
Two new-laid eggs, a dozen pegs.
And a pound of rashers of ham.
There In the bay the children play
They're having such jolly fun;
I'll go there, too, that's what I'll do,
As soon as my errands are done.
Aponnd of tea at one and three,
A pot of er ney-laid Jam,
Two rasnberry eggs, with a aozen pegs,
And a pound of rashers of ham.
There's Teddy White flying bis kite;
He thinks himself grand, 1 declare;
I'd like to try to make It fly up sky blgh,
Ever so much higher
Than the old church spire,
And then but there
A ptmnd of three and one at tea,
A potof new-laid Jam,
Two dozen eggs, some raspberry pets.
And a pound of rashers of ham.
Now here's the shop, outside I'll stop.
Ami run my orders through again;
I haven't forgot, no, ne'er a jot
It shows I'm pretty cute, that's plain.
A pound of three at one and tea,
A dozen of raspberry ham,
A pot of eggs, with a dozen pegs.
And a rashes of ssir-lsld Jm,
Boston aioU.
CDRI0DS CONDENSATIONS.
By the new directory figures
Angeles has 83.000 inabitants.
One of the big life insurance companies
of New York intends to put up a building in
Salt Lake City that will cost 81.500,000.
The new avenues and streets opened in
Roma and Naples bear tbe names of Victor
Emanuel, Cavour, Garibaldi andMazzinu
The bits of carbon removed from
arc lights are believed by some credulous
persons to have rheumatism-curing qualities.
Emile Zoda has cleared 5100,000 from
"Nana." first issued in a newspaper in IST'J. it
bas been translated in every European
language.
In Utica, X. Y., tradesmen of all sorts
not only sell their delinquent accounts at a
public sale, but advertise them at fall length
in tbe papers.
A strange condition of affairs exists at
Hydetown, Pa. The village has three churches,
and only one solitary member of any of them
lives within the borough limits.
English capitalists have secured options
on every Columbia river salmon packine es
tablishment except three, and the deal, if
consummated, will take Jl.OOO.COO.
A young man in Chambersburjr, Pa.,
made a journey to Hagcrstown to meet a girl
whom be was to marry, and when he arrived
thero be fonnd that she had just married
another man and fled.
Boiled potato parings mixed with
crushed oats was tbe midday meal of one fam
ily of six at Wilkesbarre. A family next door
was in comparative luxury. It had rye bread
and molasses for dinner.
At Screven, Ga., a place of perhaps 130
people, there are eight or ten young men who
are of marriageable age. and very few girls.
The boys keep bachelor's ball, and do their
own cooking, darning, etc.
Chief of Police Donovan, of Hoboken,
has held his present place over 20 years. He is
now in the prime of life, and. it is said, has held
tbe office of Chief of Police longer than any
otter officer in the country.
Battle Creek, Mich., is threatened with
a curious law suit Dr. J. H. Beidler contem
plates bringing suit for damages because he be
lieves the city water works are lowering the
water of Goguac lake so much as to spoil his
summer resort there.
On the Westside of Uew York is a
wealthy furniture mover who owns hundreds of
vans and horses and whose wealth is in the
millions. He finds, however, his chief enjoy
ment and delight in a dwarf horse and a six
legged bull that are on his country place.
Two sons of Mart Frain and a com
panion killed a grizzly near Shovel Creek,
Shasta county. Col., last week. The boys got a
reward ot J100 from tbe stockmen, who have
suffered for three years by this dangerous ani
mal. It weighed, dressed, 570 pounds.
Major Thomas Howard is reasonably
spoken of as tbe oldest ship builder in this
country, since he Is in tho 102d year of his age.
He is also a veteran of the war of 1812, and,
since that time, has always lived in Brooklyn,
Mass., in winter and spent his summers in
Batb, Me.
A House bill passed the Ohio Senate
Wednesday morning providing that all railroad
employes who hare worked 24 consecntivo
hours shall not resume nntil tbey have hau
eight hours' rest. The fine for violation is !150
in each case. Twelve hours are to constitute a
day's labor.
The festive jack rabbit is a strict vege
tarian and will not touch grease of any kind,
nor will be tackle vegetables that are seasoned
with grease. Orchardists in Colorado take ad
vantage of bis fastidiousness and protect their
trees from his incisors by rubbing the body of
tho tree with a bacon rind.
The King of Samoa is a prohibitionist,
as witness the following proclamation: "No
spiritifons, vinous or fermented liauors or in
toxicating drinks whatever shall be sold, given
or offered to.or boughtor bartered by anvnativa
Samoan or Pacific islander resident in Somoa,
to be taken as a beverage."
Morgan Rose, a school teacher of Clay
county, W. Va., expelled Perry Goff, a 16-year-old
pupil. In the afternoon Goff returned
with bis father and two friends, and attacked
Rose with a club. Rose drew a knife, and a
general row followed, in which Rose and the
elder Goff were seriously hurt
A prominent society lady of New- York
bas just returned from Europe with a beautiful
pair of cut glass one-pound dumb-bells in her
trpnk. This is said to be tbe latest whim of
aristocratic athletic Englishwomen. They are
made In sizes from, four ounces to two ponods,
and are aa clear as Japanese crystal.
William Benjamin Rowland, a cart
man, recently died of phthisis at a London
hospital, and wben the doctors made a post
mortem they found a steel knile blade run into
his skull for an inch and broken off there. It
had been there so long time tbe bone had
healed over the spot where it h'ad entered.
A curious sight met the eyes of those
who passed through the Capitol grounds at
Washington the other morning. Thousands of
worms of all sizes covered tbe walks. Some
people tbougbt there bad been a shower of
worms, but none were visible except on the
walks. By the afternoon they had all disap
peared. Word comes from Burlington, la., that
a professional bird catcher is at worn in that
city, and has for the past week captnred and
killed a large number of beautiful songsters.
He claims to be under con tract to furnish East
ern wholesale millinery houses with red birds,
which are his favorite prey. He. says he has
made as high as 2,800 in one year trapping
birds.
A wealthy citizen of Osaka, Japan,
who is the owner of a rich copper mine, has
celebrated in a rather peculiar manner the two
hundred and sixtieth anniversary of the mine
coming into the possession of bis family. On
that occasion each of his 300 or more employes
received as a memento of the occasion a swallow-tall
coat
Godfreys has a postmistress whose only
offense is Schweinf urtbism. To each patron of
the little office she addresses, on each visit, tbe
question: "Are you saved?" Alpena county
seems to be tbe only place in Michigan where
this pretender-to-be-the-second-Chnst has se
enred many followers. One or two very prom
ising young ladiei have left their homes and
gone to join Schwelnfurth's garden of Eden
crowd at Rockford, 111.
A noted character 40 years ago was
Friend Adam Mott the Maine Quaker. Ho
was much heavier than ordinary men, and his
second wife was a very largo woman. His
weight was 360 pounds and hers 240 pounds. Ha
had a carriage made especially for their ac
commodation. It took quite a strong horse to
draw this vehicle when freighted with 640
pounds of hnmanity. He traveled much abont
tbe country, bis size making him quite a curi
osity, and picked up his living as he went along;
C0EKENT TIJIELI TOPICS.
Theiiz is considerable kicking going on over
tbe fact tbat the automatic pump lathe Allegheny
l'arks Is in working order but about one day out
of the seven. Many of its would-be customers
facetiously remark that the sucker Is oa the
wrong end.
Teleohaphic dispatches are slightly mixed
on the number of ducks shot by President Harri
son during bis last gunning expedition. Farmers
were notified be was coming, and to avoid any
misunderstanding, they drove their pigs into the
cellars, and thus saved thtlr lives.
Isdianapolis seems to be the storm center
of hi.rrors for the past week. Democratic editors
will please make a note of this fact.
Jake Kilrain will commence serving hi
two months' sentence to-morrow, or at least tha
dispatches say he will. It depends a good deal oa
circumstances. If Jake Is broke and the hunting
and fishing are not good, he will probably be will
ing to be locked up for a day, but If he Is flying
high and don't feel so Inclined, be will be found
with his pals at the pleasure resorts.
OHIOAS3 have had tha grip, endured tha
agonies of a fierce campaign, suffered from too
much water, read of the ballot-box forgeries and
are now compelled to face the tact that the prin
cipal ictor in that great plot Is to pose as a freak
In the dime museums. Ohio Is certainly a great
State and she bas some great people who should
be In prison.
A Chicago saloon keeper says ha can bribe
from live to ten or his customers to swear him
clear of any cbargemade by tbe police, and It
won't cost him over two beers per man. Consid
ering the fact that two "schooners" in Chicago
cost but 5 cents, the price .Is not an extravagant
one.
Novr that tbe Senate has disposed of tha
Blair bill It Is to be hoped that It will resolve to
do some work or adjourn.
Bees are to be the principal trimming for
.English spring bonnets. This style of bonnet has
been la vogue la tbe Ualted States as far back as
th oldest inhabitant can remember. Blsloe. Al- '
ger, BUI and several gtier leadsrj of society ttlU
wear mem.
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