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BISMASCK'S SHADOW STILL.
The warmth of the greeting given by the
Berliners to Bismarck vesterday as he came
from the farewell audience with the Em
peror is not to be wondered at. But for the
life-work of Bismarck it is more than likely
that Berlin would be the capital of Prussia
merely, instead of that of United Germany.
However Americans, accustomed to demo
cratic method, may dislike the absolutism
which has lain beneath Bismarck's policy
at all times, they must recognize the genins
of the statesman who has accomplished so
much lor his native land.
It is curious how the shadow of Bis
marck's retirement obscures every other
event in Germany. The Labor Congress
continues in session, the Emperor fretfully
protests against the too outspoken comments
of even the German newspapers, he assures
Austria of the permanence of Germany's
friendship, and the Pope addresses a courtly
letter of congratulation to the young Em
peror on his efiorts to solve social questions
with new keys, but Germany, and indeed
the whold world, talks not oi these things,
but of the Iron Chancellor, who is now a
private citizen.
The tears that Bismarck shed yesterday
are not likely to be the only ones that will
be shed on account of his departure from
the Empire's helm.
1NTEENATIONAL C0PYEIGHT.
"We have ret red from the American
Copyright League a number of documents
in advocacy of the international copyright
bill now before Congress. The Dis
patch has always favored the bill; it is an
act of justice to foreign authors and a
measure of protection for American authors,
publishers, printers, and everyone con
nected with the making of books. It is
only necessary to look at the names of the
mdorsers of the bill to comprehend the
strength of its claims. All the leading
authors of this country favor it The
American Publishers Copyright League,
consisting of sixty-five publishers, includ
ing such firms as Harpers, Appletons,
Scribners, The Century Company, Hough
ton, Mifflin & Co., A. a McClurg & Co.,
J. B. Lippincott Company, and Band
JlcXallr & Co; the National Typothetm,
the Internation.il Typographical Union
containing forty thousand typesetter, and
other bodies, equally important, and equally
representative of the book and printing in
dustries, have indorsed this attempt to ob
tain security for literary property. The
majority of book-reading Americans, we
believe, are in lavor of the bill. It ought to
be passed by Congress without amendment.
There seems to be only one serious danger
threatening the bill at present, and this
arises from the revival of the royalty or
stamp copyright scheme. Mr. B. Pcarsale
Smith, of Philadelphia, is the father of this
scheme as now presented. It proposes:
(1) That any American publisher
shall be at liberty to print editions of
the works of anv foreign author under the
condition of paying to such author a roy
alty of 10 per cent, of the retail price.
(2) That this royalty shall be paid by
the purchase from the author, in advance of
the publication of the American edition, of
stamps representing the above rate, as many
stamps being bought as there are copies
printed in the edition, and each copy of the
book that is placed in the market by the
publisher bearing one of these stamps con
spicuously affixed.
This is a ridiculously inadequate and
clumsy substitute for international copy
right. Even the constitutionality of this
undertaking to set aside or nullify the right
of private contract is very doubtful. It
would be a direct interference with the
right of the author to select his own agents
and make his own bargains. To carry out
Mr. Smith's scheme, foreign authors would
have station inspectors in the offices of
American publishers to check off their re
prints. But the objections to the scheme
are entirely too numerous to mention. As
Mr. George H. Putnam says ana this con
tains the kernel ot the question : "II
Congress will bring about tne arraugement
for the necessary recognition and protection
of literary property, the authors and pub
lishers can safely be left to adjust between
themselves all business details, such as rates
ol compensation and methods of payment,
which details are properly matters of pri
vate contract"
A FORGOTTEN ELEMENT.
The latest move of the dress reformers of
the Jenness school, in the development of a
variety of the divided skirt by which women
may ride astride of a horse instead of in the
fashionable sidelong style, is occasioning
much newspaper discussion. It is typical of
all discussions as to female dress, that almost
the entire comment on the question is de
voted to the question of how women will
look, in one way or the other. The fact is
apparent in the editorial discussion of the
matter that this is the masculine as well as
the feminine altitude of mind on all subjects
relating to feminine costumes. The fact that
Miss Mabel Jenness' new departure permits
the lady who prefers a man's saddle to look
nearly if not quite as well in it as the one
whoadheres to the fashionable riding-skirt, is
generally recognized; and one liberal co
temporary goes so far as to concede that
women can do as they choose about it, with
the decided reservation that the majority of
them will still be "happily conscious of their
sex."
One might think that with the controlling
element of looks so nearly balanced, public
discussion might give some attention to the
relative safety or utility of the two methods
of riding. The question, which is the firmest
seat oi gives better control of the horse is a
vital one to male riders; but when it comes
to female dress it is always ignored as
wholly foreign. If we could progress
far enough to take such considera
tions into view, we might eventually per
ceive that with women, as with men, the
most becoming costume, whether for ridinp,
walking or any other occupation, is that
best suited to its purposes. But the ele
ments ot convenience, utility or adaptation
to the especial circumstances under which
the costume is to be worn, have been so com
pletely excluded from any consideration in
connection with women's dress, that men
nor women do not at a rule think them
worth mentioning in the discussion of dress
reforms.
WYOMING'S TEMPTING OFFER.
The debate in the House of Representa
tives yesterday upon the question of admit
ting the Territory of Wyoming into the
United States developed some humorous
features, and precious little else. The oppo
sition to Wyoming's admission is coming
from the Democratic side of the House.
It is simply the fact that Wyoming's admis
sion will add three votes to the .Republican
column in the,Electoral College in 1892, and
give two more United States Senators to the
same party, that excites Democratic oppo
sition. From a partisan point of view it is
good enough ground for hostility, too.
But the debate was important because in
its course ths awful possibility of a woman
being elected to the United States Senate
was foreshadowed. The gentleman who
called up this specter thought to damage
Wyoming's chances of statehood, but it is
by no means certain that he succeeded. We
echo the query of Mr. Taylor, of Ohio:
"Don't you think one good woman in the
Senate would help it some ?" and we are
inclined to believe that the country will re
ply in the affirmative. It would take more
than one good woman, of course, to save the
Senate. One good woman would have her
hands full. There are so many old women
there already that a genuine feminine per
sonality would find it hard to make an im
pression. But substantial good would be
accomplished in some directions. There
would be an end of the secret session tom
foolery. Not even Senator Edmunds would
have the icy and adamantine cheek to pre
tend that executive sessions could be held
in secrecy with an intelligent woman pres
ent Jnst to puncture this collapsing bal
loon of undemocratic practice, the admission
of a lair Senator from Wyoming would be
justified. To secure this chance of bringing
the Senate abreast with tne age, we are
heartily in favor of Wyoming's admission
to the sisterhood of States.
OBLIGATIONS OF THE CENSUS.
The taking of the eleventh census is well
under way. The popular interest in this
great national work becomes more general
and lively as decade follows decade. Pitts
burg is happily in a position to await, with
calm assurance, the revelations of the
statisticians who shall investigate her stand
ing and reveal her relative proportions. It
is incumbent upon everyone who has the
best interests of this community at heart to
aid the census takers in every possible way.
Individual citizens may serve Pittsburg no
little in th'is way.
We need hardly remind the many offi
cials of the municipality and county that
they are especially bounden to aid Mr.
Porter and his assistants in the preparation
of statistics for the census. To a great ex
tent it lies with them to set Pittsburg and
its environs in a proper light before the
nation. As the Superintendent of the
Census rightly says: "If they neglect the
opportunity, or place obstacles in the way,
the record will, as a matter of course, bejm
perfect and contrast unfavorably with that
of other cities." But Pittsburg, we are as
sured, can rely upon the fidelity ana indus
try of her public servants in this emergency.
It is not improper to call the attention of
the preparers of the census to a cognate,
matter. Schedules are being sent to the
officials of municipalities all over the coun
ry, to be filled up with facts and figures
relative to the various cities. But the
schedules are apparently planned without
consideration of the fact that hardly two
cities in the country are governed with
identical methods and under identical con
ditions. A schedule which fits the case of
2Jew York exactly, and could be filled up
by Kew York municipal officers with ease
and dispatch, might not apply to Pittsburg
at all. We understand that such a diffi
culty has arisen already, and we trust that
census authorities will hasten to open the
way for the co-operation of our municipal
officers, who are anxious to give the desired
information.
The gentlemen who have that common
and constitutional objection to paying their
tailor bills and to the world's being informed of
their objection will be ill-advised if theysne
the sartorial artists for HbcL It Is not highly
creditable to defraud a tailor, and it Is a poor
revenge upon one's creditors to make a laugh
ing stock of oneself.
England will have to pay a little more at
tention to the affairs of her Canadian colonies
or reconcile herself to their independence.
The sentiments of tho Newfoundlanders de
clared in mass meeting at fat. John's yesterday
have no uncertain sound. The fishermen want
England's protection against French encroach
ments on the lobster fisheries, and if they do
not get it they will appeal to us. Of course tho
United States could not jump In wildly, but the
mere appeal would be a terrible blow to En
gland's prestige all over the world.
A vert pretty place for reform in city
expenditures is indicated elsewhere in our col
umns. A report of triennial tax assessments
that costs 7,000 to publish and has a paid cir
culation of seven cople, is not a profitable in
vestment for the taxpayers' money. At 5 41,
its selling price, the report would be quite dear
enough.
THE exchange of civilities between Sena
tor Ingalls and several Southern brethren in
the Senate yesterday was like many such pleas
ant encounters in the past Not the slightest
benefit to the country or Its laws can ever come
from this sort of thing. The war is over, and
fighting it over again on the floor of the Senate
is a peculiarly mischievous waste of time. But
Senator Ingalls loves a fight, and Southern Sen
ators are alwajs ready to accommodate him.
The dark-blue colors of Oxford were crowned
with victory on the Thames yesterday. The
representative of a cotemporary who remarks
that "it was an exciting race, but the light
blue were too much for the dark men," must
be color-blind as well as slightly careless in
the use of adjectives.
TnE silence of ex-Senator Wallace is more
eloquent than most men's speech. He vouch
safed a little bit of silver wisdom yesterday.
The thorough organization of the Democratic
party in the State, he said, is more important
than the ambition of any man to be the party's
nominee for Governor. After elucidating the
situation up to this point Mr. Wallace sank
back Into golden silence and safety.
It is creditable to many of the applicants
for liquor license that they tell the truth even
if it damns their causo. The remarkable
knowledge of tho facts revealed by the court
may have something to do with the decrease in
perjury at this session as compared with its
predecessors.
Mb. Howells- in his latest story, "The
Shadow of a Dream,' an admirable effort by
tbe way-probably states a truth seldom reeog;
uuvu, uk b KM tbuikuvM ivugcu, uj uv lulcriOr I
half of humanity when ha says: "The eager
ness of women to hearthlugs is a natural
result from the eagerness of men to tell them."
Women, at all events, will agree with the great
novelist.
MAltcn grows leonine as its last days
approach. On the other hand the proceedings
in the License Court grow tamer and tamer.
If the utterances of labor leaders are
worth anj thing the eight-hour movement will
not be commenced with general force, if com
menced at all, this spring. General Secretary
J. W. Hays, of the Knights of Labor, is the
latest authority to declare that ho does not
think a strike for tho eight-hour day will be
inaugurated in May.
PEOPLE op prominence.
King;Mexei.ek of Abyssina has just mar
ried his forty-Ilrat wife.
Minister Whitela'W Beid arrived In
New York yestorday. He n ill remain about
10 days.
General Neai, Dow has jnst entered his
eighty-seventh year, in excellent mental and
physical condition.
Mrs. Hahbison and party passed a portion
of yesterday in Aslicville, N. C. and left at
2 r. ji. for Washington.
Ex-GovcitNOR Ames, of Massachusetts,
has returned from tho South after a sojourn
which has greatly benefited his health.
The Prince of Naples, heir-apparent to
the throne of Italy, is suffering from over
study. There is no royal road to learning.
Senator Blair's speeches on his misfit
Educational bill would make two volumes as
largo as thoso composing James G. Blaine's
Twenty Years of Congress."
William Morris, the English poet, is
writing a novel the sceno of which is laid in
the civilized world of 2010 A. D. He is even
moro visionary than Edward Bellamy.
Mr. Eugene Levering, the founder of
Levering Hall, has established a lectureship on
Christian Evidences in the John's Hopkins
University. The Rev. John A. Broadns is to
be the first lecturer.
On board the White Stir Steamer Germanic
which sailed for Liverpool jesterday, were
Lady Stanley, wife of the Governor General
ot Canada, accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Isabel and son Arthur, and Miss Lister,
and Captain A. H. McMahon ot the Gov
ernor General's staff.
A C0AEMACGU MEMORIAL.
A monument lo ibo Unknown Dead at Johns
town Proposed.
rSrKCIAL TELEQKAM TO TnS DI8PATCII.I
Johnstown, March 26. A meeting of the
Committee on Reburlal of the Johnstown dead
was held to-day. It was reported that all the
unknown dead who had been buried in all parts
of the valley (745 or more) had been removed
to the plot in tho Grandvlow Cemetery pro
vided by the commission, and that a contract
had been made for a suitable marble beadstone
over each grave. All the expenses to this point
have been borne by tho Flood Relief Commis
sion. It was decided that tho committee be
continued until it was feasible to erect on the
plot a monument to the "unknown dead" of
such a character as would be a fitting memorial
of this unparalleled disaster. Sums for this
purpose will be ratsed by private subscription,
though it is thought small balances may be
called upon in the hands of various committees
throughout the country, and the Chairman was
instructed to correspond with any such com
mittees of which he may learn. These com
mittees or persons will confer a favor by writ
ing to J. B. Krcmer, Chairman of the Johns
town commission.
This monument, which is to be the only last
ing reminder of the hundreds of unknown
victims, t ill be as great, as imposing and as
appropriate as the amount of money con
tributed will allow.
FABMEKS WILL TAKE A HAND
In tbo Administration ot Slnte Affairs In
Sonlb Carolina.
tFrECIAIi TILEOUAM TO Til It DISPATCH.!
Columbia, B. C, March 26. The city is
crowded to-night with delegates to the Farm
ers' Convention, which meets here at 12 o'clock
to-morrow to nominate a ticket for State officers
at the next election and to adopt a platform.
This convention is called in opposition to the
present administration, which is charged with
extravagance and corruption by tho farmers'
movement faction. The most rabid on that
side declare that it is time for the aristocrats
and kid-gloved gentry to give place to the poor
man and give the farmers a chance to adminis
ter the affairs of government. The fact that
all the Governors for a number of years past
have been Episcopalians is dwelt upon and
ring rule is charged.
The present administration look upon this
movement as disastrous to tbo Democratic
party and good government in this State
and rredict a repetition of tbo Mahone move
ment in Virginia. It is possible that W. A.
Conrtenay. former Mayor of Charleston, will
he nominated for Governor. A very bitter con
test will result from this division in tbo party.
Ben Tillman, who was active in tne campaign
two years ago, is the leading light now.
THE GREATEST OP 'EM ALL.
Tbe DUpatcta the Brightest, Newsiest nnd
Most Reliable of All Great Dailies.
From the Saltsburg Press.
The Pittsburg Dispatch is the greatest
daily paper of Western Pennsylvania and is
crowing more popular every day and is the ac
knowledged standard for news and enterprise.
The Sunday edition of The DisrATCH has met
with unparalleled success and its circulation,
now reaching over 53,000, is Increasing with
every issue and no wonder as its weekly bud
get of news, sporting and business reviews and
scores of eminent contributors on all subjects
make it tho best Sunday paper of tbe State, A
new double perfecting Hoe press has been or
dered and will soon be set up in The Dispatch
pressroom to meet the requirements of the
new year 1S90. Taken all in all The Pitts
burg Daily Dispatch is the brightest news
iest and most reliable dally that reaches ns,
and it should be a welcome visitor to every
household that wishes to keep posted on the
events of tho day.
A KELIC OP IDOLATRY.
A Philadelphia Judco Says tho Bible Should
be Abolished.
Philadelphia. March 26. A stylish young
woman had been sworn and had partially given
in ber testimony before Judge Arnold, when
ono of the jurors objected, on tho ground that
she had not kissed the Bible. After a breezy
discussion between counsel. Judge Arnold ct
the matter short by ordering the witness to be
sworn by the uplifted band.
"I am not surprised," said the Judge, "that
this witness did not kiss tbe book. I would not
do It either, a dirty book like tbat This cus
tom is a relic of idolatry, and the sooner it is
abolished tho better it will be. I don't think
this witness objected to kissing tbe book be
cause she intended to lie, but because it is a
dirty book. I respect her regard for her per
son and health.'
It Interests ihc West,
fiomthe Minneapolis Trlbune.l
War talk has already begun in Europe, and it
begins to look as if wheat would be worth
something in the course of a decade or so.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Justice James V. Campbell.
DETnoiT, March 2s. Justice James V. Camp
bell, of the Michigan Supreme Court a member
of the Supreme Bench since 1839, died suddenly at
his home In this city this morning. Justice Camp
bell was born In New York in 1323, came to Mich
lean In early lire, and was one of the pioneers ot
the btsle. He had been Chief Justice of the
bench In rotation nine times: was a law professor
of the UnlverBlly of Michigan: was one oT the
btandlnK Committee of the fiotestaut Episcopal
Diocese of Michigan, andwns a man of wide cul
ture. His deith was caused by Heart disease. His
family found him dead in his chair, where hedled
while reading a newspaper,
David Idnd.
ISrECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCn.'.
Cantou, March 26. David LInd, aged 78, one or
the oldest and most respected citizens of this
vicinity, died to-day of pnenmonia. lie bad been
a resident hre for 33 years, and was one of tbe
foremost in advancing the Interests or Ohio.
B. F. Mokely.
SPEClAJ. TELEOBAM TO THE DI8PATCII.1
Fbaxklix, Pa., March 26. B. F. Stokely, a
prominent citizen and a well-known druggist of
Franklin, died here this evening ol Internal hem
orrhage, after a very short Illness.
3Ilss badie BIcKeovrn.
Miss Sadie McKeown died at her parents' res
,.. Her death casts a 'gloom over a wide
idence In Ivanhoc, P. L. E. Ky yesterday
10C1K1 ClrClC
THE .TOPICAL TALKER.
Notes ol n Voynco Toward tbo Tropica Tho
Polrelot Toncno of St. Ibomai Scene
at a Coaling Station Women at Work
A Circus nt Sen.
TVTR. Charles Abel, of this city, who is
making a tour of the, principal cities of
South America in the interest of Pittsburg en
terprise, arrived at tbe Barbadoes on Sunday,
March 9. In a letter mailed from that place
Mr. Abel reports a pleasant voyago agreeably
broken by a short stay at St Thomas, one of
the Danish West Indies and, by the nay, one
of the islands whoso dicnvcry by Columbus in
1493 the great World's Fair in Chicago is to
celebrate.
Mr. Abel was favorably Impressed with St
Thomas, which has considerable of tho pic
turesque to commend it to tbe traveler from
the North. Three-fourths of the population of
12,000 a hundred years ago there were 15,000
souls on the island are negroes. They all
speak what passes for English, but which is
really a mongrel tongue in which Danish, Span
ish, and French are mixed with Anglo-Saxon.
It strnck Mr. Abel as peculiar that the negroes
achieved creat variety in dross. They do not
as in Mexico for instance, dress all alike.
Everyone strikes out for originality, and the
women particularly take pains to make their
headgear startling.
A fter spending an hour or two on shore, Mr.
Abel and tho rest of the passengers re
turned to the ship, which was coaling below
the town at tbe docks. The scene presented by
tho negroes bringing the coal on board was not
an agreeable one for an American. The
majority of the coal carriers were negro girls,
from 10 to 16 years old. Men, wjmen and boys
completed the crowd of toilers, who numbered
about 100. They wcro all barefooted and
scantily clad, the dresses of the women and
girls reaching hardly to tho knee They car
ried tbe coal in baskets upon their beads, and
two lines of them were continually trotting
rapidly over the narrow gangplank for two
hours or more. It seemed miraculous that
some in the jostling, hurrying throng did not
fall into the water.
The negroes could not work without shout
ing, singing and swearing tho latter especially
all the time. Mr. Abel naively remarks that
ho heard more oaths in those two hours than
he bad for a year in Pittsburg. It is curious
how the plague ot profanity spreads when once
it is started. Swearing usually follows in tho
wake of whisky and firearms when civilization
invades barbarism.
The reason so many females are employed in
ship coaling at St Thomas is, Mr. Abel says,
that they work better than tbe men. Probably
tbe lazy husbands and brothers of these women
find it easier to let the latter support them.
The pay is not princely I cent for each basket
holding two bushels of coal. A woman can
earn 35 to 60 cents every time a vessel puts in
for coal.
TTot unnaturally Mr. Abel was not feeling
quite comfortable about tho immediate
prospect w hen be wrote. "At Barbadoes," he
writes, "We shall lose two-thirds of our pas
sengers, and unfortunately get in return a
circus company. Henceforth it will be: 'Good
by open cabins; look out for valuables'.' "
The circus was booked for Para, Brazil, and
as that is a voyage of six or seven days from
Barbadoes, it is easy to be seen that the circus
will become a trifle tiresome beforo the
journey's end. Even the enthnsiastic boy who
divides his aspirations between the career of a
circus clown and thatofa cowboy, would find
a circus cribbed in close quarters on a small
steamer somewhat too much of a good thing.
PITTSBURG FOUNDED UPON COKE.
Henry XV. Oliver Talks About tho Natural
Resources of Our City.
Gath in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
I said to Henry W. Oliver, a day or two ago,
who is tho President of tbo Pittsbnrg and
Western Railroad, which runs from Allegheny
to about Akron (some 130 miles): "Do you
consider that Pittsburg is going to hold its own
against all these later mineral developments?"
"Undoubtedly. Pittsburtr has a security
which is not often noticed by strangers, in that
there is no probability of any other large city
being established within 150 miles of it in any
direction. It has tho best coke in the Western
world, and perhaps in tbe world, and plenty of
it. They talk about other coals in America,
but let them coke any coal as good as ours and
in such quantity. We then havo tho experience
and a lull understanding of our business, and
have a race of mechanics pretty much all
native, raised at the confluence of tbe rivers
which make tbe Ohio. Whatever the rest of
the world discovers, we discover also; our nat
ural gas has become cheaper than an where
in the country and more plentiful. Oil is at
our doors. We have only to roach out our
hand, so to speak, and we are on tbe lakes as
well as on the Ohio. The distance from Pitts
burg to Lako Erie at several ports is not much
greater than from New York to Philadelphia.
We have the situation and wo have the popula
tion. Our metropolitan population, though it
is divided into two or three jurisdictions, is
Inll 400.000.
' "How much larger are you than Cleve
land 7"
"Cleveland has got to be a large city, though
it is still countrified. I think thev claim about
300.000 people. They are our ferry to Michigan
and the Northwest or ono of our ferries."
Tbo Kaiser Doesn't Like It.
Beelin, March 28. The Post learns from a
trustworthy source that the Emperor has ex
pressed dissatisfaction becauso many papers
have exaggerated or entirely perverted bis
critical remarks on tbo occasion of his visit to
the officers of the general staff which gavo rise
to the rumor that Count Von Waldersee would
be transferred to another post
ALL SATISFACTORILY ShTTLED.
Tho Dlspnto With l'ortuenl Believed to bo
Amicably Adjusted.
fBT CABLE TO TUB DISPATCH.
LosnON, March 26. Copyright Mrs.
Catherine McMurdo sailed by the Elba on
Sunday for vho purposo, it is believed, of hav
ing an interview with Secretary Blaine at
Washington. She is understood to be perfectly
satisfied with the present position of affairs, a
satisfaction based, it is believed, on the knowl
edge that Portugal has decided to yield to the
United States in order to avoid a suspicion that
she has given in to England in this matter.
Your Lisbon correspondent, who has been
making special inquiries on tho subject, cables
as follows this evening:
The British, American and Portuguese Govern
ments
are quite agreed upon the Delagna Kail
way
question
an. Ulie Doints In dlSDUto are nearlv Bet-
tied, and the otily question Is as to the torm of
tne inetnoa oi inaemniiy. wmcii u is aamittca
must be paid. The United btatce Legation offi
cials are perfectly satisfied with the present phase
or the negotiation, and state that the Portuguese
Government have given proofs of prudent states
manship and a desire for an equitable settlement.
Minister l.orlng has been In Italy on a short
health holiday, but Is expected to return here to
morrow. Senate Confirmations.
Washington, March 28. The Senate in
Executive session to-day confirmed the follow
ing nominations: Pay Director Thomas H.
Looker to be Chief of the Bureau of Provisions
and Clothing and Paymaster General of the
Navy; Amor Smith, Jr.. Surveyor of Customs
at Cincinnati; M. B. De Bhong, postmaster at
Ashland, O., and J. C. Reid, postmaster of
Cuyahoga Falls, O.
TEAYELS WITH AN ARMY.
The Quren Accompanied by Tvomerons Ser
vunls, 72 Trunks nnd Several Dors,
London, March 26. Among the impedi
mena with which tbe Queen started on her
continental tour on Monday may be mentioned
three coachmen, nine grooms, eight horses, one
donkey, three carriages, 72 trunks, three special
beds, a special cooking stove, wine, two doe
tors, ono surgeon, one surgeon for the Princess
Beatrice, three ladies-in-waiting, nine women
servants, one lord, two equerries and seven
does.
Her Majesty was in an unusually graclons
mood, and on the Dover boat smiled sweetly on
Prince Battenberg, now completely restored to
royal favor. Indeed, sho addressed him twice
as -lieber Helnrich" (dear Henry) in such a
loud tone of voice that she evidently intended
that those of her lieges within earshot should
hear.
A DEMOCRAT'S AMBITION,
Ex-Senator Wallace Savs It Is the Thor
ough Organization of the Party,
tSPECIAI. TELEOBAM TO THE niSJATCn.
Habkisbdbo, March 26. Ex-Unltod States
Senator Wallace spent a few hours among
friends in this city to-day. He could not bo in
duced to say that he was a candidate for Gov
ernor, but spoke of tho necessity of polling the
full Democratic vote at toe next election. Tbe
thorough organization of the party he placed
above the ambition of any Democrat to be Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania.
P0K THE GERMAN LIBEAKI.
Tbo Recent Entertainment Netted Them
Abont a Thousand Dollar.
Mrs. M. Werner, the popular little librarian
of the German Library, was seen at her desk
yesterday afternoon and is authority for tho
statement that tbe recent bazaar beid in tbe
library rooms, netted the association 81,000.
The money will be expended in the purchase of
new books. The lady Isatpresent spending her
spare moments m making up a list of new books
for which 8300 will be spent and which will in
clude many rare volnmes from the old country.
Tho young people who assisted at the bazaar,
were given a reception Tuesday evening at
Frohsinn Hall, by the directors of tho library.
It was one of tho most enjoyable events In Ger
man society circles. Guenthor's Orchestra was
in attendance and an excellent supper was
served by a popular caterer.
A Now Social Club.
A new organization has just been effected on
the bill district. Tho society will bo known as
tbe Collis Club, its object is for social and in
tellectual improvement, and. although It is in
embryo yet, it will start out with good pros
pects and promises to eclipse anything of its
kind on the hill. T. J. Murphy, s. II. McGlll
and other well-known young men of tho city
are interested in tbo organization.
Pbnrmncfsts' Twelfth Reception.
Tho twelfth annual roception of the College
of Pharmacy was held last night in Masonic
Hall, corner of Washington and Madison ave
nues, Allegheny. A large attendance, Gernert's
Orchestra and an elaborate supper rendered
the evening one of rare enjoyment.
Tho Last of the Season.
The last of tho wintr's course of entertain
ments given by tho Pennsylvania Railroad de
partment Y. M. C. A, will bo held this evening
in the association rooms, on Twenty-eighth
street.
CONGRATULATED BY TOE POPE.
The Kaiser's Stand on tho Labor Question
Commended by Ills Holiness.
Berlin, March 20. The Reichsanzeiger pub
lishes tbe letters that passed between Emperor
William and the Pope on tho subject of the
labor conference. Tho Emperor's letter, in
which ho enclosed tho programme of the con
ference, announces that Bishop Kopp has been
appointed a delegate, and says the Emperor
knows that Bishop Kopp is thoroughly Imbued
with tho Pone's ideas, and will materially con
tribute to tho success of the humanitarian
work.
The Pope, in his reply, congratulates Em
peror William upon taking the field for a reso
lute effort in a worthy cause, which meets tbe
Pope's heartiest wishes After alluding to en
cyclical dealings with the social question, tho
Pope says he recognizes tho high valuo of an
attempt to settle questions by an international
conferenceiappreciates tho Emperor's acknowl
edgment of the great efficacy of religion and
the Church in the solution of social questions;
hopes that the Church's servants will be sup
ported by tho authorities in the exercise of
their functions in connection with social ques
tions; warmly wishes the conference success:
expresses gratification at the appointment of
Dieuup xvuujj, aim cunemucs wuu coruiai
wishes for the welfare of the Emperor and his
family.
Great Religious Revival.
(SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISr ATCIT.l
Newark, March 26. One of tho greatest
religious revivals ever known here Is in progress
at the Second M. E. Church. Hundreds are
unable to gain admission. The meetings are
conducted by Miss Addie Sherman and Rev.
Marsten. Already 150 have passed tho com
munion service.
IT WILL BE LN TEE FAMILY.
Twin Brothers Nominated by Opposite Par
ties for tbe Same Office.
(SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
New York, March 28. James M. and
Thomas B. Seaman, twin brothers, aro rival
candidates for the office of Justice of the
Peace In tbo town of Hempstead. James was
nominated by tbe Republican Town Conven
tion in Hempstead on Saturday night His
brother Thomas received the Democratic nom
ination on Monday night
Jim and Tom Seaman are known all ovor
Long Island. They are lawyers and in partner
ship under the firm name of Seaman & Sea
man. They dress alike and look alike. Their
resemblance is so striking that they aro mis
taken for each other frequently by Intimate
acquaintances. Both are tall, well-built men.
They are light complexioned and each has a
long, wavy, drooping mustache. ThoniaB looks
wiser than his brother, but the Republicans
say this is only because he is more bald on his
head than James is.
Herbert Bismarck's Resignation Read.
Berlin, March 20. In the lower house of
the -Prussian diet to-day Chancellor Von
Caprivi read the Emporer's acceptance of
Count Herbert Bismarck's resignation of the
office of Imperial Foreign Minister and the
appointment of himself (General Von Caprivi)
to succeed him.
WON'T LEATE Till! ASSOCIATION.
Treasurer Cohen Snjs Columbus Will Star
Where She Is.
(SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCn.l
COLUMBUS, March 28. Director Cohen, who
looks after the practical workings of the Col
umbus base ball club, stated tonight there was
nothing in the report sent out from tnis city
that Syracuse, Rochester and Toledo would
withdraw or be superseded in tbe Association.
Hosays tho report originated with some beef
bead whose only object was the injury of the
Association.
Treasurer Cohen states these clubs have as
good a right in the Association as tbo Colum
bus club and their franchises will be protected.
As for Baltimore coming into the Association
he states if there was a vacancy Bultlmore
conld not get it under tbe present management
Lobane, the Columbus nrst baseman, telegraphs
from Charleston that he will bo here tomorrow.
OHIO RIPPEKS BUSI.
Democrats Introduce IHensurcs to Capture
IlInnlLlpnl GoTcinjnents.
rSPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Columbus, March 20. Ripper legislation
continued in the lower house today. The work
in this lino consisted of a bill for redisricting
and reorganizing tho city of Da ton, which be
came alaw, and turns the Republican city oier
to the Domocrats at once. A bill to reorganize
the city government of Columbus, which is Re
publican in all parts but one. parsed the House,
and will bo a law within a couple of days. This
bill places the city in the hands of a board of
control and has the opposition of the Board of
Trade.
The bill to redistrict Springfield also became
a law today. A bill has been introduced to
abolish all the election boards in tbo State ex
cept in the four largest cities.
Protesrlnc Agnlnnt Itcpenllna a lair,
PPrCIAL TELSOKAM TO TUB DISPATCH.l
Zanesville. O., March 26. The Muskingum
County Sabbath Union, auxiliary to the Ameri
can Sabbath Union, has passed resolutions
against the repeal of the Owen Sunday law,
which resolutions will be forwarded to both
branches of the Legislature.
THE MIDDLET0N FDR SCANDAL.
An Officer Pronounces It tbe Worst Case
of
Looting Erer Perpcirnted.
Ottawa, Ont., March 26. The moro that Is
known of the Middleton fur scandal tho more
unsavory It appears. An offlcoj who went
through tbo Riel Robellion says It was Some
thing di-graceful the manner in which tbe
property and effects of the unfortunate Metis
were looted. He was on the steamer coming
home after the capture of Riel, and there were
20 or 30 ponies, bales of furs on board valued at
thousands of dollars, two billiard tables, guns,
saddles and household effects, whicb nere loot
ed by the troops. Very few of the men there
who bad not all the furs they wantod, and buf
falo robes, otter and beaver were a drug on the
marxet for some time after. When the Com
mission reopens next week all this will be es
tablished. TO IMPROVE THE Y0DGIII0GHENY.
A McKeesport Committee Leave for Wash
ington to Give Testimony.
.SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THS DISPATCH. I
MoKeeSpobt, March 26. W. P. Wampler,
M. F. Ryan, A. W. Smith, R. L. Rlggs and J.
B. Shale, the committee appointed by tbe
Board of Trade, left for Washington, D. C, to
night to go before the Committee on Rivers
and Harbors to-morrow and show why the
Youghiogheny river should bo improved.
While there, it is said that the committee,
although composed of Democrats and Republi
cans, will rail on Congressman Ray and also
Postmaster General Wanamaker with a view
of feeling around to see bow tbe land lies, and
to probably advocate the appointment of one of
the candidates who is so anxious for the posi
tion of postmaster.
WOMEN IN THE SENATE.
Peculiar Objection Raised to the Admission
of Wyoming A Chinese Lnnndryman
Pleads Wltbout Avail for His Wife's Ad
mission to This Country.
ASHINGTON, March 2a In the House to
day Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, from the Com
mittee on Rules, reported a resolution making
the Wyoming admission bill a special order for
to-day, a recess to be taken at 53a this after
noon until 11 o'clock to-morrow, the prerions
question to bo considered as ordered at 1
o'clock. Tbo resolution was adopted, and the
Wyoming bill was then taken up. Mr. Baker,
of New York, submitted an argument in sup
port of tbe measure.
Mr. Barnes of Georgia, opposed the bill be
cause he believed there were gross irregular
ities in the adoption of the Constitution of
Wyoming; because he believed that the Terri
tory did not contain a population requisite for
admission into the Union, and becauso there
was incorporated In tho Constitution features
based upon tho subject of female suffraee,
which were antagonists to Republican insti
tutions. Entitled to Admission.
TVTb. Cabet, of Wyoming, made a strong
plea for the admission of tbo Territory
which ho represented into tho sisterhood or
States. Ho contended that tho Constitution
had been adopted by tbe free and falrvotoof
the citizens, and that the population was suffi
cient to entitle it to two Senators and one Rep
resentative in the Congress of tho United
States, and ho defended the piovision of the
Constitution of the Territory extending the
right of suffrage to women.
Ho said that President Harrison had en
deared himself to the people of Wyoming by
observing the spirit of the Republican national
platform respecting the appointment of terri
torial residents to the territorial offices, and
with more manhood than his predecessor, say
ing no to the Eastern office seeker. Neither
political party could make a point by obstruct
ing the admission of Wyoming. She had the
people; she observed the laws; sho had no
lactional quarrels. Wyoming, young and en
terprising, would have to overtake the older
States and help them to bear the burdens of
Government
Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
TVTb. Dockeky, of Missouri, opposed the bill."
He said it was nothing more or leu than
a partisan measure, designed to perpetuate the
power of the Republican party. It (like the
Idaho bill soon to follow) should be called a
bill to add three electoral votes and two Sen
ators to tho Republican column in 1892.
Mr. Oates, ot Alabama, opposed tbe measure
because it proposed to give women the right to
vote, and made attendance at school com
pulsory. Mr. Bunnell, of Minnesota, said he
was inclined to voto against the bill on account
of the woman suffrage clause. Mr. Washing
ton, of Tennessee, attacked the woman's suf
frage clause, and held that the people of Wy
oming bad violated the provision of tbe act of
organization limiting suffrage to white male
sulfracc. Women might be sent from Wy
oming to the Senate.
CIvIIIzInK tho Senate.
JyTB. E. N. Taylob, of Ohio Don't you think
that to put a good woman into tbe Senate
might help it some ?
Mr. Washington If the gentleman himself
were in the Senate, I might admit his proposi
tion. Mr. Kerr, of Iowa, thought the opponents ot
the bill were in bad straits when tbey fell back
lor an objection upon the woman suffrage pro
vision. Mr. Kellcy, of Kansas, said be would not be
frightened if women had seats on tho floor of
the House, and perhaps it would result in bene
fit At any rate tbey would vote as intelli
gently as the male members.
Mr. Morey, of Ohio, favored the bill and ad
vocated tho civil and legal enfranchisement of
women in all the States of the Union. After
further debate the House took a recess until U
o'clock to-morrow.
Qnong Leo Wants Ills Wire.
Quong Lee, a Chinese laundryman of Plat ts
moutb, Neb., recently submitted a ques
tion to the Treasury Department whether be
can send to China for his wile and cnildren. He
says be intends to becomo a citizen of tbe
United States, and has made declaration of
such intention. He intimates that be is
wealthy. In reply Assistant Secretary Tichener
says that his occupation as a laundryman does
not exciuue mm irom tne class oi laborers, and
that be cannot claim immunity for his relatives
from the Chinese restriction act by reason of
his intention to become a citizen of tbe United
States, since the law prohibits tbe admission of
any Chinese person to citizenship.
Assistant Secretary Tichener says that as bis
wife and cbildren do not appear to bare ever
resided in the United States, tbey cannot be ad
mitted to entry otherwise than npon the pro
duction of a certificate from the Chinese Gov
ernment declaring them to bo persons other
than laborers, BUcb certificates being underthe
law the solo evidence permissible to establish a
right of entry into the United States.
Teirltorles Clamoring for Admission.
'The House Committee on Territories held a
meeting to-day for the purpose of considering
the bill to provide an enabling act for tbo Terri
tory of Now Mexico. After some discussion
3. resolution was adopted by a party vote, pro
viding that the further consideration of the
bill be postponed and tbat a sub-committee
consisting ot five members be appointed to
consider the propriety of preparing and report
ing to the fall committee an enabling act, un
der which New Mexico may bo admitted under
tbe constitution prepared at the Constitutional
Convention held at Santa Fe in September,
I860. Tho bill for an enabling act for Arizona
was also referred to the same sub-committee.
Ellis Island for nn Immigrant Station.
T N the Senate Mr. McPherson, from the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, reported a joint
resolution authorizing tbo Secretary of tbe
Navy to remove the naval magazine from Ellis
Island in New York harbor and to
purchase a sito to erect a naval
magazine at some other point (and appropri
ating ST5.00O for tho purpose), and tbo Senato
proceeded to consider it
Mr. Hiscock moved to amend by appropriat
ing: a further sum of 573,000 to enable tbe Secre
tary of the Treasury to Improve Ellis Island
for Immigration purposes. The amendment
was agreed to and the joint resolution was
passed.
A FIGHT FOR A KAME.
Two Mrs. Mary J. Ilolmeses la the Liter
nry Field.
SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCn.l
Ansonia, Conn., March 28. Mrs. Mary J.
Holmes, a popular society lady in this town,
has just completed a novel entitled "Ashes,"
which several publishers have been anxious to
secure. A few days ago sho arranged for its
publication, and now she is threatened by liti
gation by the publishers of Mary J, Holmes,
the well-known novelist, who claims tbat the
Ansonia lady must eltheradopta nora de plume
or leai o her name off the title pago of her new
novel entirely. This Mrs. olmes refuses to
do, and her legal adviser in New York advises
her to go ahead and publish tho work with her
name.
Mrs. Holmes' maiden namo was Johnson.
When she married she retained tbe name, as
she bad a perfect right to do. She is engaged
on another story, "A Peculiar Case," which she
will also publish.
AN ALL-AROUND INTELLECTUAL MAN.
From the Journalist '"
He was up in mathematics, bad a taste for hydro
statics, and couM talk about astronomy from
Arlstarchus down:
lie could tell what kind of beans were devoured
by the Chaldeans, and he knew the date of
every Joke made by a circus clown.
lie was versed in evolution, and would Instance
the poor Russian as a type of despotism In
the modern age of man;
Be could write a page of matter on the different
kinds of batter used In making flinty gim
cracks on the modern cooking plan.
He could revel In statistics, he was well np la the
fistlcs, kmw the pedigree ot horses dating
'wty back from the arR.
Far and irlde his tips were quoted, and his bate
ball stuff was noted , In political predictions
he would always hit the mark.
Ho could wrlte'upon the tiriff and he didn't seem
to care If he was called off to review a book or
write a poem or two;
He could boll down stuff and edit, knew the value
of a credit, and could hustle with the tele
graph In style excelled by few.
He cou id tell J ust how a fire should be handled: as
a liar he was sure to exercise a wise dis
criminative taste.
Be was mild and yet undaunted, and no matter
what was wanted he was sure to get it first
yet never was in haste.
But despite his reputation as a brainy aggregation
he was known to be deficient In a manner to
provoke.
For no matter when you met him he would borrow
If you let him, and he seemed to have the
faculty of always being broke,
t Tom Motion.
THE IROQUOIS L0XG T0YAGE.
With Broken Maclilner? She Is Drirea 7,000
Miles Out of Iler Coarse
ISPKCIAI. TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
PAW FbanciSCO. March 20. United States
man-of-war Iroquois arrived in port this morn
ing after a voyago of one week from Port
Townsend. The Iroquois left San Francisco on
on the 28th of last September, and has conse
quently been absent about six months. Her
presence in this harbor was entirely unex
pected, and is tbe result of a combina
tion of unforseen oirenmstances. On Decem
ber 23, when in longitude 173 degrees
west and abont 10 miles north of the line, her
piston rod was broken and she lay helpless and
dependent upon her 6ails and rigging. The lo
cality where she met her mishap is one dreaded
by all navigators. It is a region of calms and
treacherous and violcnt'tides and in tho midst
of a group of numberless small Island; where
wrecks are frequent Making her way with
difficulty out of this hazardous locality,
orders wero gnen to sail to tbe west with
the expectation of reaching the latitude of tbe
coast trades, and then sailing for Honolulu.
2.G00 miles away, in order to get her broken
piston rod repaired. Hopes of getting into a
region of favorable winds were disappointing.
They blew continually from tbe Opposite direc
tion, and the Iroquois was driven further
north, until the intention of making Honolulu
had to bo abandoned, and Sau Francisco was
headed for instead.
Dunng Jannary tbe weather met with was
one to tax the patience of the toughest tar.
Tho wind blew from the east unremittingly,
and It was accompanied by continuous rain,
and as tbe northern latitudes were reached, by
snow and sleet storms. Commander Bishop
continued bis course to the northeast, hoping
to reach a latitude where western winds usu
ally prevail at this season of the year but fate
was against bim and he wasagain disappointed.
By tho last of January the prospect of a pro
longed and perilous trip was apparent to all
officers and crew, and it became necessary to
economize in fuel and food. All water used on
board Is distilled, and the short supply of coal
had to be economized to the last grain. On Feb
ruary 15 the necessity for putting tbo crew on
short rations developed itself, and the officers
would have been obliged to submit to the
eame hardship but for their foresight
in providing themselves before sailing
from San Francisco with extra supplies. The
man-of-war arrived at the entrance to tbo
Straits of Fuca on March 8, and wa towed to
Port Townsend. where she was provisioned and
coaled, and left for this port a week ago to-dav.
During the time when the provisions became
short ai.d the allotment of food was dimin
ished, the crew retained their composure nobly
and never complained. The Iroquois sailed
over 7,000 miles out of her course.
Winchester Rlfl Shipped South.
From the Washington l'ost.l
A Carlisle, Pa., minister declares that be
knows personally of one dozen Wlnchestor
rifles being shipped South and placed in the
hands of colored desperadoes. If the clerical
alarmist wishes to branch out on a wholesale
scale ha should hasten to Washington and
keep a tab on tho proceedings in tho District
Police Court
TO PKEYE.M GERRYMANDERS.
A Suggestion llint Non-Pnrtlsnn Commis
sioners 3Inp Out Districts.
From tbe hrle Herald.
Tbe Herald has repeatedly expressed its op
position to gerrymandering. The time has
come when all honest citizens regardless of
party, who are sincere believers in republican
government should unite in favor of some
means of securing fair and equal representa
tion. It can easily be done by Congressional
enactment and it would not be necessary to in
terfere with tho rights of the States to the
slightest extent All that is necessary is a
clause in tbe act making a reapportionment of
Congressmen under tho now census providing
that the redisricting in the different States
shall be done by non-partisan commissions ap
pointed by the Legislatures. Such a plan
would prevent ono party from securing an ad
vantage over another.
Prrmlam on Philadelphia Lawyers Services.
From the .New York Telegram. I
The difficulty of obtaining liquor licenses
under tbe high license law in Philadelphia puts
a premium on lawyers' services in obtaining
them. One lawyer is believed to havo received
J30.000 in fees before tho License Court, another
20.000 and others largo sums.
PROHIBITION CONFERENCE,
A Lengno Established la Washington Coantr
nail Officers Elected.
(SPECIAL TELEQKAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Washington, March 20 A conference
of the Prohibition party workers of tbU place
was held here Tuesday, with Elder L. P.
Streator, Chairman, and Josiah Kerr, of Kerr's
station, and Rev. B, H. Hood. Vice Presidents.
Rev. W. B. Smiley, of Canonsburg, opened tho
session with prayer, after which Tellle Morgan,
editor of the iVoplf, Scranton. presented the
plans of the Prohibition Party League.
After bis address, theJeague was established
in Washington county, by making Minor H.
Day, County President, and appointing a dl
trict secretary in each district Tbe sum of goo
was contributed for league work, and 45 mem
bers were secured as a start. Home SO promi
nent Prohibitionists were present
A Shorirr In Ills Own Custody.
rrom the Philadelphia press.
Now that Sheriff Flack, of New York, has
been convicted of conspiracy, he should
promptly get out of the office which his con
duct has disgraced. It would bo embarrassing
to Sheriff Flack to have conspirator Flack com
mitted to his charge with instructions to con
duct his prisoner to jail.
ALWAYS ON TIME.
Nelllo Bly Charters n Special to Mnko a
Dntr.
Chicago. March 26. Nelllo BIy'a present
trip in tbe West seems to be causing her more
trouble than her journey around the world
She and her manager quarrelod in Chicago.
The pair parted in a huff, and too late this
afternoon to take any train Miss Bly learned
that she was booked to appear in Milwaukee
to-night. The little woman chartered a special
engine and coach all for herelf over the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and made the
run at rate of over 0 miles an hour, arriving on
time.
Drifting Apnrr.
From the New York World,
Literary men make far cries In these days.
Sir Edwin Arnold is in Japin, Rider Haggard
in Asia Minor. Robert Louis Stevenson in
Samoa, Lafcadlo Uearn on bis way to Japan
and Edgar Saltus in tbe soap.
OPPOSED BY POPE LEO.
Cardinals Advocate that tbe Next
Pope
Shall Reside Out ofltaly.
Rome. March 2a A largo section of the
Cardinals are adrocating the idea that the
future Pope to be elected to succeed Leo XIII.
shall leave Italy Immediately ho is elected.
Tbey declare that the position of the Pope
there is untenable.
Pope Loo is very strongly opposed to this
scheme, and he has appealed to the Cardinals
that his last days on earth shall be comforted
by the assurance tbat such a course shall be
definitely abandoned.
A Metropolitan Desideratum.
From the Ji ew York Tribune.
Wanted A Sheriff who will Ieavo a
record when ho goes out of office.
clean
CDRKEXT TIMELY TOPICS.
BALTBionE is rapidly assuming metropolitan
airs, bho has made an effort to secure a paid fire
department and hopes are entertained that the
wise reform will be completed before 1990.
BARNCJt is a candidate for Mayor of Bridge
port, and Is encountering much opposition. The
proprietor of the great moral show should not be
worried in the least, for it there Is anything in
thl world that the averaire American enjoys it is
to be humbugged, and in that respect P. T. al
ways ranks A. 1.
Outside papers will please mention the fact
that the raging Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio
rivers have bad their heads reduced and are once
more in normal condition, and are now as quiet
and sedate as the ex-Uorernor of Ohio.
An Austrian photographer claims to have
succeeded tu photographing colors. The man
who has squandered so much time and money In
painting a blossom on theend of his proboscis will
boycott that artist to a dead certainty.
GEoitOE Peck, author or "Peck's Bad Boy."
has been nominated for Mayor of Milwaukee by
the Democrats'. He blushed like a school f itl In
his speech accepting the nomination. He makes
bat one promise, and that was to draw bis salary
with great regularity.
(JUKJOUS CONDENSATIONS.
A centenarian who just died in En
eland spent 09 years of her life in the one
bouse.
One oJ the new buildings of Tacoraa
will havo four plate glass windows each 112 by
130 inches.
The Portland Oregonian says Mr. Bing
ham, or Crabtree, has lost 1,000 bead of horaes
by starvation.
The people of Qaincy, Plumas County,
CaL. have hail no mail from Oroville since De
cember L 18b.
There is one township in Lancaster
county that has never had a barroom. liquor
stare, brewery or distillery within its limits.
On Friday, March 7, 1890, the clearing
houe receipts at Tacoma were $121,198 21. For
the same clay in 18SD Ihey were only tC9,4S0 SI
S H. K. Snow, of Colonia, Ventura
County, Cat., intends to plant fltty acres of
peanuts this season. Last year he gathered 400
sacks from 13 acres
Maryland's new cigarette law requires
the seller to pay an extra tax of SSO, and to
make affidavit that the cigirettes he sells con
tain no injurious drug.
Mr. Kerr, of Yakima Connty, "Wash.,
has sent to Japan fora'Iargo quantity of tea
cuttings. He intends to sec what can be dono
with tbat plant in his own country.
Mme. Patti has made a contract to build
at her castle of Craig-y-Nos. In Wales, a win
ter garden covered with glass 104 feet long
and 70 feet wide, with a high curved roof 45 feet
high.
A cat in Millville, N. j., finds pleasure
in swimming, and often catches fish in shallow
water with its paws. "It has been known to
swim In pursuit of a dock rat clear across the
river."
A Paris thief stole the horse out of the
shafts of a cab wbilo tbe driver slept, and
mounting it was riding off, anj would have
got away if a passing citizen had not wakened
the driver.
Mr. K. I. Young brought to the office of
tbe JPress, at Middletown, Pa., a glass ot appls
butter tbat was made by bis mother's grand
mother In the yoar lb26, making it 64 years old.
It is a little tart.
Several wild dogs have been killed by
cattlemen in tbe Upper Cucbara county, Col.
They had killed a large number of cattle. The
most savage dng was tan color, and wore a
heavy brass collar.
Tiger hunting is a pleasant pastime in
Georgia. Tho man who wants to engage in this
dangerous sport can find good, healthy ticers
in Bullock and Newton counties. It has not
been settled bow the tigers got there. All the
same they are there.
Prof. Swing insists that Chicago must
secure for the Columbus Exposition tbe follow
ing attractions: Mr. Gl-idstone. with a 810.000
oration; Senor Emilio Castelar. as tbe guest of
the city, and "thp best orchestral music tbat
money can possibly secure."
The following sentence contains all tho
letters in the alphabet: "John P. Brady gave
me a black walnut box of quite small size."
Tbe following sentence is much shorter, and it
likewise contains all the letters in tbe alphabet:
"Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."
A remarkable coincidence in connec
tion with tbe death of tho President of an
electric railway in Ohio is that be was killed
while violating a rnlo be himself had made
forbidding passengers to get off or on tus
front platform while the car was in motion.
An autograph letter of Richard III.
was sold in England recently for about to 23
per inch of surface. It was written at Barnard
Castle, in Durham, Angust 4, 1IS0, or about
three years before the crook-back Duke of
Gloucester, then Constable and Admiral of
England, oame to the throne.
There are to-day royal and imperial
orders in tbo world, with a prodigious assort
ment of collars, crosses, stars and other fancy
Insignia, laid up for the tickling of human
ambition. Tbe oldest is St. Andrew's order,
first instituted in England in 7S7. disused after
ward, and re-established in 1510.
Emperor "William still retains the
French cooks tbat ruled the kitchen of tba
imperial palace under bis late grandfather,
but be positively rofuses to allow their French
bills of fare to be put before bim. The cooks
draw up tbe day's list of dishes under their
French names, and these are translated into
uerman lor ills Jiajestys tame.
The Hagenrille (Mich.) postmaster
runs a restaurant grocery, hardware, dry
goods, boot and shoe, and produce store, all
under one roof, and still finds time to farm,
run a sawmill, dicker in cedar, buy and sell
Etno lands, manufacture shingles, conduct a
lacksmith shop, practice medicine in a small
way, mix drugs, act as justlco of tbe peace and
go to church twice on Sundays.
In Chicago two young men were arrest
ed for pcrsonattng women advertising for hus
bands. They found many dupes throughout
the land. Photographs usually accompanied
the replies, and the swindlers then pretended
that the applicants were found suitable, and if
railroad fare was forthcoming they would go
and be married. The prisoners were held for
trial on a charge of fraudulent use ot the mails.
A New Zealand taper reports some
thing entirely new In the sporting line. At a
horse race the course lay across the sands at
Okaroa bay. and, through delay, the tide rose
so high that the borses bad to swim some dis
tance before the winning post was reached.
Tbe result was tbat one of the animals, which
would otherwise bare been beaten, came off
victorious on account of superior natatorial
powers.
A firm at Bolivtr, H. Y., is busily en
gaged manufacturing gas from crude oil. It Is
claimed it beats old nature. Under a new de
vice the gas can be sent to any reasonable dis
tance required. Tbe owners claim tbey can
show more fire for heating purposes than any
other gas plant In the world and at a lowercost
than any on record: or in fact as cheap as nat
ural gas. For a portable gas work tor hotels at
watering places it is said it cannot be beaten.
Last November, Edward Collins, of
Pomona, Cat., who bad been an inveterate
chewer and smoker ot tobacco since about 1861,
was prevailed upon to quit the haoit He is a
little skeptical now as to the enervating and in
jurious effects of the ue of the weed, for dur
ing the pasc four months he has had more ill
ness than in all his life. He has bad a siege of
tbe grip, has bad an old-fashioiied attack of
tbe measles, and now Is laid up with the
mumps.
A meteor weighing several hundred
pounds foil in the yard of S. H. Hargls, ten
miles northwest of Gainesville. The object
had tne appearanco of a gigantic flint rock and
was accompanied by a roaring sound like dis
tant thunder ajt came through the air, which
was noticed some seconds before the great mass
strnck the earth. Just beforo reaching tbe
surface tba body exploded with a report like a
cannon, and scattered fragments of rock for
several rods around, many of which have since
been picked up and are retained by the peopla
of that community as natural curiosities.
HIGHLY HII3IOROD9.
One of New York's dudes is said to have
25 different silk hats. Avcrsa-tlle fellow. ifur
tmgton Jtree Prut.
If you lire troubled with weak eyes never
sift ashes when the wind is blowing. It's better to
let your wire do It. Richmond Recorder.
"Genuine liver pad" is the latest thing
offered In tbat line. Bat what does a man with a
xenulne liver want with a pad? Texas Siftingt.
"I don't know what to do with my son. Hs
has failed In business and professional life and ap
pears to be good for nothing." "Why don't you
buy him a Beat In Congress?' Life.
To look too much upon it,
When the bloom Is on the rye.
May bilng about the scraps that put
A gloom upon the rse. Philadelphia Timet.
The flowers that bloom in tbe spring, tra, lal
Have nothing to do with the ground;
They're only, excepting a venturesome few.
In the florists' and hot houses found. PhiUf
detpMa Timet.
Lord Lovell he stood by the garden gate,
And mounted his milk-white horse.
When along came his girl, whose natural hair
Was a certain brUbt shade, ofcourse, of courts,
'lho' otherwise dyed, of coana.-PMladelphta
Timet.
Jane How is it that the gentlemen always
rise to give me a seat in the street car and never
give yon one? Can It be their respect for beauty?
Mabel-Ob, no, Jennie.
"What then?"
"Age '."Chicago Timet.
Miss Jennie Mamma, Mr. "Wealthy pro
posed to me last night
Miss Jennie's .Mother What did yon say to him?
Miss Jennie -I didn't say auything.
Miss Jennie's Mother-Why didn't you?
Miss Jennie-Well. I was strnck speechless and
Just nodded so he understood me. Hut Shore.
Family Lawyer I understand that you are
a suitor for the hand of tbe dsughterbf my million
aire client?
Titled Foreigner Yes. monsieur, in part
Family Lawyer-ln part? xplaln yourself:
Titled Foreigner (wits a thrug)-Well, mon
sieur, to be frank wlz yoi, I shall exnect senocket
, book zat goes wuzebaal. Chicago Tiaci.
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