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COMPETITION IN LOCAL TRANSIT.
Th? cut in local passenger rates by the
Pennsylvania Railroad to stations beyond
E sl Liberty is one of the curious results of
the competition of the traction roads. It is
not the least singular feature of the com
petition that while the Pennsylvania Kail
road does not try to compete with the cable
lines at East Liberty, it reduces the price of
round trip tickets beyond that point to less
than the East Liberty rate.
This anomaly doubtless arises from ex
actly the opposite cause to that which
usually produces the violation of the long
and short haul principle. To make the
East Liberty round trip rate competitive
with the cable fares, it would have to be
brought down to the neighborhood of ten
cents. On the other hand, passengers Be
yond that point who come in ana take the
cable roads from East Liberty have to pay
ten cents each way, or twenty cents a round
trip. The reduction of a few cents, there
fore, makes the fare competitive from those
points. Generally the lone and short haul
discrimination is imposed because the rail
road has absolute control of the traffic from
the intermediate point. Here it occurs be
cause the intermediate traffic is so far be
yond the reach of the railroad that it is not
worth trying for.
But the Pennsylvania Railroad might as
well have made the East Liberty fare as low
as that to Torrens, just for the sake of ob
serving the principle laid down in the inter
State commerce law and the constitution,
although the former instrument has no jur
isdiction in this case and the latter is inop
erative. At the same time its neglect to do
so cannot impose any discrimination on the
public Anyone who wishes to take a
round trip to East Liberty by the railroad can
bny a ticket to and from Torrens station and
pet whatever benefit there is in the reduced
fare.
The reduction shows the close competition
that exists for the passenger traffic of the
East Liberty "Valley and promises further
interesting developments when the competi
tion shall be increased by the construction
of new transit lines.
THE THREAT OF THE FLOODS.
The possibility of even a greater calamity
than th-: Louisville cyclone is impending
over the lowlands bordering on the lower
Mississippi in the form of a more over
whelming flood than has yet been experi
enced. "With the danger line already passed
by the high water of the past two weeks, the
full foice of the floods from the upper rivers
has not yet been beard from. Before the
river entirely subsides it would not be
strange if Louisiana, Arkansas and Missis
sippi should have a woeful experience of
broken levees and overflowed plantations.
The Signal Service has issued a warning of
the danger, but it is doubtful if it reaches a
majority of those who are in the imperiled
districts. The country may have before it
the task of relieving the inhabitants of a
vast expanse of overflowed and desolated
countrv.
THE DISCUSSION OF SITES.
The letter of James B. Scott, Esq., in an
swer to the resolutions of the Trades Assem
bly, which opposed the location of the cen
tral Carnegie library at Point Breeze, is
corroborative of tbe editorial statements of
The Dispatch on that subject. Mr. Scott
states that the Point Breeze site has not
been considered by the Board of Trustees,
and the context of his letter shows that the
decision as to the location of the main build
ing is yet an open one, and presumably will
be until it is acted upon by a full meeting
of the board.
Mr. Scott's letter is also important as ex
pressing what may be taken as the general
desire, not only of the board but of its Ex
ecutive Committee, that a thorough discus
sion of the question and full expressions
of opinion shall be had by representative
bodies of the public The question is pecu
liarly a public one; and all persons will
recognize it to be one not only of much im
portance but of considerable difficulty. The
best way of making plain the considerations
which must affect the decision is by full dis
russion. Individual expressions or opinion'
may bring out valuable points; but the
rotes of representative bodies like the
Trades Assembly will carry more authority.
The uhole public is interested in this ques
tion and can participate in the discussion
which will settle it.
A QUESTIONABLE STEP.
The action of the House in passion a bill
for the admission of Wyoming, like the
majority of measures which have been dic
tated by party rule at this session, is very
questionable. There is every hope that
Wyoming m.iv in time gain the population
and develop -nt that will make it a credit
able State; b;i vidence that it has already
done so is 1 -kin?. Its total vote at the
last election ttj 18,010, of which about
4,000 were cast by women. This reduces
the estimate of population to 60,000 or 70,
000, or less than half the average popula
tion or a Congressional district There can
be little doubt that the House was actuated
solely by the desire to increase the Repub
lican strength in the Senate and to per
petuate the hold on that body for a number
of years. This is a vcrv usual political
motive; but it is a wholly unworthy one,
and it has sometimes brought about its own
punishment in the cour-e o time
COST OF CITY GOVERNMENTS.
A comparison of the average cost per
capita o European cities and that shown
in the cities of this country has provoked
some unfavorable comments on the manage
ment of our cities. The fact is stated that
the average cost of city government in Ber
lin, Paris and London is ?G 71 per capita,
while in the leading cities of this country it
ranges from 13 Of) inSt. Louis to as high as
?17 3S in "Washington or $1S in Philadel
phia, with 1G as an estimate of the per
capita expenses of Pittsburg, not including
tchool taxes ur special assessments for streets
or sewers.
This look; like a radical and unnecessary
difference; and there is little doubt that the
waste in some departments of our municipal
expenditure is egregious. But an analysis
of the municipal expenditures on both
sides of the ocean, might show some ele
ments which would make the difference ap
pear less radical than it does by the mere
statement of the figures. For example, there
are several branches of municipal expendi
ture here, which in the continental cities at
least are cared for by the general govern
ment. Then the character of the work done
is different. American cities usually have
to create new streets, lay pavements, dig
sewers and build municipal buildings all
in the space of a few years; while the pres
ent European cities find these things already
done in great measure by their predecessors
through a long course of years.
Finally the different character of the
work is illustrated in one respect by the fact
that European fire departments are small
and inexpensive, in reliance upon the
thick walls of buildings erected before fire
departments were known, while a third-class
city of our country would regard itself as
poorlv protected by such a fire department
as suffices for a first-class city of Europe.
"With all these differences allowed for,
there is, no doubt, considerable difference
between the cost of municipal government
here and abroad. Municipal administration
and municipal politics are two of our weak
points. It is well to remember that the con
trast is not really so radical as it appears;
but it is great enongh to inspire the public,
both for the sake of its pride and its pocket,
to institute radical reforms in the work of
city governments.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
The experience of the City 'of Paris
proves after all to have been an exciting
one with a narrow escape from making an
addition to the list of calamities. An ocean
steamer, 21G miles from land, with a hole in
her bottom caused by the explosion of a
cylinder, and both engines disabled, is any
thing but a comrortable or pleasant situa
tion for the tourist to foreign shores.
While the testimony is strongly in favor
of the admirable conduct of the officers and
crew, the escape from a disaster must be
ascribed more to a merciful providence
than to adequate foresight in preventing any
such chances. The explosion of the cyclin-
der was not foreseen, of course; but has not
steam engineering made a sufficient ap
proach to an exact science to put machinery
in such condition that it cannot explode for
eight or nine days? It seems that before a
ship lakes its precious freight of lives out
to sea there should be an absolute certainty
that no such perils as this from its machin
ery will take place.
. This approach to an ocean calamity jn
the same week with tbe Louisville cyclone
and the Mississippi floods shows that the
chances of life and death whether by sea or
by land cannot be computed with any cer
tainty. A COMBINATION BROKEN.
There is an interesting evidence of the su
periority of the forces of nature to the pow
er of corporate combinations, in the open
announcement that the anthracite agree
ment has been broken into little bits. Ever
since the first of the year the anthracite
companies have been struggling to keep up
prices against the influence of the open win
ter. The poor miners have been brought to
the verge of starvation with half or quarter
work; suspension of production has been
ordered, and all the combination devices
tried, to no purpose.
The fact is announced that the attempt to
observe the combination prices is aban
doned. Sales agents have resolved to "meet
the market," and the agreements to restrict
production are cast aside for the adoption of
the policy of increasing production on vari
ous lines. This iact affords the best evi
dence of what was known before, that even
the reduced prices of $3 253 50 per ton for
stove coal at Kew Tork yield a profit. If
they did not the roads would not increase
their production, but would be wiser to di
minish it.
This apparently complete breakdown of
the anthracite agreement is an evidence of
the strength of the natural force of competi
tion. If the competitive business is kept
up, it may be discovered that when the wa
ter is squeezed out of the anthracite interests
there is more legitimate prosperity for them
in cheap than in high priced coal.
The Farmers' Alliance of Kansas de
mands that United States Senators shall be
elected directly by the people. Whether that
would improve the character of tbe Senators is
a matter that is open to debate; but the best
evidence that it would do so. can be furnished
by the people electing members of the Legis
latures who will choose Senators by some other
criterion than their control of political ma
chines or ownership of big bank accounts.
The record of the present Congress is not
a very hopeful one, when, before the tariff bill
is framed or the appropriation bills reported,
both branches are confronted with the problem
of doing business without a quorum.
It is one of the singular indications of the
obstinacy of the tariff problem that after pro
tectionist theory has been denouncing ad va
lorem duties for years, the new tariff bill con
tains more proposed ad valorem duties than
any measure that has been framed for years.
The work of framing tariff measures is almost
as much of an uncertainty as the literary effort
which may turn out a sermon and may turn
out a song.
i Knw Tour's new Sheriff. General Daniel
E. Sickles, has a name to protect. It is not
likely that he will let his fame be smirched by
partnerships in extortion. Credit Hill with one
good act !
Helena, Mont., has just started a new
cemetery with a city ordinance fixing the price
of lots at 10, except to the Mayor and
Councilmen. who are to have lots at a dollar
each. The exposure of tbe job created a sen
sation; but tho Helena citizens can console
themselves with the evident idea of the fitness
of things involved in holding out an induce
ment to the city government to go and bury
itself.
Coxspieacies to kill the Czar are get
ting about as frequent as rubber trusts -and
river coal combinations. They appear to be
just as effective also.
Mr. Clakkson retires from office with
the proud consciousness of having chopped off
more official heads and more effectually slaugh
tered the reform pledges of his party tban any
of bis predecessors in office. The measure of
statesmanship which consists in dealing out
offices by the wholesale is admirably illustrated
by Clarkson,
The weather and the mud bid fair to
offer the public tbe most cogent areument pos
sible in favor of a May moving day.
With all the backing and filling on the
tariff bill, tbe Republican members of tbe
Ways and Means Committee should understand
that they cannot afford to fix up the sugar
duties to suit the trust. The Mills bill did
that; and the result should be a warning against
repeating the blunder, which would also be a
crime.
Nothing lamb-like about MarchVde
larturo so far. All weather proverbs fail in a
season like this.
The statements as to the condition of
Chicago's water supply made by her own peo
ple Indicate the need of prompt measures to
remedr the matter. It may not be necessary
for tbe Chicago folk; but some of her visitors
in 1893 may want to use water for other than
culinary purposes.
PEOPLE WE READ AEOUT.
Howard Carroll is writing a biography of
the late President Arthur.
It Is a enrious coincidence that tbe repre
sentative sons of Bismarck and Gladstone
should bear the name "Herbert."
Miss S. Brown, E. M. Butz, C. B. Miller, C.
A. O'Brien and D. P. Ewing, all of Pittsburg,
are registered at hotels in Philadelphia.
Sardou, tho French dramatist, started out
as a surgeon's assistant and became a prof ctsor
of mathematics before he took up play writing.
Samuel C. Wells, nephew of Calvin Wells,
the Pittsburg Iron master, will be editor-in-chief
of the Philadelphia Press during Mr.
Smith's absence.
A men landed proprietor in Austria has
been sentenced to seven months' penal servi
tude with occasional nays of short rations and
sleeping on a plank. He was convicted of in
humanly torturing a farm hand.
Miss Maud Banks, daughter of the veteran
General N. P. Banks, is making a very excel
lent stage impression as Joan of Arc at the
Grand Opera House. Even body wishes her
success for the sake of her honored father.
LOED Acton is considered the most learned
man in England. Ho is a Roman Catholic, and
in addition to his barony has a baronetcy. His
library contains no less tban 100.000 volumes,
all of whicn are carefully selected and number
among them some very rare books.
The marble statue of the Princess of Wales,
which is being executed in Paris by the famous
French sculptor, Chapuis, is now nearly finished
and is to be presented to the National Art Gal
lery in Copenhagen. It promises to be a fino
work of art and the likeness is excellent. Her
Boyal Highness is represented in a sitting po
sition. The Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Mrs.
Hammersly, of New York, reached that city on
Friday, on the steamer Teutonic. During the
voyage she often played on the piano, and as
the ship neared land on Thursday, she joined
heartily in tho chorus of "Home, Sweet
Home," and "Way Sown Upon the Suwanee
River."
Judqe William McKennan, of the United
States Circuit Court, arrived in Philadelphia
Saturday, from his borne near Pittsburg, to be
present at the coming session of court to-day.
The Judge was tired after his long ride, but in
dustriously commenced answering communica
tions and attending to the routine work of a
Judge in chambers.
NO WONDER ALL WANT IT.
The Secret of the Evcr-Growlng Popularity
of The Dispatch.
Between the hours of dawn and bedtime
yesterday more than a quarter of a million
people were interested, instructed and amused
by the perusal of the 20 broad, bright
pages of The Dispatch. No accessible
town or bamlct within a ridius of 150
miles was too small to be penetrated by
this messenger of good cheer, which
aided the scanty rays of sunshine in dissipating
the frigid sullenness of tho last leonine days of
March. Every department was np to the high
standard maintained in The Dispatch all
the telegraphic and cable news from every cor
ner of the globe; the local intelligence in the
most complete and attractive form; a review of
sports, with all of the latest developments, and,
to crown all, a magazine replete with the most
brilliant articles of the best living writers.
L,
Hepburn Johns' brief but realistic verses
served as a prelude to the account of the de
tails of tbe Louisville horror, which, with
truthful illustrations of the terrible scenes in
tbe stricken city, covered six columns of tho
first and seventh pages. -To the Washington
correspondent of The Dispatch Senator
Quay announced that he was willing to have
another primary in Cambria county if tbe first
had not been sufficiently advertised. At Boston
three men and two boys were arrested charged
with causing tbe loss of 12 lives in an incendi
ary fire started for the purpose of fraudulently
obtainining $700 insurance. From foreign lands
comes the information that Gladstone will
make vigorous attack on Balfour's Irish land
bill. Bismarck's departure for his country
seat, marking bis absolute retirement from
public affairs, was made the occasion of an
enthusiastic but sorrowful demonstration from
his friends. Delamater'sfriends claim that be
has already a sufficient number of delegates to
secure the Republican nomination for Gover
nor. The people of New Orleans indignantly
demand the dismissal of Signal Service Officer
Dunn, who predicted a disastrous flood for that
section.
rr.
George Shiras HI. formally announced his
ambition to keep warm the seat in Congress
now occupied by Colonel Bayne. David Hen
derson, the Chicago theatrical manager, has
leased the Jackman building, and will operate
a new opera honse for the benefit of the amuse
ment lovers of the two cities. Herr Most har
angued an assembly of his admirers in German,
the occasion being a celebration of the anni
versary of the French commune. Another
fatal accident on the Citizens' cable line, in
which William McKee was the victim. Is re
ported. James B. Scott explains the reasons
for the delay in selecting tho site of the Carne
gie library. The police discovered a startling
case of destitution and want in the notorious
"Eagle's Nest." Three suits against theDu
quesne Traction Company have been entered
in the local courts. The American flag floats
over Mncklerat schoolhouse, despite a1 threats
to the contrary.
In addition to all tho latest features of the
diamond, turf and ring, Pringle's review ably
sums np tho recent events and gives an indica
tion of those to come,
m .
Tho Chicago Bureau of The Dispatch
shows satisfactorily that the live Western city
has any quantity of sites for the World's Fair,
while the ever versatile Clara Belle presents
the gossip of gay Gotham in her usual attract
ive style. The continuation of H. Rider Hag
gard's serial, "Beatrice," continues to be of ab
sorbing interest. Bill Nye describes his jaunts
in tbe West, while Talmage and creeds together
form the subject of Bessie Bramble s thesis.
Hammond has discovered a girl who kissed
Morgan, the bold rebel raider, and Is glad
of it. Frank Carpenter tells of Uncle
Sam's hotel, the Whito Honse, and the need
of a new one. and Roger Casement describes
the process of buying ivory in Africa. "Two
Great Claims" is the title of the discourse of
Rev. George Hodges, while a clergyman pre
sents thoughts for Sunday. R. W. Shoppell
gives the plans for more cheap homes, and
many noted magicians and others tell of tho art
of wonder-making. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps'
"Come Forth" grows on tbo reader with each
sneceedire chapter. Emma V. Sheridan tells
of the popular girl, and Charles Jackson speaks
of forms of delirium. There are a host of
other special articles, in addition to the regular
departments of music, society, theatrical gos
sip, the Grand Army, the militia, educational
and art notes, everyday science, puzzles, and
last, but by no means least, several columns in
tended particularly for the fair sex.
A Spmm or Virtue.
From tbe Buffalo Times.!
Mooney, the engineer who was discharged
from tbe Lake Shore on account of the Bay
View accident, is not faring badly after ail. He
is constantly receiving offers to go to work.
Railway.men say that be acted properly in
obeying orders and that bis discbarge was a
spasm of virtue by the railway authorities.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Hon. Chnnncer B. Sabln.
GALVESTON, March 30. Hon. Cbanncey
11.
Sabln. United States District Judge of the Eastern
district of Texas, died at his residence in this
city to-day. lie was born In Otsego county, U.
V., In 1S24, studied law under Jnage Hathaway,
was admitted to the bar In 1817. and shortly after
ward came to Texas. He has held many positions
of honor and profit, represented Galveston In the
Legislature, and was postmaster here for many
years.
THE CRITIC REVIEW.
Two Rcndnblo Detective Stories or Differ
ent Typp Cookery nnd Poetry Pro ctl
cul Type-Thing Sons of the Battlefield
Tbo Nun of Kcnmnro'a Book New
Novels.
J?verybody who read "The Sign of the
Four" In LippincolCs, a month or two ago,
will turn with interest to A Study in Scarlet
(J. B. Lippincott Co. J. R. Weldin & Co. 50
cents), another detective story by tbe same
author. In point of time "A Study in Scarlet"
precedes "The Sign of the Four," being noticed
in that brilliant little story and having the samo
hero. Mr. Sherlock Holmes is the best detec
tive we know of in any of the detective stories.
He has good reason for having a poor opinion
of Edgar A. Poe's "Dupin," and oven of Ga
boriau's "Lccoq." As for Miss Green's "Mr.
Brjce" or Mr. Hawthorne's real Inspector
Byrnes, Sherlock Holmes is still 'way ahead.
He has a genius for detecting. He has a
happy faculty of seeing everything and
knowing immediately what everything
means. A man Is found dead in a
deserted house. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
is summoned in his capacity of
"consulting detective." He looks about tho
yard and house and room, and comes to the
conclusion that "there has been murder dono
and tbe murderer was a man. He was more
than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had
small feot for his heiebt, wore coarse, square
toed boots, and smoked a trichinnlopy cigar.
He came here with his victim in a four-wheeled
cab, which was drawn by a horse with three
old shoes and one new one on his off fore leg.
In all probability the murderer bad a florid
face, and the finger nails of his right hand were
remarkably long." This was certainly pretty
well for a brief inspection of an empty room
The plot breaks in two in the middle, after
Gaboriau's fashion, and traveling from En
gland to Utah begins overagain until tbe second
thread gets long enongh to bo tied to the
first. Somehow, we will read detective
stories. Probably thoy feed some mental
hunger of tbe human race. Mr. A. Cowan
Doyle, with his "Shoriock Holmes," knows
how to construct a most ingenious plot. The
publishers have printed tho story on such cood
paper and in such good type that an added
pleasuro is given to tbe reading. It Is the most
attractive and interesting paper-covered novel
which has appeared on The Critic's table for
several months. A capital book for the vaca
tion satchel.
.
asoihek story of the detective order, which
suffers a good deal for being read immedi
ately after "A Study in Scarlet," but which if
read before and by itself is a capital piece of
work, is Jack Gordon. Knight Errant (Cassoll
Publishing Co.: J. R. Weldin & Co., 0 cents.)
The plotis very well done, gradually developed,
arousing no suspicion, and coming to a fine
climax. There is a murder at tho beginning,
and as in "A Study in Scarlet," the fellow who
is murdered richly deserves his fate. Tho
novelist in such a case is in a quandary. The
murderer must be hunted down. That is tho
thread of the plot. But discovered murderers
are either hung or imprisoned, and that is no
way at all to dispose of a worthy hero. It is
true that the remarkable story "For tho Right"
ends in that way. But that was altogether an
exceptional case. Mr. Doyle and Mr. Hudson
could not let tbe law have its course. It gets
perilously near to it in both cases. But there
is an escape. It seems to The Critic, even after
a long experience in the reading of good, bad
and Indifferent novels, that the love business is
a little huriied up in this case. Jack and Lucy
have hardly been introduced before they are
betrothed. Still, of course, circumstances alter
cases, and in this case there was no lack of very
astonishing circumstances. "Jack Gordon"
teaches unobtrusively a very good moral.
'T'wo little cook books come this week to The
Critic's attention. Both of them, by a
enrious coincidence, refer to the use of the
chafing dish. What One Can Do With a
Chalng Dish is the larger of the two, and is
set in a most attractive binding. It puts forth
its guiding hand as a help to amateur cooks, and
has, within but a few months, passed into a
second edition. John Ireland is the publisher.
The old lines, often quoted and always quot
able, are set by way of preface:
Wo mav live without poetry, music and art.
We may live without conscience, and live without
heart.
We may live without friends, we may live with
out books.
But civilized man cannot lire without cooks.
He may live without books what is knowledge
but erievincr
lie may live without hope what is hope but de
ceiving? He may live without love what is passion but
pining?
JJut where is tbe man who can live without
dining?
After this and other graceful little literary
garnishings we are prepared to Indorse the
whole attractive bill of faro which follows all
sorts of appetizing things made with a chafing
dish (J. R. Weldin & Co.). On a Chafing Dish
has also its bit of introductory rhyme:
The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find.
Lies through their mouths, orl mistake mankind.
A word for Sunday night teas is what this
little book proposes to speak. All of these
dishes may be prepared, the preface assures us,
by the housekeoper herself "or himself."
which bappv little addendum gives a reviewer
courage. Twenty minutes for preparation,
with a chafing dish on the library table, and
here is your nice hot supper. The cook may
go. The Critic learns with interest that a
chafing dish "consists of one dish within an
other, the under one containing boiline water
kept boiling, of course, by an alcohol lamp."
When there is no water in the dish tbe chafing
dish becomes a "blazer." From terrapin to
deviled bones extends an ample choice of tooth
somethings (G. W. DUlingham. H. Watts &
Co.).
.
'pHE word "blazer" is a good one to describe
iuu tuiui ui Luc uvidi ui j. tuuiuut j.ype
writing (Fowler & Wills, J. R. Weldin & Co.,
$1). It blazes like the noon-day sun. or rather
like the sun which the Ancient Mariner beheld
"just up above the masthead." Red, red and
no mistaking it. Bales Torrey is the author of
this manual, which teaches "all-finger"
method. The Writer, which ought to know
such things, assures us that Mr. Torrey has
written here a most serviceable book, in which
all is included which a typewriter has any need
to know. "The numerous expedients and sug
gestions, and the chapter of fac-similo forms,"
are especially praiseworthy.
.
A STD after "Practical Typewriting," poetry.
Dr. Edward Octavius Flagg, of New
York, with Mr. Thomas Whittaker for publish
er, entitles his little volume Poems, aud in
scribes It to the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.
Camp songs, society songs and religious poems
mako up tbe larger part of tho book. Dr.
Flagg read the poem at the Alpha Delt Con
vention, at Middletown, Conn., in 1SS4. Gettys
burg and Other Poems (Porter and Uoates) be
gins with Mr. Pennypacker's poem, which was
read on the battlefield at the dedication of the
Pennsylvania monuments last fall. Several of
the poems have already teen printed in Long
fellow' selections of "Poems of Places."
"Tany Richardson's Ride" is a spirited narra
tive. "After tbe Proposal" is very pretty and
sweet. The little book is tastefully bound, and
attracts tbe reader, both within and without.
V
'There is no poetry, grave or gay, about the
of Home (G. W. Dillingham, J. R. Weldin &
Co.) Neither is the book particularly pleasant
reading. It was not intended to bo particularly
pleasant reading. The Nun ot Kenmare has
undoubtedly seen a good many evil things, and
she is determined to tell all she knows and
spare nobody. There is a curious feature of
the copy of Miss Cusaek's book which tho
publishers have sent us. It is a patched book.
There are loaves taken out in a dozen places
and other leaves set in. Here, too, in the pref
ace is a name erased with apenknlfe. The Nun
is telling ol the tampering with her mail
in the United States postofflce. She notified a
certain postmaster where her letters were to be
forwarded after she went away, and not a let
ter was forwarded. The name of this official,
who has made himself deserving of a position
in a penitentiary. was printed once in this book,
but it bas been erased. It would hare been
much better to have left it. Most of the re
placed paces have blanks instead ot names,
showing evidently why they were cut out One
page is left entirely blank.
These changes of mind of either author or
publisher add some interest to this lookat
"Life Inside the Church of Rome."
Miss Cusack begins with an account of the
evils which attend sacredotal celebacy in the
Roman Church, Tncre is a chapter on tho out
side practice and tho inside teaching
of that communion. Tbe doctrine of the
infallibility of the Pope, "the fallibility of
infallibility" oomes in for an attack. The
nature of Roman Catholic teaching is consid
ered. The book is written for Protestants, and
the intention of it is to make Protestants hate
Roman Catholics. The spirit which Inspires the
writer is one of decided animosity. That spirit
defeats tho writer's purpose. Nobody who is
angry is in a fit mind to argue a case. Miss
Cusaek's book will be read chiefly by people
who already hate Roman Catholics, and by tew
others. A more temperate statement, in
briefer space, Mould have gained a wider hear
ing. There are abuses and evils, of course. And
all right-minded people, within the Roman
rhnih rtm ifrall fl nllt. tt it T fffinf thorn -.v
1VIAU VA ""J H NJ w f bUbUA ,Ul
rected. But there are various ways Of doing it.
MARCH
It is not likely that Miss Cusaek's way uill ac
complish much reform.
Tintypes, Taken in the Streets of New Tork
1 (Cassell Publishing Co., II. Watts Co.),
begins in the Bowery, behind tho sign of the
three gilded balls, and ends in the mysterious
behind-the-curtain of a dime museum. The
people are chiefly of the sort who, if they bad
their countenances perpetuated, would choose
tintypes as tbe preferable way. The book is
illustrated with sketches of the people. Lem
uel Ely Qulgg has gone with observant eyes
about the lower parts of New York, and has
"taken off" the lives and tempers of the inhab
itants of those undesirable quarters with a
good deal of kindliness and no little skill. The
work is caricature, of course, and so is exag
gerated, but perhaps not unduly. It Is well
done.
...
TVf iss Lilian Leland did not equal Nelly
Bly in matter of speed, but she was like
her in venturing a world-tour all by herself,
and somewhat ahead of her about six years
in making the experiment. A Woman's Jour
ney Around the World Alone (American News
Co.: 25 cents) is chiefly interesting for its per
fectly frank comments upon everything. They
are not the comments which would be made
by a particularly cultured observer. "What
we are, we see," is exemplified at length. But
they are pretty much what eight-tenths of
observers probably think to themselves, but
never utter. The pictures which the young
lady doesn't like, she doesn't like, and that is
tbe end of it. Ruskin and tbe whole army of
critics cannot Jinduce her to be interested or
appreciative when she isn't. It is quite refresh
ing to dip into such an unconventional book of
travel as this.
.
The following books, in paper covers, have
been received: The Englisl-American, by
Emma Howan Thayer (Donohue, Henneberry
4 Co.); His Honor, by Cynthia D. Cleveland
(American News Co.): Misadventure, by W. K
Norri; Was Ever ironjan in This Humor
Wooedf by Charles Gibbon; Cosette, bv Cath
erine Macquaid. The last three, by well-known
authors, are reprinted by F. F. Lovett & Co.
.
(iConsD English" (G.E. Steehart) contains
the following remarkable rendering of
the first sentence of Macaulay's "History of
England:" "ae perpes tu rait dhl histori av
inngland from dhi akseshon of King Jemz dhi
sekend daun tu e taim hwicb is widhin dhi
memori av men still living." This is offered as
a "language for the world."
Adds Nothlne to tho Solemnity.
from the Minneapolis Tribune. 1
A Philadelphia juror ordered a woman who
was' taking the oath to kiss the Bible and she
refused to do so. Tbe Judge upheld her in her
course. This is a gratifying evidence of dawn
ing civilization in Philadelphia. To kiss the
Book adds nothing to tbe solemnity of tbe
oath, but adds largely to the witness' chances
of furnishing a pasture for loathsome disease
microbes.
CURRENT TIMELY. TOPICS.
Chauncey M. Depew Is himself again, or
will be to-morrow, when he will deliver an ad
dress from the northwest balcony of tne Cordova
Houee, St. Augustine, Fla.
An effort is being made to form a tooth pick
trust. Another stab at the poor people.
A Butleb county editor is going to take a
Western trip, and bo reminds delinquent sub
scribers that It costs money to travel on varnished
cars.
A postoffice in Clarion county has been
named McGlnty. Clarion Is keeping up her repu
tation for odd names and measly breed of dogs.
Maine raised 287,000 barrels of apples last
year. By a little figuring a person can tell Just
how many barrels of cider the said apples would
make, and also the number of headaches.
The trout fishing season will soon open in
this State. The speckled beauties will be about
the same size as in other seasons, but tbe lies will
in all probability be above the average.
The Altoona Tribune has an able editorial on
the cat Industry of that place, and calls upon the
agent for the prevention of cruelty to animals to
put an end to the stealing of favorite cats of neigh
bors. The editor's felines have been greatly
shocked.
To-morrow is the day when a hidden brick
sleeps quietly under tbe dclapldated plug hat. The
wise man will not attempt to raise It Into the air
with his foot, bat leave the Job for his Innocent
neighbor. A string is likewise attached to all
pocketbooks found lying around promiscuously,
A New York paper says that the past winter
has been a hard one for coal dealers, and that they
are now actually selling 2,000 pounds to the ton.
The Ice dealers should make a vigorous kick
against their enemies, the coal dealers. But per
haps the coal dealers have read tbe decision of a
Pennsylvania Judge that a ton or coal was 2,000
pounds.
It is reported that physicians have advised
their patients who were victims of la grippe to
go to the sea coast this year to complete their re
covery from this disease, now admitted to be of
malarial origin. There is a good deal of sarcasm
In the above Item. Tbe Idea or a man paying a
doctor's bill, buying an Interest In a drug store
and then visiting tbe sea coast all in one year Is
too preposterous to think of without he Is a mil
lionaire. There are a number of people in Washing
ton who believe Senator Quay was not fishing
while in Florida. They base their opinion on the
fact that his fish stories are so plausible that
everybody believes them. They can hardly real
ize tbe fact, however, that be forgot to take a
corkscrew along.
It is feared tbe cables have been muzzled by
a jealous syndicate, or why all this secrecy of the
the whereabouts of George Francis Train? Surely
there has been no no accident.
Thomas A. Edison says he "would sooner
have the smallpox than a swelled head. " We be
lieve the gentleman tells the truth, as it would be
much cheaper to pay a doctor's bill than to buy
cracked Ice this summer.
A Philadelphia paper editorially says
that the city has been remarkably free for years
from cyclones, disastrous conflagrations and
other horrors. Perhaps a slight earthquake shock
would be the means of awakening her people
from their long sleep and put new life Into them.
Tom and Jim Seamen are twin brothers;
one is a Democrat, the other a Itepnbllcan. They
are pitted against each other for the office of Jus
tice of the Peace of Hematead. They both play
on the fiddle and banjo, and It is said they look so
near alike that the voters don't know one from
t'other. The most noticeable peculiarity of the
twins is that the Democrat, Tom, is the best be
haved, bnt that will, not cle,ct him, as the district
generally goes about 200 Republican majority.
Tbe Three Great Disasters.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The Conemaugh flood, the Charleston earth
quake and the Louisville tornado are tbree of
tbe greatest disasters known to modern times.
Tbey are likely to be matched by a flood in the
lower Mississippi, by the side of which the
Hungarian floods of a few years ago, which
moved the sympathy of Europe, seem trifles.
ECHOES FROM DISPATCH SHOTS.
Akmstrono Republican: Tell Thompson
of the Tarentum Sun, may plume himself now
with prospects of the new county of which his
town is proposed as the center. It looks well
in The Pittsbubo Dispatch diagram, but
we will have had several colder winters than
this when the scheme is realized.
Zanesvtlle Times-Recorder: The Pitts
bueq Dispatch deprecates the idea of Ward
McAllister, king of New York's four hundred,
writing a book on the ground that "McAllister
bas mado a sufficient exposure of himself
already." Ahl but the beauty of Ward's writ
ing a book would be that he would thus con
ceal himself.
Natrona Times-Press: The article on the
new county in last Saturday's Pittsburg Dis
patch has created an enthusiasm that may
eventually result in accomplishing the desired
object. While The Dispatch seemed to
speak of tbe matter disparagingly, the new
county project received a boom nevertheless,
and men who heretofore did not give the matter
a second thought, are now thoroughly aroused
and discussing measures to farther the "new
idea."
Chambersbukq Valley Spirit: With some
reluctance, it would seem, the Republican
Pittsbubo Dispatch says "Pattison's inde
pendence, integrity and popularity will make
him a strong candidate tor Governor." We ob
serve tbat all the Republican newspapers that
are opposed to boss domination and Quay,
Delamaterism lean toward Pattison. While it
is not likely that Governor Pattison will per
mit his name to be usel 'as a Gubernatorial
candidate it is a matter of much pleasure to his
thousands of friends in the State to find his
name always received by the people with the
favor his distinguished abilities and his un
swerving houeatv should command.
PAN-AMERICAN UNION.
Tbo Blilmnrr Olj-ct of the Frrjrcle 1 of
Ihr Infrrnntlnnn fViisrrn Mi. Blnlne's
Altitude on llie Q:ii'llrn.
rconitEsroXDrxcr. or Tin: DtsrATcit.l
tTTASHiNGTON, March 3a Some time ago
the writer penned for these columns a
letter which seemed to hlmselr as though it
must bo an exaggeration of the facts, albeit
tbe presentment was made as it came to him.
It was that the ultimate object of tbe project
ors, or projector, of tbe Pan-American Con
gress was tbe practical union under one gov
ernment of all tbe American Republics, for tbe
purpose of placing tbeir combined genius and
enterprise in competition with that o( the rest
of the world a sort of Pan-American-Repub-lic-Trust,
as it were.
Not that independent local, provincial, and
State, autonomy was to bo destroyed, but that
over all the Congresses of all tbe States there
should be a Congress for international legisla
tion, for the government ot all tbe States as
against the rest of the world. The approaches to
this were an intercontinental railroad, to secure
rapid transportation between all of tbe Amer
ican Republics, a common coin for all of tbe
conntries in the Union, aud, as a matter of
conrse, reciprocity in trade.
It is becoming more and more evident that
this apparently wild statement was not far
from the truth. Tbe intercontinental railroad
Is an accomplished fact as far as the Pan
American Congress can make it so. The uni
versal American coin Is quite as certain to be
a part of tbe conclusions of the congress. The
permanent Parliament composed of represen
tatives of all tbe republics has its beginning
in the so-called court of arbitration, which
will be primarily instituted for tho purpose of
settling disputes between any of the republics,
and will easily and naturally drift, by act of
all the countries thus brought close together,
into the condition of an International Parlia
ment. It is but a small step from one to the
other, and there is no greater argument against
it than there 13 against a Congress of the
United States, the business of which is to
legislate in a general way for the interest of
all tbe States.
BInlne Favors Reciprocity.
THE grand stumbling block just now in the
way is the question of reciprocity in trade.
As was stated in a telegram to TnE Dispatch
a week or two ago a statement that has been
used and distorted into many forms since that
time Secretary Blaine has favored complete
reciprocity from the beginning. That was the
one way in which the grand purpose of the
congress could be accomplished, "which was to
form a union of the republics
for mutuality of business and politi
cal interests. Without this, mutuality
would be an absurd fiction. But tbe broad
ground occupied by Mr. Blaine seems to bo too
advanced for the timid natures of the remain
der of the administration, and it is possible
that this question of questions will have to be
deferred lor the advent of a higher statesman
ship. It is assumed by the President and most of
the Cabinet that such reciprocity would be op
posed to tho spirit of the Republican party on
the tariff question, but I take it Mr. Blaine's
idea is tbat it is exactly in sympathy with the
principle of the protective tariff, which is that
thoutrh it may be an injury to some, it is a
benefit to by far the greater number. Perfect
reciprocity between the United States and the
other Republics of the American continent
might be tho opposite of beneficial to tbe
grower of common wools and of sugar cano,
but for the general larmer and manufacturers
of all kinds there can be little doubt of the
good results.
Free Trade With Our Neighbors.
TT will hardly be asserted that President Har
rison is a stronger advocate of tbe protec
tive tariff tban Secretary Blaine, but tbe one
foresees tbe vast conclusions for good that lie
in free trade between tbe American Republics,
through which their practical union in all
things would be accomplished, by which they
would be invincible as against the rest of the
world, individually or collectively; and tbe
other well, the other doesn't see it. It is pos
sible there will be little doubt in tbe minds of
the public as to which has tbe keener vision.
Many of Mr. Blaine's political friends are
convinced that bo will yet be President of the
United States; but if he should never reach
that most conspicuous office of the Govern
ment, ne win nave tne ltnmeasuraniy greater
distinction of having originated a project wblcb
will undoubtedly be brought into operation at
no distant day. in the practical nnion, for com
mercial purposes, and for offense and defense,
of the American Republics, which embody all
that is worth having of the two grand conti
nents of tbe SVcstern Hemisphere. No more
forceful project for tbe repuolicanizing of the
world could be conceived. Its effect would be
unlvrrsal and electric, and it would have a vast
Influence in vitalizing' Mr. Tennyson's poetic
inspiration of "The Parliament of Man and
Federation of the World."
A Grand Project.
txjhatever comes of it, the thought wa3 Mr.
Blaine's. "Whatever comes of it, it was a
grand thought, and it is to be regretted that any
narrow and temporary interest should for a
moment block the way towardits fructification.
E. W. L.
A Great Historical Event.
From the Philadelphia Kecord.
Senator Daniel wants tbe World's Fair held
in Washington in IS92, as an exhibition dis
tinctly commemorative of the greatest histori
cal event sinco the Christian era began. Tho
Senator's idea i correct, but tardy.
PHTSBURGER8 IN GOTHAM.
Notes of tbe Movements of Prominent People
Away From Home.
ICORKESrONDEKCE OP TO DISPATCH.I
New York, March 30. H. Clay Frick, Gil
bert T. Rafferty and Charles Donnelly, three of
the largest coal and coke magnates, were quiet
ly conferring here last week. It looks very
significant to see these gentlemen in consulta
tion, and a big deal up in the Connellsville
region would not bo looked upon with surprise.
Messrs. Rafferty and Donnelly are the im
portant men in the McCluro company, which is
the Frick company's greatest competitor.
Tbero is a probability that tbe McClure com
pany may sell out its vast interests to the Frick
company, which now practically controls tbo
whole coko region. It was The Dispatch
which predicted the sale of tbo Schoonmaker
and Moore interests to Frick, which deals have
all bcon consummated.
C. L. Magee, William Flinn and J. Palmer
O'Neil were at the Fifth Avenue Hotel during
the past week. The two former gentlemen met
William T. A. Hart and William Garrison, con
tractors and builders, of Brooklyn, and the
party bad a lengthy talk on matters, I hear,
which pertain to the paving of some of tbe
streets of Pittsburg. This report could not bo
confirmed. It was also stated that tho contract
was let for the now building, costing $500,000,
of which Mr. Magee is the projector.
Hugh Fleming, of Allegheny, is inst home
from the Bermudas. Mr. Fleming is a young
man who travels for pleasure, and is stopping
at the Victoria. He has circumnavigated tbe
globe, being in every clime, and speaks of tho
climate of these coral islands as being superb.
Louis B. Fleming, his brother, returned greatly
improved in health.
I see quito a number of Pittsburgers In tbo
city at present. At the St. James are registered
Charles 11. Zug, C. A. Constans and C. S.
Wright. Hoffman A. L. Abbott, Mr. and
Mrs. H. Samson. Fifth Avenue H. C. Frick,
William M. Conway, W. A. Shaw and wife,
Charles Donnelly and wife, J. Dawson Callery.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A Magee. Sirs. N. M. Graham,
Miss Margaret Magee and William Seit made
up aparty going to the Bermudas on Thursday.
Dr. T. H. White and wife, James E. White, aro
McKeesport guests of the Fifth Avenue; Gil
bert T. Rafferty and wife aro at the Brunswick,
C.S.Howell and T. J. Maloney are registered
at the Sturtevant. At the Gllsey, John H. Lynn
is a guest. J. A. Chambers and Thomas Park
are at the Fifth Avenue.
A CONGLOMERATION OP WORDS.
Tbo Variety of Headlines Used by Dallies to
Describe Thursday's Storm.
An appropriate headline for an article often
bothers a newspaper man more than in writing
a column article. Thursday's storm was
handled by all the dailies throughout the coun
try, and to give the reader an idea of the many
startling headlines used, wo append a few taken
from papers at random. But two papers exam
ined used the same, viz: "Tbe Tornado's
Path." Following is tbe list:
"Awful," "Terrible," "Dire Disaster," "The
Climax of Horror," "The Tornado's Path,"
"The Awful Cyclone," "Wreck and Ruin,"
"Louisville's Woe," "Thousands Dead," "Ter
rible Calamity," "Most Appalling Calamity."
"Horrors," "Great Catastrophe," "Demon of
tbe Air," "Path of Death." "TerriflcTornado,"
"Death's Great Harvest,'' "A Sorrow Stricken
City," "Johnstown Outdone," "A Rival to
Johnstown," "Death's Path." "Mowed Down,"
"Death Comes With a Wind," "Thousands
Dead," "Falls City Laid Low," "Whole Towns
Wiped Out," "Death Riding on tho Storm,"
"Hundreds Dead." "Direful." "Ruin and
Death," "Day of Woe," 'Terrors of aTornado,"
"Cyclone Wrath." "Like a Scythe," '!D!saster
la the Wind."
OUR MAIL FOUCH.
Not Arrrstcd for Contempt.
To the Editor of Tbe Dlspatcn:
In yonr issue of yesterday morning I am rep
resented by yonr Beaver Falls correspondent
as "a minister in contempt." My first thought
was to say nothing in regard to the matter, but
on reflecting I concluded that perhaps I had
better explain. 1 wis subpamaed to give evi
dence in the case. I had seen some of the ob
jectionable pictures, and felt that while they
might not be against tbe letter of tbe law, they
were evidently against its spirit that, to put it
in the mildest form, tbey were demoralizing,
especially to our children and youth. It was
when Rev, J. D. Moorebead was on the stand
that I applauded (with my feet, not with my
hands, as I recollect). His testimony was so
clear and keen, and 1 was so pleased witb it,
tbat Involuntarily, I gave applause. Thero was
nothing further from my mind than "contempt
for the court." I respect Assistant Burgess
Braden, before whom the heaving was had.
I was not taken in custody, aud at the close of
the bearing Officer Banan smilingly said to me:
"You are not under arrest." 1 thanked him.
And now, Mr. Editor, I have written these few
lines of explanation in justice to myself. Please
give them 'a place In your isiiue of to-morrow
mornintr, and oblige John AlforD.
Pittsburg, March SO.
Tbe Cnnnl Tunnel Acaln.
To the Editor of Tbe Dispatch:
1 did not expect a controversy in regard to
the old canal tunnel; but what 1 stated are
facts, and 1 am ready to prove them. "Old
Resident," if I understand him, states that the
mouth of the old canal tunnel came oat below
where tho Panhandle tunnel is now. I still
assert that I have skated through the old canal
tunnel, and can prove it. I also rode on canal
boats through tho same tunnel. If "Old Resi
dent" knows better than I do let him name
how many locks tbero were from tbe mouth of
the tunnel to the river; how many lock-houses
there were and where located, and who lived
in tbem. I will have resided in Pittsburg 59
years on the 3d of next July. I came to the
city in 1831.
I have been reading a good deal of tbe old
folks' meetings and I have read much In regard
to the great fire ot 1815. When they speak of
some bouses that escaped why don't they say
where they were located?
A Old Citizen.
Pittsburg, March 29.
The Word Limited.
To tbe Editor of Tbe Dispatch:
Will you kindly inform me the meaning of
the word "limited" when used in connection
with a firm name, viz: Brown, Smith fc Co.,
Limited. Readek.
New Castle, March 29.
Partnerships are of two kinds, limited and
general. When formed without limitation it is
a general partnership. Limited partnerships
are regulated by statutes in tbe several States.
The partner may have property outside the
firm, but his liability for firm debts is fixed by
the amount of stock he holds.
Referred to Hoosler Readers.
To the Editor of Tbe Dispatch:
Does the law in Indiana require tbat drug
gists shall be registered and tbat they shall be
graduates of a school of pharmacy t
Readeb.
Clatsyxlle, March 29.
Politics In the War Period.
To the Editor of Tbe Dispatch:
What was the number of Democratic and
Republican soldiers in the late warT
C. E. ,
Sai f, O., March 29.
About 13 Cents.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
What, if any, premium is there on silver half
dollars of 1810 and 1814? T. H. R,
Pittsburg, March 29.
He Was His Brother.
To the Editor of TbeDispatch:
What relation to Edwin Booth was John
Wilkes Booth? Habet.
Butler, March 29.
Brought Tbem to- Terms.
From the i.rle Dispatch.
It looks as if Mr. Scott had brought the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad to terms
through his project of connecting his Yonghioi
gheny mines with the Pennsylvania road at
Elizabeth by a private railroad. It is now re
ported that the Pittsburg and Lake Erie will
carry his coals to Newcastle and that tbey wil
then be brought to Erie over the Erie and
Pittsburg. Hence the recent water lot pur
chase, new docks and so on.
MR. AND MRS. TREA1! REMEMBERED.
The Retlrlnc Superintendent Presented With
n Silver Tea Siervice.
tSFZCIAI. TBLXQBAM TO THI DISPAICIT.l
Duquesne, March 30. F. H. Treat, retiring
General Superintendent of tbe Allegheny
Bessemer Steel Company, was last night pre
sented prior to his leaving Duquesne to accept
the General Supcrintendcncy of the North
Chichicago Rolling Mill Company with a very
handsome silver tea service by tbe superintend
ents and foremen of the diilerent departments
of tbo Allegheny Bessemer Steel Company.
Tho presentation speech -was made by Mr.
Miller, the genial Master Mechanic, and re
sponded to by Mr Treat in a manner that fully
snowed bis pleasure and appreciation of bis
former employes in the fine present which was
presented him and his worthy lady. Tho 12
gentlemen who comprised, tba committee of
presentation wero very ple.isantly entertained
by Mr. Treat for about thre3 hoars by a general
fund of story telling and re miniscences of for
mer mill days.
CDRI0DS EPITAPUS.
Peculiar Inscriptions on tho Tombs In Old
English Churchyards.
From an Exchange.!
From a collection of epitaphs edited by T.
Webb in 1775 tbe following are taken as repre
sentative of the panegyrical d moral in these
collections. Of this volume tho editor says in
his prefaco or advertisemect: "The first vol
ume includes all epitaphs distinguished by tbe
elegance, delicacy and poetical beauties of
tbeir composition, or by their unaffected piety.
Christian resignation and pure morality of
their sentiments."
ELIZABETH TltA.
Weep not for me, my glass is run;
'Tls the Lord's will: It must be done.
(Dcddlngton. 1732.)
ANNE BIGNEI.L.
I had these few letters upon ber set.
Tbat you your latter end would not forget:
Therefore, all you that do these letters spell.
Take care In time to save youx souls from hell.
JOHN EDGERLY, IN ISLINGTON.
As Death patrolled the Northern Koad,
In this town slept (a short abode);
Enquiring where true merit lay:
Envied: ana snatched thl3 youth away.
JOHN BUSHBT, IN EI? SOU, SURREY.
What erlef can vent this loss, or nra lses tell
How meek, bow good, how beautiful be fell!
SARAH ASLING.
Virtuous, courteous, nieolc and lowly,
"Wise and prudent, tost and holy:
Free from malice, free from pride:
A sudden change and thus she died.
ESTHER MIETTELD.
Remember this important truth.
That death has no respect to youth;
Not health, or age. or human art.
Can shun death's fatal pointed dart.
THOMAS COBHAM,
To burled virtue canst thou shed a tear?
Header, weep on, for it ilea burled here.
ELIZ. NEEDHAM, 1739.
I lodged have In many a town.
And traveled many a year.
But age and death have brought me down
To my last lodging here.
MARY PLANT.
Here lies a careful loving wife,
A tender nursing mother:
A neighbor free from brawl and strife,
A pattern for all other.
JOSEPH LOW AND THREE SISTERS.
Behold In me the life of man
Compared by David to a span.
Let lrlends and parents weep no more;
Here's all the odds I went before.
A GRAVE IN LANCASHIRE.
Full five feet deep In silent sleep
Down in this silent mold
Interred I was beneath this verse
At thirty-five years old.
Tho' In my prime I was Interred to dust
By worms to be devoured;
Yet I do hope to rise among the Just
Thro' Jesus Christ our Lord.
A WELL-NATUEED OLD MAID.
This maid no elegance of .orm possessed.
N o earthly loved defiled her sacred breast:
Sence free she lived from the deceiver, man;
eaven meant it as a blessing sbe was plain.
ANNE DESCAXIEKES" IN STEPNEY.
I've mocked the storm, outrld the wave,
And gained the harbor of the crave:
With toy lorsook this eartblvclod.
And flew Into the arms or Uod.
BETTY HOWS IN BPSOM, SUEEEY.
Such the uncertainty of human life
Near at the time I thought to've been a wife.
Death brought tbe summons and the banns forbid.
And made this grave of earth ay bridal bed.
CUKiOU.S CONDENSATIONS.
A centenarian who just died in England
spent 93 years of her life in the ono house.
Mrs. L. Schank, of Shawano, "Wis., gave
birth to twin boys, weighing 12 pounds each.
A collection of postage stamps belong
ing to one of the Rothschilds was recently sold
for 560,000.
The largest individual taxpayer in Bos
ton is John M. bears, who pays 550,000 on J3.617,.
000 worth of real estate and a personal estate
of ?1Z5,000.
There are a dozen factories in Amster
dam kept busy night and day making genuine
old spoons, knives and forks for idiotic Ameri
can tourists.
An observine Georgia man claims that
the crow digs a hole and buries in it the corn
which it secures in the field, holding tbe sup
ply until necessity compels its use.
Mrs. W. S. Twedell, of Bowden, Ga.,
who is now in her 91st year, spun the thread
and knit ber husband a nice pair of long
wnsted, fingered woolen gloves last week.
It is alleged that in a back district in
Manitoba there is in tbe tax books this entry,
referring to some crown lands: "Owner. Vic
toria; occupation. Queen; residence, England."
The list of potables provided for the
Union League Club of New York includes 5
kinds of brandy. 13 of whisky, 7 of gin and 4 of
rum. There are also 47 different kinds of fancy
drinks on the list.
A prize of S500 has been offered by the
British Sunday School Union for the best tala
on gambling, "to be drawn as far as possible
from actual life." and "to vividly depict tho
evils of gambling."
The waters of the Ochtahatchee lake in
Florida ran off through its underground chan
nel a few days ago. and an Immense number of
the finest kind of hsa were secured by the citi
zens or the vicinity.
The Czar of Russia has ordered that all
clothes made for himself and family shall be of
Russian material and made by Russian hands.
Her Blajestv's be3t dresses have always come
direct from Paris.
The prisoners in the Jail at Mooltan, In
dia, celebrated their New Year's by cutting off
the nose of tbeir jailer. It was from this same
jail that several prisoners recently escaped, but
soon came back voluntarily.
A dispatch from Newburg, 2T. X., says:
"John Lawrence and Mary Demarest were mar
ried io Warwick in 1S3L Dnnng late years
tbey have often expressed the wish that tbey
might dio together. On Tuesday thi3 wish was
granted."
An Englishman ha3 invented a means
or utilizing the principle of stilts with wheels..
The wheels are fastened to the feet as stilts aro
and each acts a3 a sort or independent bicycle.
They go very fast when one has learned how to
walk on tbem.
An exhibition of toys 13 abont to De
opened In St. Petersburg. It is intended to il
lustrate the history of toys from the earliest
ages. Particular attention is to be given to
Asiatic tovs, which are said to be marvels of
taste and fine workmanship.
Chicago papers mention a nominating
convention held there a few days ago. at West
Town, where a ticket was made up by nomi
nating an Irishman for Asessor. a Dane for
Collector, a Bohemian for Supervisor and an
Italian for Town Clerk. If an American had
strayed on the ticket its international features
would have been improved.
The Belfast brig Staeshaw, from Eo
sario, with a cargo of bones, bas arrived at
Queenstown after a voyage lasting 104 days.
Provision", with tho exception of 13 biscuits,
were all gone on March 1, after which tbe cap
tain and nine men had been livinz on one bis
cuit a day. Tbey bad to keep at the pumps
and were worn out with hunger and fatigue.
"While prospecting in the Okefeeno
kee swamp, Georgia, a man killed an animal in
the swamp of which natural history gives no
acconnt. It resembles a turtle in some re
spects, but was 4 feet long and 24 inches
across. The back was covered with a hard,
scaly substance, somewhat like an allitrator's
hide, and the animal had a long, hooked beak.
A saloon keeper of Richmond, Va., wa3
convicted on novel evidence of selling liquor
on Sunday. A policeman testified tbat he was
passing the defendant's place on Sunday morn
ing at 2d5 o'clock and saw it lichtedup. He
peeped through the window and saw reflected
in tbe mirror, which was back of the bar.a man
putting two glasses ol beer on the bar countor.
Benjamin Ellis Martin relates how he
visited Edmonton churchyard in order to visit
Charles Lamb's grave. Service was colng on
in tbe chnrch, and he waited till the closa and
asked the officiating clergyman the location ot
the grave. The clergyman didn't know. He
had heard tbat Charles Lamb was buried in bis
churchyard, but he had never seen the grave,
nor asked about it.
A new mineral has been discovered in
the vicinity of the littlo town or Homer. Ky.,
aud the inhabitants of that place expect to
realize millions. Tbe substance discovered is a
black, pitchy formation, and Is of a loamy ap
pearance. When placed in the fire it burns
with a clear, steady flame, and makes a brilliant
white ligbt. It is entirely consumed by burn
ing, leaving no ashes or clinkers.
English thieves are using a contrivance
looking like an ordinary walking stick, but
which Is so arranged that by pressing a spring
at tho handle tbe ferrule will spread apart and
form a sort of spring clip that will take hold of
anything that is within reach. The thing is
called "tho Continental lifting stick," and is
used to take eoods from behind counters when
the shopman's back Is turned.
There is a dog in St. Louis that is a reg
ular funeral goer. While driving out the road
to Bellefontaine with a funeral he was seen tn
get up and trot along beside tho hearse. No
more was thought oi him until the grave was
reached, and there tbo big brinale was seon
banging on the outskirts of too crowd, iust as
much interested as anyone. From that time on
he has boon a regular mourner, aud he goes to
every funeral that takes place.
The town of Dexter, Me., at its annual
meeting voted to Instruct the Selectmen to buy
liquors for the town liquor agency at somo
other place besides the State Liquor Commis
sioner's shop; bnt the Revised Statutes of
Maine direct all town officers tobuysneb intox
icating liquors as tbey may keep on sale for the
purpose specified herein, of such commissioner
or or such 'other municipal officers as have
bought liquors of bimandof no other person.
Tbe penalty is a fine of from 20 to 5100.
SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY.
"Bronson says you owe him $3."
"He's a liar. I was going to pay him to-day.
but I won't now." Chatter.
"Ze Anglish youag women are vhell
behafed, are they not?" asked the professor.
They are. Indeed."
Then vhy, my dear sir, do you speak of mla
behaflor vhen you mean badt behatlor?"
"Widower (who has married into the
family twice already) Clara, dear, will you ba
my wife?
Clara (wearily)-I suppose so. William. lam
tired of being a sister to you. Chicago Tribune,
Mrs. Brownstoce Brthe way, doctor, my
daughter and I think of taking an ocean vovage
this season; now, what would vou advisa tho
best thing to take for seasickness?
Doctor-Well. Mrs. Brownstone, I think the best
thing for seasickness Is an ocean voyage! Ocean.
"Why don't you eat, Mr. Bliven?" said
that young man's landlady. 'You seem In doubt
about something."
"lam."
"Vi hat is it?"
"I can't make np my mind whether that Is a
very small piece or steak or whether the servant
simply forgot to wash the plate." ttasltinaton
Post.
PISHES AND FISHERS.
The little fishes in the brook3.
Now lurk around for baited hooks,
And on the bank, as-still as death.
The fishers sit with baited breath.
P.S.
The breath and book we wish to state.
Are served with dllTerent kinds of bait.
Washington Star,
Census Taker (in Texai) Yes, I've got
tho name down all right. How many children
have you?
Natlve-Sev-letme see. (To wlfe)-Nance, 13
it seven or nine?
Wife Eight, o course.
Native (lndlfferently)-So It Is. Eight. (Proud
ly) And I've got 11 of the slickest, purtlest,
scrumptlousest hunting dogs, by gum. that ever
treed a coont
THEN AND NOW.
He stole from my lips
Just a kiss.
While my cheeks fairly rivalled the rose. -
JnstaklsS!
Ou, what bliss!
He stole from my lips.
-
lie stole from my lips
Just one kiss;
When about It he might have bad more.
Just one kiss!
I was Miss!
We're married! 'Tl now quite a bore.
JUttaktt
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