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AS UNDIGNIFIED DISPUTE-
The personal controversy between Mr.
Cleveland and tlie New York Sun is ex
tremely unfortunate for both parties and
cannot but cause regret among the friends,
cither of that political leader or of that en
terprising journal.
It is noticeable that no issue of official
conduct or public policy is at all involved
in this dispute. It ought to be the fact that
men of such prominence would refer to each
other in dignified terms. But it is the fact
that the pursuit of mere personalities has
been carried to that point where neither
party can refer to the other except in terms
of vituperation. The sum total of their dis
putation is that these eminent exponents of
politics and journalism display themselves
before the country in the act of ringing the
very slight changes between the epithets
''senile liar" and "cowardly liar."
Of course in considering the matter it is
inevitable to avoid the fact that the personal
attacks of the Sun upon Mr. Cleveland
have been persistent, or that they took the
very undignified lorm of enlarging upon his
physical characteristics. Nevertheless for
Mr. Cleveland's sake it is very unfortunate
that he should pay any attention to person
alities of that character. He could afford to
ignore them.
It is to be hoped that the exchange of vi
tuperation that has taken place will satisfy
both disputants and that tbe country will
be permitted to pursue the discussion ot
public topics in a dignified and sensible
manner.
THE EIGHT WAY.
The settlement of labor questions by
means of mutual consideration and the
effort on both sides to reach a fair com
promise, has been an honorable character
istic of Pittsburg industrial life.
' At tbe opening of the week it was de
clared to be almost certain that there wonld
be a strike in the railroad yards, and a
universal strike in the railroad mines was
generally predicted. Before the close of
the week the mining question has been set
tled by a fair compromise, so far as the
Pittsburg district is concerned, and miners
and operators are united in an effort to
make the Western district pay propor
tionate wages. There is a good prospect,
too, that the week will close with the rail
road strike settled in an equally honorable
and creditable way.
This is the fortunate result of Pittsburg's
ample experience of the loss and lolly of
strikes and lock-outs, tempered with a mu
tual respect of both employers and em
ployes for each other's rights. Long may
this method prevail in the settlement of
wages questions in PittsburgI
Uje Bi $pWj.
THE EIGHT-HOTTR MOVEMENT.
The programme which Mr. Samuel Gom
pers maps out for the eight-hour movement
in his Setter published to-day is not very
definite; but it foreshadows a broad and gen
eral campaign in favor of the establishment
of eight bonrs as a day's work. There is no
doubt that the agitation so far as It has
progressed has accomplished material re
sults. In many trades a nine-hour day has
been conceded in advance of the time set for
formally opening the campaign. Whether
the general reduction to eight hoars may
not be hampered by compromises of this
sort is for the future; to reveal.
So far as Pittsburg's part in this struggle
is concerned, it is evident that for the pres
ent at least it will be that of an interested
and sympathetic spectator. It the move
ment succeeds elsewhere it will probably be
conceded here without trouble. Until it is
successful elsewhere it would not be fair to
obstruct business in the city which gives the
best wages and shortest hoars to its work
men. The sympathies of the majority will be
heartily on the side of any practical effort
to diminish the hours of labor. But as a
question of policy there is reason to doubt
whether it would not be better to direct the
movement to reducing hoars in trades
where they still work ten hours or over to
the nine-hour day than to try and make a
sweeping reduction to eight hours in the
whole body of industry.
IMPB0 VEMENT BY SUNSHINE.
The dry weather of the past few days has
effected a mitigation of what seemed to be
the hopeless condition of the country roads,
and The Dispatch expedition nas made
rapid progress through Beaver county.
Some examples of bad roads were found,
especially in the vicinity of Beaver, where
landslides have left two important high
ways in dangerous condition, and the cost
of repairing them is beyond ihc means of
the agricultural townships to repair them.
This is a good argument for State and
county aid in road making, intelligently
applied to roads which have more than a
local importance, and many require more
than local resources to put them into sub
stantial condition. With the improved
spring weather, the pleasanter aspects of
rural wayfaring may be reflected in the re
ports from The Dispatch expedition.
LEM SING'S FATE.
A Chinaman sits, or was sitting when last
heard from, in the center of the Niagara
Falls Suspension bridge. It is not the Mon
golian's choice that he occupies this mid
pontine position. He made his way surrep
titiously into the United States, was discov
ered and politely escorted to the Canadian
frontier. There the Canadian authorities
wanted a Custom House receipt for the fifty
dollar tax imposed upon Chinese, or fifty
dollars. Lem Sing, for that is his name,
had neither. Canada refused to admit him,
the United States remained obdurate, and
Lem Sing had to stay midway. The pic
ture of the Chinaman standing in the mid
dle of the Niagara bridge contemplating
two aspects of high civilization is humor
ous. The New Zealander admiring the
ruins of St. Paul's lrom the crumbling piers
of London bridge is nothing to it.
What is Lem Sing to do? The Chinaman
proverbially needs very little capital to
start a laundry, but the circumstances are
terribly against Lem Sing. It is an oppor
tunity to start an international laundry, to
be sure, bnt a bridge sidewalk is not con
venient for tubs and ironing boards. The
location is a trifle too exposed and breezy.
The fate of Hood's sailor seems likely to be
Lem Sing's.
"His bead was turned
And so be cbewed
His pigtail till he died."
DELAY ON THE FAIE BILL.
The adverse fates seem to preside over
legislation on the World's Fair project.
The legislation in the House, being com
plicated by the rivalry of different cities for
the exhibition, occupied over three months
when it ought to have been decided in about
as many weeks. After tbe House got
through with the subject it was hoped that
the Senate would take prompt action and
let work be commenced at once. But the
vice of legislative dawdling is as strong in
the Senate. Though Senator Hawley has
given notice three times,he has been unable
to secure consideration lor the bill; and yes
terday the Senate refused to give any time
to it, in order that it might go into execu
tive session, and consider how its secrets are
not kept. It looks now as if five or six
montbs of valuable time may be wasted, be
fore anyone has authority to commence
work on this national enterprise.
KENTUCKY'S SMALL CIVIL WAE.
The pugnacity of Harlan county, Ky.,
appears to be unconquerable. The fight re
ported yesterday between tbe State troops
and a band of outlaws in the mountains of
that district affords a singular commentary
on our civilization. The men who are
carrying on a small civil war in their defi
ance of the Stale are not bandits. They
have not the excuse of highway robbery for
their resistance to authority. They are
simply men who have refused to recognize
any law bnt their own lawlessness, and have
carried their defiance of civil authority to
such a degree that the; cannot surrender,
even to military force. It is to the credit of
Kentucky that she is using military force
where it is necessary to establish obedience
to the law; and it is to be hoped that she
will keep up the effect until good order is
restored in every corner of the State.
The usual full report of the executive
session or tbe Senate yesterday, furnished by
tbe Associated Press, inforins'us that the dis
creet Senators concluded that it would bo
wise to not deal too severely with tbe enterpris
ing reporters who publish what the Senators
tell them.
Ix is interesting to find the Philadelphia
Times asserting that "the narking and filling
about sugar is due to a conflict between tbe
claims of the Sugar Trust on acconnt of con
tributions to tbe campaign fnnd and the claims
of those interested in the growth of cane and
sorghum." Since every proposition made by
tbe Republicans gives tbe .Sugar Trust less
than a quaner of the protection proposed for it
by the Mills bill, in the difference between the
duties on refined and raw sugars, will the
esteemed Times please explain what caused tba
care for the interest! of the Sugar Trust dis
played in the Democratic measure?
When; the tornado indulges in the prac
tice of carrying on its blasts the germs of dis
ease from some unknown point, perhaps hun
dreds of miles away, as is reported from Ken
tucky, it complicates its visible destruction
with an addition of a wholly superfluous char
acter. A boy of fourteen out in Missouri has
made a practical demonstration of the way In
which to suppress tbe Whito Cap nuisance.
His father's bouse was attacked by a band of
those marauders last Saturday night, and tbey
were proceeding to whip tbe head of tbe family,
when tbe boy opened fire with a shot-gun. kill
ing two of the bullies and stampeding tbe rest.
Killing 'the White Caps Is a rather severe
remedy, bat when the law does not protect
THE'
people in their houses at night, they are entitled
to protect themselves.
It is satisfactory to learn, concerning
Cuba, that the esteemed Omaha Republican is
"not sure that annexation is tho best." That
fact, in connection with the other little point
that Spain will not let ushaTO Cuba, may cause
tbe whole subject to be indefinitely postponed.
The case of Mrs. Bloomer is a singular
example of persistency of falsehood. That
lady has several times written to tbe newspa
pers declaring that she did not Invent tbe
feminine trousers that bear her name. Yet the
celebration of her golden wedding causes the
old statement to be repeated from one end of
tbe land to another. Is it always to be tho case
that a lie will travel seven leagues while the
truth is putting on its boots?
With the Prime Minister of England
kicking up a row because he is not admitted to
the continental gambling house of Europo
we are permitted to view the eccentricities
of some of oar statesmen with tolerance and
even with admiration.
It ought to have some instruction to
Pennsylvania and Maryland that New York is
debating a proposition to enlarge the canal
locks so as to permit the passage of larger ves
sels. In tbe meantime Pennsylvania Is doing
nothing to secure canal navigation and Mary
land is doing worse than nothing. While this
policy is continued, New York will continue to
hold the great route of freight transportation.
TnE coal industry of this section has
learned by long experience how much better it
is to settle a wages dispute by compromise than
bye nfllct, and sets a good example to the rest
of tbe country by the arrangement just com
pleted at Columbus.
It will be news of sad import to the trav
eling pnblic to learn that Switzerland's pnblic
treasury has been depleted of abont SL500,000
by a nnancier bearing tbe unpleasing and
Italian name of Scazzica. This will be a sad
blow to tbe frugal Swiss commonwealth, but it
will bear a deeper meaning in the reflection
that future travelers in Switzerland will have
to pay that $1,500,000.
The appearance of a man and dog, sup
posed to be ghosts, is making a sensation on
the Southside. If the police get hold of tbe
pair they sbould demonstrate tbo physical
reality of the man and make an actual ghost of
tbe dog.
The collapse of Senator Camden's paper
at Parkersburg indicates that Senatorial
organs are not likely to achieve glittering suc
cess in journalism. But when we reflect that
the defunct paper was also a Standard Oil
organ, the impossibility of its being a live
newspaper juts out as prominently as any of
West Virginia's mountains.
When; two ol the prominent men of the
nation reach the point ot controversy where all
that cither can say is to call tbe other a cow
ardly and variegated liar, it is time for both to
keep silent.
Capbivi declares that he will have no
inspired journalism, whereupon Bismarck pub
lishes a letter in the North German Gazette
tbat Is likely to increase the new Chancellor's
dilike for bis predecessor's way of managing
pnblic opinion through the press, Bismarck is
just beginning to appreciate tho fnn of being
in tbe opposition.
The gnshers in the Montour and Char-
tiers fields are more than balancing the aridity
of tho holes on the elevated district of West
view. It is interesting to observe that Senator
Payne, of Ohio, is marking his last session in
Congress by introdncing a bill showing some
relation to patriotism. It is for the erection of
a monument to Commodore Perry, with whom
Senator Payne bad tbe good fortune to be con
nected by marriage.
Prominent people.
Herbert Gladstone will visit the United
States and Canada during tbe coming summer.
The Empress of Austria is devoted to yacht'
ing now that she is no longer able to ride a
horse.
The Rev. Robert Collyer, of this city, has
returned from his visit to Chicago, where be
preached last Sunday.
General Mahone has not yet been ap
pointed Consul General at Pans, but h3 is very
busy studying French.
Lord Albert Edward GoDOLPHHf Os
borne, son of tbo Duke of Leeds, has gone to
Ceylon to become a tea planter.
Mb. Edwin Booth says, in a letter to the
New York Tribune, that there is no truth in
the report of Lawrence Barrett's failing health.
Ho will return to the United States in June
and resume bis dramatic season in September.
The announcement, seeminglylwell authenti
cated, is made from London tbat Sir Arthur
Sullivan is at work on a grand opera, tor which
Engene Field, of Chicago, is writing the
libretto, and that it will be ready for production
in the f all.
Duke Cari, Theodore, of Bavaria, who
has long given bis skillful service as an oculist
free to the poor, has opened, at Meran, a hos
pital and free dispensary for diseases of tbe
eye. The ducal doctor personally directs the
establishment.
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Bloomer, of Conncil
Bluffs, la,, recently celebrated the fiftieth an
niversary of their marriage, Mrs. Bloomer has
been for years a prominent advocate of
woman's rights and was the originator of the
famous "Bloomer costume."
Ex-Congressman Fitch, of Nevada, is
said by one of his friends to have been so
caught on election days tbat he has actually
never yet voted for a Fresldental candidate.
Changes of residence and important business
missions are assigned as the reasons why be
missed his votes.
General John Bidweia, who has been an
nounced by the California Prohibitionists for
Governor, was one of tbe pioneers in tbat State.
Some years ago he became so impressed with
tbe evils of intemperance that he had several
acres that bad been planted with grapes pulled
up, and tbe land converted to school purposes
for Indian children.
THE TARIFF BILL.
Boston Globe: It is the worst bill reported
on the floor of Congress.
Phii.adei.phia Times: Mr. McKlnley and
his committee, in trying to please everybody,
have changed their tariff from day to day to
meet the demands of the latest Interest that
interviewed them, till they have succeeded in
making everybody distrustful and themselves
and their work ridiculous.
Philadelphia .Record: At last the Ways
and Means Committee has been delivered, after
128 days of painful gestation. And what an
abortive thing it has bronght into the world!
Nothing could be done that would so promote
the prospects of the Democratic party as to
give Mr. McKlnley the bit in his teeth, and
Speaker Reed the reins, and let them have
their way.
Boston Journal: The changes which were
made in the tariff bill just before it 'was re
ported to the House, rendered it a more popu
lar measure, and a measure more closely in ac
cord with tbe true principles of protection. It
was a splendid stroke of courageous statesman
ship, by which tbe abolition of this most bur
densome of all our revenue duties Ton sugar
was accomplished.
New Yore World: The tax on sugar reaches
more consumers than any other in the entire
tariff schedule. Its abolition wonld give a per
ceptible relief to every poor family in tbe land.
Bnt tbe giving of a direct bonnty to American
sugar growers Introduces a new principle to
our system. If sugar-growing is unprofitable
without a bounty, so is corn and wheat growing
in many parts of the country. Wbat is to pre
vent universal bounties to unprofitable indus
tries if this policy be once entered upon?
New Yore Tribune: Those who remember
how powerfully Mr. McKlnley assailed the free
trade measure offered by Mr. Mills, will not bo
surprised tbat his argument lu behalf of tho
Republican bill now pendiug is remarsable for
manliness, mastery of facts and soundness of
reasoning. After roadmg it one rejoices tbat
the day of mealy-mouthed timidity is over, ana
that Republicans are no longer itching to so
disguise tbeir tariff policy that nobody can dis
tinguish it from that of tbe Democrats.
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
An Old Oanonsbnrg Boy Gone to HU Beit
Experimenting With fiatlonul Airs As to
Stngo Realism.
pHE Dispatch chronicled a couple of days
ago that the Hon. Eugene M. Wilson died of
malarial fever at Nassau, Bahama, on April 10.
The newspapers talk of him as a distinguished
lawyer of Minneapolis and a Minnesota Con
gressman and public officer, but he is remem
bered by several Pittsburgers as a handsome
and generous boy at college 40 years ago. Mr.
Wilson was at Jefferson College, Canonsburg,
from 1850 to 1833, and a classmate of his said to
me yesterday: "Young Wilson was ono of the
finest-looking young men I ever remember see
ing. He was a good fellow, too, and pretty
bright. Ha came from Morgantown, where he
bad alovely home. Dr. Riddle, of Allegheny,
will remember him, no doubt, and his chum and
room-mate was W. T. Flayford, one of the lead
ing lawyers of Uniontown to-day.
"Wilson drifted away from this part of the
country after he left college. Naturally ho was
a Democrat, and after the war he entered poli
tics actively in Minnesota. Ho ran unsuccess
fully for Governor m Minnesota last year.''
A good experiment is to be made at the
Bijou Theater next week. At the close of
tho performance Mr. Phil Weis's excellent
orchestra will play "Hail Columbia" and other
National airs. Tbe idea is borrowed from
England and Canada where the National air.
"God Save the Queen," is always played after
the performance. The National anthem seems
to have the effect of making the exit of tho
audience sedate and orderly. At present our
audiences scramble headlong for the door.
But the virtue of playing "Hail Columbia"
and other National airs in our theaters is the
patriotic feeling it encourages. Any means to
attain such a laudable end is worth trying. We
do not pay enough respect to our National
airs. Thero sbould be one with which every
American should be familiar, know the tune and
the words by heart. At present there is not, as
has been proved over and over again whenever
mixed assemblages of Americans have at
tempted to sing a National song impromptu as
it were. A melancholy failure of this kind,
which occurred a couple of years ago on board
a transatlantic line, is still vivid in my mem
ory. "TXJHAT a splendid lesson to modern real
ism," says Henry Arthur Jones, in this
week's Mirror, "is conveyed in the fewhundred
lines at the end of tho second act and the be
ginning of the third act of tbe second part of
Henry IV. ! First, we get the tavern scene at
the Boar's Head, a bit of the frankest, most
uncompromising realism, tho Prince and his
fellow roysterers done to the life with photo
graphic fidelity, but with such a gust and
wealth of comic creation: such vivid, riotous
quickening and marshalling of the sordid de
tails and disreputable personages into a mas
terpiece of jocund, careless, glowing, baccha
nalian revelry; such delightful rough-shod
triumph over virtue, morality, respectability
and responsibilty, broken in upon only by tbe
grave, compunctions reply of the Prince to
Pete's message
By Heavens, Polns. I feel me much to blame,
So Idly to profane the precious time.
Give me my sword and cloak, Falstafl, good
night 1
such sustained warmth and vigor and jovial
ity as quite redeem the scene from the Imputa
tion of mere realism. What a reproof to the
modern clamor for ugliness, vice and disease
for tbeir own sakes I Every stroke is real life
itself, and yet what a fine impression of genial,
healthy, rollicking life it leaves 1
THE SPIRIT OF 76.
Yeomanry of Northwestern Pennsylvania Up
In Arms A Convention Cnlled.
Tbe farmers of the Crawford-Erie district
have issued a call for a convention to be held
In Meadvilleon Mayl. 1890, to express their
choice for suitable persons to represent them
in two seats in the Legislature, On the next
day a convention will be held to nominate suit
able persons to represent them in the State
Senate, and for a seat in the Legislature. On
Friday, May 9, a convention of both counties
will be held in Cambridge to express their
choice for suitable persons to represent tbeir
interests in Congress. Tbe call has been signed
by over a thousand farmers without regard to
party, and continue pouring in at an alarming
rate. The Pennsylvania Farmer, the Grangers'
organ in that section, in speaking of the move
ment, editorially says:
That we have devoted seven columns of
space to tbo publication of about 1,800 names of
farmers who have signed acalltomeet in coun
cil to consider and discuss tbe grave issues of
the hour means tbat thesemen have discovered
tbat many of those to whom they have en
trusted their interests have been unfaithful,
and they propose to attend to their own busi
ness in future. It means tbat these men be
lieve that political parties should be subject to
tbe will of the people, and not the people as
slaves to party leaders and tbeir interests, a
prey to individual avarice and ambition. It
means that tbe honest yeeomanry of this cor
ner of the Keystone state are not afraid to
stand np and be counted in this movement.
It means tbat they propose no longer to squan
der tbeir birthright for a mess of pottage to
tickle tbe palate of prejudice but turn to gall
in the stomach.
CUEEEKT TIMELY TOPICS.
Play ball.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage is undoubtedly
at peace with his wife and other ladles through
out tbe land. Tbe reverend gentleman Is quoted
assaying "that so far as possible let all women
dress beautlf ally. ' '
OVER 100 papers in tbe United States are
now controlled by colored people. The colored
man is certainly getting a move on.
A skeleton has recently been discovered
In Pompeii with pants on. We'll bet the skeleton
wasthe first fellow to die witb his boots on.
TnE pig market is in the slough. The de
pression has had no (.-fleet In the hog market, how
ever. Science is daily spreading. The latest nov
elty is bread made from wood. Something like
that has been needed these many years, as it will
leave more grain for the manulacture of spirits.
Senator Ingalls says poverty never will
be abolished. Come to think of it, Congress has
kept many a man from begging.
Hides have been put on the free list, and
the party's cuticle has thus been saved.
Bachelors and marriageable gentlemen
should hasten to Massachusetts. Unmarried
women in that State have (29,000,000 to their credit
in the banks.
The spring poetry that Senator Vance
sprung on the Senators the day the vote was taken
admitting the Montana delegates, is said to have
changed the minds of several members. The
averaare Senator is willing to put no with a good
deal of abuse, but they draw the line on poetry.
Meat Axe, a Shoshone Indian prophet, pre
dicts a flood in July next which will wipe out the
heartless pale faces. As it is a well-known fact
that an Indian was never known to tell the truth,
the above prediction will not cause any uneasiness
on the part of the sale faces.
A MAN at Connellsville, near this city, was
rooting around a lot of old stones when he un
earthed something like 300 epgs. On taking them
home and niacins: them in a warm place, be made
the remarkable discovery that they were snake
eggs, and nearly every one turned out a real live
reptile, tut be dispatched them before they could
do any barm. The man who found the eggs is not
given to drink.
Senator Ingalls said to a New York
World reporter that a tremendous undercurrent
of thought was moving with irreslsible force
throughout the whole length and breadth or the
West. The Senator sbould lose no time in getting
in out of the wet.
Vice President Morton, It is said, reads
more papers than any other man in Washington.
How his nerves most have been shocked during
the past two or three weeks In reading the news
from Kbode Island, Wisconsin and other Demo
cratic States.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Frere Juollolen.
Montreal, April 18. Frere Justlnlen, Provin
cial Superior or tbe Community or the Brothers
or Charity in Canada, is dead. He was born in
Belgium in 1835; came to Boston as Superior In
1874. and "was promoted to Provincial Superior In
1879.
SATURDAY. 'APRIL 19,
QUITE CREDITABLE.
An Amateur Performance of Romeo and
Jnliet Tbnt .Was Not a Comedy Tbe
Pupils of Prof. King Acquit Tbomjelves
Wllh Honor.
A very fashionable and not nncritlcal au
dience assembled yesterday afternoon in the
Bijou Theater, to witness the matinee produc
tion of "Romeo and Juliet" by tho pupils of the
Curry School of Elocution and Dramatic Cul
ture. While a critical audience, as was testi
fied by the warm applause which greeted a
really good piece of acting, yet 'twas a generous
one, as the weaker parts of the play
were passed over without even a sign
of restlessness. On the whole,
it was a very creditable performance,
both to Prof. Byron W. King, the Instructor
and manager, and also to tbe young matours
who were included in the cast of characters.
Tbe staging of the tragical romance was ex
ceedingly pretty, especially the portion which
constituted tbe famous balcony scene, and,
with few exceptions, everything pertaining to
the stage was conducted in a really profession
al manner, minus the amateurish hitches that
usually characterize such performances, Tbe
costumes worn were appropriate to the time
and the characters represented, and in beauty
and elegance all tbat could be desired. Some
very beautiful ones were displavcd In the min
uet, which was danced most gracefully by a
charmmg coterie of young ladles and gentle
men. M S3 Millie Gardner, as Juliet, displayed con
siderable talent, being stronger in her por
trayal of misery and agony than in the tender
passion. On the other hand, Mr. Ed McClel
land, as Romeo, was at his best in tho various
love scenes and the farewells which are con
stantly occurring between him and hislove, but
he was strong also in his interview with Friar
Lawrence, when informed of his banishment.
Miss Gertrude Donohue, as Nurse, and Mr. J.
D. Brison, as Mercutio, were decidedly the best
characters in the cast, and seem to be pos
sessed of tbo true artistic spirit. Several others
seemed to merge their own identity into tbat of
the character personated, among them Mr.
Frank Reynold, as Prince. Mr. George McC.
Kountz, as Tybalt, Mr. Wilfrid M. Grace,
as Friar Lawrence, and Mr. E. M, Grace as
Peter. In the remainder of the cast much that
was to be commended and littlo to be con
demned was to bo seen. It was as follows:
Paris, Mr. George Dontbett; Montague, Mr.
William Giffin; Capulet, Mr. William Robinson;
Menvolio, Mr. A. K. Wilson; Balthazar. Mr.
William Hammer; iSampjon. Mr. John B. Mont
gomery; Gregory. Mr. Frank Righter; Abram.
Mr. Cor. Martin; Attendant, Mr. Walter Dawes;
Apothecary, Mr. Tom Carnahan, and Lady
Capulet, Miss Clara Dawes. Thoe who danced
the minuet were Hisees KIttie Hamm, Lillian
Agnew, Ella Stow, Clara Dawes, Millie Gard
ner, and Messrs. J. D. Brison, A. K. Wilson,
Walter Dawes, George Douthett and Mr.
Braum.
SATISFACTORY EEPOETS
Made nt tbo Seml-Annual Meeting of a
Womnn's Missionary Society.
The semi-annual meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of Pittsburg, was held yes
terday in the West End M. E. Church. Mrs.
E. B. Van Kirk presided. A large number of
societies were represented, and nearly all gave
very satisfactory reports of tho work done
during the last six months, and showing an in
crease of four societies. The Treasurer's re
port was approved. It showed a balance in tbe
treasury amounting to S1.085. Rev. W. P.
Oldham made a lengtby address on the results
accomplished by women in missionary work,
and of tbe greater interest taken in it by them
than by those of the other sex.
Henri Maccudum, a Syrian, made a short ad
dress about Syria. He stated tbat thero were
104 Christian schools in that country, with an
average attendance of 4,000 natives. He said
that the people of his country were just begin
ning to appreciate the good which was being
done for them bv Christian nations and be
lieved tbat Syria would yet be highly civilized,
and would then repay all tbat was done for
their moral and educational elevation. Before
adjourning the society accepted an invitation
to bold the annual meeting next fall at Spring
dale. KEALLI A RAKE TREAT.
Tbe Annual Literary Entertainment of tbe
Carry Teachers' Lyceum.
The annual literary entertainment of the
Teachers' Lyceum of Curry University was
given last evening in University Hall, and was
a rare treat to those fortunate enough to be
present. Tbe programme consisted of a
salutatory by Miss Margaret Coulter, an address
by tbe President, Miss Elizabeth Simpson:
a soprano solo, "Answer," by Miss Hattie
Gray; a recitation. "Mao Lain's Child." by Mr.
Henrv Hertzler; an original oration, "Self
Help," by MissAllce Greot;an essav,"Wberein
Lies the Cause," by Miss Sadie Wolfe: a con.
tralto solo, "Gentle Annie," Miss Matilda
Georce: essay, "School Aids," Miss Mag
gie Clark; biography, John Henry Pestalnzzi,
Miss Annie Heath ; a sopran solo "What
Should a Young Maid Do," words by Byron W.
King, Miss Clara Smith:-Lyceum Journal, Miss
Belle Gibson: recitation. "Awfully Lovely
Philosophy;" Miss Mama MeKenna; vocal duet.
Misses Smith and George.
Of this society Miss Elizabeth Simpson is
President, Miss Belle Lacock Secretary, and
Mr. W. McC. Stevenson musical director.
ITS FIRST AJiNIYERSARY.
Tariff Clnb Hoys Celebrate One Year of
Residence in Tbeir Own Honsr.
The Young Men's Republican Tariff Clublast
nigbt observed the first anniversary of tbo
opening of their new club bouse. A large num
ber were present, none but members being
invited. A meeting was held in the assembly
robm. President McFarland giving a short ad
dress. He reviewed tho history of tbe club
from ite start, with seven members, to the pres
ent time, with SCO members.
George Elpbinstone made a short speech,
taking for his subject the pictures of prominent
Republicans on the walls of the room, and
thereby review in" the different political
epochs of this country. A. C. Robertson, Hebcr
McDowell and C. L. Magee also made a few
remarks.
The financial statement was read, showing a
balance In the trcasnry of 51,472. the expendi
tures during tbe year being SiO.000. After the
meeting a collation was served in the billiard
room, and a pleasant time was spent. The
affair was also enlivened with a number of
vocal and instrumental selections by the Elec
tric Quartet.
Fnrnllore for It" Nrir Home.
Chairs, curtains and carpets, beside a host of
other necessary articles tho Young Woman's
Christian Association of the East End must
have for its new homo on Collins avenue, and
as sucb things don't rain down, they are com
pelled to get them otherwise. To accomplish
that feat they will have a concert at Old City
Hall, Thursday evening, May 1, by the Phil
harmonic Society. "
One of the Warm Wentbcr Places.
A number of Pittsburgers are looked for at
Morgantown, W. Va., during tho coming sea
son. Morgantown this year will be tbe head
of navigation, and as camping parties usually
select tbat position on tbe river, the town ex
pects to bo crowded. Two well-known young
men from this city were there Friday arranging
for ground near Cohun's creek.
SOCIAL CHATTER.
AN entertainment for the benefit of the
Ladies' Missionary and Aid Society of tbe
Third U. P. Church, Allegheny, will be given
in Carnegie Hall on Monday evening, April 2S.
Leland T. Powers will render "David Garrick"
and Yoerge's orchestra will furnish the music.
Mrs. D. D. Dicket, of Winebiddle avenue,
gave a 1 o'clock luncbeon yesterday in honor of
her little son, Master William Hamilton
Dickey.
Mrs. R. J. CTJNNiNanAsr, of Sewicklcy, will
entertain her friends next Monday evening.
THE cooking school pupils receive their di
plomas at the Grant street school house.
Good-Uumorcd and Happy.
From the Somerset Herald, j
Major E. A. Montooth, Pittsburg's handsome
candidate for the Republican nomination for
Governor, dropped into Somerset on "private
business" on Friday last. Ha managed to call
on a few people while here, and let them know
be was in tbe field to the finish, if o went away'
smiling, good-humored, and apparently happy.
He is tho first of the Gubernatorial candidates
to visit the "frosty sons of thunder," and cer
tainly made a good impression.
Still Looking for the Earthquake.
From the Mew York Sun.
Some of the followers of tbe crazy California
prophet, Erickson, are still on the hilltops,
looking for tho overdue earthquake and tidal
wave. They attribute tbe delay to the fact
that "Beelzebub has caused some phenomenon
in the Arctic regions." Beelzebub, "tho lord of
flies," has never had tbe reputation of having
any on him. His Arctic voyages are the cool
est thing, however, be has ever been known to
undertake.
1890.
INSPIRED BY PINAFORE.
Hark Twain Got tbe Points for nil Fanom
Speech on Bnble From a Comic Opera
Performance by Children A Subject
With Universal Application.
ICOnitESr-OKDEXCE or THE DISPATCH.!
Qhicago, April 17. "Do you know that there
is a bit of interesting history connected
with the way Mark Twain got up that funny
speech of bis on babies, delivered at tbe great
banquet given to General Grant at the Grant
reception here?" asked Mr. Sam Steele at a
Chicago Press Club reception the other night,
when everyone was in a reminiscent mood.
Mr. Steele is one of the best known newspa
per men in tbe country and knows more prom
inent people, and has been connected with more
of these great receptions than any other news
paper man of the day, unless I except Joe How
ard, Jr.. and Gath.
"Well, you know that Mark Twain was the
guest of the Chicago newspaper men when he
was here then it was the last time he visited
Chicago."
I was doing my best to entertain the dis
tinguished humorist, and we tried to beguile
tbe time until tbe banquet next day be came
in early in the afternoon tbe day before. Mr.
Frank B. Wilkie, known all over the country
through bis Polinto letters, gave a dinner to
Twain at the Tremont, and I was to see that he
"saw tbe sights" at night. He took out that
old, worn, historical corncob pipe of his, and
began to puff at it and drawl out tbat he did
not know what would be best to take in first.
Seeking nn Inspiration.
'Then, after a few minutes of silent puffing,
with his lees crossed, ho ran bis hands
through his grissly hair and drawled: "You
s-a-l-d so-me-th-1-n-g a-b-o-u-t a p-e-r-f-o-r-m-a-n-c-o
o-f P-i-n-a-f-o-r-e b-y c-h-i-1-d-r-e-n. I
b-a-v-e s-e-e-n P-i-n-a-f-o-r-e b-y e-v-e-r-y k-i-n-d
o-f a c-o-m-p-a-n-y e-x-c-e-p-t b-y c-b-i-1-d-r-e-n.
I t-b-i-n-k I s-h-o-u-l-d r-a-t-h-e-r s-e-e t-h-a-t
j-n-s-t n-o-w t-h-a-n a-n-y-t-h-I-n-g e-l-s-e."
"I told him thero was a performance by
children just np the street at Haverly's Thea
ternow a thing of history and he seemed de
lighted. We went there, and I never saw
Clemens so tickled. He enjoyed the perform
ance immensely, and would laugh in that quiet
way of his and poke ns In the ribs, and call at
tention to every little clever bit by a performer,
and wonld mutter to bimseU: "That's the
thing. That's tbe very thing I want. Abl I've
got it now. This will strike everybody."
"We did not know what he meant until the
next night at tbe banquet. Ho had repeatedly
remarked to reporters that he did not know
wbat he wonld say, and could not give them
any pointers as to his speech.
He Knew It Wonld Strike Everybody.
uAXfELL, when it camo his time to speak, he
got np. and, in his usual nasal drawl,
began with those memorable words to tbe
effect tbat we could not all be great Generals,
like the distinguished guest of the day, nor
could the most of ns be poets, and only a few
could get into high offices, while more could
get into jail and then tbe Legislatures, bnt that
everybody bad been a baby once. Therefore
be would speak about babies, because that
would strike everyone's experience.
"And then he made that speech undoubtedly
the most humorous he ever delivered. And, so
sure was Mr. Sam Medill. then managing editor
of the Tribune, that be could get the notes, or
manuscript, from Twain that he made no pro
vision for taking the speeches. So when, a few
minutes after midnight. Clarence Dresser was
sent to the speakers to get their speeches so as
to have them in next morning's Tribune, he got
all but Mark Twain's. He said he did not have
a note, nor rould he give tbe slightest intima
tion as to wbat he would say.
"I s-h-a-1-1 h-a-v-e t-o d-e-p-e-n-d o-n a-n in-s-p-i-r-a-t-i-o-n
I h-a-v-e r-e-c-e-i-v-e-d s-i-n-c-e I
c-a-m-e h-e-r-e," drawled the speaker. Then
Mr. Medill bad to get three shorthand men to
take tbat speech, and relay each other so a to
give it in the hands of the printer as fast as it
fell from Twain's lips.
OUR ROAD EXPEDITION.
A Wisconsin Editor's Opinion of the Move
Ohio Troubled With a Surplus of Alnd
Views of Pennsylvanlans) From Various
Sections of Ibo Stntr.
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin,
The Pittsburg Dispatch has sent an ex
pedition through Pennsylvania to examine the"
country roads. Tbe explorers navigate the mnd
in a prairie schooner drawn by horses named
Beaver and Bucephalus. Thus far they have
succeeded in keeping on top of the State, but
tbe horses now resemble clay models. At one
place In Fayette county the explorers were
saved by a farmer who gave them this timely
advice as to the horses: "Don't let tbem stand
still or you will have to dig them out." There
are muddy roads in Wisconsin, hut Pennsyl
vania can undoubtedly discount us. She has
been paying too much attention to business be
neath the surface.
Ohio Extends Sympathies.
From tbe Warren, O., Chronicle.
The Pittsburg Dispatch has dispatched
a two-borse wagon correspondent on a tour
throuzh several counties in Southwestern Penn
sylvania, to report the condition of tbe roads.
His principal experience thus far bas been in
the line ot making excavations In fathomless
mudholes for his submerged team and wagon.
Tbe roads are reported In execrable condition,
with very few exceptions. If it Is true that
"misery loves company," Trumbull county
should not feel utterly alone in this muddy
world, or wholly inconsolable on account of the
condition of its roads.
A Frnctlcnl Treatment.
From the Conneautvllle Courier.
The Pittsburg Dispatch has set about
tbe treatment of the subject of improving the
country roads in a practical way, and in doing
so shows commendable enterprise. The pub
lishers of tbe paper last Wednesday started an
expedition organized to explore the rural high
ways of Pennsylvania. Several reporters, in a
waeon built for the purpose, and provided
with photographic material, will traverse
every country road and obtain tbe views of the
farmers concerning their improvement. The
importance of tbe results of this method of ob
taining a complete picture of the condition of
the roads, together with a concensus of opinion
of those who use them, cannot be over esti
mated. The country roads are the farmers'
highways to their markets, and they will take
a great interest in anything which may result
in their improvement.
Mnd Splnshes.
The Pittsburg Dispatch has fitted out a
two-horse team to travel over tbe country
roads of the State aud take soundings of tno
mud and the mud holes, with which they
abound. It is The Dispatch's method of do
ing good to a class of people who have failed to
do good for themselves on the road qnestion.
This constant agitation of the qnestion will in
snro good roads, and the grangers will thank
The Dispatch for its radical effort in their
behalf. Myersdale Commercial.
The approaching season promises to be one
of journey and excursion. The New York
Mail and Express bas sent one of tbeir writers
on a long boat journey from Sandy Hook, New
York, to tbe mouth of the Columbia river, in
Washington, a distance of 7.000 miles. The
Pittsburg Dispatch has also sent out an ex
ploring expedition to take deep sea soundings
uf the roads throughout tbe adjacent counties.
Kitlanning Republican,
The Pittsburg Dispatch has sent ont
an expedition to explore the country roads in
Washington, Fayette and Greene counties, un
der tbe direction of L. E. Stoflel. The expedi
tion still lives, after being on the road for over
two weeks, and is hearing borne, having found
many things, but falling to find the bottom of
the roads iu many places. Allegheny Bhould
send Stoflel to tbe Legislature, to assist in
making laws for the improvement of the roads.
His experience of the past two weeks would be
very valuable to our next body of lawmakers.
Uniontown Ge,ius of Liberty.
Fartlculnr ns to tlin Kind of Rain.
From tbe Omaha World-Herald. I
A recent Pennsylvania dispatch telling of a
great storm says: "The rain came down in
sheets." The next thing we shall be asked to
believe is tbat tbe hailstones came down In
pillow covers. Such attempts upon tbe public
credulity should be stopped.
Not nn Uimlxrd Evil.
From th6 Philadelphia Times.
Tho Congressional disagreement on the silver
question is not an unmixed evil. If it con
tinues we won't coin but 2,00,000 light-weight
dollars a month, instead of possibly twice tbat
number If an agreement is reached.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Affrlcnltnrnl Drpresslon and Extravagance
A Lesson From Torkry Trapping.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
I see that The Dispatch has taken the
Pennsylvania roads in hand, and no doubt tbe
effort will lead to good results. I notice tbat
a correspondent hopes that, while ascertaining
the quality of Pennsylvania roads. The Dis
patch will also be enabled to enlighten tbe
people regarding te present agricultural de
pression tbronghout the country, upon which
so much has been said and written. Even Con
gress bas taken the matter In hand and pro
poses to ascertain why some farmers are not
getting rich, but I imagine tbat the Congress
man cares more for tbe farmer's vote than for
anything else about the farmer.
Now nere are two subjects tbat I would like
a small space to unburden mvself about.
I travel much over Pennsylvania roads in a
buggv. in places they have been almost impass
able this winter, but are now much Improved
and are improving every day. There is such
good drainage in this country that the water
runs off rapidly, and in an hour or so after a
heavy rain the roads are dry in many places if
the sun sbines. Your young men sbould have
started in January if they desired a picnic
And now as to agricultural depression.
Would it not be well to find out first whether
there is any such thing before making a fuss
abont it? I travel much among farmers, aud
talk witb them, and I somehow have the im
pression tbat as a class tbey are as well housed,
welliedandas well clothed as any other class
of citizens, and with few exceptions, better.
There are those among tho farmers that are
growling and will continue to growl to tbe end
of their days not because there is anything
wrong with the agricultural interests, but
because they have made mistakes in conduct
ing their business, got in debt and become
cbronic growlers. You do not bear the genu
ine farmer complain. He goes along about bis
business, works hard, lives within his means
and saves money every year. To this class of
men the fact that there Is an agricultural de
pression will be a surprise. They know noth
ing about such things.
The so-called agricultural depression was
brought about by tbe war and changes in ways
of living since tbe war. It is not an agricultural
depression. It is a condition which affects the
farming classes. If farmers would live as they
did in the good old days there would be no
"agricultural depression." Bnt neither they
nor the rest of us are content to live in that
way. Think of it. you who are 50 to 60 years of
age. How did your father and mother liveT
How did you live when a Doy? I could make
this article about a mile long on this very topic,
but what good would it do? You would only
giunt and turn on your heel and say "Do you
suppose lam going to live as my father did?
Peoplo don't live that way now and I am not
goine to. I'll die first." Very well, you will
not die, but you will assist in keeping up the
"agricultural depression."
Farmers have lived beyond their means. This
is the whole secret; there is nothing more in it
than this. They have) been continually goaded
by their surrounding to spend more and more
money: to live In better and better style, until
they have morgaged their farms and have re
newed these mortgages and kept them going
year after year until the time is arriving when
they cannot keep them going any longer, then
comes the "agricultural depression." Why
not call it by its right name dobt? for that is
wbat it is, pure and simple. Farmers who have
been careful and kept nut of debt are not com
plaining of agricultural depression.
It is my opinion tbat tbo next census will
show a fearf nl condition of things in thiscoun
try, so far as mortgages on land are concerned.
Congress is trying to evolve some method or
frame some law to "relieve" this depression,
but Congress might as well try to change the
force and direction of our cyclones by legisla
tion. If Congress could make an appropriation
to pay off the mortgage on every farm in this
country, and then pass a law that no more
mortgages should be given, it might "relieve"
tbe depression, but Congress cannot do
this, and some other way mnst be
fonnd. Congress can do nothing for the
farmers: the latter bold the remedy in their
own hands. Instead of looking to Congress, or
to any other power, let them turn their eyes
backward and look into themselves for tbe so
lution of this problem.
The situation reminds me of the way we used
to trap wild turkeys when I was a boy. We
would build a pen of logs in the woods, cover it
snugly over the top, then dig a trench under
one side and scatter corn in tbe trench. The
turkeys would come along and begin picking
up tbe com and continue along tbe trench
until they fonnd themselves in the pen. when
tbe corn suddenly gave out, and tbe poor
things could not get out, because they would
only look upward, trying to find someway to
flyover. A certain class of farmers are la just
this fix. They have followed tho eolden
stream into tbe trap and now are unable to get
tbeir beads low enough to find tbe way one
What is tbe remedy, do you ask? Advice is
like medicine much easier to give than to
take, but it costs rothing, and there is no com
pulsion about taking it. My advice is (no
charge) to every farmer who is in debt live
within your means, pay your debts, and my
word for it, the "agricultural depression" will
disappar. H.
Pittsburg. April 18.
A Veteran's Bivouac.
To" the Editor or The Dispatch:
Since my last letter to you our flag has been
many times at half-mast, indicating each time
that another of nnr comrades bad been sum
moned to tbe final roll call. The coffin, tbe
shroud, tbe hearse, all speak out of
tbe final bivouac Tbe young live in hopes of
the future, the old in reviewing the past I
often watch the gray-haired veterans by whom
lam surrounded men who represent nearly
every civilized nation on tbe globe.
See tbat smiling old Canadian Frenchman.
Fifty-three years ago he was in tbe employ of
the Hndson Bay Company and wintered in the
Rocky Mountains; he was three years in tbe
Polar seas searching for Sir John Franklin.
Watch tbat smile. What are bis tboughisf
Are tbey running over the details of the seige
and surrender of Vicksburg; or going still fur
ther back, when he was telling tbat old, old
story to tbat lovely, blushing brunette, who is
listening with willing ears to tbat which, though
old. Is always new? Who can tell?
Look at tbat stalwart, giant-framed, erect
old Scandinavian, and you will not marvel that
Charles XII., of Sweden, whipped tbe Russians
at Pullowa. with only one to five, and caused
Peter the Great to gnash his teeth in despair.
There sits a venerable typical German with bis
old pipe, and seemingly in a revery. Is he
thinking of his youth in the Fatherland, or of
the exciting scenes around the powder-heated
cannon where be served with such activity
that tbe gun hurled its destructive missiles
into the Rebel ranks with terrible effect at
Gettysburg? In Prussia, in 18 IS. he made him
self obnoxious to tbe Cnrwn. and for pruden
tial reasons (led to the more healthful clime of
America. Those tno near him are unmistaka
bly from tbe "Green Isle." See, one bas just
finished bis pipe and put it hot against his
friend's neck. Tbe other jumps, and makes an
emphatic remark that seis all who hear it into
a roar of laughter. Nothing but the "Grim
monster" can unppress the Irish wit and mirth.
The old graybeard over in the corner, reading
The Dispatch (loaned him oy a comrade), is
one ot the world-renowned "Buck-tail Rifles."
He bas been "on the shoot" ever since his boy
hood. Has be found something in the home
paper that carries him back to the wilderness in
Northern Pennsylvania, or Is it a reminder of
tbe skirmish line in '63?
The New England Yankee is here, a broad
sbouldered, strong-built hero of the wicked
rebellion days. This" same Yankee was for
some years manager of a large sugar plantation
in Cuba, was in Havana when Lopez, the fili
buster, was executed; was birrself a proscribed
man, but by strategem made good his escape
when the Dons were hunting for him. He is
totally deaf, made so by the cannon in the First
Rhode Island Artillery.
The "Home" contains to-day at least 150 good
sized volumes of unwritten Aemrican history.
Aw INMATE-
Soldiers' Home, Minnehaha, Minn.,
April 17.
HE WANTS HIS GIFTS BACK.
A Lover Sues to Recover the Value of Pres
ents to His r-wi-e!lieort.
IfPXCTAI. TELIOKAM TO TltS DIBPATCH.1
New Yore, April 18. Is the social obliga
tion of a young woman to return a young man's
gilts when she breaks an engagement also a
legal obligation? That, in substance, was the
problem placed before Jndge Goldfogle in tbe
Fifth District Civil Court to-day. David
Leese expected to marry Sadie Dichtenberg
on the 18th of March at her borne. David
offered to bear a share of the expense ot a big
wedding. He took a receipt from Sadie's
mother on February 17 for Sao. which he paid
on tbat date. Bnt before tbe wedding day ar
rived somebody went to Sadie witb the story
that David had at one time been an inmate of
the Ward's Island Insane Asylum.
The wedding was indefinitely postponed, and
David demanded the return of tbe $85 which
was refused. He then sued for the money.
Sadie is a buxom girl of 17 with rosy cheeks.
She said she had postponed the marriage six
montbs thatahe might get over a cold and grow
strong again. After she had postponed the
wedding she began to find ont more about
David's ways, and now. since he had
slandered her in tbe nousDapers, sho would not
marry him anyway. Questioned as to win t sue
meant by finding out his ways, she said: "I ta
sick two weeks, and he never askeu bowl was."
Sua denied that she was now engaged to any
body, and said she had bad experience enough
witb one man not to want another. Decision
was reserved.
CUKI0US COHDEKSAT10SS.
Spokane Falls, Wash., is growing so
fast that the brickyards are unable to supply
the material f or new buildings as fast as it is
needed.
A doctor says a man 1 meter 80 centi
meters (5 feet 11 inches) should weigh SO kilo
grams, or 160 pounds. That is jnstas many
kilograms as he measures centimeters In
height.
A cannon ball, believed to be a Revo
lutionary relic, was unearthed at South High
street. West Chester, on Monday. It was abont
three inches in diameter, and was heavily en
crusted with rusr.
A couple of bulky and tbougbtless oxen
made a dive for a window full of green bouse
plants in a restaurant at East Jordan, Mich,
and before they could be headed off tbe side
walk and window were smashed to small pieces.
An Englishman who insulated his bed
stead by placing underneath each post a broken
off bottle says he had not been free from rheu
matism or gout for 15 years, and that he began
to improve immediately after the application
of the insulators.
The testimonial fund to the Eev. Dr.
Theodore Cuyler. of Brooklyn, already amounU
to $30,000. Dr. Cuyler has preached 2,750 ser
mons and made 25,000 pastoral calls: beside at
tending many of Talmage's funerals when tbe
renowned pulpit orator failed to turn up.
Judge Barton, of Big Prairie, Newaygo
county, Mich., had been Supervisor of his
township for SO consecutive years until tho
election last week. Then his Democratic op
ponent got just as many vote3 as be did, and
when they drew cuts for it tbe Democrat won.
Mr. Macdonald, one ot the Irish mem
bers of the Honse of Commons, Is totally blind.
Through the devotion of bis wife he is also one,
of the most prompt in attending to his duties.
She takes him regularly to and from the Houses
w here her figure bas become as familiar as hi
own.
The man who is credited with the orig
inal device and manufacture of the revolver
pistol, Benjamin Darling, died recently at
Woonsocket. It. L. at the age of 82 years, but
without having experienced any of tbe sub
stantial rewards 'the Invention brought to
others.
That tbe horse-breeding industry is be
ing seriously disturbed by the rapid develop
ment of electricity as a motive power is evi
dent. The indications now are tbat witbin an
other three years there will not be a horse car
in active service in any of the cities iu this
country.
An extraordinary feat in telephoning
was recently accomplished between St. Peters
burg and Bologne, a distance of 2.465 miles.
Conversation was kept up, notwitstaudlng a
rather high induction. The Russian engineers
propose to converse by telephone oyer a dis
tance of 4,665 miles.
A Georgia man is very superstitious.
He believes the 16th of April will be his mas
cot. He was born on this date, married on this
date, his oldest daughter was born ou the 16th.
he enlisted in tbe army on tbe 16th, fought in
several notable battles on the 16th and be
lieved he wonld be acquitted to-day. Apul 16.
Jefry Buckley was born May 3, 1821,
and W. N. Carr was born February 9. 1S!1.
They are both in tbeir 70th year, and twenty
ninth year of service in tbe Nashville Postof
flce. They were appointed in 1862, and have
.served continuously since. Tbey are always on
duty, from early morning until late at night,
watching constantly for their patrons' letters.
The total number of souls who have pro
fessed salvation at the Salvation Army peni
tent forms for the five months ending with
April 1 Is 90,000. At tho commencement of No
vember tbe officers of the organization, upon
General Booth's instructions, set about to ob
tain 100,000 conversions in Great Britain alone
dnring tbe following six montbs. and this num
ber bas now almost been reached.
An Antigo, Wis., man has been notified
by the customs officials in New York that
package of human hair sent him by mail from
Germany bas been seized, and has replied tbat
they have seized bis wife's own back hair,
which she forgot to take along witb ber from
Germany, where she had worn it for several
year. She can get her hair back by makme
affidavit to this effect and paying about 70
cents.
A Hudson, Mich., husband who bad
been married four years, and had repeatedly
asked his wife for a cup of coffee like bis
mother used to make, became so mad over a
boiled dinner his wife set before him the other
dav that he seized a bandfnl of hot cabbage
and shmped it into his better hairs face, after
which lie robbed butter over ber physiognomy
and then emptied a teapot of boiling water
upon ber suffering person. ,
The subjects of the King of Dahomey
are a bigoted and superstitious people, and all
over the country there are innumerable
"fetiches" consecrated to some pagan deity.
Individuals who desecrate these "fetiches" by
touching tbem are invariably put to death, bnt
before they are executed they have to undergo
tbe most painful tortures at the haads of tbe
Amazons, those ferocious female warriors
which constitute the nucleus of the King's
army.
Twin sisters celebrated their 77th birth
day anniversary at Ipswich, Mass., the other
day. A local paper states tbat so remarkable
was their resemblanco to each other that tbe
parents were often called upon to distinguish
them to visitors. Their tastes were also simi
lar, and have been so through life, and even at
tbe age of 77, it is said, thev dress alike and
have a likeness to each other which is unusual,
even in twins. Both began life as workers in
the old Ipswich lace factories, and were equally
skillful in tbeir art.
In the town of Great Valley, in Catta
raugus county, S. Y., there is an Interesting
curiosity, phenomenon or freak of nature,
known locally as "the whistling welL" Tbo
well was drilled to the depth of 45 feet a half
century ago, but no water accumulated. A flat
stone witb a -inch hole was fitted over tbe
month of the well, and a whistle fitted into it,
which changed its tone as the air was drawn
down or np. In settled weather the whistle
was silent. An approaching storm was heralded
by tbe warning shriek of tbe whistle as the air
rushed out of tbe well, but as clear weather ap
proached, the current of air cnangea. ana
rushed into tho well, and the faithful whistle
changed, and told the story by its changed tone.
The whistle has long been worn out, but the
well still continues to advertise the weather. In
a heavy rainstorm the out-rushing wind forces
the rain upward some feet In the form of a
spray.
ALLEGED TO BE FUNNY.
"Do you know what the dollar sign is,
Teddy?"
"Yeth. um. It's an eth wlv a wallwoad wan
nln' over it."
Mother 'Well, John, how do you like
married lire?
Son-Very well. Indeed.
"Is your wife amiable?"
'lictremely so."
'And you try to be so yourself?"
'"lamso."
Does she cook as well as your mother?"
"Mother. I cannot tell a lie. She does." Bat
ton Courier.
DANA AKD CLEVELAjrD.
Then up roseGrover Cleveland,
And down he largely sat
On Sir. Charles A. Dana
And smashed him out quite flat.
Because when Grover Cleveland;
Sits on a man's bat.
There's something In his make-up
To smash the whole thing fiat.
Washington Star.
When yon see a woman who struggles to
keep np appearances you do not have to look far
to find a man who is struggling to keep down ex
penses. Atchison Globe.
Mrs. "White Dr. Jalop's daughter has
eloped with a Pullman car porter. Isn't It awfnl?
Mrs. Green And she always said that wealth
had no attractions for her, the hypocrite. Boston
Transcript.
Gassy It must have been rather rough
on the old Indians when they had but a single pipe
when tbey smoked their pipe of peace
Charlie 1 should say so: for my part when
there's a crowd I prefer a pipe apiece. Stio lor
iltrald.
The coachman who contemplates eloping
with and marrying his employer's daughter
should remember that by so doing- be will .lower
his position from coachman to xzoom.Blng ham
ton Republican.
"That's a splendid string of fish, Cadbury.
Of course you got tbem like all fishermen do.?"
No: I'll tell the boneit truth, I cauht them
myself."
Wickwtre What a lot of time is wasted
through Ignorance, that otherwise might be
saved.
Tabsley Isn't there though? 1 know of a ease
in point. Only last week I sat down and played
solitaire for three hours before I found out Idhln't
have a full deck." Terrs Itauts Express.
Between the Acts He It is really so
warm here that 1 th'nk I will go oat and get a
breath oralr. If yoa will excuse me. Miss Bloats.
She (oa his return) Do you call that air, Mr.
BJohnsou? Howard Lampoon, ,
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