THE PITTSBtmQ- ' DISPATCH. SUNDAY, APBIL 20, 1890. wkM$Mm. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8. 1S48. Vol. 45, lto.72. Entered at Pittsburg I'ostoStce. 'OTemberl4, 1PS7. as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smitnfleld. and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing Houso 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street. ratters Advertising Office, lloora 45, Tribune Building, New York. THE DISPATCH is regularly on tale at Hrentano's, S Uniun Squat e, Jfew York, where anyone who has been disappointed at a hotel news stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DlaPATCU. rOf TAGE FEEE IS TIIE CNITltD STATES. Uailt dispatch. One Year. f 8 00 Dailt Dispatch. 1'er Quarter !M Dailt Dispatch, OneMonth TO DAILY DisrATcn, including funday, 1 year. 10 00 DAILY DisrATcn, includingSunday.Sm'ths. ISO Daily Dispatch, including !unday.lmonth SO SUNDAY DISPAH n. One Year ISO V eekly Dispatch, One Year 125 The Daily Dispatch is delivered bycarrlersat Hcenuser week, or Including Sunday edition, at SO cents per week. 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The situation with regard to the threat ened railroad strike at the close of the week, while not fulfilling all the pleasant reports that the question was practically settled, etill leaves ground for the expectation that a fair and honorable settlement will be reached during the coming week. The officials of the Pennsylvania lines, which will exercise a controlling in fluence on the other railroads, have had due conferences with their men, and have made a proposition in reply to the de mands previously published. As will be seen elsewhere, the proposition is acceptable as to wages; butitisnot satisfactory to the men, in requiring twelve hours of work in stead of ten, which they claim. There is a good deal of force in the objection to twelve hours' work at such a task, and with the point properly urged there is reason to look for a modification of the terms. "With the two parties so near together, it is not likely that either side will permit the lemaining difference to generate a strike that would blockade business and inflict loss on all parties. The negotiations on the matter have been conducted with admirable gqod temper and mutual forbearance. We have every confidence that the maintenance of that commendable spirit will secure a satisfactory adjustment of the entire ques tion. When this is fully accomplished, Pitts burg can proudly call the attention of the rest of the world to the way in which she settles her wages disputes. AS TJKPLEASAKT DUTY. The Judges who have been laboring with the license question, are reported in an in terview to be very willing that an excise commission shall relieve them of that oner ous duty. Of course they are. Every one knows that the task or hearing applications for license is one which the Judges are not ambitious to undertake and of which they would gladly "be relieved. But if it is for the public advantage that this work shall bedone by the Judges, their personal disincli nation cannot bo accepted as sufficient ground for altering the law. Experience has demonstrated that more thorough im partiality and independence can be obtained from the bench than is possible for an excise commission which would be constituted by political influences that are posted about the saloons. The strong point of the Brooks law is in putting the licensing power in the hands of the Judges. Take that away and the whole measure is emasculated. CHICAGO'S K0DEL MAY0B. Chicago is enjoying a remarkable specta cle. She has a Mayor who was elected upon a platform in which the suppression of gambling was a cardinal plank. 2Ir. Cregier has been Mayor for rather more than a year and gambling has not been sup pressed. Prom time to time Mr. Cregier has delivered himself in this wise: "Isav now, and I say it for all time, gambling will not be allowed." Bnt gambling has been allowed to flourish, continuously. When the grand jurjrand the City Council called the Mayor's attention to the flagrant publicity of gambling, a few of the smallest gambling houses were raided. The great dens of the tiger were not disturbed. Then one day Mayor Cregier remarked with great solemnity: "I have been giving orders for some time, right along. But for some rea son they have not been obeyed. Now it is different: I say, and have said, the gam blers must go." The difference now is that the gambler - not gone. The Mayor keeps right aying that he has given orders for rmination of the gamblers, and the itinues to devour the unwary in a Jen. It would be marvelously C'hieagoans if it were not so .nd disgraceful. The Mayor has . the Pittsburg executive office .o order the police to do their duty, punish them it they fail. So the sion is forced npon Chicago's un- citizens that she has a Mayor who . jerateJy breaks his word and for rea sons best known to himself allows pnblic gambling houses to pursue their iniquitous trade undisturbed. The time will come, no doubt, when Chicago will say to her Mayor: "Go," and the order will be obeyed. In the meanwhile the Chicago newspapers will continne to obtain from the Mayor an nouncements of the gamblers' expulsion in the allernoon, and in the eveningfeend their reporters to the wide open gambling hells. The greatesta-cities in the Union are run ning each other bard in the race of iniquity. IHLIAH PE0PHECY. Ko sooner have Wiggins, the doom sealers of San Francisco and the St. Louis crank been disposed of by-the obstinate re fusal of- earthquakes- and- cataclysms to Jf ' t-tt mdfsvinl vnanlTact'ifiAri rF tliaia Tti ' "-,'-" """it"; vv.""v"-r. risible powers, than another rises to take their place. The last prophet of meteorolog ical, riparian and seismic convulsions has a better claim to public attention than any ot his predecessors, being aboriginal in descent, and so thoroughly instrncted in prophetic lore as to hare attained the official position of medicine man in the tribe of Shoshone Indians. The new prophet has another claim to public confidence in his name. The title of "ileat Axe," by which he is known, is highly descriptive of the instrument of cur rent prophecy and has a much more cogent significance than such common surname! as Wiggins or Hicks. "When an aboriginal medicine man with that impressive cogno men informs us that a flood will rise. -which will drown all the white men who have stolen the country of the Indians, but will spare the Indians and preserve the game for them, it is seen that the art of prophecy is exerted to some purpose. The big medicine man is prophesying smooth things for the Shoshones. It he had inti mated that they were to be washed in the coming flood it would have made the proph et very unpopular. But as the washing and the drowning are to be confined to the whites, the Indians who are to enter into possession of their old territory, with about a million acres for each brave, .will be prompt to recognize the advantages of the programme and to hail the prophet with ap proval. Possibly, also, the prophecy can be ac cepted with a view to the best interests of the white race. "With the experience of the last twenty years to go by, it might be the best way to have a new set of whites buy the conntry anew from the Indians, for a few kegs of whisky, and to reorganize the coun try on a plan which will not make it the property of politicians, trusts and railway( kings. THE PAN-AMERICAN EEC0BD. The end of the Pan-American Congress was reported yesterday. That body ad journed sine dit and was dismissed with words of farewell in speeches by Secretary Blaine and President Harrison. The Con gress has been in session somewhat over six months and its close leaves room for the criticism that its record contains more of sightseeing and banqueting than of actual results in the way of international negotia tions and agreements. No official statement of the definite re sults achieved by the congress has yet been made. The speech of Secretary Blaine is celculated to create the impression that the list of great objects fully attained is wholly comprised in the agreement for interna tional arbitration for the Western Hem isphere. As The Dispatch has hereto fore said, that is by itself enough to make the meeting an epoch in history. It is a great step in civilization; but it is hardly possible to avoid the reflection that if it were to be accomplished at all it might have been accomplished in less than six months. That reflection brings out another point, that up to the present time there is little in dication that the great commercial purpose of the gathering, the increase of trade rela tions between the United States and the South American nations has been advanced many appreciable degree by the congress. In inquiring why progress has not been made on that point the fact is likely to come out that the fault is less with the congress than with the United States. Secretary Blaine has brought ont the idea of reciprocity with South American countries, but the idea is altogether too daring for the publio mind. The result is that the object of South American trade, which filled, all minds last fall, has so far faded away that within the past few weeks we have barely escaped giv ing our South American friends a commer cial slap in the face, by a proposition to im pose a duty on Sonth American products at present untaxed, in a bill to reduce revenue. The gaining of international arbitration is a great and glorious step; but it is worth while to remember that if we are to extend our South American trade we must not be gin by building our tariff legislation on the log-rolling model. statesmen's "wash day." Last week was memorable and picturesque in the line of "wash day" exhibits from distinguished publio sources. Mr. Dana's talk about Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Cleve land's characterizations of Mr. Dana were quite enough to set the world wondering to what plane discussion of national poli tics and statesmanship is doomed presently to descend. But that was by no means the whole display. Cotemporaneously Editor Godkin, of the New York Evening Post, was facing a New Xork police justice for libeling Tammany leaders of whom he certainly drew the most startling pictures; while he was likewise reviving against Senator Quay the World charges, with sev eral new counts and enforcement of the old ones. Mr. Hilton also found the week un commonly disagreeable by reason of news i aper attacks upon his dealings with A. T. Stewart, and on the whole the quantity of dirty linen which was aired in print must have satisfied the most morbid inclination for that sort of thing. In the case of Mr. Dana and. President Cleveland, while there is no doubt that they eiijoy the ozone and bright sunlight of pnb licity, it is very questionable if, upon seri ous second thought, they will feel any the more satisfied with themselves not to speak of their feeling to each other for having dropped into billingsgate in public, merely to indnlgepersonal resentments. Godkin,the Evening Post man, doubtless enjoys his tilt with Tammany; but it would be interesting to know what he expects to accomplish in seconding the World's attack on Quay, while attempting to discredit that paper's first exploitation of it Meanwhile the Pennsylvania Senator is silent. Perhaps he, too, is bnt biding his time, and that, when seasonable in his estimation, he also may have some contribution for the clothes; line. The question of motives and purposes in all of these notable discussions and reviews of the relations of eminent public men to one another and to their constituents may have a good deal to do in measuring their effect. Very much of what has been charged in every one of the instances named has been alleged in some form or other before. Thus, while it may continue to be in teresting, it is not easy to expect the public to aflect the sensation of novelty at meeting it again. The curious thing is that these "revelations," after being allowed to lie for years in abeyance, should now suddenly take form all at once together, and assume epidemic dimensions. THE SIDEWALK QTESTIOK. The steps taken by the Department of Public Safety for clearing the sidewalks of obstructions has evoked some protests from, merchants who have been in the habit of. using a considerable share of the sidewalks for-the display of their goods, Some of the opposition is advanced with moderation and good'taste. The petition for an ordinance ce id. permitting merchants to .use .three .feet SB the space for the display of their goods is an action that the merchants have a perfect right to take, and the proposition is one that can be favorably considered, for localities' where there is sufficient space left lor pedes trians. On the other hand, merchants who adopt theplanre ported yesterday of takingin their goods and then leaving their cellar ways open, in revenge, are likely to get themselves into trouble. Under the recent decision of the Supreme Court, the legality of the cellar-ways, when they encroach on the sidewalks, is questionable. If they are left open wantonly and unnecessarily, the duty of the anthorities to prosecute such an ofTense is Tery clear. Business men should remember that they have no more right than anyone else to prevent the highways from their legal uses. The death of ex-Governor Pollock, which is reported elsewhere, recalls a figure whoso prominence in Pennsylvania politics of 40 years ago is so far a matter of the past as to bo beyond the memory ot most of the active men of the present day. As a Whiz member of Congress Governor Pollock was the first advo cate of a railroad to the Pacific. He was also the first Republican Governor of Pennsyl vania. His retirement from active politics took place before the entrance into that field of most of the present leaders, and his old age has been spent in pleasant and honorable retro spect. The cranky subject before the Quarter Sessions Court yesterday who developed the. theory that "the man is to be the boss" in the family, elicited a valuable judicial opinion on that Important point. Jndge Ewlng held that the Coart did not know, and we venture the assertion that this opinion will not be set aside by any superior court. Primrose Dat was celebrated in Eng gland by the Tories yesterday. The ceremenies consisted of decking the statue of Beaconsfield with primroses and resolving to hold on to the offices till the last gasp. It is noticeable that the charges found against Commander McCalla, do not include the offense of drnnkenness. Yet there Is no room for doubt that most of that officer's peculiar acts were committed under the pres sors ot a heavy load obtained by dining with -aristocracy and royalty abroad. Under these circumstances it may have been the opinion of the court of inquiry that drunkenness encoun tered in upholding: the social status of the navy is not an offenseat all. The announcement that Mr. Murat Hal stead is to be the editor of the Brooklyn Standard Union is calculated to arouse in quiries whether that ballot-box fiasco has produced such a stress of circumstances as to induce the ambitions Ohioan to conceal him self in the editorial rooms of a suburban sheet. Theee has been some "ghoulish glee" in the New York Sun's campaign against Cleve land's fleshly characteristics, bnt it has sub sided into mere scolding on both, sides. Ix will be to the advantage of Mr. Cleve land if he can show that a large portion of the interview attributed to him, which attacked Mr- Dana, was not his language. While it would have been better policy to have said nothing at all, it was permissible to deny the erroneous report ; bnt the other portion of the interview now alleged to have been manu factured by the interviewers was simply weak abuse. A HA.it threw himself down from the upper regions of the Albany capitol the other day with suicidal intent. His act would have excited universal commendation as an example for the members of the New York Legislature if it had not been an utter failure as an attempt at self-slaughter. A FAIR concession to the demands of the railroad yard men prevents a strike, and makes the industrial course of Pittsburg plain sailing for the rest of the year. Ix is a sad commentary on our politics when the esteemed Philadelphia Press finds comfort in the fact that the Democratic Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives is as partial as Speaker Reed. Perhaps there may come a time when party journals may per ceive that there is. no obligation on leaders to be as reckless or partisan as the worst ot their adversaries. HtJKirNGTOK and Stanford have fixed up their difference of opinion, the former having explained that all he said was to be taken in a Pickwickian sense. The important reflection came home to these railway magnates that they knew too much about each other to quarrel. With the baseball season fairly opened Congress might as well wind up its futile dalli ance with the tariff and subside into obscurity. Paraguay is complaining because the agents of the Argentine Republic, at Buenos Ayres, collar the immigrants whose passage money has been paid by the Paraguayan Gov ernment, and divert them into Argentine citi zenship. Could not theso agents be induced to come to Castle Garden and carry off the thou sands of immigrants of tho class that we do not want? Me. and Mrs. Johjt M. Wabd's mat rimonial relations have undergono the mis fortune of being: put ont at home base. The statement that thieves could break into the United States Treasury, with a few hours' work, has caused a sensation on both sides of the ocean. But tbo fact is ignored that if the thieves did so, they would have to carry off such an immense wagon load of silver coin that none of them have ever deemed it worth worth, while to make the attempt. PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE. Governor Goodell, of Now Hampshire, is slowly regaining health. Garabaldis son Menottl is a member of the Italian Parliament and an Alderman of Rome. The Prince of Wales recently appeared in pnblic with a yellow waistcoat and green gloves. DR. McCosn, ex-President of Princeton, is looking well and seems to take pleasure in so cial intercourse. Francis Wilson, the famous comedian, is a very nervous man. A first night is a source of dismay to him. Bishop Paret, of Maryland (Protestant Episcopal) is organizing a relief fund for the widows and orphans of ministers. Miss Josephine Simon, tho young singer adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone as a pro tege, is an Oakland, Cal., girl. General Adam E. Kino and General Ma hono are still wondering on which side of the fence that Paris consulate is to fall. Mr. J. R, Osgood and Mr. William Bliss, President o the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, will sail for Europe on April 20 on the Teutonic. Buffalo Bill receives about ten letters a week from women who want to marry. Some of these espistles are from this country.though most of them ate from Europeans. THE Duke of Connaught and party arrived at Tokio, Japan, Friday. They will leave Yo kohamaon the 10th of May tor Victoria, stop there two days- and then proceed to Ottawa. Platt and Quay both began their political careers by holding the office of county clerk. Piatt's first public office was that of county clerk of Tioga connty, N. Y. Quay began his office holding as Protbonotary (the Pennsyl vania, name for county clerk) of Beaver conn ty, Pa. It was a peculiarity of the lateSamnel J. Randall that he left the handling of his own financial matters to bis wife. It was a com mon occurrence for those who were frequently at home to hear him call to his young son Sammy.to aek "mower" for 60 cents or I .wherewith to buy postage sumps, t- jtstJsi,ufii THE TOPICAL TALKER. BasebnII Bales Supreme The Prime Min ister In (be Editorial Rooms The Peo ple's Cry The, H In Honor Fable of ibe Robin An Alphabetical Bedlam April's Messnge. pEOM this day forth until autumn calls tho game baseball with a big B, nay two big B's, rules supreme. The scenes in Pittsburg streets yesterday proved the extraordinary popularity of the national pastime. Crowds lined tho curb of Smithfield street, cheering themselves hoarse, while the procession of illus trious players passed by. It is extremely doubt ful if any aggregation of statesmen, divines, learned men, or publio benefactors wonld at tract a tenth part of the attention bestowed npon Pitcher Brown, Catcher Jones, and the splendid beings who compose a professional baseball team. Through the winter the sporting editor has been a modest and inconspicuous mortal, with whom his brethren conversed on terms ap proaching familiarity. Now we have changed all that. With bated breath and a clear con sciousness of their unwortblnesa, heboid edi tors ana reporters kissing the toe of the sport-, rag editor's No. 9 buskin! They are bappy if they are but allowed to pick up a base bit or a foul fly as it falls from the great man's table, groaning with baseball scoresl Even the ele vator boys acknowledge the superiority of the mortal (is he a mortal?) who fills a page of tbo paper with the records of the momentous con tests. The ambition of the young American is changing. Ho no longer aspires to the Presi dency, bnt be is not quite sure whether he would rather be the sporting editor of a daily paper or tho captain of a triumphant team. THE'PEOFLE'S CRY. Let statesmen die and governments go hence! Let taxes tlse and sacred tariffs fall! Beliglon vanish it for fifty cents We may see other fellows play baseball. mt Is odd that the h is silent In honor," re marked a yonng woman. "Not half so odd," said her father, "as that honor should be silent in so many men. T7 the committee of Allegheny Councils which is molting uiuenuy lor a. iiurarian iwr wr negie's gift, still thinks a linguist is beyond all others desirable, it is certain that William M. Stevenson has some slight recommendation for the post. He reads, writes and speaks German, French, Spanish and Italian, beside his own language, in the use of which he has, as lawyer and newspaper man, had lots ot experience. - THE ROSIN A FABLE. A robin, quite young 1 cannot tell whether He was urged by the vanity born of fine feather, A lady love's hint, or the charm of the weather, Or all of these causes collected together Announced t'other day. In the plainest of terms. That he was too good for a diet of .worms. In luture," said he with a flirt of his tall, 'I shall dine npon butterflies, beauties that sail From flower to flower. Earth worms, sir, are stale; I can feel they are making my breast feathers palel" And he flatly refused to listen to reason. When someone remarked he was rushing the season. So he sat on a fence and waited for-summerl lint minute by minute his claws became number. It was April, you know, and the wind was a hum mer; It made tbat poor robin feel rummer and rummer. He was empty ah, me I not a butterfly Sew, And the robin though red felt uncommonly blue! He sat there all day; no breakfast, no dinner When supper time came he was palpably thinner; And to mate matters worse for the poor little sinner. His sweetheart said no such old scarecrow conld win her! And of all the young robins about the next dawn Our hero dug hardest for worms in the lawn. MOEAX. The moral? This history simply affirms: Be content when you've plenty ot money or worms I TITHES' the train stopped at a small place a short way ont from Charleston. S. C, a very small negro boy with most remarkably crinkly hair climbed on board the last coach. A Pittsburger was the first victim the little dusky cherub selected. He asked for money, of course. The Pittsburger saw a chance for killing the time which the traln'was bound to spend on the side track. Said be: 'Til give you a dime If you say the alphabet correctly!" The cherub lost no time, and sailed into a sea of letters. He emerged all right on z after con siderable floundering and pulling of hair. The dime was banded over, and the elated recipient fell off the steps headlong. In less than two minutes there were a score cf negro boys, some mere babies, others almost men, around the car, singing tbe queerest sere nade ever heard. They were gabbling off the alphabet, every mother's son of them, as fast as possible and at the top of their voices. The train began to move, but the alphabetical chorus kept on till the engine had raised steam and put half a mile between the amused pas sengers and this curious seat of South Caro linian culture. APRIL'S MESSAGE. More sun than shower, April's rich in smiles, All things to gold beneath her fingers turn; From grassy seas spring up volcanic Isles, Where daffodillies burst and tulips burn. Prom flower to bough the conflagration flies, Till all the orchard trees are In a blaze; And If you look you'll see In Delia's eyes A new light shine beware too long to gazel If every year the old earth wakes again At Spring' soft touch, awakes, and smiles, and sings, And gives glad thanks for April's sun and rain. Then why not we? The season surely brings This message to our souls that never die: "Death deals with dust. Spring's yours eter nally I" HEPBURN JOHNS. THE HISSING EEIN. Another Bottle Containing- a Card Picked Up at Cadgwltb. IDT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, April 19. London editors are ob viously not up in cotemporary literature. Tbe following paragraph appeared in several newspapers here to-day: "A bottle Containing a card on which were written the words 'Steamer Erin, Captain McGinty, on the bottom of the sea.' was picieed up at Cadgwltb, near the Lizard. It was a business card on the reverse side of which was printed, 'D. J. Woeike, banker and broker, New York.' There is reason to believe that this is a cenuine message from the ill-fated mail liner, Erin, from New York, and seems to show tbat the steamer was lost not far from England." A Gift That is Not Appreciated. From the Mercer Dispatch. Andrew Carneeie's gift to Pittsburg does not seem to be appreciated. Mrs. Schenley, also, will have to run free electric cars to her dona tion to the city before the city will show any appreciation of the gift. People who "look a gilt horse in tho mouth" rarely get a team. Tbe MrjtirltrWIII be tbe Same. From tho Canton Repository. Whether it be Delamater, Hastings. Mon tooth or Osborne who captures tbe Guberna torial nomination in Pennsylvania, the Repub licans of tbe Keystone State will roll up a big majority for the successful man. Asklnc for a Mnnll Slice. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia is not greedy, bnt she wonld like to have enough of tbe river and harbor ap propriations to dredge the channel In Delaware bay, so tbnt a fall-sized modern ship can get Into and out of this port. , It Would Prove a Bargain. From the Boston Globe. Wanamaker for Governor of Pennsylvania? This would be a counter move against Dela mater, and would prove a great bargain for the Democrats. DEATHS OF A DAI. David McCoy. , ISFECIAXi TILXO BAM TO T BISr ATCR.I ALTOOXA, April 19. -David McCoy, aged 43 years, a prominent citizen of Altoona, died In Philadelphia this morning, where he had gone a week ago for medical relief. His death was due to paralysis. He was a member or the coal Arm ofTaylor McCoy, of Uallltzln and Oreenwhlte. Bis wealth Is estimated at 00,000. Sirs. A. W. Brown. I COMBiBi,Ain, W.VA.. April li.-Mrs. Brown "Will yon kindly help a-flood. sufferer, sir?-' (neeMorrow). wife of Ar,W: Brown, -editor of tbe "AfloodsttirererrYoumeanaaroatnsunerer." aggravawu"--zi lndcptndmt, ; died tcaay about noonrfietssjsjjBtaMMMMWM&QEO'TraBMLL Jacxsok. , coniigenaifc ipo.uon.jto tup pqamerioi 1 wimaet,fijMaiBlBMtJsaMsaissMHsas. sSJBaB3B sjsesu. .i ii i nmr-mmmmmmmmrKwr--mBmmm3tmwrmmmammt.iwas& aajcsjuVJBan MMnBBSM III II II II III. "T fT,lT rrrSSy-raw' PREHISTORIC REMAINS. The University of Pennsylvania Secures Six Boxes of Carious Old Bones. Big boxes lull of curious old bones have been arriving lately at the Biological School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, pending a resting place In the working room of Prof. Joseph Leidy, tbe famous anatomist. They were found in Levy county, Fla, The specimens have been carefully wrapped up in Florida mosa and other packing to prevent breaking on tbe way Nortb. These bones are hundreds of years old. Tbey belong to extinct creatures of the quaternary period. Br. Leidy has been hard at work Iden tifying tbe animals of which tbe bones form a part,, and this identification Is now complete. His conclnsions are very Interesting. The chief bnnes, he says, are thoso of a rhinoceros, mastodon, a llama, a three-toed horse and a giant sloth. There are also parts of a tapir, a smau crocoune ana a gar piKe. LITTLE THINGS THAT HAPPEN. George Russell Jackson's Funny and Philo sophical Observations. rwRlTTXir FOB THE DISPATCH. 1 The Spring Dade. When soda founts begin to fizz. And meads assume their verdant hues, Bis nlstcr coat discard l is. Likewise his arctic overshoes. He then becomes a man of note A fact that no one will dlspnte; Ee wears a short, light overcoat Above a nobby, new spring suit. that dressed, and famished with a cane (Like to tho club of Hurcules), He eyes tbe bcauteons, chattering train That Issues from the matinees. And thinks It is a splendid Joke An action worthy of applause To pun" in ladles' eyes the smoke That from bis cigarette he draws. Tbe Schema Did Not Work. "John," said tbe talkative wife, as her quiet husband crept meekly into bed, "I did not hear the strangers go." "Ko, they arc still In the parlor; the servant girt will let them out in an hour or two." "Who are theyr" "They are shorthand reporters. Ton see, I al ways forget what row say to me aiterwe're In bed, and sometimes I go to sleep when you're talking, so 1 thought 1 would have your lecture written out and study It over at my leisure. They're all ready; the door's open so'a they csn hear you, and you can begin as soon as you like." Tbe reporters were quickly hustled out. and the lecture that night lasted three hours longer than usual. The Bald-LTcnded Man at tbo Ballet. The bald-headed man, near the orchestra, Observed the curtain upward go. And smiled to see the rich display On beauty, In the footlights' glow. And as the coryphees began Around the fairy queen to whirl. Be said, "If clothes don't make the man Their absence makes the ballet girl." How Tbey Conld Tell. "I CAN always tell when my husband has been drinking," said a young wife. "Yes?" said another young wife. "Yes, I know it the moment he kisses me." "lean also tell when my husband has been drinking,1' said the other. "Yes?" "Yes. When he doesn't kiss me." Their Pets. How strange It is that womankind, E'en those of stable minds. At different ages are Inclined To pet or different kinds I We note, as through the world we Jog, Tbe fact, most curious, that The yonthful maiden loves her dog, The ancient one, her cat. To Make Him Brave. I don't know what to do with that boy of mine, " said a fond father to a friend; "he has no spunk in him; lets all the other boys crow over him in short, is a perfect coward." "Let him eat plenty of sugar," said the friend. "What good will that do?" "It will put some grit into him. " Donnelley'a Cipher. Bo, after all the years of toil. The years of anxious thought And burning of tbe midnight oil- Hls cipher came to naught! Whr He Ran. First Messenger Boy Say, that new feller tbat gist come on last week was seen rnnnln' with a message to-day. Second Messenger Hoy Yes; I seen him; It's all right. F. M. B. But runnln's agin the regulations. S. M. B. Dat's all right. It was a message for the stage manager of the dime museum, and tbe messenger wanted to get Into the theater 'fore der performance commenced. See? Cnsh Business. He dropped a nickel in the slot. So tbat his friends might say, Before npon the scales he got He paid his weigh. A Ballroom Dlnlogue. He (during the waltz) I do not think I ever met yon before. She I do not recollect baying met yon before. He Do yon live in the oily? She Yes. He With your parents ? She-Yes. He I'm glad or It. I may have the pleasure of meeting you again. Is your father In business? She-No. My father Is an officer. He (with Inter est) Indeed I In the: army or navy? She A police officer. Naturally So. She was ont in her new spring bonnet, And no umbrella she bad; And a shower came down npon It. And the woman was hopping mad. ' A Tame Affair. "How did the football game come off t" "It was the tamest affair I ever saw." "Why. 1 thought they were crack teams?" "OhI tbe kicking was all well enough; showed lots or science and all that sort of thing." "Why do you call It a tame affair then?" "Why, man,thegameended without a fight." The Convalescent Humorist. From smallpox just recoveries he lay, Andsaidi "If anyone for me Inquires Inform them 1 can say with poet Urayi "ITn in our rashes live their wonted fires. " More Tlinn tbe Snlbs. Yardlt My wife was so mad at me when I went home last night for staying out so late that she wouldn't speak to me. Wardly Mine was mad, too, and what was worse, she did speak to me. How It Was Done. "How did Mary happen to catch the young bridge architect?" "With arch looks, I guess." Always tbo Way. NOW that the streamlets are thawing. And blue birds are singing all day. The played out old furnace Is drawing Aud-weli, that Is always the way. Cause and Effect. When a man goes borne loaded there is like ly to be an explosion In tbe bouse. A Good illatcb. 'Ti3, as von say, a first-rate catch; For beauty there are few to match her. And she has made a splendid catch, Fcr she has caught a baseball catcher. The Small Boy Stakes Blare Trouble. Young man (to little brother of girl on whom be bss called) Does yonr sister lla ever sneak of me. Johnnie? Little Brother Yes, often and often. Y. M. What does she say? L. B. Well, she said to pa once, when pa said you were rather fresh looking, that sha didn't think you knew enough to go in when it rained; but that don't matter, for I see you've brought your umbrella. Tho Fortunate Man. How little knows be of life's ill, or of the wenry care that cankers. Whose debts are paid and who has still A handsome balance at bis banker's. Ee may do almost as he wills. Through autumn, winter, spring and summer, And ruthlessly cut down the bills. Of both the Iceman and tbe plumber. Ho Knew Him. "Will yon kindly help a -flood, sufferer, sir?" METROPOLITAN LIFE. New York Not a Cliy of names Semr Quay Gossip Bnrnam's Modern Mornl Show Why Ban liimiont Thinks Cleveland Needs a Club Tip for Travclers- 1CORRESFOXDEXCX OT TTIK DISPATCH.! T EW Yore, April 19. There is much more interest here concerning Pennsylvania politics and other Keystone matters than will be readily imagined west of tbe Allegheny mountains. I nsed to think the quips ot the New York press lar-fetcbed when they played upon Philadelphia as a suburb of the metropo lis. Now I understand the significance of the allusion. A large and rapidly crowinsr number of Philadelphlans do bnsiness in New York and reside in Philadelphia. Every Saturday night train is loaded with them, going home to spend Sunday with their families. And they are parlor-car citizens, too. So crowded are the daily evening vestibule trains tbat you can rarely cet a seat this side of Philadelphia unless you engage It 12 hours in advance. I know even newspaper men In the City of Brotherly Love who work all the week on New York papers and pass every Sunday at home. Between living here in ex pensive down-town flats, or in cheaper apart ments in Harlem or Brooklyn, and retaining their homes and home comforts in Philadel phia they prefer the occasional two hours' ride which brings them to the latter. Nev York is not a city of homes except for the favored few. These must be able to invest from $30,000 to $100,000 in that "home" and 6pend from 810,000 to $25,000 a year to keep np the establishment. I live in a modest fiat on Sixty-ninth street, west side, about midway be. tween tbe Hudson and Central Park, paying $10 a month rent for that privilege. The same flat three squares nearer the elevated railway station would bring 60 per month. There are solid rows of residence? about and being bnilt near me, not one of which can be purchased for less than $30,000, and they run all the way up to $100,000. It costs from $7,000 to $25,000 to fur- mi one oi tuese appropriately, strolling np Ninth avenue tbe other daj I noted a sign board on a vacant lot between two residences on a side street (Eighty-first street): "This lot and party walls, $35,000." It was only tbe regu lation 24-foot lot, but tbe cellar had been exca vated. Fancy a man in Philadelphia orPitts bure investing sneh a sum in such a lot five or six miles from his business. I asked a con tractor about the matter. He tells me that almost any lot on the West Side of Central Park will cost $10,000 excavated, and desirable ones from $15,000 up. Tbe cost of excavating a shallow cellar for a high stoop residence is con siderable, as the solid rock must be quarried. ijiBbivauunuaaro ac it in every uirection. There are six of them hustling away within pistol shot at me and the dynamite explosions of the blaster rattle you np in almost any block north of Filty-ninth street. At the present rate of building within the next five years there will not be an acre of vacant ground the whole length of the great park. Eacb succeed ing year makes all this still more ami more ex pensive. Where will the New Yorker of the future live? In Philadelphia? Well, if be does, we can't blame him any more than we can for living there now. Throngh Anti-Qnay Spectacles. o'WT'IlAT's tho matter with Quay?" I asked a Pennsylvania Republican of anti Quay professions o few days after tbe appear ance of the Lea epistle. He was sitting at one of the little tables in the Hoffman art gallery studying art at 25 cents a nip. Instead of the usual repartee of the Clover Club, my friend immediately flew off in a tangent of zig-zag profanity that almost startled the waiters out of their studied English stupidity. Devoid of ornamentation, his remarks were: "Quay, In the oninion of some of us, is the biggest load tbe Republican party of Pennsyl vania bas had to carry. Why, if there was a Htate election next week, with Delamater as Republican candidate, a Democrat wonld be elected yes. even Wallace would be. Senator Qnay bas not learned to distinguish between the political leader and tbe political boss. He Is not Shrewd In this, for he could have mnch more easily have accomplished his ends by seeming to let the other fellows have a say In the matter. Now his opponents have taken the bit in their teeth and will lie down in the road unless Qnay gives in." "But is Quay any worse than Cameron was?" I innocently Inquired. Cameron! Why zig-zag didn't the party HeJ down under tbe weight of Don Cameron? And didn't it get np promptly and travel on again when Don got off? Cameron was simply stupid. Quy is persistent and openly atrgres- Biye. tameron uau no political eenso until it was pounded into him with a club." "And then " "Then he was accepted as the best man where the Qnay tactics would have defeated him. In my opinion Camei on did tbo smartest political trick of his career when he cat loose ostensibly from the politics of tbe Slate and went abroad. Bill Wallace bas been trying tbe same eame. Had Cameron remained here and personally without regard to the other "managers" done tho boss act be wonld have been retired to private life permanently in stead of being sent to the Senate again without much of a struggle. A Tip for Travelers. "pHE proposition by Jndge Cooley to amend the inter-State commerce law by. among other things, compelling railway companies to redeem the unused portions of thoir tickets, reminds me that tbe Pennsylvania road has been doing tbat for some time. It is the only road, I believe, that bas adopted the hon est course in this matter. True, tbe fact is com paratively unknown, but it is a facr. The scalper does not trouble the Pennsylvania. Not only will the road redeem the unused ticket, but If you should get left by any acci dent after having secured a seat on a particu lar train, you can get a new seat on a subse quent train without loss by immediate notice. I'vo tried it and know. Since that, in conversa tion with others, my statement was disputed and tbe question was referred to Mr. George Boyd, AssUtant General Passenger Agent, and set tled by him in the affirmative. I don't suppose this applies to special tickets, excursion and round trip, and so on, though you can certainly get your money back on any regular unused ticket by sending it to headquarters at Phila delphia, stating the circumstances. The Cooley proposition should become law, and in my Judgment, such a law would be greatly to tho advantage of the railway companies in destroy ing the means by which one scalps the other on the sly. Lnmonton Ibe Cleveland Boom. t came down tbe Elevated the other morning with Colonel Dan Lamont. The late Presi dental P. S. looks considerably better physi cally and is a great deal better off financially since he dropped ont of politics and into street railway management. He was dis posed to condole with 'Llge Halford. The Colonel is .not asleep on tho po litical issues of the day. He thinks one Platt bas recently been dolnz cnongh to float the Democratic party in this State without the necessity for any exertion on its part. A good many people of Boss Plait's own party think tbe same, for matter of that. In the course of our conversation I referred to the overzealons friends of Mr. Cleveland who are pushing his renoinination into untimely promi nence. "It is without his sanction and bevond his ability to avoid." "And yet he 'catches it all the same," said L "Ob, yes: there are a good many very excel lent people who think that tbe old man should go 'rouud with a club and kill off all tbo fools." Tbe Great Moral Spectacle. 'THE Barnum is again on his native heath. is under acres of canvas on tbe old Polo Grounds. It opened Saturday night. I went. So did 14,909 others, if It be true tbat the tent will seat 15.000 people, for the ropes were stretched across the entrance at 8:30 and I saw hundreds turned away. Subsequently 1 took my little boy just as my father took me to see Bar nam's 35 or 40 years ago. Barnum's then as the old-fashioned circus and a few animals, the latter being paraded beforo tbo moral eye of tbe public to catch the Sunday schools. Tom Thumb was the one thing I most distinctly remember now as the great attraction of tho time. The Tom Thumb of that day was quite a different little man from the Tom xiiutnD ot aiter years, tat, stout ami tough. There was a companion freak with Tom then who came In for a big share of morbid curiosity, tbe man who. born without arms, did every thing with bis toes shooting pistols, bow and arrow, eating and so on. I remember blm be cause the day 1 saw them in tbe long ago the armless man nearly pot an arrow into Bar num instead of hitting tbe silver 'coin on the end of a stick whereat Tom indulged iu some light witicism whicb set the crowd in a roar. I distinctly remember langbing heartily myself, but I don't remember the witicism. The Barnum's Great Moral Show of to-day would have paralyzed the people of tbat era. I should say, uerbaps, that tbe great mural peo ple of that day would have paralyzed this show. Good beavensl Think of 400 or Kiralfy'a ballet girls displaying tbemselvos In Barnum's tent 40 years ago for an hour and a half liefore tbe innocent native school children! Then it re quired a good many carious animals and freaks to induce the bald-headed Sunday school su perintendent to put himself r.-ltlun the cor rupting lflNiencd of an acrobat In tights; but think oSiOi' .ballet girls sprung suddenly on such a yiblW as that! It 'wonld have made thplr hntt cOTl. Ta u old rnnnilor nf th fratn moral ert V'B21't" ' springing an old joke in yAi. a great moral snow wa pretty faces we recognize among the cory phees. 9 M Through Three Glasses. pEoif the front platform of a Broadway car the other day I saw a common sight. Ic was a long line of raw Italian Immigrants com ing np the street from Castle Garden, their en tire household goods upon the backs ot the men and hare heads of the women. "Look at the loikes o' tklml" exclaimed the car driver. "Do yes see 'emf says be. Indignantly. "I do." says I. "Well, curse a Eyetalyan," says he. "Thev don't look as if yon conld make them worse off by that," says L "Not a bit of it, the miserable dlrilst" says he. "They are a bad lot," mnttered a gentleman on my right. "Icflade, sor, an' there yon're right, sor! Be dad, sor, to-morrow they'll be at work in that trench, sor, fur a dollar a day!" And the angry driver cut his nie;h horse a clip with tbe whip that made the hair fly. There were three ways of looking at it among three men on tbat platform. www A Prcsidentnl Straw. JN company of a friend, who differed with me, I asked tne first ten men of our acquaint ance, met bap-hazzard, who would be the next Democratic nominee for the Presidency. "Cleveland," they answered. He asked of the same who the next Republican nominee would be. "Not Harrison," was the most definite re ply or all. That seems to be a bad lookout for both of these eminent statesmen. Chas. T. Murray. 0DK PlOAD EXPEDITION. A Paper Suggests tbe Advlsnbillty of Pro viding a Diving Bell. From the Somerset Standard. The Fittsbueq Dispatch has started out an expedition of the "Pike's Peak or bust" sort, and if it doesn't return "busted by thunder," there will be sufficient grounds for general surprise. The expedition was fully equipped and sent out for the purpose of as certaining tbe condition of tho roads In tbe connties in the Western part of tho State. We'll wager a "blind robin" against the explor ing party's entire outfit tbat any of the farmers of this connty can tell more abont bad roads In five mlnntes than the spokesman of that expe dition will know at the round-up. What oar farmers don't know about roads isn't worth knowing. They know them from top to bottom where there is any bottom. They've been sounding their depth all winter, and the sound ings have been anywhere from "knee-deep" to "mark twain." They've been hauling mnd into town all winter on their wheels. It will be dried by a Jnly sun. stirred up and wafted by an August breeze, and carried Into Pittsburg In the eyes of our summer boarders. That's the way we get rid of it. There are a number of our conntry friends whose smiling countenances we have not been permitted to gaze npon lately, and we fear they have started to town with a load of something and unintentionally taken the subterranean route. Our farmers cannot bear tbe awful roads, and the awful road3 cannot bear them. When The dispatch party strikes this county they shonld add to their paraphernalia a diving bell, as there are divers places they will need it. The party is said to oe making explora tions with a view to bettering the condition of the roads. This view Is evidently of the long ranged variety, as their conveyance is now plowing up Green county clay and turning the roads bottom up, while the reporters attached to the expedition are appropriating tbe rails from the fences for prys. They are prying into the road question "pretty considerably," and it Is to be hoped that mnch good and The Dis patch outfit may come ont of it. IN HEH0RT OP S. S. COX. Congressmen Cnmmlngi, Holmnnand Other Pay Loving; Tribute to Ills Memory. Washington, April 19. At 1 o'clock public business was suspended and the House pro ceeded to pay tribute to the memory of Samuel S.Cox.Jof New York. Mr. Cummlngs. of New York, delivered the first address. He dwelt" upon Mr. Cox's en dearing qualities and high intellect, which made friends everywhere and enemies nowhere. His active and busy mind and his ever ready and eloquent tongne were at rest. The un obtrusive friend of tbe masses bad passed away. Only his memory remained and that memory perfumed every home in the land. Reviewing tbe life of Mr. Cox he traced the statesman's progress from bis boyhood up to tbe time when his name had become a house hold word, and he paid an eloquent tribute of the love and devotion which had for many years bound together Mr. Cox and bis wife, who bad ever been bis inseparable companion. He then reviewed the deceased statesman's Congressional career. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, paid bis tribute of sorrow and honor upon tbe grave of an old col league and an old friend, whose work was ever on the side of humanity, and whose greeting wa a ernlden gleam of snnshlne. Mr. Mills, of Texas, In a voice moved with emotion, recalled tbe recent deaths of Messrs. Kelleyand Randall. As ha stood over tbe three newlr made graves he might truly say that three creat men had fallen. Cox had come to tbe Honse first, and had been first to cross tbe river: Keller bad come next and had fol lowed next: Randall bad come third and had gone third; and it might be said of tbem all. "Tneywere inveiyana pleasant in tneir lives, and in death they were not divided" Mr. Butterwortb, of Ohio, lamented there cent demise of three great men Cox, Kelley and Randall each creat In a different way. Mr. Cox was a well-equipped, all-round fighter, but he differed from Mr. Randall in that he was a teacher, not an aggressive leader of men. Each had served his nation nobly, and de served well of bis country. In paying his las: tribute af respect to Mr. Cox's memory, it was his duty and pleasure to say of him that the world was better tbat he had lived, and that those with whom be bad come in contact were made better by that association. After other addresses tbe House adjourned. THE iVDESEEI DEAHA CONDEMNED, fi Tho London Times Severely Criticises lUxle and tbo Paapcr and Prince. IBT CABLE TO TUX DISPATCH. London, April 19. Mrs. Burnett's play "Nixie," with Little and Webling in the lead ing parts, has been "slated." This play and Mrs. Beranger's version of "Tbe Prince and tbe Pauper," with Vera Beranger in tbe chief role, lias brought about an outcry against tbe nursery drama. The Times says that "Nixie" is the worst conceivable specimen of a play ever written for the exploitation of a child actress, and calls It "farrago of pernicious sentimental ity." Other papers are notmucb kinder. "The Prince and the Pauper" has received a trifle better treatment, and tbe little girls in each play are lavishly praised. In spite of the fact that the critics unanimously condemned "A Village Priest" at the Haymarket, tho piece is having a great run. I met Charles Overton, who receives 10 per cent of tbe gross proceeas for his share in the play, this morning and he showed me a check tor 128 as bis return for tbe present week, which makes the receipts 1.280. lio told me tbat bis share last week was ll'J. Friend' of Mrs. Harry T. Sergeant, who has been left destltnte by her husband, who is now managing Lady Cburcbill Jodrell's tour in America, are considering a project of a benefit for her at one of the London theaters. Mrs. Sergeant Is entirely destitute and has two chil dren dependent npon her for support. To Be or Not Tab a. From the Mew York World. A musician in Pittsburg wants to know what became of tuba-player wbo came over to this conntry from England to join Barnum's circus band and was stopped at Castle Garden as a contract laborer. That great question of tuba or not tuba has been settled In tbo musician's favor. He took his intrument before Collector Erhardt, like a second Orpheus, and played so sweetly tbat the Collector at once rated him as a first-class artist free of duty. Tbe tnba now ranks with the tuber in public estimation. No Farther Use for Railroads. From the Philadelphia Kecord.j The Standard Oil Company Is building at Baltimore a big steel tank steamer for the coast ing trade, it will carry crnde oil from the sea side terminals of the Standard pipe lines to re fining points that may be reached by water. Since tbo Standard, owing to the provisions of the inter-State commerce act, cannot make its usual one-sided arrangements with railroad companies, it finds no further use for them. Our Female Bread Winners. From tbe Nw York Herald. Tbe recent convention of the Association of Working Girl' Societies has attracted public attention to a great and worthy work, which affects not only the present bnt tbe f atnre welfare of a Targe aJiM of. the country's hid winners, CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. -Twins were born in Colton, Col. The boy weighs 1 pound and 14 ounces, while the girl scales 2 pounds and 11 ounces. Miss Flora Woodward Tibbits, of Ann Arbor, Is the first woman in Jllchlgan to apply foradinksiou to the bar of tbe Supreme Court. A brakeman who lost an arm in the dis charge or his duty was awarded $13,000 from tbe Boston and Albany Railroad by a recent verdict in Boston. Dr. Slary "Walker is this spring wearing a tall bat with a wide curling brim, a double- uiKw ui;. coat an(j pantaioons ua u favoritu width. ' An Insane woman attracted attention in Irving place. New York, the other day by going through a vision of a horse race and ettlng on a losing horse. Samuel Gagnon, of Northport, Mich., bas ha3 two wives and 13 children. His brother George, of the same town, has also been mar ried twice and is the father of 26 children. Two California fishermen met with great luck. Their first catch was a man-eating shark. 18 feet long, that weighed 4.000 pounds, followed by landing a stingaree that scaled 123 pounds. The English Government hai been re deeming at their nominal value the old gold coins that have become short weight throngh mnch use, with the idea of getting them out of circulation. The King of Ashantce has 3,333 wives. They all live on one street on Coomassie, and when they go ont for a walk in a body, pre ceded by the eunuchs, everybody else has to walk In tbe gutter. There is fashion iu canes as well as everything else. Big canes and crooked handles have gone ont, and the present" fancy is for canes tolerably slender and with a knob or other finish at the top. According to recent figures, the people of this conntry are longer lived than those of Europe. In this country 13 persons out of every 1.000 die each year. In England the average hi 20. and in Germany 20. Mrs. Lewis Wint, of Williamston, Mich., had the grip last winter, and it left her blind. Tuesday, without warning, medicine, or even faith, her sight was restored, and she's the happiest woman in tbe village. A man recently hanged in a Southern State was born on Friday, was married on Friday, presented with twins on Friday, com mitted his crime on Friday and was hanged on Friday. And bis name wasn't Friday. A beautiful girl in Boscobel, "Wis., was jilted on her wedding night, and instantly dis appeared. The whole town tnmed ont at mid night in search of her. but failed to And her. Tbe recreantbridegroom was.arrested. Tne sura of J55.000 in gold coin was sent from San Bernardino to San Francisco by mall a few days agoas second-class matter at 1 cent an ounce. An insurance company tooe a risk on the coin and the bank saved $159 by using the mail. Two brothers na med Larsen, residing at Mil bank, S. D., hearing a noise ontslde their home, armed themselves and one went out tbe back door and the other out the front door. They met and one brotber mistaking the other for a burglar, tired and killed him instantly. "While a man wa3 cleaning ont a well at Trnax Prairie, Wis., he was overcome by the Impure air and fell backward', and one foot became entangled m tbe rope, and be was bnisted nearly to the top. when tbe rope broke. He fell to the bottom and was Instantly killed. General Fremont wore his hair falling over his shoulders until within five or six years ago when some friends Induced him to have it cut quite short. This changed his appearance so greatly that he 'leclaretl he could hardly recognize his own reflection in the mirror. Three years ago a St, Clair county, Mich., clergyman preached a sermon over the body of a good citizen. It was a good sermon, and the preacher charged the estate $50 for It. The bill hasn't been paid, and it is now in the Probate Court, with $11 interest attached. "Pies geve pa 700" written upon the back of an envelope was a check presented to Cashier Hart, of the Lenawee connty, Micb.. Savings Bank, the other day. and it was as good. Tbe cashier filed it away as the most unique thing of tbe kind ever offered over that connter. Seven of the snpposed-to-be-sharpest and wisest lawyers In the country have made wills, Eassed away, and tbe said wills have been roken all to fllnters by heirs and other lawyers. An ignorant Missouri farmer wrote his will in four lines on a slate and it stood three lawsuits and ten lawyers. The old elm at the corner of Church and Chapel streets. New Haven, celebrated Its 100th birthday last Wednesday. Itwas planted byThaddens Beecber, according to an iron tablet nailed to it. and bas long been an object of interest to visitor?. Nearly all its boughs and branches were decorated with bunting; A well developed calf having; six dis tinct legs was born on a farm near Pittsbnrg '.at week. Four of tbe legs protruded from tbe usual parts of tbe body, with the two extra ap pendages abont mid way between tbe fore and fiind legs. Otherwise, save tbat the tail was a little awry, tbe calf was reinarsably well formed and developed. Alice Donovan, a servant, left in charge of ber master's house at Peoria. 111., is a female Casablanca. The house caught fire and she re fused to leavo when called npon by tbem on tbe outside of the burning building to do so. At last one ot the firemen, at tbe risk of his life, rushed in and dragged her by main force through flame and smoke to the open air. The girl was seized with hysterics and may die. A Bible has just been rediscovered in the Vatican library which is in Hebrew. It is supposed to be the oldest In the world, and is valued at $100,000. It is so weighty tbat it re quires two men to lift it, the binding being in heavy metal. In tbe year 1512, tbe Jews of Venice offered Pope Julius II its weight In gold for it, but though he was financially hard up just then, be refused tbe offer. It is a well-known fact that ladies seldom trust their finest handkerchiefs to tbe tender mercies of a laundress. These pretty trifles are washed at bome and spread upon a window pane to dry. They peel off easily and look as fresh as if just from the shop. Not many years ago tbe wite of a titled Englishman visiting this country and falling upon evil fortunes helped to keep the wolf from the door by wash ing the laces and fine linen of American women, CDEKENT TIMELY TOPICS. The reason that President Harrison bas not vetoed a bill this season Is that tbe law makers have not given blm a chance yet. The present Congress has been in session four months, and tbey have brokea alt previous records as far as ac complishing nothing is concerned. The title of "Fatter of the Honse" still be longs to Pennsylvania. It behooves Mr. O'Neill to guard his health well and see that he la sent back to Congress, or the title will be lost to the Keystone State. When a fire breaks out In Meadrille every able-bodied man, woman and child make a wild dash for tbe scene of tbe conflagration. In Brad ford nothing bat a dogfight will encourage the boys to leave their warm beds and the saloons. At Tltnsvllle a stranger attracts more attention than a circus, and In Oil City an Invitation to take somethln' will stop all tbe industries in the city. Between the proposed World's Fair, its gamblers, crooked policemen, short Ice crop. Democratic victories and Innumerable other little misfortunes, Chicago is having a pretty hard spring of It. A rip snorting wind storm would change the everyday monotony of affairs. THE bridges raked In many an extra penny last evening from persons who went over to see the ghosts walk. The Louisiana Lottery Company offers to pay that State 112, Sou. 000 for the privilege of carry ing on Its business for 12 years. And yet fools continue sending money to this monumental fraud with the expectation of drawing a prise I Molasses and sugar on tbe tiea list i That's taffy enough for ope year. After a careful perusal of tbe approprla tlons for river a"ftd harbor Improvements, the hor rible discovery bas been made that no mention U made of the roaring ElsKlmlnetas. Little slights like this will cot help the Kepabllcan party. Now that the baseball season U fairly taPConxress opened. It Is reasonable to suppose tnafConrreis and the Ohio Legislature win nnxry ap matters and adjourn. The fascinating game of poker Is played throughout the entire world. Asa consequence a Swiss treasurer Is among the missing. Hon. James C. Platt has had bis salary (f2O.C0C) reduced 20 per cent. He has tbe sympa thies of the laboring classes all over this broad land. h. The Southslde never does things by halves.. Just think of s, ghost traveling, aronad'.wi.i, Ji- ft- pvvwsiiyissiiiuss &.J J ooMre, riMSDurg aTrj i U ft
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