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EXTENDING TRANSIT SCHEMES.
The rivalry between the traction roads
running to the eastern portions of the city is
taking an active and interesting form. The
latest development is tbe extension of lines
to reach the business beyond East Liberty.
The Duquesne Company's far-reaching
project is shown by a report elsewhere to
have stirred up tbe Citizens' line to an ex
tension out Frankstown avenue past Home
wood and Brushton clear to Wilkinsburg.
The activity in this direction will no
donbtedlv result in such an immense devel
opment of the stretch of suburban territory,
beyond East Liberty, as has heretofore been
felt in the suburbs on this side. It would not
be at all strange if tbe rivalry were contin
ued until rapid transit lines were put into
competition with the Pennsylvania Bailroad
as far as Braddock or even to Wilmer
aing. At first sight this looks like a
hardship to the railroad whose sub
urban trains originally induced the
trend ot population in that direction.
But it is likely that the new lines will
eventually create as much traffic as they,
take away. They will build up vast
stretches of territory now unoccupied, and
multiply the population which will patron
ize the railroad as well as the cable and
electric lines.
But while this rivalry will have good re
sults, it is worth while to suggest that the
rapid transit projects should not put all
their energy in reaching after business five
to ten miles distant from tbe cities. In the
hill-top districts within three miles of the
postoffice there are large sections that can
be admirably opened up by intelligently lo
cated cableYoads. It will be as remunera
tive in the end for capitalists interested in
local transit to secure the business that can
be created there, as to fight over the present
business out the East Liberty valley.
PITTSBURG'S VITAL STATISTICS.
The vital statistics furnished by the
Health Bureau contain some points which
might be made instructive and valuable.
The average of 17,85 deaths to the thousand
of population during the past year shows
PittsDurg to be about half way between the
highest municipal average of about 20 and
the lowest of over 14. This shows that our
sanitary condition is not as bad as it might
be, nor as good as it should be. With
proper effort Pittsburg might be made one
of the healthiest places in the conntry. The
preponderance of male births above female
may be an effort of nature to supply the
future demand for masculine muscle in
Pittsburg's works; but tbe fact that tbe
greatest proportion of births is on the
Southside reduplicates the lesson often
taught of the disposition of the wealthier
classes of city population to fail in repro
duction. It is among the working wards of
the city that we must chiefly look for tbe
fathers and mothers of the next generation.
QUALITY, NOT COUNTRY.
The testimony of Mr. Powderly with re
gard to the importation of foreign workmen,
the other day, contained one singular
feature. Sir. Powderly declared that he has
seen forty citizens of the United States
going back to their native places in Scotland
and Wales, because they cannot work lor
the wages paid to the imported laborers.
This brings out the fact that the labor
which is crowded out was originally foreign
labor, just as the labor that is coming in is.
The Irish, Scotch and Welsh were the
recruits of our industrial bone and sinew a
generation ago; the Italians, Poles and
Hungarians are at present.
This point is not raised with any intention
of claiming that the later immigrants are
the equals of the earlier, or in any way ot
traversing Mr. Powderly's views. The im
migrants of a generation ago furnish some
of the best elements of citizenship of the
present day, and the assertion that any of
them are driven to pre er Scotland or Wales
to the employments of this country, amounts
to a grave indictment of our industrial
condition. But it is worth while to recog
nize, lrom the allegation that the fresh set
of foreigners is driving out the nationali
ties which formerly furnished our immi
grants, tbat the vital quality is not in
foreign nativity, but in valuable qualities
and capability of assimilation. Mr. Pow
derly's testimony recognized this by speak
ing well of some of tbe Hungarians who
have been here long enough to learn some
thing of the country.
But with that fact brought out is it not
time to take some measures which shall in.
quire more carefully into tbe quality of our
immigration and to give less effort to whole
sale denounciation of foreigners?
A SOUTHERN PROJECT.
A project is set on loot for the Southern
States to get up next year an exposition in
one of tbe Northern cities, showing the
products ot Southern mines, factories and
forests. Such an enterprise, if energetically
carried out could hardly fail of haying
th" best results. It would afford to the
people of tbe North the best evidence that
the South has cast aside all old animosities
in order to enter fully into the friendly
rivalries of industry and commerce. With
that point established, the display of the
vast natural resources of the South, and the
progress tbat has been made in developing
them, would be attractive to Northern capi
tal and would arouse the pride of all sections
in our common country. It is to be hoped
that the New South will push the enter
prise and make a grand success of it Why
might not Pittsburg's exposition buildings
be U'-ed as the place where the South shows
the North what it bas and what it can do?
A VITAL ADMISSION.
With regard to the admission of the Re
publican claimants to the Montana Senator- J
ships, the Philadelphia Press, in comment
ing upon the vote of the Senate on Wednes
day, indulges in unexpected, and what will
be considered by some of its friends repre
hensible, frankness. It says "neither side
bad a perfectly clear title," and then pro
ceeds to argue at length that the title of tho
Republican claimants was not so badly
damaged in the squabble of the Montana
grabbing for political advantage as the title
of their opponents.
It is one of the indications of the way in
which judgment can be blinded by party in
terest, that so intelligent and honest a
journal as the Press can think tbat argu
ment satisfactory, or conceive it possible to
award high political position to claimants
whose title is in any respect defective. No
where, except in partisan strife, could there
be any doubt of tbe course to be taken
where anything is claimed by opponents,
both of whom, on examination, show a de
fective title. In such a case the claims of
both are to be rejected. That conclusion is
all the more necessary where the highest
governmental position is involved. States
which do not conduct their elections so that
the result is undisputed should be left with
out representation until they adopt better
methods. Beyond that the seats in the
Senate should not be occupied by men about
whose right to be there any reasonable doubt
can be raised.
The admission of the Tress puts the action
of the Senate under indictment. To admit
men whose title is not clear is subordinating
the legitimacy of its membership to party
interest
.MR. CLEVELAND'S JUSTIFICATION.
It is editorially stated by tbe New York
World that it finds upon investigation that
Mr. Cleveland did not utter the coarse and
vituperative carts of the interview previ
ously published by tbe IForM as coming
from him. The statement is made that the first
fourteen lines of the interview comprised all
that Mr. Cleveland said. These fourteen lines
contained a denial of the report that bad been
circulated by the Sun, and was free from
the weak epithets which had been put into
his mouth by the yVorld't report.
This does justice to Mr. Cleveland. A
report having been circulated concerning
his health which was calculated to alarm
his friends, it was proper for hint to deny it;
and since the report was infcnded to annoy
and injure him, the use of strong language
within tbe bounds of dignity was allowable.
To descend to a half hour's talk, merely
ringing the changes on such terms as "se
nile liar," would have been very weak;
and all Mr. Cleveland's friends wtll be glad
to learn that he has neither been so foolish
or so undignified as to do so.
As a collateral part of this affair, a very
undesirable feature of New York journal
ism is brought out One metropolitan
newspaper, with the purpose of annoying
Mr. Cleveland, circulated as authentic news
a report concerning him that was utterly
untrue. Another, with the original inten
tion of defending him, published an inter
view in which the foolishly enterprising
reporter did more injury to him than the
original story could by putting in his mouth
a column of silly and coarse vituperation
without even the merit of strenth or origin
ality in its abusiveness. Neither of these
metropolitan sheets seem to have conceived
the idea that it is necessary to pay the least
attention to accuracy in their reports.
Our esteemed cotemporaries of New York
should learn the lesson that whatever their
editorial exigencies may require, their
character as newspapers should lead them
to cultivate in their news reports at least a
distant speaking relation with the truth.
THE SILVER COMPLICATIONS.
The silver qnestion has been pending for
some time and while there is no material
advance toward framing any definite policy,
it is clear that there is a decided change in
the tone of political leaders on this point
The two policies that have been outlined
are a considerable distance apart Secre
tary Wiudom wants to suspend coinage and
issue bullion certificates to unlimited
amounts; which would be the same thing in
principle as the Farmers' Alliance ware
house scheme, exeept that the basis of the
certificates would.be of a more stable value.
On the other hand there are the free coinage
people, at whose head Secretary Blaine is
reported to be, and whose polioy would bid
fair to pat the country on the single silver
basis in a short time. A third or compro
mise proposition is the one to increase the
coinage of silver to 4,500,000 monthly, and
to issne silver certificates on the coin.
In the presence of these propositions it is
noticeable that the opponents of silver are
keeping very quiet Indeed, from such a
quarter as England, it was discovered the
other day by the debate in the House of
Commons, there comes a theoretical ap
proval of silver, hut practical fear to re
instate it There is a growing conviction
that the experiment of monometallism has
not been a great success. People are begin
ning to suspect that what is generally called
a depreciation in the purchasing powerof sil
ver has been really an appreciation in the
purchasing power of gold; and that this
change, due largely to the monometallic
policy, has been one of the burdens placed
on the debtorinterest, which have borne so
heavily on the producing classes, both of
Europe and this country.
In the meantime the price of silver bul
lion is advancing, whether in anticipation
of action by Congress or not With all
these indications in favor of silver, it is
likely that if the silver men will agree upon
a moderate policy, which will not make tbe
Treasury tbe nursing bottle of the bonanza
kings, they will be able to secure some leg
islation for increasing the use of silver
from the present Congress.
Peter the Great is reported to have
declared at the tomb of Richelieu that he
wonld give half his dominion if Richelieu
could teach him how to govern the other half.
The present Czar might well afford to make a
better offer, and give the whole of his empire
for some one who will show him bow to get out
of it safely.
It is remarked by the Philadelphia
Record that "the refusal of the New York
Seventh Regiment to be present" at the un
veiling of the Lee monument in Richmond,
gives "renewed evidence that the animosities
and acerbities" of the civil war have not all
died ont Will the esteemed Record please
state whether tbe monument to Lee, itself, con
tains no evidence of tbe preservation of the
Confederate war spirit?
Senator Ingalls declares that the
Book of Job is tbe greatest book in existence.
The Senator's admiration must be based on the
discovery of a kindred spirit in that one of
Job's friends who declared that there was no
use of honesty or virtue in tbe affairs ot this
world.
TriE show soldiers of this conntry who'
have been wearing imitations of the Prussian
helmet will find instruction In the fact that
orders have been issued in Germany abolishing
the helmet and replacing it with the bead
gear tbat our fighters wore 25 years ago. The
cap docs not make the soldier; but a sensible
head covering helps the real soldier to do a
better job ot fighting.
A NEW insect
been imported into
has
this country from tho South ot France, wbieh
is reported to be worrying the cattle of New
Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. Everyone
will acrce that there should be a prohibitory
tariff against tbe pauper bugs of Europe.
A Kew York lawyer, has to pay a fine
of 100 francs in Paris becanse bis dog walked
onjbo public flower beds In the Tnllerics
Garden. It Is by such guardianship as this
that Paris makes Its public garden tbe most
attractive In tho world. Up to the present
time It would cost a man more than 100 francs
to find a public flowerbed in Pittsburg, for bis
dog to walk on.
The boycott of England by Portugal ap
pears to have resulted in Portugal keeping
three-fourths of its stock of port wine, while
tbe bold Britons keep on drinking manufact
ured port, and never know the difference.
We observe that some of our esteemed
cotemporaries are making superior comments
on the fact tbat the stars of Italian opera are
very fond of money. Singular, is It not? The
citizens of this country being wholly above the
folly of seeking after wealth.; wo can see how
ridiculous it is for the professional singers
to do anything of tbe sort.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Emperor William and suite have gone to
Bremen.
Lord Hakthgtos, who has been in Egypt,
returned to London yesterday.
General E. Bttrd Grubb. of New Jersey,
would like a diplomatic appointment.
William O'Brien, M. P., has become en
gaged to the daughter of M. Raffalovitch, a
Parisian financier.
TriE Hon. Georce A. Pillsbury, of Minne
apolis, will give a soldiers' monument to Sut
ton, N. IL, his native place
Kino Humbert of Italy receives at least 40
prescriptions a week for dyspepsia. Some of
them come from tho most remote quarters of
tbe earth.
Theodore Thomas will be married to Miss
Fay in Chicago on May 7. Mr. Thomas has been
busy of late writing music for Drake's poem,
"Tho Culprit Fay."
Du Maurier, the famous cartoonist, is a
brilliant musician. He bas a fine tenor voice
and at one time contemplated taking up sing
ing as a profession.
Mr. William H. English, of Indianapolis,
is selling his real estate in that city as rapidly
as possible, so as to get out of business by tbe
end of tho present year.
Lady Wimborne has taken to entertaininc
on a grand scale, and it Is said that she will
establish a political salon to aid her brother,
Lord Randolph Churchill.
Mr. Matthews, the new United States
Minister to Morocco, bas arrived at Gibraltar.
He will sail for Tangier to-morrow on the
United States steamer Alliance.
Dr. David Wilson, a member of the State
Board of Agriculture for Juniata county, died
Saturday morning. He was a classmate of
james q. Blaine at' Washington and Jefferson
College.
John GEisLEMAN.of Gettysburg, the oldest
resident, died Saturday morning aged 90 years.
He joined the Free Masons in 1851 and was
probably tbe oldest member of that order in
the State.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland has gone to At
lantic City to remain a week or more. This
will be her first visit to that resort. She is ac
companied by Mrs. MacAIester Laughton, of
Torresdale.
Rain-in-the-Face, the great Sioux chief
tain, bas applied for a position on the police
force of Bismarck, Dak. If be gets it he will
change his name to Take-a-Nap-in-the-MIddle-of-the-Night.
The late ex Speaker Randall was especially
proud of tbe son who bears his name. Young
Samuel J. is a familiar figure on the floor of
tbe House of Representatives, and is wonder
fully well posted on Congressional matters.
At tbe dinner table, after a tedious session of
the House, Mr. Randall was fond of listening
to bis boy as he expressed his opinions of the
day's proceedings at tbe Capitol.
CLEVELAND SET RIGHT.
Tbe World Denies That He Used Ibo Lan
ITiinffo Credited lo film.
From the New York World.
The interview with ex-President Grover
Cleveland, published in the World of Thurs
day last, has excited considerable comment in
the press throughout the country. If en spapcrs
friendly to Mr. Cleveland have generally re
garded it as a natural and justifiable 'outbreak
of indignation after six or seven years of gross
personal abuse by a malignant enemy. Others,
who are political opponents of the ex-President,
have spoken of it as undignified and unbecom
ing a man in his position. Many have remarked
tbe vehemence of some of the expressions and
have doubted the correctness of the report.
After a thorough investigation we are satis
fled that all Mr. Cleveland said for publication
of a personal character was contained in the
first 14 lines of the remarks attributed to him,
and that be did not use the coarso and in
temperate personal expressions accredited to
him in a subsequent portion of the interview.
The friends of Mr. Cleveland will scarcely
need this assurance, as they well know that
such languace is foreign to his temperament
and bis custom, and all will readily credit this
explanation in view of the fact tbat the digni
fied yet modest manner in which he has borne
himself on all occasions since his retirement
from tho Presidency has won public admira
tion and is tbe best guarantee that be is inca
pable of putting himself on a level with his as
gallant.
A SURPRISED IMMIGRANT.
HelsPieseutcd Willi n S3 Gold Plcco by the
Superintendent of Immlcrntlon,
New York, April 20. Superintendent of
Immigration Weber personally welcomed tho
first immigrant who landed on American soil
yesterday through the newly-opened portal or
the baree office. The home-seeker was a bland
and very happy looking native of Saxc
Wetmar. He was registered by Interpreter
Iven Smith as Hermann Vnlke. He cams on
the steamship Columbia, and was accompanied
bv his wife and dog. His happy expression
changed to one betokening mingled bewilder
ment and joy when Colonel Weber gave him a
five dollar gold piece. It took several minutes
to get him to understand that presenting gold
pieces to immigrants was not a felicitous new
world custom.
He said he was glad he was tbe first man to
land in the new place, smiled and started on his
way to Pittsburg, where be will work at black
smithing. The Bine Ribbon Brlgnde.
From the Chicago Times, j
All Iowa Is going wild over Francis Murphy
and his blue ribbons, and the great temperance
apostle is being dined and exalted because he
has Induced 20,000 people to sign the pledge,
and has converted hundreds of bard drinkers.
At the same time Prohibition continues to pro.
bibit in the Hawkeye State, and tbe soda
fountain fizzes out its innocent pop to the con
fusion of those who say to the contrary. What
a world of delusions we inhabit!
SUPPRESSING SUNDAY LABOR.
A Movement to Arrest All Person! Work
ing on the Sabbatb.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIHPATCH.l
DERRT. PA.. April 2a The citizens of this
place held a meeting here yesterday to de
termine tbe best steps to take toward the sup
pression of Sunday labor. After more or less
talk, a resolution was finally passed to arret
all men found working on tbe Sabbath.
This intensely interesting order is supposed
to take effect to-day. and tho outcome is being
watched with great interest
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Georce- Zttzmnn.
Another vacant place is made In the ranks or the
old soldiers of Allegheny county by the death o f
George Zltzman, at his residence, 8! Bush street,
Allegheny. He was well and favorably known
among his comrades, who, day by day, see the
mass of snrvlvore of the late war pass away so
rapidly that their course of life is almost a con
tinuous funeral procession. His funeral will take
place atz r. M. to-day at the German Evangelical
Protestant Church, at Sixth and Smithfleld
street, and the Interment will be made at the
Smithfleld East End Cemetery. The ceremonies
will be attended by the members of liars Post,
No. 3, G. A. It., and Company A, of the" Ninth
Heservcs. as well as members of Sculller Lodge,
No. 49, A. U. U. W.
Andrew Prondfilt.
Madison, Wis., April SC Andrew I'roudtnt,
Assistant General Freight Agent of the Omaha
Kallwav, lied here to-aav after a week's Illness.
THE CRITIC REVIEW.
Peraonnl Gossip About Noted Ambon .
Pen riclnro of Margaret Deland Poetry
In Prose Best Features or Ibo Popular
Mnjrtizlnes.
Tyrns. Magaket Deland, author of "John
Ward, Preacher," and of "Florida Days,"
and who bas a serial story now running its
course in the Atlantic Monthly, Is thus de
scribed in a paragraph from 37ie Epoch.
"She is the owner of ono of the largest and
handsomest mastiffs in the city (Boston), who
accompanies his fond mistress on all her walks
and rambles. Bayard IS bis name, and be is
said to be as magnanimous as his namesake,
tbe Chevalier. He is noted for his politeness to
smaller and inferior dogs, frequently giving up
some choice morsel to mongrel curs. Mrs.
Deland's home is a cozy bouso m one of the
oldest but most pleasant streets of
tbe city, where a glinip-e of the blue
waters of the Charles river may be
obtained from a bay window over the
frontdoor. The hall leads into a charming
study, where great logs burn and crackle, mak
ing the little den ever so attractive. Mrs.
Deland is very artistic, as well as poetic, the
carvings and 'decorations of the fireplace hav
ing heeu executed by her own hands. She is
now busy writing, to which she devotes the
entire morning. AVhether a volume of poems
or a new novel Is to be announced, is not yet
whispered in literary circles."
fyjR. Kennan, in the May Century, will show
up mo worKrngs oi literary censorships
in Russia. In( his article entitled "Blocked
Out," he will reproduce two pages of the maga
zine for August, 1889, showing tho shape in
which it came into the hands of Russian sub
scribers. V
'J'HE New York Saturday Evening Gazette,
of which the initial number appeared last
Saturday, has some new features. The nes
of the day is reported up to 3 o'clock, the com
mercial departments are fully written np, and
the rest of the paper from 12 to 18 pages is
the plan consists of reviews, stories and short
BKeicues. ucorge .Edgar Montgomery is the
editor.
Qhaeles B, Ballard, In the Literary
World, is quoted in The Critic as tho dis
coverer of a curious rythmic movement In
Blackmore's novels. Blackmore was so thor
oughly a poet, with so pronounced a gift for
rhyme and meter that, like Mr. Wegg. he was
continually dropping into poetry, even when ho
imagined himself to be writing prose. Take this
sentence from "Lorna Doone," vhich Mr.
Ballard quotes: "This good nobleman kept
his money in a handsome pewter box.
with his coat of arms upon it, and a double lid
and locks I" That Is meter and rhyme to
gether. Talking not long ago with a visitor to
the Ames Library in North Easton a lady who
is a reporter for one of the Boston newspapers
I asked her whether she had read "Lorna
Doone." and if so, how she liked it. She re
plied: "Oh, yes: 1 have read it twice, and like
greatly." I added: "You of course enloy
tne trochaic movement so common in It" I
saw at once that she did not comprehend my
question. After I had explained what 1 meant
and shown her several examples, she said: "I
never noticed that beforel I muit read it
again just for that." Mr. Ballard recommends
that we should ail of us "read it again, just for
that."
pROF. JOHN Fiske, in tho Popular Science
Monthly for May, will give an account of the
life of Edward L. Youmens, tho founder of
that magazine. The article will describe Mr.
Youmeos'association with Herbert Spencer and
the work which be did in popularizing the evo
lution philosoDhy In this country. "Secondary
School Programmes,Frpnchand American" will
also appear in the same number. Mr. George
W. Braman, the author, maintains that if our
high and preparatory schools are to compare
well with those or France, the pupil;, must not
only do more work, but thoy must also work on
"more distinctly specialized lines." But the
boys and girls go home now with their arms
full of books. For "more" work substitute
"better" or more thorough work, and that will
stato the need better, so it appears to us.
HE Characteristics of Vol canoes," by Prof
James D. Dana, of YaIe;"MissMordeck's
Father," a novel by Fani Pusey Gooch, and
Schouler s "History of the United States," in
jour volumes, are just irom tne press ot Messrs.
Doad, Mead & Co.
V
yjR. Stanley says of tho scope of his new"
book. "In Darkest Africa," which Charles
Scribnor's Sous have in press: "You know that
all tho stretch of country from Ymbuya to
this place was an absolutely new country, ex
cept what may be measured by fire ordinary
marches. First, there is that dead white of the
map now changed to a dead black; I mean that
uarKest region or tue eartn connned between
E. long. 25 and E. long. 29 4.5', one great, com
pact remorselessly sullen forest, the growth of
an untold number of ages, swarming at stated
intervals with numbers of vicious man-eating
savages and crafty undersized men, who were
unceasing in their annoyance. Then there is
that belt of grass-land lying between it and
Albert Nyanza. whose people contested every
mile of advance with spirit and made us think
that they were guardians of some priceless
treasure hidden on the Nyanza shores. Dis
covery after discovery In that wonderful region
was made, tbe snowv ransre of Rnevenznni, the
"Cloud King" or "Cloud Creator," the Semlik!
river, the Albert Edward Nyanza, the plains of
Usongora, tho salt lakes of Kativeftho new
peoples, Wakonju, of the Great Mountains; the
dwellers ol tho rich forest region, the Awarr
ba; the fine featured Wasongora, the Wan
poro bandits, and then the Lake Albert Ed
ward tribe and the shepherd race of the east
ern uplands: the Wanyankori, besides the
Wanya-ru-wamba and:the Wazinja, until at
last we came to a church whose cross domina
ted a Christian settlement, and we knew that
we bad reached the outskirts of blessed civili
zation." '
'J'nE Century Dictionary is a model not only
of accuracy but of punctuality. Every
month, and upon a certain day of tho month,
arrives its regular installment, never falllnir!
and never falling beneath the ideal which it
set at the beginning. The eleventh part is
now in the hands of subscribers, so that the
l,ic.h. .,im3 ueany nan anne. History and
biography art and science, paper-making and
picture-making, and careful printing all join in
theso handsome and invaluable volumes. With
the Century Dictionary, tho Encrclopedla
""tannica. and the Scribuer.Black.dMas of the
World, the reference corner in the scholar's
library is pretty well stocked. This new atlas,
by the way, is a surprisingly good thin"-. Its
maps are wonders of clearness and iuTlness.
Even Wilkiusbure and Turtle Creek are down
on the map of Pennsylvania. Tho map of
Africa is a vastly different picture from the
representation of that country which the old
atlases gave. At tbeCend is a very full and ex
haustive index, to which the reader may turn
and find the exact location of any place in the
world, so that ho can refer tn the right mapand
locate the place at once. From Verona to Vll
leneuve, from Braddock to Breakabeen it is
all here. This new atlas leaves all others In tho
distance.
V
JTrederick J. Stixson. who wrote "Guern
dale," is a-lawyerof repute in Massachu
setts. Robert Grant, also, whoso novels have
had a wide readine, is a Boston lawyer. Ed
ward Lassiter Bynror, whose last story, "Tho
Begum's Daughter," has been running in ihe
Atlantic Monthly, and is shortly to be published
by Little, Brown & Co., is librarian of tho Bos
ton Law Association.
Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang are writing
a novel In partnership. It began in this month's
number of the New Review.
-.
The Sunday School Times which, wo may
say in passing, is tho best periodical in the
Sunday schbol line which is published in any
land or in any language has arranged with Mr.
Gladstone to print his articles on the study of
the Bible cotemporaneously with Good Wo7-ds.
Tbe first of the series, "Tho Impregnable Rock
of Holy Scripture," has already appeared. The
papers are to come out once a month.
Mr. Howells Is writinc a serial for Hamer'x
Young People. The title is "A Boy's Town."
The town is located on the Great Miami river.
The largest subscription to the public library
and art gallery at Hartford, Conn., was 5100,000.
.iuu amaiieab was iu ceiiie.
.
"Robert Browning Essays and
1V Thoughts," by John T. Nettleship, which,
at its first publication In 1863, brought Mr.
Browning's poetry Into notice and favor, comes
out in a new edition, and is imprinted by Hcrili
ner & Welford, who also annnunco Ibsen'i
Prose Dramas, volume L the "Doll's House"
being in the table of contents and "In Tenny
son Land," being an endeavor to "identify the
scenes and trace the influence of Lincolnshire"
in Tennyson's poetry.
T ippincott's for May will contain a story by
Bret Harte, with tbe attractive and charac
teristic title, "A Sappho of Green Springs."
Lafeadio Hearn, who wrote "Chita," will also
contribute a story entitled "Karma." Julian
Hawthorne will make "Some Physiological
Revelations." Cowan Doyle's "Stuuy In
Scarlet," which attracted so much attention, is
announced In cloth binding. It would be well
if "The Sign ot the 'Four" could be made uni
form with it.
Vy mi broad pages, and unique illustrations,
some of them in color, comes the Uni
versity Magatine, a special publication "iden
tified with the interests of all higher seats of
learning." The installation of President Low,
of Columbia, tbe annual dinner of the New
York Princeton Club, and of the Columbia
Alumni Association, a Princeton song with the
orance and black tiger mounting guard over
it a Yale song all in blue, a description of the
handsome clubhouse of tbe Delta Kappa Ex
position Society in Now York, are among other
good things in this number. College men will
find many things to interest them in this
paper.
ALWAYS IN THE LEAD.
Some of the Fcntnrca In Teaterdny's Mama
moth Edition of The Dispatch.
Yesterday's Dispatch was a hummer. It
consisted of 20 pages, and contained all tbe
telegraphic news from all parts of tbe world up
to the very latest moment of going to press,
besides column after column of interesting
reading matter on topics so numerous and so
diversified tbat every taste was sure to be suited.
Tiie Dispatch is always a valuable news
paper, and yesterday's paper was better than
the best The Dispatch enters into a larger
proportion of tbe homes of the city and sur
rounding country than does any other paper in
tbe country. The Dispatch Is essentially a
newspaper. Tbe following is a synopsis of
what It contained yesterday:
I.
Louise Worcester, once the confidante of
Wilkes Booth, firmly believes it was not he who
was shot in Garrett's barn. She claims t have
received a letter in the assassin's handwriting
in 1867, which she still has. A Nihilist bas been
found in tbe Russian Imperial family. Senator
Delamater has no idea of Riving up the battle,
and intends being in tbe tight to the finish.
Emperor William will soon pay a visit to bis
sisters and his cousins and his aunts. The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company denies tbe
Reading Company's allegations. Ben Elsey,
who was hanged in Birmingham, Ala., confesses
that he was concerned in 21 murders. Tho
Pan Americans leave Washington for a South
ern trip. People in the southern counties of
tbe State are clamoring for tbe South Penn
Railroad scheme. An idol ot green stone is
nowintheNewYorkpostofflce. Arrangements
for the execution of Kemmler by electricity at
Auburn have been completed.
IL
The superintendents of nearly all tho roads
leading into Pittsburg make propositions of
increase in wages to their yardmen, but the
offers are not accepted. The Homewood racing
track will be repaired at once, and Pittsburg
will once more have races. Officer Cross is
censured, and officials say the shooting was un
called for. Getting ready for tho Amencus
Club banquet Many improvements 4eing
made in the postofflce. The prompt action of
tbe police averts a stampede in a circus.
Judges Ewing and Magee declare that bolding
License Court is an imposition on them. Mayor
Wyman doesn't think Mr. Stayton expects to
win his case. Unnecessary witnesses' fees to
be headed off. The baseball season opens, and
games are played all over the country. The
sporting review is dished up with the usual vim.
in.
This part contains an interesting Chicago
article,cntitled The Whitechapel Club.a charm
ing letter from Miss Grundy, Jr.. the Ace of
Clubs, that Chat of Gotham by Clara Belle,
Digging in the Diit by Bessie Bramble, Being
First Lady.by Ruhamah, the Social World, the
Grand Army. Secret Societies, the Argument
for God, by Rev. Georgo Hodges, Prehistoric
Peoples, Every-Day Science, Actors on the
Road, Banks and Butler, bj!Frank G. Carpen
ter; A Famous Library, News About Metals,
continuation of Beatrice, with illustrations by
our own artist; Every-Day Dishes, South
American Trade, A Cottage to Sell, by It W.
Suopnell; Janet and the Water King, Mind
Reading, Men Who Won Fame, Nuts to Crack,
Fair Woman's World, In Debt to Nature.
Colonial Courtship. Shekels andBeauty, besides
a varied and well selected assortment of inter
esting miscellaneous reading matter.
JOHNSTOWN OFFICIALS ELECTED.
Tbe New Pollco Force to be Composed En
tirely of Democrats.
ISrECTAt TZXXOKAM TO Till OISPATCH.1
Johnstown, April 2a The Democrats have
a majority of one in joint Councils, but on ac
count of the absence of one of the members
wero unable to elect city officers nntll last
night when James M. Walters, Esq., was
chosen as Solicitor and John Downey as City
Engineer. The salary attached to the position
of solicitor is $600 annually, while that of the
engineer is $1,800.
The appointment cf 13 members of the police
force as recommended by tbe Mayor was con
firmed. This is only one-half tbe required
number of policemen, but somo of tbe old force
will continue in office for a few weeks yet, until
the new men become acquainted with their
autv. The new members of the force are all
Democrats, tho appointments being made on
political lines.
CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS.
If any more States are to be admitted to sis
terhood It might be a good scheme to call them la
before Jay Gould gets In bis work.
A Georgia editor advertised in his paper
lor a lost umbrella. It has been returned not
jet.
Ben Butler says that he mcan3 to die fight
ing. Ben Is getting snoonev.
Henry. Irving declines a nomination to
Parliament. Henry has got a good name and he
proposes retaining it for a family heirloom.
Lock your doors and bar your windows. The
gypsies are on their peregrinations.
Potato bugs are crowding the season.
Myriads of them fell in a New Jersey town a few
days ago. As potatoes have not been planted yet
perhaps the bug cron will be knocked oat as a
consequence.
A PAPER asks what is to become of a China
man standing on the middle of a bridge and de
nied admission by both the United Mates and
Canada. The only alternative is to either be run
over by an approaching train or find a watery
grave beneath, and the chances are that John
would not enjoy either remedy.
Up to date no baseball umpire has been re
ported killed in Saturday's games.
A New Jersey roan was killing cockroaches
with parls green and sto some of It to see how It
would taste. The man (not the roaches) Is now
sleeping 'ncath the daisies.
Out of a population of 6,000 Owego, N. Y.,
boasts that only one person died there during the
month of February. That must be the place
where people walk around just to save funeral ex
penses. t
Kemmler, the man who is to die by elec
tricity, has repented. His chief trouble now Is
the pain his execution will canse Mrs. Durston,
the warden's wife. Kemmler shouldn't let a lit
tle thing like that trouble him. He will be shocked
worse than that In a few days.
IUcKeeaport AloranI Election.
ISPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO TH DISPATCH. I
McKeesport, April 20. The McKeesport
High School Alumni Association last evening
elected its old officers and arranged for holding
a banquet on tbe evening of the commence
ment exercises of tbe graduating class.
The Flrt Since Lincoln's Time.
Washington, April 20. There will bo a
ball at tbe White House next Wednesday even
ing, given bv Mrs. McKeo to her friends. This
will be the first time there bas been a dance in
the Executive Mansion since 1863.
FIRST OF THE SEASON.
It is reported from Hydetown that two men,
while working In a stone quairy In tbat
vicinity, killed a large rattlesnake, tbe first of
tho season. His snakesbip had seven rattles.
Enoch W. Jordan, a prominent tarmer or
Lee county, Ga., tells the following snako
story: He was walking over his plantation
when bo came to a sow which had a lino litter
of pigs. He found one of them absent Going
a sbort distance further be overtook a huge
rattlesnake, which he promptly dispatched. He
noticed that it seemed very large and was ap
parently gorged. Cutting it open out jumped
the missing pig, which, as soon as released from
its close quarters, took to its heels and ran
home.
George Creydurn, while at work in the'
woods at Essex Falls, Mass., near tho school
bouse, startled a black snake, which measured
six feet in length. The reptile rapidly sped
toward its hole, but was killed before reaching
it Creyburn faked out of the hole snake after
snake until 47 were counted on tho ground.
Obtaining a charge of dynamite, ho placed it
in the bole and discharged it. There was a
shower of rocks and turf, and it literally rained
snakes, upward of SO being sent high In the
air.
THE NEXT CANDIDATE.
Evidence of Rapid Detraction of PreiU
dentnl Timber A Representative of the
People, Not of the Politicians, Wanted aa
Chief MnaUtrntr.
rTOOH A STAFF CORllESrOSDEHT.l
TJTASHINGTON. April 20. It seems it is never
iuu eariy to oegin a canvass xor another
Presldental nomination as soon as one cam
paign is past Harrison had not been in office
six montbs before Republicans began to pre
dict tbat he would not bo in the field for the
nomination in 1S92, though nothing had oc
curred on which to base judgment of the con
ditions which would surround that event The
same prediction was made in regard to Cleve
land by the Democrats early in 1SSS, and yet
when the campaign of 1SS3 came on there was
no other candidate in the field, and even those
Democrats who had cursed him deepest were
tho loudest to howl for his renomination.
Just now everybody is sore that Harrison
will not be a factor in the next campaign. The
Republican leaders will have none of him. He
is a dead duck, shot with his own little gun. ac
customed to the destruction of dncks and other
small game. But how will it be in 1892? Let
the Republican leaders and the Presldental
aspirants dispose of each other ever so finally
and completely, somebody must bo nominated,
and Is it not probable that the conditions which
confronted the party in 1888, and which resulted
in the nomination of Mr. Harrison, will obtain
again in the next campaign, and the geograph
ical location of the man and tbe jealousies and
rivalries of the other candidates result in the
choice of the grandson of his grandfather?
Cnndldntes Already Disposed of.
Candidates have already begun to kill each
other off. Foraker has been disposed of
finally and forever, and neither Sherman nor
McKinley drops a tear. Sherman has recently
given Alger a deadly thrust, and Alger re
sponds with a stab under tbe fifth rib of the
Ohio icicle. Adherents of rival candidates cut
McKinley in hU ambitious raco for the Speak
ership of the House of Representatives in the
fear that success in such a contest would put
him in a position to make his calling sure in
the ereater race of 1892. Every honest and
laudable attempt of "Farmer" Rusk to extend
tbe borders of his phylacteries and make tbe
Department of Agriculture wbat it ought to be
has excited the sarcasm and the ribald jests of
frieuds of other candidates for tbe great ana
useless office of President.
Over on tho other side of the fence the work
of slaughter is even more venomous and con
spicuous. Hill Is maligned and belittled by the
friends of both Cleveland and Whitney. Hill
and Whitney are engaged in a mnrderous war-
lare on ino mere possibility oi the nomination
of Cleveland.
An Example of Political Animosity.
pHE determination to kill Cleveland Inspires
the most novel methods. One day the
New York Sun. which hates Cleveland with a
hatred as cordial as the love of David and
Jonathan, tells a story of Cleveland's running
all to fat, that be takes on flesh at the rate of
25 pounds a month, that he bas to employ an
athlete to rub off tbe alarming accumulations.
The following day the World, whose hatred of
Cleveland is only exceeded by its hatred of tbe
Sun, "fakes" anjinterview with the suppositi
tious candidate, in which the latter is made to
say things that can have no other result than
to stir up Dana to say tho most horrible things
of tbe ex-President that can be put Into lan
guage, and tbe following morning Mr. Dana
proceeds to say these things, seizing on what is
plainly a "fake" for the purpose of administer
ing to the poor man such a flagellation as in
another day would have called for Imme
diate account at the point of the pistol. And
so Cleveland is being disposed of.
Men almost cease to be human when engaged
in these contests, they develop so much of the
nature of the tiger and the anaconda.
It appears, however, that in politics the more
a man is trampled noon tho more he rises. On
this theory Senator Quay would just now ap
pear to be the logical candidate lor President
of the Republican party, and Cleveland must
seem to be the certain choice of the Democrats.
An Innovation Proposed.
YyELL, what is the use of sticking to the old
crowd? Is there such a paucity of ma
terial that we must travel round and round in
a circlo for Presldental candidates, only taking
a new one into tbe ring when an old one dies
off? Why not finally discard all of the old poli
ticians, the professional officeholders, the law
yers, the wire pullers? Why Is it that the
minds of tbe leaders of the parties, local and
general, are nnable to penetrate beyond a cir
cumscribed few?
Just for once would it not be a good thing to
have a man in tbe Presldental cbalr who is
neither a lawyer nor a politician, but represen
tative of the progressive spirit of the day, a
man who has studied the welfare of tbe wbole
people from a philosophical and economical
standpoint free from the tbe trammels of the
old school, free from tbe influence of corpora
tions, free from the narrowing bounds ot tbe
law and the blighting atmosphere of profes
sional politics, a man who bas studied govern
ment as a science and not as an end to keep
parties and individuals In office?
A Representative American.
"There are men working within both of the
old parties who rise above those parties, real
statesmen, real philanthropists, who, while ad
hering in their general policy to the cardinal
party tenets, would be the President any one
of them, of tbe whole people. Let us have for
once the world of letters, or tbe world of phi
losophy, or tbe world of science represented in
the Presidental chsir. The change would take
everything and everybody out of the old
noisome rut, where runs the political sewage
of unnumbered years, and wonld givo life and
novelty to wbat has now become a stale affair
indeed. E. W. L.
AMERICANS ON PARADE.
Tho Mechanic! Arrnnslne tbe Details of Ibo
Foarth ol July Celebration.
rBPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TBE DISPATCH. I
McKeesport. April 20. The convention of
tho delegates representing 25 councils of tbe
Senior and Junior Order of American Me
chanics to arrange for the annual parade of
ihe order In the four counties Allegheny,
Fayette, Washington and Greene on July 4,
was held in Odd Fellows Hall this afternoon at
S o'clock.
Tbe Exccntive Committee appointed was as
follows: G. G. Taylor. East End. Senior Coun
cil; B. M. Schreckingost, McCIellan, Senior;
Thomas Estpp, Duquesne, Senior; Thomas
Lennox, Boston. Senior; 0car McCleary, Mc
Keesport Senior: W. E Grooms. Tube City,
Junior, and W. Fulton, No. 109, Junior. The
ablest speakers have been secured, and the
very best ot music. Burgess Thomas Tillbrock,
President of tbe parade organization, was
elected Grand Marshal of the parade.
UNIFORMED KNIGHTS' RECEPTION.
Knights of St. John's First Pnblic Installa
tion of Officers.
The members of Duquesne Commandery No.
142, Roman Catholic,Knigbts ot St. John, will
hold an entertainment and reception at La
fayette Hall Friday evening. May 9. There
will be a public installation of officers, and
after tbe entertainment a dance will be given.
The following named well-known gentlemen
compose the Committee of Arrangements:
A. C. Huehes, H. L. Aland, J. A. Skelley. J.
F. C. Woods, T. J. McCosker, J. S. Cosgrave, J.
Facan, P. J. Rowan, M. H. McCormick and
J. E. Moran. The exercises begin at 8 o'clock
sharp. The music will be furnished by Ger
nervs Orchestra.
McKeesport Library Growing.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
McKeesport. April 2a Over S1.O0O has
boen subscribed to tho McKeesport Library
Association to be used in purchasing new books
for the association.
IF WE KNEW.
Could we but draw back the curtains
That surround each other's lives,
See the naked heart and spirit
Know what spur the action gives,
Often we should find it better,
Purer than we Judge we should;
We should 1 ve each other better
If we only understood.
Could we mdge all deeds by motives,
See the ttood and bad within.
Often we should love the sinner
All the while we loathe the sin.
Could we know the powers working
To o'erthrow Integrity,
We should Judge each other's errors
With more patient charity.
If we knew the cares and trials,
Knew the effort all In vain.
And tbe bitter disappointment
Understood tbe loss and gain
Would the grim, external roughness
Seem, I wonder. Just the same?
Should we help where now we hinder?
should we pity where we blame?
Ah I we Jndge each other harshly,
Kuowlug not life's hidden force;
Knowing not the fount of action
Is less turbid at Its source.
Seeing not amid the evil
All the golden grains of good:
Ohl we'd love each other better
If we only understood.
Woman' 1 Wort.
0DU MAIL POUCH.
One of Randall's Letters.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
It is probable that tba first recommendation
of Thomas fur appointment as Brigadier Gen
eral of Volunteers was made by tbe Hon.
Samuel J. Randall, who served as a private sol
dier under him in Virginia. His letter to the
Assistant Secretary of War evinced a clear dis
cernment of the character of Thomas and a
full appreciation of hii ability as a commander.
As Mr. Randall anticipated the judgment of
morp than 200,000 men who served under Gen
eral Thomas, his letter is subjoined:
"Sandy Hook, Md., August 3, 1661.
"Friend Scott I hear yon are Assistant
Secretary of War. Rest assured that no man
delights more in your high position than I do.
I notice that the Government is now considering
tho appointment of proper persons to be Brlga-
uieruenerais. in tue name ox uou, lei mem ua
men fully competent to discharge the duties
of the positions to which thev may be assigned.
Inefficiency Is the evil of the hoar. This opinion
is based on our observation of nearly three
montbs. Most of the time, in fact nearly all
of the time, we have been under the command
of Colonel George H. Thomas, now command
ingone of tbe brigades here. He is thoroughly
competent to Da a brigadier general, bas tbe
confidence, of every man in his command for
the reason that they recognize anil appreciate
capacity which to them in every hour of the
day is $o essential to their safety. Now, let me
as a friend of this administration, insofar as
the war is concerned and the preservation of
the Union Is involved, urge upon General Cam
eron to select Colonel Thomas as one
of tbe number of proposed brigadiers.
This appointment would give renewed vigor
and courage to this section of the army. lam,
as perhaps you know, a private in tbe First
City Cavalry of Philadelphia, and I never saw
Colonel Thomas until 1 saw bim on parade, and
our intercnure has only been sucb as exists be
tween a Colonel and one of bis soldiers; bence
yon see my recommendation comes from pure
motives, and entirely free from social or politi
cal considerations. I speak for and write in be
half of the brave men who, in this hour of our
country's peril, are coming forward and endan
gering their own lives, and perhaps leaving
those most dear to them without a support.
"I write warmly, because I think 1 know the
necessity of the case. Yon will do the country
a service by givingmy letter a serious consider
tion. I hope to be in Washington some time
about the 1st of September, wben I shall try to
see you. Will you please present my regards
to General Cameron, and if he has time to read
this letter, hand it to him. Yours truly,
"Samuel J. Randall."
The above letter has been seen by very few
people in this section. P.
Pittsrurg, April 19.
A Ncvr County Proposed.
To the Editor ofThe Dispatch:
Would it not be cheaper ana better in every
way for a new county to bo made In this State,
consisting of Allegheny City and its adjacent
boroughs and townships? The Allegheny
river wonld then be tbe dividing line between
this proposed new county and Allegheny
county. Allegheny City would be the seat of
this proposed new county, and that city now
has all tbe facilities, good location and every
thing requisite for the erection of a neat
good, substantial court bouse and jail. This
suggested new conrt house would be very
convenient and cheap of access to the judges,
lawyers, jurors, litigants and citizens residing
in Allegheny and adjacent boroughs and
townships. It would be near to all of them and
they would have no such bridge tolls and car
fare to pay to reach it as they bave now to
pay to cet to tbe Court House on Grant street
in Pittsburg. Further, it would facilitate the
dispatch more quickly of court business to have
this proposed new judicial district and wonld
Increase the prosperity and business of every
kind and description in Allegheny incalculably.
Legal business is overcrowded now in the
present Court House of Allegheny County. It
would take too much space here to give tn de
tail the sufficient good reasons for creation of
the proposed new county, so far as economy
and benefits to the people who would be con
cerned in its creation. Allegheny.
Allegheny, April 19.
'Tin Printed In tbe Paper.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Can vou tell me wben Hans Von Bulow plays
in Pittsburg and where? B.
West Middlesex, Apnl 19.
See advertisement in Sunday's paper for
this Information.
From tbe Letters, U.
B.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Why is this nation or its government nick
named Uncle Sam? W. J. K.
New Cumberland, W. Va., April 19.
Qaerlee Answered and UnnnswereJ.
J. McC, East" Liverpool, wishes to know
when street cars wero first run in Pittsburg,
also wben first run in tho United States.
Soldier, Pittsburg. General W. T. Sherman
resides chiefly in New York City.
Subscriber, Pittsburg, asks: Was it Satur
day or Sunday evening that the Hamilton
building caught fire?
A Solution of tbe Dinner.
From tbe Philadelphia Bceord.i
An admirable solution ot the Randall matter
would be afforded by the nomination of Mr.
James M. Beck, whose name has been already
favorably mentioned for the honor. He is a
remarkably clear-beaded young man, whose
abilities warrant tbe expectation of great fu
ture distinction. Such a choice wonld not be
unlike tbo choice made in 1862, when Sergeant
Randall, then in the prime ofhis young man
hood, was first elected to Congress.
Sir. Knmlall's Successor.
From the Washington Star.
Some of the Pennsylranians want a "clarion
voice in Congress which can be heard from
Cap'.tol Hill to the White House" and call his
name Fow. Wbyshonld Pennsylvania send a
man who can only be heard tbat distance to
serve in place of one who wan heard lrom the
St. Croix to the Rio Grande?
Plttabarsers Wrddrd nt Yonngstovrn.
ISFSCIAJ. TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCII.l
Youngstown, April 20. The latest couple
from Pittsbarg married here were Terrence
Daily, aged 43, and Miss Ogden Duunagan. aeed
zl. They were united by the Rev. B, R Clai
borne at the Episcopal parsonage late last
night
SOME OF UR EXCHANGES.
One of the liveliest little afternoon papers
publisbed in this vicinity is tho Beaver Falls
Tribune. It shines like a brand new dollar.
The DnBois Courier is keeping up with the
procession and will soon move into new and
handsome quarters now being erected for its
exclusive use.
The McKeesport Times bas donned a new
spring suit and looks very attractive. Judging
from its looks tho proprietors are living on all
the delicacies of the season.
The Atlantic Constitution, ona of the lead
ing papers of the South, has robed itself in a
new spring suit, and beside being a good-look
ing and neatly printed paper, contains all the
news tbat is going. It surprises its readers on
Sunday by printing S2 pages.
Reading is the latest city for newspaper no
toriety. Mr. Charles F. Haage bas started an
afternoon 1-cent journal at that place. It is
named the Republican; is neatly printed, well
edited, and looks as though it has come to stay.
It is brimful of fresh, lively news.
The Warren Daily Mirror bas tacked on a
column to each page, but in doing so makes a
proviso tbat should its advertising patronage
fall off it will chop off tbe extra column. Tbe
Mirror is a clever paper and it is due tbe
citizens of Warren to give it a liberal support
The Warren, O., Daily Chronicle has en
tered upon its eighth year. In noticing the fact
tbe statement is made that its circulation has
gradually increased and its advertising is such
that it allows all hands, from the editor down
to the office boy, to enjoy three meals a day the
year round.
The Evening Times, tho leading paper in
Salt Lake City, has put on a new dress and
doubled its size. It is a very readable paper,
and, judging from the looks of its advertise
ments, the merchants know and appreciate a
pood thing. Tho Times is a terror to Mormons
and tbeir doctrine.
THE WeslSliore, of Portlana, Ore., although
a comparatively new publication, has more life
and good things in its pages than any paper or
magazine in the West It is a weekly publica
tion, and beside containing a synopsis of all the
news going on in Oregon, has beautiful colored
Illustrations ot all the prominent buildings and
manufactories ot tbat country.
There is no mistaking tbe Improvement of
The Bulletin in all its departments. Latterly
tbe columns of this excellent periodical havo
been full of good things. Stories of travel and
adventure, fiction, poetry of real merit often
illustrated in a high style of art and-a variety
of special nsws features makes The Bulletin
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In the world.
I
CUKI0US CONDENSATIONS.
The Government telegraph service of
Great Britain transmits, it is said, on the aver
age 1.53S.270 words a day to newspapers alone.
A natural cariosity in the shape of a
hip bone of a mastodon, weighing perhaps 50
pounds, was found at Alachua, Fla., a few days
ago.
Five thousand bunches of bananas were
tossed over to the mermaids from a Nica
rauguan steamer tbe other day to lighten the
ship in a severe storm.
Two Russian climbers of Mount Ararat
found in perfect preservation a minimum ther.
mometer which was left there last year. It
registered 60 below zero.
A new word, "semiquintcentennial,"
has been coined by the Brooklyn Times to de
scribe tbe celebration which Houthold and
Southampton, L. I, are preparing to hold.
A couple of ladies from Eldred, Pa.,
were seen sitting In a passenger coach with an
umbrella raised to protect themselves from tho
water which the old coach roof failed to keep
out.
A Kent Island, Md., farmer placed
twin orphan Iambs in the care of a female New
foundland, whose pups he had sold. She took:
kindly to the Iambs, and treated them with a
motherly care.
While on the way to a fire the horses
attached to Creole steamer No. 3 of the New
Orleans Fire Department ran away and
crashed into a grocery, damaging the machine
but hurting no one.
Some workmen excavating at Nauvoo,
IlL, discovered an old well 1,000 feet deep. It
will be explored, as it is believed to be a relic
of tbe Mormon regime and to be connected
with subterranean passages.
Pio Pico, the last Mexican Governor of
California, now nearly 90 years of age. Is a
pauper, and bas been notified to leave his old
homestead. Nothing remains of the great
wealth this old man once possessed.
Rev. Dr. Bridgman, pastor of one of
New York's fashionable Baptist churches, has
adopted tbe Geneva gown as a pulpit dress and
says he will expect whoever may hereafter oc
cupy his pulpit in exchanging shall do the
same.
On leaving a car at Bradford an Olean
man noticed a small object on tba floor near
tba door which proved to oe the end of a man's
finger. It was about an inch long, and the
finger nail was perfect How it cams there is
a mystery.
William Grizzard, a well-known citizen
of Greensville connty, Va.. bad been plowing,
and growing thirsty went for a drink of water.
While drinking from tbe spring he had a fit
bis head fell into the water, and he was
drowned.
Nancy Luce, who erected marble tomb
stones over the graves of two pet chickens, at
West Tesbury, Martha's Vineyard, is dead.
"Aunt" Nancy had her photograph taken with
her bantams in her lap and wrote verses In eu
logy of them.
Mr. J. H. Lewis, of Frederick, Md.,
while clearing the rubbish from bis garden, ac
cidentally found a gold ring, with tha name of
Roger Motter inscribed thereon. This ring was
lost about nine years ago, and is now in a good
state of preservation.
Dan Cavanagn, sergeant in charge of
the Chene street police station, has a rosa
geranium fire feet bigb, nearly as broad and of
very dense foliage, trained on a fan-shaped sup
port. Kavananh has beeu offered S20 for tha
.handsome and fragrant plant.
A victim to epilepsy was found dead
with his face in a little pool scarcely two inches
deep, at Bellefontaine. O.. on Wednesday. It
is supposed tbat he fell in a fit, with his mouth
and nose beneath the surface, and was drowned
before recovering consciousness.
Jacob Edwards, of Hume, Fauquier
connty, Va., was playing with his brothers when
one of them threw a grain of corn into his
mouth, which lodged in his windpipe. Two
doctors were summoned, bnt not in time to
save his life, as he died in two hours.
A 14-year-old boy living near Eastport,
Me., started from his home at 6 o'clock in tha
morning, walked to Eastport had three large
teeth extracted, one filled, attended to several
small errands in town, and walked home, com
pleting tbe journey of 23 miles at 33C p. x.
The method employed in inflating the
census in Lyons connty was quite ingenious. It
consisted in "raising" the figures reported by
tbe Assessors by placing the figure I before tbe
true numbers. For instance, a family of 3 was
made to show up on the rolls as 13, a family of
S as 15, and so on.
A family living near La Grange, 40
miles from Louisville, Ky., aro sick with what
the doctors call "Tornado poisoning." and one
of tba victims died and two are in a precarious
condition. The physicians claim tbat the germs
of the disease were borne on tbe late tornado
from some infected district probably hundreds
of miles away.
Just before the hanging of Ben Elsey,
at Birmingham, Ala., on Friday, the Rev.
Charles Peterson, a colored preacher who had
been ministering to the spiritual wants of tha
condemned man. addressed the crowd, saying
he was a poor man and would be thankful for
any contributions the crowd might make him.
He passed round bis hat and collected a small
sum.
The negroes of Macon are preparing to
attend a large excursion to Mllledgevilla
this week. The object of this Is to bold a re
ligious meeting; and a number of colored min
isters will be present to preach, collectively,
the funerals of all the negro Inmates of the in
sane asylnm who have died during tha past
year. It is expected that at least 1.000 negroes
will attend from Macon.
An old negro, living in Dalton, named
Election Barksdale, claims to be 160 years old.
He says he remembers distinctly events con.
nected with the revolutionary war, and other
prominent historical occurrences of, more than
a century ago. The old man is still In very good
health, and seems bale and bearty. If the old
darky tells the truth about his age he Is cer
tainly the oldest man now living in the State ol
Georgia.
The Irish bark Countess of Dnfferin,
left Londondery in ballast for Apalacnicols,
Fla-. November 22, 1889. and arrived there on
April 5, 1890. requiring 133 days to make tha
trio. At the end of three montbs she was not
50 miles off tba coast of Ireland. This three
months was a series of gales and calms. At
one time she was as far north as Iceland.
When she did get a fair wind she came through
in 35 days. Long ago this vessel was given up
as lost.
Residing within six miles of each other
two Atlanta women have long been friends and
neighbors, but only the other day in conversa
tion W33 it developed that they were exactly
the same age, and furthermore were bom on
Monday night on the same day of tba month
and about tbe same hour. Mrs. Stroud was
Tnrn In North Carolina on Mondav niirht this
21st of February, 1803. and Mrs. Mnllins first
saw tbe light in South Carolina on Monday
night February a. 1803.
SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT.
When tbe passengers on board the steam
ship City of Paris thought they were soon to de
scend to a watery grave, it Is no wonder they
wanted A-drl-atlc Siftings.
Politician Talk about enthusiasm.
Why, every time we raised our hats the band
struck np I
Man In the Crowd Guess it must have been that
hatband, wasn't it Petsy? Dry Goods Chron
icle. Hostetter McGinnis Do yon really think
that we are going to have real spring weather
now?
Gllhooly I've no donbt of It. I see the shadow
of tbe strawberry shortcake looms np no bigger
than a man's hand. Siftings.
Burly party Are you aware, sir, that
you deliberately placed your umbrella In my ear
last evening?
LlttleBlfferton Very careless of me. I'm surs.
I wondered what became of It and would It be
too much trouble to ask yon to return it. Dry
Qoods Chronicle.
Wife James, if yon are not doing any
thing I wish you would drive a nail or two on tha
outside corner of the kitchen so I can nut up tha
clothesline.
Husband (with dignity) Susan, you will have
to do It yourselt. I bave sworn not to touch a
hammer until the strike is over I Chicago
Iribune.
TJp to the Times. Landlord Low rent,
splendid locality, and all tho modem improve
ments. Flat Hnnter Very good. Let me see, are there
any children In tbe house?
Landlord (Irritably) I said, madame, that we
had nothing but modern Improvements! AmerU
can Urocer.
Weeping Spou'e I shall erect a monu
ment to you. dearest when you are gone. I shall
have 'Loving Husband' engraved on the bottom of
the column.
Dying Advertiser Good heavens. Pauline, that
-will Sever do! Top of column, eighth page, next
reading matter or I refuse to altlOry Ooodt
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