w EHE PITTSBTTRg iflSFATCg,' TUESDAY KA t890: I Wj Bi$pf 4 lESTABLISIlED FEBRUARY 8. ISIS. fTiiiVol.45. No. 63. Enlerctf at Pittsburs: l'ostoffice. JKoTcmtwr 14, IJuT, as second-class matter. iBuBiuess Office Corner Smithfleld and Diamond Streets. SKeOTEoomB and Publishing House 75, 77 and 78 Diamond Street hlTaitern Advertising OCice. lioom SI, Tribune Rjf usiunng, ew l one THE DTSPATVII tj regularly on sale at J?renIano'j, 5 phfon Square, Hew York, and III; Ave de f Opera. Par:. -France, and 13 iMrand. tendon, Eng where anyone tcio r-Aa bent disappointed at a hotel news stand scan obtain it. f TERMS OF THK DISPATCH. (i rOSTAOJK FREE IN TUE UKITED STATES. .' ,IaII.T Dispatch. One Year. T 8 00 vqiUILY DISPATCH, l'er Quarter IW JDAtLT DisrATcn, OneMouth 7 Daily. Dispatch, lncludingSunday, lTear. 10 00 ..Daily Dispatch, lncludinpfcunday.Snrths. 2M DA1X.T Dispatch, Including fcunday.l month 80 f jSVNDATDlsrATCH, Onelear 550 W 3EKLT DiSPATcn, One ear 1S5 tp Thk Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at ' JfeenUper week, or Including Ssunday edition, at SO cents per week. PITTSBURG. TUESDAY, MAY 8, lS9a ' -ra-The BUSINESS OFFICE of THE DIS PATCH has been removed to Corner of - Smithfleld and Diamond Streets. THAT CLEVELAND INTERVIEW. & The question of the accuracy of that 1 World interview with Mr. Cleveland con i cerniDg an annoying report published in the ?--New York Sums further discussed by a i letter from the interviewer, who has since then left the World. The newspaper man, of ,, course, dissents from the statement that his report was not correct, and gives vent to his injured feelings by the declaration that Mr. Cleveland said a good many things that conld not be published on account of their strenuous nature. ., This resolves the question to one of veracity between Mr. Cleveland and the re porter. Nevertheless there are points in Mr. Crawford's statement which have some bearing on the question. He states that as soon as Mr. Cleveland understood the in-' tention to publish an interview he wrote out a statement in which the language was dig nified, and the denial of the false report was couched in a temperate form. This is cer tainly a prima facie indication that Mr. Cleveland had no intention of pub licly engaging in a match of bil lingsgate with the Sun. Kelt, though Mr. Crawford insists that Mr. Cleveland did use expressions like "senile old liar and thief," and did not confine the interview strictly to his written statement, it is practically admitted that in the pub lished report, the sequence of Mr Cleve land's alleged remarks was not observed, and according to Mr. Crawford's own amended statement, that portion referring to Mrs. Cleveland was materially mutilated. The revised version of Mr. Cleveland's re- ported words on that point, now furnished by the reporter, has some strength. The first report was so entirely weak as to give the Sun the greatest advantage in its retort. On the whole tne statement proves that what Mr. Cleveland said for publication he couched in temperate form. "Whether in private conversation he did or did not re lieve his harassed soul with some emphatic and unrefined expressions, is the issue be tween Mr. Cleveland and his interviewer. But there is a distinction between the two, which by Mr. Crawford's own statement acquits Mr. Cleveland of the charge of having been goaded into public vitupera tion of the undignified character coming from him. LIBRARY DISPUTES. The Allegheny library dispute has pro ceeded to the point where the members of the Board of School Control are declaring that they will keep their library separate from the Carnegie institution, and the Library Committee snap their fingers at the asser tion. Such an attitude is by no means credit able to either party, and must be humiliat ing to the people of Allegheny. The Dis patch has urged that the School Board ought to have a representation in the man agement of the library; bnt since the decision has been made the other way, it is unwise to keep up the fight by trying to sustain an in dependent and not very extensive rival. "While the dispute goes on, Allegheny has had the library bnilding in its possession several months; bnt there is not even the beginning of a library in that beautiful structure. The eximple certainly justifies the feeling that it will be wise to have the question of control of the library institu tion on this side of the river fixed beyond all doubt. THE REAL CATJsE. It is crated that because there were reports that the wheat region of the Northwest was suffering from drought the Chicago market 'for wheat was boomed to a dollar. The rains of the past week were, we suppose, likewise utilized to keep up the price on ac count of the danger ot drowning out the plants. The fact is that almost any excuse will serve for speculative manipulations of the Chicago wheat market at this season of the year; but no one need fear a famine in the land on the testimony of the Chicago barometer. The real reason of the advance has little to do with drought or rains. The fundamental basis or the present transitory period of dollar wheat is that too many of the Chicago speculators have been selling wind, and "Old Hutch" is the man who is re ported to have caught them short and made them buy back the wind at elevated prices. GAS PROSPECTS CONTINUE GOOD. The meetings of the "Westinghonse com panies were of general interest in so far as they indicated an assnred continuance of two tributaries to home prosperity. Since stock speculation has become slow in these parts, the figures of the earnings and expenses of the Philadelphia Gas Company will be scanned more closely and arc liable to be better understood by the actual shareholders .an by the general reader. But while the speculative question what the stock is worth, or what the future of its quotations will be, interests only investors, the general fact that the company has more consumers than ever before and gas enough to supply them all is public information of a highly gratifying character. This is particularly so because It reinforces the reports of an abundant supply of gas at the command of several other companies particularly those drawing from the lately cpened fields. Thus the prospects lor the winter are good. The important truth stands ont that natural gas really no mow presents to-day the aspect of a transient blessing than it did the first day it was brought to Pittsburg. While it is clear that old fields will event ually be exhausted, it is made not less plain that, by the discovery of new fields and the economical handling of the gas, the supply has ben prolonged with no actual or serious 'hortage vet to fear. A W uPP'y fjf "ipe laying, and tha stockholder in the va rious companies are not necessarily better off merely because by increased consump tion and increased rates to consumers more money goes into the companies' treasuries. But assuredly to the householder and to tho manulacturer and to the city at large there is a tremendous gain over and above all question of charges to consumers, or divi dends, in the general situation of having the gas to use in place of being obliged to go back to the cumbersome and less cleanly coal. A FAMILIAR TROUBLE. Trouble bobs up again this year, with that long-standing bone of contention be tween the assessors and the business men, the business tax. A number of the firms liable to this tax are omitting to make sworn statements of their business, for a variety of reasons. Some of them say that their statements in previous years are suf ficient, some that their business is exempt and others undoubtedly do so because they think that they will get off easier if they let the assessors estimate their business than if they give the exact figures. The result is that the assessors are compelled to take measures to secure the statements necessary to properly assess the tax. The willingness of the most respectable citizens to slide out of taxpaying, sometimes by very small holes, is proverbial. It ought not to be so; but it is human nature. If men of property and - business could be brought to see that they are as much injured if they are not called upon to pay their full share of the expenses of government as they would if they were left off the list of vice presidents on a public occasion, or given a low rating in commercial agency reports, the millenial era might be looked for. But all arguments to that end are wasted on the business mind. Consequently the assessors are justified in using all means in their power to ensure that everyone shall be fully assessed. So long as the business tax is collected, it should be assessed fully and fairly on all. But it is to be hoped that some day that re markable tax on enterprise will be dispensed with. TAMING THE MISSISSIPPI. The recent floods in the Mississippi have attracted attention anew to the question of the best method for securing the dwellers along its banks against the repetition of such disasters. It is one of the singular features of the question that the people of the Miss issippi Valley themselves and their repre sentatives in the Senate are strongly declar ing that the levee system which has been tried for a generation or two with the con stantly recurnng result of just such floods as this, is the onjy thing to tie to. They assert that if the levees are only built high enough and strong enough they and their plantations can be made secure. This is much the same class of hydrosta tic logic, as if, after the Johnstown disaster of last year, the people of the ruined valley had met and resolved that if the Govern ment would only build the South Fork dam higher and stronger, it would protect Johnstown against the repetition of the calamity. Perhaps Johnstown might have perpetrated suchan absurdity.if its peo ple like the Mississippi Valley planters had a financial interest in the perpetuation of the plan of damming the water np to an in definite height. It has been demonstrated again and again that the ordina t channel of the Mississippi is insufficient for the times of flood, when that stream must carry off the simultaneons freshets of the entire country between the crest of the Alle- ghenies and that of the Rocky Mountains. Before the levees were built the high water could spread over the bottom lands on either side. In order to secure these lands to cultivation the levees were built which actually diminished the channels for flood outlets. The people who own these lands are naturally those who think tin levees onght to be raised indefinitely in order that their plantations taken from what is the natural bed of the flooded river, may be preserved. The demonstration having been frequent that a river like the Mississippi cannot be indefinitely dammed up, or kept within a narrow channel when flooded by the over flow of half the continent, it is plain that the plan of providing additional outlets for the floods is the only adequate one. But as this will sacrifice some ot the bottom lands, the people most interested are decidedly op posed to it. Bather than let any of their cultivated land be taken they would prefer to continue the labor, or rather have the Government continue it for them, ot making the Mississippi confine itself within a chan nel that is too narrow for it The effort to reclaim overflowed lands that can be reclaimed is a legitimate and praise worthy one. But the plan of doing it by calling upon Government to perform the impossible cannot be indorsed. The levee system may be relied upon in the future to protect the planters against ordinary floods; but additional outlets should be provided to carry off the water through the side streams before the danger line is reached. THE KEYNOTE OF LONDON. The orderly demonstration made by the workingmen of London on Snnday has made a profound impression everywhere. There has been little or no effort on the part of the Torv papers in England tobelittle this phase ot the eight-hour movement. They admit that when a quarter of a million of sturdy Englishmen in a body set out to obtain a reform the departure is significant and not to be ignored lightly. It is an example of constitutional agitation well begun. The result of the mass meeting in Hyde Park" may not be felt immediately in the adoption of the eight-hour working day. In England it seems probable that the regulation of working hours will be obtained through Parliament, and such an impressive exhibi tion of the popular desire as the laboring men of London have given is best adapted to impress the legislators at "Westminster. Doubtless other cities in the United King dom will indorse with great force the initia tive of London, and we shall not be surprised if last Sunday proves to be as the Pall Mall Gazette suggests, one of the most decisive diys in the industrial history of England. The conditions are so different here that it is not within the power of the laboring men of America to adopt their English brethren's plans even if they would. Labor has not the same confidence in Congress' ability and willingness to accede to its latest demands as the Londoners appear to have in Parliament. But the moderation, cover ing unanimity in gigantic proportions, of the British agitators is certainly worthy of imitation here. The cause of labor will make all the more rapid and efficient prog ress if strikes and more violent measures are not resorted to until a campaign of edu cation has been tried. PLAYS FROM NOVELS. The successful novels or stories that have been dramatized with favorable results, artistically aud financially, are few. It has been noticed hvrmanvrriiici tW.the more - -V I agreeable a book ooi. is to we reauing puuuo uie i less likely is the story, which it embodies, to please when set upon the stage. AVhen Dickens' novels were ot the height of their popularity a great many attempts were made to turn them into plays which should take rank with the books. Almost every one of Dickens' novels was so adapted for the stage, but with but one or two exceptions the re sultant plays were dismal failures, and even those that escaped condemnation in the bright sunlight of the author's popularity have obtained it since. More recently ex amples have occurred of most popular novels failing as plays. Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll ana Mr. Hyde" attracted more attention than any book of the year in which it was published. Mr. Mansfield made a notable attempt to extend the weird charm of the story to a play; but though he brought no little skill and histrionic art to the task, as a drama "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was not a suc cess. In contrast with these precedents Pitts burg now has the pleasure of seeing at two of her principal theaters two books effectually dramatized. Mrs. Burnett's story of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" has not as a play all the subtle merits of the book, but it has enough of the original's virtue to deserve its victory in the theater. Sir. Gunter's "Barnes of New York" readily lent itself to theatrical interpretation. The power of the story lies entirely in its dramatic arrangement. The drama has not created the furore the novel did, but it is un mistakably a successful play. It is a curious coincidence that two exceptions of a fairly established rule two popular books converted to stage use with good results should occur here at this time. The City Property Committee of Alle gheny Councils last night gave one of the working newspaper men of Pittsburg an hon orable and important position by electing Mr. Leonard Wales, of The Dispatch, to the position ot organist of Carneglo Hall. Mr. Wales has taken a very great interest In that important addition to the musical attractions of the community, and he will do efficient work in popularizing the public entertainments at Carnegie Hall. This we believe fills all the positions about the Allegheny Library, except those ot the library Itself. The librarians and the library appear to be the last things that are provided. THE Americus Club has a perfect right to keep ont of the Gubernatorial fight, hut tbe best way to do that with regard to any contest is to stay away from the place where tbe fight is to take place. A PABAGBAPh in the esteemed Philadel phia Prett tbe other day pointed out tbe redac tion of $7,500,000 in the publio debt lostmonth as an answer to the "croakers." A leading editorial in the same paper gives the figures showing that at the present rate of progress Congress will turn the surplus into a deficit. The tail does not wag tbe dog very successfully In tha editorial columns of our esteemed and occ&sioaally out spoken cotemporary. Net earnings of $840,000 for the Pittsburg and Western road durine the past year shows that corporation to be steadily working its way upward into a prosperous and paying business. The motto which appeared in tho New York labor union parade last week, "Drink Only Union Beer," is open to criticism. It is in direct antagonism to Mr. Powderly's recom mendation to workingmen that they shall try water, tea, coffee, lemonade and other soft drinks. Really, wo think Mr. Powderiys idea the best. Ok the levee question the Southern people are In favor of tho levees, and the river is against tbem. But the river has given the most convincing proof of the strength of Its position. Matoe Geant'3 indignant correction of the base slander that be gave Croker's child 125,000 in greenbacks, is the most unique thing of the sort on record. Tbe assaulted official confronts his detractors by going on the stand and swearing that it was only SO. 000. It is intimated that the speculators are making a brisk demand for reserved seats at the last appearance of Miss Mary Anderson at tbe Brompton oratory. The United States Supreme Court will hear an argument on tbe Kemmler case; bnt its adherence to the precedent in the Anarchist cases warrants the belief that those who are fighting the execution had better rely on their "pull" with the New York Legislature. Pebhaps Sir- Leach has received pri vate instruction of Senator Quay, similar to that which Governor Beaver got six years ago. Silence is golden. If the Democrats in Bandall's district get up a split over the election of his snecessor, it will be fair to conclude that they do it be cause of their innate conviction that Philadel phia onght to have a solid Republican delega tion in Congress. Concessions to the eight-hour men in Chicago, New York, Boston and Milwaukee are settling the question In the most sensible way. The esteemed Philadelphia Times ad vises its readers to "enjoy the park now." With a view to the different conditions, wo ad vise our readers to enjoy tbe park when they get an opportunity to do so, in tbe shape ot tbe park. The electrical execution struggle is likely to result in the limitation of the sixth com mandment solely to the machinery of justice. BOULANGEK is reported to have returned to France; but France has not found it out yet, and consequently remains unconvnlsed. Or perhaps France has at last settled down to the conviction that Bonlanger is a back num ber. PERSONAL PABAGBAFHS. Ethel Sfraotjb, daughter of Mrs. Kate Spragne, has decided not to enter tbe theatrical profession. Miss Josephine Siuoir, the yonng singer adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone as a pro tegee, it an Oakland, Cat., girl. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil king, was a newspaper reporter a quarter of a century ago. He picks up millions now as easily as be picked up items formerly. George Bancroft, who was Secretary of the Navy for a year and a half in tbe adminis tration of President Polk, is tho oldest ex Cabinet officer, both in age and date of ser vice, now living. Me. Howells, the novelist, is reported to have become a constant attendant and an earn est listener at the meetings of "the Church of tbe Carpenter," organized in Boston by tbe Kev. W. D. P. Bliss. Edwin Abnold, author of "The Light of Asia," is occupying bis leisure in Japan with the composition of a new epic poem. Its title will be The Light of the "World" and the sub ject the Founder of Christianity and Bis doc trines. Emma Abbott owes her start in life to Mme. Patti. Tbe diva said she was so en tranced with a lullaby tbe little stranger sang, that she threw her arms about her, told her to get ready to go to Italy, and paid for bur first year's instruction. Sib Provo William Pabry Wallis, G. C. B., to whom the captain of tbe American Chesapeake surrendered off Boston harbor Jane 1. 1813, is still living, and senior admiral of tbe fleet. Admiral Wallis was born In Halifax, N S., April 12, 1791, ana is therefore in bis lOOtbyear. M. d'Habaucotjet, author ot the "Passion Play," so a marquis of undoubted nobility. In point of aristocratic height in Lorraine, it was impossible, before it was annexed to France, to get higher than the four nobles who were styled r' n. j!T i7 iT.u w "T a " v,uevau, jii wmiku us m uuc i from poverty he dropped nis rant. ,,1 .....ji THE TOPICAL TALKER. Tho Wny Panic Are Prevented Gossip About Tbemera and Thine Theatrical. At the conclusion of tbe third act ot "Mr. Barnes of New York" at tho Bijou Thea ter last night, a little incident took place which might have readily had serious results, a man in tbe parquet circle began to applaud noisily after the curtain had fallen and the house was quiet. There was no particular harm in his clapping his hands, had he not continued it till tbe whole audience was disturbed about it. Then Mr. Dawson, the manager ot the front of the house, walked oyer to ths alslo near which the enthusiastic citizen sat, and, perceiving that he and two companions were intoxicated, he ordered them to leave the thea ter. This was the right thing to do. The only thing to do. Yet when a policeman came in and quietly escorted the disturbing elements to the door it number of people hissed. If they had under stood the circumstances they wouldn't have been such geese. It was ungrateful in anyone in that audience to disapprove an act done to ensure their safety. Before now apanie has been started in a the ater by the foolishness of a drunken man. If a drunken man manages to get inside a theater he should be removed at once, for his own sake and for the sake of others, and if it is done quietly and decently as it was done at the Bijou last night the audience ought to be grateful. pmsBUROEES are familiar with Wilson Bar rett's "Clito," which was played here some three seasons ago. It did not please everybody here, aad it was somewhat surprising to find the queer imitation-antique drama an attrac tion of tbe first water in Washington the week before last. Of course both Mr. Barrett and Miss Eastlake do some remarkably clever work in tbe piece, and it is well staged and the com pany is a good one, but I not remember seeing anything of the sort this season that Impressed me as being so cheap, so full of clap-trap and coarseness as tbe play of "Clito," over which a cnltured Washington audience enthused tre mendously. Tns theatrical season is drawing to a close. It will end at tbe Bijou Theater in tbe first week in June or the last week ot this month. Tbe Grand Opera House, I understand, will remain open a week or two later than tho Bijou. The Academy of Music closes with the warm weather for the summer vacation, but the end of the season at Harris' Theater is not yet annonneed. It is probable that the season of 1890-91 will commence rather earlier than usual at both the principal theaters, tbe Duauesne Theater not being in the field till October. "THE New York JtT irror has adopted tbe idea of ending tho performances with a national air, and has already indnced a dozen or more of New York's foremost managers to promise to see that their orchestras encourage patriotism with "The Btar-Spangled Banner" as a finale every night. It will bo remembered that Manager Williams Inaugurated this cus tom at his Academy sir months ago and Mr. Teets has regularly had bis orchestra play a national air to usher the audience ont. A few weeks ago the Bijou Theater adopted the cus tom, and The Dispatch has advocated the same warmly. It 13 a good thing, anyhow. MARIE ELAINE IS WORSE. Scarce Any Hope for the Yonntr Woman Whose Prospect Were Once So Bright. rBFECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.! New Yobk, May 5. Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., has about abandoned hope. Instead of getting better, she is, if anything, a trifle worse. Medical science does not seem to be able to alleviate, let alone cure, her inflammatory rheumatism. It is not likely that she will ever go on tbe stage. She has not been out of her sick room in months. Most of (he time she is in bed with her unfortunate leg in a plaster cast. She is a patient sufferer and never com plaint), although tbe cup of sorrow was pressed to her lips very early in life. Her baby boy is progressing finely, and is a bright, healthy looking little sprite the only sunbeam tnat brightens its mother's room. Some of her friends are still loyal, but tbey are few. No word has come from her recreant husband or his family, although there have been times when poverty crossed the thresh old of the sick room, and tbe poor creatu-e would have suffered for tbe necessaries of life but for tbe interposition of friends. Of tbe ones who have proved faithful none is more deserving of credit than the English maid-of-all-work, who has served Mrs. Blaine without pay, and at times has drawn upon her savings of years to keep the wolt from the door. CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS. WHAT is the use of being a British monarch anyway? There hasn't been a veto in that unfor nate country for 180 years. The German language in this country has got to go. Its total lnadequencyto the needs or the growing Bepnblic is at last settled. The Mil waukee licrold has confessed tbat a game of base ball cannot be intelligently reported in Ger man. The Bombay widow is kept bald-headed by her barber as a mark of respect to the memory of her late husband. The Bombay husband may be kept bald-headed without tbe aid of a barber Jost the same In that benighted country as In the lanas blessed with Christian civilisation. Minneapolis and St. Paul have at last met on common ground. It was a ball ground. The Corcoran art gallery at Washington has fonr Charlotte Oordars, bnt neither the be nignant Belva Lockwood, the benevolent busan B. or the agile Dr. Mary Walker look down, ctcu once, from Its classic walls. Yet It claims to be a gallery of historical rt. Another lie nailed: Tbe statement of tho radical press that Queen Victoria has done noth ing to endear her to posterity falls to the ground when It Is remembered that she has written two books and hasn't published either of them. When General Bntter informs tbo country whether the Presbyteruns shonld or should not revise their Confession of Faith, he may be said to have expressed himself on every subject upon which he Is regarded as competent authority. In ten years more we shall have paid off the entire national debt. It gives ns pleasure to look forward to a time when we won't have to lay awake nights and feel worried and uneasy day times. It is really encouraging to think that wo can begin the nevr century looking everybody In the face and buying a new suit of clothes every season. Mb. Cleveland is admitted to the Supreme Court, and Mr. Harrison Is assured a pension of 3 a month by tbe Morrill bill. How, it really begins to look as If a man might be President without leaving his family In poverty. AN Ohio architect will erect the fair build ings at Chicago. Problem for future historians: Which is the greater, the buildings Chicago paid for, or the Buckeye Phidias that built tbem? In just about a month fromr now 10,000,000 mothers in our land will be foudly telling tbe truth about tbe baby's age. and Just as fondly lorgettlng tbe truth about their own. DEATHS OF A DAY. Timothy J. Crowley. Last night Mr. Timothy J. Crowley, one of the best known young men of tbe Fifth ward, died at his home, NO. 57 Webster avenue. Mr. Crowley had been HI since last December. Ue was em ployed at Armstrong Bros.' Cork factory, and took sick while at work there Jn December. He was sent borne, and was never able tq resume his employment- Neuralgia of tbe stomach devel oped, and on baturday last he took cold while walking about tbe house and bis death followed. Mr. Crowley was a member of the Hancock Dis trict School Board, and was very popular In hla ward, where he wa6 born and raised. He was 31 years oi age, and leaves a wire and one child. He was a son of Daniel '."rowley, and a brother of John Crowley, ol the postofflce. Ilarvey Ynn PeH. lEVZCTAL TELEGRAM TO TBI DI3PATCH.1 Bellefohte, May S. Ilarvey Van Pelt, a prominent Democrat of Center Hall, this county, died last night or Brlght's disease. He was asso ciated wltti Governor Beaver and Oeaeral Hastings lu the building of the town of Hastings, In Cambria county. v Samuel Brlltaln. HEWjlEloniON.Mays.-gamnel Brlttaln died at bis borne here yesterday afternoon aged 91 years. He Is believed to have been tbe oldest in habitant of the Beaver Valley. His remains will be buried at Darlington to-morrow afternoon, James B. Canto. rfPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THS DISPATCH. BELLEFONTE, May 5. James B. Curtln, a nephew of Oovernor Curtis, and member of the n. ot curtmfuo., large iron manufacturers. oieo suauemy inisjanernoon 01 Jirignt'f OUeue, ""'""" Jir. - -. ?5T" VI THE ELIXIR IN FBANCE. . Tbe Interest In Drowa-Sequnrd' Discovery la Unflagging There. According to tbe Saroness Althea Salvador, interest in tbe Brown-Sequard discovery is not so dead in France as in America. Under date of July 20 she writes; From present indications the world will be obliged to give Dr. Brown Seanard's discovery serious consideration. One of the few French physicians who tried experiments with this discovery has had some startling results. It will be remembered that Dr. Brown-Sequard's first trial was upon him self, and from tbe day he made tbe first inocu lation a radical change occurred. His old strength returned, and he felt himself younger by 20 years. Tho eminent physician's follower tried the experiment upon three old men, almost bed ridden; after the third inoculation tbe helpless old men not only began to take Interest in everything about them, to regain their facul ties, but tbey walked with the light, elastic step of youth. Encouraged by this success, the physician continued his work, and in nine cases out of ten he has had wonderful success. Everywhere, except in France, experiments have been common. In Albury, a little Austra lian village, between Victoria and New South Wales, a physician Inoculated a dying man with ram's marrow, and tho subject was cured completely. The most wonderful case ot which I ever heard, and one tbat destroys the theory that tbe svstem must not be vitiated in order to assimilate tbe remedy. Is that of a man dying his hands and fingers were rigid, ulcerated, bleeding. Ho could neither eat nor sleep, and was hardly able to walk. The first inoculations produced little effect, but those following gave results. Tbe patient was able to write a legible hand, and 12 days after the last inoculation he articulated perfectly, walked a long distance, slept well and was on the road to health. A GENUINE E0HANCE. Hotv a Slave Boy managed to Become a Skilled Physician. Philadelphia. April 6. Among the gradu ates of the medical department of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania at the commencement exercises, was one student whose career reads more like a chapter from a romantic novel tban a history of actual experience. Dr. E. A. White, the negro alumnus of the class of 1890, was born in Clinton, Miss. During the lawless rule of the Ku-Klux in 1875 his father's bouse was entered one night and young White bound hand and foot His father was dragged out before his eyes and shot, and with his mother and Blx children he fled to the woods, where for weeks he hid in the swamps, only coming out at night for food, which was supplied by the colored women of the neighborhood. When tho troubles had blown over White attended the public school at Jackson and by working out side of school hours and at night saved up enough money to reach the Lincoln University. Accompanied by a friend he journeyed North and, by walking most of the way, finally suc ceeded in rcacblng the place of their destina tion. "Mississippi White, who walked to Lin coln," was a name well known among tbe stu dents of the college for many terms. After graduation at Lincoln young White journeyed to Media, Pa., where he wasfcladly received by tbe Society of Friends and be friended, especially by tbe late Mrs. Short lidge, wife of the principal of the Media Acad emy, who took an earnest and kindly Interest in his progress. From Media White entered tbe medical school of the University of Pennsylvania from which institution be was graduated last week, no longer the poor outcast slave child, hut an honored member of the profession of medicine. He has returned home to practice among his rellow negroes in Mississippi, and has a brilliant f nture already assured him. WOMEN AND CIVIL SERVICE. Operatiemof the New Law Unfavorable to the Ladle at Washington. From tbe Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. Some day there will be a wild and funny out burst from tbe champions of women's rights against the civil service law. Slowly, but sure ly, the operation of this system is displacing women from the departments. There are fewer women in Government service this year, in pro portion to tha whole number, than there were last year. There will be fewer next year. The displacement of the sex is so gradnal that it is not generally recognized. This is all because ot "the merit system." Women pass the ex amination in large numbers, bat they remain upon tbe eligible list uncalled for. Officers of the commission admit tbat the requests for women clerks are very few. The reason is easily understood. It is bad enough, the head of the bureau thinks, to bo obliged to take a male clerk as the boys trade knives "no sight and unseen." It Is worse, infinitely, to choose a woman by name, without information as to her color, age, looks ur temper. As women clerks drop out of the service the chiefs of departments, with few exceptions, make requisitions on tbe Civil Service Com mission for men to make up the quota. The law says nothing on this subject, but under it, as a natural sequence, men are taking tbe places of women ever) day in the departments, and they will continue to do so. PBOTECTS THE SLEEPERS, And Give Honacbolder the Bight to Drive Awsr lbs Street Musician. From the Philadelphia Press. Mr. Theodore M. Etting introduced an ordi nance last week in Councils dealing with music in tbe pnblic streets which onght to be passed without delay. It does not prohibit the organ grinder or forbid the street band. It leaves tbo streets free to wandering musicians when peo ple want to hear them. But it gives every house holder with illness in his house, or whose work keeps him up all night, the power to send street musicians away under penalty of arrest and fine. At least 20,000 people in this city work by night and must sleep, if at all, by day. Under present ordinances tbeir sleep is with out protection against tbe noise of any wander ing hand. The noiso of street musle is the keenest torture to many nervous patients. Tens of thousands of mothers, after a night with restless children, lose their only chance of sleep when an organ grinder begins to turn his crank under their windows. For many suffer ers and hard workers a daily bribe little less tban blackmail is tbe only price of immunity. Tbe street musician will be left with all his rights if Mr. Elting ordinance passes; but he will not be able to coin them into wrongs for the rest of the community. THE JACKSON CENTER GHOST. Mischievous Little Eddie I at tbo Bottom of tho Mystery. rEPECIAL TKLEOBAM TO THE DJSPATCH.l Meeoeb, May 6. The Jackson Center ghost story has been tho one topic of excitement in tbe neighborhood. On Saturday evening nearly 200 persons were at the scene of the visitatiop, and yesterday evening, during the heavy rain that lasted two hours, over a dozen buggies were in front o( the haunted house. A little later, however, ex-Sheriff A. P, Pew made a discovery which threatens to reduce the stock in the genuine ghost theory consider ably below par. Ho was tbero for the purpose of watching, and while a dozen or more persons Were in the kitchen a Diece or hot coal was thrown from the sitting room. The majority of tbe visitors eonclnded that as tbe coal was hot it must be fresh from Pluto's regions, and were more frightened tban ever. Pew noticed thai Mrs. Harrison's boy Eddie, about 10 or 11 years of age, was in tbe sitting room, and be also saw that the piece of hot coal thrown into the kitchen fitted into a piece smoldering in the sitting room grate. This caused him to watoh tbe boy more carefully, and finally be saw him throw a stone. On being charged with it tbe bov admitted tbat he bad been the long-looked- "f or ghost. When asked by bis mother why be piayea tnis pare no gaia ais uncie asitea mm to do so. , THE FORESTS IN BANGER. Carelessness of Fire Warden and Vandal' ism of Lumbermen tbo Cause From the New York Sun. The attention of all lovers of trees has been called q the subject of the large fires that have been sweeping over the forest lands in the in terior of this State and in tbe mountains of Pennsylvania. There is every indication that the summer will be dry, and the small quanti ties of snow on tho ground during March has already dried the forests, so tbat the great fires of the recent two weeks met with a good deal of encouragement, Tbe Adirondack wilderness is about tbe only big forest region which has escaped. Between the vandalism of the lumbermen and the fires resulting from tbe carelessness of the fire wardens, tbe forests In this section ot the coun try are in a good deal of danger. Turned It First Corner. The Afro-American Bpokcrman turned its first corner on Saturday, when, No. 1, volume i was issued under the management pf Jr M. F. Foster. The paper la bright and newsy "and Btanifo nn stlffiv for the interests of the colored people, nrst, lasi auu an mo umbn THE LAW AND THE DOG, Legal Biota ol Canine A Queer Reason for the Dlaerlmlnntlon Agnlnst Them Under Common Law A Blerited Bnlogy on Onr AbPed Pel. pROBABLY few persons who Save not read a little law have ever thought that'property in dogs Is at all different from property in horses or other domestic animals. Tbey go to large kennel shows and admire dogs which are worth many hundreds of dollars, thinking that they would be glad to own such noble animals. Tbey see these dogs put tbrough tricks that now wonderful powers of comprehension and memory, and they declare that the dog is tho most intelligent of all beasts. It is a surprise when they learn that a dog a trained, intelli gent, affectionate dog can be stolen and car ried away, and at common law the owner will have no remedy. To take feloniously and carry away other animals Is larceny; but there is no larceny of dogs at common law. Tha reason of this for there is a reason strikes us in these days as rather absurd, says a writer in the Boston Transcript. It takes us back several centuries to a time when society and law were on a different basis. When the early English law books were written it was customary for the gentlemen ot the realm to keep various wild birds and beasts in a half tamed condition to use for bunting. Falcons and hawks were commonly so treated. In the same way dogs were kept for sport, and were in truth only half domesticated. It was on the ground that they were animals of an essen tially wild nature terse naturae and were not wholly reclaimed, that it was not a felony to steal them. On this reasoning the lawyers got themselves into the strange position of holding tbat "while it was not larceny to steal a dog, it was larceny to steal the skin of a dead dog, and to steal many animals of less account tban dogs." m 9 A Great Injustice. Yet it was not held so of birds ke pt for sp8rt lng. Lord Coke says in his "Institutes"; "Of some things tbat be ferae naturae, being reclaimed, felony may be committed in respect of their nobla and generous nature and cour age serving ob vitae solatium (for the diver sion) pf princes and of noble and generous per sons to make them fitter for great employ ments, as all kinds of falcons and other hawks, if the party that steals them know they be re claimed." , Thus the dog was distinguished from the falcon as being less noble and generous. It is here tbat the great injustice seems to have been perpetrated upon dogs. Not noble, in deed, and generous I I can imagine tbe Indig nation with which an old sportsman wonld say this as he thought of the many hours he had spent with his dog and gun in rambling through October woods. How a veteran gunner kin dles at the suggestion; for those hours spent with a knowing pointer or sympathetic setter, after tbe quail and partridge, are among the really joyous occasions of his life. If the flight of falcons can stimulate noble natures to greater fitness for high employments, surely the companionship of a loving dog, eager to satisfy his master, is a moral influence of no less value. In some States Judges have come to think so, and to rule accordingly. In New York and New Hampshire decisions have been rendered tbat the old common rule must be abrogated, and a dog thief be held for larceny. A Blerclfttl Judge. Tit one of these decisions the warm-hearted Judge defended our abased pets with a merited eulogy: "When we call to mind the small spaniel that saved the life of William of Orange, and thus probably cbanged the cur rent of modern history (2 Motley's Dutch Re public, S93), and the faithful St. Bernards, whlcb, after a storm has swept over tbe crests and sides of the Alps, start out in search of lost travelers, the claim tbat tbe natnre of a dog is essentially base, and that he should be left a prey to every vagaoona wno cnooses to steal bim, will not now receive ready assent. In nearly every household in tha land can be found chattels kept for the mere whim and pleasure of the owner, a sonrce of solace after serious labor, exercising a refining and elevat ing influence, abd yet they are as much under the protection of the law as chattels purely use ful and absolutely essential. This common law rule was extremely technical, and can scarcely be said to have a sound basis to rest on." There is one other reasoa why, perhaps, dogs were not included with the other domesticated animals nnder tbe law of larceny. Daring tbe reign of William L tbe grand larceny of chat tels over 12 pence in value was made punish able by death. Lord Coke hints that it was not fit that "a person shonld die for tbem." The learned judge quoted above adds to this Iron ically, "ana yet tnose ancient law-givers tnougni it not unfit tbat a person Bbonld die for stealing a tame hawk or falcon." Since we are not ready to concede tbe superiority of hawks over dogs, we will go tha wbole length of saying "let the dog thief die, if need be, to protect our dumb friends." He Defended His Doe. J? ABELT do we hear of a man who is ready to die for his dog; yet this is not an unknown case. A bystander at a railroad station not far from Boston might have seen a courageous deed in defense ot a dog not many months ago. A handsome Irish setter accompanied his mas ter to the depot, where they were waiting for a train to the city. A train from town came first and left a number of passengers, among tbem a man with an ugly bull terrier. The bull dog bad no sooner lighted on terra firms than he yielded to bis besetting temptation and picked a quarrel with the gentlemanly setter. The latter mnst have had some genuine Irish blood in bis veins, for he faced his tough little opponent sturdily and gave tooth for tootb. All wonld have ended harmlessly, had not the train for the city moved into the station just then, while the dogs were rolling over and over on the tracks. Before one could think tbey were down in front of the engine, closed on each otber's necks. Then it was tbat the mas ter's love for bis favorite displayed Itself. For getful of tbe train and of bis friends, he dashed upon the track, clasped bis beloved dog in bis Arms, and Rtaptrerpd to one side, bardlv know ing where to go in his excitement. It was a very narrow escape. Not a man on the plat form expected to find him uninjured when tbe train came to a stop; but a happy instinct gnlded him in the direction of safety, ana both man and dogs escaped unharmed. When brute companions can endear them selves in such a way to tbeir owners it seems out of place to raise tbo question of property. Tbe old reasoning has been reversed; it is not from the baseness, bnt from tbe nobleness and fidelity of canine natnre that we are unable to value our dogs in dollars and cents. It is not pecessary, however, that men should die in de fending them; for in tbe absence of a common law remedy tbe stealing of dogs is now pun ished almost universally by statute. SELLING THE CHURCHES. nouses of Worship In Their Relations to the Real Estate Marker. From the ifew York Commercial Advertiser. When that grim personage, the future histo rian, is engaged on the annals of this town dur ing the present period, be cannot fall to note the frequency with which church edifices are bought and sold. Hardly any property is less sensitive to the changes of the real estate mar ket. Only a few days sijee a church edifice on Park avenue passed into private ownership for the alleged reason that the locality was not fa vorable to Baptists being a fashionable quar ter largely addicted to Presbytenanism and Episcopaoy and it is within the memory of young children when a Methodist congregation on Madison avenue was so rent with internal discord that, after a protracted period of bitter dissension, tbe sbeepfold was sold, and the flock scatteted. . ., A tour through our leading thoroughfares will disclose more than one cburch edifice frankly offered for sale, and one avenue boasts of a cburch converted, with slight external change, into an express office, as some years ago Broadway held one transmogrified into a playhouse. Perhaps no one of these trans formations appeals more directly to the eye than tbat which replaced a corrugated cast iron sanctuary at Forty fifth street by a huge and lofty templo of sport, built of stone and brick and terra cotta, elaborately carved and decorated. MY GTJEST. At early dawn 1 woke, I beard a robin and looked out: Beneath my window, where the roses bloomed, Love stood in bluibing doubt. Bis smile was yery sweet. But yet bis lips did not his name disclose. I knew blm not; and soon be went away, Bearing one crimson rose. Beneath the high noontide 1 met blm by the sbady garden wall; We spoke of many things he clasped my band Use kiss and tbat was all. Alas! I knew blm not, And yet be wpre my rose upon his ieartl Bnt still the perfume of his kiss remains. Though I let Love depart. The day wanes. Toward the west I lift my eyes and lol be comes once more. He comes a victor, for 1 know him now, And open wide my door. My rose Is now bis sword, iy will to conquer ad my pride to slay: I Bat song and sunshine fill my happy heart. . nor Aiovenas come ta stay) ., i , s" & lUtd't BaaAujoten- STAGE ROMANCES. Mr. Baraea of New York and Utile Lard Fannilerov Behind ths Footlights Tbe Sfaanty Qneen The Two Maes. If you have read "Mr. Barnes of New York" and enjojed it, you ought t0 seo tce P,ar which Mr. Gunter has made out of his popular novel. It is a closer rendering of the novel than is usually the case in such adaptations. The descriptive matter is replaced by scenery, but tbe talk and the action ot tbe story in print may be found very little cat and condensed in the play. Yet the purposes of the novel and the play are wide apart. We credit Mr. Gunter with a desire to picture actual life in his novel, but surely be bad no such intention when he became play wright Anyhow.the play is only true to life in episodes rare episodes. The greater part of the play is a travesty; at times sheer farce comedy. As a dramatic entity it Is not worth much, but the series of tableaux ap peals strongly to the audience by reason of tbe dramatic Situations, the pictorial surroundings, and genuine Interest of the plot. The characters stand out more pict uresquely In the novel's nae-es tban behind the footlights, but tbe intensity of such pas sages as the duel'scene and the final catastrophe in Marina's bridal chamber is enhanced by scenic abd histrionic accessories. Unless one has read tbe novel the drama can hardly be intelligible. Tbe farcical railroad journey from Paris to Lyons amuses tbe audi ence, bnt it has no business in the play, tbe action ot which It delays needlessly. How Afr. Barnes starved Aff.ii Antlruther into his acquaintance might be shown in a farce com edyfarces have been built on less substantial plots but it is out of place in a serious drama, with Its ridiculous railroad guard, comic pas sengers and parody of travel in general. Tbat it pleases the audience does not show that it has any artistic right to exist. The play was performed for the first time here at tbe Bijou Theater last night. It was received with every mark of warm approval, and tbe recalls were numer ous. Mr. Barnes of New York could hardly have been a handsomer fellow than Mr. Robert Hilliard makes him. The usual exquisite de tails of dress in which Mr. Hilliard excels ap pear in Mr. Barnes. His coats, bis bats, bis trousers, to go no farther, are above and be yond criticism, if we may except and wa do it with deep humility a cutaway, black morning coat which Mr. Barnes wears at Monte Carlo. The tails of this garment projected from Mr. Barnes at an unnatural angle, and suggested tbe presenco of a vio lent wind, or tbat at some prior day Mr. Barnes bad worn a' bustle. But this Is merely a trifle. Mr. Hilliard gives ns a breezy, easy, devil-may-care American: not tbe best or tha highest type, and not exactly what we con ceive Mr. Gunter's -Mr. Barnes to have been. He is a good fellow, a handsome fellow, and an American in sympathies so far as they go. Naturally tbe great character ot tbe play is Marina, the female .Faoien del Franchl, who revels in bloodthirsty anticipations of the mur der with which she means to bring tbe Corsican vendetta to a business-like conclusion. Miss Emily Bigl brings great power to tbe portrayal of this character. Her Marina is a very unpleasant person, indeed, bnt tbe actress continues to allow the brighter, sweeter side of the nnbappy woman to emerge at times, and she makes tbo character deeply Interesting always. Tbe Enid Anslruther of Miss Emma Field is a pretty and pleasing girl. Lady Chartris does not seem to have been born in Mayfalr, and her daughter Maud must cer tainly bave been educated in tbe Bowery. All the same, as the latter Miss Annie H. Blancke gives a capital ske.ch of hoydenlsh girlhood. The company as a whole is above the average for "rama of this kind. Some of the scenery Is very striking, an Italian vista in particular, and tbe otber ad juncts, which include a locomotive ot trnly nniqne pattern, serve their pnrpose well enough. "Barnes of New ork" is an inter esting person, no matter bow you take him. . Grand Opera House. "Little Lord Fauntleroy" does not seem to spoil with age. A big house assembled to wit ness its performance on the Grand stage last night; sympathetic mothers, being, as usual largely in the ascendant. Perhaps tbe fact tbat a new boy plays tbe role of Lord Fauntle roy had something to do with the crowd. One Wallie Eddinger is Tommy Russell's successor, and in the opinion of many who have witnessed tho performances of both children, tbe new Fauntleroy is tbe cleverer and tbe more natural of the two. Eddinger Is a manly little chap. He has none of tbat tire some effeminacy which spoiled Tommy Rns- Boiis otnerwise excellent playing. -The little lord, as Eddinger shows him to us, is not by any means a sbow child, but rather an out spoken, plucky boy; just tbe identical sort of boy tbat such parentage and such training would be likely to produce. Frank E. Aiken, as the Earl of Dorincourt, catches the spirit of his part exactly. He is not the priggish snob which is tbe American stage typo of the English peer; neither is he the elderly Bayard or Qrandison which does duty for the same character on the stage of England. He pre sents to us an elderly gentleman, who would be very ordinary save for his good blood ana habitual power ot command. A very crabbed old gentleman Is Mr. Aikin's Lord Dorincourt, with all the faults and follies of one whose life's cup has been sour at tbe dregs. Tha family lawyer ot M. B. Snyder is conventional. Russell Bassett's Hobbs and G. Henderson's Dick are well depicted types of everyday American life. Helene Towell. as Mrs. Enrol, is ladylike and motherly: while Emily Lytton plays tbe loud and confident Minna in very realistic manner. The play is not well mounted. Why, for instance, is me second act said to- take place in a library, when the room as repre sented has not in it a solitary volume? Then, too, tanestry is not generally sliced up for door curtains in the English mansions, nor are tha portraits of ancestors in latter-day costume often found woven into said tapestry. But tbe most notable blunder was the introduction of a groom with a mustache! Imagine a mus tacbed man-servant attached to an English bouseholdt Harry Williams' Academy. Despite tbe steady, driving rain of last even ing, the above theater wa well filled. The at traction was the Two American Macs' New De parture, and a very enjoyable vaudeville enter tainment it is. Marco and Beto, tbe "living knots," begin the fun with their wonderful contortion act; Winstanley and West are ac knowledgedly with few rivals in clog dancing; Miss Mabel Hudson is billed as the hlgbest salaried serio-comic; the Two Macs' original specialty, '"The Battle of Gettysburg." follows, and then Lowery and Evans do a very funny burlesque act; Eddie and Jcnie Evans are next seen in comical imitations of children, Harry and Lizzie Roth sing and warble sweetly, tbe musical blacksmiths, Drummond and Stahley, bave a very original bit of business, and the programme closes with "O'Brien's Blunders," a'really fanny one act-comedy. Harris' Theater. T. J. Farron, at the head ot a capable com pany, gave "Tbe Shanty Queen" yesterday to two large bouses at the above theater. Tbe scenery of the play is far above the average. It is, indeed, very good, and well worth seeing. This play has never been seen here before. It was evidently written with a view to bring ont tbe specialties of Mr. Farron, bis singing and dialect work, and serves the purpose quite well. Of Mr. Farron's support. Miss Amy Lee is very e'ever in the title role, being a pleasant looking girl with a fairly strong voice. Frank Kihlav. an old Pittsburg favorite, rereivr.l warm welcome. Ed J. Connelly's Dandy Jack was also well received. -Miss Susie Willis en acts an unenviable part in a striking manner, and tbe rest of tbe company is equal to tbe demands upon it. OT0N OLD GRAVES. Washington Arch Will Stnpd on Tombs Nearly a Century Old. New- Yobe. May 5. The excavators for the foundations of tho Washington Memorial Arch In Washington square, just opposite Fifth avenue, baye dug up a fiat tombstone bearlngtbis inscription: Here Lies the body of BIUDGtfr LOUUHKKY, who departed this life Aug. 18, 1803; aged 18 years, a worthy member or tbe Cburch or Home. Dear friends who live to mourn and weep. Behold the grave wherein 1 sleep. .Prepare for death, for you must die, And be entombed the same as I. Tbe lettering is distinct throughout, and the stone is as perfect as though it had been re cently erected. This is the site of what in the early part of this century used to be the Potter's Field, where tho poor of the city were buried. A poorbouse stood near bv, and an old resldentof tbe neighborhood says that a public execution once took place there, of which the victim was a woman. The locality was then within tbe limits of what was known as Greenwich village. It Is Doing Good Work. From the Touawanda Eeview. The Pittsbdbo Dispatch's bureau of road investigation is doing good work in the western part of the State. Prof. Ely, of Johns Hopkins University, estimates tbat poor roads cost the farmer, on an average, $15 per horse, and Prof. Senks. of Knox College, Illinois, argues tbat with good permanent roads, freight could of ten be hauled ten miles on wagons cheaper than it could be taken one mile on a dirt road to a railroad station, unloaded put on the cars and carried to its destination. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. A rattler was killed in Cncamonjra can yon last Wednesday, says tbe Pomona Times, tbat measured 7f eet 2 inches long by 11 inches around tbe waist. It sported 21 rattles with a button. la 1888 we paid in pensions $80,288, 08 77. Inl8S9wepa!d $87,621,779 1L The cost of tba German army, it may be interesting to note, is for tbls year estimated at 191,72693. Besides our pensions our army costs 530,000,000. A Matilda A. Scott, living in North May street. New York, has a kennel and a dog farm, where she raises toy terriers tbat net 2200 a year, and sbe cays all her expenses with tbe proceeds of tbe canine siek ward. Colonel Piatt B. Walker, a member of the Minnesota River Commission, says tbat there is 5113,000 lying idle In Washington that was especially appropriated three years ago for the improvement of the Mississippi between Minneapolis and St. Paul. Seven of the supposed-to-be sharpestand wisest lawyers in the country have made wills, Eassed away, and the said wills have been roken all to flutters by heirs and other lawyers. An Ignorant Missouri farmer wrote bis will in four lines on a slate, and it stood three lawsuits and ten lawyers. The most important real estate deal last week in Chicago was tha transfer by.W. Willard of his 70 acres south of Jackson Park and the Hyde Park water works to the Turner estate, of St. Louis. Tbe price paid ivaa S350, 000. Tbe land was purchased away tack in tho iVi by Mr. Willard at J2 50 an acre. Mrs. Locke, wife of the rector of Grace Church, New York, has always kept a cat kitchen of Angora breed. Her pet charity is fet, Luke's Hospital, which has always been heavily burdened with debt. Mrs.Locke annual contribution cousists of four Angora pussies, which, reduced to United States currency, amounts to about 80. O. S. Nestergaard, a Lutheran mission ary, passed tbrough Minneapolis recently, on his way from Norway to China. He expects to spend the rest of his life among the Chinese of the Interior. He has a brother who bas been in China for several years, and has adopted Chinese dress and customs, pig tall and all. Mr. Nestergaard will probably do the same. J. M. Eice, a farmer living in Indiana is trying the experiment of raising wild geese and ducks. He has a half dozen of each. Which be has on ponds on his farm. They wern cancht on tbe Kankakee river last fall, and he keeps their wings clipped. They have become quite tame, but it remains to be seen whether they will become thoroughly domesticated and breed. An old Irish prophecy declares that when an O'Doherty rules in Deny and an O'Donnell in Raphoe Ireland will be free. Home Rulers therefore are greatly worked up over the fact that Dr. O'Doherty has just been consecrated Bishop of Derry in St. Eocene's Cathedral, Londonderry, and tbat tbe preacher on the occasion was Dr. O'Donnell, Bishop of Raphoe. Chester W. Barnes, of Preston, Conn., caught a brook trout which weighed exactly three pounds and one ounie. It was not so everlastingly long as extraordinarily fat. It was j ust about the size of an ordinary shad. Its color was ot a deep purple, and it looked as if it had done nothing for ten years but languidly float In a bltck forest pool, taking the lion's share of the food. A, strong alkali at once applied to a snake-bite will decompose all the venom which it touches. So if both fangs of the snake havo pierced the skin tbe two wounds should bo made one with a sharp knife, and then filled with dry carbonate of ammonia. Frequent small dissolved doses of the same should bo taken inwardly, or 60 drops of aromatic spirits of ammonia taken hypodermically. for its peculiar effect npon the blood. Daniel Cadden, of Baltimore, had been suffering the most intense pain in his head for nearly a week. A physician who was called, after a thorough examination, tbougbt he de tected an unusual noise near the drum of tho ear. He inserted an instrument and, after about three minutes' work, brought to light a great, ugly-looting spider. Tho insect had crawled into the man's ear while in the market house on last Tuesday. Cadden is all right now. In an electrical exhibition in San Fran cisco an illustration was given of the saving; that was effected when gas is used as a fuel in stead of an illuminant. During the evening's run tha gas engine, which works the electric plant, copsumes 300 cubic feet of gas, and fur nishes 53 IS-candle power incandescent lamps, while 53 IB-candle gas lights, with five-foot burners, would require 618 leet for the same length of time. This is a saving of over 60 per cent. A Barber county, Kan., newspaper publishes the story of a young woman of Lodi. who apparently died some weeks ago and was prepared for burial. Sho came back to lifo again, however, and was able after a few days to be np and around tbe house. "But her old malady again asserted itself," says the news paper, "and last Saturday she again passed into that sleeps tbat knows no earthly awaken ing. There was no mistake about the death; this time, and on Monday the earthly casket was returned to earth. The most northerly railway in tho world is tbat one now building between Swe den and Norway. It runs from Lulea. a littla town at the top of tbe Gulf of Bothnia, to Kfregaard, a fort on the Atlantic in tbe fiord of Ofoten. Tho works are frequently stopped on account of tbe severity of the climate, but it is hoped thatthe lino will be opened in ISM. It is a British enterprise.ownedand constructed by British capitalists. It passes through tho rich iron district around Gellivard, where a most valuable ore abounds. While crossing tbe arctic circle the engine blows its whistle. The latest discussion concerning Mrs. Cleveland's social position, it is said, occurred at a breakfast party given the other morning by Mrs. Bliss at her country residence at ilam aroneck, where such well-known people were present as General Sherman, David Dudley Field, Ward McAllister. Mrs. Paran Stevens and Mrs. Cox. General Sherman and Mrs. Stevens stood np enthusiastically for Mrs. Cleveland and declared that if the wife of tho ex-President was not sent in to dinner first it would be wholly unrepnblican and un-American. Those of the other side contended that if Mre. Cleveland was recognized solely because of her husband's one-time official position this would indeed be unrepnblican. A DISPOSITION TO MUfeE. Why He "Walked. Northsider I am awfully tired. Had to walk home again. V, Ife What was the matter? Cable broke? Northsider Io, 1 was. Chicago Inter Ocean. It Was Not Loud. "Don't you think that is a loud dress Mrs. Fltz Folly has onr' "Ub, no: not at all. She dresses to please her husband, and be Is quite deaf." .Veto Xork btar. Didn't Want the Earth. Fond Parent Look here! I bought you the windmill; now what do you want? Little Illle-Bool boo o ol Iwant the wind. Jlunsiy's Weekly. He Was Out of Practice. Mrs. Van Twil leKwbo mistakes Dr. Jovial for a physician) And where do you practice, doctor? Kev. Dr. JoVial-Ah, madam, I do not prac tice; I only preach. Racket. Another Idol Shattered. Did yon hear of tne discovery they have made about Mark Twafn? "No. What?" All his books were written by a man named Clemens.' 'Life. She Wanted a Change. Lady Sir, yon, should introduce a little change la your style of dancing. tient How do you mean. Mademoiselle? Lady You might occasionally step on my left foot; the right one has had enough. London Tit- tsat. A Comical Freak. "Tbat was quite a freak of Stanley's, " remarked an English gentle man of note to Max U'Eell tbe other evening, commenting unon Stanley's return. "Quite a comical freak. Indeed." 'Y-a-ts, arAfrlque, so to speak," modestly re plied the latter. Seto Xork Horning Journal. The Latest Thing Out. They were dis cussing masculine fasalons, and Mrs. Newlyknot asked: "Uy the by, have you seen the latest thing in spring overcoats?" res. Indeed," returned Mrs. XJptodate. sadly, "my hnsbandrarelyreturushomebeforeSA.it." Dry Goods Chronicle. Didn't Want Five Dollars' "Worth. "George, in your sleeD last night I heard yoa say, Guffey, give me Ave dollars' worth of chips.'" "Oh yes: Ouffey keeps a kindling store." "Well, we are greatly In need of kindling to start fires, but we don't want five dollars' worth, George." Ntv torkJJtrald. Question of Propriety. Enterprising manulacturer-I will raise the offer, madam, to (5,000. Kemember, all I ask Is the use otyour name. Hesitating Prima Donna I hardly know what to say. It It were soaps or complexion powder I should accept tbe offer in a moment, bnt bnt I am not quite sure whether corn salve Is equally 'er proper. SapposePwe say ,10, WC?-Chicago trumns. .AJRt,fc:..w s-ns ( feaaKjtM i imri rn i ifMmrn, , I i i I ill iwi
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