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THE PITTSBTTRQ-; tDisPATOH, ' SUNDAY. MAY 11, 1890.
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THE WAND OF FORTUNE.
When Andrew Carnegie comes within
fifty miles or the town he is usually good for
a couple of columns of lire, interesting read
ing to the Pittsburg papers; and his visit
the past week was no exception to the rule.
His comings and his goings, his discussion
of plans and his new revelations of generos
ity made the uppermost topic during bis
Btay.
No one now underestimates the reach and
influence of the Carnegie gifts, so there is no
need of expatiating further in that direction.
The whole country recognizes that Pitts
burg is splendidly provided for and even
more so in respect to the art gallery and
collection, the latest of Mr. Car
negie's surprises, than in regard to
the library, the giving of which made
the first sensation. As Mr. John W.
Beatty points out in his interesting review
of the matter in another column this morn
ing, a collection of the best works of
American art established upon such lines
as Mr. Carnegie plans must make Pittsburg
forever notable among American cities and
the Mecca of art-lovers. It may jnst now
tax the imagination to fancy our one-time
smoky burg, the very grime and grossness
of whose manufactures were the towns'
pride and trade-mark, transformed into the
chief American home of architecture and
painting; but really the tide seems to be
setting that way. Mr. Beatty not inaptly
remaiks upon the educative in
fluence and visible fruit of the
splendid Bichardson county buildings,
exemplified strikingly in the number of
handsome edifices of more recent date
which now adorns our streets. If the Car
negie gilts exercise a similar influence,
Cincinnati may go back to its pig-killing,
and Boston take refuge for celebrity in its
beaus; for, in the distant future, it is evi
dently neither of these cities, but Pittsburg,
which will be in a position to make modest
allusions to itself as the Athens of America.
Of course this is a long way ahead. The
disputes of the traction roads will have to
be settled first; the country roads
macadamized, and the new Post
office finished. "Without looking down the
long and rather indefinite vista of time
thus indicated, it is safe to say that before
twenty-five years have passed, these Car
negie gifts and their consequence will have
given Pittsburg a proud, notable and
permanent reputation among the cities of
the world, apart from, and not less im
portant than that which she is already establ
ishing for the magnitude of her manu
factures. It is needless to say that under the cir
cumstances, and in his role of good fairy,
Mr. Carnegie's visits are sources of general
delight. He seems to carry some new sur
prise in bis pocket each time. Therefore
it is that the reporters welcome his advent
on each occasion; and that the columns
which tell of his prospects and bis move
' meets are latterly always recognized as the
liveliest news of the dav.
1 ItAlVx IMITATION.
George Francis Train, uuuer the guardian
ship of the Canadian Pacific Itailroad, has
progressed far enough around the world to
show a decided probability or beating Nellie
Bly's record by several days. Two features
of his trip, however, will tend to make the
popular interest in his journey much less
than that telt in the Pittsburg girl's excur
sion. The first is that she led in the effort,
and imitators cannot hope for the success of
the originator. The second is that it is very
different to make a quick trip that is pre
arranged by a great railroad corporation
from what it is to make one taking the ordi
nary chances of travel. It Train does not
stop on the way to indulge in some of his
eccentricities of lunacy he will probably
lower the record by about a week; but his
rip will nevertheless be but an imitation in
iat field of brilliant uselessness.
EMPLOYERS' BOYCOTTS.
Two or three indications of the building
strikes, in various cities, show the necessity
of some instruction on the question where
united action ceases to be legitimate and be
becomes conspiracy. The first is a report
that a contractor of this city who has con
ceded to the tinners their demands for wages
found, on trying to purchase of a jobber,
that no material was to be sold to any con
tractor who gave the men their wages.
Akiu to this is a statement in the dispatches
from Chicago that the architects and material
men "have joined hands with the master
carpenters to defeat the new boss carpenters'
association. Another development of the
same sort, in a different form, is a statement
from New York, that one article of the last
agreement between the employing plumbers
and their journeymen was that the latter
shall refuse to work for anyone who does not
' belong to the plumbers' association.
These things indicate a disposition to con
trol the trades interested by illegitimate
methods. The practical assertion, that a
man who gives his workmen better wages
than others in the same trade will agree to,
shall not be able to buy material, is the de
velopment of a boycott more indefensible
than any for which workingmen have been
arraigned and punished. While such re
fusals to sell material can be most effectively
punished by giving the trade to men who
conduct business on a basis of American in
dependence, the fact that employers resort
to conspiracy, for which laboring men are
punished, ought not to be permitted. The
best way to teach the working classes to re
spect individual rights is for the employing
clasbes to set them the example.
ITALIAN LABOR NOT WANTED.
The statement made by one of the leading
contractors of the city that after a full trial
of Italian labor, it has been found so un
satisfactory that it will be discarded and
colored labor tried in its place, is an inter
esting outcome of the Italian hegira. It has
been evident to most close observers that
this exceedingly cheap labor was in the end
the dearest that employers could get; but it
was supposed that it must be accepted for
lack of better. Whether the colored labor
ers will command higher wages, is a ques
tion that mav be left for the future to de
cide. While employers are seeking good
and reliable labor it may be taken for
granted that such laborers will get their due
wages. But what will become of the
Italians? Are they to be shipped back to
the land of the citron blossom or will they
stay here and organize bands of banditti in
the mountain regions for lack of better em
ployment? OUR IRON AND STEEL SUPREMACY.
Mr. J. M. Swank's statistical report of
the iron and steel trade for 1889, -besides
containing much interest as showing the
largest totals of iron and steel production
ever known in this country, has details of
especial interest to Pittsburg. It is com
fortable to read that the total of pig iron
production in 1889 was 8,516,079 tons,
against.7,268,607 in 18S8; of Bessemer steel
ingots, 3,281,829 tons, or 400,000 tons more
than for the preceding year; of rolled iron.
2,676,127 tons, or 200,000 more than in 1887,
and of rolled steel, except rails, 1,584,364
tons, or 380,000 tons more than ever before.
But the statistics have a local value in
proving the undisturbed supremacy of
Pittsburg in the production of both iron
and steel.
It may be remembered that, a year or
more ago, daring the discussion on the
freight rates for iron and coke, intimations
were made that Chicago was threatening to
pass Pittsburg in the Bessemer steel in
dustry. While warmly supporting the re
duction in ore rates, which was obtained,
The Dispatch took occasion to say that
when the iron and steel statistics were made
up Allegheny county would be found, for
many a year to come, to surpass in produc
tion, not only Cook county but the entire
State of Illinois. The present report is a
very good test of the accuracy of that fore
cast. It is gratifying under the circumstances
to find that the production of pig iron in
Allegheny for 1889 was 1.293,435 tons, or
more than twice the product of 601,035 tons
in the entire State of Illinois. The total of
rolled iron produced in this county was
638,450 tons, or five times the product of
126,283 tons in Illinois. The total produc
tion of all Kinds of steel was 1,105,573 tons,
against 601,172 tons in Illinois. This com
parison with Illinois is only made because
there was a disposition to set up Chicago as
a rival of Pittsburg. The fact is, that in
each of these items Allegheny county makes
good its title of the "State of Allegheny,"
awarded it by President Lincoln, by show
ing a larger product of both pig iron, rolled
iron and steel than any other State in the
Union.
Another very interesting point is in the
proportion of Allegheny county's prodnction
to the total product of the country. In 1879
onr output of pig iron was just about one
twelfth of that for the whole country; lastyear
it was a little less than one-sixth. Ten years
ago our product of rolled iron was a little
over one-sixth the production of the United
States; now it is just about a quarter. For
1879 our output of steel of all kinds was one
eighth the total for the whole country; now
it is a little under a third. In other words,
besides sharing the immense increase in pro
duction of iron and steel all over the coun
try. Pittsburg has in the p?st ten years en
larged her ratio of the country's output 50 to
150 per cent.
These figures certainly do not indicate any
danger that our supremacy in the iron trade
is to depart either to the West or South. So
long as Fittsbnrg guards her unrivaled
natural advantages, and secures the rights of
her geographical position in transportation,
the statistics will continue to show the same
unapproachable supremacy.
A TROUBLESOME OFFICE.
Let us hope that the McKeesport Post
office fight is finally settled. The course of
events in connection with appointing a man
to distribute the mail matter of that thriv
ing town has furnished sufficient amuse
ment to the nation and annoyance to the
people connected with it, to deserve rest and
retirement until another administration is
compelled to tackle the question over again.
There was a sufficiently unique aspect to
the anti-poker stand ot the administration
with reference to the first nominee. The
high moral position that Government offi
cials must not play poker could not be ex
cepted to; but when the attitude practically
is that the McKeesport Postmaster is the
particular official who must be free from
the vices of swelling the anti or standing
pat on an ace high, the matter assumes a
comio element to all except the rejected nom
inee and the Postmaster General. But that
aspect of the case is cast in the shade
by the trouble occasioned through
the abundance of the Soles family among
those who are willing to manage the postal
matters of McKeesport. Soles is not a
common name; but there are enough of
them in McKeesport to bring Messrs. Hay
and Wanamafcer within fifteen minutes of
putting the wrong one in the postoffice, and
reduce them to the verge of distraction over
the difficulty of getting the right man there.
This is the reason, why, out pure charity,
we hope that the McKeesport Postoffice
matter is settled. If anv more trpuble is to
be experienced over it, two of our states
men, at least; will conclude that political
life is no longer worth living.
A COLORFUL REFORM.
Now that Pittsburg is luxuriating in
visions of all sorts, and resolutions are im
pending on every hand, why wonld not this
city be a food place in which to start a
reform in masculine attire? Perhaps the
word reform does not convey our meaning
exactly let us call it a return to the
fashions of onr ancestors. We are going to
inject color into our mental life, why not
put a little judgment into our pantaloons
we beg pardon, trousers?
We are encouraged to make this sugges
tion by an illustrious example which comes
to us from Paris, the city to which all good
Americans hope to go when tbey die.j There
the young Prince of Naples has introduced
a fashion of wearing a pink, blue or red shirt
and large jet studs, with a low-cut evening
vest. The peerless dandies of Paris, it is
needless to say, are charmed with the au
dacity which combines jet studs and
inflamed linen. It would be sufficientlyim
pressive as an initial step in the movement
here. From incarnadined shirts to sky
bine coats would be an easy transition.
Continuations attuned to the shrieking
tints of a tropical sunset would next be
evolved naturally, while such details as
cocked hats, ruffles and shoes would
be an inviting field for the creative genius
endowed with a vivid imagination. The
gray and black procession which ceaselessly
files through our narrow streets to-day
would give place to a rain-bow hued multi
tude something like that which New York
knew a century and a half ago, when the
fashions of St. James were mirrored on
Broadway.
Would it not delight the aesthetic souls of
our young men if they could wear long
skirted coats of velvet, silt or satin-lined,
or of brocade with gold embroidery,' rows of
buttons of precious metal, cuffs richly
trimmed with Flemish lace, deep jabots of
the same costly and elegant material, long
waistcoats oi equally brilliant stuff, small
clothes, silk stockings, gloves edged with
lace, powdered wigs on their beads, about
their waists rich embroidered sashes for
silver-hilted swords, and high-heeled shoes
with diamond buckles? The vision is en
trancing. If some curled darling will play
Prince of Naples with a red shirt and jet
studs for Pittsburg, all the rest may come.
BOUTELLE'S INTER-STATE IDEA.
The recent decision of the Supreme Court
is taken by the friends of prohibition as
calling for some actioo. by Congress in the
way of regulating the inter-State liquor
traffic The result of that demand in the
form of a bill introduced by Mr. Boutelle,
of Maine, as an amendment to the inter
State commerce act, makes the following
unique legislativeenactment: "That nothing
in this (the inter-State commerce) act shall
be construed to authorize the sale or traffic in
intoxicating liquors in any State contrary
to the laws thereof."
If it be true that the views of the Supreme
Court have the effect of nullifying either
the regulative or prohibitory enactments of
any State, it would be a proper exercise of
Congressional power to subject all liquor
coming under the head of inter-State com
merce to the police power of the State where
it may be consigned. But no such idiotic
measure as that proposed by Mr. Boutelle
would have the slightest bearing on this
question. Nothing in the inter-State com
merce act could be construed as authorizing
the sale of liquor in any State, because there
is not the slightest reference to that subject
from the beginning to the end of that law.
It deals only with agencies of transporting
inter-State commerce, and while whisky in
the old times used to be considered a neces
sary mechanical agent at raisings and log
ging bees, no one has yet asserted it to be an
agent of transportation.
It would be interesting to know whether
this measure reflects the ignorance of Mr.
Boutelle as to the contents of the inter-State
commerce law, or his reliance npon the
ignorance of his prohibition constituents in
Maine.
The esteemed Philadelphia Secord de
clares In connection with the contest for Ran
dall's seat, that "these wretched bunglers are
satisfied to see either Mr. Gentner or Mr.
Adams rattle around, like a bean in a bass
dram, in the chair of Sam Randall, and make
Philadelphia contemptible bytheinsignificance
of its representative." This reveals the fact that
the harmony which prevails over the Democratic
councils in Philadelphia is of that peculiar and
strenuous sort that not only can be cut with a
knife, but is likely to be so served by the
knives that the Democratic workers are sharp
ening on the soles of their boots.
The proposition to transfer John It. Fel
lows from the Kew York District Attorneyship
to Congress can be made all right by putting
Bonrko Cochrane, who has left Congress, into
Fellows' place to defend public thieves against
the dancer of being convicted.
Mb. Edmund Yates has undertaken a
work of snpererogation in pitching into Max
O'Rell for his remarks on American character
istics. We are not so thin-skinned as we once
were, and Max can say anything abont us be
wishes to, after having declared that he did not
see a homely girl between New York and San
Francisco. When O'Rell appreciates the
beauty of the American young woman any
shafts that he may aim at the American male
glance harmlessly off.
Mb. Wall-ace is beginning to work his
boom in the Republican papers of certain
sections of the State, with almost the same in
dustry as that with which Delamater is work
ing his boom in the Democratic papers of the
oil regions.
The report that the supply of firecrack
ers in the United States is half a million boxes
short of the usual supply on account of a
strike in the Chinese factories suggests two
things. First, that the heathen Mongolian in
his native land seems to have a faint inkling of
the methods of the civilized laborer; and
second, that the people of the United States
should send emissaries to the Chinese strikers
with material encouragement to hold out till
after July i.
Now that it is officially determined that
the nominee for the McKeesport suburb is free
from the poker playing habit, and that his name
is correctly given, onr thriving suburb up the
river can live in hopes of a new postmaster.
England's doubts whether she will try
to cet American trade by representation at the
World's Fair, in case the McKmley bill is
passed, may be set down as much the same
sort of buncombe as we are all familiar with on
this side of the water. England is a mercantile
nation, and if she has anything that she hopes
to sell in this country she" will take the earliest
opportunity to clace it before the people of the
United States.
The assertion that the Italian tobacco
monopoly is awarded for political influence
is cot at all incredible. Monopolies and polit-
ical deals go well together, as has been ob
served in this country.
The New York Legislature has ad
journed, leaving behind it the epitaph which is
freely given by the press of the State as "One
of the very worst that the Slate has ever been
hardened with." The only trouble with the de
scription is that it has been applied to every
Legislature in New York for many years, and
bids fair to be continued so long as New York
is governed by political machines.
Does the tariff debate to empty and un
listening seats Indicate that votes on that
measure will be made up by interest rather
than reason, or that there is no reason in a tar
iff debate.
Concerning the fact that some pretend
ed gas discoveries in Chicago have petered out,
the Chicago -Mail' announces that "Chicago
wants no natural gas boom." This philosophi
cal view of it is only equaled by the happy res
ignation of the boy who, when he found that
there was no sapper for him, declared that he
did cot want anything to eat, anyway.
. A BEJiTJCTTON of the coal mining rate in
Indiana and Illinois, against an advance in the
Fittsbnrg district, does not look' as If the effort
to make wages uniform was a glittering sue
The City Hall clerks are reported to en
tertain the same liking for an increase of sal
arythat characterizes the employes or Con
gress. But there is the radical difference with
regard to their chance of getting it, that' Con
gress has a surplus to deal with and City Coun
cils haven't.
If this prevalence of general humidity
continues, it may be good policy for the Gov
ernment's policy of naval construction to take
a turn in the direction of building arks.
The New York Assembly, j est adjourned,
passed a bill exempting editors and reporters
from jury duty. This favor Is balanced by the
manifest disposition ot Hilton and the Tam
many leaders to give tho jnries a good deal of
duty in connection with the oditors and report
ers. n
If the Philadelphia Democrats keep on
arresting each other they may rival the case of
the Kilkenny cats, and incarcerate the whole
party In the Philadelphia police stations.
The Scotch-Irish are waking np to the
fact that they must get ready for the conven
tion. When that nationality determines to
take hold of anything it is sure to succeed. We
take it that Pittsburg wilt cot have to fear the
discredit of a fiasco in this affair.
PEOMnTEHT PEOPLE.
M jie. Dosne, sister-in-law of M. Thiers, owns
the finest private collection of pearls in the
world.
John Stephenson, the street car builder,
wil) be 81 years old on the Fourth of July; He
is still on the track.
Peof. Richardson, of Dartmouth College,
will sail for Europe on Saturday next to assume
the directorship of the American School at
Athens.
Bismarck has two secretaries helping him to
write his 'Reminiscences." After awhile tho
secretaries will be claiming the reminiscences
as their own.
Bliss Perry, son of Prof. A. L. Ferry, of
Williams College, the writer on political
science, has begun a literary career. A new
novel, "The Broughton House," is his.
Georg Ebers, the Oriental scholar, is a
paralytic, but manages to do a great amount of
work. He is of a decidedly Teutonic appear
ance, having blonde hair and beard and blue
eyes.
Emperor William conferred 5,108 decora
tions and medals last year. Fourteen new
Knights of the Black Eagle were created, 15
of the female order of Loaise, and one of the
famous order Pour le Merite,
Mr. Alexander Pope, of Boston, has
painted a scene ftom "The Last Days of Pom
peii." It contains a life-sized lion painted from
a lion at the Zoological Garden in this city. It
has leaped from its cage and Glaucus is await
ing it in the background.
A New York evening paper says that Sena
tor Wolcott, ot Colorado, is to be married next
Wednesday. His bride will be Mrs. Lyman K.
Bass, of Buffalo, widow ot ex-President Cleve
land's old law partner. Tho wedding will be a
quiet affair and will take place in Buffalo.
Theodore Hallam, of Covington, will be a
candidate for Congress to succeed John G. Car
lisle in the event of the latter's election to the
Senate. Hallman is "a fellow of infinite jest,"
and if be ever goes to Congress many of the
alleged funny men now there will have to take
back seats.
Mb. and Mrs. Cornelius Vaneebbilt
yesterday sailed for Europe with their five
children. They will not take tho Herbert
B ouse in London, as their stay is limited to six
weeks, most of which will be spent in travel on
the Continent, combining business and pleasure
in their tour.
LIQUOR AND LOTTERIES
Strongly Condemned by the Methodist Epis
copal Church, South,
St. Louis, May 10. At to-day's session of
the conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, a resolution was offered by the
Louisiana delegation condemning lotteries, and
particularly one now seeking renewal of a
franchise in Louisiana. The resolution extends
the sympathy of the conference to the good
people of that State in their effort to defeat
the scheme of the lottery company. The reso
lution was on motion, and without debate
unanimously adopted by a standing vote.
Judge East, of Tennessee, introduced a reso
lution condemning traffic in and the nSe of
liquors, and holding that legal prohibition is
the duty of Government The Judge said that
all laws for the regulation and control ot the
liquor traffic were of no avail, and were but an
effort to compromise with evil.
Dr. Pbllpot, of Texas, called attention to the
fact that the resolution on lotteries, which had
been adopted without opposition, was open to
the same objections. The matter of the reso
lution was cot wholly legal, but was a moral
question. The resolution was then referred to
the Committee on Temperance. A resolution
calling for the discontinuance of Sunday mails
was referred to the Committee on Sabbath.
STUDYING FIGUBES.
An Effort Belne Blade to Secure Consu
Reports For the Whole at Europe.
An effort is being made by the faculty of the
Wharton School of Finance and Economy at
the University of Pennsylvania to gather a
complete series of census reports for the whole
of Europe. Those of Switzerland and Ger
many are already in the library, and the secur
ing of reports for France, Austria and Italy has
begun. There will be in all seven or eight
volumes. The German methods of census
taking aro particularly interesting. The gen
eral plan only is similar to our own. Every
thing but the simple enumeration of population
is obtained gradually through special agents.
The numbering of the population is done in
this way: About 5 o'clock on the afternoon of
a given dav printed blanks are lettat every
bouso in Berlin. These are required to be
filled in with the number of people actually in
the house about 7 o'clock in the evening, when
the writing is to be done. Early the next
morning the blanks are called for. This is be
lieved to be a very accurate method, as it does
away with the repetitions which are so likely
to occur when, by the mode generally used,
each blank is tilled in with the names of all
members of the family, whether they are pres
ent or absent.
Defaulter Popo Cnifcbt.
Durum. Minn., May 10. W. H. Pope, the
defaulting bank teller of Louisville, Ky.. was
captured near here by Detective Crawford on
board the boat Dixon, bound for Canada. Pope
was teller of the Louisville City National
Bank. Early in March he absconded with
about 810,000 of the bank's funds. It was then
discovered that he had bean living aJekyll
Hyde life. He had been regarded by his friends
as a very modest man, inclined to piety.
El J ih Not n Success.
From the New York World.
The local elections in Indinna show large
Democratic gains. And the Repulican losses
are most decided in cities and towns where
President Harrison "pleased himself in mak
ing appointments of relatives, cronies or hench
men to office. Elijah Halford is evidenty not
a success as a fence mender.
Eniin's Ingratitude.
From the Boston Globe. 1
Emln Pasha, after being rescued at so much
danger and expense, is now cruel enough to
inform bis captors that "be could not assent to
Stanley's desire to exhibit him in Europe like
a rare animal." What base ingratitude!
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Rev. Fntbcr Willlnm Kertran.
Brooklyn, N. Y., May 10. The Very Kev.
Father William Kcegan, Vicar General of the
Roman Catholic Church in the Brooklyn Diocese,
died this morning of pneumonia, at his home in
this city. He had been ill since Monday last,
when he was attacked with chills and fever with
malignant pneumonia. Vicar General Keegan
came to this city In 1853 as the assistant of the Kev.
David W. Bacon, rather Bacon was subsequently
made the Bishop of Portland, Me., and Father
Keegan snereeded htm as the rector of the As
sumption Church. Be had been a castor of that
church ever since. Some 15 years ago he was ap
pointed Vicar Gener 1 and had also been ordained
in New York. Father Keegan was widely known
as one of the most vlzorons church workers, was
a forcible and eloquent preacher. He was pict
uresque in the ecclesiastical life of the city, his
quaint. old-fashioned ways, his shrevrd (,-ood sense
and his warm-heartedness endearing him to all
classes of citizens, irrespective of faith. Ho
churchman ot any denomination was more favor
ably known than he was. nor had any more
friends, the late Kev. Henry Ward Beecher being;
one of his warmest admirers, father Keegan was
about 70 years old.
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Money Tama Pursuer Sometimes Tho Sort
of Pleturea a Sinn Doesn't Wont lo Bar
Don't Look at Painters' Names Tariff
Making U Hard Work An Expressive
Hymn May'a Drawbacks.
iiFJon't you And the puisnit of riches fa
tiguingt" I asked a man whose thousands
If cot millions are accumulating.
"I'm not pursuing riches," was his reply,
they are pursuing me and no fugitive slave
ever had more unrelenting pursuers."
Perhaps if you're rich you'll appreciate the
truth of this. Still most of ns would like to be
in a position to know what it is to be hounded
by riches.
TH the last year or two many valuable paint
ings by noted painters, both old and modern
masters, have been bought by Fittsburgers.
There are half a dozen men at least in Alle
gheny county whose collections of paintings
represent an outlay of many thousands of dol
lars in each case. Some of these pictures are,
to my knowledge, art treasures beyond a doubt,
and probably only a few are not worth approxi
mately the price paid for them. But the deal
ers In pictnrea are beginning to realize that
there is a good market for them in Fittsbnrg.
A number of reputable dealers in the East have
been aware of the Fittsbnrg field for some
time, and as a consequence we have seen here
not a few interesting exhibitions of pictures.
There is a danger ahead which all who desire
to obtain pictures of genuine value will do well
to bear in mind. Itis no secret at all that a very
profitable business is being done in spurious
"old masters," and copies of modern artists'
works are freely sold as originals in New York
and other cities. There is no reason why Pitts
burg shonld not receive a visit sooner or later
Irom these slick scamps. They are operating
all through the land. At Washington the
other day I beard of some of their doings, and
itis a fact that "most exalted personages," as
Jenkins would say, are among their victims at
the capital. The pith ot the matter is if you
buy high-priced pictures have a care that yon
get ?rtistic equivalents for,your money.
The safest way, after all, is for a man to buy
what he himself admires, be they pictures or
whatnot Don't buy" a daub that your eyes
tell you is a daub of no interest or delight to
you, simply because a great painter's name is
in a corner of the canvas.
T")OtrBTLKSS a good many people who have
visited the Corcoran Gallery in Washington
have recognized the wonderful power of a small
landscape of Rousseau's with unusual delight
It is tho picture for which the trustees of the
gallery paid what seemed at the time an
enormous sum a vear ago at a memorable pic
ture sale In Paris. I forget the exact figures,
something like $14,000 1 believe was the price.
It is worth almost any sum. Yet it is a very
small and' far from startling work a glimpse of
a sunlit clearing in the forest with a wood
cutter's cottage for an objective point It is so
true to nature that the delicious shade of forest
trees, the shimmer of sunlight through the
leaves, and all the pleasant salutation.of such a
place to the senses, belong to the man who may
look at it
'The work of a Congressman who is on the
Ways and Means Committee is by no means
light During the earlier days of the present
session, when the tariff bill was in process of
evolution, when the committee met every day
and worked all day. Congressman Bayne, Pitts
burg's representative on the committee, re
ceived over 100 letters a day, most of them com
munlcationsfrom constituents suggesting al
terations of one sort or another in the tariff
schedules. Of course a private secretary is
needed to deal with a correspondence of these
dimensions.
Tt has been said by some that the McKinley j
uui uues nut go jar euuugu; uut a rumar&
made to me in Washington by one of its fram
ers Indicates that it has pretty positive merits
as an addition to our protective system. Mr.
Bayne estimates that it wjll enable domestic
producers to manufacture no less than $36,000,-
000 worth more of goods, principally in the car
pet, glass and tin plate industries, than hith
erto. This will be the result of new duties or
increased old ones.
-.
A youngster wbo has latent musical talent
possibly but certainly well-developed
abilities In the waste of time, has been taking
violin lessons for six months with the remark
able net resnlt of a playing acquaintance with
one hymn tune, 'namely "Jerusalem, the
Golden."
1 esterday his father said: "Tommy, I sent
Mr. Blank a check for $20 for your violin les
sons. Twenty dollars is a good deal for one
tune, my boy."
"Yes, papa," the boy replied, "but think of
it: 'Jerusalem the Golden' for only $20!' "
MAT'S DRAWBACKS.
May's lovely I grant you, the poets proclaim It
The song birds all sing It the honey bee hums
Her praise to the flowers, and yet all the same it
Is in May that house-cleaning, ahl woe is me!
comes.
1 am free to admire the grass in the meadow,
I confess I delight In the gay tulip's torch.
But It jars me to mind that my better half said:
"Oh!
Be carefull the paint Is still wet on the porch!"
The worm In the lawn Is happy surviving
The probe of the robin, I'll venture to say,
But ohl paper hanging is surely depriving
My sout of contentment in this merry May!
The house-cleaning harpies I'd drown in their
bucket;
The hangers of paper I'd willingly hang:
The painters ani others, who after my ducats,
May die and I'll watch 'em with never a pang.
May's lovely"! grant yon, for lovers and poets.
The scent of her blossoms 's a cure for their ills;
But I shall be heartily glad when I know it's
June though it bring with It dozens of bills.
Hepburn Johns.
Temperance Workers to meet.
rSPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. I
Wheeling. May 10. Tbe eighth annual
convention of the West Virginia Christian
Temperance Union will be held in this city,
June i, 5 and 6. The special feature of tbe oc
casion will be an address by Geerge W. Bain,
of Lexington, Ky.,and a school of hygiene con
ducted by Dr. Hattle B. Jones, assistant physi
cian of the West Virginia Insane Hospital.
must Obey the Call.
CHICAGO, .May 10. Rev. J. Coleman Adams,
pastor of St. Paul's Unlversalist Church, of this
city, will go to Brooklyn to occupy the pulpit
of AH Saints' Church. A letter was received
from the trustees of the latter organization to
day declining to release bim from the obliga
tion to accept the call extended some time ago.
Correct Yon Are.
From the Chicago Tribune. 3
There Is nothing meaner in the world than a
bad boy except a bad man.
FISH A1TO SHAKE ITEMS.
A seining party of Qoincy last Wednesday
caught over 500 fish and one seven-foot alii
gator. Shipbutldee Octave Noel is finishing a 50
foot fish tug for Erie parties and will be ready
to launch her in tho course of a week.
A battler was killed In Cucamonga Can.
yon lately that measured 7 feet 2 inches long by
11 inches around the waist It sported 21 rattles
with a button.
The life saving crew of Grand Haven caught
a sturgeon which weighed 178 pounds and con
tained 40 pounds ot eggs. The days of Orpheus
and the tvre seem to have returned.
One of the finest trout thus far reported was
caught In Tlonesta creek, a few rods above the
mouth of Ross run, by an 8-year-old boy. It
measured 13 inches in length and S inches in
width.
Charlet Bulduo is entitled to the medal
as the champion trout fisherman or Punxsu
tawney. He went fishing and caught more
tban 100 as fine trout as ever snapped at an
angleworm.
Hiram Roundtree, of Cbehalis, Wash.,
recently killed a cougar 9 leet 5 inches in
length He is the cbampioj hunter of his sec
tion. The cougar is not a nsb, though this may
sound like a fish story.
The first snake killing of tbe season occurred
in Lower Burrell township, Westmoreland
county, where Ross Dinsmore, a 15-year-old son
of R. S. Dinsmore, Esq., killed a blacksnake
that measured more than six feet in length.
Superintendent Buller,, of the Penn
sylvania State Fish Hatchery, says the ship
ments of yellow pike from the Erie Hatchery
this spring will reach .15,000,000 fish. About
500,000 went to upper Susquehanna waters a
few days aeo and another 500,000 wiirbe shipped
to Harrisburg.
OBLENTAI HAHDIWOBK.
People Watching a Bewildering- Network of
Twine Grow lnlo a Turkish Mat.
Crowds of curious people have gathered in
front of one of John Wanamaker's Chestnut
street windows, says the Philadelphia Inquirer,
and watched a bewildering network of coarse
looking twine grow Into a beautiful Turkish
mat A cardboard, bearing the unpronounce
able name of a swartby-complexloned Moham
medan, hard at work on the other side of
the window, states that the fabric is the
first genuine Turkish rug ever made in
Philadelphia. Two months of incessant labor
will be required to finish the work, and
through its soft texture will be an inscription
to the effect of the above statement It is more
than passing curious how the crude-looking
twine and a mass of vari-colored yarn at the
workman's right side are gradually assuming
the soft tints and quiet beauty of the Turkish
rug. To the hustling American the. band pro
cess of the Oriental rugmaker seems painfully
slow when compared with the lightning
manipulations of American machinery. The
facetious ones among the onlookers cal
culate that the rngmaker will have tied
over 1,000,000 knots when his task is done.
The mat will be a beauty when finished. It
has a dark-bluo background, and the edges are
patterned with every shade.' The twine body
upon which is knotted the yarn is stretched on
a stiff frame, before which the rug-maker sits
upon a low bench, and, with unerring skill,
knits each shred of the fabric together, har
monizing the color, following out the pattern.
Around him hang a number of heavy rugs, and
the Juniper street end of the Chestnut street
window looks like a small slice of the map of
Turkey.
DAKOTA'S UNDEVELOPED WEALTH.
Senator Pierce Talks Abont Beet Sugar,
Coal nndBnrley.
Chicago, May 10. Senator Gilbert A.
Pierce, of North Daxota, in an interview last
evening said:
"We are developing at least two new indus
tries in Northern Dakota that the world knows
little about Some of our German farmers
have been experimenting with the sugar beet
and they have been so successful that hundreds
and even thousands will make like experiments
this year. The temperature and the prevailing
degree of moisnre seem to be admirably
adapted to the maturing of this vegetable to
the point wbero it contains the greatest possi
ble amount of saccharine matter. All over
North Dakota we have veins of soft coal from
three to ten feet in thickness in many places,
cropping out at the surface. If the beet crop
is what it promises to be, arrangements to
transform it into sugar will be made on a large
scale, the coal supply being an important fac
tor. We have also recently discovered that we
can raise the best barley in the world, and in
dications are that we shall soon raise vast
quantities of it, make it into malt and ship it
in that form to the great markets."
SHEIXEOTEEGEE'S TRAVELS.
lie Leaven Doylestown With Less Tban
SlOO and Start for tbe West.
Doylestown, May 10. Sbellenberger has
volunteredtooneof his victims the following
information as he sat on the cot bed in his
cheerless cell: That wheu he walked from his
palatial residence to take the train for Phila
delphia on the bright afternoon of Easter Sun
day he hadco Intention of fleeing to the Pacific
coast as he had but a little over SlOO in his
pockets and only decided to take that
step after he arrived in Philadelphia,
where his financial condition was bettered
somewhat by getting a few small checks cashed
on Monday and be left for the West on that
evening. Shelly briefly referred to hi ar
rival in Tacoma, Wash., and his meeting Fries.
Shellenberger said after he left Tacoma he
started East, but did not come direct stopping
off in Chicago, where his funds ran low aud be
was driven to his last resort that of selling his
jewelry, which consisted of a fine gold watch,
rings and shirt ornaments, which furnished
enough money for him to return.
Vnrlety the Slpce of Life.
From the San Francisco Alta.J
The English Liberals have Introduced mnslc
at political meetings and the Tories are wildly
mad abont it A band plays "Tbe Roast Beef
of Old England," and then a man makes a
speech. Then somebody sings "God Save the
Queen," ana another speech is made. In this
way an audience is amnsed and instructed at
the same time. The Tories think of starting
out a theatrical troupe, to render standard
plays free, with denunciations of Gladstone
between acts.
Prison In Place of Scaffold.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Wisconsin long ago abolished capital punish
mont, and it does not appear that capital crimes
are any more prevalent for it On the contrary,
the quick sending of a mnrderer to prison for
life tends to create a wholesome respect for
swift-dealing justice.
A Silver Wedding.
ISrECIAL TELEOKAM TO TOE DISPATCH.1
Scottdale, May 10. The twenty-fifth mar
riage anniversary of Chief Bnrgess Porter and
wife, was celebrated by a silver wedding this
evening. A large nnmber of guests were pres
ent The glf(s were cmerous and costly.
AMOKG OTJB BUBAL EXCHANGES.
Cambria Herald: On Tuesday some person
shot a 32-caliber ball through one of the plate
glass windows in tbe Court House.
Du Bois Courier: The merchants and
clerks wish to accept the challenge of the bar
tenders to play them a game of baseball, bnt
owing to the condition of the grounds suggest
next Tuesday as tbe time.
MorGANTOWN Hew Dominion: A cumber
of our people are painting their houses, and im
proving their yards and lawns. Morgantown
intends to put on her old-time neat and sweet
Appearance this summer, and greet her visitors
with her pleasantest smile.
Titusville Herald: Comrade N. Cross
man, of the Union Veterans' Legion, presented
that lodge last evening with a gavel made
from a piece of pine timber taken from Look
out mountain. The gavel still contains a bul
let, and will be prized very highly by the
union.
Parkebsburo Sentinel: Tbe cows will
once more have the freedom of the city. The
near approach of an important city election
renders it inadvisable to Interfere with the
rights of cows to browse In our public streets,
destroy gardens, and drive pedestrians from the
sidewalks.
Punxsutawney Spirit: Our genial and
amiable blonde friend, Willie Baker, of the
Ridgeway Advocate, says that some women are
old maids because they want to be, and others
because j'a condition, and not a theory, con
fronts them," to which statement we can take
no exceptions.
Erie Herald: Landlord Holcomb has
postponed the formal opening of the popular
resort at tbe head of the bay until about June
15 on account of the continued cold weather.
The hotel cow presents an attractive appear
ance. The grounds have also been beautified
and a largb refreshment stand has been
erected.
TBE CHALLENGE.
I heard to-day upon, the street
Where beggars sang a careless song.
A note, a tone, so wondrous sweet
That 1 stood silent In tbe throng.
But ah, I saw not those who sang:
I heard not their wild madrigal:
A thousand voices round me rang,
And sweeter stilt one maiden's call.
For which I'd change the fame ot men.
My load unloosed like Pilgrim's thrall
I feed my hungry neart again;
I saw my boyhood home and all
And heard tb blackbirds, nestling, sine
Thsir tender songs of evening!
Clear, martial call of burled hosts:
How sore thy challenge passed the years,
1 saw lUe sentries at their posts
A myriad forms; tbe pines like spears
Shot through the after-sunset's red:
The darkening fields; the gleams of panes;
The musty dusk, star-panoplied;
The lazy kiue along the lane:
The echoolhon.c dun. the village spire;
The horac-bent dusty harvest foils;
The cornfields flamed with snnsct fire;
And in our tryst beneath'the oaks.
We heard the blackbirds, nestling, sing
Their tender songs of evening!
Thus, Angel of our later days.
With ever-hovering, unseen hand.
Are flashed upon our blinded ways
The hidden shrines we understand.
We cllmbthe rugged steeps of Truth,
And falter. Lot the helpless bring
Tho lesser to the larger Youth 1
A note, a tone, the humblest thing.
Sweeps lrreslstlcss all between.
And there the Now prays with the Then
Where once our heaven was lived unseen.
And where, like pilgrims come again.
We hear the blackbirds, nestling, sing
Their tender songs of evenlngl -
Philadelphia Time.
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
New York's mixed Sensations Inwardness
of the Grnnt-SIcCaua-Croker Row An
Actor's Great mistake A metropolitan
Fiend Wbo Is Helping tbe milliners.
most a stavt coBRisrONnKHT.1
fHERE was never a time, perhaps, in the
history of New York City when a more
sensationally mixed state of affairs existed than
exists to-day. No, not even when the war on
Boss Tweed was at its height At that time
there were tangible facts and figures on which
to base conclusions. Now we have nothing but
personal charges and counter-charges, news
paper vituperation, mud-slinging opinions and
general political deviltry. It the people out
side of New York pay any attention to this
thing, they must be at once greatly puzzled by
the situation and shocked at our horrible de
pravity. Taken at onr own estimate of our
selves, as evidenced by onr leading journals,
we are generally and individually, politically
and socially the very worst set of liars, thieves,
blackmailers, robbers and exoteric rascals out
of prison.
The casual readers of the New York papers
hare a merry time of it between the Grant-McCann-Croker,
tbe Hilton-TPorZcl, the Cleveland-
Sun-World and similar sensational stuff
of the week. That is. if the casual reader at
tempts to read all sides of these things. The
exhaustion of tbe vocabulary of epithets was
never so conspicuously painful. Fortunately
for decent New York nobody of any conse
quence believes onr ruling class Is half as oad
as it is painted by itself. Perhaps but a very
smau minority read anything Deyond the neaa-
4 lines
.
The milk In tbe Coconnnt.
Mow, what is beneath all of this McCann
G ran trow?
First Two wings of Tammany Han. each
fighting for control of that organization.
Second The County Democracy against both
wings of Tammany.
Third Tbe Fassett Republican machine
against the County and Tammany Democrasy.
Fourth A disappointed political striker
named McCanu, wbo was a wigwam man for
revenue only.
Fifth Last and greatest two women, sisters,
wives of Informer McCann and Chief Sachem
Richard Croker, respectively, the latter's wife
especially upon whom rests the responsibility
of the whole scandal. She is the celebrated
traditional woman in tho case. On a woman
apparently at outs with her husband and in
with ber brother-in-law, the entire hearsay evi
dence of McCann against Grant is founded.
Sixth Summed np with judicial fairness, tbe
whole tiling, it seems to me. resolves itself into
the question, involving the $10,000 given by rich
bachelor Mayor Grant to his godchild, Flossie,
the daughter of his warmest friend. Sachem
Richard Croker. Does the public official rela
tion (with the private we have nothing to do)
between official Grant and political boss Croker
make it offensive to public taste, and inde
fensible in public morals to make such a pres
ent to Mr. Croker's child, or thus indirectly to
Sir. Croker himselfr Answer that and yon
bare the full extent of Mayor Grant's terrible
offense. For my part 1 do not see why Grant
hasn't the same right In such a matter while
Mayor as he would unquestionably bava had as
a private citizen. Had the gift come from
Croker to Grant it would be quite a different
tnlng.
A Fanny Hinge Editor.
""THAT histrionic statesman,Mr.Louis Aldricb,
is playing this week at Palmer's in a piece
which he calls "Tbe Editor," and of which he
claims to be joint author. I was curious to see
Mr. Aldrich in "Tbe Editor" from my knowl
edge of his contempt for newspapers in general
and editors in particular. Aldrich is a rather
clever actor, but bas figured during tbe past
year more extensively as tbe leader of a little
school of his profession that desires to shutout
foreign actors, foreign scenery and everything
that pertains to tbe stage from competition
with tbe American profession. Aldrich went
down to Washington on such an errand last
summer as the Chairman of a self-constituted
committee of this body of American actors to
lobby with the Treasury Department I be
lieve he succeeded in getting a decision against
tbe introduction of a lot of scenery by Wilson
Barrett that was coming in as tools of trade'
under former rules of tho department It
would nave been a soft snap for the thousands
of actors out of a job to be seen on Broadway
every summer II the Aldrich scheme had
worked. Fortunately for the American pub
lic, which wants to see the best plays and the
best performers, this little band of high pro
tectionists did not succeed.
In a conversation with Mr. Aldrich last
summer he inveighed heavily against the
American newspaper press for its treatment of
his profession. Ho made tbe remarkable
statement that he would rather the newspapers
should say nothing whatever about the plays
and players. He felt particularly grieved at
the prices charged for theatrical advertising
in the city of New York, and thought that tt
wonld be better for bis profession if they never
used a newspaper at all as a means of reaching
tbe public, but stuck to posters and litho
graphs. This struck me as very funny at the
time, and I told Mr. Aldrich that If it were not
for the newspapers be would have never been
heard of. and tbe same would apply to tbe
majority of his profession. In my opinion
tho newspapers form tbe right and left
hands and head, too, of tbe stage, and
without it the dramatic profession
would be armless and headless. Still I recog
nize the right of Mr. Aldrich and other actors
and play-wi iters to differ with me in this re
spect. This will prepare you for the statement
that in his new play, Mr. Aldrich has given to
us sneb an editor as wa never heard ot on the
earth or under the earth. The title role is
modeled more on the conception of Chailes
Dickens in bis American notes than upon any
thing in real American life. Tbe rest of the
play is stolen bit by bit from other pieces. The
compilation appears to draw pretty well here,
though that is not an indication of a successful
piav. 1 have seen pieces run week after week
in New York which couldn't stand two con
secutive nights in any inland city of tho Union.
The floating population and the repntation of
certain theaters in New York are enough to
give fair bouses to almost anything.
'
"The dress destroyer is again abroad In New
York. Whoeverit is, he or she has created
greater consternation among tbe fair sex tban
would be created by tbe advent of Jack the
Ripper. And it is quite enough to throw woman
kind into a panic To feel that a night at tbe
opera, or a stroll down Broadway, or an after
noon's shopping may result in the ruin of a
costume on which days of laborions tbonght
and weeks of preparation, to say nothing of a
good round Sum of money, bave been ex
pended, is enough to disturb the mental bal
ance of almost any lady. When she happens
to be one of tbe many wbo can afford but one
really nice costume for tbe season the solici
tude is still greater. What in tbe world any
human being finds enjoyable in haunting theater
lobbies, crowded shops and sidewalks with a
bottle of acid or InK and distributing the con
tents over tbe skirts of tbe best dressed women
indiscriminately is a marvel. Yet that some
body does enjoy it is evidenced bv tbe ruined
dresses of scores of New York ladies recently.
It is scarcely possible that sucb miscreants
could be working on a salary or commission
from tbe women tailors and dressmakers,
though pure malice would seem to be an inade
quate reason. The police bave several times
thonght tbey bad tbe man tbey think it is a
man bnt the slight Intermission of safety that
follows one of these onslaughts is regularly
broken by a fresb trail of ink and acid in some
other section. Naturally enongb. the theatrical
managers and shopkeepers on whose premises
these depredations occur, do their beat to con
ceal the facts, sluce once admitted it would
mean little less than ruin. Sonus shrewd fellow,
who ought to be a detective, believes it is not a
man at all. but a woman a woman scorned, of
coarse. His theory is that it is some half
crazed girl wbo is thus working out a general,
systematic scheme of revenge on ber sex. A tew
months ago tbe terror of the town was some
fellow who went around at night chipping off
the porcelain lettering from the shop windows.
As these letters cost from 50 cents to 81 apiece
you can imagine the bavpc possible in a single
night when the city was without electric or gas
Hht uh arles t. Murray.
'new York, May lu.
Capital Punishment a Failure.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean. j
There were 3.567 cases of murder and homi
cide in this country last year and only 88 hang
ings. With sucb a record there is little occa
sion to find fault with the Legislatures that aro
trying to change the law regarding capital pun
ishment and make imprisonment for life the
greatest punishment known to the law. There
is really more hope of a disagreement of the
jury In a murder trial than any other.
She Had Her Eye on the Salary.
From the Panxsutawney Spirit
George Augustus Bala, wbo draws a salary of
10,000 a year for dictating four editorials a
week for tho London Daily Telegraph, bas
married hi3 typewriter. AaSala is 62 years of
age, it is a question whether the pretty type
writer girl wanted Sala for himself or his
Sala-ry.
Ob, If That was Said About Us.
JTrom the Bradford Star.
It is evident that the managers of the Pitts
burg papers pick out their cheapest and most
inexperienced reporters to write up the politi
cal situation in McKeaa county.
CUKI0US C0HDENSATI0K&
Of a family of 16. near Taylorstown,
this State, 13 bave died of diphtheria.
A chicken with four legs, four wings
and two heads bas just been hatched at Del
mar, Del.
An oil well was struck recently in
Torry Canyon, Ventura county, that flows 200
barrels a day. ,
Charles Miller, of Hneneme, Cal., hai
made a table of ornamental woods that con
tains 19,850 pieces.
A tree was felled recently at Tillamook,
Ore., that was 120 feet long, while the butt
measured only 1 foot through.
There are 2,700 courts in the United
States engaged in granting divorces, and one
marriage in every 28 Is thus annulled.
The national debt of Germany, which
is much smaller tban that of any other great
couutry In tbe world, is, in round figures,
$192,000,000.
They're getting together again- Bill
Nye is a well-known citizen of Kalamazoo,
Mich., and J. Wbitcomb Riley does the barber
act in Au Sable, Micb.
A child of 6 in Manchester, Me., drank
half a pint of whisky that had Deen obtained
for medicinal purposes, and two days alter
died of alcoholic poisoning.
An Alpena, Mich., justice swore him
self as a witness In a case which was pending
before bim as judge. He wanted to serve as
juryman also, but tbe defense objected.
When the late Charles E. Bitten, of
Portland, Ore., died suddenly a few weeks
since, his estate was said to be worth $200,000.
bnt upon appraisement it was returned at S321,
210 9lf
Silkworms when c e wly hatched scarcely
weigh one-quarter of an oanoe, yet In the
course of their life, which only lasts about 85
days, they will consume between 3,000 and
1,000 pounds of leaves.
The last issue of the "American News
paper Directory" shows that no less than 797
German newspapers are published in the
United States and Canada. Of these 91 are is
sued daily and 585 weekly.
In digging a well on Hyde's ranch,
near Vlawest, Tnlare county, a buffalo horn
was found at the depth of 37 feet How it got
there is a puzzler, as no buffaloes were known
to have been in this county.
The annual competition tor the Boyl
ston prize for Harvatd students in declama
tion was held Thursday night in Cambridge.
The first prizes were won by W. E. B. DuBois,
'90, and H. E. Burton, '90. Mr. DuBois is a
negro.
During clear days people of Carthage,
111., bave distinctly beard tbe ringing of a
ponderous church bell at Golden, 23 milesaway.
The bell bangs in the German Lutheran Church
tower at Golden, and it requires two men to
ring it
A mule was taken to Clancy's shop, in
Grass Valley, Cal., to be shod. The beast
kicked tbe shed to pieces and hoisted the anvil
through the roof. Clancy swore he would shoe
that mule, and he did, but he had to use a
bucket of chloroform first
A small instrument has been devised
for use in mines to indicate the presence of tire
damp, or in gas mains to indicate the escape
of gas. The invention is based upon the prop
erty certain medals have of evolving heat in
the presence of hydrogen gas.
William McCulley, of Solano county,
Cal., died recently, who left by will $25,000 in
property to his son, aged 17,upon condition that
be paid $3,000 to his only sister, aged 15, when
she comes of age. Tbe boy says le will wait
until he is 21, when be will diyide tbe money
equally.
Lake Chelan, Wash., never freezes,
although in latitude i'P north. The reason
given that it is so deep and the warm water
arises from the bottom to supplant the cold,
which goes down to warm itself. Tbe Indians
fish in tbe lake at all seasons and use salmon
eggs for bait
Dr. Laugardiere, of Toulouse, reports
to the Academy of Music that be has discov
ered a euro for croup. It is a very simple one
a tablespoontul of flour ot sulphnr in a
tumbler of water. After three days of the
treatment bis patients were rescued from im
minent death, and fully recovered.
A ministerial club in San Francisco re
cently gave itself a banquet. And in connec
tion with each course on tbe menu an appro
priate passage from the Bible was printed. For
instance, with the soup there appeared this
verse: "Set on the great pot, aud seethe the
pottage for the sons of the prophets."
A remarkable trout died recently near
Kelso, Scotland. Its dead body was found in a
covered well pnly a few feet in depth. The
tradition is that some 32 years ago, this fish
was taken from the Tweed, placed in the well,
and lived there nntil its death. Its body was
U inches in length and very much emaciated,
weighing only six ounces.
A shoe factory at New Canaan, Conn.,
has just made a pair of shoes for a Charlotte,
N. C, man- They are the biggest ones ever
made. Tbe size is No. 82. Each shoe is 20
inches long and 8 Inches wide- The man who is
to wear them is a clergyman. 6 feet 10 inches
tall, and weighs HO pounds, and the county In
which he dwells is a roomy one.
A remarkable coincidence is reported
from West Virginia. A census of Elm Grove
was taken Friday, preparatory to incorporating
tbe village as a town, witb tbe following result:
Number of males over 21 years of age, 148;
number of males under 21 years of age, 148;
number of females over 16 years of age, 148;
number of females nnder 16 years ot age, 118;
grand total, 592.
At Durham, N. C, since the city has
baa electric illumination, the ravages of the
tobacco worm have been greatly reduced, the
insects bavme been killed by tbe lights. Itis
suggested that a powerful electric light in the
center of one of the sea islands growing the
famous ong staple cotton might save all the
plantations surrounding ic from the destruc
tion so frequently wrought by the cotton army
worm. Sam Cobb, of Madison, Fix, found a
wild turkey's nest with several eggs in it, which
be took oat, and as he was not to be at home
for several bours, wrapped them in bis coat and
laid it on the bank or a creek, where be was
fishing. He was surprised shortly afterward to
bear a cnirp oi a juuuk tui&cj. houitwh
gated and found that one of the eggs had given
forth a turkey; soon another followed, and so
on until be had quite a brood in bis coat They
were carried home, but all died in domesti
cating. SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY.
First Tram p We have got to be careful,
cnlly.
Second Tramp What's de matter?
rirst 1 ramp I read In a paper dat skin diseases
Is spread by de circulation of bank notes.
Slftingi.
Fashionable Mamma Doctor, I want
this child vaccinated where nobody will ever see
the scar.
Physician All right ma'am. (To little girl)
Push back your bangs, my dear.
A Long Hunt Jersey Farmer Xou'r
hnntin', be ye?
City Bportsman (wearily) Ye-e-s. been hunt
ing all day for a patch of woods without a law
penalty sign on it JVu or Wttkty.
Farmer's wife If you will help beat this
carpet I will give you something to eat
Dirty Davidson, the Tramp (haughtily)
Ma'am! I'm a gentleman, Inever beatmyway.
Toledo Blade.
"By jove, Bronson! Excuse my saying so,
but this Is the rankest clgarl ever smoked. When
did you get it?" , ......
-Xou gave It to me last night. I was afraid of
It myseir.' 'Epoch.
'Tis now that true bliss
Is embodied in this- ,.,,..
The greatest of Joys that a mortal could wish?
To sit on the edge
Of some coot mossy ledge,
Aa aandle a fly o'er the nose of a flsh.
Anaaanaie -Washing fn Pott.
"Pretty bad soil here for a garden, isn't
it?" said the potato vine.
I should think It was," said the onion, "I'm
losing strength ever day, and 1 never had much to
becin with. 1 don't get along worth a scent."
'I can't get ahead here," said the canbage.
I'm going to leave."
1 know lcan't get 'long at all," said theen-
""Jior" I," cried the asparagus. J1 don't get .
This Isn't fit for a berrying ground," said tbe
strawberry, "bat here comeaths sun, so dryup,
aUofyoa."-iJt trie Press.
Considerate Brother 1 say, Clara, if
young Nogood comes around hero again, rope)
bim In. Don't let him escape.
Clara Why. brother Tom, it was only day be
fore yesterday that you warned me against him.
Yoalaldhe was a loafer and never sonld earn
enough to support himself, much less a wire.
Considerate Brother-Yes. bnt I have round out
since that he was a college chum of Kuis Harri
son.. He wonld make a bully brotber:la.Jaw,Wttsj
me.rorhisdeputy.-oVMnj. ' ' '" ,
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