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KE&ULTis OF THE RO D FXPEDITION.
The summary of results attained by The
Dispatch road expedition, which is given
in another column, shows that the objects of
that expedition -were fully attained. It has
settled several points which are of impor
tance in connection with the subject, and
affords the foundation for some definite con
clusions. The points settled, as stated in the article,
first, the nearly impassable nature of
the dirt roads of Pennsylvania after
any season of -protracted rain, entail
ing either a suspension of their use
by farmers or a great waste of horse
power; next the fact that such roads as the
national pike, solidly built in the first
place, can be maintained at little expense
and iurnish first-class highways at all sea
sons; and that the only roads that have yet
proved to possess such durability are those
macadamized with limestone.
With regard to agricultural opinion on
road improvement, the vast majority recog
nize the wretched character of the roads and
the great value which durable roads would
have, but the question of increased taxation
for their construction is a decided obstacle
to the agricultural mind. In those counties
wbere limestone can be obtained at a mod
erate cost it is probable that the expense
"would be accepted as a good investment; but
where the stone has to be transported for
Ion? distances, the heavy cost of good roads
would be a serious difficulty. Beyond that
the fact that the expenditure on the roads
for the past thirty years would, if intelli
gently directed, have made them all solid, is
a cogent fact.
These points make the policy to be pursued
plain with regard to the localities where
limestone is procurable at or below the
average cost. A standard for good roads
should be established and the State should
take some steps to encourage the construc
tion of such roads. As to other localities,
4t might be worth while to inquire whether
no more economical way of building the
roads can be made to take the place of the
expensive limestone. That this is doubtful
has already been recognized, but it is of
enough importance to warrant the farth'er
investigation of experts.
Certainly with the light thus placed be
fore it, it should be practicable for the State
Road Commission to formulate a policy
which shall produce definite action in the
direction of securing good roads.
A PIANO MYSTERY.
Although a good deal of mystery sur
rounds the whole expedition, it is pretty
well established that the scientists who went
to South Alrica on board the United States
man-of-war Pensacola to observe the eclipse
WIjeB
of the sun, did not have a vociferously I
happy time. None 4jtfie members of the
party will talk out,ijW somebody is drop
ping sly little hints and inuendos about
the trouble. There has been considerable
talk about a piano which wag on the Pensa
cola when she left New York, but disap
peared before she 'returned. It is, curious
that a piano should have figured at all in the
outfit of an astronomical expedition. If it had
been a telescope, or some other instrument of
scientific use, it would have been eligible
enough for passage on board the Pensacols;
but a piano 1 What was it there for? Some
body suggests that it was to see how the
musical instrument stood the test of climatic
variations. ' That is vague enough, br.t to
befog the matter more the piano never came
back for exhibition. "Whether it now lies in
the vicinity of the gentleman, whose name is
do more mentioned, at the bottom of the sea,
or wis inhumanly set ashore at Barbadoes,
is cot entirely clear.
One thing is plain: The piano did not
contribute to the harmony of the party. It
it stayed in tune in spite of relaxing sea
breezes and marine pianists, 'the party did
not. The eclipse of the sun, which the expe
dition went out to see, appears to have been
eclipsed by partial obscuration of good sense
and good humor among the scientists.
THEY hHOULD NOT CONFLICT.
Mr. Church Howe, of Nebraska, has
presented a novel case for the consideration
of the public. Mr. Howe has been connected
for many years with the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, and is also President of the
Nebraska Senate. Naturally there has
been a somewhat settled conviction that Mr.
Howe's most valuable services to the cor
poration would be rendered in the State
Senate. Bnt he shows a disposition to con
found all such expectations by resigning his
position under the corporation because he
has come to the conclusion that the interests
of the people and those of the railroads have
become antagonistic.
If this is Mr. Howe's real conviction
which a pessimistic view of political and
corporate human nature may doubt it
requires modification. The interests of the
people, and those of the railroads need not
be antagonistic. A railroad that is con
ducted with due regard to its public obliga
tions is as nearly an unmixed public
benefit as anything can be in this imperfect
world. That Mr. Howe was right in con
cluding that the aims ot the corporation by
which he was employed, cannot be
reconciled with the interests of the public,
need not be disputed. But for fear that his
example may cause a general rush of resigna
tions among railroad officials, it is pertjnent
to urge upon that class who are burdened
with tender consciences on the matter of
public rights, a much wiser course for them
to adopt
Let railroad officials conduct their copora
tions, first with a scrupulous regard for that
primary duty of impartiality which is
imperative on all of them by reason of their
public character. Then let each corpora
tion make its rates solely with regard to its
own business, performing transportation at
such charges as will encourage business
along its line, instead of banding with other
corporations to impose stated rates upon the
whole country without regard to the econo
mies presented by certain rontesand localities.
Let them give natural and honest competi
tion its free operation instead of resorting to
all sorts of efforts to stifle, in their own
interest, the natural forces to which the
fundamental industries always must be
subject. Railroad officials who conduct their
own business on these rules need not
trouble themselves about a possible antag
onism between their interests and the inter
ests of the people. Those who conduct it ac
cording to the corporate principles now in
vogue will find that conflict irrepressible.
Mr. Church Howe seems to have come to
the conclusion that there is no hope of
amending the railroad policy from within,
and therefore takes the radical course of
resigning his railroad office. Yet the
cynical view of human nature is such that,
we regret to say, the principal senti
ment evoked by this unusual step is that of
wondering what public office Mr. Howe is
seeking.
THE REDUCTION OF THE BERT.
The statement furnished by Controller
Morrowto the Census Bureau, concerning
the municipal debt of Pittsburg, calls atten
tion to the gratifying fact that the debt, less
amount in sinking fond, has been reduced
from $14,669,000 in 1880 to $10,026,000 at the
beginning of this year.
This gratifying decrease of $4,610,000 is
to be credited to the strict adherence to the
policy of devoting a set portion of the city's
revenue, either to the purchase of its own
bonds or to investment as a sinking fund in
some form. Whatever other criticisms are
possible concerning the municipal govern
ment, this requirement of keeping up the
steady discharge of the debt has been faith
fully observed, and the consequence is that
the debt has been reduced nearly one-third
within the past ten years.
The same policy can be made to yield
much better results during the coming
decade. Interest charges will be decreased,
both by the refunding and by the retire
ment,of the bonds as they fall due. With a
faithful adherence to the policy of paying
the debt and reducing the interest charges,
Pittsburg, ought, by the middle ot the
decade,to;reduce its debt and interest charge
to so low a rate that it will form no ar)
preciable figure in the tax levy.
AN UNEXPLAINED PREFERENCE.
It is rather difficult to perceive, if the
statement of the facts are correct, on what
grounds the special enactment proposed in
Congress, giving the widow of General
Haien a pension of $100 per month, is sup
ported. Where the widows of distinguished
officers have been left with slender means, it
has been correctly considered proper to give
them pensions larger than would be awarded
by the general pension laws. But Hazen's
services as a division commander, while
creditable, were not so murh beyond those
of hundreds others as to call for a special
exception, and instead of his widow being in
straitened circumstances, it is stated that she
has a fortune in the neighborhood of half a
million dollars. It it is the intention of
Congress that all widows of division com
manders shall have a pension of $100 per
month, it should pass a general act to that
effect. If it is not, it is difficult to perceive
what ground there is for a special prefer
ence in the Hazen case, except the ever
active lobbying powers of "social influ
ences" at Washington.
POINTERS FOR JAPAN.
Japan has the reputation of being en
terprising, and the Mikado evidently means
to pick up anything that is going in the
way of new ideas in this country. For this
purpose he has sent here a special com
missioner Mr. Kentaro Kaneko to study our
legislative methods. Mr. Kaneko has been
fixing his attention upon Congress for some
time. There is a good deal to be seen in
Washington, and when it comes to legisla
tive methods, Mr. Kaneko's particular
object, the deposits are especially rich. They
are of all sorts and sizes, goof methods and
bad methods; and Mr. Kaneko will be
taxed somewhat severely to understand what
the purpose of all the legislation
is. Some of the arbitrary acts of Speaker
Reed will commend themselves to the inno
cent Japanese soul, and it is quite reason
able to believe that the system by which the
majority silences the minority in Congress,
with the addition say of a, Lord High Exe
cutioner, would not be out of place in Japan.
If Mr. Kaneko faithfully reports what he
sees in Washington he will probably be in
vited to perform the happy dispatch upon
his return home, as a malignant false wit
ness. From the remote elevation of Tokio
the true inwardness of the greatest talking
machine bn earth would be incredible. But
the probability is that Mr. Kaneko will not
penetrate beyond the rind, as it were, and
he will carry back to Japan only such oh"
servations as his royal master can easily
digest
A Chicago court is wrestling with the
question whether boiler making is Immoral,
upon the complaint of numerous citizens that
the prosecntion of that industry in their imme
diate vicinity Is an active agent in producing
exasperation and profanity. The question in
that form may be a debatable one: bat some
thousands of Pittsburgers who listened to
Strauss music last Tuesday with a boiler-making
accompaniment from neighboring shops,
can bear testimony that it is not artistic.
Mb. Halstead is still coming to the de
fense of Senator Quay by showing that Sena
tor Brice is no better than he ought to be. The
"you're another" style of argument does not
make oat a first-class article of vindication.
Senator Quay's policy of keeping mum is much
more discreet. ,
Decoration Day was quietly observed
throughout the city. The exercises at the va
rious cemeteries were fall of the spirit of the
day, and it is satisfactory to observe that there
was less of the junketing and parade than has
been the case on former anniversaries. The
public, as a general thing, showed its good
taste and its comprehension of the object of
the holiday by observing it, not as a celebra
tion, bat as a memorial.
A SHOWMAN in France has been sent to
prison for exhibiting an "Angelas" which he
claimed to bo the original, while the picture in
the United States was asserted by him to be
merely a copy. There is no encouragement in
France for enterprise iu the profession of
showman.
The fact that M. Secretan has been sent
to jail for his famous copper deal indicates
that they do these things slightly .better in
France. Nevertheless, the fact that a poor
wretch who stole 50 francs would have got as
many years in prison as the copper speculator
got months, shows that France is not exempt
from the world-wide vice of treating the big
thieves much more tenderly than the little
ones.
The death penalty in Major Panitza's
case Is likely to make the amusement of plot
ting to overthrow the Bulgariau government
less fashionable than it has been. But will
Russia have nothing to say to this treatment of
her diplomatic' agent?
Empebok William's order that German
officers shall cot wear monocles is an absolutist
attempt to enact that the young Germans shall
not show any more of their idiocy on the out
side than is absolutely necessary. Yet In an
ideal state of society the single eyeglass would
not be without Us utility. It would indicate to
the fool killer where his ministrations are most
urgently needed.
Fbance, like Germany, is beginning to
discover that the policy of shutting ont Ameri
can food products to swell the profits of the
landholders is a burden for which the workers
of the nation have to pay in the increased cost
of life.
The Boston papers complain of the
preaching on rellgiouB and social topics on the
Common last Sunday. The tastes of different
cities are various. Philadelphia objects to the
disturbance of her somnolence by street music
and Boston cannot endure the disturbance of
her Sunday thoughts by public talk on matters
of religious or social importance.
THE appointments for the coming conven
tions warn the political workers and literary
bureaus that they have but two moro working
days in which to inflict themselves on a long
suffering and patient public
Boston physicians are demanding better
pavements and cleaner streets as a sanitary
measure. The demand is a good one; but do
Boston physicians expect any such 'trivial con
sideration as the health of the public to inter
fere with the great fundamental principle of
spoils in municipal government?
The attempts to keen up the price of
Trust shares indicate that the manipulators are
cherishing the hope that It will not be much of
a shower after alk
Edottabd Strauss is quoted to the effect
that he thinks America Is Paradise. Natur
ally. Nothing is so much like Eden as a
country wbere two or three thousand dollars a
day can be realized. Strauss' favorable view
of oar country can be expected to last as long
as the receipts keep up.
STRICTLY PERSONAL,
Kino George, of Greece, is a grandfather at
ii years old. '
JULIA WABD Ho-WE wag 71 years old on
Tuesday, but is still young.
Although not a native of that State, Sena
tor Beck was a most enthusiastic Kentuckian.
The daughters of Professor Charles Eliot
Norton, of Harvara, have gone to Ernope for
tbe summer.
Mayor Peck, of Milwaukee, finds It easier
to be funny in his newspaper than In bis public
speeches.
John C. Wood, who Is an active member of
the life-saving crew at Atlantic City, is reputed
to be worth 2,000,000, inherited from a rich
uncle in Paris. ,
Dr. Leonabd Woolsey Bacon, who is
CO years of age, will soon wed Miss Letitia Jor
don. daughter of General Jordon, of the United
States Mint at Philadelphia.
"Women, white or black," said Mr. Stanley
recently, "I regard as -far above us. They are
more humane, they are more prompt with sym
pathy, they are more tamable to new ideas,
than we of the opposite sex."
Miss Dolores Marbotjbo, tbe author of
one of last year's popular novels, has gone to
Europe for a prolonged residence and lltera'ry
work. She has jnst finished a new novel writ
ten in collaboration 'with George Cary Eggles
ton. When Mr. Vaux was asked the meaning of
the legend "E. S. P.', on the huge floral tribute
sent him from this city be said it stood for
"Every Soldier a Pension." The veracious cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun heard him
say it.
The German Emperor's Russian visit will be
of three weeks' duration. After the maneuvers
at Krasuoe-Selo he will undertake a journey
through the western part of Russia, visiting
Moscow, Riev and Warsaw, where prepara
tions are already being made for his reception.
Peince Charles, of Sweden and Norway,"
wasrecettly summoned to a court in Stock
holm to serve as a juryman in a criminal case.
But the Judge decided that on account of fam
ily connections he was ineligible.
The Spnrtan Band of Warrior.
from the Hew York San.
The bpartan band of political warriors, the
Democrats of Vermont, have recently been
going through the familiar and interesting
pastime ot holding a State Convention in Bur
lington. It met on Thursday, and tbe pleasant
tidings reach us that great enthusiasm and no
end of vigor inspired the 300 delegates as well as
tbe 300 visiting statesmen who aicompauied
them from Passampsic, Fletcher. Vergennes.
Uraftsbury, Fomfret, BakersHeld and Guild
hall. The Democracy of Vermont is somewhat
lacking in numbers, but it is a stem, steady and
stalwart Affair.
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Knight Errant Howell. Doei Not tore Consistency-Rapid
Transit for Allegheny
Kewg Abom tbe Dnquenne Tbenter.
fyjn. William Dean Howells is hopeful
about the future of the American drama,
but he is in despair about the critics. Several
pages of Marper's Magazine for June are filled
with the novelist's deliverances upon tbe
drama, the abandoned critics, and Mr. Howells'
favorito plays of tbe season.
One notable thing about Mr. Howells as a
dramatic critic is his utter contempt of con
sistency. Tn be sore consistency is a jewel out
of place in a critic, it may be said, but it does
sound rather odd when Mr. Howells belabors
the dramatic critics for undervaluing the na
tive drama on page 152, and on page 157 makes
do apology for stating that all the American
plays ho bad been praising are playthings bo
side Sudermann's "Die Ehre," which he saw at
a Uerman theater, played in German by Ger
man actors. If Mr. Howells goes on at this
rats tbe native drama, as well as the native
critic, will be discouraged and driven down
ward. XX7HEN one of the directors of the Pittsburg
and Manchester line of street cars was
asked some years ago why the awkward 6-cents
fare was retained after other lines had come
down tq a nickel he said: "Oh! the conductors
get tbe cent, ana we're content with the
nickel."
Of course no system of "Knocking down"
such as this was ever tolerated by the Pitts
burgand Manchester company. It is the com
petition of tbe Pleasant Valley road, with its
electric motive power and comfortable cars
that has effected the reduction. Nothing else
could. It is to be hoped that the mediaeval
Manchester line will make otherandeven more
necessary changes without delay. It is simply
preposterons that it shoula consume from 10
to IS minutes to traverse the distance between
Sixth and Market streets and the Fort Wayne
depot. Real rapid transit and plenty ot it is
what Allegheny needs. Her growth has been
impeded greatly by the lack of it,
J"hebe are reasons for believing that Mr.
XVemyss Henderson, brother of David B.,
will manage the Duquesne Theater when it is
built- Dunlop's Stage Jfeits says: Wemyss
Henderson, who is at present in New York
routing "Bluebeard, Jr.," and' "The Crystal
Slipper," will not go on the road with these at
tractions next season, but will be located in
Pittsburg, attending to the interests of tbe new
Duquesne Theater. The time is nearly all filled
at that house with a continuous list of attrac
tions, which, it is safa to say, has never been
equaled In any theater in this country.
This is highly satisfactory news about the
Duquesne Theater, and Pittsburg will be for
tunate if Mr. Wemyss Henderson is the man
ager.' A YOUTHFUL NATUBAUST.
It Taken Hlro Jnst Two Itllnntea to Tell the
ppcle of Snnke.
From the Punxsutawncy Spirit.!
A dozen men were standing around the de
funct carcass of a snake on Water street yes
terday speculating as to what variety it be
longed to. One said it was a housesnake.
Another contended that it was a rattler, and
others suggested that it was a blacksnake, a
garter snake or a water snake. Finally a bare
footed boy, with one pantaloon leg rolled up to '
the knee and the other to the ankle joint,
stepped up, and, inserting a stick under the
reptile's body, raised it up and said:
'Til tell you what kind of a snake that is."
"What kind is It?" asked several men in
chorus.
"A dead snake." said tbe urchin, as he tossed
it into the mud and darted away.
CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS.
It Is feared Speaker Reed will be compelled
to send out to the nearest saloons hereafter when
he wants to count a quorum.
A Michigan man says he has the best
natured wife in tbe world. She has been asleep
for two years.
Fifty new lawyerswere turned loose on
New York Wednesday nlirht Is It any wonder
New York aldermen are crooked?
A Jersey man with four wives says he wants
to live with the last one. As he Is now playing
checkers with his nose behind prison bars he will
live with her in hli mind.
Governor Francis, of Missouri, has par
doned a man who was serving a sentence of 14
months in Jail for whipping bis motber-in-law.
Governor Francis Is a married man himself.
THE Supreme Court of California has de
cided that Chinamen cannot practice law In that
Mate. Pretty soon a Chinaman will consider
himself lucky if he Is allowed to brethc tbe free
air of heaven, in some section of this great and
glorious country.
The President and Mrs. Harrison will spend
the summer months at Cape May. During their
absence Llee should show Colonel Dudley
through the White House, Just to see what it
looks like.
The Union Jack will hereafter fly daily over
the 'W bite House a sort of guarantee that the
President is at home.
George O. Jones has issued a call for a
conference of grcenbackers, at Indianapolis,
August 27. How sad it is to think that Just as
people Imagined that the sickly, measly rag baby
had breathed Its last, it has been snatched, so to
speak, from the grave, and is once more breath
ing the breath of life. Mr. Jones will have a
loud time conferring with himself.
AN exchange prints the fact that 20 mur
derers are now confined in the Pittsburg" Jail. It
appears to think that It is a good mauy for one
county, but when the fact is taken into consider
ation that our county Is a large one. and that only
one out of a dozen murderers are ever convicted,
the fact Is not a startling one. Mill wc are not
proud over tho matter.
Nine distinct earthquake shocks have been
felt in Indiana since Bynum's attack on Bayne.
Perhaps after all they were not earthquake shocks
but merely Democratic echoes applauding the
act.
A EE-w days ago $20,000 were paid into the
Kansas City Treasury, and the tax payers are
looking for the Immediate return of their ab
sconding treasurer, to gobble It.
AN APPEAL FOR AID
From the Nutlonnl Young Men's Christian
Association, Colored.
The National Young Men's Christian Associ
ation, colored, has issued a general appeal for
aid in building a national headquarters edifice
in Louisville, Ky. "Such a building," Bays the
appeal, "will cost at least $30,000, but when
erected it will be a lasting monument and
tribute to the progress and energy of the negro
race. At the last national convention Louis
ville was selected as the site of the tntnrn
building.
'Now, we hope that every negro and all the
white people of this country will see the good
of the work, and aid us liberally in it. All sub
scriptions to be addressed, by postal note, to
Evangelist Albert Mack, Louisville, Ky. We
make this earnest appeal to tbe generosity of
tbe people of the United States."
A Notable Gathering.
From the Philadelphia Becord. j
The Scotch-Irish Congress which met in Pitts
burg yesterday brought together a notable
gathering of men from every part of the coun
try. The same qualities that made tbe Ulster
man across the sea an energizing force in civil
and religious copflicts have been shown by him
in bis new Western home. The Republic owes
much to-day to his shrewdness, practical sa
gacity and stern code of morality.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
William E. Carothers.
William E. Carothers, an aged citizen of Fay
ette county, died at the residence or his son, C. E.
Carothers. near Washington, Pa., at 6 o'clock
Thursday morning. Mr. Carothers was of Scotch
Irish descent, his ancestry being among the first
settlers of Chambersburg, In 1792 his grand
father took up a body of. land In Westmoreland
county, from which tbe subject of this sketch re
moved In 1865. From that time until within
about a year be had resided at Unlontown, wnere
he is well known. Politically Mr. Cirothers was
an abolitionist and a Itepubllcan. He came of
tUeoIdPresbyteriantock. As a citizen lie was
honest and conscientious, a man of liberal views
In all thlnzs pertaining to the public welfare, a
man of sound Judgment, and as a business man
nnd farmer She was active, persevering and suc
cessful. He is the father of B. K. and It. T.
Carothers, of McKeesport. Funeral at Union
town, at 3 o'clock Monday.
AKOTHEE UBS. JARLEY.
Tho
Fresh Air Fond Entertainment for
Next Friday Moving Alone.
Owing to sickness in her Immediate family,
Mrs. George Gormly, of Sewickley, will be un
abl j to give her noted impnrsonation of Mrs.
Jarley at Carnegie Hall next Fnday afternoon
and evening for the benefit ot the Fresh Air
Fund of Allegheny.
Miss Kate McKnight, bowever, has most
kindly volunteered to assume the role, and a
brisk characterization of the eccentric ex
hibitor of waxworks is assured. Preparations
are in full progress, and the event will be a
noteworthy occasion in Northslde social cir
cles, having the co-operation and active aid of
everybody.
Social Chntior.
A "MEMOBTAJi. of Flowers" entertainment
took place in Verona public hall, nnder the au
spices of the Charles R. Bright Woman's Re
lief Corps No. 53. yesterday. Forty-two children
in national colors represented the States. The
play "Loft Alone in Picket Line" was ren
dered very effectively, with Comrade Hamilton
and wife in the leading part?. The entertain
ment will be repeated this evening.
The Silver Lake Quartete, of New York,
will sing in tbeMoorbead Hall, corner Second
avenue and Grant street, nnder the auspices of
the Moorhoad W. C. T. U., to-morrow at 3.15
and 7.30 p. m. Mrs. Mead, of New York, will
address the meetings.
A shall fair will be held this afternoon in
the Church of tbe Ascension by Mrs. Joseph Dil
worth and the Misses Speer and the managers.
There will be entertainments of various kinds,
especially for tne children.
Miss Annie BnANnT. daughter of Rev. F.
Brandt, of the Eighteenth Street Lutheran
Church, Southstde, will be married next Thurs
day to Prof. Schumann, of tho Lawr enceville
parochial school.
The marriage of Miss Lizzie Wilhelm, daugh
ter of C. Wilhelm, and Charles Goettler. a
prominent young merchant of the Southside,
has been announced for next Tuesday.
Mns. Charles E. Speek desires to correct
tho report that she will give a lawn fete to
day. The statement is utterly groundless.
Yesterday was Hospital Day. There was
considerable money dropped Into the boxes
scattered about tho city during the day.
The "Dairy Maid's Supper" at Bellevue was
repeated last evening to another large and well
pleased audience.
THE REVISION TRAIN STARTED.
Tbo Members of the Committee to Meet
In
Pltlabnrs on October 6.
Rer. Dr. Henry J. Van Dyke, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, and a
member of the committee appointed by the
General Assembly at Saratoga to revise the
Westminster Confession of Faith, is quoted by
the Brooklyn Eagle as saying: "Tbe revision
train has started. t The committee which will
consider this question fairly represents the
Church. Two-thirds of tbe members are, how
ever, professedly in favor of revision. It is not
tbe committee's intention to overthrow the
Calvmistlc Bystem, but, so far as I can
speak for them, to clear up ambigui
ties and to relieve tbe confession
Irom misapprehension and over-statement.
Ihey mean to put out of the
confession all expressions that may convey, or
seem to convey, the idea that God for His
glorification has decreed any man to eternal
death, to remove every ground of impression
that tbe confession means to teach that God
intended infant damnation. They mean to put
into the confession a clear statement of the
universal love of God, and His willingness to
save all mon on the terms of gospel truth. We
do not intend to revoke tbe Protestant testi
mony of what we regard as tbe errors of tbe
Catholic Church, but ws intend to take out all
that will express abuse or want of charity
toward Roman Catholics, if there is any ex
pression in tbe confession that can be so con
strued." Dr. Van Dyke said that the members of tbe
committee woald meet on the 6th of October
In Pittsbarg to collaborate their report, that
will go to the Assembly at Detroit in the fol
lowing May.
TAKEN TO HEART.
One Lesson That Britain Haa Learned From
American Subjects.
Marquis of Lome, in North American Kevlew.l
There is no doubt that the partial espousal of
the cry "imperial federation" would not have
bad half tbe success it has had were it not that
it is considered as a protest against any scheme
that would lead, however remotely, to a dimi
nution of tbe independent position cow occu
pied by Canada. Some men speak as if the
empiro would "burst up" if some great scheme
of general and close federation be not soon
adopted; bnt there is a middle way, and one
that will probably be adopted namely,
the securing of the defense of each portion of
the empire; the adoption of means of more in
timate intercourse between the leading men;
the taking In band by common consent of the
expressed wishes of each member ot the em
pire; and the furtherance of arrangements in
regard to commercial intercourse between the
various large sections, whose readers have com
mon ideas regarding tbe good of a certain
amount of protection for the encouragement
of industries, where these have not been plant
ed under conditions of freedom from an over
awing competition by older and richer com
panies. These considerations can only interest
Americans who take a wider interest in the
future of Anglo-Saxon communities than can
be embraced by a mere consideration of British
American relations. Tbe lesson, bowever,
that was first taught to Britain by ber American
subjects namely, that nothing should be done
without their concurrence and consent is a
lesson that has been gratefully learned and
taken to heart by the statesmen of the old
country.
REFOBMED CHURCH CONVENTION.
The General Synod In Sesstoli nt Lebanon
Discuss Important Church Blotters.
rSPXCIAX, TXLEORAH TO THB UIHPATCH.'
Lebanon, May SO. The evening session
pf tbe General Svnod of the Reformed
Churches of the United States was devoted to
tbe reading of important essays and an ad
dress by Mrs. S. B. Yockey, of Xenia, O.,
President of the Ladies' Missionary Society.
Rev. D. T. W. Chambers, of New York, repre
senting tbe Reformed Dutch Church of Amer
ica, and Dr. Matcbews, secretary of the Re
formed Alliance, addressed the Synod at tbe
afternoon session. Rev. Dr. Appel, of Lancas
ter, read the resignation of Rev. Ambrose
Gring, late missionary tn Japan. It was re
ferred to a committee of 11 to represent tbe
eight district Synods. Dr. J. A. Peters, ot Dan
ville, Va in his report of the Boards of Home
Missions, stated that during tbe past three
years 103.320 bad been paid for home missions
and over $16,000 toward church extension.
Rev. C. B. Weiser, of East Greenville. In his re
port of the Board of Foreign Missions, stated
that S59.209 bad been paid for foreign missions
during tbe past three years..
Tbe following are tbe most important com
mittees aaannounced by Synod President Bom
berger: Home Missions, Dr. Vanhorne, of
Tiffin, O.; Foreign Missions, J. M. Titsell, of
Lancaster; Minutes of Synod, R. Mechling, of
Hamilton. O ; Potomac Synod, C S. Gerhard,
of Reading: Interior Synod, P. C. Reeding, of
Blnffton, 0 : Central Svnod, J. C Hauser, of
Baltimore; Northwest Synod, J. F. Busche of
New York; Ohio Synod, S. A. Limback, of
A Fair and Independent Journal.
From the Crawford Journal.
One of the most valuable newspaoirs receiv
ed by the Journal is The Pittsbubo Daily
Dispatch. It Is a newspaper in the broadest
sense of the term, its editorials are fair and in
dependent, and it is In every way first-class.
It is the leading Pittsburg paper. Its Sunday
edition compares favorably with the New York
and Philadelphia Sunday editions of the great
dallies, and has tbe advantage of getting here
on tho day of issue.
Our Own Paul Hlnen.
From the Philadelphia Inqalrer.i
Panl Hines, left field of the Pittsburg Base
ball Club, who was at the Girard House yester
day, has the misfortune to be extremely deaf,
to overcome which be carries au ingenious con
trivance in the shape of a cane, the bandle of
which is in reality an ear trumpet. When in
conversation he raises his cain, lets bis car rest
on the bandle with apparent carelessness, and
bears every word that may bo uttered without
attracting undue attention to bis infirmity.
An Offense Condoned.
From tbe LoulsTille Courier-Journal.
Senator Ingalls Is too harshly censured for
bis plagiarism. More United States Senators
ought to plagiarise. Anything Is an improve
ment on what tbey produce themselves.
Ii Mi-mnry of the Anniversary.- ,
From the Johnstown Tribune. a
The PiTTsnuuG Dispatch of this morning
has a supplement containing an eight-column
review of Johnstown's disaster of a year ago.
with a reprint of several illustrations and some
new ones.
0DR HAIL POUCH.
Tbe Negro nnd Hli Progreaa.
To the Editor oi The Dispatch:
For the sake of fairness allow me sufficient
space in your paper to show thef allacy of some
of Scotch-Irish Dr. Bryson's statements as pub
lished yesterday morning. The colored popu
lation of Alabama is only a few thousand less
in number than the whites of that State. They
are tbe laborers, artisans and small farm
holders. They raise tbe lion's share of the
agricultural products, are merchants, con
tractors, instructors and professional people,
and in ho State of tbe Southland are there
more gratifying evidences of intelligence,
progress and thrift than can be found among
tbe colored people of Alabama. This can be
proven by reliable data. Tbe charge that they
contribute less than 5,000 of a fund of 9160,000
annually expended by the State for their edu
cation must be a misstatement.
It goes without saying that If anyone in the
South pays the tax levy it is the negro land
owner, or the possessor of a few personal
effects. If under a white Democratic State
administration these moneys are misapplied It
is hardly just cause for glorification. One
thing is sure, "revolutions never go backward."
and the negrpesof the South will reach their
proper political status in the fullness of time,
though a million of Brysons stand up to pre
vent it. One of the Negroes.
Pittsburg, May 3a
Irish nnd Scotch-Irish.
To' the Editor of Tbe Dispatch:
Dr. Macintosh, in his address before the
Scotch-Irish Convention, has given ns his
definition of that race. From it we learn that a
"Scotch-Irishman" is one without a drop of Irish
blood In his veins.' Queer, isn't it? A combi
nation of Lowland and Highland Scotchmen,
of Anglo-Saxon. Dane and Norman, but no
Irish blood, and yet they style themselves
hyphenated Irishmen. Does Robert Bonner,
who. as he says, signed himself "An Irish Prot
estant" five years ago, agree with tbe Macin
tosh idea? Does "Richelieu" Robinson accept
it? Would the late Joseph Biggar, M. P.: born
an UNter Presbyterian.have accepted it? Would
the Ulster Presbyterian Irish patriots John
Mitchell and John Martin indorse it?
Would tbe "United Irishmen" of Ulster of 1798
agree to the definition, such Presbyterians as
Henry Joy McCracken, Dr. McNevin. the
brothers Orr and tbe whole gallant host of
Ulster Presbyterians of that period?
No; the very title they gave themselves.
United Irishmen, proves how they regard it.
Later in bis address Dr. Macintosh tells us that
they have the dash and enthusiasm of Ireland
in their nature held in check by the cool blood
from other sources. If tbey have no Irish
blood In their veins wbere did they get th6
dash and impulse? Not, certainly, from tbe
only other Celtic source, the Scot, who is re
garded as typical of cool-headedness itself and
is styled the "shrewd, cautious, canny Scot"
with no impulse or dash in bis nature. And
why should a people with no Irish blood in
tbeir veins choose as tbe emblem of their so
ciety the banner of the old Irish of the North
tbe red hand of the O'Neill entwined with
shamrock? If this people lived and died in
Ireland for hundreds of years and were not
Irish, how can they call themselves Americans
after a few generations of rosidence here in
tbe land and yet not of it?
The cautious Scotch logic is not evident in
Dr. Macintosh's address. Or is it because it's
unfashionable to be Irish that one asbamed ot
his country must qualify his nativitv?
All Ireland.
Pittsburg, May 31.
KAN'S BEST FRIEND.
Several Good Reasons to Provo
That
W omnn Is the Person.
Ladles' Home Journal.!
First and foremost, woman Is man's
best
friend:
Because she is his mother.
Second, because she is his wife.
Because she is patient with him in illness, en
dures his fretf ulness and "mothers" him.
"Because sbe will stick to him through good
and evil report, and always believe in him, if
sbe loves him.
Because without her he would be rude, rough
and ungodly.
Because sbe teaches him the value of gentle
words, of kindly thought and of consideration.
Because sbe can with him, endure pain
quietly and meet joy gladly.
Because, on her breast be can shed tears of
repentance, and he is never reminded of them
afterwards.
Because, when he is behaving like a fretful
boy and we all do. you know, at times with
no reason in the world for it, woman's soft
word, touch or glance will make him ashamed
of himself, as he ought to be.
Because without ber as an incentive bo would
grow lazy: there would be no good work done,
there would be no noble books written, there
would be no beautiful pictures painted, there
would be no divine strains of melody.
Because sbe has made for us a beautiful
world, in which we should be proud to live and
contented to die.
Because and this Is tbe best reason of all
when the world had reached an unenviable
state of wickedness the blessed task of bringing
It a Saviour for all mankind was given to a
woman, which was God's way of Betting bis seal
of approval on her who is mother, wife, daugh
ter and sweetheart, and, therefore, man's best
friend.
Mnrrled In Maryland.
rSFSCIAL TELKORAM TO THK DISPATCH.!
BBADDOCK,May 30. Frank AMcCune, a son
of Burgess Jessep P. McCune, and Miss Jennie
Clark, left Braddock this morning and were
married later at Cumberland, Md. Both the
bride and groom are bigbly respected.
Progress of a Globe-Trotting Editor.
From the Atlanta Constitution.!
George Francis Train has distanced Editor
Fitts around the world. The latter has only
got as far as Texas, for the walking is not as
good cow as formerly.
A NOCTUBNE.
The mother said, as he rose from bed
To walk the floor with the child:
"Dear, you must not fret, he's our little pet.
Our boy," and she sweetly smiled.
Tbe father sighed as be replied:
"O. yes! he's a charming elf.
But 'twould be les rough were he big enough
To walk the floor with himself."
Aiw lork Press,
TheTnrlfiTHen.
When the tariff's laid
On the pauper hen.
And you cease to go
Urprotected tben.
Pretty little chicks,
"WUUvou learn to lay
Twice as many eggs
As you do to-day?
If It doesn't help.
It's a harmless myth.
And the thing Is good
To fool the farmer with.
Tls 'tis not-a tax.
And it's spread so thinly,
Fw will know they pay It,
Chuckles Bill McKlnley.
J. D. mtlerin Puctc.
Tbe Same Old Clnvrs.
The heirs bad decided the Smlthers estate
Would belong to the lawyers ere long, at the rate
That "retainers" and "costs" mounted up. So
a brief
ws submitted to old Judge Dupont, for relief..
But the heirs were struck dumb when the written
decrees
Handed down by the Judge In the learned Com
mon Pleas
Declared that attorneys had de Jure rights
(Vide Blackstone and Coke and the best legal
lights)
Which clients must always respect and observe;
For a testament made by a man ot weak nerve
Meant trouble for liwyerB as well as for heirs.
Which is the best of all reasons, the Justice de
clares. For refusing to estop or make void and nil
The last and most powerful claws in the will.
Ilgaro.
A Romnnce Spoiled.
Two lovers went to the baseball game
One afternoon In May.
He was a "crank:" she never bad seen
Professional players play.
He faithfully tried to explain it all,
Bhe tried to understand: )
But the more he talked tbe less she knew
T by he thought the game was "grand."
He cheered, he danced, he yelled "Hli HI!"
bbe calmly looked about;
And If anyone made a three-base bit
Bhe asked If the man was out.
She tried her best to keep tbe score,
But when the game was done
He found that whenever a foul was hit
bne'd given tbe man a home run.
It dampened bis ardor to have ber say,
"Why doesn't the umpire bat?"
And e uh question she asked diminished his love.
Though he wouldn't have owned to that.
Till at last she asked, in ber guileless way,
"Which nine is playing now?"
He broke the engagement then and there,
And now they don't even bow.
SomervUlt Jturnal.
THE WORK OF ONE TEEM.
Some of tbe Important .Blattera Decided by
the Supremo Court.
Washington, May 30. The most striking'
feature of the work of the Supreme Court of
the United States during the term ended last
Friday was the large number and variety ot
ewes involving a construction of the inter
State commerce clause of the Federal Consti
tution. Another feature ws the large and in
creasing number of habeas corpus cases before
the Court. Indeed, this latter class of cases
came before the Court with such frequency
that Justice Miller, In an opinion on one of the
last days of the term, was moved to remark,
with dry sarcasm, that tho case was. another
one of the frequent instances of late in which
it was sought on all sorts of pretexts to make
tbe Supreme Court pass upon every motion for
a writ of habeas corpus that could be devvised
by counsel. i
The most important cases decided during tbe
term are as follows: Tne Iowa original package
suit; the Granger Railroad Commission cases
irom Minnesota: the dressed beef cases from the
same State; the Mormon Cbnrch suit: Virginia
coupon cases: North Carolina and Louisiana
bond cases, involving the right of a citizen to sue
his own State; a Pennsylvania case, involving
the right of nronertv nwnpra tn rim.nr.anti,i
damages; several other suits involving the J
Question of thn vnlirlirv nr Qtq.a (... -., A
tax laws in which the principal question was as
to whether or not there were interference with
inter-State commerce, and the Neagle, Medley
and Kemmler habeas corpus cases.
Tbe most important cases wnlch go over un
decided until next term are suits over Penn
sylvania and Kansas laws, taxing the Pullman
Palace Car Company; over a Kentucky statute
taxing express companies, and three important
mining suits from Colorado.
NO PRESS CENSOR.
The American People Wi'l Take Care of
the Mntter Themselves.
The Newsman.!
With the immensa growth of journalism,
having more than doubled during the past ten
years. It is not reasonable to suppose that black
spots would not appear. It is the ulcer growth
on the journalistic body. It must and will
ventilate itself, and the good Christian com
munity will take due precaution to imard itielf
in case the matter becomes harmful.
To pass an act of Congress granting power to
postmasters to have the right of exclusion
from the mail of what they deemed improper,
would be extremely disastrous. It would be a
calamity that would cause such a rebellion that
those who promoted the measure would for
ever be burled from public sight. The little
sore that exists to-day can be treated
by the common sense of a people who
jealously watch that no evil from the
printing press will invade tbeir'bome. No, the
American people want no censor of tbe press.
Tbey will take care of this matter themselves.
Let the subject never again be broached in onr
legislative balls, as it is not in the spirit of our
institutions, pregnant as it is with evils that
bear the stamp of slavery and tbe dark ages.
There need be no fear, but a timely warning
may save the friends of good government much
time and worry.
WHAT A FBESH BOY DID.
His Joke at General "-plnola' Expense Not
Rebuked.
Globe-Democrat 1
When tbe House adjourns early there Is an
entertaining scene In General Spmola's imme
diate vicinity. Tbe old gentleman does not
wait for tbe floor to clear or for the galleries to
empty. As the gavel falls upon tbe end of the
day's session he arises, peels off his coat,
lights a cigar, sits down to his
desk and write letters. Visitors in the
galleries look down with amazement ana
merriment, but they do not disturb the general.
The wonderful shire collar seems larger than
ever when the coat is off. and when tbe general
bends forward over bis writing tne rim of the
collar looms up until it hides all but the bald
place on the crown and a fringe of bristling
hair. An Irreverent pice. In tbe page uniform
of knee breeches, came trotting down tbe aisle
one day. baited behind that expanse of shirt
collar, snapped his fingers on the shiny surface
and piped out:
"Ah. there! Is General Spinola in?"
A she bear ought to have appeared and de
voured tbe rash youth, bat be didn't receive so
much as a reproof from the general. Refer
ences to the huge shirt collar neverjirovoke the
priae of Tammany.
ALL GIRLS SHOULD BOW.
It is Good for tbe Body and Helps to Prolong
Life.,
Young women should conquer the timidity
that tbey feel the moment tbey set foot in a
row boat. A young man of tbe right sort has
no patience with the want of confidence
women have in themselves and in his care for
them. Bear in mind, courage is a quality not
to be despised, ana can be worn becomingly by
any girl. It will come to you, and perchance
has, as it does to all women in some time of
great emergency, and yet vou are here af rail of
that which an Ida Lewis has mastered when at
its worst, and which, if once understood, would
give you pleasure and greater bodily strength.
Some good oarsman mil show you bow to sit
in a boat and how to row with one oar and then
with two. He will teach you the strokes and
other matters necessary to be acquired Enjoy
your rowing as you would your bith or your
breakfast, becanse it is good for tbe bodv and
helps, as does all physical exercise, to prolong
life. Swimming, girls take to even better than
boys, and are much more graceful; and every
girl shonld, if possible, understand this most
nseini oi pastimes. Ellen Ee Uarae in Eadies
Home Journal.
Got the Number Mixed.
From the Forest Republican.
The Pittsburg Dispatch tries Its hand at
fish story telling by the statement that "a Kit
tanning man caugh1, 2(J2 trout in Forest county
in two days." We think either The Dispatch
or tbe Kittanning man has got things mixed.
Tbe man caught two trout in 262 days.
Paid a Professional Visit.
From the Waynesburg Messenger.
We were pleased to meet our old and much
esteemed Democratic friend. S. C. Orr, Esq., at
his pleasant home, in Morgan township, last
week, when the sturdy old patriarch was enjoy
ing much better health than he had done the
week previous.
STATE rOLITICAL NOTES.
Since his renonw nation Hon. Henry Hall, of
Mercer, has begun an active canvass for the
Speakership of tho House.
The Farmers' League will play quite an im
portant part in this State this fall in determln
incwho shall represent their districts in Con
gress. The average candidate is taking a good deal
of interest in improved roads. After election
they should not forget the promises made to
tbeir constituents.
The movement to elect all delegates to State
conventions on the same day Is gaining new re
cruits daily. If adopted it would save many a
candidate many sleepless hours.
The Waynesburg Democrat denies the state
ment that tbe resolution indorsing Hon. J. W.
Ray, was passed unanimously, and claims that
13 delegates refused to vote that way.
Captain Taggabt, of Tidioute. late candi
date for Auditor General on tne Democratic
ticket, is an enthusiastic Wallace man, and
believes he will be nominated at Scranton.
Kansas City Star: A man named Plumb
is running for Congress in Western Pennsylva
nia. If be has a relativo of the same name in
the Senate, he will be apt to mage a tolerably
lively canvass.
While the majority of candidates are hus
tling to catch the candidates Lieutenant Gov
ernor Davies is catching fish in the Adirondack
Mountains, and the people don't care whether
be catches a fish or not.
Alphabet Passu ore wants the Lieutenant
Governorship nomination on the Republican
ticket. There aie several other gentlemen who
want the same office. Mr. Passmore has a
very Interesting fight ahead of nim.
The two delegates to the Democratic State
Convention from Tioga county, who wre
elected on Tuesday, were instructed for Patti-
son, although they will support ex-Congressman
Elliot if he shonld conclude to be a can
didate. The vicious method of electing delegates to
the State Convention by county committee,
which is now an exclusive Democratic practice,
is attracting the attention of some of the Dem
ocratic newspapers, and is being criticised. In
all probability a lively agitation will result in a
change, but It will not be done for tbe coming
convention.
It is said that Mr. Watson will not have tbe
easy walkaway he had two years ago if Mr.
Plummer. of Franklin, enters tho field against
Mm. The latter gentleman is one of the
shrewdest politicians In, the State, and he is
well known f rotb one end of the oil regions to
the other. The chances are that he will ac
cept the Democratic nomination for Congress
In the Twenty-seventh district
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Boston has a clergyman, Rer. Pitt Dil
lingham, who is only now recovering after a
year and a half's suffering from the effects of
vaccination.
A pigeon, which is supposed to be a
carrier, came to Hon. F. Cole's last week at
Gettysburg. It bad a brass band on one of Its
legs, on which is stamped 8.151 and tbe let
ter K.
Bangor, Me., has a battalion of 30joun"
women called tbe Cnilcothlans who wear uni
forms and carry Springfield rifles. They eave '
an exhibition a few days ago before the Gov
ernor and his staff.
Two cows were instantly killed by aa
electric shock during the storm Sunday after
noon in Somerset county. They were lying
alongside of a barbwlre lence that bad been
charged by lightning:
Louis Bresett, a Port Huron carpenter,
was thrown 25 feet into the air by a hoisting
derrick yesterday and then dropped to the bot
tom of tbe dry dock without breaking a bone.
It is feared, bowever, that he sustained some
internal Injuries.
An old man named Zimmerman has
been fonnd living alone in a log shack near Ot
tawa, Can. He has been living in tbe shack for
36 years, stark naked and bops about like a frog
or kangaroo, stealing out in the twilight like a
wild beast to get the air.
A prohibition crank up in Genesee
county recently sent a water pitcher to Presi
dent Harrison, with the suggestion that it take
tbe place of wine decanters on the White
House table. Tbe President acknowledged
the gift but didn't say yes.
A small instrument has been devised
for use in mines to indicate the presence of fire
damp, or in gas mains to indicate tbe escape
of gas. The invention is based upon the prop
erty certain metalsbave of evolving heat in the
presence of hydrogen gas.
Nebraska City, Neb., claims to have
beaten the record on divorces. A petition was
filed there at 2 p. jr.; tbe defendant's answer at
2.15; the case was placed In tbe referee's bands
at 2.30; be reported at 320. and the decree of
the Court was rendered at 3 10.
An Au Sable thief went into a widow's
barn the other night and milked the widow's
cow. Next morning that poor widow found a
pneketbook containing SI 17 in tbe stall, and
ad vertises for tbe loser to come forward, prove
property, return the milk and get his cash.
The grapple plant of the Kalahart
Desert is said to be a real vegetable curiosity.
In its general appearance it looks more like a
starfish than a plant, and each ray or arm 13
tipped witn Darus, wnicn, wnen lastenea to the
wool of sheep, have to be cut out, that being
the only way of removing them.
Miss Ethelyn Roe, of Setanket, Mass ,
had a lively encounter last Friday. While
picking wild flowers in the woods near Rocky
Point, a wblte-tbroated black snake sprang at
her,-but fortunately missed its mark. After
running some distance sbe secured a stick and,
returning, after a short battle killed the ser
pent. It measured six feet.
One of the most remarkable and curious
happenings occurring in New York this year
was reported yesterday. Nine able-bodied men,
claiming to hail from Pittsbnrg. had the
temerity to play a game of ball with the
Gothamites and likewise win the game. It
tbey don't let tb? same thing occur again all
will be forgiven on tbeir return home.
There is standing on the banks of the
Augusta, Ga., canal, in a somewhat dilapidated
condition, the house where George Washing
ton was entertained on the occasion of his visit
to Augusta over 100 years ago. There, is said to
be a negro woman in Jefferson county who was
in Augusta when the visit was made, but was
too young to remember anything about it.
As Mrs. Fairfield Cole, of Winterport,
Me., was preparing her breakfast the other
morning, sbe found a leak in her coffeepot, and
so put on her coffee in a tin can. As it began
to uou sue was abont to remove tbe cover when
tho cin exploded, the cover going through the
window breaking a large pane of glass, and
nearly the whole contents striking her in the
face.
A century ago the Duke of Grafton
called up bis jockey, who bad won two import
ant races lor him, and said: "John Day, I have
sent for you as I am going to make you a
present for your good riding. There is a 20
note for you, and I hope you will not waste it,
but take care of it." A modern jockey baa
received as much as 3,000 for winning a single
race.
Surgeon T. H. Parke, who was with
Stanley in his last African expedition, vacci
nated 40 native bearers with the party. An
epidemic of smallpox breaking out, S3 of, the 40
passed quite unscathed,wbile the nnvaccinated
natives were dying like Pbeep around them: the
other two, who showed imperfect marks, had
slight attacks, from which they recovered un-
harmed.
A thoroughbred Poland-China sow
owned In Mount Leonard. Mo., recently gave
birth to a hairless, flesh-colored monstrosity,
with bead, ears, teeth and one fore foot re
sembling a bull pup, and the rest of its body
resembling a pig. All who have seen tbe
thing unite iu declaring its resemblance to tbe
dog family, though its skin is almost hnman
and its body that of a bog.
Dr. A. G. Young, Secretary of the
Maine State Board of Health, was recently
suffering from a disease that baffled his physi
cians, one of whom finally sent a sample of the
wall naner from the sick room to Prof. Robin
son, of Bowdoiu College, for analysis. Tbe ex
amination revealed that tbe paper contained
large quantities of arsenic Since Dr. Young's
removal from this room bis recovery has been
rapid.
During the American Revolution an
English magazine published an estimate of the
future copulation of tbe North American
colonies. Placing the population then at
2,000,000. and assuming that it would double
itself every 25 years, the writer estimated that
in tbe year 1MK) the number would have in
crcased to 61,000,000. As a matter of fact, this
is near tbe present estimated population of tbe
United States.
This year is tbe two hundredth anni
versary of tbe invention cf tbe Improved to
bacco nine the bowl, tbe tnbe and the mouth
piece. Up to tho year 1600 the only medium of
enjoying the fragrant weed was by means of a
cylindrical instrument fashioned from the
crude clay and smelling of the earth earthy.
The inventor of the present combination pipe
was a physician. Dr. Vilarius, of Vienna. The
first tobacco pipe manufactory was established
in 1690.
Eleven old citizens of Little Equinunk,
a lumbering town In Wayne county. Pa have
been counting up tbe number of tbeir children,
and this is the record: Amos Tyler, 22: Thomas
Todd, 20; Jonathan Adams, 18; Eben Brown 15;
David Eaton, 15: Jacob Killani, 14: James
Adams. H:Josiah Cole. 13: John Phillips. 12;
Oliver Billings, 12: James Brown. 10; William
Tyler, 10; John Killam, 10. Amos Todd is the
only one of these men who has been twice
married.
LITTLE BAZARS.
"That's a queer thing about a baby."
"i ?"
"He cries himself asleeo and everybody else
awake."
Husband (to wife, who has just returned
from church) Well, you have not yet said that
Mrs. Soanso's new bonnet is a horrid looking
thing.
Wife Her bonnet Is Just like mine.
"How polished are my lays!" murmured
the poea
"Yes," cackled the ben: "but you can't getSl
cents a dozen for 'em."
Brown Did the dog eat up much when
he got in the pantry'"
Mrs. Brown-Yes; everything bnt the dog
blscnlt. Doctor If you put yourself under my
treatment I'll restore your sight.
Blind Beggar That would ruin my business.
OH, TVOE!
I wrote a short verse to my love,
And I swore she was sweeter than honey;
The prlnter-ye heavens above I
Made me say she was sweetened by money.
"Was his address of any value?"
"Yes. Indeed," said Mrs. Sprigglns. "Mr
husband said it was very voluble:"
"Is your husband particular about what
he eats?" ,
"Indeed he Is. John is a full-fledged epitaph."
"I bought a donkey yesterday, just for
fun." remarked Unrley.
"WelL" replied Qazzam, that's a remarkable
Instance of self-possession."
Cumso (reading) Prof. Blanksley is au
agnostic
Mrs. Cumso-What a lot of diseases that man
has. I read the other day that he was a dyspeptic.
De Gany Did you give her the poem you
wrote about her?
Tubba Yes; and she has never been at home to
me since.
De Oany How was that?
Tubbs-I made a'mUUka in the color of bar
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