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wise are not always tie most virtuous.
Under the pretense of examining psychio
phenomena they can gratify viciousxtenden
cies. A great deal of this to-called
spiritualism is a cloak for performance that
it were charitable to call scandalous. In
fishing for the well-to-do and respectable
this is the bait that the spook-chalners and
spirit-rappers find best. The Tictims are
too often are willing; the deceived equally
deceivers.
This is the key to the apparently mysteri
ous influence that a ery dangerous class of
criminals occasionally exert oyer men and
women of wealth, cnltnre and standing in
society. It does not speak well for the
morality coincident to our high civilization.
189U' '
marck to Issue instruction on 'how 'to keep
your seat on a horse."
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PATCH hat been removed to Corner of
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A WISE POLICY.
In a local article on the progress of work
In the convention of the Amalgamated As
sociation, the policy of the association is out
lined as promising long-deferred justice to
Pittsburg. That is contained in the resolu
tion to leave the boiling scale for Pittsburg
and the West at ?5 50 per ton, while the
organization which has been effected in the
East devotes its efforts to raising the $3 CO
and $4 rates which prevail in that locality.
This is not only justice to Pittsburg, but
Is the best policy for the iron workers. Our
Iron manufacturers have been able to pay
tl SO to $2 per ton more for puddling than
the East mills on account of their great ad
Tantages in fuel and other prime factors in
iron manufacture. But such a difference in
wages prevents Pittsburg from obtaining
the full benefit of her advantages; and it
does more than that in preventing the iron
Workers, taken as a whole, irom getting
their full share of that benefit
This will be apparent on a little consider
ation of the subject If the Eastern mills
that are paying ?3 50 per ton can give the
Bame wages as Pittsburg, they are simply
niven an advantage of $2 00 per ton for
which there is not the slightest reason. But
If they cannot pay such wages then the ad
vantage becomes one given to permit the
manufacture of just so much iron at the
point where the lowest wages must be paid.
If they could not keep in operation the iron
which they monufacture would be made at
i the places where higher wages are paid,
and there can hardly be any more far
sighted policy on the part of the Amalga
mated Association than to concentrate the
iron industry in the localities which yield
the best wages.
Ho one, of course, expects Pittsburg wages
to be reduced as long as the present era of
prosperity lasts. But the movement to raise
wages in the East to something more nearly
approaching an equality with our scale is
one with which all can sympathize.
A CHANCE NOW FOR DIRECT TOTING.
By far the most important action of the
Allegheny mass meeting Satnrday night
was the unanimous adoption of Mr. Ken
nedy's resolution to substitute a direct pop
ular vote at primaries, for the tricky dele
gate system. That resolution strikes at the
loot of such abuses as the meeting was called
to protest against It will also, if carried
out, extirpate many other tendencies which
are the subject of loud and frequent com
plaint But will the County Committee heed this
demand for a popular vote, and for
the abolition of the wire-pulling
delegate system? That depends. If
the people of the Twenty-third dis
trict are in earnest, and speak loudly
enough, the committee will heed the pro
test, and will begin, as it should, by order
ing the new primaries on the basis of the
popular vote direct for the candidates.
But if the parties who got up Saturday
night's meeting seem already to trim and
show signs of timidity and weakness about
insisting on the fall demand of the meeting,
then the delegate system will doubtless be
continued by the committee ss quite good
enough and the public will hear nothing
more of voting direct, until the next bit of
sharp practice shall signalize some other
delegate convention.
Whether the action of the Carnegie Hall
meeting is, or is not to amount to anything
at, all, depends wholly upon what is done
with the resolution which was proposed by
Mr. Kennedy and adopted by the gathering.
Should the demand for a direct popular vote
for candidate at the primaries be carried
out all causes for future complaint are
thereby removed. Colonel Stone's with
drawal had already conceded everything
else, even before the meeting convened. On
the other hand, so long as the delegate sys
tem is continued, sharp practice, bargaining,
wire pulling and all the tricks of the politi
cal trade will be just as feasible and as likely
to be put in practice in the new canvass as
in the old.
THE INFLUENCE OF SPOOKS.
At first glance it seems extraordinary that
a man of brains, education and social stand
ing should get into the clutches of a
spiritualist medinm or a spook priestess.
Sow did a common, vulgar charlatan like
the Princess Anne O 'Delia capture one of
the shrewdest lawyers in New York City?
How does another spook priestess appro
priately named Fanny Stryker, keep her
hold, as related in The Dispatch, upon
ther clear-headed business men in Hew
York? A centnry ago people would have
whispered "witchcraft" and comfortably
composed themselves in the view that these
women got their power irom their knowledge
of the black art We know better than that
sow, but some of us are inclined to attribute
far more power to mediums and dealers in
spiritualism than they really possess.
These professional seers and purveyors of
spooks work no wonders. They are simply
1 bonko-steerers and adventuresses who travel
a little out of the beaten track. They do
not practice upon the credulity of man
merely; they appeal to his lowest "tastes and
and illegal desires. The wealthy and the
SHIRT SLEEVES IK DEBATE.
An interesting sensation was caused In
the House the other day, when Mr. Walker,
of Massachusetts, in the heat of the debate
on silver, took off his coat and wrestled with
that knotty subject in his shirt sleeves. To
the impartial mind the most remarkable
aspect of the case is that anyone could get so
warm in discussing silver legislation as to
make it necessary to strip, bat it may be re
membered that Friday was a very warm
day, and no doubt the labor of Mr. Walker
with that abstruse subject was quite
strenuous.
The important phase of the case, how
ever, is presented by a statement that Mr.
Heed, who was not in the chair at the time,
was on his way there to make Mr. "Walker
put on his coat, when that gentleman
brought his perspiring and shirt-sleeved
oratory to a close. This raised an in
teresting question as to the power
of the Speaker. We do not think that Mr.
Reed has discovered anything either in the
Constitution or the revised rules forbidding
members to take off their coats when they
address the House, as Bob Ingersoll used to
do when he addressed Bepublican mass
meetings. The Speaker is asserted to have
considerable lacility in evolving parlia
mentary law to order, out of the depths of
his inner consciousness; but it would trouble
even him to allege a rule prescribing the ex
act number of outer garments a member
must wear in order to entitle him to the
floor. Indeed there is every reason to be
lieve that if the Sneaker had tried to sup
press Mr. Walker on account of his shirt
sleeves, the honorable member could have
stood up for his rights and successfully have
defended the legal standing of his linen in
the highest court of the nation.
As a matter of taste and manners, it is by
no means certain that Mr. Walker's position
would not be stronger than Mr. Beed's. It
is good news that the Speaker has under
taken to reform the manners of the House;
although it may be doubted whether he will
not find that a much greater task than creat
ing a working majority by turningout Dem
ocrats and seating Republicans, But there
should be some sense of proportion in the
reform. Oratory in shirt sleeves may not be
strictly according to etiquette; bat the cor
respondents distinctlystatethatMr. Walker
disDlayed clean linen, while the Speaker has
frequently permitted the display of dirty
linen. Beyond that it has recently been
stated that the expectoration of tobacco juice
by the statesmen who frame our tariff legis
lation, keeps the carpet cleaners of the Cap
ital busy without keeping the carpets of the
House clean. In view of the newspaper
efforts for the reformation of the great Amer
ican hog, it would be no more than just re
spect to a public demand for the Speaker to
reduce the tobacco chewers to decency before
suppressing an earnest monometallist who
wrestles with silver in his shirt sleeves.
We confess to sympathy with Mr. Walker.
Shirt sleeves are American and clean shirt
sleeves ought to be sufficient to satisfy the
most fastidious tastes. If these national
features can be suppressed by an arbitrary
Speaker, what has become of our boasted
liberties?
Much comment is aroused by the fact
that the Presbyterian Church in Washington
which used to be crowded when President
Cleveland attended it, Is now advertised for
sale, because it does not pay expenses. Never
theless the most obvious comment is not made,
namely, that if a church can only secure at
tendance because the President goes there, the
best thing to be done with it is to sell it out.
Iestfeday could be taken as afford
ing justification of Lowell's line about a rare
day in June. Most of its predecessors in the
present month were entirely too well done.
The full list of Allegheny candidates
who are willing to serve the Twenty-third dis
trict in Congress shows that if the people of
that district do not make a good choice it will
not be from a lack of timber to choose from.
When the English syndicate gets con
trol of the Chicago stock yards it trill probably
secure the indorsem ent of the American hog
by the monarchs and aristocracy of Europe. "
The deposition of Bichter from the
Liberal leadership in Germany, following the
dismissal of Bismarck from the Chancellorship,
may be taken to prove that ingratitude is fully
as common in Imperial politics as in the demo
cratic sort.
Senator INOAL3 is preparing a speech
on farm mortgages; but the mortgage which he
has most particularly in mind is his own 'lien
on a seat in the United States Senate.
A St. Louis saloon is exhibiting a beer
barrel 23 feet high, 21 feet wide and containing
81,000 gallons. Chicago is indulging in envlons
remarks, of course; which spirit can only be
appeased by the importation of that original
package.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
arrived
in
Ex-President Cleveland
Marion Saturday in a special car.
Me, James E. Muedock, the actor and
reader, has left Boston for his home In Ohio.
De Lessefs is in a precarious state of health,
and it Is feared he will not long survive.
Bklva Lockwoos owns 20.000 worth of
real estate inxWashlnton. and makes 5,000 a
year from her law practice.
Hebbebt Gladstone, son of the Grand
Old Man, whom Mr. Gladstone refers to as "my
boy Herbert," is nearly 40 years of age.
Mb. and Mbs. Walteb Daiibosch are now
traveling in Germany, and next month will be
the guests of Minister and Mrs. Lincoln.
Miss Elinor Halle, daughter of Sir
Charles Halle, designed the gold medal which
the Geographical Society gave to Stanley in
London.
Lapuan Coleican, Secretary of the Ameri
can Legation at Berlin, will be married on the
12th of June at Frankfort, Ky to Miss Hen.
drleks, daughter of Mrs, John B, Hendricks,
oi mat piace.
Mrsa Courtney Walthall, daughter of
the Benator from Mississippi, is a brunette,
with clear complexion and hazel eyes, and is
one of the prettiest women In the Senatorial
circles in Washington.
W. H. Doane, the hymn-writer, is manager
of an iron foundry in Cincinnati. He can
superintend the making of a big casting and
then cast himself into a religious frame and cast
eff a hymn that will bring him $25.
Krrto Dinah Baxjfov, the dusky monarch
of the Nalous, who attended the Paris Expo
sition accompanied by the sons of se veral polit
leal opponents as hostages for peace in his ab
sence, is not dead, despite the reports that he
was poisoned or strangled for introducing
European customs.
Colonel Thomas G. Jones, who waB nomi
nated for Governor by the Democrats of Ala
bama, and who will without donbt be elected,
was born in Jonesboro, Ga. The family early
removed to Montgomery, Ala. He was a stu
dent in the Virginia Military Academy, of
which Stonewall Jackson was a professor. At
the breaking out of the war he enlisted With
the Confederacy and was assigned to the staff
of General Gordon. He was then about 19
years old, ,
WHAT BELATIOH'.T
CONVICT LABOR AND THE ROADS.
The correspondent who proposes, in .a
communication elsewhere, to have a stone
yard in every prison, almshouse, jail and
workhouse in the State, and to keep the 3,400
convicts at work constantly at breaking
stone for macadamizing the roads, has very
positive ineas on the use of convict labor,
but there are some practical difficulties to
his plan.
The most obvious and vital of these is the
expense of taking stone suitable for macad
amizing to the prison yards, and thence to
the place of repair on the roads. The cor
respondent puts this cost at 60 cents a ton;
but when we remember that some 'of the
prisons may be forty or fifty miles away
from the deposits of such stone, and that the
roads to be repaired may be as far from the
prisons, it is quite clear that the cost of
hauling might be many times that estimate.
If convict labor cannot bo humanely and
economically used for the repair of the "roads
at the place where the work is to be done,
other labor must be relied upon to do it
AS TO LITERARY THIEVES,
It makes a very material difference who
does the stealling, The act of Mr. Wana
maker in offering for sale at his Philadel
phia store a pirated American edition of the
Encyclopedia Britannica is declared by the
Hew York Post to be stealing that publica
tion, and to apply to trade Mr. Ingalls
principle that "the Decalogue and Golden
Bule have no place in politics." This is
the stern view taken by our Hew York co
temporary of appropriating English copy
righted literature under the absence of in
ternational copyright. In the same issue of
the Post, which contains this severe com
ment on Mr. Wanamaker, is published a
story transferred from an English magazine.
According to the Post's ethics it must have
sent the English publishers a neat check lor
the use of their copyrighted story, never
theless the facility with which frail human
ity forgets its own sins while condemning
those of others, casts a great deal of donbt
on the question whether the Englishman
got the money or not
The pemocratie' situation in Philadel
phia appears, on a superficial view, to consist
of an effort on the part of the faithful to find
ont whether Quay supports Pattison or W allace
so they can nominate the other man. Their ob
f uscation on this point is excusable in view of
the fact that Senator Quay has kindly given
indications in favor of both candidates; but
there is the strongest reason to believe that he
has indorsed Pattison because he would prefer
to have Wallace nominated.
A Keitnckr Father and San Wed Widow
and Daughter.
CATXETTSBtmo, Kr., June 8. The laws of
the State prohibit the marriage of relatives
nearer than first cousins. Yet the law does
not prohibit a son from becoming the step-father-in-law
of his father. Such a state of af
fairs exists in Knott county, Ky., near Hind
man. For some time past there have lived as
near neighbors a widower by the name of John
ston and his son, aged 22 years, and a Mrs.
Snow and daughter. Mrs. Snow lost her hus
band some years ago. The elder Johnston
wanted a wife, and his choice fell upon Miss
Bnow, while the younger Johnston concluded
to propose to Mrs. Snow.
The proposal was made and accented. Hurry
ing home to impart the good news to his father
he was informed that a sew mother would soon
fill the vacant chair.
Two days later marriage licenses were se
cured, and a double wedding occurred in the
mean time, the like of which, perhaps, has
never been recorded. The widow became the
bride of the young man and the young lady
filled the same position to the widower. After
the ceremony was over the older Mr. Johnston
f onnd himself to be the son-in-law of his own
son and the son-in-law of bis daughter-in-law.
The younger Mr. Johnston found himself to be
the step-father of bis step-mother and the
father-in-law of his own father, The two
brides were equally related. The widow was
the dauehter-in-law to her own daughter and
daugbter-ln-law to her son-in-law. The young
bride was the mother-in-law to her own mother
and the step-mother to her step-father.
STTBVITOBS IN SESSION.
Twenty-First Annual Reanlon of Battery B,
First Pennsylvania Light Artillery.
The twenty-first annual reunion of Battery
B, First Pennsylvania Light Artillory, took
place Satusday, In Nesblt's Grove, near Jit.
Jackson. Reunion Day has come to be the
gala day of North Beaver township. Twenty
seven of the survivors of the battery were
present. There was an attendance of friends
of at least 2,500. A bounteons dinner, provided
by the citizens, was partaken of under the
trees. The business of the organization, inter
esting addresses and mnsic caused the day to
be pleasantly spent by all. Captain J. H.
Cooper as President and James A. Gardner as
Secretary, with all the other officers of the
.n a. ., Ottawa .n.al.A.nil lfllllA .f a1...
land, of Pittsburg, was chosen to deliver the
address next year. Subject: "New Market
Cross-Roads.'
The Gettysburg Monument Committee made
a satisfactory report A motionjwas adopted
thanking Governor Beaver for naming William
McClelland, the last commander of the battery,
as one qf the World's Fair Commissioners.
An unfortunate accident occurred to William
Lloyd, one of the members. He and Harry
Palmer, also of New Brighton, Captain of Com
pany D. One Hundred and First Regiment, N.
G. of Pennsylvania, were thrown from a car
riage at Mahoningtown and both badly injured.
THE CRITKTS REVIEW,
The Life and Work of Henry W. Grady
His Labors la Behalf of the New Booth
Features of a Memorial Volume, Com
piled by tbe Late Editor's Co- Worker.
J-Jenby W. Gbady will be, remembered by
many admirers as a speaker, as a news
paper editor, as the possessorof certain definite
opinions In regard to the "New Bouth," and as
a man. He was one of those men who had the
good fortune to 'wake up one fine morning and
find his name in all the newspapers. They
anew him in the South where he lived, and
enough of his fame had traveled into the
North to give him an invitation to speak on the
21st day of December, 1888, at the banquet of
the New England Club in the city of New
York. He made a speech which won every
body's heart. It was a good Bpeach, and it'
represented not only tbe good man who spoke
It, but ths "New South," in whose behalf ho
spoke. It was deservedly popnlar. Thence
forth Henry Grady's name had pleasant adjec
tives set beside it In the estimation of North
and Bouth alike. '
Here is 'a memorial volume, containing the
life, writings and speeches of Henry W. Grady,
compiled by his co-workers on the Atlanta Con.
stttution, edited by Joel Chandler Harris, whom
everybody knows better as "Uncle Remus,"
published by the Cassell Publishing Company,
for sale in Pittsburg at Watts' and Weldin's
bookstores. The proceeds, we are told on the
title page, are to go to the family and mother of
Mr. Grady,
The book opens with an In Memoriam by
Henry Wattorson, a biographical sketch
by Joel Chandler Harris, and a memo.
rial sketch by Marion Verdery. These occupy
about 80 pages. Then follow a hundred pages
and more of Mr. Grady's speeches, beginning
with the great New England dinner speech, in
cluding an oration on "The South and Her
Problem," delivered at the Texas State Fair;
another ''Against CentrallzatIon"-spoken be
fore the 'Society of the University of Vir
ginia," the table of contents tells us, but when
we turn to the speech to find, if we may, what
this fraternity is Which thus arrogates to Itself
the title "the," we find that the singular should
read plural "the societies;" closing with an
address before the Bay State Club of last year.
V
A notheb hundred pages follow of "writ
ings," The writings range from "The At
lantlo Tide Sweeping Over tho Continent the
Threatened Destruction of the Simple Faith of
the Fathers by the Vain Deceits of Modern
Philosophers" from such a subject with its
formidable capitalization, to "Small Fare" and
"Bob:" and from a description of the discom
forts of sea-sickness to a study of the negro
question in reply to Mr. Cable.
Then poems "by various bards" and of vari
ous degrees of excellence. This is the sort of
uoetry which one hesitates to criticise. The
poets were sincere people, good friends and
true mourners. We can say that of them, any
way. And one of them James Whitcomb
Riley is a poet. His middle name is spelled
for some reason with a queer-looking "o" at
the end of it, which doesn't belong there. But
the poetry is poetry.
Then two memorial meetings are reported,
one at Atlanta and the other at Macon, with all
the speeches that wore made. Then follow sev
eral personal tributes, one in the shape of a
sermon by Dr. Talmage, ending thus: "And
now, thou great and magnificent soul of ed
itor and orator! under brighter skies we shall
meet again. From God thou earnest and to
God thou hast returned. Not broken down,
but ascended. Not collapsed, but irradiated.
Enthroned onel Coroneted onel Sceptered
one! Empandered onel Hall and farewell!"
V
piNALLY here are 200 pages of newspaper
clippings. In the midst of which a pretty
extensive acconnt of tbe Atlanta Constitution,
with some ingenious advertising of the merits
of that journal. Even now It is declared to be
a most excellent paper. Mr. Grady was dead,
but "Captain Howell was on deck; tbe new
managing editor plunged into every detail, and
soon a general improvement was the result;
the CoiuiifuKon took on new lire. Then Mr.
Howell turned on all bis energies and put the
magnificent machinery at his disposal un to Its
full speed. The daily issues drew daily com
mendations of their excellence from the press,
and the first 24-page Sunday's edition was pro
nounced by many the best Constitution ever
issued." And so on. It is "Mr. Grady's co
workers on the Constitution," so tbe title page
informs us, who are the compilers of this vol
ume. They are evidently not altogether incon
solable. At least they think that there are
some good editors left, even now.
Mr. Harris writes the biography. "The Life
of Henry W. Grady" is the title of the book,
with a sub-title noting that some .of his
speeches and writings aro included. It would
have been better to have stated that this is a
collection of newspaper notices with a brief
biographical introduction. Even Mr. Harris
is not at ease. He is full of apologies. His
"Life" is a "hurriedly writtenlsketch," he says,
"which is thrown together to meet the modern
exigencies of publishing." "Pressed by the
emergency of his death," he says, "which to
me was paralyzing, and by the necessity of
haste, which, at this juncture, Is confusing,
these reminiscences have taken on a disiointed
shape sadly at variance with the demands of
literary art."
A QKEA1 TUIPLE XUMBEB.
The Leading Features or Yesterday' Issue
of the Dispatch.
As 'the sun was peeping over the Eastern
hills yesterday morning, more than 60.000 copies
of the great triple number of The Dispatch.
were being distributed to 'hosts of eager read
ers. The 20 broad, bright pages were replete
with entertaining and elaborately Illustrated
articles of every description. In addition to a
complete presentation of the stirring events of
the hour.
The silver WU passed the House Baturday by
a good majority, although eight Bepublicans
voted against the measure. The Cunard
steamer Umbria attempted to defy 'Uncle Sam
by refusing to return soven Imported glass-
Diowers, but they will be forced to comply witu
the law, Mrs. Alice M. Cowles Is chasing her
husband and abducted daughter through
Canada. Grace Gridley, of Bouth Aml5oy, 111.,
has been asleep for three months and gives no
sign of awakening. The street car situation at
Columbus has become serious, and a riot Is
feared;
In England political complications are press
ing hard upon the Tory government. A great
mass-meeting was held in London Saturday to
protest against the compensation bill. Ameri
can cattle are still to be kept out of Great.
Britain. Tbe attitude of Prince Bismarck fit
causing considerable concern in Germany.
II.
Locally the great event was the monster antl-
Btone meeting In Allegheny, at which resolu
tions were passed denouncing the manner of
the recent nomination. A fortune of nearly
300,0001s asserted to be awaiting Pittsburg
heirs in Washington Territory. The Duquesne
electric road is being rapidly pushed to com
pletion. Millvale was the scene of a pleasant
romance in which fond hearts separated for
lz months and by an ocean were re-unlted.
Twenty thousand people attended the Amalga
mated picnic at Rock Point The charges of
perjury against Mayor Wyman were not sus
tained. Mrs. Magele Connelly was killed un
der peculiar circumstances and her husband
was arrested for murder.
The Pittsburg Flayers' League team succeeded
in securing a game from Chicago, but the Na
tional League aggregation lost as usual.
ill.
Miss Grundy, Jn, told of counts and barons,
while Eli Perkins described Sunday in London.
John D. Cromer's interesting article was en
titled "An American Mecca," andW. Scott
Dalglolsh wrote of Scotch Professors, How
ard Fielding's "Two Game Sports" was at once
entertaining and amusing, and Clara Bell's gay
gossip from Gotham wasas.Iively as usual.
From Washington came Thomas Nast's "Mod
ern Gladiators" and Frank Carpenter's de
scription of "Our Chief Mall Man." The
serial stories, the "Ace of Clubs" and "In the
Dark" were as thrilling as usual. Other arti
cles were contributed by Bessie Bramble, Dr.
Thomas L. White, Linnaeus Roberts, F. S. Bas
sett, Charles T. Murray, James C. Purdy, R.
W. Bhoppell, Bev. George Hodges, Shirley
Dare and a host more..
ROT A GOOD SPECULATION.
German Bakers Hire a Splrltnnllitlo Me.
dlom to Increase Tbelr Bnalness.
rf raCIAL.TELEQEAM TO THE DISFATCH.1
Boston, June a J. A. Bose, a spiritualistic
medium, is under arrest here on a charge of
larceny. The game which he played was some
thing entirely new in the spiritualistic world.
Two German bakers of South Boston, named
Berlo and Btuper, were the victims. Their
bakery did not pan out Very well, and they ap
pealed to Rose for assistance from the spirit
land. Acting under orders from Rose three
small tin boxes were procured in which Berlo
and Stuner placed respectively $175, S125 and
6100. The sealed boxes were to be endowed
with the divine power bvDr. Bose. and when
carefully sealed were given into his posses
sion. Upon three successive occasions 'Bose was
left with the boxes and went into a state of
trance upon each occasion. Bose admits in
some mysterious manner beyond his power of
explanation the money from one of the tin
boxes found its way to his pocket Three
monthB have been occunled in the experiment
which has proved a falluro as far as increasing
tbe business of the bakery is concerned. To
day Mr. Berlo became skeptical and opened the
boxes only to find that their contents had dis
appeared. Rose calls It divino Intervention,
but tbe losers swear that it is plain larceny.
Rose claims that be is ready to refund the
money, but just the same he was taken into
court this morning and held for examination
Monday.
CUBBENT TIMELY TOPICS.
The Senate has concluded to let the army
canteens have a full supply of cold tea. This
will permit tbe United States army to recruit
its skeleton. No soldier will find it in his heart
to desert tbe canteen.
Mb. Chattncey M. Depev informed
the Chicago people, among other things, that
municipal government Is a failure. Mr. De
pew should have qualified bis remark by tbe
statement that it Is su where corporate wealth
on the one hand is brpught Into contact with a
political macbino on the other. The statement
would have been more accurate that way, and
in addition it would have had more instruction
in the bearings of it
The equestrian mishaps of the young
Emperor and his new Chancellor would make
it a work of pernicious activity for Prince Bis-
A GOOD WOBB FOB H0NT00XH,
Tho DnBols Courier Henrtlly Indorses
" Pittsbnra's Favorite Candidate.
From the DuBols Courier.
The Courier has had from the start a prefer
ence for Major Montooth and used its influence
to some extent in that direction. We are glad
to note that of late there seems to be a strong
tide setting in in his favor, which' we hope may
materialize and end in his nomination for Gov
ernor. Believing him to, be of unblemished
character, invulnerable to mud-slingers, and a
man whose popularity will unite the voters of
the Bepublican party in bis support making
assurance of success doubly sure, we wijl
continue to advocate his nomination until the
convention takes action. He is not charged
with bossism, boodleism, or with having any
propensities that make other candidates so ob
jectionable just at this time to many good Re
publican voters of the State. He was, in addi
tion, a gallant soldier, and as such Is entitled to
the support of those who. In common with him,
endured the privations of army life and tbe
storms of battle.
""TUB apology is needed for the whole book.
It is too large in the first place. Nobody
wants such a volume as this in his hands, un
less it is upon some learned subject The size
might do for a book of permanent value, but
this book is only a large-sized edition of the
Atlanta Constitution, a "memorial number,"
cut into book pages and bound. It is as ephem
eral as a newspaper. Not only that, but It pays
no heed anywhere between its two covers to
"tbe demands of literary art" It is an entirely
nnliterary book. It Captain Howell or some
body else could but have taken time to 'plunge
into every detail," trim up the "copy" with a
large pair of shears, cut out nine-tentns or the
poetry and all the newspaper clippings, which
nobody will ever read, correct tbe proof and
make a presentable book worthy of Mr. Grady's
memory, the title "memorial" volume would
have fitted better.
Why this haste which Mr. Harris complains
of T Are we so clamorous for an octavo volume
about Henrv Grady that we can't wait to have
It respectably written? It would have been
better to have waited a year and bare done it
better.
.
tjenby Gbady's speeches are tbe best of the
book. They are worth all the rest They
are valuable and significant not only for their
earnestness and their eloquence and their wis
dom, but for tbelr bearing upon the two great
Southern problems the problem of race and
the problem of commerce. Grady appreciated
all that was good in the colored man, but he ob
jected to nave him for a master. The putting
of the ballot into the hands of this great mass
of Ignorant slaves he held to be a menace to the
prosperity of the South. "The next step will
be taken," he said, "when some brave states
man, looking Demagogy in the face, shall
move to call to the stranger at our gates, 'Who
comes hereT' admitting every man who seeks a
borne or honors our Institutions, and whose
habit and blood will run with the native cur
rent but excluding all who seek to plant
anarchy, or to establish alien men or
measures on our soil, and will then
demand that the standard of our
citizenship be llfteuand the right of acquiring
our suffrage be abridged. When that day
comes, and God SDeed its comlmr. the noiltinn
of the South will be fully understood, and
everywhere approved. Until then, let us giv
ing the negro every right, civil ana political,
measured in that fullness tbe strong should al
ways accord the weak holding him in closer
friendship and sympathy than he is held by
those who would crucify us for bis sake realiz
ing that on his prosperity ours depends let us
resolve that never by external pressure, or in
ternal division, shall be establish domination,
directly or indirectly, over that race that
everywhere has maintained its supremacy."
The Flobert rifle is just as deadly in Pitts
burg as it Is in other sections of the country.
Alleoheny county la jnst now receiving a
lance amount of free advertising; from tbe Influ
ential papers throughout the land. Nothing like
having prominent men living among you,
Kentucky's cigarette taw works jnst the
same as the Iowa prohibitory law, in that neither
or them prohibits. The small boy must have his
cigarette and the large boy must wet his whistle
occasionally.
The Democratic press poked Mr. Bayno in
the ribs at every opportunity when he was in the
Hoase, and now that he has declined a renomlna
tion they are exasperated beyond all measure.
Trnly, the Democrats are hard to please.
When the Newfoundlanders commence
throwing their codfish at the Krenchmen, the
latter will wish themselves across the deep bine
sea. Codfish Is a dangerous weapon, especially
waeu water is scarce,
CLOTTDBtrrtSTB are becoming so numerous In
the West that they have become a drug; on the
market The same diet three times a day never
was popnlar,
AN electric company in Providence, R.L,
want a monopoly overall street subways for a
period of 25 years. Belle hunters who have been
searching for the men who wanted the earth and
a fence around it will now know where to But
their hands on them.
Irish saloon keepers in Chicago will not pur
chase beer from the English brewery syndicate.
If beer drinkers would now resolve not to drink
anymore beer prohibition would follow without
any legislation.
Althotioh there are several persons criti
cally ill yet out of the 70 who partook of poisoned
Icecream In Jacob, III., no one is liable to die
from its eiTects. Pittsburg young gentlemen
should take warning from the Illinois case, and
not ask their lady-loves to partake of the frozen
delicacy.
HIS CLOTHES TOO FINE.
capitalchatter; '
The War Between tbs Sliver Bns and tho
Gold Bogs Neither Battling for the
Public Bayae Universally Condemned
Culbertson'a Bucoeasor Expected to Make
His Mark la Congress.
JFEOM A fiTAjy COBBSSrONDENT.
"IYTashtngton, Dfc, June 8. The War of the
Boses was nothing to the war between the
silver bugs and the gold bugs. It has been
going on for years, but it looks as though a
climax has been reached at last, and that the
country will soon find out whether we. the
people, are to be dominated by those whose
business it is' to keep the currency in a con
tracted condition, or by those whose only in
terest it is to raise the price of silver, and there
by make by the stroke of a pen millions of
dollars.
If anybody Imagines that either the silver
bugs or the gold bngs are actuated by a desire
to benefit the public at large, he is a more inno
cent person than I had thought remained un
translated to the eternal paradise. It .is a
struggle between those whose business it is to
lend money, to pinch the , money market to
make a profit out of the necessities of their
fellow men, and those whose purpose is entirely
selfish in that they have silver -mines or stock
In silver mines to sea Others not so imme
diately Interested are ranged on the one side or
the other, as they imagine will be most com
mendable to their constituents, or to that
power In their districts which shapes nomina
tions and controls legislatures, and that Is all
the genuineness there is in the hulabulloo
about the donble or the single standard. Be
tween the two it is, of course, evident that, if
the silver men carry their point, the people will
get more out of it than if the gold bugs win.
It is always better for the people to hare
plenty of money than too little money,
and tbe free coinage of silver would un
doubtedly put more monev in circulation, un
less the power of the Secretary of the Treasury
were thrown with tha monRv.lendlnn- Mm and
a free coinage or a liberal coinage bill entirely
vitiated by being made inoperative.
The remarkable thing about this discussion
of the pecuniary question Is that not one of the
disputants has attempted to go to the root of
the matter and treat money as the representa
tive of so mnch labor performed by somebody,
tell how only a very small portion of It reaches
the laborer, or producer of tbe equivalent of
the monev, and how stringency of the money
market affects first the actual producer of the
equivalent of money, and then less directly the
Eerson who produces nothing, but merely by
ook and crook rakes in a large portion of the
result of other men's labor. The discussion bas
been entirely from the standpoint of the
millionaires, and If anyone has taken a broader
view it bas been the most arrant demagoglsm,
and "the people" have only been referred to in
that vague, grandiloquent and caressing way
I.U1UU1UJJ wiui nypocntes ana aemagogues.
It is pretty plain, however, that the interests
of silver millionaires, and the interests of the
demagogues, will outweigh the power of the
gold bugs, and that a more liberal silver bill
than tbe law now in vogue will put the question
... itwji, wuetuer increaseo coinage win anora
increased circulation. It will not if the gold
bugs can prevent it
No Sympathy for Mr. Bayae.
'THE declination of Colonel Bayne to be a can
didate for Congress at the last moment
when he had the nomination in his hands, has
caused almost as much of a sensation here as it
did in Allegheny county. The ordinary Con
gressman cannot understand how a man in that
successful position should refuse to take the
office, exoept it be through an attack of acute
temporary insanity. In all the history of con
gressional elections there is no parallel to this
act of Colopel Bayne, with its sequel of his
turning the nomination over to a friend who, in
his turn, accepts the gift as a matter of course,
and cannot see why the people shonld have any
thing to say in the matter. For sheer "cheek"
this part of the performance has no counterpart
in politics. It seems to me that tbe logical out
come of the situation would be the nomination
of Shiras, who stood next to Bayne In the sup
port of the people, and who should now Stand
first since Bayne so strangely befooled those
who trusted him.
There is no use mincing matters about this
performance. It is the duty of every one to
speak his mind freely in such cases. Bayne did
an outrageous thin? in hla tnvint- with hio -.
porters, but that was pardonable on the ground
that even at the last moment through a whim,
Or through Some nnlpmnntatila hr V,n an,.
4 -...; --rrw" "- "r -""
juuip ui uis lessoning powers, ne snouid de
cline; but the insult to the people and the con
vention of assuming that the delegates and the
result of tbe primaries were his personal prop
erty to do with as he pleased, and his cool trans-
fer of the nomination to Colonel Stone, is
simply astounding, and its like cannot be
found in all the -annals of bossism.
The chief actors In a s:ene so utterly void of
respect for the sentiments of the public should
be allowed to rest upon their laurels of ex
ceeding all forerunners in lack of appreciation
of the fitness of things. This is not my senti
ment alone, but it Is that of every one with
whom I have conversed on the subject, not ex
cepting a single one of even those who are per
sonally and sincerely friendly to both of the
gentlemen. ,
0DR MAIL POUCH.
, That Bond Qnestlon.
To the Editor of Tbe Dlscatciy
Here are some suggestions for permanently
lmprovlngthe county roads:
First Have a stoneyard adjoining every jail,
workhouse, almshouse and penitentiary in the
State.
Second The average per cent of criminals In
this country being 1 to each LEW of the popula
tion, gives about 3,400 "professionals" to board
at the '-State hotels" In the "Keystone State"
and swing a six-pound hammer eight hours a
day in the stoneyard for the benefit of tbe State
roads macadamizing tne principal ones.
Third Thirty.four hundred men working
eight hours a day 300 days in the year, will break
stone enough to macadamize about 400 miles of
road, allowing a ton of broken stone to every
cT '"""" ieet ana one ton per aay to eacn man.
a wU.i.u .. wouia De mucn oecter ior tne gen
eral welfare of all of the criminals and paupers
wno i are able to work, to break stone from two
to eight hours a day tbe sickly ones working
two or three hours, and the able-bodied men six
T?,'f ?l ban daily, except Sundays.
.tilth-Farmers will gladly haul cobble
?H0ne '".'he prison yard, andbroken stone from
tne yard to the necessary place of repair on
.r?,als for flfty cents a ton each way, es
pecially m the winter season, and at odd spells
during a slack time on the farm.
Mlxth Or the State Can furnish and own a
lew teams for this purpose, employing one
armed or cripple ex-soldlerg at a nominal sal
27" t?idriTa the teams. The convicts should
wheel the broken stone up an Incline, or to a
platform scale with a "dumping" spout directly
over the wagon box receiving the load.
seventh Tbe Government should control all
tne roads in the country, and collect toll by a
yearly tax on each property owner, a much bet
ter way than to stop a man at a miserable tnm-me-down
toll-gate, and compel a wet, half-fro-.2.
eam8ter t0 fumble around after the
S?1?e. ? Pa toU on eeh trip.
iilehth It is fundamentally wrong and un
just to compel property owners in a city to "say
for street building or repairing over against
their own lot" For many such people do not
own a horse, and have no use for the street at
all, while a horse owner or teamster 25 miles
away uses the street ten times more than the
yivyenj owners living along the street
' CURIOUS CONDESSATIOSS.
A flock of about 100 swallows nav
taken possession of the chimney of a church at
Bed Bank; N. J.
Major Keid, of Abbeville, Ga., has a
large dog that sits and barks at the moon on
moonlight nights for hours at a time.
A two-pound radish was raited this sea
son by a Vernon county. Ma, man on ground
that has been in constant cultivation 30 years.
Mn.-Whitney, about 70 years old, liv
ing just beyond the line of Rockdale, in Henry
county, Ga.. has, so it Is said, never seen a
train in her life.
7. -Tttt.i iiu frvwa
Heneietta, N. Y.. June B. '
Inventors and Inventions,
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
I. Who was the inventor of the first sewing
machine, and where did he liver 2. How is the
word calliope pronounced 8. Was there ever
anything like a pipe piano manufactured 4,
Is there a treaty in existence between Canada
and the United States whereby a defaulter or
embezzler can be brought back irom Canada to
the United States? I, j). c.
Allegheny, June 6,
P. It Is said that Thomas Saint patented a
sewing machine for boots and shoes in 1780.
Similar inventions are ascribed to Duncan In
1804; Adams and Dodge, Americans, in 1818;
Thlmonnier.ln 1834, and Walter Hunt, in 1834.
But tbe first really practical sewing machine
was the invention or Ellas Howe, an American
mechame of Cambridge, Mass., about 1841. 2.
Kal-li-o-pe, accent on the second syllable. 3.
We never heard of one. 4L Tes; It went into'
effect on April 1
Disclosing Census Secrets.
To the Editor of The Dispatch!
Is there a penalty for a census enumerator
who disoloses secrets obtained in bit rounds 7
If so, please state what it is and oblige a
reader. Census.
Kxnnebsell, June 7.
The law Is as follows; A supervisor or enu
merator who has taken the oath, and subse
quently neglects his duties, or illegally trans
fers them to another, shall be liable to suffer a
fine not exceeding $500. If an applicant Is
found guilty of perjury he or she shall be im
prisoned for a term not exceeding three years,
and suffer a fine not- exceeding 800. If the
enumerator wittingly makes false certificates
or returns he shall suffer a fine hot exceeding
J300..
London, England.
To the Editor or Tbe Dispatch:
What city has the largest population?
., . . A.H.
Ua&.vju& x AZ.LS, June 7.
DIED, LIVED ABB DIED.
Bather Rough on the M. C.
A certain pompous Congressman is just
now awfully cut up in his mind. There is
a newspaper man in town who has a large
house and a small family, and occasionally
rents out some of his rooms. The Congressman
went to look at first-floor rooms. The price
was $40 a month.
"That Is too high for me. sir." said tho Con
gressman In a big tone. "You can't impose on
me, sir. Perhaps yon don't know who I am,
sir. I am the Hon. Mr. Smithklns, so you may
as well come to the right price at once, sir."
"You Mr. Smithklns ? A member of Con
gress 7" exclaimed the correspondent with a
look of horror on his face. 'Then, sir, you
cannot have a room In my house. I assure yon,
sir. I keep a perfectly repntable establishment,
and I can't run the risk of giving the place a
uau uuuoi uuuu uay, sir.
Cnlbertson Versus GrUwoId.
TyniLE Mr. Cnlbertson, of Erie county, is a
quite agreeable old gentleman person
ally, the Crawford-Erie district will survive his
defeat Besides other weaknesses, an impedi
ment in his speech renders it utterly Impossi
ble for him to articulate louder than a whisper.
If ever a barrel sent a man to Congress it sent
Cnlbertson, and It is a compliment to the people
of the district that he is to be displaced after
one term by so good a man as Matthew Gris
wold. Mr. Griswold is a graduate of Yale, a
man vf refinement and education. He speaks
plainly, but to the point, on the rostrum. He
is 6 feet 2 inches high, prompt and positive in
manner, frank in his opinions and fearless in
expressing them. He has made well on to a
quarter of a million, I have heard, in tbe manu
facture of hollow ware, and bis goods have tbe
highest reputation of any manufactures in that
line In the country. Mr. Griswold wlll'be wel
comed to Congress. E. W. L.
SAIISBUBY HITS HABD.
A New Castlo Boy Honored,
From the Michigan Argonaut, Ann Arbor.
At the closing meeting of the Webster Liter
ary Boclety, Wednesday evening, N. A. Phil
lips, of Newcastle, Pa., was elected President
on tbe first ballot for the term ending at the
Christmas holidays. The election of Mr. Phil
lips, who Is versed in parliamentary rules' and
who won distinction as an orator at the public
entertainment last winter, insures tbe con
tinued prosperity of tbe Webster and another
year of forensic eloquence In the Law Department
He Makes a Demand on O'Brien for Costs In
Ills Libel Salt.
London, June 7. Lord Salisbury's wedding
present to William O'Brien is a demand for
costs given against O'Brien in his libel action
against Salisbury or a threat of bankruptcy
proceedings for their recovery. O'Brien, hav
ing an appeal pending before the House in
lxmdon, upon the result of which tbe whole
costs of the suit depend, refuses to pay Salis
bury, and dares him to do his worst Salisbury
thinks that between the success of O'Brien's
novel and the fortune of his future wife this
is a good moment to strike in with his claim.
If O'Brien is made bankrupt he is disqualified
from speaking and voting in Parliament and
cannot be re-elected. This prospect so far
from intimidating O'Brien, has delighted him.
He hates Parliament, and If excluded will have
more time to make it hot for Balfour In Ireland.
Salisbury Is on a false scent as tbe proceeds of
uunen's novel are aireaay allocated to other
liabilities, and his wife's fortune is settled on
herself. O'Brien will argue his own case before
tbe House of Lords, having for that purpose to
plead In forma pauperis. O'Brien win be mar
ried on Wednesday.
Cardinal Manning to-day administered the
sacrament of confirmation to the prospective
bride. The Cardinal also presented them with
a handsome wedding gift a valuable oil paint
ing. Tbe wedding guests inclnded 25 members
Novel Chnrgo Preferred As-nlnst a Hoosler
School Superintendent.
Richmond, Ind., June 0. B. F. Wissler,
County Superintendent of Schools of this
county, was recently arraigned by the elders of
the Dunkard or German Baptist Church on a
rather strange charge. To dress plainlv Is one
of the tenets of the church, and Mr. Wissler
was charged with having his clothes cut in a
more fashionable style than was consistent
with the requirement of the church, and it was
also observed that he wore a boiled shirt which
bad been starcbed and ironed, and for this he
was brought up before the church.
He is a good talker and had no trouble in ex
plaining that his departure In dress was not so
great as to justify the church In disowning him.
and he was acquitted of the charge.
EEUNI0N AT CAIDWELL.
for
A Brilliant Programme Arranged
Throe-Days' Lovo Feast
A reunion of sldiers and sailors will be held
at Caldwell, O., on Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday, June 12, 13 and 14. A brilliant and at
tractive programme bas been arranged. Among
the many notables who will be In attendance
are Governor Campbell, Commander-in-Chief
Alger, Private Dalzell. Colonel Munson, Gen
eral Brown, General P. H. Dowling and Gen
eral Hawkins. Each one of the above named
gentlemen will deliver short addresses. Music,
singing, recitations, parades and speeches by
tho boys are booked for each day. Arrange
ments have been completed to accommodate
all who wish to attend.
of the Irish party, including Paruell; also par
ticular English menus or u'tsrien. Lady Band
hurst the Dowager Countess Russell and
daughters, Bhaw Lefevre and Jacob Bright
During a division In tbe House of Commons on
Thursday Mr. Gladstone warmly congratulated
O'Brien in the presence of the whole Liberal
party.
Qnay In Democratic Politics.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
One of the most Interesting incidents of the
Democratic canvass in Pennsylvania for elec
tion of delegates to the State Convention is tbo
active sympathy shown by the Republican
boss Quay for ex-Senator Wallace. Mr.
Quay's sympathy Is a valuable asset in the
Bepublican politics of that State. It is scarcely
so valuable in Democratic politics. Neverthe
less Mr. Quay's nontenants are exhibiting con
siderable enterprise in the work of defeating
the election of delegates favorable to the noml
nation of ex-Governor Pattison. Tho .-
I Mr, Wallace nominated.
CENSUS TAKERS' TBIALS.
Two Cincinnati People Refuse to Answer
Questions and Are Arrested.
Cincinnati, June 7. Mrs. Lizzie Caldwell,
a colored woman aged 21, came to the conclu
sion that Enumerator J. J. Moore was exceed
ing the bonnds of polite curiosity in question
ing her, and on complaint she was arrested and
taken to the United States Marshal's offlce.and
when It was shown to her that the same ques
tions which were asked her were required to be
answered by every respectable female of what
ever race or station in this broad United States,
Mrs. Caldwell came gracefully down and told
all she know. She was released on 8200ball,and
will appear for a formal hearing on Tuesday at
10 A. jr.
A second arrest was made at 2:10 p. u. by the
same officer. Gus Geldrelcb, a hotel keeper
and salooniat at Raoe and Pearl streets, was
serving dinner when Enumerator Rudolph
Brenner came around. Mr. Geldreich labored
under the unfortunate supposition that busi
ness cares came first and that the enumerator
could wait The official grew tired and left to
swear out a warrant for tbe hotel keeper's ar
rest Geldreich exnlalned his nnvlttnn at- tha
Marshal's office and answered all the ques
tions. He also was released upon J200 ball and
will appear Wednesday.
DEATH OF A PB0FESS0B.
Rev. James Clement Moffatt, of Princeton,
Passes Away at the Abo of 86.
rSFECIAL TELEGRAM TO THB DISPATCB.1
Princeton, June a Yesterday eveningBev.
James C. Moffatt for the past two years Emer
itus Professor of Church History in the Theo
logical Seminary, died at his home on Nassau
street aged 80 years. He was born in Scotland,
and came to America in 1832. He entered the
junior class at Princeton and took tbe degree
In 18o'l he was called to the Chair of Church
History in the seminary. This latter be held up
to two years ago, when be was relieved of ac
tive dnty. Dr. Moffatt was a voluminous writer
and, besides his other works, contributed some
notable articles to magazine literature.
The Sodden Retain to Life of a Supposed
Dead Maiden.
Athens, Ga., June 7. Last week Miss Polls
Luusford. of Gaddistown, Union county, aged
Id years, was taken suddenly ill, and Dr. Jones,
of this city, was summoned to her bedside. He
pronounced her illness dne from cold and ex
posure, and told tbe mother of the young lady
that there was little chance for her daughter's
recovery. For three days the young lady grew
worse, and on Tuesday morning she, to all ap
pearances, died. The neighbors and friends of
the family bad gathered in, and the body of the
dead girl was prepared for burial. Her arms
were crossed over her breast and her eyelids
closed. No color of life was visible in her
cheeks. Her hands and face were cold, as if
dead. Her pulse had ceased to beat The
coffin was sent for.
But as the mother and friends of the de
ceased sat around her inanimate form and
mourned her as dead, she suddenly returned to
life. Unaided she arose from her bed and went
to the water bucket and drank a glass of water.
Then she asked her mother and brother to
kneel with her in prayer, which they did, to-
"" wvu au uiose present, xne gin made a
fervent prayer, asking God to directbermother
and brother in tho paths of right After the
prayer sho sang and talked with her mother for
about an hour, when she told those about her
that she was going to die that she felt the
death angel's touch. Hardly had she Uttered
the words than she fell bade upon her pillow
and expired.
Its Heart In Its Throat.
Philadelphia, June T curious freak
of nature is on exhibition in the veterinary de
partment of the University of Pennsylvania.
The strange being is a living calf having an
abnormal displacement of tha heart This
organ is located in the lower extremities of the
neck. The heart of the freak performs all its
customary duties as though located in its nor
mal position.
THEATRICAL GOSSIP.
Guarding tho Mexican Frontier.
City op Mexico, June 8. The OjlcfaI ?a-
zette, referring to the California filibusters,
says that the Government of the United States
has takenateos to thoroughly lnvastii-ata -h,
I matter and to guard the frontier.
Geoegk B. Haycock is to build a theater in
Dnluth at a cost of 8500,000. It will be. called
the Midway Grand.
FnEDEBiCE: Warde and Mrs.D. P. Bowers
will act together next season, and it is an
nounced that they will play "King Henry in."
Foe the purpose of securing new material
for the coming season, J. C. Duff sailed for
Europe on Saturday last The Duff opera sea
son closed last evening.
BBINSLEY SHEBIDAN. an eTrnlloTit -Rnirlloh
comedian, is dead. He was In this country in
Lydia Thompson's first company. Of late
years he has been a successful theater man
ager.
The proposed tour in this country next sea
son of Giovanni Emanuel has already been
mentioned. It is said that his repertory will
include "King Lear," "Hamlet" "Othello"
and "Nero."
Some Instantaneous views of scenes In
"Castles in the Air" were taken at the Broad
way Theater recently, and each lady pres
ent received an order for copies of the views
when they are ready.
Toma Hanlon ana Madge Yorke, whose
beauty and voices are present-day proverbs of
the lyric stage, aro tho latest accessions to the
roll of the May Templeton Opera Company,
organized by William L. Lykens.
Richard Stahl's new comic opera, "The
Sea King." which was produced in Philadel
phia last week by W. J. Gilmour's Comic Opera
Company, will be In New York, at Palmer's,
for a summer season, beginning June 23.
David H. Wilson, acting manager for Bo
sina Vokes, was married on Thursday, in
inmty napei, New York, to Miss Helen
Windsor, the modiste for th T.v--r-, Tti
Companyebut formerly an actress of some
repute.
W. T. Valentine, who came to this coun
try to produce "Sweet Lavender" and is now
with E. H. Sothern'a company, will be a
member of the company that plays "All the
Comforts of Home" at Proctor's Theater next
season.
The management of Madison Square Gar
den claim that it was jealousy which prompted
the getting up and signing of the petition pro
testing against the giving ol a license for its
opening. The license has been procured in
spite of this.
Wobd was passed about In theatrical circles
Thursday that Mme. Sarah Bernhardt con
trary to expectation, would not visit America
next season. In support of this it was stated
that Mr. Henry E. Abbey had cabled to Mana
ger Frank W. Sanger, of the Broadway Thea
ter, canceling the eight weeks she had been
booked for, beginning December 15, In "Joan
of Arc."
Elbert Roberts, of Jones county, Ga.,
who attracted much attention by wearing a
dress and at the same time having a flowlnz
beard, died Wednesday.
A Jersey prophet says he has discovered
from an early Hackensack mosquito's wish
bone that we are to have a summer colder than
the memorable winter of 1812.
A Buchanan county, Mo., farmer re
ports that rats have eaten off 30 square feet of
his potato vines and the weeds out of a half a
dozen fenee corners near to his barn.
A story comes from Bockland, Me., of
a large hole In the ground near Blackugtou's
Corner that appears to have no bottom, all ef
forts to fill it up having proved useless. It Is
near a limerock quarry.
A queer old woman in Albany, H. T.f
recently, changed her mind about making a
bank deposit because the teller wouldn't prom
ise to return to her the Identical corns which
she intended depositing. She bad made a list
of tho dates so that there would be no mistake.
Surgeon Major G. A. Sternberg, TJ. S.
A,, who collaborated with Dr. Fiudley in get
ting at tbe origin, nature, eta, of the yellow
fever germ, says Dr. Findley was mistaken in
supposing he had solved the problem. The
formation that he "got" every time was simply
a flaw In the object glass.
The Providence Journal It responsible
for the statement that an iceman there recent
ly found in a chunk of the watery solid a little
pout that had been frozen in since last March.
Xhe finny fellow was released from bis tight
situation, and, being placed In a jar of water,
soon became as lively as ever.
A large alligator crawled into a six-foot
railroad cat near Abbeville, Ga. The hands
were at work In the cut, and tbe 'gator fell just
at the rear of one of them. Tbe negro was not
bitten, but was frightened almost out of his
wits. air. naygood. tbe contractor, captured
the intruder, and now has him chained.
A cat and a rattlesnake engaged In a
battle near Deckertown. N. J, and the former
came out victor, killing the snake. The fight
came about through the snake attacking the
cat's kittens. Pussy was badly hurt her ribs
being fractured, bat she is being well cared
for, and Is expected soon to be all right again.
A statistical enthusiast has calculated
that a pianist In playing a certain presto, ,
played 5,595 notes In four minutes. The strik
ing of each note involved two movements of
tha finger and one movement each of tha
elbow, wrist and arm. From this it is calcu
lated that 72 voluntary movements are made
per second.
The Mongolian pheasants introduced
into the State of Washington have increased
, largely, and are now thoroughly acclimated.
ureat loss was experienced In the Importation
of these birds by the persistent violence with
which they dashed against the sides of their
cages in the vain effort to escape. The eggs of
those which survived were hatched under barn
yard fowl.
A colored couple living in Sumter
connty, Ga., on retirine for the night placed a
bucket filled with water upon the floor near
their bed, in order to have it convenient for
drinking during the night Their baby slept
with them, and by some means crawled out .to
the edge of the bed and fell, head first into
.uo uucKe. oi water, wnere it was louna nexs
morning dead.
Great preparations are being made in
Mayence to celebrate the tour hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the art
of printing. On June 22 there will be an exhi
bition of specimens of printing from the days
of Gutenberg down to the present time. On
June 24, tbe natal day ot Gutenberg, tbe
Gutenberg Platz and the monnment ereetpri m
him will be brilliantly illuminated.
A woman who went to Boston from Lis
bon Sunday night bad seated herself comforta
bly in the car and the train had started, when
(he suddenly exclaimed: "I have lost my pock
etbook." Conductor Blackden Inquired, and
she thought that she had dropped It on the
platform at the station. The train was backed
up and the pocketbook was found on the plat
form where it had been dropped by her.
A prized palm tree in Borne was blown
down during a recent gale. It stood in the
gardens of the British Embassy, and was, per
haps, the tallest tree in Rome. It was historical
as having been pierced by a cannon ball during
the attack on the city in September. 1870. It
was strapped with iron where tbe ball had
pierced it and was the only object in the vicin
ity which showed the traces of the attack
which opened Borne to the Italian army.
The first annual dinner of the London
Thirteen Club was held at Anderton's Hotel,
the present headquarters of the club. The
dinner was 8 times 13 minutes late, to enter
the dining room it was necessary to pass under
a ladder, the knives and forks were all care
fully crossed, there were six tables, each with
13 diners, and quite by accident, curiously
enough tbe number of ladles present was just
13. Despite all these numerically malign In
fluences, a very enjoyable evening was spent
William T. Lingold, who waa seriously
cut by a negro boy at Milledgeville, Ga- on
election day, is thought to be on the road to re
covery, but will probably never talk again, as
he has lost his power of speech. Tbe cut in the
head which fractured his skull may kill him
yet as pieces of bone are issuing itherefrom.
He is now able to be propped up on bis couch,
smoke and chew tobacco, but strange to say,
cannot speak. His would-be murderer is en
joying the company ot Tom Woolfolk in Bibb
county jail, where he awaits bis trial.
A returned fisherman says it has been
no season for picnics at Moosehead. "The
snow is deep in the woods and along shore
there are many patches of ice. The winds
that blow are cool, and where the waters of the
bay are ruffled by the winds they are mighty
cold. At evening, if you camp, the flreandthe
whist go well together with a quiet whiff of
the sunset breeze for an appetizer. Indoors it
is snug as the chimney corner at Christmas,
but out of doors It ha3 so far been no sort of
weather for lying on the grass or sunning your
self in the lazy birch."
STOLEN WITTICISMS.
"Why. my. dear, you had a party last
month. How often do yoa wish to entertain your
friends?"
"This is not to entertain my friends, but to snub
my enemies." Houston Fool.
Anxious Father And could yon support
my daughter, sirr
Student I have two strong arms.
Anxious .'ather But can they support her?
Student They have often, sir. Ttit Tuftonia.
Lady How nice yoa removed that
bunion.
Chiropodist Yes, I have had considerable ex
perience. I used to.do all the carving at one of
the biggest hotels In this Mj. Sittings.
' Hew Shakespearean Critic. Miss B
And you have just returned from Verona. Did
yon enloy your winter there?
Miss 3. (with empha3ls)No: It's a perfectly
stupid old place. Beally, I don't believe there
were ever two gentlemen in Veronal CAautau
quqn. "Hab yo got any medicine dat will purify
de blood?" ?
'Yes, we keep this sarsaparilla, at H a bottle. It
purifies the blood and clears the complexion.".
"Well, boss, hasn't yo' got snmfin fo' about (9
eents, jess fo' de blood? 1 don' keer about tha
complexion. "Life.
Pa Have yon seen with the microscope
all the little animals that are In the water?
Tommv-Yes. papa, I saw them. Axe they La the
water we drink?
"Certainly, my cnua.
"How I know what makes the singing In the
tea-aettle when the water begins toboil.-,SW.
tngt.
Minister's wife I ought to have anew
summer dress and bonnet anyway.
Minister (conolingly)-All right my dear. Ex
ercise Jast a little patience. The June wedding
season has opened, and if there Is a good cron we
may be able to go abroad In July, Revo lork Btr
aid.
SOKE WLT.I. AND SOME WON'T.
There'll be no more sorrow there
in the future to good people riven
Tor the maiden with rlcn golden hair:
There'll b no white horses in heaven.
Utter peace and release from all pain.
For those by necessity driven'
To market thelrdanghters for gain;
There'll be no co' ' in heaven.
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There'll be no more sorrow there;
Bread with sweets will fur one class be leaven -di
Clothed In garments of white, pure and fair, t
There'll be millions ofpoeu in heaven. . ?--,
--UAtomf ( WU.) I-rut, :
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