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THE PTTTSBTrnq BISPATOH" 5TOTDAY, 'JUNE 20, :i890.
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MRS. SCOENLEVS PLANS.
Mrs, Schenley has definitely assumed the
role of Lady Bountiful to Pittsburg. The
interesting cablegram from our Louden cor
respondent leaves no donbt of this. It is no
new thin?, of course, for Mrs. Schenley to
be generous to her native place. There is
testimony enough of that already. But
hitherto her plans as to the treatment of her
great estate here hare not been fully re
Tealed. Now they are plainly set before
-.-tV"-eaders 0r -HE Dispatch They are
- pleasant reading.
.The visit which young Mr. Schenley paid
to this city recently has evidently borne
fruit. The growth of Pittsburg and her
splendid prospects demand the improve
ments which Mrs. Schenley promises shall
be made upon her estate in the region of the
Point. "Warehouses greatly needed will re
place the insignificant and dilapidated
structures which disgrace the First ward.
This will be as profitable a change for the
landlord, we venture to "predict, as for
Pittsburg. The business part of the city
can only spread easily toward the Point
The interest which Mrs. Schenley takes in
the Parks, in Mr. Carnegie's munificent
schemes, and in local institutions generally,
will naturally warm, the hearts of her coun
trymen toward her. Particularly agreea
ble it is to note her sympathy for the poor
people who will be compelled to leave their
homes when the Point property is improved.
That they will be really benefited as
greatly as anyone in the end we see no rea
son to doubt. The wonderful extension of
cheap rapid transit facilities that Pittsburg
. is now witnessing will make auburbau resi
dence possible for everyone.
If Mrs. Schenley visits this city next
year, as the nW plan to do, we can promise
a hearty welcome as well as many wonderful
sights.
SHOULD HAVE A HIGHER PLACE.
Pittsburg struck its fastest gait as a busi
ness center by rolling up for last week a
total of over 16,000,000. business done
through the Clearing House. Tbis was an
increase ot nearly 60 per cent upon the
business of the corresponding week of 1889.
And yet, notwithstanding this practical
evidence of the growth and importance of
the place, our people are not wholly satis
fied with the showine wbich is expected
- from the census. It is felt to be disadvan
tageous that while Pittsburg is preceded
only by five or six cities of the United
States in the magnitude of its trade and in
dustries, there should be near a dozen which
will surpass or compete with it on the show
ing ofpopnlation.
Everyone with pride of locality should
desire the city to have the recognition to
which the facts rightly viewed entitle it.
These facts are that Pittsburg's population
lies largely without the corporate limits. If
Pittsburg included the whole county ot
Allegheny (as Philadelphia takes in a
whole county), and as Chicago spreads over
a vast space, the population would figure on
the reports at nearly 600,000.
There has always been a good deal of
near-sightedness, and not a little narrow
ness aired in opposition when consolidation
has been spoken of. Yet there is one form
of consolidation that it would be impossible
for the most chronic iault-finder to raise
even a plausible objection against . c, con
solidation in name and ior census purposes,
leaving each separate district to have its
own home rule for local purposes, including
taxation and improvements, as it has now.
The fable of the bundle of sticks which was
stronger than any stick separately, applies
to the prestige of these home cities and bor
oughs. That prestige counts for something
In adding to the business and to the im
portance of place is, at this time of day,
too evident to need to be argued.
THE PASSING OF THE COWBOY.
The close of the great round-up of cattle
in the Indian Territory this week is stated
to mark the end of the career of the cowboy.
That picturesque exponent of the cattle
range system is to pass ont of existence"
by the gradual abolition of the system
kself. The cowboy has been a fruitful topic
f romance and humor since be came before'
the public a few yean ago; bat in tbe in
terest of actual progress kis conversion into
an actual cultivator of the soil-it potto -be
regretted. There was an impressive free
dom about Lis occupation of riding over the
plains after herds of half-wild cattle; and j
a still greater aspect of unique lawlessness J
in his amusements at the frontier towni
where he enjoyed bis leisure moments. But
there will be more real industry, solidity
and prosperity in the small farmers "who
will take his place and bring under actual
cultivation the country which was before
used simply as grazing grounds for roving
herds.
The existence of the cattle companies who
occupied, in many cases, without owning,
vast tracts of territory, on which their
herds were pastured, has been prolonged in
the Indian Territory, by the leases which
those coiporations obtained from the Indian
propriefors of that section. That system
having been stopped by the Government,
the Indians will have to raise cattle them
selves or occupy their lands iu severalty.
In other parts of the West the decline of the
great cattle ranges, which is the real and
most satisfactory cause of the passing of the
cowboy, has been more marked. An evi
dence of tbis is given in the statements
made with regard to 'Wyoming, in connec
tion with its proposed admission to the
Union. A lew years ago the "Wyoming
CattleAssociation, composed of the owners
of ranches, was the great power of that Ter
ritory. Now it is practically defunct, and
the ranches are being displaced by farms
whose owners raise comparatively small
herds of cattle. But although these farmers
seem to be unimportant compared to the
great ranchers, the certainty of their returns
from the cultivation of the soil and the pro
vision of feed for their cattle, have enabled
them to almost entirely displace the
ranches.
It is a satisfactory indication that the
democratic farm is able so easily to displace
the aristocratic rancbe, with the advan
tages of capital, possession and influence
all on the side of the latter. It is one of the
surest indications of the innate strength
which is held by the distribution of prop
erty and industry among the greatest num
ber of small property holders. The termi
nation of the cowboy's career, presents its
most satisfactory aspect as an indication of
the end of the employers of the cowboy,
the great corporations which threatened
only a short time ago to absorb the lands of
the "West. A great deal of land is still in
the hands of absentee holders; but with this
demonstration of the superior vitality of
the ownership by actnal cultivators, s
policy of intelligent legislation, will insure
its ultimate division Into the small farms
that have formed the bases of both the pros
perity and the popular institutions of this
country.
The Dispatch has always held that the
remedy for the depression and evils of the
cattle range system was the division of the
land among actural cultivators. The pass
ing away of cattle barons and the cowboys,
and their replacement by the small farmers,
is a complete corroboration of that view.
DANGER IN TENEMENTS.
The overcrowding of tenement houses in
this city is once more forcibly brought be
fore the publio eye in onr columns. The
danger to the city's health from such houses
as are described elsewhere can hardly be
exaggerated. But unless an epidemic breaks
out the health authorities are powerless
to act They do not conceal their anxiety
as the result of such grave evils. All they
can do is to prepare for the worst that may
happen. The next Legislature will be
asked to extend the powers of the Health
Board. Some such bill as that which has
been found to work admirably in the regu
lation of tenement houses in New York
will be prepared, and no difficulty should
be had in passing it at Harrisburg. It is a
pity that action must be postponed till then.
That is the best that can be done.
THE MANY BEFORE THE FEW.
Judge Stowe's decision yesterday refusing
the injunction sought against the Duquesne
Traction road by Negley avenue property
owners, will probably terminate tbe series
of obstructions which the new electric line
to the suburbs has had to meet. In sub
stance the Judge holds that no special cause
ot complaint giving right of action to
abutting property-owners arises fromelectrio
roads any more than from horse car lines;
and that the poles to sustain the wires are
no more a nuisance than lamp posts or wa
tering troughs. The principle which
governs is the broad one, that the complaint
of inconvenience to the abutting few is not
to stand in the way of enterprises wbich the
Legislature, Councils and the publio deem
needful for the comfort and benefit of the
many.
In the matter of the Duquesne line public
opinion will heartily approve the result.
At first sight it might look as if this line,
like all other roads when they were started,
would interfere -with driving, and that in
other respects it would be an obstruction.
But where one person has cause to object
hundred! will be glad of the added facilities
for rapid transit The Pittsburg Traction
helped the city immensely. The Duquesne
Traction will do as much, or even more.
Beside it makes competition, which is in
itself a good thing. It is pretty near time
now to let up in the habit of erecfing bar
riers against suburban development
NOT- REMARKABLE PROSPERITY.
The discussion of the depression, or other
wise, of the farming interest, produces a
wide variety of opinion, as was seen by the
debate at the meeting of the Pennsylvania
Board of Agriculture. An Atlanta paper
has made an investigation of the returns of
farming in that section, which is reported to
show that the farmers there have, for the
past five years, cleared an annual profit of
20 per cent This, if the figures are accurate,
would indicate that farming in Georgia
must be exceptionally profitable, or that the
agricultural industry is much lets depressed
than has been represented. Certainly the
general industries on which a return of 20
per cent can be secured are very few.
But the ease with which calculations of
this sort can go widely astray may be indi
cated by the qnestion whether in this inves
tigation the wage value of the labor of the
farmers was included in the expenses be
fore stating the profits. The details of
the investigation are not before us; but
a statement is made iu connection with the
general results which shows how far from
coraect the assertion of 20 per cent profit
may be. The farmers, it is said, "have sup
ported their families and made four per
cent a year besides." But tbat leads up to a
very different percentage. A man's labor
as a general rule should support his family,
and if, in addition, his capital engaged in
any industry only yields him four percent
interest where he takes all the risks, jt must
be regarded as a very slim return.
Perhaps the farmers have given their
families a somewhat better living than they
could have done, if they bad been working
lor wages; but even with allowance for that,
.the return on their capital, less than the
rte which mortgage investors would aik
for improved security on the property .of the'
farmers, is far from estabHsKlng.tbe fact. of.
liberal returns for the farming industry.
, DEMOCRATS' WEEK.
The politics! scenes have shifted, and
tbis week the Democrats have the stage.
At Scranton they will put up their candi
dates for State offices and make their formal
bids for support.
With Delamater heading the Bepublican
ticket, the most available Democratic can
didate, by long odds, will be Pattison.
Already bis candidacy has hadatremendous
boom since Wednesday. Ex-Senator "Wal
lace, who also wants to lead the Democracy
on this occasion, is an old band at the wires;
but the wave of popular enthusiasm for Pat
tison promises to entirely submerge the
Clearfield statesman.
Between the two men there is hardly
room for comparison at this juncture. Pat
tison is the stronger by far with the people.
ROAD IMPROVEMENT INDORSED.
Although, by a peculiar mischance, the
telegraphic reports of the Bepublican State
Convention did not state it, it is the fact
that the platform adopted at Harrisburg
contained a resolntion setting forth the need
of Improved country roads and calling upon
the Legislature to provide State aid for the
work of making qur highways solid and
permanent. This a gratifying evidence of.
the result of the agitation on that subject
wbich The Dispatch has been conduct
ing. Tbe managers of the Bepublican con
vention are not the men to take a new idea
unless they perceive its popularity; and
their indorsement of highway improvement
is a snre indication that the publio neces
sity of tbat work is impressing itself on the
popular mind. When tbe political conven
tions take up the call for improvement the
prospect for better roads beoomes quite def
inite. A NEW SOUTHERN CRT.
The debate on the Federal election bill in
the House yesterday was sensational.
Divers Republicans burned very red fire,
and several Democrats from the South
struck picturesque attitudes. But nothing
came up to the feat of Mr. Ewart, a Be
publican member from North Carolina. He
came into the arena with a terrific
bound, denounced the" caucus and all its
works, and kicked the bill over the Speak
er's head. Not a line In the bill would his
stomach stand. In North Carolina blacks
and whites could vote' when and for what
they pleased. The Bepublican contention
that the African race in the South was ter
rorized, Mr. Ewart denied. Neither
were the negroes at all tied to
the Bepublican party. He believed
tbat were an election held to-day seven
tenths of the Southern negroes would vote
the Democratic ticket. Bevelations enough,
and valuable if true. But one point Mr.
Ewart makes plain, and that is that the Be
publican party is not at all solid behind the
Federal election bill. The passage of the
bill even in the House will require loud
cracking of the party lash.
A young man and his father living out
In Missouri made such good use of their rifles,
in holding a discussion with some White Caps
who had come to tar and feather them, tbat
the latter were induced to abandon tbelr en
terprise. Tar and feathers are regarded as ex
ceedingly effective though unpleasant argu
ments, but the logic of those who keep tbelr
rifles bandy and their powder dry Is altogether
the most powerful. Tbe cure for the White
Cap evil, in default of a better, Is to learn to
shoot quickly an straurht
Mb. Edisox's last invention is reported
to be an instrument "oy which one can sign a
ebeok f or any amonnt at a hundred miles dis
tance." Tbis renders it possible for million
aires to run conventions and Legislatures at
long range, almost as successfully as Senator
Quay does.
The assertion of Thomas Stevens that
there are as bad abnses In the contract convict
system of onr Southern prisons as in the Si
berian system. Is a terrible Impeachment of the
Southern prisons; but it is by no means a miti
gation of,, the Russian practice of subjecting
people to those abuses without trial, simply for
tbe crime of having political opinions of their
own.
POSSIBLY a useful function of the Be
publican State Chairman would be to issue au
thoritative Instructions as to how the names of
Delamater and Watres are to be pronounced.
Or will It be necessary to await the orders of
the Junior Senator on tbis point, also?
It is stated tbat President Harrison is not
averse to having Congress take a summer vaca
tion. Such an attitude would bo equivalent to
asserting that the present Congress is a failure
except in the line of surplus-wrecking; but
even on that understanding it Is ploasant to
find one point on wbich the President and the
people can reach a complete agreement
The argument ot Test et al that Wyoming
ought not to be admitted to the Union because
she has female suffrage, will probably do more
to reconcile unprejudiced people to the ad
mission of tbat embryo State than all tbe rep
resentations of her supporters.
The son of a German Count committed
suicide in Philadelphia the other day because
of his poverty. This marked departure from
the usual custom of disposing of himself and
title to. an American beiress. shows a very
pralsewortby perception tbat it wonld be bet
ter for both himself and the heiress for him to
kill himself.
Saba Bebxhabdt's proposition to fol
low Henry M. Stanley Into the depths of the
wilderness is calculated to Impress the great
explorer's fiancee with the propriety of a cen
sorship of the French drama. I
The surprising news comes from the
West tbat an ex-official of a railroad has been
fined by a United States Judge for a violation
ot the Inter-State .commerce law. The fact
tbat be bad retired from railroad management
seems to have made it possible to apply the
penalty of the law to him without creating a
panic
New Jerset and Connecticut are not
very large States; but they are doing a big busi
ness In furnishing tho corporate combinations
with anything they want in the line of broad
gauged charters. '
Mb. Chatocey M. Depew's refusal to
accept the Presidency of the World's Fair
Commission is probably based on the warning
from the case of the boy who ate so much
turkey that he could not eat any of the plum
pudding. Channcey does not intend to get
filled np with Presidencies before 1892,
Defective plans appear to have delayed
the rescuing party in their heroic labor at
Dunbar. If legislation' can obviate such blun
ders it should be invoiced.
The fact that President Diaz has an
nulled tbe charter of a Mexican lottery com
pany, while one of our own Slates is extending
the charter of Its favorite swindle, is calca
lated to prodnce a feeling that the throat of.
Mexicanixiug the republic would not be wholly
without Its compensations.
PlTTSBUBO observes with pride the Thes
pian triumphs of Mr. BnrrHcIntpsbin London.
The pluck of Mr. Mcintosh has met with its
reward.
The peddling of advance news concern
ing that Sugar Trust decision has created such
a row in 2UwYork that it is now authdrlta-
tively declared that no one had the advance
news." But the Wall street' magnates ' dumped
their holdings the day before the decision was
announced, just the saino. .
PEBS0NAL UTTEIIIOEKCE.
Senator Aldrich has gene to New Bruns
wick to kill salmon.
The Due d'Aumale has given up bis bouse
in Brussels, and has sent his books, pictures,
cbina, etc., to Cbantilly. -
Mrs. Anna Rotjsh, of Letart, 0 has fully
2,000 living descendants. She was born In Mor
gantown, Pa., June i, 1787.
Fbavk W. Smith, of Bolton, has bullt.at
Saratoga an exact Copy of a Pompellan villa,
his model being tbe famous "House of Pansa."
Mrs. Adolph Daulgren, of Nashville,
who is considered one of tbe prettiest women
in the South, is tall, slight, and very graceful,
with gray eyes and golden hair.
The Church School at Racine, Wis., bas Con
ferred the degree of Doctor of Music on
Reginald d.e Koven, of Chicago, who has been
heard here by bis "Begum." Br. de Koven is a
son-in-law of Senator FarwelL
Inspector Wabkis, of the London metro
politan police, bas begun an action to recover
damages laid at 2,000 from Henry Labou
cbere, the proprietor of Truth, for saying that
be went to America on behalf of tbe Times to
interview Sheridan.
Count Tolstoi grows more decidedly a
crank every day. During a recent illness he
refused all medical assistance, declaring his
belief that it was impious to. interfere with the
designs of providence. But suppose the illness
had been caused by cherries and niilkT
Lord Salisbury, says the Pall Mall Ga
zette, used to promise England tbat if it would
allow his nephew to browbeat the Irish people
for the space ot 20 years Ireland would at
the end of that time he happy and contented.
Now he is gradually extending the time. But
before the 20 odd years have elapsed Lord
Salisbury's influence on English politics will
be nil, and he will be remembered only as a
blunderer.
Prof. ANGELlhas finished a portrait of the
German Empress, in wbich Her Majesty is
represented seated on a terrace, dressed in a
soft gray silk gown, trimmed with embroidery
of the same hue. Crossed over the breast is
the orange-colored scarf of the Order of the
Black Eagle. Tbe Empress wears strings of
pearls wound round her neck and wrists, and a
handsome diadem of diamonds in her bair; in
hor hands, which are folded, she carries a fan
of gray ostrich feathers, the color of wbich
harmonizes with tbe rest of the picture.
CUBBEHT TIMELY TOPICS.
A Democratic exchange advances the
opinion tbat the laboring classes cannot support
Mr. Delamater because he parts his hair in the
middle. Before the campaign li over we may ex
pect to hear that the Bepnblleaa nominee la guilty
of smoking cigarettes.
A Sfabta, Mich., man got a divorce from
his third wife recently, and when In Grand Eapldi
a'day or two ago he felt tbe '-ipoony" fever once
more. He wrote some verses for the benefit ot bli
new-found love, and the Bnarta Sentinel guyed
the stuff. The paper haa been sited for libel, and
the Sparta man says If he don't win the case he
will lick tbe editor, bnt the chances are that he
will lose both suits.
An organ boasts tbat Michigan is glued to
Alger for the Presidency, and the Ban Francisco
AUatt,j It is all right if there li glne enough to
fasten blm in the chair. Soup won't stick.
Meadvtli.e's cup of joy overflowed this
week. Her favorite sou secured the Guber
natorial nomination, and her baieball club won a
game the second one this season. Meadvllls will
now resume her comatose condition.
PHYSICIANS recommend well-cooked vege
tables for this hot weather if a person want! to re
tain good'health. If you are searching for the
vegetables after dark beware of tbe dog and the
gun that is loaded with salt.
Mb. Dzlahater is at tbe head ot the bank
ing honse or Delamater & Co., a director of the
Merchants' National Bank of Meaovllle. President
of the company and owner of the controlling in
terest In the Meadvllle and Llneivllle Railroad,
President of the Meadvllle Fuel Gas Company,
and connected with many other local enterprises.
When he commences swinging around the circle
he will be busier than the boy who mddenly found
himself In. a den of rattlesnakes.
Pittsburg messenger boys are above the
average to be found in many cities. They are
never to be found running with Tom, Dick and
Harry they always walk.
Kemjimr says he Is tired of tbis monkey
business, and wants to be electrocuted at once
and done with it The people agree with Kemmler
In thii particular, and the authorities should see
that he Is accommodated.
The Chautauqua Steamship Company will
change this season from the "red stack" to the
"bine stack," and the Oil City Jiltizard Is un
kind enough to aay that the change is said to be
made at the request of an avaricious assembly
ground director who has learned somewhere that
a "blue stack" Is worth more than a "red
stack."
v DEATHS0FA DAY.
Earl ot Carnarvon.
London, June S3. Tbe Earl of Carnsrvon Is
dead. The Bight Hon. Henry Howard Molynenx
Herbert, tbe Karl of Carnarvon, eldest son of the
third Earl (who was an accomplished scholar and
poet), was born June 34, 1831, and educated at
Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he gradu
ated In 1S53 as a flrst-class lu classics. He was
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in Lord
Derby's secona administration, l&''8-,9t and was
apuolnted Secretary of State for tbe Colonies lii
Lord Derby's third administration, June, 1868.
His Lordship resigned on account of a difference
ol ODlnlon respecting Parliamentary rerorm
March 2, 1S67. On the formation of Mr. Disraeli's
Cabinet in February, 1874. he was for the second
time appointed Secretary of State for the Colo-
nles. His most remarkable work was the develop
lngand rorinmtc orapiai
of British North America.
ingand ronnlnic of a plan for the confederation
Mrs, John Scott.
rsriCIAL TELEORAM TO TBX DISPATOIt.1
Frostbubo. Md, June 23. Mrs John Scott, the
wife of a prominent business man of Cumberland,
died while out riding with her sister, Mrs. John
Hart, last evening, Tbe horse had been scared
while coming down Bowery street. Just opposite
Johnson's planing mill, and attempted .to run
away. He ran as far as 'Wilson's planing mill,
where he was stopped by a man passing there at
tbat time. After a few minutes the horse was
quieted, and the two ladles drove on. When they
ri ached Brownsville, Mrs. Scott, who was troubled
with heart disease, became very nervous in con
sequence of the excitement of a few minutes be
fore. She was taken out of the bucgy by George
Denmark, and carried Into a neighbor's house,
where ihe died In a few minutes.
William II. Bowman.
ISFECTAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISrATCa.1
Frederick, Md,, June 128. M'UUam H. Bow
man, a highly respected cltlsen of Claysvllle, this
county, Is dead. He had been a victim or grippe
In Its various forms, and never recovered. He
was about 74 years of age, and nearly all of hi!
life had been spent In the nelghborgood orLadles
Dure and Claysvllle, where he was engaged ai a
merchant tailor and other commercial business.
He waa a staunch Bepublican, and one of the
three men ft that vicinity who voted for Harrison
In 1840, and he rode in the old log cabin from
Ladlesburg to Johnsvllie during the late Harrison
campaign, in early life lie married Miss Mary
Hyder, then of Pleasant Hill.
Mrs. Sarah A. SlcCabe.
BLAlBSVrtLE, June 28. Mrs. Sarah A. McCabe,
widow of the late Richard B. McCabe. died here
to-day at noon, aged about 89 years. The deceased
was one of the' oldest and most hlt-hly respected
residents of Blalrsvllle. Sbe waa the mother or
B. B. McCabe, General Yardmaster. and Albert
B. McCabe, Agent, of the Pennsylvania Bailroad
at thla place.
Olra. Kllzabelh Morrow.
Mrs, Elizabeth Murrow, a former well-known
resident of Allegheny, died on Friday morning at
Bakerstown at the .age of 54. The deceased, who
was an estimable lady, was a daughter of the late
George and Jane Splane, and sister or Charles U
Joseph P. and tbe fate George It. Splane. Tbe in
terment will take place this morning at Bakers-
Blrs. G.E. Campbell.
Mrs. G. E. Campbell, daughter ol G. F. Dible,
died yesterday at MurraysvBle, where she had
lived for a number or years. Mrs. Campbell had
an extensive acquaintance who will be bereaved
at her death. She will be burled to-morrow after
noon, from the residence of her parents, near
MurraysvBle.
Rt. Iter. Mgr. McMnnis,
KOCHISTEE, N. T. June 28. Et. Bev. Mgr. Mc
Manls, member of the papal household. Vicar
General of thli diocese and one of the oldest and
best-known prelates In this country, died in
Genevi&hl afternoon.
Bon. James H. Miller.
MAKrrou, Cob., June 28. Hon. James H. Mil-
ler. Speaker of the Illinois House of Kepresenta
Uvea, wno arrived nere on ine nna last., died
Vuddenly here yesterday,
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THE TOPICAL TALKER,
Aunt Hester'!' Bnptl.m Dnlilea Differ
Over a Dead Lion Fame Came Too
Lnle Clover.
tithes the Cumberland river Is running full
of ice in mid-winter there is usually a
boom in religion among tbe colored people qf
wiarESVUie, Aenn. x nac me popular season
for baptism, and hundreds, are plunged into
the icy waters of the Cumberland at that time
for tbe good of their souls.
Ayearor two ago among the candidates for
Immersion was an old auntie whom everybody
knows and loves, too, for she's a' good old soul,
as Hester. Sbe weighs nearly 250 pounds, and
if she claimed. to be 100 years old no one would
dispute it. Regnlarly'as the winter comes
around Hester toddles down to the banks of
the Cumberland to be baptized. Perhaps she
regards the saving effect of the ceremony as
cumulative.
On the last occasion tbat Aunt Hester pre
sented herself for baptism tbe Cumberland
was pretty high and full of Ice. The minister
presiding was a short, spare man, with long
balr and other patriarchal features. He looked
ridiculously slight Deside Aunt Hester. Nev
ertheless when her turn came he crabbed ber
tightly and ducked her under water with con
siderable dexterity. The current was very strong,
Aunt Hester was very buoyant, and somehow
or other tbo minister could not bold ber and
the furious stream carried her off. She was
rescued by somo young men after she bad
lodged underneath a wbarfboat, and was
brought to shore very full of water and rage.
The little minister approached ber in great
trepidation.' offering all sorts of apologies.
Hester waved him off with her hand. "Go
'way from me, nlegahl" she gasped, "Some o'
these days yo'll hurt someone with yer durned
fooling. Go 'way from met"
T3Bnro me home some ox-eye daisies," said
amatrontoberhnsband as he started
downtown yesterday, "daisies last so long."
"Do they t" said the aggravating man, "When
I gave you a check last week you said it was a
daisy, but it didn't last long, I notice."
A fter Abe Busting and John MacFhelan
disagreed chiefly owing to a little disturb
ance in which the latter burst open tbe form
er's head with a beer bottle MacPhelan left
town. It was in those remote days when tbe
Allegheny Valloy railroad was unfortunate.
Collisions and derailments were so numerous
then tbat many people maintained tbat A. V.
R. R. stood for A Very Bough Railroad. That's
all cbanged now, of course, and a better rail
road does not exist. The train which took
MacPhelan out of town was wrecked, and tbat
big, quarrelsome Individual was taken out from
under several cars In about twenty pieces.
The first man in town to hear tbe sad news
was the postmaster, Mr. Brown. He got it from
the telegraph operator at the statlon,and started
out to fulfil his duty as a dispenser of live news.
Up the street he met Abe Busting, and he
received the news strangely. A beautiful
smile spread over bis features. He took oS bis
hat and rubbed the scar made Dy the beer bottle,
before he took Mr. Brown's arm and said: "It
aint' a gny you're givln' me. Is Mao dead!"
"Snre enough he's dead," replied Mr.
Brown.
"Then Til set up the wine," and Abe pulled
the astonished postmaster into tbe saloon out
side which they bad been talking.
There were several men lounging about the
bar and Abe invited tbem to drink.
"Bring out yer cbampagny," he said to the
bartender, and then turning again to Mr.
Brown he asked:' "Are yer sure Mac's deadf
the mean, sneakin', murdherin' varmint!"
"Cut all to pieces," replied Mr. Brown, "the
papers '11 have all about It to-morrow."
"Good riddance, the blank blank blanketty
blank; Glad to bear it set om np again, Jim
the gentlemen '11 drink wine," went on Abe
warming up, "the biggest blackguard unhung
's deadP
Bo it went on till six empty quart bottles
showed that a little wine bad been drunk.
With every round Abe Busting grew hotter
and wilder in his denunciation of his ead foe.
All at once his face paled and his hand tremu
lously reached for Postmaster Brown's
shoulder, and he asked in a hoarse whisper: "Is
Mac dead surer"
"Dead as a doornail I've told you so a dozen
times!"
"Glad to hear it tbe all-fired sneakin' cow
ard," shouted Abe, "bnt," and bis voice
dropped, "if he aint dead this talk don't go!"
Tt Is pathetic to read of the posthumous fame
. 9 A A . T I .. A . w 3 n X .... .tin An . 1 , , n
Ul AIMIU 1J1UUI.J UU1UVU, fcUB aUBH ,..,..
poet. Twenty years have passed since, reduced
to dire pecuniary straits, be shot himself on
Brighton beach, near Melbourne. Now we are
informed, on tbe authority of tbe circulating
libraries, tbat his poetical works are "ex
tremely popular" in the wealthy city where be
starved when alive. Tbe Australian publishers
have made a fortune ont of tbe fresh and vig
orous poems that brought their author little, if
any, recompense.
Here is an instance of tho contemptuous in
difference with wbich Gordon's remarkable
gift of open-air song was treated during bis
lifetime. One of the leading Australian dailies
thus noticed his "Bush Ballads" on their first
publication: "We bave received a volume of
poems, entitled "Bush Ballads." by Sir. A. L.
Gordon. The book is highly creditable to the
printer, the paper maker and tbe binder." The
same journal published within the past few
years, without a blush or an apology of any
sort, two columns of a glowing eulogy of the
London edition of Gordon's poems. It is tbe
old story ot the stoning of tbe prophets, of
Keats and the Quarterly, of the marble honors
tbat are reserved for a man's ashes, and tbe
tribute that comes just a lifetime too late.
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust.
Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death J
TraNEB party people in Pittsburg are not
likely to De satisfied for long without the
theatrophone. In Paris tbe last product of In
ventive genius is voted most delightful; all tbe
best singers and actors are tnrned on Into the
dining saloon, and the delicacies of the French
cuisine can bo discussed while listening to what
is going on behind tho footlights at any one
theater. The venture has been so successful
that automatlo genius is to go still fnrther.
MM. Marinovitch and Szarvady having com
pleted an automatic system which will connect
all tbe theaters with one central exchange.
From this wires will be run to the large bofels
and clubs. Here tbeatrophones are installed,
and a coin dropped In theslot will make the
figure work. When the curtain goes down an
indicator falls over tbe theatrophone. The
charges are to be most moderate, GO cents
bringing a whole act into the house.
CLOVEB.
The trees across the garden fling,
Long shadows, and the robins ilcg.
Or Idly chatter as the day
Dies out from rosy red togtray;
Eight times the village clock has told
Another day la growing old.
The evening wind a-courtlng flies,
And klsse all the daisies' ctcs:
From clover's breath it brews a spell,
That winds around lny heart so weU,
That swift I'm carried o'er the seas
To yon. my lost Hesperldes I
And with you there I walk again.
And laugh and castles build in Spalnk
There's honeysuckle, too, and phlox,
The rosea bloom above the box.
But he who wilt may have tbe rest,
I love the clover field tbe best!
Mind you the lullaby she sang,
To hnsh ns when the curfew rang? '
"Overand over,
Over and over,
"The belted bee Is robbing the clover I'.'
It'! ringing In my ear! to-night!
Love speeds the mem'ry In Its flight.
I HEPBURN JOIIN3.
A Meadviilo Couple Wedded Id New York.
ISrSUAI. TSXEQRAU TO TUB PTSrATCH.1
Meadville, June 23. David Hannah and
Miss Ada Reisinger, of Meadville, were mar
ried last Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock In
Trinity Church, New York City, Rev. Joseph
Hill officiating. Mr. Hannah is a member of
tbe Petroleum Exchange, and is well known in
the upper oil country, where he formerly lived,
as a man of high business character. Miss
Reisinger is a sister to Colonel Reisinger, ot
tbe Meadville Gazette, and a successful teacher
in the public schools of this city.
Tbe Spirit Is Working.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Naturally enough, the dealers' in "original
packages" in prohibition States are jubilant
over tbe recent, decision affecting the sale ot
liquor. Tbey bave entered into the spirit of
the thing and the spirit -of the thing seems to
have entered into tncm. fc.
, HO STAMPS EXCHANGED.
The Lose Fnlla Upon the Owner, n the Gov
ernment Rpforea Responsibility.
From tbe Washington star.
Some people have an idea that the Govern
ment redeems postage stamps when from any
cause tbey become unfit lor use or are difficult
to use. Frequently sheets of stamps are stuck
together, or are torn or injured. The loss, if
any, falls upon the owner, as fne Government
refuses to assume any resoonsibility of stamps
when once sold. The agents of the Govern
ment, the postmasters, can redeem stamps
which they have for sale, if through any acci
dent tbey become unfit for use. But when tbe
citizen buys a stamp, he either uses It In the
legitimate way or else he Is out the value of the
Stamp. The Government, however, redeems
stamped envelopes. If one should happen to
be misdirected or should become blotted, or
for any reason a person sbould wish to tear'
open a stamped envelope after be had sealed it
for mailing, he can bring it to the postofflco
and get a brand new envelope In its place.
The reason for this difference In the treat
ment of the adhesive stamp and the stamped
envelope is tbat tbe adhesive stamp can be
used and tben washed and passed as good, un
less a careful scrutiny Is made. If the Gov
ernment nhould begin the practice of redeem
ing adhesive stamps the opportunities for fraud
would be increased. Tben the adhesive stamps
are manufactured at a cost to tbe Government,
wbich the stamped envelope is not. The
stamps are furnished to the public at tbe face
value and out of tbis bas to come tbe cost of
manufacture, but In the caso of stamped en
velopes tbey are sold at their face value plus
the cost of manufacture.
BLAINE AND EECTPEOCITT.
Mr. Blaine may not intend it at all. but
his reciprocity position with reference to' the
Southern American States is so popular tbat
a.Presidental nomination rubs up against it in
a very confidential way. Washington Star
IBep).
Secretabt Blaine's broad proposal for
reciprocity with Central and South America,
on the broad basis of tbe mntnal admission free
of the native products of the United State?,
and every other nation entering tbe agree
mentfhas met a general approval given no pre
vious revenue proposal Philadelphia Press
(Sep).
The wisest thing under the circumstances is
to put sugar on tbe tree list. This will sub
stantially give tbe South American nations
free access to this country for nearly all of
their products, and with proper communica
tion and banking facilities will undoubtedly
tend to greatly increase the demands of those
countries for the commodities that we produce
in tbe greatest abundance and which tbey
need. New York Press (Sep).
According to Mr. Blaine's estimate, we have
given tbe countries south of us free admission
for nearly fGO,O0O,0OO of their products in the
last 20 years without receiving a penny's ad
vantage in exchange. Tbis is worth thinking
about. We cannot afford to eo on making a
market for tbe goods of other nations if they
do not manifest a like disposition to favor us.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep).
The Hon. James Gillespie Blaine attacks the
McKlnley bill from the South as effectually, if
not as fiercely, as the Hon. Benjamin Butter
worth attacked it from the North. Mr. Blaine
wants closer commercial relations and a more
extended interchange of products between the
United States and Central and South America.
Major Bntterworth wants a closer commercial
union and increased freedom of trade between
the United States and Canada. New York
Sun (Dem).
That Mr. Blaine Is a free trader not amere
tariff reformer, but a radical free trader, so far
' as tbe Southern and Central American Repub
lics are involved be has officially and in the
plainest and most emphatic manner declared.
He desires that, between all the free Utates of
the North ana South American Hemisphere,
trade shall be as free as is between Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey. And who shall say be
is not right? The tariff is a business, not a po
litical affair: it is a local, not a general matter.
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph (Jttep).
TOADS IN BOCKS.
A Well Anlhenllcated Story Coming From
Mormondom.
From the Salt Lake Herald.l
Manywell authenticated stories of tbe find
ing of live toads and frogs in solid rock are on
record, and tbat such things are possible was
demonstrated here on Thursday afternoon,
when a workman engaged in Varley z Evenll's
lime rock quarry, north of the city, broke open
a large piece of rock which had been blasted
out. and a frog hopped out of a pocket In the
center of tbe stone. Of course the occurrence
created a tremendous sensation among the
workmen, and operations at tbe quarry were
for the time suspended and the movements of
the frog were watched with great interest.
Tbe animal was somewhat smaller than the
ordinary frog, and was perfectly white. Its
eyes were unusually large and verv brilliant,
but the frog was apparently blind. Where the
mouth bbould bave been there was only a line,
and on the feet there was a dark, horny sub
stance. Mr. Everill at once took charge of the
curiosity and put it in a tin can, but tbe frog
died yesterday morning. He brought it down
town and it was examined with Interest by a
large number of people, and it was afterward
presented to tbe museum, where it will be pre
served in alcohol.
A Duty the Democrat! Owe.
From the Mew York World.
Tbe Democrats of -Pennsylvania must now
furnish the reputable Republicans of tbat
State with a candidate for Governor for whom
they can vote without shame. The Repub
can Convention has conspicuously failed to
do so.
Els Flrat Attempt a Success
From the Spokane Spokesman.
The Oakland man who committed suicide by
jumping into a boiling bath succeeded admira
bly in bis desires, but bis example will never be
followed by persons who love to "gaze on a
marble corpse." Tbis is the'flrst original idea
ever credited to an Oakland man.
And a Joy Forever.
From the Utlca Observer.
The sweet girl graduate is the personification
of pulchritude, tbe sublimation of symmetry,
the idealization of intelligence, the embodi
ment of enthusiasm and tho typiflcation of
tenderness.
Whero Lent-nine Don't Const.
From the Washington Post.
An Ohio photoerapher speaks 20 different
languages. Still he is not able'to cause as much
confusion in a community as one cheap ama
teur photographer's outfit.
A Trifle Chilly.
From the Bradford Star.
George W. Delamater is the Republican can
didate for Governor of Pennsylvania. The
Star Is a Republican paper. No more need be
said.
No Trnattna to Dumau Nature.
From the Somervllle Journal.
Honesty is the best policy, but all the same it
isn't safe to give many people a fair chance to
steal.
A RAINY DAY.
rwniTTix job ins dispatch. 1
Oh, sunshiny weatherl I like it, and yet
It someway don't ketch me like days thet are wet.
An' skies which are clear ain't a taller dip to
A sky whar thar's gray mlitln over the blue.
I jest love to stand with tbe door open wide.
When showers are a-sweepln' the fur mounting
side,
An' drap! come a-patterta off of the eaves,
A-strlngin' bright beada on the trees' little
leaves;
An' the;blrds keep a-cheepln' an' chawpln'for
more.
An' flih worm! come leapln' acrost the porch
floor.
All wlgglin an wagglln' an' actln' like they
'Lowd nothln could ekal a line rainy day.
I gree with 'em thar, but Its boss, Jeit at dark,
When you crawl into bed by the candle!' red
ipark.
To put your head on'der the klvers an' lay
An' hear tbe rain tinklln' like bells on a sleigh.
Obi I tell yeb, I'm built so I never complain
When comes up a raid, down-south, drlnlin' wet
rami I
An' the most thing
thet makes me onwlilln' to
dlo
Isthethorttbettheto
her, fur side of the sky
Is safe from the rain s
onus thet somehow Hove,
An
we're promised Jfalr weather way up thar
above;
An' you can't drowse tt night with the rain over
head, Cos thar's no night tl nethar, an no rain, an' no
bad. VA V71LPM MCGLAJSOH. J
MURBAVS MUSINGS.
How Underground Operation! Embarrass
All tbe Large Cities and Ibo Came Re
cepilon of Liveries by Mixed American
Andlencea Rebel Flag In the South,
rrsoif A Stait coBnxsroinEKT.j
It any other city in tbe Union would have to
go through what New York has suffered
from certain corporations, tbe steam beating
companies; tbe electric light companies and
the subway companies, its people would rise
up en masse and blot some of tbem from the
face of the earth. We had a half dozen ex
plosions in the public streets within the last
two weeks, tearing up pavements, destroying
sidewalks, mining private places of business,
blocking tbe principal arteries of trade for days
together, and yet no adequate remedy is pro
posed that teems practicable, and the authori
ties of tbe city have taken no steps looking to
the prompt and permanent abatement of these
evils.
The great lack of a comprehensive system of
underground operations is characteristic of
every large city. What is needed here is tbe
inauguration of an underground system simi
lar to that of London and Paris. It is a neces
sity which must be met sooner or later and the
sooner tbe better. Tbe wbole business must be
gone over agaid. It is exactly a parallel case
to tbe systems ot sewerage, or rather tho want
of system. Iu every large city. The work Is be
gun before tbe city nas achieved its first
growth. Is enlarged and cbanged and patched
up as it becomes necessary by the increased
population and business requirements, nntll
when the city is fully grown all of these make
shifts are proven Inadequate. Tbat is just the
point New York has reached now. Tbe trouble
is tbat we build only for the time and nothing
In view of an expanded future. All of this is
complicated by local politics and tbe increased
cost which comes from political robbery. In
Mayor Grant the city has the first executive
who seems disposed to undertake tbe fight and
carry It to a happy conclusion. There will be
some fun here before long and our Mayor will
take good care that it is not wholly at the city's
expense.
Tbe Proper Caper in Liveries.
"There is lots of f nn being poked at the ushers
at tbe new Madison Square Garden on
account of the gorgeous liveries they are re
quired to wear. The opening of the Garden
itself ha3 been the event of tbe season in its
way. As It has been rebuilt and finished this
place of amusement is one of the loveliest and
largest of any in tbe United States, not except
ing the new Auditorium of Chicago. It will
seat comfortably twice as many people as the
Chicago place. It is not as large as tbe Hippo
drome in Paris, but as an architectural creation
and as to interior effect, the new Madison
Square Garden is superior. Tbe conspicuous
feature of tbe ushers attracts more attention
than the Strauss Orchestra, tbe ballet, or tbe
Garden Itself. There are a good many Ameri
cans In livery, nowadays, in one form or an
other, but these fellows take the cake. The
uniform consists of a swallow-tailed coat and
trousers of orange chrome and a high cut
waistcoat of scarlet olotb. Tbe trousers bave a
narrow bar of scarlet running down she legs
and the coat and waistcoat are ornamenteor
with large brass buttons. Like the Idea of the
Garden itself, this livery waa taken from tbe
Paris Hippodrome.
Artistically speaking, the nclferm is an ex
quisitely tastelul one, especially nnder tbe
glare of thousands ot electric lights. The mis
cellaneous American audience, however, is not
yet worked up to this sort of thing. There was
a good deal of guying of these servitors, and
some of tbem bave borne it very impatiently
Tbe theater usher of New York bas never
placed himself on a level with tbe coachmen,
footmen and butlers. Tbey are largely com
posed of young gentlemen who are engaged In
commercial business during tbe day. It natu
rally pains one of these youths to be addressed
in a public place as "red and yaller" or ordered
about as "Salmon" or "Rainbow," and several
of them have resigned rather than stand the
racket.
Asidefrom the disagreeable personal aspect
of the matter, the Innovation is a very good
one, since the ushers, to be of any value or
convenience in suoh an Immense crowd, must
be easily distinguished. There are so many uni
forms of various sorts worn in New York that
you can't, tell one from another without a
schedule. As for distinguishing a man in New
York by reason of a dress suit, tbat is abso
lutely impossible; andyet the dress suit is the
usual distinctive dress of theater ushers, wait
ers and gentlemen. From all of this it Is evi
dent tbat America, whose every citizen con
siders himself just "as good as another, and a
good deal better," is gradually approaching the
state of European classifications. All we want
now is tbe Parisian blouse to distinguish the
workingman, and then even the Anglomaniacs
of New York will be satisfied.
Facta as to Confederate Flags.
An ex-Confederate Colonel (of course be Is a
. Colonel, for that matter) called my atten
tion the other day to a controversy started by 1
the Rev. J. Dixon, Jr., of New York, In regard
to Confederate flags. In a recent sermon this
preacher declared that he was born in the
South and bad lived there 23 years and never
saw a Confederate flag. A New England jour
nal hauls tbe Rev. Mr. Dixon over the coals
for this assertion and virtually pronounces him
a liar. My ex-Confederate friend says that as
a matter of fact be never saw a Confederate
flag from tbe time he was taken from the hos
pital, where be was placed because of gnnshot
wounds received In a general engagement, to
this day, except a miniature preserved as a
souvenir, as a man might preserve some speci
mens of Northern scrip issued during the war.
He was born and raised in South Caro
lina and . knows the Southern people pretty
well and I have no doubt ot his veracity. Ac
cording to his statement about the only flags
extant in the South to remind Southerners of
tbe war are those preserved by mothers who
lost their sons In battle or by veterans who
keep these small miniature flags as souvenirs
of military service. He says three-fourths of
the people in tbe South to-day never saw a
Confederate flag at all. I think bis statement
is about correct, and I doubt very mucb myself
wbetherl wonld know one well enough to
notice it particularly, although I bad occasion
between '61 and '63 to notice it quite frequent
ly. Perhaps I ongbt to mention that tbe editor
of the New Hampshire paper, wbich thus criti
cised tbe Rev. Mr. Dixon, is Hon. O. C. .Moore,
tbe radical Republican Congressman. He
probably never saw a Confederate fiag in his
life nnless in tbe War Department at Wash
ington. Veteran! of tbe Blue and Gray.
Colonel Hatwabd, who, as Major, com
mandedthe First Sonth Carolina Regi
ment at the second battle of Bull Run, is a
great friend of Captain Fitts, who in the same
battle, but on tbe other side, bad a company m
tbe Second Massachusetts. The two regiments
were opposed to each other for a time In tbat
engagement, and met with great loss. Captain
Fitts is a broker down-town, and when he and
Colonel Hay ward get together there Is gener
ally some interesting conversation. Their rem
iniscences of tbat memorable day gather addi
tional interest from tbe fact tbat both of them
received two bullets in the body there and
then. Colonel tells the Captain tbat "the boys
of your regiment put two bullets into me.
Won't you bave another 'ball.' Captain l"
"1 don't care if I do; your fellows used me up
on tbat occasion for the rest of the war."
And in tbis friendly manner the political
wounds, at least, created by the late unpleas
antness are almost dally healed.
"I remember at tbe time ot our advance,
when we were driving tbis same Massachusetts
regiment before ns," said the Colonel, "I ran
over tbe body of Colonel Fletcher Webster, son
of tbe distinguished Daniel Webster and com
manderof the Twelfth Massachusetts. as belay
in the agonies of death. Webster commanded
tbe blue blood regiment of Massachusetts. I
shall never forget tbe incident as long as I live.
How could I, when within two minutes from
that time I was myself stricken to earth with
two balls through the body, tbe wound from
one of which I yet bandace every morning be
fore going down to my business.
"When I saw these two veterans of the war
fighting tbelr battles over again, I thought
what a commentary it was on the humanities of
life that tbere still rankles to-day in 'the bosom
of many a man, North and South, who never
bad anything to do with tbe war, such a bitter
sectional naireci, anu mat tuia umerncss cau
be successfully used lor partisan purposes 23
years after thegreatstruggle."
' chabi.es t. mbbbat.
New Yobs, June 23.
Laboring Under nn nnlluclnntloa.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Joaquin Miller writes of the Bible In the cur
rent lsiueof a New York magazine as "A
Neglected Book." It Is several years since tbe
eccentric poet of the Sierras labored under an
equally absnrd hallucination. That was when
be thought be could go 'into Wall street and
make a' fortune.
It's Got BIon Oa.
From the Buffalo Exnress.
An item to tbe effect tbat Mrs. Cleveland in
herits one-sixteenth of her grandfather's $S00,
000 estate in Omaha is going the rounds again.
That item is so old tbat It discarded knee
breeches and donned long trousers some time
ago.
She Who Most be Obeyed.
Tbe wonderful and weird spectacular drama
"Sbe" will be presented at Harris' Theater
this week by a superior dramatic company un
der the Bianagement of Webster and Brady,
' CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Weld, Me., had a frost on Saturday
last which did considerable damage.
The mercury stood at 105 degrees In the
shade at Los Angeles, Cal., a few days ago.
Hailstones as large as hens eggs fell In
Berryvllle, Va.. a few days ago, and some were
as large as a man'sUst,
The Pomona (CaL) orange growers
will receive an average of about 1300 an acre
for their fruit this season.
Turkish engineers say that the river
Euphrates might be made navigable the year
round by an expenditure of S 100,000.
A magpie that has just died in Meri-
den. Conn., could call all the members of its
owner's family by name, and was quite a fluent
conversationalist.
Of the" 1S6 applicants for admission to
the Military Academy at West Point, 24 failed.
to pass the required examination on account
of physical defects.
There is a family in France named B,
one m Belgium named O. a river in Holland
called T, a village in Sweden named A. while
tbe most valued bird in the Sandwich islands
is the O-o.
The people of Sisson say they C3n see
nothing wrong with the peaks of Mr. Shasta.
The general belief is that If any change has
taken place it is owing to tbe sliding of a mass
of accumulated ice and snow.
One of the most successful pension
agents of Washington is Alexander Kennedy,
a soldier of tbe Mexican War. He is said to
have made $100,000 within two months after tbe
passage of the original pension bill.
Precious stones are much more widely
distributed than formerly. There are many
families who own jewels to tbe value of
150O.0CO, while few wealthy people had even
S 100,000 Invested in diamonds ten years ago.
George Bartlett, aged 95 years, of
Guilford, Conn., last week walked to the home
of his son In New Haven, a distance of 20
miles. He did it in five hours, and when he
arrived stated tbat he conld walk back In the
same time after a half -hour's rest.
Here is the last message left behind by
Mrs. Potts, who, with her husband, was re.
cently hanged for murder: "Lillle Atbertoa
was my name. England was my nation. Man
chester was my dwelling place and Christ was
my salvation. Respect my last wishes. June 6."
A resident of Little York, Cortlandt
connty. N. Y., wbo had been greatly annoyed
by myterlous noises, pulled off some clap
boards near tbe eaves of his bouse the other
day, when be found a colony of 107 bats. Ha
burled tbem in tbe garden, and now sleeps un
disturbed. Barptr't Monthly publishes a letter
written by Thomas Jefferson in 1771 to a friend
in London, in which there 1 an order for "K
doz. pr. India cotton stockings for myself at
10s a pair." Ten shillings are an equivalent of
$2 60 a big price for a .uair of cotton stock
ings. Owing to knitting machines, cheaper
cotton, etc, tbey now coat about that sum per
dozen.
t-A lignite sugar refinery has been estab
lished in Philadelphia for utilizing "blzck
strap," tbe refuse of molasses. Hitherto this
substance has been used in making rum. but
tbe product bas always been in excess of tbe
demand. The Inventors claim that the process
will revolutionize tbe sugar industry. It is
clarified through pulverized lignite.
Some curious statistics on the amount
of artificial llsbting supplied per head in Paris
have been laid before the Societe Internation
ale des Eleetriciens. Thirty years ago the
lighting was equivalent to 3,765 candlfj per
annnm for each Inhabitant. By 1872 the
amount had arisen to 6,000. and by gradual In
crements it in 1SS9 reached 11,300, wbich was
equal to about 30 caudles per head per day.
More than a century before the Christian
era tbere were many beautiful cups in China.
The Portuguese, it is said. introduced the ware
into Europe about 1518, calling it "China," after
the country so long pre-eminent in its produc
tion. The first English manufactory of earth
enware found place at Stratford-le-Bow. in
Elizabeth's reign. The Shakespeare ju g Is the
best known of Elizabethan pottery.
The sudden, unexpected death of three
persons has saved the life of one man. Azero
Polley, a West Virginian, wbo was to be tried
for an assault on Julia Hester, tbe penalty of
wbich. in tbat State, is death. The only wit
nesses were tbe girl herself, ber sister and her
mother, and all three of these were killed a
few days ago in a railroad disaster on the
Chesapeake and Ohio. The case against Polley
has therefore necessarily been dismissed.
A singular esse of blood poisoning is
reported from Nyack, N. T. Ambrose Cells, a
young man well-known tbere. lost a favorite
chicken, and being anxious to know tbe causa
of the fowl's death, he proceeded to dissect it.
While cutting the chicken his knife slipped
and wounded tbe hand of his wife, who was as
sisting him. Tbe woman's hand soon began
swelling; as did also her entire arm and face,
and soon sbe was In a terrible condition. Med
ical aid was called, and Mrs. Cells is now con
sidered out of danger.
An Intinerant photographer was visited
in a Franklin county town by an economical
young man, who, after a long banter and soma
beating down in tbe price, finally sat for a pic
ture. He was told to look at a certain nail,
and not understanding tbe protograpber3
"that will do," continued to gaze at it. Tbe
photographer let him sit the afternoon ont. as
no other sitters came, to his own great amuse
ment, while tears ran copiously down our
economical friend's cheeks in his efforts to
keep his eyes fixed for a couple ot hours on
tbat one spot.
Pious Arabs who wanted to make a
pilgrimage from Algeria to the tomb of the
prophet in July will be unable to do so owing to
tbe outbreak of cholera at Mosul. The Min
ister of Foreign Affairs bas laid tbe subject be
fore tbe Consulting Committee of tbe Boaid of
Health, and tbe opinion bas been given tbat the
pilgrimage to Mecca would be a serious source
of danger to tbe public health, as the cholera
might be brought back to Algeria by tbe pil
grims, and tbence propagated speedily to Mar
seilles and other southern seaports which were
ravaged by tbe epidemic when it made its ap
pearance in Europe a few years ago. The
Algerian "faithful" were obliged to give up
their annual pilgrimage to Mecca last year
owing to tbe same cause.
FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES.
1WBITTXN EOS THE DISPATCH.
Hannigan When does the English Par
liament dissolve?
Brannlgan Whenever it gets Into hot water, 1
suppose. Alex, '. Sictet.
A Wise Youth. "What did you think
of the triumphal arch, Air. Noodle?"
"Don't like to criticize. I'm not up Is arche
ology." Henry Herbert Barbiett.
Qilhooly You look as red as a boiled
lobster.
ous De Smltb-I know It. but I can't help it.
Our thermometer is run down and I can't tell
when to take off my red flannel shirt. Alex, s.
Sweet.
Affinity. "The fat woman is in love with
the four-armed man."
"That's natnral. He is the only freak in the
show with arms enough to go round her." Choi
mondley Harcourt.
O'Rafferty Tell Mr. Jackson thatlcalled
to see him.
Servant What name. sah. so I kin tell Air.
Jackson who called?
O'Baffertv-Phat the dlvll do yon want to repate
menametoMr. Jacksonwhea he knows It already?
Alex. E. Stceit.
Woman's Fatal Weakness. "She threw
me a kiss but I didn't get it."
"Why not?"
"She didn't throw it stralght,"-CartyU SmllA,
Young Wife Do you love e u tunch M
ever?
Young Husband I reckon so.
Y. w. WUl I alwayi be the dearest thing la the
world to you?
Y. II. -I reckon so, unless the landlord raises
the rent. Alex. & Sweet.
Bjiew Something of Physics Himself.
Uncle Air," said little Joe. the white school
boy, "did you know that heat expands every
thing?" 'I danno, but I spec yon right, Joe; ef you put
a eoal o' lire on a tar'pln back 'twill expaa1 his
moufrlght wide open 'fo youkla say Jack Kob
lnson.'V-J". A. Hacon.
THE WHEELMAN.
The shadow of my silent steed
Files over hill and vale,
Ai swiftly aa the clouds that speed
Upon the hurrying gale.
Nor whip nor ip-ar the sleek thigh wound,
Nor galls the chafing rein,
But willingly my steel horse bounds .
Along the level plain. ' ,
Ob, happy are the wheelman's days,
And spent at bis sweet will.
He glides along life's troubled ways
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