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J0O0 Daily Dispatch, lncludingSunday.Sm'tbs. 150 Daily Dispatch, Including bunday.lmcnth 90 Sunday Dispatch, One Tear IM Weekly Dispatch, One Year IS the Daily Dispatch l M'lvered by carriers at jrcentscer week, or including bunday edition, ttIO cents per week. PITTSBURG. FRIDAY. JULY 4. 18901 THE DISPATCH FOE THE SUMMER. Persons leaving the City for the summer can have The Dispatch forwarded by earliest mail to any address at the rate of SO cents per month, or ft 50 for three months, Sunday edi tion included. Daily edition only. 70c per month, ft for three months. The address may be changed as desired, if care be taken in all cases to mention both old and new address. 3-The BUSINESS OFFICE of THE DIS PATCH hat been removed to Corner of Smithfioid and Diamond Streets. INDEPENDENCE! May the sun shine gloriously to-day! If there be clouds, may they no more than stripe the heavens, and when the day is done may the union of the sky glitter with nil her countless stars! Sunshine, blue sky and the free winds are in harmony with the spirit of the day. So are kindness, love of country and joy. "We hope none of these ingredients will be absent from the celebra tion here. Pittsburg, more than many of her sister cities, may congratulate herself that the United States achieved independence when the eighteenth century was old. With nil her natural advantages she could not have grown so lusty in a hundred years if she hail not had political freedom and national protection also. If the American colonies lad remained in Great Britain's selfish grasp would Pittsburg have been permitted to excel her English rivals? Not by a jugful, as the Philistines would say. The Pittsbure of to-day was made possible by flip Declaration of Independence. At Schenley Park to-d3y when the orators and the fireworks are let loose and an old fashioned Fourth is in full celebration, we trust the true value of Independence in its best sense will be forcibly presented to many minds. Not all the declarations of independence have been made yet. There is still freedom to be fought for. The battle never ends; the vigilance to save this Ee Tiublic must be eternal. ALLEGHENY IS COMING IN.- The feeling in favor of a consolidation of Pittsburg and Allegheny is spreading. A glance at the list of men who for various good reasons wish for the union will con vince any one that there is solidity and force about the movement. It is not a movement, either, but a spontaneous ex pression of a very natural feeling. Just as Allegheny is about to change the form of her government is a good time for her citi zens to consider the advisability of getting into the city to which they really belong. New arguments for the union are being of- lered all the time. The abiding argument against it comes from short-sighted politi cians. But Allegheny is moving toward Pittsburg. Eivers and politicians cannot stop her. AUSTRALIA'S RABBITS. The rabbits are still on top in Australia. They are steadily casing more intelligent colonists out of house and home in spite of all the government proclamations, the traps and wholesale slaughterings with which man has tried to fight them. Mr. G. W. Griffin, the American Consul at Sydney, furnishes authentic facts and figures to show how great a plague the rabbits are. In numerable methods of extermination have been introduced, but nothing has yet been discovered that can be relied upon to really accomplish the desired end. Among the most successful methods is that of poisoning the rabbits with phosphorized grain, strychnine and arsenic The phos phorired grain has been particularly useful. But it has been found that poison, in the long rnn, is undesirable because of the danger to horses, cattle, sheep and dogs, and even to human beings. Great quantities of ferrets and stoats have been imported, but they have mitigated the evil, not crushed it. 3?enciug in land has been found helpful to a certain degree, but the cost of the wire netting, of a peculiar height, mesh and gauge, has proven too heavy something like $399 a mile. The governments of the various colonies naturally offer every in ducement to men of inventivejgenius to item the awful tide of reproduction among the rabbits. The Government of New South "Wales gave wide publicity for several years to a proclamation offering to pay the sum of 25,000 to anyone who would propound a scheme for the destruction of rabbits. The commission appointed to report on the various plans suggested completed their in vestigations in December, 1S89, and stated that they had examined about 1,500 schemes, but not one of them complied with the terms of the proclamation. The most important scheme investigated by the commission was that proposed by M. Pasteur, whose idea was to destroy the rab bits by inoculating a number of them with the microbes of chicken cholera. An ex perimental station was established on Bodd Island, an isolated spot in Sydney harbtr, but it was demonstrated that M. Pasteur's plan had as many disadvantages as advan tages, and another fruitless effort had to be recorded. What the afflicted colonies will do remains to be seen. In the meantime the settlers find a slight compensation for their troubles in supplying the English market with mountains of material for that most delicious of dishes, rabbit pie. The skins also hare become a good article of commerce E3C0URAGIKG THE POMCE. The police force of Pittsburg has been greatly improved of lale, and Chief Brown is determined to make it better still. Any measure aiming to increase the efficiency-of the city's guardians should be applauded. Cnief Brown intends to present a bill, which comes under this head, to the next Legisla ture. It will resemble the bill which passed both houses of the State Legislature at the last session, and was vetoed by Governor Beaver. The bill will create an insurance fund for the police. From this fund will be paid certain sums to the policeman who is injured or falls sick, and in the event of his death to his family. The uniforms of the police will also be bought by the city. The latter provision would remove a grievous burden from the very moderately paid polieeman. It is suggested that the policeman is compelled by existing circum stances to think twice before risking his clothes in the execution of his duty. There is something in this, and if the city uni formed the police it would add to their efficiency in more ways than one. Chief Brown's efforts to improve his department should command the assistance of our legis lators at Harrisburg. THE REWARD OP HEROES. The Toledo Commercial, commenting upon the fact that the rescuing party at Dunbar found nothing but a dead mule, a couple of blouses, dinner buckets and a raging fire, propounds these questions: Was all this labor at attempted rescue thrown awav? If not lost, in what place, manner or wav was compensation received? If lost, was it' a bad economic example or prece dent? If something was gained, does not true ecoiwmy involve something beside wealth? Is not the performance of duty an economic benefit as well as a moral prin ciple? No labor in the cause of human life is lost. The heroic miners who risked so much to so little purpose are content with the knowledge that they did their duty as brave men. WOMEN AS VOTERS. A correspondent of the Philadelphia 7imej writes entertainingly of the cheerful efiects of the exercise of the suffrage by women in Wyoming. In Wyoming the women have voted so long that nobody thinks anything about it. rMM ill Mnnnls women CO to the polls just as simply and naturally as they go to the postoffice or the railroaa station, ado from present observation they look very much like other women. They dress as well as the women in any of the Eastern cities, and far better, as a rule, than they do in Chicago. It is very certain that where women vote nothing very dreadfnl has hap pened in consequence. Perhaps the next objection we shall hear to woman suffrage will be something like this, our cotemporary thinks: "There is no use in giving the ballot to women, because it doesn't make any difference. Where women vote the place is like other places and the women get along like other women." But from another quarter we learn that indifference to the exercise of her political rights is the prevailing symptom of the female voter. The recent school elections in the Dakotas do not indicate that the women there care much about using the bal lot. In Sanborn county. S. D., out of 1,200 female voters not over 100 voted, and that is the county where are the headquarters of the woman suffrage campaign, and the ban ner prohibition county of the State. The percentage of women actually voting was smaller in other counties. In North Dakota the same indifference was observable. When the women voted they voted usually as their husbands did. The Jamestown Alert says: "As a rule the result of the female vote does not seem to have changed conditions. The ballot was not disinfected nor elevated to any considerable extent, and the women themselves are no better off." Perhaps the Wyoming women, like their sisters in Dakota, are none the worse for be ing allowed to vote, because they stay away from the polls. This is only a conjecture, of course. BREWERS ARE BUSY. There has been a great increase in the consumption of beer in this region during the past twelve months. The United States revenue returns show that over one hundred and twenty thousand more barrels of beer brewed in this district were consumed from June,1889 to June,1890 than in the proceed ing year. Six hundred thousand barrels of beer paid duty in the twelve months ending June 1 last. Some people, including several brewers and saloon keepers, are inclined to attribute this great increase to the operation of the Brooks law. Their arguments may be read in another column of this paper. The pith of their contention is that the free construction put upon a part of the Brooks law permitting wholesalers to bottle, and practically to sell, at retail, has led to a greater consumption of beer outside the saloons. That drinking beer at home is or is not worse than drinking it in a saloon is a question for each individual to decide. The fact is, we take it, that the Brooks law is not a perfect success as a temperance measure. But the Brooks law, is the best license law that Pennsylvania has had, and the increase in beer drinking here is proba blv not much in excess of the growth of the population. Ex-Governor Pattison will celebrate Independence Day with sympathetic joy. There is but one city in the "Original Package" State Iowa with more than 40,006 Inhabitants; that of Des Moines. The Iowans have taken to the country since prohibition has been strictly enforced in the cities. That extreme heat has a tendency to de rangement of both the physical and mental constitutions has often been argued from the number of suicides which the hot summer months witness. The sad event in this city yesterday in whioh a young man highly re spected, of unimpeachable integrity, and hav ing the promise of an excellent future before him, fell a prey to despondency, was another instance in point. Platform discussion of public issues by the rivals for Governor will be ono of the at tractions of the campaign this f alL According to the latest information, there should be 43 stars in the banner which we salute to-day. But so many new States have entered, so many are on the threshold of the Union that the most carefnl patriot may be pardoned perplexity about the exact number of States. Wyoming was unable to get In in time for to-day's celebration. The silver bill is likely to go to pieces under the strain of a steady pnll from Senate and House conferees. Both Delamater and Pattison have earned their holiday to-day if hard work In hot weather can do it They should have twenty lour hours in which they can celebrate tree from discussion of Pennsylvania politics, and with reference only to the glory of the founders of the Republic The next period of interest in the Penn sylvania canvass will come with the candidates' letters of acceptance Cigarette manufacturers paid out $500,000 last year for pictures, and now all have combined to do away with them. If the manu facturers had resolved to do away with the cig arettes Instead at the chromos, asylums for the THE insane would not have to be enlarged in the near future. Ex-President Cleveland has changed his mind and will spend some time in Wisconsin this fall. He will be the truest of Colonel John H. Knight, of Ashland. At his bunting cabin in Bayfield county ex-Secretary Vilas and other politicians will also be in at tendance. To Mayor Gotjrley we tender our con gratulations on this auspicious occasion. The original package business is being worked for all it is worth in Illinois. Whole sale dealers are offuring E1U0 and indemnity for men who are willing to start business in small towns. The number of heroes who are willing to the take risk is not remarkably large. PEOPLE W0BTH BEADING ABOUT. Mr. Will Carlton will spend a part of this summer at the Thousand Isles. The engagement of Miss Fay Alger, daugh ter of General Russell A. Alger, and Mr. Mor ton Mitchell, of the Boston .Herald, Is an nounced. Marguerite, the pretty Princess who is going to marry her cousin, the Due d'Orleans "the Prisoner of Clairvaiix" has a good temper, good manners and various musical and artistic accomplishments. Or Prof. John Fiske in private life, the Book Suycr says that ho has an excellent baritone voice and sings German and English songs with expression, taste and feeling. Ho can also exe cute a Beethoven upon the piano. Lire many another wise elderly man, Francis Farkman, the historian, has taken to garden ing, and is as successful at it as was Evelyn. He is particularly fond of roses. He is writing again, having in a great measure recovered bis health. Mrs. Rider Haggard at the last "drawing room" attracted mncli attention by her beauti ful dress of gray and white satin, trimmed with butterflies of gold, a huge butterfly forming the front of the bodice. Her petticoat was gold brocade. The Sabbatarian element in England has boen greatly shocked by the order of the Queen that a nand of music play on W mdsor Terrace every Sunday. The Queen, following the great American iaea, probably intends to confine the musical programme strictly to sacred music MS. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL is HOW rapidly recovering from bis long illness at Elm wood. His exercise is principally taken in short walks about his grounds. His physicians do not yet allow him to drive or to ride in a street car. His daughter, Mrs. Burnett is with him. The young Crown Prince of Italy is deeply devoted to bis clever and beautiful mother. He sends her two long telegrams every day when he is away from her; and he also writes to her each day a letter glvinc full aocounts of his day's work. Like the Queen, the Princo speaks and writes French, English ana Gorman. Miss Elaine Goodale. the poetess, is Gov ernment supervisor of education among the Sioux. She lives in camp or reservation In the most primitive way, traveling from one Indiau village to another on horseback or in a "prairie schooner." She deliberately prefers this life to the social success which a woman of her tal ent and culture might command. CUBBENT TIMELY TOPICS. If owners of ocean vessels dislike to interfere xlth gambling on board their ships, tho question arises, wonld they feel Justified In Interfering to prevent a murder? The Ohio ana Pennsylvania baseball league managers are telegraphing around the country for an umpire. Any young man with a cast Iron con stitution and no fear of glycerine explosions or earthquakes, should apoly at once at Jamestown. Two or three umpires who commenced the season have resigned to save their friends lrom burying them. TnTciBth. riavthM: vfl all celebrate, with the execution of candidates. Their day falls UDon November 4. To-day is tho Glorious Fourth of July if it doesn't rain. A small sack of pounded onions tied about your neck will assist yon materially in getting to sleep. But If you would prefer to be hung, that, of course. Is your business. Oil City Mlszard. This is the season of year that city folks visit their country relatives. Ljttle Johnny Davenport, of New York, It Is said. Is the author of the lodge bill. If passed he will have a lucrative position until death over takes him. Glass manufacturers announce that the price of mirrors will be greatly advanced, which causes the Boston Herald to remark that It Is a great blow to vanity. Richard Choker is going back to Germany to resume his baths. A cold, unfeeling people wonder why Tammany Hall doesn't follow suit. Ir those 4,000,000 bunches of firecrackers had not arrived this week to-day's celebration would have been a dismal failure. Once more the China man has come to our rescue. THE Fat Woman's Club In New York City has proved a failure. At a meeting a few days ago tnc weather was so hot thaj they were unable to gossip about their neighbors and the club im mediately disbanded. Tnls hot weather is doing a heap ot good. WITH THE SCHOOL TEACHEBS. Tbo Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Stnto Teachers Association. rgrlCCTAL TELXOHAM to THE DISPATCH.1 Mauch Chunk, July 3. The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association will be hold here on the 8th, 9th and 10th of July. Prof. Brecht, of Lancaster county, is one of the committee hav ing the arrannements in charge. The Associa tion will bo welcomed by Prof. Hyde, of Le high University, and Mr. Barbor, a member of the School Board. Dr. Edward Brooks, ot Philadelphia, and Miss Mathilda Coffin, of Mil lersville, will participate in the discussion of the old and new in education. Wednesday's session will be occupied with memorial ad dresses on the life and services of the lato Dr. Higbee, by ox-Governor Hoyt and members of the Association. Thursday, Prof. Waller, State Superintendent of Public Instruction will deliver a lecture, and in the evening a social roception will be given by the citizens. Shut Down for Two Weeks, rdPECIAL TELEOEAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 Stbubenville. O., July 8. The crucible works here have shut down for two weeks, to allow the men to fish with the glassworkers. The worKS have not been idle one day this year, and the men need a rest, and that is the only reason for the shut down. The company will no doubt embrace the opportunity to make repairs. Nellie Writing n Book. Nellie Bly is resting quietly In New York after having finished a book entitled, "Nelly Bly's Book, or 72 Days Around the World. She has no intention ot lecturing again, her first ex perience in that line having been amply suffi cient for her. Bhe has severed her connection with newspaper work for the present, butmay take it up again. Lrt.Hlra Fish Then! From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Cleveland cannot watch his cork and write letters at the same time. When a fellow is ex pecting a bite every minute, there is no time to think of the Presidency two or three years away. All Honor to the Rescuers. From the Boston Herald. Those 31 entombed miners at Dunbar appear to be beyond resurrection. All honor to those who have struggled so valiantly to rescue them, just the same. They deserved to succeed. A btore n a Beehive. Bangor. Me., July 8. Tho clothing store of Frank D. Pulleu x Co. was invaded by a swarm of bees yesterday, which cleared the storetof proprietors ana clerks and occunled It to the exclusion of all others until night, when they were finally driven out. DEATHS OF A DAT. Genernl MnrntoM. EXETER, N. H July 3. General 'Oilman it Ms ton. ex-United States senator, died atv:Uthl rooming. PlTTSBtJKG- DISPATCH, THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. Editorial Clippings From Dnmocrailo nnd Republican Paprs His Nomination Gen erally Acceptnblo nnd Ills Election A. moot Certain. From the Harrisburg Call. Kep. J In addition to the fact that Mr. Pattison will not receive many Republican votes, there is considerable antagonism to him In his own party. There are quite a number of Democrats who were dissatisfied with the manner in which he conducted his administration. Whether they will allow this dissatisfaction to induce them to vote against him orrefrain from voting at all, cannot bo told, but unless there is con siderable change of feeling there will bo some Democrats who will not vote for him. The number of these may be sufficient to offset the Republican votes that he will receive. Deserve. Well of the People. From the Altoona Times, Dem. The Democratic Convention did honor to Itself and displayed a vast deal of wisdom and prudence when it called upon Robert E. Pat tison. the gallant standard bearer of the party in 1SS2, to again lead the columns of Democ racy. Robert E. Pattison deserves well ot the people and his party, and his nomination will bo greeted by a storm of enthusiasm that will swell from border to border and through tho length and breadth of the old Keystone, and it will increase in volume until the contest is de cided in November. A Mnn Well Thooetat Ot From the Altoona Tribune, Rep.3 The Democratic State Convention yielded to policy and turned down that typical Demo cratic leader, William A. Wallace, because it believed that Robert K Pattison is the only man who can make inroads on the Republican strength. In this action it must bo conceded that the Democrats displayed a judgment and discretion quite unusual, for Governor Patti son has thousands of friends among the Re publicans of the State who admire him as a man, and think well of the record which he made during the time that he occupied the Gubernatorial chair. As for tho rrioune, while it will advocate the election of Mr. Delamater it will refrain from abusing ex-Governor Patti son, of whose merits as a citizen and an official it has a high appreciation. He is indeed a foe man worthy of our steel. A Htnndnrd Organ' Opinion. From the Oil City Derrick, Rep. While he may possess fitness for that posi tion, whether or not, as the representative of the Democratic party, he is entitled to the votes of tho majority of the people of Pennsylvania is a subject on wnich we propose to make a few remarks from time to time as the occasion offers. We think he is not, and other and aside from his backing, the platform on which ho stands, with its hypocritical cant, its false and platitudinous averrence and its stolen thunder, is enough to condemn him and his party before the people of the State. Delamater!! Home Orcnn. From the Meadvllle Republican, Kep.: As a matter ot fact we are pleased with the nomination ot Pattison, and for the reason bo was selected in deference to tho opinion of a certain clique, who have been loud in their claim that be could walk off with the Republi can majority. In Pennsylvania, as easily as he didlnlSSi Times have changed since then, and those who are banking on Pattison beating Delamater should take precious good care not to risk their bottom dollar or they willhavo oc casion to drape themselves In mourning for their foolishness. The Beat Under tbo Clrcuinstanoes. From the Cleveland Leader; Rep.; Mr. Soott. of Erie, nominated his candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Robert E. Pat tison, on the first ballot yesterday, defeating William A. Wallace, the veteran Democratic leader, very easily. Pattison was elected to the same position In 1882. owing to tne Demo cratic tidal wave in that year, and to the fact that there was a Republican spltt and two Re publican candidates in tbo field. Unembar rassed by Mugwump favor he could probably come as near to election as any Democrat in the State, but the auspices under which bis canvass for the nomination has been conducted will lose him a good deal of Democratic sup port. Pattlson's strength in the Guoernatorial contest is the strength ot Mugwnmpery and f reo trade in Pennsylvania ; and they are also his weakness. Thinks Wnllaco Won't Help Dim. From the Erie Dispatch, Rep. Tho Scranton Convention nominated Robert E. Pattison for Governor, as was foreshadowed for some weeks past. His principal qualifica tion is his supposed ability to cut down the Re publican majority of the State. The success of Pattison now would mean the permanent re tirement of Wallace from Pennsylvania poli tics. He is not yet ready to be shelved and will take good care that such a catastrophe does not happen to himself through the election of ex-Governor Pattison. Nominated by Force of Circumstances. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dem. Although there was a determined but honor able struggle to nominate ex-Senator Wallace, only one ballot was required. It may be said that Pattison was nominated by the force of popular opinion, tho openly expressed prefer ence of thousands of Republicans having its effect. There was no pretense that Wallace was not every way competent and worthy of tho honor, but the prestige of previous victory against heavy odds was with Pattison. Tho same sentiment of confidence dictated the choice of Hon. Chauncey F. Black for candi date for Lieutenant Governor and so the Democrats of tho Keystone State enter upon the campaign of 1890 under the samo leaders who jointly overcame a Republican plurality of 37,000 in 1880 and were elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor in 18S2 by 40,000. Condi tions are favorable for a repetition of that triumph this year. Democratic access Distinctly Possible, From the New York Times, Dem. The nomination of Pattison and Black makes distinctly possible a Democratic success in Pennsylvania this year, notwithstanding the great preponderance of the Republican vote in times past. There is not likely to bo any inde pendent Republican movement like that which carried 43,743 votes from Beaver to Stewart in 1S82 and led to the election of Pattison by a plurality of more than 40,000. But by a judi cious course upon the high plane indicated by tbe caudidate in his speech before the conven tion the independent vote may be directly won to tho support of tbe Democratic ticket. More than that, many Republicans who were not ready to "bolt" eight years ago may be willing now to cast their votes directly for Pattison, wheso record in tbe office of Governor and whose personal character highly recommended him to all fair-minded men. Quay's dictation in 1890 has been much more arrogant and offensive than was Cameron's in 1882. His Name a Symbol or Good Luck. From the New York Herald, Ind.l The Democrats in Pennsylvania have an. swered tbe nomination of Mr. Delamater as the Republican candidate by the renomlnation of Governor Pattison. They supersede older ana better soldiers, which is not wise in any organ ization, political or military. Pattison may be called a kind of horseshoe candidate, his name a symbol of good luck. Having once beaten the Republicans in their banner State be may do so again. As Governor Mr. Pattison was fair to middling. The campaign in Pennsyl vania does not mean the election of Pattison, but the defeat of Delamater. On. the Side of Pnro Government. From the New York World. Dem. Tho Democrats of Pennsylvania have risen to their opportunity. The nomination of Ex Governor Pattison was the best that could be made, tin all questions of political reform Governor Pattison is on tbe side that makes for pure government. Ho stands on a platform that is worthy of bis record. He is a Demo crat and the Republican party's majority is enormous, but if corruption has not entered into the bone and sinew of Pennsylvania Quay will be branded and Pattison will be elected. An Excellent Platform. From the New York World, Dem. There was no special occasion for the Penn sylvania Democrats to adopt a platform. The Republicans had already furnished them all tbey needed in that way by nominating Dela mater at Quay's command. But the one they adopted wait excellent. FRIDAY, -JULY 4, DEPABTED EOB DELAWABE. Dr. Pnrvea nod Family Go Away for tbe Heated Term. Rev. George Purves, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, with Mrs. Purvos and their little one, departed last evening for Delaware county, there, among family relatives and friends to spend tbe coming two months. During the pastor's absence and that ot the majority of his congregation, the church will be in that state known to housekeepers as house cleaning, and will be renovated thoroughly with fresh paint and varnish, now carpets and pew cushions, besides some very artistlcdecorations and frescoing, which will add wonderfully, to the interior of the sanctuary. While Rev. Dr. Purves is absent it Is prob able, too. that Hev. Dr. Applegartn, the now pastor of the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church, will be addressed by his own name instead of that of Dr. Purves, which is now quite Jre quently applied to him on account of the strik ing resemblaeo which he bears to Dr. Purves. Indeed the resemblaace has been the cause ot much embarrassment to various people who have claimed friendly relations with tho re cently arrived pastor and addressed him as Dr. Purves. GOING TO EUBOPE. A Gay Excursion Party That Will Leave the City Monday. The day. express for New York next Monday morning, will carry from this city a "gay exer tion" party, bound for Europe, where six .weeks will be spent in visiting Ireland, Wales, England, France, Belgium and Scotland. The party will be chaperoned by Superintendent George J. Luckey. and will corsist ot Misses Katharine Hazlett, Virginia Hopkins, Ella McCutcheon. Lillie McOutcheon. Maggie Mc Cutcheon. Ella Martin, Emma Neely. Jennie Hanlan, Dr. Josephine Alben, Cecelia Rahialy, and Messrs. M. J. McCracken, Reuben Rogers, Robert R. Dewar. W .8. Reader, J. E. Peterson, J. K. Peterson and R. J. Wilson. They will sail on the Devonia, of the Anchor line, Tuesday morning. Social Chatter. M R8. Charles Reisfar. the wife of the General Secretary of the Central Board of Education, will leave the first of next month for Boston, where she will be the guest of Miss Charlotte Ballon, the popular cooking school teacher, who recently closed her school and re turned to her home to spend the vacation. A visit to New York and a stop over at Philadel phia will also be features of tbe Eastern trip. M its. Sarah Brawley, widow of the late Hon. J. R. Brawley, of Meadvllle, who for the past six weeks has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Frank Evans, of Oakland, and Mrs. Alex Patton, of Wilklnsburg. left for Cbautanqua Lake, where she expects to remain tbe rest of the summer, accompanied by her granddaugh ter. Miss Bertha Evans. Mr s. Joseph Craig, of Sewickley, will give a patriotic garden party to-day. About 75 friends will enjoy the delights of their home and the fireworks, among them Miss Maud Mitchell, from tbe East. The Misses Acnes and Mary McKean. sisters of Postmaster James McKean, accompanied bv Mr. Andy McKean, will leave for Cape May tho 15th of the month, where they will remain for the season. Miss Porter has returned from a visit of several weeks to Cleveland, O., bringing Mrs. Fred Preston with her as guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Porter, of Park place. Sewickley. Kenmawr Hotel will have an elaborate pyrotechnical display on the lawn and Ger nert's Orchestra also this evening. Miss Retta Carnegie will entertain a number of friends up at Cresson at her mother's cottage to-day. The third entertainment of the Conversa zione Circle was given in tbe Walton M. E. Church last evening. Mrs. James B. Halley and baby have gone to Scotland to remain four months. The Linden Club will celebrate to day in fine style. WATTED THLBTY YEABS TO WED. Sinn's Devotion and Woman's Constancy Tested and Not Found Wanllne. Martinsville, Ind., July a Major Will lam Jordin, of Lawreuceburg, and Miss Maria Kepner, of Cincinnati, were married recently, tbe result of a betrothal entered Into 80 years ago. When the war broke out Jordan enlisted and was frishtfully wounded. His dependent mother looked to him for support and the mar riage was postponed until her death. However, she is still alive. BTwelve months ago Jordan was stricken with paralysis, and thereupon Miss Kepner went to his bedside and remained his constant nurse. Realizing that he was a dying man, Jordan in sisted that their marriage bo no longer delayed and tbe wedding followed. Jordan recently received 3,000 arrearages of pension and an al lowance of $72 per month. TOBTXFICATIOH OP WHTE. A Machino Which tho Government Won't Allow, as It Depletes Her Revenues. Toledo, O., July 3. An important case was decided by Judge Rix,in tho United States District Court, yesterday. Andrew Wehrle, jhe Middle Bass wine grower, has been using an invention by which his wine might be forti fied without placing therein 10 per cent of alco hol. Wehrle, by his ingenious device, pocketed about $50,000 per year. Tbe Collector of In ternal Revenue at Cleveland entered informa tion against Wehrle. claiming the full tax levied on distilled spirits and forfeiture of the machine. The case was heard before Judges Jackson and Rlx at Cleveland some months since, and yesterday's decision sustains the Govern ment, judgment for amount of tax and for feiture being rendered. WILLIAM L. SCOTT PLEASED. no Bays tfan Pattison Ticket Will Win in Pennsylvania Without Donbt. From tho New York Sun. The Hon. William L. Scott, of Erie, one of the shrewdest politicians Pennsylvania ever produced, was vory well pleased with the re sults of tbe convention when found at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night. "Pattison and Black," he Bald. "The ticket cannot be beaten. It will sweep the State. It is tbe strongest ticket which could .possibly have been named, and I am glad tbe Democrats of Fennslvanla were awake to the great ad vantages given them by the occasion. It is the strongest kind of a ticket on a good sound plat form and will win. Mo doubt of it, it will win, sir." BESIEGED BY A SNAKE. Persistent Efforts of a Lnrgo Reptilo to Enter a House. Coltjmeus, Ind., July a Mrs. Ed Price was sitting on her portico and saw a large blacksnake coming toward her. She ran into the bouse and closed the door, when the reptile sprang at the door, thrashing the air with its tail and making a hissing noise. Mrs. Price looked out at the window, when it sprang at her, but fell down and disappeared uuder tbe house. Abont an hour later the reptile mada its ap pearance at the back kitchen door and crawled up the step and entered tbe bouse, when the hired girl gathered up the poker and dispatched his snakeship, which measured 4 feet 10K inches In length. FIGS AHD THISTLES. The man who expects to die like a beast will live like a beast. To hate is tbe most terrible misfortune that can befall a soul. Love never has to be watched to see that it does a full day's work. The religion that only breaks out in spots Is not a good kind to have. Not to go to church to worship God means to go away disappointed. If you don't want to get your fingers burned, never shake bands with the devil. The man who does not work with hi3 heart will not accomplish much with his bands. When we got to heaven we will find that we have all bad something to do In building it. A roan's true name before God is what he Is in reality; not what the newspapers say about him. Every Christian Is called to be a preacher of some kind, but only a few are sent into the pulpit. Tbe good of the land means the best that God can give. This Is what His children are to have. One of the greatest mistakes that any Chris tian can make is to think that God don't want hiB services. You can never go back to where you wore this morning. The wheeU of time only turn one way. Rarrit Horn 1890, AMERICA ABROAD. Interesting? BIls of News nnd Gossip Float Ins About London A Tablet of Interest lo Americans New York to Have a Bin Variety Show English and American Girls. Tub following bits of nows and gossip are taken from tbo London Illustrated Newt, which devotes more space to American matters than the average English weekly or magazine: A tablet that has attracted many Americans to Holy Trinity Church. Minorles, was erected to the memory of William Legge, Lieutenant General of Ordnance, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Washington of Pack-inf-ton, in the county of Leicester. Upon this tablet are the Washington arms. Stars and Stripes; and tho average American is startled to find so vivid a reminder ot his country's flag upon a tablet erected to tbememory of ono who died in 167a He is also interested in learning that Sir William Washington's brother John, who emigrated to Virginia about 1657, is sup posed to have been the great grandfather of George Washington, the first President of the United States. In this same Holy Trinity Church, in addition to other objects of interest; is a small tin box enclosing a glass case, which contains tho head of the Dnke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Grey. He was beheaded In 1564, in the reign of Queen Mary, for having failed to keep his daughter on the throne after placing her there. The Duke of Suffolk was beheaded on Tower hill, on which stood at tho time -s monastery which was connected, by means of a subterranean passage, with the buildings for merly known as tbe Convent of St. Clare or Minoress, the appellation of "SororesMlnores" having been assumed by the nuns who occupied the abbey, built by the Countess of Lancaster. The story goes that the executioner of the Duke of Suffolk was bribed to bring tbe Duke's head to the abbey and place it in the vault. In a small room near the chancel there bangs a portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, who is said to have lived in the parish. Hogarth is also re puted to have at one time been an attendant at Holy Trinity Church. A Spanish-Amerlcnn Affair. A ctive measures are already being taken in Spain to celebrate beflttlngly in 1892 the discovery of America by Christopher Colum bus. A committee has been formed in Madrid under the presidency of the Duke of Veragua, said to be a lineal descendant of Columbus. Tbe promoters of this celebration will solicit tbe co-operation of the Spanish-American Re publics with a view of making the commemo ration quite Ibero-American. A Dig Thins- for New York. A GROUP of American capitalists is m Lon don at present on a tour of investigation with a view to establishing in New York a great Theater of Varieties, like the Empire, with a restaurant in connection on the lines of the famous Holborn restaurant, which Mr. Hamp presides over so prosperously. Music while dining in public Is not an Institution as yet on tbe other side of the Atlantic, and the American diners at the Holborn are so pleased with the harmonic innovation that tbey will adopt it if their scheme Is carried put in New York. They might acquire many valuable hints from tbe sumptuous grill room; and the banqueting halls upstairs, notably tbe Royal Venetian uuanioer, wouiu anoru supero sug gestions certain to meet with the approval of the wealthy pleasure seekers of the Empiro City. "Delmonico's," in Broadway, is an excel lent place at which to dine, but architecturally and decoratively it is not to be mentioned in the same day as the Holborn restaurant. If a replica of this favorite resort is combined with the Theater of Varieties, and the whole affair is well managed, it ought to be a brilliant suc cess. The scheme demands a large capital, but the chances of profit are liberal and far-reaching, especially if it Is finished before the great World's Farr is in progress. Another Yankee Wonder. M1 iss Mabel Stevenson is the latest musi cal prodigy. She is from the States, only 15, and has just made her debut at the Lyric Club. The young lady has a marvelous power of imitating the song birds; to shut one's eyes and hear her is to imaginn' the air full of feathered songsters. What adds charm to Miss Stevenson's performance is that she weaves ber bird songs into tbe form of pretty recita tions. Americans have a talent for Imitating birds witness Mrs. Shaw in ber clever whist ling, and Adelaide Detcbon, who "takes off" larks and mocking birds in flue style. The Phonograph Pleases Tennysoa. Tt is pleasant to know that Mr. Edison's phon ograph now reproduces the voice of Lord Tennyson, even as It is heard when be Is re citing the "Charge of the Light Brigade" and the first verse of the "Bugle Song" in "The Princess," and that the Laureate himself Is de lighted at the perfection with which bis voico is thus mechanically rendered. De Enisnn's Real Cute. ATdlle. De Lussan, Mr. Harris' American prima donna, is happy in the possession of linguistic ability. She sings a part readily in French, Italian or English. Something of this is due to tbe clrcumstauces of ber birth, her parents being French, and her native city New York, the most cosmopolitan metropolis In tho world. English or Amerlcnn Girls. f ontrastino Enjlisb and American girls, W. W. Story thus writes from Rome: "Take an English girl, and pnt ber beside an American girl whose ancestry is pure English, and thero is a remarkable difference between them in form, nature, and color. Tho American, as a rule, is slenderer, fairer, and slighter-limbed, tbmner-featured, and more vivacious and ex cited in manners. The English girl Is fuller, roster in color, heavier in build, and calmer. The voice of tbe American is thin and higbt that of the English girl Is rich and low. But where you will find tbo greater physical differ ence is In the feet and hands. The American's foot is small, thin, high-arched, and tendonous in the ankle. Thero Is tbo same difference ia tha hands. Take a cast from an English and American foot, and anyone can distinguish them with halt an eye; all the attachments, as they are called are longer and mure tendonous in the American than in the English. There is something charming in the one as of arose, and in the other of a Illy. Where the English havo tbe advantage over the American is lu their voices and intonations. An English woman's voice is a pleasure to hear so sweet and low and pleasant in its modulations while the Americans whine with a high-pitched voice. The latter sing better than tho .bnglisb, be cause the English never can fully utter their voice and throw it out. Certainly the Ameri can girls are sometimes beautiful, and they generally have a refinement of look and f ea ture if not of manner. In their ways, too, there is a certain willfulness and independence which, when it does not go too far (as it fre quently does), is attractive." Tho Elixir Reviving Frenchmen. THE statement comes on very respectable authority that the Elixir Vita) com pounded by the American, Dr. Brown Bequard, has been investicated by the Parisian physi cians and declared worthy of trial. Three old' men, in the last stages of exhaustion, have been inoculated, and have had restored to them some of the vigor of youth. Vlllard'a Legacy. Mb. Henry villard. who was recently hero on a visit, informed mo thathels writ ine his autobiography for tho use at his chil dren He was born in Germany, and the story of bis early days is written in German, while, l- tvim. been educated in France, his school days are described in French, and his business aSdsociallife in America will be recorded in English. A UNIQUE PE0DUCTION. An Industrial Chart Prepared by Highland School Pnplla. Step eight, of the Highland School, comes In ahead with an Industrial chart, to be exhibited at the Exposition next fall. Wool is the sub ject upon which the chart; is based, and it ap pears first upon tho back of the sheep a tiny little bov affair, with a blue ribbon and a bell around Ills neck. From there, by illustration, it Is traced to tho creek, where the sheep are dipped and rlippid, then through the various proccse which ru-iult in woolen cloths, sam ples of whicu are attached to the chart with pieces of sbecpikln and a cunning little spin ning wheel. It is a unique production, and tbe essays by tbo little ones regarding tbe subject, which are also attached to tbe chart, are interesting bits ot manuscript Celebrated nis 105th Birthday. Laforte, Ind., July a Henry Edick, of St. Joseph, Mich., celebrated his 105th birth day yesterday. He was a drummer buy In the war ofll812, going to the front with his lather. He was born in Decrfiel'l, 0 Juno S3, I7SS. and moved to St. Joseph on the ninety-uintb annl versaryiof bis birthday. Mr. Edick bas scarcely a gray hair among his plentiful locks, and is re markably preserved. CAMDEN'S SPOOK. beveral Persons Claim la Have Bern Old Quaker' Specter. Camden, July a Tbe phantom specter is known as the "Quaker Ghost." andBeveral per sons claim to have seen It within the past week in the vicinity of the old Quaker meeting houso on Walnut street. .Samuel Harris, a cabman, of No. 101 North Seconu street, claims that he saw the ghost while out walking with a young woman. He alleges that the ghost followed him and his companion, when the latter fainted. Harris says be discharged a revolver, but when the smoke cleared away the white object had dis appeared. George Sparks, of Ho. 217 Bensen street, claims to have seen the white apparition while driving home one night recently from Hadden field. He says that bis horse suddenly stopped, and when he got out of tbe carriage to investi gate he saw a white object in the middle of tbe highway, a few yards from the horse. He seized his whip and started toward the specter, when be was seized with that peculiar feeling that rendered bim almost powerless to move. He then met a policeman, who told him thatit was the old Quaker ghost, who was always prowling in that neighborhood. Gravedlgger Stow says that he saw the ghost while be was sitting In tbe kitchen of his nou-e. He heard a woman screaming tor help, and a colored woman soon came up to his place. She was greatly excited and called Stow's attention to a white object not far away. Stow looked in the direction indicated by the woman and saw the object, bat he has been unable to ac count for it. He says he does not believe in ghosts, but what he saw was certainly a very strange object. PB0DUCIS OF BUSY BBALNB. A List of Inventions by Clever Qlechaales of Three Slates. New patents (from O. D. Lewis, patent at torney. No. 131 Filth avenue. Pittsburg.) issued Tuesday, July, 1, 1890, to Pennylvania Ohio and West Virginia inventors: Edward Armstrong, Allegheny, system or distributing coolingllqnlds for refrigerators: John D. Bowder and A. B. Thomas, Jvane. Pa.. Ink stand: W. H. Chapln, Toledo, manufactory handles for cutlery: Albert T. Claypool, Toledo, rubber tire for wheels: Lone F. Dennlson, Ferza, O., carpet stretcher: Byron J. Bonds, Kent, V., permutation locks; Reuben Ensteln, Meadvllle, plumb level: Alvln Z. Harris, Pltts bnrg, J. H. t.'urry, Wilklnsburg, assignees of one-eighth to W. A. Rose. Rochester, and 31. D. McWhlnney. Wilklnsburg, antomatlc cut-otT; Calvin E. Kllpatrick. Tallman viile. Pa.. ' grading or road scraper; Peter E. Little. Dayton, O., disk harrow; Joseph L. Lowry, Plttsburir, steam pumping engine: Harry Northwood, Martin's Ferrv, mold for or namental glass manufacture: John D. Rlggs. Dayton, O., belt dynamo meter; John Komse, Lima, v., attachment for churns: T. 1. Taylor. Bridgeport, O., perforating machine: Benjamin F. Todd. Allegheny, assignor of one-half toll. i Ames, nttsburg. marline pin: Wesley Weber, Pittsburg, apparatus for drilling wells: Lncian B. Martin. Fostorla, o.. Inkstand; James W. Vaughn, Greenville, vehicle gear; George F. Waclitershaucr. Wllklusburg. sewing machine; Frank O. Waterhouse. Pittsburg, hydraulic pro pulsion; Montgomery H. Watson, Dayton, O., envelope scaler; Oliver R. bhalaberger, Roches ter, Pa., dynamo electric machine; William Bnee, Pittsburg, electric railway sltrnal appa ratus; Isaac DeHaveu, Allegheny, cooking stove. CHBIS IIAGEE SPEAKS What He Thinks or the Two Gubernatorial Nominations. From the Philadelphia North American. Chris. Macee. gripsack in hand and bearing no traces of his recent political wrestling matcb. was seen at tho Stratford Hotel last evening, and though time, tide and trains wait for no man, and tho doughty representative of Pittsburg Republicanism was anxious to be getting home, be found time to say a few words about the Scranton ticket. "The Demo cratic party," he said, "has made the strongest and most logical nomination in Its Dower, and Mr. Pattison will certainly poll a heavy vote. No; I don't go so far as to sav that he will win, but there Is a great deal of dissatisfaction among the Republicans throughout tbe State, and Pattison Is sure to make a good run." The North American man mildly suggested that any existing soreness would have passed away before election day rolls round, to which the Pittsburg chieftain tacitly assented. "Of course," he wenton "tbe factthatvital national issues, such as the tariff and the silver ques tion, will be before the people next November, and tbe further fact that Congressmen are to be voted for and a Legislature elected, which in its turn will elect a United States Senator, will have great weight with our people and will tend to control their course." And having thus gently intimated that he bad an idea that Delamater would manage to pull through the Smoky City statesman went on his westward way. A MONUMENT TO C00PEB. Steps Tnken to Erect n Sultnbio Memorial ' to Ihr Novelist. Middletown. N. Y., July a Otsego Hall, the home of James Fenimore Cooper, tbe nov elist, at Cooperstown, was destroyed by fire in 1853, two years after his death. The family built another building on a new site. In the course of time a new street was laid out by the village authorities, which included within its bounds the spot where tbe old ball onco stood. There is no suitable monument to Cooper In tbe town which he made famous. A movement is on foot to erect one by public subscription. Meantime, and as a temporary memorial, the Trustees of the village have cansed a huge boulder to be planted on tlje site of the hall on Fair street, and have surrounded it by an iron fence and have bad cut upon a polished face of the stone an inscription which reads as fol lows: '-On this site stood Otsego Hall, the home of James Fenimore Cooper, where be lived from 1834 to the day of his death. September. 1851. Built In 1793 by Judge William Cooper; de stroyed by fire October, 1853," W. C. WHITNEY BETUBNS And Denies That He Had Any Idea of Be coming Tnmmnny'a Lender. Ex-Secretary of the Navy William C. Whit ney returned from Europe on tho White Star steamer Majestic He was as brown as a berry, and had tbe appearance of a man who bad bad a thoroughly cood time. On being asked if he was to take tbe leader ship of Tammany Hall be said: "There is nothing in It. You know it has always been my policy since my return from Washington not to affiliate myself with any of the local or ganizations, and I don't see anything at present to indicate any reason wny I should pursne a different coarse henceforth. Beside, I don't see that Tammany Hall is in want of a leader. It seems to me that Mr. Croker Is doing very well where be is. He is a strong. level-beaded man, and a genuine favorite with bis followers, as well as with people ontside of tbe organiza tion. I haven't read his testimony before tbe Fassett Committee, and I therefore cannot judge whether or not the situation ot affairs has materially changed as far as the investiga tion is concerned or not." FAME, WEALTH, LIFE. DEATH. What Is fame? Tls tbe sun-gleam on the mountain. Spreading brightly ere It flies; 'Tls tbe bubble on the fountain. Rising lightly ere it dies; Or, If here and there a hero Bo remembered through the years. Yet to htm the gain Is zero; If but only In the air May be heard some eager mention of their name. Though they hear It not themselves, 'tis much the same. What is wealth? 'Tls a rainbow still receding As the panting fool pursues; Or a toy that youth unheeding. Seeks the readier way to lose; But tbe wise man keeps due measure, Neither out of breath nor base; He but holds In trust his treasure For tbe welfare of the race. Yet what crimes some men will dare Rut to gain their slender share In some profit, though with loss of name or health. In tome plunder, spent on vices or by stealth. What Is life? 'fli the earthly hour of trial For a life that's but began; When the prize of self-denial May be quickly lost or won; 'Tls the hour when love may burgeon To the everlasting flower: Or when lusts their victims urge on To dety Immortal power. Yet how lightly men Ignore All the future holds In store. Spending brief but golden moments all In strife, Or in suicidal madness grasp tbe knife. What Is death? Past Its dark and mysterious portal Human eyes may never roam; Yet the hope still springs immortal That It leads tbe wanderer home. Ob. the bliss that lies before ns When the secret shall be known. And the vast augiilc chorus Sounds that hrnin before the throne. What is Tame, or wealth, or lire? Past are praises, fortune, strlre; All but love, that lives forever, cast beneath. When the good and faithful servant takes tho wreath. -I Atatemil. CUBIOUS CONDENSATIONS. A subscriber has presented the editor of tbe Dawson (Ga.) News with a beet weighing 20 pounds. Israel Gregory, who died last week at Spruce Head, Me., lacked only a few months of being 107 years old. A parrot, owned by a Kansas City bar ber, bangs in a cage in front of the establish ment and occasionally advises passersby to get their hair cur. The owners of a traveling show which, included in its animals a number of bears, have been arrested at Trentscbin, Hungary, on tho charge of murdering a tramp and throwing his body to the bears, who devoured it, A sign displayed by a Boston firm reads: "This store will bo closed from Thurs day. Jnly 3, until Mondav, July 7, to allow the boss and the boys to gambol on tbe green and to dip their feet In the salt sea spray." A diver who was working at the foun dation of a railroad bridge near Bols City, Idaho, gave a signal to be bolsted quickly. When be cot to the surface he held fast a 65 pound salmon that he had caught by the gills. Lord Aberdeen created a great deal of excitement in London recently by driving up to tbe door of bis club in a milk wagon. He bad been unable to obtain a carriage, and rather than walk be had chartered that modest vehicle. A bear story from Idaho h to the effect that a hunter chased a large black fellow for seysral miles, when, becoming tired, it laid down close toga rock to rest. He then crept up to the animal and plunged a big knife Into a vital part. A South Carolina darkey recently hitched bis mule, with a bale of hay on bis back, near a neighbor's bee-hire, which he knew was about to swarm. As he supposed, tbe swarm settled on the bale of hay. after which he led tbe mule home and hived the swarm. There is a negro at Perry by the name of Alfred Swift who was struck by lightning on the 19th. The bolt struck him at the elbow on the right arm. ran up bis arm, around his bodv. down both legs, tearing both of bis shoes to pieces. The marks of the lightning are as 'plain as on a pine tree. The fact that the waves in the North Sea differ in shape when caused by northeast wind under high pressure from those caused by a southwest wind with low barometer is con sidered as a proof that tho air in an anti-cyclone is a descending current and the air in a cyclone an ascending current. A new shell has lately been invented by an Austrian for the purpose of scattering oil over the waves daring a storm. It is a wooden cylinder, lined with shellac to keep the oil from penetrating the wood, and it carries in addi tion a calcium light, which Illuminates the water for a considerable distance. A statistical enthusiast has calculated that a piani3t, in playing a certain presto, played 5,595 notes in four minutes. The strik ing of each notejnvolved two movements of the finger and one movement each of tbe elbow, wrist and arm. From this it is calculated that 72 voluntary movements were made per second. Colonel Sir Edward Bradford, the newly appointed Chief Commissioner of tha London police force, is one of the most celebrated sportsmen of the English army. His fame as a hunter of big game extends throughout tile length and breadth of India, and it was during one oi nis jungie expeamons mat nis leicarm was bitten clean off by an infuriated tigress. London has a boy cartoonist. He is only 10 years old, but is said to do remarkaDlo work. He lately made a sketch of Mr. Glad stone, and, sending it to him. by return mall received a letter in the "Grand Old Man's" own handwriting thanking the little artist and wishing him every success in his future oper ations. Patsy Mitchell, of Thompsonville, Mass., promised that ho would never drink an other drop of liquor "as long as he had a hair j on his head." When his thirst became ungov- governable ho sold his bushy head of bair to Bob Crumby, a barber, for a pint of gin. and when his hair was removed with a razor and tbe gin in bis possession, he went oil and got drunk. A Southern colored Farmers Alliance indorses the nomination of Captain B. R. Till man for Governor of South Carolina intbe fol lowing dubious resolutions: "In union there is strength. We are all children of Eve and Adam, why not act so in principle? There Is one God. one heaven one hell, and wemnst siay together in one of the places. VLiknot vote together for Tillmanr' ' ' Tbe youngest great-grandmother xi.a near Pomona, Cal. Her nama is Franceses Cordolla, and her age is but 50 years. She was married when but 15 years old, and ber eldest daughter married when she was a little over 17 years old. Mrs. Cordolla was but 33 years old when she was a grandmother. Her eldest granddaughter was married in April, 1839. at the age of 15 years, and now a great-granddaughter is born. W. H. Crabb, State Agriculture Com missioner of California, bas asked the World's Fair directors for the privilege of having a fountain of pure native wine at the fair. Mr. Crabb wants to erect a perpendicular cone 50 feet high and keep it flowing throughout the period of tbe fair. He proposes to change tha varieties every week. Mr. Crabb produces 1,000,000 gallons every year from his vineyard at Oakville, Napa Valley. An athletic Cuban negro, about 30 years of age. escaped the other night in Boston from a strong cell in police headquarters. Reaching between the bars of bis door he pried off tbe face of a huge padlock with a case knife and the wire handle of a bucket, pushed back tbe bolt and opened tbe door. He got through a corridor window to the top of a shed, dropped to the ground, climbed a fence or two and was off for parts unknown. A citizen of Belfast, Me., was awakened about 4 o'clock tho other morning by a strange noise and, going to the window, saw about thirty robins fighting a crow, which was trying to get at a robin's nest, lo a nearby tree, containing some young btrds. The robins finally drove orr tho crow. The man went down to the tree and found one young robin on the ground dead, whiiotwo others were safe In the nest. Tho crow was on a piratical expedition, and but for the valiant fight of tho robins would have un doubtedly killed all tha young. A hotel in Borne, anxious to secure Eng lish patronage, has set forth its advantages in the following advertisement, which is placarded abont Paris: "The Hotel de . tha very most favorite resort by English and American travelers, as during tbe winter presents all kinds of comforts for what concerns the gen eral heatlne, durins the summer is just fit to afford the freshest and most the wholesome temperature on account of its special position, breadth and ventilation. Tbe largest and most monumental table d'hote there is to be found." AMONG THE HU.UORISTS. She (looking over the programme) I see this Is a Wagner night. How do you like Waamer? Jle-I don't know much about his music, but I don't like his parlor cars as well as I do rull-man's.-CAicao Xrtoune. Collector (to Skimgullet) I wish yon would settle this account, sir; I can't come alter the money every day. Bklmgullet Well, It would suit me better, too, if you came at night; I'm never here then. Chicago Inter Ocean. Mr. Wanamaker A meteor fell on a farm In Kansas, and the farmer sold It for enough to pay off a mortgage. Mr. Harrison-Yon doa't say! We'll have to put a heavy duty on meteors Puct. "And so your brother has given up rum selling Michael. I am glad of It. Too know I never could regard It as a strictly honest busl- neWelI, sor. I don't think ho has bettered his condition much." What do voa mean?" He's a dealer In antique furniture now." rue. "Kenryl" cried Mrs. Von Toodles, grasp ing her somnolent husband by the arm, "Henryl There are burglars in the house. Get right up, and go down I" Utter nonsense, my dear," returned Henry. 'Yon wouldn't have a man of my social position associating with burglars, would you? Yoa astonish me !"-Pue. Miss Eugenne Where did you say jou resided In Newport. Count? Count Right ou tbe bluff. Miss Eugenne. on the blutt"." Ihe Arena. Bosebelt (about to pop) Do you ever ponder on futurity, Mrs. Oorham? The Widow Uorham I haven't thought much about it yet. The Suburban took every cent 1 could rake and scrape, and my horse was di tanced. Judge. TO THE GIRLS OF THE FZXIOD. To charm you. Art seemed once effectual;'- Then yonr tate grew intellectual; Yon wi re witty, wise or quizzical: Now your craze is culture physical.. But though you should torn Buddhlstlcal, Or gymnast leal and flstlcal; Through all change, depend upon It, i Your ant study la your bonnet? ruex.
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