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COXGO COLONIZATION.
The question of the future of the colored
nee as connected with the proposition to
colonize the Congo region with our surplus
aegro population, has evoked a proposition
as will be seen in our local columns, for the
establishment of a big corporation to super
intendend the movement of the colored race
toward their aboriginal home.
There is, no doubt, an immense future for
those who have the industry and persistence
to colonize the Congo region. The negroes
who join in the movement to build up
civilization there will, if they are successful,
demonstrate their equality with the colonists
of other races; and with an assurance that
they understand the gravity and importance
of their work, no one should dissuade them
from joining in the movement.
But it is rather difficult to perceive the
necesity of getting up a big corporation with
in an alleged capital of 10,000,000 to con
duct operations. The usual experience with
such corporations is cot that the profits of
the enterprise go to the small stockl olders.
II co-operation is necessary for the success
of the colonization, further than has already
teen provided under the Congo .Free State,
organizations lormed on a much smaller
scale will be just as efficient and permit
much more thorough checks on waste and
dishonesty.
A POLITICAL, LAW.
Concerning Mr. McKinley's chances for
re-election the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Says that the Ohio gerrymander leaves little
chance of it in bis present district. "But,"
says that paper, "that need not keep him
out of Congress if the Republicans of some
other Ohio district choose to nominate and
elect him, as was done in the case of Gar
xteld, JL Congressman is not required to be a
resident of'tUe district thathe represents, but
only of the State in which the district is
situated." It is trne that the Constitution
does cot require a Congressman to be a resi
dent in his district Neither does it require
a Fresidental elector to vote for the nominee
of his party for President. Cases in which
men residing out of the district are elected
to Congress are cot quite as unheard-of as
cases of Presidental electors voting for some
other than the party nominee. But the rule
of politics is nearly prohibitory of both.
At all events the instance cited by the
Globe-Democrat was cot such a case;
General Garfield always resided in the dis
trict which he represented. He changed
his residence ouce, in order to live in the
district where he was strongest; but be never
represented one district while living in
another.
A QUESTIONABLE PRACTICE.
The explanation of the settling of a few
houses in Knoxville, which is given in our
local columns, is an interesting and suggest
ive one. The people living above the old
mines have been drilling holes down into,
them, for the escape of drainage; and in
cases where the drillers struck a pillar In
the mice they took the summary method of
blowing it up with dynamite. The conse
quence of a cave-in was almost inevitable.
This is not the only case in which the
practice of using abandoned mines for sew
ers is known; but it is one where the danger
that it involves has manifested itself. Yet
it may be questioned whether there are cot
sanitary objections to it oi as vital char
acter as the damage to property which has
resulted in this case.
Every mine must have an outlet for its
drainage. If the outflow comes to the sur
face directly from the mine, this practice
makes it a polluted stream. If the mine
drainage makes its way underground
through rock crevices, it simply aggravates
the matter by polluting the sources of
springs wherever it meets them. In addition,
the practice is almost certain to convert
every mine so used into a reservoir of sewer
gas, which may find its most convenient es
cape into the houses which are connected
'with the mine.
Sanitary reasons, as well as the protection
of property, might prompt the inquiry
whether this practice of using old mines as
receptacles for sewage should not be pro
hibited. TRUST MISREPRESENTATIONS.
The persistence of the trusts in their at
tempts to establish practical monopoly, not
withstanding the decisions of the courts, is,
one of the peculiar expressions of the belief
that combined wealth is above the enforce
ment of the law. But the unique feature of
this aspect is the busy employment of the
trust organs to impress upon the public
mind that the decisions are cot really ad
verse to the trusts. When the ruling against
the Sugar Trust was first announced it was
industriously declared that the decision did
sot declare that the Sugar Trust is a monop
oly, and therefore that the combination is, at
lilArty to maintain itself in the guise of a
combination. Now the financial column of
of the New York Evening Sun goes a step
further and asserts that "there was nothing
in the decision opposing the pooling of the
sugar interests; no intimation that the
monopoly idea is illegal."
This is merely an attempt to make law by J
edi;t of the combination magnates, pro
mulgated by the financial columns of the
press. Of course the New York Court of
Appeals did cot specifically pass upon the
question whether the Sugar Trust is a com
bination designed to suppress competition,
because that was a question of fact already
settled by the lower courts. But it did hold
that the union ot the business and control
of corporations is illegal, and that corpora
tions must be kept separate and distinct.
"The reason of the law is the life of the
law;" and the reason of this legal principle
is the one that has been declared by courts
times almost without number, namely, the
common law prohibition of monopolies.
The attempt of the Trusts to override the
legal prohibition of their schemes may be
successful; but their effort to spread the im
pression that in so doing they are respecting
the law, can only be carried on by) flagrant
misrepresentations. '
KILLING aE CANALS.
The determination with whicp the pre
vailing influences in the Legislature are
resisting every effort to improve' and revive
the canal system of the country is a promi
nent feature of the day. The Maryland
.Legislature has deliberately determined to
administer the death stroke to the Chesa
peake and Ohio canal, which might be made
the eastern outlet of a trans-Allegheny
water-w&y, and the last session of the New
York Legislature showed the tame disposi
tion in killing a bill for the improvement ot
the Champlain canal.
This water-way, connecting Lake Cham
plain and the Hudson river by a 66-mile
canal between Albany and "Whitehall has a
navigable depth of 4 feet 10 inches. An ap
propriation was asked to increase its depth
to seven feet. If the greater depth were ob
tained, the saving of freights on the ice crop
alone for a single year wonld have more
than paid the cost; while the similar saving
on the Champlain ore shipments and lum
ber tonnage would repay the cost in a year
and a half. But the corporate interests that
are powerful in the New York Legislature
as elsewhere, prevented the passage of the
appropriation.
This has been a settled policy vof the rail
road influence wherever it has been brought
to bear on legislation in States where the
canal system had any hold. The steady
strangling and wrecking of the canals is
generally justified on the plea that those
transportation routes were wholly inade
quate. But if a tithe of the money spent in
extending and improving the railways had
been directed to the adaptation of the canals
to modern requirements, they would to-day
furnish the cheapest transportation for in
ternal commerce. This is abundantly
proved by the case of the Erie canal, on
which little more has been done than to
keep it in operation on the plan in use or
thirty years. Yet, the Erie canal to-day
furnishes the cheapest grain route from
the "West to the seaboard.
The process by which the canals have
been forced into disuse is a stereotyped one
in nearly every instance. First, political
management has suffered them to fall into
disrepair and to discourage their general
use. Then, when traffic has fallen off
by being driven away, some railroad cor
poration has stepped in and acquired the
property, sometimes to use it as a right of
way for the railroad tracks, but always with
a distinct purpose of totally destroying the
water-way. The success which has attended
the corporate policy of destroying the com
petition of internal water transportation by
such means as this is a striking example of
public blindness and political faithlessness
to the popular interests.
A canal system which would afford cheap
transportation of the coal and iron of Penn
sylvania to the lakes, rivers and ocean, and
would bring in exchange the ores of other
sections to our mills and furnaces would
quadruple the wealth of the State. If we
have lost tbat by supine neglect in the last
generation, is it any reason for failing to
take prompt and effective measures to re
place the loss?
PLATFORMS IN PLENTY.
The discovery is made by the Philadel
phia Inquirer that the platform reported by
the Associated Press, as adopted by the
Scranton Convention, differs in phraseology
from tbat published by the Pottsville Miners'
Journal. After an exhaustive review of
the difference, the Inquirer concludes that
"this double platform is a shrewd scheme
on the part of Chairman Harrity to make
everybody happy."
Perhaps this is the correct explanation;
but if it is it must be noted that Mr. Har
rity is not original in his benevolent distri
bution of platforms. Tor the reports of the
platform adopted at Harrisburg exhibit the
same variety to a further degree. The re
port of the platform sent to the afternoon
papers on the day of the Republican con
vention differed materially from the report
sent to the morning papers of the following
day. Beyond that the platform published
by a Harrisburg paper contained a plank
which neither of the others sent out. So
that if the Democrats rejoice in the posses
sion of a double platform, the Republicans
are even more lavish in the production of a
triple one.
The conclusion of the Inquirer can, in
view of this fact, be enlarged to a recogni
tion of the idea that platforms are so cheap
nowadays that each party can have a super
abundance of them.
OKLAHOMA'S REACTION.
The danger of a rush for new and practi
cally unknown territory is illustrated by the
reports of disappointment and discourage
ment which come from Oklahoma. There
is likely to be a total failure of the crops
this year from drought, and consequently,
the thousands who rushed into the territory
last year are exposed to the peril of destitu
tion, as all of them spent their resources in
getting the land ready for production. This
danger attends the settlement of all new dis
tricts, but it is aggravating where thousands
descend upon a territory and stake all their
futures on the success of the first crop.
Probably two-thirds of those who flocked
into Oklahoma could have found tillable
soil elsewhere; and the suffering which
seems likely to be the first result of the
Oklahoma boom would have been much
less if only the other third had been exposed
to it.
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"The Province of Quebec is experienc
ing a wonderful rise of sentiment in favor of
independence or annexation to the United
States," says a cotemporary. But since tbat
sentiment is produced in Quebec by the determi
nation of the French Canadians to maintain
sectarian schools, to refuse assimilation and
to support as in the case of the Newfoundland
fisheries French interests'more faithfully than
those of Americans, this seems to be a good time
for declaring that no new countries can come
into the United States until they are ready to
accept American institutions.
Ix 1890 the rare days of June were post
poned until early July. The weather for tbe
lovely month of June was altogether too well
done.
The objection of a Southern druggists'
association to the prescription by physicians of
proprietary medicines, xin the ground tbat the
medicines cost more than they would Jf the
druggists made up the prescriptions sepa
rately, has a suspicions look. There is a well,
grounded belief that it is contrary to the
ethics ot druggists' associations to advocate
anything which would cheapen the cost of
madicines to the people.
"When the staid and conservative Phila
delphia Ledger declares that the Federal
election hill is "an infamous pece of partisan
legislation," it may be time for Republican
managers in Congress to stop long enough to
do a little thinking.
Energetic sanitary measures in Spain
have checked the cholera epidemic, and it is
hoped that it will not spread. Bntasnoone
can tell where the next outbreak may not be,
and as the epidemic has already cost many
lives, it affords a striking illustration of the
truth that sanitary prevention is worth far
moro than sanitary restriction.
A BREAD riot by striking workmen on
Broadway, Now York, indicates tbat the pet
policy of speculators and combinations in pre
venting food from becoming too cheap has
made a striking success of it.
"With three English war vessels at Esqui
mau B. C, any one of which is able to wipe
out all the United States navy in those waters,
the Jingo policy of capturing all tbe sealing
schooners that mayj be found thereabout may
prove more dangerous In tbe recoil than in tbe
discharge.
Chicago is wasting valuable time in
settling the site of the World's Fair. And
what is worse, if the divided sites are chosen
she will waste still more valuable time in get
ting up the exposition.
That explosion at Industry presents
another practical lesson on the practice of
keeping explosives on sale where they can be
reached by Fourth of July fireworks. It also
raises the question whether that particular
celebration did no V cost more than it comes to.
PBOMINENT PEOPLE.
RICHARD Mansfield, the actor, was born,
It is said, in the now mnch-talked-of Heligo
land. Census Commissioner Porteb has fled to
the mountains, preferring the roar of the
whangdoodle to the general cry of condemna
tion of his work.
Colonel- George O. Jones, who consti
tutes the head, tail, wings and most of the
trunk of the Greenback party, completes his
69th year next Monday.
Joseph P. Hazard, a wealthy Spiritualist
of South Kensington, R. L. will erect a huge
tower at tbat place and dedicate it to the aa
vent of modern Spiritualism.
Me. Qanson Depew. a nephew of "Our
Chauncey, is mentioned as one of the "rising
men" of Buffalo. He is said to have marked
talent and is a memDer of an eminent law firm
in that city.
There is a flourishing Japanese club in New
York, of which nearly every native of Japan in
the city is a member. The President is the
present Vice Consul, Teijiro Kito, who is S3
years old and married.
Robert G-nyon, 73 years of age, of Sill
waukee. plunged into the river at Mount Clem
ens, Micb., and rescued a boy from drowning.
The old man was tbe only one of a crowd of
persons standing on tbe bank at the time who
did not lose his bead.
Mb. Walter MoMichael, after 80 years'
in the newspaper business, retiies from the
financial management of the Philadelphia
Worth American, and has Fold bis interest
therein to his brother Clay) on, who now be
comes its sole proprietor.
Carl Steckelmann, of New, York, writes
from West Africa tbat tbe cannibals on the
Ogowe river, who refused permission to Da
Cbailla and other explorers to ascend tbat
stream, are becoming expert servants for tbe
whites as coffee pickers.
Father Ignatius, who is now on bis way
to this country, is regarded at borne as a barm
less sort of crank. He is a native Cornisbman,
and in 1S62 began bis movementto establish
monkish brotherhoods in the English Church
by reviving the Order of SI. Benedict. He
was once shot at.
General Adam: E.King. the new Consul
General to Paris, is a resident of Baltimore
and an enthusiastic Blaine man. Tall, hand
some and distinguished looking, with snow
white hair and beautiful black eyes, be will be
a striking figure in tbe society circles ot'the
American colony. He was a good soldier in
Hancock's corps, and his friends are all warmly
attached to him.
CTfBBENT TIMELY TOPICS.
If the census figures are to be relied upon,
Philadelphia is not keeping np with the proces
sion. It seems like a pity to name onr new and fast
cruiser the Philadelphia, considering the slow
ness of tbe town after which she was named.
A number of New York clergymen have un
dertaken to reform tbe politics or that city. They
mlghtjustaswell ask Chicago to tarn over the
management of the fair to St. Louis. v
Forty persons were arrested at Coney Island
on the Fourth for selling sausages. This is cer
tainly another attempt to down the Amerlaan hog.
Congressmen have been away from their
constituency so long there is danger that tbey will
be forgotten. Mr. Reed should adjourn Congress
and let the boys go home.
The pistol was a toy one.
So the old man bought the boy one.
To play with when he tired of his trumpet and
bis drum.
Of course, tbe boy he shot it,
'Twas for tbat the old man bonght It,
Bathe wishes notr.be hadn't, 'cause the boy is
shy a thnmb. Oil City Bliizard,
Trouble will be resumed at the old stand
to-day in 'Washington.
Mosquitoes have driven the Fresidental
family out of New Jersey into Pennsylvania.
The "pestiferous insects of tbe press" will, how
ever, follow the members to their new homes.
At last accounts Colonel Clarkson was in
Ban Francisco. Jie refuses to divulge how many
now subscribers he has secured.
Patti's face is so frequently seen in connec
tion with somedvertisem ents. that the typo
graphical error which caused her to be heralded
to the world as a "soaprano" does not seem to be
so far oat of the way after all. Jew lork Com
mercial Advertiser.
D. Edgar Ceouse, a rich bachelor of Syra
cuse, N. Y., is finishing a stable which is said to
have cost over (700,000, and a church in the imme
diate vicinity is (11,000 in debt.
It is believed that Kemmler has made his last
farewell tonr.
A critical observer of passing events has
noticed that the admission of the State of Idaho
makes it the second keystone State, but we don't
spell it with a big K. She Is the missing link in
the grand chain that nnltes the two oceans, and
from her exalted altitude on the top ot the Rockies
was queen of all she surveyed. Mow that tbe
arch has been spanned Old Faclfle on tbe West
can whisper over Uncle barn's shoulder to her
irritable sister In the East, "Shake." Pennsyl
vania extends the right hand of fellowship to her
little sllverene namesake.
A VISITOE'S OPINION.
Ho
Saya Plttsbnrgera nre Blg-Ilenrted,
Sociable and Good Livers.
J. V. Williams was a delegate to the Snnday
School Convention from Mexico, Mo., and on
bis return wrote ah account of tbe affair for
bis borne paper, from which we clip the follow
ing: "The bnlldinc in which the convention
met is a model ot beauty, beiog mado entirely
of glass, except enough iron upright columns
to (Support tho roof. Its seating capacity is
8.000, and when the immense throng raised their
voices in song (led by Excell, of Chicago), it
seemed to shake the very roof. Every State,
county and province, bad Its banner, so tbat
we could converse with the representatives, ot
almost any people we desired. The address of
welcome was delivered by Governor Beaver, of
Pennsylvania. It was full ot welcome and
God-bfess-yous. All the speeches delivered
were from men of intellectual and moral cul
ture. I cannot close without saying unreservedly
tbat tbe people of Pittsburg are tbe biggest
hearted, most sociable and best livers I ever
met We Westerners, In our hurry to get gain,
know nothing of their accommodating kind
hearteaness. But I could write a day and not
tell how I en joj ed it
THE CRITIC'S REVIEW.
Characteristics or History Writing An
American Hlsto r or Merit Tho Story of
tbe Conqoent of tbe Sionx Blrdaeyo
View or Pittsburg.
A history of the United States cannot well
help being a history of the people. The
temptation which from ot old has beset the
writers of national annals, to make their rec
ords commemorative of sovereigns and gen
erals and great campaigns and battles, is not
present here as it is in Europe. Ihe problem
which our history presents for study Is tbe
working of a democratic government, in which
the men at the head are but the recognized
representatives of the people.
This characteristic of the writing of our his
tory, which is a characteristic of the writing of
the best historian, is plainly marked in Schou
ler s Bislory of the United States (Dodd. Mead
A Co., H. Watts & Co., J9.00). These four
handsome volumes, covering the time from 1783
to 1817, describe the erowth of a r,nni
About the year 18fi5 Mr.James Bohouler.alaw
yer, of Boston, set himself the congenial taak of
writinga history of this oountry from 1783 to
1861. A History of the United States Under
the Constitution" was the purpose which he
had in mind. This settlea the Initial date. The
record should close with the beginning of the
War of the Rebellion. Mr. Schouler found
nothing in the work of his Tredecessors which
covered the field which he intended to traverse.
Mr. Bancroft's history stops short ot the con
stitutional era. He wrote the record of the
life of the colonies, and ofjthe War of the Re
bellion. Mr. HUdreth's history begins with
1783 and extends to 1817, but much has been
learned since this historian finished bis
work, lhat was 30 years ago. and
students have been busily at work
ever since making special researches and writ
ing monographs. Some ten years ago when
Mr. Schouler issued his first volnme much
bad been done which made it necessary to
amend Mr. HUdreth's careful work. The lives
of Hamilton, tbe Adamses, Jefferson, Monroe,
Madison and other leaders bad been written,
new sources of information bad been made
public, and there were abundant opportunities
for a wider and wiser subject And during
these ten years past the work has gone on, en
larging the ground wbieb the American his
torian must cover, and mapping it out with
greater thoroughness.
V
fyjR. Schouler has availed himself of all
these opportunities. He has made exten
sive studies in public archives and has con
suited, especially, three excellent libraries, the
Library of Congress in Washington and the
Publio and Athseneum Libraries of Boston.
The result of this long and careful work is
these four volumes. The History suffered at
first from being published in Washington.
Washington is the center of a good deal In our
national life, but it is not yet a literary center,
Mr. Schoulers work escaped the notice of
many. It failed of tbe welcome which it de
served. Now tbat Dodd, Mead & Co. have tbe
publishing of lt,it may gain the attention which
it abundantly merits.
Tn mftnv pptnnMq thl Wftrtr nf Afr RMinnla.'a
is the best history of tbe United States which'
uas yet Deen written, it is mil, impartial,
nicely balanced, written in a clear, attractive
style, eminently systematic It was excellently
said of it tbe other day by a careful
reviewer who was comparing it with
two other popular histories: "Von Hoist
has given ns in his constitutional history a
warped but logical and magnlficiont presenta
tion of the unfolding and inevitable denoue
ment of the constitutional politics which grew
out of slavery and sectionalism; but von
Hoist does not fill tbe place ot a general his
tory. McMaster is giving us a most delightful
account of our early American life, literature
and manners, but McMaster comes quite as
far short as von Hoist of giving us a well
balanced, judicious, general history. In this
last field Mr. Schouler has no real rival, ana
is not likely soon to have one. The student or
genQrai readerwho would have the best con
nected account of men. manners, and times In
this country, for the first 40 years under the
Presidents, will find nothing else so satisfac
tory as the three volumes of Mr. Schouler'a
work which have already come out."
Volume four contains the promise of the
first three. There Is soon to be a fifth volume,
carrying the history to 1S6L. These books are
used as text-books or authorities at Yale and
Harvard, at the University of Pennsylvania, at
the Johns Hopkins University and at other in
stitutions of learning.
V
" MAEI0N Graham" (Lee & Shepard. J.
R. Weldin & Co.) is a thoughtful Sun
day school book by "Meta Lander." This is a
new and revised edition of an old and favorite
story. It is one of that class of novels which
have within the last year or two come into a
sudden popularity the theological romance.
The privilege and blessing of service and self-
sacrifice is the main moral of the book. But
tho author takes occasion here and
there to touch matters which concern
doctrine. The discussions are brought
quite up to date, even the revision of tbe
Westminster Confession being considered. The
anthor is decidedly in favor of revision, bhe
quotes with approval the remark of a popular
preacher, who said: "John Calvin was a great
and good man but he died three hundred and
twenty-six years ago. The best centuries of
Bible study have come since then, and ex
plorers have done their work, and you might
as well have the world go back to John
Gutenberg, the inventor of tbe art of printing,
and reject all newspaper presses, and go back
to tbe time when telegraphy was the elevating
of signals and tho burning of bonfires on tbe
hilltops, and reject the magnetic wire which is
tbe tongue of nations, as to ignore all the
exegetes, and the philologists, and tbe tbeolo
clans of tbe last three bnndred and twenty-six
rears, and put your head under the sleeve of
the gown of a sixteenth century doctor."
rfi'llTARPATH and Bivouac" Is a description
of the conquest of the Sioux. Mr. John
T. Finnerty, "war correspondent for the Chl
Chicago Times," is tbe anthor. What ha de
scribes he saw with bis own eyes, the book be
ing a description of stirring personal experi
ences and adventures in the Big Horn and Yel
lowstone expeditions of 1876, and in tbe cam
paign on tbe British border in 1879. The
writer's purpose is to describe the adventures,
privations, heroism and horrors of onr last
great Indian wars. Mr. Finnerty has written
his book in the graphic style of the newspaper
reporter, and has made a readable volume. It
is illustrated with pictures of famous Indian
fighters.
ATessbs. H. Watts & Co. have published a
little "souvenir" of Pittsburg and Alle
gheny. It begins with a "Bird's Eye View" of
tbe two cities, and is taken up after that with
sketches of prominent buildings. Among tbe
buildings pictured are the new Government
building, which appear in a finished shape as it
will be seen by future generations, the Alle
gneny county Court House, tbe Expo
sition buildings, the Duquesne Club,
the Carnegie Library, tbe Western Uni
versity buildines and H. Watts & Co.'b store.
Tho "Bird's Eye View" represents tho two
cities as prosperous provincial towns of 200 or
300 buildings each, with a background of bar
ren mountains: a long procession of steam
boats is moving down the Monongabela into
the Ohio, bbund for New Orleans. Mount
Washington is a hill top of pleasant pasture
land, whenco a little party of ladies
and gentlemen in the costume of the
eighteentb century are viewing the monoto
nies of tbe scene. The new Government
building, and some ot the other prominent
structures are represented as standing upon a
cobble stone oasis in some desert of Sahara.
Not another bouse for miles about breaks tbe
level scene. The new Masonic building is ap
parently cloied for repairs. All tho streets pre
sent the aspect of a Bunday morning at 5 o'clock
in midsummer.
In these days of photography, when real pic
tures can be bad with little trouble and small
expense, these old-fashioned cuts are away out
of date. It would be a curious Pittsburg
which would be Imagined by a stranger ont of
these qneer pages.
T-Jo quietly kneeled at her feet, but ber face
was gently inclined toward the reflection
of the sun in the distant water.
"Helen, vou are my dearost lovet Mv bean.
tiful Ideal! My ancelP he exclaimed, in low,
musical tones. "You are the pnre shrine
where for a whole year I have bestowed bom
age. Yon are the sacred image which has con
stantly been reflected in tbe mirror of my
BOUl."
'-Her face was still slightly Inclined toward a
distant reflection, but it shone with a radiance
of lis own. He clasped ber unresisting hand
and pressed it to his lips. "May I call you my
love?"
Tbe blue, dreamy eyes had become moist
and tbey turned from the distant landscape
and sweetly looked Into his, and her soul re
sponded through them." Edward Burton.
(Lee & Shepard, S. R. Weldin & Co. Price,
51-25).
Why David Refrained.
From tho New York Herald.1
When standing by the statue of the great
Hendricks Governor Hill carefully refrained
from saying, "I am a Democrat" Perhaps he
was afraid that the bronze Hendricks would
sit down on him as altogether too presump
tuous. No Mliflln Wanted.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Tbe Detroit Museum of Art, yielding to
clamor, will put clothes upon Its statuary. In
tbe interest of art, which such establishments
should always conserve, it is to bo hoped that
no misfits will be tolerated. y
A WATEEMHXI0U EHAPS0DY.
A Southern Authority Says tho Onlr Portion
.Fit toBnt ! the Heart.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
1 We do not, we trust, approach the watermel
on season in any such frame of mind (envy of
the Northerners to whom our first crops goes).
Serenity, if not repose, IS absolutely necessary.
Tbat a market has been found for the firstlings
ot the crop is cause for congratulation. We
suppose the flrstof tho crop suits those who are
willing to buy it, but we may speak without of
fense in behalf of the experts the epicureans,
so to speak and remark that the second crop
is in many respects superior to tbat which flour
ishes forth under the suns of May and June.
Yet it is not wise to injure the watermelon in
any shape, first crop or second. It may be a
mere habit with us to worry along withont a
taste of melon until the Fourth of July
crackers warn us that the genuine Middle
Georgia article is on sale that it has been
brought to town in a straw-filled wagon; but
ine wnettea appetite Knows wn ii j.u,,
and tbe month of exoectancy waters not in
vain.
We have used ourselves to wait for that pe
culiar ripening and that peculiar variety of
melon that garnish tbe July barbecue. It is
not every melon tbat is a good one; it is not
every person tbat knows how to eat a melon,
whether it be good or bad. We do not know
how our Northern friends feel on this subject;
but now tbat arrangements have been made to
place within reach of tbe poorest this most
magnificent production of sun and soil, we feel
like meeting them on common ground and
swapping experiences. We are of the opinion
that the Georgia melon the watermillfon Is
destined to be the great reconstructor ot tbe
nation, and In view of tbat fact we believe that
those who are inclined to the fruit should know
bow to approach it
It is said in Florida that the way to eat an
orange is to put your nose in It This advioe
applies to tbe watermillion in tbe most em
phatic manner. There Is nothing fit to eat in
the melon but tbe heart and that should be
torn out and devoured bodily, and if tho juices
"should run down the neck and into the sleeves,
so much tbe better. Sweets to the sweet and
nothing could be sweeter than these juices,
which embody the fruition of the year, and all
that is best in tbe seasons. Tbe knife is a
deadlv weapon. It destroys the flavor and has
a deadly effect on the fruit People who un
derstand their bnsiness never use a knife, but
go at it like pugilists, and the more barbarous
the attack the finer the least
TEE PATENT OFFICE.
Second Report of tho Special Committee of
tho Civil Service Reform League.
Washington, July a The second report of
the special committee of the National Civil
Service Reform League was made public to
day. The beginning of tbe present administra
tion found the Patent Bureau in the control of
spoilsmen, as far as the civil service lawould
allow it to be. They were in posesslon, both
above and below the classified list of nearly all
the offices on which they could lay their bands.
It would bo" no injustice to Mr. Montgomery,
tbe first Commissioner appointed by President
Cleveland to say that he entered tbe office
without any experience in matters of patent
law, and knew next to nothing of the practice
and needs of the office. The appointment of
the prosent Commissioner by President Harri
son was made in pursuance of sonnd business
principles. Mr. Charles H. Mtlchell was sug
gested. Hqwas a patent lawyer of extensive
experience and of recognized standing, with a
large incomo from his profession. As soon as
it was ascertained that he would accept the
leading patent lawyers of the country endeav
ored to secure his appointment He hnd their
almost unanimous support as thoroughly well
qualified for the position. The Commissioner
seems to be independent of political influences,
and has inaugurated valuable reforms.
Your committee are glad to report from in
formation in their possession, derived, as they
believo, from trustworthy and non-political
sources, that there has been a decided im
provemint in the efficiency of tbe office since
the appointment of the present commissioner.
The contrast between the two systems, as af
fecting the efficiency of as office, is striking.
The spoils system means giving the offices tor
partisan purposes to those who feelitalavor
to receive the appointments. The reform sys
tem seeks to establish permanent administra
tive methods for zuardinc business principles
in office, against political interference. These
methods consist of open competitive tests
made to suit the special duties to be pejformed,
practical trial in office during a probationary
Eeriod before final appointment, filling the
ighor grades by promotion, and at the beads
of the bureaus to put such person! as confer a
favor npon the public by accepting the position
rather than such as consider tbe office as a
favor to themselves in return for political in
fluence or work.
HYDB0PH0BIA.
Young; Man Dies In Terrible Agony from the
Bite of a Doc.
Bloomiitgton, Ind., July 6. Saturday
evening Malcolm Lambkin, a young man living
in Salt Creek township, ten miles. east of
Bloomington, died in terrible convulsions,
which physicians pronounced a genuine case of
bydrophoblx About a month agq Lambkins
was worklug down in Green county, and,
coming to tbe place where he was stopping,
late on Sunday night he was attacked by a
Strange dog tbat crawled from under tbe bouse
as be entered tbe yard. He warded the animal
off, but it succeeded in making twp slight flesh
wounds. Tbe action of the dog was so strange
that the suspicion grew that it had tbe rabies,
and for fear of this the young man
was taken to Terrs Haute and
had a madstone applied, but
it did not adhere. Lambkins came home and
went to work on his father's farm. In a few
days the flesh was entirely healed over, and be
was apparently as well as usual. About tbree
days ago, however, the boy tooK sick, and when
be attempted to take a drink of water be went
into convulsions. He grew steadily worse and
wanted to fight those about him, showing
almost inhuman power.
The neighbors were called in, and bo was tied
abont the knees with straps and placed on the
floor. His agony was terrible. One convulsion
followed another, until be died from exhaus
tion. An experienced physician states that be
never witnessed death come in such terrible
agony. Lambkins was 19 years old, and well
known in this community, being of a good
family. He was always in good health and full
of vigor.
STATE NEWS NOTES.
The Reading Hardware Camping Club Is on
an outing with 155 members.
New Englanders have purchased land at
Morris for a manufacturing site.
Two girls in male disguises have tramped
from Kansas City to tneir former nome in Lu
zerne county.
Nobbistown physicians and undertakers re
cently held a conference in view of a summer
business boom.
A hungry horse tied in front of a Norris
town drygoods store devoured part of a box of
cheap straw hats.
A little girl in Scranton woke up a few
mornings ago to find ber sister, with whom she
bad been sleeping, a corpse.
Frank Crosby, a Detroit tailor, while try
ing to steal a ride on a Lake Shore train at
Erie, fell beneath it and lost one of his legs.
William Kuhl, a Reading expressman,
went to sleep in a cemetery, and upon waking
found two snakes basking in the sun at his
side.
The 105 tobacco factories in the First reve
nue district composing parts of Bucks, Ches
ter and Montgomery counties, manufactured
13,697,640 clears.
Governor Beaver daily receives letters
from a crank who thinks be own3 the earth and
who wants to collect tbe rent due from the
State of Pennsylvania.
The Chief of the WiUiamsport fire depart
ment bounced two of his men after the parade
on the Fourth. They am charged with being
under the influence of beer.
The State Board of Health has Issued a
series of precautionary circulars on scarlet ana
typhoid levers, contagious and infections dis
eases, school hygiene, consumption, and recom
mendations in regard to the care of infants.
The Pennsylvania Association of Fire Insur
ance Agents, which was formed in January last
at Harrisburg for tho promotion of harmony in
underwriting and the protection of insurance
agents, will hold its first annual reunion at the
Xogan House, Altoona, beginning on Wednes
day next
Isaao Heister, of Philadelphia, is vi3iting
friends In Harrisburg. Although 70 years of
age. he walked from Philadelphia to Hummels
town, at which point he was compelled to take"
a train on account of rain. On the first day he
walked 26 miles and on the last day 32 miles.
Tbe trip was made on foot In order to see tbe
country.
Attorney General Kirkpatbiok; has
entered suit in the Court of Common Pleas at
Harrisburg on behalf of tbe Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania against Piothonotary John W.
Mentzer, or Lancaster, and bis bqndsmen Al
lan W. Mentzer, of Ephrata, and William B.
Shirk, of Lancaster. The snlt is brought to
recover the tax'on writs due by the Protbono-
tary, and between w,wq and Jo.000 are Involved,
OUR MAIL POUCH.
A Plea for tbe Street Musician, the Street
Astronomer and the Swimmers How
River Bathing Conld bo Regulated
Prof. Broshear's Ideas on Recent Cru
nde. To tbe Editor or The Dispatch:
For some time past I have been noticing the
various restrictions placed npon a certain class
of our peonle by tbe city authorities which, to
my mind, are unjust unkind and in great
measure without the warrant of any good rea
son for doing so.
First came the banishment of tho street mu
sician. Including the usually good-natured or
gan grinder, with his monkey collector. I have
watched the crowds of little ones ragged and
perhaps dirty enjoying the mnsio and the
monkey, saw with what keen delight they
listened to the strains as they came from the
well-worn organ, now playing "The Watch on
the Rhine," again sending forth the melody of
"Old Folks at Home," then, with a touch of
the finger, would come forth the "Last Rose of
Summer," the sweet strains of which, even
from a hand organ, has caused many a musical
"connoisseur" to stop for a moment to listen.
But the far-seeing city fathers, who perhaps
have their pianos at home or can listen to the
sweet tones of a Thomas or Strauss Orchestra,
have seen fit to take away this music from the
poor for reasons that are scarcely worthy of
consideration.
A year or so since a telescope could be found
at some one of the prominent street corners on
any clear night where, for the small sum of 5
cents, tiio worklngman, or boy. or. Indeed, any
one, could have the pleasure of a peep at the
moon or tbe planet or some of the beauties of
tbe starry heavens. It is not so now. WbyT
Because, forsooth, a few persons anxious to see
and learn that whloh would make them better
and wiser, and give tbem a few,moments of
pleasure, would gather around the "street as
tronomer," ho must be banished. Well, thank
the Lord, he has not yet been chased away
from Allegheny, and I hope he never will, for I
consider tbe man with his telescope has done
more good and less harm than tbe thousand and
one street fakirs who are allowed to go "scot
free." I have never seen half tbe crowd around
thi3 telescope that I have seen aronnd saloons
not 100 yards from City Hall. Yet the saloon;
banish it? Ah, that would be sacrilege! fto;
banish the street astronomer; he is ruining
men, soul and bodyil
And now comes a later phase. We now have a
Natatorinm, for those who have tie requisite
2a cents: and it is grand, good thing, but with
the advent of this bathing place comes tbe
edict from those in antbozitv that thn nonr fel
low who hasn't a quarter can't bathe even in
the river! This certainly is the "unkindest cut
of all." The writer of this worked for 21 years
ju iuo roiung mm ana Knows iuii wen ine value
of a river bath altera hot sultry day in tbe
mill; and wben we look at the thousands of
tollers who work in front of hot furnaces in our
iron, steel and glass works, and then read the
edict that bathing in the river is prohibited, it
does look to me as It wo were dropping back
into the dark ages, and that our so-called "Com
mittee of Public gafsty" is a sort of Index ex
purgatorius. Now I am willing to admit that all these
things should be guarded by those in authority
in a proper manner; but I do think it a shame
to carry it to the extent it is being carried, and
all to the cost of tbat class who are illy able to
bear it Because one man drinks a heavy
draught of ice water and it kills him, is no
reason that every man should be stopped from
using ice water; and because now and then a
drowning case occurs, there is no reason why
bathing should be prohibited. I presume, bow
ever, the ostensible reason for stopping the
river bathing is because of some loafers expos
ing themselves: but should the decent be made
to suffer for tbem? Certainly not
I would suggest this method: Let several
places along the rivers be selected, and if neces
sary screens of common hemlock lumber be
put up, and let it be required of all bathers
over ten or twelve years of age to wear a
"breech cloth" or short bathing suit easily and
cheaply made by cutting off a pair of drawers
above tbe knees. Places should be selected
where there would be a minimum of danger to
the younger ones. I would suggest a model
Elace i. e., the "bar" abont two hundred yards
elow the Allegheny end of the Union bridge.
Here there are bnt one or two bouses near the
bank, and they are perhaps a hundred vards
from tbe present shore. The water is shallow
enough near tbe shore for new beginners, and
ucep euougn ianner out ior tnose wno love to
swim. Thirty years ago, when employed at
Zug & Painters' rollinc mill I would go over to
mis Dar in a skid, tage wnat was to me a glo
rious swim, after a hard day's work, then spend
an hour or two studying tbe stars, which I
conld not see at the base of "Coal Hill."
It's a grand place, gentlemen, for a free nata
torium: and I am sure our city fathers over
here will not object Come cow, look to the
needs of the toiling thousands, who lire in
tenement houses, not blessed witha bathroom
and who can illy afford money to pay for a bath
at the Natatorinm. Let tbe boys learn to
swim. Or go a step further, provide freo-batb
bouses for botb sexes. While you are provid
ing e many luxuries in tbe way of free parks,
free conservatories,f ree libraries, free galleries
of art grand,good things In themselves do not
forget free bathing, and tbat cleanliness is
next to godliness, and tbat water should be as
free as air when nsed for such a purpose. Yes.
and give it, ye who consider it a wrong to sell
soda water on the Sabbatb. Give it without
the soda and syrup, cooled so as to be palatable
to tbe thirsty traveler. I was delighted to see
a barrel of cool, refreshing water in the vesti
bule of tbe Smlthfleld Street Methodist
Church last Sabbatb, free for all; and I thought
of those beautiful words, "And whosoever
shall give unto one of these little ones a cup of
cold water only in tbe name of a disciple, verily
I say unto you he shall in nowise lose bis re
ward." I hope, dear editor, tbat my humble
plea will be of some avail. Itniav seem a
trifling matter to those who have always en
joyed these privileges, but I know it is not such
to those for whom I am pleading.
J. A. Brashear.
Allegheny, July 5.
Loyal to Beaver Couniy.
To tbe Editor of The Dispatch:
Your New Castle correspondent, in speaking
of the nomination of McDowell, uses the fol
lowing sentence: "The Beaver county delega
tion was completely demoralized at the deser
tion of Messrs. Shallenbergor and Reed, who
had charge of that delegation," etc This is
untrue. Messrs. Shallenberger and Reed la
bored diligently and earnestly to bring suffi
cient delegates to Mr. Townsend to assnre his
success, and tbey did everything that men
could do to nommato him, a thing tbey were
both anxious to do. Tbe charge of bad faltt,
when they both remained with tbe delegation
at a great personal sacrifice, in order to benefit
this valley, could only come from tbe man who
was determined to punish Beaver county for
being loyal to her own candidate at the pri
maries. Tbese gentlemen incurred his enmity
because be was strlviuc; to frustrate bis deen
laid plans to defeat Mr. Townsend. Bearer
county went into tbat convention and asked
only what she had always extended to other
counties, namely, two terms for a Congress
man and true to party usage. Beaver county
would have won or lost by voting for Mr.
Townsend, first last and all tbe time, bad she
not been betrayed. I mao this explanation not
only in justice to the above named gentlemen,
but as a member of tbe Beaver delegation and
a personal friend of Mr. Townsend. M,
New Brighton, July 5.
To Settle n Dispute.
To the Editor or The Dispatch:
Will yon kindly settle a disputed question by
informing me through the columns of your
paper whether a person desiring to enter the
medical or legal professions is required to have
a knowledge of Latin or not? Also, are there
doctors or lawyers in your city who take
students, and what is their compensation gen
erally? Query.
Etna, July 5.
A knowledge of Latin is necessary. Many
lawyers and doctors in this city have students
in their offices. Tho compensation is a pro
fessional secret
EEB AOE IS 103.
A Manchester Lady Reaches Over the
Century Mark.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kuebn, of Manchester, York
county, who has jurt been enumerated by tbe
census taker. Is no doubt the oldest person in
tbe county, being over 103 years old. If she
lives till next november sbe will be 103 years
old. Her maiden came was Qnickei, and she
was born in Manchester township, York county.
Rho has been a widow upwards of 40 years. She
never had any children. She is lame in one leg,
having received a cut while younc Her health
is good, and she retains a good sound memory,
and can read without glasses. And what is a
remarkable thine; for an old lady of her age,
she has a remarkable head of hair, of a dark
color, nearly black, and reaches down to her
knees, and not a white balr on her head. Mrs.
Knehn is certainly a very remarkable old lady,
and we hope sbe may lire to be enumerated in
the next census of 1900. Her youngest brother
is 83 years olo
A Itlnniclpnr Frrak.
jrrom a Minnesota Exchange.
A city has been dlscorered wblch admits that
its census has been accurately taken. A dime
museum manager if trying to capture It to add
to his other natural curiosities.
A FINE SOLDXBB.
Sergeant Connor Deserts Victoria and
Swears Allegiance to Uncle Sam.
From the V ew York Telegram.:
"He that fights and runs away will lire to
fight another day."
Thomas Connor landed here yesterday by the
National Line steamer tbe Queen, from Liver
pool. Connor gallantly fought tbe wars of
Great Britain for several years, and served
with great distinction In the Soudan war and
the Zulu campaign. He was promoted to ser
geant and was in receipt of good pay. But the
blind god smote the bandsome sergeant prior
to his departure for the Soudan, and through
out that long and arduous campaign he cher
ished an unswerving attachment to his first
and only love. Tbe brlghKyed Dublin girl,
however, did not believe in hopelessly waiting
for her soldier boy fighting for his country.
Instead she encouraged a young man ot good
family in Dublin to pay ber attentions.
So It fell ont tbat upon tbe warrior's return
he heard rumors of the faithlessness of his
inamorata. Ha waited and watched for events
and was not kept long In suspense. He soon
met the faithless girl walking out with her
newer love and the gallant sergeant bad bis Ire
roused. He sailed in and proceeded to do up
the "broth of a bhoy" who had dared to sup
plant him. After performing cleansing opera
tions on the sidewalk with his victim he walked
to tbe barracks, changed his clothes and bade
farewell forever to the noble Eighteenth.
Henceforth' be is an outlaw. He had served 8
years and had 13 years more to serve, and if
ever he returns to the Green Isle over the sea
he will do time in the military confine. When
Connor realized what he had done he went
down to Queenstnwn and shipped in the Queen,
At tbe Barge office to-day bis fine appearance
commanded Immediate attention. On bis
breast be bore the medal "for bravery," the
clasp f or Af rlcanjsemce.and tbe goldinedal for
the Soudan war. Connorwas given tbe choice
of a dozen good positions, bnt be said be wonld
S refer to go a soldiering. An attendant at tbe
arge office went with him to tbe recruiting
office, at West and Courtland streets, where he
renounced bis allegiance and was sworn to
serve under tbe Star Spangled flag.
JHTB ONLY FALUNS.
He Was a Good Barber. Bat Was Fearfully
Absent Minded.
"Yes," said the proprietor of an up-town bar
ber shop, "Jim was a good workman, but I had
to get rid of him."
"What was the trouble?"
"He was too absent minded and forgetfnl.
One old fellow, with a head like a billiard ball,
be never failed to ask if he didn't want a sham
poo. Another bald-headed old chap got mad
because Jim Insisted upon sellln' him a bottle
of 'elixir1 that was warranted to keep the hair
from fallln' out; an' a young man, who was
slightly under the Influence of beer, fell asleep
In the chair an' Jim shaved off bis moustache.
I had to call a policeman then. Ha cut one
man's ear nearly off while watching a dog fight
in the street, an' sometimes he wonld rub hair
oil over a customer's face instead of bis bead,
an' fill bis ears full of lather and forget to wipe
it out Jim didn't mean nothin wrong, but as
I said, he was absent minded. You remember
when old Deacon Jones died?"
"Yes."
"Well, the family sent for a barber to sbave
him an' I told Jim to go up. It was that job
tbat lost him bis situation. He did tbe work
all right nobody ever found fault with Jim's
work; but wben be bad put on tbe finishing
touches an pulled tbe towel off the poor olu
deacon, Le turned 'round an' shouted 'Next!'
so that people heard blm a block away. So I
tola Jim that I guessed I'd have to let him go."
HOUSE DECOBAXIONS.
Butterflies Ploying an Important Part
In
Same.
From the Illustrated American. 3
Butterflies are playing a part of Increasing
importance in house decoration. Some young
lady discovered that from the plainest cocoon a
handsome butterfly may grow, that the cocoons
require no care, and that the butterflies may be
mounted in an infinity of ways, so as to add to
the beauty of tbe household. This discovery
has also led to an increased study of natural
history in many families.
It has also been discovered tbat the electric
lights in tbe streets attract great numbers of
bandsome moths, butterflies and other insects,
with aesthetic possibilities, and this has further
stimulated tbe using of such new materials in
fancy work. As many of tbe insects measure
four inches from tip to tip of tbe wings, a few
of them make a very good showing on curtains,
screens, shades or other backgrounds.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Your Honor, I ba'nt got a word to say In my de
fense; You've listened to the painful facts, bqt ef it's no
offense
I'll tell you In a simple way I ain't great on the
Ulk
"H hyfore a gray old chap like me wanted to "cut
tbe sulk."
It's forty year since me and Ruth wui tied as man
and wife,
And nary mortal ever bad a truer mate for life.
In all them years we never nad a word as you'd
call cross
(Barrln' the Christmas Day sbe brnk the knees of
, Jen, the boss).
We growed up like a elm that runs two stems from
tbe samo bole;
Sometimes I thought tbat over yond we'd on'y
have one soul!
I neverdone a thing 1 didn't ask her 'pinion fast
And orner than you think I found my own way
wax the wust.
When nabers asked me how's my farm I'd c'rect
'em say 'twas her'n,
That Ruth done all tbe thlnkln' work and I wuz
tbar to learn.
She saved and saved and paid and paid until the
place wuz clear
poor gal, she didn't 'ipect 'twould go so soon ter
th' auctioneer!
We neverlad no chlllen, barrin' Zacb, and,hewer
bad;
Cat off Pm home and went to N' York to larn to
write and add:
Bald me and mother bedn't sense ter come In out
tbe rain!
I 'spect he's dead, or docterln', p'r'aps, for
grammer on the brain.
That's years and years and years ago; but Rath
she never blamed
The lad as gave ns np acos of home he was
ashamed.
Sbe larnt me how to write quite good, a-sayln' as
onr Zach
'ud be so proud his father knowed so much when
he got back.
Bnt Zach he'd tbrowed ns np for good; and so fer
many years
His mother's heart wnz wearln' down with floods
ofsecret tears.
I offen catched ber weepin when I come in fer my
tea.
And 1 thinks, poor' lass, you're breakln fast
with too mnch constancy."
One stormy day sbe stayed l'bed, and I sat by her
side.
(The rain came down like Al'gra.) Ijast sat tear
and cried.
For she talked of sunny meadows, seemed ter bear
sweet songs afar.
And I knowed the Lord had sent down word He
wanted her up thar.
Then when she fetched aronnd a bit she says ter
me. says she,
"Don't be too crosst with Zach and practice on
that cap' talD.
I'll tell the Lord how good you wuz: although He
hears and sees.
And knows we never had no word 'cept 'bout
that boss's knees."
It ketched me In a tender p'lnt ter see her thar so
sick,
Troublen' about my wrltln' and about my rith-
metlc.
Bhe took my band, we kissed goodby and 'ranged
ter meet agen
Where tears Is tears of gladness and death can't
enter in.
Your Honor, when I'd burled her my life was
struck with blight:
There weren't a blame thing round the farm that
I could 'tend to right
My thoughts weren't thar. One day I took the
hots ter get a shoe.
And woke up standln by the stun readln' 4Iaged
sixty-two."
And so at last I selled the farm and went ter find
that lad,
Thlnkln that p'r'aps he'd growed out of bis
shame fer his old dad.
for twenty months I've s'arched and s'arched
and end up now In H' York,
All gone too poor ter drive around and much too
tired to walk.
And then, oh, blessed God! I'm glad ye sped that
ballet wide.
There'd be'n a tear in hev'n If I bad died a
suicide.
w
His Honor's fainted! Water here! Where la my
specks? Jeewack!
Ruth. Kntb! look down fromParadlsel I've found
aim. Here's: our Zacb I
Thomas Frost, in Rev lork Herald.
CUBI0US CONDENSATIONS.
A barn near Pairmount, N. J., is cov
ered, It is said, by shingles tbat were put oa It
when the structure was built in 178L
In a cemetery at Eoadstown, N. J., on
an old tombstone, is this inscription: "As
I am so you must be; tell no lies, but follow
me."
According to the American Geologist,
the largest gold mine In tbe world is in Alaska.
It is lighted throughout by electricity, ana is
worked day and night
Mr. Walter Besant has been accused
by an alleged author of having hypnotized him
and having extracted from him when in that
condition tbe entire, story, word for word,
of the novelette entitled "Tho Doubts: of
Dives."
A new and popular development of
eleclrlcaljscience is the electrical balr curler.
It Is said to be equal' to tbe most exacting de
mands of tbe feminine coiffure, and the beard
or mustache can be curled in any style in two
minutes.
Mr. McGrath, of 'Woodford, E., pos
sesses a remarkable feline. His cat was born
with only three legs, and as soon as the kit
ten became large enough to leave its mother
be constructed a wooden leg and successfully
adjusted tt
A Kansas doctor recently reported to
his medical society a case of poisoning which he
attributea to tbe patient's babitof putting the
end of. bis leadpencil in bis mouth. Of course,
the patient didn't know that there is no lead
in a lead penclL
An immense double watermelon at
tracted attention In a Unlontown grocery.
Double watermelons are exceedingly rare and
all who saw this, inclndinz a Southern darky,
wbo has seen many a melon patch, declared It
the first they had ever seen.
There is a real floating island in Nor
way Lake, Me. It has an area of one and one
eighth acres, formed of a quagmire made up of
a mass of roots, weeds and fibers and a growth
of small trees. It bas for years been a breed
ing place for hens, ducks and other birds.
There Is a very curious stone about
which very little is ever heard. Is is called the
"Alexandrite," in honor of Alexander of Rus
sia, who was very fond of them. In tbe day
time they resemble an emerald, except that
tbey are somewhat darker, but at night they
are a deep purplish red.
One of the queer coincidences of thu
census is reported from Eastern Maine, where
the gain in population in two cities for the past
ten years is exactly the same. Brewer's popu
lation was 3,170 in 188a and is now 4,095. Calais
bad 0,175 persons in 1880, and now bas 7,100, the
gain in each case being 925.
The French Postofflce Department is
examining a new and original system for dis
tributing newspapers through the malls. Every
publication Is to provide the central postofflce
with the list of its subscribers, and every num
ber is to be sent to the subscribers without
wrappers or printed address.
Mrs. Carl Dimble, of Cincinnati, has
given birth to twins, one of wblch has two
large lower front teeth at least an eighth of an
inch in length and perfectly formed. Th
teeth are of a pearly whiteness, and look as
natural as a child of C or 8 years. There have
been eases where there was one tooth when a
child was born, but never before when there
were twins.
A Maine census enumerator called at a
house in his district where the lady of the
house was the only one at home to reply to his
questions. She gave the necessary answe:
anu uescnDea ner own cniidren what, ihA
added, "But I am a second wife, and there wdra
several cnimren Dymy husband's first wif
"Oh, never mind them." aid the official, "'
don't go back as far as that" ,
Jerome Tuttledied at the insane asy'
at Mllledgeviile Sunday. Tuttle has .been
the asylum only a short while, caused by
cessive drinking. He was one of the great.
circus men who ever lived, beinir cbampio'
tumbler of the world for many years. He was
tbe first man wbo ever turned a double somer
sault and one of tbe only one3 to turn a triple.
He also ranked very high as a trapeze actor
ana oareoacK riuer.
Cora Myrtle Carpenter, of Hannibal,
Mo., known as "tbe child medium," It years of
age, is creating asensation In tbe West by ber
"inspired" lectures. She talks learnedly on
subjects- suggested by her audience, such as
"Progression," "Why was Jesus Called the
Messiah?" "Is the Human Spirit Immortal?"
eto. Sbe recently spoke an hour on one of
these subjects and astonished ber hearers by
tbe masterly manner In which she treated it
The ancient story of the sentinel-at, ,
Versailles posted to prevent thepubAo, froni. 5
coming against a newly painted wall. Ana kept
there In succession for 50 years or more after
tbe paint had dried, is matched at Windsor
Castle. The organ in that establishment
originally required two men to blow it Now
an engine does tbe work. All the Bame, the
two men report to the organist every day for
duty at the same hour, and probably will con
tinue so to report until the castle tumbles to
pieces. To suspend the "function would Im
peril the British constitution.
Rev. E. H. Lawrence, of "Wisconsin,
was presented with a Bible many years ago,
which he carried through the war. He always
carried it in his coat pocket At the battle of
Kennesaw Mountain a bullet struck tbe Rev.
Mr. Lawrence on his left side, penetrating his
coat and shirt then into bis Bible, stopping at
Isaiah 111. 7. Strange to say, the Bible saved his
life, and he preserved the book with tbe bullet
in it until his death. Tbe first sermon he ever
preached be took tbe verse at which the bullet
stopped for pis text and preached the sermon
at Antiocn church, Morgan couniy.
James Nugent and two sons, wbo own a
farm near Lockpon, N. Y., a few days ago bad
a thrilling experience with a huge black snake.
Tney were going to the barn with a load of hay,
when suddenly one of the boys espied tbe ser
pent moving along a path. The snake was a
giant of its species, and wben one of the sons
jabbed a pitchf oik through its bead a hot fight
ensued. Tbe snake curled its huge body
arouna tne Doys teg, ana so tigntiy aia is
squeeze that it causa the flesh to swell np in
ridges. The boy held its head, with tbe fork,
however, and the father, getting a hatchet
inflicted such Injuries as to cause the reptile's
death.
Thousands of Southern negroes wear
the cast-off clothing of New Yorkers. Such
clothing Is bonght for little or nothing by ped
dlers, who sell it to wholesalers in the central
European quarter. The wholesalers clean,
patch and press the garments, arrange tbem ac
cording to sizes in dozens and await the South
ern merchants. Tbe latter cdtna from Wash
ington, Richmond, Charleston, Mobile and
half a dozen other considerable cities and buy
as best they may. Tbe wholesalers sell on 90
days' credit and if one merchant does not offer
fair prices tbey await tbe coming of others.
Nobody's profits are extraordinarily large, bat
those of thu Southern retailer are probably
tbe best
EIGHT GOOD LAUGHS.
She Was Afraid "Ahl" exclaimed
Fangle, "1 begin to smell a rat 1"
Where?" screamea nis wue, jumping oa
chair." Urate Magazmc.
Mrs. K. Did you notice how high the
thermometer was when you came In, Charles.
Knobsoa I never was good at measurements,
my dear, but I should say about five fleet. Anur
lean Grocer,
Customer Here, waiter, I give you
threepence for yourself: now tell me what you
wonld recommend with a clear conscience.
Walter (in a confidential whisper) Go to
another restaurant ! Fliegends Blatter,
His Fiancee Isn't this a lovely engage
ment ring that Charley gave me ?
His Sister -Yes, dear, and I hope you wui be
careful of it I only loaned It to the dear boy.
Drake's Uagaiint,
Jersey Conductor (in rear of sloved-up
train) What's that blamed fool swinging a red
lantern for?
Engineer (in muffled tones ahead) Reavensl
What a narrow escape! A Hoboken mosquito
plumb dead on the track I-American Grocer.
Tbey were playing kissing games.
"You shan't kiss me," sbe said.
"It Is my right"
"You insist?"
"I do."
"Give e then five minutes, Ibeg."
"What for."
To take ether." SiutonTranscript,
New Father-in-Law Well, sir, the cere
mony Is over, and now that you are tbe husband
of my daughter 1 want to give you a little advice.
What would you do if you should wake up son: j
night and and burglars in the house?
Bridegroom I should tell them that my father-in-law
forgot to give my wife a wedding dowry,
and they'd go away. London Tit-Hits.
Jimmy Blinks Wuz your ma mad when
she found you went In swlmmln Sunday? Did she
lick yer?
Johnny Straddles (dolefully) Wass!
Jkamy-Bhutytrinytrroom. did she?
Johnny Wusser'n that!
Jimmy (puzzled) What did she do tbat wax
wass?
Johnny Promise not ter tell It I show yon?
Jimmy-Cross my neck!
Johnny (taking off bis hat)-Look at that!
his mother bad given bin a
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