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The Fifty-first Congress has had a, good deal of solid work to do, and although Speaker Seed has ex pedited business with an ax, as it were, it is now semi-ofucially announced that there will be no adjournment until September. She progress of legislation has not been very promising lately. Yesterday the Senate took up the silver question and agreed to accept much less than they asked for in the free coinage bill. The silver men insisted upon a very substantial addition to the present coinage ot silver, bat the free coinage, and the bullion redemption features were eliminated from the measure. Prob ably the bill will reach the President's hands in the shape that the Senate has now given to it. To procure action upon the silver bill the "Western Senators compelled again the post ponement of the debate upon the tariff. These delays are extremely injurious to the industries of the country, and the Senators from Pennsylvania should bestir themselves in behalf of tbe McKinley bill. It does not appear that Senators Quay and Cameron have a very clear idea of what they are in the Senate for. The tariff bill ought to be taken up without more ado, although we fear that there is considerable truth in tbe report that it is to be knifed in the house of its friends. A cyclone swept down upon Fargo in Xorth Dakota yesterday, and a number of lives were lost and much property damaged. As soon as the hot weather has fairly set in these extraordinary atmospheric disturb ances may be looked for in tbe Northwest, The cyclone is one of the crops that tbe Dakotas would be glad to dispense with. As the country becomes more thickly settled it is to be hoped that the policy of planting trees will be energetically iollowed. The country around Fargo ig unusually flat and there is nothing to break or impede the furious onset of wind storms. Pittsburg has never been intimate with cyclones, thanks to the lofty battlements of her en circling hills. THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT. The strike of Pullman car porters for wages enough to live on, independent of the mild blackmail which these servicable gen tlemen levy on the traveling public, has brought out indignant comments from the press. Very sharp though not unjustifiable language is used on the policy of a great corporation which pays its men from $15 to $25 per month, and forces them to rely for the rest of their living on the tips extracted from people who have already paid large prrees for their accommodations. But, while the severity of these criticisms is not at all out of proportion, they are in adequate in failing either to fix the responsibility or indicate the remedy. Such methods by which greedy corporations levy unjustly on the public will never be stopped until we Ece that the people who are responsible for it are those who pay the tips. They may distribute the tips merely out of weak good nature or from vulgar ostentation; but both the cause and the remedy of this ability on the part of a great and wealthy corporation to Bet its servants begging of the pnblic, is shown by the fact that if the public did not pay tips the sleeping car company could not et porters to work for it at 15 or (25 monthly. It is not likely that the patrons of the Pullman cars will either withdraw their patronage or refuse to give tips, as a measure of correction; but it may help to a clear understanding of tbe matter to have it plainly asserted that every time they give a tip, tbey lend practical support to the Pull man scheme of paying half of what would he starvation wages, and making the em ployes strike the public for the rest of their living. NEEDS CF THE CITY. Considering the trying heat Chief Brown, of tbe Department of Public Safety, is wonderfully energetic and enterprising these days. He starts a reform or outlines an ad dition to the resources of his department almost every day. "With tbe thermometer a thing of horror yesterday he revived the scheme to have a fire and police patrol boat on the rivers, and indicated tbe need for a municipal hospital. The patrol boat, with fire engine powers, would certainly be usef ah If the city conld obtain it, as Mr. Brown suggests, without increasing the expendi tures of the fire department to any great extent, there can be no objection. As to the hospital, the need for such an Institution has been shown on many occasions, ana its es tablishment would mean the saving of many lives. Chief Brown's activity is to good purpose. IN CASE OF WAR. The defenseless condition of our coast cities forms the burden of a serial song by ti. Nw York Bin-aid. After having de voted previous attention to the ability of a J HieB foreign fleet to shell New York and Boston, last Sunday's Berald made the same show ing with regard to Portland. It is clear enough that a fleet of ironclads could with out danger from the old fashioned forts lie outside the harbors, and shell thesecities at their leisure. It is evident that these articles on our un defended condition in case of war, take the most sensational aspect of the possibilities; but yet it does not tell the whole story. The loss to our seaboard cities from being shelled would uot be so imminent or great, as the loss from the destruction of commerce. It is not now considered within tho practices of civilized warfare to shell unfortified cities; and it is less probable that any foreign fleet would do that, than that it would leave a few vessels outside of each port and stop its commerce. If we should get into a fight with England, for example, the certainty that commerce would be stopped and New York blockaded would make it really of but secondary importance whether New York was shelled or not. The bombardment of Charleston during our Civil War, did not inflict as great injury on it as the blockade ol its commerce. It will thus be seen that an adequate de fense of our coast cities must enable us to concentrate in front ot each point to be defended, a naval force greater than any foreign power can send there. That would necessitate the creation of a navy equal to that of France or Germany, if not of En gland. It would be impossible to do this except alter the work of years, and when such a navy was built it might be found that some naval power had progressed by new inventions as far ahead of us, as they now are. At all events, it is well to recog nize that for a good while yet the United States may be unable to possess, even on its own coasts, a navy prepared to cope with the battleships ot any of the four naval powers of Europe. That being the case, and while the build ing of a navy is going on, it is well to in quire what other means of protection we can rely upon. "We have for three quarters of a century been fortunately clear of armed strife with foreign nations. This is due to our remoteness from the usual subjects of continental foreign enmities. It will not do to rely upon this safeguard too implicitly; but it is reinforced at present by the fact that the cessation of commerce between Europe and America would be as great a calamity to Europe as to this country. The chief naval power of the world could not afford to have the United States shut off from European communications much better than the United States could. Any other nation wit'i a navy would have less reason to attack us than to maintain peace. There is full ground for the belier, therefore, that if we build a navy large enough to make it an unpleasant task to attack us, and rely upon the policy of justice and honesty in dealing with foreign nations, we can pre serve for another century the happy and peaceful relations with the rest of the world that have existed for the greater part of this century. It is no more than common sense, how ever, to remember that a nation whose great seaports are absolutely undefended, should proceed only with the certainty or being right in the seizure of the subjects of a great naval power in disputed waters. To goad England into hostilities, and thus sacrifice New York tor the sakelof tbe Bearing Sea monopoly, would be the most modern case of monumental stupidity on record. The United States should finder all circum stances firmly and absolutely insist upon .its. rights; but it should te sure that its' de mancts are bonc-jida in the .national in terests. A VETO THROWN AWAY. The farce of pretending to legislate upon an outrage to all law, tbe Louisiana State lottery is nearing the tag. The State Legis lature having passed the bill for its owners, the Lottery Company, Governor Nichols vetoed it yesterday. We trust that Governor Nichols did this without considering the certainty of the Legislature's passing the bill over his veto. A veto was never better placed, but it will be of no avail. The lottery company is a polyp that has fas tened its tentacles upon the whole State of Louisiana. Tbe only protection for the country lies in Congress. We trust Mr. Wanamaker will press for larger powers to fight this Southern enemy. A great deal of its power for evil may he cut off by stringent postal regulations. CHINA MAY DO THE SAME. The declaration of the Chinese Embassa dor at Washington, that if onr Chinese ex clusion law is kept up, there will be a similar exclusion of citizens of the United States from China, is an indication of the result to which anti-Chinese legislation has been steadily tending. It would be a strange commentary on the changes of the past forty years, if the nation which, in the fifties, was foremost in opening up the com merce of China and Japan, should now turn out to have set the example for China to re turn to her old delusiveness, so far as the citizens of this country are concerned. Of course no one can deny the right of China to shut up her territory to Americans, just as we have shut up ours to the Chinese. Thirty-five years ago it would have been re garded as insanity to suppose that the loss to common labor by Chinese com petition could over-balance that to skilled labor by the closing of the Chinese market. It may be galling to our national pride to be reminded that Ameri cans in China have for a generation been doing exactly what we charge tbe Chinese with doing here, namely, making a fortune and returning to their own country. But the fact Is that American interests in China have sunk in importance so that tbey will hardly be weighed against the labor ques-' tions involved in the admission of the Chi nese. The Government can better afford the loss of all Chinese commercial relations than the admission of Chinese labor into this country. It is probable, therefore, that China and the United States will build up the absolute wall of exclusion between each other. But such a result of our legislation may well re vive the question asked by Bret Harte's Nye, in connection with the Heathen Chinee: "It civilization a failure?" The Signal Service officers inform us that yesterday was bnt a moderately hot day, a mere ninety-oner in the shade. Bnt the popular im pression will prevail that yesterday was a stun ner in tbe way of heat. Numerous paragraphers are remarking that the admission ot Idaho and Wyoming as States and tbe conversion of Brazil into a re public, hare created a panic among the map makers, on account of tbe changes which they have to make in their maps. Yet If these esteemed eotemporaries would take the trouble to examine tbe maps already out, tbey would find tbeTerritories Indicated by their names and outlines just as the Btates are, and that not the slightest change, is necessary to designate tbem correctly. The same is trne of Brazil, whose outlines or position on the map have not been changed by tbe deposition of Dom Pedro. The geographies which designate these States as Territories will have to be re vised, though even in their case it would be THE premature to describe as a republic, tho country of Brazil wbero were is nenuei wvwu. icyio sentation or freedom of speech. The inquest at Dunbar seems likely to result in some discoveries or importance. When the evidence is all in tbe responsibility for the disaster will be assigned more clearly than it Is at present The customary outcry oer Fourth of July accidents is thought by the Philadelphia Times to be inapposite because "nre will burn upon that glorious anniversary as well as upon any other day, and fools who hold their bands over the muzzles of pistols are as liable to get hurt on the Fourth as throughout the year." True-enough; but there is nevertheless con siderable pertinence in the suggestion that for a whole nation to join In making fools of them selves on the national anniversary is not very wise; and that it is not a good way to celebrate onr independence by sacrificing life and limb to exhibit our slavery to the fetish of the Chinese fire-cracker. Gov. Hill declares that there are no oft years in politics. Tbe Governor believes with Richelieu, that all time is proper for the Presidenttl candidate to get In his work. Two different stories are afloat concern ing the census in the South. One is promul gated by the Chicago Berald to the effect that the census enumerators are all negroes and won't count tbe white trash. The other is that the Republican leaders have ordered that, since the negroes are not counted in the vote. they shall not be counted in tbe census. Between the two stories tho country maybe called upon to observe tbe phenomenon of an entire disappearance of population in the South. No man deserves a monument in Schen ley Park more than tbe late R B. Carnaban. He strove to obtain tbe first park for Pittsburg with heart and soul. "The Cabinet is somewhat scattered just now, but the Government goes on with its ac customed smoothness and success." This statement by the esteemed Philadelphia Press is Intended to be laudatory of tbe Cabinet. But if the Government goes right on, in the absence of tbe cabinet, does not the natural Inference follow that tbe members of that lofty body are about as necessary to tbe work of real Government as tbe fifth wheel to a wagon? Fishing for sealskins causes trouble in domestic circles when tbe cold weather begins. Bebrlcg Sea difficulty may come to a crisis in midsummer. The supporters of Mr. Harter, the Ohio abolisber of custom houses, have not yet deter mined whether he shall be the Speaker of the next Honse or the Democratic candidate for Vice President. Until that is settled custom houses will continue in their pernicious ac tivity. If it is any consolation to know it, we did not come within ten degrees of tbe maximum temperature in some Western cities yesterday. The Detroit people who required the statues at their Museum of Art to be put in clothes may be expected to complete their rec ord by covering the legs of their pianos and developing positive objections to tbe naked truth. Afteb a brief vacation for the national holiday tho hot wave is getting in its work once more. Beallt If the Players" League team in this city keeps up its victorious gait wo shall fall to calling its members "The Plttsburgs." A nine with a knack for victory is what we have sighed for these many years. PEOPLE OF NOTE. Jaits WnjtTCOMB Riley found the musical .meter 'of 'bis Hendrick's ode in Browning's "Lost Leader." Gilbert, the English dramatist, "begins his literary work at abont midnight, and keeps on writing until the sun bas risen. He is a great consumer of cigarettes. Mrs. Gbadt, tbe widow of tbe Southern orator, is at White Sulphur Springs with her two children. The elder Is a manly boy of IS, tbe younger is a pretty little glrL Sin John Millais, tbe great English artist, bas curly hair that is hardly touched with gray and bright eyes that do not show any trace ot their affliction that of long sightod ness. Mlllals' terms for a portrait are 15,000. Among the passengers arriving from Havre at New York Saturday on tbe steamer La Bre tagne were tbe Chinese Minister to tho United States, Spain and Peru, the Secretary of the Chinese Legation at Washington, and Miss Winnie Davis. THE late Wirt Dexter, of Chicago, once made a remark that it bad been tbe ambition of bis life to kill 50 mallard ducks in one day, and that he bad spent 20.000 trying to do It. He eventually succeeded and at his death be had a record of 135 ducks a day. United States Ministeb Snowden likes tbe Government and the people of Greece, but not tbe country. As be luckily represents the United States in Roumanla and Sorvia, as well as in Greece, be is enabled to leave Athens in tbe hot season and seek a cooler clime. Donald C. Mitchell, who bas for 40 years past endeared himself to American readers as "Be Marvel," Is now 6S years of age. He lives quietly at "Edgewood," which has been bis home since 1855, and which be has rendered so famous by his writings. . Bismarck's bedroom contains only three pieces of furniture an enormous wash hand stand, a small camp bedstead and a bootjack. There used to be a couple of hair brushes. "Take tbem away," said the Prince a few years ago; "a towel will do to part my hair nowa days." The superintendent of tbe Bible class ot tho Philadelphia Bethany Presbyterian Church has completed arrangements tor an excursion to Ocean City, N. J., next Friday, July 1L Tbe excursion is given n honor of Mr. Wana maker's birthday and will be the occasion of the formal opening of the new Home by tbe sea. Count Dillon's friends say he bas been compelled to go into trade to make good tbe money losses he sustained in trying to make General Boulauger dictator of the Republic As Dillon made his money by dealing in horses and assumed the title of Count to aid him in horsey transactions, tbe fall does not seem to be a great one. . AN AGONIZING DAY. Tbe Manner In Which Dire. Llpplncott Spent Sanday In Jnll. t From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Mrs. Llpplncott spent her first Sunday in jail yesterday, and to say that It was an agonizing one for tbe former mistress of one ot Atlantic City's finest hotels is putting it mildly. One year ago she ate her meals served in course; yesterday she partook of the same common prison fare as the other prisoners. Ever since her Incarceration in the Camden jail she bas bad a horror of parsons who were anxious to gaze on ber. To avoid this she bas placed tbe sette upon which she sleeps in such a position that no matter bow a visitor looks in the grat ing of the door leading into tbe female depart ment of the prison a glimpse at her counte nance cannot be had. When she landed in the county jail her finances amounted to $1 19. Flvr of n Kind. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Five Jacks standing in a group in the cor ridor of the Glrard House last night were 'made the subject ot numerous jokes on ithe poker order. Tbey were Messrs. John J. King, John Burns, John F. Bnnis, John Elmore and John Dnnn, of Pittsburg, delegates to the re cent Democratic convention. They came to tbe city together yesterday, and spent tbe day observing tbe architectural views of Philadel phia. Both Rontca Lend to Death. From the Philadelphia Kecord. The fool who drives recklessly across grade crossings is running a close race this summer with tbe man who swims out fearlessly at tbe seaside resorts. Botb get to kingdom come by tne fastest sort oi rapid transit PrJTTjgg.pTFArrn G0SSIP.AB0UT ROYALTY, The DUe of c.are.co nd the P..rn,- Old Clothes-Everyday Habll. of the Emperor. TE,,n,!enhl?C0nferred e dignity ot a PrincePAIbtvLthB Unlted m P dale and Earl nf a ..?. C,a.rence an Avon- matterot course arln.?H A, ? Queen's loyal subjects. In such cases th ,Z lection of titles is a point that alwava arn.l. and legitimately arouses, a -cerSin o5r.?.s,!l' The revival of the Cukedom offaran JirtTi gratify those who value the preserVaUon of titles that have left a mark tmon thi pages of English history? Although or! iginally an Irish dignity, derived from th "honor" of Clare, the dukedom of ciwenceia an English title by ancient association,? It was first conferred by Edward 1H. in 138?Spon one of his sons. But thepnnce with whom the title is most familiarly connected in Enellsh annals Is that of Duke Clarence, whose tradi tional fate, as well as the expressive words of Shakespeare that serve as his eitaph, is known to every school boy. It will be remembered that after .the title had been extinct for more than three hundred years, George IU. revived it In favor of bis third son. Prince William afterward William IV. Moreover, the late Duke ot Albany was Earl of Clarence In addi tion to bis other titles: and here It Is remark able that what had always been before a duke dom dwindled to tbe dimensions of an earldom Avondale. to which, conjointly with Clarence, the dukedom is made appurtenant, is presum ably the Lanarkshire parish which contains the fine historical ruin of Avondale Castle, while tbe earldom of Athlone is a title which became extinct as recently as 1S41 It is, of conrsr, as the Duke of Clarence that Prince Albert Victor will be known during the lifetime of tbe Queen and Prince of Wales, and thus he will bear a title which two mem bers of his family have borne already. Tbe history, however, ot the young Prince's new dignities is of less account than the reflection that tbey are one more outward sign of bis as sumption of tbe responsibilities and duties whlcb-ln these days make a prince's lot ardu ous and bis life of the busiest. Prince Albert Victor, or tbe Dnke of Clarence, as we should now call him, has arrived at that period of full manhood at which he can relieve tbe Prince of Wales of a large share of public engagements which have hitherto devolved upon him ex clusively. A Queen's Old Clothes. Ia T is not generally snpposed that any society woman in New York arrays herself in any body's old clothes, bnt a few of them have done i do, ttuu ueeii prouu eaougu ol me uei w mu OVUUfc lb, kUUUU Ik UUUS UUk &VB1I1 VU UBVU reached the ears of those gifted and imagina tive writers for some of tbe papers whose vivid descriptions of the petticoats and nightgowns of society leaders whom they do not hesitate to specify would seem to indicate a remarkable intimacy in the boudoirs of ladles. But there are women of abundant wealth and refined taste who wear second-hand clothes, though they do not go down to Bleecker street to buy the eoreeons satins and cottonv velvets which bang at the doors of tbe old clothes shops in such tempting magnificence. No, tbe possesion of tbe cast-offs implies a voyage across the sea, and stamps the owner at once as a woman of means and opportunities, for they are the once or twice worn tenets of royalty, and are only to be obtained by the for tunate few who can get in to tbe annnal sale of costumes of Queen Margherita of Italy. And it by no means follows that because they are second-band they aro cheap. The modern kings and queens appear to bava degenerated from tbe lavishness of splendor attributed to old-time sovereigns, and to bave a thrlitv satis faction in turning an honest penny. Qneen Margherita is a beautiful woman, and is said to be one of tbe best dressed in Europe. The exigencies of court life, with its brilliant pageants and ceremonials, require a great many splendid toilets in the course of the year, as tbe same one can only figure at two or three of these grand functions. Nor can it be supposed that any pretty woman neglects to live up to ber opportunities and to fulfill these require ments. So, at tbe end of tbe year, tbe accumu lation of scarcely-worn line gowns is sold to tbe highest bidders by a court chamberlain, or some other royal functionary, with much pomp and circumstances. Happy is tbe American woman with money in her purso who gets into one of these most exclusive auctions; but obi tbrlce and four times gappy, as Mr. Virgil remarks, the woman who brings home with her, as did the wife of a rich New Yorker, lately, a sumptuous gown of green velvet, with a train of royal length and strange, unlque metallicsembroidcrics, calcu lated to make every woman who saw her iff it mentally inquire: "Wherein the world did she get that gown." Hobita of the Emperor. VXmEN bo is in Berlin the Emperor is as dem ocratic as you could wish; he drives, rides and walks about as freely as old Haroun alRaschldever did, ana ho doesn't at all mind stopping now and again to chat with common folk. But when be retires to Potsdam, where his private residence is, ho is quite a different person. At Potsdam he Is as exclusive as a sacred turtle. The doors of his palace yes, and the gates of his park are closed against everybody, and be shuns that recognition which elsewhere be invites. It Is hard, however, to keep the small boy out of what he ought not to be in. Three or four urchins made a practice of climbing the wall inclosing the im perial park and of playing at soldiers under tbe splendid trees. As luck would bave it the Em peror and Empress rode one morning in that particular part of the park and suddenly came upon tbe little ragamuffins. Instead of throw ing away their broomsticks and skedaddling tbe urchins wneeled into line, presented arms, and sainted tbe imperial couple. William was simply delighted and told the boy she would re member them. So he did. Ascertaining who they were and that they were children of poor people, be bas sent them to a military school and will have tbem educatod at his private cost. The Emperor is a greatsmoker and his cigars are manufactured expressly for him. Not long ago. sitting of an evening in one of the apartments of bis palace, be Inadvertently reached out and struck a match on a splendid oil painting that stood on an easel hard by. The Empress was as mad as a wet hen. "Your Majesty," she said, "if you were not the Em peror and my husband I should chastise you." And she would have done it too, 'for be it known that Augusta is a husky dame and one of exceeding lusty temper. IoIbo Tyrrell at Harris'. Just about a year ago the melodrama, "His Natural Life," was given at Harris' Theater, which was then, as now, tbe only place of amusement open during the heated term. Mr. Tyrrell, with a company nearly as good as that ot last year, returned for a short season, and opened yesterday to two very good houses, the Elay being "His Natural Life." which was igbly enjoyed. "Tempest Tossed" is the bill for next week; Mr. Pnrnell's Delightful Ball. From a Foreign Letter. At a banquet Saturday. Mr. Farnell declared that the Government could neither bribe Ire land nor her members. "If they bribe the latter to-morrow," he continued, "they will find a fresh crop equally uupurchasable." DEATHS0FA DAY. Judge Gibson, rsrzexu. telzohaji to the dispatch.! Yobk, PA.. July 7. Judge Gibson, President Law Judge of this Judicial district, died at Atlan tic City yesterday of Hrlght's disease of the kid neys. The Jndge was a ripe scholar, and was uni versally esteemed. His death, under the laws of the State, makes Additional Law Jndge Latimer the President Judge, and leaves an additional law judgeship to be filled by appointment until next Movember. B. Amb. The well-known Smlthfleld street merchant, B. Antb, died yesterday morning athls son-in-law's residence In Verona, after a lingering illness. It Is 15 years since he established his store In the city, and many friends attest to his Integrity and high capabilities. The deceased Is 65 years of age, and leaves one daughter. The fnneral will take place from Bt. Phllomena's Church. Uamle L. Grim. A death that will sadden1 many hearts is that of Miss Mamie Orlm, that occurred at the residence of her mother, 17 Elm street, yesterday morning, at3:l0 o'clock. Miss Grim was a member ol tbe Moorhead W. C. T, U.,and an earnest Christian worker, devoting most of her time to the temper ance work. Frederick isacher. ' .Frederick Baeher, a well-known glass packer on th. uAn,h.l0 filed Tcsterdav mornlnrr nt hi. .Aman uirmincrham avenue. Funeral will 1rV. Dlace from St. Michael's Church to-morrow at So'clock. Mr. Sacher was 62 years ofage and was One OI UQDGStlWunu u.u.u.uu f.taoo WUBIUCBS. Mr. Lydln A. Crelghtoo. Mrs, Lydla A. Crelghton, well known in this citr. died at her residence In Memphis on July 4. at the advanced age of 85 years. f Count Nlcknlnus t'ej icaevllich deVirocse. BUDAPissto, July 7. Count Mlckolaus Peiac. sevlueb de Verocse, commanding the Imperial Army ip uuu&jt uwu. tfOESDAT, JTJLT 8. SUM1IEB READING. ' Pntona of the Plttabnrs Library Don't lleep All Summer What Books Are Called For The Bloat Seasonable Bead no; Hatter at Present. "How do you keep coolf ' was the question asked Miss Mary Macrum, the popular libra rian of the Pittsbnrg Library, yesterday after noon, as she sat in the intellectual atmosphere of tue Library. "By using a fan and reading descriptive cat alogues of tbe lake and mountain resorts. Just looxat the picture of Lake Mackinac. Doesn't it hare a cooling effect?" And it certainly did present a most agreeable vision to the eye, and thence to the mind, as compared with the hot, dusty streets of the city. "You know it was in the delightful localities surrounding Lake Mackinac that Constance Fenimore Cooper laid the scenes of her inter esting novel, 'Anne.' continued Miss Macrum. who knows all about every book and every au thor or authoress that can be mentioned: -ana when I go up there this summer I'm going to take 'Anner as a companion, and let iier tell me her story in her native country, as it "I should think you would want to forget books entirely for the brief vacation time, ventured the Interviewer, "when youhave such an abundance of literature for the rest oi the year. Do many people read In tbe summer timT" , . ,. "res, indeed tbey do: many, such as teach era. do all their substantial reading in the hot weather. Just look at this collection and see what you think of that for heavy reading. They have all been returned this morning. And, sure enough, there were works of such grest depth that ordinary individuals, in trying to fitbom tbem, would share the fate of the poo- man whose obituary was sung so univers ally not long ago. ,. "Of course," said Miss Macrum, "we don't gtv out nearly as many books in the summer tlma. as our subscribers are scattered from tne AtUntic to tbe Pacific coast at this time ot yea-. We are already preparing for their re tnrs, however, in that we are buying any num berof new books. We have recently made some very desirable purobases, among them 'D'aclncalope, in iia volumes, uj hmuci, Hnx-e Bancroft, and the 'Riverside Natural History,' compiled in the same manner as the EujyclopedlaBnttanniea." OFF FOB THE SEA COAST. East Endera Leave the City lo Get a i I Change of Air. Hrs. Campbell, of Wilklns avenue, East End, with her niece. Miss Lily Brnce, and Misses EJdn and Walnwright, of North Highland avenue, left last evening on the Baltimore and Ohio for Baltimore, where tbey will take the sfeamer for a three days' sail to Boston, and f: om there they will go to Pigeon Cove, on the Massachusetts coast, where they will spend five or six weeks. (Mr. F. M. Armstrong, of the East End, and Jlr. Feter Dick. wlU leave tbe last of tbe week vith their families, for tbe same place, and during their stay Mr. Dick will endeavor to nake the acquaintance of fish and fish stories of even greater magnitude than those of last season, which be has related, to the astonish ment and Incredulity of his friends ever since returning from his outing last year. TIME 10 COME HOME. One Party of Rnsilcniora Leaving to Blake Room for Another. The 40 little ones and their mammas who were cent out to the Oakmont Country Home by the ladies of tbe Fresh Air fund two weeks ago will return next Thursday greatly benefited by their trip. They have bad a royal good time, and celebrated the Fourth of July in a glorious fashion with an abundance of Hagan's best ice cream and delicious cakes ordered for them by a kind lady in tbe vicinity ot tbe Home. Next Thursday tbey will return to the city very unwillingly, and tbe apartments vacated by them, and tbe new ones that will be com pleted by that time, will be filled the next day with a company of 75 wbo are anxiously await ing tbe dawning of tbe morning that drill take them countryward. Renewed Old Acquaintances. Colonel John Winder, a prominent gentle man of great wealth whose home is in Detroit, and for whom one of the pretty avenues of that city is named, was tbe guest during the past week of Mr. and Mrs. Ervine Reynolds, of Penn avenue. Colonel Winder was born la Union town some 85 years ago, and was renewlnir old acquaintances in this section of the country, which he left at the tge of 20, going West to seek bis fortune. His stay in the city was brief, much totheregretof his host and hostess, wbo are cousins of his by marriage, and to his many friends. Cotambns Club Outing. The Columbus Club, tho well known Catholic social organization, will give an outing to its friends to-day on the steamer Mayflower. Tbe boat will leave the foot of Wood street at 9.30 o'clock and return about 0 in tbe afternoon. It will then be headed down the river and re turn about 10.30. Tbe trip up the Mononga bela will proceed about as far as Monongahela City. Social Chatter. The Fourth Avenne Baptist Church Sunday school enjoyed a picnic at Rock Point yester day, and tbe Brigbam Street M. E. Church school went to "Wildwood. The school teachers' excursion made the start yesterday morning at the Union Depot, and this morning will board the vessel in New York. Evebett Council, No. 854. R. a., will en joy an excursion on the steamer Mayflower next Friday from 2 to 11 p. M. THEDavis-Ravenscroft nuptials will be cele brated at the bride's home in Oakland to-night. THE Emory M. E. Church Sunday Bchool will picnic to-day. The Morrow-Scandrett wedding to-day at Slippery Rock. CTJBRENT ITMELY TOPICS. What a lucky thing it was for the popula tion that the census was taken previous to the Glorious Fourth! There are only five other States in which a schoolmaster can legally fog a student. How sad It Is to look back Into years gone by and see the advantages school teachers had then and what tbe scholars enjoy now! When you want to test the sobriety of a man, ask him to repeat quickly the names or these three btates of the Union: Idaho, Iowa and Ohio. If he pronounces them without a break he should have a beer at once. Now that the law protects people who have their pictures taken, many editors will have the nerve to sit for one. Extreme bashfulness and tbe fear that tbelr pictures would find their way into public places, bave been the means of keep ing many of them lu the background. Cbop prospects are indeed bright to at least one Georgia farmer. On Monday hefound a par tridge's nest, which contained SO eggs. On Tues day he found a fine bee tree. On Wednesday he cut his bee tree, blred his bees ana saved a nice lot of honey. On Thursday his wife presented him with a ten-pound baby boy. He says that ITovlaence is smiling upon him. Chicago has had its hot spell, and it is over. Have your overcoat handy.-.Chicago Inter Ocean. The editor evidently forgets that overcoats are a superfluous luxury and aro not needed in a Chl cagoan's iuture abode. Sevebal Pittsburgers started on a week's fishing trip yesterday. In this advanced age a person would naturally think that something new would be Introduced in the outfit; but it is the same old chestnut that was In vogue 25 years ago, with the single exception of the bait Ju. in stead of It holding a quart as In years gone by. It is now made to hold a half gallon, standard meas ure. A THLBSTT citizen from Huntingdon county, that prohibition district, struck the city Sunday night, and while passing through the Union sta tion met a friend, aresldent or this city. After salutations, the Huntingdon county man proposed to go out and take a drink. Don't you know you can't take a drink In this town on Sunday?" said the Plttsburger; "but I'll tell you what we can do, J'll take a fit with you." As he uttered tbe words he began to shake like an Allegheny delegate to the Republican conven tion, and fell down on the floor or the depot. He twitched, convulsed and frothed at the mouth, and within a few minutes a large crowd gathered about. The patrol wagon was called and the man conveyed to his home. This Is not an argument to bave the saloons open on Sunday and give peo ple whom nst take something, a chance to take i ana, """ -- - All He Can Afford. New York Trlbune.l When Mark Twain was worth S10 or 12a week, less the price paid for meals and lodg ing he smoked real Havana cigars. But now that be is worth 0,000,008 orio, he has taken to a five cent corncob pipe'" l 1890.' SOUTH MOUNTAIN MINES, An Interesting Sketch ef the Iron Ore De posits at Cornwall, Pa. How Mining Is Conducted Novel Hallway Seven Fur naces Supplied by the Product of This Single Field. -ORNWALL, Pa, July 7. Situated like a great-barrier between two fertile valleys, which are now covered with immense fields of the finest grain, and at the base of one of the branch ranges of1 tbe Bouth Mountain, which forms the- dividing line between Lebanon and Lancaster counties, are a group of three hlJls. The Cornwall ore hill, the general outline of which does not impress the traveler as being of any especial interest when seen at a distance, bnt as they are approached the peculiar rusty color of tho surface, the few pine trees scat tered here and there over tbem, and the no ticeable absence of other VAPAtAtlnn attract attention. But it is only when close to tbem that the dark gray color of the rock is seen,and this gives one tbe impression that some valu able deposit Is contained in these bills. The three hills are known as Big Hill, Middle Hill and Grassy or West HilL in order from east to west. Tbe Big Hill, which Is the largest of tbe three, has an elevation of between 800 and 4XO feet, and covers about 0 acres. The Middle and Grassy Hills are hardly more than 100 feet high. This range of hills is composed ot solid ore, and forms a deposit which is not approached in richness or extent by any known iron ore deposit in this country, unless it be the Lake Superior mines. Tbe variety ot iron ore which predominates is that known among geologists as "magnetic," but in some porltons of tbe mountains large beds of iron pyrites are found, which makes the ore difficult to smelt unless it bas previously been "roasted" and most of the sulphur removed. In tbe Middle Hill a fine quality of copper ore is f ouutt in veins, some of which are more than three feet in thickness. Traces ot other minerals are oc casionally found, and Dana in his manual men tions as many as 20 varieties of rocks and min erals which have been met with here. Botr the Ore la Taken Out. The hills are all terraced and mining opera tions are carried on along these terraces. Tbe Big Hill is surrdunded by a spiral railway which is connected byTbranch lines with each terra;e from the base to the summit of the mountain. Tbe cars are drawn up the hill by a loco motive, run Into tbe mines and loaded, and then started down the mountain to the stock yard, where each car passes over the scales, and an accurate account of every ton of ore that leaves the bill is kept. The amount of ore which leaves the bills annually Is something enormous. In conver sation with yonr correspondent Weigbmaster Scbools, of tbe Cornwall Railroad, said: "I cannot give you the exact figures from mem ory, but I know that more than 85,000 tons of this ore is transported over onr road every month and I am positive that just as much is carried from these hills by tbe Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad. During my stay with this company I have weighed between six and seven million tons of ore taken from tbe Cornwall Hills." No less than 12 furnaces are supplied with ore from this place. It is true that most of tbem are owned and operated by the differ ent branches of tho Coleman family, but at least three other furnaces, the Pennsylvania Steel Company, at Steelton: the Duucanuon Iron Company and McCormlck Furnace, re ceive an amount of iron at Cornwall. A Valuable Property. AS early asthe middle of tbe last century the Penn brothers made a grant of land to ono Peter Grubb. The tract of land includes what Is now valuable farm land in Lebanon and Lancaster counties, and that portion of the South Mountain known as the Cornwall ore hills. By various sales and inheritances the major estate has pas-ed into the possession of the various branches of the Coleman family, although about one sixth of it is still owned by descendants of tbe original owner, Mr. Robert H. Coleman, ot Cornwall. Tbe G. Dawson Coleman heirs of North Lebanon, and Mr. William Freeman, of Cornwall, are the princi pal owners. . When tbls grant of land was made tbe min ing interests of the country amounted (prac tically) to nothing, but as the years rolled on and Revolutionary times approached, the de posit of ore became of greater value, and was drawn on largely to supply iron for use in the war. It was then that the old charcoal furnace was built and mining begun in earnest. A rusty single track of railroad leads to this "Old Charcoal" furnace which, for almost 100 years furnished tbe trade, but which of late years bas been superseded by furnaces of larger proportions ana capaDie oi greater output. To-day several old cannon are found in tbe furnace which had been prepared for use In tho war. w Operated Over a Ceulnry. ""Two competing lines of railroad oarry tbe ore to its destination. Originally only one single track line was used to bring tbe ore to Lebanon. This was the old North Lebanon Railroad, or, as it is now called, the Cornwall Railroad, which transfers its cars to tbe Read ing road at Lebanon, but as business Increased and transportation contracts were desired and not given, a new company was formed, with Mr. Robert II. Coleman, of Cornwall, at its bead and tbe result is the beautiful Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad with its finely equipped cars and locomotives and every known appli ance for safety in railway travel. Tne Corn wall and Lebanon Railroad was an outlet over the Pennsylvania lines at Conewago, and on this lino we pass Mount Gretna, tbe beautiful picnic park and encampment ground for State and national troops. The Cornwall ore mines have been In opera tion since a period before Revolutionary times, bnt it is only during tho past CO years tbat tbey have been worked on a larce scale. They are operated by the Cornwall Ore Bank Company, ot which Mr. J. Taylor Boyd is tbe general manager. Furnaces and Their Capacity. At Cornwall there are two other furnaces tbe Anthracite furnaces, owned by Robert H. Coleman, and tho Bird Coleman furnaces, owned by tbe Freeman branch of the Coleman family. The latter f nrnace has two stacks, aod has a capacity of 2,000 tons per week. The North Cornwall furnaces, which were recently remodeled, are owned by Mr. W. C. Freeman, wbo also owns tho Donaghmore furnaces at Lebanon. In 18S0 Mr. Robert H. Coleman be gan building the Colebrook furnaces at Leb anon, which to-day are two of the finest fur naces in this country, but, nnfortunatelv, dur ing tbe past year several fatal accidents oc curred by the breaking out of the molten metal. The Itobensonla f nrnace, owned by Messrs. Bone & White, ot Philadelphia, bas a per petual right to get Cornwall Iron ore for one stack and during the past few years bave erected an immense stack with a capacity of 800 tons per week. All these furnaces are supplied with iron ore from the Cornwall hills. Tbe Laborers Employed. 'Piibee hundred men find steady employment at the ore mills and receive on an average SI 65 per day. It is true tbat quite a number of these men are Hungarians, but a large numbor of Americans arejalso at work in these mines. Miners Village is tbe home of most of these men, and a picturesque pUce it Is. A CALL TO OBEELIN COLLEGE. Rutgers' President Tendered the Highest Office in the Ohio Institution. rpraCIAt'TStEOBAM TO TUB DISFATCn.1 New BBtrNS-wiOK, N. J., July 7. President M. E. Gates, of Rutgers' College, who has greatly raised the college standard since he was called here from Albany, has received a call to ODerlln College, in Ohio, and has had a conference with the trustees. The college is one of tho largest In the country and since President Fairchild died a year ago has been without a bead. It bas a seminary connected with It, tbe students numberine 1,700. President Gates has withheld his decision and has been asked not to make a hasty one. THE JOKE OF LONG AGO. He stops you on the corner, and he gaily spins it o'er. And you pause and listen, silent, though you've heard It all before. You remember every syllable, anticipate each pause, And can point the usual times Tor interruption and applause. TIs to him a thing or beauty, as an everlasting Joy: He finds the entertainment fraught with charms that never cloy. A tide or things forgotten at its call bczln to flow That good old Joke-that dear old Joke-that Joke of lone ago. You hare heard It In the orchard as you lolled be neath tbe trees, Shirking algebra and Latin for the bumming of the bees. You bave heard it at the corner when, tho day's dull labor's o'er, ' The leisure-blest assembled at tbe village general V ctnrA. Though each reciter altered It for fear It might - grow tame. It llted In the affection staunch and faithful sUU tne same. Ah. one likes to hear him tell It take bis time and, tell it slow That good old Joke-that dear old joke that Joke Oflohgsgo, -t Washington Pott. ODE HAIL POUCH. A QTetbod of Making Mines Safe for Those Working la Them. To the Editor of The Dispatch! Will you permit an humble old miner, through the columns of your paper, to put a few pertinent questions to men of science, mine inspectors, and, in short, to all men Inter ested in coal mines? Wiirmen of science exert themselves and do the one-hundredth part of what Is possible, practicable an d economical to prevent tbe recurrence of such awful calami ties as that which has been exhibited to the reading public for the last 20 days? Will brave hearted, sympathetic miners who forget themselves and all that is dear to them on earth, while working to rescue tbelr fellow working men, support the men of science, and will tbe great coal operators, from a point ot economy, study the remedy that I will herein propose? 1 invite contradiction and criticism, when I say tbat if three sides of tbe return air course of extensive coal mines, where fire damp Is known to exist, were studded and covered with sheet iron or tin plate used for roofing, ninety per cent of tbe danger of explosions would for ever be abolished. Elgbteen and one-half out of every 20 parts of the power now used In ven tilating mines are wasted or lost btbe resist ing force of friction. Air being a material body, 1,000 cubic feet of it weighing about 80 pounds, as it moves along constantly rushing against the ragsted sides of tbe bewed coal entry, a given volnme of it will oome in contact with an area of surface many times greater than tbe actual measurement of the perlmlters of the same entry. If tbe sides were sheeted with a smooth surfaced material, then the fric tion would be decreased and the velooityor motion of the volume of air traveling In tbe excavated works would be increased In the same ratio and motion is a great power. Fourteen and one-half pounds of atmospheric pressure on the square Inch of surface of the earth, by a little calculation, will give us In tbe aggregate 2,200 pounds of natural pressure, in tbe mouth of an ordinary coal mine entry, of 6x5 feet. Here we see the immense natural pressure of tbe elastic, vital air trying to follow the honest toilers into tbe bowels of tbe earth where cir cumstance compels them to work In a daik, dreary little world, planned and regulated by man. And it is nothing else but the Ignorance of man or bis culpable neglect of duty tbat ob structs tbat essential element of health and safety from reaching its destination to sustain life and expel dangerous elements. Men of science and great knowledge, when they have means, should have the courage to keep unobstructed channels for this destroyer of life and property to escape. Tbe heroism that will save life and property in the future is better than the heroism that will avail nothing for the living or the dead. God and His hand maid. Nature, will assist science wben her vo taries do their work well. The deadly fire damp will have to leave tbe mines wben science does ber work well, and future generations, as well as the present will worship at our shrine. No puny device of man, such as the Davy lamp or a mathematical instrument that will measure the least allowance of fresh air that man can subsist on, will form a safe substitute for tbe safety of property, or tbe healthy existence of tbe coal miners, who are tbe first cause of our manufacturing progress and largely of the wealth of our cities. Tbe remedy I propose would not in the end add any extra cost to the mine owners. Hop ing that some man or men, whose name and Btanding in society would lend weight to the subject, will consider my suggestion, I am respectfully yours, A L, PtttsbObo, July 7. By n Reciprocity Treaty. To the Editor of The Dispatch: In The Dispatch I bare seen frequent allu sions to the importance of securing for our manufacturers a part of tbe Eouth and Central American trade. How do you expect to com pete in those markets with the manufacturers of Europe wben it takes a bigh tariff to protect onr home markets from these same manufac turers? S. M. C. Siiannofqt, July 7. Wbo Can Tell Hlmt To the Editor of The Dispatch: Please let me know through your valuable paper when and where the first lodge Of Junior Order United American Mechanics in tbe United States was formed. J. H. R. ALLEGHENY, July 7. AN LMP0ETANT DISCOVERY. Cholera Infantum and Typhoid Fever Dae to Albumenoaa Poison. ANN Aiuson. Mien., July 7. The regent of tbe University of Micbigan last year built and equipped a lanoratory of hygiene at the re quest or tbe State Board of Health. One of the objects of this laboratory was tbe investi gation of the causations of diseases, and thl branch has been under the supervision of Vic tor C. Vaughn, the eminent toxlcologist, who a tew years ago gave tbe world his discovery of tyrotoxlcon, tbe poison so often existing in milk, cheese and ice cream. He has now, it is alleged, added another triumph to his former success in tbe discovery of the cause of cholera infantum and typhoid fever. He announces tbat these diseases are due to albumenous poisons, a theory which subverts all previous theories in regards to their origin- Dr. Vaughn dtscoered the first point last MJrch. and bas since added four more. He bas Isolated three poisons, wblcb were obtained from tbe germs In cholera infantum, and two from tbe germs in typhoid fever. These poisons, he claims, are fatal in any quantity, and resemble closelv in their action tbe venom of a rattlesnake. They are of the nature of ferments, and are the growth of germs. Dr. Vaugbn took tbe cerms from tbe intestines of persons wbo bad died from the disease, and placed them in flasks containing sterilized meat. Tbe flask was then set in an lncunator. In which the temperature was the same as tbe human body. A long, complicated and. con sequently. Inexplicable chemical process fol lowed and tbe poison wbicb resembles partially slaked lime was extracted. Animals being inoculated with tbe product displayed the same symptoms as the persons suffering from one or the other of the diseases. A quantity the same size of a pea killed a guinea pig in 12 hours, while a twentieth of a grain is fatal, but killed only after from 15 to SO days. Dr. Vaugbn bas not named these poisons as yet and will now devote himself to endeavoring to discover antidotes for tbem. J I A CHTJECH TBOTTBLE SETTLED. Services nt the Celebrated Polish Church la Plymouth. , Pittston, July 7. The trouble between the two factions of the Polish Church at Plymouth has at length been settled. Martin Wilkes, tbe desperate leader of tbe warrrog Lithuanians, is now behind tbe bars awaiting trial on the cbarce of desecrating tbe Polish Cemetery and for riotoui conduct, and yesterday for the first time since the trouble began, the sacra ment was administered to tbe members of tbe congregation. Tbe St. Joseph's Bociety, the members of which were foremost in repudiating the officials of tbe church, attended the services and pre sented Bishop O'Harawith tbe deed and title of the Polish Cemetery, to which they hence forth relinquish all claims. STATE NEWS NOTES. A hen at Hanover is sitting on a nest of eges in the top of a willow tree. Ctbus T. Fox has been elected President of tbe Press Association at Reading. AScbanton brewery was burglarized and several kegs of tbe foaming beverage carried off. McKean county Republicans hold their convention Tuesd'.y, July 29, next, to nominate county officers. Jakes A. Richabss, 81 years old, of Ches ter, who was prominently identified with the early iron industries, died at South Chester on Saturday. The eccentric "Dr." Teagle, of West Ches ter, has a stepping stone in front of his house inscribed: "Herb physician. Born March 7, 1813, Dr. Teagle." A bond was filed at the Montgomery county Frothonotary's office one day last week in which the names of tbe principal and tbe as sured are exactly alike. In the competitive examination for the Annapolis cadetship at Warren, tbe judges have awarded the prize to Bert Galbraitb, of Warren, with Harry Stout, of Tidloute, as alternate. The Postmaster General has appointed tbe following fourth class postmasters in Pennsyl vania: W. Kelner, Beach Haven: J. Miller, Germansville-.Mrs. 8. Deemer, North Sandy; H. C. Swartz. Park Place; A. N. Stowart, Quakake. The large barn of Michael Boylan. near Wilkesbarre. togetherwith all the contents, in cluding three head of horses, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Airama dwelling adjoining, occupied by a Hungarian, was also burned to the ground. Loss, $5,000. David Ebinqeb, an old-time hunter, states that while driving from Fryburg to Oil City one of the biggest catamounts it bas ever been his luck to meet, passed in front of his buggy twice. Tbls Is supposed to be tbe animal tbat has destroyed so many sheep in that section, which was popularly blamed on sheep-killing uogs. CUBI0US C0KDENSATKW8. , , A practical joke was played on Gover nor Hill at Normandie-by-the-Sea on Fourth oft Julynlgbt. A phonographic doll had been-, placed In his bed wbicb kept saying: "I want -. my mamma," until Its works ran down. ' Tbe New Tork Central Eailroad Com-" Jr ' pany is renumbering all of its locomotive of ' which ft has over 800. Those from 1 to 249 will r be switching engines, from 250 to 700 freight engines, and all above the latter number will be passenger engines. An Indianapolis woman who has been eight times divorced Is 87 years old. and comes - " ol a family noted for ltf divorces. Her mother bas bad six divorces and is living with her sev enth husband. An uncle and two aunts have been married five times. They are still young. The number ot murders and murderous assaults recorded in Michigan. Ohio, New York, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa since January are two for every one in tbe big State of Texas, and for every cyclone in the South this summer the North and West have had three. The great Bear Elver Canal in Utah, for the construction of which S2.000.0CO has been provided, is expected to be one of the most extensive irrigation works in America. To get tbe river along tbe side bill along Bear creek canon and ont on to tbe plain near Plymouth will necessitate moving 220,000 cubic yards of solid rock. Wind observations at the Eiffel Tower show that at low velocities of 15 miles per hour or less the velocity of the wind at the top of the tower is from four to five times as great as at the top of an ordinary building 69 feet high, but as tbe velocity Increases tbls difference de creases, until at bigh velocities the difference is only as two to one. When the wife of the Shah of Persia arrived in Berlin the reporters made prodigious efforts to get a glimpse of the lady's face. But their efforts were In vain, for on all occasions the lady wore a veil extending from just below ber eyes to tbe hem of hei skirt. The Shah's wife is ot short and chunky stature. She dresses in qniet fashion. Kalph Woodman, a workman in the Cushman Shoe Shop, Auburn, Me., risked his own .life to snatch from in front of an on-coming train a little three or four years old child wbo was walking on tbe track unconscious of v.,j ,n,:er' - Mr Woodman snatched the child from the track the engine snatched his hat and carried it under the wheels. Prof. Samuel Cnshman, apiarist of the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station, maintains, as the result of personal observation, tbat bees do no damage to growing or fair fruit. 'The Juice of fruit Is. in fact, injurious to tbem, and they do not attack sound fruit, but. only brnlsed fruit, or that which has beet? previously injured by other insects." An eight-wheeled railroad church has just been finished at Tiflis, in tbe factory of tbe Transcaucasian Railway Company, for use along the line. It is surmounted by a cross at one end. and at tbe other there is a handsome belfry with three bells. Beside the church proper it has apartments for thenrlest It can comfortably seat 70 persons. The altar was made in St. Petersburg. The estate of Marwood, the famous English hangman, is In bankruptcy. It appears by bis books tbat bis business, although very active, was by no means in a flourishing condi tion at the time of bis death. Marwood was a shoemaker by trade. In Horncastle, Lincoln shire, wbere be lived, the people thought he 1 was wealtbv and tbey were surprised to learn, that be had died insolvent. Betsy Arnold, a sister of Benedict' Arnold, lived for years and years after her1, brother's disgrace. In Norwich on public! charity. When she was 90 years old she was' taken to tbe almshouse by old Sheriff E. G.t Thomas. Betsy made a great bow.to-do abouy it and was so grieved tbat she lived only a lew months. She was a strong old woman and hadl much of her brother's temper. Johann Martin Schleyer, the retired Roman Catholic priest of Baden, Germany, wbo I gave Volapuk to the world, is quite satisfied with the progress tbe new "world language" 1 bas made in its first ten years. Houses all over tbe world are conducting their correspondence in it, it Is stated, and there is now a library of over 1500 volumes in Volapuk. while millions have become acquainted with its use. James B. Swigert of Carlisle Springs, Fa., is the possessor of anold turkey gobbler which is now doing the dur of a fowl of the feminine gender. Mr. Swigert a few days ago rnissea tne eoDDier, nut subsequently found him in afield batching a nest of eggs. Tbe old fellow sat very contentedly, and seems greatly pleased with doing tbe duties of a mother. The' turkey hen wblcnJald the eggs which tbegob--MexJa f Nnr Is ttt Ihjjpul In i"f hnr natr-4tfttul Mr. Kila Kittridge, conslaerea. the--123 champion microscopic postal card writer of tbe world, has just finished writing President Harrison's last me'sare containing 10,000 words on a postal card, being about 20 davtjm doing the work. In writing be nses nothing buta pair of common spectacles. It would seem al most Incredible tbat anvtblng done with a com mon pen could be deciphered after being I crowded into such a small space, but with tbe aid of a microscope every letter and word ', stands out in bold relief and are very distinct. la an article on the aborigines of Aus- . tralia, W. T. Wyndbam speaks of the skill with v which the natives use stone implements. "They turn out work," he says, "that you would hard ly believe possible with such rough imple ments. Tbey show great iugennity, particu larly in making their harpoon beads for spear ing dugong and fish; instead of shaving tbe wood up and down with the grain, as a Euro pean workman would do, they turn the wood for a sbear bead round and chip it off across tbe grain, working it as wooden boxes are turned on a lathe. I hare often sat and watched them doing this." One interesting development of theatri cal lawsuits is that tbe names of entirely un known men are nearly always brought out by them. The unknown Is usually the backer of the enterprise, and he takes half of tbe star's earnings. Even the most successful theatrical j men bare these silent partners. Tbey have nothing to do with tbe profession, and are. as a rule, business men who are conservative by habit, but who see the large financial gains Sosslble In theatrical enterprises. The other ay tbe fact was brought out tbat Nat Good- , win, who is a rich man and who was supposed to own bis own show absolutely, bad a partner of this sort. The case cf Ovid White, of Salem, Ind., for tbe murder of Jacob Johnson, proves to have a strange fatality attached to it, First White managed to evade justice for seven years, and was only recaptured through being: nmrheard in Minneola. Texas, relating bis crime to another man. Next Governor, Hovey's private secretary, Roberta, badly com promised himself by attempting to beat the Salem authorities out of 250 for alleged de tective service, disgorging, however, when pinned down. White was then brought to trial, and tbe Judge became Insane and died. Last week bis trial began at Paoli. but bad no sooner began than Judge Pearson became 11L and tho case was again continued, and this evening the death of Judge Pearson is announced. FDNSY MEN'S FANCIES. , Temperance reformer (to street urchin)'' Does your father drink beer, sonny? Urchin Yep. In moderation?" 'Naw. In de growler." Chicago Inter Ocean. "Is this horse afraid of anything?" asked Mrs. Nervous, out riding for the first lime with livery stable rig. ".Not even or me." replied Mr. lervous, gloom ily, as he vigorously, but vainly piled the whip. bomervitle Journal. Mr. Holmes Earlie I saw young Bene dict at the club to-night. ,,,. . Mrs Holmes Earlie rondldr Stayed there, X suppose, and he has Just married, too. Mr. H. E.-That'J why he stsyed. perhaps. Hotton Courur. Lady customer Do you sell ice here? Dealer If es'm. How long have you bad it on band?" Since last winter." It won't do; 1 must bave some that's perfectly fresh." Chicago Post. Lady (to small boy, who is crying) What is the matter, my little mau? jjorVe were playing ball, and I broke thtt pane of glass over there. Lady Well, I gaess Ue lady will not care much about It. Boy 'Taint that; the ball went through and she won't give it back. Button Herald. Man with watch (handing it oyer) It hasn't been three weeks since you cleaned and overhauled this watcb, and it's out of order again. It won't go. Watchmaker (examining It, winding it up and banding It back) That Is all it needed. Man with watch goes away In a towering rage and watchmaker bas lost a customer. Chicago Tribune. Pastor I should like to see jou taking a more active Interest in religious things, Miss Bessie. Miss Bessie I I'm afraid it wouldn't do, Mr. Goodman, 1 -ouldo't be spared from tbe choir. Chicago Tribune. The heart of a man has much to stand If he'd play bis part here right. And the ice on the doorstep these morslngs warst Is a very melting sight. . .l -rittladttpUa TunUS .-? ' -&iwd te& i .J , & mKSi'WJBf wmm
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