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THE FTETSBURQ DISPATCH, SUNDAY, 'JULY 20, 1890.
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TnE WAY TO DO IT.
The proposition of Secretary Blaine that'
the removal of the sugar duties should be
used to secure free admission for the
products of the United States to Cuba and
South America, has aroused a good deal of
discussion. The fairness and wisdom of
the policy in the main must be generally
conceded. But the approval of the Secre
tary's proposition has so far utterly failed
to bring out any reason for believing that
progress to the desired end would be se
cured by the course which Secretary Blaine
and his supporters appear to indicate, name
ly, to leave the sugar duties as they are for
the present
. Two purposes are very important in con-
, section with the sugar question. One and
, the chief purpose is to take advantage of the
f revision of the tariff to secure a reduction of
i the cost of sugar to the consumers of this
$ nation. The other is to secure from the
sugar producing countries a reduction of the
duties against suctt products as flour and
I provisions. As Cnba and Porto Bico are at
once the largest sources of sugar supply for
' the United States and the points where the
' most extreme duties are levied against our
' food products, the question really is the ex-
change of free sugar in the United States
5l for free flour in the Spanish "West Indies.
If the two purposes can be served in har
, mony, no one will deny that it should be
done. If, not the relative importance of the
' two purposes can be seen from the fact that
- the sugar consumption of the United States
? is about ?130,000,000 while the total exports
1 to the Spanish West Indies from the United
States are $11,000,000. Taking the agri
cultural interests alone, in whose behalf the
reciprocity idea is urged, the increased cost
of its sugar supply by reason of the sugar
duties is over twice the amount that
could be gained by the opening of the
Spanish "West Indian market to the flour
and pork ot the United States.
It is quite possible that these two pur-
poses can be served together; but it ought to
DC justs mat nernier oi mem win ue serveu
by arresting the reduction of the sugar
duties proposed in the tariff bill. No in
terest would gam anything by keeping up
the sugar duties except tbe Sugar Trust.
The country would have to keep on paying
nigh prices for sugar. TheTreasury wouldre
ceive a revenue which it is desirable to cut
off. No advance would be made toward
reciprocity, for it wonld continue the duties
under which Spain has imposed tbe exces
sive duties on our flour. In short, to post
pone the sugar reduction for the sake of
reciprocity, would not only defeat the in
ternal benefits to be secured by cheaper
sugar, but it would postpone the attainment
of reciprocity itself.
It is plain that so long as we impose high
duties on all sugars imported into the
United States, Spain will not be induced to
reduce the duties on our shipments to Cuba,
-tor it is exactly under that condition that
the Cuban market is closed to our shippers.
The only way to bring Spain to terms is to
reduce tbe sugar duties as a whole, and then
to impose retaliatory duties on the sugsr of
countries which levy discriminating duties
on our products. If Spain saw the suear
trade of the United States transferred to
South America or the British West Indies
she might come to terms; but no progress in
that direction would be made by the defeat
of the reduction proposed in the McKinley
bill. Progress would be made either by
reducing the duties and after the lapse of a
year imposing a retaliaory duty on Cuban
sugar if Spain keeps her duties on flour.orby
a proviso to the present bill to the effect that
the reduction of the sugar duties sball not
go into effect on the sugar of countries that
impose discriminating or prohibitive duties
on American flour and provisions.
Either of these measures wonld open our
ports to cheap sugars and hold out the
strongest inducements to Spain to abandon
nerstupid tariffon our flour. But to prevent
tbe reduction proposed in the pending bill
wonld be simply to perpetuate the era of
high-priced sugars and to maintain the con
dition of things nnder which our flour is
excluded from Havana. The Secretary's
''reciprocity idea is a strong one; but the idea
'fit, keeping up the sugar duties on account
-ef it is a decided non sejuitur.
COULD NOT DO OTHERWISE.
That forty-seven of the Beaver County
Republican Committeemen voted yesterday
to repudiate the candidacy of Major Mc
Dowell for Congress is not so surprising as
that sevjn should have voted to sustain that
nomination. There has been a cool indiffer
ence displayed in certain quarters as to the
admitted bribery. It goes even to the length
of splitting straws as to the degree in which
the action of the Congressional conferees
should be vitiated by the undisputed pur
chase of their votes in Mr. McDowell's in
terests. So far as the general public is concerned
this is not at all a question of candidates.
Outside of the particular Congressional dis
trict which has won an unenviable
notoriety by the proceedings, the pnblio
know very little of the men who
competed for the nomination. Bui the
whole State and whole country has
naturally an interest in discouraging and
punishing the buying and selling of votes.
It is not even a partisan question, except
ing in so far as it is the first duty of the Re
publican party to make clear that within
its organization undisputed bribery shall
not be regarded as a legitimate incident of
politics, but on the contrary as a matter to
be dealt with as tbe law and the best sense
of the party prescribes.
The Beaver committee therefore acted
only as the circumstances of the case dic
tated. But behind that, the sterner func
tion of securing a full inquiry in the courts
still rests upon the public .officers within
whose jurisdiction the votes were bought.
One healthy result of this affair should be
to promote a quick ending of the- conferee
plan of choosing Congressmen. It has long
been on a par with the delegate convention
system of holding primaries. A direct vote
by the people is the simplest and fairest
method; and it will not take many more
such developments as have occurred this
cummer to jo strengthen the demand for a
direct vote as to compel its general adoption.
ANOTHER DENIAL WANTED.
The authorities of the Spanish legation
at "Washington utterly repudiate the story
that the Spanish Government will sell the
Island of Cuba to the United States, and
laugh at the statement that $200,000,000 is
the price that would be taken for that more
or less valuable real estate. That is all right
on the Spanish side; but something more is
needed to make the matter even. "We want
some equal authority to repudiate and laugh
at the idea that the United States would
give 200,000,000 for the Island of Cuba.
This denial is more necessary to establish
our reputation for national horse sense than
the one already made is for Spain.
Perhaps some features of the present Con
gress may excuse the growth of an idea that
the nation is anxious to get rid of its money;
but when it goes to the length of supposing
it possible to get rid of $200,000,000 in one
lump for a tropical island which we do not
want, and for a population, which, in the
mass, would be a most undesirable acqui
sition, it is time for a very positive correc
tion. We are not so hard np for brigands,
savages and place-servers that we need to
pay $120 a head for a population which has
been brought to that level by the most per
sistent misgovernment known to history.
When this country has $200,000,000 that
it cannot nse in any other way it may buy
Cuba. But it would be less trouble to fling
the money into the North Atlantic ocean
than into the Gulf of Mexico.
FIREPROOF BUILDINGS.
The fire in the Western Union offices in
New York shows forcibly the foolishness of
housing such a valuable plant in any but a
strictly fireproof building. The whole
country has been inconvenienced and indi
viduals have been subjected to great loss in
addition to the damage done to the telegraph
company's property. It is a costly way to
acquire wisdom, but the, fire will not have
been altogether a misfortune if it shall in
duce the Western Union Company to make
its main office fireproof. It is remarkable
indeed, that a building of such grand pro
portions, and intended to contain so much
valuable property, should not have been
constructed of fireproof materials in the
first place.
There is wider realization of the advant
ages of building cities so that they may re
sist any ordinary attacks of fire. The latest
and mostambitious structures in New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago have all
tbe name, at least, of being fireproof. In
this city, where a few years ago there was
not a single building at all fitted to resist
fire, there are now many such structures.
The majority of the new buildings in the
business portion of the city are fireproof, or
nearly so. This is the policy of wisdom
and strict economy in the long run.
WHIMS OF ARCHITECTURE.
The establishment of a national school of
architecture is one of the favorite topics of
the day. In the cases where it takes the
shape of establishing schools for technical
education in architectural matters it de
serves approval and support. But when it
proposes to bring out what may otherwise
be termed a national style ot architecture,
it calls for the comment that we do not need
a school of architecture so much as we need
the application of the principles of science
and art to architecture.
The distinction may be made more plain
by the fact that while schools and styles
may be subject to changes, tbe principles of
beauty and fitness ought to be immutable.
We may have some toleration
probably because we cannot help
ourselves for the feminine theories on the
subject of beauty in dress, which make a
certain garment or coiffure beautiful this
year and hideous the year after. But as the
productions of architecture are enduring, it
onght to be plain that the theories of art
which define beauty in buildings should be
permanent. Yet anyone who takes the
trouble to review the course of architecture
for the past half century can see that its
vagaries have been almost as extreme, if not
quite so rapid, as those of female fashion.
Fifty years ago the Grecian style was the
accepted one. From that the architectural
fashion diverged into the Italian school,
with a corrective era of Gothic architecture.
This was followed by a universal
rule of the Mansard style. Thence
after a slight period of uncertainty
our buildings were plunged into the
vagaries of Queen Anne or Neo-Renaissance
fashions. That fever having run its course,
fashion is surging back to what is called
the colonial style, and the circle seems to be
on the point of completion, when we are in
formed, as the readers of The Dispatch
lately were, that the perfection of the
colonial style is to be found in the porches
and columns of the Grecian buildings, that
flourished fifty years ago. If the succession
of fashions can be relied upon it might be
made a subject of calculation; and the man
who wishes to build a house that will be
fashionable for his grand children, might
hit it by going back twenty years and copy
ing the French school that was the correct"
thing in 1870. "
So long as the changes of architecture
were in new forms, we could place some
faith In the edicts of the artistic authorities
that the old styles were crude, ill-formed
and the products of oar esthetio ignorance.
But when the architectural fashion deliber
ately goes back to these old styles and throws
aside those perfections of art which have
made our residences look like an architec
tural nightmare, the claim of artistic prin
ciples as ruling guides in architecture is
utterly destroyed. If beauty in our dwell
ings is a matter of whim and fashion, let us
recognize the fact and cast aside the delu
sive pretense of artistio laws. In any other
view, perhaps the best thing that can be
done is to adopt the rule about not reading
a book till it is a year old, and refrain from
judging of the beauty of any architectural
style until it has gone out of fashion.
SHOULD SERYE IN THE FUTURE.
It is not surprising that the campaign
against the superfluous dogs, which has been
going on during tbe week, should bring out
strong expressions, pro and eon, as to the
methods adopted for their removal. The
objections to shooting on the streets, which
caused the abandonment of that first pro
posed programme, were valid. So have
been the protests against the nse of the
deadly "Button," which is attended by tbe
inconvenient consequence of leaving the re
mains of the ill-fated animals very much in
the shape of a dangerous nuisance so long
as they are exposed in the hot summer
weather. Besides, 'the complaint of those
who lose dogs which in no way deserve
death is well directed.
The proper proceeding is clearly to pro
vide a pound and give a few days for tbe
reclamation by owners; after which the un
claimed and objectionable captives might be
disposed of as effectually but as mercifully
as might be. It is not likely, however, that
this is going to be done immediately. The
net result of the agitation, therefore, it is
presumed, must be to impress upon the
police the need of discretion in selecting
their victims, and promptness in removing
bodies from the streets. Meanwhile, before
another such onslaught is undertaken, the
authorities should see to it that provisions
are made for a poudd. Indiscriminate
killing of the dogs is wholly unnecessary.
A COMFORTABLE SHOWING.
The story of the pawnshops is a pleasant
one as telling of prosperous times and com
fortable circumstances for Pittsburg's work
ing population. Those pawnbrokers who
deal in old clothing and advance money on
the household goods of the people, neces
sarily do an active trade when people are
hard up. Those who sell watches and
jewelry in addition to loan money on per
sonal property are prosperous when the
people are prosperous. The latter are now
doing a thriving business, and the former
are sitting at the doors of their shops wait
ing for something to turn up. Without any
ill-will to our avuncular relatives, this is a
highly satisfactory indication of steady
work, good wages and prosperity among tha
people.
A KW phase ot the original package
idea comes from Kansas, where a dealer re
ceived whisky in bottles from a wholesale
house. The bottles came to him in a wooden
ease, and to sell them he unpacked the case
and sold tbe bottles separately. This when it
came before the United States District Court
was held to be outside of the Supreme Court
decision, as the wooden case was the original
package, and the right of sale only extended
to sale by'the'ease. Such a construction will
be likely to restrict tbe original package busi
ness to the sale ot tha foaming beer in tbe
wood.
Tee announcement that the Lorillards
are going into the manufacture of Wheeling:
stogies shows that stiffness in the flavor of
smoking material Is more popular than the mild
Innocuousness of the Connecticut cabbage leaf.
The report that United States Treasurer
Huston threatens to resign because he has not
tbe patronage to distribute that lie wants
will, if confirmed, prove that the addition must
be made to that trio to which the horse-leech's
daughters belong, the organized appetite
known as the practical politicians.
The Eastern papers of Friday jeer at the
Signal Service for predicting cooler weather.
They are wiser now than they were, and the
Weather Bureau has registered one of tbe suc
cesses that are very popular.
That paragraph which is going the
rounds of the press to tbe effect that the
amount which a man can drink dally according
to English medical authority is four onnces of
brandy, with lighter drinks in proportion up to
thirty-six ounces of beer, looks like a disguised
boom for tbe liquor traffic
It the city will not let its workers have
tbe poor satisfaction of bathing in the rivers,
the least it can do is to furnish bathing houses.
The bone and muscle ol our industries can not
go unwashed.
Senator Blair's assertion that "20,000.
000 babies have been born since 1SS0 and every
one of them is an Ignoramus" may be ad
vanced as a basis for the Senator's political
ambitions. Bnt the Senator was indiscreet to
make his opinion public. Ho forgets the influ
ence in politics of the mothers ot the babies.
THE complaint from the Southside con
cerning the odors from the bodies of the dead
dogs that are lying around there constitutes an
object lesson on the subject of the poisoning
business.
SILVER has gone up in London and Am
sterdam; but unfortunately it has not ad
vanced so much as to preclude tbe idea that the
appreciation in value is produced by the demand
with a view to tbe shipment of silver to this
country.
In one respect we must recognize that
General Fremont is in posthumous good luck.
New York has not proposed to put up a monu
ment to bis memory.
Thebe are intimations that Mr. Beed is
very much opposed to having Pension Com
missioner Ranm Investigated; but no one has
heard any declarations from Mr. Raum him
self that he wants the charges examined Into.
"deaths of a day.
David James Wilson.
On Friday afternoon at 4:35, David James
Wilson, agent for the produce commission bouse
of Wilson & Phillips, this city, died at the resl
dence of his parents, 363 Webster avenue. The
young mas's death was duo to congestion of the
brain, which was pn.bably caused by being over
heated. He being stricken last Sabbath noon,
and growing rapidly worse, was unconscious Irora
Tuesday inornlug until the time of tils death. Tho
young man was possessed of more than ordinary
ability, and as an agent In ills Une of business
could not be excelled.
Mrs. suveln Able.
Mrs. Savcla Able, wife of Conrad Able, died at
her residence In Allegheny Friday in her 7Tth
year, Mrs. Able was a former wife of John C
Mendell. now deceased, and the mother of John
C Mendell, Mrs. B. c DalzelL wife .of tbe well
known contracting agent, and the mother of
Mrs. William Pounds and of Mrs. 8. J. Addy.wire
of the Penn avenue plumber. .Mrs. Able had
been a resident of Montgomery avenue for a score
of years, and was highly esteemed by all who en-
ioyed her acquaintance, bhewas well known for
ler many deeds ot charity.
Ljdla Becker.
LONDON, July 19. Lydla Becker, leader of the
woman's suffrage movement, died to-day at Gen
eva, from diphtheria.
Dr. Chrimian F. Peters.
UTICA, N.Y., July 1.-Dr. Christian F. Vetera,
the astronomer, was found dead in his .bed at
vnnion inis morning.
Sir Alfred Sin
LONDON, July.19.-Slr. Alfrea
Blade, Chief of
died to-day.
the Inland Revenue Department,
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
The Summer Fliabt Excuses for Holidays
Tho Slauelitcr of the Dogs Better Guard
tho Bear Gossip of All Sorts.
'THE phrase "Everybody's left town" Is as
nearly true about Pittsburg as it ever can be
about any city. There must be many thousands
of Pittshurgcrs already by tbe sea and beyond
it; at springs where health is drunk, among tho
mountains, and anywhere, everywhere out of
the heated city. There has not been tbd same
reason for complaint in the weather of the last
two or three days as there was in the excessive
sultriness which preceded the present cool
spell. Yet the holiday makers, the health
seekers, and their Imitators will by force of
habit r ush out of the city by all routes in greater
and greater numbers as August approaches.
A NOTHEit preacher is about to become an
actor. His name is Virgil Maxey, and he
Is a nephew of ex-United States Senator Maxey,
of T exas. It is not stated what line of the pro
fession be will adopt, but from tbe fact that be
expects to act on week days and preach on Sun
days, it is only a fair assumption that he will
alternate in comedy and tragedy. With his
seeming versatility bo might do a song and
dance one night and Hamlet the next. It will
be interesting to note what he will do when he
strikes such ungodly towns as Cincinnati and
St. Louis, when he will have to act as well as
preach on Sundays. It is probable, however,
that this will cot be a serious hindrance to the
Rev. Virgil Maxey, actor, for ho is not likely to
get beyond one-night stands. Preacher-actors
rarely do.
""Theee Is no man more careful of his health
and comfort than a young Pittsburger
who is afflicted with a goodly share of this
world's goods.
"I am going away on Monday," ha said yes
terday, "for my health."
"Why, you're the plctnre of health," said I.
That's just It I mean to givo my health the
best kind of chance to make me Its picture
permanently."
A gentleman who lost his dog in the
slaughter this week said to me yesterday:
"As a prudential measure I would advise Mr.
Blgelow to muzzle the bear out in Bchenley
Park. Somebody may feel like casting a but
ton out that way."
y
Thi dog killers made one big"heart in a small
bodyache wuen they gave abutton to a lit
tle boy's pet dog on Second avenue on Friday.
One who saw the child carrying the luckless
dog in his arms tells me that a more pathetic
sight ho never beheld. The dog was very near
death swollen hideously, but the boy hugged
him tightly, calling the poor brute by its name
and sobbing as if his heart would break.
i
Tm American "church choir young lady"
has found an El Dorado in London, and
demonstrates the wisdom and reward of the
judicious mixture of church choir and comic
opera. The shining examples of this happy
state of things aro Agnes Huntington, Hello
Cole, Geraldine Ulmar and Margaret Hall. It
is, however, "our Agnes" who has beaten the
record and acquired the social "bun," for it is
an open secret that her newly-found patroness,
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, is conducting
delicate negotiations with a viewto presenting
Agnes at court. It will be a proud day, indeed,
for Boston when her most favored artiste
"kisses hands";at Buckingham Palace. One of
tho greatest of tbe great social functions of the
London season is tbe annual garden party of
the Dnchess of Westminster; indeed, it is only
one remove from a royal entertainment, and
an invitation to it is most eagerly sought after
as a social prize in Lond"i society, and the idea
of an actress being one of the guests has never
beon known before, yet j'our Agnes" not only
was present with the Burdett-Coutts party, but
was the "lioness" of the occasion. Still, it
will not do for the Casino chorus to go over to
London en masse, as there might be difficulties
in tbe way.
Pbancis Wilson is very well satisfied with
his venture in comic opera. He certainly
did well enough last season with "The OolafS
and "Tbe Gondoliers," and he is not likely to
hire himself out to any manager again.
Marie Jansen, Laura Moore and Nettie Ly
ford will again appear in Francis Wilson's
comic opera company, now rehearsing "The
Merry Monarch" at the Broadway Theater in
Hew York. Others of last year's company re
tained for next season are. Chules Flunkett
and Harry Macdonough. The new members
of the Wilson organization are Willett Sea
man, Jr., the tenor, and Gilbert C. Clayton, a
comedian recently with "The Pearl of Pekin"
company. The new piece will be first pro
duced at the Broadway Theater, Monday, Au
gust IS. The scene is Oriental, the costumes
rich, the scenery fantastic yet appropriate.
The music is by Emile Cbabrier and Woolson
Morse, while J. Cheever Goodwin, who did so
much to help Alice Oates to her great suc
cesses, has done the libretto.
PUBELY PERSONAL,
John Gbeenleaf Whittieb will spend
next month at Centre Harbor, N. H.
Rev. Josiah T. Howes, a Congregational
clergyman for over 67 years, is still preaching
at Litchfield, Me., although in his 92d year.
Pbof. C. B. Richards, ef the Sheffield
Scientic School, Yale, has been made by tbe
French Government a chevalier of the Legion
of Honor.
r Majoii J. Hoeace De Lacy and General
Jubal A. Early should get together without
further delay on the field of honor, if there can
be a field of honor for a man who certifies to
tbe Louisiana Lottery.
Mb. Henby M. Stanley has a first cousin
living on Hazel street, Wilkesbarre, Pa. His
name is John R. Jones. He is a small shop
keeper and well-to-do. He is the physical
image of the great explorer, having tbe same
cast of features.
Mb. David Dudley Field, the eminent
lawyer, now SO years of age, is about to don bis
black silk stockings and small clothes, and be
presented at the levee of, the Prince of Wale&I
after having sturdily declined tbat honor for
many London seasons.
AT the banqnet of the National Club, of
Montreal, Canada, recently, M. Launer, the
leader of the Liberal party, said: "Ca.iada can
not always remain a colony. The time must
come when we will take our proper position in
tho world; and for my part I favor indepen
dence." Mb. Robebt Rae, the well-known temper
ance reformer, of London, and his daug iter
have been guests at Cliff Seat, Mr. Joseph
Cook's summer home, near Lake George. Tbey
met there Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, National Super
intendent of Scientific Temperance Instruc
tion, and her secretary; also Miss Whiting,
professor of pbysics in Wellesley College.
The late Willard Sears, of Boston, stood
with Garrison, Wendell Phillips and other
prominent abolitionists during the early days
of anti-slavery agitation, and when every
church and ball in tbe city was closed to them
he built the Marlborough Chapel and dedicated
it as a battle hall against slavery. It was In its
time the largest hall in Boston, and afterward
became the Lowell Institute.
Mb. Geoege Vandeebilt, the youngest of
the four graudsons. of "tho old Commodore,"
cares neither for stocks, nor railroads, nor for
fashionable life. Ho Is almost unknown in
New York, except to booksellers, dealers in
bric-a-brac, and picture dealers. He is a great
collector and possesses, among other treasures,
a bust of Rembrandt carved iu ivory by Fritz
Kaldenberg, which is considered tbe finest
ivory carving ever dono in America and which
is valued at 3,600.
I0BSW0BH HEE MOTHER.
A Girl Sticks to tho Convent In Spite of
Tears and Entreaties.
Cleveland, O., July 11 Mrs. Mary J. Mc
Enlght went before the Probata Court aud
secured a writ of habeas corpus for the release
of her daughter Mary from a Catholic institu
tion known as theHome of the Good Shepherd.
Mrs. McKnlght is a Protestant. Six years ago
her sister took Mary, who was then 13 years of
age, away from home.
Until recently Mrs. McKnlght was unable to
cet any trace of the girl. When she discovered
her whereabouts the nuns in charge of tho in
stitution refused to let her see or converse with
her daughter. The girl was brought into court
by a deputy sheriff, accompanied by a nun. She
had a long talk with ber mother, but In spite of
the latter tears and entreaties she refused to
leave the convent. Tbe scene was a most
affecting one. As the girl Is IS years of age
tbe Judge decided tbat be could not interfere,
and tbe case was dismissed, Mary leaving the
court room with the nun.
FSENZY OP A DYIHG HOUSE.
Seized with Hydrophobia a Month Aflor
Belnff Bitten by a Dog.
PltoviDENCE, R. t, July 19. A horse owned
by Paris H. Mathoweon, a Johnston farmer,
died this morning of hydrophobia. In its mad
ness the animal tore its forelegs fearfully with
its teeth and had to be bound with chains, ropes
and straps to prevent its doing injury to. the
people who were in tho vicinity. The horse
was bitten a month ago by a strange dog which
was evidently mad and was subsequently killed.
The horse did not appear to suffer from the
bite until Thursday night. The animal was
one of a valuable pair of bays. Tbey had
worked together in a mowing machine all tbe
afternoon. When about to put them up for
tho night the farmer drove the pair Into the
barnyard, gave them some water and left them
In charge of his wife while be went to the
house. He was called back to the horses by
his wife. One of them had fallen and was act
ing strange.
Ho separated the animals and tied up the
affected one in the yard. The animal's eyes
had become blood red. A stringy saliva started
from tbe mouth, and it began to bite at every
thing within reach. Steadily its frenzy in
creased, and the horse snapped at its own flesn,
tearing out large pieces from the muscular
parts of the forelezs. Mr. Matuewson securely
tied the horse, and at 10 o'clock at night to stop
the animal from further self-mutilation tied a
heavy apron of bagglnc on the horse's neck
and thus covered its cbestand legs. In tbe
morning tbe crazed borso was much worse. It
had torn off tbe "apron" and continued biting
its legs. It bit at everything in sight. Awheel
on a heavy lumber cart was seized by the mad
dened brute as though the animal was de
termined to make an impression on tbe heavy
iron tire and rim. The creature plunged Its
head against the barn wall and against wagons
and other things in tho yard. Chains and ropes
were thrown about its neck and fastened to a
pin under a beam. Then Mr. Mathewson man
aged to fasten a strap around the animal's jaw
as a muzzle. This put an end to tbe biting, but
the brute plunsed and thrashed in convulsions,
and finally, 12 hours from the first symptons of
the trouble, it died.
CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS.
A TnnsviLLE man treated his potato vines
to a bath of petroleum to clear away tbe bugs. It
proved a howling success, so much so that now he
Is not troubled with either bugs or potato vines.
The story about Mr. Blaines retirement
from tne Cabinet has not been sprung for several
days. This hot weather must have a demoral
izing eftect upon some of our esteemed Democratic
cotemporarles. ,
Colonel Shepabd's Mail and Express
announced with a flourish of trumpets a few days
ago that General Alger was an aspirant for the
Presidency and would be nominated by the Re
publican National Convention in 1892. On account
of the rumor coming from suth a source the Gen
eral is now afraid that his name will be Dennis.
Fob a man who has been reported dead as
often as ex-Governor Foraker has been. It must
be admitted that he is a pretty lively corpse.
Many Cincinnati families live on the river
boats running to Louisville. They And It cheaper
than paying house rent and servant girls,
TnE Chicago Post asks the question; "If a
man and a lady drink an original package and a
half in an hour and a half, bow long will It take
three men to see a sea serpent." Respectfully re
ferred to the United States Supreme Court.
Db. Brown-Seqtjabd claims that his elixir
of life not only restores tbe aged, but that It Is
good medicine" In many diseases. He says he
has cured Intermittent fever, neuralgia, rheuma
tism, insomnia and leprosy with it, but strange
to relate. It has no effect whatever on a lazy man.
Hon. William L. Scott's horse Banquet
has broken the record. The ex-Congressman Is a
pretty good record breaker himself.
The census shows that tbe town of Gettys
burg has a population of 3,061 persons. What an
insignificant little snburb it Is of the great city of
the dead, which lies outside its lines. Probably
nowhere else on this continent. If in the world,
says the Detroit Dree Press, does such a handful
of tbe living go about the vocations of dally life
In the silent presence or such a multitude of the
dead.
Major Goodman Iu Philadelphia.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
, Conspicuous among tbe names of the arrivals
on the register of the Lafayette Hotel yester
day was that of Major E. H. Goodman, of
Pittsburg. Major Goodman is well-known in
Philadelphia, where he was formerly General
Superintendent ot tbe Pullman Car Company's
interest in this city. He is now identified with
tbe Westinghouse Electric Light Company.
ALL THROUGH THE STATE,
LAWN tennis is one of tha lost arts in Oil
City.
A Nobbistown man claims "bee charming"
qualities.
Ground has been broken for a new city
bnilding in Oil City.
A lot of Nomstown boys have been arrested
for stealing Sunday papers.
Some Schuylkill connty census enumerators
have refused to finish their work.
A West Chesteb man says the umbrella
he carried was shattered by lightning recently.
Samuel Gabdon, a Welsh Monntaln
farmer, killed a 13-foot black snake a few days
aco.
A single birthday party at Reading did
service for three relatives who were b orn on
the same day.
Mbs. S. S. Ladd, Superintendent of tne
Bradford Hospital, has been asked to resign,
which request she politely refused.
Henby Rambo, of Reading, while fishing in
the canal, caught a fish, the 'like of which had
never been seen before in that section.
Peteb Egolf, Sr., aged 93 years, who has
been aD active farmer for 83 years,is probably
the senior agriculturist of the Schuylkill V al
ley. While assisting an officer to arrest a
drunken man in Bradford, George Fisbor, a
hotel clerk, had a finger bitten off by the fel
low, Michael Gibbons, a National Guardsman,
26 years old, was mangled to death under a
train near Wilkesbarre on Thursday night. He
had just attended drill, and met death in uni
form. John W. Rudy, convicted of murder in the
first degree at Lancaster and commuted to
imprisonment for life, was lodged in the East
ern Penitentiary yesterday morning by Sheriff
Burkholder.
THE THIRD CENSUS DISTRICT.
A Gain of Twenty-hlx Per Cent Made In
Montgomery Connty.
Nobbistown, July 19. Tbo first compilation
of tbe returns from all the eonntles of the
Third Census district, of which John H. White
is Supervisor, was made to-day, and shows that
tbe population of the district is, in round num
bers, 499,000, distributed amontr tbe five coun
ties as follows; Montgomery, 121.500; Bucks, 72,
000: Berks, 135,500; Northampton, 83.667; Lehigh,
77.359. Tbe largest gain over tho census of 18S0
wits made by Montgomery county 26 per cent,
with Northampton 18, Lehigh 17, Berks 10 and
Bucks 5 per cent. The figures will vary slightly,
as one district in Lehigh countv, two in Mont
gomery and four in Bucks remain to be heard
from, and the returns from tbe institution enu
merators, of whom there are 26, are incom
plete. A Sklllfnl Acrobat.
From the Tltusvllle Herald.
Line Repairer John McCllntock, of thePostal
Telegraph Company, was on the top of a 60-foot
pole in Titusville, when tbo pole snapped in
two at the bottom. Before the pole fell the
skillful acrobat slid half way down, and when
tho pole was within five feet of tbe ground he
leaped to a guy rope and fell on the top of the
pole, miraculously escaping with his life, but
seriously injuring his left side.
ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT.
rWBIXTEN TOB TOX D1SPATCH.1
Ob, here and there ,
And everywhere
The cranss are coming and going.
So wind from the sea.
No wind from the lea
But cranks to cranks is blowing.
'Twere vain to try
To classify
The crank, whose name Is legion;
Who buzzes and swarms,
Pulls down, reforms
In every terrestrial reglon.
But It's safe to say,
In a general way.
Of erankery, and every sort ot It,
That the long-haired he
And the snort-nalred she ,
Are about the long and short of it.
-Polk swaiM.
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
A neef-Enicr's rJaiprlae at "the Independ
ence of American Women Abuse of the
Tip System on tho Occnu Dressing and
Tobacco Chewing.
trnojf x siAvr cobmsposdest.
mT0 You know what strikes me the most
forcibly that makes tbe greatest im
pression on me here?" This by an English
acquaintance who had been in this country but
two days. We were seated at one of the little
square tables in the Hoffman House art gal
lery, and my foreign friend was complacently
toying with a straw. I suggested that it might
possibly be mixed drinks. "Oh, no; you're
chaffing! Though they are good, to bo sure
very nice and and very dear,"h added, glanc
ing at bis check. "I'll tell you. It is your
women promenading up and down Brdadway
without mate escort or other attendance. I've
been watching them for hours. Here It is
nearly 10 o'clock and the street is full of them.
You might suppose they were within their own
private premises. I've heard much of the in
dependence of your charming women, but I
confess my astonishment at this.
"Nothing remarkable But it Is very re
markable to me. Such handsome women, and
so admirably dressed! In London after night
fall you will see nobody but disreputable women
aoroad unattended at least nobody who can
remain at home. Here the great mass of these
women are evidently respectable ladies."
I told him bis surmise was correct. The dif
ference was in the application of municipal
law. London gives its bad women the right to
the streets at night; New York reserves that
right exclusively for decent people.
"But we have reached tha point by long
process." he continued, "and by a method of
municipal ratiocination beyond ordinary human
understanding. In many respects America is
more civilized than England. Now, isn't that
a big admission from a a 'beef eaterf "
It was, indeed, but not bigger than other ad
missions I have heard from English travelers.
And this same point of feminine freedom in
variably strikes the foreigner with astonish
ment. The thousands of ladies who stroll in
pairs and clusters up and down Broadway
every pleasant evening is the most substantial
testimonial to the decencies of New York; As
a matter of fact, and despite tbe horrid charac
ter given the metropolis "under the gaslight,"
a respectable woman can go almost anywhere
at almost any time of the night without being
disturbed or as much as-accosted. The woman
who works year in and year out on the morn
ing newspapers of this city will testify to that.
AH she has to do is to go along and mind her
own business. The Broadway promenaders,
however, are strollers, but they are protected
by custom and by tbe natural chivalry ot the
American gentleman.
Dressing In New York.
"pnE best dressed men in New York are not
the richest citizens by any means. In fact,
dress is no more the index to a man's pocket
book here than it is elsewhere. There are
probably 20,000 clerks downtown who dress bet
ter, richer and more tastefully than their em
ployes. Some of our millionaires are so mean
they would use a wart on the neck for a collar
button. Tbey show it in their attire as well as
in other ways. The best dressed man yon meet
is more likely to be a man who lives in a hall
bedroom of some cheap boarding bouse and
can scarcely raise money to pay his board from
week to week. He may be an actor, or a bar
ber, or a drygoods clerk, or something of tbat
sort, but he pays special attention to clothes.
He makes clotbes the leading feature of bis
daily life. Every fashionable woman will tell
you tbat dressing is an art. It is the same with
a man. It requires both taste and study, and
not necessarily a good deal of money. Tbe less
money, tbe greater the genius demanded. I
have seen women who always look better on
100 or $200 a year than others on as many
thousands.
All of us know men who spend a lot of money
on clothes and tailors and are never well
dressed. New York is full of such men. Life
is too short and time too valuable for most
men to worry over the exact shade or figure ot
cloth and the precise cut or lit of the tailor.
So the fashions ot men are' invented and gov
erned by people for whom those of the great,
driving business world have tbe utmost con
tempt, just as the fashions of tbe feminine world
are moulded and set by tbe cocottes of Fans.
The originators are worthless and unknown,
but they bring to bear on tbo matter an
amount of taste and an aggregation of novel
laeaa superior to toe masses wno consciously,
or unconsciously, imitate them. There are
young fellows about New York yes, and old
fellows, too who, on small incomes, get more
amusement out of dress and make a braver
show of fashion than all the millionaires of tbe
country put together.
Leas Chewing of the Weed.
h'Tobacco chewing has been steadily and
happily declining, so far as New York
users of the weed are concerned," said a well
known tobacconist the other day. "It is a relic
of crude civilization, anyhow, and will now be
found prevalent only among raw communities
West and South. The poor and Ignorant chew
tobacco more or less everywhere in some form,
chiefly in the United States. Laboring men,
who have fewer opportunities for smoking,
more naturally take to chewing tobacco. We
very rarely sell chewing tobacco to gentlemen,
nowadays." And this observation is verified in
numerous ways. The carpets of the various
New York theaters are very little damaged by
the users of "fine-cut" or "plug." The side
walks in those parts of the city most affected
by gentlempn of cnlture and refinement show
comparatively few stains from tho habit. Even
the elevated trains, where half a million of
people of all classes and conditions ride up and
down daily, show decided evidence of tbe in
creasing cleanliness. A man may meet and
talk with hundreds of other men day after aay
and never see a chew of tobacco taken.
Intbig respect If ew York is probably not in
advance of Boston or Philadelphia, though
there is a painfnl contrast in the West and
South.
"It used to be quite as bad here," remarked
an old New Yorker to whom I spake about tbo
matter. "The foreign population and foreign
travel have brought about the change. Abroad
very little cbewing tobacco is nsed, as anybody
who has traversed tbewhite marble pavemenu
of Florence, Milan, Rome and other Italian
cities, or made tne continental tonr will grate
fully remember. The Ameiican tobacco
cbewer who goes abroad is continually re
minded of his filthy habit byttbe absence of the
here universal spittoon, and the difficulty of
obtaining supplies. Jf such a journey does not
cure him it will certainly Induce him to con
ceal bis vice, as far as possible, from decent
people."
V
Gotham's Comfortable Weather.
TTJITH the exception of a single night, when
a cover heavier than a sheet was comfort
able, we have had a delightfully cool summer
thus far. There have been nore evenings
when a spring overcoat was desirable than days
when the beat was seriously disagreeable. I
writo this with a mental reservation against
the day on which it is printed.
9
Robbers ot the High Seas.
UB ocean-going steamers inflict a penalty on
passengers not anticipated by any save old
timers. This is in tips. As most of them are
under the flag of nations where the tip is a part
of the general system, it a considered a part of
the necessary expenses. The man who starts
out with the idea that bo can Ignore the cus
tom will have a disagreeable time of it. The
English lines are the worst, for the English
steward, waiter or petty official i3 tho most in
solent mortal on the face of the earth or sea.
Ton will havo to reach higher and will get less
foryour money dealing with him than with
anybody else. Everybody who has been across
the water has a harrowing tale to tell of bis ex
tortions. His kind are not adverse to setting
their own price, maaing meir own caarges.
Tbe steamship companies pay their men about
115 per month. They expect to makoS25to850
a trip in tips. If you are alone and ask no fa
vors a waiter will expect at least SJ 50. This
although he lias done nothing "especially for
you beyond the necessary service at table.
The bedroom steward expects the same. Both
will ask you for it and insult you if you don't
pay it. If you have a family, or 3re seasick, or
the female members of your family require
any extra attention, the charge will bo run up
to S5 or S10.
I remember when coming over on the Cn
narder. Anrania, I Innocently tendered the
man who bad waited upon me at table two-and-six.
Ho handed it back to me impudently
andald: "We usually get ten shillings, sir."
I put it in my pocket. A short time atterward
I tendered tho same amount to tbe bedroom
steward, whom I had not even seen before on
the trip. Tbat menial simply passed it back
with a scornful glance tbat took in my entire
anatomy. Instead of being annihilated, as I
ought to have been, 1 solemnly replaced tbe
coin in my pocket. Unfortunately lor Amer
ican travelers generally, I noted that few
passengers have as much presence of mind. I
am a believer in tips, when I get something for
the money: as is usually the case on the Con
tinent. When a conductor or guard gives a
man a whole compartment in a crowded train
he earns his shilling, and Americans will
invariably recognize the fact. The steamer
tip is, however, usually a bit of blackmail.
There Is another thing. You are expected
to Inrnish vour own steamer chair at a cost of
from $1 to $7. Why a passenger should buy his
own seat and lug it along is more tban most
fellows can find out before they go. They
Ann out then that it is to sit down unon. to
look after daily, to pay storage upon when they
get across, to find stolen or brokon when tbey
want to return and to cost them' all tbelr odd
i-rnnnees and reserve tetrmer. There is only
one thlDg worse, and tbat is to stand np, if you j
wish to remain on deck the only desirable
place most of the time.
m
A Result of the Wine Booming.
TT has got so in New York that well-known
"club men," as they liked to be called, are
afraid to name their preference for a particu
lar brand of wine for far tbey will be taken
for wine boomers living on corkage. Some
distinction must be preserved between gentle
men of eTegant leisure. CITABLE T. MUBBAY.
New York. July 19.
JFKEE RAKKHTS MISTAKE.
The Actor Declined a Fortune Offered Him
by Mr. Wrstlngbouse.
From the New York Dramatic Mirror. J
Some years ago when McKee Rankin was
leading man in tha stock company at tho
theater in Pittsburg, ho was visited every
few days throughout tha entire season by a
long, lean man. who looked like a typical
countryman. He tried to indnce him to ad
vance money for tbe putting of a patent before
the public. Tbe visitor only had one way of
stating his case, and this he religiously did on
an average ot tbree times a week for about 30
weeks. He would lounge up to Rankin, and.
after bidding the actor "good morning," and
chatting for awhile, would incidentally remark:
"Pve got a patent out of which untold wealth
can be made if I only had abont S50U to get
started. Now, Mac, I'll give you a half inter
est in it if yon'll advance the money."
Tha same speech was repeated so frequently
that it became a standing joke in the company,
and the young fellow who gave ntterance to It
was looked on as a crank by one and all.
Other people not members of the company
joined the actors in tbelr estimate of
tha mental balance of tbe inventor.
The season closed. Rankin came to New
York and bis friend from Pittsburg was for
gotten until some years later when Tbe
Danites was in the flush of its success.
Rankin was playing tbe part of Bandy in
Pittsburg, when be received a call at bis
botel from, one of the millionaires of the
Smoky City. He was greatly surprised to
think that this man should call on him, but a
few moments conversation soon put him
straight. The visitor was George westlng
house and the "Datent" he tried to get Rankin
interested in was tbe now universally used
"air-brake," the royalties from which amount
to more than 1500,000 per annum.
A FORTUNE WITHOUT EFFORT.
Virginia Capitalist Said to Have Cleared n
Million.
Richmond, Va July 19. It is stated upon
good authority that Messrs. James B. Pace,
James Dooley, and B. D. Christian and General
T. M Logan, from Richmond, capitalists, have
recently made a large amount of money in a
railroad deal. About two years ago these
gentlemen acquired stock in a construc
tion company operating in what was
then Washington Territory. The schema
was to construct a railroad from Seattle
to Spokane Falls, a distance of about 350 miles
This company baa completed 140 miles of the
Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad, and is now
pushing forward to fill np the gap of 84 miles
between that point and Mission, on tbe Inter
national Line, where the new road will connect
with tbe Canadian Pacific.
The result ot the enterprise has been to net
the gentlemen named a bandsome profit with
out any one of them ever having seen the prop
erty upon which this money was made. Messrs.
Pace, Christian and Dooley were equally Inter
ested, and it is understood that the net profit
which they divide Is $600,000. General Logan
is saia to have cleared between three and four
hundred thousand.
A PETRIFIED SKULL
Found by Workmen Excavation
for
Foundation.
Wheeling. July 19. Yesterday, while en
gaged, with other workmen, in excavating for
the foundation of a new house on Fifteenth
street, east of Wood, Mr. William Fnese un
earthed what appears to be a petrified skull.
The head is small, like that of a child, and is as
hard as rock and apparently solid clear
through. The face Is well marked, tha nose,
eyes and mouth being distinct, but at tbe back
of tbe head there is a large depression or
hollow, as though the original skull bad been
crushed in by some heavy blow. No other
bones were found. Tbe skull or bead was
found but a short distance below the surface,
and had evidently been in the earth for many
years. It attracted a good deal of attention
auring ine aay.
HErDELBERG UNIVERSITY.
The Acting President Resigns, and More
Trnuble In Prospect.
Tinrrs, O., July 19. The difficulties in con
nection with the management'of Heidelburg
University multiply, tbo latest incident in con
nection with the unfortunate affair being the
resignation of Prof. C. O. Knepper, of the
chair of belles lettres and history, and acting
President of tbe college. It Is understood that
in his letter to the Board of Regents conveying
bis resignation, the professor criticised with
much severity and some bitterness, the action
of tbe board in electing Dr. Knost to the
Chancellorship. Other resignations are looked
for, and tbe prospects for a satistactory adjust
ment of the troubles are bynomean3 encour
aging. In the meantime the institution is suf
fering and its usefulness being destroyed.
R9AD IMPBOVEHENT.
The Pennsylvania Commission to Meet In
This City Friday, August S.
Tbe Road Commission of Pennsylvania will
meet in Tltusvllle at tbe Hotel Brunswick on
Thursday, August 7. instead of Meadville, as
before published. Tbe object of the meeting
is that the commission may ascertain the views
of all interested in tbe matter of roads, road
improvement and maintenance.
The commission will meet in this city on Fri
day, August 8. at tbe Hotel Anderson.
A Little Too Previous.
From the Detroit Free Press.1
A man at Erin, Tenn., bought a bottle of
"liver invigorator" of n quack doctor, and
then, for S2, certified tbat it had cured him of
a complaint of 20 years' standing. Ho went
home, took half a bottle and died, and it Is for
tunate for him tbat he cannot hear the chuck
lug and see the grins of his old neighbors.
A Hero's Narrow Escape.
From the New York World.
Ralph Woodman, a workman, of Auburn,
Me., snatched a 8-year-old child from in front
of a railroad train and had such a narrow es
cape himself that tha cowcatcher of the loco
motive knocked off his hat and it was carried
under tbe wheels.
The Spoils In the Postofflce.
From the Boston Herald.
Postmaster General Wanamaker's position,
that no Democrat is to have a postmaster's
place under him when a competent Republican
can be found to fill it, is tbe ancient spoils idea
in its worst form. The only redeeming quality
in it Is tbat it ha3 not the element of hypocrisy.
THE WAYS OF W0MAJT FATS.
Miss Helen Gould, the only daughter of
Jay Gould, owns tbe rarest collection of
orchids in the country, and is an accomplished
botanist.
Mlle. Clottldk Mejstrie Is a female bull
fighter of distinction in Portugal. Tbe first
four weeks she was in the business she killed
fonr bulls.
Miss Agnes Lowe has been awarded the
first prize in the oratorical contest of the Wis
consin University. She is described as an at
tractive young lady with a fondness for pretty
clothes.
"I cannot make you beautiful," a well
known artiste is reported to have said to tha
daughter of an oil king recently, "but if your
father will give ma 86,000 and a year's time I
will make yott charming."
Among the legacies left by tbe late Empress
Augusta, besides many to Protestant bene
ficiaries, are a bequest of 5.000 marks to the
Romanist St. Hedwigs Hospital, in Berlin,
and one of 5,000 marks to the Hebrew alms
houses. Madam: Helena Modjeska, who is still a
very "Rose of May" upon tbe stage, and who
is known as tha gentlest and kindest of artists,
is quoted as saying that ill-temper, with its ex
citement of the nerves and disturbance of the
emotions, is a deadly toe to beauty and charm,
and that no wise 'woman will permit herself its
Indulgence.
Mbs. Jopling, the most famous and able of
English woman artists, is a leader ot Intellec
tual London society as well. She is handsome,
graceful, and a witty and original talker, who
dresses well and possesses a beautiful house.
She has been thma times mamed, butber bril
liant and agreeable husband, Mr. Rows, prefers
tbat she should continue to sign her pictures
with the name she has adorned.
CUBI0US CONDEKSATIONS.
A new model school in Germany, which,
has been built at a cost of $225,000. contains a
large dining room where 700 poor children can
be fed in winter.
A wild sweet orange has been discov
ered growing in the northern part of Florida.
The fruit hangs on the tree all the year round,
often for six months after it is fully ripe.
The tattered chart found on the body of
Lieutenant Da Long.of Arctic fame, now forms
one of the most interesting relics in Colonel
Langdon's museum, at Fort Hamilton, in New
York harbor.
A mass of pure, compact rock salt, said
to contain 90,000.000 tons of tha mineral, is
located on an island 185 feet high which rises
from a sea marsh on tbe route from Brashear
to New Iberia, up the river Teche. In Louisiana.
The French Minister of War lately of
fered a prlzo for tbe swiftest bird in a flight
from PerJgneux to Paris, 310 miles. There were
3,748 entries, the winner doing tbe distance la
7 hours and 34 minutes, or at 43 miles au hour.
A new and popular development of
electrical science is tbe electrical hair curler.
It is said to be equal to the most exacting de
mands of tbe feminine coiffure, and tbe beard
or mnstache can be curled in any style In t o
minutes.
Two burglars broke into Henry Vin
cent's house, two miles south or Grand Haven,
and in tbe baste to get away when discovered
overlooked S1.C00 which was in the trunk tbey
carried away but dropped in the woods when
given chase.
South Attica, Mich., farmers planted
mustard seed. They did not expect pineapples
or oranges, but tbey were wild when the plant
came up and proved to be Western mustard,
which is abont ten times as hard to eradicate
as tha Canada thistle.
A Scotch physician has discovered that
playing on the bagpipe wears away the player's
front teeth in four years. The effects on the
people tbat hear tbe noise come sooner; their
teeth are set on edge and their patience worn
away in about four minutes.
The Baltimore American relates that a
couple from Pocahontas, W. Va who went to
Cumberland, Md., to get married, were delayed
36 hours in having the ceremony performed,
be cause the groom was not old enough by tbat
uumuer oi nours to get a license.
About a week ago Luther Clough, of
Bow, N. H., was bitten through the hand by
two cats which he attempted to separate while
they were fighting. Soon after be became ill,
suffering greatly from his wounds, and his
death is no w momentarily expected.
Of the 3,321,000 people who crossed the
Brooklyn bridge during the month of June
3,022,000 were carried in the cars. The most in
teresting feature of tha Brooklyn bridge trus
tees' report is. however, tbat tbey spent $2,723
for "legal expenses" and but 51,000 for coal.
The most thoroughly disgusted man in
Kansas is Dr. Burton, of Andover. He spent
$12 and a large amonnt of work on the cultiva
tion of Russian mulberry trees, and the one
tree that survived developed into a healthy syc
amore. Tha doctor has returned to his pa
tients. The greatest steeple climber in England
is said to be William Green. He has repaired
50 or more steeples and spires, and is sent for
from all parts of tbe kingdom. His great
achievements have been in repairing tbe spire
of Salisbnry Cathedral, 404 feet bigb; Louth,
Lincolnshire. 350 feet; Gratbam, 320 feet, and a
steeple in Cambridgeshire, 280 feet.
A wealthy and noted sporting charac
ter, in Connecticut, on a wager of $50, drove a
pair of hired horses from Bridgeport to Nor
walk last Friday evening in 47 minutes 27 sec
onds. The distance is 13 miles. Both horses,
althongh alive, are ruined for life. The Con
necticut Humane Society has secured a war
rant for bis arrest, and tbe liveryman proposes
to bring suit for damages to tha team.
A mystery of New York is a "Norwe
gian, a thorough cook and housekeeper, with
the best of references as to character and abil
ity, now ont of employment," who has been ad
vertising for a situation for more than a year.
Sometimes she receives as many as 100 letters a
day. Several decoy letters have been sent to
her address by newspaper men desirous of pen
etrating the mystery, but they have been un
successful. The Franciscan monks have recently
opened their first Canadian monastery in Mon
treal. The monks live entirely by alms and are
allowed to touch no money. If victuals are not
supplied they go forth and beg." They preach
penance and conversion, and their principal
occupation is prayer, meditatian and penance.
Their doors are always open to the poor, and
with them the monks share such as they hava
themselves.
A citizen of Selma, Cal., who had two
lazy boys on his hands induced them to plant a
vineyard and cultivate it with their own labor
for three years, with the promise that be would
pay them a bonus of 81 for every pound of
raisins tbat wonld be raised in tbat length of
time. The boys went to work with a zeal that
nearly took the old gentleman's breath away,
and from present indications this year's crop
will cost him $2,000.
On St. Paul's river, in Liberia, there is
a homemade steamboat. It was constructed by
a negro named Irons, who was once a slave m
South Carolina. He built his steamboat in this
way: He remodeled a canoe 50 feet long, put In
the engine of a sugar cane milt rigged up pad
dle wheels and put m some bits ot iron shaft
ing. The steamer is not a beauty, bnt it carries
freight and passengers and does good work.
Its builder has inventive genius, and should ba
encouraged.
Mr. Horatio Littlefield, of WestKenne
bunk. Me., discovered a curious object on his
farm tbe other day. He was chopping timber,
and decided to dig one old tree, known to have
been there for over a century, up by tbe roots.
He did so. and was surprised to find an iron
kettle firmly embedded in tbe roots. Tbe
large roots looked as though they bad grasped
it and year by year pressed it deeper and still
deeper into the ground until it got to the depth
of five feet. The question now is; who put the
kettle where it was f oundf
The Methodist minister in Ohio who
got into trouble with his congregation because
he insisted that fans should not boused iu
church bad less tact then a Massachusetts min
ister, who also disliked fans. Going quietly to
a church committee he explained to them tbat
fans of all varieties distracted bis attention
and requested tbat fans of one variety only
snould be used. An immediate compliance
followed, and tbe flirtation fan, the nervous
little fan, the ponderous fan disappeared, and
In place of each jf these there is now waved
tbe respectable palm-leaf fan, which gives com
fort to the congregation and satisfaction to the
minister"
FUNNY MES'a FANCIES.
twarrriN ron tbe dispatch.
The Eetort Temperate "Now, don't lose
your temper."
"I won't. But I'd advise you to lose yours."
A Curious Effect "This is a nicely dec
orated room. So warm In color."
Tes, lt'j surprisingly warm, considering tbe
depth of the frieze. "-. S. Watts.
A Business Paradox "How's the out
look?" "Dark."
"Why?"
Sales are light." Henry Uartness.
An Unpleasant Man "Is Foster an un
pleasant man?"
"1 should sar he 1st In a crowded street car tbe
other day he got up and gave his seat to a lady,
and then, of courjc, tbe other men had to get
up so, altogether, he made us very uncom
fortable." 9
A Born Crawler. "I don't think ranch
of Benncttson. He made me a promise the other
day and crawled out of It the first chance he
got."
"That's Bcnnettson all over. Why. he's as
much as told me be crawled before he walked."
CholmonMV Uareourt.
AU, All is Vanity. "Why do yon call
your Jokes conceits, Mr. Funulboy?" asked the
sweet girl graduate.
Because they are a part orthe vain of humor, "
returned the humorist; and the young woman
laughed so heartily that Funulboy gave her an
opportunity to tell him she'd be a 'sister to him,
later In the evening. Cartjte Smith,
A SEBENADK.
He, Willi Banjo Accompaniment.
'Tis bold in me to seek thy favor,
But love is mine tbat does not waver.
Open the shutter and 1 shall know
That thou. Love, dost receive me:
Keep the casement closed, and I will go,
You care not-1 will leave thee.
Mir, Iasldp.
The words are fair be dares to utter.
I wish I could see through this shutter.
Is It Jack, or Tom? I cannot tell
Who warbles there so sweetly;
Whichever It Is, I know full well.
He's won my heart completely,
Oprns the Shatter.
Why, Bob! Katel Scott Xuut,
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