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THE RESULT OF EXTRAVAGANCE.
It is one of the indications of the unsatis
factory balance of receipts and expenditures
to which we are tending that the
Philadelphia Press, after laboring tinder
the title of "Ihe Surplus Safe Enough," to
disprove the statements of an excess of
outgo over income reaches the conclusion
that, "when dependent pensions are met,
and with the McELinley tariff bill passed,
the revenue for next year, even paying
nothing to the sinking fund, will fall short
of the outgo for next year by from 530,000,
000 to $40,000,000." As this is a remark
able contrast to the past condition of an
excess of from $60,000,000 to $80,000,000 of
receipts, the Republican Congress might be
pardoned for paraphrasing the complaint of
the man -who was tried for theft, and pro
testing that if they had another advocate
like the Press they would be hung for
murder.
But now this unfortunate termination of
the reply to the charge that appropriations
are running far in excess of revenue
by a practical confession of its truth,
is not more remarkable than the proposi
tions for meeting the deficiency. No sensi
ble man has doubted that the Government's
resources and credit are sufficient to enable
it to meet its obligations. It is not an im
mediate insolvency that is foreshadowed;
but it is the beginning of a course of ex
travagance that, if continued, must lead to
insolvency. That goal is brought more dis
tinctly into view by propositions to use
iunds set aside by the most specific enact
ments to make up the deficiency caused by
Congressional extravagance. "We referred
the other day to the proposal of one Repub
lican organ to disregard the sinking fund
obligation in order to make up the gap be
tween the receipts and expenditures. An
even more remarkable resort is that of lay
ing hands on the national bank redemption
iucd, concerning which the Philadelphia
JYes says:
If the annual redemption of the bonded debt
of the United States is continued by using the
national bank note redemption fond, which is
deposited in the shape of the demand debt of
the Government, that is. in greenbacks, to re
duce Its bonded debt, fair economy in the clos
ing days of the session is all that is needed to
keep expenditures within receipts for the com
ing year.
The remarkable nature of this proposi
tion may be perceived when it ie stated
that the national bank note redemption is
not in any view of accounting an asset of
the Treasury. It does not belong to the
Government, but consists of money depos
ited by national banks for the redemption
of their circulating notes, and in every
proper sense is the property of the holders
of the national bank notes. At some re
mote period, that small portion of it that is
not called for, on account of the bank notes
having been lost or destroyed, may become
the property of the Treasury; but, on the
great bulk, the proposition now made is
very much as if a business man should pro
pose to use trust funds placed in his hands
to pay the expenses of his extravagant house
keeping. Could there be any more stunning evi
dence of the departure from economical and
honest administration of the public finances
than propositions that the Treasury shall
lay hands on sinking funds and trnst funds
to meet the cost of the prevailing extrava
gance? A WAR FOR A CENT.
A delightfully complicated little affair is
setting the five Central American States by
the ears. The reports are vague and un
trustworthy, but hcstilities have probably
begun between Guatemala and San Salva
dor. The latter State claims to have won a
signal victory over the Guatemalan in
vaders already. The cause of the war is no
clearer than the war itself. The re
publics arc jealous of each other, and
Guatemala, it is alleged, has been trying to
manage San Salvador's internal politics.
There is also a fairly-grounded suspicion
that Guatemala and Honduras would like
to absorb little San Salvador, and are work
ing to that end. Not one of the five repub
lics is big enougb, or rich enough, or popu
lous enough, to indulge in such a costly lux
ury s w, but in southern latitudes they
do not count the cost; they allow the foreign
bondholders to worry about that. Anyhow,
this war, if it is really a war, will not be
much of one. It need not disturb us.
WHAT ELSE IS IT?
When old Robert Bonner steps unon the
quarter stretch and offers to back Sunol
against Belle Hamlin for 110,000 and the gate
receipts, it does not argue that be has relin
quished bis scruples against trotting his horse
lor money, bnt that he does not, propose to be
bluffed by the men who mate horso racing a
business. Ee has confidence in the California
filly he bas purchased, and a race for money is
the only way for him to let her secure a record
and eettle the question at to which shall be
queen of the turf.
The logie of the above justification of Mr.
Bonner's recent departure, which is at
tempted by the Chicago Inter-Ocean, is not
very convincing. Although 510,000 may be
a small sum to Mr. Bonner and the pluto
cratic parsgrapher of the Inter-Ocean, it is
indisputable that it is money; and after af
man has spent a liietime in declaring that
be will not race for money, it is difficult to
we kow a proposal to race for $10,000 and
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the gate receipts can be contemplated in any
other light than that of an abandonment
of the old position.
Even admitting the claim that tho owner
ship of a fast horse is worthless unless a
record is thrown in, it does not follow that
$10,000 need be put up in order to obtain a
record. A fixed race for the gate receipts
with a proviso that the receipts shall be do
nated to any charity to be named by the
winner would have made the record and
avoided all semblance to racing for money.
No one believes that Mr. Bonner is making
this race for the sake of winning $10,000,
nor is it probable that he will keep the
$10,000 if he wins it. But,-presuming that
his lifelong opposition to racing for money
was based on principle, it is a pity that the
temptation to have his horse meet a rival has
even temporarily overcome his adhesion to
that principle.
QUEER EX PERT TESTIMONY.
A very remarkable example of the way in
which representatives of special interests
decline to see anything in public questions
but their own interest has recently been
furnished in Philadelphia. A meeting of
the Kapid Transit Commission in that city
afforded opportunity lor the railroad presi
dents whose companies now control the
routes of egress and ingress in that city to
express their views.
Those views were to the effect that what
their own -companies are doing furnishes
all the rapid transit that Philadelphia
wants; and especially that the belt line pro
ject which has been proposed to give all
present and future railroads access4to Phila
delphia's water front, would be an entirely
useless thing. As the new lines would dis
turb the monopoly of the existing ones, it is
not strange that the railroad presidents
should take this view; but the same con si d
ation also makes it a legitimate conclusion,
that, as the Record puts it, it would be as
well to "go to the devil for holy water," as
to such authorities for advice as to the im
provement of Philadelphia's freight or pas
senger transit facilities.
Yet it is on exactly such interested
authority as this that a great many import
ant enterprises are decided. The South
Penn project, whose story is being retold by
special articles in The Dispatch, is an
example of corporate powers deciding that a
public enterprise must not be carried
through, because it will disturb their
selfish interests, and enforce that decision
regardless of charter obligations, constitu
tional requirements or the decisions of the
courts. Nothing is plainer than that the
improvement of the Point district in this
city makes it for the general interest to have
belt lines both for freight and local passen
ger traffic transversing that section. Yet
there is no doubt that the existing com
panies reaching that section will, as in
Philadelphia, unanimously testify that such
an improvement is not wanted.
It is not remarkable that very intelligent
men should take an unfavorable View of
things that may not suit their own direct
interests; but it is a singular thing that
their opinion should be taken as
authoritative where it is known to be
interested. The common law knows enough
to keep men out of juries whose interests
will be affected by the verdict, and feeble
attempts are made to exclude lrom munici
pal and legislative action men who will be
pecuniarily affected. Yet, for public enter
prises, like the improvement of a city's
railroad connections or the completion of a
railroad, selfish interests are often allowed to
pevail over public policy. Such an anomaly
argues a vicious condition at the root of
affairs.
THE PULPIT'S PREROGATIVE.
It is well no doubt for the clergy to ab
stain from active participation in partisan
politics, but they have a clear calling to
preach patriotism. la these days of peace,
patriotism does not urge her devotees to
deeds of daring. We are not called upon to
die for our country just now. But patriotism
demands some duty of us all. The great
divines have rightly seen their duty to be to
seek purity in politics and ensure it Bishop
Potter, of the Episcopal Church, spoke
lately in this strain ringing words of truth,
unpalatable but wholesome. Now Cardi
nal Gibbons follows in the same line.
He says: "When we find the most up
right citizens taking an interest in politics,
showing no zeal for the good government of
the country, we may expect political stag
nation and corruption, but when the best
citizens manifest interest in publio affairs
we have good government and honest ad
ministration of public trusts.
"It is the duty of every man to take an
active personal Interest in the welfare of his
country, and to see that the citizens are
elected to publio places."
TUE FRESIDENTAL TOE.
Mr. Hosea Ballon, of New York, has the
tenderest consideration for President Har
rison's feelings. Mr. Ballon has asked the
Society for the Suppression of "Vice to have
a corn plaster advertisement removed
from a druggist's window. The ad
vertisement is a very bad drawing
of President Harrison, and the
offensive feature to Mr. Ballon is the ex
posure of the President's big toe. We are
afraid Mr. Harrison will not be gratefnl to
his, champion in New York. The occupant
of the White House who has survived the
merciless caricatures of the last two years,
the grandfather's hat and the Baby McKee
witticisms, will not squeal when his big toe
is caught in an advertising trap. Mr.
Ballon has raised a hnllaballoo for nothing.
Some British grenadiers who have been
misbehaving themselves in London were -yesterday
sent off to Bermuda, by way of punish
ment. The average Pittsburger would rebel to
almost any extent II he were sure of such an
agreeable penalty.
The doctrine that Behring's Sea is a closed
sea, appears to the New York Tribune to be
such a desperate stretch of the three-mile limit
theory, that it publishes an editorial claiming
tho right ot the United States to prevent seal
catching on tho gronnd that "they are our
seal." This argument, even if the seal conld be
identified, is likely to prove a weak one in the
face ot the obvious British response that In that
case we should Seep our seal at home.
Parnell is missing. The Irish leader
Is able to disappear at will, and for months re
main in absolute seclusion. Some American
statesmen would like to imitate Par n ell, and
American reporters would like to see them
try it.
That Buffalo oil company which shipped
naphtha to Chicago without properly marking
the barrels, and thereby caused a fatal explo
sion Is to bo brought to book, accdrding to
statements from the latter city. But as the
concern is one that was gobbled br the Stand
ard a few yean ago, it remains to be seen
whether the usual shelving that seems to be
the fate of prosecutions against Standard peo
ple will not attenl this one.
The Republican Senator who is reported
to have spoken of "The Tycoon of Many Tales"
is doubtless impressed with the prominence of
Dr. Cnauncey M. Depew as a Presldental
quantity.
Senator Voorhees does not realize ap
parently that thoVeoplo have declared their,
preference emphatically for protective tariff,
that they understood more thoroughly than
ever tho Intrinsic merits Of a system that has
made the country prosperous. If Senator
Voorhees knew these things ho would not re
sort to vulgar personalities in place of arma
ments. Or perhaps he knows his case is des
perate. The blue laws are not easily enforced be
side the deep blue sea. They tried to stop the
Sunday sale of Ice cream at Asbury Park, but,
alas t for the young men, the effort was in vain.
A New Yorker objects to cable can on
Broadway on the ground that thosemethods of
rapid transit have driven teaming from the
streets In other cities whero they are permitted
to run. That New York man should come to
Pittsburg and mark the placidity with which
drivers of iron wagons, and haulers of stone
sit on their horses and listen to the despairing
appeal ot the cable gong.
With the flood-gates of tariff oratory re
opened in the Senate, there is hope that that
endnring topis may at last be talked to a
quietus.
Two park policemen in Allegheny were
suspended yesterday for shocking offences.
One was accused of declining to arrest several
pieces of 'paper, and the other of refusing to
help a brother officer arrest a hardened crimi
nal of etzhty, who allowed his dog to follow
him Into the park. The standard of morality
and discipline In Allegheny is so high that it Is
out of sight.
So far, the war between Guatemala and
Salvador has been confined to the bloodless
methods of the press dispatches.
A COTEHPORARY states that the nomina
tion of Cbauncey M. Depew for the seat In the
Senate now occupied by Mr. Evarts, would
Drit) c all the farmers to the polls and make Re
publican success in New York State certain.
The farmers, we admit, wonld come out fast
enough, but their mission at the polls would
not be to vote for President Depew.
If July will only continue this species of
weather to the eritt, all may yet be forgiven.
The New York Sun -points out that the
White Cap outrages are still prevalent In Indi
ana, and asks why the administration does not
propose Federal Interference in that State!
Does the esteemed Sun Intimate that if the in
tervention of the General Government were
proposed for a Northern State, it would regard
the proposal as constitutional f
. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Congressman Vaux's wife Is seriously 111
at Spring Lake, N. J.
Stephen B. Elklns says If he could run for
Congress, be elected and not serve he wonld
like it.
Justice Miller, of the Supreme Conrt, and
Mrs. Miller will spend the summer at Block
Island.
He. Justin McCARTHThas been ordered by
his physicians to Boyat,ln the South of France,
for the benefit of his health.
Miss Tennant sent Invitations to attend
her wedding to the children of the ragged
schools in which she is interested.
ONE of the pretty girls .of California is Miss
Grace McDonougb, and she Is none the less at
tractive to the young men because she Inherits
$3,000,000 from her mother.
The Rev. A. W. Wilson, one of the Bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, has
set out on a tour around the world to look after
the interests of foreign missions.
A niece of Pope Leo has married- Count
Salratore Salimel. The bride is a daughter of
the Pope's sister. Her dowry was 2,400, to
which tbo Pope contributed 1,500.
Prof. Huxley argues against the possibili
ty of Noah's flood. Ho takes care, however,
to say nothing against the possibility of a Dem
ocratic tidal wave in Pennsylvania this falL
Alfre d Fatman, of Georgia, has under
taken to prove that General Marion was a big
ger man than General Washington during tho
Revolution. Fatman, this Is a big job for you
during the hot weather.
It Is said that the Prince of Wales is the only
relative ot the King of Denmark who finds life
at Fredensborg wearisome. The faot is that
the castle is a very small place, and the Prince
is, like everybody else, "cabla'd, crlbb'd, con
fln'oV James W. Queen, the well-known optician
of Philadelphia, who died recently, began bis
business career with tho McAllisters, who were
then the leading opticians of the country.
After leaving the McAllisters he founded the
firm of James W. Queen A Co,, which is f amons
all over the world for Its optical supplies and
delicate apparatus.
AT HOME TO THEIR FRIENDS.
Return of Mr. nnd Mr. Rlchnrd Dlorjrnn
From Their Wedding; Trip.
f Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morgan are at home to
their friends at 211 Center avenue. Miss Jennie
A. Moss became Mis. Richard Morgan on July
18, at the residence of the Rev. T. J. McCrory,
on Wylle avenue, and from there the couple
were conveyed to the groom's home, on Center
avenue.
Mr. Morgan is general foreman of the Palace
Car Company of the Union depot, and deserves
the estimable yonng lady he has won for a
wife.
Wedded nt Redstone,
The marriage of Mr. R. P. Clarke, of this
city, and Miss Lenora Hlginbotbam was sol
em nized at the residence of the bride's parents,
Redstone, Pa., on Wednesday afternoon, July
16, the Rev. B. M. Kerr officiating. The bride
was dressed in a verv handsome gown of drab
colored India silk. The presents were many
and elegant.
The bridal couple left for a trip East and the
seashore to spend their honeymoon, after
which they will reside with, the groom's
parents, in Hazelwood.
An Allecbcnr Union.
A pretty little wedding at 225 Federal street,
Allegheny, last evening, united Miss Vena
Thompson and Mr. M. C. Smith, both of Alle
gheny. The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Dr. Leak in the presence of a number of
friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Harvey, a sister
and brotber-in-Iaw of the bride, were the only
attendants. Supper was served and an informal
reception made the evening a pleasant one.
A Garden Party Postpones!.
The garden party for the benefit of St.
Stephen's Church, bewickiey, which was to
have been held at the residence of Mr. D. S.
Wolcott tbisjevenlng, has been postponed un
til Friday evening, July 25, and will take placo
in the church grounds.
HT MEMOBY OF THE DEPARTED.
Action of the Bnr Association on the Death
of Two Member.
The Bar Association met yesterday afternoon
to take action on the death of A. J. Kincbner,
Esq., who committed suicide Sunday. M. A
Woodward, Esq., presided. Short addresses
touching on the sterling qualities of Mr.
Kirschner were made by E. H. Russell, Judge
Over, of the Orphans' Court, James Caldwell,
N.S. Williams and Walter Lyon. A commit
tee on resolutions was appointed, to report at
an adjourned meeting, to be held this morning.
The committee is composed of Judge Fetter
man, Walter Lyon, J. D. Watson, H. S. Will
iams and Henry Meyer.
At the meeting this morning action will also
be taken on the death of Robert D. Wilson,
Esq.
DEATHS OF A DAY. -
Mrs. A. M. Crnvrford.
Mrs. A. II. Crawford, who died at her home In
Brushton, Sunday evening, after an illness of sev
eral weeks, was a most estimable woman. Her
kindness of heart bad endeared her to a verylarge
circle of friends, and there are few families be
tween Homewood and Wllklnsburg that will not
feel that they have endured the loss of something
more than a mere friend, as the term is ordinarily
understood. Her husband, two daUKhters and a
eon mourn the loss of a true wire and loving
mother. The rnneral services will be held at the
family residence In Brushton this morning at 10
o'clock. Rev. M. M. Patterson, pastor of the
Urushton United Presbyterian Church, officiating.
The remains will be laid to rest in Homewood
Cemetery.
Rlchnrd Clarke.
rSFKCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Carlisle, July 2L-Rlchara Clarke, a promi
nent and wealthy citizen oCDUIsbarg. died to-day
at the ace of TO years. He was Justice of the
jreacQApr vi years.
All the Dos Dealre 10 Itonm Gentle Jeem'a
Odd-Hnblu Economy In Abnss of Cm.
p!re III Trump Card Gone.
(iTAoas that were once stay-at-home domestic
animals seem to have a longing to be
upon the streets now," said an Oakland man
yesterday. "I dont suppose they really hanker
after deadly buttons, but they try to get out
every way they can. Of course It was Just like
a boy toibring borne a lame, miserable mongrel,
as my youngest did on Saturday. The dog can
hardly go on three legs, and I'm tolerably cer
tain it's blind, but George brought the wanderer
home as a prize, and the whole family has been
busy ever since keeping the wretched beast in
the cellar and out ot the way of the buttons.
You'd think a cur that had been throngh the
war would rclleh repose and regular meals, but
this dog of mine I suppose that's what I must
call him makes for the street every time he
gets a chance."
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Calviit, the old warhorse of the Players'
club, made the dust fly yesterday. One
of the veteran's ten thousand admirers said
yesterday: "Gentle Jeems has some of the
oddest ways. Every time I've seen him play
this season four games, I guess be had bad
an accident oi some sort; a finger knocked out
of joint, at the last. Yesterday he got a very
hot reminder, trying to xBtop a grounder the
ball, I ttypught, had disabled bim, for he
wrubg his hands in fearful anguish. But In a
second be gave his heel a twist and was pitch
ing as if nothing had happened."
Yotr have yelled at an umpire, of course, and J
,, ! .If l nn na .tl film 1
yOU Will UJiiAlU VTCU, ti. jww wu, ...... u.u.
names, choose those which phonetically carry
farthest.
For example, some unsophisticated enthusi
asts at Exposition Park yesterday shouted
"Robber! Robber!" at the umpire. They had
the satisfaction of hearing themselves shout
bnt very little more. The word "robber" is not
built to travel. You will notice that the iron
throated gentlemen on the bleachers, in the
fullness of their wisdom, invariably show a
preference for the slbillant, far-reaching mono
syllable "thief" when an umpire excites their
anger. A shout of "Thief V In unison from a
thousand voices could oe heard across the Al
legheny, while 10,000 trained singers might yell
"Robber!" and fail to project the sound half
the distance.
MOBODYin John Dlgnam's company knew his
lines very well when "The Waif of the
Storm" was- played at the Casino the other
day, but the gentleman who was playing the
"heavy oid man" probably new less than any
one else. To provide for this deficiency, of
which be was painfully aware, Mr. Dignam
wrote out the whole part for the old man on
the back of a cabinet photograph. It was a
property In the play this photograph so the
actor who used it as a mnemomo and fonnd
no difficulty in carrying it about with him and
referring to it constantly on the stage. All
went well until "the heavy old man" came to
this stage direction: "Give photograph to
Mr. ." He had to hand over the photo
graph, of course, and with the rest of his lines.
Throngh the rest of the scene Mr. Dignam had
to prompt the unfortunate old man in
whispers.
CHANGE MO. A.E. BULES.
A Number of Alteration Will be Proposed
nt the IHeellne In Boston.
Boston, Jnly 2L A number of changes In
the rules and regulations and ritual of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be proposed
at the meeting of the National Encampment
In Boston next month. The Department of
Georgia suggests that tho National Encamp
ment appoint a new Committee on Ritual, who
shall endeavor from the old and new ritnal to
devise a still newer one which shall meet with
moro general approval. The Departments of
Massachusetts and New York ask that the
ritual be restored as it was before the last
amendment Kansas makes several sugges
tions in regard to the rules and regulations
affecting members of posts who may be In ar
rears. One section is as follows: "That hereafter,
when any comrade shall be unable to pay bis
annual dues to his post, and shall ask to have
them remitted, ho may be placed upon the re
tired list of said post by a majority vote of
those present. The retired list shall includq
all members who voluntarily ask to have their
dues remitted, because of their inability to pay
them, and all sucb comrades shall have and re
tain all the rights and privileges accorded te
other members of the order." The regulation
in regard to disabled soldiers taking part in the
parade on August 12 is that a division of car
nages will be formed directly In the rear of the
Massachusetts Department posts. Depart
ments having disabled comrades must,however,
furnish the necessary transportation.
BORN WITHOUT LEGS.
Nevertheless, He Served In the Confederate
Army Daring; the Rebellion.
SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Farkersburo, July 2L One of the most
remarkable men ot this country died a few days
ago at his home in TucKer County, Abraham
BonnaflelJ, the deceased, was born without
legs, but notwithstanding bis physical disabili
ty, be became prominent in political and social
life, and very few people who ever visited
Tucker county came away without knowing
bim. He was a warm Southerner Jn feeling,
and when the civil war broke out he enlisted
as a private" in the Confederate cavalry. Bon
nafield fed, carried and cared for his horse
without assistance, and always kept bim In ex
cellent condition. He never asked for or ac
cepted assistance in mounting, no matter how
urgent the case. As a soldier he served with
bravery and honor on many bloody battlefields,
and did not lay down bis arms until General
Lee surrendered at Appomattox.
When the war ended, Bonnaiield, like thou
sands of other Confederates, returned home
banicrupt and needy, but with his great energy
and business tact he soon again carved bis way
to a responsible and paying position. He was
elected clerk of Tucker County.
'Ibis is the only known Instance wherein a
man born without legs served throngh along
and bloody civil war as a private soldier.
THE BITER BI
TrEtf.
Eud of One of the Queerest Strikes Ever
Heard Of.
DANVILLE, Va., July 21. One of the most
curious strikes on record has just ended here.
Several days ago a butcher was imprisoned for
violating a city ordinance, whereupon all the
butchers closed their stalls, and swore they
would sell no more meat until the ordinance
was changed. Since that time no fresh meat
could be bought in the market for love or
money, and the people were put to great in
convenience. Ihe butchers at last decided
they were getting the worst of it, so they
called the strike off and have resumed business
once more. -
CDBBENT TIMELY TOPICS.
One of tbe Farmers' Alliances out In Kan
sas has resolved to patronise only those papers
that tell the truth, and the worst part of it Is that
-they have got to so out of tbe btate to find one.
EI.IAS HARl.OCHEi of FriedensviUe, was
bitten by a copperhead snake and counteracted
the poison by drinking a quart and a pint of
whisky. But lie bad blood In bis eye. and went
back and killed bis snakeshlp. A Pennsylvanlan
is no coward. f
Mr. Dana has sailed away for Europe.
Many milk-and-water politicians who bare been
on their good behavior for some time will now be
able to come ont and speak their pieces.
Honduras has a standing army of 830, and
it Is hardly necessary to add that tne United
States could whip her into submission without the
assistance of Speaker Reed.
From the most reliable information it is be
lievd there are enough, troops at Mt Gretna to
preserve peace at all bazzards.
Wall street prophets predict that money
will be tlgbt next month. Congress can't pass
that original package law any too quick.
Mr. Blaine nnd Hit Party
From the Boston Herald, j
Mr. Blaino has been the most important
leader in the Republican party in tbe second
era of Its history, as Mr. Seward and Mr- Chase
were its most' Important leaders in its first era.
Tbo indications are very strong that Mr. Blaine
is to end his publio life In the same manner as
did bis predecessors, by being gravely out of
harmony with that political organization.
tSiole n Mnrcb on tho Old Man
From the Washington Post.
A Zanesvllle,' Ohio, youth has elopedlwlth bis
father's type-writer. That was rath erf a mean
advantage to talie or tne old gentlemal
A Call for n Non-Pnnlsan Temperance
Woman' Union.
GreensbURO, July 2L A call for a non
partisan convention of temperance women of
Westmoreland county has been issued. The
old temperance organization, it appears, is too
partisan, and the object is to break away en
tirely from politics. The president of tbe W.
C. T. U., Mrs. H. C. Bray, states that a crisis In
tbe progross ot woman's temperance work has
come. Tbe forces are divided, and while we
feol sure that both factions are sincere in tbelr
work, we may choose to which faction we may
belong. Chester, Tioga, Lehigh, Washington,
Beaver, Allegheny. Indiana and Monroe
counties have already divided. Many earnest
temperanco workers have dropped out of the
work on account of the partisan policy of tho
Christian Temperance Union. We want to
form an organization upon the original plan of
tho Union."
Tbe conventton will meet hero on Friday,
July 23. The active workers in the cause are
Mrs. H. C. Bray, of Greensbnrg; Mrs. H. II.
Houston and Mrs. 6ewart. of Derry: Mrs. E.
B. Sechrist, of West Newton; Mrs. B. D.
Humes, of West Newton: Miss A. A Perkin;,
of Webster.
In the evening Mrs. H. C. Campbell, of Alle
gheny, will tell why she believes in non-partisan
work for temperance.
Tho date of tbe disruption of tbe Temper
ance Union In this county was at the semi
annual convention at Fleaant Unity in June,
when Mrs. Bray and a number of the leading
lights in the organization withdrew at tbe
partisan feeling displayed. Since that time
these ladles have been endeavoring to effect an
organization in which politics shall not appear.
It is expected that the Prohibitionists, or tbe
third party people, are openly arrayed against
the movement. ,
THE ECLIPSE EXPEDITION.
A Pcnnsylvnnlnn'a Interesting Experience
on tho Dnrk Island.
From tbe Philadelphia Inquirer.
E. Darwin Preston, the Pennsylvania sci
entist who accompanied the "Eclipse" Govern
ment expedition to Africa to observe the sun's
total eclipse, had an interesting experience on
the Island of Ascension. He fonnd the island
surrounded with huge turtles, most of them
weighing between 500 and 600 pounds. Says
Mr. Preston: 'The sea abounds with these
turtles. During the season the females come
onto the beach and deposit tbeir eggs in the
warm sand. They are rendered helpless by
turning them on their backs, which, consider
ing tbeir great size, is not easily done.
Floats are then attached, and when turned
back into tbe sea they cannot go far below tbe
surface and tbe float always indicates their
whereabouts. Several hundred are thus mado
captive every season and the residents of the
island can have fresh turtle steak tbe year
round. The turtle eggs, which are deposited
by tbe thousands in the sand, are very palat
able when made into fritters and omelettes.
Tbe sieak Is not as tender as that of our
Florida turtle."
A CARICATURE OP HARRISON
Which Hosea Ballou Ask Anthony Com
tack to Suppress.
ISrECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.
New YokK, July 21. William Hosea Ballou
sent Anthony Comstock a letter to-day com
plaining of a caricature of President Harrison
which a Broadway druggist bad exposed outside
of his place of business. Mr. Ballou wrote
that he was of tbe opinion that a law was
passed at the last session of Congress making
tbe display of pictures of tbo President or his
family on advertising cards a misdemeanor
As Comstock is solely interested in suppress
ing vice, the natural conclusion to be drawn
from Mr. Ballou's letter was that the carica
ture was vicious. One of Ccmstock's agents
ran over to tbe drug store to inspect the pict
ure. Ho fonnd an execrable drawing, repre
senting the President sitting in an arm chair,
with bis foot on an ottoman. The foot is
bandaged, save for the big toe. which is ex
posed. The President is sternly surveying this
toe and is supposed to be meditating a purchase
of oorn salve. Ex-President Cleveland is cari
catured in much tbe samo manner. Mr. Oram
called at the United State's District Attorney's
office and tried to get some trace of a law for
bidding the exposing of tbe President's big toe,
but nobody there had ever heard of such a law.
AH ADDRESS BY CORPORAL TANKER
One of the Leading; Feature nt the State
Sunday School Convention.
rBrZCIAI. TELSnitAU TO TUB DI8PATOH.1
Carlisle, July 21. The State Sunday School
Convention opened its session at Williams'
Grove, along the line of the Dilisbury and Me
chanicsbury Railroad, to-day. The attendance
was not so large as on former occasions. The
entire forenoon was taken up in arranging the
visitors' departments and getting readv for to
morrow, when several fine addresses will be de
livered, the principal one by Corporal Tanner,
ex-Commissioner ot Pensions,
The exercises openod this afternoon with de
votional services, after which William D.
Means, of Middle Spring, President of the
convention, delivered a stirring address of
welcome. Then followed the organization of
the normal classes. As to-morrow will be tbe
first big day an Interesting programme bas
been arranged. Tho attendance of prominent
orators and visitors wiH be large during the
week.
EXPLORATIONS IN QUA VALLEY.
A Party of Scientist Will Visit the Habitat
of Prehistoric Race.
rSPICTAL TELEOBAM TO TUB DISPATCH.)
New York, July 21. Prof. Carl Lumboltz, a
Norwegian explorer, who made himself famous
among geographers by expeditions in Australia,
la soon to explore Lower New Mexico and Ari
zona, under tbe direction of the American Geo
graphical Society, of tbis city. About a dozen
scientists. arcba3ologists, botanists and zoolo
gists will accompany bim. Prof. Libby, of
Princeton, who is a geographer as well as a
mathematician, expects to be among the num
ber. The especial object of the expedition is to ex
amine the remains of this ancient civilization,
antedating, it is said, that of tbe Aztecs, exist
ing principally in the Gila Valley, in tbe north
west part of Arizona. Tbe habits of tbe Zuni
and Navajo Indians will also be investigated.
The expedition begins next Monday, and is ex
pected to occupy about a year.
SPENDING VACATION AT SCHOOL.
Failure of Government Aid Keep Indian
Pupil ai Carlisle.
rSPECIAL TELEORAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Carlisle! July 2L Owing to the failure of
Congress to pass the appropriation bill about
60 pupils of the Indian training school, Under
tbe management of Captain R. N. Pratt, who
have completed the course of five years' study
f prescribed by tbe Government, are still de
ayed In the school, awaiting transportation to
their homes on tbe various reservations. It is
thought that they will will get away tbe com
ing week.
A Convincing; Arcnment.
From the Pioneer Press, Hep.
A race riot has ocenrred in South Carolina.
The argument will now be lndustronsly ad
vanced that so long as the South Is destined to
have race riots anyway, the Lodge bill might
as well speedily become a law. The sublimity
of this logical deduction will be at once appar
ent to tbe most careless reader.
A Big; Trmpernnce Lecture,
From tbe Blngbamton Leader.
No man bas yet climbed the ladder of fame
on rounds of drinks.
SOME SPOOK STORIES.
A WOMAN died under very suspicious cir
cumstances in a small house near Marshall, 111.,
last November. Since then it is said that a
form in white bas been snen to pass in and out
of tbe house at the same hour each night.
ON A farm near Springfield, Mo., a spectral
rabbit lingers about an old well, into which the
dead body of a murdered peddler was thrown
many years ago. The animal is bullet-proof.
No matter how many shots are aimed at It It
maintains its position day after day.
ANEW York widower, on the night oL his
marriage to another woman, was surprised by
a visit from tbe spirit of his first wife, who de
livered to him a lecture on tbe evil of bis ways,
giving him to understand in the most em
phatio language that she strongly disapproved
of his course.
AS a Maine udge was riding past a grave
yard one moonlight night he thought he saw a
ghost. Thcro was something white on top of a
tomb and it moved. Getting nearer he saw its
eyes gloam. But determining to solve tbe phe
nomenon be advanced into the graveyard and
discovered that the spectral object was only a
stray sheep. ,
A correspondent of a Cincinnati paper
uavs that while he was in the army in lS63.be
awoke one morning on hearing his name called '
by his sister's vojee. JNo one else heard tbe
voice and the occurrence passed from bis
mind. A few days later he received a letter
from home stating that bis sister had died on
the very day he was so strangely awakened.
STUDENTS AT CHAUTAUQUA
ENTERTAINED BY AN INTERESTING AND
INSTRUCTIVE PROGRAMME.
Opening; of tho School of the English Bible
Eoglnnd and Her Colonir as Viewed
by Mrs. Abba.G. Woodson Prof. Barn
bam' Lecture.
T ARE CHAUTAUQUA, July 21.-Bibllcal stu
dents were in their element to-day. Tbe
School of English Bible was opened this morn
ing under the charge of Dr. Harper and Dr.
Broadus, who are adepts in the languages and
study of the Book of God. These clerical chaps
with their wise looking faces, bright eyes cov
ered by the customary glasses, lending a still
more classical expression, are to be seen every
where. They carry big oooks, mutter HeDrew
gibberish and ate offended if yon are not inter
ested in the "Old Testament in the original."
Chautauqua is a great placo for the fair sex.
The old ones attend the lecture, young ones
play tennis, the cultured ones dote 'on litera
ture and tbe giddy ones flirt. This morning
tbe women upon the ground held a meeting.
Mrs. Emily J. Miller presided, and gave astir
ring talk on things of general interest to them.
Their enterprise was shown by the fact that
their meeting was the first ot the day, being
held directly after breakfast.
England and Her Colonies.
JuTrs. abba Gould Wilson Bpoke at 230
o'clock, tbis afternoon in the Hall of
Philosophy on the above subject. "Since the
United States bas setupaGovermentof her
own, she has become entirely distinct from the
monarchies of tbe Old World. An American
citizen can well look back with satisfaction
upon the histories of these nations who are so
behind his own country in political develop
ment, Tbere is a constant tendency in tbe Old
World of freedom for the citizen. It is from
America that this freedom has originated.
and America that bas kept tbe spirit of
liberty alive in every land. There are only
two republics in Europe now, but the mon
archies are constitutional ones, and the ten
dency is toward a republican form of govern
ment. In spite of this general trend of repub
licanism tha nations ol Europe are uncontinu
ally changing. I shall begin the course ot lec
tures upon tbe British Islands, for they are
nearer to us in more ways than one. I shall
talk about England itself. Tbo race of the
Englith is the mo-t composite race on the face
of ihe earth except the American. Tbey are a
race of striking peculiarities. What more
splendid chapter is to be found on tnepages of
history than tho story of England?
Great painciples of freedom have been
established on her soil. What a record!
of heroes and glorious deeds she bas. If she
had not stood by Protestantism who knows but
that all of America and Europe might nave
been Roman Catholic? What a literature she
bas, not outstripped by tbe Augustan age of
Rome, or the time of Pericles In Greece. It is
strange that the English Parliament ignored
the many important questions growing out of
the democratic spirit. Tbe statutes of the
House of Lords must soon be changed.
What the English Worship.
Qneen Victoria has been a glorions ruler, her
oldest daughter would undoubtedly rule wise
ly, bnt the Prince of Wales may find tronble
in ascending the British throne. Tbere are
somethings that we have not got that En
gland has, a dependent monarchy. We cannot
get up such magnificent shows as Queen Vic
toria. Of conrse we have a respectable man
and his wife at tbe Presldental mansion, bnt
then there Is not the high personal coloring.
Talk about Americans worshipping tbe al
mighty dollar, tbe English worship tbe al
mighty shilling. England Is very Bmall consid
ered without her colonies. Most nations you
may consider in themselves, but England must
be considered with ber colonies.
Tbe land ontside ot England under English
dominion is 60 times as large as England, the
island. It is within 100 years that she bas es
tablished these, though tbere were 13 that took
their freedom a little before. Sir Walter Ra
leigh was the originator ot the idea of English
colonies. England first acquired India in 1S57
from tho East India Company. With a popu
lation of 260,000,000 It Is entirely controlled by
little Britain. India must be held as a mar
ket and ebe (England) bas also Invested many
millions of capital there. She dares not con
trol India with a stern band. India bas many
of tbo acts of civilization which she has gained
from England. 'England is not a doctrinaire
and she considers that is right which benefits
herself, faho bas scattered ber landings and
islands all along tbe ronta to India. She bas
the use of tbe .Suez Canal which now France
bitterly says she built for England. If England
can not get through the Mediterranean she has
possession of tne ports and island around
Africa so that by this route she may have a
line of shipping places to India.
Her wholo object is to keep Russia from the
coast. The greatest question before the Eng
lish peonle at present is the Irish question.
Tbe Irish are a noble and intellectual people.
Tbeir wrongs are many, and tbe stand of Ire
land bas awakened Scotland and Wales. They,
too, are begmning.to ask why tbey Bhould not
bave borne rule as well. There is liitle doubt
but that some day all the crown colonies of
England will become self-ruling.
Mrs. Wilson gave her lectures with perfect
control of voice and in a conversational way.
She is evidently a woman of opinion and wide
experience, though a little inclined to like
Mrs. Wilson very well and to inform her hear
ers of her extensive travel.
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Christ and Ills Criticisms.
'FIBS subject brought out all the biblical stu
dent on the ground to the hall immediately
after the close of Mrs. Wilson's lecture. Prof.
S. Burnham took this for the topic of bis
talk, and informed bis hearers to begin with'
that he was staunch In his religious beliefs
and let no one misunderstand him in
the matter. This title hints at rather
than states tbe Subject which is re
duced to the necessity of believing many
of the higher criticisms of Jesus Christ.,
What is tbe higher criticisms? Nothing in the
world but the application of literary criticism
to the books of the Bible, literary criticisms are
the principles which were used in finding the
authority of a writing, its defects and its
virtues. Certain causes always produce certain
effects. May this science of literary criticism
be applied to tbe Bible? It certainly may, for
tbe Bible is literature. The Bible can only be
understood just so far so it is literature just
the same as any other forms of human speech.
Any other view shuts up theBible and makeslt a
book that we cannot understand. Its records
are simply things that have been. Can we
ever bo obliged to cboose between these quali
ties and i;nrisi7 wan we cnooso Deiween
the realities of physics and chemistry?
No. So literary criticism gives to us the verity
of the past, and Christ is that verity. In any
science It is always possible to overlook tbe
evidences in the case. Then we are not called
upon to choose between Christ and literary
criticiim. Christ is not here that we
may look upon Him and speak with
Him. Tho Christ which we believe in
as ours Is very largely a scientific Christ. The
very facts that we interpret from the history
of Christ are themselves interpretations. These
facts must be Interpreted just as we havo the
facts ol nature belore us. They are nothing
until Interpreted. Christ as be is himself Is a
scientiflo Christ, In" every cientiao process
there Is danger of error. Our observations
may not bo correct, our inductions may be
wider than tbe basis. Therefore no scientiflo
results aro determinative and final whether it
be a science of Christ or not.
THE LIST APPROVED.
Baying; Book for the Library Wilson
King's Valuable Donnilon,
The sub-committee of tbe Allegheny Library
Committee met last night and approved Libra
rian Stevenson's list of 8,000 volumes for tho
Carnegie Library. The list comprises all tbe
standard and popular works on almost every
subject. Tbe books are to be bonndln cloih
mostly, with the reference books in sheep.
The list is estimated to cost between $S,600 and
9,000. Bids will be advertised for immediately.
Tbe idea is to give tbe whole contract to one
publisher. The bid will be opened August IS.
Yesterday Carnegie Library was made richer
by a number of valuable donations. Tbo
greatest tvas from Wilson King. They are rare
books, most of which were published over two
centuries ago. Mr. Wilson purchased them
while Consul at Birmingham, England. Most
oftbemwere from the library of Sir liaac
Herd, of Lancaster. His donation Includes a
complete list of the writings of tbe Duchess of
Newcastle. Among them is ber "Nature's
Pictures," published in 165C. Ihis book Cbarles
Limb bas styled as the most marvelous of
literary works Another is tbe "Journal of
Washington," wnlch is now worth S1C0. Other
contributions-were made by Allen C. Kerr and
J. George Cbandler.
A NTME0D BANQUET.
The Buckskin Club, of Allegheny, Entcrlaln
Canadian Garst".
An elegant banquet was held last night at
the Hotel Duquesne by the members of tbe
Buckskin Club, of Allegbany. William J.
Topley. or Ottawa, Ontario, and Dr. William T.
Stuart, of Toronto, were the guests of the club.
Tbe tables were beautifully arranged, and in
the center of one was tbo skin of a large black
bear. "
Tbe walls of tbe room were adorned with
handsome photographs of scenes around the
camps of the hnnting club, while the beads of
deer, captured by the skillful nimrods, looked
down upon the merry gathering.
HOW HE GOT THK1R NAMES.
A Southern Cenu Enumerator Fiddled a
Tovrn Irio Gtod Humor.
Washington, July 21. Some of tho em
ployes in making their reports to Superintend
ent Porter, vary the official routine by relating
entertaining personal experiences. A special
agent who was detailed to get data for the fish
and fisheries of Soutu Carolina, writes "I
must toll yon howl worked. I found every
body mum as an ovster. I was In despair, un
til at last I heard a man playing a fiddle in one
of the stores. I went in and. after loafing
around a while, asked to see tbe fiddle.
"When I got it I drew the bow over the
strings, said it was a good one. and banded it
back: but they saw I could play and insisted 1
should try, so I took off my coat and sailed in.
From that moment my stock went up. I finally
put down tbe fiddle, addressed tbe crowd, told
them my business, and said that though I was
willing to play for them I must attend my work
first, and fnvitod all who were engaged in fish
ing to walk up and sign tbe pledge.
"Nothing was too good for me, They hunted
up all the men I wanted and brought them to
me or took me to them In a bnggy. Oqp poor
devil (colored) refused to answer my questions,
and one of my enthusiastic assistants cracked
him on tbe bead with a beer bottle so that he
had to be carried from tbe field in a disabled
condition."
WAITING FOB 8TAMPS.
Citizen Who Grumbled About a New Post
offlco Rale.
Philadelphia, July 2L Much dissatisfac
tion Is felt over tbe enforcement of a new post
office rule, by which no stamps are Bold on Sun
day between the bonrs of 10 P. M. and VI mid
night. The complaints are not directed entirely
against the rnle. but against the manner in
which It is enforced. On window A there is a
gilt sign, "Open all night; ring the bell." Fully
a dozen would-be stamp purchasers rang the
bell last night as directed, but when they asked
for stamps were directed to window 21, the man
at window 21 not being allowed to sell nntil
after midnight. At window 21 the first sign
that caught tbe citizen's eye read. -'Closed."
Beneath this sign was anotber which read,
"Stamps at window 23."
At window 23 tbe clerk announced that be
only sold stamps up to 6 o'clock add added that
under the now rnle no stamps conld be pur
chased between the hours of 10 P. K. and 12
midnight, Tbe only thing that tbe tired citi
zens could do under the circumstances was to
walr, and at 11:30 there were fully 30 men and
one woman waiting for the midnight hour to
strike.
A CAHEFTTL GRIPMAH.
He Rave a Child' Life br a Promptitude
Which Shock the Passenger.
Shortly after 6 o'clock last evening a thrilling
incident occurred on High street, just around
tbe corner from Webster avenue, which proves
that grlpmen are not always careless. Car No.
59 of the Central Traction line had just
rounded the corner and there was a cry of pain.
The gnpman instantly clapned on the brake
and tbe car was stopped with a suddenness
that jolted the passengers out of their seats.
Tbe gnpman leaped from the cab and picked
out from the edge of the wheels pretty little
girl, and after lovingly holding her in bis arms
for a moment set her down and-bid ber run
home.
Tbe child was within an inch of being under
the wheels. Just one second more and the life
would bave been cruelly crushed out of the
precious little body. Tbe passengers were
loud in tbelr praise of tbe gripman's prompt
ness, while tbe hero of the occasion carelessly
jumped on the car. threw on tbe grip, gave tbe
bell a conple of jerks, ind remarked:' "If she
bad been killed, the gripman would have been
blamed."
WASTING WATER. i
Superintendent Browns Will Ask Council
to Act In the Blatter.
Superintendent Browne, of the Bureau of
Water, will ask Councils to define exactly what
constitutes a waste of water. Tbe Superin
tendent says that if tbe city Increases in popu
lation at its present rate and the per capita
consumption ot water does not decrease, it will
soon be necessary to increase tha capacity of
tne water works. The consumption of water
now averages nearly 300 gallons a day for each
person, and the Superintendent holds that this
is needless, not to say criminal lavisbness.
Tnere is an ordinance now in force which
provides a penalty for wasting water, but does
not state soeclncally what is waste. Mr.
Browne complains more particularly of the
manner in which lawn-sprinklers and garden
hose are allowed to run all day long. Mr.
Browne thinks that 120 gallons ot water per
cepita per diem ought to be sufficient, and says
that if the consumption could be kept within
that limit it would afford a great relief to the
Water Department.
RETURNED AFTER MANY YEARS.
A Soldier Visits. HI Home for the First
Time Since tha Wnr.
OPELIRA, Ala., July 20. The return of John
McGee to his former borne in Chambers connty
Friday has created a big sensation. McGee. as
a young man of IS years of age, went to tbe
war in the Sixth Alabama Regiment, of which
General John B. Gordon was tbe first Colonel.
In tbe famous charge made by that regiment
in tbe battle of tbe Seven Pines, McGee was
among the missing, and it was supposed that
be was killed until yesterday, when he pre
sented himself with full proofs of his identity.
It seems that he was taken prisoner and carried-to
Inbnson's Island, but found it so diffi
cult to pursue his journey southward that he
accepted tbe hospitality of a farmer near
Zilido, whose daughter he subsequently mar
ried, and there he bas remained ever since. He
found his father and mother dead npon bis re
turn, but his four brothers and three sisters
are all living around the old homestead.
IT WILL NOT DOWN.
Weatlngbonao Qeople Sins Different Tone
at Opposite Ends of the Line.
The following special telegram was received,
by The Dispatch yesterday from Chicago:
"Officials of tbe Westinghouso Electric Com
pany hero admit that the purchase of ISO acres
of land in South Chicago, adjoining Pullman,
bas been made with a view to building tbere an
extensivo plant for the manufacture of elec
tric motors and other machinery. They decline
to give details of same, bnt refer all Inquiries
to headquarters at Pittsburg."
The message was shown to a number of
Westlngbouse people, but they all professed
ignorance, bnt some were disposed to avoid in
quiry. Charles S. Pease, General Superintend
ent of the Westinghouse Electric Company,
was brief bnt more explicit than anyone elso
found. He said: "I don't know anything about
It, and I don't believe the story."
Added to the Dunbar Fund.
The following additional subscriptions to the
Dunbar fund were reported yeterday: "A
Friend, ; two ladles, $10: Mrs. Margaret W.
Smith, (20: Klee & Folk, 55.
ODD STATE HAPPENINGS.
Tramps in Reading tried to
street car.
"hold up" a
The low-wheeled Mulholland engine has been
adopted on the Reading Railroad.
A pair of white robins with pink eyes were
caught at West Goshen last week.
TnE bail storm near Norristown a few days
ago killed sparrows by tbe hundreds.
A poll of Fottsville's newspaper men would
give Tattlson aVoverwhelming majority.
A bouquet of flowers frozen In the center of
a cake of Ice'is on exhibition at Lancaster.
These is a young gentleman In Oil City who
knows the number of any engine by tbe tone of
its bell.
Copper pennies and lath nails are the diet of
a dog at Norristown, and, strange enough, he
belongs to a hardware man.
Reuben Hunter, of Spring City, had part
of bis tongue torn away by a dentist who was
endeavoring to extract a tooth.
Contractors of the "Cut-off Branch" used
dynamite as a means of demolishing a barn.
Norristown people thought it was an earth
quake. A DorLESTOWN miss visiting Norristown
got up to look out of the window a few nights
ago aud poked her head through a pans of
plate glass. ,
A BUNCH of human hair on the cowcatcher
of an engine at Lancaster led to an investiga
tion which revealed the mangled body of a
man on tbe track a few miles back.
THE water supply of Uniontown Is said to be
infected, and a committee of citizens hasxotl
fled tne company to sbnt off the supply or a
suit for damages wonld be instituted.
Prop. Arisbatueeh Faduma, a native
educated African, Is in Chester. He came to
this country totlook at tbo habits of the people
and to study medicine, so that be can return
borne a physician for missionary work.
A census enumerator not far from Oil Cltj
has struck an honest dairyman, who gets 100
.,,... miib - rfv. sells it for 8 cents a
auart antoeceives an income therefrom of flO
per day. me question for, mathematicians to
sorrels neaoeai'.
CDEI0DS CONDENSATIONS.
Tolute with the left hand is a deadly
Insult to Mohammedans in tho East.
China's solitary railroad is 81 mileslong
and cost 9,000 a mile. It uses American loco
motives. It is said that the city of RIchmond.Va.,
with 100.100 inhabitants, has no city hospital or
public dispensary.
The cultivation of tobacco has been for
bidden in Egypt, and the duty upon the Im
ported article raised.
Missouri Is now the only State or TerrI
tory in the United States where Government
lands mar be taken at private entry or pur
cbasedfoutrigbtforSl 23 an acre.
A big fish fry came off on Alcova river,
in Newton county, last week. A snake charmer
was In the party who pulled the heads of live
water moccasins off with his hands.
Two men in Kentucky had a dispnte as
to whether Russia could whip Austria in case
of war. and, having made a bet of 52 on it, one
of them bas written to tbe Czar of Russia to
ask him to decide tha matter.
The oldest inhabitant found by the census
enumerator, J. Spilnian, In Marietta, is Nancy
Gresbam. 119 years old. Census Enumerator
James Hammet found a colored woman in
Grltter district, on W. A Bishop's place, who
Is 106 years old.
The independent Republican movement
against the Quay ticket is progressing satisfac
torily, jlr. Wharton Barker says, and tbe assur
ance is given by Mr. Barker that tbe movement
will be largely developed throughout Pennsyl
vania within a few days.
The most monotonous city in its build
ings is Paris, the houses there being almost all
alike. An attempt Is now being made to vary
tbis by building houses of the style of the
Renaissance, and Louis XI., and hope is ex
pressed that the example will be followed gen
erally. A wonderful wedding dress was recently
made up In Russia for the daughter of a great
Russian artist. It is of regulation white satin,
but on the satin are innumerable little pictures,
chiefly allegorical, painted by her father's artist
friends. What may be its value In years to
come?
The use of electricity is offered to the
lion tamer in the form of a light wand, with an
insulating grip for tbe hand, connected by a
flexible wire with a battery of which the power
can be varied at will. An experiment with
this form of applied science has been success
fully made.
At Neuendorf, Prussia, the lightning
fired the gable end ot a barn where a pair of
storks had bnilt their nest for years. Tbe
flames Soon caught the nest in which the brood
was screaming, but the mother stork, refusing
to leave, spread ber wings over the young ones
and was burnt alive.
Smart Washington, a Pernandina,
Fla., negro, is now 101 years old. He has been
married twice, and by bis first wife bad 28 chil
dren. His eyes are still good, and be reads
witbont tbe aid of glasses. He bas not been
an object of puDllc charity, but now appeals to
the county for assistance.
A. Montefiore, who has been traveling
In Florida and devoting careful study to the
fruit-growing districts of that vast State, cal
culates that the Americans eat more meat in
tbe course of 24 hours than all tbe inhabitants
of Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria,
Belginm, Holland and Switzerland put to
gether. In Maine a man has been found who bas
sold liquor freely for tbe pastSO years, and who
has never missed attending district, county and
State conventions and advocating and voting
lor resolutions asserting adhesion to the princi
ples of prohibition and demanding thorough
and effective enforcement of tbe law. Well, Is
he a curiosity?
An oculist in Breslan has recently
treated 300 cases of defective eyesight, for
which tbe cause was not apparent. It rose as
suddenly as an epidemic, and was confined to
men entirely At last be found the reason for
it in anew fashion of very tight shirt collars.
He made tbo young men unbutton their col
lars and their eyes got well.
It is proposed now to girdle the globe
In an entirely original fashion. William
Becker, otherwise "King of tbe Tramps," who
lately traveled from Boston to San Francisco
and returned in 21 days, without spending a
cent for food or railroad fare, offers to wacer
$500 that bo can do the same thing with the
earth on the same conditions in 102 days.
-There is an Interesting-' scheme for es
tablishing a floatinghotelat-flong Kong. The
vessel is to bave three decks, the lower being
arranged for dining, billiard, smoking and card
rooms. Tbe main deck will contain a drawing
room. 21 bedrooms, each with a f nil-sized bath
and dressing room, while tbe upper, or spar
deck, has been arranged as a promenade.
Nineteen years ago a Gratiot county,
Mich., farmer refused to let his daughter go to
a candy pull. Bhe went though and remained
awaV. Last week sbe drove np to her father's
door, lifted ont ber II children, cooly took off
her wraps and astonished ber father by declar
ing that she had conclnded to return and stay
home, and hereafter be an obedient daughter.
English ladies are adopting the fashion
ot putting tbeir maids who wait at table in liv
ery. Tbo skirts are plain or these livery gowns
and of tbe heraldic eclor of the house. All tbe
pleats are thrown bebl d. Then the waistcoat
and jacket are trimme with livery bands, but
tons and crests or monograms In metal. A high
stiff wblte collar, white cuffs and a tiny white
cap like a topknot complete this livery.
An extraordinary bank note made its
appearance at the First National Bank in this
city tbe other morning. It was a national cur
rency note on 'a Kansas City bank, with a face
value of 550. but its back was printed from a
S100 note plate, while the number was inscribed
upside down. Tbe note is regarded as a great
curiosity, and snch a freak, it is said, bas never
betore been seen outside of tbe Treasury De
partment. Indeed, tha bank officials are at a
loss to explain how It could bave got into cir
culation. It is worth its face value, SoO, but as
a cariosity It is valued at more than double
that amount.
Frank O'Bryan, solictor of tbe Atlanta,
Ga., district, left bis home at Sans Souci at 11
p. M., in bis canoe, which was rowed by a negro
who bad been a body servant to George Wash
ington. As the day was hot. Solicitor O'Bryan
reclined upon tbe stern of tbe boat with a silk
handkerchief In his hand, an end of which was
trailing In tbe water. Feeling a jerk, O'Bryan
flung tbe handkercnief inward, to find that he
bad landed with it a three-pound trout, which
bad attempted to swallow tbe red end of the
handkerchief. The solicitor at once went
ashore and bad a fish-fry all to himself, when
he resumed bis journey.
TO DRIVE AWAY THE BLUES.
A new female pursuit in the larger cities
Is collecting bills. This Is encoutaglng. The old
female pursuit In the larger cities was to ran 'em
np. Komstoim Herald.
Prison missionary My poor fellow, what
are yon in here for?
Prisoner For oot bavin' enough political In
fluence to get me oat, Life.
"Why do you want your daughter sent to
the reform, school?" Inquired the Judge.
She has gone to writing society novels,"
groaned the stricken father.-CAcovo Tribune,
Lord Noodles Aw, I say, Captain, what
Is that land we see ovah there?
Captain That Is America, my Lord. r
Lord Noodles Ye doo't say! I thought America
was a larger country than ihsU-Uarper't Bazar.
Medium to Spirit Do yen find heaven as
quiet and restful a place as you expected?
Spirit-Well, it's a very nice, orderly-place, bat
whenever I think of dear old Philadelphia I al
ways begin to feel homesick. .Veto lork UeraUt.
"Get upl" exclaimed Miss Bunker-Hill'-cousin.
But the horse did not move.
Tbe animal does not seem to comprehend,"
said Miss Hill- "Let me try."
"AllrUht."
Proceed, Bucephalus!"
nd tie animal proceeded. Harper's Bazaar.
"I hid twice as many men as women in
my congregation this morning. " said the parson.
Bow did tou manage It?"
"I announced last week that my sermon this
morning would be on the subject of The Duties
of Woman." Aei York Herald,
Parent Why did you slrikeyonr brother,
Tom?
Tom lie bit me first.
Parent Bat what does the .Bible say about turn
ing tbe otber cheek?
Son-Bat, pa, yoa don't like reversible caffs
yourself. Hew lork World.
la b. Connecticut Sunday school a teacher
was reading from St, Mark v. to his class: "And
the unclean spirit went out and entered Into the
swine, " etc.. wncn a brlaht little boy said:
"I know where that happened."
"Indeed," replied the teacher, "how did you
hear about it?"
"I beard my father tell Mrs. Lee at ourlnncheon
that tbe devilled ham came from Chicago." .
CONSOLATION.
Although I lor ber much, I f ear
I don't regret I missed her;
For cow I and I hold more deaf
Her young and pretty sister.
Harper's Bazaar,