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The importance of national building asso ciations being surrounded by the best guar antees of care in the investment of funds, of impartiality in the conduct of their affairs and of foil acconntability in the entire man agement, was referred to in these columns some days ago. Its need is emphasized by the suit which was begun in the local Courts on Saturdav. Of course it is not the province of a news paper to render a decision as between the al legations of either plaintiff or defendant But it is pertinent to point out that the al legation on the part of the agents of the building association that the rejection of a loan which is asserted by the other side to have constituted an act of bad faith was really due to the fact that the association caused strict inquiry as to title and security, will, if substantiated, prove the management of the organization on business principles. If the evidence is in accoid with their assertion it will establish the fact the organization, is legitimately con ducted, and affords a safe investment for sav ings. On tbe other hand, if it is shown that the money of the plaintiff was obtained on podges which are not carried out, it will show the ease with which unscrupulous man agement can convert these enterprises into mere traps for snaring gulls. Full supervision of accounts and thorough checks in the handling of funds are as nec essary in the conduct of local building asso ciations as of tbote of wider scope. In the smaller organizations the necessary super vision can be personally exercised by the members. In those doing business on a national scale, it is impossible for the mem bership to furnish the necessary checks; and a system of authoritative regulation would be useful both in confining them to legiti mate business and affording proof of tneir reliability. OXE OF OUR FEATURES. Judge Altgeldt, a leading and progress ive jurist of Chicago, had been occupying his leisure hours with the praiseworthy variation from judicial work of writing pamphlets on social subjects, in which re forms are advocated with a striking free dom from the restraints of precedents and custom that generally surround the bench. Among Judge Altgeldt's reforms is that personal signatures should be attached to all articles that appear in the pres. As will be seen by the example of The Dispatch itself, this is a re form that may be trusted to work itself out to the exact extent to which it is needed. The Dispatch's special contributions and leading features of news have been published over the signatures of the writers for some years with very satisfactory re sults. If experience shall demonstrate the equal value of signed editorial articles, The Dispatch will be ready to lead in the movement. A commercial lunacy. A Georgia light bearing the attractive cognomen of Mr. Fat Calhoun has had his same prominently mentioned in the South ern newspapers which are agitating that absurd boycott idea, for the suggestion that )l Jhe Federal election bill passes, a line of steamers should be started direct from the Georgia ports to Enrope. The fact that the papers do not give Mr. Calhonn publicity for the prize idiocy of his proposing to make this enterprise dependent on a political measure, is a striking evidence of the dearth of common sense which is prevalent in those quarters. "Why should an effort to improve the ocean communications of the South be de pendent on tbe passage of a partisan meas ure, without the slightest natural con nection with commerce? If the South can furnish passengers and freight sufficient to pay a direct steamer line from Charleston or Savannah, it ought to be done whether the election bill passes or not. It is a stupid offense against tbe progress of any section to imply that an en terprise alleged to be practicable will not be pushed if the politicians of an opposing faction will be decent On the other hand, if such a steamship line will not pay, how can any force bill emancipate the stockhold ers from the task of making up the deficit? If the South should support a proposition to start a steamship liue in any event, that would be a sign of commercial enterprise. But a proposition to make the enterprise de pendent on the passage ot the Federal elec tion bill is a warning to gods and men of the political lunacy which at present seems to be epidemic in some quarters of the South. SHOULD LOCATE TBE BARBARISM. It is somewhat typical of the regulation attitude of organic republicanism toward Southern politics to find in the editorial columns ot the Philadelphia Press an asser tion that "South Carolina barbarism" had required the protection of Captain Tillman, the Independent candidate for Governor, from assassination, while, on the same page as this assertion appears a declaration from Captain Tillman himself that he does not think they will do that; but that he does fear that they will appeal to the negro vote. In which case the reformatory pet of the Republican organs ejaculates, "God have xnercv on them if they appeal to the negro to settle a family quarrel between whites. We will not have any negro rule. Any man who comes into Edgefield to appeal to the negro will do so at the peril of his life." When the esteemed Press sets about the task of making political capital out of this affair it should study its own news enough to be sure on which tide the "South Caro lina barbarism" is manifesting itself. WHAT CHICAGO SHOULD DO. Gen. A. T. Goshorn, who is famous as the successful Director General of the Philadel phia Centennial, is quoted as saying: "The Ch:ar.o exhibition will be mainly agricult ural, v.dtheforeign representation willnot be extensive. This is my opinion, based on the Pari Exposition, and the fact that foreign nations must incur great expense to get to Chicago at all." It is permissible to hope that General Gos horn is either incorrectly quoted or is mis taken. "While agriculture is the greatest industry of our nation, it is not the only great one; and an exposition principally of an agricultural character would be an in adequate exhibition of the development of this country; while a sparse display of for eign goods would make the general interest comparatively slight It could hardly bo expected that people would come from all parts of the country, much less from foreign lands, to see an exhibit of live stock, vege tables and agricultural implements, A much wider scope of interests than that rep resents was involved in the consequences of Columbus' discovery. General Goshorn's opinion is no doubt sincere, and it may be of value as showing the managers of the Columbian Exposition tne danger which they have to guard against But it should Incite Chicago to a three years' effort fur the purpose of demon strating that this opinion is an error. If Chicago is going to win the fame and credit that is hoped from this enterprise it has got to turn all its noted energies to the work of making its Fair attractive and famous the world over for its collection of all the manu facturing, commercial and inventive feat ures that the world can furnish. If it does not do this its fate will be a repetition of that of Icarus magnified to a gigantic scale, and terminating in utter ruiu as the result of too bold a flight But while urging that, for the credit of the whole country as well as Chicago, the most active work shall be done to secure the highest and best scope for the Fair, it is necessary to point out that such work will require the prompt abandonment of some vital errors that at present seem predomi nant If the Fair is to be a success, the ex ecutive forces should be set at work at once. The idea of splitting up the exhibition into two parts should be abandoned; and above all, if a creditable exposition is to be created in less than three years' time, the foolish ness of a site where a great portion of the time and money must be spent in converting water into land, mast be decisively rejected. If Chicago cannot promptly and com pletely rid tbe Exposition of these cum bering blunders, it may be necessary to ao cept General Goshorn's opinion that tbe Exposition will be a mere agricultural show. THE CAUSE OF CLEANLINESS. The expressions of workingmen with ref erence to the idea of providing places where workers in mills, machine shops and foundries can wash oil the dust of work and change their clothing, shows the existence of a real necessity in this line. Many cases are heard of where men, after a hard day's work, walk home rather than take them selves and their soiled clothing into a crowded car. Others who live too far away for that are subject to the knowledge that their grimy working clothes may be really damaging to the dresses of ladies. Of course, in the absence of a remedy, this is some thing that must be endured; but when so easy a remedy is indicated as providing lockers and a washroom for the change of clothing, the opinion is general that it ought to be furnished. It is hardly creditable to the progress of Pittsburg that the need has not been sooner recognized. The omission is not a willful one. Nearly all workshops provide wash ing facilities of some sort; but more than that is needed for the change of clothing. "When it is perceived that a really slight an nual expense will enable workers to go to and from their labor in clean clothing, there is little doubt that such facilities will be promptly provided. It certainly is a social duty to give the mill and foundry workers every facility for making a clean appearance. It is one of the steps of the emancipation of Pittsburg from the old regime of smoke and grime. A batheb stunning story comes from New York throngs the columns of the Phila delphia Press, to the effect that when ex-Congressman Losch went to tbe Senate committee room to see Senator Quay, he was ordered by the imperious son of the Senator, Richard Quay, "to leave this room at once. No rene gades to tbe Republican party are wanted here!" This authoritative declaration is calcu lated to terminate all doubts as to two points. It makes it clear, first, that the Republican party Is already large enough to snlt the son of bis father; and second it dispels any delusion as to tne committee-rooms of the United States being the property of the nation and designed for tbe use of those who have business there. The Government of Italy is taking steps to prevent tbe emigration of Italians to this country. The United States should renew to the Italian Government its assurances of the most distinguished consideration. The accident to the Central Traction Company's cable on Saturday afternoon by which transit facilities for the hill district were suspended over Sunday is doubtless one of those unforseen casualties which all will re gret, and for which there will be more sym pathy than censure for the company. But in view of the possibility of such occurrences, a suggestion is pertinent It Is that as soon as it is ascertained that a prolonged suspension of traffic is necessary, the passengers in the cars should be notified so that they can seek other modes of reaching their homes instead of sit ting in tbe cars in the hope that they will start again. The proposition to start a Southern steam ship line if the Federal election bill is passed, ought to make that measure popular among those in favor of Southern commercial devel opment Senator Sherman has recently intro duced a resolution to have the Congressional Retard investigated for the purpose of finding out whether It contains matter that ought not to be printed. This suggests that tbe Senators are unable to take the task ot reading tbe pub lication to decide the question for themselves. Or there is tbe utterly opposite tbeory that the intimation of improper matter in the Jlecord is an ill-advised effort ot tbe publishers to boom Its circulation. A happy solution of the Astor difficulty is suggested by a Pennsylvania practice. Let the Astor ladles restore social harmony by numbering themselves. TWO HUNDBED AND THIBTY-NINE United States Supervisors who got pay to the aggregate amount of 3,585 for watching ot tbe recent Congressional election in Philadelphia, at which there was uo contest, are convinced that Federal supervision is a valuable thing for the Supervisors. It may take several more "Jealous Jim" THE cartoons for the comlo organs of tbe adminis tration to catch up with the Secretary's last letter. If the editors of the New York Mail and Express and the Atlanta Constitution would re pair to some vast wilderness and fight it out be tween themselves, the country would endeavor to bear up under the removal of tbe infliction. The definition by "Webster of a "jag" as "a small load ot corn" has been extended by modern practice to include tbe corn products. By the way, we believe that Republican organs have recently been turning up their noses at an eminent Democrat with a supposed eye on the Presidental chair who exhibited a marked facility for writing letters. PEOMHIEHT PEOPLE. Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks and her sister and niece have gone to tho White Mountains. Sabah Bebnhabdt's biography will be ready in September. It will include many let ters written by tbe actress. The wedding veil of the Princess Victoria of Prussia is being made at tbe lace schools of the HirschbergerThal, in Silesia. A town hall named after Gordon was re cently opened for the use of foreign residents at Tien-tain, China, the Viceroy, LI Hung Chang, making the Inaugural address. Colonel Ingebsoll says that he has no superstition, except it may be that one of the old Scotch lady, who always believed that if she lived through February she would live through the year. If Senator Evarts' bill goes through to pay Dr. Mary Walker $10,000 for "services and suf fering" it is to be hoped the doctor will pro ceed at once to get a new pair of that Is to say, a new suit of clothes. Senator Frye is credited with being acces sory to the digging np of some documents which sbow that the ideas contained in Mr. Blaine's letter to Senator Frye were cribbed from President Arthur. Marguerite, tbe pretty Princess who is going to marry her cousin, the Duo d'Orleans the prisoner of Clalrvaux" has a good tem per, good manner', and various musical and artistic accomplishments. Mrs. Florence W. Hunt, the resident physican at the Sherman House, Chicago, is a Wisconsin lady by birth, and of high rank in her profession. She was four years in charge of the connty insane asylum. There has recently been current a story to tbe effect that tbe venerable mother of Lieu tenant Cushing, the hero of the blowing-up of the rebel ram Albemarle, is a pauper, depend ent upon chanty, in Boston. This is declared to be a baseless falsehood. Mrs. Cushing is living In St Louis in easy circumstances. Miss Alita Pboctor Otis, the editor of the New York Saturday Seview, has her bread-and-butter-day love for dolls. Mrs. Sen ator Piatt is another devotee of the doll, and, in one corner of her Fifth Avenue Hotel parlor Is a small stand where a group of talking doll babies sit with staring eyes and parted lips. There has just been finished and placed in the Cathedral of Charkoy, Russia, a clock of solid silver, weighing 600 pounds. It Is in memory of the Czar's escape from death in the railroad accident at BorM, and is so arranged that upon October 17 in each year the anni versary of that event It will ring a peal o bells. How to Do It. From the Philadelphia Times. It Quay wants to know how to make Phila delphia vote for Pattison for Governor and de feat most or all his Congressmen from this city, let him pass tbe new tariff bill and the force election bill. That's exactly how to do it if he wants to make Philadelphia Democratic this year and doubtful hereafter, and if he wants to snow himself under so deep that uo political resurrection trump can ever reach him. CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS. The Cuban manufacturers have secured a cigar label that Is Impossible to counterfeit, but notwithstanding that fact lovers of Imported cl ears will and the Connecticut brand In the boxes covered by tbe new label. Vice-President Morton is the possessor or three wigs one for Sunday, one for state oc casions and one that be uses while attending country fairs. The peach crop Is a failure for sure. As a consequence the bushel baskets will be much smaller than last year's. This statement will not be impeached. A lazy man In tbe East has an alarm clock which will also touch off the match and light tbe fire. Tbe owner of that clock will lite to a ripe old age, as he will be too lazy to die. The reward for the recovervof the Bliss Jewels has been raised to (5, 000. If the amount Is raised a few notches higher the robbers will begin to bellcvo they are tbe possessors of real dia monds. The Government at Washington uses 3,000 tons of icek day. Is it any wonder the surplus is rapidly diminishing? If the corner in crackers should prove suc cessful it should be followed by one In parrots. lobs Salisbury has discovered ere this that James O. Blaine was loaded. A Kansas papr says you ran actually hear tbe corn grow these days. That's pleasant. Next winter yon will be able to hear It burning to keep the farmer warm, and that will not be so pleasant. It don't matter much what nation owns the seals The hides of a majority of them will event ually be found In this country eoverlng tbe backs of shivering humanity. The relations between Minneapolis and St Paul are still very much strained, but yet no paper in either city is crying for a boycott. Philadelphia barbers have come to tbe conclusion that the Sunday closing law Is still la force, and will hereafter give, not only their hands, hut their mouths, a much-needed rest at least one day a week. The Home for Frlcndle Cats. From tbe Philadelphia Press. Two New York ladies, who have founded a home for friendless, indigent and decayed cats, are called philanthropists by one of tbe news papers. If their aim is to relieve suffering humanity by furnishing a retreat for musical felines that now spend the night on inhospit able back fences they are entitled to the name. Bat it the cats are tbe primary object of their sympathy a deep hatred of mankind is evinced In their act CHOICE SHAKE STORIES. i William Dibble, of Fine Plains, Allegan county, Mich., was Dltten by a rattlesnake re cently. Instead of collapsing and dying on the spot he took his rusty jackknlfe and cut out the poisoned flesh. He's doing as well as could be expected. Six citizens of Punxsutawney while gather, ing huckleberries in Clearfield connty, cap tured a rattlesnake by sticking a forked stick over its head. It was then placed fh a box and taken to town where it was exhibited to friends. It had II rattles and admirers ot snakes think It a beauty. Since the "original package" decision, they have two-legged snakes in Iowa. One was killed near Viola tbe other day. It was a three foot rattler with two legs about two inches long, placed six inches below the bead, and closely resembling a cat's paw. The snake was walking on the legs when first seen. It had five rattles. A Clabion farmer, named Smith, was bitten by a rattler a short time ago. The reptile was lying in a fence corner and jumped at Smith, striking him on tbo leg. The fangs merely scraped his leg, but became fast in his pants. Tbe snake then twined Itself around his leg and held this position uutil it was finally killed. Mr. Smith hurried borne, applied restoratives and the wound is now completely healed. Laughed Cheerily nnd Died. Blanchestbb, O., July 27. William Tetter shall, unmarried, aged 23 years, a painter by trade, fell from a scaffold ISO feet high and broke his neck. After lying unsconsclous for three hours be laughed and said, "I am not hurt" then suddenly expired. Arbitration Only In Namr. From the New York World, l This a curious state of affairs in Central America. Two Republics which have agreed to arbitrate all disputes are at war, and one of them Is fighting with guns purchased of an other party to tbe arbitration agreement PITTSBURG- DISPATQH, AT QUAINT CHESTER. REV. GEORGE HODGES GRAPHICALLY DE SCRIBES THE ODD OLD TOWN. Sight That Startle Americana Abroad- Pretty PIciuro of a Genuine English i Inn rlciureia.no Rain A Rich Field For Students Carloui Feature of Che. tor Cathedral Monuments Left by Merry Monks. rwnrrTEW fob the dispatch.: a ll wise Americans when tbey land at Liver- pool go to Chester. Even at Liverpool you begin to realize that you are no longer in America. The Custom House reminds you, but not unpleasantly, that you are entering a for eign territory. The queer streets, clean as if housemaids on their knees had scrubbed them before sunrise) the queer names on the signs; the queer, big-wheeled, wide wagons, loaded with garden stuff, with a man and one or two women on top, and a little grey donkey, about as big as a large rat, drawing the whole; the queer street oars, or tram cars, as they call them here, with seats on top as well as inside, and usually crowded out and in, covered with flaming advertisements; the many churches, old, solid-looking, and many of them with a board by the door covered with posters in big letters, like theater announcements, in black and red, predicting next Sunday's ser vices and offering bomllitical attractions. All these sights, noted from tbe wide front window of a hansom cab, have an unaccustomed look. Most of all, the railway coaches. Here we leave the United States of America altogether behind u, tbe guard shuts the door and the traveler knows now for sure that he is not on his way to Pitts burg. The car is shorter than ours, and lower. There are no doors at the end; tbe doors are at tbe sides. The seats do not rnn lengthwise of the car, but across, facing one another. Every two seats are partitioned off by themselves, having an aisle or passage between and a door at each side. A railway "coach" on this side the water is a coach Indeed. Take off tbo horses, fasten five carriages together and put them on car wheels, and you have a car. There are "classes" first, second and third. The differ ence is in tbe cost of tbe tickets and in the color of the cushions. That is about all. Of course, thero is a difference in the company. Nearly all sensible people are to be found in the second-class cars. All this you notice with pleasure as being quite English. For, when one goes from home, one likes to see things a little different But when you get to Chester you are In England, indeed. A Genuine English Inn. T-Iebe. In the first place, is an English inn. It is like a club house. There Is no bustle about the door, no "office" crowded with loungers and smokers; there are women for hotel clerks, and tine gentleman, looking as dignified as tbe Duke of Westminster himself, wbo take your luggage and show you to your room. The balls are wide, and hung with pio tures, and set out with tables and chests of drawers, with plants by tbe windows, like tbe halls of a private mansion. Your room is of generous proportions, with furniture which doesn't look as if it were manufactured in a great hurry by the hundred thousand, with a look of welcome which gladdens the heart Presently you go down to a table d'hote dinner, served in great state, in a dozen courses, with decorated china, and the best of everything in the bill of fare, with cheese made in Cheshire, within a few hours' ride of the hotel, and with strawberries looking like young peaches the cost of all this luxury being fl. Out yon go to the cathedral. You can see its square towers from the windows of your room. Thero Is service there. They are singing tbe Litany. You kneel down beneath that vast roof, with the transcepts on either side, one reaching out a long arm to tbe right, tbe other with a bishop's marble tomb in iti behind you stretches tbe great nave, with stained windows and walls glowing with mosaics; before you is the choir and chancel, with the screen lifted up between you and the singers, exquisitely carved. The priest kneels at the entrance to the choir and sings the appealing petitions, and the choir within chant tbe responses like avow ing voices of angels. It is celestial. It is a door opened a little way into heaven. At last, you say to yourself, I have really been at church. Nothing afterward will quite equal this this singing of the Litany at this quaint old Cathedral of St WerburgV ' Quiet, Ancient, Picturesque, TTvERYTHlNa is quaint In Chester. Tbe streets are like no other streets. You re member old pictures as you walk along them. Here are old timber houses, qneerly orna mented. Here are streets with double side walks, one over the other. You go up steps and you come upon a second street over tbe lower one, with a second line of stores, in tbe secono story, like walking along the roofs of continuous porches. Here are the old walla, built first by tbe Romans, in those long-ago days when Chester was a camp of Roman sol diers, to keep out the wild Britons; and built up over again wben tbe English of Chester held out against tbe Normau William: and built again in the stormy davs of the Middle Ages, when peaceable people wanted good sized barriers between them and the robber barons; and 'standing to-day In tbe old place, adding a unique picturesqueness to tbe quaint town. You walk about on top, making a two mile circuit, and seeing tbe town. Here Charles I. stood one day and watched his army getting badly beaten at Rowton Moor near bv Hero runs tbe Dee, with its great mills. Here yon climb tbe "wishing steps." If you can run up and down seven times without taking breath, you will get whatever you wish fori We can promise you that safely. A Fretty Ruin n n Tomb. AT St John's Church you see your first church ruin. The great central tower fell here in 1170. Tbev were reckless masons, those old church builders. Few records are more com mon in the annals of niedlteval churchos than the fall of tbe central tower. And when the central tower fell, it was pretty sure to break something. All the ruins cannot be traced back to the Puritans or to Henry VIII. Wben tbe tower fell at St John's it crushed the choir and chancel. What a lamentation among the monks! What a passing about of money boxes to get funds tor rebuilding! But people were poor. The best they could do was to wall up tho broken end, leaving out all the ruined part, shortening tbe church by half. The rest stands as it stood a week after the disaster. Vines grow over the brown walls, the sun shines through tbo old window whose tracery was once filled with the forms of saints in colored glass. Perhaps it is more beantiful now than it was in the days of its completeness. It is certainly more beautiful than the church. The great round pillars of the nave within the church show the work of Norman architects. Above is a fine triforium, along whose aisles we can imagine monks in gowns of brown or black passing in procession. I won der if everybody who goes to Chester sees the remarkable tomb which stands in St John's Cburch. The guide books make no mention of It, and I have never seen any description of It. It stands in a dark and obscure corner in an old side chapel at tbe east end of tbe south aisle. Tbe organ bides it But you climb in behind the organ, and there it is. Diana Warbnrton was buried here in 1693, and they built an altar tomb to keep her in everlasting remembrance. And behind tbe tomb, in tho place of a reredos, they set an image of Diana herself carved in deep relief in marble. It is tbe skoleton of Diana Warbnrton! There is tbe skull turned upward, as if in petition, and tbe long, ghastly arms outstretched, and in the hands held out to the beholder a long scroll reach ing to tbe knee, recording the good woman's manifold virtues. Below are death's-heads. Everybody knows about Lady Nightingale's tomb in Westminster Abbey, where death as a grisly skeleton comes out from beneath and aims his spear at tbe poor lady who lies In marble above. While her husband with a look of agony upon his face vainly tries to ward away the blow that is hor nble enough, as everybody knows. But this Is sufficiently dreadful, this skeleton statue of Diana Warbnrton behind the organ at old St John's. A Floe, Object Lesson. Prof. Fbeenan says that Chester Cathedral is the bestTemaining structure in England for studying the arrangement of a mediaeval monasfery. Here you can learn in an hour what you could not learn out of a book in a week. Hero is the old cloister, the center of tbe monastic life. In this covered porch, with roof of stone and lattice of stone, built about ... nnan IMPA of l-rAMl- ttlA otft mm..fcA-.. . Jmanhonra of Maydays.-Here they studledi uere tucj wui&cu i tueu nbiu in tne uays y MONDAY, JULY 28, before type and paper, compiling those quaint old "chronicles" which served for daily papers In those remote times; hero the master of the novices taught his school) here tbe convent barber shaved his customers and gave them their ac customed bleeding. On the south side of the cloister was the church; across the cloister, on tbe north side, was tbo refretory, the great dining hall, with tbe pulpit where a monk read from some holy father, while the brethren ate' their silent supper. On tbe east side was the chapter bouse, where the monks met for tbe dally conference about the affairs of tbe monastery) here offenaing brethren confessed their sins and were properly scourged; on the north side the Abbot lived. It can be all traced out at Chester. Cnrleni nnd Groteiqar. fHE most curious sight In the Cathedral Is the carved work of the choir. There is said to be nothing finer in England, except perhaps at Lincoln. The choir stalls are cano pied with delicately carved wood, rising up In slender spires. There is carving everywhere. Unexpected faces and flguros peer at yon in all Borts of unexpected places. Some of the work I' singularly grotesque; the old monks who cut these carvings bad an idea of humor. Even into the church they car ried their grim fun. Here are absurd and frightful animals, and monks making faces, and men and women disputing, and in the midst are winged angels bearing holy symbols. The misereres are queerest ot alL Every seat in the choir lifts up, and when it rests against tbe back tbe under part is seen to be full ot carving. There is a projection from the under part of the seat, which, when it Is raised up, makes a sort of second seat Ob this tbe monks rested themselves during tbe longstanding in tbe service, thus contriving to stand up and sit down at the same time. In the angle made by tbese projections are the miser eres, records of wild monastic Imaginations. Thera is a picture in the National Gallery in London painted by Jan Van Eyck. and bearing the inscription, "Jan Van Eyck was here." That is tbe note of Interest in tbese old cathe drals. You do not care so much about tbe architecture, of wbat style or excellence it is, as you do about tbe people who built and worshiped in these walls, tho people who were bere. Tbese great pillars were set in place by monks. Tbey sang here till this great .roof rang like a bell In answer. They sat In these old stalls and leaned up against these quaint old carvings. In this cloister they lived their ancient lives. The sight and sound of tbe old Benedictines who gathered bere about St. Werburgh's shrine adds a tenfold Interest to every stone. G. H. HUNTINGDON ALL BIGHT. The Allegations Concerning Iti Finance Inspired by the Politicians. SPECIAL TKLIORAM TO TBI DISPATCH. 1 Huntingdon. July 27. The dispatches sent from this place to the daily papers in regard to the finances of Huntiugdon county and the crookedness of the County Commissioners, emanate from politics and are without founda tion. It is news to the people of tbe county, and has caused neither excitement nor anxiety. The county Indebtedness is In two bonded loans aggregating S160.000, from which deduct 60,000, uncollected taxes and assets, leaving a net in debtedness of 8100,000, being $10,000 under the constitutional limit, which is SUO.OOO. This is based upon tbe assessment of the county.wblch does not exceed one-third of tbe actual value of tbe real and personal pioperty of the county. This large increase in debt was caused by the rebuilding of 29 bridges destroyed by tbe flood of June, 1889, and the building of six bridges contracted for before tbe flood. Notwith standing the great outlay caused by the flood, tbe finances of the county are in good condi tion. The charges of the correspondent have not tbe slightest foundation, in fact, and were made to further the scheme of well-known politicians. . .Neither taxpayers nor bondholders have paid tbe slightest attention to tne charges, to corroborate this fact residents of tbe county are still purchasing bonds, several being sold yesterday. NOVELTIES IH JEWELBY. A diamond boar suspended from a plain gold wire bracelet is a unique ornament A child's rattle of silver, representing a dumbbell, is a novelty. The rattles are con tained in the two bulbs. Five pearls sbown through the opening of an engraved gold pea shell make a lace piu that has recently appeared. Admirers of oddities will be interested in a three-leaf laurel sprig oi avanturlne. The stone is tipped with Roman gold. A lace pin that will rlease the fair sex Is formed by three heart shaped nets of delicate gold held in a cluster by a small but brilliant diamond. The "individual castor" is a product of the present season. It is to be placed before each guest at public dinners, and it Is rapidly ac quiring popularity. A WATCH case of Australian gold with the head of a buffalo raised in solid metal on the back is decidedly too massive an article tor a fashionable young man. Silver garter buckles with moonstones set In appropriate places are very popular this season. A clover formed by four of these stones in artistically engraved silver is a de sign in demand. A stack of four silver dollars containing a watch movement produces much astonishment whenever sbown. The fade of the timepiece, which is only two-thirds of an inch in diame ter, is set in tbe ceuter of the uppermost coin. A new art in this country that is meeting with coLSiderable success is inlaid enamel work in silver. A vinaigrette proudly shown by a manufacturer recently was decorated with a water lily In natural colors. The ornamenta tion was imbedded in the surface of the metal, and produced a beautiful effect Jewelers' Weekly, TOPICS OF THE TIMES. SHE WOULD BE A TYPEWRITES. "Mamma, may 1 go out and learn To be a gay typewriter!!" 'Why, yes, my dear, ir It will make Your heart feel any lighter. "But when you've learned to bang the keys And listen to dictation, Take my advice and stay at home Don't seek a situation. "For sometimes you will make mistakes. And often spell words wronx; And then your boss will rive and swear, And wleli you in Hong Kong." "1 think I'll take your good advice, Dear ma, and home I'll stop. Instead of trj log to -bang tbe keys' I'll try to make George 'pop. ' " . WOMEN IN SUMMER, The yonth wbo looks upon a maid In all her summer clothes arrayed, Marched dress, starched skirt, oft wonders why pbe seems so pleasing to his cj c! He's sweltering in his yachting clothes. The drops descending o'er bis nose. His tennis blazer sticking to him As every solar, ray goes through him. "While she is in her tennis dress A vision of pure loveliness; Her skirt so nice, her pretty hose. Her world of charming furbelows, A revelation arc; he knows well then How women are so much more Sweet than men. Huston Courier, LIFE. Man's life Is born Into a bootless world. If be strives not, how base! and Ifhe strive What weariness and grief, whilst evermore Secedes tbe earthly goa)l We plan and act, Onr little wisdom runs before onr deeds Led other way by fate; and all our days Hut mock the visions or our yesterdays. Till every purpose seems as shaped by dreams. Futile and waking, voided. Academy, - THE MUSE AND THE MUD. blip, slash, slosh. Through tho streets besmeared with mud. But we would not dare to utter Tbe thoughts that arouse our blood, O, well for tbe aldermen. That they never have to walkl And well for the board of health That it cannot hear us talk! And the city still booms on And lots advance In nnce; But O for a glance at a tldv street And an alley clean and nlcel Slip, slap, slosh, Through the streets besmeared with mud; May the men wbo like them fall therein With dull ana sickening thud. CMcago Jivening Pott. 1890. A POLITICAL MYSTERY. SPECULATION ON THE REASON BRIBERY IN BEAVER COUNTY. FOR Waihlnston aa n Summer Rosort I New Story of William U. Seward An Unos tentatious Congressman A Poet Wbo Couldn't be a Monk Capital Gossip. IVKOM X STAFF COURESFONDINT.J Washington, July 27,-Wo have forever done away with the old slander in regard to the distinctive and excessive heat of Wash ington. It must be relegated to the baoes where He the awful stories of Washington ma laria, buried so deep that they are only resur rected as fossils of a prehistoric period, as much a matter of legend as the tale of Guy of Warwick and the Dan Cow. We had our little "spell" of. hot weather, as all parts of the country had, though we were not oven then as hot as others north, east and west of us; but for the last ten days, just when it should have been roasting, we have been having it too cool for comfort and Coueross seems to have de termined to prolong its stay a month or so more than it had intended, because there is no other summer resort so desirable as this. Ana what is oven better than the low temperature is tbe almost perfect purity of tbe air, sweet in Itself, laden, moreover, with tbe perfume of the flowers that are everywhere, and the foliage of tho half million or trees that make the city exceptional from all other cities nf the world in this if in nothing else. There; I feel satisfied now; I have given Washington anotber puff. Tbe Beaver County Boadle Cases. gECAUSE Representative Townsend has mado a host of friends here by his unobtrusive manners and bis courteous bearing, and be cause he is a neighbor and friend of Senator Quay, wbo is so great a figure In the politics of tbe country, tbe scandal that has sprung out of the "State of Beaver" is something of a cause celebre, and attracts almost as deep interest here asm Pittsburg. I dislike exceedingly to disagree in anything from my old friend "Alex" McDowell, butit seems to me as plain as any thing In this world that be has made a great mistake. Even a man tainted with dishonesty admires honesty in another, and if the inno cent Major McDowell had. upon tbe first blush of the confession of the Beaver boodlers, with drawn from tho field with tbe declaration that he could not accept a nomInatlon,whlcb came to him by bribery, tbongb bis skirts were clear of it, nothing would have prevented hh nomi nation almost by acclamation. By accepting the results of a grave crime, by declaring him self not only willing but determined to be the beneficiary of that crime be came as nearly as an innocent man could to placing himself in uie same category witn tne criminals. To my mind it does not make the least differ ence whether tbe Major is guilty of a band in the bribery or not. His nomination was the result of tbe purchase of delegates, and cannot honestly be accepted. The very fact tbat he Is upheld In such a course argues a lack of a nice sense of honesty in his supporters tbat is little less than astounding. Ho truly honest man could support a nomination gained by such means, no matter how innocent the nomi nee of any participation in the corrnpt pur chase. I do not claim to be more honest than most men, but if such a nominee were my own father, my brother, or. dearer than either, my best friend, my alter Ego, I would "take the stump" againBt him and do my utmost for bis defeat regardless of his membership in my own party. A Mystery Unsolved. J? Y the way, what Is back of this disgraceful act of bribery? Tbe story is not half told. Where is the journalistic Vidocq who will drag to light the real reason for tho purchase of Downing, Bhafer and TateT McDowell was the one most deeply interested, but he says he is innocent and I believe him. Was Attorney Wallace so profoundly wrapped up In the suc cess of McDowell as to pay money out of his own pocket to purchase the votes which nom inated McDowell, and without the knowledge of tne latter? Or did his purpose go no farther than a vindictive desire to defeat Townsend? Let us look for the motive of the man. Three men were bribed. Tbere is no doubt of tbat It is alleged in sworn affidavits that Attorney Wallace bribed them. Did Wallace have confederates? Was there no one behiud or beside bim? 1 think anyone with even the half developed instincts of the expert aetective win say tnat in ana oi mni self Wallace did not have sufficient Incentive to urge him on to stick his head into tbe very doors of the penitentiary. Then who was the Meobistopbeles behind Wallace? Either someoue bitterly and almost in sanely interested in the defeat of Mr. Townsend, or some one wildly ana deeply in terested in the nomination of McDowell. Tho newspaper detective has this point gratui tously given him. It is a case In which some ambitious young reporter, wbo has been starv ing along at a salary of $50 or S75 a week, may win glory and wealth. My word for it, the sen sation which has marked the beginning of this case is nothing to tbe sensation that will make the end of It one of tbe most celebrated cases In the history of Congressional politics. Some body, somewhere, has delivered to Major Mc Dowell a horrible and treacherous stab in the dark. This is the situation, and I hope within a few days some press detective, single banded, or some Byrne-Hawthorne collaboration, will have probed the mystery to the bottom. A New Storv of Seward. T heard a story of William H. Seward the other day, which I think is a new one. I am not certain, but I am Impressed with a con viction tbat it comes from Miss Olive Risley Seward, an adopted daughter ot the late Secre tary, whose Bohemian literary salon is one of the most charming places to which one can have the Jentree at the National Capital. It was at the time when there was great agitation of the removal of the Capital, and all Wash ington was alarmed. One of the scared ones said to Secretary Seward: "Mr. Seward, do you think the Capital will be removed from Washington?" "Yes, I think it will," was tne reply. "But where; to Chicago?" "Wo." "What ! Not to St. Louis?" "No." "Well, where then?" . .. "To tho City of Mexico. That will probably be tbe center of population of the United States ono of these days." r An Unassuming Congressman, i (OH. do you know Mr. Blink, member of Conirress from Blanktown f said a lovely and highly cultivated fraction ofjWashington's 400 the other day to a friend of mine wbo is in "society." "I know him very well." "Ob, he's such a gentleman, so delicate and refined. I met him at our church festival the other evening and he treated us ever so many times to ice cream and took at least a hundred chances in the grab bag. and every time he paid for anything, oven though it was 6 cents, he took out a great roll of money, all be could hold in his hands. Ob, he's such a nice gentle man, and so unassuming." And tbe faction of tho 400 was not speaking ironically either. . Not Born a (sybarite. TITT friend Hovey, poet, dramatist, artist actor-to-be, and all around genius, who will one or those days be rich and famous by means of tongue and pen, was intended for holy orders when be left bis alma mater. He went to it with a will, as he does everything. Ho not only delved deep in religious lore, but experimented with every phase of priestly asceticism. He cut himself off from tbe world, took to a diet of bread and water, slept on the bard floor after tbe mode of tbo early Christian hermits of whom Ebers writes so charmingly. Finally he concluded to try flagellation, as there were still in bim some longings for tbat Sybaritlo life to which ho seemed to be born. Securing a raw bide, he denuded himself of the last stitch of bis clothing- Grasping his whip with a solemn monastic grasp, and pulling himself together witn tbe bands of an invincible will, be laid about his manly form most lustily, bringing the blood at every blow. He did this to tbernnmber ot just one blow, and tbat one hnrt so much tbat he tossed the whip away, rubbed the wound with balm of Oilead. put on bis most worldly toggery and went around to Koiter & tllal's. Thus ended tbe brilliant career of one candidate for holy orders, but tbe world is already tbe richer for it in tbe drama and in song. E. W. L. HEB LAST DESIRE. Crossed "the Sen, Dying, to Kiss Her Father. From tho New York Bun.l After all the passengers bad disembarked from the Normannla upon ber arrival here on Friday two of the steamboat employes walked down tbe gangplank bearing between them a stretcner, upon which lay a girl of 19, fair hatred and pale-faced. She was Marie Mies field, and she had come from Hanover to kiss her father before she died. A few years ago hei father came to this country and settled in Chicago, where he prospered in business. Marie was stricken with consumption, and not long ago was told that she bad onTy a few months to live. She said sbe was satisfied to die, but she must kiss ber father first. Upon this sbe insisted strenuously, and, at the risk ol shortening ber brief life, her mother con sented to bring her across the water: Tbe three took tbe first express to Cnlcago. OUR MAIL POUCH. About Pension Fee. To tbe Editor of The Dispatch: In your issue of to-day your Waibtngton cor respondent, in referring to the fee for prose cuting pension claims under the dependent act overreaches facts so far as to convict himself. Tbe fee ($10) Is not exorbitant Considerable proof will be required to sustain tbe soldier's and tbe widow's claim under tbe act Both must prove tbat tbey own no property of any kind, nor have any source of Income aside from their daily earnings. This cannot be done simply by one or two brief affidavits. Tax lists, judgment records and tbe office of the Re corder of Deeds will all be called into requisi tion, and searched by the attorney in each case. In tbe claims of dependent parents the fee is wholly inadequate, inasmuch as the only differ ence in claims nnder tbe new and tbe old, or general, law is tbat, instead of proving tbe de pendence of tbe parent at the time of the sol dier's enlistment at deatb.it must be proved that it exists now. Tn every otber particular, as much labor and evidence are required to prove such claim nnder tbe late as tbe old law. And it is a tearful exaggeration to say that one attorney in Washington will realize a half million or a million of dollars In fees under tbe dependent bill. At 510 each he must get 100.000 claims, and succeed in every one of thero. It is not probable that any one attorney will have such a monopoly of the business. Claimants are (retting to understand that It is best to have attorneys near borne. And in any event, tbe fact tbat any one attorney is o fortunate as to get enough claims at 10 each to realize SLOOO, 000 Is not evidence tbat the fee Is exorbitant as your correspondent seems to argue. If an at torney should get afeeot only 55 In each rase, and secure tbe number of claims his statement would have us believe tbii one attorney will se cure, he will still realize a fortune; or even at L 100.000 claims would hardly be tef used, es pecially by Washington attorney who never prepare any evidence never perform any ser vice in such claims beyond furnishing 15 or 20 cents' worth of blanks, and sending to tbe claimants copies of letters from tbe Pension Bureau, which the applicants could receive just as well directly from the bnrcau. The applicant is put to the trouble and ex pense ot getting parties at home to prepare tbe evidence in bis claim, and tbe "recognized at torney" at Washington gets ail the fees. Old Soldier. New Bbiohton, July 2a Remlnlncencrs of Enrly Allegheny. To the Editor of Tho Dispatch : By tbe kindness of a friend 1 received your paper containing tbe account of the Allegheny Jubilee, which I have read with much interest. The writer came to Allegheny in 1SS8. being then 9 years of age, and remained till ISIS, con sequently tbe old-time scenes depicted in your paper are very familiar. I am able to detect a few errors. For instance your cuts do not do justice either to General Robinson or his resi dence. The General was a very fine looking man and his bonse, a handsome brick one, wbtcb stood just north of tbe stone wall sbown In the cnt and quite up to the level of the street Your paper states tbat Thomas Sample was tbe first street commissioner. He may have been elected, but if so did not serve. Andrew Erwin was the first street commissioner. Tbe writer distinctly remembers being sent to Treasurer Davis for $100. which was the first money paid out for labor on the streets of Allegheny. Andrew Erwin was also the first street contractor in Allegheny, as by contract be graveled Federal street from the bridge to tbe canal In 1830 or 1831. Andrew Erwin ran tho last ferry between Pittsburg and Allegeny. In 1833 he kept the Crawford House, then called the Jackson Honse. Tbere being consid erable dissatisfaction with tbe bridge company he was induced to believe tbat a ferry would be patronized and built a bouse boat which be ran for some months just above the bridge. The germ of tbe Allegheny market was a stall which was built In 1830 by Hugh Danver In the Diamond nortb of tne first market house where he sold beef on two days each week. John u. Ebwin. Kibksville, Mo., July 2i A to Reece C. Flleson, Jr. To the Editor ot Tbo Dispatch: Can any of your soldier readers give any In formation as to Reece C. Fleeson. Jr., son of a former part proprietor of The Dispatch ? He was in the regular army as an officer, left it and enlisted in the Ulnth Pennsylvania Reserve Corps; was a gallant soldier (so men who knew him in tbat regiment tell me, and I can readily believe it) and was finally taken prisoner. though whether dead or allvo I cannot say. Tbe impression is that he may have died at Andersonville. Who knows? A. great big heart like his, i nil of the primitive fire of pa triotism, brave to sacrifice, enduring while life lasted, a man who, were be alive now and had both legs knocked off. wouldn't touch a pen sion with a ten-foot pole, sbould have to his memory at least some account ot how and when he died. If I knew I would write it for The Dispatch; but as I do not, and, doubtless like many others, would have tatisfaction in the possession of particulars, will you oblige by giving this publicity that some wbo may Know of Reece C. Fleeson, Jr., as to bis career in the Ninth Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, may tell of him. Potomac. Pittsbueg, July 28. Conference of Single Tax Hen. To tbe Editor of The Dispatch: A cable dispatch from Henry George an nounces that he will return to this country on September 1, and a conference of single tax men will be held on that date in NewYoik City. This conference was suggested by various single tax clubs throughout the country, to consider tbe various events which havo marked the progress of the movement; also methods of future action. Nearly every clnb will send delegates; tbere are at present 154 such clubs. Mr. George has just finished a very successful speaking tour of the Australian continent He was given a reception in every city, being re ceived by tbe Mayor and prominent citizens. Tbe Australian people seem to take kindly to Americans, and this, taken wlti the widespread popularity of Mr. George's "single tax" reform, may account for tbe cordial reception be re ceived. Tho Pittsburg Single Tax League will send three delegates to the conference. PrrrsBUBG, July 28. Single Tax. Not Hard to Answer. To tbe Editor orthe plsnatcn: I. Kindly iuform mo bow the name of Mr. Andrew Carnegie Is pronounced. 2. What is meant by Senators and Congressmen pairing? I read a great many papers, but see nothing that explains the meaning of the word. 3. Are there any $50 gold pieces LOined ? I saw one in 1819. Also, Is there a premium on gold dollars and silver half dollars of 1829 and 1531 3-6? Gbay's Eddy, July 20. R. L G. 1. Car-nay gy accent on the second syllable. 2. Let us suppose tbat A. favors a certain meas ure and B. opposes It One finds he will be un avoidably absent when the vote is taken: the two agree that neither shall vote: this is called a pair. 3. None are coined now;S-50pieceswera coined from 1851 to 1857, and were known as California or Territorial gold coin. Advice to Pensioner. To the Editor or the Dispatch. A few days ago I noticed a letter in your pa per signed "W.," which sbould have been read by all pensioners or applicants for a pension. A soldier's widow, a neighbor of mine, has found this out to her sorrow. Those Washing ton pension agents are too far removed from tbe applicant to be of any service and tbe ap plicant soon learns tbat he or sbe must do all tbe work or pay some one bere to do ir. It would be much better to employ a home agent for then the attorney can aid In tbe case, but not so with those In Wasbington. All tbey do is to send blanks to the applicant and demand bim or ber to skirmish for evidence, and usually the applicant is illy prepared to go on such a hunt without oral advice, which advice conld hardly be expected from otber attorneys. Allegheny, July 26. B. L, W. Bnch I tbe Law. To the Editor or The Dispatch: Can a young man wben he comes to this coun try 14 years old become a citizen when he is 21 years old by only taking out one set of papers? Pittsbubo, July 25. J. H. J. If his father becomes a citizen, the boy will need no papers. Otherwise, one set will suffice. Jnly 3, 1881 1 brptember 19, 1881. Tethe Editor or The Dlsoatebi Please give me the date when President Gar field was shot: also the dtte of bis deatb. Pittsbubo, J uly 20. S. S. She Would be a saccr. From the Blnghamton Republican. An Allentown woman has been without food for 112 days and has not had 15 minutes' actual sleep in nine months. What a hustler she would make on a morning newspaper. People who can get along without eating or sleeping are just the kind to succeed in tbat profession. A Brnmiral Ideality. From the Chicago News. As Salvador and Guatemala are now engagec? in nideons warfare, It is evident that they have mislaid their beautifully engrossed copies of the universal peace resolutions adopted last Spring by Mr. Blaise's Pan-American. Cos gress. . .1 CUBI0US CONDENSATIONS. France claims to have 76 millionaires. The milk bill of London exceeds 50, 000 dally. Just 250,000 women are married yearly in England. An infant grows eight inches during the first year. Heligoland has a national debt of 10. The revenue is between 8,000 and 9.000. Tbe coins of Siam are made of porce lain; those of Japan are made principally of Iron. On October 1 Grand Haven had a big fire. Yesterday In taking up the debris some charcoal was found still burning. George Washington had big hands and feet He wore a No. 11 boot and his gloves had to Do specially made for him. A Charlotte, N. C, clergyman wears undoubtedly the largest shoe in this country. The size is SI ana each shoe is 20x8 In:hes. The thickness of the human hair varies from tbe ZSOtb to tbe 600th part of an inch. Blonde hair is tbe finest and red the coarsest. After a study of the "Congressional Di rectory," the Charleston News and Courier an nounces that there are 6 farmers in the Senate and 35 in the House. A story comrs from Stratford, Conn., tbat an enterpr'ing colt tbere tbe other day chewed up a man's vest and several hundred dollars in tbe pockets thereof. The 7-year-old daughter of Peter Olsen, at Ludington, died in terrible agony yesterday, within ten minutes after she bad been bitten by a snake in a bnckleberry swamp. A project is on loot for spanning tha Danube canal, in Vienna, with a bridge lined with shops, after tbe model of the famous Ponterialto, at Venice, and the Arno bridge at Florence. Domestic servants are so scarce In Mon treal tbat women In want of help are said to visit the jail with a view to engaging young women to work for them at the close of their terms of imprisonment A peculiar industry of Kern county, Cal., Is tbe collection and shipment of horned toads. They are sold to the Chinese, who use them for medicinal purposes. They are con sidered especially valuable in tbe treatment of rheumatism. John Fess, of Medaryville, Ind., was truck by lightning a few days ago, every bone In his body being broken. Downey Knotts, seated on the wtcon seat beside bim. escaped unhurt and so did the horses Fess was driving, but a dog trotting under tbe wagon was killed. A cable road is to be laid down on Broadway in New York City before the begin ning of next year. It Is said that it will be tha canse of a vast number of fatal accidents, as people in New York are alwavs in such a fan cied hurry tbat they will not take common pre cautions for their own safety. All the officials in the various depart ments along the Jersey Central Railroad have been notified by the company that hereafter employes most abstain from the nse of intoxi cating liquors while on or off duty, and if seen entering saloons, either during or after work, ing hours, will bo discharged. The ink contract at 30 cents a gallon, awarded by the Cincinnati school board, shows how great a profit there Is in selling ink at re tail. Tbe ordinary price is 5 cents for a little bottle holding less than a gill, and any school boy or girl can easily tigureupabout bow much a gallon of ink would cost at tbat rate. At the head of Onion Valley, in Inyo county. CaL. are two adrupt mountains, one 13.000 and the other 14,000 feet high. Tumb ling down tbe side of one is a cataract 500 feet high, wblcb in tho distance resembles falling snow, and two other waterfalls of equal height are visible from tbe head or the valley. It is proposed to nse the electric motor extensively in military operations in England. One of the latest Ideas in carrying on active warfare U to build a railway at the scene of hostilities for tbe transportation of ordnance. It is highly desirable that the trains used for this purpose, which are armor-plated and armed with Gatlmg guns, should be as rapid and in conspicuous as possible. Just after the war ended the Navy De partment gave Ericsson a 15-inch shell found among tbe ruins of Sumter. It had been fired from one of the monitors, and somehow the fuse bad failed to go off. Ericsson sent it to the King of Sweden and the good Oscar placed it in tbe great museum at Stockholm, with a fitting ana touching Inscription in honor of on of the most honored of Swedes. It's there now. Frank E. Patterson, one of the execu'ori of tbe Patterson estate at Manyunk, recently found an old brass cannon among tbe debris of the storeroom that had been used In tbe Mexi can War and sent home by the late General Robert Patterson as a trophy of his victory at Natural Ridge, on the way from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico. The old relic will be pre sented to tbe Historical Society at an early date. A "Western paper's definition of tha term volt: "The volt gives one blow of a specified force. As volts are added together tbe force of the blow is increased until tbe en durance limit is reached. It takes about 25 volts to make a perceptible tingling sensation. Wben 50 vlts pass through tbe body the tlnz- lingsensatlon becomes unmistakable, but not strong, while 100 volts feels lively, 200 volts stronc. 300 volts powerful, 400 volts Titanic, and 500 volts will knock a man flat" Near Somerset, in Perry county, O., ll an ancient ruin, whose walls, inclosing 40 acres, were built of undressed stone, now lying in con fusion. They have been estimated sufficient to build a wall 7 feet bigb and 6 feet broad around tbe whole 40 acres inclosure. One gateway be tween two large rocks opened into tbe country and was defended by a huge bowlder. The in closure contained a large stone mound. No skeletons have been found, and tbe inclosure was certainly nsed for other purposes than habitation or sacrifice. Darius L. Goff, of Pawtucket, R. I., who has a fancy for mechanical curiosities, pos sesses a clock that never runs down. Through an ingenious contrivanco It is kept wound by the simple opening and closing of the front door of tbe bouse. Electrical appliances, operated by the running of the clock, raises the gas et in tbe ball at dusk and lowers it at bed time; ring an early rising bell for the servants, a later one for the family, and an hour later tha breakfast bell, and wben tbe bour is struck musical cathedral chimes respond in the cham bers of the house. TO DRIVE AWAY THE BLUES. ' Teacher (in grammar-school.) "Toot lesson to-day Is on nouns. Nouns are names of things." Small boy "Is ghost a noun!" Teacher-"Yes." Small boy "Row can It be? They ain't no such thing as a ghostl" Uarper't Bazar, "I hear tbat base drummer is to be suit back to Europe." "Yes. They decided be was not an artist' 'How dia tney reaca ia aecisionr "Weil, unfortunately the collector had a bead ache when tbe trial cam e on, and after the third whack be decided the man was a nuisance,"- Harper's Bazar. "Mary, I love yon deeply. Will you be; my wile?" "I don't know, George. Can von support me?" "I think so. You have a little something, haven't you'" "Test Ihavetl.800ayear." "Why. then, it's perfectly easy. lam sure we could live on JiOoOayear." arper't Karor. "Charles and George have both proposed to me. I don't kqow which to taxe." "Is George rich?" "No. He has l, 150 a year." "How much does be spend?" "St ." "How much has Charles?" 110, 000a year." "How much does he spend?" 112,000." rTake George. "fiiirper' Bazar, A young couple on their honeymoon an dallying languidly with the grape at dessert. She (archly) And you don't find it tiresome all alone with me? You are qnlte sure you don'twant to go back to your bacholor life again? He (earneslly)-QuUe. my darling. Do you kaow If you were to die to-night I'd get married again to-morrow morning. biftingt. Teacher Give me the name of some quad raped tbat Is, an animal with four legs. Tommy A dog. Teacher Mention anotber. Tommy A Junebug. Teacher A Junebug has six legs. Tommy What's the matter with polling off two ottHtml-Slfttngt, Wife Well, what do you think Johnny wants now? Ilasband-I've no idea. "Wife He wants me to tease you into buying bun a bloycle. Husband (who has tried bicycling himself)- " Nonsense: he can't have oae. Tell him to go up Into the aula and fall down two Sights of stairs. It will be jest about the same thing, and save me a hundred dollars. Sifting t. &&a2se&i Mr"Faw.
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