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IC Freid. whose advocacy of the use of agricultural land security as a basis for national bank circu lation has been heretofore referred to in tlieae columns, has carried hit project to the extent of issuing a pamphlet and contem plating the call of a convention for the or ganization or a party on that basis. The Dispatch has previously recog nized that the conservative and carefully regulated use of real estate securities as a basis for national banks has much about it that is worthy of consideration. Two great classes of financial institutions, the savings banks and insurance companies, have held large investments on that basis for years; and the results have been good where proper safeguards are maintained against wjldcatting and inflation. In the presenta tion of his "New Idea" Mr. Preid is in clined to be extremely conservative in the safeguards against overvaluation; but in working ont its details he does sot seem to fully appreciate the importance of letting such a proposition stand strictly on its own merits and keeping it clear from association with scnemes which sensible business men musLj-ecognlze as visionary. Thus, apart from the Tact that the proposed convention is expected to be under the au spices of a body that is irretrievably com mitted to'the project of issuing currency on the variable and uncertain basis of agricul tural products, it can hardly incite coufi- ' dence in the idea to learn from its advocate that "we need no longer uie or employ as a basis for our currency, cold or silver." It is not at all necessary to present such a proj ect as one for the abolition ot gold or silver, any more thau the use of Oovernment bonds in the same way involved that idea. Mr. Treid does sot really mean this, either; for he contem plates the maintenance of a single gold standard, and the use of gold in the redemp tion of mortgages, thus, it will be seen, throwing-bis proposition into the fight be tween the gold and silver men, and on the unpopular side. Then what is the use of establishing a new and somewhat centralized "Nation's Bank" when we have hundreds of millions pfnatiooal banking capital, that ' could use that basis for circulation the mo ment they are authorized to do so with the proper safeguards? The clear and Impartial comprehension of the proposition is not improved by encum bering ii with these exotic featnres. But in the abstract proposition of using agricult ural land mortgages as a basis for national banking, there is much that will bear dis cussion. THE nOTTE-T DAY, The hottest day of the year, so far, was experienced by Pittsburg yesterday, the fiercest efforts of June's heated term having been beaten two degrees by the thermomet neal record of yesterday. The mortality caused by the heat does not appear to have been very great, only two deaths being re ported which can be directly traced to the torrid weather. If the cooler breezes last night arc the prelude to more moderate weather to-day, Pittsburg may felicitate itself on having escaped rather easily; but if many, more such days as yestuday are to be undergone the life of the city workers who cannot escape to the mountains or sea shore will be a grievous burden. MISREPRESENTATIONS ABOUT SUGAR. The rather persistent misrepresentation which .has governed the utterances of some of the Democratic press with regard to the sugar duties, seems to have got bold of those supporters of tho Blaine policy who are so inscrutably wedded to it, that they are not willing to accept the plan of reduction of sugar duties with a suitable proviso for rec iprocity. Of the same character with the New Xork World's assertion that "the bill before the Senate does not provide for free sugar lorcousumption" is the editorial as sertion of the Chicago Tribune that the Sugar Trust U suited by the present bill, "and that the revenue surrendered by the Government will go to it is large measure, rather than to the consumer," Both these newspapers ought to be better informed than this. The present duties on the great mass of sugar consumed by the people of the United States nnaer the pres ent law ranges from S to 3c; and as seven "eighths of our sugar is imported, that duty is added to the corl of the sugar. Now when it is proposed to reduce the duty to Sour-tenths of a cent as in the Hooie bill, or to four and six-tenths as in tbe Benate bill, it is something very mnch like disln genuousuess to .oppose a three-cent reduc tion on tho ground that it does not give ab solutely free sugar. It does not take off all the duties; but it takes them off more nearly than any measure proposed in previous Con gresses, and will cheapen sugar very nearly to the whole amount of the three-cent redac tion. As to the Chicago Tribune'i theory that the Sngar Trust will appropriate the whole amount of the reduction, it, is plain that with sugar refiners In every part of the world Teady to ship to this country, any at tempt on the part of tho Trust to hold up prices above the 6-10 of a cent margin af forded by the duty would be simply band ing ofer the market to foreign competition. At present thc'fe'finers arc able to disregard foreign competition, "because the duties on refined give them a margin over the dnties on raw sugars of a cent and a half. With that margin cut down, even as the Senate bill proposes to do, the power to exact ex cessive prices will be very, much curtailed. It is true that the change made in the House bill by the Senate Committee was one that ought not to hare been made. The dnty of four-tenths of a cent on refined sugars provided by the House bill was ample protection for refiners. The addition of two-tenths was just so much more pro tection that was unnecessary and unde served. If the. comments of our cotem poraries were for the purpose of inducing the Senate to restore the Honse rate they would be timely and cogent. But when it is urged that because the Senate reduction is not great enough, therefore the present duties which are six times as great as these proposed, should be indefinitely continued, the people resorting to that sort of logic lay themselves open to the charge of rank un siccerlty. - It is n little puzzling to decide whether Senator Quay's amendment to the sugar schednle proposed last week, was for the purpose of giving some foundation for the miirepresentations referred to, or to show that the Sugar Trust is not satisfied with the Senate bill. Zither theory would be con sistent with a proposition to raise the duties on refined sugar to a centper pound; which with the bounty of two cents on raw sugar wonld make the burden on sugar practically as great as under the old duties. It would be such a complete stultification of the Bepnblican policy on the sugar question as could only be accounted for by prospective contributions of the Sugar Trust to Senator Quay's campaign fund. It should be laid down as a principle that nothing mnst interfere with the pub lie duty of a radical reduction in the tariff schedule which places an excessive 'cost on this article of universal consumption. The reciprocity policy can be harmonized with this course by an amendment like that pro posed by Senator Pierce. But to leave the sugar tariff at its present excessive figures or to enact a new one like that proposed by Senator Quay would be a distinct betrayal ofourpubllo interests. A COSIMON ERROR. f In an article on the cost ot the labor In a ton of pig iron, the esteemed Baltimore Sun bases a ftee trade argument on an error which is very common but none the less vital. The argument of our cotemporary may be summarized as follows: Labor statis tics show that the labor cost of a ton of pig iron made with coke ranges from 42 cents to; $2 60 and averages about fl 40. Conse quently the duty of $6 72 on pig iron is three or lour-times what is necessary to pay the difference between the cost of labor in this country and in Europe. That would be a legitimate conclusion if the labor statistics cited covered all the labor necessary to produce a ton of pig metal. Bnt the fact is that it covers only a small portion of the labor. The statistics only profess to give the cost of labor, at the blast furnaces, necessary to convert the ore, coke and limestone into pig metal. But the ore, coke and limestone each represents a large amount of labor. The only items in figur ing up the cost of the finished product, that are wholly free from labor cost, are the royal ties, if any are paid, on the raw materials when they are first taken from the earth. Every process in addition thereto repre sents labor. -How this labor cost extends may be seen from the fact that the trans portation charges on a tou of metal at Pitts burg amount to several dollars per ton. Of these charges perhaps GO per cent rep resent the wages paid in transportation; but the vessels and railways by which the transportation is performed also represent labor cost which must be reimbursed out of the remaining charges. To follow out and fix the cost of the labor in everything that unites to produce a ton of pig iron, or any other finished product, is a task which no one has ever performed. But a very slight acquaintance with the subject will tell anyone that the total labor cost ot any product is far in excess of the labor cost that pertains only to the last pro cess. "Whatever may be the case with other products the cost of labor in a ton ot pig iron is largely in excess of the duty. THE WRATH OF ST. PAUL. The woes of a city which attacks its neighbor's census returns are now felt in the seTerest degree by the people of St. Paul. The pernicious activity shown by Minneap olis in swelling its census reports was ex posed by St. Paul with the result of cutting down the Minneapolis total some 9,000. But now come the Minneapolis people and msec representations the Superintendent of the Census, intimating that St. Paul has been inflating her own census returns; and Mr. Porter has committed the unpar donable sin, from the St. Paul point of view, of paying some attention to -.these assertions. It is interesting to observe how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, when you have been pitching into another" city's census to have the charge turned in your own direc tion, as exemplified by the horror and in dignation of the St. Paul-Pioneer Press. The retort to this charge is that Minneapo lis is a "Jezabel whose dallying and sin is thejestorthe scorn of the whole people." And the idea that St. Paul could tinker with its census reports is protested against as coupling the fair fame of that city with that of Minneapolis as a female of very shady reputation, which a strict regard for propriety forbids ps to more specifically describe. This sort of beat is rather ridiculous, but it is possible to regard it as more enterpris ing than the quiet stolidity with which Pittsburg accepts a census total of 259,000 when all the other statistics indicate a pop ulation nearer 270,000. The politicians have been busily declar ing the Farmers' Alliance movement to be im practicable. There havo been reasons lor sus pecting it to be so; but It is placed beyond al doubt In the mind of tho practical politician when it is learned that tho efiorts of the Louisl ana lottery crowd to buy up the Louisiana Farm ers' Alliance have been met with utter failure. Such unpractical fellows as these cannot be expected to cave anjrweight in politics. Ox a single day last week 38,000 enjoyed the public baths of New York City. How many thousands were prevented from enjoying the only public batbs this cltv affords namelr. the banks ef the rivers Is not revealed by our J local statistics. "It is agreed on all sides that the much vituperated Ben Tillman, the farmers' candi date for Governor of South Carolina, will re. ceiva the regular Democratic nomination," says the Philadelphia Inquirer. After which It will ba Instructive to observe the way In which the Northern Republican papers that have been patting Tillman on the back will turn around and jump upon him. The Fan-American delegates who sub scribed so enthusiastically to the beauties of arbitration should nowput it Into practice In stead of burning so much villainous powder. "All tho Republicans in public office from the-President down are understood to be opposed to tho Louisiana Lottery." says the St. Lopls Globe-Democraf. This is comforting if true; but before being too sure of it, the es teemed Globe-Democrat had better ascertain the views of tbosevemlnent Republicans, tho Federal office, holders at'Now Orleans. Oscae "Wilde declares that he is tired to death ot beinc advertised. The public win enthusiastically welcome that gleam of com mon sense on Oscar's part. The demise of the Omaha Republican U announced from sheer Inability to pay Its debts and keep runnlmr. As this journal flopped aronnd on both sides of most issues, but maintainor) a consistent record as an advo cate of the Union Pacific Railway, it Is a nat ural conclusion that In this case the wages of sin havo been death. PERSONAL AND PERTINENT. The Empress Eugenie is traveling In Nor way under an assumed name. General Boclakoer denies he is writing an Irish romantic drama, with Robert Emmet as the hero. ' . Me. Bhadladgh has fallen foul of some of his free-thinking Nottingham constituents by making a present to-a "church" band. James Black, who was the Prohibitionist candidate for Presidont in 187 lives in Lan caster, Pa., hate and hearty, though a septua genarian. In going to Halifax Prince George has only followed the suggestion of Ward McAllister's friends at Newport who, when disappointed at bis not coming, told him to go there Miss Pauline Hall is said to be a capital cook, and Miss Isabelle Brqubart can order a dinner fit for the prince of gourmets and serve it In a way that would make the modern hostess die of envy. IF Sara Bernhardt cannot be turned fromher fell purpose to play Romeo we ;beg leave to call her attention to the fact that Turkish women eat rose-leaves with butter to secure plumpness. If Senator Blair wonld also introduce a res olution limiting Senators to about two and a half lines when they write about themselves in the newspapers we should have less of -Blair, which would be another comfort, W. J. Vaderwixelstein, who introduced into Australia the rabbits which have been for years the pest and the despair ot that vast country, is still living In Melbourne, broken hearted and weary of his life because- of the anguish which that great mistake has brought him. Mb. Gladstone frequently marks cata logues of second-hand books, and writes a note at tbe top requesting that the volumes indi cated be sent to him. One bookseller, proud to possess such a catalogue, exhibited It In his window. A few days afterward a local Tory, in making a purchase, said with a frown, "I see you've got a list marked by Gladstone's fatal initials in the window," and then, whispering fiercely in the bookseller's ear, he added, "Does he pay your" TEE CIECUS HAD TO SETTLE. A Missouri Mnn Who Compelled the Mann cer to Keep Hla Word. Louisiana, Mo., Angnst 8. Hamilton B. Brnnough and Miss Annie Beeole. or Pike county, 111., presented themselves yesterday afternoon at Wallace A Anderson's circus tent, in answer to an advertisement by the circus company that they would not only defray all expenses ot a marriage ceremony, but would include a set of furniture valued at $30 as a present to tfie blusbing bride. Tbe circus peo- Sle, falling to fill their part of tbe contract, Ir. Brunough and bride elect proceeded to the office of Justice Homer Murray, who soon made tbe twain one, and n addition to a bean tif ally engraved marriage certificate threw In a writ of attachment of 100 against the circus concern, which was finally fettled for J10. After paying lawyer's fee, tbe jnstlce's rake down and a bridal trip to tbe Louisiana race course. It Is presumed there was sufflcent left to pay ferriage across the Father of Waters. STATE POLITICAL K0TES. F. C. Johnson, of the Wllkesbarre Jiecord, is talked ot for the Legislature. Assembltma'n Kratz, of Montgomery County, is a candidate for renominatlon. ' The Newport Ledger urges that Hon. John W. Rife bo returned to Congress for another term. The Wllkesbarre Jfews-Dtaler again an nounces that Eckley B. Coxe will not accept the nomination for Congress in Luzerne. A labor leader in Luzerno county says If the Democrats do not nominate Senator Hlnes for Congress the Labor party will call a con vention and nominate him. Captain Thomas & Johnson Is a new Re publican candidate for Congress in Hunting don county. John W. Mattern and General F, H. Lane are the other candidates. lRViStO P. Wanger has issued a circular letter asking the Republicans of the Seventh district to support him for Congress, The con vention will meet at Lonsdale Tuesday, August 2fl There are seven candidates for the Demo cratic nomination for the Legislature from Lycoming county, viz.: A. J. Quigley, W. E, Ritter, M. H. Lundy. G. G. Wood, Isaac Bru ner, A. J. Kahler and C. B. Seely. Three or fonr months ago the Republicans of Wayne county nominated ex-Representative Hardenberc for State Senator, and tbe Re publicans ot Susquehanna renominated ex Senator Lines, but np to the present time there has been no district conference. The Hazleton Bentintl, Rep., says; "The Salvation of the Farmer is tbe title of an article In the orum for August We haven't read it, but suppose that in critical times like these the salvation of the bnokwheat depends en bis voting the Republican ticket and keep ing clear of bunuo men," Ex-Congrzssman Br.TJJt.ir, Sam Losch, ex District Attorney Pomeroy and cxAssemnly man John T. Shoener are alt willing to be nominated for Congress by tho Republicans of the Schuylkill district Congressman Belly, the Democratic nominee, promises, however, not to get out of tbe race for either of them. Thk Perry county. Pa.-, Republican conven tion will be held August XL the Prohibition convention August 14, and tbe Democratic convention August 18, to nominate county tickets and elect Congressional conferees. It is thought that Perry county will present a candidate for Congress In opposition to Rife, In, which case the cnances ot tne latter lor re nomination will be very poor. CHANGED TEE SUBJECT. A Western Bride Horrified by a Washlegtoa Clerk. Prom the Washington Post A Western bride and groom arrived In Washington early yesterday morning and went to opo ot tho flnost hotels In tho city for breakfast not intending to remain. After the meal tbe young couple came intevthe offloe, and the happy husband wont to the casblei's desk . .,in TTn annroached diffidently and said: t'l bad breakfast hero with my wire this morn ing. HOW IUUGU 1 "1 ....... RYes, sir," responded the polite clerk; "wljat room does shooccupyf None at all," answered tho groom; "I brought her hero witli me." "Obi" remarked tbe cashier, as he grasped the situation, and received tho price of tbe breakfast Tim hritin. who bad overheard tbe conversa tion, looked horrified, and. as sho rejoined her hnsnand, remarked; "He didn't mean that Wives 11V0 at HOieis wuuuuf tuoir uuauauua, did he. GeorgeT", . "I'm sure I don't know," mused George; and then be changed tbe subject Tbe riacB far the Foren Bill. From the Washington Post-Ihd. Rep, Tbe better way would be to turn the fores bill over to tho political undertaker and be done with tbe wholo business- Tho effort to keep it llive is a constant drain on the energy at the country. DEATHS OF A DAY. Mr. Mnrsarot Cbndwlck, At ( o'clock yesterday inornlne Sirs. Msrraret Chadwlck. of WiUlnsbnrf, was Tealled to Tier heavenly rest In the SOta year or& noble life. The funeral services will be held at the Reformed Church, Coal street WIlUniBnrjr, on Wednesday, at S r. M. Interment in Homewood Cemetery. C. L. Holme C, h. Holmes, of the United States Express Company, this city, died at tho Mercy hospital Teiterdav. of trnbold fever.. The bsdr was 'Shipped last nleht to tbe residence of bis parents. ilnlitxlBRton, Vaj lh deceased eras well and 'fnvni-ahllr lrnnwn fn this rltr. ANTWERP AND COLOGNE. GLIMPSES OF TWO CELEBRATED AN. CIENT CITIES OF EUROPE. Sunday In Cbnrch and Concort Hall The Famous Cathedral Wonderful Artlstlo Srpresentntlon of Scrlptnral Characters' Slshlinnd Scenes In Cologne. rwniTTEic rqn the dispatch. pEOH Chester to London, from London to Harwich, tbe train goes like the wind. The stations, by the way, are but a sudden flash and blur, because in England tbe railroad crosses no streetor wagon- way at grade. Ibero is always a bridge over or a tunnel under. Tho English engines need no bell to warn people of danger at cross roads. There is no slackening of speed. From Harwich the way lies out over the North Sea. Tou begin to realize that you are setting ont for a foreign country: You stop in tbe companionf way of bo' wn,CQ ' to bear you across to Antwerp and read this sig nificant inscription: no smoking allowed, (eauchen 1st tjntersagt met rooken xl est dkfendu de xther. There Is nobody on board bnt can read that emphatic prohibition in some one of its ex pressions. But not one of the fonr languages could well be omitted here English, German, Butch and French, all are represented among tbe passengers. And so, after a rolling night on the North Sea, you approach Antwerp. You see it long before the boat touches tho dock. The great lone spire of its cathedral towers up oVer everything else in the town. Then tbe tall red roofs cono into clear vision, rnnnlng up into queer gables like meeting pairs of stairs set up against the sky. At last you set yourf eet upon the pavement of the old streets. Jr is Sunday. Groups of men stand at tbe corners, with their hands unlveisally in their, pockets, and pipe In mouth, many with feet in wooden shoes. Little children run about with loud voices. Half the shops are open. At noon, when the morning service Is over, a band plays In the Place Verte, beside tbe cathedral, and crowds gather to listen, some walking about many sitting at little tables along the sidewalks drinking beer. It is excellent music, but not particularly of a religious nature, not at all what we are fond of calling "sacred" music All. day long the streets are full of people chatting, lauehlng, evidently enjoying themselves. In the courts and alleys hand oreans five times louder (and better) than onrs arejplaying lively jig tunes, and boys and girls are dancing to the music. In the evening bands of young men go about the streets singing. It Is a "Continental Sunday." But the churches were full. And full of men as well as women. Services were going on all the morning at the cathedral nntl! I o'clock. And It was fnll all tbe time, with people coming and going. Tho great bnildlng, holding several thousand people, showed no sign of scant at tendance. So was St Andrew's fall lnj the afternoon, and St Paul's. Everybody in Ant werp seems to go to church. And everybody who goes seems to go in a most reverent spirit There was the entlrcst devotion everywhere. And after church there was no ill-behavior. The people did not keep the day after tbe Porltan fashion, but they did seem very gen uinely to keep it "This is tbe day which the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad In it" They kept it in that spirit anyway. And all .day long, every 15 minutes, there rained down over the town of Antwerp tbe lovehst music The best thing in that old town is the carillon which chimes in tbe tower of its cathedral. Whoever has never been to Antwerp has never really heard the ringing of bells. I don't know how many bells there are, nor how much theweigh, nor who set tbem in their places, nor do I care very greatly, but I do know that they rain down music like the harmonies ot heaven. There is no tune which tho English ear catches, but tbe air is suddenly filled with chords, and notes, and trills, and raptures of sweet sounds. AH the year round, day and night and hour by hour that benedio tlon of fair and heavenly harmonies falls an the ears ot Antwerp. "THE Antwerp Cathedral is so big that It is almost like being out of doors to be under its root. Tbe celling does not shut yon in. The; great pillars aro like the trunks of tall trees of stone. And the people walk abont among them as It tbey were under the free sky. There is not a single fixed seat in tbe cathedral, only light chairs, which people take up and carry about as they please. And accordingly there Is no fixed order. Everybody doos as he wills. Here, beside tbe queer old wooden pulpit a great structure carved into shapes of trees and flowers and animals, with an angel with a trumpet flylns down upon the top of the canopy beside tbe pulpit is a great crowd ot men and women listening to a sermon. Elsewhere peo ple are walking up and down, or quietly saying their prayers by themsel ves, or kneeling at their devotions intone of the many chapels which cluster about the chancel, or hearing mass which a priest is saying at the side altar. And when the sermon is done everybody turns his chair about and either sits down In it or kneels down In it resting against the back, and out from a side aisle comes a gorgeous prooession of men with tall candles, and boys with bells and censers, and priests In garments ot red and gold, bearing tbe host to its place on tbe high altar. For a little time all people In tbe great church are Intent upon one service, but when that is done the tree, unordered, unconven tional worship begins again. Tbere is another sermon, to which be listens who wills, 500 or 600 people gathering about the preacher. There is a display of holy relics, which the people de voutly kiss. There Is a perpetual, incessant, persistent and obtrusive passing of contribu tion boxes. Tho glory ot tbe interior of tho, Antwerp Cathedral is its great picture, tbe "Descent from tbe Cross." Jt Is tbe first thing you sec as you go in the transept door. The "Elevation ot tbe Cross" hangs on one sldo of tbe chancel opening, facing tbe navo, and the ''Descent from tbe Cross".haogsonthe other side. For the first tlmo yon see a great religious picture just where it belong, on the walls ot a cburob, upliftine devotion and helping prayer. Fortu nate burghers ot Antwerp, with the muslo of the cathedral chimes ralnine down upon them every day, and these great piotures of Ruben's in their sight at loast every Sunday. i QWE of the queerest sights In Antwerp Is tho "Calvary," which Is built beside tbe walls of St Paul's church. You wander through the crooked streets, which are twisted and tangled and tied up into hard knots at every other cor ner, and so narrow and scanty of sidewalk that you go In the middle of tbe road, and you come out at last into tbe presence of the most singu lar spectacle. Long aeo the monks of St Dominic, who worshiped at St Paul's, con ceived the idea of representing tho crucifixion in life-size figures and upon tbe summit of an artificial bill beside the church. And there it is to day. You approach between rows of weep ing angels. Behind tbem on the left are figures ot tbe Old Testament prophets standing about on the green lawn, or set high aeainst the outer i wall of tbe churcn. un me rigut are mo aposues, statues largo as living men. Before you, away up in the air is the great crucifix standing out against tbe sky as it stood at Golgotha. Tbe Blessed Virgin and St John stand pn either side. A little below is Adam with his spade; from beneath the cross death in skeleton shape looks up. At the base of this black hill 'Is the holy sepulchcr. Beside it are the watch, ing soldiers. You look in and there lies the dead Christ, waiting for the moment of tbe resurrection. On one side, a little away. He appears risen to flfarv fn tbe garden. On the other side, behind stout iron gratings, are seen the faces of people amid the flames of purga tory, lifting up beseeching eyes, and llttlo cherubs telling them the good news ot Easter. Antwerp Is partly French and partly Dutch. The names of tho streets, which are posted at the comers, are in both languages; advertise ments are duplicated for tbe two"klnds of read ers; the city has a French name as well as a Dutch one, and is called "Anvers." .; psosr Antwerp to Cologne Is a seven hours' journey, but the varied interests shorten it a good deal. You are Interested In the railway coaches, which are in compartments like the English ones, and in which smoking is allowed except In a few cars on each train whlqh aro marked "Nlcht Rauchen." You are Interested in your fellow travelers, whose speech and dress are unfamiliar. You are Interested in the frequent changing of cars about every hour, as It seems. The guard comes to tbe door and shouts in brakem&n's Dutch, somo entirely incomprehensible direction. Everybody gets out, yoa follow tbe crowd, and presently you are In quite another train, going, perhaps, in quite another direction. To one who is almost entirely guiltless of any know ledge of foreign speech, tbeso changes are sufficiently bewildering to. keep even a long journey 'from getting tiresome. You are angered, however, when you get Into positions where yon need a gift of tongues to find out bow much you really know and how remark ably you can understand and mane yonrself understood. Cologne, like Antwerp, is the city of a great cathedral. It is tbe city, indeed, ot very nearly the greatest ot all cathedrals. The two twin towers, reaching up majestically into tbe sky, dominate tbe city. At last you are content Colocne Cathedral absolutely satisfies. It is vast and impressive, as you want agreat church to be. The great roof rises far above your head. The immense pillars of white stone up bold it each adorned above the floor with the life-size statue ot a saint Tbo nave and tran septs are so wide and long that yoa could hide away thb whole of Trinity Church among the columns, and one might look about for some time before discovering It Andbigbl Up yon go Jt you venture the climb up and up steps of stono piled upon steps of stone, and you come out just where tbe eaves are. People In the Cologne streets look pretty small. You seo tho roofs of the city be neath you. You go within, and there is a gal lery all about the church, around which yoa can walk and look down, as you can around the dome of St Paul's In London. And then up yon go again, higher and higher and still liizher, till it seems as If you must surely come out In tbe neighborhood of the fixed stars, and at last you are at the top, as near tbo flnlal of the spire as you can go. People fn the streets look like ants. Yon see the city and the coun try all about There betow yoa runs tbo Rhine, winding away until you lose sight ot it in the distance. You stand in tbe mldstaf a forest of slender spires, overy one of them perfectly carved Into shapes grotesque or cracefnh For Cologne Cathedral is finished. Chester and Antwerp, even Westminster Abbey, show lacks on all sides. There is need of "restoration." Tbere are windows which ought to have stained glass In tbem, ana places which Invite repairing, tbere are ladders and scaffolding dlsfignrlng the churches and diminishing their repressive ness; but Cologne Cathedral is done. The great spires are perfect tbe carved work is untouched by age or hammer, the windows' are unspeak ably glorious with glass of gorgeous hues and fair shapes and helpful teachings. Cologne Cathedral satisfies. G. H. QUEDAO IS A CLE7EB D0G-. HeU Boss of Three Other Docs, and It Is Snld That All ofTbem Tote. Conejos, Angnst 8. Andreas Archuleta lives on Los Pinos creek some 2U miles west of here. He owns 350 goats and 4 dogs, and, like many other Mexicans, he Is lazy. His dogs are of the mongrel type, but their education has made tbem very valuable, and Andreas wonld swear in mixed Castilian and En glish If anythine serions occurred to them. O.uedao. which means "Lookout" in Ameri can vernacular, is captain of tbe dogs, and Quedao is also a dog. He directs tbo other three who act as bis lieutenants. Every morn ing Andreas turns his SoO goats loose from his corral, and Quedao aiid his assistants drlvo them to pasture. Should the grass prove too short for them in one place, according to Qnedao's judgment he seeks another spot, and with bis helpers drives tbe goats thither. If Quedao halts, 350 goats and three dogs bait also, until he gives the command to movo on. While the herd is feeding, two dogs will re main to watch itwhilo the other two will go hunting for provisions for the quartet Tbelr game, be It a jaokrabbit cotton tall, or other animal, is always brought in wbole, and at npontlde the four four-legged eoat herders have their own picnic As the sun sinks in tbe west bohlnd the mountains the dogs gather tbe goats and drive tbem back to the corral, and they have done this work for Andreas day after day without losing a goat It is alleged by Mexicans in that part of the sunny San Luis Park that when election day comes Andreas gives his dogs a rest from their dnties as herders and goes with them to Guade lupe, the little plaza where he votes. If tbe contest Is exciting and the result uncertain Quedao and his three companions present themselves at tbe polling place, each with a ballot in bis mouth, and see to it that tbe little slips go into tbe ballot box. Tbey are all reg istered, and certainly they bare as mnch. If not more intelligence than many Mexicans. Colo rado is said to be a State of surprises to those who are not familiar with it, and this is no doubt true. Andreas Archuleta is a good Dem ocrat and so are his dogs. .. STsy SENATOR CAMEH0N. Hla Sadden Accession of Interest Noticed by Everybody. Washington Special to New York Herald.1 The members of the Senate have been a good deal amused the last two days by tho sudden activity of Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsyl vanla. He is one ot tbe silent rich men, wbo show themselves only occasionally on the floor, and seldom weary them selves with tbe details of legislation. Ono ot tbe leading Philadelphia papers has just begun to criticise Senator Came ron for bis neglect of tbe tariff interests of tbe State, and tbe criticism seems to have had a marked effect He was about tbe chamber all day yeterday, and was actually engaged in writing assiduously at his dek during tbe sweltering heat to-day, and afterwards was making a great effort to listen to a long speech on tbe tariff. His sudden accession of interest was noticed by everybody, and was the subject of a good many quiet pleasantries. ANOTHER S.ENGEBPEST. Scrnnlon People Preparing for Ibe Festive Occasion. fB FECIAL TXXXGHAJl TO TBB OISPATCn.l SCBAKTOK. August 3. This city Is to have another ssngerfest that will be tbe equal of tbe one of last week. The sxngerfest will be held four days, beginning on the 25th Instant and socioties will be present from Fort Jervis, Carbondale. Honesdalo, Eltnlra, Hazel ton, Philadelphia, Allentown and probably Pitt, burg. Tbe citizens of Scranton are preparing for tho festive occasion, and everything will ba done to make the visiting delegation comfort able. Queer Facts About Goldfish. Goldfish that swim in globes of water In our parlors -are very sensible to changes in tbe weatber, and an observant person may learn to rely on them to foretell tbe coming of a storm. At such times tbe fish are restless. They dart about from place to place, and never remain long in one spot as in mild, pleasant weatbor. Tbey may be taught when kept In a largo tank, to approach tlioir attendant by ringing a bell. Another ot their peculiarities is that tbey may be frozen in a lump of ice In December and be thawed out alive in April. Although goldfish are now reared and kept as pets all over tbls country, tbey were fint brought here from China only SO years ago. A MAIDEN'S PRAYER. She was only a foolish maiden. With a tender heart, and trne. With hair like tbe Kolden sunlight, And eyes of the heaven's blue; And sho loved. In her lack of wisdom, A strauEcr, she met one dav, .And straightway Into his keeping Ebe gave her heart away. But the summer faded sadly Into tbe winter gray And he, whom she loved so fondly. Passed from her life away. Then winter yielded gently? His snows to the warmth ofsprlng And high In waving treetops The robins began to slop. And there was a rhyme the maiden Bad beard some children sing To tho flrst bright star of evening, for thai star your wish would bring So she gaied on tho first bright twinkle That shone on the azure sea. And she whispered, sweet and softly, "Bring my lover back to me."' And on many a summer evening, bbe watched for the radiant star, And bervyes grew sad with longing, For hcrlover wandered far; But yet was hor faith bo simple. And from uubeller so free. That she prayed, with a hope unshaken, "Bring my lover back to me." And there came a tender evening. When she watched for tbe star agalq . And her voice was full of sadness. And ber eyes held a weary pain; But still she prayed to the star, .. That had long her wish denied, "Oh, Blvemebackmyloyerl" And he stood Just at her side. Oh, faith of a simple maiden, That could pray to a silvery star, Till it brought back her wandering lover To her heart from the world afar. Did be feel, through the miles oerween them, The power of Ber falthrat Jovef Or did her soft prayer to the star Beach the Father's throne above? ,. ., Bostonaiobt. SENATORIAL PRECEDENTS. . Unlimited bpeeebmaklna Shanld bo Car. tailed General Debate Becoming-Obso letc Sir. Wannmaker as a Literary Censor The Pare la Literature Tol stoi's Works Annljzcd. rritOU A ETAFT COBRESPOXDIKT.S TrAsnisaTOS, August a Tbere is need of first class funerals in the Senate of the United States. The first should be that of Precedent It should not bo hurled, for, like Shakespeare's tanner, it would He lone years In L tho cronnd before it would rot It should be cremated, tbat It might be disposed of finally aud forever beyond the possibility of an odor. So long as the precedent of allowing unlimited speeebmaking is In existence so long wiir speeches be made for the solo purpose of waV ing time, or merely for pamphlet.eirculation In tho State which is represented by the Senator making the speech to assist towards that Sena tor's re-election. The waste of time In Con gress by the makln? of sDoeches is a matter for public action and condemnation. It is an abase that In a country used to revolution would ex cite a revolution at once. We are long suffer ing people, and possibly a little obtuse, and we therefore endure the infliction of these "tedious old fools" when we ought to drive tbem ont of Congress with a dagger of lath. Even under tho Improved rules adopted at the instance ot Speaker Reed, and bravely enforced by him In the face of a storm of wratb based on Ignorance or misrepresentation, too much time is wasted in the making of speeches. In tbe Senate more than one-half of tbe session Is absolutely lost in this way. Most Congressmen admit that speocb-maklng should bo reformed out of existence, bat each one wants tbe reform to begin with someone else than himself. Congressional speech-making Is of no earthly use except to please the vanity of the speaker. Not a vote is changed by it Nobody is educated by it Reading people in this corner of the world are as capable of forming their opinions intelligently as Senators ot tbe United States. Give them the proposed law and they will dissect It as Infallibly as the cleverest Congressman of tbem all. Certainly they .would be less liable to torture Its meaning for personal or party purposes. A prominent member of Congress the other day said tho time Is rapidly approaching when there would be no general debate. A bill would be called up and put upon Its passage after a brief explanation from tbeperson given charge of It In committee. Amendments would be In order, but only tbe barest explanation of tbo amendment by the person offering it would be allowed, and, moreover, only legitimate amendments. Now, when speeches aro In order on amendments under tbo five-minute rule, a member can usually get In a little bun combe speech by simply moving "to strike out the last word." This Is an "amendment" and speaking to It the member may branch off to any subject under tbe sun. In tbe House these abuses have been greatly lessened under tbe new rules, but in tbe Senate tbey are dragging along at A snail's pace on tbo tariff bill, and, as Mr. Blair says, will not reach tbe end of the bill before November at the present rate of progress. This comes of the Influence of tbe old fory Republican mem bers, who humble themselves in the dust before tbe Joss of Precedent, and are willing to let Important legislation fall rathertban disturb tbe ancient custom of permitting all Senators to make fools of themselves to the top of their ent witn tneir jaws. Ana let me say ngnt here that there Is no State of the Union better served by its Senators than tbe State of Penn sylvania, snd one of tbe reasons Is that tbey waste no time making speeches to Inflict upon tbelr constituents, or to hear themselves talk. If Senatorial votes are to be Influenced it must bo done by personal and confidential contact and not by speeches delivered In the Senate for party or theatrical effect This is the way the Pennsylvania Senators work. But the Sen ate is changing in character. Senators Elected br Papnlar Yotr. Costs first class funerals have already taken place and mare are soon to come. Tba Western blQod,thebrojd and practical brain ot the prairies and mou-Kain slopes, never be fogged by the cobwebs of sentiment arfU cus tom, too frank to be guilty of tbo snivel and hypocrisy of "Senatorial dignity," is bringing a new and purer atmosphero to tbe repnlslvely b jlemn precinct of tbe Benate chamber, and tbe younger men who are taking tbe place of tbe old fossils of tho East are very much of tbe same temper. Tbey want less cant aud chin music and more and prompter results. Tho Senate Should bo abolished entirely. It is a more than nscless excrescence, a monstrosity in this age of democracy. Bat if it cannot be abolished tbe members should be made elective by tbe people. In tbat if in nothing else J am in sympathy with the Patrons of Husbandry. Bat where is Senator Mitohell's bill, introduced long ago and providing for such papular elec tion? Burled deeper than the immortal. Mc Glnty. Few or the older lot of Senators care to run the gauntlet of a (popular election. Ihey know the Legislatures, some of tbem to tbelr pecuniary cast. The people are a vague, far off, absolutely unknown quantity to them.- To turn for a moment to a more picturesque end of the Government, I have lust bad my pious soul delighted, lifted to tbe topmost heights pf supernal bliss, as It were, by the news that a Chicago postmaster has taken In band tbe morals of tbe country, and that be is ably seconded by tbe Postoffice Department. The wonder and regret is that Brother Wana maker did not take tbe initiative himself, and that long ago. After the "Kreutzer Sonata," ot Couut Leo Tolstoi, has been sow i: broadcast throughout tbe country, and jnstas the sales bave begun to fall away on account of the nov elty being worn off, the Chicago postmaster, the good Mr. Tyner and the? better Mr. Wana maker. Issue their edict that the bonk has been listed In tbe moral Index expurgatorius of tbe Postoffice Department Ot course this can only have tho eiloct to miebtlly Increase the sale of the wicked work, for It not only cannot be prevented from passing through the mails, but, if it conld, it wonld be driven into the bags of the express companies, and largely Increase tbo revenues of those corporations. It is the old story of Madam Evo and tbe Forbidden Fruit But the consciences of the Chicago postmas ter and of Messrs. Wanamaker and Tyner aro clear, and tbat is a great satisfaction to all of us. Moreover, It Is demonstrated that we are not to be left to onr own crudejndgments as to what Is cood for us to read. That is arranzed for us by a Chicago postmaster, who, with Messrs. Wanamaker and Tyner, is assured tbat be Is diVtnely delegated to decide what is good for tbe mind of tbe American public In the way of Uteratnre. This is the most tre mendously comforting thing tbat ha happened within my short career. Once in London, at one of the dellghtfol "afternoons" of a lady of literary distinction, Iliad the gpodfortnne to meet the Hon. Mr. Pigott, the Queen's censor. I met wlthawo and trembling tbat omnipo tence which decided what books and plays and operas were fit for tho British public, The Censor and the Censured. V found Pigott a jolly, beef-fed Englishman who had a refined appreciation of good din ners ana actresses, particularly the stars of tbe corps do ballet, and deplorably lax In bis ideas as to what was moral and immoral at the book seller's or on tbe stage. Oar postoffice censors aro not built that way. Pigott bolng bald himself, winked at the nude in art and litera ture with a f ery peculiar wink, A vast city of dwellings, where the mnst abandoned sort of abandon reigns supreme, lies within eye-shot and car-shot of tbe building of the Chicago postoffice. Does the Chicago postmaster bear br see? Nay, nl? nrst venture into tne aomain of the moralist Is to Inform his superior pfflcer that to his Immaculate mind, the "Kreutzer Sonata" is a book that falls under the ban of tbe law against transmitting indecent litera ture through tbe mails, I havo beard that it Is the verdict of many of the grandest and purest and ablest of tbe women and men of this country and of other countries tbat tbls book of Tolstoi's is the loftiest, truest if the most terrible, essay ever penned on this vexed subject of tbe marriage relation. Bnt this must weigh for nothing with us In the light of tbe declaration of the infall ible moral philosopher and marital sharp who has gained his morals in tbe ethereal nurity ot the Chicago school where political jobs never intrude and boodlo councilmen aro as if they were creatures of another world. As to Mr; Wanamaker, however. I am more uncertain. 1 have beard an agonizing report tbat In tbe classic library of which ho is tho proud posses sor, and with which he holds frequent and de lighted intercbure, there are books which tbe Chicago Postmaster might not approve Mr. Wnnnmnker's Library. T All told that Mr. Wanamaker's listotthe classics includes gloriously bound copies of the "Decameron" of Bocaccio; lha works of Rabelais; a complete edition of Balsae, Field ing's masterpiece, "Tom Jones;" Uyron's "Don Juan," a bound copy of the original prints of Hogarth's "Rake's Progress," with uuexpur gated copies of Bhakeipeare and the Hebrew Scriptures nestling beside Baxter's "Saints' Resettle ''Lives of the Martyrs," and Watts' "Hymns and Sacred Songs." If this be truo It is tbe duty of the Chicago postmaster to in quire into the matter and discover if any of these works, excepting tbe last three, bave been carrieu fn the malls at tbe instance of Mr. Wanamaker. and if so take steps toward prose cution. A friend of mine has jnstbeen telling me ot nn Incident tbat happened In his board ing bouse recently. A circle of half a dozen very clever ladtes, vory Intimate with each other, each appeared fur several dajs to be avoiding each other. They would dodge about and sneak into tttelr rooms and stay alone for hours, and tbe mystery grow so great that each began to spy upon tbe other. By soma acci dent it finally leaked out that eaohwaspos- 'was trvlnfr to road it aecretlv. I dudbsu ua em suju us. sua au iuibbi uuiiskusi msiu . 0DC MAIL P0UC0. s An Object Lesson. To the Editor of Tbe Dlipatcni In The Dispatch of Friday is an atconnt of the disposal of tbe estate of Millionaire Blythe, from which It appears that ho was a foreigner who, coming to San Francisco a an early day, and engaging in the laudable occu pation ot hnckstor and peddler, by which be gathered a few dollars together, was forced to purchase at a mortgage sale a piece of land. So little, however, did he value bis purchase tbat be endeavored, unsuccessfully, to get It Off his hands. But this piece of land which be did not even have tba foresight to hold, wss made so valuable by tbe people ot San Francisco settling round it, that without tbe expenditure ot a day's labor or an hour's thought on his part, it became tbe foundation or a fortune, which after furnishing, him the enjoymont ot a f air .sharo of the good things of ibis life, was estimated worth millions at his death. Now mark that he did not even indicate the person to whom ha wished this wealth to go, but the courts, organized for tbat purpose, ny and at the expense of tbe good people of San Francisco, adjudged this property, made valu able by the people of San Francisco to the illegitimate daughter of Blvthp. Tbat tbe people of San Francisco made the greater part of this 14,00-1,000, and tbat it be longs to tbem, there can scarcely be a doubt Yet tbat which would have given tbem libraries finer than Carnagle's and filled them with books as well. Is taken from them before their eyes, and given to an alien, who did even less in producing tbe wealth than Blythe himself. Whatever argument there may be for pro tecting people wbo bavo pnt their honest, hard earned dollars into land certainly does not apply to such Cases as this, and it is bard to see wbo would have been wronged it in this and similar cases tbe people should repossess themselves of their own. MENDICA REX. Pittsboro, August 2. The Edict Applies to Russian Poland. To the Editor of Tbe Dispatch: I notice in yonr papers of July 31 and August 1 that the Hebrews have to leave Russia. Now some parts of Poland belong to Russia. Will tbey have to leave Poland which belongs to Russia also? Please answer in Monday's paper ana yoa will favor a good many of your readers. , Old Reader. PETROLtA, AogUSt Z POLITICS IN PENHSYLVAHIA. Farmers Blneb Worked Up Over the 5ltnn llon In This Stale. From the New York Star. J John E. Edwards, of Wllkesbarre, Pa., trav ellng agent for an agricultural implement man ufactory, whose business keeps him among tbe farmers from February to November, says that never in bis experience has he seen the farmers of Pennsylvania so mnch worked np over po litical matters as tbey are this fall. "I bave traveled among tba farmers of the State for a good many years, and talked poli tics In bait tbe counties of the State, but never before, not even in Presldental years, have I seen as much interest taken in a campaign as In the Delamater-Pattison fight The average Republican majority In Pennsylvania is put at about sO.OOO. Really It Is much less. This year the Republicans may feel well satisfied if they elect their man. I don't base my calculations on tbe disaffection ot such men as Benator Emery, Wharton Barker, Chris Magee and Con gressman Dalzell, nor yet upon the opposition to Delamateruftheanti-Standard Oil producers and tba miners, though both will be important factors of tbe figbtagainstbim, but upon the quiet cbanges in political feeling going on among tbe farmers. Tbey don't like Dela mater, apd they, more than any other class of people, are inclined to throw off the Quay yoke. "Tho business is bad, very bad for Eastern farmers not living close to big'clties, where they can turn their attention to market gar dening. Eastern agriculturists cannot com pete with the Western men in raising either cattle or grain, and mortgages are Increasing much faster than bank accounts in two-thirds of tbe farming counties of the State, and in stead of brightening the aspect of affairs has been growing darker for several years, and these things ar making tba farmers do a lot of thinking. From my experience, I look for tbe biggest falling off from tbe normal Repub lican vote right In tbe farming cennties, and more than that, I look for Pattison's election," IMPOSING EELIQIOUS SERVICES. The Comer Htone of tr. Mary's German Charcb Laid at Johnstown. ISrECTAt. TXLinKAM TO THX DISrATOW.t Johnstown, August 3. The most Imposing religious service that has ever taken place here occurred to-day, Tbe corner stono of tbe St Mary's German Catholic Church was laid this evening at 6 o'clock. The "Pittsburg, Altoona and other delegations from near towns arrived here late in the afternoon principally, and at 4:30 the line of march was formed and went over tbe following route: Station, to Iron, to Broad, to Second, to Cbestnnt, to Tenth, to Broad, to Fifth, to Railroad, to Third, to Broad and to tbe chureb. There was quite a number of clerical gentle men present, among tbem the following: Rev. J. B. Dnffner, Soutbslde, Pittsburg, a relative of Father Trautweln, pastor of St. Mary's, wbo laid tho corner stone and delivered tbe sermon: also Fathers Kanffman and Goebel, both of Pittsburg; Very Rev. E. A- Bash, of Altoons; Father Agatho, of St Vincent's, and many other well known ministers of tbat faith. There was a great deal of decorating all along tba line, and this added to the success anil beauty of the parade. Several handsome arches had been also erected, chief among tbem nemg a magnificent double arch at Fitth and .Broad, and one at Third and Broad. ALABAMA WILL VOTE TO-DAY. Little Opposition Co the Regular DrmOcratlc Ticket aianllcalod. ' Montqomery, Ala.. -August a-The State election in Alabama will take place to-morrow. Tbere Is but very little opposition to the regu lar Democratic ticket and tbe Indications point to an increased Democratic majority. The Legislature to ba nhoscn to-morrow will elect a successor to United States Senator Pngb, and thera will be a lively scramble. Governor Thomas fleay and ex-Governor Tbomas H. Watts are candidates, and Senator Pugb wlU stand for re election. PenMblo TnlU. From tbe St. Louis Republic This is business. There is nothing hysterical about it In the present situation there is nothing whatever tbat calls for hysterics. The South has no need for pssms over the force bill orany other bill tbe radicals can pass. .Ho mattor what a radical Congress docs the South can hold its own if -it keopj its temper. The ndsht of Patriotism. -From the Boston Post. An Ameiican actress has been singing "The Star Spangled Banner" from tbe top of tbe Eiffel tower. STATE ODDITIES. A frightened dogat Norrlstown ran head long aown a sower. With three bullets in bis body and one in bis head a Columbia dog still lives. RATS In a York stable grew so bold that they nearly gnawed the hoofs off a horse. Air Allentown school teacher is being in vestigated tor calling a child "Pennsylvania Dutch." A Jefferson county man has lost his sight tbe result of overindulgence In tcewater wnllo overheated, Charles Sterner has thus far picked 20,. 000 quarts of huckleberries from bis 900 acres of land in Monroe county. Mrs, Sarah Walters, 103 years old, of Easton, Is vUitlng an S0-yer-old daughter, Mrs. Theodora Lawall, In Bethlehem, A West Chester man named his four kit tens Pattlsou. Wallace, Delatnater and Hast ings, and "Paulson" alone survives. A' practical joker1 at York spoiled the pleasnre of a Sunday school picnic by sending word that the town was burning down. A CHXXKT fellow wanted a Pennsylvania Railroad conductor to hold tbe train ten minutes at Burgettstown while ha got married. BY the falling of an electric light on the root of a street car at Reading on Friday night several of the passengers received a slight shock. A Maryland farmer wrote to ode of tba managers of the Farmers' Exhibition at Mount Gretna to Inquire if there was good salt water bathing there. Some boys at Cook's Run, near Doflestawn, found the skull of a man hanging on a tree Tbe body, which was near by, bad bean nearly devoured by dogs. Henry Fstberqer. a young man of Salis bury township, while shooting snakes on Fn day, accidentally sbot bis 8-ycsr-old sitter, kill lug her instantjy. A tree on the farm of Colonil Da Pont, about six miles south of Kennett was struck by lightning Saturday, and Martin Turner, who had ttkw shelter Mder it,, was fctteatiy vtllled. sw CUKI0US COHDEKSATiOSS. W.-L. Osborne.'of Phoenix, Ariz., has collected 10 tons ot honey this season from 171 bives. -A Los Angeles pickle factory bought SO tons ot cuenmbers at Anaheim recently for ono cent a pound. The electric battery has superseded the hose and cold water treatment for taming re factory prisoners In tbo Ohio penitentiary. It is reported to be very efficacious. A negro who was caught robbing the till of a merchant at Ajredendo, FU., was given fiO lashes by tbe colored people rosldmg in the neighborhood and then set at liberty. David Marshall, of Lapeer, who has been a Democrat for 4 years, has filed a re quest that his old collection ot Democratic tickets be placed In his coffin and buried with blm. Judge James M. Shackelford, of Indi ana; whom tba President appointed to the Bench in Oklahoma Territory, took his son along as Clerk or tbe Conn. Tbls son has since taken a Cherokee to wife. A triplet steer team is one of the curi osities to be seen at Old Orchard. The steers arn hitched to a vehicle resembling those used In the chariot races in clrcnscs, and 10 cents pays for a short ride in this novel turnout Vegetable or fruit sandwiches are recommended as new delicacies for picnics. The newest dainty sandwich is made of nastur tium leaf, sprinkled with a little salt and set ' between two roahd slices of biscuit and butter. In Cowlitz county, Wash., whieh has bean settled for 40 years and has 7,000 inhab itants, is a section covering several townships that has never been trodden by the foot of a white man. It is a dense, unpenetrated wilder ness. A report of the existence of a very peculiar eat family emanates from and Atlanta (Ga.) barroom, which claims to be the possessor of a Maltese cat and kitten, which are bringing up with tbe utmost care and attention a couple of Infant mice. A Sumner (Kan.) county man went into the country to collect a note which ha held on a former. The farmer was not at home but bis wife was. and sba hopped onto tha bolder of the note and took it from blm and gave him a good drubbing into tbe bargain. A coffin inscribed with the date 1793 was recently opened in tbe graveyard of St Junes' church, Clerkenwell, and to tba surprise of tbe workmen there was little about tbe corpse to show it had been buried a hundred years, and not a few days. Tba flesh seems to have turned into a kind of wax. Tbe body was tbat of a finely-formed woman of 35. Tbe features were perfectly distinguishable, the teeth were in place, and the lines of tbe body were firm and clear. Moses Turk, of Gainesville, Ga., cut a poplar tree tbat measured 4 feet in diameter at tbe stump and 3 feet In diameter 60 feet from the butt It made six stocks, 15 feet long; clear of knots and windsbakes. Every cut had to be spilt before it conld ba hauled ex cept tbe lap cut It made 3,670 feet of square lumber, for wblch a firm paid 1 per 100; Counting two years for every circle In the stump the tree was b64 years old. It took two yoke of oxen to tarn over one-hiK of the butt cut and three yoke to pull one-third of It out A rather unusual marriage ceremony was performed In Sbaplelgh, Me., tba other day, according to the Sprlngvalo Advocate. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Sbackley were married 13 Tfun afrn nnrl innn attmr thtt wArtrtint- lh rclcrgyman wbo nnlted tbem died. Recently Mrs. Sliackley, not having any marriage certl- iic-ue. necame uneasy, instituted inquiries ana fonnd that no legal record existed. So sba de termined to hare tbe ceremony performed anew and Droperly recorded, and this was done. Tbe wedding was in tbe presence of invited guests and not even tbe cake was omitted. An invention by which writing can be transferred from paper to iron is tha work ot a Boston man, who has invented a bard ink with which be writes (backward) upon ordi nary paper. That paper is placed In a mold, melted iron Is poured In. and wfcen tba hardened Iron is removed itis found that; while the heat burned awav the paper, it did not affect the ink, but left tbe Impression of the writing molded into the iron. This discovery was mads by noticing one day that tbo printing on an ordinary nandDin mat ay accident naa lauen into the mold was faintly transferred in this way. It isj reported from Maine tbat, buried among the clam shells at Cundy's Harbor, tbe Pejepscot Historical Society recently found "some rare and snggestlre reminders of prehts. toric times. Bones of tba deer, porpoisa.beavsr, fox, woodebnee and soma smaller carnivorous animals, birdsdot several kinds; including a well-nreierved specimen ot the wing bona of tba great auk, now wholly extinct, were picked up. Fragmeutsaf pottery were numerous, as well as chips of stone broken off In the manu facture of stono Implements. Of Implements, halt a dozen perfect and soma broken ones were discovered. Only one piece of worked bone occured, a broken awl." A strange case of hypnotism is reported from Loudon, Ont. A woman ot 40 years, who has lost her reason, has nnconsciously acted upon a young lady of 20. The two lire upon opposite sides of the same street, and two months ago, when tba older woman was taken sick, tbe young woman waited upon ber until at last sbe could not stay ar-ay. and was con stantly running acres the road to the house. Ona nlgbt this week, unknown to the people ot the honse, she stiyed all nigbt, and wben an attempt was made to aroua ber in tha morn ing It was found Impossible, A doctor was called, and at tho end of 24 honrs ho succeeded In waking bar. The joung woman has good health and Is very Intelligent An East Searsmont, Me., lad is the possessor of three small chickens, which he has been keeping in a barrel. The other day he missed ono and bunted everwbere without finding it. Tbenetday another disappeared In the same unaccountable manner. The boy then resolved to watch, and was soon rewarded byseelng tho old house cat steal slyly into tbe barrel, grasp tbe remaining chicken carefully by tbe neck and march off with it. Following her up stairs into tbe garrett what was bis surprise to find the other two chickens safely cuddled is a nest of old clothes with two kit trns, as happy as could be. The cat caret nlly placed tha last chicken In the nest and got In as calmly as If the whole family belonged to ber. The chickens were uninjured and con tented in their new quarters, says the Belfast Age; but we suspect tbat puss was laying In a supply of provisions for the future. SOMETHING TO L til Oil AT. McCall "What's the matter, old mao? Have you got the blues? beainan Jio, not now. I had S3 worth last night, but 1 got rid of them mighty quick. XonUrs Statesman. Selby What is Mr. Ponsonby's pro'es slon do you know? Miss Popinjay Oh. I've heard papa say that he was a pejslmIst-.BurMnrfca Free Press. A seaside paper makes tbe startling an nouncement that "tansboesare verymuehworn tbls summer. Hundreds of the cottagers wear nothing else." A pair of tan shoes certainly males a very cool costume. Xonkert Statesman. "I understand you are engaged to Miss Long?" Yes; my first engagement" Your first?" "Yes; I never smelled powder before. "-Bing-lumton Leader. Mr. Yamacraw Miss Prisellla, you aro v first rata mirror. Miss Prisellla Pulaski (Wnshlngly)-La! Mr. Yamacraw, why? Because I am so truthful?! Mr. Yamaeraw-o; because you are such a good looking lass. Miss Pricilla-0. Mr. Yamacraw! and am I then to regard yoa as an ad-mlrror. Savanna News. Servant girl bearing the footsteps of her mistress, (to her sweetheart) Auguste. quick, get hold of tbe children, Ibeartbe mlsslsl Enter Mistress Why, Anna, what do I see? Servant Ah. madame, the children aredotlngly fond of 'soldiers, so I bays brought them one to play with. L Ravrxl. Wagg "Hello, "Wallace, you're quite a stranger. Been awy on a long trip West I understand?" Waliace-"Yes, my boy, I've bad aulte a journey, I've been out to Seattle." Wegg-"Yondon'taysa And wasAMIegUd to see you, old mvnV-bomtrvUl Journal. Inexperienced "Widow (writing an adver tisement tor boarders)-"How will this do at tha end, Miranda? 'All the comforts of home.'" Experienced Daughter "That's good, mother, but you can make It stronger yet Put It 'All tha comforts of the club, and In a week there won't be a room, left vacant In the house." SmtrvUU fnrnaU A CONFESSION. "I swayed in a hammock; one day, As tbe bees o'er their honey pots bumbled. I baan't a notion the rope would give way, And lay me right oat on the broad pl-asay Before ber I hoped to make my fiances. But I tumbled," "What then?" "She laughed so wild and sba laughed so free," -X made up my mlad that she didn't love ma, 1 So I gave her up."-.vo ror flsrafct
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