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THE LOTTERY'S LIEN.
The talk in "Washington is that the Presi
dent' message and the bill introduced in
the Honse relative to the exclusion o! lot
tery literature trom the mails will come to
naught The effort to check the abomina
ble Louisiana State Lottery commands very
little sympathy in Congress. No Senator
or Representative has now the hardihood to
champion the lottery's cause openly, but
The Dispatch's correspondent in "Wash
ington reports that the opposition to the bill
recommended by the President and Post
master General "Wanamaker is none the less
formidable on that account The reason
given for the unwillingness of Con
gress to take up anti-lottery leg
islation is that Congressional elections
are at hand," and statesmen who wUh to re
turn to "Washington with the Fifty-second
Congress are afraid of the adverse influence
of the lottery's agents in their districts if
they dare to pass a law which will injure
the lottery's scheme or plunder. Some per
tinent paragraphs of history confirm this
view of the situation.
This is disgraceful enough in all con
science. But it is on a par with a great
deal that the Fifty-first Congress has done.
By commission and omission the Congress
now sitting has many sins to answer for.
But after the urgent recommendation ot the
President, which had the plain indorsement
ol the best element in both parties, the fail
ure of Congress to touch the anti-lottery
law will have to be accounted for to the peo
ple. The voters may exact a greater penalty
from their unfaithful servants than that
which the lottery agents now threaten to re
quire it they are not obeyed.
WT.L7L.lIiG TO RENOUNCE IT.
The renunciation of her chance of suc
cession to the Austrian throne by the Arch
duchess Maria Valerie, in order that she
might marry the man ot her choice, is held
up as an example of the opposite sort to
that of American heiresses who are some
what urgently buying foreign titles and
generally getting cheated in toe deal. It
is true that her course will look rather novel
to the title-hunters; but it must be remem
bered that this especial renunciation was
that of a succession in which she had
slight chances, while her position and title
will not be any the worse for marrying her
Archduke.
Nevertheless there is a certain significance
in the fact that the members of the imperial
family of Austria are generally willing to
renounce their chances of succession. The
Archduke John abjured his chance of suc
ceeding nominally that he might go into the
merchant navy, bnt really, it is gossiped,
for more tender reasons. The Crown Prince
renounced his chance with a revolver on ac
count of an illicit love affair, while Talerie
does the same thing in more regular form
for the sake of a more legitimate love. The
Hapsburgs of old were not accustomed to
throw away thrones for the sake of
love. Is the present generation of
that imperial family more romantic. Or
have they become advised of the fact that
with the empire divided into two Incongruous
Governments and with Bussia growling on
one side, and Germany dominating the
Teutonic policy on the other, the Austrian
Crown will In the next generation be a very
uncomfortable sort of headgear?
There does not seem to be any keen desire
on the part of the younger Hapsburgs to
mount the throne. Perhaps if things go on
as they have been doing, some bonanza king
or railway dictator can gain the summit of
his ambition by buying an Austrian im
perial title.
CONCENTRATION IN CITIES.
A very remarkable indication of the con
centration of population in cities is
furnished by the statement that at the be
ginning of the century there were 25 per
sons living in the country to one in the
cities and towns. Now it isasserted that the
ratio shown by the census of this year will
he that of one person in the cities and towns
to three in the country.
This remaikable change is to a certain ex
tent accounted for on the ground that the
introduction ot the railway and the inven
tion of labor-saving machinery have re
sulted in concentrating the manufacturing
industry in towns and cities, and that im
proved agricultural methods make it possi
ble for a much smaller number to produce
agricultural supplies than formerly. Bat
this does not by any means tell the whole
story. It is a legitimate result of some of
the corporate methods, by which better ad
vantages are given to concerns located in
the large cities, to concentrate their manu
facturing industries which might under
normal conditions have been carried on
more successfully in conntry districts. In
addition to that, this statement has a serious
significance in connection with the deser
tion of farms in the Eastern States.
To properly estimate the serious aspect of
this concentration of population in the
cities, it is necessary to remember that the
condition of the large mass of population in
either city or conntry, is that of the common
laborer. It takes very little consideration
to perceive that the condition of the common
laborer in the country is far preferable to
that of the same class in the cities. The
same wages which will barely yield him an
unhealthy tenement honse garret and se
Wtt
cure for his children the physical and
moral deterioration of the streets and alleys
of the city, would in the country give him
a cottage with a garden of his own, cheap
milk and vegetables, pure air, untaxed
water, and ensure his children health and
intelligence in conntry life and common
schools. Everything in the country is in
favor of the development of sturdlneis and
intelligence among labor; everything in the
cities enhances the difficulties of the im
provement which is the common right of all
laborers.
Yet this nation is permitting this transfer
of its bone and sinew from the farms to the
a lleys and tenements of the cities, to go on
without check or even criticism. No one
could interpose any obstacle to the natural
and legitimate growth of cities. But the in
fluences which exaggerate the concentration
of population within the cities, that could
earn a better and more successful living in
the country, should be Jealously watched
and pnt under the closest restraint.
CLABKSOVS PHILOSOPHY.
Mr. Clarkson, after having energetically
established his claim to be considered the
champion executioner of American politics,
has come out in a new role. His present
function is that of exalting the disinterest
edness and self-denying character of the
practical politician. Some of the argu
ments by which he maintains his thesis
are so unique in character that they really
call for especial notice.
Thus Mr. Clarkson starts out with the
assertion that "where one dollar is made in
politics, a hundred dollars is either lost or
not made where it might be." The reduc
tion to actual figures of this statement will
produce some astonishing results. The ap
propriations of the current year apart from
fixed charges on the publio debt are about
four hundred millions. All this money is
either disbursed as salaries or pensions or
paid to Government contractors. Accord
ing to Mr. Clarkson's statement the recipi
ents of this money suffer a loss of one
hundred times as much, either in actual
loss or in money that might have been made
elsewhere. But a hundred times four
hundred millions gives the neat total of
forty thousand millions. It would be in
teresting to learn how that forty thousand
millions was lost as Mr. Clarkson alleges.
"When we add to the money spent by the
general Government, the expenditures of
State, county and municipal governments,
it will be seen that Mr. Clarkson alleges a
loss to the country through the absorption
of its politicians somewhat greater than the
entire national wealth. This proves al
together too much. If such a loss results
from the political system of the day, it
ought to be abolished at once, as the short
est road to unexampled national wealth.
The further elucidation of this subject
by Mr. Clarkson is by a reference to the
great public men who have died poor, and
"the fact that the departments, and that the
Federal offices all through the country, and
many of the State and domestic, offices, are
filled with the descendants of public men
who have died poor." But if, as Mr.
Clarkson alleges, wealth and prosperity are
to be obtained outside of politics, why do
the descendants of such public men seek
the poverty of Government positions instead
of choosing the prosperity of private life?
There it no law compelling any man to take
publio offices; yet not only the poor de
scendants of public men, but the practical
politicians themselves make the most frantio
efforts to get public appointments, upon the
slightest possible provocation.
In this point, as in the other, Mr. Clark
son proves more than he intends to. If it is
true that "the Government is a poor pay
master and an undesirable employer," as
one of Mr. Clarkson's indorsers puts it, it
takes the foundation entirely out of the ar
gument of which the Clarkson school are
earnest supporters, that Government posi
tion must be used to reward party workers.
The reward according to Clarkson is that of
poverty and poor payment; and the legiti
mate conclusion of his argument is that
party workers will be best rewarded by ex
cluding thorn from public office and re
manding them to the wealth and prosperity
of private life.
As to great public men who have died
poor their poverty is an honor to them. But
considering the fact that they were paid
liberal salaries during their careers, it
might be reasonable to inquire whether
there is not some connection between their
poverty and the political system which ap
propriates the greater part of their sala
ries for campaign contributions. More
over, it is a cogent fact that Senators and
Cabinet Ministers who die poor are rapidly
going out of fashion.
HOAR'S SP4.RTAN DETERMINATION.
The Hon. George P. Hoar has attracted
considerable attention to himself, or has had
it attracted for him, on account of the re
ported ardor with which he is willing to
sacrifice the mill operatives of his own State,
in pursuit of the grand purpose of passing
the Federal election law. The utterances at
tributed to Senator Hoar in the Senatorial
Bepublican caucus take the following lofty
and Spartan strain:
While I favor passing the tariff till, sooner
than that this Congress should not pass
the Federal elections bill, I would prefer to see
every manufacturing establishment In .Massa
chusetts burned to ashes and the people of
that State reqnlred to labor In callings In
which they would not make more than 0 cents
per day and be reduced to live on codfish.
TheBoman sternness with which Senator
Hoar would be willing to see the people of
his State reduced to fifty cents a day and
codfish has had no rival since the days when
Artemns Ward declared that the war must
go on, even if all his wife's relations had to
be placed in the fore front of battle. Still,
the severity of his determinatiou may ap
pear somewhat mitigated when we reflect
that lor some of the Senator's constituents
codfish may not be very much o! a punish
ment. The investigation of the Senate
Committee on Labor a few years ago brought
out the fact that the trouble of the mill
operatives at Lynn and some other places
was not living on codfish, but the difficulty
of getting codfish to live on, some of them
having been reduced to the unsatisfactory
variety of fish that is thrown into the garb
age heaps because it is spoiled.
To a people of this class the condemnation
to a diet of codfish might not be an alto
gether irretrievable calamity. People who
live on terrapin, truffles and tenderloin
steaks might find it a more severe regimen.
Senator Hoar's declaration would have had
a greater significance if he had declared
that he himself would live on codfish, rather
than that the Federal election law should
not pass.
The New York Jresi remarks that Mr
Plumb is a very sturdy and courageous Bepub
lican, but that he will not vote with the Demo
cats on the tariff bill. Perhaps not, bnt after
Mr. Plumb's speech, will It not look a good
deal as if the Press' Idea of sturdlness and
courage consisted in being unable to vote ac
cording to youravowed convictions?"
The Boston publisher who intimates that
the order excluding the "Kreuuer Sonata"
frorh the mails was an act of revenge be
cause John Wauamakeri store did not, get a
special discount on the boot only suooeedsln
conviction himself of stupidity. He first re
cites the application of the Philadelphia firm
for a special discount, and closes by saying that
the order has Immensely Increased the sales of
the book. With the knowledge that Mr. Wan
amaker has of advertising, therefore to sup
pose that he Inspired the order: Is to attribute
a desire to him to benefit the publisher. The
order was a foolish one; but according to the
Boston publisher's own statement he should be
grateful for It.
The proposed Southern boycott might
have shut off oar Southern watermelon supply.
Considering that point the Southerners con
cluded that they could not deprive themselves
of the generous pleasure of shipping us that
concrete juiciness. Bo they let the boycott go.
"WlcoiKS has developed a theory that
tornadoes coma from the efforts of electricity
in the clouds to release Itself. Consequently,
he thinks a town thickly woven with overhead
electrio wires Is In no immediate danger of de
struction by cyolones. The terrors nt the elec
trio wires are such In Wiggins' estimation that
even the cyclone will shrink from contact with
them. Wiggins is beginning to show a compre
hension o( the facts ot modern life that
amounts to genius.
Mb. Howells' weak point in attacking
the critics Is in accusing them of stupid savag
ery. The fact Is that modern criticism of the
day is generally useless, because it is almost
entirely made up of Indiscriminate puffing.
It is not likely to exert any especial in
fluence on Russian policy to have a protest
made from this country against the persecu
tion of the Russian Hebrews. A government
that can deliberately revert to the polio of tho
Middle Ages will not be much affected by any
thing that a country ten thousand miles away
may say about it, Nevertheless, our own na
tional sense of self-respect should call forth an
expression against the policy of barbarism.
Secretary Tracy's idea of protecting
onr navy from the ruinous effeots of salt water
could only be Improved upon by the policy out
lined in the nursery rhyme about going out to
swim but not going near the water.
Pittsburg having theaters enough opeu
and in sight to snit everybody, Allegheny Is to
be favored with a new house of entertainment.
The city across the river has no theater at
present, and a suDerstltion against founding
one has existed for a long while. There is no
good reason why a theater such as that pro
jected should not be profitable and convenient.
But this community's demand for new theaters
may not be considered supplied.
Mr. Eeed improves on Fletcher of Sol
taun's seatiment, by not caring who casts the
votes for the lawmakers of the nation so that
he counts tho votes and has the appointment
of laborers In the Kittery Navy Yard.
The Hon. H. Clay Evans, Congressman
from Tennessee, has been telling the good peo
ple of his district in an off hand way tnat the
Federal election bill is almost the same as the
Pennsylvania law governing; elections, and
therefore perfectly unobjectionable. Mr,
Evans must possess an unique edition of onr
State laws, or else he is very like a person who
does not tell the truth.
If the mercury will continue to descend
gracefully the awfnl temperature of tho last
week may be forgiven. Rain is badly needed,
and the conditions seem favorablo to its arrival
to-day or to-morrow.
Congressman Eogebs, of Arkansas.
presented his compliments in most picturesque
language to Speaker Reed. The latter was
absent from the chair, and the freedom and
fullness of the Fort Smith statesman's denun
ciation may be attributed to that fact. But it
is significant that such a tirade was given a
hearing by a House which Speaker Reed's po
litical X nends control.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Mrs. Sarah H. Swann, a sister ot the late
ex-Senator Rlddleberger, died at Edinburg,
Va., last week.
Miss Margaret Mather, the actress, ar
rived in Mew York Friday evening by the
steamship Allen.
Rev. James Little, late of the Presbytery
of Toronto, Canada, will to-day be Installed as
pastor of Westminster Chureh, Richmond, Va.
Judge Veazey, or Vermont, will deliver an
address on General Grant at the meeting of the
Chautauqua Society of Maine at Fryeburg on
Friday next.
Lieutenant Wn.xiA.ir Cross, U. S. ., Is
the guest of bis brother, Dr. Cross, at Indian
apolls. He will leave the lit of September for
a three years' cruise.
Henry Harrison Fay, the newly ap
pointed postmaster at Newport, R. L, lsa
Drother of Prof. W. W. Fay, of the United
States Naval Academy. ,
W. C. Rinearson, of Philadelphia, who suc
ceeds L. P. Farmer as general passenger agent
of the Erie road, was 12 years in the passenger
department of the Pennsylvania before his
connection with the Erie.
Colonel Tom Russell Marshall, who
has Just been elected commandant of the Vir
ginia Military Institute, is S3 years old, and
graduated from that institute In 1880 He Is
Colonel of the First Virginia Cavalry.
Dr. Cyrus Edson, of the New York Health
Department, has issued a circular stating that
Manuel Garrutia, who is suffering Irom lep
rosy, had never been a student at the Pennsyl
vania Military Academy, at Chester, Pa.
Mr. J. M. Stubbs, a member of the House
of Delegates trom Gloucester county, Va, an
nounces himself as a Republican candidate for
Congress In the First Virginia district. Too
convention meets at Fredericksburg Angust 28.
Mrs. Gerrxt Smith, the wife of the young
descendant of the famous Abolitionist, gave a
matinee at the Stelnway Hall, in London, on
July 17. Her singing was warmly praised by
the London critics, as also was the playing of
her husband, who was the accompanist.
As a result of the quarrel between the Ger
man Raiser and Prince Bismarck, it is said,
there will presently be published that portion
of the Emperor Frederick's diary which gives
a most minute record of the late Kmperor's
proceedings and opinions, from the time of his
marriage until his departure from San Remo
on his accession to the throne.
EEKAT0B DELAMATEB DIKED,
Pittsburg's Leading Colored Club Docs the
Honor ot the Occasion.
Senator Delamater was given a reception
last evening by the Union League Club (col
ored) at Its rooms, corner Diamond and Grant
streets. The club rooms were tastefully
decorated with plants and flowers. On the
wall bung a floral design bearing the inscrip
tion: "Welcome to Oar Next Governor."
The guests were received by President
Lemuel Googlns and William Powell, Chair
man of the Reception Committee. A number
of well-known gentlemen were present in addi
tion to the Senator and Mayor Gourley. The
committee ot the club in charge consisted of
William Powell, William Austin, James Peck,.
Charles Boyd, Eugene McGuire. William K.
Darts, Henry Reasoner, William Chilton, J. W.
Walker, James BtricMlne and Randolph Allen.
After the reception the members of the club,
with their guests, adjourned to the dining hall,
where a banquet was served, and the festivities
continued for some time.
ALEXAKDEB CAMPBELL'S GHTTBCH
To be Removed to Indiana nod Preserved
as a Memorial.
Welxsburo, W. Va., August . Author
ities at Bethany annonnce that the old church
In which Alexander Campbell, founder of the
Christian Church, first preached, and which
has stood near Bethany College for years, will
be torn down and removed to Brooklyn, Ind.
It will be preserved there as a permauent me
morial of the Christian or Campbellite Church.
Bnt the Horse Has Been Stolen
From the New York World,
The resolution introduced In the Senate
looking to the removal of the remains of Gen
eral Grant to the National Cemetery at Wash
ington onght to bring the Committee on the
monument to a realizing sense of the fact that
a de"Iay which has been disgraceful may become
dangerous l permitted to continue longer,!
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
A Full Moon and a Clear Sky Not WbntThey
nre Cracked Up to Jba When Dogs and
Roosters nre Numerous and Noisy.
A CLEAR moon-lit night is delightful of
course. In summer there Is nothing more
pleasant than the coolnass that comes or
ought to come with the early hours ot the
morning. When slips of silver cloud cross the
moon, and fllug fantastic shadows upon the
earth, It is the time par excellence for the cul
tivation of the romantic. One of Wordsworth's
noblest phrases describes these delicious mo
ments: "The moon doth with delight
' Look round her when the heavens are
bare
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair,"
he sings. But the poets seem to have forgot
ten in their moon-light musings and their mid
summer night's dreams, that when the moon
Is full and the sky clear, a night in August has
its drawbaoks.
pHBRK are onr friends, the dogs not our
dogs, but our neighbors' dogs. Nobody Is
ever disturbed oy his own dog. A fence be
tween you and the dog makes a pile of differ
ence. When the moon shines bright the watch
ful dog next door seel a burglar in every wav
ing tree shadow, and he deems It his duty to
share his fears with everybody in hearing. It
is remarkable what energy a cross between a
Dalmatian coach dog and a fox bound, or any
other valuable brute of like varied lineage re
serves tor barking solos in the night season.
It you observe the sweet creature by day, how
ever, you will observe that he sleeps a great
deal in cool corners and spends all his waking
moments In eating and drinking. Like the
illustrious Patti the dose next door Saves him
self all day for the effort at night. The dog
that has any ambition to shine as a professional
vocalist at night knows full well that he cannot
afford to scratch a flea off his ear while the
sun Is high. Therefore he lies around in the
shade, and the ugliest tramp In Christendom
or the most obnoxious cur in the vicinity will
not extract from him a two-cent bark.
But when night wraps her sable mantle
around the village, and fastens it with a
myriad starry buttons and buckles It with the
great silver moon, then Zip or Towser or Jack,
or whatever that particular man's best friend's
name is, plants his feet firmly on his native sod
opens bis jaws and lets out the Dent-up muslo
of his soul. The moon may delight to look
'round her when tho heavens are bare, and
waters on a starry night are beautiful and fair,
and yet I know where'er I go, as Wordsworth
well remarks, that there hath passed away a
glory from this earth as Boon as the dog next
door lets the night wind play through his dis
tended jaws.
JJUTthedog next door has 'no monopoly of
offensiveness on moon-lit summer nights,
when sleep is a shy fairy to be courted with
infinite care. From the earliest times the
rooster has had a pernicious habit of crowing
out of season. If all cocks would be content
with crowing thrice when they start out, say at
2 A. if., to Inform an anxious world that they
haven't tho sense to distinguish moonshine
from dawn, there would be little room tor com
plaint. Boosters never know when they have
crowed enough, and a full moon which never
wakes a songbird seems to excite the wretched
fowl huddled up In a hennery to wild exclama
tions of defiance and alarm. If the census
had Included an enumeration ot roosters,
a moon-lit night would bare given the best
chance of taking it. Roosters, like some higher
beings, like to havo the last word, and when
tho silvery beams have found reflection in a
single rooster's eye you can bet fresh eggs to
corn cobs that every hen honse wlthlu ten
miles of the bird that starts the opera will be
singing with cock-a-doodle-doos for two hours
continuously. How the meek, helpless hens
must dislike moon-lit nlghtsl
A broken fly screen, a headache in the morn
ing, a oomplaint from the owner of a
wounded dog, and an insinuation that the rob
bery ot the hen house is indirectly your work,
are likely to make the moonbeams charms ap
pear extremely palid.
CUBBEUT TIMELY TOPICS.
President Harrison and Secretary Blaine
took a turn in the surf yesterday. Thoy were
much cooler than when they took a turn at the
reciprocity question.
M. Zola, the novelist, takes two baths a day.
A person after reading one of his books would
naturally believe that Zola and baths has been
strangers for a number of years.
THE demand for Count Tolstoi's "Rxeutxer
oonata" Is now greater than the supply. There
Is nothing like Judicious advertising, especially
when the Government takes a hand In It.
From latest accounts Kemmler is still In the
flesh.
Thermometers have Jumped up so high
during the past four days there Is a bare possi
bility that the mercury will escape.
Milwaukee is to build a beer palace at the
Chicago Exposition. Of course It will be a much
greater attraction than the fat cattle and big
pumpkins.
Suppose the Uenato should change the rnles,
and Instead of taking the usual "eye opener" an
early session be held. It would be money In the
pockets of the Senators as well as the taxpayers.
Senator Blair spoke three weeks on his
educational bill, and now wants debates limited
in the benate. The New Hampshire Senator Is
evidently running out of yeast.
Speaker Reed replies to X M. C. in sneers
and by propounding questions, which can be con
sidered as no reply at all. It is now X. M. C's,
turn at.tbe bat,
George Francis Train will attempt to
"break his previous record by going around the
world in S7 days, and the public don't care a dog
button whether he breaks the record or breaks
his neck.
Congressman Struble, of Iowa, Is red
headed. From present indications he Is also very
hopeful. '
ALL signs fall in drj weather. For the same
reason figures lie occasionally. For an example
take the census figures of Minneapolis and St.
Paul.
WITH 65 QJJABTS.
A Slnker-Mar Found After Besting In a
Hole Fire Years.
Warren, Pa., August 4. About Ave years
ago, while a well belonging to Mr. E. M. Clapp,
located in the Cooper tract field, was being
drilled, and when down about l,700feet, the
sinker-bar, which Is 17 feet long, inches in
diameter and weighs about 600 pounds, and the
bit were lost in the hole. After a long and
fruitless fishing job the attempt to reclaim the
big chunk of iron from the bowels of the earth
was given np, and the well shot with a charge
of 110 quarts of nltro glycerine. The well be
gan to flow, and has been producing ever
since.
Mr. Clapp decided to have the well shot
again, as Its production was decliumg, and on
Thursday.Jlm Collahan,the Clarendon shooter,
went out with another 140-quart charge. After
attempting to place the shot in the
well it was fonnd they could only
get 65 quarts In, and the "go-devll"
was dropped on that quantity. Instead of the
usual flow ot stuff from the well out flew the
600-pound sinker-bar from its resting place of
five years. The bit had been broken off and
remained in the hole. The bar went clear of
the hole, and except for being slightly bent
was as good as ever.
This Is regarded as something queer, and a
like case has never been known in the annals
of the oil country. It is one of the many
things that will probably never be explained.
A Humiliating Experience.
From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The lesson taught by the Pappenhelm epi
sode ought to be a deep and lasting one to the
young women of our country. This open bar
tering of rich young American women for a
foreign title has become a shame and scandal.
It is almost calculated to shake the pride ot
American gentlemeu in the women ot their
nation.
DEATHS J)F A DAY.
Mrs. B. H. Holmes.
Mrs. B. H. Holmes died at the advanced age of
67 years at Parnassus, on Sunday, after a long and
painful Illness. The deceased lady was a daughter
of Benjamin Weaver, at one time Sheriff or Alle
ghenyxounty, and a sister of the Hon. Henry A.
Weaver- .Mrs. Holmes was the relict of Captain
David Holmes, who was a well-known steamboat
owner and builder, and one of the lncoroorators
of the Pittsburg Library. Other relatives or the
deceased are Mrs, E. Hampton, of this city, and
Joseph Weaver, or Durant, la. Interment will
tate place from Samson's at 3 o'clock this after-
fLWU
THE END OF TTT WOULD.
The Dale Set ns Angnst, 1S01, by a Col
ored Phropliet la ftu Paul.
St. Paul, August 4. Prof. E. James, as he
terms himself, removes corns from their tender
foundations for revenue, and prophesies for
the benefit of mankind. Some two years ago,
while in Ban Francisco, for the colored gentle
man has wandered over every State in the
Union, he says the spirit of prophecy came
upon him.. At that time he placed the terrible
destruction two years away, but hedged by
saying it might possibly be delayed four years.
In a vision abont February L 1888, 1 saw two
horses, he said, running side by side as
though they were running a race with each
other. I stopped to see, and there was no man
on either of them. They passed me in full
speed, one a little in advance of the -other, and
the one that was behind stopped first at a
house on the left band side of the street, where
it went In. The other went on a little further
and stopped at a honse on tne same side of the
street, and went in the yard, and stood beside
the honse. These two horses represent death,
which is coming to take possession of these two
parties, which are to bring about this terrible
slaughter. You see, one of these horses stops
outside of the bouse, while the other goes in;
one is ready for execution at once, while the
other has a little more time.
"I tell you." be continued, dropping into the
negr) dialect which he a'sumes when excited,
"you lust put down July 2, 1891, an' August
21, an' remember dat I tole yoa aomefln awiul's
gwlne to happen on dose days. July 2 will be a
day of darkness, perhaps an eclipse, dough the
scientists don't say anything about it. Der will
be mighty few people on this earth after 1893,
'cept some of the righteous who take warning
and repent." The professor is In earnest in his
work ot calling the world to repentance, and
quotations are over ready from Isaiah to sus
tain his assertions.
HARBISON, SB., AND HARBISON, JB,
The President nnd Bis Intrepid Son Seem to
Hold Different Views Abont Lotteries.
Helena, Mont., August . President Har
rison's message on the lottery evil has created
great interest In Montana, owing to the fact
that Russell B. Harrison's papers have hereto
fore been used almost exclusively by the lot
tery companies to advertise In. The last Legis
lature passed a law making the publication in a
State paper of a lottery advertisement a misde
meanor, and jn consequence the more reput
able papers have since refused these advertise
ments. Harrison's paper, however, paid no at
tention to the new law, and the State officials
made no attempt to restrain him. Recontly
the Independent called on the State officials to
do their duty, drawing attention to the differ
ence of opinion between the President and his
son on the lottery business.
Harrison's paper replied that the Independ
ent was angry because It could get none of the
lottery business. To this the Independent an
swered yesterday by publishing a letter dated
June 27. from its advertising firm, as follows:
"Referring to the Louisiana State Lottery bus
iness offered you, our Mr. has written us
as follows: 'If the Independent people will
glance through the Journal and Herald, pub
lished in their city, they will find the scheme
running two or three times a week in daily
and in every issue of the weekly; and if the law
is not enforced with these publications! do not
understand why tho Independent will not take
the same chances. I am satisfied that this can
be done and that the publisher or the Inde
pendent will not be interfered with. As Rus
sell Harrison is at the head of the Journal, and
as Montana Is Republican, they will be on the
safe side. If the State officers intended en
forcing the law to the letter he, as well as other
publishers In that city, wonld be notified De
fore any action is taken in the matter.' "
THE BABIES 07 THE W0BLD.
The Cradles of a Single Year Wonld En.
circle the Earlb.
From the St. Louis Republic.
It has been computed that between 80,000,000
and 37,000,000 babies are born in the world each
year. The rate of production is, therefore,
about 70 per minute, more than one for every
beat of the clock. With the one-a-minute
calculation every newspaper reader is familiar,
bnt it is not everyone who stops to calculate
what this means when it comes to a year's sup
ply. It will, therefore, probably startle a good
many persons to find on the authority of a
well-known hospital writer that, could the in
fants of a year be ranged la a line in cradles,
the cradles would be overflowing and at the
same time extend around the globe.
The same writer looks at the matter In a still
more picturesque light. He imagines the
babies being carried past a given point in their
mother's arms, one by one, and tho procession
being kept up night and day until the last
corner in the twelfth month had passed by. A
sufficiently liberal rate is allowed, but even in
going at the rate of 20 a minute the reviewer at
this post would only have seen the sixth part of
this Infantile host after they bad been passing
him at the rate of 1,200 an hour daring the
entire year! In other words, the babe that had
to be carried when the tramp began wonld be
able to walk when but a mere fraction of Its
comrades had reached the reviewer's post, and
when the year's supply of babies was drawing
to a close there would be a rearguard, not of
infants, bnt of romping 6-year-old boys and
girls.
NO ORIGINAL PLAYS.
Mr. Daly Makes the Startling Statement la
Opon Court.
From the Illustrated American.)
Mr. Augustln Daly, being called to testify In
a law-court some months ago, was asked to de
fine an original play. "I cannot," he replied.
"Why notf" demanded the lawyer. "Because,"
said Mr. Daly, "there Is no such thing as an
original play."
This was authoritative, coming from so well
reputed a source. If original plays existed,
Mr. Daly would have heard of them. But they
do not exist. There was never yet a successlul
play that did not owe either its germ or its en
tire structure to the ideas of others. There is
not a plot of Shakespeare which the commenta
tors bave not traced to a f orelg.1 origin. When
a playwright describes his piece as "new and
original," bo is either mendacious or ignorant.
He is either wilfully biding the process by
which his work was made, or ne is guilty of the
"unconscious cerebration," which is well un
derstood to be a frolic of the memory.
An Improbable Yarn.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Nobody really believed the story that Uncle
Jerry Rusk was wearing a sash. He might for
a few days wear a silken wrapping of some
sort, just to encourage the coooon business
among our depressed farmers, but he would
never do it merely to ornament his already
graceful figure.
In Beforp the Rata Comes
From the Philadelphia Times. J
There is one thing to be said for Plumb. He
can tell when the'e Is going to be a shower, and
he generally raises his umbrella in time.
Sometimes even bo is a little previous, but
that is better than being canght out in a
deluge, as some other Senators will be.
A Popular Platform.
From the Washington Post.
For President, William H. Sowden, of Penn
sylvania; for Vice-President, Isaac a Struble,
of Iowa, Platform: "Drat the Speaker."
STATE COITOEHSATIONS,
Grans Army week at Gettysburg will be
observed early in September.
The State Road Commission will meet In
Tltusvllle on Wednesday and Thursday next
A "journalistic pennant" is being con
tested for by rival newspaper nines atNorris
town. In her efforts to save a drowning boy Miss
Laura Metzgar, of Lackawaxen, was herself
drowned.
IN Chester county the number of Judgments
entered In the Prothonotary's ofllce In 10 years
was 17.16U
During the row which followed a Hungarian
christening at Middletown the newly-christened
child wss killed.
Five generations of one family sat for their
photographs in a single group at Springfield,
Chester county, a low days ago.
IN preparing a supper a Reading woman
mistook a poisonous preparation for brown
sugar and poisoned her whole family.
The flesh on the finger of a lad employed In
a Macuangee mill was torn from the bone by
his ring being caught In the machinery.
James Loque, of Wliiiamtport, is the owner
of a feline monstrosity in the shape of six kit
tens joined together Siamese twins fashion.
Two sons of John Martin, of Easton, aged
respectively 8 and 6 years, took a dog to the
canal to give him a drink, holding him by a
chain wrapped around the elder boy's leg. The
dog leaped Into the canal and dragged the boy
after him. The younger noy oecame alarmed
and ran home, and his brother drowned before
help came.
GRACE AND BEAUTY.
THE DELSARTE METHOD OF ACQUIRING
BOTH EXPLAINED.
Health and Physical Development Abso
lutely Essential Mrs. Dlsbop's Interest
lag Lecture Political lmsglantloa
Working for aa Idea Dr. McKensie's
Eloqueat Address.
nrECTAI, TELIOBAX TO TUB CtSPATCn.1
Take Chautauqua, N. Y., Angnst 4. "Oh!
to be gracef uir' This is the cry of the
sweet Chautauqua girl just at present All
along she has contemplated. It, and studied
over it and now she has has simply gone wild
over the "Delsarte system." She has found
that there is something necessary, beside being
able to do problems in differential calcufus and
quote Shakespeare off-hand, to make one lovely
and charming. Neither the lectures of Prof.
McOUntock nor divers games of tennis have
succeeded In making her graceful.
Pretty, pleasing little Mrs. Bishop, who fur
nishes a splendid specimen of the results of
fine physical training, was herself surprised
when she saw the incapacity ot the hall ot
philosophy to hold the audience which bad
gathered to listen to a defense of the Delsarte
system, under the title of "Health and Grace
versus Illness and Awkwardness." Health
and grace are the two advocates that plead for
the natnrat use of the parts of the body. Ill
ness and awkwardness are the two unnatural
witnesses against it No one denies the neces
sity ot health, but many tbink of grace as only
the accompaniment of ball room society. I am
here to enter a plea for grace. The most mag
nificent example of grace that 1 ever saw was
tho great Corliss engine at the Exposition in
Philadelphia, in 1676, with a power of 23.000
tons, moved without noise or a jar with exqui
site grace.
Training tbe Body.
LTealth and awkwardness are diametric
ally opposed. Awkwardnes means a
loss of energy. Self-possession is the beginning
of all. We may see the difference between
grace and awkwardness in the country girl in
her city cousin's parlor. Theytell us that if you
will be natural you will be graceful, whether
you are in the ballroom or before an audience.
Yet when a person without training gets be
fore 500 oyes the most natural thing in the
world to do is to become embarrassed. The
old farmer, who got up in school meeting and
endeavored to sneak well. Illustrates it; "Gen
tlemen, when 1 sat there in that ebalr I had a
bushel of ideas, but now I have not got a single
one." There is also the plea for appearance.
Awkward movements are disgusting and
tiring; gracef nl movements are pleasing, south
ing and restful. How many of us but spend
25 to 30 minntes a day in tbe care
of our hair. How many of us spend 10
minutes in training this wonderful machine, the
human body. Some persons say they are too
old for snch exercises; their muscles are stiff;
bnt it is themselves who are swollen and fro
zen. Why, some of you would think It death
if you should turn your necks. We often lose
our heads, but never detach them,
No Need to Grow Old.
A carpenter cannot best do his work with
poor tools. Neither can his body fulfill Its
spiritual wants through a poor, weakened and
awkward motlonment We often express our
selves through our bodies. A lady asked me to
show the audience the Delsarte walk. Del
sarte never bad an idea of a special walk. The
idea is simply to be natural. Sit down natur
ally, get up naturally, walk naturally. The
backbone is the most Important part of tbe
body and must be kept elastic. There is no
need of physically growing old. Why, I am
not more than 22."
Miss Bishop asslted Mrs. Bishop in her lec
tures by giving several ot the graceful and
beautiful movements of tbe Delsarte system,
which is taken from Francois Delsarte, a
French artist Mrs. Bishop is certainly a
charming lady and has a most exquisite and
pleasant way on the platform.
On Political Imagination.
Tt is always a pleasure to listen to a scholarly
man possessed of a fund of facts and
learning, whose discourse abounds with prac
tical points and at the same time contains
soothing, dreamy flights of imagination, pretty
metaphors and languaze that flows as smoothly
as that of a poet Still more pleasing when
such a speaker is a man ripe in years of experi
ence, wise in a life of observation and study,
optimistic, with a whole soul, whose great
heart reaches out to all the world in kindly
fellowship and good will a man great enough
and broad enough to contemplate all humanity
inr Humanity's sasie. vvnen a neara Air.
McKensie yesterday I should bave said he was
a fine preacher but he is more he is a thinker,
a scholar, a lecturer.
"Political Imagination" was the subject of
talk that left the audience only complaining
because the speech was not longer. Dr.
McKenzIe begun by saying: But lew
know the meaning of the subject I do not
mean tbe imagination of the politician, for he
has no Imagination.. Whyi he gets to that ha
verges on tbe statesman. No man understands
a thing until be can state it Imagination, in
this way, has a very great value. Imagination
calls up things which we have seen and some
times things which we have not seen, x'oa
cannot trust reason alone any more than yoa
can imagine. I remember a time when at sea
the captain of a ship showed me tbe largest ice
berg that he had ever seen, but upon approach
ing that iceberg we saw that it was only a
piece of illuminated vapor.
Be Sara You're Rlgbt.
'The next time that man sees an Iceberg he
will use his former experience and not de
clare It until he knows It is a reality. That is
tbe trouble with yon; you do not use your ex
perience in yonr imaginations. It is far better
to revel in Tennyson or admire Raphael than to
attempt to write poetry or daub canvas yourself.
No one should paint pictures that bo intends
to show, or write poetry that be intends to pub
lish until bo -baa become able to exponnd
nature. Amateur lady painters in my congre
gation often show me their products. There is
no nature about them, so I cannot say it Is
natural. I cannot say it is beautiful. If I did
I would be telling a lie, or sav as did Phillips
Brooks of a lady's baby, "It Is a baby."
Tbe 'great inventions always come from
lmazinatlon. Not many years ago we knew
nothing nf electricity, except as we
saw it flashing tbrough tbe clouds. A man
thought that it could be conducted over wires
and the telegraph was Invented. Dr. Bell
thought It might be so used so tbat we could
talk to a friend on the other side of the conti
nent, and he brought forth the telephone, and
now our Imagination tells as that it can be put
to a thousand uses. In religion we can also see
the uses of Imagination. We call God In almost
every image nf imagination. We at one time
call God the Father, again the Shepherd, the
Leader, tbe Rock, tbe Personality. All through
tbe Bible we see the effects of imagination.
There are two things in tbe New Testament
two things most talked abont in the church,
death and Heaven. There are so few expres
sions of imaginations for thtm, perhaps may
account for it
An Imaginative People.
't'HiB is a nation or great imagination. The
only land ever established about an im"
age, an idea, unless It be tbe Jewish nation, of
which we are lineal descendants. What every
citizen wants Is a citizen's imagination, and if
he does not possess it he bad better go to
China. The victory of Cromwell was the be
ginning of the idea of manhood, which was the
origin of America. It does not make so much
difference the number who went on the May
flower, but it was an Idea. This idea, a repub
lican idea, was the foundation of our Govern
ment This was practically tbe first republic
In tbe world. There are to-day the South
American and French republics. I suppose
there is a r rencb repuouc, tnougn a nayauui.
read the papers for the last two or three days.
You havo beard of a man who went Into a book
Store in Paris and asked for a copy of tbe
French Constitution; tbe merchant replied,
"We do not keep periodical literature, sir."
We do not use enough imagination to
contemplate tbe benefits of tbe Puritans.
They fought out and carried to success an Idea,
The Revolution was fought about an idea.
We were taxed and oppressed, but not taxed as
much as now. We fought for an idea. We be
llevd we could take care of ourselre. Where
you sent your father, your son, your brother,
to tbe late war, you did not do It for the money
but for the "Old Flae" for an eld flag, yes: the
flag with Its stripes of bunting spangled with
stars that in your imagination represents to you
so much. What does the polltican care for
this flag? Just as much as be got by selling It
or by selling his control of offices and politics
to his henchmen.
A Superfluous Being.
What are ne going to do with tbe politician;
We surely cannot correct him. aud there
fore we do not want him. We shall have to do
with him as did tbe editor who published a
man as dead, when he was still, alive. When
the man asked the publisher to correct it be
said he could not do It The man remonstrated,
and Anally the editor told him that he could
see but one way to do it, and that was to place
him again in tbe death column. That is what
we will have to do with the politician. There
are some things tbat indicate that tbe Republic
may not be perpetuated. When it ceases to be
a land of thought then shall our conntry go
down. We have no great artists, but we hare
taken a black piece of humanity and carved
out of it conscience and intelligence. When
X we lose our ideas then we shall fall, Ideas are J
what make a nation. Ideas some day will
place tbe American continent, all combined,
nnder a single government
Among tho other meetings of interest were
two mlssionery conferences, and an Instructive
lecture bv Miss Bancroft on "Higher Educa
tion of Women in Europe and America" and
evening lecture by Dr. Ecoleston R. Young.
Great preparations are being made far the
seventeenth general assembly. Bishop Vin
cent will not be present.
BOGUS SULPHITE BATHS.
A Sadden Stampede of ibe Summer Gaests
at Caledonia Springs.
rsrECTAI. TXX.SOAJC TO TUB DISrATCS.1
Ottawa, Ont., August 4. The fashionable
hotel at Caledonia Bprings has fur years been
regarded as the Baratoga of Canada, where,
during tbe summer months, from all parts of
the United States, as well as from all points In
the Dominion, the elite and fashionable world
gathered to enjoy the benefit to be derived
from tbe use of the famous sulphnr springs. A
great sensation was caused at this popular re-.
sort this morning among the hundreds of
guests when it was dlsoorered by a medical
gentleman visiting there tbat in place of sul
phur baths the guests had been given water
from a hydrogen gas well. The scene that fol
lowed tbe expose and the manner in which the
Seats had been imposed upon may be better
aglned than written.
Within an hour 80 of the boarders, the greater
number Americans, called at the office and set
tled their bills, and a stampede followed- Tbe
hotel gained its popularity through advertising
their "sulphur springs" and the beneficial re
sults that would follow tbe free use of sulphur
baths. It was first discovered tbat the pipes
leadtnelnto the bathroom had been laid from
the gas well, and not from the sulphur springs,
as advertised, and this clew was followed up
with an analysis of tbe water. The hotel com
pany state that they were afraid the sulphur
springs would give out and so drew the supply
from the gas well.
BEAVEB VALLEY MEBCHANTS
Arranging for a Great Excursion to Sandy
Lake.
rSrSCTAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Beaver Falls, August 4. The merchants
of Beaver Valley will give an excursion to
Sandy Lake, Thursday, August 7. via the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie Railroad. They expect to
take five bands of mnsic and one orchestra
band. Amusements of all kinds will be free.
All stores will be closed and invitations have
been given to all the works throughout the
valley to shut down, several of which have
granted the request and likely more or all
will shut down. It Is expected to be the largest
and best excursion that ever left the valley.
The train will leave Pittsburg at 4-55. railroad
time, and the fare is Jl 60 for round trip for
adults and 75 cents for children. Tbe Whole
sale houses of Pittsburg are requested to send
a representative and their families to go along
with the merchants of Beaver Valley.
THINE. BLAINE IS WEAKENING.
Tho Canadians More Confident Than Ever la
Their Behring Sea Claims.
rKntCIALTXLXaBAHTO TITS DISPATOO.1
Ottawa, Ontario, Angust 4. Sir John
Thompson, Minister of Justice, will arrive here
this week from England where! he has been In
conference with the British Government in
conneotlon with the Behring Sea dispute.
When it became evident that Secretary Blaine
wonld not yield, and that the British Govern
ment were disposed to give in to him, the Gov
ernor General cabled Lord Salisbury that the
Minister of Justice would leave for London at
once to lay tbe claims of Canada before the
British Cabinet as a result ot this mission.
Sir John Thompson has advised the Govern
ment here that Lord Salisbury is now deter
mined to stand his ground, and tbat already
Secretary Blaine has shown a disposition to re
lax from the arbitrary position he assumed
from the time negotiations were opened up to
the present moment
TO BE FASHIONED AFTEB CANADA.
Writings on Confederation Forwarded to the
Antipodes.
Ottawa, Ont., August L At the request of
the Australian Government the Canadian au
Ihoritles are forwarding for use in the great
National Federal Council, which takes place in
the Antipodes in February, tbe writings on
Canadian Confederation, by Hon. Alexander
Morris, Dr. Bonrinot, Thomas Darcy McGee
and John Charles Dent, along with copies of
the federation debates and public documents
hnarlnc on these matters. It is allseed the
confederation schemes or the Australian col
onies will be largely molded from Information
derived from the above sources. This is the
second request from tba Australian colonies,
wnicn shows tne appreciation ot tne statistics
received.
Imagination Hair the Battle.
From the Washington Post
An ingenious young man,who Is compelled to
stay in town this hot weather, has had an elec
tric tan placed by bis bedside, and goes to sleep
every night with artificial zephyrs cooling his
heated brow. By tbe aid of two balsam pillows
be imagines himself on the summit ot a fine
mountain In Maine, and now he is studying
how be can utilize a bag of salt to give his
breeze a flavor at ot the ocean.
New Facilities for the Monopolists.
From the Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune, t
Mr. Edison's last invention is reported to be
an instrument "by which one can sign a check
for any amount 'at a hundred miles distant"
This renders it possible for millionaires to run
conventions and legislatures at long range.
Merely n Question of Ink.
From the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
There will be no bloodshed over the Behring
Sea matter. It is simply a question or ink.
and we have a Secretary of Stato who is equal
to any emergency In tbe use of that cheap and
convenient fluid.
Ingnlls Lost Opportunity.
From the Chicago Post
A well out in Kansas was strnck by lightning
the other day. Doubtless Senator Ingalls wishes
tbat be had been sitting In the old oaken buck
et at the time.
Could Well Afford To.
From the Courier-Journal. 3
Will Senator Farwell be willing to pay for
the buildings and valuable timber trees struck
by lightning during one of his patent thunder
stormst
Apily Named.
From the Philadelphia Times.
These South American squabbles are called
revolutions because they are generally over
In one round.
GOODBY.
There's a kind of chilly feeUn'ln the blowln' of
the breeze,
An' a sense of sadness stealln' through the tresses
of the trees;
An' It's not the sad September that's slowly
drawln1 nigh.
But Jes that I remember 1 hare come to say
"Goodbyl"
"Goodby" the wind Is wallin'; "Goodby" the
trees complain
As they bend low down to whisper with their
green leaves, white with rain;
"Goodby" the roses murmur, and the bendln'
lilies sigh
As if tbev all felt sorry I have come to say
"Goodbyl"
I reckon all bave said It 'me time or other
soft An' easy like with eyes east down, that dare not
look aloft
For the tears tbat trembled in them, for ths lips
that choked the sigh
When It kind o' took bolt o' the heart an' made
it beat "Goodbyl"
I didn't think 'twas hard to say, but standla' here
alone
With the pleasant past behlu me, an' the future
aim, unknown,
A gloomln yonder in the dark, I can't keep back
tbe sigh
An' I'm weepln' like a woman as I bid you all
"Ooodbyl"
The work I've done is with you; may be some
things went wrong.
Like a note tbat mars the music In the sweet flow
of a song I
But, brethren, wben you think of me, I only wish
you would
Say as the Master said of one: "He hath done
wh&thecouldl"
An' when you sit together, In the time as yst to
be.
By your love-encircled fireside la this pleasant
land of Lee,
Let the sweet past come before yon, an with
aomethln' like a sigh
Jes' say: "Ws ain't torfot him since ths day he
said 'Goodbrl"
-P, . Stanton, in Atlanta ContUMion
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
A Louisville physician a few days ago
married bis sixth wife. He is 81 and she Is 40
years younger.
A large sturgeon with a chain five feet
long attached to him has been canght off the
coast of Oregon.
At an -eqnalityof age the male is gen
erally heavier than the female, except toward
the age of 12, when tbe average weight in both
sexes is abont the same. .
A "West Virginian recently veneered a
black oak log with walnut bark, and sold it to a
confiding Ciucinnatian as a genuine black wal
nut log, and got 8108 for It
Farmers in outlying sections of North
ern New Jersey report a superfluity of rabbits
this year. That game has not been so plentiful
before In 15 years, they say.
Lincoln, Me., has a blind man who is a
clever croquet player. He plays by information
as to direction and by measuring the distance
by walking to the object ball.
A negro drayman while driving a dray
heavily loaded with merchandise, at Macon,
Wednesday, Inst his balance and fell off. and
the dray passed directly over bis neck. Strange
to say it was not broken, but tbe negro's in
juries were serious.
Edwin Checkley, a young New York
physician, in order to know the sanitary rains
ot bicycle riding, is going to ride to Chicago,
starting Aneust 6. He will journey through
Southern Pennsylvania to Columbus, O., and
thence by tbe straightest line.
A lady of Bremen, Me., has a parrot
and also a cat named Shag. She has taught the
parrot to spell c-a-t, cat d-o-g. dog, and a few
suoh words, and the other day Polly electrified
tbe honsebold br spelling very loudly and
plainly "c a-t" and then pronouncing it "Shag."
Perhaps Polly can't think.
At a breakfast given by "Ward McAllis
ter to Newport fashionables, the scene being a
platform in a shady grove, tne table presented
a pleasing appearance. Most noticeable were
six sheaves of Scotch wheat standing about four
feet high, tied with sashes of scarlet ribbon.
In the tops of these nestled scarlet dahlias.
"While a roofer was at work on the roof
of a school at Greenville, L. L. tbe other day ha
was orercomeiby tbe beat and rolled down the
roof and over the edge. His suspender strap
canght on a hook in the roof gutter and kept
him from falling to the cronnd. He bnng In
midair until his fellow-workmen rescued him.
Mr. J. E."Wingate,of Houltou, Me., ba3
some very ancient family heirlooms in his posses
sion, among which are a powder horn bearing
date 17(9, which went through the French and
Indian Wars and the Revolutionary War; copy
of commentary on tbe Bible, printed in London
in 1677, and a pair of razors over 100 years old.
A negro was killed near Greensboro, N.
C, by a Richmond and Danville train, and
though cut so near in half that only a shred of
muscle held tbe two parts together, talked
rationally of his injuries for an hour. Those
present say It was a most wonderful exhibition
of nerve and a resolve to live until bis family
could get to him.
As the law of Aberdeen required it, a
cab-driver was prosecuted, convicted and fined
five shillings, or three days' imprisonment for
smoking a pipe on his cab, not while driving a
fare, but while he was standing on the lookout
for one. By the municipal law and regulations
of Aberdeen tbe smoking of a pipe by a cab
driver Is a criminal offense.
, Of all the queer losses lately reported,
one of the most exasperating must hare been
that of a Wilton, Me., woman who went berry
ing the other day and Jnst before she was
ready to start for home lost tbe 10-qnart pail of
raspberries that she had so laborously filled.
An hour's search failed to bring to light the
missing pail and she had to go home without
it
The prize of 40,000 francs offered by the
French Academy for some certain test of
death, looking to the prevention of being
buried alive, was given to a physician, who an
nounces that on holding the hand of the sup
posed dead person to a strong lighr, if living, a
scarlet tlnre is seen where the fingers touch.
showing that tbe blood contlnnes to circulate,
tbere being no scarlet wben tbe subject Is
really dead.
A 5-year-old child in "West Camel is of
tbe following dimensions: Height 4 feet;
weight 117 pounds, circumference of abdomen,
42 inches; waist, 37 inches; chest 37 Inches;
neck, 14 inches: head, 22 inches; thigh. 23
inobes; calf, 15 inches: arm. 11 inches; fore
arm. 10 inches. He is very healthy; eats all
be can get and is fairlyintelligent The parents
are by no means corpulent, and their other
children are of ordinary size.
Samuel Elliott, of Newbury, claims to
have devised an apparatus by tba adoption ot
which the smoke nuisance will cease to exist
Tbe process removes trom the products or com
bustion all tbe black carbonaceous matter of
coal smoke, and a remarkable and important
thing is tbe entire absence or sulphnr in any
form after the dense volumes of smoke gener
ally seen issuing from chimney shafts bare
been forced into tbe "annibilator."
Mrs. Theodore Tilton is a sad and lonely
woman, with silver-streaked hair, a careworn
face and stooped figure, who frequents Lincoln
Park In Chicago with her grandchildren. Every
pleasant morning in the year she goes to tbe
pleaauie ground, but is seldom recognized and
never seen speaking to any one. She lives with
her rnarriecLdaughter, who contributes to tbe
family income oy water-color paintings, many
ot which are very lovely in conception and
treatment
A enrious antesthetio used by tha
Chinese has recently been made known by Dr.
U. Lambuth In his third annual report ot the
Soochow Hospital. It is obtained by placing a
frog in a jar or flour and irritating it by prod
ding it Under these circumstances it exudes
a lianld which forms a paste with the flour.
This paste dissolved lu water has well marked
anaesthetic properties. After tbe finger has
been Immersed in the liquid fdr a few minutes
it can be cut to the bone without pain being;
felt
A strange aerial phenomenon was re
cently observed at Neu-Munster, In Holstein,
England. At a considerable height a current
of air was moving with tremendous velocity
from east to west. Somewhat lower there was
an opposite and much slower current After
this had continued for sometime the two cur
rents suddenly developed -Into a waterspout
wblcb did immense damage, raising from the
ground and destroying a large barn, and tear
ing great trees out of tbe earth as if they were
only so mony straws.
BREAKFAST TABLE LAUGHS.
"Lend me the paper, John, won't you?"
"In a minute, Mollle. I'm Just looking over
an article. Things " orth Knowing.' "
"Ob. boshl Let me read the deaths; that's a
good souL" Philadelphia Inquirer.
"What's the matter? You look so sad."
"My uncle's condition troubles me."
"Why, I saw him a 111 tie while ago, and he
seemed to enjoy perfect health."
'That is exactly what troubles met" Siftingt.
"I think that man must be a jockey," re
marked Mrs. Hojack, Indicating a passer by.
"What makes you think that!" asked Hojack,
somewhat surprised.
He has a hoarse voice."
That's so I noticed he had a bono laugh,
too." Chicago JnUr-Octan.
Bill "What are you doing now, Ben?
Ben I am living as cheap as I can. lam sav
lng up every cent 1 make. so I can get married.
How are you and your wife coming on, B1HT
BUI We are saving up every cent we can spare,
so we can go to Chicago In the fall aadgeta
divorce Siftingt.
Smith (observing a crowd around an am
balance across Broadway)-JJeen an accident
over there.
Brown Yes; man hurt very badly. Bun over,
or something.
"Anybody know who the man It?"
"Oh, yes. He's Dr. Smarty. author of the book,
How to Avoid Street Accidents, ' " Siftingt.
Gladys-Maud, aged 10 Grammar howy
spell bea's'ly.
Urandma-B EAST L Y. dirllnr, but
It's not a nice word lor my pet to use.
Glsdys-Maud Well, I don't care, lve got to
write to mammer and popoer, 'n I want to tell
'em about the weather."
Grandma-Oh, very well, pet Sew Xort SYttw
unt.
HE SPOKE TOO LATE.
He was a pastor of high repute;
That she was a beauty none could dispute.
He loved her dearly, yet loved In vain.
Tor he dared not tell her his longing pain.
But when, at the dose of church one day,
She asked his eseort a part of the way.
His heart beat high, and be almost thought
He'd be able to plead for the love he sought
"I've a favor to ask," tbe maiden said.
As she blushed and drooped her lovely head;
"1 wish to know ir you'll marry me
In church next Tuesday at hair-past three."
That's Just whit 1 wanted to ask," he aid,.
"And now we'll hasten each other to wed "
"Oh! no," she erled, that was not my plan;
Yoa mutt marry me to another man!"