ES3 kKsfaaMiTi WmtW JS.tJ!'M r$rmj!F!grrw?ll 4 THE' PEDTSBTOQ-' DISPATCH, 'SATURDAY, AUGUST 9,' 1890; SMS Mr TheWc cttwenty-j fl.Lt I HE VV ORLD FOB THE NEXT TWENTY-FUUK HOURS covered specially by wire and cable .For Io-jVLorrow's Dispatch. It Will Have All the News A SPECIAL BUDGET OF SELECT READING. SPECIAL CABLES. SPECIAL TKLEGRAMS. Oir.Cl.lA.Li LUUAL IXJSW B. SPECIAL FtAT,T. SCORES. SPECIAL DEPART.MENTS. ARTICLES .FROM ABLE WRITERS ON T. The Day. OPICS OF HEAT IN PITTSBURG lnresUgaited with a thermometer ia the mills and workshops. A PASTEUR AT IRWIN and his cure for hydrophobia discoTcred two centuries ago. GENERAL R. A. ALGER writes an article on tie Grand Army and its past and future. SYMPOSIUM FOR GIRLS, glring opinions of leading women on the character or their education. IMPURE SUMMER AIR, its clangers and Its lurking places, by the popular correspond ent. Shirley Dare. A TENNESSEE SKETCH, refreshing, noTel and amusing, by a belle of the State. SOCIETY'S SKELETONS brought to light by Miss Grundy. Jr., writingfrom Washing ton. BED IS THE RAGE at Saratoga, and Meg writes entertainingly of the wealth of scar let. "WORLDS OF WEALTH awaiting Yankee energy. Fannie & Ward tells abont it. PHILOSOPHY AND HUMOR entertain ingly treated by the Country Parson, James CI Pnrdy and Rev. George Hodges. A PEEP AT DENVER, written in a sketchy way by a traveling correspondent of note. THE COUNTRY CLUB, a pleasant bnt very expensive luxury that is growing in im portance. POLITICAL REFORM treated In his inimita ble way by the popular humorist, Howard Fielding. THE HOME CIRCLE, Its decorations, its foods, its dress and its comforts, by special writers. MODERN AMUSEMENTS from the stand point of Bessie Bramble makes good read ing. A STAFF WRITER, now In England, con tributes a political and a sporting letter. STANLEY AT OXFORD is the excuse for a breezy sketch of English University Life. NEW YORK GOSSIP from the pens of Charles T. Murray, William E. 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Daily edition only, 70e per month, ft for three months. The address may be changed as desired, if care be taken in all cases to mention both old and new address. WILL THE SILENCE BR BROKEN"? In connection with the Blankenburg open letter to Candidate Delamater, it Ib now Elated by authority close to the latter that he proposes to make answer to the charges against him by Senator Emery and others within the party when he writes his letter of acceptance of the nomination. If this is true, the decision is to be commended on the principle of "better even somewhat late than never." The signs of restiveness on the subject are not confined to Blankenbnrg, Lea or those others who hare figured as ready open-letter writers. On the Dart of Delamater it is urged that his delay in meeting the accusations of hav ing been a corporation agent at Harrisburg, and of using corrupt methods in politics, is sagacious to the extent that as the nominee of the party he will have the party in sym pathy with him and willing to stand up for his statement when it comes, whereas, had he attempted it before the convention, rival aspirants within the party would have done all in their power to discredit him. This is a very ingenious explanation. There may be something in it, bnt the mo tire for delay exists no longer. There it, also, a threatening danger that if the answer does not come soon it will spoil considerably in the keeping. If the Republican candi date is the clever politician which he is credited with being, he' will not continue any longer to defer his reply to the very direct challenges of his Senatorial record and of other features of his political career. The season is almost already over ripe for that interesting promised letter of ac ceptance which, it has been quietly given out, is to compose the minds oi the doubting Thomases and make the wicked Leas, Blankenburgs and such querulous spirits ( cease from troubling with their open letters. Perhaps the late, volley from Philadelphia will bring on its deliverance. OKLAHOMA'b CUT. 27ot so very long ago Oklahoma was a synonym for the promised land to a great many sanguine people. Yesterday an ap peal for help from the starving "boomers" of Oklahoma was read in Congress. Okla homa ias not collapsed; it is what it alWiys' was a fairly fertile land, ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, IMS, but most of those who colonized it ex hausted their scant means in getting there. The drought has. played haroo with this year's harvest and the Governor says that a famine is imminent. Under these circum stances President Harrison's recommenda tion that the balance left from a former relief fund be devoted to Oklahoma's needs will receive hearty indorsementeverywhere. If more money is needed to save our country oei from death from starvation Congress should make haste to provide it, The nation is too proiperous and careful of its honor to allow starvation to stalk abroad within its borders. MR. WIDENEH'S PROMISES. The declaration of Mr. P. A. B, "Widener, of Philadelphia, that the Pittsburg Traetion road will not consent to any consolidation with the Duquesne Traction, is an encour aging and commendable one; but the details with which he accompanies that declaration are not such as to convey any assurance that the resnlt of the warfare which he promises will not be consolidation or combination of some sort. The steps which Mr. "Widener promises are the stereotyped ones taken by a corpora tion whose monopoly is disturbed, generally with the fatuous idea that it can crush out the rival that trenches upon its field. The reduction to a three-cent fare The Dis patch has often pointed as something that ought to be hoped for Irom legitimate com petition. But when it is threatened that coaches will be run wherever the cables do not parallel the Duquesne's tracks and that passengers will there be carried at three cents, it is plain that the warfare will not be legiti mate competition, but that sort of rivalry which seeks to strangle competition by in flicting as much loss on the competitors as possible. Coaches will not be run for a fraction of the three-cent rate with any idea of making money or paying expenses. It is simply the outbreak of the policy which obtains wherever exclusive privileges have existed, or are hoped for in the future, of making competition so unprofitable that both parties will turn to consolidation or combination as a measure of relief. Such a policy inevitably leads to the goal which Mr. "Widener pretends to abjure. To think of "crushing out" a line of electrio railway is ridiculous. The plant will stay there in any event; and its competition may be met in either of two ways. Legitimate competition with it may be accepted by re ducing charges to the lowest limit that will pay expenses, and trusting to the growth of traffic to restore the profits. Mr. "Widener can preserve the autonomy of his corpora tion by adopting this plan, and if his rival shows a disposition to cut prices to the point of loss, letting it have all the losing business. But the regulation tendency for those who hare enjoyed the exclusive control of any traffic, is to resort to the "warfare" method of punishing any Interloper in the field; and that always results in the consolidation or combination which corporate warfare is really intended to establish. Mr. "Widener's professions are those of the anti-consolidationists; but his promises are those which terminate in consolidation. The cable car magnate doth protest too much for his own case. OBJECTIONS TO ROAD IMPROVEMENT. I The hearing before the State Road Com' mission of the views of farmers on the sub ject of country road improvement has de veloped a variety of views. Those which have the most significance are the objec tions coming from citizens of such standing as Colonel Piolette, and which may be taken as largely representative of the agri cultural feeling throughout the State. The main objections can be summed up as fol lows: (1). Opposition to any scheme which will largely increase the burden of the ag ricultural class from taxation. (2). The criticism that in certain , portions of the State with gravelly soil the roads are prefer able in their present state to what they would be if macadamized. (3.) The kindred objection that in some connties where road improvement is needed the cost of hauling limestone would be prohibitory, and (4) that many of the farming class, with whom money is scarce, cannot afford to pay in cash all the road taxes that would be re quired for a comprehensive scheme of road improvement. These objections must be given their due weight; and if they cannot be properly met it is plain that the policy of road improve ment is not likely to overcome the opposi tion of the agricultural interests. But it is to be noticed that they are all based on the assumption that a hard-and-fast project of road improvement has been adopted which will require macadam or teliord roads every where, with exactly the same materials in all localities, and will make the farmers pay largely increased taxes from the incep tion. We think it fairer to suppose that the project will be conducted on more practical and conservative methods. If, as Colonel Piolette seems to appre hend, the burdens of taxation will be such as to wipe out the present owners of farms be fore they can get the advantage of the new highways, the plan would be fatally defec tive. Bnt supposing it were shown to the farmers that the intelligent application of the present road taxes to making roadbeds permanent and solid, supplemented by a bid from the State, would in the conrse of years give them good roads at all seasons, would not their support be assured? "With regard to the other objections a reasonable course will obviate them all. The improvement of the roads in each section should be such as the local condition renders most practicable; and a system of crediting farmers for the amount of work done instead ofor the time spent on it, wonld enable them to work out their road taxes, and at the same time abolish the present shams in that line. But this status, both of the project and of the objections to it, should show the Com mission one thing. There is no useof taking time in bearing opinions for or against a plan of improvement which has not taken definite shape. Let that body complete a plan by which the work is to be prosecuted and then ask for public opinion on it. If the plan provides a means for securing solid roads without a serious increase of taxation, there is little doubt that a great preponder ance of publio opinion will be in its favor. If it entails a serious enlargement of taxa tion with only the hope of benefits in the future, its acceptability by the publio will be more doubtful. But it is hardly profit able to take opinions on the subject when each opinion is based on individnal pre judgment as to what the plan of work will be. AN INEVITABLE RESULT. The Philadelphia Prett aptly points to the present blockade ot traffic at the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, as a striking illustration of the peuny-wlse-and-ponnd-foollsh policy long displayed by Congress in dealing with the improTcment of water-ways. The fact that the movement of freight is suspended there in a way to hamper if not to actually in jure the grain interests of the Northwest and the coal and iron interests of Pennsylvania, to both of which this is the gateway for some of their 'most 'Important shipments, """ is especially significant when we perceive that it is an Inevitable resnlt of one of the settled methods oi legislation. For about nine years the need of new locks at the Sault has been established by the reports of the engineers and recognized by the acts of Congress authorizing the work and appropriating money for its prose cution. But the necessities of political log rolling in Congress hare required appropri ations of this sort to be scattered among hundreds of jobs with the consequence that works of really national importance hare dragged along slowly, because the funds were not provided to finish them up promptly. During the nine yean, with the pending appropriations, 5110,000,000 have been appropriated to pnblio works of this Eort Had that expenditure been intelli gently concentrated on works of real merit, there is no doubt that the new locks at the Sault would long ago have been completed, together with other water-ways of equal magnitude. Bnt the methods of practloal politics have wasted and scattered this vast sum so thai even that portion of It applied to work of importance is not ready for the exigency. The Press is right in stating this to be the most important phase of the closing of Sault Ste. Marie. But there is a minor phase of it which is not without value. It is that tba methods of expediting business established by the present rnlers of the House have so expedited business that the bill containing such appropriations as the present sys tem does give, has been very nearly strangled at birth. Other means of ex pediting the departure of the surplus have succeeded so well that plans were entertained for condemning the river and harbor bill to death, and one result of the policy which has ruled at the present session is that the grain of the Northwest, the ore of Lake Superior and the coal of "Western Pennsylvania are tied up at the Sault for an indefinite period. It is also intimated that railroad influence in Congress has been instrumental in delay ing the work at the Sault, in order to force upon the rail lines the traffic which would otherwise take the lake route. But in this case, we can acquit the corporations of per nicious activity, where it was wholly un necessary. The stupidity and blundering of practical politics has done all that the most selfish corporations could desire, with out any exertion on their part. NO WAR, THANK YOU. By the publication of the Behring Sea correspondence Secretary Blaine was enabled to feel the nation's pulse. If there had been any bellicose feeling latent in the American people the letters of Lord Salisbury wonld have brought it out That is the belief of "Washington, and doubtles it is correct. It is reassuring to know that the dearly-beloved Alaskan seals are not to have the privilege ol swimming in blood. The diplomatie pas de deux cer tainly has nqt raised the wrath of the people on this side of the Atlantic, and from the contradictory and unintelligent comments of the English press we should infer that the British lion is not cutting his claws for battle. "War being out of the question, weare prepared to hear that Secretary Blaine has decided after consultation with the President to end the negotiations with all possible speed in a pacifio way. "We still believe that the small fragment of the question still at Issue could be best settled by arbitration. If the farce of diplomacy had not to be played out two such level-headed men as Mr. Blaine and Lord Salisbury could settle the matter in ten minutes. Eeterpbisino book publishers are now engaged in convincing the postal authorities that the cause of morality requires the exclu sion ot their publicatloni from the malls. The publishers will be glad to f ornlsh copies of the books In exchange for the advertisement. The Brazilian Constitution contains a clanse prohibiting that government from en gaging in any war of conqnest; and the es teemed New York Tribune thinks this "a level of national morality which no other power in Christendom has reached." The necessity for Brazil becomes very obvious, when it engaged in war to call it something besides a war of con qnest. Perhaps the Tribune can designate a war of modern times, whieb was admitted by the power waging it to hare bad the purpose ot conquest By any other name it conquers Just as effectively. Soke of the inhabitants of Minneapolis could not help being counted improperly by the census enumerators. The innocent darlings' mothers could hardly ba blamed either. The official information that Repub lican magnates are spending $500,000 in turning a Denver, Col., Democratic newspaper into a Republican organ, with Clarkson at the key board, is calculated to create the.lmpression that the surplus of the Republican campaign fund will vanish as rapidly as the surplus of the Na tional Treasury. But tbe probability Is that a cipher got added to tbe statement of tbe money. If wa allow for an Inflation of that sort we will get somewhat nearer the value of the invest ment. . Davy Crockett is to hare a monument down in Tennessee. This Is a reward for Davy's good fortune and foresight in not being burled In New York City. Of course the progress of scientific war fare is striking; bnt when we learn that Ger many has just spent large sums to provide her armies with smokeless powder and then invests still more in an invention to enable her troops to make smoke by artificial means, the infer ence is somewbat strong that military science is coming out of the same hole it went in at Those battle-scarred hnlks are fighting tbe Republican cause as stubbornly as ever, by means of "repairs," which cost more than to build new vessels. It is declared by the Philadelphia In quirer that "Quay is not running this year. This declaration by our official Quay organ may serve as campaign material; but, the Inquirer would not be likely to tell the Senator in the confidence of private confabulation that be is not running the Republican party ot Pennsyl vania. One thing is pretty oertaln, the popular Interest in baseball in this city is being laid off at a more rapid rate than the players. Newport society is all torn up over the fact that a party of young ladles lunched on board one of the British vessels In that harbor withont a chaperon. The young women are none the worse for it but the thought tbat Newport could do anything that was not strictly conventional is agony. "We can now regard the electrio wire as deadly even when it Is Intended to be so. The Delaware peach crop destroyer has been heard of In former years; but the cham pion In that Hne is a young woman of Delaware who ate up her father's entire peach crop the other day. It consisted of one peach and she thought she might as well have it as anyone else. George S. Knight Nenrlng Hli End. PHttADELpniA, August 8. George B. Knight, the comedian, is rapidly nearlng his end. The statement is made on tbe authority of his wife. Bophio Worrell Knight tbat be cannot possibly live more than a month longer. Mr. Knight Is a Phlladelphlan by birtb, and bis real name is Sloan. His troubles are all traced to his play of "Baron Rudolph," the.failure of which brrftt his heart and drove him mad. THE TOPICAL TALKER. . Crowded Cable Car Allegheny' Plain Needs Intermittent Fever Called Tj. phold Some Point About Fevers. Qms thing about the Fifth avenue cable cars which strikes the occasional passenger more forcibly perhaps than tbe Indurated reg ular is that there are not balf enough of them to carry the crowds that so out to Oakland and the East End between 4:30 p. m. and jT.it. It is safe to say that one-third of the men and not a few of the women who make for the suburbs during that period by tbe Fifth avenue line have to stand. The Duquesne Company's line ought to re duce this pressure upon the cable road, and a journey by street car to Oakland or East Lib. erty may some day become apleasnre instead ot a punishment "pnE condition of many of tbe Allegheny streets is dangerous to health. Federal street needs paving badly, and latterly tbe roadway has become as fragrant as tbe Chicago river or a tan masters yard. A stranger who passed through Allegheny the otber day re marked tbe rich odor of decayed vegetation" wmen Federal street gave up. He made some derogatory remark about Allegheny, and I re minded him that the city recently celebrated Its fiftieth anniversary. "From the smell of its streets," he replied, "I should say tbat Allegheny had been Kept too long gone bad, as It were." Tbe experiment in illumination by electric towers ot tremendous height has not proven a success in Allegheny. During the storm of Thursday night the Councilmen of Allegheny might have obtained a good idea of how de ficient the lights will always be in thick weather. Even on clear summer mgbts the tower lights are far ton high and too few in number to illuminate the city adequately, but in foggy or rainy weather the cross streets, a Diock or so from tbe light masts, become black caverns, and even streets like Federal, upon which many lights directly cast the glimmering effulgence, are treacherously dim. A little shaking up, some new brooms and a few active, honest men to wield them, are what Allegheny needs. 'J'HE general Impression is that typhoid fever is unusually prevalent this summer. I asked a physician of large hospital and general practice as to this. Said be: "I do not think there is more typhoid fever than usual at this season; In fact, the hospitals would seem to have fewer cases this month than in August last year. Not all that is called typhoid fevar is properly described. For example, we hear every now and then tbat typhoid fever is epi demic, or nearly so, on tbe Soutbside. If you take some people's word for it some doctors' word, too-there Is a great deal of typhoid on the southern bank of the Monongabela. 1 have been called to consult in several such cases of alleged typhoid, and have fonnd them to be really intermittent fever, which is a different thing by a long shot The truth is that a great deal of malarial fever is dignified with the naino of typhoid to tho unnecessary alarm of com munities. J-Jere's another little observation upon ty phoid fever tbat a physician gives me. "I have observed," said be, "that typhoid fever attacks foreigners more frequently than natives here. This summer I bare been par ticularly Impressed with this phenomenon. In the hospitals nearly all the typhoid patients are persons who have not been settled here long. The class to which the bulk of the Ital ian and Hungarian immigrants belong is es pecially subject to typhoid fever. It seems to be tbe disease of acclimatization with them. They come here, go to work, and at the end of a year's residence very often are taken down with typhoid fever. The microbe of ty phoid evidently finds an easier lodgement in the unaeclimated laborer than the native. In my practice tbis summer I bare hardly en countered one native typhoid fever subject while the unaeclimated patients with the same disease have been too plentifnl by far." PEOPLE IB GErTEBAL. CoNOnESSMAif W. H. H. Cowxis, of North Carolina, is at bis home in Wilkesboro- and In very feeble health. Captain D. W. Mullait, who commanded the Nipsic during the big Samoan hurricane, is a guest of the Lafayette, Philadelphia. New York's ex-Commissioner of Public Works, General John Newton, and bis family, are spending tbe summer at tbe Grand View, Littleton, N. H. The latest candidate for Director General of the World's Fair is John B. Carson, Presi dent of tho Chicago and Western Indiana Rail road, and formerly general manager of tbe "Monon." Miss Gabbtelle Greelet conducted a grove meeting last Sunday afternoon in the pine grove planted by ber father about 40 years ago on his farm at Chappaqua. About 400 per sons were present What Is called the Legal Education Society has been organized in New York in the interest of women who desire to enter the New York University as students of law. Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt is spoken of as its first president. Henry Douglass Pierce and daughter, of Indianapolis, sailed for Europe yesterday on the steamer Majestic. Mr. Pierce is a nephew of tbe late Vice President Hendricks, and was formerly a law partner of Senator Turpie. Cha.bi.es Fisher, the veteran actor, has .re tired from the stage and has gone down to his birthplace in Suffolk, England, to end his days. He is 75 years of age. He played in "As Yon Like It" for the last time in London on Mon day, his part belhg tbat of tbe aged Adam. THE schooner Mary Anderson has sailed from San Francisco in tbe hope of rinding tbe $2,000,000 lost years ago when tbe Brother Jona than went down with all on board. Nobody knows where the vessel sunk, butasklppor of the Pacific thinks the good luck which follows the name of Mary Anderson may locate tbe lost treasure. According to Prof. E. James, colored, tbe earth has but a little more than a twelve month to stand. Prof. James is & chiropodist with an international reputation. He has traveled much and removed corns and bunions from tbe crown heads of Europe, so to speak. In his odd spells he turns bis mind loose on prophecy, aud after a careful study of tbe stars ho is compelled to fix August 21, 1891, as the grand Bhake-down and wind-up of tbe universe. A Cbnrtre Promptly Related. From the Philadelphia Itecord. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Black promptly re futes tbe charges of dissatisfaction on bis part with tho conduct of, the Gnbernatorlal cam paign by the Democratic Stato Committee. "O ur friends tho enemy" are prolific In devising campaign boomerangs. STATE PBESS OPIHIOirS. Newcastle Democrat, Sem.i The Quay forces in Lawrence connty never needed a lead er as badly as they do now. Altoona Times, Dem.: If tbe workingmen of Pennsylvania are true to tbeir own interests they will rote solidly for Democratic Congres sional candidates. Catawiesa News Item, Dem.: "With the candidates aud confidence men both working the farmers there does not seem to be much show for the farmers' families. Aitoona lribune. Rep.: Senator Plumb.of Kansas, is evidently in tbe wrong party. His place is in tbe Democratic ranks, and tbe soon er he takes himself there the better. CH.AHBER3BUEG Repository, Rep.: If the Republican ticket should be defeated it would mean a Democratio Legislature, which would choose a successor to Donald Cameron, whose term expires March 4, I89L Coluhbia Herald (Dem.): The Republican leaders of the State are greatly worried over tbe business-like mannerin which Congressman Kerr, tbe newly-elected Democratio State Chairman, is proceeding with his work. HABBiSBUBO-Parfot (Dem.): The manner in which Blaine is gaining ground on his enemy. Reed, must be tar from pleasing to tbe big. waisted ruler of tbe House. In other words, "Czar Tom" seems to be no match for "Jeal ous Jim." , Johkstowk Tribune (Rep.): Judge Harry White, of Indiana, was permitted to speak at Rldgerlew Park yesterday. The people listened because they had to, but the time has come when what Harry White says goes in one ear and out the'othor. Pottsvtlle Miners' Journal (Rep.): What ever may be said of tbe methods by which Sen ator Delamater was nominated, it Is apparent to everybody tbat he has much tbe advantage in. the personal canvass of the State which both he and Mr. Pattison Intend to make, TEE PEICE 0? A DOG SITE. Charles Myers, a Trnlocr, Secures 93,000 From W. K. Yanderblll. New Yobk, August 8. For nearly two years Charlie Myers was employed by Mr. Vanderbilt on bis blgLOOO-acre farm of Idle Hour, at Oak land. L. I. His work consisted in training a notable collection ot bird dog and, incidentally, he was caretaker of tbe handsome new coach house. To one of these bird dogs, tbe Irish setter Mnrtagb, Myers owes bis life. One morning last October be went up to tbe big houe and gave orders tbat tbe big mastiff Wallace, which had been roaming about tbe grounds during the night, be tied up. The butler promised to attend to the animal and Myers went back to the ken nels and took two of the bird dogs out f or exer cise. As he skirted the lawn he saw Wallace standing near his kennel. He was loose, and Myers ran up confidently enough to fasten him before tbe otber dogs approached. He leaned over, and, grasping the brnte by his collar, tried to thrust htm in the kennel. Wallace threw blm aside as If be bad been a feather and caught his arm in his hnge maw. Myers fonnht desoeratelr. Tbe mastiff released the roan's arm only to catch a new hold upon his lelt leg. Men came running up at this moment The setter Murtagh was ahead of them, bow ever. When be saw bis trainer attacked be sprang forward and seized Wallace by tbe throat. The mastiff at once dronned Mvers and began to tear his assailant, with great difficulty the, big fellow was finally tied. Tbe setter was well nigh killed, but after weeks of careful attention be came around all right. Myers was faint and sick with pain and loss of blood. Dr. Corwlckewas sent for and cau terized the trainer's wounds and gave orders to have Wallace shot. For weeks the patient lay ill, and when be finally recovered bn was only tbe shadow of his old self. His case bad attracted the personal Interest ot Mr. Vanderbilt, who cabled from Paris that he should be given every care until bis com plete recovery. Myers' first walk out ot doors took him down to tbe coach-house, where bis chum, Jimmy Johnson, the English coachman, pointed out to him an object hanging over tbe door. It was the stuffed head ot Mr. Vander bilt's redoubtame $700 dog Wallace. Myers left "Idle Hour" May 13. He ex pected damages for the fearful injuries he bad received, but he didn't hire a lawyer. Armed with bis physician's certificate he went to Lawyer Frank Loomis, one of the Vanderbilt coun-el. and pleaded bis own case. By order ot W, K. Vanderbilt be received his big check yesterday. It was the exact amount he bad asked for. WILD WITH JOY. A Republican Connty Captarcd br Demo crat! for the Flnt Tlmo Since iho War. Colbert county, Ala., went Democratic on Monday last for tbe first time since the war. The Sheffield Daily Enterprise, in speaking of tbe event says: "Tbis is the first time Colbert county bas gone Democratic on both State and county tickets since the war. Men were wild last night and all were merry over tbe result. A big bonfire was held and anvils and fireworks discharged, and men yelled and boys shouted and women cheered and veterans grew young, and Rads sought their hole and negroes fol lowed and tbe grand old chanticleer crowed, jumped from his perch to save the negro from bis enemy tbe carpet bagser and the glorious American eagle spread his wings and screamed AmenI AmeuII Amen'II" CTJSBENX TIMELY TOPICS. Two facts were demonstrated by the execu tion at Anburn one that electricity will kill, and the otber that the newspapers paid no attention to the law regarding the publication of the affair. And now it is denied that Senator-elect Brlce has bought tbe Indianapolis Sentinel. The denial comes from tlie proprietor of the paper, which ought to be considered first-class authority. Nearly ZOO Congressmen have petitioned Speaker Heed for a breathing spell. As the Speaker is believed to be opposed to the resolution, it is safe to predict tbat business will be continued at the old stand. Pittsbukgers are not doing much talking over the war now raging between rival traction companies. Neither will they protest against 3 cent fares. Tho average citizen does hot kick when bis pocketbook is not being trifled with. It is stated that 250,000 women are married yearly in England. It there were that many mar riages In Chicago yearly a person could tell how many divorces were granted by cutting off one cipher. Mrs. Gladstone always attends public meetings when her husband is going to speak. There are several men in this city who are not very faraway when their wlvetare makingex temporaneous speeches. The local board is having as much trouble in securing a director general of the World's Fair as a fast young man has of making both ends meet It is said that Chairman Brlce paid out of his own pocket (250,000 in the Cleveland campaign. National and Senatorial campaigns certainly are expensive luxuries, bnt a person who can buy a railroad one day nd a first-class paper the next don't notice snch little things as 250,000. Lord and Lady Dunlo bare made upl Dnnlo would be dolntr tbe right thing now to bis wife and nobllltr generally if be should tie a heavy weight to his neck and throw himself Into tbe sea, and say here goes nobody. CONTINUED GOOD ATTENDANCE At tbe Pleasant Lnvrn Fete ot St. James' Church, Wilklnubnrs. There was another tremendous attendance at the Irwn fete of St. James' R, C. Church, at Wilkinsburg, yesterday. The various amuse ments provided by tbe management, and tbe good humor tbat pervaded everything made the occasion a delightful one. In response to a unanimous request it bas been decided to con tinue the fete another day. So tbis afternoon and evening there will be not only a repetition of tbe fnn, bnt more of It, for Prof. Tony White and his "Punch and Judy" will be there. Everything seems to favor the fete so far, for although it rained on Thursday night it was not until the last few groups on tbe grounds were reluctantly dispersing, while lasc night tbe weather was all that could be desired. ME. BLANKENBTOG'S LETTER. New York World: Mr. Rudolph Blanken burg, in his letter to Delamater, declares that the nomination of Pattison by the Pennsyl vania Democrats "makes it easy for Republi cans who own themselres" to rote against Delamater. It is an admirably apt phrase, and tbe election will show bow many of the Penn sylvania Republicans do "own themselres." Oil City Derrick: The mass of people in tbe State were not tumbling orer each other to find out how Mr. Blankenburg was going to rote. If Mr. B. did not care to rote for Dela mater there would be Democratic rotes at tbe polls in November and he could hare roted for Pattison and Pattison's backers without making any particular hullaballoo orer it But that did not suit Mr. B.'a purpose. Philadelphia -Pre": Here and there an independent Republican announces his pur pose not to support Senator Delamater, but for every one of these there are buudreds of inde pendent Republicans who are solidly in line. Tbe company of Republican kickers ts an ex ceedingly lonely one compared with the strong body of independent Democrats who will not support Pattison, and many of whom will vote for Delamater. Philadelphia Times: The letter of Mr. Blankenburg undoubtedly reflects tbe senti ments of many intelligent Republicans of the Bute He is not a political leader in the sense tbat politicians accept tbe term tbat is a leader with a following that is subject to his orders; but ha is a leader in a different and what is sometimes a much more important sense. His leadership consists in bis ex ceptional courage In saying what he believes. and be thus reflects and emphasizes a senti ment that is always likely to be eruptive these days and that is specially threatening this year. DEATHSJtfA DAY. Rer. E. M. Vna Deuseit, D. D. The Ker. Edwin M. Van Deusen, D. D the first rector of Bt. Peter's Church, In this city, died at an advanced age, on Thursday morning, at his residence In Baltimore. Dr. Tan Deusen was rector or St. Peter's from 18SI to 16M, and by his wise ministration brought the parish to a high degree of prosperity, lie numbered among his parishioners Jaeob W. Pane, H. J. Lynch, John Harper. Hill, Burgwln and tho late James A. Hutchison, Hon. William p. Johnston and Charles A. Colton. It will be remembered bv many that Dr. Van Deusen. although a strong Republican, refused to allow politics to fas made an Issue in the church, and on accountof this re fusal some extra-loyal members tried to turn him out. A tierce contest ensued, bnt Dr. Van Deusen was sustained by an overwhelming vote or the congregation, by whom he was beloved. He soon afterward aicejite'l the rectorship or u race Church, Utlca, N. Y., which, after eight online years of Jailhiul and successful ministration, be resigned on account or ill health, and retlre.i from all active work. He leaves to survive him a wife and fire grandchildren. WISSMANNA WRECK, The Major' Friends Have bat Little Hopei for Ql Recovery Tbe Emperor to En Joy a Bunting Trip Berlin Church Pea pie Calling far Fnnds. rconnxsroNDiNOE or tui dispatch. giBLlir, July 25, Another wedding of the haute finance and tbe world of sbow is about to take place. Robert Warscbauer, tbe Berlin banker, bas engaged Ellio Eckert, daughter of the late orchestra leader of tbat name, for life or a shorter period, as tbe case may be. By the terms of the agreement Herr Warscbauer reserves all rights to himself, as far as bed and board are concerned, and, if I know Ellle at all well, tbe stipulations will hold good for a considerable length of time. Ellle. you must know, is not a spring chicken by any means, and Warschauer is at least three times her age; but whatever he lacks in youth he makes up in millions. It is said that on tbe wedJn5 morn he will presont his bride with 1.000,000 marks for every year of life she has passed according to ber birtb certificate. It is needless to add that the wedding takes place at an early date. Tbe Emperor to Go Hnnting. J beae from a reliable source that tbe Empe ror will spend a few weeks of the fall or winter hunting season at tbe recently acquired Lorraine possession. Tbe old proprietor has ordered an auction of all furniture and so forth belonging f o Castle Neville at an early date.and after tbat a number of Strasbourg and M6tz decorators will proceed to the chatean and sub mit plans and estimates of renovations to tbe Grand Master ot Ceremonies. Literary Berlin la enjovlng a scandal at the cost of the Baroness von Hlllern. of Oberam-mergau-boarding-house fame, whose name is Just now frequently mentioned in connection with an exorbitant note) bill, presented by ber to an English family of six and amounting to 437 marks for three days' miserable board and lodging, together with an extra bill amounting to 800 marks for allowing a sick lady's maid to sleep under tbe baronial roof. The Baroness is a daughter of Charlotte Blrch-Pfeifer, who, as a clever adapter of silly novels made a name for herself as a rtlavwrirrht. And In that ca pacity furnished most of tbe early successes of Maggie Mitchell, tbe American soubrette. Wlnmann a Physical Wreck. Behlin gentleman who met Major Ton Wissmann In Africa, tells me in tbe strict est confidence that be has little hope ot the Major's entire recorery. The Major is rery fond of the Joys of the table, especially when decorated with plenty of champagne bottles, and the change of hemisphere has not made any difference in his war of living. The con sequences of such recklessness in the burning climate of Africa are known to every pby f clan ; they have already appeared In the Major's present sickness. Beside being a physical wreck he is in a highly excitable mental con dition, which delays his recovery, if such be possible. He cannot stand criticism and tbe slightest disparaging remark abont his varions adventures mads bv thn nreu or nnlilln la liable to throw him into a passion. uiio x-nnce uismarcjc nimseu ana tnepress are apparently only too willing to fan the fires of discord between tbe ex-Cnancellor and his imperial master, Kaiser Wilhelm has only re gret and kindness of feeling for bis grand father's old servant. From the yacht Hohen zollern be lately addressed an order to tbe Ber lin authorities giving tbe Cross of Honor to all police officials who were formerly in tbe serv ice of tbe Prince. The fact Is generally com mented upon as a particularly gracions act in the face of the many dlsreSDectful remarks lately accredited to Bismarck about the Kaiser. How Jewelers Protrct Themselves. 'The Jewelers of tbis city have a peculiar fashion of saving themselres from thefts by employes when closing tbe shops for the night At 9 or 10 o'clock, as the case may be, erery employe in the store is required to take off bis coat and don a long brown Holland smock, fastened tightly at tbe wrists, baring an elastic band running round near tbe feet. They then commence to clear the show win- dows and cases, placing the glittering articles inm me sates, iua master or mistress oi toe shop superintending the proceedings. In tbis way it becomes impossible for an employe to secrete anything on his person, and a they are required to call out tbe number of tbe articles nanaied, they fina little. If any, opportunity to use their mouths or stomachs as biding places for their master's property. Six young couples were married In the Pots dam Garrison Church on Sunday, July 20, by the Royal pastor. Dr. Roge. The grooms were all dressed alike in black suits, the brides wear ing white tulle, witb myrtle blossoms. After the ceremony they marched into the restry, and each receired 450 marks in cash and a Bible, bound in sumptuous manner, with the portrait nf Queen Louise on the cover. These six couples had been found worthy of the Queen Louise inheritance, distributed yearly among deserving poor boys and girls ot mar riageable age. They came hither irom all parts of Prussia. Calling for Fundi. A numbeb of Berlin Church people are about to issue a circular calling for tbe erection of a German Protestant Church in Rome. En glish, American, Scotch andltalian Protestants bave chapels in the Eternal City and it is ar gued tbat the German colony on tbe Tiber is also strong enough to call for a prayer house of its own. At tbe present time the private cbapel of tbe German Embassy is used by tbe Prot estant Germans, but this is at times entirely too small to accommodate tbe worshipers. Last Easter, for Instance, 200 Germans received communion in the Embassy Cbapel, and tbe crowd was so great that tbe Ambassador and bis lamily were literally crowded out of their own domain, At the Kaiserhof table d'hote I met Mr. Coleman, first secretary to Minister Fbelps, the other night, with bis charming young American bride. Both looked in excellent health, and Coleman told me that he never felt better in bis lire. One could bardly expect it to be otherwise. The young lady who bas se lected Mr. Coleman for ber lord is indeed a charming woman, tbongh quite different from tbe accepted style of Southern beauties. Sbe Is blonde aud lithe, and rery quiet in manner and dress. I am sure she will be an immediate favorite in Berlin's aristocratic circles. w An Old Lavr to be Enforced. "ynB Gipsy nuisance bas assumed such alarm ing proportions in tbe neighborhood of Berlin that the Government bas been com pelled to recall to the minds of police officials' an old law of the year 1836. which decrees tbat all Gipsies unable to prove tbeir borne in one of tne Prussian provinces muse ue regarded as common racabonds, and sent from one place to tne other under the rigilance ot a gend'arme until tbey reach tbe frontier, wben they will be kicked Into a neighbor's territory. I saw two horses bnng by tbe neck until tbey were dead yesterday. They were harnessed to a bearily laden grain cart, the rear wheels ot which stuck fast between tbe tramway lines wben the driver endeavored to make way for an approaching car. In tbe struggle to pull the wagon from between tbe rails tbe grain sacks shifted to the back of tbe cart, whereby the horses were suddenly jerked high in the air. Tho maddened animals made a fearful struggle for life, and help arrived Irom all sides. In less tbn eight minutes tbe cart was unloaded, and tbe horses lowered to tbe ground, when it was found tbat the unfortunate animals were dying. THE COUNTRY LIFE. Not what we would, but what we must, Makes np the sum of living; Beaven is both more and less than Jnit In taking and In giving. Swords cleave to hands that sought tbe plow And laurels miss the soldier's plow. ile. whom the day holds, whose feet Have worn Its stony highways, Familiar with its loneliest street Its ways were never my ways. My cradle was beside the sea. And there, Ihope, my grave will be. Oldhomesteadl If tbat gray old town, 'lhy vane Is seaward blowing. The slip of garden stretches down To where the tide Is flowing; Below thev lie, their sails all furled, The ships that go about the world. Dearer than little country house. Inland, with pines beside It; Some peach trees with unfruitful boughs, A well, with weeds to hide It; No flowers, or only such as rise Belf sown, poor things, which all despise. Dear country hornet Can I forget The least of thy sweet trifles? Tbe window vines that clamber yet, Whose bloom the bee still rifles? The roadside blackberries, growing ripe, And in tho woods the Indian pipe? Happy the man who tills bis field. Content with rustle labor; Earth does to blm her fulness yield. Hap what may to his neighbor. Well days, sound nights, ah, can there be A lite more rational and free? Dear country life of child and maul For both tbe best, the strongest, Tbat with the earliest race began, And bast outlived tbe longest; Their cities perished Ions ago; Who the first farmers were to know. Perhaps our Babels, too. will fall; if so, no lamentations. For mother earth will shelter alt, ' And leed the unborn nations; Yes, and the swords that menace now Will then be beaten to tbe plow. - . S, B, Stoddard, &&i&- i ,. ri . . 1 -..' ' " S'SiJiwti.si .-- f . -.. . ,A . W..i.... !S .mU-- ," v .... .. - -..-- . v KHMisKSiiKr.y. iJ'tAi. .,;, JiIbWA. j 1MI lllijilat jjYlPHa ( laafam''-3u-' BaaMtBti4-.-.'. VjaaaaaaMlaa& M ELECTBI0 PEANKENoTElN. A Mechanism Both Ingenloaa and Useful Tbat Moves a Perambulator. Lowell, Mass., August 8. George R. Moore, of this city, a retired mill-owner, has constructed an electrio man that walks about with erery appearance of life, and is made to be useful as well as ornamental by pushing a perambulator. Tne chair orer whieb he pre sides is a light wicker-work affair, like those of a half-grown trotting suley. There is a foot board which Is used for carrying the batteries which put the propelling power Into the elec tric man's muscles of wood and steel. The man stands directly behind the chair. If he were flesh and blood be would just come in side the limits as a lightweight sparrer. and as far as all appearances go would be about 25 years old. He Is connected with tbe chair at about the point at which the humau diaphragm is popularly supposed to be located. There is a pushing bar above this, on which bis neatly gloved hands rest, but this is more for vanity than utility. He is dressed In tbe height of fashion, being attired In a new suit of gray mixed goods, white sblrt with collar and cuffs to match and a soft felt hat He bas a number of changes of clothing, and can be dressed for Fourth of July or Christmas weather just like any man. He wears a No. 6 shoe, four wide, and supports a Louis Napoleonic mustache. Met upon any thoroughfare be would be marked for bis general style and dignified bearing. Just at present his complexion is a little off color, but he is to hare tbis treated with the most approved toilet preparations that the paint box can produce. Tba action of the feet and legs, which tbe in ventor has reached with this machine, is a remarkable imitation of a human being. There is none of tbe jerky motion tbat Is so commonly seen in mechanical figures. Each foot, as it leaves the ground, rises naturally on the toe with the same spnney motion tbat is charac teristic of the graceful walk among men and women. As in the taking of tbe foot from the ground so In replacing it at the end of the step, tbe motion is free from jog or jar, and is entirely natural. Tbe electnc man is provided with a six-horse power battery, which is amply sufficient to enable him to push tbo fattest dowager up Corey hill. It Is Mr. Moore's in tention to make bis electric man polite, as well as useful, and to tbat end bis right arm, which is said to hare more joints and bones than tbe corresponding member of tbe human body, will be so arranged tbat be can raise his hat grace fully as he receives a fare. OK THE E0AD TO BOSTON. Special Trains an Every Road Crowded With Passenger for tba Hob. Chicago, August 8. Erery passenger train arriving in Chicago to-day on all the Western roads, brought large bodies of excursionists en route to Boston and New York, who are taking advantage of the cheap rates consequent on the Grand Army Encampment in the former place. The Grand Army of tbe Republie delegates and tbe Third Regiment of the Missouri National Guard, from Kansas City, ar rived at tbe Union depot this morning orer tbe Burlington. The Northwestern road brought in a special train in three section from Wis consin points. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul brought tbe California Department, and all the roads had one or more contingents. Tbe Rock Island will bring in four special trains to-morrow from Kansas and Colorado points. Tbe crowd from Chicago East is unprece dented. At the Michigan Central office to-day tbey were obliged to turn people away in large numbers, unable to giro them accomodations. This road will send two more special trains running through to Boston. They bave also arranged for a new line of Chicago and Boston sleepers to go into service on tbe Nortb Shore Limited trains. It Is said that not 50 per cent of tbis extra travel is made up of Grand Army men. Ordinary tourists are taking advantage ot the cheap rates in great numbers. STATE CONDENSATIONS. Reading workmen bave organized and will try to elect tbeir own candidates to Councils. A swabm of bees entered tbe cab of a loco motive at Allentown and drore tbe engineer out. Easton has a scamp who finds pleasure In soiling white dresses by tbrowing licorice juice on them. He soiled six in one evening. The figure-caller ata Mauch Chunk ball had such a voice tbat persons living within two squares were prevented from sleeping. A 3-Yeae-old child of John Speicber, of Lebanon, ate a box of pills on Wednesday and died yesterday of spasms and exhaustion. A West Cuesteb dog stole two loaves of bread which be bad observed a baker leave in tbe yard of a restaurant early on Saturday morning. The 18-montbs-old daughter of Charles Yerkcs. of the Sorrel Horse Hotel, Bucks county, fell in a tub of water one day tbis week and was drowned. A mysterious malady has attacked tbe cattle of Job Hayes, of Marlborough, Chester county. After suffering a few minutes tbe animals drop dread. It Is rumored that a syndicate of Philadel phia capitalists is endeavoring to purchase nine acres of ground from Mrs. BergeratLangborne for the purpose of erecting a large hotel. The sanitariums situated along the South Mountain, near Wernersrille, are well patron ized this season by those in pursuit of health and pleasure. There are nearly 600 guests reg istered and sojourning at them. A boy named Jobn Kerns fell on the rail road track, near Warren, his chin striking sqnarelyon the Iron rait Eight teeth wire knocked out and six driven Into tbe upper jaw so far that it required many hours' work of surgeon and dentist to extricate them. His lip also was torn and had to be stitched. A Commendable Movement. From the Chicago Journal of Commerce. That very observant newspaper. The Pitts bubo Dispatch, is stirring up tbe subject of fitting up "toilet rooms," (alias lavatories, with all tbe word Implies in plenty of clean water, soap, towels, combs and brushes) in all the foundries, workshops, factories and mills of tbe entire Union. The movement is a good one, and should meet with a hearty assent and adoption everywhere. Tbe expense would be light in any concern, aud the results would do much toward making the operatives cleaner and more contented. We rote for the "toilet rooms." - A Remarkable Woman. From the Presbyterian Banner. A gentleman of tbl city sends us the follow ing: "A late number of the Dispatch contains an account of deaf persons who could tell what persons are saying by tbe movements of their lips. 1 know a lady who was deprived of her hearing wben a cnlld by disease. Sbe is sensi tive and intelligent, a great reader, and bas a most remarkable memory. She can not only tell what people are saying wben seeing move ments ot their lips, but can tell what tbey are saying In the dark by placing her fingers near their lips." Wood Coantr'a Gna Wells. From the Ohio State Journal. A gentleman employed in the city, but a resident of Wood county, says tbat tbere are now over 1,000 gas wells owned in Wood county by the Standard Oil Company, tbe appraised ralue of which is $1,360,000. In April 724 were returned to the County Auditor for taxation. FIGS AND THISTLES. A bottew post will tell you the truth abont Itself the minute you shake it. The only thing man really needs is the rery thing God is most anxious to give blm. WnEN people want to help others, the best thing they can do is to pray tor themselres. Thousands of men move into Sodom be cause tbey first took a trip down into Egypt. Example is more contagious than smallpox, and tbere is no way of vaccinating against it. If churches were built without back 'seats, it would be hard to get a backslider Into one. Grand preaching is all well enough in its way, but it is grand living tbat does tbe most for God. Whenever tbe smile of God touches tbe head ot man it makes a shining mark for the devil to shoot at. LoKO faces and cheerless hearts in church members have done as much to keep the deril in good spirits as tbe distilleries. People who are traveling toward perdition witb all tbe speed they can master, are not the ones Satan is most anxious about. Bishop Taylor sleeps with a stone under bis head. He has a softer pillow than tbe man who goes to bed with a guilty conscience. The best thoughts we hare are those tbat get into our bands and feet,,andIeads us to do something for others that God la pleased with. CUBI0US CONDENSATIONS. Seals hare good appetites. It Is circu lated that 40,000.000 pounds of fish a day are required to feed tbe far seals that the United States want to protect. In theKoyal Library at Berlin are now 797,971 bound volumes, of which 24,021 are manuscripts. Berlin University has 137,793 bound volumes and 5J.S73 unbound ones. Tbe Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad now awards a premium of S10 to each of its engineers running schedule trains who get through the month without killing any cattle. Matilda Fromboy, a deaf mute, was ad mitted to tbe St. Lawrence connty, 24. Y.. Poor bouse in 1525 and bas probably never been absent from tbe house a day or night since. Sbe is now 03 years old. Miss Mary Tillinghast, of North Ston fngton. Conn., is an inveterate snake killer. Since the 4th of July sbe bas settled tbe fata of 00 snakes of all kinds, black, copperhead, adders and rattlesnakes. A Danish young lady, a first class pas senger on a steamer which arrived in New York on Saturday, refused to travel to Detroit in a parlor cart preferring to go with her com patriots on an emigrant train. Baseball is getting a terrific hold in Cuba, and promises to unseat even bull fight ing. It is said to be strange to bear all the terms of tbe game used in English by a people who otherwise speak only Spanish. Three Chelsea. Mass., boys are under arrest charged with train wrecking by placing a bcary tie across tbe track. One of the boys has confessed tbat he put stones on the track some time ago "to see the train jump." About 1 per cent of the postmasters in tbe United States die annually. On the 30th of Jane. 18S9. there were 53.939 postoffices in the United States, and on the 30th of June. 1890, 62,400. During the year 633 postmasters died. Leigham Court, Streatham, near Lon don, comprising 66 acres, has just been sold for 90,000. It was for many years tho residence of the late M. J. Treadwell, a railway contrac tor, who began life as a navvy. His widow still preserves the pick and shovel with which be worked as a laborer. The most extensive thermometer in this country is in' Use at the Johns Hopkins Uni rersityrit is known as Prof. Bowland's ther mometer, and is rained at J10.0CU. It is an ab solutely perfect instrument, and tbe gradua tions on tbe glass are so fine that it is necessary to use a microscope to read them. Kangaroos are to be imported into this country to provide fresh big game for sports men, now that the buffalo is almost extinct. A number of M'ealthr Americans propose to intro duce the kangaroos at tbe beginning ot next summer and bouse them in the Yellowstone Park until tbey become acclimatized. For its 125,000 people DeuTer has 69 churches: 16 Methodist. 8 Presbyterians, 8 Con gregatlonalist, 9 Baptist, 7 Roman. 6 Lutheran, 5 Episcopalian. 2 Disciples ot CampDellites. 3 Jewfsb, 1 German Reformed, 1 Unitarian and I Unirersaust. The foreign population is not relatively so large as in Chicago, but is better represented In cbnrcbes. - Miss Mattie Hester is the United States mall carrier over tbe route from Condar, Laurens county, to Lotbair, Montgomery county, Ga,, a distance of 40 miles through a sparsely settled region, which sbe traverses three times a week. Sbe drives her own mail cart, carries a revolver and is punctual as the sun at all seasons and all weathers. A few days ago a gentleman killed a large bald eagle, near Beresford, that had a brass tag attached :to a copper wire fastened around his neck. On one side of the tag was JW; inscription: "Sapelo High Point, May 21, 1877." On the reverse side was stamped: "Mag nolia House, No. IV The first inscription looked as though it bad been cut with a pointed steel or a knife. The little English sparrows in New York bare learned a new dodge since electrio lights replaced gas In the city parks. When the current is turned off at dawn the bottoms of the globes are filled with hundreds of insects rhlch hare been attracted by the light and killed. The sparrows come around after the globe bas cooled off. slide down the carbons and devour tbe insects. On the farm of Joshna Clond, in 'West town township, near Chester, a double-beaded calf was born, but it died in a few hours. Tbe two heads were perfectly jointed together and there were but two ears. Tbere were two mouths, four eyes, two sets of jaws and bad the animal liveu it would bave been able to use either sec of the last mentioned parts in dependently or both at will. A driver of a beer wagon in New York got roaring drunk tbe otber day and poured parU green into a pot of coffee and ran bis wife out of the house. When sbo returned with an officer he was found writhing in bed, He bad forgotten what he bad put in tbe coffee uu. aim uau urunK consiaeraDie oi it. The doctors had a bard time pumping the poison out and tbe Tjcum won't xorgec tne lesson soon. The famous Dnnmow flitch of bacon is claimed this year by no fewer than nine couples, as a reward for perfect conjugal har mony. Howerer, the committee hare only cbosen two of tbe number to contest the prize, all middle-aged folk. It is nearly six centuries and a half since Robert de Fitzwalter first promised a flitch of bacon to the couple who could declare honestly that they had neither quarreled nor repented of their marriage for a whole year and a day after tbe union. Fleasanton, Mich., has a qneer case. Fourteen years ago Daniel Clark bought a lot of land and moved there from Canada. Three years later Mrs. Daniel Clark settled down on a lot nearby, but did not seem to know Mr. Clark, who appears had deserted ber some years before. liine years husband and wife lived within gunshot of each otber without ex changing a word. Last week Daniel Clark went over to his wife's bouse, and in less than half an hoar tbe two went back to the bus band's residence and bave been living together ever since. Tbey are 70 years old, and the women of tbe neighborhood are just crazy to learn wnat was the matter and bow it was fixed up. .Neither of tbe Clarks is talking. Prof. Marsh, of New Haven, noticed a horse with what seemed to be very singular "bone formation" in one of its legs. Tbe ani mal was attached to a dilapidated asi wagon, driven by an aged negro. Prof. Marsh ac costed the man. and after making a cursory examination of tbe protuberance, concluded by saying, in a half jocose way: "When your horse dies, I should like that leg for scientific examination. Bring it to my bouse, and I will give yoa J5 for it." Two hours later, on reach ing home, be found a long, awkward bundle on the veranda by tbe front door, wbicb, ou being opened, nroved to contain tbe leg of tbe negro's horse. "You see, sab," tbe driver ot tbe ash wagon remarked, witb a peculiar look in his eye, "de ole horse, be died." ALL MAID IN FEN. Thirsty Customer A mint julep, pleasel Barkeeper With or without ice? "Witb, of course." 'A dollar and a half, pleasel Cash In ad vance." .Vew rort Sun. She (affectionately) Goodby, George dear. Think sometimes of me stllll He (brutal to tho last) I will try to. old girl. But It will be awfully unnaturaL American Grocer. "I don't believe in allowing domestics to get tbo upper hand. 1 make my servant keep her place!" 'You are lucky. Ours never does for more than three weeks. "American Grocer. His Latest Title. "Wee "Wile Lore yon7 Of course I do. You dear, blessed old peach crop. Big Husband (loving but lnckless)-Great HcottI Why this new title? W. W. Because you are such a perpetual fall, ure. Xenownit't Sews. A Tale of Woe. Mrs. Mulcahy Bridget U'Donahue, It's me sympathy ye have In .your sorrow. Bridget Yes, the owl man has gone; bat troubles never come alone. Ol don't know. Mrs. Mulcaby-Bedad, and what's happened now? Bridget-Faith, and me poor billy-goat swal lowed a bit of Ice and tbe Iceman shot him dead to recover his property. Kearney Enterprise. Careful of Her Reputation. Mary Jane (ready to retire) Come, Susan Ann, ain't you 'most ready to go to bed? susan Ani Umaied) tVhat! and leave this room without twin' set to rights? My Ian) t Mary Jane, what sort o' housekeepers do you reckon burglars would think we are If they should come In here lO-hlzhtl-FMIadtlpMa Inquirer. Quite Excusable. Hattie "Why will you wear that starched shirt and tbat stiff collar such weather as this? Why don't von wear a cheviot? Harry Well, the fact Is. I don't look nearly so well In a cheviot as I do In these things." Hattie I think you are quite justified in not wearing a cheviot. Boston Transcript. "I're had a delightful time on my raca tlon. No regular hours for meals. A large airy room. No charge for hot and cold baths. AU fruits and vegetables. A well-stocked wine eel' lar and no charge fur corkage, and, above all, no fees fur the servants. ' Dellcloast Where Is this ideal spot?" 1 stayed at home. 'Sea lark Sun, ''ssasyrsajnijWMMirirTiijiri iqiTijsTpppjirBfitMmrMMMj
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