THE ABMY IN REVOLT.
Another Mutiny Among the Boasted
Kedcoats of Great Britain.
DISCONTENT SEEMS WIDESPREAD.
The Independence of Bnlsaria to le re
claimed August 16.
A WILDKEPOET OF CHOLERA IN PARIS
Casta Great Consternation ail Faraljsts Business
for a Tlmr.
Another English army corps has mu
tinied. The disaffection is believed to be ot a
serious nature. Emperor William has per
suaded Lord Salisbury to form a sew alli
ance. A report of cholera in Paris proves
to be without foundation.
tBT DCKLXP'6 CABLE COjrrAKT.1
Loktkmt, August 8. The spirit of revolt
among the military bodies of the nation is
Terr far from being stamped out by the ban
ishment of the Grenai'ier Guards to Ber
muda, The latest offenders against army
discipline and the national welfare are the
men ot the corps located at Chatham, whose
re usal to obey orders was made the subject
of an official inquiry, which resulted in the
punishment o 15 or 20 men, who were sen
tenced to be imprisoned for28 days.
The story of this trouble is that three days
since, when the corps was ordered by its
officers to parade, a large number ol the
men refused obedience and took forcible
possession of the parade ground and barri
caded themselves in some of the storehouses,
where they openly defied the officers and
shouted from tne windows their dislike and
independence of their superiors. For some
hours the mutinous corps held their ground
aud were dislodged finally only by the ar
rival of a liirgelv superior lorce of troops.
This morning at parade the officer in com-
Tnnnri rtiullanr'i.d nnrnf the mpn vehn irpw
discontented to fall out of the rank", and I
he would hear their complaint. .At this in- I
VUalion three of the privates stepped lor
ward and signified their wish to be
heard. A court of inquiry was im
mediately called, and the men then
complained th.it additional duties hadbeen
imposed upon them by non-commissioned
officers, and that no uotire had been taken
of their protests. It is thought here that
very general discontent prevails, and
further developments of a serions nature are
freely discussed as being possible.
SEW SOCIALISTIC SCHEME.
Programme for the Heornanlzntion
ad
Control of tun I'nriy.
BESLIN, August 8. The UeWtner Tolkt
blatt says that the scheme tor the reorgan
ization of the Socialistic Democratic party
provides that anyone accepting the pro
gramme and subscribing funds will be enti
tled to membership. A con erence will be
held annually, to which delegates pledged
to promote the party's interest will be chosen
each yer irom Electoral districts. The
Socialist members ot the Beichstag and tne
members of the Committee of Management
will be entitled to be preent at the con er
ences. The conference will have supreme
authority over the Managing Committee's
action and the organization of the commit
tee. The committee, which will consist ot five
members, will be balloted for by the con
ference. The members may receive pecuni
ary assistance. The Managing Committee
will conduct the party's business, summon
conferences and control the attitude of the
party organs in matters of principle. Com
mittee ot five Socialist members of the
Beichstag will supervise the Managing
Committee. The Tolcsblatt will be the offi
cial organ of the party.
SO SETTLEMENT YET.
Wales Deserted bj Tourists In Conarqnence
or I be Bis Mrlke.
. fBT DOTLAT'S CABLE COMFAXT.
London, August 8. The report that a
provisional settlement of the railway strike
in Wales had been effected,is not confirmed.
Late ju the day the railway men received
the offer of the directors, fixing 240 hours a
month as the time for labor and decided to
adhere to their original demands. Accord
ing to the latest accounts there is little doubt
that a srttli-meut will be made before long,
but meanwhile the aspect is very rloomy.
The railway stations are closed, aud con
sequently trade is pa rah zed. Fourteen
hundred men aud several thousaud colliers
have stopped work, and seem determined
not to resume until their demands are ac
ceded. The country is losing a great deal ol
money by the obstruction to tourists, who
have now quite deserted Wales, going to
Scotland ana the Continent instead.
INDEPENDENCE OF BULGARIA.
August 13 Expected to be an Important Dor
in (be Coontrr'a HI"lory.
rBT DCNLAP'S CABLE COJIPAST.J
SOFIA, August 8. Great preparations are
being m ide here or August 13, on which
day it is confidently expected that the mde-'
pendence of Bulgaria will be proclaimed
and .Pnnce Ferdinand elected King. Mr.
Monlkourolf, the Bulgarian Minister of
War, who has been lately at Vienna, has
succeeded in inducing the Austrian Gov
ernment not only to desist from all opposi
tion, but to support the project of inde
pendence. He has returned to Sofia with a formal
promise that the Cabinet ot Vienna will
accept the independence of Bulgaria as an
accomplished act, as soon as it is pro
claimed, after which England, Germany
anil Italy will doubtless do so likewise, aud
there will be only Eussia and France left to
contend with.
EKBBACING "H"? GEEEK BEUGI0N.
Fear of a Wholesale teces1on of Armenians
to Avoid Oppre-slon.
London, August 9. The aVeics corre
spondent in Armenia says that a report that
the villagers of Ardanzt are embracing the
Greek religion, causes apprehension ot a
wholesale secession ot Armenians in order
to escape mpression. ,
The year correspondent in Macedonia
declares that the new commander in Mace
donia openly avors the Artiauts, thus un
doing the good work of the former notably
honest and energetic commander, Ahmed
Byub.
BLBDIHO THEM FABEWELL.
The Qneen Wishes ibe People of lUIIfo
Innd Peo-prriir.
BEBLTN, Augusta Cot.ksofa message
from Queen Victoria have been placarded
in Heligoland. In the message the Queen
wishes the people ol the island continued
prosperity and contentment under German
rule, nd says she feels assured that the
Germ m Emperor will use all his power to
promote their welfare.
G'lffl In Forma a Cabinet.
Brisbane. N. 8. W., August 8. A new
Cabinet has been lormed by Mr. Griffiths.
Mr. Griffiths is Prime Minister; Mr. Me
Ilwaith, Minister of the Treasury; Mr.
Hodnkinsnn, Minister of the Mines, and Mr.
Cowley, Minister of Lands.
, Flkhilnc Ibe Cholera.
Caxso, August 8. Troops hve been sent
to guard all points on the Bed Sea where
persons Irom Arabia are likely to land.
Cruisers assist in maintaining the cordon.
The mortality at Jeddah continues about
100 daily.
A NEW ALLIANCE FOBHED.
It Is Reported That iheKsuer Baa Arranged
nn Importnnt Trent jr.
fBT BURLAP'S CAELX COMPART.!
London, August 8. The political clubs
are greatly exercised" by the reports of the
Emperor of Gemany's negotiations at Os
borne. It is said that His Majesty brought
with him the ratification of an offensive and
defensive alliance with Sweden and Bel
gium, and succeeded in persuading Lord
Sili.bury to consent conditionally to join
the peace coalition outside the triple alli
ance. Lord Salisbury, however, stipulated for
the right to communicate the fact to the
French Government. Lord Salisbury's con
sent whs obtained only through the influence
of tbt Queen, which, of course, is paramount,
and His Lordship made a great many diffi
culties. TEE MEDICAL COHGBESS
Finishes the Preliminaries and Is Thor
onghlr nt Work.
Berlin, August 8. The Medical Con
cress is now thoroughly at work In every
section. To-day's Jiscussions included ty
phus fever, military hygiene, obstretics,
neurology, pschylatfy and diseases(of the
larvnx.
The delegates visited theTempelhof gar
rison hospital, the natural historymuseum
nnd the municipal disinfection institute.
Prof. Virehow presided oyer the microscopic
illustrations in the demonstration gallerv.
In the afternoon manyorthedelegateswent
nn an excursion to the irrigation works at
Hunersdorf and inspected the convalescent
home.
A COKCERT AT THE PALACE.
Entertainment In Honor of the jledlcal Con
trrrsa nt Berlin.
Beelin, Augut 8. Chancellor von
Caprivi and several other Ministers at
tended an open air concert given at the new
palace this evening in honor of the medical
congress. The music was furnished by the
hands of the Gnaids and Hussars.
Prince Leopold conversed with the guests.
A cold collation was served in the hall of
the palace.
NO CHOLERA IK PARIS,
But a Rumor to Tbm Effect Creates a De
cided Puilc.
tBT PUSLAP'S CABLE COHPAJTT.
Pabis, August 8. Startling rumors are
current on the Bourse to-day that a violent
outbreak ol cholera had taken tdace in this
city. Speculation was'pinlvzed for a while,
but further inquiries showed that there was
no foundation for the,, re port and business
resumed its briskness.
An Exndn Cnnaed by Cholera.
Madbid, August 8. The spread of
cholera in the South of Spain has caused a
panic among the inhabitants. A general
exodushas begun to the North of Spain and
to France.
In Trouble nnd Injnll.
Dublin, August 8. Mr. Powell, editor
of the Midland Tribune, has been sentenced
to eight months' imprisonment in Tnllamore
jail for publishing a boycott resolution.
Tsrna a BI admnn'a Act.
27api.es, August 8. Caporali, who as
saulted Premier Crispi in this city some
time ago, has been acquitted on the ground
of insanity.
Wll'lnm Starts for Hellsoland.
London, August 8. Emperor William
bade the Queen farewell this evening and
departed lor Heligoland amid cheers and
salutes.
A DAZZLING METEOR.
Earth and ekTBrllllnntl; Illuminated Before
it Exploded.
Nobwich, Conn., August 8. A meteor
of prodigious size, and blazing like a lost
sun, fell in the Western sky at a few
moments before 9 o'clock last eveninc. It
made an astounding and splendid spectacle.
A reporter strolling along a country road in
the western part of the town, had
an unobstructed view of it. He was
looking down when the meteor sud
denly blazed ont in the dark night.
It descent began near the zenith, exaetly in
the west, and it fell slanting into the north
west. It appeared tn he nearly as large a:
the full rrfoon, and diflused a bluish-white
light that was quite as (xiwerful as that orb
is, ind which lighted up the rountry land
scape as a mighty flash of lightning does in
a murky night
For an instant fields, woods, crops, houses,
walls and roads blazed with dzzling
sxiendor, while the whole Western sky was
the hue ot a glowins opal. When right in
the center of a cloud the fire ball apparently
exploded, though no report was heard, and
instantly the whole cloud turned scarlet,
while jets ol fire gushed through
it. So startling was tne career
of the meteor, so amazing its magnitude,
and so overpowering the radiance, that the
beholder was bewildered for several seconds,
for ordinary meteors are no more than
sparks when compared with this monster.
There is no record in the history of Con
necticut of another meteor that is at all
comparable in size and splendor with the
giant of Wednesday evening.
On the same evening abont an hour later,
a splendid meteor, about one-fifth as large
as the first one, but still wonderfully large
and bri ,! 'nt, tell Irom the northeast across
the nnrthe i sky into the northwest quarter.
The teoe I one illuminated the country
witu luish-whiie Iicht and exploded in a
range ot low, dark clouds. Ordinarily the
secimd meteor wonld be considered a won
der, hut its glory was eclipsed in that of its
incomparable rival. Several other meteors
of notable size were seen on the same even
ing. THE COTTON CB0P.
It Is Thoncbt ibe Crop Will Hardly Equal
List Tear.
Florida Times-Union.
According to the statement of the Bureau
of Statistics for the year ending Jnne 30,
1890, the exports of cotton exceeded those
of any previous rear, amounting to
2,471.800.000 pounds. The value is
placed at $251,000,000, which is
less than that - realized lor the
crop of 1866 by 530.000,000. But that was a
phenomenal year. The world's supolv of
the staple bad become exhausted in conse
quence of the war, and the Southern plant
ers were enabled to realize the ennrmou
snm o 5281,000,000 on a crop ot onli 650.
73,000 pounds. It has been predicted all
aloi.g tnat the crop of last ye-ir would ex
ceed that of any previous year, and the pres
diction seems to he well supported. It is
too nrly even now to come to tl e exact
figure, hut it is believed the cion will a.
grrg te a million and a quarter of hales.
It is expected that this year's crop will
not quite equal that of last, but that as
large an amount will be realized fiom its
ile. It -is estimated by some nf the best
authorities that there will be a demand for
7,500 000 bales of American cult in, and if
there is known to be a scant supply there
will be assurance of better Drices. The sub
ject of bagging, which cansed so much ex
citement last year, can be dealt with far
more easily this year, with the aid of a
vear'sexperience. Cotton bagging is already
being turned out by Southern factories, and
will be largely nsed, while fine fiber bag
ging, vnd perhaps other kinds, will be ex
perimented with. The prospects of the
cotton planters are most favorable. They
have a reasonable assurance of remnnera
tive prices ibis year and for many years to
come. They are growing more ol ether
crops and raisins more live stock than in
lormer years, and are therefore more self-
supporting and independent, Tbev
are
rapidly paying themselves out of debt and
getting down to s cash basis.
PRIEST.
SWINDLED OUT OF THE SAV1NQ3 OF
YEARS BY SHARPERS.
A Slliht Variation of ibe Old Confidence
Game The Police Notified and In Senrch
of the Operators Details of the Scheme.
rsracTAL telegram to th dispatch, i
Netv Tobk, August 8. The Eev. Peter
Saponara, of the Italian Boman Catholic
Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, in
North Eighth street, Williamsburg, is
looking after three swindlers, two of
whom captured $3,000 of his money
very easily last Wednesday. He is
a comparatively young man who has been
working very hard in Williamsburg. He
deposited his savings for the last 15
years, amounting to $3,000, iu the
Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in
Chambers street in this city. Abont six
weeks ago a man called on him at his home
in Havemeyers street. He was well dressed
and a good talker. He neglected to tell
Father Saponara his name.
"I am a resident of Williamsburg," he
said, "and I am fimiliar with your name
and your good work here. I want you to
take charge of an orphan nephew of mine.
His f ither was a wealthy man in Louis-
Iville.Ky."
To Police Captain Short, or tne nea ora
avenue station, the priest told this story:
"Some time ago I gnt acquainted with an
old man who wished me to take
care of and educate his boy. He
visited me seversl times. Finally he
came and said the boy had sickened and
died. Several times thereafter he called on
me and gave me o understand that he
would give me $10,000 to help me in the
church and to build a house adjoin
ing it for my occupancy. I had
often explained to him the condition
of affairs with me and I believed
everything he told me. He said he would
send over for me some day, and be dido. I
went over on Thursday and as I was passing
Broadway at Twenty-third street three men
met me. Tbev said they were envoys
from the old gentleman, and had
his gilt tor me in a tin box which
the showed me. They opened the box, and
I saw what I thought was a roll of money.
They said it was $10,000. After handing
me the box one of the men said I ought to
give some security, and they spoke
of the money I had in the
bank. I then went with them to
the bank in Chambers street and drew the
money out, $3,000, and gave it to them.
They told me that when the old gentleman
got the money be would know that they
had delivered this gilt to roe, and
that he would be over with the,
money I gave to them in a few
days. When I got home and opened the
box all I touni were these rolls ol worthless
paper." Captain Short notified the police
ot this city, giving a description o the men,
including tne old man, as lurnisnea Dy
Father Saponara.
WEAT MOTHER'S SHOULD ENOW.
A List of Importnnt Alnxims Concerning tbe
Cnre of Children.
Youth's Companion. J
That overfeeding is the chief cause of
cholera infantnm and other forms of bowel
complaint in young children.
That in summer it is often water, not
milk, for which the child is crying, and
that the stomach may already be danger
ously burdened.
That while the natural appetite of the
young is a pretty sa e guide, so long as the
diet Is simple, rich pies and cakes and other
highly seasoned food tend to the habit of
over-eating, and lay the foundation for fu
ture dyspepsia.
That the chief damage by smoking aud
cigarettes are at least as bad as cigars is
done within the growing age, while the
child is still under the influence of the
mother, and that the harm is most serious
upon that center of li e, the heart.
That the chest is packed full with the
lungs and heart, and room is gained lor tne
inflation of the lungs only by a wonderful
mrchanism which lifts as the breath is in
haled, and that it greatly imperils the health
and life to bind down the chest, especially
in growing girls, whether with corsets or
tight dresses.
That the abdominal cavity is similarly
packed with its organs; that tbe liver alone
extends two-thirds across it, and that tight
lacing deeply futrowa the liver, sometimes
cutting it in two, a thin membrane alone
connecting tbe parts; that the fnll stomach
is thus often pushed up against a weak
ened heart, and the pelvio organs are so
crowded as to produce serious and perma
nent ill fleets.
That the lack of vitality in many chil
dren, by which they are rendered peculiarly
susceptible to infectious diseases, is due to
a deficiency of pure air in their sleeping
rooms.
That a child's brain is not in a condition'
for sludy before its seventh year, and that
when a child is precocious there is special
reason for holding it back, if it is to be
saved from brain disease, future dullness or
possible imbecility.
That no growing child should fail to have
at least nine or ten hours' sleep iu a well
ventilated room, and that no sleep is perfect
with a light in the room.
That children under 17 should not be al
lowed the excitements of evening parties.
Thatchildren, from the earl iestpractic ible
age, should be trained to habits of self-control
in all directions.
That every mother onght to make it a
prime object to secure and maintaiu the
mMest confidence of her children and her
normal influence over them.
ARREST OP A NOTED BURGLAR.
He Waa Captured In a Clerejmnn's Honse
and Confeaaed Bin Gulll.
EASTON, Augnst 8. John Arnold, one
of the most daring thieves ol this section,
was arrested at Bethlehem to-day, and
brought to Easton this afternoon. Arnold,
who was released from the Eastern Peni
tentiary about two months ago, at onre
began a series of crimes, which has kept
Detectives Johnson and Simons hunting
bim up.
The robberies included the law office of
P. C. Evans, the coal office of Kessly &
Son, and the residence of Mrs. Wolverton,
in this city, beside a dozen offices and resi
dences in Bethlehem and Mauch Chunk.
To-day Arnold was seen in the residence of
Bev. Mr. Evans, nt Bethlehem. The house
was surrounded aud the burglar was cap
tured. He confessed his guilt.
EROM TEE CANNIBAL ISLANDS.
A Bemnrknble Young- Woman Who
Is a
Mr. xnni In a Slulne Family.
Portland Press.
There is in this city a young woman abont
20 years old whose history is even more re
markable than l.er appearance is unu-ual.
She has a dark, flopper-eolnred complexion,
very high cheek bones, and prominently
sharp, long teeth. When but 5 years
old, away off on one of the South Sea
islands, she was sold by her own people,
who are cannibals, to a Portland sea cap
tain, nnd the sellers, i not the buyer, firmly
believe that she was bought to be eaten as
lood. She has passed through our grammar
schools with credit. Although never able
to articulate our language correctly, she can
make herself understood. She lives in the
capacity of a servant with the sea captain's
wife, and is much attached to her.
A 10-Yenr-Cld Heroine.
Hew York Telegram. J
Miss Jeanne Victorle Snook, aged 10, has
been presented by the Mayor nt Portsmouth
with the honorary certificate oftbeBnyui
Humane Society lor saving her little
brothel's life in April. The lad fell (torn a
landing stage into 12 leet o water, and
must have perished had not his sister, who
was unable to swim, jumped in and man
aged to keep him afloat until a waterman
came and rescued both. The case is said to
be without a parallel in tne annals of the
Eyal Humane Society:
PUSHING THE COUNT.
Pirst Enumeration of the Country to
be Completed in a Week.
SOME OP THE LATEST FIGURES.
The Big Interior New York Towns Eemain
Almost Stationary.
A SECOND TBIAL ORDERED IN ST. PAUL.
Some
of the Tery Tecnllar Features of the Censns
Work la That City.
Forty-seven million people have been
counted by the Census Office, and it is ex
pected to finish the entire country within a
week. All estimates place the total figures
at about 65.000.000. The second enumera
tion of St Paul will be commenced Mon
day. ITEOJI X STAIT CORBESrOITDIHT.l
Washington, August 8. Mr. Suther
land, who is in charge of the electric count
ing machinesjin the Census Office,said to-day
that he expected to finish tbe actual count
of the country within the neit week. Tip
to this evening his 'orce had counted in
rouud numbers 47,000,000 people in the
United States, and it i: making a daily
record of about 2,000,000 a day.
The estimate of the office is that there are
65,000,000 inhabitants in this country, so
that there are still some 18,000,000 more to
be counted. At the rate the machines are
now being worked it will only take about
five days longer to finish tbe count.
A QUICK COUNT.
It has been a remarkably quick count so
far, and will make'e, very good record for
the machines. Some of the clerks have
counted as many as 9,000 and 10,000 a day,
but the average has been for each machine
employed about 5,000 persons. The pcttel
card count has been completed and gives a
re-ult nr the whole country of something
over 63,500,000 population, but this don't
include the penal, blind, insane and other
institutions, and has been shown to be in
other, ways considerably below the actual
figures.
By this count the populntion of New Tork .
State is said to be 5,99S,000 (round num
ber), Pennsylyinia, 5,391,000, nnd that of
West Virginia, 774,000; while New Jersey's
population has been increased nearly half a
million over what it was ten years ago.
Tbe large towns having been enumerated
and got out of the way, the office will, from
now on, be turning out the figures ot popu
lation o several smaller towns each day.
SOME OF THE FIGURES.
According to to-day's figures. Wilmington
has been growing quite rapidly during the
decade. It has now 61 69 inhabitants,
while in 1880 it had only 42,478, showing nn
increase ol 18,959 or 44.6 per cent. The
New York towns do not seem to be making
very rapid progress, if the figures of popula
tion are any indication. Albany, which in
1880 had 90.758 inhabitants, has now 93.523.
or only 2,765 more than it had then. Trov"
with 53,747 people in 18S0, has now 60,605,
an increase of 3.858 or 6.8 per cent
The new South is, however, fulfilling her J
firornues and is masing a good record. At
anta has grown to be a city ol 65,514 in
habitants against her record of 37,409 ten
years ag". This means an increase o. 28,105,
or over 75 per cent in the decade a pretty
good showing for a paralyzed community
such as Atlanta had a quarter ol a century
ago.
Secretary Noble has approved the recom
mendation of Superintendent Porter sub
mitted to-day, that the original order direct
ing a recount of the population ol the entire
city of St. Paul be put into execution. Mr.
Purler, in his Jetterof recommendation,
gives' a detailed account of his '
BECENT INVESTIGATION,
which shows that while perhaps the larger
share ol the irregularities were round in the
nine specified enumeration districts, yet the
gross errors in 45 districts render, iu nis
opinion, a recount o the whole citv neces
sary. An examination of the schedules
discloses among other irregularities the fact
that at least 4,000 dnplications of names
were made.
The Secretary, while exonerating the citi
zens of St. Paul from even a suspicion of
collusion in falsifying the enumeration
schedules, believes that the errors com
mitted were or so gross a character aud so
general as to require in justice to all con
cerned a recount of the whole city.
Assistint Chief Clerk Wardle, of the
Census Office, who was designated by the
Secretary and Superintendent Porler tocos
duct the recount, will leave Washington for
St. Paul to-mnrrow. The work of re
enumeration will be begun next Monday.
SOME PECULIAR FEATURES.
The overhauling of the returns from St
Paul, which was made necessary by the de
termination to have a new count of that
town, has developed some curiosities in the
way of census enumeration. Not only did
the enumerators connt hundreds of people as
living in the large commercial buildings of
tbe city, bnt they would count every boy
and girl in the day schools and then en
umerate them again at their homes. Then
an enumerator, alter having finished his
work in his own district, would go into the
adjoining district and enumerate the people
there.
Bnt the most curious of all tbe doings of
these men was discovered by noticing that
in many of the schedules there were a num
ber of persons counted withont any age be
ing assigned to them. It was found out on
investigation that these people were still
unborn. An enumerator entering a house,
and noticing a prospect oi another heir iu
the family, would count the child, give it a
name and thus increase St. Paul's popula
tion and vhis own profits at the same time.
There were scores and scores of such cases,
according to reliable information.
LlGHTNEB.
AW rHTEBEST XS $1,700,000.
signed Away Before Rlnrrlnge by a Wife
Who la to Gel bni 83,000 a Tenr.
Philadelphia, August 8. When tie
will ot Cla tou French, senior member of
tbe firm o French, Bichards & Co., whole
sale druggists, was admitted to probate it
was noticeable that his wi'e, Margaret H.
French, was bequeathed an annuity ni $5,000
a year, her whole interest in the estate being
far below her dower right, the lortune being
valued at (1,700,000.' Subsequent develop
ments have proved that this compara
tively small bequest was the re
sult of an ante-nuptial agreement between
Mr. French and his wile. Mrs. French's
maiden nnnle wjs Margaret H. Bitter, the
being the sister of Mr. French's first wife,
by whom he had several children. The re
lationship between the amilies caused Mr.
French and Miss Bitter to form the agree
ment, for the purpo e of avoiding any leel
itig that might be created eoncerning tbe
marriage and to preserve the individual
m-hts o' the purtles, Misi Bitter haviug an
independent fortune.
The contract was mnde on September 14,
1886, and waa recorded on April 13, 1888,
uearly two years alter their marriage. It
specifies that the estates of both the parties
shall remain distinct and independent; that
Miss Bitter shall surrender all dower rights
and that Mr. French shall relinquish all
liens upon the fortune o his fiance. In ac
cordance with this contract the residue of
the fortune n Clayton French, amounting
to over (1,000,000, is divided among the
children uf the first wife, the second mar
riage being withont issue.
A Cang-riaman Renominated.
ST. Chables, Mo., August 8. Congress
man Norton' was to-day renominated to
succeed himself bv the Democratic Conven
tion ot the Seventh district
CHTJRCH AND COLLEGE.
A Blgnlflcnnt Fenlure In the Recent Se
lection of Presidents.
Springfield Kepnbllc&n. r
It is very significant of the waning tute
lage of the churches over the higher educa
tion of the country that two snch colleges as
Amherst and Oberlin should invite a lay
man to the Presidency. Pifty years ago
such a departure would have created ex
citement. When Harvard asked a layman
to preside over the institution in
1828. the clergy regarded the move
as an invasion of their rights. .Now
two of the must pronounced Congregational
colleges have started off in the same direc ;
tion. Amherst was founded by denomina
tional agencies to educate young men tor
the Christian ministry. It has always had
a clergyman at its head, and the leading
members of the faculty have been clergy
men. The same may be said of Oberlin,
which is now the great stronghold in the
West of Congregationalism in education.
Another recent instance of this movement
of the denominational colleges away
from the guardianship of the churches
s the election of Prof. B. B.
Andrews as President of Brown TJniuersity.
He bears the title of doctor of divinity, but
nis training at home and abroad has been
as a student of economics, and the bent of
his mind is as far away Irom theologv as the
study of sociology and political science to
which he is devoted. He belongs, in short,
to the new class of specially trained edu
cators to which President Gates, of Eutgers,
belongs a class which has largely grown
into existence in the past 25 years.
Heretotore, as with Amherst and Oberlin,
Brown has had for a President a man who
might be said to have been educated and
trained to the woik of tbe ministry rather
than to that of guiding collegiate instruc
tion. It is inevetable that this tendency will
continue. It grows out of the fact that the
colleges are growing beyond the bounds of
theilenominations and particular influences
which projected them; and that the more ex
acting staudards of to-day require for educa
tional work special training for the
special service. It docs not neces
sarily mean that the churches are
losing their influence over the work
of tbe colleges; but it would seem to indi
cate that the colleges were very rapidly
passing beyond the guardianship or particu
lar denominations, and that, in the growing
disposition of students to gather where the
best training is to be had, regardless of the
particular theological doctrine on which the
institution was founded, a demand has been
created which necessitates the total aban
donment of that particular doctrine or
eogma as a guide in the choice of instructors.
8TSB PRISED thk thi vv.
81,773 In tbe Pocketbook Instead of the 85
or 810 Be Expected
New Ioek, August 8. Two young col
ored men were playing 15-ball pool in
Thomas McGuire's saloon, at 22 Nesbit
street, Newark, yesterday afternoon, when
McGuire stepped out of the back doorforan
instant When he returned the men were
gone, and he found that a pocketbook
containing $1,772 was missing Irom the
money drawer. Bunning to the front door
McGuire saw tbe two men walking
rapidly toward Central avenue, and
he raised the cry of "Stop thie 1"
They ran, and several young men of
the neighborhood gave chase. One of the
mulattoesgot awav, hut the other was cap
tured at Central avenue aud Plane street,
alter a sharp chase of half a mile. In his
coat pocket was found the pocketbook and
(1,770. Two dollars bad disappeared.
The prisoner was taken to the Second
precinct police atation. He said be was
John Wallace of this city, and that he was
born in Costa Bica, and had lived there
until last ye ir. He is 20 years old,
and speaks with a Spanish accent.
He took his arrest nonchalantly, and
remarked. "De ole man may be s'pnzed to
get his money back, lut he ain't no more
s'prized than I was when I seed the size of
'the roll. I came netr droppin' dead. I
only 'spected to get $5 or 510." Wallace
said his companion's name was George
Phillips.
HELD FOB $4,500 DTJT7.
Robert Garrett TJnnble to Get a Picture In
aa nn Antiquity.
' ISrBCIAI. TELEOBAII TO Till DISPATCH.!
Baltimore, August 9. Bobert Jarrett,
through agents, huu;ht a painting in Lou
don, which he had shipped by the Allan
Line steamship Carthagenian, and for
which he is said to have paid $15,000.
It was marked as antique and so in
voiced, but when it was unloaded at Locust
point the Government officials seized it, and
despite the protests of the agents, placed it
iu the United States bonded warehouse,
where it is still held awaiting the payment
of duty. Matthew Kobmson, bons & Co.
here are the agents baring charge of
tbe matter. They have not seen tbe paint
ing and know nothing about it. except that
they have been informed by the United
States consul that the picture ceuld be ad
mitted duty free, as it was painted before
1800, and could therefore be classified as au
antiquity.
The customs officials, however, contend
that tbe painting was made siuce 1800, and
as there is no proof to show that it was ex
ecuted by an American artist it is subject
to duty and will be held until the amount
is paid. The duty on the picture will be
about 4,500. '
TAIXOES AUD THE TARIFF.
Tbe Senate Petitioned, to Increnae tbe Dnty
on Jlnnnf ictnrrd Clothing.
BOSTON, August 8. In tbe Merchant
Tailors' National Exchange to-day an in
teresting discussion on the McKinley bill
took place, and a petition to the United
States Senate was adopted, asking for the
imposition of a duty of 120 per cent ad
valorem to the rate fixed upou manufactured
clothing, and that the bill be so amended aa
to prohibit the importation duty free of
made-up wearingapparel.and that a separate
clause be inserted declaring wearing ap
parel to be distinct and separate from other
personal effects, and further, to limit wear
ing apparel admitted tree, both as to quantity
and value, to wit, one suit, one overcoat,
and other necessary we .ring apparel in
actual use on the person, and a like quantity
which has been in actual use, the whole not
to exceed in value the sum of $200.
A Piper Fire Engine.
Youth's Compaulon.
The Berlin fire department has lately re
ceived a novel fire eugine, which has ex
cited much interest in tbat city. Tbe car
riage is constructed entirely of papier
muche, all the different parts, tbe body,
wheels, poles and the rest being finished in
the . best possible mauner. While
the dnrability and powers ot resistance pos
sessed by this material are lully as great ns
those ot wood, the wtight is ol cnurse mnch
less. This lightness is considered agieat
advantage, as it will enable tbe new engines
to reach the scene of a tire with correspond
ingly greater promptness. It seems not un
likely that the wooden carriages will, in a
short time, pass ont of use altogether.
Isaae J. Greenwood, of New York, is
exhibiting a tooth In a glass case. The tooth is
mounted in gold. Above It bangs this extract'
from Mr. Greenwood's father's will: "I give
and beqneatb to my eldest son, Isaao John
Greenwood, forever, all tbe curios, medallions
snuffOoxes. General Washington's tooth, and
the under false Jaw ot teeth made for bim bv
my late father, John Ueeenwood." Tbe tooth,,
a large-sized molar, yellow from use and age,
was the last one removea from tbe illustrious
Washington's under Jaw, according to tbe
dlarj ot Mr. Greenwoou's father. In another
glass cue Mr. Greenwood exhibits a letter from
General Washington, recording the remittance
of 115 for a false Jaw. The latter waa dated
Irom Mount Vernon, January 6, 1778.
Catholic Total Abstinence Union to
be Represented at the Show.
DELEGATES FILLED WITH W0BDER.
An Ovation of Cheers and Whistles Given
at Carnegie's Hills.
FIBEWOBKS OH THE E1TEE AT H1GHT.
tne Visiters Gratified Beyond Expectation With Their
YisitloPUtslmrff.
The convention ol the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union adjourned yesterday and
the delegates were invited to a steamboat
excursion and given a peep at tbe big iron
mills of Andrew, Carnegie. A fireworks
display with plenty of red fire wound up
tbe show and the last of the delegates will
leave for their homes to-day.
The delegates and visitors to the conven
tion of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
were given an excursion yesterday to Brad
dock and Davis Island dam, and will go
home with an exalted idea of the hospital
ity and the resources of Pittsburg. Quite a
number of them left for their homes last
evening, but as many more stayed over, and
will not leave until to-night It wonld take
a large book to contain all their expressions
of gratification of their treatment while in
this city.
In tbe forenoon a meeting of the Execu
tive Council of the union was held at the
episcopal residence on Grant street Bt
Key. Bishop Cotter, the newly elected Presi
dent oi the organization, presided. It was
decided to take some action toward
having the union represented at the
World's Fair in Chicago in 1892, and the
following committee was appointed: Bey.
Thomas J. Conaty, D. D., of Kenosha,
Wis.; E y. J. M. Cleary, of Worcester,
Mass.; John H. Campbell, of Philadelphia;
Colonel W. P. Bend, of Chicago; John
O'Brien, of Stillwater, Minn.; William A.
Onahan, of Chicago, and W. J. Gibbons, of
Chicago.
TO PUSH THE WOEE.
The committee will discuss ways and
means toward representation at the big
show, and will report at the next annual
convention, to be held in August, 1891, in
Washington, D. C. Plans were adopted to
advance the work of the organization, and
appropriations for the organizers' depart
ment were made. A general movement all
over the country in favor ot total abstinence
may now be looked for.
During the session of the Executive
Council, the other delegates put in tbe time
visiting various points of Interest around
the city. Among the places they went to
were Troy Hill Chapel, Mt Washington,
Exposition hnildinc, Fort Duquesne, Aile
eheay parks, conservatories and Carnegie
Library, Court Hnnse and Mercy Hospital,
Home "for Workine Girls, St Mary's
Chapel aad St Paul's Asylum. -Bide to
the East End, seeinz on the wy the Cath
olic College, Bluff street; the Ursuline
Academy, Highland Parks, City Water
Works.
A ter lunch the delegates and their vis
itors boarded the steamer Mayflnwer, an'' tn
soft strains from the Cathedral Band, the
boat swung nut into the Monongahela and
steered for Homestead. Upon arriving at
the latter place they visited the Carnegie
mills and were escorted thrnngh the various
department by Superintendent Potter. The
stay was limited, and as soon as the party
got bsck-on the boat they were impatient to
see Braddock. .
orv'EK a royal welcome.
Genertl Manager Schwab and Superin
tendent Coszrove met the delegites at the
latter place. -and the ovation given the party
will probably never be heard again. It
seemed as if every engine, locrmotive and
mill whistle on the grounds tried to outdo
each other making the most noise. To add
to it every boat whistle in the vicinity kept
up an incessant tooting and a perfect pan
demoninm reigned for fully 10 minutes.
The employes of the mills aho turned out
and gave the delegates a royal welcome.
From the immense engine rooms to the
converting mills, from the urnaces to the
blooming mills, and from the latter to the
rail mill, where they saw steel rails turned
out at the rate of two every minnte, the
visitors went, filled with amazement and
wonder at each turn. Over the entrance to
one o' the mills was a sign: "Welcome to
the Delegates of the C. T. A." Other
decorations, the work of John Noey, fore
man or tbe boiler department, caught the
eyes of the delegates and were com men te I
upon. A delegation from the St Thomas'
Catholic Total Abstinence Union was also
present headed by Bev. Father Hickey and
President Thomas Brown, of the furnace
depattment. A citizens' committee, in
charge of 'Squire Hnltzman, Councilman
Bretinen and ex-Postmaster McCarthy, was
also present.
A BIDE OK GONDOLAS.
After going through tbe plant the party
was ushered on board a train of gondola
car, filled up with seat', and given a ride
to tbe boat While on the train, a meeting,
presided oyer by Bishop Cotter, was held,
and the thanks of the delegates tendered to
General Manager Schwab for his courtesy.
The boat then headed for home; nnd at Pitts
burg quite a number of the Eastern dele
gates, who wanted to catch early
trains', dropped off. A trip was made
to Davis Island dam, and while on
the way, the heavens were illuminated
with fireworks. It is seldom that temper
ance people try to paint the town red, but
they did it in this case, but it was another
kind oi red. The excursion reflected credit
ou the good management of Chnirmau
Joseph .Weldnn, M. J. McMahon and Coun
cilman Thomas Mullin. Catterer J. J.
Biley looked after tbe wants of the inner
man. and no one went,hnngry.
To-day the delegates who have not de
parted will go to Oakland and East Liberty
for a riae.
T00E TEN TO LIFT HER,
Hud to Knlnrga tbe Doorway to Get Sirs.
IllcGler'a Uody to the Hearse.
New Yobk, August 8. Mrs. Jane Mc
Gier, the heaviest' woman in Hudson county,
if not in New Jersey, is dead. She was the
mother of Cattle Inspector James McGier,
of York street, Jersey City, and tipped the
scales at '401 pounds. Her death resulted
from fatty degeneration ol the heart
Mrs. MrGier when she was married
weighed 118 pounds. She was the mother
of 11 children, seven o whom survive her.
Her husband is also living. She was 2
vears ol age. The body was placed in a col
fin 3i feet wide and 3 feet deep. It re
quired ten men to bundle tbe casket with
the body in it, and when an attempt was
made to get It out of the house it was lonnd
that the door was too narrow, and carpen
ters had to be sent for to cut away the wood
work be ore the coffin could be carried to
the hearse.
Euro EAIAEATTA CELEBBATE3.
The 47lb Anniversary of Hawaiian Inde
pendence Appropriately Observed.
SAN Fbahcisco, Angust 8. The steam
ship Australia, which arrived irom Hono
lulu to-day, says King Kalakaua gave a
reception at the palace July 31, on tbe oc
casion of the forty-seventh anniversary oi
Hawaiian independence. The Charleston
and Nipsic and H. M. S. Acorn were still
at the islands when the Australia left Au
gust J.
The Ideal That Bhonld be Studied br ibe
Ambors of America.
Chicago Mews.
It is as natural for a young people to copy
older ones as for an inlant to imitate motions
'and sounds. In the course ot natnre the
infant passes beyond tbe stage of imitation.
When a nation, born in the throes of revo
lution, has attained, through years of heroic
youth and manhood, the dignity that is
ours to-day as the greatest Bep'ublio on
earth, its life may reasonably be expected
to exhibit individuality. For a reflection
ol the character of a people we look to its
literature; 'nothing is better able to show
forth the daily life and the spirit of a
nation than its fiction. The novel
and the short story of ail lands,
merely in their national significance, afford
a study of wonderful interest Tne Ameri
can life of to-day is a copy of nothing. It
is absolutely unique. Nor is it lacking in
the most decided elements of romance and
of the picturesque. Where its spirit has
been caught perhaps best by Hawthorne it
has yielded everything essential for the most
stirring effects. If it were not so if we had
no originality our writers had better re
main copyists, for when they cease to be that
they wonld become nothing. It is to be con
fessed that onr literature has been too long
of that character which is worse than
silence of sustained mediocrity. Too long
our novelists have gone abroad for their
subjects; too long our people have gone
abroad for their novelists.
Let the writers look at home for their
subjects, and when they have grasped the
spirit of American national li'e they will
find a hurst of appreciation on the part of
the people. But let the writer that would
be successiui rid himself of the idea tbat
novels of New York drawing rooms are
American stories. The attempt now being
made to loist them as snch, either on us or
on those who jndte us by our fiction, is a
shameful fraud. Let him get out among
the people, breathe American air, look over
American fields, acquaint himself with
American flowers and birds, visit American
cities, and he will find springing up around
him material for the best literature tbe
world has seen. This national li e is already
being pictured in our abort stories. As yet
no great novelist is with us, but we have
become the best short-story tellers in the
world. Those who are to inaugurate an
American literature are in training. And
the dawning of it signifies the reality of our
national life, strong, secure, everywhere an
inspiration to the canse ot human freedom.
FOTJTn) HIS DEAB ONES.
A Hungarian Famllj'a rearch for Its Pro
tector. Cincinnati Commerelal-Qazette.!
There was a pretty scene enacted in the
Central police station at 7 o'clock last even
ing. A little boy had found a family of
outlandish appearance wandering aimlessly
through the streets. He was attracted by
the language in which they conversed the
Hungarian. He was himself a Hungarian,
and his sympathies were immediately
aroused. He talked to them and learned
their slory. Tbe family consisted of the
mother and six small children, the younget
only a few months old. They had just ar
rived, and were looking for their pater
familias, A. Bosem'eld, who had telegraphed
them to come on. He had missed them at
tbe depot, and they were sesrehing for bim.
The clever lad brought them and their
bundles to tbe station bouse. Their faces
were sad, and the prattle of the children
was hushed by the strangeness of surround
ings as they huddled up close to their
mother. Then their young friend and guide
set out on the self-imposed task of finding
the father. His acquaintance with the
Hungarians of the city served him well,
and soon he bad located Rosen eld at his
home, on Plum, near Adams street. He
brought the man, who. was almost dis
tracted, to the station- house. The meet
ing was a most joy'ul one, and it was
a picture to see the little ones jumping into
his arms. He almoat smothered them with
kisses, especially that youngest baby, "You
see," said he, apologetically, "I haven't
seen them for oyer n year. This baby I
never saw before. It was born after I had
left my native land to seek a position in
strange and distant America. I have done
well and lam happy." And he looked it,
although 'the tears-tears of joy were run
ning down his browned and sunburnt
cheeks. He went away with his dear ones
and tooK them to his home, accompanied by
the good wishes of all those present
DOGS AND STABS.
DIts of Soptmilllon nnd OlyifaolocT of Inter
est Jnatnt This Time.
The Bomans believed that the dog star,
Sirius, in tbe constellation of Canis Major
(the Greater Dog), rising with the sun add
ed to its heat, and that the dog days bore
tbe combined heat of the dog star and of the
sun. Sirius is tbe brightest of all the stars,
and there was some excuse for the supersti
tion of the people of old, although it was by
mere accident that the rising of tbe star co
incided with the hottest season of the year.
Tbe time of its rising is later and later
every year in all latitudes, and one day it
will rfs) in the dead of winter. Nevertheless,
it gave ns our "dog days."
There is another star, which also rises in
th beginning ot July, which is connected
with aapretty tradition concerning a dog.
This is'the star Prncvon, whieh came into
existence in this wise: Icarios, in Greek
mythology, was slain by some drunken
peasants, who bnried the body under a tree.
His daughter Erigone, searching for ber
father, was, directed to the spot by the howl
ing oi Msri, his faithful dog, and, when
Erigone discovered the body, she hanged
herself for grie1-. Icarios became the con
stellation Bootes, Erigine the constellation
Vireo, and Mara the star Procyon.
There are other dogs equally lamed in tra
dition and history. There is the dog of the
Seven Sleepers tbe seven noble youths who
slept lor 200 years. The dog remained stand
ing Tor the two centnrtes in the cavern with
them and neither moved, ate nor slept He
is.called in the Koran Al Bakim, and was
admitted into paradise by Mahomet, as be
deserved to be. Then there are Actssnn's
SO .dogs. King Arthur's hound, Aubrey's
dog, Lord Byron's dog, Flngal'a dogs, Llew
ellyn's erayhonnd Gelert Geryon's dogs,
Orion's dogs, to say nothing of the dog in
the manger, the barking dog. that never
bites, the dog that howls at death, and many
others.
IN DABKEST AFRICA
The Immense Nomber of People Engactd la
Geitlnsr It Ont.
Irom the Fall Mall Gazette
On Friday night at 6 o'clock thousands of
copies of Stanley's book were distributed
to the trade, and by Monday it was circu
lated throughout the length and breadth of
the land. The first English edition num
bers 20,000 copies (this is inclusive ol the
luxe editions, etc.). It is estimated that
during the last iour months nearly 11,000
men, women and children have been em
ployed upon it In England along 60 com
positors, 17 readers, 12 reading boys and 200
machine and warehousemen were at work
on it In the binding o 40.000 volnmes 600
men and 600 women were employed. There
are ten foreign editions.
The printing ink consumed amounts to 1
ton 10 cwt; multiply these figures by
eight for the foreign editions and vou arrive
at the enormous quantity of 12 tons. The
paper for tbe English edition weighs 65J
tons. As tb foreign editions are not so
large as tbe English, the figures are multi
plied br four only, which produces a total
of 262 tons. The binders' cloth nsed lor
England amounts to 4,500 yards, in Amer
ica to 9,000 and in other countries to 1,000
(they have paper covers in many eases).
That makes over eight miles. It is esti
mated that 268 printing rjrasMa have been
lin use to print the boos
He Was Bitten by a Do? a Tear Agof
and tbe Doctor Sizes It Up :
AS A CASE OF CHEOKIC RABIES.
The
Warden and His Assistants Do Hot
like tbe Situation.
STEAK6B CAPERS 0P THE CDLPEIT,V
nlis Wis Eeeeatly Flaeed Behind lis Ban ea aa
lecosatlon of Forgery.
John Bichards, a colored prisoner in the
Media jail, barks, bites and attempts to tear
down the walls. He was bitten by a dog io,
the spring of 1889, and one doctor says it is a
case of chronic ribies. Another physician
says there is no such thing. x
rsrxcuu. TZLIOBjLX TO THX DISPATCH. 1
Media, Pa., Augnst 8. A mad man in"
jail is the sensation in Media to-day. A few
days ago John Bichards, a negro, who fol
lows the kaisomining art as a means of liveli
hood, was dispatched by his employer to
collect a bill from a wealthy customer. He
was charged with receiving the money and
appropriating it to his own use, and also
with skilfully imitating the handwritingof
his boss in signing a receipt for it
EJchards don't tell the same story, but
avers that he took the lucre, and after re
taining three-fourths of it for wages due,
tendered the remainder to his employer,"
which the latter refused. He says also that
he did not sign the name, bnt that this wa
done by the man himself.
A DUSKY ELEPHANT.
Nevertheless, he was brought up before
Alderman Granin, and committed for trial
on the charge of forgery. No sooner was ho
landed in a cell within the cool quarters of
the Delaware county prison than "Warden
Rowland found he had a black elephant oa
his hands.
On Wednesday afternoon the most an.
earthly veils and barkings broke the solemn
stillness of the jail, and there was a hurry
ing and scurrying among the underkeepers
to ascertain the cause of it. Following the
waves of sound the officials found them
selves at the wicket ot John Bichards, and
looking through this they saw the man tear
ing everything loose in the fireproof com
partment He chewed tin pails and pans,
and attacked the cot legs and mattress with
his teeth, and then dropped on the yellow
pine floor and tried to lap it up with his
tongue, barking and yelping like a enr dog
all the while.
Assistant Keeper Hoopes, who has tbs
courage of a lion, slipped the iron bar and
entered tne ceil, but could do nothing with
the man. Water w8s then freely applied,
bnt be clenched his fist", chewed his arms,
and continued to bark. The doctor waa
away, but the telephone brought a medical
man of experience in W.lLwDickesonr
who tackled the case, with all the firmness
of the allopathic art
SADICAX, TREATMEirT.
After sending two hypodermic injections
of morphia and atropia into the arms of his
patient, be gave him 4 ounces of chloro
form, 20 grains nf ipecac and 10 grains of
calomel, with but little effect, and tbe man
still rayed and barked. Finally there was
a subsidence of energy ami a snooze, and
then it was that the medical man found
numerous marks ot dog bites on tbe patient
. When the latter awakened he explained
the cause of the trouble. He said he was
bitten by a large dog last spring a year ago
in the vicinity of the fish hnnse, and that
ever since he had had such paroxysms. The
doctor concluded that it was a case of
chronic rabbies, not amounting to hydro
phobia, bnt that a continuance of snch
would surely kill the patient This morn
ing Bichards was visited by Commissioners
of the county, and he entertained them by a
similar performance, but they kept th.i
grating closed.
Dr. J. H. Fronefield, the regular physi
cian o the prison, does not believe this is a
case of rabies. He thinks the man has been
bitten by a dog as the scars show, bnt he at
tributes the paroxysms to what is vulgarly
called "fits." Warden Bnwland is on the
auxious bench, not knowing the day or hour
when trouble will begin.
HIS FEELING3 HOTBED.
Senator Colquitt Grently "hocked by IBs
Actions of n Page.
The young grandson of the famons ex
Senator Nye, of Nevada, and nephew of the
equally famous Bill Nye, of Laramie City
and New Tork, was a few days ago ap
pointed a page in tbe Senate. He is very
popular with the other pages in the cham
ber, says tbe New Tork Sun, and with near
ly all of the Senators. One of them, how
ever, Mr. Colquitt, of Georgia, rather thinks
the new page has done him an injury. Soon
after the boy had taken the oath to support
the Constitution, and to defend his country
againi-t all enemie, foreign and domestic,
he was called upon to do an errand .or Sena
tor Wade Hampton, nho told him to get a
bottle of Congress water and a
sandwich for him at the restaur
ant, and place them in the cloakroom for
him. The page made a slight mistake in
tbe order, and tooK the articles oi refresh
mettt into the Senate chamber, and put
them, unintentionally, on the dek of Mr.
Colquitt, where they remained lor soma
time, the canse of mnch comment
Senator Colquitt is an ardent Prohi
bitionist, and was greatly shocked when ha
entered the chamber to find bis desk
adorned with a long-necked blark bottle
and a sandwich covered with a napkin. At
first be was disposed to think some of his
colleagues had been playing a practical
i ke. When he learned the facts, he gave
young Nye a Iectnre. and warned him to be
careful hereafter to distinguish between a
Prohibition Senator and one who is in favor'
of original packages.
THREE LITTLE W0BD3,
And Host It Is Possible far a Blockhead ta
l'ezzle a Philosopher
From tbe Nf w York Ledger. J
With the three little words "why," "how"
and ''what" it is quite possible for some
blockhead to puzzle a philosopher. f'Wby
does the magnetic needle always point to tbe.
north7" "How was the universe made?"
"What is light?" Here are three questions
that any fool may ask, yet that all the wis
dom in the world cannot auswer. There are
hundreds of other queries as simple and as
likely to suggest themselves to the inquisi
tive, to which science can make no satisfac
tory reply. On the other hand,,
positive philosophy, history, the
mechanic arts, and other prac
tical branches of human knowledge, afford
conclusive responses to a vast number of
important "whys" and "hows" and
"whats." All that it is necessary for man
to know he can learn from these sources,
and education in its best sense consists in,
tbe broadcast diffusion of the information
they afford, in its simplest, clearest form.
Europeans say we are an overcurtous,
people that we examine and cross-examine
strangers about matters with which we'
have no concern. That's a mistake. Every
thing in the way of information tbat any
human being is willing to impart concerns
us. We want to know. If those we ques
tion do not choose to answer, or cannot an
swer, our "whys" and "hows" and "wbats'V,
they can say so. We shall not be offended .
by the rebuff; but ask we wilt
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