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A PRESENT TO EUROPE.
The effete atmosphere ef London is being
agitated by several remarkable Americans,
bo The Dispatch is informed this mora
ine by cable. A demoiselle of Chicago,
vho possesses wonderful beauty and a bank
account even still more attractive, has set
the American colony wild with jeal
ousy by monopolizing the attention
of all the marriageable aristo
crats having more titles than coin
ot the realm. But superlative as the tri
umphs of the Chicago belle have been, she
has hardly impressed London so tremen
dously as a countryman of hers has done
frith public orgies of an unique pattern.
"We are informed that this enterprising
young man hired a hotel for a whole day
and assisted by an ex-Senator of the United
States, a judge of the Supreme Court
of New Tork, and many other
exalted personages of America and
English birth, proceeded to least and
royster in a style that made even London
stare. Ballet girls, champagne, policemen,
flower pots, glasses. Supreme Court Judges,
Senators, bottles, musical instruments and
free and independent American citizens
formed a maelstrom in the banquet halL
The Prince of Wales was not there, but we
are convinced that the account of the affair
will show him the futility of trying
to beat the American record. Nobody can
say that the United States is ungenerous
toward the Old World when it lends its
Judges, Senators and millionaires to
make London howL Oar loss is clearly
their gain. Yet the permanent loss of such
citizens could be borne with resignation by
this country.
A LEADING JOURNALIST'S DEATH.
The death of Mr. H. H. Byram, editor ot
the Chronicle-Telegraph, which is an
nounced in our local columns, removes a
figure that has long been prominent in the
journalism of this city. At the time of his
death there were very few among the news
paper workers of this city who could show
a lonsrer career of continuous service in the
various departments of journalism than Mr.
Byram. His newspaper career commenced
in the local department of The Dispatch,
and his merits won him the position of
city editor on this paper some seventeen
years ago. Having transferred his services to
the Telegraph in 1877,he continued to secure
advancement until he attained the manage
ment and proprietary control of the Chronicle-
Telegraph, which position he filled for
many years before his death. Mr. Byram's
career was a signal example of the success
of earnest and persistent endeavor; and his
death will be mourned by a wide circle of
friends in newspaper and business circles.
' PRESERVED FOR REPAIRING.
A review of the history of the vessels to
be repaired at the Kittery navy yard, in
Speaker Seed's district, demonstrates with
out doubt the natnre of the urgenoy for that
work which has been certified to by the
Secretary of the Navy.
The two vessels to be repaired there are
the Lancaster and the Monongahela. The
former was built in 1858 at a cost of
$670,000. Eighteen years after the Bureau
of construction and repairs reported this
vessel as "rotten at Portsmouth; probable
cost of repairs, $750,000; not worth it" But
the political urgency of repairs was as pow
erful then as now, and the $670,000 vessel
has been repaired and repaired over again,
until $1,657,000 has been spent on a ship
that was not worth repairing 14 years ago.
It is evident that 14 years after she was re
ported ''rotten at Portsmouth," the need of
farther repairs must be urgent in order to
keep enough of her together for future serv
ice in the line of getting repaired.
The record ot the Monongahela is a little
more honorable. She was built in 1862 at a
cost of $435,000 and the amount of repairs
expended on her in the subsequent twenty
yean has only been double her original cost.
Last year she took the lives of her crew in
Jiand, so to speak, to the extent of a voyage
to Samoa and back, but when shegotbaok
the necessity of repairs to a greater amount
than the worth of the vessel had been
abundantly demonstrated by the voyage.
It is thus made quite plain that if the
$200,000 set aside for expenditure on these
old bulks is not at once expended, there is
imminent danger that there will be nothing
left of them to repair in the future. The loss
from active service in the repair shops ot
two vessels which have furnished objects
for expending $2,730,000 in repairs is some
thing that cannot be thought of by the
statesmen whose constituents and party
workers get a hand in the repairing.
THE TWO MEN FROM MAINE.
The sum total Of the advices from the
winter and summer capitals, at Washing
ton and Cape May, is that the next few
months is to decide whether the plume of
victory in Bepublicaq leadership is to
adorn the plumed knight from Maine of
olden times, or whether it is to be trans-.
ferred to the newer edition of the Maine
man who now rales the House from the
Speaker's chair. In other words the con
test is to be one ot supremacy between the
two Maine leaders.
Whatever differences there may be be
tween the various accounts of the results of
the recent conferences between the Presi
dent and his Secretary of State, it is clear
that there is practical agreement between
Mr. Blaine and Mr. Harrison on the points
of policy which constitute the lormer's
claim upon the public admiration and ap
proval. The administration is committed,
and rightly committed, to the reciprocity
amendment of Senator Pierce, which,
as The Dispatch has pointed out, fully
satisfies the requirements of Mr. Blaine's
policy. The disposition to kick over the
traces by independent and secret orders to
the revenue cutters in Behrings Sea has
been quelled, and the Secretary of State
will have the credit of bringing that nego
tiation to a snecessful and pacific issue. It
may be presumed that the family organs of
the administration will be called off from
their barking at the great Secretary of State,
and will devote their attention to lampoon
ing B epublican Senators who express their
individual opinions on the Federal election
law. In short, the Secretary of State is
now the towering figure of the administra
tion. But he has still to reckon with a man
from Maine in the House, and the junior
man from Maine must be taken as a decided
quantity in all political figuring. It is trne
that Mr. Blaine holds out an olive branch'to
the Speaker in the shape of an indisputable
recommendation from him as "able and
audacious." But the ability and audacity
of the junior Maine leader has never devel
oped the quality of backing down. He has
indubitably committed himself to the decla
ration that the Secretary's policy of reci
procity shall not be engralted on the McKin
ley bill. It is true that the commital of the
administration to the Blaine policy has
changed matters somewhat since Mr. Beed
made this declaration; but all indications
are to the effect that the Hon. Thomas B.
Beed is not in a frame of mind to eat his
own words to suit President Harrison's dis
positions. When the tariff bill gets back to
the House, therefore, the conflict between
the policy of the elder man from Maine and
that of the younger is likely to resemble that
which takes place when an irresistible force
strikes an immovable body.
The question, which of the two Maine men
is the most powerful leader is likely to be
an interesting one that can only be settled
by the outcome. There is no doubt that
the Secretary of State is the man of broader
views and riper policy; but there is a very
grave doubt whether he has the most stub
born fighting qualities or is as securely in
trenched iu the administration as the
Speaker is in the House. Whether the Maine
Speaker will prove mightier than the Maine
Secretary of State or will be forced to join
himself to the latter's triumphal chariot
wheels, is an issue pending the settlement of
which less pugnacious politicians may well
hold their breath, while it is being fought
out.
UNIVERSAL DISOBEDIENCE.
One phase of the electrical execution in
New York has a peculiar importance as il
lustrating the success of a law which for
bids American newspapers to publish the
news. The law providing for electrical ex
ecution enacted that "no account of the de
tails of any such execution beyond the state
ment of the fact that such convict was, on
the day in question, duly executed, accord
ing to law at the prison, shall be published
in any newspaper" and made it a misde
meanor to violate this enactment The con
sequence is that the entire press of the State
of New York has committed a misdemeanor.
The staid New York Post has made the
claim that it alone of all the newspapers of
the State respected the law. But the fact is
that the esteemed Post was unable to con
quer its newspaper instincts sufficiently to
comply with this enactment. As the New
York Sun says the only report permitted in
accordance with this enactment would be to
say that "William Kemmler, the convict,
was duly executed to-day. at the Auburn
prison according to thermovisions of chap
ter 489 of the New York laws of 1889." The
Post descended to the sensational details oH
the affair sufficiently to make its report of
the execution about four times as long as
the legal report This is an evidence of the
impossibility of binding down newspaper
enterprise to the limits prescribed by law.
But what is to be done in view of the fact
that the entire newspaper profession of a
State has committed a misdemeanor? It is
sometimes proper for individuals to delib
erately violate the provisions of foolish or
pernicious legislation; but in that case the
importance of the general enforcement of
law requires their submission to the penal
ties of the violated law. The State of New
York, having committed itself to a legal
provision that the newspapers shall not pub
lish the news, the only way to maintain the
snpremacy of law is to punish the contuma
cious editors who violate the enactment
Under these circumstances we do not see
any escape from the expectation that for
the next thirty or sixty days our esteemed
and enlightened colemporaries in the Em
pire State will be edited and managed from
the workhouses.
General Grant once declared that the best
way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it.
If New York bad passed a law forbidding
water to run down hill, the undertaking to
dam up and imprison the lawless streams
which continue to flow according to gravi
tation would be the surest way to canse the
repeal of such a law. Having undertaken
an equally hopeless task in trying to pre
vent the newspapers from telling about any
event of public importance, it mnst consign
all the newspaper profession to jail as the
surest way of getting this absurd and use
less provision repealed.
"Hypnotism has already had more than
one serious victim of reckless tampering with
Its dangerous effects in this city, and the next
Legislature ought to pass an act forbidding the
practice of hypotlsm except under adequate
medical regulation," says a Philadelphia paper.
But does our 'esteemed -cotemporarr suppose
that a man who would make a criminal use of
hypnotic power, will desist because the law
tells him to? The superstition that evils can be
cured simply by the denunciation of a dead
letter statute is a persistent and singular one.
It seems to be pretty well settled that be
fore the House leaders of the Republican party
carry ont that programme of smashing the Sec-
retary of State, they will have to undertake
the contract ot demagnetizing the President
In an article on the new original package
law, the New York World says that the de
cision of the Supreme Court rests "upon clause
S ot section 8, which simply gives to Congress
the exclusive power to regulate commerce with
foreign nations and among the several States
and with tbeIndian tribes." The statement ia
correct as to the section involved; but will the
esteemed World point out the clanse, phrase,
or word which makes this grant ot power to
Congress, exclusive?
Jay Gould's purchase of a Mexican
castlo is a slight piece of extravagance that he
can afford; but he will never again imperil his
millions by the ownership ot anothernewspaper
organ.
Judge's cartoon which classifies Re
publican Senators who hold their own opinions
about the Federal election law, as "Republican
cowards" is a striking example of the crack of
the party whip-by those eminent statesmen, the
cartoonists. As this classifies Urant and his
advisers In the same rank, of "cowards" the
bravery of, the Arkell grade of statesmanship
is beautifully exploited.
WrrH railroad strikes in Wales and on
the New York Central, the genial Chauncey M.
Depew is able to keep his railroad system fully
in line with the progress of British fashions.
Boston is clamoring for the appearance
of the old Kearsage next week In company
with the fine and new vessels of the North At
lantic squadron. Boston Is very decidedly ot
the opinion that even a worn-out and antiquated
vessel that has won fame by actual victories. Is
a more glorious sight than the new and Im
proved vessels that have as yet to make their
records.
"Withheld for revision" is now almost
as prominent a feature in the Congressional
Records that other familiar and enlivening
phrase "Loud and continued applause."
The New York Central Railroad is evi
dently threatened by one of the greatest strikes
in the history of the country. PresidentDepew
never had a better chance of pouring oil upon
troubled waters. It Is unfortunate that he is
In Europe.
At present the seal of state which occu
pies the most Important position in politics is
the Behring Sea variety.
The refusal of the Pennsylvania Com
pany to carry original packages of liquor is
highly commendable. The more so as the cor
poration might profit pecuniarily at least by
conniving at the breach of the law.
With regard to the weather, the platform
can be unanimously adopted that no more hot
waves are needed.
The assertions of the Democratio organs
that their party has carried Kentucky and Ala
bama are almost as stunning as the bold confi
dence with which Republican organs keep on
reiterating that they are going to carry Penn
sylvania. It Always Lends.
From the TltuivIUe Herald.
Thenewspapers are doing their part and The
PrrTSBUBO DISFATCH not only led the way,
but placed one of the ablest of their staff, Mr.
L. E. Stoflel, to accompany the Road Commis
sion and report all their work and meetings.
Mr. Stoflel is making friends for bis paper as
well as himself wherever he goes.
PBOHnreXT PEOPLE.
Last Alexandra Leveson-Goweb,
only daughter of the Cuke of Sutherland, is
studying nursing at a London hospital.
The only colored delegate to the Mississippi
Constitutional Convention is I. T. Montgomery,
who was a slave of Jefferson Davis.
The portico that is being added to White
law Reid'a residence at Ophir Farm will con
tain 100 handsome pillars of granite.
Hon. J. C. Bancboft Davis was a passen
ger for Liverpool on the steamer Majestic,
which sailed from New York Wednesday.
Joseph HAvobth, the ! actor, and Miss
Miriam O'Leary, ot the Boston Museum Com
pany, are fonnd to be Interested in an Enclish
estate of several millions now In chancery.
Hon. Lyman J. Gage, President of the
World's Columbian Exposition, has accepted
the invitation to address the Beacon Society,
of Boston, on the subject of the World's Fair.
Pbesident Palmer, of the World's Fair,
conclndes tbat the principal thing needed now
is time. There was an outside impression that
they needed some money, but, happily, this
was erroneous.
Besides Robert Purvis, of Philadelphia,
another of the original abolitionists and one of
the foremost, Parker Pillsbury, of New Hamp
shire, is still living. He is 81 years old and re
sides at Concord.
One reason of Senator Plumb's great popu
larity in his State is tbat be answers every let
ter he receives. His mail is larger than tbat of
any other Senator, and he employs three type
writers to attend to it
Mas. John A. Logan will be the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lotborp, at Concord, dur
ing the G. A. R. encampment at Boston next
week, and a reception will be given in her honor
on Thursday afternoon,
Dr. William Lomax. of Marlon, Ind., who
has given property to the Indiana Medical Col
lege estimated to be worth $75,000, is a native
of North Carolina, but removed West at an
early age. He is now 77 years of age.
The body of the Queen of Corea, who died
June 4, is still kept in brine, the process of em
balming being unknown to the people of that
far-off land. The body will be kept four or five
months, according to the custom of the coun
try, and then interred with much pomp and
ceremony.
A Chance Reamrded With Much Favor.
Trom the Toledo Commercial.!
The Pennsylvania State Board of Agricult
ure has decided tbat the farmers' institutes
this year sbalfbe held in circuits, as a matter
of economy as well as convenience. The Btate,
for this purpose, is divided Into districts in
which the institutes will be held in rotation, so
that speakers and visitors can go front one to
the other without great expense and the topics
presented can be more freely and generally
discussed. The change is regarded with much
favor in that State.
Americans la Paris.
fBT OUirLAP'S CABLE COMFAKT.!
Pabis, August a The Americans registered
at the American register during the week are;
P. Bartbo Corney, of Buffalo; Dr. and Mrs.
Bidde W. Herman, T. L. Psotta, of Philadel
phia; C. Byrne, of San Francisco; E. A. Hutch
ins, of Minneapolis: L. A. Lantbler, Captain
F. Mason, G. R. and Mrs. Mott, F. F. Wilbur,
C. E. and Mrs. Converse, of New York.
'Neath the Star of Empire.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean,!
California horses have struck a gait that is
hard to beat Her fruit-raisers, her farmers
and ber miners propose to show at the Colum
bian Exposition that she leads every State in
the Union. They have got men ot snap in
California, and the whole world is going to find
it out
Must the Nation Interfere t
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
The nation should take Immediate steps to
rescue the body of General Grant from the
foul smelling barnyard in which Now York
insists that It shall rest Even the New York
papers admit that New York's course in this
regard has been a national disgrace.
DEATHS J0FA DAY.
Mrs. Mara-eretta Sinrquls.
, Mrs. Margeretta McC. Marquis, wife of Rev. J.
8. Marquis, 'died at ber home In Washington,
Pa., yesterday. Mrs. Marquis was 68 years old,
and was one of the most estimable' women of
Washington. Arrangements have not yet been
made lor the funeral.
Mrs. Sarah E. Johnson.
Mrs. Sarah . Johnson, aged 69 years, died yes
terday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. K.
Doyle, sTDelunoover arcane, The funeral will
take place to-day.
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
The Toby In n New Role A Memento of
Pittsburg Spoons 'for More Than Lover
A Philadelphia Accident Emperor
William's Precedent The Tnnlty or
GoodQueen Bess.
pHE toby is coming ont strong a way it
always has In a new role. Several of
the delegates to the Catholic Temperance Con.
ventlon purchased boxes of tobies to carry
home as mementoes ot their stay in Pittsburg.
The toby appears to impress strangers Invaria
bly as no other Pittsburg product does or can.
There is nq donbt about the unique qualities
ofthetoby.be it hand-made or mold, and its
fame has gone out into many lands. A Lon
doner who talked to me about his visit to Pitts
burg two years ago remembered bis introduc
tion to a toby bettor than any incident m his
ronnd of sightseeing In this busy city.
Two Pi ttsbu rears who carried a cargo of
tobies with them on a Western tour this spring
found a terrifio demand for the long weeds
wherever tbey went In fact the toby is a good
deal more of a swell abroad than It is at home,
and as a keepsake it is likely to prove very
popular and successful in every way but one
it won't keep. At least that is the experience
of the man who enters a newspaper office with
his pockets f nil of tobies.
A vobe asthetlo keepsake which Is I am
told greatly in favor with the fair sex, is a
spoon with the city's name graven on the bowl.
Spoons with "Pittsburg" so engraved upon
them have been frequently presented to visit
ors as mementoes of this bustling city. The
Idea bas taken root in other cities, and It is
possible to collect a set of spoons representing
the principal cities in the country. Two or
three such sets are owned in Pittsburg.
gOME Pittsburgers on their way to Atlantic
City last week stopped over for a day or
two In Philadelphia, and as a matter ot course
the lady In the party spent half a day in the
Postmaster General's labyrinthine stores. She
took ber 6-year-old Doy with her. He was very
much astonished at all he saw. When they
were in the street car returning to the hotel his
mother remarked tbat he was unusually silent
for he talks like anything normally.
"What's the matter. Bob?" she asked.
"Did he make all those things!" was the boy's
curious reply.
"Who make what!"
"All those things in the store yon said one a
maker, mamma.' i
The boy was not a depraved punster; he was
merely seeking truth.
gEvoEE Emperor William started on his tour
abroad he ordered tbat in future no por
traits of his imperial majesty, whether in the
shape of oil paintings, photographs, engravings,
lithographs or drawing of any kind should be
exposed for sale wlthrut his approval attested
by bis imperial signature. Some of the pictures
of the Emperor, who is not an Apollo Belvldere
anyhow, exhibited in the shop windows of Ber
lin had been so excessively unflattering that he
was forced to issue this order in self-protection.
At the time the order was made public men In
this country, and it may be surmised in all
civilised lands which are afflicted with the bar
barous hatchet-cut portrait envied Emperor
William's prerogative to stop one species of
libel.
But the many who know not what it Is to have
their features caricatured pictorially. have
snickered irreverently at the imperial sensi
tiveness, and many paragraphers hive poked
fun at Emperor William as the author of an
unprecedented order and a monarch of un
heard of vanity. Neither the order nor the
vanity are without precedent, however,
Vlizabeth of the House of Tudor, Queen
of England, and still good Queen Bess to
most people In spite of the strong light thrown
npon her foibles and fallings by the historical
microscopists of to-day, was the vainest woman
who ever set the fashions for her sex and
that is saying a good deal since it bars no
woman of any account since Mother Eve defied
criticism with a fig leaf polonaise. Innumer
able anecdotes are told of ber coquetry and
conceit, and none better illustrates her charac
ter than the well-authenticated story which
constitutes a precedent for the German Em
peror's recent embargo upon unauthorized por
traits. In 1563 or five years after she succeeded the
melancholy Mary upon the throne. Elizabeth
chanced to see, possibly ber favorite Dudley
showed them to her, divers portraits of herself.
These must have been fancy sketches, and it
is clear tbat they erred nnflatteringly. Very
likely they represented too truly her long, fair
complexloned face, her tawny hair, and small
black eyes; and it is more than probable tbat
her hands of which she was especially proud
they were very pretty hands, with long, deli
cate white fingers did not have justice done
them, nay, maybe they did not appear in the
picture at all.
At any rate the virgin queen did not approve
ot unauthorized presentments of ber royal
features and she Issued a proclamation against
portrait painters and engravers who had erred in
expressing "tbat natural representation of Her
Majesty's person, favor or grace" that was de
sired by her loving subjects, and who were
ordered to desist until some "special cunning
painter" might be granted access to the royal
presence. Sir Walter Raleigh tells us further
tbat the gentle Elizabeth ordered the portraits
made by unskilful and common painters to be
confiscated wherever found, and a number of
them were "knocked into pieces and cast into
the fire" before the Queen's eves.
It Is rather curious tbat a sovereign wbo
claims to be democratio in his sympathies
should have copied an arbitrary act tbat made
men wonder even in the days of Elizabeth.
Hepburn Johns.
CUBBEHT TIMELY TOPICS.
The new gas field now being developed in
Canada Is not to be sneezed at. .Neither Is the
fact that the prime movers In the scheme know a
thing or two about the benefits of a monopoly.
The Prohibitionists aon't appear to have any
particular love for Vice President Morton, and
perhaps the feeling Is mutual on both sides.
Vakdebbilt's employes are out on strike
andthreatentotletheroadupln a knot. Ibis Is
a sad state of affairs, considering the fats tbat
Chauncey Is hob-nobbing with royalty across the
briny deep.
The men who were looking for gore to be
spilled between this country and England over
the Bearing Sea controversy are doomed to dis
appointment and as a consequence theirprojected
trip to some friendly land Is Indefinitely post
poned. THsXenia, O., farmers who attempted to
thresh dynamite have declared the experiment a
failure. The fiend who placed the explosive In the
sheaf or wheat should be captured, If possible,
and fed Into the machine head first. ,
The West Virginia man wbo was swindled
out ot ft 000 by three-card monte shares is looking;
around for sympathizers. It is feared be will not
find them in this world.
Candidates who are trifling with the Pres
ldental bee shonld take warning from the Head
Ins: man who who was nearly stung to death by
bees a few days ago.
The Superintendent of the Greenville and
Carillon Canal, In Canada, bas succeeded by falsi
fication and misrepresentations In defrauding
the Government out or (50,000 In ten years. Re
should be ashamed of himself, wasting so much
time In stealing such a paltry sum.
The National Bar Association wants a uni
form law on wills. What the people want Is a law
passed that will be binding and one that hungry
lawyers cant't knock Into smithereens.
General Gbeely is expected in Boston
this week. ' 'Old Indications" should take a good
batch of weather along with him.
President Harbison Is accused of buying
a p, 500 horse for f 150. Peoplewho have been say
ing that tbey never saw anything smart la Mr,
Harrison will now hold their peace.
Alert nnd Energetic Instructors.
From tbe Baltimore American.
The old-style college President will soon be
unknown. The demand to-day is for live, pro
gressive men; lull of business sense and enter
priscygood financiers and general "hustlers."
PITTBBUE0EE8 OUT OP T0WH".
A. J. Shank, a well-known coal operator of
Pittsburg, Is at the Glrard.
John Stevenson, one of Pittsburg's fore
most grocers. Is In town and bas engaged rooms
at tbe Stratford.
J. D. Botxe, tbe prominent coke ooerator of
Pittsburg, and hU pretty daughter, Maggie, I
registered at the Glrard House last night I
Philadelphia Inquirer'. ' i I
JOHN BULL ABB HIS QUIT.
Secretary Proctor Receives n Present
From the British Government.
From tbe Washington Star.
Secretary Proctor has received a present ot
a new Enfield rifle from the English Govern-'
ment as a sample of the style of arm now in
use in tbe British service. It is handsomely
encased in a polished wooden box, with silver
plates and corners, and lined with blue velvet
It is of tbe latest magazine pattern, SO calibre,
and weighs about ten pounds. Tbe action Is
exceedingly strong and positive, tbe breech
mechanism being thoroughly automatic
The magazine is a sheet-Iron case
half an inch thick and about four
inches square, fitting to tbe under side of the
lock. A gate shuts it off at tbe will of the op
erator, so that the gun can be used either as
magazine or a single firing arm. It Is provided
with a novelty in tbe way of a long range sight
designed to cover distances from L800 to 8,600
yards, but the ordinary sight is not considered
as fine as that in use on tbe American Spring
field nfle. The cartridges are shaped some
what after the design of the famous Lebel
cartridge, the leaden ball being encased in a
thin steel sheet for the purpose of prevent
ing the distortion of the bullet.
Tbe bavonet is of a new design, that of a
broad-bladed, double-edged knife, sharpened
at tbe point It fits on tbe gun in such a man
ner tbat the sight is not interfered with, this
being a new advantage. The bayonet Is pro
vided with a leather Bheath and Is usetul for
many purposes other than tbat of jabbing Into
human vitals. Tbe small caliber of this gun is
soon going to be adopted in the American
service, as it bas now come to be considered
the most effective. A board will soon be or
dered to examine tbe various magazine guns
of small calibers, now in use, with a view to
the selection of a more modern arm for our
forces.
IT DD7FEES FB0H OUES.
How the President ef the Argentine Repub
lic la Elected.
Theodore Child In Harper's Weekly.
The mechanism of tbe Presldental election
in the Argentine works as follows: The Presi
dent is elected for six years, and is installed on
October 12, the anniversary of the discovery of
America. The last year of apresidental term
is one ot elections. On February 12 are re
newed a third part of the Senators and Depu
ties of the National Congress, which will say
the last word in tbe election of tbe new Presi
dent On the 12th of April takes place In each
Srovlnce the election of electors of the second
egree, who, being chosen outside of tbe mem-
Ders ol congress, ana m aouDie tneirnumoer
for each province, meet on June 12 to designate
tbe candidate for the Presidency who bas their
preference.
These delegates accomplish this operation in
tbe capitals of tbeir respective provinces, and
designate the President and the Vice Presi
dent by means of signed personal ballots,
which are delivered to tbe Legislature of tbe
province, and then sealed and transmitted to
tbe President of tbe National Congress, who
opens and examines them in presence of a
quorum composed of at least two-thirds of the
members of tbat assembly. In case a candi
date has obtained an absolute majority for
eltber office be is immediately nominated by
Congress; If, on the other band, no candldato
bas absolute majority, Congress selects among
those who have received most votes, and in a
single session appoints President and Vice
President
LIVE PB0Q IN A WOMAN'S STOMACH.
Relieved of the Object After Suffering Six
Months.
Columbus, O., August 9. The strange pbo
nomenonofa live frog in a human stomach has
just developed here. Mrs. Anna Nickel, who
lives with her husband in this city, has com
plained of a pecnliar sensation In the stomach,
as if something having life was moving about
This continued for six months. A number of
prominent physicians In Columbus and else
where have been consulted, but none gave the
woman relief. Last evening she complained of
a tickling sensation in ber throat and called
Dr. Voglit, who formed tbe opinion tbat the
sensation was caused by tbe presence of an In
sect. After swallowing a powerful emetic, Mrs.
Nickel was relieved by the expulsion ot a live
frog from her stomach. It was about two inches
long, almost white, and the bind legs were
missing. The physician gave it as his opinion
that the woman, while drinking water, had
swallowed tbe egg, which was batcbed by the
warmth of the stomach. The f roe has been
placed in alcohol and forwarded to Prof.
Youzer, of the American Medical College at
St. Louis, with a view of securing a scientific
opinion as to the unusual occurrence.
DEATH OP MISS ANN GIST.
A Daughter of a Distinguished Officer of
the Revolution.
Westminster, August 9. Miss Federal Ann
Bonaparte Gist generally known as Miss Ann
Gist and probably the oldest inhabitant of
Carroll county, died this afternoon at the Gist
homestead, two miles south of this city.
According to tbe "History of Western Mary
land," she was born August 14, 1791,
and therefore lacked only six days of
being 99 years old. She was a
daughter of Colonel Joshua Gist, of Revolu
tionary fame, and a niece of General Mordecal
Gist a distinguished officer of the Maryland
line in the Revolutionary army. She was an
aunt of tbe late Mordecal Gist, whose death oc
curred about a month ago, and of Colonel
George W. Gist, of Washington, who was an
officer in the Union army. She had been bed
ridden and helpless for several years.
SALIVA FB0M HIS H0ESE.
Strange Death of a Western Farmer From
Blood Poison.
Fobt Wayne, August 9. An old German
farmer named Herman Ruhi, who bas ocenpied
a small farm in the vicinity of Bloomlngdale, a
suburb of this city, died this morning In
horrible agony. Some time ago deceased was
driving bis horse, when tbe animal
coughed and blew saliva into the
face of its driver. Last week Rnhi's face be
came literally incrusted with small pimples,
and these spread over his body until eventually
it became a mass of sores. Medical science was
o.f no avail.
Dr. Jansen, a local physician, says that death
was due to poisoning, caused by the obnoxious
matter from the horse becoming'absorbed Into
tbe man's svstem. It is supposed that the ani
mal was suffering from glanders.
John lUeEeovrs In Washington
From the Washington Post.
Mr. John McKeown. of Washington, Pa., was
at one of the leading hotels yesterday. It Is
one of the gentleman's fancies not to place his
autograph on the books of a hostelrie. He
could put It on a check, however, to more pur
pose than most people, his signature being gooa
for over a million. He was a pioneer in open
ing up the Washington county oil field, and his
vast fortune was accumulated in petroleum.
Not Too Dls- for Hie Clothes.
From the Chicago Mall. 2
According to Superintendent Porter the pop
ulation of the United States Is just about 64-
000,000, which will disappoint somo people who
like to think that Uncle Sam is the biggest fel
low tbat ever was. But there is a consolation
to be foqnd in tbe thought tbat it is the silly
little boy wbo aches to be as big as his dad and
the wise old lad who withes he was a boy again.
Will Loao No Sleep Over It
From the Washington Post
The Philadelphia Public Ledger is paying
tbe penalty, for refusing to allow its news and
editorial columns to be Beldenized at the will
of the custodians of tbe party wh Ip. Its local
cotemporary, the Press, calls It an independent
Democratio journal. This will no doubt cause
Ohllds to be terribly broken up.
How to Handle the Lotteries,
From the Detroit Tribune.
The President's message on the lottery busi
ness finds a hearty response everywhere ex
cept In Louisiana and Congress. Why doesn't
Congress take the bull by the horns and break
his neckt
THE END WAS PEACE.
rwnrrnw roa iax DisriTcn.1
They bad lived apart for twenty years
Both being of stubborn cast
Bnt time had dried up their angry tears
And brought them to terms, at last.
Bhe acknowledged she'd been a horrid thing
He admitted he'd been a brute;
And Just as they vowed through life to cling
They touched on the old dispute.
you dldl" said she. "I dldu'tl" said be,
And rising, he opened tbe door.
"I've maintained It for twenty years," said she,
'Well, maintain it for twenty more."
And so a grievance that next the heart
They bad guarded with Jealous fears
A trifle drove them once more apart
For another twenty years.
They came together at last I'm told.
But not to dispute nor rage ,
For neither could bear the other scoldJ
As they both were deaf with age. J
i ' cioBQx Ev Dxrxa.
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Rushloc the Growler Seen nt Ita Deat In
Susy Gotham Edlson'a Automatic Fire
Alarm Fan la a Newspaper Office Onr
Mongolian Brother.
frnOK A STATS' COKRKSrONDEKT.l
A test common expression Is "rushing the
" growler." It Is peculiar to New York, a
city of provincialisms, by the way,though "the
growler" is not of New York origin. It is one
of the many other things imported from the
mother country. "Bucket-shop" no longer ap
plies to tbe saloon where men. women and chil
dren come to get buckets filled with beer or ale,
the term having been appropriated to express
those small. Irresponsible gambling rooms
where men buy and sell on a two per cent mar
gin stocks they neither have nor deliver or ex
pect to be delivered. While tbe custom of
"working the growler" has spread to other
American cities, along with ita slang definition,
it nowhere has the prominence attained in the
metropolis.
"The growler" In itself Is a very harmless
looking tin bucket holding from a quart to a
gallon. It Is "worked" by being sent to some
adjacent ram-mlll for beer or ale, or a mixture
of both. It Is "rushed" by being returned to
the sender or senders qnlck enough to retain
the evidences of "life" or freshness In the
creamy froth on top. The "growler" trade is
In some neighborhoods more than half tbe
malt retail business. It is a feature of New
York domestic life in every section of the city.
Even on aristocratio Murray Hill and along
Fifth avenue It is no uncommon sight to see
"the growler" slipping in and out of the base
ment under the high brown stone stoops after
nightfall. In the tenement districts the streets
swarm with tbe male and female Mercurys
wincing their swift way between the house
hold and tbe beer saloon. 'lho law
reaches out to forbid little children being util
ized as such messengers, but it Is viotated just
the same as all other regulations as to the
liquor traffic are violated. In nearly every one
of these resorts is a bucket stall which Is en
tered from a side door and whioh has a little
sliding window. Women enter this, mostly
servants, or women too poor to keep servants,
tan at the little window, pass in the "growler"
and their change, receive the foaming fluid and
rush away with it as if they were bnnclng the
family doctor. Some places make a specialty
of tbe "growler" trade and have no bar. Tbe
"growler" trade enables the saloon man to
market his stale beer and "all sorts," tbe emp
tyings of individual beer glasses. These empty
ings are thrown Into a can behind the counter
and chucked into "growlers" from time to time
and after a. "held" in drawn on the whole the
customer never knows the difference. This
custom of lower classes holing themselves
away in rooms, in flats and tenements and con
suming unlimited "growlers" out of the sight
of the law has been productive ot innumerable
crimes in New York.
A Rose by Any Other Name.
Cpeaktno of "all-sorts" reminds me of the
story a Philadelphia barkeeper told me tbe
other day. "There isn't one man in 20," said he,
"that can distinguish one brand of whisky
from another aud the twentieth man will
rarely 'kick' when deceived. I 'tended bar
once where we actually sold but one kind of
whisky, though it was put up In differently
labeled bottles, and retailed at 10 cents. 15
cents, 20 cents and 25 cents a drink. It was tbe
same stuff, and cost S3 a gallon. It'E all in the
imagination. My boss bad a pretty little jug
with wicker work around it setting In a con
spicuous corner. Once in a wbile when be
wanted to treat a friend or take a drink him
self he would take that jug down and pour out
a couple of fingers with an air tbat would
make your mouth water. Tbe friend would
feel highly complimented. Regular customers
would see it and wonld stand 25 cents a drink
out of that little jug. It was tbe same wo sold
for 10 cents. I've sold port wine for blackberry
brandy hundreds of times. We never kept any
blackberry brandy at our place, always selling
port wine for it. We had customers wbo came
several blocks for it AU ot this Is being done
here in New York.
Mercy for the Brutes.
This Broadway suiface road runs a horse,
ambulance. It is an open-top box car like
a stall, the wheels having a flange in order to
run on tbe track. When a horse gives out the
ambulance is rung up, the end of it let down to
serve as a bridge, up which walks the animal.
It takes two men to do the work and from 100
to 200 people to boss the job on Broadway ot a
hot afternoon.
The Wizard's Latest Idea.
TF it is true tbat the great American Inventor,
Thomas A. Edison, Is working on an auto
matic fire alarm, the fact will give universal
satisfaction. Let Mr. Edison invent anjauto
matlc fire alarm so that a man can go to sleep
in a hotel with the reasonable assurance of not
being roasted alive during the night Of what
service is a fire escape to a man wbo is asleepT
Let us have an automatic fire alarm that will go
off like a burglar alarm, say by the action of
the heat It ought to be possible to so connect
every room in a hotel by an automatic electrical
apparatus tbat heat in any one of them above
a certain temperature would set an alarm going
in every room in the building. This, connected
with the fire alarm call, would bring out the fire
department long before the fire could be seen
from tbe outside. At tbe recent Astor House
fire two or three rooms were fairly burned out
before the flames were discovered. A good
many guests in tbe house didn't know there
was a fire until they read it in the next morn
ing's papers.
The Main Gny Slept.
'Phebe was next to a panio in the office of a
oertain big morning newspaper tbe other
night It was 1250 o'clock in the morning and
the forms bad to be closed at L If. tbey were
not sent down promptly the paper would miss
the eatly mall and the correspondents of tbe
big Western newspapers, who were waiting
around the cornerat an all-night house at great
personal expense, and who rely on tbe early
editions for tbeir New York telegraphic news
would be embarrassed. The last revises bad
been sent in to tbe big editor. Irreverently
alluded to about the office as "the main guy,"
or "His Jlblets," eta, an hour before. Tbe
foreman ot the pressroom had nagged tbe
night manager until the latter was almost wild.
The revises bad not come out. Nobody dared
disturb "the main guy" to knock at that door
on any pretext meant unceremonious dis
cbarge. Perhaps "the main guy" bas been
suddenly overcome with heat perhaps be was
actually dead at his desk. With tbe aid of a
stepladder tbe society reporter, wbo was
deemed the most experienced in this Hue of
business, crawled cautiously up and peeped
over the transom. He burrled down so ex
citedly that everybody whispered in a breath:
"DeadT"
"8 bush! no: asleepl"
One of the staff who had been hauled over
the coals for his classical allusions expressed
his disappointment. A police court reporter
went up and looked. Then the night manager
went up and looked. One alter another In turn
the entire crowd got a peep of "tbe main guy"
in the great act of sleeping something tbat
bad never occurred to any of them as in the
most remote degree possible. Who dared go
In and awaken him I Nobody volunteered.
Yet thav dared not co to press withont those
editorial revises. Here was where the panic
struck in. The foreman of tbe press room beld
bis watch In his hand. The cold sweat rolled
from the brow of the night manager, threaten
ing the plaster below. Now, mark tbe in
scrutable ways of Providence! At that critical
juncture the elevator landed on tbat very floor
the sporting editor's horse assistant, who
brought with him two and a half jags of Bowery
whisky. He staggered out of tbe elevator,
knocked down a broom leaning acalnst the
wait tell over a pile ot old column rules and
rolled under a table. It was all in ten seconds.
Evorybody broke and fled except the horse re
porter. He was asleep. Then came the sharp
tingle of the big editor's bell. He was awake.
"I never saw such confounded dirty proofs,"
he thundered. "I've been at these an hour!
Let her go!"
"TB.S Chinese population of New York has
been steadily and rapidly on the increase.
This bas been apparent for some time, though
nobody seems to be able to account for it A
good deal of anxiety is expressed on the part of
those interested in the subject to learn tbe re
sults of the present census as relates to our
Mongolian friends. Those wbo frequent the
Chinese quarter note tbo fact tbat it is becom
ing more and more crowded. The Chinaman
does not become Americanized in personal ap
pearance, so it is difficult if not impossible to
tell who are the newcomers. There is a sus
picion that our Canadian boundary has a good
sized leak In It soiuewhero near the Eastern
coast. If it bas, nobody but the Chineso them
selves know about It. They are very clannish
and close-mouthed, however, and no Chinaman
was ever known to giro another Chinaman
away in a matter of this kind. They are unob
trusive, well-behaved and industrious people,
but they do not civilize worth a cent To be
sure some very excellent church people have
made systetnatio attempts to Christianize John,
but these attempts have been invariably abor
tive. He goes to Sunday school, make "hoap
foolee Melican woman," and goes back to his
opium and fantan as if nothing bad happened.
Half of tbe troublo, attention and expense
wasted upon the Chinese by New York philan
thropists would be turned to good account if
devoted to some other religious fad.
,, . .CHAS.T.MtraBAxV
Nsw Toss, August 91
TWO HAPPY PEOPLE AT LEAST.
Visitors at tbe Government Printing OSes
Detrct a Couple Kissing.
Washington Correspondence Chicago Herald.
A good story has been told on Ciarkson since
his return from the West Some months ago,
before starting on that trip, he was called on
one day by Bruce Carr. Auditor of Indiana,and
La Follette, the Hoosier Superintendent of
Public Instruction. The two gentlemen wero
laboring under suppressed excitement, and
asked Mr. Clarkson for a private conference.
The room was cleared aud the callers invited to
state their business.
"You know Frank Palmer, don't youf ' Carr
inquired.
"Yes, I do. I have known him 40 years, and a
better man never lived. Hope you have no
complaint to make against him."
"Well, you see how it is. We have just come
from the Government Printing Office, where
we had gone with some ladles to seethe shop.
We were feeling pretty proud of the manner
In which Frank Palmer was keeping things
up down there, till just as we turned a corner
in a rather gloomy comder, one ot tbe ladies
ofonrpartygaTeascream. Right In front of
us was a young man and a voung woman, em
ployes of the office, kissing each other like a
pair of lovers. I am told that such things are
going nn all the time In the Government Print
ing Office, and it really is a shame tbat tbe em
ployes should be permitted to spend tbeir time
kissine each other Instead of attending to their
woric Some of Mr. Palmer's friends ought to
speak to him about it"
"Did the young people appear to be enjoying
themselves?" asked the Fiist Assistant Post
master General.
"Y;s, indeed they did."
Then for heaven's sake." retorted Clark
son, "don't report them. Don't Interfere with
tnejn. They are the only people connected
with the administration who aro having any
fun, and they ought to be let alone."
A PUGNACIOUS MAN WITHOUT LEGS.
It Took Six Policemen nud a Push Cart to
Get Him lo the Station House.
From the New York Erenlng Sun.i
John Clarke Is like the noble -warrior In
"Chevy Chase," who, when his legs were struck
off, still continued to flght upon the stumps.
He Is called Lees because he has no legs, but
an artificial pair. Notwithstanding this natural
deficiency, he is the leader of the gang which
manes night hideous at First avenue and Thirty
fifth street On Friday be busied himself with
breaking up all the furniture of a woman
of bis acquaintance. He is said not to have
left a whole article in the place. Police
man Fox shortly afterward found bim trying
to gnaw the cheek off one of bis gang with
whom be had a quarrel. When the policeman
proceeded to arrest him Clarke sat down on the
ground and invited him to come on.
Tbe policeman came ou, but he also came
down, for one of Clarke's wooden legs met him
about tbe belt region, and a pair of long arms
clutched him abouAtbe legs, while they strug
gled on the ground Clarke bit a big lump out
of the policeman's arm. Tbe wound bad to be
cauterized afterward. It took six policemen to
get the puguacious cripple into tbe wagon. He
was brought up before Justice McMahon at
Yorkville this morning and remanded.
GRAZED B7 HOT WEATHER,
The High Temperature Create a Ravins
Maniac at Wllllamsporr.
"Williamspobt, August 9. William P. At
water, a young man, lies at bis home here
bound hand and foot and strapped to his bed, a
raving maniac from the effects of the recent
bot weather. The attack was brought on after
a day of hard work in the hieb temperature,
the victim going home in a prostrated condi
tion, and altera slight rally he suddenly be
came insane.
The outcome of his unfortunate condition
cannot as yet be told.
Honora for an American Citizen.
Dr. Irving CL Rosse, of Washington, D. C,
bas lately had conferred npon him tbe honor
able distinction of F. R. G. 8., by election as
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society,
through the recommendation of Sir T. Fowell
Buxton, Bart., and Mr. George Barclay, of tbe
British legation. The compliment is a recog
nition of services as traveler and explorer,
more particularly In the Siberian Arctic, where
tbe doctor was first to scale Herald Island and
to land on Wrangel Land duringthe search for
the exploring yacht Jeannette and themlsslnc
whalers. Washington Post
The Grangers Sntlifled.
From the New York Snn.
We learn through our esteemed contem
porary, tbe Indianapolis Sentinel, that tbe
Pennsylvania grangers, being desirous of hav
ing a good Governor anyway, asked the Repub
licans to numinate General Hastings and the
Democrats to nominate ex-Governor Paulson.
The Democrats having satisfied the grangers,
and this being a granger j ear, Governor l'atti
son certainly ought to be elected.
A Large Rattlesnake.
Reading, August 9. Harry Mohl, of
Drebersville, while on the Blue Mountain,
captured a rattlesnake alive and presented it to
John H. Baum, of Hamburg, this county, wbo
will present it to tbe Zoological Gardens at
Philadelphia. Tbe reptile measures over 4
feet in length, and gives warning with a tall
decorated with 13 rattles, thus proringtbat it
bad escaped its numerous enemies for 16 years.
Heed the President's Advice.
From the Cblcago News.
Recent events in Dakota show tbat agents of
the Louisiana lottery are actively at work in an
effort to capture one or both political parties,
and thus make the task of buying the Legisla
ture of that State an easy one. Tbe recent de
feat of the lottery agents in Dakota was not
accepted by them as a final one.
Too Brond nn Indictment.
From tbe Providence (It I.) Journal.
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, upon whom the
mantle of Edmund Burke has fallen with
crushing weight should have learned from its
original owner tbat it Is impossible to Indict a
whole people, and that the Federal election
law would accomplish nothing but exaspera
tion and failure.
Why Wouldn't This Work
From the Norwich Bulletin.
We move a constitutional amendment pro
viding a fin a of S100 a day on each Congress
man for each day's session after the 15th ot the
July the fines to be deducted from their sal
aries. An Unexpected Result.
From the Boston Globe.
There seems to have been a slight variation
of programme at Auburn State Prison yester
day. It was electrocution tbat was electro
cuted. .
STATE PBESS OPINIONS.
Pittston Gazette, Rep.: The pothouse poll
tiolans and tbe Congressman have bad their fun
the past year.
OIL Citt Blizzard: When a publication Is
excluded from the malls both males and
females want to read it
Altoona Timet, Dem.: Senseless partisan
ship is unreasonable; discerning partisanship is
the stamp pf an intelligent mind.
Fobest Eevublican, Rep,: The silence of
Hon. William L. Scott is tbe most impressive
sound now audible in the Democratic cam
paign. Reading Herald. Dem.: A straightforward
and vigorous declaration in favor of constitu
tional ballot reform would come well from Mr.
Pattison and would greatly strengthen his
chances of election.
11LOOMSBURO Sentinel, Dem.: The good
omens of Democratio victory with which the
present campaign opened grow brighter every
day. Prom one end of the Btate to the other
the Republican party Is gloomy and dissat
isfied. Matjoh Chune Coal Gazette, Rep.: W. A.
Wallace Is not expected back from Europe un
til the latter part of October. His business on
the other side Is so pressing and Important tbat
Ifis surprising he desired the nomination for
Governor.
Kittannisg Glob;, Dem.: In Pennsylvania
the farmers have been very slow to wake up to
political action, but it is now evident tbat they
will be a powerful and probably a controlling
factor in the Gubernatorial, Congressional andi
Senatorial contest of this year.
Philadelphia Press, Bsp.1 Candidate
Blaok denies that ha bat written a letter threat
ening to retire from tbe Democratio party un
less the party managers adopted bis views on
ballot reform, and his views are entitled to all
tbe force wbfch Its publication in the Press
can give it At the same time the Press would
pe mighty glad to publish a free expression of
Candidate Black's private oplnlonrof his putfn
attitude ok tlw ballot refona taut;
CUBI0DS C0NDE5S1T10BS.
In clearing up the postoffice at Astoria,
On, recently, a package ot letters mailed in
I&S7 was found.
A large sturgeon, with a chain five feet
long attached to it has been caught off the
coast of Oregon.
Four of the 231 census enumerators in
Maine were women, and tbe supervisor finds
that tbeir reports are without mistakes.
The King of Dahomey has sent an am
bassador to Germany to engage a band of
musicians to play, not serve, for bis dinner.
The longest American railroad tunnel is
theHoosac tunnel on tbo Fltchburg railroad,
four and three-quarter miles: tbe St. Go'.hard
tunnel in Europe is nine miles long.
Ex-Judge Sawyer, of San Francisco,
wbo is over 60 years old, was thrashed soundly
about a week ago by an irate husband, wbo
caught the aged judge flirting with his wife.
The present Pope never leaves his own
rooms until they have been swept and dusted,
which is done as soon as he rises. He then
closes all the doors and windows and takes the
keys away with him.
Consul Meyers, of Hawaii, is authority
for the statement that there are 23 Chinese
lepers at Hawaii who make considerable money
by encouraging drinking, gambling and opium
using among the members ot tbe leper colony.
Parasols made of the best linden wood,
manufactured by Finnish peasants in tbe
suburbs of Vlborg. aro in fashion in the Russian
snmmer resorts along lines of tbe Russo-Fin-nlsh
railroads. Theyare light, elegant and very
cheap.
The Duchess of Aosta has the distinc
tion of possessing tbe most elaborate mourning
cloak ever made In Paris. It is of heavy
lusterless silk, trimmed with flat bands ot the
richest ostrich plumes, headed by bands ot
costly dull jet.
A good deal of interest has been exeited
at the antipodes by the appearance after 27
years of submersion, of the wreck of tbe Brit
ish warship Orpheus, thesingularloss of which,
with nearly 200 hands, cansed such commotion
at the beginning of tbe last Maori war.
Barnard Conn, a New Hampshire farm
er's man, was scared almost into convulsions
while listening to a phonograph in Dover this
week, and explained when he came to. tbat he
recognized the voice of a man he bad stuck In
a boss trade. Conn, science makes cowards of
us all.
A Georgia inventor has contrived an
insect trap to rid the cotton and tobacco fields
of moths. It consists simply of a lamp beneath
which Is a wide pan containing oiL The little
creatures are attracted by tbe light, bit up
against it and down tbey go into tbe oil and
perish.
The tower of thePhiladelphia City Hall
is now 33a feet high, yet on top of tbat 8,000
tons of iron and bronze are to be placed. There
Is to be a clock tower, the dials of which are to
be 27 leet in diameter, snrmounted by a statue
of William Penn 37 feet high, and there will ba
numerous statues.
Maine is doing all it can to keep the rest
of the United States cool. It is estimated tbat
there are 130 vessels in Kennebec waters ship
ping ice, and having a cariylng capacity of 60,
(XX) tons. Fifteen cargoes ot ice. 11,000 tons in
all, left the river one day recently, says the
Kennebec Journal.
A girl naskied "Weston, while on her way
borne to Joggins, N. S., deposited a lighted
pipe, which she bad been smoking; In her
pocket and set ber clothes on fire. Becoming
frightened she started to rnn and was soon en
veloped in flames. Mhe ran half a mile before
falling to the ground dead.
The Methodist Church at Mayville, N.
Y., is raMng its debt of (600 by keeping a sum
mer boarding bouse at Cbautatiqua. One
member of tbe church bad cbarce ot tbe bouse
during July and another is in charge ot it dur
ing August. The waiters are tbe belles of
Mayville, who have volunteered lor the ser
vice. Mr. Gladstone, in a recent speech in
the House of Commons, delivered one sentence
of 214 words,whlch in type made 24 lines. It has
been remarked of it tbat, notwithstanding 'its
extraordinary length and the more orless extem
poraneous nature of Its utterances, the sen
ence was perfectly clear and nut in the least
Involved.''
Filteen years ago, when a gentleman
began the culture of bees he suffered severely
from stings, bnt tbey have nowlost their force.
For several years past tbey bare caused only a
slight and rather pleasureable sensation, and,
that lasts only a few minutes. But this tbor-)
ougb inoculation against bee poison leaves bim
as susceptible as ever to tbe sting of a wasp.
One of the latest proposals is to lay a
pipe line for supplying New York with milk, as
Pittsburg and some otber cities are supplied
with natural gas or oil from the wells. Tbe
lacteal supply, of course, cannot be got by
borinz, but It is to be collected at various
points and sent along the pipe for distribu
tion in New York. It Is said a company Is
being formed with a capital of about 1750,000 to
carry out the scheme.
Extreme ugliness is on the list of dis
qualifications laid down by the medical de
partment for French conscripts. "Excessive
usliness." says the chief of tbe department,
"makes a man ridiculous, prevents bim from
having authority over his comrades, and leaves
htm morbid and sensitive." "Male hysteria" is
another valid plea for excuse from military
service. Tbe army doctors say it exists among
French conscripts, and it is the more objec
tionable as It is contagious.
A small collection of walking sticks,
formerly tbe property of George IU. and
George IV., fetched astonishing prices. An
ebony walking stick with gold top, engraved
'G. It" and crown, containing tbe hair of
tbe Princesses Augusta Elizabeth. Mary
Sophia and Amelia, and inscribed "The
gift ot the Princess Mary. 1804," sold for 18;
an Ivory walking stick, with engravad top. 11;
a Malacca cane, with gold top, 8; a bamboo
cane, with bloodstone top. inlaia with cold, and
a, hazel walking stick, with cold top. 13 10s.; a
tortoise shell stick, with amber top, and a case
with amber crutch, 29.
FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES.
tWBITTXNTORTia SISrATCS.!
A "Wholesome Fear "I hate a dilemma."
Afraid of Its horns?"
"Well Named "So this is a Siberian cat,
Is It. What do you call him?"
"Tomsk."
Squaring the Circle "I'll get square with
you."
Good. I'm sick or seeing you 'round."
Utnry Uarknest.
A Free Translation "Barkins tells me
be Is srolng lnf) politics pro bono publico. What
is tbat?
"He Is going to get a bonus out of the public."
A Cheerful Neighborhood. Stranger
What Is all the bell-ringing about In this town?
Native It's only a funerat but the people of
this little town always work a funeral for all It la
wortb.-'"-. A'- Sieett.
Drive, Drive, Drive "He is an awfully
bard worker. He is writing lrom morning till
nlgnt-drive. drive, drive."
Hackwork. ehf'-TAart Buetateie.
A Fatal Error. "He lost all he had
gambling, didn't he?"
'yes. Lost bis life In his last game."
"Didn't stake his life?"
"Sorter. On a fifth ace."
Mixed TJp. "Don't stand there gaping
tike an Idiot. Did you never see an elephant be-
b I've seen plentyor elephants, butwhetber
ifwM before or behind I'm darned ir I ever could
eorxU"-Carliile Smith.
Their' the Crime. "Why, Martin, why
are yoa here?"
lt smy iricuu Mtuk"
"How so?"
Tbey won't ball me out." S. B. Walts.
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At a Ball. Gentleman, to lady Don't
you think Miss Prettyglrl over there has a bright
expression?
Lady, spitefully There onghtto besoms bright
ness about her face, with those big lantern jaws of
hers. Alex. E. S-xttU
A. Matter of Principle "You ought to
give Chollle Adams a pass to your show."
Why?"
"You have always said raw materials should be
put on the free list." VAotmondely Itarcourt.
"""A Signal Success "Are yoa a poet?"
"No, sir; whydoyonaikf"
"Oh. on account of yoar long hair."
"My dear friind, I wear my hair long to prove
that la my ease marriage la not a failure. JTlant
Scott Hint.
EXPERIENCE TXACHZS.
"When first I saw a busy bee
By what hard fate I know not goaded,
I caught him In my band, and he
"Well, I'd aonoUea it was loaded.' ''"
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