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PITTSBURG. SUNDAY. AUG. 24, 1S90.
CAN REVENUES BE REDUCED
Tbe regular Republican organs which, a
few weeks ago, denounced as a weak inven
tion of the enemy the representation that the
appropriations of tbe present Congress will
exceed the revenue, should give their atten
tion to Senator Edmunds. That eminent
Republican leader has made the most de
cided statement of the result of the session's
extravagance, in the prediction that the
revenue "will turn out on the 30th of June,
1891. to be, I fear, 550,000,000 in round
numbers short ot tbe estimated income, as
suming that we do not take the duty off
sugar."
It is hard to imagine a statement which,
supposing any respect to he paid to the duty
of care and economy in tbe expenditure of
the public funds, contains a severer commen
tary on the recklessness of the present Con
gress. The Republican party took control
ot the Government with an admitted excess
of revenues over expenditures of from 80,
000,000 to $90,000,000. This was on the very
liberal basis of expenditure established
during the Cleveland administration, which
was largely in excess of the appropriations
at the beginning of the decade. A single
session of Congress has produced the re
markable result, according to a Republican
of high standing, that this eighty-million
surplus will be changed to a fifty-million
deficiency without any reduction ct taxation
at all worthy of mention.
Senator Edmunds' conclusion from this
"state of affairs is that the duty must not be
taken off sugar; and that the Republican
party which commenced the session with an
avowal of the necessity for reducing the
revenue must now abandon that effort and
confess the defeat of its policy by its own
extravagance. The Hew York Press, on the
other hand, asserts, on what it claims to be
good authority, that the Senate will restore
the House rates on sugar and adhere to the
party plan of giving the country at least
.that relief from unnecessary taxation. There
is no doubt that tbe latter is the proper
course. The expenditures of the present
session will largely exceed the revenue with
this tax removed; but it is the duty of Con
gress to fulfill the pledge of at lesst some re
duction of taxation and then to conform its
future expenditures to the decreased in
come. With such a reduction as is proposed,
the revenues of the Treasury will permit an
expenditure which ten years ago wonld
hare been regarded as the wildest extrava
gance. This course is more imperative because
the present state of affairs is the best proof
of the lavish and reckless expenditure that
is produced bv a plethoric treasury. This
danger of the surplus was foretold iu tbe
present case, as an argument for reduction
ot the revenue years ago; hut the misfortune
was that the extravagance proved more
prompt in getting at work than the reduc
tion of taxation. The only way to stop the
Treasury raiding, which has gone beyond all
limits that would have been deemed possi
ble half a dozen years ago, is to cut down
the revenue to anamountwhich will inforce
a decenfrespect for economy, and to make
the appropriations for future years con
form to it.
This is not only a public duty, but it is
the only party policy that is consistent with
foresight If Congress should adjourn
without a reduction of taxation, leaving as
the sole summary of its fiscal work tbe con
version of an eighty-million surplus into a
v fifty-million deficiency, it would bury the
"Republican party so deep under the adverse
votes of the people that it would hardly be
worth resurrecting.
A BEATEN COMBINATION.
The revolt of the Southern planters against
the exactions of the jute bagging combina
tion is referred to by an exchange as a case
in which one boycott has succeeded to a
marked degree. The outcome of that fight
is gratifying; but it is rather an illustration
of a case in which monopolistic greed de
feated itself by its own exactions than of the
success of the general refusal to trade which
is called a boycott. The Dispatch re
ferred to this matter in the early stages of
the fight; but tbe result which has been
reached this year has such significance that
it'deserves further notice.
J The jute bagging combination, as is well
-known, formed a pool by which the price of
' jute bagging, used to cover cotton bales,
was put up to IS cents per pound, nearly
twice iU legitimate value. The sum thus
extorted from the cotton raisers wat about
14,000,000 annually. Confident in lU mo-
: nopoly, the combination was able
to exact this plunder from one
.cotton crop; but last year the
lpknters made au organized effort to find a
-buwvm.u.s w. tut, ..6ftub. -.uw.. .. Hv
. talk of boycotting jute bagging; but that
relief was a much .sere eraoactou one
than any mere boycott could ba appears
from the fact that until the substitute was
found the planters had to bur the old bag
ging. The satisfactory substitute was found
in tbe shape of a cheap cotton cloth, which
has gone into such general use that this
year the Jute bagging combine is trying to
find customers at exactly one-third of the
price it attempted to extort a year ago.
Even that reduction docs not bring back
the trade, not on account of the boycott, but
because the, substitute is superior. The
cotton covering costs more than the jute at
the reduced price, but it keeps the bale in
so much better condition that the planters
prefer it. The juts combination is, there
fore, left in the salutary position of having
destroyed its own prosperity by its attempted
extortion.
It is not always that the modern attempts
to establish monopolies and extort high
prices from the mass of producers and con
sumers brings its own punishment so
promptly. Very frequently the substituted
for the monopolized staple is out of reach of
the people. But the case illustrates the
principle that where there is an opportunity
to bring in new competition the heaviest
punishment for an attempt to engross the
market fills on those who resort to such
methods of greed. It is also worthy of
notice that the vital blow to the jute com
bination's extortion was not given by op
posing to it the kindred and futile opposi
tion of a mere agreement not to buy jute
bagging, but by the successful introduction
of the competition of a new and superior
article.
An attempted.boycott on the part of hun
dreds of thousands against the concentrated
strength of a single combination would have
little chance of success; but the creation of
new and adequate competition will always
inflict upon a trust a sure and complete de
VALUES AND CURRENCY.
An address on the source and scope of
legislation, by Mr. Jas. C. Carter, of New
Tork, contains the following paragraph on
the ability to legislate with regard to cur
rency, which is being quoted with approval
by the Eastern press:
Wise legislation seeks to accomplish in the
realm of tbe law only what it sees in the do
main of business and finance. A hundred vain
efforts have almost taught ignorant minds that
Governments cannot by legislation make that
to be money which would not otherwise be
such; but It can and shonld affix its mark and
authentication upon the metals which society
has by usage adopted as money, and certify
the quality which each coin contains. In law,
as well as In economy, the mark will be re
spected. If it Is affixed to the gennlne product
of public habit and oustom, but will be rejected
with the like contempt in either case, if placed
upon some spurious creation.
While the underlying principle is indis
putable, that legislative power cannot give
that value as currency which has no value
in public estimation, the conclusion which
seems to be indicated, that currency legisla
tion can employ Dothing but gold and silver,
is simply closing the eyes to existing facts.
It does not take in all that can be seen "in
the domain of business and finance." An
intelligent observation must recognize that
for years tbe strongest banking system the
world ever saw has been fonnded on
the basis of Government credit.
The lesson that can be drawn
irom we success oi ine na
tional banking system is that security
or property for which there is a general de
mand, and of the value of which there is a
universal conviction, can be made the
foundation for a credit system, by which ex
changes can be made to tbe amount of thou
sands of millions on a minimum of coin
reserve. It does not indicate that we cad
get along without gold or silver; but it
equally refutes the idea that the Govern
ment is undertaking the Impossible when it
bases, either upon jts own credit or some
other equally acceptable security, a system
of credit currency to circulate at par with
coin.
It is interesting in connection with this
subject to notice the object which is repre
sented by Mr. Dwight H. Oimstead as
aimed at by his proposed reform for simpli
fying and facilitating the transfer and mort
gaging of real estate. He believes that
doing away with unnecessary forms will
make it possible for owners of real estate to
convert it into money with the same facility
.as personal assets are converted, and to bor
row money on it as readily as on rail
road bonds, Tbe results of such a
policy are stated by an Eastern paper
in the following significant words:
"To turn the value of land into the chan
nels of trade means, as Mr. Oimstead says,
enormous wealth to our commercial cities
and prosperity to the cultivators of the soil,
lower rent to the tenant, and higher wages
to the workman."
No one will dispute the value of Mr.
Olmstead's proposition; but it can hardly
escape attention that if these results are de
clared by high authority to be secured by
turning the value of land into the channels
of trade, they will be attained more com
pletely by- providing a standard for real
estate mortgages and permitting them, when
within a fixed proportion of the legitimate
valne of land, to be used as a basis lor bank
ing circulation in place of the United States
bonds. Yettheveiy class of opinion which
accepts Mr. Olmstead's propositions as com
mendable, attack the idea of real estate
securities for a banking basis, because it has
been made the means of inflating values.
This is about as logical as it would be to
condemn all banking because the unregu
lated kind has produced wildcat banking.
The proposition is for a system which shall
exclude all bonds except those which are
based on solid values; and criticisms based
on the example of experiments which ad
mitted inflated values are beside tbe mark.
Tbe nation is confronted with the proba
bility that in a comparatively short time the
present basis of banking will be taken away
by the retirement of Government bonds. In
seeking a security to take their place we
need one of unquestioned value and univer
sal acceptability. No value has more univer
sal foundation than that of mortgages which
are based on uninflated prices forreal estate.
Under these circumstances it is certainly
worth while to give a patient hearing to
propositions which aim at the prescription
of a first-class standard for real estate mort
gages and using them in place of Govern
ment bonds. There is no donbt that if the
standard could be properly kept up tbe use
of real estate securities in banking wquld
not only perpetuate tbe advantages of the
national hanking system, but would do
away with many of the abuses of the mort
gage system, by which borrowers are fleeced
on the one hand and investors are swindled
on the other.
ALLEGHENY'S NEW DIGNITY.
Allegheny is a city of the second class in
everything bnt official title. The
census returnshave been published showing
Allegheny to have a population of more
than one hundred thousand. The Governor
of tbe State alone, can give the necessary
authority for tbe proclamation of the cityt
nw dlrnitr. and a netition his been cir-.
culated asking Councils to procure Gover;
nor Beaver's action in tbe matter, Prepar
ation for the. next election cannot be made
untiLthis it done, and there shonld be no
farther delay about it.
MB. PATTISON'eS VIEWS.
Ex-Governor Pattison was brief enough
in his letter of acceptance, although it con
tained lots of ideas. Perhaps he calcu
lated that it was wisest to make tbe ac
ceptance a formal matter anyhow, terse and
to tbe point, while he was filing a bill of
particulars with a newspaper reporter by
the seashore. Mr. Pattison did not err if he
intended his views in detail to reach
the publio by these means. We
have no doubt that the interview
which we publish ehewhere, will be read by
everybody who takes an interest in Penn
sylvania polities, and what good citizen
does not? It will strike the average reader
forcibly that Mr. Pattison does not mince
matters. He states what be believes to be
tbe truth very plainly and directly, and he
comments upon it equally candidly and
clearly. It is not a pleasant picture that
Mr. Pattison presents of State polities, but
it will do no one any harm to examine it
closely. Comment upon Mr. Pattisou's
conclusions is not needed; they are, like his
premises, so very-plain.
THE TRUTH WILL OUT.
Two dozen alert commercial travelers
from Cleveland paid Pittsburg a visit yes
terday. They examined our city closely;
turned it inside and ont, so to speak, and
viewed it from all sorts of points. It im
pressed them very favorably. Their praise
will be found elsewhere; it is a strong
dranght, and Pittsburgera who quaff
it shonld be careful to pre
serve their equilibrium. But we
cannot honestly deny that the
gentlemen irom Cleveland speak the truth,
when they compare Pittsburg ad
vantageously with Chicago, Cincinnati and
other settlements of some size. It might
savor of conceit if Pittsburg were to
say what these Clevelanders say of this
city, but it would be manifestly improper to
qualify or contradict tbe verdict of our
guests. Pittsbnrg is a live city of the first
class and nothing can prevent the truth
leaking out To tbe delegation from
Cleveland we tender the assurance of onr
high esteem.
The Philadelphia Inquirer repeats its
assertion that ex-Governor Pattison "Is
charged with wasting half a million dollars in
trying to destroy Samuel X RandalL" No one
with any respect for the facts charges him with
It. The men who wasted the money were the
members of the Legislature who refused to
perform the duty enjoined on them by the
Constitution and which Governor Pattison
called them together to perform. The people
who refused to perform their legislative duties
must be held responsible for tbe waste of time
and money;otherwise we wogld have to charge
tbe Constitution of the United States with
the cost of the present Congress, Including the
conversion of the surplus into a deficienoy.
The announced intention of O. C. Bar
ber, of the Diamond Match Company, to es
tablish a plant at Charlerol for the manufac
ture of soda ash, an article so mnch needed by
glassmakers, will be hailed with satisfaction
by ail interested in the latter industry. The
scarcity of this valuable material in recent
years adds to the value It will bo to the owners
of glass-making plants to have it right at their
doors, instead of having to pnrchase it of the
Rothschilds.
The cholera in London and Japan should
.impress our quarantine authorities with tbe
necessity of keeping close watch at both the
Eastern and Western gateways of this Country
to see that it does not get in from either
direction.
The fact that New York has lost her for;
mer commanding influence in the Senate, is
lamented by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat with
the following explanation: "She lost her grip
when she let Conkllng go and has never been
able to regain it." But should respect for his
torical accuracy impel the esteemed Globe
Democrat to n.ake the statement tbatConkling
let himself go, and was then unable to regain
his grip, while Tom Piatt after the same act
regained his grip on the machine but not on the
Senatorship?
Exactly how Mr. Wolfe's vote may be
cast will be uncertain until we hear from that
gentleman the day after election; but he has
managed to give the public some very solid
reasons why other voters should support Pat
tison. It is reported of Queen Victoria that she
tried to read Henry George's "Progress and
Poverty," but gave it up after tbe first two
chapters because of its exceeding ponderous
ness. Her Majesty's literary tastes are evi
dently in favor of something light and airy,
like the Court Chronic!) and "Life in the
Highlands." But if she finds Henry George
ponderous, it is evident that she could never
succeed In reading the editorials of those faith
ful Tory organs the London limes and Stand
ard. Some far Western producers find it
cheaper to ship by wagon train than by rail
where there is no competing Jine. If the roads
there were like Pennsylvania's highways, the
producer wonld be at the mercy ot the corpora
tions. Me. Chauncey M. Depew is reported
to have left Homburg, quietly. Whether this
was done to escape the pernicious activity of
correspondents who persisted in asking
him for his position on the strike; or
whether Chauncey has started home to
make a grand coup by settling tbe strike on bis
arrival Is not known; but if something of the
latter sort does not develop In a few days we
may conclude that the Depew Fresldental boom
is indefinitely postponed.
The cool wave of August is almost as
extreme as the hot wavesof July. Our weather
should learn the value of a happy medium.
"The opposition to the use of cottonseed
oil as food will some day in the future rank
with the objection two centuries ago to the use
of tbe potato," remarks the Philadelphia Press
In connection with the debate-on compound
lard la Congress. True enough; but we may
still be permitted to lope that tbe future will
have honesty enough to retain the objection to
the sale of cottonseed oil under the fraudulent
pretense that it is pure lard or genuine olive oil.
When the baseball season ends and Con
gress adjourns, a Thanksgiving Day proclama
tion will be in order.
Silver has eased off a little during the
past few days, but the quotation makes the
bullion value ot a stiver dollar now worth 81c,
or 17c more than before silver legislation. So
far the gain from the silver bill is for the
benefit of tbe silver mine owners. It remains
to be seen whether there will be any general
benefit for the public at large from It.
Sealskin bathing suits will have to be
worn If the cold wave lingers on the beaches a
few hours longer.
Losch'b disposition to talk out- in meet
ing is regarded by tbe Philadelphia Prestos
even more obnoxious than Quay's interference
with tbe House programme. Both, however,
ire reprehended by the Press wltb such vigor
as would indicate that it had never committed
tbe crime of Independence. ,
The latest news from Washington con
firms the report that Quay is very mueaon top
m uie raeuatv. . t , i .rx
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Summer's Frosty Grip in August A Para.
graph From a Fnmre Novel Baby Talk
A Democrat Newly Defined Lesson In
Politeness Tintype Philosophy.
pBETTY soon wet shall be reading without the
least surprise some such bit of description
as this: "It was a clear frosty day in August.
The bracing North Easter blew fine snow in
our faces every now and again, and far and
near over the while roads sounded the tinkle
of sleigh bails. Ethelinda snuggling In her
furs, as we sped over the crisp, beaten snow,
recalled laughingly ber grandmother's tales ot
days when summer was a warm season, and
August was as hot as December."
Expeditious to tbe North Pole are a thing of
tbe past for the Indications are that ttra Arctic
Circle has broken loose from its moorings, and
if we wake np one of these sharp frosty morn
ings and find polar bears lunching on the lawn,
who will be surprised?
What language does a baby talk? Your
mother probably knew, but she could
never impart the knowledge to you.
Tbe other day the mother of a bright little
baby, who was talking away at a great rate in
bis inscrntable lingo, said to bis brother, a boy
of six or so; "What is little Brother saying!"
"Nobody can understand it," said Master Six
scornfully, "I guess It's a Democrat."
This is a new reading and a new reflection
upon a much-abused party.
T7VERY once in a while somebody starts out to
encourage, foster and forward American
literature. A practical politician once Bald to
me: "When a man has trained with the Repub
lican party and got left, and labored with the
Democrats with like results, and given the
Pronibltioniats and tbe Greenbackers a whirl to
tbe sam'e purpose, be is very apt to come out
for civil service reform, with all the latest im.
provements."
The analogy may not be ex.
act, bnt something very like this
frequently occurs in tbe publishing trade.
When times are a little dull and new Ideas as
scarce as manx cats a publisher seems drawn
by some mysterious sympathy toward the
high and sacred task of boosting American
literature. Far be from me to say that tbe
Philadelphia publishers who have come to the
rescue of "the impecunious geniuses" who are
burning to build up American literature with
novels in yellow covers, are actuated
by any but the most benevolent
motives. There is a belief extant
at this very hour that ;1here is enough latent
literary ability in America to produce a litera
ture worthy ot our country, it it be fostered
and encouraged," as these worthy Philadel
phians assert. It is pleasant to learn anyhow
that a firm of publishers is ready to publish
novels Without expense to the native American
authors, as a circular received by The Dis
patch states.
T au glad to see that Tolstoi's 'Kreutzer
Sonata' is to be excluded from the mails,"
said Mr. Goodboy, as he laid the morning
newspaper down.
"Yes, dear," responded Mrs. Goodboy sym;
pathetically, "but it should be excluded f torn
the females, also!"
rTHE car was crowded an extraordinary
thing as we all know on the Fifth avenue
cable line and among thoe who stood were
two old colored women. Tbey carried bundles
that looked very heavy. A gentleman, who
can't help occupying a good deal of room,
noticed these old aunties and bow tired tbey
seemed. He got up to give tbem his seat
room enough for two. But two white women
who were standing also slipped into tbe vacant
place, although they saw plainly enough for
whose benefit the stout man bad risen. They
evidently thought it a good joke and a smart
trick, for they grinned.
Tbe stout man was good-natured, but he
couldn't stand this. So he said to the women
he bad intended to oblige: "Ladles, I intended
tbat seat for you," and then turning to the
others wrongfully in possession, he added: "1
intended tbat seat for these ladies." His words
and their sarcastic tone bad no effect on the per
sons addressed, but one ot the colored ladies
said loud enough tor everybody in tbe car to
hear: ".Never mind, sir; they dont't know any
better." i
'A obeat business is done in tintypes at Rock
" Point. The photographer's tent is just
outside the picnic grounds, and on days when
big picnics occur, as many as two hundred
separate .pictures are made there. The enter
prising young man who presides over the
camera is something of a student of human
nature. One little discovery be has made which
throws light on a peculiarly feminine foible.
"When a young lady comes np here," he
says, "to have her portrait taken, she insists
tbat she doesn't want it at all. She permits her
self to be persuaded and posed and tho tintype
is finished in little longer than It takes to
tell it. When she takes the tintype from my
hand her exclamation invariably is: 'Oh!
how dreadful P or words to tbat effect. She is
never satisfied with the picture while she is in
the gallery. Words fail me to picture the look
of disgust which I always expect to see on a
pretty woman's face at that moment. Bnt once
outside the tent she is delighted with the
thing. It's tbe cutest picture she overbad taken,
and all that sort of thing. I've heard this con
tradiction so often that I've ceased to apologize
or argne about tintypes when there's a lady in
the case," Hkpbubk Johhs.
HEN OF MARK.
Rev. Dr. BtmcHABD, of "Rum, Romanism,
and Rebellion fame, is summering at Saratoga.
Kx-Pbesident Paul, of Veneznla, is iu
New York and will remain in theUnited States
several months. He comes North on account
of impaired health.
General Shekman will probably go from
Center Harbor on Lake Winniplseogee. where
he is now, to Burlington, Vt, ana Lake G eorge,
Def ore returning to the Metropolis.
Db. Peixeobetc, tbe new president of the
Argentine Republic, is of English grand-parentage
and a cousin of tbe late John Bright,
His father was an Italian engineer.
Dr. George C. Larimer has been alectorer
as well as preacher, and in tbe former role he
has probably proved more popular with his
"Philosophy of Humor" than any other plat
form effort.
FbawkD. Millet, the artist, who has re
turned to Europe, was an art critic His taste
for gunpowder contracted in the civil war led
him to join the staff of a London paper during
the Russo-Turkish war.
The business men of San Francisco are anx
ious to have Mr. Wanamaker visit that citv
this season and give them the benefit of bis
advice and experience In tbe matter of the new
postofflce to be built there.
Pbepabaxioks are being made already for
the celebration of Field Marshal Count von
Moltke's 90th birthday, next November. The
whole German army will celebrate the day.
Special exercises will be held in the schools
also.
The question who shall succeed the late
Colonel Harris, of Ohio. In tbe Board of Man
agers of the National Soldiers' Homes has not
been finally determined. Among others Gen
eral James Barnett, of Cleveland, O., has been
named for tbe place. He served In the Army
of the Cnmberland and was for a time chief of
artillery of that army.
HE. BOWELIS N07EL TRIP.
A Minister of the Crown Who WlllJournev
Over a Wild Tract.
Ottawa, August 23. Next week the Hon.
Mackenzie Bowell, Minister of Customs, will
leave on what may be considered one of the
most novel trips ever undertaken by a Minister
of the crown. Last year he spent several weeks
In traveling along the boundary in Manitoba
and the Territories for The purpose of ascer
taining the frontier requirements in the way of
customs outposts.
Mr. Bowell now proposes to resume tbe trip
at tbe oolnt where It was discontinued last 'year
through the wild of British Columbia to the
Pacific coast While the route through the
Crow's Nest Pass is pretty well known Mr.
Bowell's party, in order to avoid making a de
tonr of 100 miles, propose to strike across tbe
Purcell and Selkirk ranges by a route never
surveybd, and which is practically unknown.
It is believed that a large amount or smuggling
is going on Doth ways between Washington
State and British Columbia, and an effort is to
be made to chock it.
A Xfconsi All Aniuuui
JTreta the Chicago Tribune.!
..Boor'Kemmler la-avenged. The eminent
seieutists who roasted pbim are now roasting
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H0N0EIKQ TEE DEAD IHVEKT0E.
The Remains of Cnpialn John Ericsson Start
on Their Voynge to Sweden.
New York, August 23. The body of Captain
John Ericsson, tbe great Swedish inventor,
was to-day transferred to tbe United States
man-of-war Baltimore, npon which It will be
conveyed to Gothenburg. Shortly after noon
tbe casket containing the remains of Captain
Ericsson emerged from tbe gate ot the marble
cemetery on Secoud street, where it had been
deposited after his death in this city on March
8. 1889. Tbe casket was placed in tbe waiting
hearse, which was immediately surrounded by
the guard of honor, composed ot veteran
seamen who bad seen service on tbe Ericsson
monitors. As tbe body was borne from the
cemetery gate to tbe hearse, tbe Scandinavian
singing societies sang an anthem. The escort
of United States marines, after having pre
sented arms during tbe passage of tbe casket
from tbe cemetery to tbe hearse, took their
their position on tbe right ot the line, and with
remarkable alacrity organization after organi
zation in the main column, already formed,
closed up on the right and received the order
to marcn.
Along the route of procession great numbers
of people were gathered wherever a good view
ot the pageant could be obtained. As the car
riages occupied by the distinguished guests
moved on their way Secretary Tracy, Rear
Admiral Braine and his guest, Rear Admiral
Worden, tbe old commander of Ericsson's
monitor; the gentlemen representing the Gov
ernment of Norway and Sweden, and others
prominently Identified with tbe occasion, were
speedily recognized by the people on tho side
walks. The Swedish Minister was represented
bv bis secretary, Baron de Fries, as owing to
ill-bealth he was unable to take part in the
ceremonies.
When the cortege arrived at pier A the ma
rines quickly moved by columns of four to the
right and left of the roadway, forming a pas
sage through which tbe hearse with its attend
ants passed at once to the wharf, stooping di
rectly beside the tug Nina. As the casket was
placed aboard the tug tbe Scandinavian
societies again lifted their voices in one of the
mournful death chants of their raco. Tbe
Nina, preceded by the steam lannches ot the
fleet in double column, and followed by the
Catalpa with tbe invited guests on board, and
the pulling boats, also in double column, then
moved gently away from tbe pier, making her
course straight for tbe Baltimore,
After tbe formal presentation of the body to
tbe Government through Captain Schley, of
tbe Baltimore, by the executors of the Erics
son estate, tbe decks were cleared ot guests
and visitors and the vessel started on ber voy
age, moving slowly down the bay. As she
passed each war vessel in the long line. Its bat
teries belcbed forth the national salute of 21
guns, while the colors remained half-masted
with the Swedish ensign displayed.
' A HEGIECTED CKNIKNNIAL.
Tbe First Patent Iyuod Absut 100 Years
Ago A Crnlnry of Inventions.
From the New York Star.l
At the Pennsylvania Railroad depot a few
nights ago, in tbe crowd waiting to take tbe ex
press train to Washington, I saw Congressman
John Qulnn, of the big West Side district. He
had been over here on a day's visit to bis home,
and was hurrying back to his seat in the House
ot Representatives.
"Don't talk to me about politics," he said,
laughingly; "I have bad enough of such matters
in Washington, but let me tell you something
interesting. I was over in the Patent Office the
other day on some business, and one of tbe old
time clerks there, stuck away in a musty cor
ner, told me that it was just 100 years ago last
week since the first patent was Issued in this
country. Tbe man to whom it was issued was
named Samuel Hopkins, and the invention was
a new plan for making ?ot and pearl ashes.
This statement stirred up my curiosity, and I
went into some figures with that well-informed
clerk. I found tbat the total number of patents
issued during tbe century was nearly 450,000
and that they covered nearly all tbe modern in
ventions now in nse in this country, many of
which would have been looked upon by our
forefathers, had they ever seen them, as the
works and devices of the evil one.
"One other notable thing was made clear to
me, and that is that tbe most remarkable and
Important mechanical discoveries in this coun
try bare been made wltbin the last half cen
tury. Indeed, during the first GO years alter
Samuel Hopkins got bis patent very little, if
anything, was done tending largely toward tbe
progress and comfort of the human race, in so
lar as patent articles were concerned. Tbe first
J latent issued by the office fur any really great
mprovement seems to have been that for tbe
Morse telegraph, application forwhich was first
filed in 1840, although the system was not
brought Into practical use until 1841. The last23
years, however, have eclipsed any other period
in tbe history of this country for patent Im
provements that go to make fife comfortable
and business easy. The telephone, the electric
light, speaking tubes, typewriters, elevators
and a hundred other similar things which will
readily occur to you have been sent out to make
tbe world better and happier.
"Tho country should have celebrated the
anniversary ot the issue of that first patent m
a way tbat so notable an event merited, and in
a manner corresponding to the benefits which
tbe country has realized from the multiplied
inventions which human Ingenuity has perfect
ed In America."
A CB0P SPEEDILY HARVESTED.
Senator Wilson Speaks sf the Evil Effect
, of Intemperance In Ohio.
from the Washington Post.1 .
Said Senator Wilson, of Iowa, at an uptown
hotel: "Tbe original package crop was pretty
speedily harvested in Iowa. It was probably a
blessing in disguise in this way: It showed the
people how tremendous was the evil of the
unrestricted sale of alcoholic liquors. Except
in a few large towns we had abolished the rum
traffic in Iowa. Its reopenment in tbe original
package form brought back the curse, and Con
gress couldn't pass a bill qujck enough to dele
gate the State's authority to exclude objection
able importations. That brief return to
whisky was enough to satisfy tbe Iowaus for all
time of the value of prohibition, and it that is
sue were made in the State to-day, instead of
carrying it by 00,000 votes, as It did before, tbe
majority would be doubled."
PATTIS01PS ACCEPTANCE.
Philadelphia Uccord (Dem.): Mr. Patti
son has let no grass grow while considering
how be should answer tbe letter ot the commit
tee formally apprising him of his nomination
He plants hinrselr unreservedly on the plat
form of his party, emphasizing tbe undoubttd
fact that tho contest this fall is eminently t
State contest. It Involves an -appeal to tbe
people against an insolent, unscrupulous and
corrupt leadership to which the Republican
party has momentarily surrendered itself. Mr.
Pattison does not confuse the issue by any of
the usual platitudes or generalities. His letter
will please his friends, and give no point of ad
vantage to his opponents.
Philadelphia Timet, (Ind.J: Ex-Governor
Pattison has written a brief, matter-of-fact,
sensible letter of acceptance, In which he
makes no attempt either to be wiser than the
world generally or to plav the rolo of the cun
ning politician. He is quite right in assuming
tbat letters of acceptance are, as a rule, obso
lete as factors in modern politics. His plat
form is very clearly presented in himself. That
is tbe sole reason why the Scranton convention
made bim its candidate, and a profusion ot
promises to spread sails for every possible gale,
would simply belittle bim before tbe people.
Philadelphia Press, (Rep.): Governor
Pattisou's letter of acceptance, printed this
morning, will be a disappointment only to
Democrats. It will not be regarded as strong
either for what it says or what it leaves unsaid,
and it is not saved in any degree by tbe apology
for its shortcomings and the attempt to cover
them by reference to the speech of acceptance
made at tbe Scranton convention. That
speech really adds nothing to this letter, and It
was in part an apology for not having a chance
to say more at tbat time.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.): Mr. Patti
son is quite right In saying the contest should
not be diverted from its legitimate and true
lines, and. In view of tbe platforms of both par
ties, national and State Issues mnst stand or
fall together so far as this State is concerned.
, A GLAD xURPRIsE.
rWRITTEN rOR TUB DIsrATCH.J
Her face was a sweet one, young and fair.
Yet O'er It rested a weary air.
As oryearning long denied;
A loot, ofone who bis sought In vain.
Who hopeless and saddened seeks again,
Btlil restless unsatisfied.
Her hand, so small and white to behold.
Lay half concealed In her dress1 sot sold.
Where like a moonbeam It gleamed;
Then without warning, her eyest flashed bright.
And her whole form quickened, alert and llght-
Llke a different girt she seemed.
What was it brought the light to her eyes
And touched her form wltb such keen surprise
That it almost seemed to shock It?
She had) searched Tor sometnlng near and dear,
BBS badAsearched In vain for a whole lonf-year, .
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MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
The Asitallon Over (be Last Resting- Place
of General Grant's Remains The Strike
and tbe Tunnel More Theatricals Com
panies Than Evei A.Genernl's Bowlr.
IFBOM A STAVT COBBXSFOXDXXT.l
'There is a periodical agitation over tbe last
resting place ot tbe remains of General
Grant. It has been recently given as news that
Mrs. Grant Is willing tbat Congress may re
move the body to Arlington National Cemetery
on tbe banks of the Potomac, provided tbat
she and the Vest of tbe family may finally lie by
bis side. This, it should be remembered, was
the only thing that stood In the way of original
burial at Arlington. Tbe only reason tbe
Grant family preferred Riverside Park was the
fact tbat no autbority existed by which a Na
tional cemetery could be thus used as a family
burying ground. At tbe time of tbe death of
the Beloved and distinguished Genetal. Mrs.
Grant, through her son, Colonel Fred Grant,
was quite willing the body should rest at beau
tiful Arlington, reserving only the right npon
her death to be buried by her husband's side.
This would require a special act of Congress.
Therefore the Riverside selection.
Now, however, Mrs. Grant extends her orlgl
inal proviso so as to include ber entire family.
Overlooking the patriotic claims of the entire
nation on the remains of our greatest Ameri
can soldier, all must sympathize wltb the widow
and ber children in their natural desire to
finally He side by side iu their last and eternal
sleep. Any act of Congress now that falls
short of this provision will be rendered nuga
tory by the peremptory refnsal of the Grant
family. This fact opens up the general ques
tion of the relation of others to the rights
of national sepulcher. The monumental con
troversy is but a side issue, although it Is being
widely discussed in the newspapers as if itwere
a consideration of the original disposal of the
remains. General Grant himself preferred
Arlington, West Point and Riverside Park in
the order named, but evidently knew oi
the legal technicalities in the way and left the
matter, with characteristic modestr, to be set
tled by his family. He subordinated In tho try
ing last hours of his life tbe wishes of the na
tional soldier to the desires of wife and chil
dren. The question of monuments never dis
turbed him or Influenced them at such a time,
ihe promises oi monuments was but tbe
eager contest of municipalities for the
possession of the tomb of the great
soldier. They were but tbe promises of
individuals. Ihe only material authorization
was that of the New York Park authorities
which met tbe wishes of the family and of the
dead in relation to the right of tbe widow to
finally He by the side of her husband. Th9re
were very many who thought this disposal of
the remains was a mistake, but it was tbe best
tbat could have been done. No one who has
visited the lovely spot on the bank of the Hud
son can now think It a mistake. And there are
thousands who still go there every week. It Is
easily and cheaply accessible to the visiting
public, and tho tomb is in plain view from the
decks of the passing steamers. You can go and
come for 10 cents. The trip to Arlington from
Washington requires a day and a carriage at
58. I have never seen this discrepancy men
tioned. You can visit Grant's tomb from any
where within 200 miles of this city cheaper than
you could reach It at Arlington Irom Willard's
Hotel, and almost as quickly. When the mag
nificent monument which New York will erect
over the remains is completed no one who hon
ored Grant in life will object to the present dis
posal of his body. Tbat such a monument will
be reared to his memory is not a question of
donbt, newspaper controversy to tbe contrary
notwithstanding.
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Turned Loose In a Tunnel.
Qomso over the Now York Central the
other evening a trainman told me the
hopes of tbe strikers for immediate success
were based on the blocking of the tunnel. The
so-called tnnnel begins this side of Harlem and
with the arcade extends about four miles to
Forty-second street. There are but two exits
other than the ends, and no other way ont. On
the first day of tbe strike this tunnel was com
pletely blocked by trains. One train after an
other entered, ran down to the red light of the
rear car of the train ahead and stopped. These
trains were loaded with Innocent passengers.
I bad almost said bystanders; for it is usually
tbe Innocent bystander who gets hurt in such a
struggle as this. What a siory might hare
been written of the scenes In tbat dark tunnel!
And yet not a single one of tbe big newspapers
u iow iur& jiau more tuan a casual reierence
to the fact. According tojwbat I was told by a
Wagner porter it was one of the most exciting
features ot the whole strike.
Of course four-fifths of those on the cars
knew nothing whatever of tbe difficulty be
tween the railway employes and the Central.
Imagine their disgust If yon can, packed in
that long, dark, underground passage without
any Knowledge of the situation, without means
of getting out, or even knowing which way to
go when told they must walk Jor itl Piloted
by lanterns tbey were compelled to grope their
way along the damp walls toward outer day,
scared, angry, disgusted, sick.
"In all of my railroading experience," said
the porter, "I never saw such an excited and
such a dejected looking crowd. It took two
days to clear that tunnel of trains."
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Tbe Burden of Wealth.
CjTTlNG on one of the cane-seated benches of
the Grand Union Court at Saratoga tbe
other day watching the play ot the fountains
and listening to the deiiciously dreamy musio
of the band, a friend pointed out to me tbe
rooms ot tbe late Mrs. A. T. Stewart. They
are on the second floor. The windows looked
out ot tbe shaded recess foimed by tbe main
piazza, directly over the central entrance.
From them the view of the lovely garden court
is the best. At one of these windows tbe rich
and lonely widow would sit tor hours together.
She would appeann an exceedingly low-necked
dress, her throat, hair, ears, bodice, resplend
ent with costly jewels, apparently satisfied
with being stared at by tbose below. A body
guard paraded tbe hall in front of her suite the
while.
What a life! Her dead husband's body
dragged from its grand sepulcher by greedy
grave robbers, ber magnificent city palace
rinsrd to tbe world, her own dally life made
miserable by wraug!i!! relatives, ber person
the cynosure of thieves of ail grades! Poverty
and the prison never shut down on a human
being more deserving of sympathy than was
she. No wonder her strong mind Anally suc
cumbed. s
Soubrettes at Work.
rP here is a snug room in an old-fashioned
Broadway building that could tell a pretty
story of metropolitan life. It is tbe headquar
ters of a well-known dancing master. Now
there are dancing masters and dancing mas
ters. This one is a specialist, his line being
professional ladies. On his list during this
season of rehearsals are some of the most
charming and best, known soubrettes of the
American stage. 'Every modern sonbrette
must know bow to sing and dance, and she
must do both reasonably well. To be sure, it
is purely variety business; but what Is farce
comedy nowadays but tbe real old-fashioned
variety. This master prepares, polishes, edu
cates tbe heel-and-toe ladies who just now have
charge of the amusement-going world and the
American drama. Some of his pupils are
young beginners, some are being molded over
to suit tbe public taste, some are rubbing np
previous knowledge and adding new sf ps to
their repertoire for the opening of tbe theatri
cal season.
Tbe master is a middle-aged gentleman, and
the room is not an imposing one. In fact. It is
scarcely suited to such business, bnt it goes.
Ihe pupils bayeto content themselves with a
retiring room consisting of a small corner and
a curtain. As they have only an hour each and
surceed each o her closely there Is lively work
to prevent tbe treading npon each other's heels.
One pupil is practicing jigs, reels, eta, another
negro breakdowns and walkarounds, another
the kicking act, and another more artistic
work. In this tbey differ from the ballet, and
in this line of instruction tbe master differs
from tbe ordinary ballet master.
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How the Stage Grows.
Tr theatrical matters are occasionally touched
upon in this correspondence it is because
tbat which pertains to the stage is one of tbe
most Important features ot New York life At
this moment there Is not a theater or public
hall of any kind in the city which is not occu
pied once or twice daily by companies rehears
ing for tbe season's work. Tbe city of Brook
lyn is called noon to furnish additional accom
modations and some companies have to go over
to Jersey City for rehearsal. There are fully 800
companies here now rebearslsg. They em
brace some 6,000 people. It Is probable that
more companies will take tbe road this season
than ever before. They comprise everything
tbat Is good, bad and Indifferent. Many will go
to pieces the flnt fortnight, some will do good
business, but most of them will drag out tbe
season with average fair eanings, lacking
only in some leading particular the full meas
ure of success.
A Man With a Bowlr.
'The curious figure of GenerallRlber (I never
knew what be was general of ), of Sc LouisT
"was noticed in Broadway tbe other day. Rider
is a short, squarely built, dark complexioned
man with lonir, stringy, greasy looking black
hair apparently a wig deep set, small eyes,
and always wears black clothes. He woqld at
tract attention almost anywhere. He certainly
attracts It here. His black coat Is buttoned
cicely around bim. although tbe mercury may
be ih tbe nineties. Under that coat Is probably
a li-inch bowte bladc 4t is strange what a
fMG-iaatlon for many people there la in f a mas
i i n mil ii Tin - i r in -- k. -"v a- ij"i.B
reputed to habitually go about the streets of a
civilized community armed wltb a murderous
bowle knife, with the additional reputation of
having cut two or three men to pieces with it.
On one of these occasions tbere wasn't enough
of bis victim left whole to tell where be wasn't
hacked or stabbed. Here on Broadway this
dark and gloomy figure is pomted out as a
curiosity of great interest.
Casting Otrtue Gloom.
'THE visitor who has not been in New York
since last winter will meet with a surprise
when be comes again. Tbe old mahogany, tbe
.browns and red-and-golds which rendered dark
and gloomy tbe main corridors and dining
rooms of tbe principal hotels bave given place
this snmmer to old ivory whites and light buff--,
etc., of a newer date and lighter and more
cheerful description. ..
Charles T. Murray.
CnSBENT TIMELY TOPICS.
Mb. Foraxer, of Obio, thinks the force bill
an excellent measure. For that reason alone, if
for no other. It should be defeated,
t t t
Mrs. W. K. Vaudebbilt has had a $20,000
bath tub placed In ber residence. A po one would
bave answered tbe same purpose, so far as the
outside world la concerned.
t t t -
Boston baseball clubs expect to walk off'
with both pennants. The Pittsburg clubs have
the satisfaction of knowing that the other clubs In
the Leagues will not be able to defeat tbem In tbe
racs for tbe tall enders.
t t t
Mb. Pattisou's letter is short and sweet,
and to tbe point. Deeds, not vacant words. Is his
motto. Mr. Delamater's letter will be published
later on. It takes some statesmen a much longer
time to think than others.
t t t
IHE frigid weather of the past few days has
bad a demoralizing effect on straw bats, and their
days of usefulness are about over,
t t t
Nirw York TTorW: "Oh, Charles, you've
got baby upside down," she screamed. "Mary,
you mean well," he said calmly, as he reversed
the child, "but tone sternly truthful, I bad bun
down-side up."
t t t
Fay Templeton's diamonds bave been as
sessed at a little over (8,000 and have been re
leased. Tbe clever actress got several thousand
dollars worth of free advertising. The diamond
"ad" Is a rank chestnut, but they are quite fash
ionable. t t t
Capital and labor are twin brothers, but
the former has the best of the deal,
itt
Something like a second visit of tbe grip is
reported. Persons who had two doses of the dis
ease are not hankering to any alarming extent for
iu reappearance. A gennlne case of la grippe Is
not to be sneezed at.
t t t
As far back as man can remember Frank,
lln, Venango county, has always come up smiling
when offices were being handed around. One ot
her citizens has Just been tendered the guberna
torial nomination of the Prohibitionists. Of
course the donors reel confident that he will not
be elected, but they did not want to see tbe old
town slighted,
t t t
AS a flopper Mr. Charles S. Wolfe Is a great
success. He should stick to one party long enough
to get acquainted with Its members.
t t t
The people of California are said to have the
impression that when Senator Leland Stanford
dies he will leave his vast fortune of 140.000,000 to
the State. If disappointment kills people Cali
fornia will be depopulated when the Senator's
will Is made public.
ttt
A wonderful change has taken place In
Kansas lu the past year. Last summer It took
Ave bushels of corn to get Into a circus. This
summer you can get Into tbe main tent, stavto
the concert, go to the sideshow, and get a picture
of the Circassian beauty all for one bushel.
TRIBUTES TO BECK'S MEMORY.
Senators Deliver Eloquent Eulogies In His
Honor and Then Adjourn.
Washington. August 2a Tho Senate met
at noon, the session being devoted to eulogies
of tbe late Senator Beck, ot Kentucky.
Immediately alter the reading ot the jour
nal, air. Blackburn offered resolutions, which
were agreed to, expresslngtbe protound sorrow
of tbe Senate at tbe death of Mr. Beck. Mr.
Blackburn made the opening address. He
told of the services of Mr. Beck In the House,
and said tbat in 1S75 he had been sent to the
Senate by the great Stater of Kentucky and had
been, with one exception, the only native born
Scotchman who ever held a seat in the Senate
chamber. The oak had fallen In the forest.
Tbe strong man had been taken away. But
tbere was nought left to mourn save bis ab
sence. His life's labor was well done. His
name would be honored by tbosewho followed.
His fame, fairly earned, was secure.
Mr. Ingalls was tbe next speaker. Mr. Beck's
career, he said, could not be considered other
wise than as extraordinary and of singular and
unusual distinction. "In a great State, proud
of Its history, of the lineage of its illustrious
families, of the honor ot its heroic names, of
the achievements of its warriors and statesmen,
that stranger bad surpassed tbe swiftest in tbe
race of ambition and tbe strongest in the race
for supremacy. This obsequyisfortbe quick
and not for the dead. It is not an Inconsolable
lamentation. It is a strain of triumph. It is
an affirmation to those who survive that, as our
departed assaclate, contemplating at the close
of his life the monument of good deeds he had
erected (more enduring than brass and loftier
than tbe pyramids of kmes). migbt exclaim
with tbe Roman poet, non omnis moriar, so,
turning to tbe silent and unknown future, be
could reply with just and reasonable confidence
upon that most impressive and momentous as
surance ever delivered to tbe human race, "He
tbat beheveth in Me, though he were dead,
J ret shall he live; and whosoever lireth and be
ievetb in Me shall never die."
Tributes of affeotinn, esteem andregret were
also paid by Messrs. Evarts, Vest, Vance. Hale,
Allison, Morgan, Plumb. Hampton, Gibson,
Coke, McPherson and Carlisle. At the close of
Mr. Carlisle's address the Senate, as an addi
tional mark of respect, adjourned.
Crnahed to Earth.
From tbe Boston Herald.
A native Southerner, who is also a strongRe
publican, writes to the Advertiser of this city
from Savannah, Ga., that the Republicans of
the South would certainly be crushed to
earth in attempting iu that State to defend the
Dodge bill. It is now entirely apparent that
this is purely a politicians' bill and tbat it must
fail altogether of its professed purpose.
FACTS FOB THE FAIR SEX
Secretary Wkdom's daaghters are tbe
guests; of Mrs. Garfield, in Mentor, O.
Ex-Mayor Grace's wire wears the hand
somest diamonds at Saratoga except the Moro
slnl collection.
Agnes Hunttnoton, the American singer.
Is not engaged to Lord Dudley. She has been
taken up by Baroness Burdett-Contts, however.
Miss Lillie B. Porter, a grandnlece of Ad
miral Porter, has created no end of a sensation
in Washington by marrying a man named
O'Brien, who was a head waiter intheRiggs
House cafe.
THE Duke of Orleans has been detected by
his fiancee in a desperate flirtation with a pretty
opera singer, and the young man who was to
have saved France is having a hard time to
save himself.
THE young Duchess of Leinster. who has
been called tbe prettiest woman In England, is
toll and slender, stately and calm, with per
fectly chiseled features. She is an aristocrat
from crown to toe.
Miss Annie CDTTisa", whose engagement
to Baron de Verier was recently announced,
is a petite and very pretty brunette. Her
beauty, combined with her bright conversation,
has made ber an acknowledged belle.
Every window in Mrs. George W. Child's
Long Branch cottage Is filled with a bright
scarlet box thickly planted with palms, ferns,
hanging vines and flowering plants. The con
trast of scarlet and green Is most striking and
very beautiful.
Miss Louise Lawson, of New York, who is
to execute tbe Memorial Commission's contract
for a statue ot tbe late S. S. Cox, is the sister of
Colonel L. M. lawson. who was a Federal
officer In the war, and is row a gentleman of
wealth and leisure.
Commissioner James D. Butt, of West
Virginia, has appointed Mrs. W. Newton
Lynch, of Wheeling, as Lady Commissioner,
and Mrs. G. W.Z. Black, of Jefferson county,
as Alternate, on tbe Board of Lady Managers
of tbe World's Fair.
Madame Latjrin. one ot the last of the
vivndieres, has received the French govern
ment gold medal, in consideration of her long
and arduous services In field, in camp, and on
the march. Madame Laurin Is 03 years old,
has nine children, and believes tbat it wilt not
belongbeforovthe bnly surviving 'vivandiere
will be found only oa the boards .of the opera
when that outworn favorite rrhe Daughter of
th Ragtmeatt Is ! -ai&.i -
CUEI0DS C0NDENSAT105S.
Thirty thousand dollars a month is paid
out for lottery tickets in Key West, Fla.
An English firm has purchased the right
to slaughter and pack 300,000 hogs a year in
Sertia.
The first shipment of sealskins to Lon
don this season left Victoria by tbe Canadian
Pacific last week. Tbey filled seven cars and
were valued at 150,000.
A vicious stallion at Rochester, Ind.,
bit its owner in the shoulder, then attacked a
passing dairyman, and finished up by biting off
tbe ear of tbe tatter's horse.
A sycamore tree near Newtown, Conn.,
is said to be 85 feet 'high and 21 feet in diame
ter, while its branches shade an area extending
80 feet from the trunk. It produces large and
abundant white blossoms.
It is told of a young man in Hancock,
Me., that though he goes to meetings, parties
and other gatherings he has never been known
to speak to anyDody but his parents. No rea
son is assigned for hissiience.
As the result of a severe burn a little
Grass Valley. Cab, girl's side and arm grew to
gether, becoming united by a webbing of flesh
nearly an inch in thickness. She was released
from her unpleasant predicament by a success
ful surgical operation.
Rev. Frank E. Jeffrey, a missionary to
India, who leaves for tbat country in a few
weeks, was married in the Jollet, UL. Peniten
tiary on Tuesday to the daughter of Warden
Bergreo, the convict orchestra and choir furn
ishing tbe incidental music
A man named Piatt has discovered a
piece of gold-bearing quartz in a brook on a
farm two miles west of Birmingham. Conn.
The town is running wild with exitement.
Quartz has been found in the same vicinity be
fore, but was never assayed.
A miser at Dublin, Ind., having no
faith in banks, placed some 1,500 In gold in
tomato cans and then burled the cans under
the brick floor In bis cellar. One day this
week going to the biding place he found that
thieves bad been tbere before and carried oS
his hoard.
A bookkeeper named Davis, in New
Haven, Conn., who, while visiting a brewery
with a party of friends, drank corrosive subli
mate in mistake for champagne cider, was im
mediately given a powerful emetic, and now.
barring a blistered throat and stomach, is as
well as ever.
Sam Ward and Sam Lee, Ocala'g re
spective celestial restaurauteur and laundry
men, remembered their dead chum. Sou Lee,
Sunday, by preparing a sumptuous feast over
ids grave oi tneir aepanea xriena, Eaiuraunsr
the ground with liquors and wines and then
setting it on fire. It is their way of making
celestial spirit life enduraole.
Colonel Webb, of Chester, N. J., is in
tbe 90th year of his age. He can stand upon a
chair, bend backward, toucb his head npon the
floor and rise up again without the aid of his
hands. He goes fishing nearly every day in the
Black river, stands in the water up to bis knees
from morning until night, and of times lands as
many as 50 catfish a day. Who of that age can
beat this recordT
A young woman visiting the family of
W. H. Moon, of Greenville, county, S. C. was
standing near a post on the piazza, when the 8-year-old
daughter of the house came up noise
lessly from behind and piaylully clutched her
dress. The young woman, startled. lost her
balance, and, to save herself, seized tbe post,
which gave way, falling with tbe young woman
back on the child, who was instantly killed.
A few days since a party of gentlemen
and ladies were walking in tbe cemetery, and,
glancing at an adjacent lot, they saw a sight
which has only been seen in savage and half
civilized lands, says the Hudson Journal. The
sight referred to was that ot a young girl
bitched to a cultivator, like a horse, and driven
by an apology of a man, who, when the poor
girl faltered in the work, would urge her on by
tbreats and curses.
Gertrude Buthe, 60 years old, arrived in
New York on thesteamshlp Ems from Bremen
Tuesday and told the clerk who registered her
at the Barge Office that she was searching for
a husband. She is only 3 feet 8 inches in
height.' She claims to be wealthy, and exhib
ited 500 to tbe rrgistry clerk. The woman said
tbatsbe had traveled nearly around the world
looking for a husband, but thus far had failed
to find a suitable mate.
One day last week a large hawk invaded
the premises of Thomas Morgan, ot Americus,
Ga.. and carried off a frying-sized chicken. He
ate all he could of it and left the remainder for
another meal. The chicken bad been poisoned
for the purpose of finding out who had been
stealing them from Mr. Morgan. Next morn
ing Mr. Morgan went out wbere the chicken
had been left by tbe hawk and found nine dead
'possums that had been eating it.
One of the longest telpherage lines in
the world is to he opened this month in South
America. This overhead electno railway will
be 138 miles long, and will connect Buenos
Ayres with Montevideo. Its object is to allow
of traveling letter boxes to be dispatched every
two hours between the two cities. The line
will cross the La Plata estuary In that part
wbere it is 19 miles wide. The two wires will
be supported on either side of the river by two
towers, nearly 270 feet high.
On a Western and Atlantic train that
pulled out ot Atlanta Monday, was a negTO
woman who had paid ber fare to Chattanooga.
When on tbe outskirts of tbe city ber 25-cent
straw bat was blown through a window. Sba
jumped up and pulled the Dell cord. The train
stopped, and when the conductor rushed Into
the coach be saw tbe woman disappearing
through the opposite door. While the woman
was chasing her straw hat over the meadows
the train pulled out and left her behind.
FDNNY MEN'S FANCIES.
IWEITTIN roa THE SIsrATCK.1
It is said that Stanley never alludes to
Emin as Emln Pasha, but as "Emln, Pshaw I"
Never Tasted. "Isn't she sweet?"
"I don't know, " said Chippie sadlv. "She Is
a taste I have not been able to acquire."
A National Prejudice. "Why do the
Germans oblect to trichina?, anyhow?"
"Because the Germans are down on Parishes."
Too Much Water to be Natural. "Did
he die a natural death?"
"What, the Colonel! No Indeed. That is. not
for bim. He died of dropsy."
A Nose for Jobbery. A stroke of light
ning ran the whole length or Hew York's new
acqueduct recently, probably looking for the
steel there Is said to be In It.
She Probably Got it, Too. Jones Does
your wife try to be bossy?
Smith Ob. no; she is very moderate In her de
mands. All that she asks is the last word. Alex
E. frwetU
An Idiosyncrasy of Language. "That's
a paradox."
"What?"
"The man who lies to save his friend stands up
for him."
Not a Wash-basin. "There is one thing
I'm willing to wager will never ba discovered la
the Congo basin."
"What's that?"
Sop."t had Buckulea.
A Bad Break. "Yon Americans don't
know how to spell," said Lord de Jinx- "One of
your most cultivated journals, speaking of what
I suppose Is your Congressional parade, spelled
It payraid' "Cholmondtly Uareourt.
Cause and Eflect "What does the doctor
say you've got?"
"1 think he said It was lumberago."
"Well, I told you to let John split the wood.
You never will do as I tell you."
In Oklahoma. "Good news, good news,"
cried the prisoner's counsel. "You've been In
dicted for mnrder,"
You call that good news?"
"Ce'tt They mlaht have Indicted you for tak
ing the horse, and then your goose wouUt have
been cooked. "-Henry it. Uarkntss.
Answering a Correspondent. Mrs. R.
writes me: "I am embroidering, or rather, I am
jrolng to embroider, a beautiful motto to hang in
our parlor, but 1 bave a dispute with my husband
as to what it shall be. Tbe only point on which
we agree is to leave It to yon. What motto do you
suggest?"
Answer-"FlghtOn.'Uter.E. Sweet.
Wished He Was a Rabbit. Johnny
Durapsey (looking up from his arithmetic with a
slh)-Oh. papi. how I wish I was a rabbltt
Mr. JJumpsey Indceai Ana wny wouia you
like to be a rabbit, my son?"
Johnav Dumpsey Because I was readlnc a book
to-day which said that they multiplied with
astonishing rapidity. Paul Pattnor.
THE UNATTAINABLE,
It is bard to make a whistle oi a grunting
porker's tall.
It Is hara to make a purse out of bis ear:
It Is hard to make successes when the other peo
ple fall,
it Is hard to seem a youth when In the sere.
But all these things are easy as Is falling off a log
When compared with that employment,Ewelrd
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