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PITTSBURG. TUESDAY, SEPf. 2, 189a
PARK ENTRANCE AND LIBRARY MTE.
The DisrATCii's New York correspond
ent buttonholed Messrs. Scott and Bigelow
as they disembarked from the steamer
Servia yesterday, and secured the informa
tion that the latter had obtained from Sirs.
Schenley a contract which, if accepted by
the city, -trill secure the ground for the
Forbes street entrance lo Schenley Park.
The details ol the contract were not, of
course, disclosed; but it may be presumed
that they are sucb as to satisfactorily adjust
all disputed matters in that connection.
This location ot the Park entrance is un
derstood to carry with it a practicable site
for the Carnegie Art Gallery and possibly
for the central building of the Carnegie
Library. The formal decision as to the
location of the Library is possible until the
subject is presented with all its details to
the Commission; but if this site should be
presented to that body, practically
as the choice of Mr. Carnegie,
there would not probably be much
disposition on the part of the Commission to
disDute bis choice. There is no doubt that,
in the course of years, this site will be a
center ot communication, and that the
proximity of the Library and Art Gallery
to the Park will add to the attractions of
the Ticinity. Until that time is reached,
however, the choice of that location would
give the downtown branch increased im
portance in the conduct of the system of
libraries.
Progress on the Library project has been
held in abeyance until the site question can
be settled. If the proposition from Mrs.
Schenley, bronght back by Mr Bigelow, is
acceptable to the city, work can now go on
in earnest
WORKING A BUGBEAR.
The declaration of Senator Emery that
the tariff question will not be affected by the
independent movement in favor of Pattison
because the independent Republicans will
support the Republican candidates for
Congress, stirs up the Philadelphia Inquirer
to a lengthy effort to prove the contrary.
The turn total of its argument is that Cleve
land desires the election of Pattison, and
that the success of the latter would be the
first step to the success of the iormerin 1892.
The Inquirer is plainly hard up for bug
bears when it is driven to this sort oi argu
ment Probably Cleveland does desire
the success of Pattison just as most
other Democrats do, but the success of
Pattison cannot give a single electoral vote
to Cleveland, nor add a single Congressional
, Tote to the side of the free traders. Even
if Cleveland should be elected in 1892
about which the Inquirer seems especially
apprehensive it should not affect the tariff
question. If the tariff issue is not settled
before Cleveland as President could have
anything to say about it, it will be because
the Republican party in Congress has proved
utterly incapable of carrying ont an intel
ligent policy.
A vote for Mr. Pattisou cannot affect
in the slightest degree the election of
members oi the House, where all tariff
measures must originate, or the election of
Senators, or the choice of aPresidental elec
tor. The fight on State issues has been
kept wholly distinct from the campaign on
Congressmen, and-a vote for Pattison is
simply a vote for clean administration, and
for the supremacy of the Constitution over
the corporations.
The Philadelphia organ must be con
vinced of the desperate condition of its
cause when it tries to raise the tariff bugbear
over the election of an official who cannot
in the most remote degree affect the passage
of tariff measures.
J0 CA5U BELLI.
"We had better wait to hear from both
sides before any attempt is made to erect the
killing of Barrundia, on board the Pacific
Mall steamer Acapulco, into a casus belli, or
even into a political issue. The reports that
have been published are obviously one
sided, but even they are such as to make it
tolerably clear that there was no outrage on
the American flag.
It would be a remarkable theory of inter
national law to claim that steamers lying in
port arc free from the jurisdiction of that gov
ernment there. IT o such claim has ever been
set upas between civilized nations, even Eng
land, which is most zealous in guarding the
rights ol her merchant marine, having sub
mitted to the taking of refugees from Eng
lish ships while in the ports of the govern
iinent ordering the arrest To illustrate by
a famous case, the United States gave up
Mason and Slidell because they were taken
from the Trent on the high seas; but if that
steamer had taken its passengers first to the
port of Hew York and thence to Boston, the
right of the United States to arrest them
would have been indisputable.
As to the part of Minister Mizner in the
matter, if he undertook the task of hunting
down a Guatemalan political fugitive, he
did a very improper thing which would
justify bis recall. But the reports are so
plainly inspired by enmity to him that it
will be wise to wait for his story. It is
plain that if he were called upon by one
party or the other to give his opinion as to
whetner the Acapulco, while in the port of
Sin Jose, was beyond the jurisdiction of
Guatemala, his statement of the law would
be a very different thing Irom that which is
Xcpresented.
,f There is no necessity for the eagle to
scream over the affair. It is clear that no
Tight or the United States has been violated,
and it is very doubtful whether Mr. Mizner
did auything more than his duty.
LABOR'S GOOD SHOWING.
- The observance of Labor Day by the vari
ous organizations of the city yesterday was
a creditable and pacific demonstration of
the bone and muscle of the city, which im
pressed everyone in the most favorable
way. The parade of thousands of working
men in their various unions and societies
permitted an impressive review of the in
dustrial strength of Pittsburg.
In our local columns will be fonnd inter
views with a number of the workingniea on
the condition of labor in the various depart
ments of industry. These interviews will
show that labor is generally prosperous, be
cause manufacturing industry is active.
The prosperity of nearly all classes of enter
prises has enabled labor generally to fix
its own rate of wages, and the best featuro
of the era of prosperity is that labor is fully
employed and well paid. It is to be hoped
that tee same condition oi affairs may prove
of long continuance.
Only one feature of the celebration took
an unpleasant shape, in the disposition of
some witnesses of the parade to compel the
taking down of the German flag, carried by
an organization of that nationality. Of
course it was bad taste to carry the banner
of a foreign Government in a parade of
American workingmen; but it is equally
certain that those who carried it had no in
tention either of derogation of American su
premacy in this land or a denial of their al
legiance to American law. Under no cir
cumstances was it anything but a violation
of American law 'and order to attempt to
pull down the flag by force. The worst con
struction that can reasonably be put on
the carrying of that flag is not a greater of
fense against the Government than a resort
to rioting in the streets.
This, of course, does not in any way in
volve the credit or the good order of the la
boring men in their demonstration of yester
day. Their bearing was of the best charac
ter, and the streets yesterday showed that
Pittsburg's labor celebration was remark
ably characterized by sobriety and peace
fulness. RECIPROCITY OR RETALIATION'
The amendment which Senator Aldrich
has introduced into the Senate, embodies
Mr. Blaine's reciprocity project with regard
to sugar, and extends it to hides, tea and
coffee. The Dispatch has sufficiently set
torth the reasons for approving this policy
with regard to sugar; but it seems necessary
to remark that the extension of the same
provisions to hides, tea and coffee introduces
new, and to a certain extent, distinct con
siderations. The action proposed with regard to it is
practically as follows: We have a staple on
which this Government has heretofore levied
heavy dnties which it is proposed to either
remove or radically reduce. The countries
producing it have, with one exception, been
in recent negotiations with the United States
for the purpose of improving trade relations,
and that exception six years ago exhibited
its willingness to give mutual con
cessions of the character proposed. To
say to these countries: "We will remove
the duties on sugar on the understanding
that you will do likewise with our prod
ucts," is a proposition calculated to promote
friendly relations, and holds out an induce
ment to the reciprocal action hoped for from
them. But to add to the list of articles on
which duties are to be reimposed, if these
countries do not take such action, three
staples which for purely domestic considera
tions have been made free of duty for years,
changes the character of the proposition.
To say "we will take the duty off sugar if
you will do the same on flour and pro
visions," is an inducement to other coun
tries. To say "if you do not take off your
dnties on flour and provisions we will re
impose ours on hides, tea and coffee," is a
threat. The policy of such a proposition is
not so much that of reciprocity as it is of
retaliation.
There is good reason to believe that such
a proposition will be responded to in a
friendly spirit by Brazil, from which coun
try we get the bulk of our coffee. The pros
pect is much less assured with regard to the
Argentine Republic, in the matter of hides;
while the proposition is an especially doubt
ful one with regard to tea. We
have been cultivating lriendly re
lations with the South American countries
and can hope that reciprocal trade will be
generally viewed with favor there. We have
been somewhat assiduously cultivating un
friendly relations with China, and to go to
that semi-civilized empire with such a chip
on our shoulder would seem to be the surest
way to secure the reimposition of a tax of 10
cents per pound on the tea consumed in the
Unite&S tates.
The change from the original proposition
made by the addition of hides, tea and cof
fee is so marked as to suggest another motive
than that which appears on the surface. As
it contemplates the restoration of what
would be strictly revenue duties on staples
of wide consumption, it has the aspect of a
secret provision against the possibility a
year hence of a failure of the revenues to
meet the expenditures caused by the extrav
agant expenditures of the present Congress.
The eccentricities of free trade logic re
ceive a marked illustration in the editorial de
claration of the Philadelphia Record that 1f
Congress should admit the raw sugar of Cuba
free under the reciprocity amendment of Sena
tor Aldrich, while retaining a protective duty
on refined sugars, American consumers wonld
derive no substantial benefit from the change."
The present duty on refined sugar is 3) cents,
which the Democratic papers Including the
Record were declaring a short time ago to be a
revenue duty. The duty proposed in the Senate
is 6-10 of a cent, and that passed by the House,
was 4-10. 'Thus the Record informs us that the
consumer wonld get no substantial benefit from
a reduction in duty of about 3 cents, but that a
duty one-sixth of that already asserted te be a
revenue duty will be a protective duty. The
freo-trade locic is wonderfully constructed.
The declaration ol the florists in favor of
the superiority of Pittsburg plate class, is
another evidence of the fact that our techni
cal skill can beat the world when it sets out to
do so.
The New York Press revives Horace
Greeley's advice to young men on the ground
that land In Minnesota can be bought at S3 to
S10 an acre which will produce from sixteen to
to twenty bushels of wheat selling at a dollar a
bushel. After the young man has gone West
and raised his wheat in the sweat of his brow,
only to find that wheat at the recent advance
sells in Chicago at a dollar a bushel, and that it
costs 20 cents a bushel to get it there, he will be
likely to lose confidence in the accuracy of the
frets' economic advice.
Eighty men suffocated by a mine explosion
in Galllcia shows that tbo operations of indus
trial manslaucbter are pushed In Europe with
even more rigor than in America.
The Democrats are said to be calling on
Chairman Brice to defeat Speaker Reed's re
election to Congress. The National Chairman
will be wise to keep out of the fight in a single
district; but if be should defeat the Speaker In
a fair stand-op fight it would be a more credit
able achievement than the means taken ta de
feat ilcKinley.
Johk Pbyob, of Sewickley, whose name
appeared in the police reports of Saturday,
says be was not away from home at the time,
and knows nothing of an arrest
Competition in the railroad business,
says President Roberts, reduced Charges on the
Pennsylvania Railroad 8 per cent but in
creased the traffic 27 per cent, thus making the
increase of revenue 17 per cent There is a
whole volume of argument in favor of competi
tion in that statement
It eemaiks to be seen whether Mr. White-
Maw Reid's diplomacy 'will do better than the
McKinley bill in opening up a market for an
other barrel of pork.
As Mr. Cbauncey M. Depew has failed
to turn up in New York and settle the strike
on the New York Central, we may conclude
that the policy ot that corporation has been
finally decided to be of more Importance than
that humorous gentleman's Fresidental aspira
tions. Happiness and contentment were writ
ten on tne faces of the dense throngs which
filled Pittsburg's streets yesterday.
A febusaii of the Philadelphia papers with
reference to the prospects on the State election,
reveals the fact that the able Colonel McClnro
can claim everything with as much confidence
as any of his Republican co temporaries.
Thb Labor parade yesterday made a fine
showing of organized labor and was entirely
worthy of the occasion.
Governor Wolfly, of Arizona, is under
stood to remark that he resigned because the
Geological Survey had withdrawn so much land
from settlement in that Territory that there
was not enough of it left to govern.
PEOPLE YOU BEAD ABOUT.
Emiie Zola's wife never reads any of her
husband's stories. So says a friend of the
family.
An old Mississippi river pilot says that
"Mark Twain'' was the laziest white man he
ever saw in a pilot house.
Luxie Devebeux Blake has a yellow bro
caded silk dress, which is said to have been
once worn by Theodosia Burr.
Me. Axfhoxse Ross, for more than 40 years
connected with the Boston Daily Advertiser,
has resigned on account of ill health.
Senator Daniel writes that Senator Gray,
of Delaware, and Representative Butterwortb,
of Ohio, will attend the Lynchburg fair.
Last Wilde's name has been placed on the
civil pension list The new pensioner is an
Irish poet and tne mother of Oscar Wilde.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peabodt, the noted phil
anthropist of Boston, is now nearly 90 years of
age. She is very feeble physically, but her
mind is still bright and active.
William T. Crawford, Democratic can
didate for Congress against Mr. Ewart in the
Ninth North Carolina district worked on a
farm till be was 18 and then went to school.
He is now 31 years old, a good lawyer, and has
served four terms in the legislature.
Charles, B. Jefferson, son of Joe, has a
summer residence at Buzzard's Bay, near that
of his father. He and his brother are very
fond of yatchting and they own a 20-foot catboat
which has won every -catboat race four in all
sailed this season in the waters of Buzzard's
Bay.
Engineer Melville is everywhere highly
praised for the success of the engines of the
San Francisco, which are unique in some re
spects and were wholly designed by him. Mr.
Melville had a bard fight to get his ideas ac
cepted by the Department, but found backers
in Secretaries Whitney and Tracy.
Mr. George D. M. Phiiotto has received
a commission from the Emperor of Germany
to come to that country and paint the portrait
of Prince Bismarck. The celebrated chancel
lor has given no sitting to any artist of any
country since be satlor Benbach ten years ago,
who was the last to paint him from life.
HIKES TO RESUME.
A General Resumption of Work nit Along
the Monongahela.
1GFECIAX. T&LEQBAV TO TUB DISPATCH. 1
JIcKeespobt, September L There will be a
general resumption of the mines along the Mon
ongahela river this week. Stoner and Risher,
Lyslie, Camden. Alliquippa, O'Neil and others
of this pool will be in operation after to-morrow.
There are on hands plenty of craft for
loading, and a good call for coal. Stoner's
works hare been idle for a long while. Fnck's
coal tipple at Elrod. which has been rebuilt and
enlarged, will be put fn operation to-marrow.
On the same day the Brown coal works at
Boston, in which men have been engaged for
several months perfecting a complete electric
equipment for mining and transferrins coal,
will be put in operation. This will be an inno
vation. The Thomson-Huston system of wir
ing will be used. The appliances have been
tried and pronounced very satisfactory. The
Keil mining machine, operated by electricity,
will be used, and its performance is expected to
work wonders.
OPENED WITH SWEET SONG.
The First Entertainment of the Season
Given by Cnrry University.
The opening entertainment of Curry Univer
sity was given in the University Auditorium
last might A well selected musical pro
gramme was prepared for the evening, in
conjunction with the address of Prof. James C,
Williams. Mrs. F. H. Haslage and Miss Tillie
George, Messrs. W. W. Ramsey and Charles F.
Harris appeared to advantage in the opening
selection, "Woodbird." Prof. Byron W. King
entertained the audience with a recitation en
titled "The Spanish Duel." Miss Carrie Ter
rants, for a solo, "Gaily Chant the Summer
Birds," received loud applause.
One of the enjoyable performances of the
evening was a piano polo by Master Thomas
Edwards. Miss Einma Woelful, Miss Nannie
Hammer, Miss Alice McCullough and Miss
George contributed largely to the evening's en
tertainment. Mr. .Simeon Bissell accompanied
tho soloists.
PASSED THROUGH HEB BODY.
A Peoria Woman Combs a Needle Ont of
Her Hend
Peoria, Iowa, September L A lady in
Calamus, a small town west of here, has been
suffering for six months with a severe attack of
neuralgia, being affected particularly in the
upper part ot the head. She had taken a regu
lar course of medication without receiving any
relief. A few dajs ago while combing her hair
the comb met an obstruction, which caused her
a sharp pain and headache. An examination
resulted in the discovery aod extraction from
the scalp of a common steel sewing needle.
How it got there is not known,bnt it is thought
that the needle worked up from the lower part
of the body.
BABE PROSPECTS FOB THE BILL.
The Second Attempt to Pat Into Effect the
Uniform B. L. Falls.
Chicago, September L The second attempt
to put into effect the Uniform bill of lading on
all roads leading eastward from Chicago re
sulted in another failure. It was to have been
adopted to-day in accordance witb the recent
agreement of the Chicago freight committee of
the Central Trafflo Association, but there seems
to have been a fatal hitch in the agreements.
The outlook for the new bill of lading is
generally regarded here as even more gloomy
than it was August 1.
tils Nnmo Is Legion
From the New York Sun.1
The Chicaco scheme of' a Barbers' Trust is a
great one. We don't see, however, how the
trust will be able to regulate or limit the out
put of the raw material. Beards will grow ac
cording to their own sweet will, and no trust,
can control them. One service tho Barbers'
Trust might render to downtrodden humanity
that can't shave itself or keep a razor in trim.
It might refuse to employ the barber whose
hands reek of cigarettes. His name is legion.
Go Home and felny.
From the Baltimore Bun.
The attitude of members of both houses is
accordingly, it is understood, unfavorable to
the Edmunds resolutions, its friends being
chiefly fanatical partisans of the Hoar variety.
The Vermont Senator is perhaps unaware of
the almost universal sentimetit in the country
at present in regard to this Congress that it
should go home as soon as It can and stay there
as long as it may.
A Surprise
From thfe Boston Herald. J
Mr. Rockefeller is behind the times. He
didn't know he was going to give 820,000,000 to
establish a Baptist university until he read the
news in the New York2V ibune. Even now he
can scarcely believe It
PITTSBURG-
OUR SHORT STORIES.
A CHILD'S TRIBUTE.
TT was one of the hottest of the hot days of
July that have just passed. Not a breath
of air was stirring, even in the tops of the trees.
The sturdy little English sparrows had ceased
their sharp, shrill chirping, and were panting
in the shade. If you looked straight down the
street you conld see a quivering of heat in the
air, like that which is often visible over a hot
stove. Everybody walked slowly. Few of the
drivers of the vans, wagons and cabs urged
their horses into a trot The only animals that
suffered were the poor street car horses. They
went trotting and galloping by with their heavy
loads, which, on account of the heat were
heavier than usual. Many of the poor brutes
stopped during the day, staggered under the
whip, and dropped by the roadside. The cir
cumstai.ee had finally become so usual that it
attracted but little attention, and less pity. But
of all the horses that died that cruel afternoon,
one at least received a tribnte as affecting as if
paid by an angel. The animal had dropped in
the street and hadbeen rudely dragged to one
side, where it lay, rolling its dust-filled eyes,
gasping and lolling its tongne. A small crowd
gathered around, shutting out what little air
there was. "Hold on, Cally," shouted a gamin,
"here's fun! Let's see do cop shoot 'im."
"Git a piller," facetiously suggested a red
nosed man with a blotched face.
"His head don't lay easy,', said another to a
veterinary surgeon, who took one glance ana
walked away. "Give 'im a hypodermic He
ain't dyin'.easy."
Just then a racged little girl passed proudly
carrying a -cheap bouquet and smelling of it
frequently. When she saw the dying horse Bhe
stopped a moment and then, by a sudden im
pulse, went and laid the flowers on his head.
Strange to say no one' jeered. The red-faced
man walked away shame-facedly. So, one by
one, did the others, and the poor animal was
left to die in peace. As the little girl ran off a
benevolent old gentleman picked her up and
kissed her, saying:
"God bless you, little dear." There was a
tear in his eye. 'Christ was right about the
children, and so was Wordsworth when he
said: "Heaven lies about us in our infancy."
AN OYSTER MAN.
Jimmy Brocelesbt was a local light in a cer
tain preaching circuit and occasionally filled
the pulpits in the country districts. He held to
the opinion that our Lord was a fisherman by
occupation, and that he, being a 'fisherman,
was like Him. In the midst of one ot his dis
courses, which were more peculiar than logical,
he came across the passage reading, "Thou
knowest that I was an austere man."
"There," he said, "I always told you He was
a fisherman. There it is yon see. A oyster
man. I always said so."
This is a fact
EXCESSIVE SCIENTIFIC ZEAL.
uTTHESE August meteors," remarked Mr.
Johnsby, laying down hisjknlfe and fork,
"generally seem to come from the constellation
of Perseus."
"And they are always more numerous be
tween the hours of 1 and 4 in the morning,"
suggested Mrs! Johnsby, pouring out another
cup of tea.
"I was talking, my dear, I was about to say
that on the nights of August 10, 11 and 12 "
"I know you were, my love, but I know
something about it too. These meteoric snow-
"I think, my darling, 1 have studied the sub
ject a little more thoroughly, perhaps, than
yon have. On the nights of "
"Of course, dearest I know that The
meteors are supposed to be "
"Mrs. Johnsby, where have you acquired so
much astronomical knowledge, may I ask!"
"Permit me to inquire, Mr.' Johnsby, it yon
think you know everything?"
"I know you can't tell a total eclipse from a
rainbow, madam."
"And I know you haven't changed your socks
for six weeks, Sam Johnsby."
"I don't wear false teeth, yon insulting fe
male." "And I don't squint you lean old codfish."
Mr. Johnsby dodged a brisk meteoric shower
of chicken bones, egg shells and melon rinds
that seemed to proceed from an angry woman
at the other end of the table. He rose in great
wrath, put his wife's face in total eclipse by
plastering it all over with cold mush, and the
interesting scientific conversation between the
affectionate Mr. and Mrs. Johnsby was ended.
PATHOS AND PRAYER.
Qld Peter Dickson was'a junk dealer, and
gained a livelihood by collecting "rags and
bones and broken spoons or any old clothes."
He was also a great churchman, and was noted
for the length and vociferonsness of his peti
tions. As the years weighed upon him he initi
ated his son Billy into the mysteries of junk
dom. Father and son roamed all through the
country together, until 'the old man became
helpless, when Billy had to take tho donkey
and cart and earn the living for both. With
his knowledge of the business Billy had also
imbibed a good deal of the old man's religious
fervor. He was also poetically inclined, and
frequently introduced patches of quaint pathos
into his prayers. Here is a sample:
" Take my dear father to Thy heavenly throne.
Then his mule and cart will be all my own."
dickTate.
A rustic from Wayoff was carting coal from
a river barge. He incurred tho displeasure
of his employer, a somewhat pompous fellow,
who said:
"Don't you dictate to me. I won't have it
sir."
"Dick Tate; who's he? I can cart coal as well
as Dick Tate or any other man,"
A CORRECT DECISION.
JUDGE Tredsway, of Roanoke county, Va.,
was one of the mildest old gentlemen that
ever sat on a bench, and for some 45 years he
pursued the even "temper" of his way under
the most irritating circumstances. Then his
son Jim was admitted to the bar, and Jim was
enough to try the patience of any sober father.
Jim always had one thing on the docket for
court day. It was to accumulate a large and
very loquacious jag. Having got that, his next
business was to interrupt the lawyers and show
how much of a nuisance he could be. His father
fined him at first, but, as he had to pay Jim's
fines or remit tliem, he quit that. One day Jim
was more than usually talkative. His fathor re
peatedly told him to keep quiet, and threatened
to send him to jaiL and finally, in an outburst
of indignation, he said:
"Mr. Tredsway I Sit down, sir I You are
drunk 1"
Jim cast a drunken leer at tho old man, ana
replied :
"I'll do It, Yonuer. Tbatsh th' only c'ree' de
cision you've made to-day."
Also the Deadly Sandwich.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
There are wild wooded places in Missouri
where trains stop to take on robbers and water.
DEATHS0FA DAY. ,
Cnptaln Enos Pennypacker.
Wilmington, N. C, Sentember 1. Knos J.
Pennypaeker, Collector of this port under the ad
ministrations of Presidents Arthur and Harrison.
died here on Friday. HIs body left here at 9
o'clock yesterday for Pucenlxvllle. Pa., for
burial. He was a native of Chester connty, in
that State. Iiunnz tho Civil War he was Captain
of Company M, Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Cartaiu 1'ennypacker was not mustered ont until
October, 1885.
subsequently he settled In this city and became
one of tue leading citizens or tho place. Ho was
appointed Collector or this port by President Ar
thur, and when President Harrison succeeded
Mr. Cleveland the demand for bis reappointment
was so strong that It followed almost as a matter
ol course, 'ibe re glmentlserved in Colonel fercy
Wyndham's brlsade and under Custer and KU
palrlck In all the campaigns or the Army of the
Potomac
Mrs. Joseph Ilolzbelraer.
Mrs. Joseph Holzbelmer, wife of the undertaker
at bhsrpsburg, died yesterday morning at 5
o'clock, after a slcaness of nearly five weeks. She
was born January 1, 1845, and was therefore la
ber 6th year. She will be burled to-morrow
morals K at 9 o'clock, A requiem mass will bo
celebrated at St. .Mary's Church. Mrs. Holi
helmer, nee liacbael Winsbel, was one or the
leading and most respected women In Sharpcburg
and Etna. A little more thak a year ago she cele
brated her silver wedding. She leaves a lamlly of
five children.
Mary Elizabeth Coolcy.
Asn Arbor. Mich., September 1. Mary Eliz
abeth Cooley, wife or Judge T. M. Copley, or the
lntcr-Stato Commerce Commission, died in this
city yesterday. Mrs. Cooley was CO years or age,
and bad lived lo Ann Arbor more than so years.
Siio n as a notcl philanthropist, and was President
or the Board or Managers of the State Industrial
bchool for Qlrls. at Adrian, to which position
she was appointed by ex-Uovernor Jerome, and
which she has held since.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER
A BOOM IK THEATRICALS.
The Scmon Commences In Good Earnest A
Capital Farce Comedy at the Bijou
James In Oihello Two New Theater!
Open Variety Houses Do Great Busi
ness. If the census enumerator were o ask us
how many good laughs there are in Paul
M. Potter's musical absurdity "The City
Directory," we couldn't tell him. The
laughter cannot bo gauged or meas
ured; it comes in bulk, wholesale and tre
mendous. The Bijou Theater has rung with
merriment olten enough, but very seldom has
such a gale of guffaws swept a big audience as
it did last night The house was packed from
parquet to roof, of course. It is safe to say
that 2,500 persons in that audience laughed for
three mortal hours almost without an armis
tice.
Who made this liughterf Paul Potter, the
author of "The City Directory T" In part yes.
But the larger portion of the fun is strictly at
tributable to the admirable fooling of the
actors. There is no comprehensive plot in
"The City Directory:" no def eot at all In a farce
comedy. There are incidental sitnatlons of the
greatest comicality; an ingenions supply of
telling action and by-play, and a go and vim
abont the whole piece which tells of constant
study and rehearsing as well as a clever original
mind behind the whole machine.
The company is without doubt the best that
has ever played in a piece of this caliber in
Pittsburc. It is an ideal farce, comedy galaxy.
For rare vesatillty and Impetuous humor we
ha7e Charlie Reed; a quieter but no less clever
comedian abets him in the person of William
Collier. Charles V. Seaman gives us a precious
picture of a phlegmatic dude, with a
gait that would make a chicken smile.
William F. Mack gives what the humorists have
generally failed to do, a really funny caricature
ot tho bunko steerer. BurtHaverlyaudlgnaclo
Martinelli also contributed distinct types of
the ridiculous. The whole company, in fact,
works well together and individually.
On the fair side of the cast even a stronger
array Is presented, perhaps. Miss Mary Irwin
is not a stranger here, and she has triumphed
before, but in the way of rell
art she has never done anything as good
as Nanon, tho Gaiety star actress. For her
sake we wish the character had been allowed
to progress more evenly in the lines of higher
comedy. Bhe makes an immense deal of what
she has, however, and she simply captured the
audience with her first song a very tunny one
by the way. Then for grace and sweetness and
light Miss Roe France, Miss Bessie Cleveland,
Miss Maym Kelso and Miss Flora Irwin were
all that could be wished. Such singing as the
three first mentioned are capable of is unheard
of in farce comedy. Miss Glover's dancing Is
another remarkable feature. But to briefly
sum up the whole thing. "The City Directory"
is as full of good things as the book it bur
lesques is full of naine, and if you do not pay
the canvassers a visit you will miss a real and
unusual treat
Grand Opera House.
Before a grand audience that excellent actor,
Mr. Louis James, began a notable engagement
at the Grand Opera Houselastnlgbt Theplay
chosen for the opening of this cycle of legiti
mate dramas was "Othello," and in it Mr.
James shone with his accustomed brilliancy.
The performance is deserving of a more extend
ed notice than can be given now; suffice It to
say that Mr. James and his company gave a
very artistic performance. To-night the play
will be "Virginus."
Dnvls' Fifth Avenoe Museum.
It was no easy matter to get into Harry Davis'
Fifth Avenue Museum yesterday, so ereat were
the crowds. The new house had a decidedly
auspicious opening. From the entrance to the
roof-garden the place promises to be very at
tractive, and the cariosities and theatrical per
formance are sufficient in themselves to draw
audiences until the decorations are finished.
No doubt in another week the museum and
theater will be complete to the smallest details,
and Mr. Davis will have a wonderfully pretty
houso of entertainment. The entrance is very
tasteful in its ornamentation, and compares
favorably with the street lobbies of moro am
bitious theaters.
But if some work must be donefbefore the
building is in perfect shape, the amusement
programme is wonderfully strong. The curiosi
ties are remarkably interesting, and the theat
rical performance beats anything that has been
given for the money. Maurltlous and Queen,
Charles A. Mack, the comedian, Sablon the
mimic and pantomimist and many other clever
people are in the programme.
Harry Williams' Academy.
The Academy of Music turned away more
people than managed to get in at the two per
formances yesterday. The Henry Burlesque
Company presented a variety of attractive
features. The mystifying Crowley, Mclntyre
and Heath, black face comedians; Helen
Courtland, the singer, were all good, and the
company shone as a whole in a travesty of Gil
bert and Sullivan's -'Gondoliers." But the
sparring of Jack Dempsey and Jimmy Carroll
was naturally the strongest point in the show
for a holiday audience.
The Clipper Theater.
A large gathering ofholiday makers attended
the opening of the Clipper Theater on Grant
street and Seventh avenue yesterday after
noon, and in tho evening the cozy little audi
torium was packed. The McCaffrey-Dempsey
Burlesque Company had the honor of opening
Mr. Feet's theater. Miss Louise Dempsey,
rather stonter than of yore, bnt in other re
spects unchanged, is the fair star of the com
pany, and a number of good-looking women
support her. "The Veiled Prophet" and
"Faust, Jr.," two extravaganzas, of the
flimsiest sort, with the customary
songs, dances and jokes, make up
the bulk of the performance.
They are, to tell Ihe truth, rather dreary they
need more snap, more "ginger." John L Tier
neys Irish comedy work was highly appre
ciated, and the vas de quatre of the Gaiety
skirt dancers was well done. The cute dancing
of little Evalina Dougherty and the knock
about act of Hanley and Jarvis also deserve
mention.
The appearance of Dominic McCaffrey is
shrewdly delayed till the very end of the" pro
gramme. McCaffrey. looking very healthy and
clean limbed, gave an exhibition of the,methods
of training for a prize fight, and wonnd up witb
a two-round bout, with small gloves; with James
Ryan. It was a pretty exhibition of buxlnc,
and the audience relished it greatly. A little
more of tne muscular McCaffrey would
strengthen the enteriainment The opening of
the new house has been accomplished pleas
antly, and the crowds seemed to like tbe look
of the place.
Harris' Theater.
. It needed not Labor Day, with the Btreets
crowded with people day and night, to pack
this popular place of amusement twice yester
day at holiday prices from top seats to standing
room, for the attraction, though an old-time
one, is ono that never fails to draw. It is Jules
Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days."
The company presenting it this week is a very
clever one, tbe scenery bright and new. and
the auxiliaries in very good shape. Miss Edith
Crolius, as Souda, made an excellent impres
sion, and Minnie Reel and Lottie Hannon were
quite clever. W. J. Fleming's natrlotio bursts
brought down the bouse, and JPhileas Fogg, as
portrayed by George Metkiff, is a fair stage
Englishman. The other characters are well
taken, and a most profitable week is surely
ahead for the house and the company.
The World's Museum.
Holiday crowds were the order of the day at
this popular Allegheny house, and the array of
new curiosities and the strong stage perform
ance were highly appreciated. The fact that
the museum is the only pleasnre resort in Alle
gheny, coupled with its good management, are
winning a steady patronage for the World's.
AN EPIDEMIC OF FLEAS,
Scarcely a Household That Has Not Been
Visited by the Pests.
Reading, PA.Septemberl. An epidemic of
fleas has struck Reading, and for 'the past
week tbe lives of citizens have been made
miserable by the little pests. The situation Is
particularly aggravated In the suburbs of the
city, where tbe open lots and outlying fields
infested by weeds are thought to furnish con
ditions especially favorable to the increase of
tbe insects.
There is scarcely a household bere, whether
pretentious or lowly, into wbicb the fleas bave
not penetrated. Tbe druggists of the city re
port a tremendous increase in their sales of flea
and insect powders, and housekeepers are de
voting themselves assiduously to the exterml-
nation of tbe insects.
It Lingers.
irom the Hutchinson News.
A Missouri thief was caught with two valises
filled with jewelry. Tbe indications are that
the trouble with the grip is not all over yet in
a good many places.
Tbe Alternative.
Frourthe Chicago Herald.
"If ajnan does right God will take care of
him;" otherwise be becomes the ward of a
Democratic convention.
Sinking; Themselves Felt.
From tbe Mew York Herald.
,The wage earner has not demanded his rights
in Tain. A ' .
f 2, 1890.
PRIZES AND BALLOTS.
HOWTHEDISPATCH WILL ADD AFEATURE
TO THE EXPOSITION.
Topical Voting Every Day Souvenirs for
Lndv Vetera A Prize Literary Contest
Gold Piece for Young Writers) Pro.
gramme for tbe Opening: Days Watch for
Fntnre Announcements.
The Dispatch has perfected arrangements
whereby it will be enabled to add a pleasant
feature to the varied attractions of the Exposi
tion from the ooening to the closing day.
Here are the preliminaries:
Room for headquarters at tbe Exposition has
been secured in tbe commodious and attractive
space occupied by the Brunswick-BalKe-Col-lender
Company's billiard table display. The
Dispatch booth will be located on a corner.
giving it a frontage on two aisles, the whole
space being surrounded by wide passageways,
making It consplcnous and easy of access.
Here all tbe Ballots and Prize Essays of the
voters and contestants will be received and ac
curately recorded.
Opening Week's Balloting.
The Exposition will open Wednesday
Evening, September 3, at 8 o'clock. The Bul
letin of Ballots and the Topic for the Prize
Essay Contest for Wednesday evening and
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of the opening
week follow. Vote Aye or Nay on the topics
here suggested:
WEDNESDAY ETENING'S VOTING TOPIC.
Should all tbe Suburban Street-Car Lines run
All-Night Cars? Open to Ladyand Gentle
men voters. (
THURSDAY'S VOTING TOPIC.
S hould tbe Old Block House at the Point be
removed to Schenley Park, or should it re
main where it is and the Point be turned into
a Park? Open to Lady and Gentlemen voters.
FRIDAY'S VOTING TOPIC.
Should tbe Allegheny Wharf be transformed
into a Promenade and Park? Open tovLady
and Gentlemen voters.
SATTJBDAY'S VOTING TOPIC.
What is yonr choice of Sites for the Main
Building of tbe Carnegie Free Library! Open
to Lady and Gentlemen voters.
How to Vote.
In order to accurately test public opinion on
all the topics to be balloted for during the Ex
position, The Dispatch has decided to open a
Poll Book for recording tbe Ayes and Kays,
thus avoiding "tissue ballots" and "repeating."
Voters will be expected to give their names and
addresses for entry in the Poll Book, and their
vote will be set opposite, thereby ensnring ac
curacy at all times. The Poll Book will open
with the Exposition each morning and be
closed when the lights are turned off at night
Ladies will be permitted to vote on all popular
topics in which they, as well as their fathers
and brothers, are interested.
Tbe Prize Essay Contest.
The Dispatch each week, will offer Frizes
for the best Essays and Contributions on a
topic to be chosen and announced, so as to give
ample time for their preparation. The Prize
Essay Contest for tbe opening week will be
open only to Amateur Writers, professional
newspaper and magazine contributors being
barred. All Amateurs in Western Pennsylva
nia can contest for tbe Prizes.
OPENING WEEK'S PEIZE TOPICS.
For the opening week The Dispatch will
offer the prizes announced herewith for the
bestDESCBiPTrvE Aeticxeon the Exposi
tion as a whole. Articles must be general in
character and deal with the instructive and
unique features ot the displays and attractions.
No puffing in the line of designating by name
the exhibitors will be permitted. The features
and attractions can only be referred to in a gen
eral and Interesting way.
Tbe Prizes.
For the best contribution on the above topic
The Dispatch will award a prize of a
twenty; DOLLAR GOLD PIECE.
For the Second Prize The Dispatch will
award a Five Dollar Gold Piece.
For the Third Prize The Dispatch will for
ward by mail to the winner a copy of the
Sunday issue of The Dispatch for One
Year.
THE CONDITIONS.
Each article must make at least 800 and not
more than 1.000 words.
Competitions must be written legibly, on one
side of the paper only, and must be labeled.
'The Dispatch Prize Essay Contest, Expo
sition Descriptive Article; closing Saturday,
September 6, 1890." I
Contributions must be left at The Dispatch
Headquarters,Brnnswick-Balke-CollenderCo.'s
space. Exposition Buildings.
Correct name, address and age of contestant
must accompany MSS name only for publica
tion if successful.
The Dispatch reserves tbe right to publish
any contribution, whether it be awarded a prize
or not.
Tbe Prize Essay Contest for the first week
will close with the Exposition on Saturday
night, Septembers.
Watch for Second Week's Prize Topic and
Ballot Bulletin.
The Dispatch has secured neat little
Souvenirs for presentation to all Lady Voters
during next week's balloting. One will be a
handy addition to the work-basket the other
will be appreciated during the long winter
evenings soon to come. Ladles can choose from
either.
a PEEiraEirr quest.
How DISS. In the Opening Prize Essay Con
test Will bo Judged.
To the Kdltor of The Dispatch :
A JO-year-old boy who contemplates contest
ing for your Exposition descriptive prizes, put
the question, "Who will decide as to tbe best
written article I" When told that one of the
staff would likely be the judge, he answered
that "He may not know a gopd descriptive ar
ticle when be saw it or would likely have some
friend whom he wonld favor."
To set bis mind at rest and spur him on to
write a description, please advise how the de
cision will be arrived at C. S.
THIBTY-8ECOND WARD, CITY, August 30.
The Specter of Favoritism need not alarm
any of the contestants. Tbe editors of The
Dispatch will be the judges. Tbe articles will
be carefully weighed in the newspaper scales,
and newspaper men should be the best judges.
The editor of The Dispatch will guarantee
fairness. It would not bo good policy to select
outsiders to read and pass upon the competi
tions, any more than it would be wise for medi
cal or law students to pass examinations before
boards composed of men who never read law
or studied medicine. Watch for tbe prize essay
and topical voting announcements, and enter
the lists with tbe assurance that all will bo fair
and square and may the best one win.
C0ULDHT GET AWAY.
The Connirv Parson's Congregation Refuses
ta Allow Ilira to bo to Tarentam.
On account of a Unanimous call from a con
gregation at Tarentum, the Rev. J. W. Moody
of tbe First BaptistChurcb, of Monongahela
City, tendered his resignation Sunday. Tbe
good people of his charge, however, concluded
that there was too much at stake to remain
silent and immediately held a congregational
meeting at which they refused to accept tbe
resignation and backed up the ref usual with a
series of most complimentary resolutions.
Yesterday Mr. Moody stated that he would re
main at Monongahela City.
Mr. Moody is "The Country Parson" whose
contributions in THE Dispatch each Sunday
have been-so greatly admired.
Tbe Next Nntlonnl Issue.
From tbe Sioux City Journal.
The next Presldental contest will probably
be one of the most memorable In history. It
will be more a test of strength between the
West and the East than any that has yet been
fought
THE PAJTAMA CAKAL A GO.
Best Informed Circles In Panama Believe
tbe Blatter ns Practically Concluded.
Panama. August 25. The prospects of the
Panama canal are definitely brightening and
in the best informed circles here tbe matter is
regarded as practically concluded, although a
commission of the Snnate I still engaged in
studying the proposals of Mr. Wyse and prepar
ing tbe draft of a bill toanthorize tho execu
tive to come to terms with him upon the basis
of his proposal.
The following telegram from official sources
in Bogota has been published in Panama: "The
President of tbe Republic has recommended
to Congress tbe nroDosal of Mr. Wvse. which is
as follows: An extension ot tbe contract for
eight years longer, the works to be commenced
not later than a year and a halt after
approval. The Government win concede
10,000 hectares of land that may be necessary
for carrying out tho scheme and settle all ex
propriation expenses. The company will pay
the Colombian Government 12,000.000 francs in
cigutjsemi-annual Installments oill, 500, 000 rrancs
each, and 6,000,000 francs worth of free privi
leged shares. The company will also contrib
ute 30,000 francs monthly for the military pro
tection of the transit; all freights of Colom
bian produce passing over tbe Panama rail
road to be carried at half tbe taritPrates."
OH TEE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
Mississippi's Convention Ready to Submit
Its Report To-Dny.
Jackson, Mich., BeptemDer L The Consti
tutional Convention met at 3.30 p. M. An
amendment to the Constitution was offered by
S. M Streetof Lauderdale connty.providing for
a graduated income tax. Referred. The con
vention, after passing appropriate resolutions,
adjourned in respect to the memory of Dele
gate N. D. Guerry, of Loudnes county, who
died at his home in Artesta on Sunday night.
It is announced that the report of the Com
mittee on Elective Franchise will be submitted
to-morrow, or by Wednesday. Its provisions
have been agreed on, and nothing remains to
be done but tbe labor or drafting the report. The
cause of woman suff race seems to be falling
off. The country press stands almost solidly
arranged against it, but a vicorous flght will be
made in its behalf on tbe floor of the con
vention, and the. issue is still in
doubt. The regular order to-morrow will be
tbe discussion of the report on the penitentiary.
The delegates from tbe levee districts will
make a fieht in favor of leirallzine: the enmlov-
ment of convicts in levee building;
RANDOM POETRY.
THE OBASHOFPEKS' CROQUET.
Fo ur little grasshoppers, one fine day,
Hopped on the lawn to play croquet.
' 'We can't use mallets and balls, J' one said,
"But we'll play a game of our own, instead.
We'll hop through tbe wickets ourselves and see
Wbetberl beat you oryou beat me."
So hlpplty-hop they went around
Through all the wickets upon tbe ground.
Till the one who was leadlne made a Jump
And bit the home stake bumpily-bump.
Then ont came Johnny and Bess to play.
And the four little grasshoppers hopped away.
Malcolm Douglas, in St Sictiolat,
THE SHADOWS OP DOUBT.
OhI pretty, dear, engagement ring!
Your presence fills my soul with joy
Tbe perfect happiness yon bring
is like yourself, without alloy.
I wonder what poor Tom will say
To find that Dick has cut him out,
Alas! I could not wait for aye.
Besides he seems so full ot doubt
How proud I'll be to wear the prize
And show tbe world I'm Dick's alone.
I'll bold It up before men's eyes
Toproye I'm all his ownest own.
Bnt Tom, so manly, proud and tall,
I'm sorry he cannot propose.
Ah 1 there he comes to make a call,
I'll hide my ring until he goes.
Chicago Evening Post,
THE WOOP OF LIFE.
I stood within the city's broadest way
Through which the human current swiftest ran,
And high above a wire network lay.
Scores of fine threads In .nterlaclng SDan,
Pulsing with thouzhts of man to brother man;
Highway r flying words, or lire's strong play.
The plot and marplot or what mortals plan.
The dumb, fierce onset of life's little day.
So, too, metbought these hurrying men that pass
Their fellows by, and give no outward sign
To tell bow flows the current of the soul,
Are weaving threads ol destiny, alas!
That cross with other lives In network fins
To speed or stay their passage to the goal.
John J, a Beeket, in Independent,
RENEWAL.
The apple tree was gnarled and knotted,
Bugged and brown with blight.
Till spring sent bnds that burst and dotted
It oyer in russet and white.
The chattering birds came back and hovered
Over the fragrant flowers,
TVS He happy children came and coTered
Tbe grass In sunny hours.
"I never witnessed a finer season
For raising buds, "faid the tree
Asheoatched his leaves, "and that's the reason
I thought I'd live, you see."
Charles Knoioles Bolton,
TAIUAGE PICKS THE STRINGS.
The Great Divine lias a Little Andlenco
Nenrly Every Evening.
New York Herald.
The Rev. Dr. Talmage is sadly missed by his
neighbors in Brooklyn In more ways than one.
So, if it is a "pleasant thing to be missed," the
popular preacher probably has plenty of
pleasure. Everybody knows that the Doctor is
fond of mnsic, but tbey are unaware that he
can expertly play the banjo. Yet it is true.
Before be departed upon his vacation he
pretty regularly made the early evenings
melodious with the mellow "plnk-a-pnnk, pank-a-punk,
pank-pank-pank, tbrum-m-m" of bis
favorite Instrument as be sat in the back
parlor of bis residence on South Oxfora street.
The windows were usually open and tbe touch
ing strains of some old-time melody floated ou.
upon the air.
When he began strollers injtne adjacent park
paused to Issten and, people in nearby houses
came to their windows in order that they should
not miss a single note. Sucb sweetly tnneful
airs as "Annie Laurie," "Comin Through the
Rve" ano7"Away Down Upon the Suawanee
Ribber" were favorites with him, and when he
played them bis eager auditors always felt like
joining in the refrain. But now tne house is
silent and the banjo laid away. No wonder he
is missed.
HOT MAILABLE MATTER,
A Laree Cat 'Fonnd In One of Uncle Sam's
Mall Boxes.
From the Washington Post.l
A novel sight met the eyes of the letter car
rier who makes the regular Sunday afternoon
collections ot mail matter recently when he
drove up his bobtalled cart and stopped and
opened the large mail box at the corner of
Twelfth street and the Avenue. .Before open
ing tbe box he heard acreat racket going on
inside ot it and he called a couple of police
men and a citizen to bis aid, and when the box
was opened a large Thomas cat walked out and
becan rubbing bis lately cramped sides against
tbe legs oT his liberator.
Tbe cat was overjoyed, but tbe carrier talked
in a style that would bave sbocked a Sabbath
school, and wound dp by kicking at tbe mousor
and remarking: "Scat you villain."
A MAMMOTH CASTIHO.
Work Commenced on the Largest Pipe Ever
Attempted In This Cooniry.
Cincinnati, September L The Newport
Ky., branch of the Addyston Pipe and hteel
Works will this week begin turning ont the
largest pipe casting ever turned out in this
country, being five feet in diameter, almost
double the largest size. The pipe will be 12 feet
4 inches long. Tbe thickness will be IK inches.
The weight of each section will be six tons.
The ladle nsed in making the cast will hold
nine tons of molten metal.
Tbe pipe goes to Milwaukee to be used in ob
taining a water supply from tbe lake. Eight
hundred lengths are to be made, or 4,800 tons.
A New Executive mansion.
From the Wheeling Intelligencer.
Mrs. Harrison has a plan for enlarging the
Whltelouse so that the President's family
may have somewhere to live. It seems un
gracious to disagree with "tbe first lady in the
land" in anything, but Mrs. Harrison is wrong
in this. The White Houso will answer for" the
executive offices. Another place in another
part of tbe city should be provided as a home
for tbe President. This country is rich enough
to bouse its President decently. The White
House, as the Executive Mansion, has outlived
its day. " N
Hnnplni-xi No N.-inic for It.
From the Washington Post
Tho two old parties in Pennsylvania are court
incr the farmers at a furious rate. The Penn
sylvania farmers ought to be a very nappy set
CURIOUS CONDENSATION "
An Athens, Ga., man has a Spanish
coin that bears date of 1213.
The collective length of the London
streets wonld reach over 32,000 miles.
There are 1,300 blind people in Glasgow, ,
most ot whom bave lost their sight in adult
life.
A Slatesboro, Ga., citizen has a pair of
trousers in which be was married over 40 years
ago.
The Japs administer the oath by cutting
tbe witness' finger and taking blood to seal tbe .
swear.
There are m tbe British Islands 75 doc
tors to each 100,000 inhabitants; ten years ago
there only 6d.
Gold can be beaten 1,200 times thinner
than printing paper. One ounce of it will cover
116 square feet.
The current year has already witnessed
the burning of six theaters, half of this number
being in Germany.
Official figures show that there are cut
every year in Aroostook county, Maine, 100,
000,000 feet of lumber.
The Falhrof Niagara carry down 10,
000,000 cubic feet of water per minute, equal to
about 3,000,000 horse-power.
Sixteen barbecues have been given in
Wilkes connty, Ga.. this year. Two hundred
and tbirty-eight carcasses were consumed.
If purejnilkmly were sold in London,
it is estimated that from 20, 000 to 30,000 more
cows would be wanted to keep np the supply.
John Beasley, of Elbert county, Ga.,
is 75 years of age. He does bis own plowing;
has been keeping house 65 years and never
bought but eight bushels of corn In his life.
The latest addition to the world of news
papers is entirely In Latin, advertisements and
all, and its object is to prove that Latin should
again become wbat it was in the middle ages,
tbe universal language.
Some prehistoric German tombs were
recently excavated on the road leading from
Apolda to Jena. About 20 skeletons were found
(two being without skulls), and a number of
ornaments and weapons.
Canton, Me., must be a fortunate town.
Having no other use for their jail the select
men bave rented it to a man for a shoe-maker's
shop; Tbe tenant however, keep3 a cell or two
in readiness in case somebody should lapse
from virtue.
Among the best customers for Swiss
watches are tbe United States, although the
industry is largely developed in America.
Germany takes about 17,000.000 francs' worth of
Swiss watches annually. Great Britain 13,000,000
worth and France 6,500,000 worth.
A case is reported in an Australian
medical paper of a woman who. on taking &
dose of chlorodyne for the relief of pain, soon
after suckled her twin babies. The children
were found the following morning profoundly
narcotized, and died before evening.
One little 900-pound horse in Piscata
quis county, Me., recently hauled over the
rough roads a solid member of tbe school
board, a portly highway commissioner, a fat
Justice of tbe peace, ana two ordinary citizens,
t is notsurprising to hear that the borsd has
since died.
A party of boys killed a snake at Dub
lin, Ga., a few days ago. In a few minutes
young snakes wero seen to crawl out of tbe
old snake's side through a hole made by the
sticks. They continued to appear until 43.
averaging 12 inches in length, crawled out and
were killed. '
They have a queer little 10-year-old girl
in Philadelphia who is' normal in everything
else, but ever since she was a baby in her cradle,
when her mother first took her in charge, she
never could co to sleep unless the soles ot her
feet were tickled, and up till this day she is a
victim of the habit.
A correspondent says that the price of a
good-looking female slave in tbe United States
of Colombia is 1100. These women. It is stated,
are usually excellent cooks and many of tbem
are expert in divine: to the bottom of tbe
streams in the gold districts and bringing up a
gourd full of gold bearing sand.
In the matter of railways, Japan lap
pears to bo going ahead tolerably fast Con
siderably over 1,000 miles are already in oper
ation wnile an eaual quantity are under con
struction or surveyed, and will be open within
a year or two from now. Tho projected rail
ways exceed 7C0 miles in length, witn a capital
exceeding 6,000,000 sterling.
The death rate of the world is calcu
lated to be 67 in ralante, or 4,020 an hour, 96,
480 a day, 32.215200 a year. Tbe birth rate
slightly exceeds this. It is calculated to be 70
per minute, 4,200 in an hour, 100.800 a day, or
S8,742,tW) in a vear. The estimated increase per
annum, according to this is, therefore, a little
over 1,600,000.
People have do idea of the fatal speed
of express trains. It is a common thing to see
their buffers bespattered with blood after a
long and qnick run. 1 he noise of tbelr ap
proach disturbs the small birds from tbe hedge
rows and as tbey fly across the line along comes
the tbunderer at a speed of which they have no
conception and dashes tbem to pieces.
There is an enterprising photographer
in the Isle of Wight He posts himself at the
stopolng place of a coach, and photographs the
vehicle and passengers, at about 11 o'clock in
tbe morning. By Sin the afternoon, on tbe re
turn journey, the passeneers are met it is said,
with a supply of mounted prints made from
tne negative laicea omy a lew nours earner.
A remarkable occurrence happened in
Lewiston. Me. A little 15-year-old boy was in
swimming near the falls while tbe Cowan mill
was shut down. He started for shore just as
it started up. The extra flow of water threw
him over, and carried blm towards the falls.
Before he could recover be was swept over. He
was not. strange to say, injured to any extent.
He swam to the bar and was rescued by a boy.
Wedding celebrations The wedding
celebrations occur as f olIows:Three days, sugar;
60 days, vinegar; first anniversary. Iron; fifth
anniversary, wooden: tenth anniversary, tin;
fifteenth anniversary, crystal; twentieth anni
versary, china: twenty-fifth anniversary, silver;
thirtieth anniversary, cotton; thirty-fifth anni
versary, linen: fortieth anniversary, woolen;
forty-fifth anniversary.silk; fiftieth anniversary,
colden; seventj-flf th anniversary, diamond.
A few days ago Robert Smith, of
Apilachlcola, Fla., was attracted to a portion
of bis field where bis children were playing.
Thechildren were shouting and dancingaround
some object lying on the ground. Mr. Smith
walked down to where the children were, and
was horrified to find them playlne around a
large rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike.
The children were just beyond the reach of
the snake, unconscious of their danger. Tbe
snake was kliiea.
WITH THE SHARP ESDS UP.
A pretty eirl goes by.
Observant One What a slender flguret
ltctircd Proof Header Yes; waist looks like a
misprint lor wrist. Dallas Sews.
"Does Mrs. Weeds mourn her husband
sincerely?" asked Mrs. Wing.
"Indeed, she does." was the reply. "She
hasn't anybody but the Iceman now to scold."
SomenlUe Journal.
"What do yon suppose makes it rain so ,
much!" asked Miss Wistful, artlessly.
"Doen't seem as if anything makes It," re
plied Mr. Cynique. "It seems to rain easily
enough ltself.'-SomrrJe Journal.
Mother Well, did yoo set that situation
as office boy?
Little Son Nope.
"What was the matter?"
"Don't know. The gent is a lawyer, and no
asked me if I was a good whistler, and I told him
1 was the best whistler on our street, and he said
1 wouldn't do. Ouess he must want reg'lar
professional." Good Sews. ,
"Hear about the latest surprise in defal
cation? Dingus Is the man."
'yon don't say. 1 always did have my sus
picion." The old story: Went to Canada without the
boss' knowledge. They got experts to work and '
discovered" '
I can Imagine the rest."
"That the books were all right." Baltimor i
Herald.
"Isn't ice very high just now, Mrs. Cod-i
hooker," Inquired the young gentleman boarder j
anxiously orthe landlady at breakfast.
"I should say it was," she gushed. "Jly.iee!
bills are so frlgbtrul I don't know which way to
turn to meet them." -,!
'1 was going to say." responded theyoung rn i
tleman boarder, hesitatingly, "that these boiled!
ergs are so cold tbey would keep meat." Waslui
ington itar. .
Doctor So you're all run" downiy.J'eell
generally debilitated; can't sleep, have notappe- -
tlte; fever flushes, headaches ana dizziness. I
see. It's not a case for medicine.
Patient (frightened) Wbat Is it a case for, then? '
iioctor tor rest.
Patient But I'vejust been on my vacation:
Doctor-Yon need't tell me that.. Two weess1 j
active employment will rest you and make roaa
all right. Nothing like getting back to work aflarj
a laborious vacation, Boston Transcript.
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