"THE VPETTSBTIRG- ;DISPATOH; 5M0NbA.T, SEPTEMBER" 15, -1890. wife m$$m ESTABLlSnED FEBRUARY 8. ISIO, VoL4 Ao.t2).-Entered at Pittsburg l'ostofflce. o ember H JssT. as Eccond-class natter. Business Office Corner Smlthfleld and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 7G Diamond Street. EASTTKN ADVEKTIbUvtlOFFIClU ROOM a, TRIBUTE BUILDING. .NEW YORK, where complete files of TI1E DISl'ATCIT can always be lound. Foreign aavertlsers appreciate the con venience. Home advertisers and friends of THE Dlsl'ATCH, ihile in Sew York, are also made Welcome. THE DISPATCH is regularly on sale a Srentano's. S Union Square, Sew York, ana IT Ave de rOpera. Paris, France, ivhere any. one who has been disappointed at a hotel iicus stand can obtain t TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. tlfSTAGE FREE IN THE TOTTED STATES. daily dispatch. One Year I S 00 DAILY DisrATcn, 1'erQuarter ICO Daily Dispatch, One Month TO Daili Disr-ATCH, lncludlngfcunday, lycar. 1000 Daily Dispatch, includingfcunday.Sin'ths. 150 Daily Dispatch lncludlngSuuday.lmontli 90 M." day Dispatch. One Year - ISO V rtXLY Dispatch, One Year 1 S3 Tun Daily Dispatch is delivered by carriers at :,ccntst)cr week, or Including bunday edition, ttH) cents per week. PITTSBURG. .MONDAY. SEPT. 15. 1S90. THE SENSIBLE COUU-E. The caucus of the House Republicans on Saturday night showed few signs of resort ing to the policy of forcing the Senate to consider the Federal elections bill by hold ing back the tariff measure. On the con trary the indications were decidedly that the House will proceed promptly to the con sideration ot the Senate amendments and at an early day ask for a conference com mittee where the final shape of the tariff measure will be settled. This is an evidence that while the House leaders may be dissatisfied with the abandon ment ot their programme on the elections measure, they have the good sense to accept the situation as the best thing that can be done. The country is anxious to have the already unduly protracted wrestle with the tariff brought to a close. Business compli cations have already been produced by the tariff agony, and if the final enactment were longer delayed that effect might be aggravated to serious proportions. To raise a contest between the House and Senate would be likely to result in a deadlock, that would be injurious to all interests and more especially to those who delayed the great measure of the session in order to force their pet scheme down the throats of the people. In addition to these considerations it is quite possible that the close approach of the Congressional elections has aroused tbe members of the House to a realizing sense of the necessity of winding up the tariff light and going home to look after their in dividual concerns. A FIAT "REVOLUTION.- That alleged "revolution," in the Swiss Italian canton of Ticino, appears to have been about as serious as a strike in the min ing regions or an election affray in the South. The people of Ticino had the bad judgment to indulge in a riot over a local trouble, and when the Swiss Government lent troops to the place made light of the trouble by receiving the troops with cheers and giving them a feast. Perhaps the European politicians were not sorry to magnify the reports of disorder in the oldest existing republic; but however monarchical desires may be disappointed it is gratifying to learn that Switzerland is not to be dis rupted by the disloyalty of some square miles of mountain and valley. The affair lias a rather comic outcome, the most im pressive sensation produced by the final proceedings beint; the surprise of travelers who nave visited Switzerland that Swiss hospitality has reached such a point of enthusiasm as to entertain visitors free of chirge. HELPING OCT WALL STREET. The statement ot Secretary Windom that he will purchase $1G,000,000 of 4s and pre pay interest on the currency 6 ought to re lieve the monetary stringency in Xew York and calm the fears for the future. The amount of money which can thus be re leased from the Treasury should meet all legitimate needs and unravel the complica tions of the speculative market. As the tightness of monev was produced by the ap prehension of large payments of duties to the United States Treasury caused by the tariff bill, tiicrc is more reason for affording this rcliel than is usually the case when the Treasury comes to the rescue of Wall street. So far as the interests of the United States Government are involved, the policy of buying bonds on financial stringencies is n good one. It enables the Treasury to retire its obligations and strengthen its own position at a time when the demand for money lessens the premium on the bonds and permits the Treasury to get them at lower rates than it otherwise would. There is no better investment for the funds of a Government than in its own securities, nor is there any more profitable way of re ducing a surplus on hand than in retiring debt before the money can be wasted by ex travagant appropriations. But, as bearing on the stability of our financial centers, it can hardly be taken as a satisfactory indication that the business center of the country cannot carry on its operations without periodically rushing to the United States Treasury for relief. A solid business system ought to be able to get along without leaning quite so hard on the Treasury as "Wall street is doing at present. TYPHOID AXD CITY niPROVER'EXT.x. The statement by our health authorities of the large amount of typhoid fever exist ing in the city cannot be regarded as satis factory eithet to our local pride or viewed simply in the light ol the public welfare. A Philadelphia paper, the other day, in commenting on the typhoid lever rate of that city, stated it as a discredit to the sani tary administration. Yet the fact appears in our local columns that the typhoid fever rate of Pittsburg last week was three times that of Philadelphia in proportion to popula tion, while compared with New York there is the astonishing discrepancy of a ratio of typhoid Jever cases to total population twenty times as large in Pittsburg as in "Sew York. While this is a showing which should stimulate every Pittsburger to support all efforts to improve our sanitary arrange ments, it Is a mitigation to learn that the work of street and sewer improvements which has been pushed so actively for the past two years tends to the correction of the evil. The natural supposition would be that typhoid fever would be fonnd most plentifully about the Point and in the olhcr poorer quarters, while absent from the East End. Yet the opposite is the case. The pavements and drainage of the older parts of the city, even of the most antiquated form, prove to be a safeguard against such diseases; while the incomplete sewerage and muddy streets ot the newer quarters afford the disease its best chance to subsist This evidence of the value of city improve ments in a sanitary light need not be con fined to typhoid fever. Drainage and clean liness are the best protection against the great mass of zymotic diseases. But the illustration both of the value and necessity of such improvements from a sanitary point of view should be a powerful reinforcement to the commercial arguments in their favor. INGALLS' ORATORY. The majority of those who give a carefnl reading to Senator Ingnlls' speech, with an expectation of finding in it arguments having any cogency or bearing on the issues in volved in the Pennsylvania election, will find it a very disappointing one. The principal sensation aroused by a delib erate perusal of its paragraphs s a feeling of surprise that a man of such reputation for eloquence, and of such prominence in national politics,could occupy so much time In saying so little about the live issues of the day. The motive, to use the term of art criti cism, in Senator Ingalls' speech, was the past record of the Republican party and the claim that voters of to-day must support the party that has such a glorious history. The utter weakness of such aq argument, when we come to give it a little consideration, is amazing. It involves, in the first place, the assumption that the opposing party has no past. When we reflect that the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Benton has a record in the annals of our country, it will be seen that this part of Sen ator Ingalls logic leaves the two parties about where it found them, unless the Senator is able to pass a statute of limi tations on the glories ot the past. which commences to run about 1SG0. If the argu ment were a valid one, what claim for popu lar support would the Republican party have had thirty years ago, when it had no past? The fact is that the Democrats, dur ing the rise and power of the Republican party, relied lareely on the argument of the past record, and illustrated thereby the fact that when a political party can only com mend itself to popular approval by an ap peal to past issues, the period of dry-rot must have set in. Even laying aside the pertinence of the argument, it must be said that even as a eulogy of the past career of the Republican party the speech falls below what might have been expected. The theme is a great one. Few periods in history are more in spiring; and when a man with the wonder ful command of language, and reputation for striking oratory that are credited to the Kansas Senator, deliberately devotes his at tention to that historical subject, the result should be something especially imposing and impressive. That with such a wonderful topic the Kansas Senator's utterances were unable to surpass the rather moderate level of his Saturday night's speech, is almost enough to raise a doubt whether Senator Ingalls really has a full conception of the wonderful achievements of the Re publican career, which began in this city in 1851 and reached its zenith in the Presi dental election of 1868. A speaker who undertakes to instruct the people how they shall vote at a pending election, may fairly be expected to turn his attention to the issues to be decided by their votes. Of any tuch instruction on the pend ing issues there was a minimum in Senator Ingalls' speech. It is not such an argument to call the Democratic party "the political dumping ground of the nineteenth century," or "an aggregation of the ignorance, the imbecility and the disloyalty of the country " It would have been such an argument if the Senator had turned his attention to the subject of finance, of tariff or corporate legislation, and shown how the present Re publican policy will aid or develop the popular welfare. Yet the nearest approach to any discussion of pending issues was the passage where the Senator, in spired by the Maine election, made an exceptionally bitter and unjustifiable slur upon the leader of Pennsylvania Re publicanism by referring, in connection with the Federal elections bill, to "a bargain more disreputable than that of Esau when he sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, and more perfidious and dishonorable than that by which the Master was betrayed for thirty pieces of silver." Such a passage might be held to redeem the rather common place level of the speech by a touch pecu liarly in the Ingalls vein, if it were not that Kennedy, of Ohio, had preceded the orator in the use of the same hyperbole. The original feature of this invective is the idea of directing it against Quay in a speech pro fessedly in support oi Quay's candidate for Governor. The critical summary of the speech, viewed as an attempt to lead popular opin ion, is that it had nothing to do with the issnes of the State campaign. Such of his paragraphs as have any relevancy to pend ing national topics may be given some weight in ureibg Republicans to vote for Republican candidates for Congress; and much more than he said could have been given as reasons why Republicans should stand by their party in all elections which can affect the national issues like the tariff. Except in cases, where the punishment of bribery for the purchase of Congressional nominations has been stifled, and the people have no other way of punishing corruption, the national issues should be paramount in Congressional elec tions, and Republicans are justified in ad hering to party lines. But the meeting of Saturday was not intended to secure votes for theRepublican candidates for Congress in Allegheny county. Although Senator Ingalls disavowed any intention of interfering with local or State affairs, the meeting was held with the intention of securing popular support for the Republican nominee for Governor, and it is upon its relevancy to the issues involved in the gubernatorial electii.. thatit must be judged. On such points the speech wonld be abso lutely a zero, if its slur at Quay did not at that point give it a negative quality. As to whether the Constitution of Pennsylvania, or the corporations exercising, franchises under it, shall be supreme; whether legisla tion shall be shaped in the interest of the prototype of the latter-day monopo lies, or for the protection of the popular and democratic mass of industry; whether public men are bound to keep them selves free from any stain of betrayals of popular or public trnst; or whether clean and honest administration of a State's affairs is not the best recommendation that can be urged for election to a purely State office, the Senator's oratory was dumb. With re gard to such issnes, which are those at stake between Selamaterand Pattison, the eulogy of the Republican past has about as much cogency as the magnitude of the railway service to commerce has with the question whether the employes of those corporations may belong to labor organizations. There is possibly an explanation for Sena tor Ingalls speech, in the feeling disclosed In bis opening, that it is "the intermed- dling of a stranger" for him to interfere in the contest which is solely for independent and clean administration of State affairs. Under the influence of such a sentiment, the glittering generalities and discursive partisanship, in Senator Ingalls speech, might be the natural refuge for an orator who had a suspicion that according to bis own avowal he was out of place. THE PRIVILEGE OF RUFFIANISM. The recent tragic termination of an at tempt at hazing at Lafayette College, where a freshman whose room had been broken into by a party of hazers, laid about him so vigorously with a baseball club as to inflict fatal injuries on one of his assailants, gives a serious aspect to what has heretofore been looked upon as one of the comic aspects of undergraduate ruffianism. Of course the student, who acted in self-defense, cannot be charged with resnonsibilitv for the tragedy. Those who pushed their disorderly proceedings to an act of housebreaking took, the risk. But it may be questioned whether the college authorities where hazing flour ishes have not a responsibility Tor their weak dealing with that species of hoodlum ism. The idea is very plainly encouraged that students must be dealt with tenderly and cannot he subjected to the same punish ment as the oidinary ruffian who commits similar acts of assault and battery. Let it be understood that the ftudent who breaks into another's room or commits violence against another's person will be sent to the workhouse or lie in jail just as any other disorderly character will have to, and the trouble will be brought to a short stop. It is the idea that college students form a privileged class that requires a sharp cor rective. "What will be the newspaper of the future?" asks a cotemporary. And the office holding admirers of the administration all answer in unison: "How can we tell till wo know where Clarkson will be located?" The selection of a design Yor a $500,000 monument to Gen. Grant, though half of what was originally represented, is better than doing nothing. A $500,000 monument built is better than one ot a million dollars cost exist ing only in the New York imagination. There is room for hope that if the House should pass the O'Neill resolution New York wonld set about raising the f 500,000. Kennedy, it seems, concluded not to roar quite as loudly in the Congressional Jiecord as he roared on the floor of the House. But bis growls are still savage enough to dis turb the Republican harmony, Mb. Ingalls might, without damage to the prospects of Delamater, have emulated Reed and McKinley in excusing himself from the Pittsburg meeting. There was sharp language in his characterization of the Democ racy, but not much pretense of argument. As to State issues he was dumb. The relevancy of bis address to the Pennsylvania campaign will puzzle tbo public Now that Speaker Reed has got back, he will at once begin to put the stress of disci pline upon absentee members who have com mitted the offense of going home to look after their fences. It is alleged that among the fourteen police justices of New York City there is only one that knows anything about law. If the other thirteen knew anything about justice, which is an entirely distinct matter, the first class of ignorance could be condoned; but there is reason to believe that thirteen is an unlucky number in that respect. Senator Ingalls' eloquence seems to have been based on the belief that It will, be able to make the people of Pennsylvania vote at the coming election on back number issues. Mb. Depew says that the strike is a back number. There was reason to suspect as much when it became apparent that Mr. De pew's Presldental ambition, and with it his conviction that corporations should not dis charge their men for belonging to labor or ganizations, bad also become back numbers. If the money market continues to get tight there is reason to hope that it will have a sobering influence on the speculators. Spbeckles has increased the liveliness of tho sugar market by selling sugar at a re duction. Between tbe courts and competition tha Sugar Trnst will soon begin to think that its only sure hold is on the United States Sen ate. The Delamater demonstration was an earnest attempt to get tbe Republicans to rally round the Standard. Mr. Dunnell's apportionment bill has the impregnable and ro ck-buttressed founda tion that,under its provis!ons,before tbe Demo crats can elect a President they must carry all the doubtful states and tbelr shotguns. PTJEELY PEBSOH AL. Boulangeb's mother was an English wo man. Boutelle, of Maine, is a large, fine looking man, with blue eyes and blonde hair and moustache. Erastus Wijian's son ot William will be married to Miss Deere, daughter of the mill ionaire Western plowinakcr October 8. Hits. Emmons Blaine, formerly Miss Anita McCormick, has property in her own right and will inherit $10,000,000 from ber mother. Lieutenant John M. Finley. TJ. a A, who has recently published several interesting meteorological theses, was formerly clerk to Senator Butler, of South Carolina. Professor T. C Mendknhall, the new chief of tbe Coast Survey, who bas infused new life and ideas into the work of tbe bureau, meditates an attempt to locate afresh the mag netic pole of the Northern hemisphere. 1HE Rev. Dr. A J. Gorden. of the Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston, will dellvere a course of lectures before tbe students of the Moody Training School in January. During that month Mr. Moody will preach for Dr. Gor don. James M. Morton, of Fall River, recently appointed a Supreme Court Justice in Massa chusetts, is 53 years of age, ana was known in tho profession as a "defendant's lawer." For many years he was the legal adviser of the Old Colony road. The monumental statue of General La fayette, recently presented to this country by tbe French people, will not be erected opposite the White House, In Washington, as at first proposed, but near the Treasury, at Pennsyl vania avenue and Fifteenth street. Captain Henry Sherwood, whom the President has appointed postmaster at Wash ington, bails from Michigan, but bas been a resident of the Capital for a quarter of a cen ury. He was postmaster of tbe House of Rep resentatives four years, and bas been assistant to tbe city postmaster far eight JOURNALISTIC JOTTINGS. The Cincinnati Times-Star, one of the bright est afternoon dailies In Ohio, has been enlarged and otherwise improved. 1HE Press is the name of a new daily paper published at Chattanooga, Tenn. Its pages are filled with bright editorials, local and tele graphic matter and seem to have touched the popular chord. The Birmingham Age Berald bas appeared in a new fall suit, which adds greatly to its ty pographical appearance. Betides being one of tbe largest and neatest looking. It is one of the best Southern papers which finds its way Into this office. The Indiana county Gazette, undor the man agement of Warner H. Bell, Is one of the best lookinsr and brightest weeklies in tbo State. From appearances a person is led to believe that tbe merchants ot Indiana know a good thing when they see it, and at a consequence-1 they let tbe people know what they have got I to sell through the columns of tbe Gazette, 1 OUR SHORT STORIES. FARMEHS COME HIGH. Tt was a clean case of negligence on the part or the engineer. He should have whistled at the crossing and slowed up. He did neither. Farmer Boffin, driving In to maritet on a load of hay, was half way across the tracks when the express struck the wagon. For sudden ness it beat electrocution all hollow. Farmer Boffin and the two horses never knew what struck tbem, and their remains were collected with difficulty. Theso facts wero laid before Jnllus Barnett, Esq., solicitor to the railroad, and ha tala In his pleasant way: "Farmer Boffin will cost about $6,000 more than ho was worth if tho case goes to court. We must settle this with ' tbo widow at once." So Mr. Burnett adjusted his clerical white tie a bit of dress be was most particular about In his negotiations with widows and took the first train for Moon's Rest. It was a hot ana dusty walk to the Boffin farm, bat when be clasped Mrs. Boffin's hand and murmured a few words ot apologetic sympathy the attorney was tho cooler of the two. Then be began: "Tho Atlantio and Northeastern -Rallroaa Company have sent me, madam, to offer their deepest sympathy. No accident that has ever happened on our line bas tbeen so deeply re gretted, I assure you, madam, and " "ThemTiorses was wuth a plum two hnndred dollars." broke in the widow, rubbing her eyes with the corner of ber apron, "Joshua wouldn't take less, he tol' Zeph Hanks las' Aprile." "As I was saying, madam," continued Mr. Burnett, "our company is deeply grieved Mr. Boffin was a " "An tho wagon's Klndlln' wood." interrupted Mr. Boffin's relict. "That's precisely what I came to sea yon about," said the attorney, changing his course to catch the wind, "In an hour like this, when the heart is bowed down, a little ready money is often very desirable, and I see you are a woman who believes in doing business in a business-like manner. Now, those horses, Mrs. Boffin, I feel sure our company would like to replace them. It can be done for $150, can't it? Say, one fifty?" "Two hundred dollars won'tbuythem horses' equals," said Mrs. Boffin decidedly. "Then we will pay S200 for the horses," cheer fully assented the lawyer: "now, for the wagon we are prepared to be liberal, Mrs. Boffin; we know what it is to lose a wagon in this heart rending way shall we siy $25 tor tho wagon?1 Mrs. Boffin nodded her head and murmured: "It's nothin' but klndlln' wood," adding sharply: "You've forgotten the bay and the harness they ain't no good to me now an' that harness wur nearly new." "Certainly, Mrs. Boffin," the lawyer said, "I was coming to that 815 ought to cover that yon regard that as satisfactory, of course. Let's see $225 and $15 is $240. And now, madam, as to that excellent husband of yours, it is my melancholy duty," here ho paused, and Mrs. Boffin took up the parable with: "Joshua was a powerful worker nigh on 20 year he rnn this farm and hired men's so wutbless." "Precisely. Mrs. Boffin: let's say $10 for Mr. Boffin, and I'll draw you a check right now for $250." And a check of that size went into Mrs. Boffin's bank account that very day. SIMPLY DAMAGED. WITH A MORAL. "My heart is gone, and Love's the theftl" 1 cried in accent sore: "And you, " sold Love, "In that belief Are wrong: and what is more, I'll prove to you your heart Is here, And not e'en gone In part. ' ' I looked and saw with many a fear I had a broken heart. "So you see," remarked Love, a few mo mentslater, "1 am charged with a great many things I never do. When a boy or girl com plains that I have bis or her heart I usually find, upon investigation, that is is suffering from some organic derangement that I have brought about. You can mend a broken Jug much more readily than you can find one that has been stolen." HE CALLED HIM ED. 7dwin Booth bis enough dignity to eaulp a dozen tragedians. The most bumptious managers usually quail under his calm gaze. He has been known to reduce the swelled head of a leading juvenile in one interview, and the temperature of tbe star dressing room when Mr. Booth is in It seldom, if ever, rises above freezing point But last season a novice in the managerial business took "the starch out of tbe main guy," as a member of Mr. Booth's company afterwards remarked. Mr. Booth was playing for the first time at a theater in tbe West which bad for a manager a cultivated gentleman lately graduated from a pork-parking establishment. The theater was crowded on tbe opening night, and the local manager was In high spirits. A few moments before the curtain rose the manager went back to Mr. Booth's dressing room. He walked right in without knocking, and the great actor In the robes of Sichelitu glared at him ferociously. But the manager did not see the glare, and without a tremor smaoked tbe Cardinal on the back and said: "The house is packed; there ain't no standin' room left Now Ed, old man, sail in and show 'om what you can do!" , Mr. Booth's dresser dragged tbe audacious pork-packer out before Ed's wrath exploded. OUT FOR A DAY'S PLEASURING. A BIG, freckled-faced woman was striding down a broad avenue in the suburbs, lead ing two children by the hand and followed by a third. "Is this the way to tbe park?" she demanded of a man leaning against a tree. "What park, madam?" he inquired. "Any park. Tbe nearest park." "If you go about two blocks further, turn to the right and then go straight on for abont a mile and a half you will reach tbo only one In this vicinity." "Plenty of shade trees and animals in cages and ducks swimming about in little lakelets?" "Yes." "And benches with rustic tables in front of tbem. wbere poor peopTe are graciously per mitted to eat tbe frugal victuals doled out to tnem under a falsely constructed fabric ot society, provided they take the victuals along with them?" "Plenty of 'em, ma'am." "No charge for going into the park?" "No." "Stay as long as we please?" "Certainly," "Tbenl'llfinditiflhave to walk all day. I've come nut from the crowded city to get a breath of God's pure air and bathe my soul In the sweat Influence ot nature. Como on, you little brat back there, or I'll skin ye allvel" Ana she went on down tbe avenue at a five mile gait, dragging tbe two children and fol lowed at some distance In the rear by tbe loudly howling third. ' PRFERRED A SMALL AUDIENCE. TN the spring of 1876 the Common Council of Chicago issudd an order for an election for city officers under the new city charter, which order contained no reference to tbe office of Mayor. -There was great dissatisfaction with Mayor Calvin, who was holding over, and a mas3 meeting was called at tbe Exposition building, which was advertised to be addressed by many prominent citizens, including the two eminent attorneys, both since deceased, Leonard Swett and Emory A. Storrs. The former delivered a stirring speech in favor of nominating a candidate for Mayor, but tbe lat ter, who doubted the legality of the proposed election, and whose judgment the courts subse quently sustained, did not put in an appear ance. Tbe next morning the two gentlemen met in tbe street. "Storrs," said Swett, with one of his well-remembered frowns, "why didn't you come around last night? It was a great meeting. Fully 30,000 were there"' "Swett," replied the little lawyer, lowering bis voice and assuming a tone at once Im pressive and confidential, "when I definitely determine that I've got to make an ass of my self I select as quiet a place and as small an audience as I can find." THE MESSAGE OF THE ROSE. O Rose I Itcd Bosel What halt thou brought from ber my tool adores? What secret did the whisper thee that through my beinx pours Bncb floods orecstacy as close I clasp thy shriv eled shape, And seek to learn her thought? Speak petals, speak 1 Revive again 1 Return, O fragrant breath 1 was It tbe pisslon of her lips That sealed thine own In death? then, sweet-dead Roselmrllps ' Shall cling to me at hen have clung, and I, as thee, be slain I HELEN HAWT.ROBHE. PTttsbubo, Beptember IS. I VOTES AND PRIZES, Popular Topics for Visitor to Yen or Nay Ballot and Primary Election Reform How Da Yon lnnd on Capiolldallon A 875 Inducement to Promoter! of Pitta bars' Grentneaa and Prosperity The topics chosen for Exposition visitors to vote upon at Dispatch Headquarters, Bruns-wIck-Balke-CoIlender Billiard Company's space, dnring the first three dajs of this weeksbonld attract everybody. You are asked to cast your ballots to-day on the following topic: ., ) Are jon in favor of the proposed ballot re- forms to prevent electioneering at the polls, and to give all candidates an equal chance by putting the names of all on the same ticket, to be supplied at each polling place at public cost? Open to masculine voters only. . TUESDAY'S VOTIKG TOPIC. Are you in favor of party nominations by a dlroct vote of the people in place of dele gate conventions? Open to masculine voters only. WEDNESDAY'S VOTING TOPIC. Are you in favqr of the Consolidation of the Cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny? Open to Lady and Gentlemen voters. The Poll Book will open and close with the Exposition each morning and evening. TO PROMOTE PITTSBUEG. Ilnndiomo Prize Offered for the Best Essay an n Splendid Topic. The Prize Essay Contest this week will be open to all witters except those directly or in directly connected with the Press of Pittsburg. The topic chosen is: What Public Undertakings will best and most speedily promote the futuie Greatness and Prosperity of Pittsburg. The Dispatch offers the following Prizes for the three best essays on the above topic: First Prize 830 Second Prize 15 Third Prize 10 Subject to the following conditions : L The essay must not exceed 2,000 words. 2. It must be legibly written on one side of the paper only. 8. It mnst be original. 4. It mnst be received at tho office of The Dispatch or at Dispatch Headquarters, Ex position Building, not later tban 9 o'clock r. M., Saturday, September 20. 5. Correct name, address and age of contest ant must accompany MSS., namo only for pub lication if successful. 6. The Dispatch reserves the right to pub lish any contribution, whether it be awarded a prize or not. Stop at The Dispatch Headquarters, Brunswick-Balke-Collender Billiard Company space, vote and secure a souvenir. A FIVE-LEGGED COLT. Tbe Surplus Member n Ttlflo Smaller Than tho Nnturnl Lee. From the Panxsutawney Spirit. C. 0. Chambers, of this place, has one of those peculiar freaks ot nature which wo oc casionally see in animal life and to which Dar win attaches so much importance In his de velopment hypothesis. The animal in question is a colt, now about 4 months old, with 5 legs, or rather 4, as tbe fifth leg branches oft from tho right fore leg jnst below the knee. It is perfectly formed, and just tbe proper length to strike the ground at the. same time the other one does. The surplus member is jnst a trifle smaller tban the natural leg, but tbe foot is about the same size, and the colt walks on all flvo feet. Tbe monstrosity was born in Indiana .county, and the man who owned its dam regarded it as an ill omen. Mr. Chambers, its present owner, will exhibit tbe freak. TEE STATE CAMPAIGN. New York Telegram (Dem.): The Repub lican party in Pennsylvania seems to bo getting weak in the middle. i Washington Post (Rep.): Tho Pennsyl vania Democrats are very much, annoyed by tho statement that Hon.' William L. Scott has plugged up tbe bungbole of his barrel and is now roosting on the spigdt, Altoona Times (Dem.): Tbe corporations of Pennsylvania are a benefit to the people of the Btate as long as they are kept within their bounds. We do not relish the outcry that is almost continually raised against corporations for no other cause but that they are corpora tions. Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.): The Democratic organization throughout the State of Pennsylvania is pronounced the best the party has ever bad, the Democrats are harmo nious and confident, and disaffection In the Republican ranks isconstantly spreading. Tbe prospects for a Democratic victory grow more and more encouraging as the election ap proaches. . New York Post (Dem.): Tbe campaign in Pennsylvania is going on quietly, but there Is evidence that It is making good progress. Re publican party journals which a few weeks ago were asking, "where is that Independent Re pubican movement?" are now hard at work, not to disprove its existence, but to prove the Invincibility of that "80.000 majority" of 1888. St. Paul Pioneer Press (Rep.): Richard Vaux, elected to Congress to succeed Samuel J. Randall in tho Third Pennsylvania district, went into office with a whoop and hurrah on the plea of his superior honesty. He seems to have been too honest to suit modern Demo cratic ideas, and be must step aside for a more pliant bustler versed in practical politics. What a virtuous mob the Democratic party is, anyway. The Sacred Iloiut Church Completed. fSPECIAt TtXEOBAM TO TirO DISPATCH. 1 Jeannette, September 14. The Sacred Heart Catholic Church, recently completed in North Jeannette, was dedicated this afternoon. A number of eminent clergymen were present from Pittsburg and other points, and assisted In the beautiful ceremonies. Divine services were conducted in both German and English. ALL THE0UGH TEE STATE. A woman has been appointed an officer of the Luzerne County Court. TnE lumber forests in the Western part of the State are almost depleted. Ohio people appreciate a good thing, and for that reason Pennsylvania potatoes aro being shipped into that State in large quantities. The twentieth annual reunion ot tbe One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment, Pennsyl vania Volunteers, will beheld at Uellertown, September 20. The Best colliery, one of tbe largest in the vicinity of Ashland, which shut down four months ago on account of a fire, will resume operations to-morrow. A Carlisle jury, in deciding a very trlfline1 case whieb should never have cone to. court. directed that the fees of the constable and Justice be disallowed. ' AN old-time canal boat was drawn through tho streets of Leechburg recently upon tbe oc casion ol tne annual gathering or the associa tion of canal boatmen. The new building to be erected at the Urslnns College. Collegeville, Is to be called the "Bom berger Memorial Building," In honor of the late President, J. H. A. Bomberger. Bucks county merchants seem determined to enforce the law. Harry Green, a Russian, bailing from Philadelphia, was arrested by tbe constable of Chalfont for peddling tinware, and was eommltted to the county jail. Sister Mary Mercedes, connected with St. Catharine's Academy, Ehillipsburg, died of consumption, aged. 23 years. Her name before becoming a Sister of Mercy was Ella Brophy, and she was born in New York. Last year she taught the graduating class at tbe parochial school at Bordentown. Orson Clark, of Pinevllle. Bucks county, had a laigo quota of bis teeth knocked out by a horse's heels. Hemy Hartley, of tbe same town, received a dislocated jaw in shooting. Ho immediately nut a stick of wood between his teeth to prevent the jaws from locking, and the I doctor bad some trouble In setting ont tbe I 4 stick. SNAP SH0TSJN SEASON. Ingalls bilea over at the Opera House Sat urday night. Fifth avenue, between Smitbfleld and Sixth streets, and Sixth street from Fifth ave nue Allegheny ward, are the greatest arteries of travel between New York and Chicago. Philadelphia Isn't In it at all. The crowds are democratic, and, not like so very long ago, good natured. Young girls and old women, chatty maidens and demure matrons, with and without escort, move in the thick throngs. Working girls and working men brush the skirts and touch the elbows of mistress and master. Men of business and men of leisure are pushed along by tbe human stream, which ends only with the closing of the theaters. It's a constant going and coming an endless chain of shifting color, a muffled roar of countless feet, a panorama of pretty faces, a moving picture of happiness, an object lesson of Pitts burg's great growth and business bustle. If you would be convinced just join the throng any pleasant evening, Saturday preferred. If in a hurry to get down town take tha back streets. You cannot move faster than the packed paraders. They are out for pleasure, and business has no right to press tbem. It's an inspiring spectacle. It's a March of Prog ress. The milk of human kindness should never bo watered. The political back yards are full of Old Dog Trays. The Canonical rules of the House shonld be revised. They are too Krentzer Sonata. When a fellow is drunk on wine he's grape shot. The most wonderful thing about that chemical analysis of tbe Southsido liquid Is that tne experts found water in it. When bustle. Eve fell she did not disarrange a The man who cast his vote at Dispatch Exposition headquarters in favor of electro cution talked sense when be said: "I don't care how they dispose of murderers. I wonld be more solicitous to find a way to have murderers kill their victims with less pain." Ladies who carry flowers to shooters, cutters and clnbbers should paste this in their bonnets. Compliments, changed. like cards, are easily ex- Seals are growing scarce. He who has been forced to fork over a few hundred dollars every winter at the bidding of the sacque de signers will hail the day when the last mild eyed fur-bearer is clubbed to death. Old Monongahela is slightly disfigured, but still in the Ring. Peaks are 50 cents a dozen in market, needs to be flush to get there. One The new Clipper Theater fs all Cyrene this week. Mrs. January, the $5,000,000 St. Louis widow, has jilted an English aristocrat. In other words, January declined to thawontor shell out. Keely has jnst celebrated his flfty-third birthday. Tbe motor wasn't in It. Green verdant. glassworkers are anything but A lawyer is a conveyancer, bnt he is not reanlred to take out a vehicle license. It's evidently boodle against ballots year. this It's as hard for the bald headed man to fol low tbe gyrations of a quartet of skirt dancers as it is for the small boy to take in all the amusement offered in a three-ringed circus. So Miss Leiter is the next American Jess to need a title. Her papa will find his purso growing lighter in the sweet by and by. It is useless to advertise for tho recovery of a lost opportunity. Senator Ingalls wants to be told of a single specific act for tbe good of the country performed by the Democratic party when in power. Wben tbey controlled the House, Sen ator, they knew when to adjourn. Give the devil his due, sir. Man is a monster in a woman's eyes when he ref nses his wife tbe price of a new fall bonnet. The Old Guard did not seem to be in line Saturday night. When President.Harrison attends that or gan recital at Carnegie Hall the key manipu lator will not play "Where Did Yon Get That Hat" It is in order to wish all our Hebrew citizens a Happy New Year, The frdlt growers are not on the short list this time. The wide wagon tire notion is not so English as it might be. It's also an Ohio idee. Colum bus makes a money distinction between narrow and wide wheels when awarding vehicle li censes. Does tbo Little Napoleon from Beaver ex pect to catch Democratic votes by singing tbe praises of the late lamented Samuel J. Ran dall? When the leaves turn brown the mountain top hotel man looks bine. A Bucks county umbrella thief got a year in Jail tba other day. If this thing keeps on there will not be enough prisons in tbo land to bold prospective criminals. Investigations of official scandals now adays turn out to be more scandalous tban tbe original scandal. The Raum scandal, for in stance. Ella Wheeler Wilcox asks: "What is more lovely in woman than her throat and shoulders?" Will tell you. sweet poetess of passion: A sunny temper and a true heart. These be more lovely, and It don't cost any thing to chain tbe one or drape the other. A gentleman remarked the other day that tbe Walls accommodation would be propelled by electricity within five years. What bas Mr. Pitcalrn to say? Ingalls' remarks were as pointed as his gray goatee. When money is tight in Wall street tbe whole gang gets frisky. When eggs are flat on Liberty street it means there are mora than enough to go round. The staffs on the party organs will be in clover until the ballots are boxed in November. They can take a vacation. All the editing is done at beadquarters in Philadelphia. Ho W would a Cracker trust work in Florida . Senator Ingalls is called a poor man east of the muddy Mississippi. A letter before me from Atchison, Kan., says "Our John," as tbey tcall tho pencil-shaped statesman at home, owns 'a fins mansion, snrroundod by park acres, sev 'oral business blocks and dwelling houses and a 600-acre farm. The writer also states that some of the children are chips off the old block, with quick wit and tongues steeped in gall. John may be poor from a Fonr Hundred standpoint, but be's evidently well enough fixed to survive a grasshopper plague and a Kansas drought combined. Napoleon started out to own Europe, but after all be was satisfied with Elba room. Willie Winkle. New Lutheran Church. JSPECTAL TXLIOBiK TO THE niSPATOn.1 Altoona, September H. The St. James LutberanCburcb. of this city, was dedicated this morning. Rev. G. A. Wentzell, D. D., of Washington. Pa., preached a sermon In Ger man, and Rev. J. O. Kunstnan, of Greensburg, delivered ona in the Enelish lantrUae-e. Tha edifice, which is one of tha finest in the city, Cost $28,450. OUR MAIL POUCH, Pol'tlci In ihc Oil Bczlonn DUaflicttd Be pnblicnna Very Numerous. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Thinking a few words politically from tbe nursery of great men might be acceptable to your manyreaders I here give you the political news now afloat. The political pot Is beginning to simmer and will soon boil and perhaps boil over. There is no telling whit the result may be. as party harness lies lighter on the shoulders of the people tban I eter have seen them. There is much, yes, very much, dissatisfaction with many members if both old parties, many changes of vlews'and very many undecided as to what is best for them to do. or rather how they shall cast their votes t Ms-fall. All admit tbe past legislation has been bad. and bas bronghttbe present bad state of affairs into existence. Many are looking for a remedy, each from bis own personal or partisan stand pointa few from the standpoint of justice and equity, most from a partisan standpoint. The Democrats charge tbe Republicans for all bad legislation, and claim that if tbey were in power all bad laws would be repealed and good times prevail: Republicans make the same charges against the Democrats, claiming if they are successful all wrongs will be removed and prosperity and happiness follow. I cannot see it in that light, nor do 1 think the masses do? as all legislation jn Congress is for partisan purposes and not in tho mtere3t of tbe people. It should not be so. Statesmen legis late for the masses, monopolists for a class, partisans for party, and, from past and present legislation both Republicans and Democrats have legislated for and in tbe interest of the monopolists so much that the wealth pro ducers are robbed ot three-fourths of tbe wealth they 'produce and are virtually slaves. A remedy must be had, and by the ballot is the only way. The candidates are in the field for Governor. George W. Delamater, Republican, nominated by tho , power of one man; R. E. Pattison, Democrat, nominated against the Democrat ring by pressure of public opinion, whose record as Governor of this State was such as to commend him to tbe people and force bis nomination over the combined power of the Democratic ring and corporation or monopo listic power the only Governor since Andrew G. Curtin that looked to the interest of the people, who did bis best to serve the people of this State. Charles Miller is tbe Prohibition caudldate. Now. as to the men. tbey are all personally good. As men, tbey are in their in tercourse and dealings with men. honest and gentlemen. As to ability, none of them are much, if any, above the average. The- writer's acanaintanca with Messrs. Delamater and Pattison i3 slight, with Mr. Miller is considerable. I look upon him as one of the very best men in our place, a real clever man, very liberal, very charitable In every way. one who is an honor and credit to our city. I wish we bad more men as liberal and generous as Charles Miller and J. C. Sib ley. Tbe city and tbe world would be better for It. As I have stated, there is a great deal of dis satisfaction as well as disaffection In tbe ranks of both Republicans and Democrats in this county, particularly with Republicans. Tbe cause the manner in which and the ways by which G. W. Delamater was nominated. Many persons say tbe one-man power rules the Re publican party, but shall not rule tbem. Tha resnlt is that many of the honest Republicans and leading men of that party openly say they will support Pattison. If a vote were taken to day in this county, in my opinion R. E. Patti son would get a majority.. The death of Hon. L. F. Watson has com plicated matters in this district. It bas opened up another fight between tbe Stalwarts and Independents, or Mugwumps. Tbe candidates are J. W, Lee, of Venango county, Independ ent, a good man personally, of fair ability and considerable experience as a legislator, having served in tbe Penn sylvania Legislature a number of years with credit; Hon. C. W. Stone, of Warren, a Stalwart, a ring man. who is at pres ent Secretary of State, a man of fair ability, a partisan of tbe first water; Mr. Smith, of Mc Kean county, of wnom I cannot speak, as I know nothing about him. It looks to me as if the flcbt were betneen Lee and Stone, with tbe chances much in favor of Stone, as the ring bave all tbe machinery in their bands and will nominate their man. Venango and Warren compose the Senatorial district. W. R. Craw ford, ot Venanco. and O. C. Allen, of Warren, are instructed for, but so far havo failed to nominate. Thi3wlll enter into the Congres sional fight and make it more complicated. My opinion is that O. C. Allen Tvill be nomi nated, as he is the ring candidate. W.K.Craw ford is the most popular man in Venango county. Tbe Farmers' Alliance. Grangers' Labor SStnhSIfdmWne2a..,lHh"' 'Blotte'1 G"- The deacon &Ji&fi'$Z&;.l' iVlVd of their intentions and concealin- V.UUU.J ouvuii iiiuviBv u.uj, nc nm ujijo unci be elected. He is a man very well known in notn counties, a aruier oy occupation, rresl dent of tbe Drlllers'.Union, a man ot more tban ordinary abillty.'ot first-rate moral character, a good speaker, and if elected, will represent the wealth producer not the monopolies. As to the candidates for Assembly, the Re- puoucans nave nominated t. w.iiays. of Oil City, a ring candidate, present member, who has served tbe monopolists faithfully, having either voted for all bills in their interest, hay ing either dodged or voted against all labor bills introduced. Henry F. James is the other, a man of the people, good, honest, clever man, of fair ability, the peer of any of the candi dates: one who takes as much, if not more. In teiest In tbe Grange order than any man in the county. If elected, tne farmers' interest will be looked after, as far as his vote and influence will go. The Democrats hare nominated John M. Boals, of Jackson, a farmer, a man of fair education, of ability above the average, a good speaker, who, if elected, will be able to advo cate the farmers and laborers' interests, who will be an able aid to James if both should be elected. I think if tbo farmers and laborers will look to tbelr own interests and desire legis lation In their interests, the Republicans and Democrats will drop partisan feeling and vote for and elect both James and. Boals. T. J. Eakm, the other Democratic nominee, I can not say much about. Was County Commis sioner; did not make bis mark as Commissioner. As to the county ticket, it is any man's race. I look for pirt of each to be elected. OM Consistency, thouartajewel!" The people ot Pennsylvania have posing be fore tbem George W. Delamater. the monopoly candidate, who Is trying hard to make the farmers and laborers believe be is and bas been tbelr friend, who, while in the Senate, never cast a vote, made a speech or introduced a bill in favor of tbo farmers and laborers, the wealth producers. Robert E. Pattison, who did all in his power wnue uovernor lor tne tanner ana laborer, and will again if be should be elected. Charles Miller, Prohibitionist, a member of the (Treat monopoly, tbe Standard Oil Company, on the anti-monopoly platform. You take your choice. As to the Congressional fight, the Democrats have their opportunity. Will tbey embrace it? I am afraid not, as monopoly interest controls tbe party in this county and district. This county has instructed for A. A. Plumer, a very clever man of medium ability, a national bank er, bondholder, in short a monopolist. As tbe Democratic party pretends to be an anti-mo nopoly party, it does not look consistent to place such men in nomination and it is cheeky to ask Democrats to vote for such meu, and many say tbey will not. But if tbe Democrats will put some man in wbolsln harmony of feel ing and views with tbe wealth producer tbey can and will elect the member from this dis trict. There are three or four men in the dis trict the reform element can unite on and vote for. Tbe general impression Is in favor of the Hon. George Moloney, and, if nominated, ha will surely be elected, as all the reform ele ments will vote for him. Tbe Stalwarts and Mucwnmps will not nniio on the same man. Franklin, September 13. Driller. Gene Fleeion'a Wnr Record. To the Editor or The Dlspatcn: Some weeks age a friend sent me several of your issues containing articles in reference to the fate of Reese Eugene Fleeson Gene he was known to his schoolmates. Tbat bis name and character should be remembered among bis army comrades after all these years, and so highly esteemed, is a gratification to me, his only sister. For the satisfaction ot those com rades Twill eive what information 1 can. My brother, in '61, then not 20. onlisted in tbe three months service. He was sent to guard tbe line ,ot the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. ana suuerea an ins uamsuiju or. that short service. Our father secured for him a lieu tenacy in the regular army, hoping that we would sooner know bi3 fate in battle. He was sent at once to Fort Lyon, CoL, wbere. as he expressed it, he ate bis heart out for 18 month, longmit to be in the front of the battle while be wax in command of a little stockade surrounded by 6,000 hostile Indians. At tbe end of this dreary time his company was ordered in front of Petersburg. At the time of father's death he left the recular service, and after an effort to remain at home, be again enlisted for three years in Company A, Ninth Pennsylvania Reserves. At tbe Battle of the Wilder ness (bis first creat battle) be was taken pris oner. Some tbink be would not turn his back upon tbe enemy wben tbe order was given to fall back. He was taken first to Anaersonvllle. Wben on the way there, knowing the horrors of that place, he jumped from the traiu, but was brought back, bound and gagged, and so taken on. That placo being overflowing he was sent to Florence. bcre, alter nine moutus' lni-pri-onment and lone; continued sickness, he died in February, 1865. Will The Dispatch please publish this and accept tbe thanks of his friends and bis sister. Mrs. T. E. Tyler (Formerly Mary F. FleejooL 401 Gillespie street, Chattanooga, Tenn. COPIOUS CONDENSATIOBS. The first piano was invented as far back as 1716. The population of the world doubles itself in 2C0 years. The apple crop iu several counties in Wisconsin is unusually large this year. An Ashland divine has patented an air brake which can be applied to all vehicles. "Slaughterhouse steak"'is what a young ster asked for in a Greenville, Mich., batcher shop. The German Emperor has just had a magnificent sword manufactured in Berlin as a gift to the Sultan of Turkey. Holler skates were first patented by a London fruiterer named Tyors inlS23,and hii pattern had one line of wheels. AYhen the railway across Siberia It completed, it is eimatp'd that the tour of tha world in 63 days will be feasible. A Chicago cigar man is authority for tbo statement that the better class of smokers are returning to the pipe for comfort. Workmen have drilled to a depth of nearly L100 feet for water at Calvary Cottaee. Wis., and bave not yet been rewarded. A wild sweet potato tound erowinenear Paulsboro. N. J., measnred 2u inches In circum ference and weighed 12 pounds, it is said. The Government telegraph service of Great Britain transmits. It is said, on the aver age, 1,533,270 words a day to newspapers alone. A Mr. Banshaw, of Jlecosta, Mich., was wounded while In tbe army and bas ever since been a sufferer. Last week his leg was amputated. It is expected that the number of bodies cremated in Milan will soon average one a day, a nearly 2,000 bodies have been cremated there during tha last 13 years. A Clarion man has nnearthed a cab bace that weighed 18 pounds, measnred 3 feet S inches in circumference and 1 foot 2 inches in diameter. It is of the Flat Dutch variety. There is living in Sylvania, Tioga county. Pa., a veteran of the war of 1812, named David Smith, aged 93 years. He is in good health, but bas applied for a service pension. Among the bills recently presented to Auditor Lopez, of Los Angeles, was one for 372 for lead pencils tor tho public schools. Ho refused to audit the demand, which caused much caustic criticism. Among tbe queer products of Inyo county gardens are Mexican cantaloups. They are two feet loner, four inches round tha waist, and are shaped like tbe horns of a Texas steer, yet they are very fine quality. There is a girls orphan asylum atLocie. Switzerland, who receive large quantities of old postage stamps from charitable persons. An average of about 50 a year Is made by tho sale of the rarer kinds to stamp dealers. The young Viscount Belgrave, grandson of tbo Duke of Westminster, if he lives to in herit his patrimony, will be the richest man la the world. By the time he attains his majority bis income will amount to between $10,000 and $20,000 a day. A Barnevald, Done county, "Wis., man swallowed a large darning needle and went to a doctor to bave it removed. Tbe doctor mada him sneeze, and on tbe third attempt tbe needle appeared and stuck Itself into a pin cushion on the doctor's table. For 110 years to come no man, woman, or child will write tbo current date without using the figure 9; for nineteen yeara during tbat period two nines must be written. Of tho people now living, it is safe to say that not ona will ever write tbe date of his or her own timo without using a 9. A Piute brave walked into tha Colfax Sentinel office the other day to see the paper printed. He was in full dress, with feather and linen duster. Tbe foreman asked "Afraid-to-wash-your-iace" why ho was not in the hop field. He said: "Me no like pickum hop1", too much stickum hands. My woman get $1 75 a day." Belle Biver, a little village 12 miles east of Windsor, Ontario, is in a great state of excitement over the discovery of natural gas. Men were boring for water on Eli Trudeau's property, and at a depth of 85 feet a gas vein was struck. The boring machinery was blown to pieces, and wben tbo gas was lighted the flams shot up 50 feet. A number of young men in the vicinity I r Tnn--. Vatia w. r,iinn,i tn rnu th mi,.r, Clself emptied the contents of a double- barreled shotgun into the crowd. A number of young men were struck. The identity of others were ascertained by the horses left tied ne; Tunis, i :u near .as spot. A number of Sfax fishermen, near were sitting the other day round aflro which they had kindled on the shore, wben suaaeui mers was a lerriDio explosion irom tbe hear: of tbe burning mass, one person being killed and several seriously wounded. It was subsequently found to be tbe explosion of a shell which had lain under the sand since tbe Frency bombardment in 1SS1. It is it-ported that three nails of the true cross hava teen found in a very singular place, namely, in tbe rnlns of tbe theater at Zurich, which was bt,rned down. -SThey were in a little ivory casket, of admirable workmanship, to gether with a manuscript of parchment, and were bricked up within a little cavity of the sne structure.y t is presumed tbat these relics were hidden by monks during the Reformation. Kenry McCabe, of Paw Paw, Mich., has a hen which regularly lays colored, hand painted easter eggs, of assorted sizes. But she accomplished the feat of her Ufa Tuesday, wben she sprang a twin soft-shelled egg tbat resembled tbe Siamese twins, as tbe two ezgs were united by a ligament of the same material as tho shell. McCabe will put this egg, orthesa eggs, into an incubator, hoping to get Siamese twin chiokens. A singular phenomenon was observed a few weeks ago at tbe farm of J. A. Chasa in Sebec Tbe sun was gradually going down in the west, and aslt approached tbe horizon, what appeared to be a small cloud was seen nearlv under it. This soon burst into thousands of globular forms which wero brought apparently by the air current in the direction of Mr. Chase's farm building, and were distinctly seen by himself and the other members of his f.imllv. As thev fell cnon tbe earth or touched other substances they disappeared in a light smoke. While floating in tbe air tbey exhibited all tbo brilliant hues of the prism, or rainbow. The children caught them in their bands, but there was no residuum. EA3IBLES I FCNLAND. Mr. Newman "Willie, what did your sister siy about the ring I jtave her? AVIIIe-She thald she wondered who wath Tool enough to truth you for It. -Jeweler f WeeKly. Cobwigger "Why does a woman have her pocket where It Is so hard to get at It? Merrltt So tbat she can stick ber friend for tha car fare. Evoch. "Wife (during a quarrel) If I was a man I would blow the top of my head off before I Husband (interrupting) I don't aoubt It, my dear: especially if you had to live with the same sort of a wife I do. Epoch. "I was listening to Uncle Charles to-day telling of his army exnerlences. He described a bayonet charge; It mast be awful." "Yes, 1 admit that mutt be rather trying, but what U that to going up Washington street la tha middle of tbe afternoon when all the women ara out with their umbrellas?" Boston Transcript. MisTerrint When mommerandl wora' ln Yurrup, ob, tbe awfnllest thing happened I There was a prince and count and and tbey fonght a duBt-about poor me-wlih pistols. Yabsley Ah! were they loaded? ilissTerriut-No, they weren't! Theywerejast as sober as could be. Indianapolis Jovrnat. Mr. Buckingham Doesn't Miss State. street love Mr. LaReslde? illss l'almerhoose Yes devotedly. Mr. Buckingham Then why does she Insist upon snch a long engagement? Miss Palmerhouse-She wants to postpone her divorce as long as possible. Epoch, Lelith Tearbottle We were at Old Port for the smnmer. Where were you' Annabel Lee We were at Mosquito Bar, Sew Jersey. Lovely time. Lelith What did you wear for every day? Annabel-White, with brown tiling Sifting t, Maine Congressman (exultantly) Well, we elected ltarlelgh. Ohio Ditto (curiously) Burleigh? Who's Bar lelgbr Maine M. C. (Indlgnantly)-Wbyrman, he's tha Republican candidate for Uovernor. Ohio Dltto-Oh, I beg your pardon. I didn't know anybody was running but &ttX Washing ton Star. Smith (to his friend Jones, to whom ba loaned a tenner a year ago. Jones, seeing him coming, washurrying away down a side street) Hello, Jones. Trim's the rush? Jones (confused) In a great hurry to meet a man. Smith Don't run away from me, Jones, in bad known my loan of 10 was going to break our lire-long friendship, hang mo IT I would bavalet' jou had a centl Siftingt. f ' 'a -?' riMSii ::i dhk-jJiiMtL &i. 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