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Tlie courtesy of re turning rejected manuscripts will be extended u-hen stamps for that purpose are enclosed, but the Editor of The Dispatch triff under no circumstances be responsible for the care of un solicited manuscripts. rO"TAGE All persons who mall tho Sunday U-ui- of Tho Dispatch to friends liould benr in mind tho fnct that the post nRC thereon is Two (3) Cents. All double and tiiplc number copies ot The Dispatch lequiro a 52-cent stamp to insure prompt deliveiy. P1TTSB URG. STJXDAY. SEPr. 21. 1S90. INGALLS.' INVESTMENTS. There is a disposition, not unnatural io the political mind, to make a Rood deal of capital for the Democrats out of the tiisclosures of an investigation into a bank suspension at Abilene, Kansas. The President of the bank has testified that 510, 00 of notes secured by mortgages had been discounted at the rate of 18 per cent, in cluding the ten per cent interest allowed by law, and that the notes belong to John J. Ingalls. The idea is to lepresent the Senator as professing friendship for the farmer and yet grinding his life out with usury. On that point, while it must be admitted that IS per cent is a very lively rate of interest, it U rather difficult for the Eastern mind to Eee how Senator Ingallsis responsible for it. If IS per cent is more than the market rate there, the people who pay it must be fools for not going where they can get lower rates, or else the security must be inferior. If the Senator is trying the speculation of lending money on poor security at smashing rates, lie is entitled to the big rates, but not to the public sympathy if he should get a loss of both principal and lterest Nevertheless the general prejudice against the business of loaning money at rates which will eat up the principal in five or six years is so strong that the disclosure will not be particularly beneficial to the Kansas Senator. Another point of interest is the light this disclosure throws on the current represen tation that the salaries of our public men are insufficient to keep them. Senator Ingalls himself has often been used as an illustra tion of the poor Senators who will always be l:ept poor by devotion to the public service. Xet when we learn that in addition to a $25,000 place in Kansas and his interests in the Kansas Investment and Mortgage Com pany, the Senator has been able to lend some 510,000 ou private account at 18 ner cent, we feel that his efforts to get a little ahead of the world have not been wholly un availing. Also, the fact that the Senator's investments are of this remunerative sort quiets any fears of future poverty for this public servant. Men who are able to invest money at 18 per cent are not in danger of the poorhouse. tIIT THE IRI-II ARRESTS ill E AX. Every arrest of Irish Nationalists brings Ireland a step nearer to Home Eule. The latest cable news from Great Britain con firms our iew that these arrests are the be ginning ot a campaign of violence planned by Secretary Uallcur with a view to driving the Irish Nationalists to retaliation. The approach of a famine in Tipperary makes the Tory policy all the more contemptible. Happily, however, the motives of the Tory leaders are understood everywhere. A MUNICIPAL IDEAL. A statement of the dimensions of Chicago with its present corporate limits is of in terest as showing what can be cone in the line of creating a city or magnificent dis tance. The Tribune states that the extreme length of the city from North Seventy-first street, on the north, to One Hundred and Thirty-ninth street, on the south, is twenty four miles. The greatest width of the city running along Eigth-seventh street is 10J miles. These distances necessarily take in a wide sweep of territory, and yet that they may include what is practically a single commu nity, is shown by studying the application or such dimensions to this community. A city extending 24 miles along the Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, would take in Braddock and McKeesport at one corner, Verona at another, Sewickley at the western end, and Mansfield to the south west; it would hardlv require a greater width than ten m As to include all the manufacturing and residence suburbs that are erected by the business which centers at the head of the Ohio. "Within that stretch of territory would be the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny, the manufacturing towns of Braddock, McKeesport, Vilmerding,Home stead, Verona and Sharpsburg, and the long list of residence suburbs which follow the lines ot river and railway in every direction from the common center. Even by the con tracted figures of the census, such a com prehensive union of the community that really makes up Pittsburg's enterprises and wealth would exceed 400,000 population, while an adeqnate enumeration would in a very few years establish the claim of the city to the half-million rank. Of course the annexation of such a Tast stretch of territory, including a large share ofland that is used mainly for agriculture, would at once arouse fierce protests. The suburban dread of city taxation, the distrust of city administration, make it well-nigh useless to consider what could be done in such a direction other than as an ideal. But it is well to study ideals, in order to see what heights of municipal development might be attained, if the work were not hampered by the qualities of distrust and jealousy on the part of the people and dishonesty or incapability in the adminis tration of public affairs. To take in the outlying districts and tax the poperty holders into bankruptcy, merely that we might say that there was a city of 500,000 inhabitants stretching lrom McKeesport to Sewickley, would be mere wantonness. But supposing the government of such a city to be ruled by that intelligent and en terprising economy which gives the people the full value ot their money in municipal improvements and administration, it is not hard to see how the unified work of such a city would raise by an almost infinite power the standard of our improvements. For instance, such a city might be able to connect all the outlying boroughs and sub urbs by boulevards not necessarily paved, but macadamized, with cable and electric roads giving prompt access to the city from every direction. At present such enter prises are hampered by the multiplicity of authority, and the impossibility of getting the various boroughs, cities and township authorities to act together. Such direct boulevards bringing all sections within forty minutes of the business center, would in a few years fill the slopes of the Ohio, the valley of the Chartiers and the uplands of the entire circuit with suburban homes. The workingman or the clerk who now has to pay 53,000, or the interest on it, for a home in closely-built sections could for less cost get one with open grounds surrounding it. The progress of the last five years has been remarkable, but it only shows what could be done, if the whole of the popula tion in the proposed district were united under one municipality in the effort for in telligent and honest improvement. It may be an ideal; but it is an ideal well worth keeping in mind. "With the union of all the cities and boroughs under good administration, our community might be made the seventh city in the land in popu lation, and the second or third in attractive ness and enterprise. A CAMPAIGN CLI1IAX. The climax of interest in the Pennsylvania campaign will be reached by the promised performance of ex-Senator Emery at Brad ford on Friday evening next During the past week he caused it to be generally known that he proposed ou the date named to prove his charges against Candidate Delamater of corrupt methods in politics and of render ing services for a consideration to the Standard Oil Company, while sitting as representative of the people at Harrisburg. It is easy to see that the success or failure of Emery's undertaking will have a pro found influence on the November vote. If he adduce evidence to impress the public with belief on his indictment, the weather will be very cold for Candidate Delamater, with a prospect of the freezing point by No vember. On the other hand, it is equally clear that failure by Emery, or disproof by Delamater, would greatly strengthen the latter chances in the campaign. Both sides realize fully the importance of the occasion. For the present the case is one of positive assertion, met by equally flat and emphatic denial. The burden of proof rests on Emery. If he is not equal to the occasion he will have rendered his po litical enemy such a service as the most powerful and willing of Delamater's friends could not have proffered. It is in a sense one of the turning points of the campaign; and the public can afford to await the out come in impartial and judicial mood. SMOOTHING TANGLED SKEIN?. The last of the Northside political tangles was formally straightened out yesterday by the Republican County Committee's in dorsement of John Neeb for the Senatorial nominee. Brother Butan has not yet taken off his war paint; but as he is fighting at long range, Candidate Neeb probably feels pretty safe and comfortable about the result Meanwhile the rumored vote of censure upon Mr. Magee for apathetic and inoffen sive partisanship seems to have been unani mously withheld for revision by the ele ment on the committee which was reported as contemplating that brilliant plan for whipping the old-time wheel-horse into line. NOT REAGAN'S CREATION. In an article out of which shines more than the forcible opposition of theNew York Sun to any attempt to regulate or confine the railway corporations within their proper limits, thatjournal devotes some space to attacking the Inter-State Commerce Com mission. Its criticisms of that body's decis ions open up a field which is commensurate with the entire discussion on railway regu lation that has gone on for the past ten years. But a statement of facts is made which, as a historical inaccuracy, requires correction, as follows: "The Commission originated with Senator Reagan, who is a type of the lowest quality ot representative that has been sent to the upper House of the American Congress." This assertion must have come from the same source as that which recently led the Sun into asserting that the Inter-State Com merce law requires the railways to charge as much per mile for a long haul as for a short one. "We need not discuss the quality of Senator Beagan's statesmanship, in view of the fact that, so far from the Inter-State Commerce Commission having originated with that legislator, during the entire time that the bill was under consideration by Congress he steadily and urgently op posed the creation of a commission. His entire argument on this point, like that of most of the. .ware earnest supporters of such legislation, was that the provisions of the law should be construed and enforced jy the regularly constituted courts, and that a commission would not only be un necessary, but would naturally fall under control of the corporations. The Beagan bill, as it passed the House, was formed on this plan. The Culloni bill, which was passed by the Senate, provided for the com mission, and the compromise reached in the conference committee was to give complain ants against railway discrimination the right of going before either the commission or the United States Courts, The correction of the Sun's very decided error with regard to the history of this legis lation has additional importance from this one lact: "While Judge Beagan was a steady opponent of the commission, cor porate influence was thrown entirely in favor of the creation ot that body. All the railway magnates who appeared before the Congressional committees favored the crea tion of a commission. All the corporate organs praised the Cullom bill, which established it, and denounced the Beagan bill, which left the enforcement of the law to the regular courts. The idea of the opponents of the commission, that it would be swayed by corporate influences, was evidently shared by the railway inter est; and it continued long after the bill be came a law and the commission was estab lished. The corporate organs not only praised the commission so long as it did nothing, but even went so far as to assert that the commission was going to perform the great work of modifying and amending the act of Congress which created it, by means of its own decisions. It is only after the commission has devel oped the quality of virility that the corporate conclamations are heard concern ing its perniciousness. It is not worth while discussing the pros and cons of its decision on "Western rates, against which any railroad that chooses can appeal to the nearest United States Court But in view of the fact that the corporate interests favored the commission idea in legislation, are responsible for its adoption in the national law, and have praised the commis sion without ryhme or reason for that large portion of its existence in which it did little or nothing, it would now be seemly for them to take the medicine they provided for themselves without quite so much squealing. VERY MEAN SWINDLING. Upon the evidence adduced and under the charge of Judge "White the jury could hardly have returned any verdict but guilty against the agents of the National Capital Savings and Loan Association. The public is not at all inclined to question the Court's description of this sort of business as a stupendous fraud. It is also a mean and contemptible form of fraud, for needy widows and poor laboring men appear to have been its victims chiefly. The legiti mate companies and associations which aim to assist poor men to save money and to own their own homes are as laudable as the fraudulent counterfeits are detestable. The conviction of these men will have a salutary effect, but the severe punishment which will doubtless be dealt out to them will do still more to deter the unscrupulous from swin dling on this specious plan. KANSAS AND HER FUTURE. A very gloomy picture of the condition of Kansas is drawn by a letter from an occa sional correspondent of The Dispatch, in this issue. The statements as to the depres sion, the forfeiture of mortgages and the loss of population given there, are sweeping. That there is a great deal of such depression in the "West has been frequently alleged; but if it is one-half as universal as our cor respondent gives us to understand, the al most revolutionary measures agitated by the Farmers' Alliance have a great deal of foundation. It is probable that while conceding the existence ol a great deal of depression, most of the phenomena reported by our corres pondent can be explained without accept ing the idea of a new State going into utter ruin before its lands are all settled. That houses should be vacant, and town lots un improved, where, two years ago. there was the wildest inflation in real estate, and agricultural land was sold off" as corner propertv, is only a natural reaction. That mortgages should be foreclosed by thr wholesale is not strange when we remember the exorbitant rates of interest and reckless loans on land at its full value that have been heard of in Kansas for sometime past If a farmer has been able to mortgage for $800 his farm that cost him only ?G0O, it is not strange that he should vacate it before the time comes around for him to pay 12 or 15 per cent interest "When with all these things the failure of an important crop takes place, it furnishes an adequate explanation for the general aspect of depression that is reported by our correspondent. There are, no doubt,conditions which con tribute to the agricultural depression. They have been frequently discussed by TnE Dispatch. The remarkable theory that the farmers have eaten themselves up with mortgages because they cannot get whisky to drink, is not among these condi tions, although it appears to be among the ideas discussed in that State. The cor porate devices by which the farmers are made to bear the brunt of competition in both directions, the high rates of interests charged on loans, and other causes which have been at work for years, should be amended so as to give the agri cultural interest a better chance. But even with these influences at work it is not neces sary to accept the idea that Kansas is be coming a desert once more. A State that can turn out the magnificent totals of food for the world, which that State does in nearly every year of its existence, is not going to ruin as long as the rest of the world has mouths to feed and products to exchange tor food. THE POOR FARM DECISION. The sale of the Poor Farm stands bnt the purchase of the Stewart farm in "Westmore land county is declared illegal. Judge Ewing so decided yesterday and his reasons for so doing are stated in his opinion which is published in another column. "We are glad that the court finds that the sale of the Poor Farm was not dishonestly conducted. The decision that Councils exceeded its powers in going beyond the county for a poor farm site accords well with a common sense view of the case. There should be little difficulty in finding a convenient lo cation for the Poor Farm in this county. The New York Press approvingly quotes tho Toronto Empire's statement as proof that the increased duties on hogs and hop; products In theMcKinley bill cannot hurt Canada, as follows: "Last year we actually sent 9S7 pigs oyer the bridge, valued at 54,270; we sent 33 worth of bacon, 813 worth of lard and not a penny less than $4 worth of ham. Last year hogs to the value of $37,000, came into this country, 81.000,000 worth of pork,S642,O0O of lard and $333,000 of bacon and hams." Bat if these figures are accurate, as the Press seems to consider them, do not they show tug pre tense that the increased duties will give the farmers additional protection to be a hollow sham? "With both the tariff and silver questions involved in that New York financial tangle, as well as the merit of tho political rallying cries of the last canvass, there is mitigating reflec tion that the muddle has reached that stage of mnddle where It cannot be muddled any more. It is rather interesting to observe the perennial appearance in the Republican organs of editorial assertions that each prominent Re publican, from Governor Cameron, of Vir ginia, to Wharton Barker and Francis B. Reeves, of Philadelphia, who announcos that he will not support the Republic an ticket, is "a negative quality in politics," and "controls nothing but his own vote." The latter recom mendation of the superiority of" the Independ-' ent Republicans to the subordinate and dis ciplined class, is so pertinent that we recom mend our esteemed cotemporaries to have it stereotyped for daily use. The results of New York police census, in yielding an increase of 25 or SO per cent over the figures of the United States enumerators, might have some instruction for Fittsbnrg. A similar gain in our showing would make us a city of 300,000 rank. In the course of the remarkable discus sion whether the great Daniel Webster was a drunkard or nut it is interesting to find Mr. George Ticknor Curtis coming to the rescue as a friend of Webster's, with the assertion that he had often seen that expounder of the Con stitution when "he had taken too much wine, but was not intoxicated-" The fine distinction between having visibly taken too much wine, and being intoxicated is worthy of Mr. Q. T. Curtis as the most persistent hair splitter of the present ace. THE last week's proceedings in the House, will deepen the popular conviction that the great mistake of Speaker Reed, when he pro. vided tho House with new rnles, is that he did not prescribe the Marquis of Queensberry's kind. THE resolutions of the Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire Republicans on the subject of the Federal elections bill are said by the New York Sun to "mean that it is General Harrison's duty to call an extra session to dispose of that measure." But will not tho rash Republicans of New England, as well as the Sun, wait until we are surely rid of the pres ent session before boldly challenging the haz ards of a new one? "W. H. Crane is reported to have made 80,000 last year as "The Senator." If he had been a real Senator be would have had to sell himself out to the corporations several times over before he could equal that record. The brutality of the German colonization policy has been pretty freely displayed before; but when Germany makes a proclamation to Arabs at Bagamoyo, in which, under the terms of "religious freedom" and "travel and trans portation," the slave trade is protected, the German-African policy succeeds in removing itself outside the limits of civilization. The trouble with the House, from Spenker Reed's standpoint may be stated succinctly to be that it has got a deadlock on the floor be cause it has not a dead lock on its doors. The industry with which all the political organs of New York are insisting on the duty of straight party nominations for tho munici pal tickets and attacking those who wish to run a non-partisan reform ticket indicates the earnestness with which those papers are in favor of reform but against is enforcement PROMINENT PEOPLE. Bib Kdwabd Guinness, the big Dublin brewer, is to be raised to the peerage, mostly because of his justly celebrated ale. Colonel A. L. Newman, President of the National Bank of the Commonwealth in Bos ton for nine years, has just resigned that posi tion. GENERAL Htjsted. who retired from poll tics a year ago to dovote himself to the busi ness of getting rich, has concluded to re-enter politics. The Empress ' Frederick, to whom the En glish taxpayers have 'contributed 40,000 a year lor the past 33 years, has at present an income of f350,000 a year. Gekeeal S. E. Merwtn, of New Haven, Republican candidate for Governor of Con necticut, is a business man and President of tho Yale National Bank. Geokge Washington, of Newport Ky., the Temporary Chairman of the Blue Grass State Constitutional Convention, is a direct descendant of Samuel, a brother of the im mortal George. The engagement is announced in London of Miss Isabel Scott daughter of ex-President Scott, ot tbe Richmond and Danville road, and Mr. Douglas Grant, son of the late Beach Grant, of New York. Kino Humbert unveiled an equestrian statuo of his father, the late King Victor Emanuel, at Florence yesterday. An Immense crowd witnessed the ceremony. A number of bands played national airs. In Baltimore, where Chief Justice Fuller has jnst been making a visit on business, it is thought that he resembles Henry Ward Beecher in appearance, probably because be wears his hair long. Beecher was much heavier and wore no mustaches. CASsrus Makcelltts Clay. Jr.. President of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention, is a grandson of Henry Clay. He is a farmer of Bourbon county, a good judge of a horse and a graduate of Yale in tbe class of 1866. Mr. Clay is proud of tbe fact that the trotting stallion Cassius M. Clay was named after him. Ismail Pasha, tho ex-Khedive of Egypt who presented Cleopatra's Needle to the city of New York, is practically a prisoner at his residence on the Bosphorus. He is in bad health, and recently made arrangements to go to Carlsbad to take tbe waters, but was pre vented from doing so by the Turkish Govern ment TERRIBLE FIGHT WITH A BULL, Gored nnd Trampled Upon, Then Carried Upon the Anlmnl'g Back. Harbisbtjeq. September 20. Herbert Glat f elter, aged 19, was attacked by a vicious bull on a farm near Camp Hill yesterday, and nar rowly escaped with his life. He was about placing a chain about the bull's neck in the stall of the barn when the animal turned upon him, and catching him upon the horns, threw the young man into a trough in the rear of the stall. This proved fortunate for Glatfelter, as the bull could not gore him in this position. Tho enraged animal then attacked him with both feet, and trampled him until bis clothing was torn into shreds. Glatfelter tried to get a knife out of his pocket but was unable to do so. As a last resort, by almost superhuman effort he succeeded in getting out of the trough and jumped upon tbe bull's back, and the animal dashed at lull speed for the open door. At tbe door Glatfelter jumped from the ani mal and seized a manure fork. Tbe bull again turned upon him, but seeing the fork, ran, and tbe young man with all his remaining strength threw tho fork after him, which lodged in his hind quarter and be carried it in this way for fully 100 feet. Meanwhile the young farmer, almost exhausted and ready to fall, staggered out of the barnyard and reached the house. He is seriously hurt but may re cover. BITTEN BY A CAT. Fearing Bland Poiaon the Victim Goes to Pasteur's Institute. Plainfield, N. J., September 19. John P. Stockton, Jr., son of the Attorney General of New Jersey, was bitten by a pet cat yesterday, and tbe wound is such a severe ono that Mr. Stockton, fearing blood poison ing or hydrophobia, has become a patient, of Dr. Gibier, of the Pasteur Institute. The cat had for several dajs boen indulging in queer antics, frightening a super stitious servant into tho belief that it was pos sessed by witches, and yesterday its strange actions terrified one of Mr. Stockton's children, who badTsought to play with it so that Mr. Stockton picked it up to carry It from the room. Without an instant's warning the cat made a savage snap at Mr. Stockton's hand, and Imbedded its teeth again and again in tbe fle6h. Tbe hand was terribly lacerated, and as soon as a local phvsician bad dressed the wound, Mr. Stockton went to New York, taking the cat with him In a basket, and put himself under the Pasteur treatment InirnlU' Wild Break. From the Kansas City Star. They alwajs talk about Ingalls being a more brilliant man than Plumb, but the junior Sena tor from Kansas has yetto make any such wild break as Ingalls' speech at Pittsburg for the Quay ticket in Pennsylvania. LITERARY FELLER'" WHO WROTE. NEVER rwniriKN ron ran dispatch. He never wrote a novel, but He's always threatened to. When he'd" escaped the business rnt And with his trade got through; Bet there has been so much to do. With buyer apd with teller. The Muse has never seemed to woo This literary feller. His hair has the Byronlc cut; His eye are softly blue; He has an A. C. Swinburne strut An Oscar Wildey "Pooh!" But Oscar's Muse he don't pursue, ThouKh certainly he'd quell her. If to his trade he'd say adieu This literary feller. He dwells in an esthetic hut,1 "W lth little retinue. There's not a sclentloe nut That he cannot subdue. His mind Is said to be askew, Else he would not repel her Tbe Muse, the Philosophic shrew This literary feller. 1NVOY. . Egad I methlnks his scheme is truel Why touch the parchment yeller When people, none the less dub you This literary feller?" CABLYLJS SMITH. MURRAY'S MUSINGS, Twcntj-l'lTo Thousand Children Crowded Out of New York's Public School story of Red Jim SIcDermott Amusing Elec tric Phenomenon GoiId of a Groat CUT. 1FROM A STAFF COKRESrONDEfT.l TF anything could be more disgraceful to mod ern civilization than the fact that some 25, 000 children of school age in this city are de nied tho privilege of the public schools from tho lack ot provision for them, I should liko to know what it Is? To be sure tbe nnmber is placed at a lower figure (15,000), but the lower estimate is based upon those who came ou tbe first school days and kicked at the doors. It is safe to say that 25,000 children who would bo in the public schools, if there was room for them, are now running about the streets of New York taking lessons in crime instead of arithmetic. These are the children of the poor and of those in circumstances too moderate to admit of private tuition. There are two large classes in this city the careless well-to-do, who do not allow their children to attend public schools and can afford select private establishments, tho sec tarians, who are religiously opposed to all schools wherein their own particular dogmas are not taught who do not care whether these children have schooling or not Perhaps these two classes are largely responsible for this state of affairs. Even the schoolhouses that are provided are, with the exception of a few modern ones, tho worst specimens of school buildings to be found in the country. They are kept packed to the last seat of their capacity. When a little child dies of tbe foul air, or goes crazy with over-study to excel in a mob, as they occasionally do die or go crazy, the-e are scores ot applicants for its eight inches of space within a few hours. Of the 165,000 or upward who are now In school, perhaps 5,000 will como out at the close of the term little short of physical or mental wrecks. And the percentage of moral wrocks among the little ones who are debarred educational facilities altogether is too sad to contemplate. With a city government absolutely eorged with fat officeholders this neglect is little less than criminal. A few years hence New York ers will have to pay for asylums, orkhouses, i'ails and policemen the money that should have iecn invested originally in tbe proper and ade quate means of education. If the matter of individual right or public policy is to be ignored New York City ought at least to look forward to the time when she can send Representatives to Congress who can read and write and speak the English language well enough to be under stood oif the Bowery. An Electric Dilatory. 'TTHE other day one of the wires in the sub way got out ot order, and the earth be tween the tracks of the Broadway road became heavily charged in a certain spot with elec tricity. There was no visible evidence of any thing wrong until tbe first car came along, when the horses got over the spot as if it were a red-hot iron plate. The driver didn't know what was the matter. Neither did tho horses. Nor did anybody else for a considerable time. In the meantime, as soon as a team would strike the spot streaks of tbe electric current would make tbe circuit of their spines in a way that made them "jump Jim Cruw." People began to crowd tho front offlce windows and gather upon tbe sidewalk at a loss to understand tbe cause- It was at first supposed to be steam beat, but no steam came up through the ground. Nobody seemed desirous of making a close in vestigation for fear of one of those sudden ex plosions incidental to our modern street life. Finally one of the Broadway sauad, spurred on by tbe necessity of the hour, went out and examined the ground. He discovered nothing. Yet one of tbe next car horses jumped about tnree ieet nign wiienne struck tue place, wuuo his fellow animal made no unusual movement. The next team passed alone: without a display of undue emotion. Most of the crowd went away, some went ont into the street and looked and crossed over no wiser tban before. Not so a yonng man who came out of the Equitable building. He bad an iron extension to his one short leg. Hurrying across the street he hap pened to plant that metalicl foot right on the particular spot. With a slightly suppressed yell he jumped into the air like a man who bad trodden on a bornet's nest in his bare feet He had discovered what it was. A few minutes later a gang of workmen found that an elec trical leak had followed an old cas pipe, and the current was making a break for liberty at that particular place. Red Jim HIcDormolt. Tt is very amusing to read occasional cable note3 of Jim McDermoM, alias "Red Jim," alias "Sir James McDermott," alias '"The In former." McDermott's first important figure in life was cut as a persecuted Brooklyn re porter on the celebrated Beecher trial. Jim was mowing a wide swath in Brooklyn politics about that time, nominally attached to the Brooklyn Eagle as a City Hall reporter. He was sued for $50,000 by "our mutual friend Moulton," and would have willingly confessed judgment for S50 if he could have gotten out that way. But he went West to grow up with the country. The next I heard of him he was in Chicago with some sort of connection with the old Courier, and with the same mysterious relation to the City Hall there he enjoyed in Brooklyn. He was one of the then Mayor's personal staff, as that distinguished individual informed me one evfning when surrounded by severalcity officials in tbe foyer of McVicker's. Just what this means in Chicago is not clear. At any rate McDermott was flying pretty high, and as a caterer to the Mayor's pleasure and as a professional Irishman seemed to hold bis own. I was then publishing a paper in North ern Indiana, and Jim used to come over to Notre Dame quite often, where he was a favor ite with tho Jesuit Fathers. He was one of tbe most Interesting characters I ever met. While in South Bend he was about my editorial rooms much of his time and sat at tbe same hotel table with me day after day. He told me he bad been a soldier iu the Pope's bodyguard in Rome, and this was con firmed bv a Jesuit priest To me he was only a rollicking, witty, well-educated, big-hearted Irishman, something of the Lever type a sol dier of fortune. He made friends everywhere with everybody, was liberal and alwajs enter taining. It seemed to make no material difler ence whether be had S10 or 50 cents. He was an inimitable story teller, and could cbase dull care away about as successfully as any man I ever met. There was aredhot political fight going on in m7 town, and during the row I succeeded in getting a bullet through my lungs. McDermott was at my bedside when I made my ante-mortem statement, and I charged him with my (supposed) dying breath, as one knowing all about it, to fix things up iu tbe next morning's issue. Well, he did. He wrote an elegant obituary notice of myself I was scheduled to dio in an hour, and, while I still lingered over time, the paper could not afford to miss the early mails and then filled tbe rest of the editorial page with the most bitter and virulent attacks upon my opponents, going so far as to charge innocent people bv name with my murder. Tbat cost me a glO.000 libel suit afterward. Somehow tho people of my tonn objected to McDermott's btyle, and .. r.l.l .l...- --..,. l- nrns InM a. -. n,l.K h.-AA vtlium bluet; udjra ud mo iaiu uj 1,11.1. ujibo broken ribs. I was well long before he was and consoled him with tbe idea that I would give him a better obituary notice than he wrote of me. That was 15 years ago. His subsequent career is pretty familiar. At no Imiglnnry Banquet. Ane afternoon last week a man sat in a Broadway car talking to himself. It is a very bad habit, but then you are always as sured of an appreciative audience. This man was so satisfied with his that he paid no attention to the fact tbat the car was filling up and tbat the other passengers were becoming interested in his style bis remarks were inaudible. He must have been rehearsing an after-dinner speech, for be paused now and then and beamed upon a table filled with imaginary guests. Finally bo was so carried away with his own silent eloquence that he applauded by gently clapping bis hands. The rest of us then clapped our hands. We didn't know what it was as is usually tbe case with dinner guests but took the cue and did our duty. You never saw an after-dinner orator so broken up in your life not even at the Clover Club. Tbe way he bolted from that car would have done a policeman infinite credit A Prlvllese of tbe Poor. 'THERE is a bronze statue of William Carl Dodge surmounting a granite pedestal, the base of which is a drinking fountain for brutes, on the fiat-iron point of ground, where Broad way crosses Sixth avenue at Thirty-fifth street On tho north side of the monu ment is a semi-circular stone seat with massive high curved Btoneback, makinga snug little plaza of some 20 feet radius, and designed for weary travelers. The other night I was going home from the theater in a raw, drizzling ram, which seemed to cut to the bones, and in this space saw what I bad seen but In one Iace before, and that in Trafalgar Square; london, honeatb the Nelson monument They were men, women and children huddled to gether, and solitary on tbe cold stones, oblivi ous to rain and exposure, asleep! Clad in rags and toaked to tbe skin were seven human be ings, homeless, friendless, unknown, resting there for the night No man would have al lotted bis beasts to remain out of doors on such a night unsheltered. My at tention was first attracted to a man Bitting bolt upright in plain sighton the further end of the seat. Approaching him I saw tbat bo was asleep. His ragged coat was drawn tizhtlv around under bis matted beard, sue- gostlng the absence of a shirt his tattered derby was partially drawn over his eyes, and nis arms were quieuy loiueu across nis preast. The first impression was that be was dead, but tbe regular heaving of his chest showed that for tho time being be was blissfully uncon scious ot the troubles of this life. Then J saw another man, bis bat lying in a puddle at bis feet. The rain fell upon his grimy neck un heeded. He could not be wetter, so what mat ter a shower more or less? To his left a boy lay stretched upon tbe same bench, dirty, ragged, unkempt as the rest, bis bare knees showing through bis dilapidated trousers. His bony arm made but a trifle softer pillow tban the stone seat He, too, was happily in the land of dreams. Of what did he dream? Of tbe grand people streaming out of the gorgeous theaters across the way? Of the shontiug for carriages, of tbe gentlemen in evening drc-iS rolling away with their bediamonded ladies? Of the comfortable homes, the brilliantly lighted cafes, to which this great, eager and happy throng were hastening? The murmur of their thousands of voices were in nis ears. The slamming of carriage doors, tho babel of footmen ana coachmen, the laughter of ladies as tbey pulled tbeir dainty skirts to escape the mud of roaring old Broadway, snuggling tbe while closer to their manly escorts did all these enter into the sleeper's visions? Ah, me! But what is this? A woman another, and with small children at her knees! The first in faded, once-gaudy raiment plainly sleeping off the effects of numereus gins. Tbe second well, she is a woman and a mother. With the instincts of motherhood she has drawn a coame shawl about the head and shoulders of two little ones. They are sitting on the wet stone pavement with their little, weary beads in her lap under tbe old sbawl. Her face is bowed upon her hands and her elbows are upon her knees, thus giving the children theadditional shelter of her broad shoulders. The sight sickens me. I glance and run away like a coward. A police man is on the next corner, and I inquire indig nantly why such a thing is allowed. "Ob, that's aJl neht" says he, "they're not a-uurung anyDouyi ' So it is a favor, is it? A favor for human be ings to be permitted to sleep in tho cold ram at tbe foot of tho monument commemorating the friend of the brute? Well, well! This is modern civilization and this is modern New York. Robnt Rny Hamilton's Entntr. 'The New York lawyers are looking forward to the Robert Ray Hamilton-Eva Steele case as likely to be the greatest of the sort on the legal record. The $18,000 a year is sufficient stimulus for a big fight The question of prior legal marriage under the lawsof New York and tbat tbe parentage of the child will furnish tho groundwork for a trial that will discount anv work of fiction. The aristocratic Hamiltous on one side against a lot of loose but clever women on the other, will guarantee ample interest on the part of the public. CHABLES T. MURRAY. SOME, LIVE TOPICS To be Voted on nt the Exposition An Im portant Prize Essay Contest. Tbe Exposition enters upon its fourth week to-morrow. Since opening day, visitors have had an opportunity to vote upon a variety of popular topics, and thousands have taken ad vantage of The Dispatch Poll Book to ex press their views thereon pro and con. This popular mode of gauging public opinion will be pursued by The Dispatch until the close of the big show. For the opening days this week visitors are requested to cast their bal lots and make such remarks as they see fit on the following topics: MONDAY'S TOPICAL BALLOT. Should the Legislature Amend tbe Blue Laws to fit tho Present Day ? Open to Lady and Gentlemen voters. TUESDAY'S TOPICAL BALLOT. Should the President of the United States be Chosen by Direct "Voto of the People? Open to Gentlemen Voters Only. WEDNESDAY'S TOPICAL BALLOT. Should the Granting of Liquor Licenses be Placed in the Hands of a Commission? Open to Lady and Gentlemen Voteis. "Vote Aye or Nay on the foregoing at Dis patch Headquarters, Brunswick-Balke-Col-lender Billiard Company's Space, Exhibition Building. On account of tbe bulk and variety of the competitions for the Prizes offered by The Dispatch for the best essay on the measures to be taken to promote the growth and prosper ity of Pittsburg, The Dispatch has decided not to detract from their importance by another essay contest until after tbe pending awards have been made and tbe competitions pub lished. The topic is of vital importance, and he public must be given opportunity to digest the views of tbe writers without being tnrned in other and lesser channels. NEW TAIL FOB EOS COW. How an Altoona Man Soucht to Repair DnmngoDone by Doss, Altoona Letter.! Several weeks ago a cow owned by a well known gentleman employed in the lower shops ot Altoona. met with a mishap. The animal was tnrned out of the stable for exercise, but in a sbort time she was attacked by several dogs. They succeeded in getting bold of her tail and almost tore it out of tbe socket, only a short stub remaining. Tbe animal was seriously disfigured, and the owner conceived a novel idea of fixing her up. He visited a slaughter house near by and secured a new tail and started for his home, happy over his scheme to save bis pet animal from unfavor able comment He secured the necessary tools and set to work. The stub and new piece were carefully worked out Into n trood iob of dove-taillncr. He placed tbe ends together and they fit like a charm. Tbe joint was wrapped and tied with a heavy string. All worked well for a few days, but tho other morning he took tbe animal ou$ for a stroll, met a crowd of friends and stopped to explain his patent. His achievement was sim ply wonderful to his bearers. But a moment later his labor and idea were a thing of tbe past. A large horsefly made its appearance and percbed upon tbe animal's hack. The stub commenced to work and the new end was thrown in the direction of the pest. Then it became detached and landed around tbe neck of the inventor. He pleaded with his friends to keep the mitter quiet but it leaked out, and now he is the subject of con siderable fun at tbe hands of his fellow work men. FHJS AND THISTLES. We will never find out until we get to heaven what it means to lire. It is an awful thing to live, and not live as God intends we should. The man who Is afraid ot getting too much religion will bear watching. The napkin tbat had concealed the face of Christ was left In the grave. That man will get to heaven soonest who will use the wings God gives him. No man loves God very much who isn't doing something to help His other children. The mines of God are foil of gold for the man who will hunt for them on his knees. IF the people in the pews were more prayer ful, the preacher would be more effective. The man who is quarreling with his lot in life helps the devil to make him miserable. Had Jesus died a natnral death there would have been no necessity for His resurrection. The way to get your children to go the way you want them to, is to walk the way you point. The only way to be useful and happy is to be willing to be wherever God wants you to be. Tkyinq to be saved by works is as foolish as trying to sweat by watching a boy turn a grind stone. It won't do to trust your feelings for an hour, but it is safe to depend upon tbe word of God forever. Indianapolis Mam's Horn. DEATHS0FA DAY. Hnrunel 3Iurre11. BOWLING Green, Ky., September M. Samuel Murrcll, the oldest Mason In Kentucky, died at tbe residence of his grandson, Samuel Young, yesterday alternoon, aged 98 years. Mr. Murrell was born In Lincoln county, Ky., In 1792, but at an early age the fumllv removed to Barren county and located near Ulasgow. While living at Glas gow young Murrell became a member of Allen Lodge Mo. 28, or that city. He received tbe Waiter Mason's degree in 1816, and at the time or his death was the oldest Mason in Kentucky and one or the olilest In Ihe world. lie was a soldier ol the War ol 1312. aud only a few weeks ao was granted a pension In recognition ot his services, eingoneoftheery few, survivors of matwar and about tbe last one to make application. Grorci'A. Ilniick. CABLISLE. Pa., September 20. George A. Hauck. ex-Commissioner ot Cumberland county, died at Mechanicsburg early this morning from a paralytic stroke, brought about by an accident received a few davs azo. He was one of the most .prominent Kepubllcans in this section. lie was ea years oiu. , THE TOPICAL TALKER. NOT THE REFORMED BURGLAR. ..VyHAT helped me most Mister?" repeated the burglar as he came close to the grating of tbe cell and looked at tbe young clergyman who had asked the question. "1 dunno, 'less it was an ole jimmy that my pard Jack Rivers give me when be handed in his checks." "No, nor said the clerical visitor, "I don't mean that." "Wal, tbe cerelessness of people hired gals leavin' winders open an' doors unlocked, tempt in' a hones' man to crack tber crib. I should a' never been sent up fer that last job if a win der hadn't 'er been leP open, an' '' "You mistake my meaning, my good man," interrupted the missionary. "What were your spiritual aids?" "1 alius tukmy whiskey straight." responded tho burglar, and the warden, who came up at that moment explained tbat the reformed burglar occupied tbe next cell. THEY STOLE THE BOILER. Tia Allen was pretty hard up. He was called an independent oil producer, but for some time past oil producing bad not carried him toward independence. There were several writs out for him, as Tim well knew. His last hope was a well in the Hundred Foot, which gave indications of being a gusber. He told a few of his confidential friends of bis hopes in this direction, and expressed a fear that his creditors would corner him before the well came in. One morning ho started out in a buggy to take a look at the well which had been reported the night before to be in the first sand. In tho afternoon a friend of Tim's mot him driv ing back. "How's Tim No. 2?" tbe former asked. "Don't ask me, dod gast my luck," replied Tim with unusual ferocity, "the whole thine's busted. The men at the derrick board about half a mile from tbe well, and they've been going borne to dinner since they've been out there. To-day while tbey were away at dinner somo confounded creditor ninst have come along and levied on the boiler. Everything but the derrick and the tools are gone! Carted clean away every condemned thing!" "They didn't take the boiler?" "I'll be hanged if they didn't, and It's my im pression they'd have taken the gaspipe if they'd had a little more time. Boiler must have been near red hot." And from that day to this, although better times soon came for Tim Allen, he has never laid eyes on tbat boiler. BACHELOR'S BUTTONS. party of Pittsburgers were in liew York not long ago on tho occasion of an inter collegiate contest of some sort between Har vard and Yale. They put up at a great hotel, and tbeir several friends met them on the morning of the game. The fair Pittsburgers in tho party wore bunches of crimson carna tions in honor of Harvard. Among the gentle men was a Yale sympathiser, and he, desiring to show his allegiance by some outward and visible sign, dispatched one of tbe hotel porters to buy a bunch of Bachelor's Buttons, whose blue flowers he had noticed in a florist near the hotel. The porter merely said: "Is it bach'lers buttons yer want." and departed. The florist was but a stone's throw from the hotel, bnt an hour had passed before tbe por ter returned. He handed a small package to tbe gentleman who had given him the commis sion, and explained in a hoarse whisper: "I had the divil av a time flndln' 'em at all. I wint to tin stores, an' at all o' thini they tould me they was out o' thim entirely so tbey was but " By that time tbe Yale man had discovered that the porter had brought him a box of patent metal buttons, which are avowedly made for the convenience of bachelors who are handier with an awi and a tack hammer tban a needle and thread. He did not wear those buttons, OU may be sure. WORTHY THE SUPREME COURT. TP it is convenient Your Honor, we will proceed with tbe case," said the connsel for the railroad, and the Justice of tbe Peace, as became the most important functionary in a small Buckeye town, waved bis hand in a dignified way and said: "Go ahead!" So tbo two attorneys, one for tbe railroad and the other for Farmer Boscom, and about bait a dozen witnesses plunged into tbe trial of tbe case. Several months before a borse belonging to Farmer Boscom had strayed from tbe public highway on to the railroad track. A freight train presently came along and took all the real value out of that borse, including its life. Hence the suit for damages, which Mr. Boscom moderately set at not more than three times tbe price he had paid for the horse. The killing of the borse was proved in the ap proved, fashion with regard to utterly irrele vant details. Mr. Boscom's lawyer made several speeches abont bloated monopolies, high-handed corporations and tyrants in gen eralin fact used up a good part of his stock of campaign oratory and the Justice evidently was preparing to give judgment for his friend and neighbor when one of tho witnesses under cross-examination stated that near the placo where the borse was killed there was a sign post with "Look out for tbe locomotive" upon it The railroad's attorney, more for tbe fun of the thing than anything else, gravely stopped the witness and turning to the justice, said: "I submit, Your Honor, tbat the sign post warn ing everyone to look out for the locomotive, re lieves my clients from responsibility in case tbat monition be disregarded." Tbe Court was non-plussed. The more this phase of the case was argued the more puzzled became the Court and at last he gave a judgment in favor of the railroad company, because, as be said tbe warning was there and if the horse couldn't read it that was not the railroad's fault. Hepburn Johns. A Limit to Hunmn Credulity. From the Boston Globe. 3 Jacob Hill, a wealthy Pennsylvania Spirit ualist, willingly gave a spiritual medium 5100 to buy his deceased wife a golden robe to wear in the other world, but when told tbat the Almighty was badly in need of an accommoda tion loan of 51,000 it proved too much for him. There is a limit, after all. to human credulity. A November Flood Predicted. , Prom the Chicaso Herald. Tho President has been up to Johnstown to see the effectsot the great flood. The spectacle conld have given him only a faint Idea of tho flood that awaits bim in November. Joined in Wedlock. rEPECIAI. TELEOBAM TO TUB DI6FATCH.1 Moline, 111., September 20. Miss Dure will be joined in wedlock to the son of Erastus Wiman in this city on October 8. NOVELTIES IN JZWELBY. A queen chain pendant of variegated gold representing a small cylinder shaped Chinese lantern is very attractive. A lady's oxidized silver watch case with the owner's monogram In gold surrounded by finely executed figure work was recently shown. . THE miniature painting is again in vogue, and gentlemen are now wearing, as watch charms, portraits of their favorite actresses painted on ivory. AN oddity of this season's production is a gentleman's watch chain of oxidized silver which realistically represents a shoe lace. The bar of the chain Is a gold buttofler. A miniature silver rat trap intended for use as a paper clip will prove a convenient and at tractive addition to the writing table. Around the handle of tbe trap is coiled a twie with a diminutive rat contemplating the snare laid for its capture. TnE heavy chain bracelet of Roman gold which was so popular last season has been re vived and promises to enjoy continued favor. A massive padlock having a diamond, ruby and sapphire mounted around tbe keyhole is this season attached to tbe ornament The feminine fancy is sought to be enlisted in behalf of a small bonbon box representing an -antique snuff box. The snuff boxes of notablo personages of the seventeenth century are being reproduced in. gold and silver by en terpming manufacturers and appear to be popular. Above a knife edge bar of six diamond set tings are coiled two snakes, each about to strike at a fine, white pearl which lies between tbem. Above tbe reptiles, which constitute a new laco pin, is poised a beautiful diamond, the rays from wfiich are supposed to be protecting the pearl from harm. COEJ0US CONDENSATIONS. Bad weather knocked out most of Maine county fairs. A horse ran away at Ocala, Pla., : dropped dead in a pond. A lawsuit ii now in progress at Nor town. Pa., over the ownership of six chicki Two crops of peaches from the same t in one season is reported from Orlando, Fla A white labbit with long, woolly b was caught recently by J. S. Fleckinger, Morrellville, Pa. A Knox county, Ind., farmer plan SO acres in Russian sunflowers and realized Per acre on the crop. The nurse who is attending Mrs. Wu tor, the Whitehall woman who has fas about 175 days, says she is bewitched. A negro attempted to shoot his wife Kisiminec, Fla. The bullet missed its m: and bit a little girl instead, killing her stantly. A Philadelphia girl staying at Ei land Lake picked np a small rattlesnake a i days ago and the reptile never made the If attempt to bite ber. A black water snake was killed rec lyat Oakland. Wolf Lake. Mich.. 3J fee length. When opened H live 8-inch sna were found inside. An inmate of the Georgia State H pltal for the Insane imagines he is a grain corn and will not go into tbe yard for fear chickens will cat bim. The Bedford (Pa.) Gazette is 85 j( old and its publisher thinks it is the oh newspaper In the United States. It is a mc among country newspapers. Some candidates for naturalization Reading displayed such ignorance of United States Government that Judge Erd refused to grant tbe necessary papers. Maine's hay crop is estimated at 1,5 000 tons, worth at least fifteen million doll Tbe ice crop brings in perhaps as much ra aud the summer visitor crop over S(i,000,000. It is now asserted that the gho: Bartholomew, haned at the Easton co prison for the murder of Washington Dill visits the jail tbe first night following e new moon. A "Williamston, Mich., man,whose i ran dry, found that tbe roots of a willow grown a distance of 21 feet, coiled up on bottom in a solid ma9s. and were carrying the water into the foliage. The Pari3 tailors are organizing agai tbe swallow-tailed black coat for dinners, aters, concerts, etc. Tbey intend to introd a garment of lively colors, with silk linings, broidery and brais buttons. Charles Ksctor, of Parbow, Nova Sco boasts of four uncles, three aunts and a mo' whose combined ages amount to T3S years, youngest is 87 and the oldest is 9i Two at are twins, ono ot whom is 92 ears old. In Habersham Park, Ga"., is a curi grapevine. About nvo feet from the grot from a large live oak. there protrudes a gr vine about one inch in diameter. The m perfectly solid, and uo roots to the grape can be seen. Officer Charles Fish has been dismfc from the Chicago police force for sbamn illness. He represented that he bad spra bis leg, and wore a plaster cast, drawing salary and a weekly allowance from a ben lent society. Frank Evans, a young farmer liv near Ottawa, was infatuated by the face woman be saw in tbe streets of tbe capital, spent bis days trying to see the face again, stead of finding what be sought be went ci and has disappeared. A Biddeford, Me., man was so gla be sent back to jail by the court, after he experienced one brief day's contact wi heartless world, that he offered to wal Alfred and take tbe mittimus along with 1 to save tbe o dicers all trouble. Mr. Walker, of 3Iassachusetts, w. the House of Representatives to requi. second for motions to adjourn and for rei also to impose a fine of Sly, to be dedu from bis salary, on a member who tails to upon tho pending proposition. An ordinance in Sterling, Conn., empts blind persons from taxation. Fai Barbour claims exemption under the law, proved to the satisfaction of an inteUi Jndge and jury tbat, though he could i hoe and load hay on a cart, he was stone t A novel idea- in connection with national encampment of tbe Grand Arcr Detroit next year already Is broached, tbat instead of the customary parade, fo the veterans present to be grouped upc huge raft upon the river to be viewed : passing boats. A law suit in Korristown, Pa., is the possession of a family Biole tbat bel to tbe estate of Elizabeth Kolb. Before died Mrs. Kolb had told ber oldest dau; tbat she should have tbe bible, but let written Instruction to tbat effect. Now other heirs want the bible. Charles McDonald, a well-known e neer of New York, has offered to double sum up to S3000 contributed by the citizei his native town of Gananogne, Ont. to- erecting an institute there. The building have llbrarv and reading rooms, gvmn is bowling alley, billiard room, eta, and it is i for both sexes. Tbe proposition has taken and citizens are subscribing liberally. A humorous application of bad et In photography is to be found in the phi rapher in an agricultural district who often occasion to take negatives of cattle horses. He overcame the difficulty so experienced of the animals whisking tbeir and spoiling the exposure By tbe ingeniou pedlent of keeping a large and varied as ment of negatives of cows and horses' from which he selected one that matched of any given specimen and printed it in, ba previously stopped out the original that blurred by motion. Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy, the ecce widow of St Louis, whose relatives have 1 to put her in an asylum, filed suit Thursd: set aside certain deeds of conveyance for a S50.000 worth of property granted by her tc brother-in-law. The peculiar paint in tne is tbat Mrs. Kennedy wants tba ennveya set aside on the ground that she was not in right mind when she made tbem. thus ad ting the very point she has been comb: with these same relatives. When she i the deed her heirs declared she was insane tried to put ber in an asylum, but a jur cided she was sane. A few days since, a chicken belorj to a family In Oglethorpe, Gx, happenp fall in an old dry well 32 feet deep. Its s' attracted attention, but the well being rJ no one could be found who would risk b selves down in the well to get the fowl, 1 1 seemed doomed to starvation. A memf the -family, taking compassion upoffc prisoner, procured a box, tied it to a rojin let it down in the well, and, surprlsinj c sooner had the box reached the bottoitia tbe chicken, seeming to realize its sitio jumped in it and was drawn sateiy to toe?. I FUSSY MEN'S FANCIES. tmrrrct roa the dispatch.! Probably. "My partner is one police, too." 'Ah.' Ihen he is a sleeping partner." A truism There is not always vile soap. For instance, tbe more "soap" poltia use the dirtier become their hinds. Pol iii, A New View of It "Why did Ada a Eve leave the Garden of Kden?" They ate green apples and had to colodfo doctor." A 55 bill This road will take jo. San Francisco wlthont change. Without change? What do you fee the Bib; porter with?" j A "Stick." "I don't think that coled la funny. He is Inclined to be decidedly let Tben vou are of the opinion thatie glucose rather than a Jocose person?" EOTALTY. In purple and;fine linen My country farm-house shines I The.purple on the lilacs. The Unen on the lines. F. L. iiotel A Collection of Curios. "Tliesej are Poe relies. That Is the qnlll with which he t The KTen. That is the first draft ol 'Am Lee.' This cane li made from the wool of i . under which be wrote the 'Pendulum." "What is that white liquid in the bottle?" "That Is water-something 1'oe rarely toutf Henry Herbert Uarkntss. it doesn't tollow. I am made of clay and water, But I wish it understood Tbat you fellows hadn't ouiMer Bay my name Is therefore mud. CUolvwndily Hareo ,. i.':uaafeJfeJSti
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