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PITTSBURG. SATURDAY. SEPT. 27, 1SS01
HOW TO MAKE A GREAT CITY.
If this great city has already learned any
one lesson more than another, it is that a
benefit to one helps all. "We hare seen the
prosperity of vast manufacturing industries
splendidly re fleeted during late years in an
enormous growth of our mercantile, financial
and real estate interests.
The lesson which Chicago, Minneapolis,
St Paul, Kansas City and other busy towns
of the "West exploited early has bad its suf
ficient demonstration here at home. Our
people are awake to the value of co-operation.
What is now most needed is a presentation
of ieasible plans for future development of
our resources. This is ably, indeed we
might say brilliantly, done in four Prize
Essays which we pnblish in to-day's Dis
patch. We trust that every reader will
give them thoughtful perusal. These are
only four essays selected from more than one
hundred of varying decrees of excellence.
One of the great benefits of this unique con
test which The Dispatch set afoot is that
so many minds in different parts of the city,
and from different points of view, have been
engaged during the past week in contem
plating the same object and that one
should be dear to all with a feeling of local
pride.
"Water transportation is the theme of most
of the writers. It is the key to Pittsburg's
growth and prosperity in the future.
Coupled with it in these essays, are valu
able schemes for advertising the city, and
for adding to the comrort, welfare and ma
terial prosperity of its people.
Bead what is printed elsewhere.
TnE TARIFF AX D FINIS.
Two great and glorious events are in sight
in Congress, one the passage of the tariff
bill, the other the adjournment of Congress.
Yesterday the tar id bill was reported to the
House and Sir. McKinley announced that
it would be passed to-day without further
debate. There may be some attempt on the
part of the Democratic members to check
this summary proceeding, but it is not
likely to be serious and less likely to meet
with success. Mr. McKinley also an
nounced that the adjournment of the House
would be moved on Tuesday next. In the
Senate the understanding is that a few
(speeches are to be made upon the tariff bill
in its final shape, but there, as in the House,
the attractions of adjournment are likely to
curtail the debate. The settlement of the
tariff will be most welcome to the country,
and the rising of Congress will not evoke
tears ia any quarter.
AX IN-UI.T TO JOHNSTOWN.
Certain members of the Johnstown Board
of Inquiry, a bodr organized to assist the
ITlood Belief Commission in disbursing
the funds subscribed by the Nation after the
disaster last year, have a very peculiar
notion of decency and honor, if what is told
of them to-day, istrne. The allegation is that
they have printed and propose to sell a book
containing the details of the work of charity
in which they were partially the agents.
Sir. Bobert C. Ogden, of the Belief Com
mission, very properly takes the view that
the publication of such matter is uncalled
for, and calculated to wound the beneficia
ries of the nation's generosity unnecessarily.
But the contemptible part oi the business is
that men chosen to perform a public duty
should seek to make profit out of the dis
tress of their fellow citizens. With the ac
counts of the Flood Commission properly
audited, as they have been, and in the ab
sence of any desire on the part of the donors
for a detailed statement, the publication in
question is au insult to Johnstown and the
Nation. If it is not too late ire advise the
Board of Inquiry, for its own sake, to sup
press the book. .
SENSE OX A NOTORIOUS SUBJECT.
It is pleasant to observe that a little sound
sense has been injected into the Kreutzer
Sonata business by a decision in a Phila
delphia court The advertisement which
has been given to that eccentric and half
crazy sketch was utilized by someone in
Philadelphia, wbo put peddlers on the
streets to sell copies of the story. The ped
dlers were arrested lor the sale of obscene
literature. There is no doubt that they
were set to work in order to make money out
of the idea which has been produced in the
public mind, that the work is of that class;
but the trial, oi course, turned on the ques
tion whether the book is really obscene or
sot, and Judge Thayer in a very sound
decision held that it is not
The Judge, in his estimate of the work,
held very sensibly that it takes a srlly and
fanatical view oi marriage. But so far from
any obscenity in its teachings, the attempt is
to enforce the lesson of an ideal and extreme
chastity. This ideal has been at times
adopted in the teachings of early
Christianity, and even to-day has a
reflection in the monastic system of the
Catholic Chnrch. It is fanatical, bnt, as
the Judge says, it is "a fanaticism, not of
Tice, but of over-zealpus virtue." The
fact that the book has a slight dramatic
interest and little literary merit is pointed
ont by the Jndge, bnt he agrees that in
neither intention or execution does it come
Uje BiMdj.
under the proscription of obscene literature.
Finally the decision with gentle sarcasm,
refers to the argument that the Czar of
Russia, and the postal department of the
United States, hare placed the book under
their ban, and remarks that neither of these
powers are accepted as authorities on the
law.
This clear and sensible view of the mailer
will do much tn quiet the sensational curi
osity over the Tolstoi's outbreak of cranki
ness, that has been called into ezisttnee in
this country by the Postoffice Department's
ill-judged attempt to establish a literary
censorship. "With regard to the parties im
mediately under trial it is to be regretted
that there is no law for punishing people
who sell boots under the false pretense that
they are improper, in which case the out
come might have been quite different
EMERY AND HIS EVIDENCE.
Senator Emery proved his determination
to stand by his charges against Senator
Delamater, in his speech at Bradford last
night The speech and the evidence which is
incorporated in it leave no doubt of the
speaker's conviction that his charges are well
founded. It presents a prima facie case as
to a part of the charges, and produces
a striking array of further allegations in
detail, which, unless the Bepublican candi
date departs from his previous policy and
takes the matter into court the public must
judge solely in the light of Senator Emery's
character and good faith.
The charges made by Senator Emery are
the same be made last spring, with the addi
tion of one that has been published before,
but which Senator Emery has not heretofore
assumed the responsibility for. They are, as
they have often been published, as follows:
1. That in Senator Delamater's nomina
tion and election as Senator money was used
for the purchase of votes; that he paid
money for the suppression of evidence of
this bribery which would have prevented
him from taking his seat; and that the
official oath that he took was, consequently,
perjury.
2. That as Senator he got up a bogus con
ference committee report on a bill affecting
the oil and gas interests, with the intent, as
Senator Emery alleges, of committing a
legislative fraud injurious to the producers,
and advantageous to the interests with
which Delamater is alleged to be allied.
3, The charges made previously, but not
by Emery, until now, that the action of
Delamater in beating the Billingsley bill
was secured by pecuniary considerations,
stated at 565,000.
The matter which Senator Emery produces
in support of these allegations is of such
varied character, considered as evidence,
that it calls for classification. It consists of
(1) affidavits by persons personally cogni
zant of the distribution of money to secure
votes for Senator Delamater; (2) statements
and affidavits by persons whose names are
withheld, as to the distribution of money,
for the purpose above stated and for 'the
suppression of the evidence of bribery.
These latter statements are only supported
by witnesses who make oath that they heard
them made, being reduced to writing iu the
presence of the persons making them. (3)
The report ot the Legislative Record on that
bogus conference committee report (4)
The letter of a colleague of Senator Emery
and Delamater, namely Senator Butan, as
to the course of Quay and Emery on the
Billingsley bill.
A large portion of the evidence of the
first class, and that of the fourth, has al
ready been published by the remarkable
course of the Bepublican State Com
mittee. The unique theory of Mr.
Delamater's managers that the force
of the charges is forestalled, by the
publication in Bepublican organs of
affidavits and allegations so far undisputed,
which charge criminal misconduct on the
part of their candidate, is without a parallel
in the history of politics. To thus blacken
the cause of their own candidate, in order to
prevent an antagonist from doing so, is a re
sort ot such extraordinary nature, that it
can only be accounted for as a confession of
fear and inability to rebnt
Apart from this remarkable adoption of
the charges by Mr. Delamater's own sup
porters, it is no more than fair to weigh the
evidence for what it is worth. On the first
Doint, the expenditure of money to procure
votes for Delamater, a prima facie case is
made by the affidavits of men whose names
are given and who swear that they person
ally knew of the disbursement of funds. As
to the startling details, which are further
given, of the expenditure of money not only
for votes.but for the suppression of evidence,
it is necessary, in jurtice.to recognize that so
long as the names of the persons making
these are suppressed, they must remain in
the rank of mere allegations. The force of
such evidence lies in the character and
standing of the witnesses; and while the
affidavits of Senator Emery and his friends
that these statements were made, are to be
accepted, the evidence is not such as any
court would accept unless the witness makes
himself known and takes the responsibility
for his testimony. The weakness of this
point is partially offset by the fact that
Senator Emery himself assumes responsi
bility for the statements of these unnamed
witnesses, and if they are challenged by
prosecution says he will produce the
witnesses in court
As to the charges concerning Senator
Delamater's course in the liegislature,Sena
tor Emery produces from the Legislative
Record evidence of a transaction by the Be
publican candidate that, in any light, is a
most astounding one. Senator Delamater's
explanation that he prepared this conference
report in anticipation of a disagreement is
given; but it utterly fails to explain how it
was that he appended to the report the sig
natures of members of both branches, as
constituting a committee which was never
appointed, and had the report printed in
that shape. On the other hand it seems so
incredible that an attempt could be made to
pass a bill on a bogus conference report,
while the real measure was before the
House, that the imagination of the pnblic
will be taxed to account for this freak of
legislative procedure on any hypothesis.
As to the charge with reference to the
Billingsley bill, Senator Emery while giv
ing some very interesting ideas with regard
to State politics, simply adds to his -assertions
the allegation of a piivate letter of
Senator Butan's. This may be corrobora
tion, but it must be taken simply as the al
legation of two of the Senators, and judged
by their standing solely.
To sum up. Senator Emery has backed
up a portion of his charges by evidence that
requires rebuttal; another portion ii sup
ported by matter which cannot be accepted
as evidence in its present shape, and Is
therefore lelt just where it was before, to be
considered solely by the weight due to Sen
ator Emery's personal allegations. The
whole must be taken largely on that author
ity and judged in connection with the other
features of Senator Delamater's record.
"While it is not by any means all, or the
most important, of what is at stake in 'the
present campaign, the speech of last pjght
gives the charges a detail and particularity
that can hardly he ignored by the Bepub
licans. Senator Delamater must meet them.
IJkDEPEKDENCE IN ALLEGHENY.
Particularly significant at this juncture is
the formation of an Independent Bepub
lican club in this connty. The opposition
of a large portion of the Bepublican party
to Mr. Delamater and the interests he rep
resents has taken this practical shape in
many parts of the State. The names ot the
executive officers of the club are pub
lished to-day, but it contains, we
can state with authority, a large
representation of the best business element
in the county. "Whatever the popular will
is, it is best that it should have the ad
vantage of practical political methods in its
expression, and the Independent Bepub
lican club insures these. If committees of
ten can be found to work in every one ot the
three hundred and eighty-six election dis
tricts in the county, the organizers of the
club are justified in their confidence that
the election will be to a great extent de
cided by them.
SALT WATER FROM WELLS.
The suit which the Union Water Com
pany, of Beaver Falls, is bringing against
the Enterprise Oil Company will decide
questions of the utmost importance to the
public in general and oil operators in par
ticular. The Union Water Company sup
plies some 14,000 inhabitants of the Beaver
Valley with water, and it is claiuied that
the defendant oil company is polluting the
sources of this water supply by allowing the
salt water from their wells to flow into the
Conoquenessing. It is to be inferred from
the outline of the case which The Dis
patch has obtained that the salt water
complained of proceeds from disnsed wells
which have not been plugged, in deference
to the mandate of a State law which has
been more olten defied than obeyed. The
relief asked by the water company is an in
junction restraining the defendants from
continuing their oil operations in the water
shed of the Conoquenessing.
The pollution of rivers by salt waterfroni
wells drilled for oil has been a long-standing
nuisance in Western Pennsylvania.
This summer especially public attention has
been called to the pollution of Allegheny
City's and Pittsburg's water from tuis
cause. Both the Allegheny river and the
Monongahela are said to be rendered unfit
for drinking purposes and dangerous to
health by the drainage from the oil fields.
We presume that nobody will deny that the
salt water lroru an oil well is an unwhole
some beverage.
There is another side to the question upon
which oil operators will be inclined to lay
stress. In drilling for oil salt water is
nearly always encountered, and it must be
pumped out. What is to be done with the
salt water if it is not allowed to run by nat
ural gravitation into the nearest water
course? The salt water has no value. It is
found in such vast quantities that to con
fine it in tanks would ruin the Standard Oil
Company, and make petroleum a luxury
that millionaires alone could afford.
Abandoned wells ought to be plugged, of
course, but the salt water does not come
Irom them alone. Every well drilled for
oil produces some salt water. Anybody can
see that the life ot the oil business is con
cerned in this question of the disposition of
salt water. At the same time the contami
nation of the rivers is an evil of the gravest
sort If the pending suit shall secure the
pnblie health without inflicting a severe
blow upon a most important industry a very
difficult feat will have been accomplished.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is very
anxious that the Democrats shall have an is
sue. They nave got one, about which the es
teemed Inquirer is Indulging in a notorious
amount of silence. It is that the Constitution
is the fundamental law of the State, to which
the most powerful and wealthy owe allegiance
as well as the most humble, and that candi
dates who have violated their official oaths to
respect and obey that instrument are not
worthy of election to high office.
Speaker Beed's visit to Philadelphia
met with its own reward. Ho was cheered as
"our next President." Selections of Presi
dents two years ahead of time rarely orove sat
isfactory, bnt perhaps the prophecy for the
Speaker's promotion may be verified if he and
his supporters can do their own counting.
The veteran General N. P. Banks, who
was Speaker of the House before any of its
present leaders were elected to that body, has
been left off the list for re-election, his constit
uents having decided that a younger man can
get more in the line of appropriations for them.
Republican organs which are making a to-do
over the defeat of Vaux, in the Third Penn
sylvania district, will now have an opportunity
to express themselves on the subject of Banks.
The country will have an opportunity to
breathe a quiet prayer of gratitude overtho
fact that that daily announcement from Cres
son that the President went out driving and
that a reception was held in the evening, has
been suspended for the present season.
The town of Salamanca, N. Y., is within
the limits of the Tuscarora Indian reservation.
A saloon keeper of the town has lately been
fined by the United States Court for the crime
of introdu cing liquor into an Indian reserva
tion. Although the liquor was not sold to In
dians, the quality or Salamanca whisky is such
as to make it plain that, whatever the punish
ment might be, it could not be too severe.
The division of musical labor among our
statesmen is illustrated by the fact that while
Con gressman Butterworth was singing for the
Wbltecbapel Club at Chicago Speaker Reed
was whistling for a quorum at Washington.
The New York preacher who asserted
that the proportion of politics to Business in
the censns was so large as to make the resnlt
worthless, strnck a bin principle, whatever may
be"aid of the application. The importance ot
the rule that more politics than business in
any enterprise is sure to make it a fizzle should
commend it to the consideration of the man
agers of the World's Fair at Chicago.
Afteb all, Congressman Kennedy rests
comfortably under the knowledge that he bad
the last word, and that both first and last words
can hardly be expunged from the record of the
public memory.
That remarkable Brooklyn school board
which has tabooed an edition of a school read
er because it contained .the Irreligious poem
written by one H. W. Longfellow entitled,
"The Building of the Ship,' ' should define itself
still further. It is to be feared that it will
consider the "Psalm of Life" a scurrilous pro
duction, and might suppress the Declaration of
Independence as a Socialist document
If the Bepublican organs wish to fore
stall something else, they might try the experi
ment of printing Senator Emery's speech.
When the feature of seating as members
of'Gongress men who were not elc.ted becomes
each a leading one in party policy that the
Honse has to stand a week's deadlock until it
is done, there is an obvious necessity for some
very stringent instruction to the party leaders
on the right ot the people, to elect Congress
men. Too Much IlngsllngT Over a Trlfl,
From the Philadelphia Bulletin. 1
The conference committee of the Honse and
Senate will probably agree at last to give the
Widow of General Hartranf t a pension of $1,200
a year. 'It is a disgrace to the country that
there has been this prolonged and, miserable-
naggitng over sucn a trine.
OUR SHORT STORIES.
SOMEWHAT PEBSONAU
jVTkn don't climb the ladder of fame at a
single bound," the passenger in the salt-and-pepper
suit. was saying. "Success, like
character, is a thing of slow growth."
"I think you are mistaken," said the passeo
gerin the skull-cip, with a smile. "Men some
times get pretty well up toward the top of the
ladder by one jump, and they don't have to
jump very hard, either."
"Do you happen to think of any instance in
your own knowledge where a man won endur
ing fame by one act?"
"Well, yes. An instanco occurs to me in
which one speech made not only a man, bnt a
city famous."
"Oh yes. You are spoaking of J. Proctor
Knott and Dulutb. Well, I'll admit that Proc
tor Knott is an exception. There are just two
characters in history that made themselves
famous by one speech."
"Indeed T Who are tbeyr"
"J. Proctor Knott and Balaam's ass."
The man in the skull-cap smiled a rather
sickly smile and went away presently to the
other end of the car.
"Do you know who that chap JsT" inquired
the man in the salt-and-pepper suit of the pas
senger on the seat iu front
"Yes. That is J. Proctor Knott"
HE WAS TOO ELOQUENT.
T2?the campaign of 1884 1 wonmy spurs as a
political speaker," said the boss to a select
company of heelers as they gathered around
the lunch counter in "der candidate's saloon."
"Won yer what?" asked Jimmy McQowan.
"Got my eye teeth cut, young man," said the
boss, "and you can learn something by listening
to me. I was several years younger than I am
now, in 8i; an' I was stuck on my oratorical
powers, so I got a job from the County Com
mittee to go on the stump.
"The first place I struck was McKeesport
and I spoke to a crowd of mill men there ono
Saturday night I let 'em have tariff hot an'
heavy; it was protection from the word go.
Seemed to tickle them, I thought and I was
mighty proud of the way I rattled off schedules
an' ad valorems an' tonnage an' free trade an'
British gold an' all that James G. Blaine
couldn't have worked the protection racket
better, I flattered myself.
"On the following Monday I was sitting up in
headquarters when a couple of men came in
and asked tor the Chairman. He wasn't in,
an'l asked them if I could do anything for
'em.
" 'Well,' says one of them, 'we've come up
from McKeesport to get somebody to speechify
at the ineetin' to-night.'
" 'Is there to be a meeting again to-nightT' "
says L 'I thought you had the final rally on Sat
urday.' " 'So wo did,' the man 'replied, "but they sent
a blamed fool out to speak who's mixed our
men all up with his tariff figures, an' f some
body don't set 'em straight they'll vote the
Democratic ticket sure.'
"My speechmakicg career stopped right
there."
BY RETURN MAIL.
JUST after Andrew Johnson had vacated the
presidential seat the managers of the Simp
son county (Ky.) Agricultural and Mechanical
Association, decided that it would be a great
Advertisement to have the old gentleman at
tend the fair. "We don't care for him on Satur
day," said tne manager, "for on that day we
shall have a pretty big crowdanyhow. Wednes
day will be the day. I will write to the ex-
President"
The following letter was sent to Mr. Johnson:
"Great Sir: The people of the wonderful
connty of Simpson, feeling a great interest in
one of America's most gifted sons, have de
cided to invite yon to be present at our fair
grounds on Wednesday, the 6th of October,
where they wish to shake your hand. Please
let mo know by return mail."
He let them know by return mail. The old
gentleman turned the letter over and wrote the
following: "I am no menagerie.
A. Johxson."
SAME DOG BIT ME.
"Two colored brethren were holding a little
religions convention between themselves.
saia Elder Jefferson: "Now Bruder Jones, Jlst
what am yona besetting sin?"
"Well elder' If I must confess; I reckon my
'settin sin am lubfor de female sect"
"Ah, ah, ahT"
"What for you larf so Masser Jeff ersont"
"Well just dfs, Bruder Jones; same dog bit
me."
"Is dat soT"
"Yas, for shua."
They shook bands and the convention ad
journed. POOR DICK WORRELL.
IT was in the days before newspaper presses had
iat6tlt flloa Thn choAta war. t,V.fi f nr.
grippcrs by hand, and laid as straight as possi
ble by the sleepy fly boy. Dick Worrell had a
shingle knocked off when he was a little chap.
His mother died when he was a baby. His
father was worse than old Squeers, and en
gaged in the same business. Taught a select
school way back in the conntry. No pnblic
schools then as now
Poor Dick tumbled into the Daily Express
office one cold night in winter, and the fellows
thawed him out atras.ove and filled him full of
hot coffee and "polony sausage." That settled
it Dick became part and parcel of the office.
He could sleep at the fly board and lay every
paper as straight as a die. Did she stop Dick
always awoke with a smile on his face.
Ono ill-starred day Dick's father found him.
Once every month thereafter the old thread
bare pedagogue visited the office, but finally,
desiring to remove elsewhere, be articled the
boy to the cruel skipper of a Yankee brig. When
Dick left the office all the boys were sorry,4but
be bad to go.
Poor fellow, he was washed overboard off the
coast of Nova Scotia during his first voyage.
Body went God knows where; soul in His
kingdom, likely.
When his father next came to the city he
called at the office and asked if anybody had
heard from Dick. Told what bis fato was, the
unnatural parent smiled with a sickly smirk. of
satisfaction. That ended his resnonsibllltv.
The boys pelted the old rascal with rotten
roller composition till he reached the street
yelling and swearing like a trooper.
PEOPLE OF PBOHTNEHCE.
Colonel Frank H. PieboS. United States
consul at Matanzas, Cuba, is on a visit to his
home in Hillsboro', N. H.
Clement G. Morgan, the colored graduate
of Harvard, is lecturing in Connecticut on the
educational needs of the South.
Miss Makoaket Stafford Worth, of
New York, has just received her first check for
the monthly pension of $75 recently granted
her by Copgress.
Frederick Docolass, who was In Boston
this week in ordor to, attend the Abolitionists'
reunion, expects to return to his position in
Hayti early in October.
The Rev. John E. Cookman, D. D.t who
recently left the Methodist Church, was or
dained last Sunday at St Philip's, iu the High
lands, by Bishop Potter.
Vice Presipent Mortok's Guernsey cattle
received six blue ribbons and won two marks
of "high commendation," while his sheep re
ceived three blue and three red ribbons at the
New York State Fair.
The severe illness from which the King of
Portugal has been suaering appears to have
been primarily caused by His Majesty, when
on board bis yacbt near the port of Othon,
drinking, a glass of unaltered and polluted
water.
Captain Gaetako Casati. irk8 stan.
ley, has written an account of bis African ex
periences. It will be published mBambnrg,
Germany, and is to be called "Ten Years in the
Equatorial Region, and Return of Emiu
Pasha."
"We learn from private sources," says the
Boston Transcript "that Colonel Bobert Inger
Eoll will soon' deliver in Philadelnhia or New
York (place uot definitely settled on) an
oration on Walt Whitman, of whom he la an
ardent admirer and personal friend."
Marshal MaoMahon has completed his
memoirs and has left Paris to join his wife, the
Duchess de Macenta, at bis chateau of La
Forest in the Loiret He wip. shortly be visited
brittle Count and Conntcss de Piennes, bis
sqn-and-law and daughter respectively.
Mrs. alice Freeman Palmer, wfio has
been obliged to declinq many invitations to
speak before different assemblages since she
left Wellesley, has accepted an invitation to
read a paper before the Women's Club of Mel
rose, Mass., early in the coming winter.
MANAGES PATTOI? BOTPBISED.
B. ii O. Employes I're.cot 11 1 m Wltb n
Beautiful Silver Ten S-et.
Mr. J. V. Patton, the former superintendent
of the Pittsburg division of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, and the present manager of tbo
Pittsburg and Western Railroad, received an
agreeable surprise last evening. On the pica
of arranging somo old business details. Super
intendent Holbrook secured Mr. Fatton's
presence in tbo maintenance of way rooms, in
the new Baltimore and Ohio depot When
Mr. Patton entered he found gathered together
about 60 of the Baltimore and Ohio employes,
and about 40 others. He was speedily enlight
ened as to the matter by Mr. C. S. Howells,
Claim Agent, stepping forward, and on behalf
of the employes of tha Pittsburg Division of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad presenting
him, as a token of esteem for their former
superintendent, with a beautilul solid silver tea
service. The gift was a magnificent one, and
was received by Mr. Patton in a brief, but elo
quent speech, expressing his appreciation of
the kindness and esteem evinced by the donors.
Among those present were: .1 nomas M. jiing.
Second Vice President of the Baltimore and
Ohio; Superintendent Holbrook, W. T. Man
ning, engineer maintenance of way; Amos E.
Acbcson. Baltimore and Ohio counsel at Wash
ington; lion. II E. Bobbins, counsel at Greens
burg: 1. N. Kalbaugli, master mechanic; E. D.
Smith, division passenger agent; J. T. lane,
traveling passenger agent. Wheeling: T. C.
Burke, ticket agent Wheeling; Major J. B.
Washington, R. 8. Gore, supervisor "f engines
and trains: Thomas Lindsay.master car builder;
G. W. Gallagher, division freight agent; J. H.
Eppelsheimer, agent at Pittsburg; Harry Law
rence, chief clerk of general freight office; G.
M. McIIvaln, chief clerk to Superintendent
Holbrook; V. D. Vincent, division telegraph
operator; C. E. Gregory, city passenger agent;
C. T. Manning, assistant engineer maintenance
of way: Philip Brnner, train master; S. Mc
Elroy, yard master; Conductors Georgo Bishop.
Louis McAfee and Thomas McGovern and
Elmer E. Soles, postmaster at McKeesport
BECEPTIOK AT THE KENMAWB.
An East End Society Eveut of Considerable
Importance Last Evening.
The wealth and fashion of the city last even
ing welcomed to the social circle Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander McKalg, who we're the honored
guests at a reception given by Mrs. H. M.
Bailey, at the Hotel Kenmawr. The receiving
party, consistingof Mr. and Mrs. McKaig, Mrs.
Simons and Miss Rea,of New Orleans, and Mrs.
Bailey, occupied the bow window ot the hotel
parlor, and amid tbo perfume of many
flowers and the beauty of magnificent tropical
plants received tfco guests, who came in great
numbers and elaborate toilets. Mrs. McKaig,
who still claims the title of bride, appeared in
the beautiful robe of white satin, cut demi
train and high corsage, in which she, in the far
awaycitvof Antwerp, plighted her troth at a
morning wedding last spring.
Supper was served in the cozy breakfast
room, which had also put on a floral garb, from
5 o'clock until 10, after which dancing in the
large dining room was indulged in to the strains
of Gernert's Orchestra.
WILL HOLD A BECEPHOH.
Arrangement for the Opening ot the Acad
emy ot Arts nnd Sciences.
At the last meeting of the Council of the
Academy of Science and Art held in the Thaw
mansion. Rev. Dr. Holland, the President of
the academy, presided. It was resolved to bold
the first regular meeting of the academy npon
the evening of Friday, October 3. It was also
resolved that npon the evening of October 17
a public reception should be given by the acad
emy. An address of welcome will be mado by
the President, and will be followed bv a conver
sazione. The Art Society will exhibit upon
this occasion a nnmber of painting, and will
provide a musical entertainment The Botan
ical and Microscopical Societies, the engineers,
the architects and the photographers will make
appropriate displays of interesting objects, and
different members of the society have prom
ised to place on exhibition rare books and
natural history specimens, in their possession.
The occasion promises to be one of unusual in
terest. The Iron and Steel Institute has been
tendered the use of the rooms of the academy
during their stay here.
SOME EXCELLENT MUSIC
On the Programme for tbo Twentieth Free
Organ Recilnl To-Dny.
The twentieth organ recital in Carnegie Hall
this afternoon will employ the services of Mrs.
M. H. Stevenson, of Washington, Pa., as
soprano vocalist, and City Organist Wales.
Mrs. Stevenson, who is a sister-in-law of
Librarian Stevenson, will sing three solos:
"Love's Bequest," by Reichard; "Call Me'X'hlne
Own," by Halevy, and "That Melody Divine,"
byCowen. The organist's numbers are care
fully selected, and embrace some heard iu this
country for the first time.
The following are the instrumental nnmbers:
'Turkish Patrol March," Michaels; the new
Traumerla " Scbuselz; "Pizzicati," Dclibeo;
"Palpouri la Grande Ducbesse;" overture, "Jean
of Paris," Baldein: "Happy Hawes Gavotte,"
Jungman; thonew "Minuet Waltz," Gurney;
march, "Gortschak; "Chinese Serenade,"
Fleige: "Listen to My Tale of Woe," "Sunoulin
Waltz," and the "Dudes' March," played a la
Gilmore's Band.
A SOCIAL INTE0DUCTI0H"
Into the Fnshlonnble Mnslcnl Woild, for
flli Dlny Tleeslev.
A very delightful muslcale, given last even
ing, by Miss S. S. Killikelly. at ber home on
South Highland avenue, introduced socially to
the fashionable musical world Miss May Bees
Icy, the talented young soprano who made her
professional debut in the city last spring, and
wbo now lends ber voice to the choir of the
Third Presbyterian Chnrch. Miss Beesley re
turned last spring from an extended stay
abroad, during which she cultivated her voice
and immediately accepted the position offered
by the church in which she sings. Several
solos'rendered by ber last evening wero a de
lightful portion of the evening's programme,
which included numbers by leading vocalists
and instrumentalists of the city.
MUSICAL IBEAT IN BX0EE,
A Brilliant Conceit to be Given la the East
End Next Friday.
A brilliant musical treat is in store for the
music-loving peoplo of the city. Prof. D. D.
Wood, the celebrated blind organist of Phila
delphia, will give an organ recital in the new
Bellefield Church next Friday evening, Octo
ber 3. at 8 o'clock. The organ, which is tbe
largest ever placed by the Wirschmg Com
pany in this part of the country, is pronounced
by musical experts to be one of the very best
in the two cities, and admits of great variety
of expression.
The vocal numbers will be rendered by tbo
choir of tbe First Presbyterian Church.
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS.
Savmnnah News (Dem.): Labor threatens
to start a State ticket in Pennsylvania. Now
Mr. Quay will have the walking delagate to ne
gotiate with, and he .is numerous and comes
high at election time
Altoona Times (Dem.): To manage the Be
publican campaign this year requires unusual
adroitness, and Mr.;Dela mater is manifesting
that be does not possess that quality by the
blunders he is making in replying to tho Hen
sel charges.
DATtok (O.) Times (Dem.): Delamater, it Is
said, is much discouraged by the number of
Republicans who tell him that they will vote
for Fattison. It is the number wbo do not tell
him, but who will vote for Pattison, that will
make him feel real badly.
HARKiSBtmo Patriot (Dem.): Governor Pat
tison and the rest of the Democratic State
ticket are sure to be elected if the Democratic
vote Is polled. There are enough antl-Delama-
ter Republicans in the State to snow the Quay
candidate under if tbe Democratic rank and
file will do their duty. A thoiough and careful
canvass of tbe State shows this to be the case.
Greenville irffui (Rep.): The reports
are all in, tbe candidates are before the people
and the proceedings can now proceed. It is by
no means a settled fact that a Democrat will
represent us in the next Congress. Major Mc
Dowell is a strong candidate and will develop
strength as tho campaign goes on. There are
plenty of "I-toId-you-so's," but the Major's
friends go to work and work in earnest
New Castle Guardian (Rep.): Wo be
lieve that the Lawrence connty bolters are en
titled to tbe credit of being the first organiza
tion in tbe State to adopt tbo Australian ballot
system. At least we should judge from tbe
secrecy with which their so-called primaries
were conductea and tbe lonesome appearance
generally 'presented at their several polling
places that the Australian system was in
vogue.
DEATHS0FA DAY.
Jqlin 01. Prcscatt, Sr.
John M. rrescott, Sr., dted yesterday morning
at his residence on Isabella street, Allegheny, lie
was well known and favorably esteemed on the
Nortuslde. He was born In England la I8$L but
has been a resident nere rpr more man su years.
11....., ,vna f ha fntltai if .I.f... tC 'PnD.nt.
W-i"Mt .. futf .My. y FttWVI 1, AMVfl
tag attorney
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
The home circle is the only one that can be
squared.
Tup American hog is being talked about in
the cot of the pig raiser and in the palace of
the courtier. But it's not the four-legged bog
with which we bave to do. There be bogs In
other lines street car hogs, restaurant bogs,
theater hogs, hotel hogs, street corner hogs
and business hogs. The latter Is the hog we
are after. An enterprising man will take des
perate chances to put a new business on a
sound and paying basis. He struggles
along, advertises judiciously, and, as
the saying goes, gets there wltb
both feet Then it is whispered
around that he is making money. An envious
hog, wbo has big capital, sees this and grows
hungry. The succeises of others whet bis pig
gish appetite, and he determines to reach one
for a share of the enterprising citizen's trade.
Money will win without brains to back it In a
variety of cases, and the avaricious hog often,
too often, succeeds. Then another hog steps
in, and so on until the business is overdone and
the originator of the good thing crowded ont
by competition. In other words, the business
is run into the ground. It's then a
fight in which the fittest sometimes go
to the wall. Of course legitimate business,
which grows with the growth of the community
and meets demand and supply, is not a fruitful
field for the hog. He won't take any risks, you
know. He must hold a winning hand must
stand "pat" as the gambler says. If be can
double his dollars on a sure thing something
which the other fellow has made fruitful
through a cleverness which has created
a public demand Mr. Hog plunges.
Then the whole litter follows suit
and the public cries enough. If the creator of
the new idea survives them the hog squeals. If
the hog survives the pioneer drifts out of sight
"nnhonored and unsung." So don't overdo a
good thing which has been planned bv a man
of push, and which, in order to survive, must
draw upon the whole a new thing which peo
ple didn't want until somo one offered it them.
If you do, the reaction will come.
It's easier to collect a crowd than an over
due bill.
Girls, if you want a squeeze, go to the Ex
position. The surest way to kill a lottery is to quit
buying tickets. The foolkiller will bave to be
turned loose before this method can be
adopted, however.
Rockawat Beach
paradise.
should be the babies'
People wbo look into last year's almanac
can hit the weather about as closely as the fel
lows in the signal towers.
The world must look rosy to the woman who
wears a red veil.
One of the questions fired at medical
students in New York during examination ex
ercises was: "What States of Central America
bave recently been at war?" This must bave
been a poser. A revolution might break out In
a new spot before it could be answered. But
what has this to do with pills and powders,
anyhow!
Death constantly stares the lineman in the
face.
President Diaz dodged the bullets of
Mexican assassins. He may live to die aa he
should in bed.
The Southern Coal Trust has received a
black eye in tbo Tennessee courts. It cannot
throw dust into the eyes of the goddess.
If registry lists are election barometers it is
safe to predict a light vote in the grand old
State of Allegheny.
Old salts say when crab3 are plentiful in
autumn ice will be harvested in winter. Tbe
crabs are thick in tbe arms of the sea now, and
it this sign goes ice machine stock will be bear
ish soon.
The Hebrew Day of Atonement is over. Tbe
people of Pennsylvania will observe theirs
early next November.
Now the Delamater organs will have some
thing to talk about
Between the purists and the jurists tbe pub
lishers of Tolstoi's bookar6 in clover.
Time is money when yon squander 5500 on a
watch.
Net earnings is what the business man fishes
for every time.
The pages of tbe Record containing Ken.
nedy's speech bave, to use a printer's term,
been "pied."
Chicken fighters are fowl murderers.
A New Yore: woman lodged a complaint"
against her milkman tbe other day. accusing
him of attempting to poison ber. She said
after the milk stood awhile a thick yellowish
stuff gathered at the top. She never saw
cream form on her morning's supply before,
and didn't know what it was. Tbe average
milk buyer is liable to be scared by cold cream.
The steel-blue stuff is what they are used to.
They say Mary Anderson bas larger feet
than any other stage star. If Mary could get
into Congress she would make a hit
Now is the time to put la your gas-saving
appliances. Fittsburcers don't have to lay in
a winter supply of coal, you kmow.
Mothers reverse the orderof business when
they lather the little shavers.
People who put their nrjoney into lotteries
might just as well deposit their savings in the
banks of Newfoundland.
"Mat we never want a friend to cheer us
nor a bottle to cheer him" Is a good old toast of
the long ago. Our forefathers were cheery old
chaps, to be sure.
The fountain at tbe Exposition docs not play
as often as tho band. Turn on the water and
the calcium oftencr, grmtlemen.
Thet charge 20 ceuts f or a drink of whisky
in Vice President Morton's Washington hotel.
This is his method of encouraging prohibition.
Clatjs Spreckels will smile sweetly if the
sugar clause of the tariff bill hurts the trust
Love laughs at everything except a con
stable. Arrests are stopping some weddings?'
Plain Kate Field says the dear American
girls alone spend 582,000,000 a year on cosmetics.
Perhaps Tolstoi had a lucid interval when he
wasjwriting bis book after alt
CARE should sit lightly on the man with cork
legs.
He shakes hands with you now, but if he
Wins at tbe polls f ou will not be able to touch
him with a ten foot pole.
Bees and sugar cane are bigger in the eyes
of the people than the giant trees of the Yo
semite. .
A California girl has shot a false lover.
Men who trifle with women will grow scarce if
this example is loiiowe d.
Lots of girls who passed as heiresses last
summer are now fingering typewriters.
The farmer who bet on thefavorite at the
fair race is now mortgaging bis chatties.
Crooked politicians sometimes appear on a
straight ticket
The new fall hats are turning the heads of
the ladies.
The husband of tbe New York actress who
shocked society by appearing just like a statue
In a stage studio scene is a weaver, and sticks
to bis loom,' He should weave bis wife a suit
of clothes.
The Passion play has been running in the
House end of Congress long enough.
You cannot develop your muscle' -by lifting
mortgages.
Me. Blaine bas returned to Washington.
Chillblanes may bo looked for in the White
House. .
When premier danseuses make a farewell
tour they are on their last legs of course.
Clock weights are the levers which move
time. Wilms Winkle,
HAEBIAGE ABD DIVOECE.
A Chance for Visitpis ;o the; Exposition Ip
Express Tlfeinsclfp.
The topical ballot for visitors tp the Exposi
tion to vote upon to-night is a popular one.
The question of uniform marriage and divorce
laws is being agitated in several States, and the
people now have a chance to give it a boom in
Pennsylvania. To-day and to-night the Poll
Book will be open at Dispatch headquarters,
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Billiard Company's
space, Exposition building, to vote on this
topic:
Should a Uniform Marriage and Divorce Law
be Urged Upon Congressf Open to Lady and
Gentlemen Voters.
Souvenirs for lady voters. Watcb these
columns for future announcements.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Impenetrable Plates of Steel Armor.
To the Editor or Tbe Dlspatcs:
The steel world, and, in fact nations of every
civilized tongue, appear to be deeply engrossed
in the superlative construction of armor-plates
that will resist the impact of shot and shell in
cident to naval conflicts. England, with her
boasted skill in tbe manufacture of steel and
tbe supremacy of her naval power, has reposed
in fancied security behind cumbersome, ex
pensive apd worthless armor-plates, although
supplied by the world-famed Charles Cammell
&. Co., of Sheffield. A careful analysis of these
compound plates by a practical or scientific
mind at once discloses tbe Inutility of such
armor, and demonstrates Its weakness as a re
sisting force to tbe cone-shells used by our own
Government
Presuming the Cammell plates to be a com
pound of iron or soft steel, and ' very hard," or
highly carbonized steel, whether the plate ia
rolled from an ingot so manufactured, or from
a pile in alternate layers of Iron and steel and
welded in passing through tbe rolls, under tbe
hammer, or by hydraulic pressure, matters but
little for our own purpose.
To be of any effect in resisting the impact
of a cone shell it must of necessity be verv bard
on tbe face or front side wbere such shell
would strike. And yet it is well known to sci
entists and practical metallurgists thatan ingot
Is always harder than a bar manipulated from
it eitber between the rolls or under the ham
mer: and inasmuch as a bar cannot be produced
by eitber process from an ingot without re
heating the ingot from which it is made.clearly
demonstrates tbe fact that such reheating bas
opened tbe crystalline form, and in proportion
to such beat reduced its resisting properties.
Tbe conesbells of which we speak are manu
factured from very fine steel and after manipu
lation of form and size are heated and hard
ened to such a degree that a fine file will not
make any Impression on their surface. If this
be true, the question naturally, arises, how is it
possible for an open form of crystallization in
steel to resist the velocity of a highly carbon
ized and hardened projectile propelled with
terrific force from a gun. and made with all the
skill that science and experience can command
for the very purpose of penetrating such ob
stacles as may be presented by the world any
where T
To overcome the elements of destruction
caused by a shell such as described, we can
only suggest tbe construction of a plate, ''com
pound or solid," that after manipulation to
form desired, can be so hardened in part and
S o densely crystallized as to be invulnerable to
either shot or shell, and yet have sufficient
ductile or unbardened substance to prevent
separation of hard and ductile portions in col
lision. Such an accomplishment would crown
America as the greatest constructor of naval
ships in the world, and she would be regarded
with envy by every civilized Government under
tbe sun. ben Catlev.
Pittsburg, September 26.
What Appanage Is
To tbe Editor of Tbe Dispatch:
Please define the word "appanage" used in
your editorial on "The Hope of tbeTwenty
fifth" on tbe 23d instant. Was it correctly
spelled and its use appropiiate in that article?
NewEeighton, September 28. D. R.W.
Tbe word is a good one and was correctly
used. It is of French origin, and its original
significance, under the feudal law of France,
was that which was granted to the sous of the
sovereign for their support, as lands and priv
ileges, which reverted to the Crown on the
failure of malebeirs. in Scotland appanage was
the natrimony of tbe King's eldest son. In
England members of the royal family receive
from Parliament an allowance from certain
hereditary crown Ian ds. Hence, appanage has
come to signify a possession or belonging; an
attribute or accompaniment; a dependent terri
tory. When Alcohol Freezes.
To the Editor ol Tbe Dispatch:
To settle a discussion, please answer the fol
lowing question: Can alcohol be frozen under
any circumstances? J. O. B.
iTrrSBURG, September 26.
It becomes viscid at a very low temperature,
but does not congeal above a temperature of
200 degrees below zero.
C'ommnnlcntion at Sei,
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In traveling to or from Europe, could I com
i.nunicate any news to my wife on mid ocean 7
If bo, by what means? W. C.
I'lTTSBUEO. September SB,
Read Burr's letter in last Sunday's DlS
PATC.l. It explains tbo latest system of com
munication at sea.
The State of Idaho
To the Editor of The Dispatcc:
What is the youngest State in the
Union? Want to Know.
Pittsburg-, September 26.
LIVING ON HEESELF.
Over 174 Days Without Food and
165
Days Witbont a Drop of Liquids.
tSrKCIAL TELIOHA3I TO THE DIBPATCH.l
Allentown, September 26. No case of
fasting on record can be compared in any way
with that of Mrs. Ellen Wuchter, wife ot a
poor laborer residing in the village of- White
hall, six miles north of here. This woman bas
not tasted a morsel of solid food for 174 days,
and not a drop of liquid food for 163 days.
Since the beginning of her fast, Sirs. Wuchter
bas been critically ill, and suffered Intense pain.
Her fast is compulsory. Mrs. Wuchter is
afflicted wltb cancer of the pharynx, and the
growth, which has been going on
for years, has so filled the nppcr
portion of the sesophagus, that no food can
reach tbe stomach. Up to nine years ago Mrs.
Wuchter. who is 30 years or ace. was in good
health. About that time she began to fall, tbe
first evidence of declining health being a spas
modic cough and a gradual loss of voice. About
18 months ago tbe cough became very severe,
and her voice sank to a wulsper. About ten
months a"0 swallowing became difficult and in
a short time the was unable togct anything
down her throat -xcept liquids. Her condition
grew worse until she was unable to partake of
even liquid foods only at rare intervals, and
then not more than a spoonful at a time. Since
Good Friday, April 4, bc has not taken a drop
,mror nithniii'h she complains of an intense
t hirst The only way in which ber thirst can bo
pa rtially allayed is by placing one of her bands
in a basin of water, where it is kept for half an
hour, so that the pores may absorb the moist
ure, and thus take away the keeu edge of her
thWhen in healtb the weight of Mrs. Wuchter
was HO pounds. Now ber weight Is between 65
and 60 pounds. Six months ago short and se
vere epileptic conwlsions developed, and these
occur from 5 to 40 times a day. Mrs. Wuch
tersiabt has almost failed, part or ber body
isp.rafyvwd. At times she is entirely pulse
IeM.thoukih her heart is nearly normal. She
sleens varv little, and seldom longer than 15
?!H?7"? ,i,. At time, since ber fast be-
pan she has fceen unconscious for varying pcri
ld but her mind is not affected and she fully
realizes ber cood.tion and is anxious for the
end to come. The only responses she can
.make to the sympathetic Inquiries of friends
are muffled groamf.
HAPPY lTOPTIALS.
Two BMIliaat fii. '' ?ake p,ace In
Ou e Klcht.
rSPrCTALTXI.BA.'TOTDia,iTCB.. -
Newark. O.. September 2a-Brilliant and
happy nupals were those consummated at the
home of Attorney John SwartA North
Fourth street last night at 8 o'clock. The con
tracting parties were Mr. Samuel Sachs one of
the best known ad popular young German
citizens of this city, and Miss Annie Grace
Crlsswill. Tbe ceremony was performed by the
Rev. E. B. Jones, of the Fifth Street Baptist
Church. There was a large number ;
present Many valuable and "J'SLS
presented. The couple left foi' Cincinuation
their wedding fmr. . , a.
Another notable event toot pBvje at St
Frances De Sales Church, where- Mr. J-nn
Flanagan, a prominent yonng businej man,
and Miss Katie Knas. daughter of Mr. Joiin
Knas, were united in marriage by Rev. Fatbar
Hayes at 7 o'clock, in the presence of a large
number of friends. They will remain ia JieW'
ark.
CURIOUS CONDEHSATIMS.
The oldest native of Oregon is 46 years
of age.
Georgia has 300 life-time prisoners ia
the penitentiary.
A thriving mining camp in palifornia
is named Glmletrllle.
Seven conples were married in the lit
tle town of Carbondale a day or two ago.
A machine for making shoestrings out
of paper is a recent Philadelphia invention.
A fir tree was cut in Washington Stat?
that scaled 20,500 feet. The top log was not
counted.
An octogenarian at Maysyille, O., bas
just t?ken his seventh wife a" woman 50 years,
his junior. '
A Pqmeroy, O., woman gave birth fo
tripleis. two boys and a girl, Wednesday night
Tbe combined weight of the three is 19H
pounds.
A new sort of "tafly" pavement is being
laid on the boulevard Anspacb Brussels. It is
composed of India rubber and ground stones
of various kinds.
Tbe engineer on a locomotive near
Green Cove Spring. Fla., last week, caught two
partridges in his hands out of a covey, while
flying through tbe cab.
Alary E. Tennis was granted a divorce
at Columbus, O". Wednesday. When the peti
tion was grantea she kissed all the ladies in at
tendance and ber attorney.
Some of the small boys in Phcauix, Ant,
have made considerable pocket money by col
lecting large scorpions, centipedes and rattle
snakes, wbicb they pickle and sell to tourists.
The curator of the Brooklyn Institute
told a reporter tbe other day tbat one beauti
ful butterfly in tbe collection of the institute is
valued at 31,000. tbat sum having recently been
paid for a duplicate.
A negro living at Newman, Ga., is 90
years of age, bas had three waes, is the father
of 41 children and bas nearly 400 grand and
greatgrandchildren. Be is capable of doing a
fair day's work on the farm.
A doctor and an undertaker heard of a
man who was hurt near Menominee, and rode
to tbe scene of tbe accident in tbe same ng,
the former taking his Dillboc and tho latter his
coffin. The doctor got tbe job.
The miracle working wells of Galgoeze,
ia the district of Pressburg, Hungary, are at
tracting so many thousands of pi'grims from
wo Biuiuuuuiujj wuu lies ujab fcue autuuriucs
have been forced to call iu the military to keep
order.
Kilgore is a strapping big fellow, but
he has the smallest foot in Congress smaller
even than that of Joe Blackburn, whose dapper
feet Kentucky ladies are said to travel miles to
see. The largest foot in Congress is carried
around by Speaker Reed.
A school girl coming home to report
having won two prizes, says the Cincinnati
Commc, cial, remarked tbat one of tbem was
for having tbe best memory. Being asked what
tbo other prize was for, she replied: "For tbe
life of me, I can't just now thins; what that
was for."
Nine-tenths of the raisins sold in this
country are made in Calif ornia, and yet Cali
fornia raisinmakers ship all their best goods to
New York and bave tbem boxed and marked
as if tbey came from Spain. Tbey claim tbat
the public looks with more favor on imported
raisins, and for this reason they are obliged to
go to all this trouble.
A burglar got fast in the window of a
house occupied by John Roach, of Faterson.
John Is a moralist and he dressed himself and
sat down on a chair and talked to that burglar
for two long hours without a break. Then tbe
burglar asked to be either knocked on the
bead or let go.and Mr. Roach talked to bim ono
hour longer and then suffered bim to depart .
Postoffice Inspector Pulcifer is hunting
up post office relics for the museum at Wash
ington. He states that a postmaster's commis
sion was found at Gceen Bay which was dated
in tbe year 1818, and another in tbe year 18iS.
Green Bav is making an effort to take the lead
in postofflca relics for Wisconsin, and has a
good chance to do so, having about the oldest
history of any town in Wisconsin.
Out at the Folsom Prison, Oregon, there
is a horse that bas developed a singular char
acteristic, which consists in an earnest desire
to eat all the red and green peppers be can get
bold of. Tbe animal behaves just like any
otner horse, except in the particular matter
above. He Is a good worker and tame and
manageable. Hon he acquired tbe love tor
peppers is a matter of conjecture. '
The old New York Marble Cemetery on
Second street, between First and Seccrd ave
nues. New York, is notable as containing not a
single grave. The ground was filled Up from
tbe beginning with sunken stone vanlts, in
which tbo dead are Dlaced. Tbeso vaults have
a thin covering of soil thrown over tbem,
which is now laid out iu grassy plots and walks.
Robert Fulton, of steamboat fame, is buried iu
this cemetery.
Alvan Clark is now constrnctiug a tele
scope for a Los Angeles oDservatory that will
bring the moon within an apparent distance of
100 miles from the observer. It is expected
tbatwbeptbis telescope is finished, the ques
tion whether there are any inhabitants on the
moon will be definitely settled, and also
whether tbe supposed inhabitants of the planet
Mars are signalling to as by means of certain
lights which astronomers have noticed on that
planet
Charles Damon, a Lansing. Mich., car
penter, contracted to build a S955 house for G.
C. Watson, for which he was to pay 90 per cent
before the completion of the house. Watson
did not live up to his agreement. Damon was
no chump, and instead of wasting bis money on
a lawyer be quietly jacked that house op for
moving late Saturday night, and when tbe
peaceful Sabbath morn dawned tbat honso oc
cupied another lot Watson, is mad, but thuj
won't bring back the house.
"While working in his sawmill at Plaas
ant Hill. Lane county. Ore., H. M. Kelley's
left band was caught in a machine ad was
chopped to piecs. Ufa men bound bis arm
tightly below the shoulderand sent for a doctor.
It was seven hours before one came, and by
this time the arm was terribly swollen from
bein"too tightly bound. The arm was ampu
tated at the wrist but no circulation could be
restored, and tbe blood that collected in the
arm was poisoned, and when carried into tbe
system brought on lockjaw, which proved fatat
A system has been invented by an officer
of tbe United States navy by which stringed
musical in-truments can be operated by elec
tricity. He produces sound by tho vibration of
a stretched wire in a magnotic field. An
alternating current is passed through the ire,
and vibratii ns are set up and continue so long
as the current flow. The best results are
gained where tbe current is made and broken
unevenly, as by rubbing a terminal overa coarse
file. Tbe inventor proposes to apply bis In
vention In an electrical piano, and also in a
system of multiple telegraphy.
A FUsJLADE OF FU.V.
""What do you charge tor performing the
marriage ceremony?" aske d a prospective brlde
croom of a Cblcazo clergyman.
"Five dollars." replied the minister, "but yon
can save money by buying a commutation ticket
six ceremonies for ?3. ,y Jester.
"How good ot you to come, doctor; I
didn't expect you this morning;."
' '3 o. but I was called to your opposite neighbor,
poor Mrs. Brown, and I thought I miabtas well
kill two birds with one stone." Punch.
K Fair Entertainer (to young operator)
M hat side of the market-Is that the way to putltf
are you on this week, Mr. BroLaw?"
Young Operator (at the other end of the sofa)
I am what they call a "bear," Miss Kajones.
Fair Entertainer- Indeed! Von yon don't act
tbe least bit in tne world like a bear, Mr. Brofcaw.
Chicago Tribune.
Seaside Hotel Proprietor I see yon have
given our finest suite of rooms to a man named
Bllklns. Are you sure he can pay the rates?
Clerk Yes. he's Immensely rich.
Proprietor How do you know?
Clert-He Isold and uIy and his wife Is young
and pretty. Sew XorK Weekly,
"x"a-as," siid the Apglomaniac, "the
Fablsof .Miagawa would be twnlygwand, don't
you know, but for one dwawback."
"What Is thai?"
Tbeyahhahf Amewlcan, ah." Pact.
"It seems to me I ought to know yon," re
marked a linmorlsl to a Joke.
"l'ououahllo," replied tbe Joke; "I am yonr
own child: but I've been translated into the Ger
man and back since 1 left home." Pact.
Mrs. Hashleigh Try some of this steak,
Mr. Fnnnlboy.
i'nnniboy rhank yon. 1 am not a police Court
Jndpe, Mrs. Hashlelzh, bnt yet I have to try a
good many tough cases.
Mrs. Bashlel?h-Mr. fnnnlboy. I will want yuar
room when your week Is up. Wist Shore.
"A pennv tor your thought,!" exclaimed
Miss Amy to yonng Goslln.
"Weally, 11IS3 Amy," replied Goilln, endeav
oring to'be funny, "yon make me feel cheap."
Tuiiorry, but Itbongbt you might possibly
tbiak a cent's worth If you tried real hard,''
Hilt Store.
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