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riTTSBUBG. MONDAY. OOP. CO, 183a
TUK VERDICT OF OUK VISITORS.
It is gratifying to oar local pride to learn
from the filial frankness of one of the En
glisb. iron and steel men who is on his way
home, that our recent visitors were a good
deal more impressed with the magnitude
and progress of our industries than they ex
pressed in their utterances while here. The
British tendency to iuipassireness and re
serve, combined with the fact that our
guests were inspecting establishments that
are rivals of their own. made their utter
ances rather cool and placed a check upon
their admiration. But it is now stated tht
the actual effect of Pittsburg's mills,
furnaces, class work', oil and gas wells,
coke works and coal mines, npon the visit
ing foreigners, was one of surprise if not of
amazement.
While it is very pleasant to know that our
industries impressed the expert foreigners
even more than was indicated by their kind,
though guarded, expressions of approval, it
is worth while to bear in mind the fact that
Pittsburg has really more to gain from the
criticisms of its visitors than from their ad
miration. "Whatever we have accomplished
is a fixed fact, whether it is recognized or
not; but by studying the criticisms of expert
rivals, our manufacturers may obtain val
uable suggestions as to the means bv which
the results can be enlarged or made more
certain.
It was a wise remark of the late John
3IcCullough that no criticism of his acting
was so shallow that he could not find in it
some suggestion that he could make val
uable. The wisdom of that rule of action
is far more cogent when it leads to a careful
ktudy of whatever the iron and steel masters
ot the Old World found in our industries
that is susceptible of improvement
AX INDICATION OF INADEQUACY.
A point which goes lar toward discredit
ing the adequacy of the census as a whole,
is brought out by the Kew York Xation in
a very forcible manner. The point has
had some attention in these columns be 'ore,
but the Sutton gives the figures in a form
that seems to be unanswerable. The per
centage of natural increase of population
or excess of births over deaths has been
slowly diminishing throughout the century;
but the rate oi decrease is steady. In the
first decade it was 35 per cent; in the decade
before the war it had gotten down to 24 per
cent. The census of 1870 covered the war
decade in which this percentage would
naturally be reduced, and besides that the
census of that year was notoriously inade
quate. This explains why the percentage
of natural increase was put by it at 15 per
cent. In 18b0 the percentage was shown to
be nearly 23 per cent. But when we take
Mr. Porter's total, and deduct the gain by
immigration, we find that the increase, by
the excess of births over deaths is reduced,
to V& per cent, or actually less than during
tbc war decade. As it is impossible to
believe that such a violent drop in the
vitality of the nation has actually occurred,
it is necessary for the census authorities to
dhow some reason why this does not discredit
the entire census.
SMALL HOUSES CALLED FOR.
The need of small houses for the labor
ing population of Pittsburg, as already
pointed out by The Dispatch, is at once
attracting public attention and receiving
such corroboration as places it beyond dis
pute. Elsewhere will be found the testi
mony of real estate authorities that a thou
sand such houses suitable for the class that
pays from $100 to $200 annual rent could be
rented in a single week. In addition to that
is the somewhat startling assertion that the
loss of copulation to Pittsburg, by the in
ability of this class to find houses, amounted
during the past year to 5,000.
The importance of supplying this demand
is apparent on the surface, while the profit
from such investments is equally plain. It
is certain that the acres of property made
accessible by electric and cable roads ought
to furnish sites for thousands of pleasant
workingmeu's cottages as well as the more
pretentious sort of suburban residences.
The policy urged by our real estate men is
the construction of two and three-roomed
houses, which will no doubt yield a quick
and certain return on the investment. But
it may be questioned whether a more far
sighted course will not be the erection of a
rather better grade of cottages to rent at the
same money. To construct two or three
roomed houses in largequantities would very
soon degenerate the district where it is done
into tenement and shanty property. On the
other hand, the construction of neat double
cottages containing four or five rooms each
could be carried on in a way that will make
any neighborhood attractive, and also be an
actual benefit to the public.
It is certain that if the present activity in
building does not provide good homes for
workingmen, as well as fine residences and
showy middle-class houses, it will miss one
of its main purposes.
OUK WAGES TOTAL.
Our esteemed cotemporary, the Harris
burg Call, has made a rather amusing
blunder which illustrates the importance of
the decimal point It states that the total
wages paid in Allegheny last year was $34,
000,000, and as the population was 550,000,
this gives an average of 619 10 wages for
every man, woman and child in the county.
It piocecds to calculate that only one per
son in three of the total popnlation is a
wage-earner, which give the remarkably
fat income to the average worker of Alle
gheny county of a little over $1,850.
It would be pleasant to believe that the
Call's figures are correct, although they
would disclose to a good many people in
Allegheny county who believed themselves
t j be earning more than the average income
the fact that they are below the average.
But if the Call had paid mora attention to
its decimal point, it would have found that
the result of dividing 534,000,000 by 550,000
is only 61.81 as the average earnings,
which is ridiculous. A further knowledge
of the subject would have disclosed the fact
that by the census of 1S80, the wage
workers whose'earnings are reported by the
manufacturing census, are less than one in
seven. This, if the Call's figures had been
correct, would have made an average in
come of $4,300 annually, but, by the pro
cess of correct division and multiplication,
amounts to $430 annually.
The presumption is that the statement of
wages paid in this county last year at$34, 000,
000 is obtained from the census authoritiesal
though we have not seen the official report
If so, it is another evidence of the imperfec
tion of the census. It indicates an average
rate of wages lower than the rate shown by
the census of 1880. while wages have ad
vanced; and it places the average for all the
labor in our manufacturing industries, of
which a large portion is skilled labor, at
less than$l 50 per day. or below the bottom
rate for unskilled labor. It shows an in
crease of only $12,000,000 on the total
shown by the census of 18S0; while the in
creased wages, in the iron and steel indus
tries alone, indicated by the enlargement of
outpnt, is 25 per cent greater than that
sum.
If the official report shall show this total
to refer to the iron and steel industries of
Allegheny county alone, the amount of $34,
000,000 may be very nearly correct If it
includes all the manufacturing establish
ments of the county it will be almost as
erroneous as the esteemed Call's well-meant
but mistaken dallying with the processes of
long division.
FUTUKE STEEL CENTERS.
The visit of the British iron and steel
visitors to the iron manufacturing district
of Birmingham, Alabama, was an interest
ing one, not only to that section, but to
Pittsburg, which has kept a Kindly watch
on that district not so much as a present
rival as an infant which may in time be
come one. The reports state that all the
speakers united in declaring that good basic
steel could be made there as cheaply as in
any district in the world, and Sir Lowthian
Bell repeated his prediction of 1874 that
Birmingham would become the point of
cheapest iron production in the Union,
which he considers already realized.
These assertions, made by authorities of
such standing, are, of course, extremely en
couraging to the Alabama interests, and
must be taken to indicate the direction of
their greatest growth. Heretofore the com
plete success of the Alabama iron industry
has been hampered by the unsatisfactory re
sults of their efforts to produce iron fit for
the Bessemer process. The declarations
quoted are to be taken as a corroboration of
what has been intimated before, that the
basic process affords the Alabama region
the most available method of converting her
mineral deposits into steel, and that with
the adoption of that process the future
erection of a great steel manufacturing
center there is to be taken as a settled
thing.
Pittsburg can recognize this fact frankly
and without jealousy. The experience, skill
and muscle which our city has sent to that
district has been no mean contribution to its
growth in that direction. But because we
recognize that our Southern neighbors have
before them the brilliant prospect of becom
ing competitors to Pittsburg's steel products,
that is no reason why we must concede that
even at &ome distant point in the future the
supremacy will be transferred. On the con
trary the recognition of the import
ant part which basic steel is to
play in creating a competitor, only points
out to Pittsburg the way in which she
must fortify her position by enlarging her
plants for that class of manufacture as ener
getically as she has done with the Bessemer
and open-hearth processes. Pittsburg has
within easy reach immense supplies of ores
suitable for the basic process, and by taking
the steps necessary to make them tributary
to her works she can maintain her leadership
in the manufacture ot steel in the future as
decidedly as in the past
Our city need not depreciate or refuse to
recognize the progress of a possible rival in
the domestic production of steel. But when
the factors which promise to create that rival
can also be made to strengthen the indus
tries of Pittsburg, the fact is worth careful
attention.
United States Teeasukek Huston
is quoted as saying that if Indiana should go
Democratic this year it would make President
Harrison's renomination certain in 1S92. Per
haps this is to be construed as indicating that
the "private business" of DndUy and New in
Indiana this fall is to see that the State goes
Democratic
In view of the avowal of the Governor of
Oklahoma that he is afraid of being assassi
nated on account of the war over the location
of that Territory s capital, it is obvious that
the scheme Suggested by the New York Sun of
letting both the contending towns be capitals,
is the correct one. Every town in a Territory
should be a capital rather than have the Gov
ernors wastes. It may amuse the towns and It
will not hnrt the rest of the country.
The steel conference develops the fact
that while the Government standards cause de
lay in furnishing material for the new navy, it
results in puttiig nothing but the best ma
terial in the ships. The public, oninion will be
likely to say that it is best to go a little slower
and get the best results that can be attained.
Mb. Chauncey M. Depew informed his
hearers here, that what has been written about
labor and capital is "mostly trash" and then
proceeded to say that "labor cannot get alone:
without capital and capital is useless withont
labor." As this is what is asserted by all the
volumes to which Sir. Depew referred so slight
ingly, we are driven to the conclusion that Mr.
Depew retards it as his function to add to the
stock of trash.
A WOMAN living in Newport, who while
away from home took more wine than her head
could stand, drowned herself rather than re
turn nome in disgrace. This is a very severe
remedy; bnt if it were made to apply to the
male sex it would effect a remarkable decrease
in intoxication as well as population.
The committee of citizens in Philadel
phia organized to detect and prevent frauds in
voting is already proving its usefulness. One
assessor has been discovered who placed on the
registry lists of bis district 123 false names,
and that opportunity for getting In fine work
has been closed. This method of checking
frauds before they are committed nill earn the
approval of honest men without regard to
party.
JlES. Feank Leslie is informing admir
ing audiences in the West that Henry VIII. was
an epigrammatic talker and that Charles IL had
a flnesbape. Thus we perceive the full fruition
of all that advertising which the Marquis de
Leuville succeeded in obtaining for the fair
lecturer.
"Highee-pkiced hops means higher
priced beer. Higher-priced beer means fewer
Anarchists," remarks the Baltimore Americai.
Is this intended to assert that the drinkers of
cheap beer are Anarchists, and that they will
reform their opinions If they hare to pay ten
centsaglas3? It that is so, what a collection
of Anarchists we have had in all ourcltles
these years past, without ever finding it outl
Last week was a remarkable one for
weather. We had two pleasant days in suc
cession. '
Senator Plumb informed a New York
interviewer that be represents the State of
Kansas and not the State of Pennsylvania. It
seems so, but then why does not Senator Plnmb
go out where Senator Ingalls is making snch a
violent effort to continue representing the State
of Kansas, and give the Kansas people grounds
on which to decide which of them represented
the State best
PB0MINENT MEN AND WOMEN.
The Pope is an enthusiastic amateur gar
dener.
George Vandekbilt's ambition is to col
lect the finest library in America.
Collector Erhaiidt. of New York, has
been sued 4,000 times since be took office .
Senator Gorman has leased Perry Bel
mont's Washington house for a term of years.
Jimmy Whistler is very much like one of
his own etchings picturesque, interesting and
quaint
Julian 8turgis. who has written the lib
retto for Sir Arthur Sullivan's new opera, is a
distinguished Oxford man and the author ot
several interesting books.
Justice Miller had never studied or even
thought of the law until he was SO years old,
and when Lincoln found him an active lawyer
and politician in Iowa fn 1SC3 he had never
presided over a court
ARCHBISHOP EYRE, of Glasgow, who Is
about to be raised by tbo Pope to the Sacred
College, is one of the most popular prelates in
Great Britain, and his promotion will be
hailed in Scotland by all classes with en
thusiasm. Prop. James Bkyce, the distinguished
author of "The American Commonwealth,"
will deliver the only lectnre during his present
visit in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The
subject- will be "An Ago of Discontent; or
Some Characteristics of the Ago Wo Live in.,'
Ocida w'rites as follows in the Animal
Guardian: In all ages animals have been
cruelly, wantonly, treacherously sacrificed to
the desires, greeds or pleasures of men; but
never, perhaps, with more cynical and cold
blooded deliberation than in theso latter years
of this century.
Prince Meshtsiiebsky. editor and pro
prietor of Orashdinin the official journal of
Russia, makes a serious proposal to his Govern
ment to forbid the publication of all newspa
pers in Russia excepting bis own. He would
spare his own for the reason that it is the
official organ. The Czar is considering the
matter.
Mrs. M. Edith Howcott, of New Orleans,
probably owns more real estate than any other
Southern woman. She has in her own right
over 50,000 acres of selected timber lands in
Louisiana and Mississsippi, and is still buying.
Sua has just completed a purchase of 6,500
acres ot hardwood and cypress timber land in
Louisiana and 1,000 acres of pine in Texas.
Mb, WU.I.IAM Waldorf Astor possesses
two books which have no duplicates. These are
his own historic novels. Valentino and Sf orza,
interleaved and illustrated with water-color
drawings, pen and ink sketches, and illumina
tions in gold and silver, all done at his own sug
gestion, and expressing bis own ideas. The
artist is Major David E. Cronin, who is ono of
the best living illustrators, and the beautiful
volumes are said to have cost nearly 1,000
each.
HEALTHY PAETY CEITIC1SH
Fralsed by an English 3L 1 Who Con
demns the Policy of Obstruction.
In a recent address by Mr. R. S. Donkin, M.
P., to his constituents at a Conservative meet
ing in Tynemouth," England, he took occasion
to pertinently remark that while he was con
demning obstruction in language than which
he wished be could find stronger and better to
convince them, be would like them to clearly
understand that be was the very last person in
the world who would wish to minimise or lessen
healthy party criticism. Party criticism was
the very life-blood the very pulsation of the
life-blood Parliament. Without it be would
trust no party, whether Whig, Gladstonlan,
Radical or Tory. Without that wholesome
stimulus of party criticism be considered there
was national danger to the country. THear,
hear.l But party criticism was one thins, and
scandalous obstruction was another. Hear,
bear. Criticism ought to be based on the
lines of
Blame where you must.
Be candid where yon can.
And be each critic
A good natured man.
Party criticism consisted in opposition to
measures which were generally disliked, but
obstruction such as they bad it in the last ses
sion of Parliament was the obstruction of all
measures which came from the Government,
and many ot the measures which the party op.
Fosed they bad often advocated and brought
orward themselves, and the only object of the
obstruction was the discrediting of the Govern
'ment Hear, bear.
BEADY WITH US PSOGBAMME.
Entertainments Arranged for the Winter
Season of the Y. 3L C. A.
The Young Men's Christian Association has
completed its arrangements for the -winter
course of entertainments. The programme is
as follows: The Ideal Concert Sextet, of New
York, with Miss Carrio Louise Ray, reader, in
"An Evening With Thomas Moore," November
25; Rev. P. S. Henson. D. D., of Chicago, in a
new lecture. December 26; Boston Ideal Banjo,
Mandolin and Guitar Club, with a vocal quar
tet, January 23; Mrs. Scott Siddons, aramatic
and miscellaneous readings. February 27;
Swedish Male Quartet, with Miss Lura Barden.
reader, March 27: Bill Nye with Miss Ollie Tor
bet, violinist: Gustave Tholberg, the Swedish
tenor, and Frank Downey, theiianist.
In order to accommodate the large audieaces
tbatalwajs attend the association entertXin
ments Old City Hall has been secured for tbise
performances. Only life or sustaining roefn
bersbip tickets will be received for admlssifn.
These tickets will be recognized only when re
sented by the owner in person, and will ajfrnit
tbe owner and one lady. Members desiring to
bring more than one lady or a gentleman can
procure extra tickets at SO centi cacb. The en
tertainments are in charge of a committee con
sisting of Charles E. Orr, Thomas Neely, Grant
Hubley, Charles S. Shoemaker, Harry J. Her
ron and General Secretary L B. Griggs.
DUNNING ENVELOPES.
A Recent Decision Upon What Words Vio
late the Protective Lair.
From the tNew York Tribune. I
Jndge Wheeler, of tbe United States District
Court of Vermont, has gone further than
other judges In construing the law pro
hibiting tbe mailing of envelopes having on tbe
outside words calculated to reflect injuriously
upon tbe character of anyone. Under this law
persons have been fined or imprisoned for
sending dunning letters on the envelopes con
taining which were written words indicating a
doubt whether tbe debt would be paid.
Jndge Wheeler has just decided that the law
was violated by sendiug through tbe mails
letters contained m envelopes bearing the
words, "Excelsior Collection Agency," printed
in large letters across the upper half of the
envelope. The judge says that the printed
w ords are separate from the directions to re
turn to the respondent if not called for, in tbe
lower left hand corner; and were obviously
placed so as to attract attention, and reflect
delinquency in payment upon the person sent
to. The object probably was to make the
person pay up to avoid repetition of the re
flection." "The protection ot individual against
annoyances is much more nearly perfect than
before tbe passage of the amendments of 1888,
under which Jndge Wheeler's decision was
rendered.
DEATHS OF -A DAY,
Mrs. Nancy A. Beymer.
Mrs. Nancy A. Beymer, mother of Simon Bey
mer, President orthe Bcymer-Bauman Lead Com
pany, died yesterday afternoon at the late resi
dence of her sou. No. 4629 Firth avenue. East End.
Mrs. Beymer was In her S3th rear and was well
known In this city for her benet olence and many
acta of charltr. she was always (Interested In
church work", and her death will be regretted by
the charitable ladies of the city, who found In Mrs J
Beymer a valued friend and a trusted adviser!,
bue bad been ailing for some time, but on account
of her advanced years tne physicians could not
pull her through, although she nad the best medi
cal attention la the city. She sanK gradually un
til yesterday, when surrounded br family and
friends her spirit passed away.
Jacob Stein.
Jacob Mcln. or the Fifteenth ward, died yester
day at hl borne, 3319 Butler street, from the
effects of an abcess hack of his ear. Mr. btela
was 44 years of age. He had resided in Lawrence
ville Tor many years, and was prominent lu local
politics.'
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
The fanatics of one generation are the
heroes of tbe next.
Do you dream? Or are your slumbers so
sound that tbe ghosts refuse to walk neither
night or day T Surely we all dream more or
less weird, bewildering, mysterious, pleasant
or horrible dreams dreamsthat cheer, or
dreams that depress; dreams wo wish were fact
instead ot fancy; dreams wo are glad to have
vanish, leaving only a faint vision of unutter
able horror, a black trail of misery across the
mysterious plain we traverse in the Land of
Nod. But surely life is sweeter with the
dreams. How we do sometimes revel in tho
delights of a tour throucb Dreamland wander
amid flowers fairer than earth's choicest
growths, stroll through fields greener, trees
grander, castles older; rest beside seas bluer,
brooks clearer, rivers wider; bear lighter laugh
ter, merrier music, sweeter voices; see fairer
faces, brighter stars, bluer heavens than
while plodding along in the waking hours.
These the dreams we cling to; but, alas, theso
bo the dreams that flic, that vanish, leaving only
a faint shadow a memory vague, a touch light,
a joyless joy, a faded fancy. Did you ever try
to pick up the missing links of a pleasant
dream? And how they do refuse to be welded
by memory into that long chain which stretches
from tbe,cradlo to the grave. They dance be
fore memory's eyes like wicked little fairies,
flitting in and ouLrefnsing to be grouped
children of the dark afraid of tbe light a lost
chord in a melody never composed but which
will be composed again. Then the bad dreams
dreams whlcbwake us with a shout, a shiver,
a moan a vision tbat appalls, a ghost that
alarms, a memory that haunts. These the
dreams which cling. Ugh, how they do annoy
us. to be sure. We try to chase them off, to
eraso tbcm from memory's slate with
the sponge of will wet with
the sweat drops tbat came when tho Horror
scared off sleep and lifted our eye-lids with its
clammy fingers. But there it stands, a mock
Inc monster from tbe sea of sleep, a ghost
from the Land of Dreams. But dreams must
come to alL To you perhaps pleasant; to you
perhaps sad. To he of tho clear conscience,
joyful; to he of the troubled mind, joyless. To
bo who fears ncltber the darkness nor the light
they have no terrorsf to bo who sees shadows
in the sunshine and monsters in the murk they
are hideous frightful nightmares fiends of the
frolics in the mysterious divide that lies be
tween tho land of the living and tbe region of
the dead.
"
He smiles and nods to ladies fair,
He's a most engaging talker;
But his restless cj es roam everywhere.
For he's the bead floor-walker.
Life seems to be a lottery in Now Orleans
now-a-days.
Will the free traders swear at McKinley
when the mercury goes up next summer?
New business blocks are tbe finger boards
that point out a city's prosperity. They are
plentiful in Pittsburg, too.
Ir death steals upon you while you are argu
ing religion, refusing to accept the Truth until
convinced, it will be too late to choose.
You can trust with a secret the woman who
tells youhtr right age.
Children must have toys, but old people
should select them.
THE boy who enters into play with zeal and
fairness will, if nothing happens, show similar
traits in business.
THE "Philadelphia Inquirer has a double
lealked leader on "Pennsylvania's Grave Issue."
It is afraid Mr. Delamater is going to be
DurieB, and is trying hard to keep him above
the dlisies.
LoVe's labor's light
Pity tbe McKinley bill placed a heavier
duty on imported drygoods. Tbe decollette
dress will now be cut lower instead of higher.
The diver is the helmeted hero of tbe nine
teenth century.
Bo"ss, when you marry don't qnit making
love. If there was a little more of it stretched
through and beyond tbe honeymoon the di
vorce courts would not be quite so busy.
' The baseball player's favorite song should
be "There's no place'like hom.V ' 'V
!
Buck Kilgore might make his mark on the
football field.
When days were fine tbe squirrel made hay,
And stocked his winter nest;
Bnt the idle tramp put naught away.
And must seek a '-Bummers' Rest."
There's an old adage to tbe effect that
"children and fools should not handle edged
tools." It is vividly recalled by the Town
send street tragedy. Babies have no use for
knives, and parents who place them in their
tiny bands are criminally negligent.
Does Zane for one moment imagine that the
people of the oil regions are zanies?
The tobacco men on the Florida Keys hold
tho key to the cigar situation.
You can't insult a cigarette smoker, appar
ently. Soon the beautiful snow will be falling down,
And tbe poets will greet it with cush;
But as soon as it touches the streets of the
town x
It will only be turned into slush.
Most women litt their skirts to step over a
match. Force of habit, dear boy.
In walking through life we tread upon
graves.
A man likes a shiny hat, but be longs to
shed a shiny coat.
Some people believe the State Capitol will
be removed to the Standard offices, Broadway,
N. Y., if their man wins. ,.
Women can match dress goods and arrange
matrimonial matches with neatness and dis
.patch. AN uncllnched lie is generally accepted as
truth after awhile.
IP the Northwestern tier goes for Paulson,
Delamater will tear his hair.
THE duty on champagne under the new tariff
is $8 a case and tbe bottles are taxed three cents
apiece, makine a total duty on a quart bottle
69 cents. It will cost more to break their
necks or your own now.
A fortune can be made with or withont
tools or machinery.
The girl who now the largest check can draw
Amid tiie throng no more's a speck.
Since It has been decreed by Fashion's law
Tbat she must wear the largest check.
It's handy to have an elephant appear in a
ballet. His trunk will hold the wardrobe, you
know.
The girl who sported In the sad sea waves.
And basked on sands while drying out her
hair,
Soon with delight will rob the willing slaves
Who call upon her at the fancy fair. '
Strange though it be, the worst criminals
get the longest obituary notices.
Willie Winkle.
Catholic PoUtics In Italy.
From tbe Osservittore Jtomano.
The political programme of the Catholic
party of Italy is based upon the restoration of
the temporal power of tbe Pope, but accepts to
a great extent Italian unity and the mainte
nance of a national representative body. It de
mands political liberty and tbe respect due to
religion, tbe reform of taxation, a direct tax ou
all incomes from private and public sources,
a large measure Of municipal self-government,
and good relations with other powers in order
that Italy may not become Isolated.
Suppressing the Sibyl.
From the Minneapolis Tribune. J
Boston did just right In suppressing tbe Sibyl
Johnstone show. Why, she didn't even have
on 4 pair ot spectacles, and her stockings, in
stead of being dark blue in color and rolled
back over ber boots, were creamy pink.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
The Welsh Visitors and Tin Plate.
To Ae Editor of Tbo Dlsnatch:
Your article, "More Tariff on Tin Plate," in
a recent edition, gives tbe opinions expressed
by the Welsh -tin plate makers now visiting
your city on the impracticability of a success
ful manufacture of tin plate lu this country,
and judging from Pittsburg's facilities, with a
tariff of JL2.10 cents per pound. Tho ostensi
ble purpose of these gentlemen in coming
here at this time was to attend tbe proceedings
of the Iron and Steel Institutes; their veritable
one was to decry our proposed tin plate mak
ing project, and to endeavor to block its wheels
of progress. However, their cackinatory as
sertions of inability to manufacture in compe
tition with themselves are not likely toproduce
any prejudicial effect upon sensible persons,
when tber motive attending their utterances is
so palpably an interested and personal one.
It is one thing to make a sweeping statement:
it is another to prove it. Yonr report attributes
to them the assertion "tbat tin plate could not
be made in America under a less protective
tarifS than 4 cents per pound;" also tbat from
compiled local data they had carefully fiirured
ont costs of production, enabling; them of
course to arrive at this conclusion. Now if
they are correct we Americans have proved
ourselves incapable of perfecting any such
costs, and all tbo information in this direction
upon which the amended tariff bas been based
so that we may proceed with the Industry -has
been abortive, affording only to display our
consummate ignorance of the subject.
Well, if we are to don the cap and bells it is
but fair tbat the centlemen presenting us with
tbe Insignia ot folly give us a perfect fit to do
so, let them place their figuring before tbe peo
ple of Pittsburc. who thev sav cannot make tin
Tjlate with less protection than 4 cents a pound
to compete witb tbera in our market, xt win
both verify their statement and also convince
Pittsburgers that their assertions are more than
the vaporings of prejudiced men.
One Who Knows.
Pittsburg, October 18, 1890.
The Names of the Streets.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Ono who bas bad considerable experience in
traveling through tbe United States and
Europe, and who has often felt the want of a
"bureau of information," would suggest the
placing of the names' of tbe streets on the
lamps at the street corners throughout the
city, where they could be plainly seen both day
and night, as the greatest "bureau of informa
tion" the City ot Pittsburg could give tbe
"stranger public," consisting of a majority of
her own citizens, all visitors from other cities
and tbe thousands of country people who
annually visit the Exposition and other at
tractions of the city. Tbe few names of streets
now tacked up on tbe corners of buildings are
often covered by a sign or awning and cannot
be found in the daytime and cannot be seen at
night at all. With the spirit ot progress now
prevading Pittsburg in the way of public parks
and other improvements, tho placing of the
names of tbo streets as suggested is a crying
need. STRANGER.
Pittsburg, October 17, 1890.
The Age of Majority.
To the Editor ot The Dispatch:
Will you please Inform me why a male person
attains his majority at tbe age of 21 and at what
period of history was this rule adopted and
oblige. Ignoramus.
New Brighton, October 18. 189a
Twenty-one is not even now tbe majority
age in all conntries. Tbe adoption of the Con
stitution made it the legal age in the United
States for males. In some States, notably Ohio,
a woman is of age at 18.
Who Can Give the Information?
To the Editor of The Dispatch :
While in New York some weeks ago I noticed
a man selling sticks of some material by
which, if a small piece were cut off ana placed
in a pipe of tobacco and touched with water a
light was obtained. Can you Inform me what
it was and whether it can be reduced to liquid
form? amateur Chemist.
Alliance, O., October 17, 1S90.
Lincoln's Call for Troops.
To the Editor or the Dispatch:
Please decide a bet. and state what was Pres
ident Lincoln's first call for men.and what num
ber, when tbe Civil War first broke out?
Allegheny, October 18, 1S90. Thomas.
Iu April, 1S61, President Lincoln called for
75,000 men to serve three months.
A Money Deposit is Usually Accepted.
To tbe Editor of tbe Dispatch.
Is money as good as real estate on a bond
i. e to bail any person in a criminal court?
Apollo, October 16, 1890. Everyday.
Tljje Dcepestpijait hi .England.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Please inform us which is the deepest coal
shaft in England, and state the depth.
Pittsburg. October IS. 1890. Many.
Mrs. Frank Leslie's Guest
From an Interview in the Chicago Tribune.
I am looking for a husband, but he must be
the light man.
EVARRA AND HIS GODS.
Kndyard Kipling's Latest.
Bead here.
This U the story of Evarraman.
Maker of gods (n lands beyond the sea.
Because tbe city gave him of ber gold.
Because tbc caravans brought turquoises.
Because his life was sheltered by the King,
bo that no man should malm him, nne should
steal
Or break his rest with babble In the streets
W hen lie was weary after toll, he made
An Image of his god in gold and pearl,
With turquoise diadem and emerald eyes:
A wonder In the sunshine, known afar
And worshipped by the King; but drunk with
pride.
Because the city bowed to him for God,
He wrote above the shrine "Thus gods are
made.
And whoso makes them otherwise shall dt."
And all the city praised him. Then he died.
Read here the story of Etarraman.
Maker of gods in lands beyond the sea.
Because his city had no wealth to give.
Because the caravans were spoiled afar,
Bcciiisc his life was threatened by the King,
So that all men despised him in streets.
He haded the living root, with sweat and tears,
And reared a god against the morning gold; '
A terror In the sunshine, seen afar
AniLworshlpped by the King; but, drunk with
pride.
Because the city fawned to bring him back,
He carved upon the plinth: "Thus gods are
made.
And who so makes them otherwise shall dte."
And all tbe people praised him. Then he died.
Head here te story of Evarraman.
Maker of gods in lands beyond the sea. -
Because be lived among a simple folk.
Because his village was between tbe hills.
Because he smeared his cheeks with blood of
ewes.
He cut an idol from a fallen pine,
Smeared blood upon Its cheeks and wedged a
shell
Above its brows for eye and gave it hair
Of trailing moss and plaited straw for crown;
And all tbe village praised him fr this craft.
And brought him butter, honey, milk and curds;
Wherefore, because the shoutings drove him
mad.
He scratched upon that log: -"Thus gods art
made.
And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.1
And all tbe people praised him. Then he died.
Head here the story of Evarra man.
Maker of gods in lands beyond the sea.
Because his god decreed one clot ot blood
Should swerve a halr's-breadth from tbe pulse's
path
And chafe his brain, Evara mowed alone,
Bag-wrapped, among the cattle in the fields.
Counting his fingers. Jesting with tbe trees
And mocking at the mist, until his god
Drove him to labor. Out of dung and horns
Drooped In the mire he made a monstrous god
Abhorrent, shapeless, crowned with plaintaln
tufts;
Ana when the cattle lowed at twilight time
He dreamed It was the clamor of lost crowds.
And howled among tbe beasts: "Thus gods are
made,
A nd whoso makes them otherwise shall die.'
Thereat the cattle bellowed. Then he died.
Yet at the last he came to Paradise
And found bis own four gods. Xheteat be
mocked
And marvelled, being very near to God,
What oaf on earth bad made his toll God's law.
Till God said, mocking, "Mock not; these be
thine."
Then cried Kvarra, ' T have sinned. " "Not so.
If thou hadst written otherwise thy cods
Dad rested in tbe mountain and the mine.
And I were poorer by four wondrous gods
And thy more wondrous law, Evarra thine.
Servant of shouting crowds and lowing klne."
Thereat, with laughing mouth but tear-wet
eyes, v
Evarra cast his cods from Paradise.
This is the story afJivarraman,
Maker of gods in lands beyond the sea.
GLIMPSES OF' LONDON.
A GRAPHIC PEN PICTURE FROM
GEORGE HODGES.
REV.
A Life-Time Required to See the Metropolis
of the World New York Streets Seem
Almost Deserted in Comparison Music
Everywhere.
T ondon is a exeat city. Even the children
in tbe Kindergartens know that. But you
must go there to recognize its greatness.
Get on top of one of the thousand omnibuses
which have their rendezvous at Charing Cross,
and take a morning journey through the
crowded streets. Direct your course along the
Strand and Fleet street to St. Paul's, or up to
Oxford street and along Holbornto the Bank
of England. The first wonder is to see tbe
driver make his way. It looks impassable and
impossible ahead. Tbe press of vehicles is like
tbe push of shoulders along a crowded side
walk. And yet along you go. never grazing
anybody's wheel nor running over anybody's
toes. This is one of the most interesting slehts
of London ydu never get weary of It to sit by
the driver, away urf on the hlzh seat of an
omnibus, and see him drive.
Really the New York streets look empty after
the throng and the multitude in the thorough
fares of London. The New York stores are
finer, th e buildings are handsomer and higher,
the shop windows more attractive. Tbere is
not anywhere in London such a jewelry store
as Tiffany's, nor snch a bookstore as Scribner's
or Button's. There are stores in Pittsburg
which might well astonish tbe eyes of cock
neys. But the crowds they have no equal
anywhere!
And the sights in the streets! Along tbe
curbstone go long lines of sandwich men, carry
ing great emblazoned placards behind them and
berore, announcing a play at a theater or ad
vertising a merchant's goods. At the corner
are sellers of strawberries and roses. The big
gest strawberries you ever saw every ono fit
for Goliah's breakfast, three good bites for any
common mortal and tbe reddest roses. In the
tbe side streets you will not go farther than a
block or two before you will como upon some
kind of mnsic In a walk of a mile
you will hear as many kinds of instruments of
mnslc as were ever played at the sittinc up of
any golden Image in the country of King Neb
uchednezzer. The "piano-organ," a3 they call
it, is omnipresent, and fairly melodious, some
times really worth listening to, and almost al
ways an improvement on the hand-organ of our
own highways and byways. In the dirty lanes
little dirty children will be seen merrily dancing
in time to its tunes, a sight both pleasant and
pathetic. Of course, there is "Punch and
Judy" on the curbstone, with an interested
audience.
Music Almost Everywhere.
A ND around the corner Is the "Little German
Band" blowing and fiddling lustily. And
here and tbere are solitary performers; a man or
woman, sometimes old and white-haired, stand
ing alone in the middle of the street andsinging.
You do not need to make a journey into White
cbapel to see the poverty of London, or to be
amazed at tbo thousand ways by which people
pick up a living in tbo London streets.
Every instantaneous photograph of a street
scene in London, every snap of a kodak from
St. Giles to St. James, from London Docks to
Hyde Park, would discover somebody with a
tall hat, and somebody with polished boots.
The top hat is worn by everybody who has any
aspirations whatever. And even people with
out a spark of aspiration contrive, somehow or
other, to keep a pair of shining shoes. It is
one ot me national characteristics. Of course,
it rains every day in London. I was there two
weeks, and never ventured out of doors with
out the protection of an umbrella. And yet,
along the wet and sloppy streets, here go these
regiments of resplendent shoes. It is one of
tbe mysteries of London.
Of course the people who walk these streets
are of every nation under heaven. Tbere are
no surprises in London. You are prepared for
anything. You may meet Mr. Gladstone, or
the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Mahara
jah of Cashmere, or a detachment of the Salva
tion Army, or your next door neighbor. Peo
ple of all complexions, people of all profes
sions from tbe parson to the peddler, people
htbited in every garb and hue which ever
troubled tbe dreams of a tailor, tbe good, tbe
bad and tbe indifferent, princes and paupers,
jostle eacb other in tbe London streets. I used
to go. nearly every day, along tho way between
Charing Cross and Tottcnhim Court road. Out
of Charing Cross opens the Strard. tbe street of
traffic, and Whitehall leading down past the
palate to Westmm.ter Abbey and the Parlia
ment Houses, and Pall Mall toward St. James
Park and Buckingham Palace and tbe dwell
ings of the aristocracy ;and Tottenban Court
road intersects Oxford street, where many of
the best shops are; and about midway between
the two yon pass the narrow alleys of the "Sev
en Dials." It is a significant journey.
Net er Can See London.
NTOBODYhas ever seen London. I nse the
verb, of course, in tho sense in which
Pope Fins IX. used it, who was accustomed, it
is said, to inqnire of people who came to pay
their reverence to him, "How long have j on.
been in Rome?" And if they said "a week," he
wonld answer. "Ah, then, you bave seen
Rome." If they bad been there a mouth tbe
holy father would rerlv, "Ah, then, you have
begun to see Rome." But if tbe visitor were
an inhabitant of Rome, or had spent years
there, the Pope wonld say, "Ah, you'havo
found ont tbat vou can never see Rome!" No
body bnt the Wandering Jew has ever seen
London. The Wandering Jew with a good
many more centuries on his hands than ho
knows what to do with, might, by spending two
or three hundred years of sightseeing day in
and day out, finally succeed in getting some
thing like an adequate Idea of London.
Suppose you begin with tbe British Museum.
They have tbo electric light tbere now, and the
building is open at night as well as bv day.
There is a great fence around it, strong enough
to keep out an invading army. And when you
get Inside the gates and up tbe big stone steps,
and past tbo grim stone Egyptian who guards
the door, and at last are quite within that
palace of marvels, you know not which way
to tnrn, nor wiiere to begin looking nor where
to stop, and you need to remind yourself every
now and then that you are really you. It is
more wonderful than any dream of Solomon.
It is tbe world's treasure bouse. Tbere is
everything hero from everywhere.
For hero are carvings from Egypt and great
statues from Assyria; here are tho sculptures
which Phidias made to adorn the Athenian
Parthenon, and tbe remains of the wonderful
tombs which they built for King Mausoleus
at Hallcarnassus, and bas-reliefs from the
royal palace of Sennacherib, and the Rosetta
stone which gave tbe clue to the meaning of
the hieroglyphics on tbe Egyptian monument'.
Here are candlesticks which stood in Roman
banquet halls, and jewels which Roman ladies
wore, and swords which Roman soldiers
wielded, and mummie, and mummies and
mummies! Some of men and women, some of
little children with their plaublng?, some of
cats. Here they are those old, proud Egypt
ians, who sat once in palaces aud were lords
over thousands of their fellow men, and now
Tom, Dick and Harry point their flneers at
them in aland of whose very existence they bad
never dreamed. And such treasures of manu
scripts! Old missals, painted by monks in tbe
comers of old cloisters, where the sky looks
in now over tbe tops of tbe broken wall and the
ivy grows against tbe stones, and tbe Codex
Alexandrinus one of the three oldest copies of
tbe Bible, written out in the year 400 and some
thing, the name of tbe patient scribe unknown:
and letters which Luther wrote, and Calvin and
John Knox; Anne Boleyn's letter toWolsey
thanking him for bringing about her roarnaco
with Henry, and Pope Leo's bull making the
same Henry bearer of the title "Defender of
the Faith," both tbe letter and the ball read
ing strangely in tbe light of after history: and
Milton's copy of the Bible, and Lady Jaue
Grey's prayer book. And then tbe books which
Caxton printed.
No End to the Sights.
A nd so on, and so on. endlessly, till your head
aches. The Wandering Jew, fn processtof
"seeing" London, might stay in tbe British
Museum till Macanlay's New Zealander shall
tie bis electric balloon to a broken arch of
London Bridge to sketch the rums of St.Paul'8,
and still there would be more for him to learn
there. And yet the British Museum is hut ono
among tbe thonsand places of interest in this
enormous London.
One whole day 1 spent In the reading room of
the British Musenm. Nobody can get in there
unless be goes for genuine study. You have to
get the special permission of the bead librarian.
He asks you for a reference to some London
householder, and wants to know what use
you purpose making sf the reading-room, and
you set down your name and yonr city address
in a big blank book, and then yon get tbe val
uable bit of paper which passes you by tbe
guardian of the great door. You are in an
immense room covered with a dome of glass
wltb ribs of Iron. There are no other windows.
You notice that the walls of the room from tire
floor to the beginning of the arch are lined
wltb books, tbe upper ones made available by
galleries. In the center of tbe room are the
desks of the librarians, set In circles, wheel
within wheel. Upon shelves beneath these
desk you find the catalogue of the most exten
sive and valuable library in tbe world. Tbe
catalogue is In 2,900 volumes. And in it you
can find anything! It was a subject a little out
of tbo common way upon which I wanted in
formation. I wanted to .find out all tbat
was discoverable about an old saint, wbo
lived some thirteen hundred years ago upon
the little Scotch island of Iona. I had a con
slderable list of bonks In which it was likely
tbat something might be found. Some of tbe
books were old and some were new. Some
.were expensive volumes wltb fine plates, and
some were "transactions" of various learned
societies, not easy to get, not on sale in book
Stores. Not one was missing out of tbat great
catalogue. Every book was there and more
besides them. In half an hour I had plied up
upon my desk pretty nearly everything that
bad ever been written about the life of St.
Colnmba and about tbe little Island which he
made historic and sacred by bis dwelling in it.
V, A. Little Red Tape.
OU write tbe titles of the books you want
upon blanks, sisning your name and indi
cating tbe number of the desic where you will
read. These you put into a basket by tbe li
brarian's table, and in due time the books aro
brought. The tables forreadersradiateoutfrom
tbe central circles of desks like the spokes or a
wheel. Eacb table is lettered. and.each place
is numbered. Every reader is provided with
ink and pens and a blotter and a book rest and
a place to put bis hat. Tbe chairs are comfort
able. The space is wide enough and sufficient
ly secluded. Tbe light is good. And all tbe
books in the world aro at your call, except the
novels. If you want a novel you must explain
in writing to the librarian tbe exact scholastic
reasons for your singular request.
Tbere are no pictures in the British Museum.
These are in the National Gallery. This is an
other place in which the visitor wbo would see
all tbat can be seen should spend at lease two
lifetimes. The best way to do is to know be
forehand, from the study of your guidebook,
just the 28 pictures wbicu you really
want to'see, and be sure that you see thoss
first, and then if there are others they may be
looked at afterward. The only trouble
is that in every C3llery there
are so many of these other.'. Raphael
is bere, and Munllo, and Titian,
and Landseer. and almost every great painter
of every great school you ever heard of. These
walls with their flowing colors, and their
pictured stories, and their living pictures, are
the most beautiful in England. And tbe peo
ple appreciate the privilege of thegreat gallery.
It is theirs. There are no fees. Andevery.day
the rooms are full of men and women, often in
their working dress, who come to secihepict
nres. You resolve to come bere every day.
But there are so many sights beside!
One mi jlit go on writing about London with
out end. Every corner tempts you to stop.
Tbere is so muco to tell about- I have not be
gun, and yet here is the end of my paper. The
rest must wait a week. G. H.
THE C0MTE DE PAEIS.
An Historical Parallel Between Ills Visit
and that by Lafayette.
From the Illustrated London Ncws.J
Students of American history may, perhaps,
be pardoned if tbey are led to trace a faint
parallel between tho second visit of the Comte
de Paris to tbo States and the second visit
thereto of General Lafayette. America was
"in the midst of war" when the young and en
thusiastic Marquis de Lafayette abandoned tbe
luxurious existence of.Pans to cross the Atlan
tic and take uparms in the cause of tbe colonies
which wee struggling to throw off the yoke of
Britain, and whose leaders were carrying on
the fight with famished troops and a
bankrupt treasury against an enemy whose
army was recrnited by foreign mercenaries,
and wbo was backed by a powerful fleet.
Lafayette was received with open arms by
Washington, a the "Comte de Paris was by
McClellan: but the arrival of the young French
nobleman meant something more than in
dividual sympathy. It meant the proximate
arrival of French money and of French troops;
it meant tbe active co-operation with the
American levies of those troops under Lafayette
and Rocbambcau in the triumph of Sork
town. Forty years afterwards Lafayette, a veteran
of 67, went back to the States to receive a mag
nificent ovation. His enemies acensed him ot
having fostered his own perona! vanity by re
visiting a land where he coulU reckon npon an
enthusiastic reception: but the reproach was as
unjust as would be any analogous insinnation
leveled at the Comte do Paris. When hlsRoyal
HighneBS first set foot on American shores, tbe
Union was to all appearances in the throes of
impending dissolution. He return", after
8-and-20 years, to find the countrv lova! to the
Union from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with a
population, a productive power and consequent
wealth enhanced beyond tte most sanguine
calculations of the optimism of a generation
since; and surely tbere is nothing to animad
vert upon in bis natural desire to behold tbe
marvellous changes for tbe better in the coun
try which, during a gigantic struggle, he served
with gallantry and good feeling.
THE EEMAIHS OF LUTCOLirS SON"
Will he Deposited In a Crypt In the Monu
ment at Springfield.
Springfield, III., October 19. Robert T.
Lincoln has decided to bring the remains ot bfs
only son Abraham Lincoln to Springfield and
deposit tbe body in a crypt in tbe Lincoln mon-
tunent At a meeting of the Lincoln Monu
ment Association yesterday, the following let
ter from Mr. Lincoln was read:
Cromwell house, s. W., lovdon,
September 10, 1390.
The lion u. M. iiatcn:
31 Y DEnSin I beg to thank you for yonr letter
communicating to me the resolution of the Lin
coln Monument Association. Inviting a corres
pondence with me as to the propriety oi deposit
ing tbe remains of my son In a crypt In the monu
ment erected in memory of his grandfather. In
rcplv I beg to sav to vou that when npon
the death of my son 1 foresaw the extinction npon
my death of my descendants bearing his name,
the desire came upon me that if It met the views
of evcrymember of the monument association,
arrangements might be made for the burlil in the
monument of my son. and thereafter of myself
and mv wife and my two daughters,
unless tber should marry. This is the arrange
ment I would make under the peculiar
circumstances, ir the tomb or my rather
were, as would usually be the case. In mv
care, but I trust that It mav be understood that I
know that the monument was not erected or ar
ranged lor such a purpose, and that I wonld
abandon mv desire If It does not seem proper to
each member of the association that the arrange
ment should be entered upon. 1 need not sty
thatany expense cauBCd by such an arrangement
would be borne b myself. 1 will be highly grati
fied by the kind consideration of mv wishes. Be
lieve me, very sincerely BOBEr.T T. Likcoln.
Tbe association passed resolutions instruct
ing the Executive Committee to carry out tho
wishes of Mr. Lincoln. Ic is expected that tbe
remains of the dead boy will be brought here
within the ensuing month and placed in a crypt
in the monument. Mr. Llncoln.'at any rate,
bas written a letter announcing that he will be
here during November.
A "FOUNTAIN FEES.
Streams of Water Running From a Maple
in Dry Weather.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
Russellville. Ky., October 19. Deputy
Sheriff J. W. Lamb, of Logan county, who was
bere this week with a prisoner, brings a strange
tale from the Red Oak Church neighborhood
in Logan county. The people there are greatly
agitated, and many of the more superstitious
feafit portends evil. In the front yard of John
Lvne are three maple trees of fair size. Two
weeks ago. and at a time when there had been
no rain for a fortnight, water in
streams began to run from the tip
of each limb. The water has soaked
the ground thoroughly and enough falls to wet
a man who will stand under the trees through
and through iu five minutes. The water falls
at night the same as in the day. A heavy mist
continually hangs about the trees, no matter
how warm the sun may shine. There are other,
trees in the yard only a few feet from the weep
ing maples, but they are unaffected.
Many believes the phenomenon portends
evil to the family of Mr. Lvne. bnt that gentle
man only laughs at tbe prediction. Prof. Ry
land. President or Bethel College, in this city,
and Prof, Firqua, also of tbo same institution,
have both visited the place and say they are
unable to account for the occurrence, except
by a theory tbat a superabundant and nomi
nally late flow of sap has something to do
with it.
The Oldest Place In America.
From the Chicago Herald. J
"Do yon know tbe oldest place In all Amer
ica?" said General John B. Henderson, of St
Louis, to a circle of friends last night. "I don't
mean the oldest town in the country or on the
continent, but the land firstfound ou tbe West
ern Hemisphere? No? Well, I thought not
It is Mount Marcy, in the Adirondack Moun
tains. Agassiz and other geologists have fig
ured out that Mount Marcy was tho point of
land that made its appearance first abovo the
water when tbe Western Hemisphere was
evolved."
Ont-of-Town Banking.
From the Jicw York baturday 0 lobe. J
Tbere is a revival of the old scheme to es
tablish a bank in New York to make a specialty
of tbe business of out-of-town banks. One of
the down-town trust companies is said to be
interested in tbo scheme, of which the capital
will be Jl.000,000. It is stated tbat tbe New
York banks handle something like $12,000,000 of
country drafts and checks daily.
Because Legally Deed.
From the boston Journal.J
Augusta, Me.. October 18. The will of
Mlcah W. Norton, the convicted murderer,
sentenced to State prison for life, has just been
filed In the Probate Court of Somerset county.
His sou Sumner is appointed executor. Norton
leaves an estate of 520,000 and makes his will,
as when be goes to prison he is legally dead.
CUBEEKT 'CONDESSATICfiS.
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In England, last year, 9,926 persons
were imprisoned as debtors or on civil process.
A bill to forbid and punish the making
of carieaturesha3 been introduced In the Ver
mont Legislature.
Canadian sardines are to be taken to
Europe in hopes of competing with the Medi
terranean and Bremen product
The skeleton of the average Englishman
weighs about 25 pounds. If cremated, the
ashes turn the scale at about a quarter of a
pound. 1
According to the Cliemist and Druggist,
tbere is probably no town on eartb where pat
ent medicines aro consumed to such an enorm
ous extent as at Constantinople.
Though the population of the United
States is in excess of that of Great Britain, tho
British railways lxst year nrried 753,000.000 pas
sengers. a against -19o,000,000 In America.
After a scries of verv careful experi
ments, Prof. Colin, of Breslau, bas found tbat
the beating of damp hay to atemperature
sufficient to cause spontaneous combustion is
due to a fungus.
The orchards of Cornwall cover 5,093
acres, as compared with 4.SI2 six years ago.
The orchards of Devonshire cuver an area of
26,ooo acres, or au increase of 5o0 acres as com
parea with the returns ot 1S3L
A young art student of Bristol, who
directs the brush with his mouth, having been
born without arms, has won a national scholar
ship at South Kensington. His canvases are
said to bear no evidence of bis physical mis
fortune. The custom of lifting the hat had its
origin when knights never appeared in public
except in full armor, but upon entering an as
sembly of friends the knight removed his
helmet the act signifying, "I am safe lu the
presence of my friends."
Kear Milan, nearly 22,000 acres or land,
irrigated with water derived from the sewers
of the city, ate yielding crops of from eight to
ten tons of bay as a rule, while occasionally
some separate meadows will yield the fabulous
amount of 13 tons ot bay per acre.
A writer in the Lancet, remarks: "I
have read all, or nearly all, the cases mussel
poisoning on record, and I gather from such
details as are given with respect to the places
in which the mussels were found that fiey
were in contact with sewage or stagnant
water."
The Treadwell Mill, Alaska, is the larg
est quartz mill in tho world, says the Jf ininjr
anUSeiertiflc Press. It consists of ao stamps
SO concentrators and 12 ore-crushers. All of
this machinery, covering several acres of
ground, is run. it is said, by a single wheel
seven feet in diameter.
The "barking sands" of the Hawaiaan
group, as described by a recent scientific in
vestigator, are found in dunes, and are appar
ently fragments of shell and coral which, when
disturbed, slide down the slopes of the dnnes.
emitting a deep bass note not unlike tbe buzz
of a saw in a planing milL
Some few years ago the Paris picture
dealer Ferret bought a picture for lOf In a rag
and bone shop. He soon discovered that it was
a portrait by Jordaen. and got rid of it for 15.
OOOf to tbe late M. Rotban. tbe diplomatist
The picture which is In Jordaen's best man
nerhas jnst fetched 5S,C0Of.
Tbe committee for the erection of a
monument to William Tell bas, by a majority
of 9 to 3, decided in favor of tbe site in front of
the Town Hall of Altorf. The hero is to be
represented in a bold and resolnte attitude,
with a rross-bow in bis band, and in tbe cos
tume of tbe Swiss peasantry of his time.
One of the latest novelties for gentle
men is a mustache trainer. It may be styled a
companion to tbe feminine curl papers. It is
made of a plate of thin metal, shaped like the
mustache, and is to be worn at night. Tbe
Invention is from Paris, and it is said that a
good many are already in use in New York.
llecent discoveries in Pompeii, near the
Stabiana Gate, include tbe bodies of two men
and a woman, and the trunk of a tree. Prof.
Pasquale identifies the tree as a tanrns nobilis,
and Infers from the size of Its f rnit that tbe
eruption of Vesuvins which overwhelmed the
city took place in November, and not, as 13 be
lieved, in August
Emperor Napolean during the three
years before Waterloo offered large rewards
for the recovery or a pocketbook he had lost ae
the crossing of the Beresina. After tbe lapse
of more than three-quarters of a centurv it bad
been discovered ic tbe possession of a Russian
lady, who received it as a souvenir from CounS
feYedochovsky.
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There has been received in the correj-
spondence of tbe Washington High School tho
following Inquiry from a young lady In afai
Western State: "Will you inform me where
tbe navy ot the United States is. and howmany
men do they keep tbere, and what do they keep
them thee for? Do tbe men-of-war stay there?)
How many guns, cannons and shells do tber
keep tbere, and what do they keep them fori
A dinner and a reception at the house
of President Carnot are, according to a Paris
caterers' periodical, pretty expensive affairs.
The last time the .President entertained tba
bill was as follows: Dinner of 400 covers at ST
per cover. $2,800: buffet for 3,000 persons at the.
reception, to,05f; music, flowers, eta, $15,000;
1,500 quarts of champagne, costing S2 per
Suart, were drunk, as well as 500 bottles of
ordeauxatSI 50 per bottle, and 200 bottles of
beer at 12 cents per bottle.
England's postmaster-general, in his re
cent annual report, relates that one trnstful
correspondent addressed a letter thus: "To the
gentleman who looked at a house near Cles
bury Mortimer, a little time ago. BHston. Staf
fordshire," and left it to the department to dis
cover this particular individual in a town ot
25,000 inhabitants. Within four days of the
arrival of tbe commission the department suc
ceeded in finding tbe gentleman, and duly
delivered tbe letter.
During the 12 months ended the 31st of
March last tbe estimated number of letters
delivered in the United Kingdom was 1,650,100,
000. which shows an increase of 5.9 per cent
and an average number to eacb person of 4.1.0.
Two bundred and seventeen million, one hun
dred thousand Dost cards were delivered, which
showed an increase of 7.8 per cent. liook
packets and circulars numbered Hl.900,000. and
newspapers 159.300.00a Parcels, of which 42,.
853,000 were delivered, show the greatest re
lative increase, namely, S.2 per cent The
practice of sending valentines appears to ba
diminishing.
In Parsonfield, Me., there once was a
cat not many years ago cursed by tbe name of
Calvin because of the gravity of bis demeanor
and tbe severity of his countenance, 'who was
wont to let himself into the house by jumping
upon and pressing down with his paw the
thumb-piece of the old-rasbioned door-latcb.
When be wanted to go out be ordered one of
his servants, in which body was included tbe
whole family, tn open the door for bim, Cor
nish, a few Tears ago. bad a cat that could
talk, if Dr. Robie filake, it" master, may be
believed and it's not such an increditable
story to ears that have lain awake nights listen
ing to amorous conversations on neighboring
ridgepoles and door-steps.
FUN AND FANCY.
The weicrht that bas been hantrintr on the
f front gate all summer wilt now be transferred to
the sofa in the parlor. -Mary tana iMOzeite.
Smithers Wonder why they don't have
a pork syndicate.' Bllmbers (country bred, con-trmptuously)-Did
you ever try to corner a pig?
Boston Post.
Landlady That new boarder needn't try
to make me think he Is a bachelor. He's either
married or Is a widower.
Mllllngs-llow can you tell?
Landlad v He always turns bis back to me when
he opens his pocket book to pay bis board. Spars
Moments.
"Love me little," began the dwarf.
"Love me long, "concluded the giant. Texaf
Slftlngs.
A verdant gentleman whose correspond
ence Is limited received a letternpon the envelope
of which was the conventional buslnesuSard:
"After five days, return to ." The epistle
was carefully perused and preserved until tbe ex
piration or tbe allotted live days, when It was re
turned to tbe writer. Terrs Haute Express.
The need of the hour is a hotel which is
good for sleeping purposes.
"Come here, Johnny, and tell me what
the four seasons are.' Vonng prodigy Pepper,
salt mustard and vinegar. Newcastle Evening
Chronicle. ,
Said the flaxen-haired maiden to the dap
per young man behind the counter Have yoa
any nice, soft muslin that will suit my complex
Ion and hair.' Shopman-Bleached or unbleached?
Newcastle Evening Chronicle.
Physician (with ear to patient's chest)
Tbere is a curlou3 swelling over the region of tbe
heart sir, which must be reduced at once. Pa
tient (anxiously) That swelling Is iuy pocket
book, doctor Please don't reduce It too much.
English Exchange.
There was a convention of champagne
dealers la New York the other day, bat the pro
ceedings were not reported; they were extra-dry.
Texas Slftlngs.
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