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PITTSBURG. WEDNESDAY. OCT. 22. 189a
TVOKK IT BOTH WATS.
The report is published that the Pension
Bureau has directed Mr. Barclay, the pen
sion agent at this point, who is now stump
ing the State with Pattison, to return to his
office and to remain at his post. This
would be very proper action if it were not
for one fact That is thai Mr. Barclay seqt
in his resignation some time ago. "When
an ofucebolder has resigned, and the delay
in appointing his successor is due wholly to
the administration, it is an open question
whether he has not some right to devote his
time to other matter in which he has a de
cided personal interest.
Nevertheless it is satisfactory to see that
the administration is taking -the position
hat officeholders mutt not neglect their
official duties to take part in political cam
paigns. Such an attitude must of course
include the correction of some matters to
which The Dispatch has already called
attention. Of course if the administration
makes Mr. Barclay return to his post
it will do the same to several Re
publican officeholders who are doing
campaign work at present. The need
of this action is just as manifest
in their case as in Barclay's; and it is not
teamed that they have sent in their resigna
tions. It might be possible for Mr. Barclay
to see that the Pension Office here continues
its work as he is nevar more than a day's
journey away from it. But it is manifestly
impossible for Mr. John Jarrett to superin
tend th- consulate at Birmingham while he
is stumping in this country; and it is no less
difficult lor Mr. John C. Delaney to perform
his duties as Receiver of Public Moneys at
Oklahoma while he is doing work in this
State, understood to be more in the line of
the disbursement of political funds.
Of course the administration will call off
Jarrett, Delanev, New and the many other
Republican officeholders who are giving
their whole time to the cimpaign, before it
disturbs Barclay. It is not to be supposed
that, standing on a double pledge of civil
service reform, it will make flesh of the
Republican officeholders and fowl of the
Democratic class.
THF GAS SUPPLY:
As our people become familiar with the
habits of the natural gas, if the phrase may
be used, there is noticeable a more patient
temper in discussing the shortages which
are inevitable every year at the season when
the cold weather sets in. Formerly the most
sensational and absurd reports of entire fail
ure of the supply were sent abroad when the
first-heavy demand, brought on by the gen
eral starting of fires, produced a temporaiy
deficiency of the gas. It has now come to
be understood that with the enlarged con
sumption every year, mcident to the growth
of the city, it takes a few weeks of trial in
the late autumn to enable the gas companies
to measure their resources against the de
mand. Whatever the interruptions, the fact is
doubtless true that more gas is being carried
into Pittsburg this year than at the same
lime in any previous year.
JIK. IJEPEWS SHORTCOMING.
"When a man of the prominence of Mr.
Depew indulges in public utterances his re
marks are the proper subject of criticism as
well as admiration. Among the good things
which he so frequently says, the following
extract from his address to the locomotive
engineers has attracted some warm indorse
ments: That the fireman can become a locomotive
cnpi.eer, the locomotive engineer tho master
mechanic, the master mechanic the superin
tendent of motive power, the superintendent
of motive power the superintendent or general
manager of the railway, and possibly its presi
dent, is the law of our American development
and tno source of our national pre-eminence.
That this is true in a great mnny instances
is to be recognized, and Mr. Depew is right
in holding it up as one of the gratifying
features due to the democratic foundations
ot American organization, both in society
and industry. But the cynically disposed
can find additions to make to the gratifiving
aspect thus tersely sketched, and to support
the embellishment by examples from actual
life. Thus it might be asserted that where
a young man has risen rapidly through all
these grades to the top of the heap, his re
markable progress may sometimes be illum
ined by the fact that he is the relative or
protege of the commanding powers of the
corporation in question; and an illustration
might be cited in the form of the official of
Mr. Depew's own corporation, who cleared
out the Knights of Labor from the employ
of the company, while Mr. Depew all un
Euspectingof any such conflict, according
to his own story was on the other side of
the ocean.
It also might be criticised that Mr. Depew
does not show the full possibilities of -advancement
in his statement of the case. For,
after the ambitious employe has risen to the
position of general manager or president, he
only needs to follow out some well-established
rules of corporate manipulation to
bring within his reach the still greater ad
vancement of owning the whole road.
THE SITUATION EY OHIO. .
That muss in the Ohio Legislature has
reached a condition of muddle, in which no
one has any clear idea of what he wants
except Governor Campbell. The Demo
cratic majority in the Legislature are evi
dently unwilling to destroy the political
machine in Cincinnati, notwithstanding its
corruption, which has caused the call for the
extra session. At the same time they are
afraid to antagonize the Governor in his
efforts to reform the evil. The consequence
is that they are giving themselves over to
backing and filling and after several days
have done nothing at all.
Their attempt to snub the Governor, day
bclore yesterday, by adjourning without
hearing his very plain-spoken message, was
an evidence of the irritation which has been
produced by the Governor's work In inter
fering with the usufruct of Democratic job
bery in Cincinnati. Having administered
this snub they evidently got panic
stricken at finding themselves in the
position of antagonizing a Democratic
Governor in his efforts to stop stealing.
They humbly inarched down the hill yester
day by passing a resolution that no disre
spect was intended and asking the Governor
to send in his message again. This is al
most as aniusiugadevelopmejit of legislative
ideas as the resolution of the Republican
caucus of 'the same body the other day de
claring their unalterable support of the
principle of home rule for cities, the fact
being that it was Republican legislation
which took away from Cincinnati the right
to govern itself.
The muddle can hardly fail to be in
jurious to the Democratic party in Ohio, as
it shows not only Democratic corruption,
but an indisposition on the part of many of
the Democrats to reform it where it is shown
to exist. The only person likely to come
out ol the fight with credit is Governor
Campbell, whose vigorous determination to
stamp out dishonesty, no matter what party
it hurts, will earn him the approval of all
honest citizens.
THE MUDDLE WORSE MUDDLED.
The last phase of the original package
decisions seems as productive of remark
able theories of law as the first one. The
decision of the United States Supreme Court
opened the Pandora's box of hair-splitting
puzzles which carried to their legitimate
conclusions will argue State jurisprudence
in a dozen well-established respects to a
complete standstill. The last decision of
the Circuit courts pats the finishing touch
by stimulating theories which are most
effective in proving that it has the least pos
sible fonndation in logic or common sense.
It would be hazardous to attempt to criti
cise, at present, the process by which the
Western Circuit Court arrived at the con
clusion that all the prohibition and license
laws of the State must be re-enacted, before
they can touch the original package trade.
This is for the reason that no full report of
the ruling has yet been published. When
the Federal Reporter gives the text of this
decision we may judge of its reasoning.
But the reasoning which some of our co
temporaries credit to this decision is cei
tainly ol such character as to call for com
ment. An example of the sort is furnished
by the New York Commercial Advertiier,
whose editorial comments on such points are
generally entitled to much respect That
journal summarizes the supposed logic of
the dec'sion as follows:
The Wilson bill did not re-enact State laws
governing imported liquor, but simply per
mitted their re-enactment. Until tho State
Legislatures again took action there was no
law forbidding original package saloons. The
old acts, being unconstitutional, were still
born, and there was nothing in the Wilson bill
which gave life to that which was dead.
Whether this is purely the reasoning of
our cotemporary or is the actual logic ot the
judges, it falls to the ground from the
cogent fact that th decision of the Supreme
Court did not declare the State laws in
question unconstitntional. and that there
fore they are not still-born. The laws are
the prohibitory legislation of the7 Western
States that have been declared constitu
tional, time and again, so far as the
jurisdiction of the State legislation ex
tends. The first original package decision
held that the State laws could not apply
to inter-State commerce, and that the
trade in original packages was inter-State
commerce. It is aside from the present ques
tion that this was entirely a court-made con
stitutional provision, and it is also not at
issue whether Congress can make a regula
tive enactment to the effect that the traffic
shall be regulated by certain enactments
specified. But as to the above theory, in
stead of the laws being still-born, as stated
in the above extract, they were in undis
puted force, each in the State where it was
enacted. Congress having therefore pro
vided that inter-State liquor traffic shall be
regulated by the laws in force in the States
where it is carried on, itdesignated, not dead
and unconstitutional laws, but live and
effective ones, and placed the traffic which it
has power to regulate subject to their juris
diction. The theory that the re-enactment
of the State laws is necessary because the
first original package decision wiped them
out, is destroyed for the simple reason that
it is contrary to the fact.
A very good illustration of this particular
issue can be drawn from the relation which
diplomatic representatives of foreign coun
tries have toward the police laws of the
countries where they are serving. Under
present international law they are not sub
ject to the laws of the country to which they
are accredited. But if some foreign
Government should get in advance
of that old theory sufficiently to enact by
treaty or otherwise, that its consuls or at
taches in this country shall be subject to our
police regulations, would it be necessary for
every legislative body in this country to
enact over again its laws against petty lar
ceny or disorderly conduct before any foreign
representative could be punished for such
offenses? If it were, it could not be for the
reason that the laws designated were null;
for the very act would specify laws in active
force and place the subjects of the legislative
authority under their control.
It is hard to say where this oricinal pack
age muddle nfay not lead us; but if the theories
which are accredited to the courts are their
real logic, it makes it most likely that the
courts have chopped the logic of the case
into such fine chaff that the only way out of
the muddle will be for each State to furnish
Congress with a copy of its regulative legis
lation, and for Congress to enact exactly that
legislation with regard to the liquor im
ported into that State.
A REMARKABLE CHARGE.
When the bill excluding lottery matter
from the mails was passed by Congress The
Disfaxch said that its effecth eness would
depend upon its enforcement, and that if in
fluence proved powerful enough to prevent
prosecutions it would be relegated to the list
of waste paper legislation. The Postofnce
Department has shown a disposition to make
prosecutions rigorously in certain quarters;
but a charge is made from the South of par
tiality in the prosecutions which, if true,
will cause the public to lose all respect for
the administration of the law.
The New Orleans Timet Democrat makes
the square assertion that while prosecutions
are directed against the publishers of South
ern newspapers tor publishing lottery ad
vertisements, Frank Leslie' Illustrated
Newspaper is permitted to pass through the
mails containing an advertisement of a
German lottery, which violates the law as
much as any of the publications on which
prosecutions have been based. It is
further asserted that every Issue
of Frank Leslie since the enactment
of the law has contained this .illegal adver
tisement. The fact that this newspaper
claims to officially represent the adminis
tration and that .Mr. Russell B. Harrison
is advertised as one of its proprietors makes
this charge all the more pertinent. Mr.'
Russell Harrison before the enactment of the
law displayed a steady affection for the
profits of lottery advertising in his Helena
paper; but it was supposed that the example
of bu distinguished papa in signing the
anti-lottery bill had induced him to reform.
It certainly seems necessary to state that
if the law is to be worth anything, a publi
cation should not be permitted to violate it
because it has cultivated relations with the
President's son for its own benefit. If the
New Orleaus Times Democrat lias not
evolved this charge out of the whole cloth,
the first duty of the postal authorities should
be to treat the publishers of Frank Leslie,
including Mr. Russell Harrison, to a very
sharp dose at the legal penalties.
The report comes from up in New Hamp
shire that Senator Blair will not succeed him
self; but the other Senators should not be too
prompt in coming to a conclusion that they will
now get a cbancn to do some of the talking.
Senator Blair may be a little cranky in the Sen
ate; but he knows how to look after his New
Hampshire fences with all the assiduity of the
most practical Pennsylvania politician.
The Socialist congress at Halle has re
solved that no one shall be received in Its new
party who has been uilty of dishonorable
practices. These socialists, if they keep on In
their visionary ways, will get themselves dis
puted as impracticable mugwumps.
4
Speaker Reed is quoted as declaring
that a protective tariff stimulates invention.
Perbap. it may do so, but if the inventions of
the Republican managers in this State for cam
paign arguments are to be taken as results,
they can hardly be regarded as creditable to
their source. They are ihe weakest inventions
yet placed on the record of political siliness.
These advances in the price of French
brandy, champagne, corsets and 20-cent cigars
are what are going to cause an insurrection on
the part of the poor men against the tariff bill.
SOME one proposes an engineering scheme
by which the Capitol bnildmg at Washington
Is to be lifted by jacks and turned around:
What it is to be turned around for, no one
knows. There hare been times wnennmignt
have been well to turn it inside out; but the
people nave generally been able to attend to
that ltttle job themselves.
Patti denies that she has changed her
religion. The world remains in ignorance of
learn that she has one and has not changed it.
The report that Secretary Tracy is to be
placed on the Supreme bench, that Thomas C.
Piatt will be made Secretary of the Navy, and
thut nhinnrev M. Denew will then be elected
to the United States Senate, presents a striking
view of the possibilities oi pontics, ax uoum
nrove true what a political machine would he
made of the new navy!
THE last French duel came safely off
without any injur to the neighboring live
stock.
The nomination of Judge Gresham to
the Supreme Bench is urged by the Omaha See
.. .i.a . .,n4 that "It vpnnlri fihonr that tha
Republican party is not amenable to corpora
tions." xnat tact, in aauiuuu w ma wiuci
ni.i.nt.1 tinefrioratfnn that R. Harrison
occupies the Presidental chair, is enough to
oar out uresnam.
The Ohio Legislature seems to have
marched back again yesterday.
That Minnesota Penitentiary which per
mits its convicts to go fishing and steal prop
erty in the vicinity, is the most unique develop
ment yet beard of, in the way of penal Institu
tions. It the story Is true, its most salient work
seems to be tho punishing of honest peoplo
who are unfortunate enough to live in its
vicinity.
THE GENTLE SEX.
The principal dentists in Australia have
women assistants.
The heirs of a rich man in Austria have
given 815,000 to found a school of housekeeping
for girls.
The attempt to make the Constitution of
North Dakota exclude a woman from tho office
of School Superintendent of the State has
been abandoned. ,
The most famous of English yachtswomen
are Mrs. Hudson Reed and her sister, Miss Cox.
Each of these women sails her own boat the
former holding the helm of the Troublesome,
and the latter that of the M'liss.
Miss Irene Hoyt is said to have the finest
collection of corner lots of any person in the
country. For years she has made it a business
to buy a corner lot in every town she visited,
and in some towns she has several.
Another medical school for women Is to be
opened in October In connection with Queen
Margaret College, Glasgow. It is said that the
demand for highly competent women is con
tinually increasing, as India and the East be
come more enlightened and unprejudiced.
Mns. Frank Leslie, who has been reported
as saj lug that "Solialists should be shot down
like dogs." is being roundly denounced by the
Socialists in Chicago, who credit Mrs. Leslie
with being the mouthpiece of New York's Four
Hundred and representative of the plutocracy
ot the East.
Two women artists of distinction have just
died in England Miss Marianne North and
Miss Alice Havers (Mrs. Fred Morgan). The
gallery in Ken Gardens, London, contains
627 pictures by Miss North ot the fauna and
flora of countries like Brazil, California, Bor
neo, Japan and Java, the result of her 12-years'
wanderings, unattended and alone. She is
pronounced the "Livingstone of art."
Herbert Sfencer has chronicled this fact:
"Wives in England were bought from the fifth
to the eleventh century, and as late as the
seventeenth century. Husbands of decent
station were not ashamed to beat their wires.
Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure for
the purpose of seeing wretched women whipped
at Bridewell. It was not till 1817 that the pub
lic whipping of women was abolished in En
gland." The death of Mrs. B. F. Weir, wife ot the
Professor of Chemical Surgery in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, is announced from
Milan. She was an American woman, widely
known, and during the civil war was a hospital
nurse at Frederick City, Md where wouuded
Federaf soldiers and captive Confederates were
tenderly cared for by her. She was-then Miss
Marie Washington McFherson, and many old
soldiers of both armies remember her with af
fectionate regard.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND ELECTBICTLT.
By Their Combined Use the Most Exquisite
Results Are Being Secured.
From the Boston Traveller.
Electricity is being brought more and more
into intimate connection with photography. It
is now used in lighting studios, and .for secur.
ing artistic effects of light and bade in the
subject to be photographed. In order to avoid
dark, bard shadows, the light is projected on
to a sheet of alabaster, 'and from this is re
fracted on the subject
The result is soft and exquisite in tone. The
electric light is also used tor printing by en
largement, and for balloon and kite photog
raphy. In the latter, the camera is attached to
a kite. When the desired height has been
reached, the exposure is made by electric cur
rent, and pictures are tbns secured which it
would be Impossible to obtain by any other
means.
DEATHS0F A DAY.
General J. C. Sullivan.
SA.N Fbakcibco, October a. General J. C.
Sullivan, who commanded a division under Kose
erans, and who fought the battle or luka, aled at
Oakland tills afternoon from bemorrliage. He
was breveted Brigadier General atterno battle or
Kernstown. Be leaves a wire and daughter.
Major H. C Seymour.
GALVESTON, Txx., Octobir'SJ. Major S. Q.
Seymour, U. S A., connected -with the Civil ber
Ylce Department, died to-day, aged S3 years,
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
DlONrrr is like a dress coat, and should only
be worn as occasion requires.
October is fading away withering, shiver
ing. Frost-bitten and benumbed It Is going,
leaving only a record of changeful moods ion
the records of the historians who keep track of
the weather that has gone and annoy us with
their prophetic visions of) the weather that is to
come. Stripped of green garb, fluttering in
russet rags, the trees stretch their nearly naked
limbs winterward, shelterless, shadowless,
cheerless. Through the skeleton groves the
winds weirdly wake the echoes, playing on
nature's shivering strings a dirge over sum
mer's lost glory and autumn's slow decay. No
flowers nod to the breeze, no leaves rustle, no
grain waves over bare fields, dead
flowers, stripped forests October will
breathe its last sighfupon the blighted rem
nants of autumn it will shed its last tear Per
haps it will be frozen ere It falls a cheerless,
cold farewell. And now we can look winter
squarely in the eye. Soon, very soon, its icy
fingers will clutch the earth. The cold will
grow colder, tho winds will screech louder, the
days will grow shortcr.bnt fires will leap higher,
homes will seem brighter, hearts will seem
lighter. For winter, too, has its pleasures as
well as its pains. The sharp frost, the crisp
snow, the clear ice, the dry air all combine to
refresh and invigorate a new life after earth's
burial in the snow. So don't look at winter's
coming with a sigh and a shiver. The seasons
are much as you make tbem. Summer
sunshine does not warm all hearts; au
tumn's bright colors do not dazzle all
eye( winter's white mantle does not tit all
forms. They must be taken in good faith, not
on trust. The winds -which cooled you in
summer chill you in winter, of course, but they
cannot freeze you. A warm heart, a sunny
smile, a laughing lip, a bright eye, a willing
hand are frost-proof. There is sorrow and joy
in the snow, tear and laughter in the ice.
Both are there for you and for me we alone
are the choosers.
It will soon be a cold world in this latitude.
Don Cameron, Don Cameron,
Why come y6 here?
Are your fences falling?
Are the voters dear?
Don Cameron, Don Cameron,
Why seek ye slyT
Are the lambs deserting
As the day draws nigh?
Don Camerou. Don Cameron,
Will ye not repentT
See ye not the children
Sulking in the tent?
Don Cameron. Don Cameron,
Are ye wasting gold.
Trying to Induce them
Back to the fold?
Don Cameron, Don Cameron,
Signals sure as Fate
Point to Revolution
In the Keystone State.
Don Cameron, Bon Cameron,
Thou ever gen'rous giver.
The steam Is np. the ship Is turned
Toward, the deep Salt River.
Don Cameron, Don Cameron,
Get off ere 'tis too late:
There is a Revolution
In the Keystone State;
Don Cameron, Don Cameron,
Voters now agree f
That you're between the devil
And the deep blue sea I
Another bloodless duel has been fonght in
France! They only meet on honor's field there
to kill time.
The pocketbook feels the blow of anything
that strikes your fancy.
When an actress is off with the old love and
on with the new the world pays her homage.
Queer world this, to be sure.
Oscar Wilde and Ward McAllister are shin
ing examples of the world's fondness for hum
buggery. Old sledge is the blacksmith's favorite
game.
Canada is now going to put a tax on our
eggs. Tit for tat, you 'know. "Egg eaters will
have to shell out on both sides of the lakes.
The rooster makes the barnyard laws.
The raven no law knows;
Hence roosters always crow for cause,
And the raven caws for crows.
THE sinners at the mourners' bench anxiously
await the decision in the Andover case and the
verdict of the Revisionists.
If Sullivan fails on the stage he might make
a living boxing sardines.
Ward McAllister' evidently believes that
society can be reached through the stomach.
His book will make the reader hungry.
Two weeks hence navigation will be open In
Salt River.
I boldlt asked her for ber band
Her charms my heart had smitten;
Somehow she failed to understand.
And handed me her mitten.
People who relate facts in their native sim
plicity, without addition or subtraction, are in
the minority in this world.
With hotels burning, locomotives exploding
furnaces bursting, vessels afire and trains
jumping tracks. It behooves travelers toba
fully prepared for the worst and have their
names and addresses plainly placed on their
clothing.
Some of the ocean racers tie their knots
daily.
It's purely a case of hide-and seek with the
tanner.
Business likes to be disturbed by legislation
like the McKinley bill.
The dirtiest bands hardly denote the hardest
-worker.
Some candidates expect to get there in the
sweet buy and buy.
One summer night a Orient star fell
Into a darkened room:
It cast o'er all a magic spell,
It chased away the gloom.
A new light shone in mother's eyes,
A smile her face caressed.
As this sweet gift sent from the skies
Lay sleeping on ber breast
Long, long ago, this bright star fell
And filled a home with joy.
It's now a dashing, blooming swell.
And mother's fair-haired boy.
The tariff will stand no matter whioh way
the political cat jumps in Pennsylvania this
fall.
The American pig will probably squeal in
France after alL Hunger cannot be boy
cotted. Pittsburg needs a new police station. The
present quarters are small, dismal and badly
located. The business section seems to be dis
turbed every time an arrest is made now. This
could be remedied by putting the prison in a
back street or out-of-the-way place.
As cheers are not placed in the ballot boxes
tbey don't count.
It's easier to make laws than to enforce
them, but people seem to be satisfied because
they are in force.
The Japanese oallet is a decided Improvement
on the skirt dancing article. It is clothed in
yellow and gold and, while tho garments fit
tight, they are not all composed ot tights.
Divorces sometimes follow tho fight which
takes place while naming the baby.
An engineer has a plan to turn the Capitol so
as it will face Pennsylvania avenue instead of
the Potomac Congress will have to oil tho
wheels and jack screws with gold before be will
undertake the Job, however.
A peeson mangled by a railway train is
carved up.
jab. Robert Lis coln prefers to havenis
martvr father's name dragged in the mnd of
partisan politics than exposed to the sunlighta
or inoepenuence. it is silliness vu uu paf l iu
object to its use by the Philadelphia gentlemen
who support measures, not men.
The njanwho never accomplished anything
in life deserves a haughtobiograpby. (
Mrs. Frank Leslie says she is looking for
a husband, bnt he must be the right man. Per
haps lie isn't born yet, Frankie, and you'll get
left
Sundat is appreciated now. Ho political
speeches aro delivered on that' day.
The Billingslcy bill bss raised the tariff on
votes. Willie Winkle.
E0SC0E CONKLING'S MEM0EY.
His Grave Near TJtlca Bedecked With Flow
ers hy Loving Hands.
From the New York World,
Ex-Senator Thomas C. Piatt and several
prominent Bepubllcan politicians were seated
on a sofa in the corridor of the Fifth Avenne
Hotel last evening. They had discussed local
politics .and had branched off into reminis
cences of feuds outside tho city. Bsscoe Conk,
ling's name was mentioned in the discussion
which followed, and every one of the party had
a story to tell in which tho departed statesman
figured.
"Roscoo Conkllng is not forgotten," re
marked a stranger who had overheard the
conversation. "I was in Utica a week ago,"
be continued, "and while there I drove out to
the cemetery. I saw a party of ladies and
gentlemen scattering flowers over a grave, and
as I was some distance away I asked a laborer
whoso memory they were honoring, and be re
plied, 'Roscoe Conkllng, and a good and great
man he was, too.' I afterwards learned that
the two gentlemen and the two ladies who
formed the party bad journeved from New
York city to'bedeck Koscoe Conkling's grave."
"Roscoe Conkllng will always live in the
memory of his friends," remarked Dwight
I liiwrpriPfl.
"The people In Utica," continued the
stranger, "have not discovered who tho ladies
and gentlemen were who scattered garlands on
the crave or Roscoe Conkllng. The elder gen
tleman was fully CO years of age. while the
younger gentleman appeared to be about 43.
J0IHFD IN WEDLOCK.
Brilliant Marriage of Miss Katherlne ,H.
Jacobus to Bev. Oliver B. BIcCurdy.
1 SPECIAL TZXXOILAU TO TUB DI8PATCII.1
Oxford, Pa., October 21. The First Presby
terian Church was the scene of a pretty wed
ding this afternoon, when Miss Katherine Hope
Jacobus, daughter oftthe Rev. Melancthor Ja
cobus, D. D of Pittsburg, was given in mar
riage to Rev. Oliver Brown McCufdy, of Dun
cannon. Handsome tropical plants and flowers
formed the decorations ( the Interior, while
from the ceiling hung a floril bell. When the
electrical lamps were turned on the effect was
beautiful.
Miss Jacobus has been lady of the parsonage
for more than five year, and by her Christian
character and fine accomplishments has en
deared herself to the large congregation, which
numbers over 600, aa well as being identified
with everv circle and society in connection
with the church. Guests were present from
Pittsburg, Philadelphia Brooklvn, New York.
Washington, Princeton, Newark and Plain
field. THE BEAVE ENOINEEB
Similar to the One Pictured by Mr. Depew
in Pittsburg.
From the New York Tribune. 1
Engineer John Burns, whose presence of
mind, ready decision and bravery doubtless
saved from death many passengers on a Lake
Shore express train yesterday, is precisely the
sort of a man Mr. Depew had In mind when, in
his Pittsburg address, he so vividly portrayed
the true engineer's heroic conduct under the
most trying circumstances.
Burns saw a wreck on the track ahead. He
was going 50 miles an hour. It was impossible
to stop in time. He might reverse his engine,
jump for his life and let his passengers take
their chance. But no! He would not desert
his post. Opening his throttle, he drove bis
engine ahead at a higher speed and actually
cut a way through the wreck. Though some of
the passenger cars were torn open, not a pas
senger was killed, and only one or two were
hurt. Burns himself esciped with slight in
juries. With a man of less nerve and bravery
in the cab a dreadful catastrophe could hardly
have been avoided. ' ' J-
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY
In English Eyes Threatens to Surpass That
of the North and West.
Prom the London Spectator. 3 ,
The years which have elapsed since the close
of the great Secession struggle bive been, as
all men know, years of miraculous a growth and
prosperity in the region south of the imaginary
line which severs the United States from the
Dominion of Canada. The tide ot population
and prosperity is still ever mounting higher
and higher.
It the young States of Minnesota and Dakota
are beginning to rival, with their vast cities
and Industries, the prodigies of elder States,
the hitherto unworked mineral wealth of the
South threatens to cast into the shade the cliffs
and mountains of iron which line the shores of
Lake Superior, or the more precious veins of
metal in Nevada and California.
The buzz of a ceaseless enterprise spreads
through the Pacific States, and the outlay of
the dollars of San Francisco and Portland Is
raising on the shores of Fuget Sound cities and
towns already linked to Chicago and New Yark
by stupendous systems of railways.
MISSIONARY ALLIANCE PROGRAMME.
The Inter-Seminary Convention to Open in
Allegheny To-Morrow. t
The eleventh annual convention of the
American Inter-Seminary Missionary Alliance
will open here to-morrow jn the Fourth U. P.
Church, Allegheny, at 11 o'clock. A devotional
meeting will be held at 2.30, and the address ot
welcome will be delivered at 3 o'clock by Rev.
H. T. McClelland, D. D. A paper on "The
Prospects of Africa" will be read by C. H.
Stackpall, of Boston, and later discussed. After
that the traveling secretary, W. H. Cossum,
will read a paper on "The Student Volunteer
Movement."
In the evening Rev. Wayland Hoyt, D. D-, of
Minneapolis, will deliver a lecture at the First
Presbyterian Church, on Wood street, and the
convention will continue the next morning at
the Fourth Church, In Allegheny. The evening
meeting will be held in the First Church. Short
addresses will be delivered by local ministers.
Saturday evening Rev. J. L. Hurlburt, of New
York,.will be the orator. (Jn Sunday there will
be four meetings at 9 A. Ji., 3, 7.30 and 9:15 p. h.
Its Quarterly Inspection.
Lieutenant E. R. Geary Circle. No. 7, Ladies
of the G. A. R., held a special meeting in their
ball in Allentown last night The district in.
snectlng officer. Mr. Bill, of Edgewoodville,
Pa., was. presented and held the quarterly in
spection. An unusually largo number of mem
bers was present and a supper was served after
the meeting. v r
Tho French Want Mexico's Trade.
Crrx OF Mexico, October 2L Le Mexlqut,
the organ of the French commercial interests
in Mexico, calls the attention of European
merchants to the fact that the present is an
opportune time to strike for Mexican trade. In
view of the operation of the McKinley bill.
PENNSYLVANIA NUGGETS.
O. A. Grubbs, of Reynoldsville, says he has
raised a squash that weighs 107 pounds.
It is said that some hunters have erected a
turkey pen on Tussey's Mountain, uear Mar
tinsburg, to entrap the mountain bird.
A farmer near Tullytown, Bucks county,
raised 0,776 bushels or potatoes this season on a
21-acre patch over 2S0 bushels to the acre.
ON account of thescarcity of apples this year,
pumpkins are being used or making butter.
An establishment Is in operation at Parnassus
-where the big fruit is being worked np.
A MAN who earns 3,000 a year and Is worth
20.000 sent in an application to tha Wilkes
barre Cyclone Fund Committee recently for&O
loss caused by a chimney falHng.on bis kitchen.
A screech owl, of tho species that has a
voice like a saw factory, flew into Beeman'a
store, In South Oil City, Monday night- The
omen it brought was awarnlng that a burglar
could also get through the unclosed transom.
Philadelphia is becoming noted for its
large number ot physicians and the num
ber is rapidly increasing. Within a distance of
Jve or six squares on Chestnut and Walnut and
the cross streots there, have been counted more
tbau 200 doctor'.
PiiobJCbly never in the history of Johns
town, says the Trtbune, nave there been so
many chestnuts handled as this year. Aside
from be local retail trade In the nuts, the
wholesale purchases and 'shipments are very
large, averaging 0,000. , bushels a week for ev
rat weeks, l v
THE TOPICAL TALKER. .
BETWEEN TWO SENATORS.
TTte presence of Senators Cameron and
Quay in the city yesterday sent a thrill
through all political circles. Borne of the re
sults of the sensation were peculiar. Mr.
Cameron held a levee at the Hotel Duquesne.
While Mr. Quay sat in secret session at the
Seventh Avenue.
Late In the afternoon in the congenial vicinity
of Brimstone Corner, on Smlthfield street, a
middle-aged gentleman was discovered by some
friends holding an excited colloquy with a tele
graph pole. His. eyes were glassyand his
tongue was thick, and he could hardly be in
duced to go home in a cab. Before this event
took placo he explained his condition, in confi
dence, thus: "Y" see, me f rien', 1'se started
out.t'see me frlen' Cam'ron knew him when
was hlc a boy, Couldn't see me, so I wen'
t'seo Btan' Quay Seventh Ave'noo Hotel.
Sent down word, hie, sorry couldn't see ine
came back to the Duquesne, t'see Cam'ron
wasn't in wen' back to S'venth Ave'noo t'see
Stan' sorry, too busy, hie, t'see pe wen' back
to see Cam'ron fired me out"
And at this point the cab came up and the
unfortunate, who had been vibrating between
the two Senators, with too many refreshment
intervals, was sent home.
A THEATRICAL OASIS
Tt is getting to bo a proverb in the theatrical
profession that Pittsburg is an oasis in the
desert toalmost every caravan.
When the Tiptop Opera Company has been
playing to empty benches and hard luck
through one-night stands in Indiana Manager
Cheek cheers the fainting hearts of his inno
cents with the reminder that Pittsburg is only
three weeks away and that there slmoleons
will be plenty and square meals the rule instead
of the exception.
"More than one show has reached Pittsburg
at the last gasp this season," said a local man
ager yesterday, "and fonnd new sinews of war
in the generous support of the banner theat
rical city of America. 'If we can bnt reach Pitts
burg.' is the cry with many a manager, 'we
shall pull through.'"
The weak theatrical companies on the road
are dropping out these days very fast. In the
last two or-three days the McCauIl Opera Com
pany, Rice's "World's Fair," the "Two Jacks"
and several other combinations have turned up
their toes. There are ugly rumors about the
financial solidity of several enterprises of far
larger size.
AN ENDLESS CAR.
SMO eb and grip combination car followed
by a parlor car were coming down the Fifth
avenue hill last night, and at the corner of the
street a stout little man with brickdust all over
him got in the second car. He was carrying a
dinner bucket and some tools, and a short clay
pipe stuck out of the left side of bis mouth.
The car was fairly well-filled, but the seats in
front of the mirror at the end of the car were
vacant.
The conductor said: "You must put that
pipe out."
"I'll go in the smoker," said the little man
with the pipe, starting through the car, and
before ho could stop himself bumped against
the curved seats at the end. The jar of the
collision shook his pipe out of his mouth, the
lid of hls-dlnner bucket rolled off on one side
and" his hat on the other. He stared at his own
face with awed astonishment for a minute,
then he gathered up his belongings and
wandered Dack to the platform.
"Stop the car!" he said.
Then.he got off, saving as he did so: "Dom a
car that's no end to it."
AN ELEPHANTINE ACTOR.
'J'he bashfulness of the elephant which ap
pears in Necropolis scene of "Around the
World in Eighty Days" has already been al
luded to in these columns, but the true inward
ness of this unusual, but amiable weakness on
the part of an actor has not been disclosed.
The fact is the elephant, Victoria Mazouka is
her full name, but she answers best to the ab
breviation Vic has a decided and not un
reasonable distrust of stage flooring, and is
nervous all the time she is behind the foot
lights. The audience which saw the elephant at the
Bijou last night might have seen the big creat
ure go through a mucn more, .elaborate per
formance it it had waited tillvtbe stage had
been cleared after the final fall of the curtain.
Then Victoria was brought out from the corner
where she had been impatiently dancing a sort
of hornpipe on three legs ever since she left
the alleged plains of Hlndostah tn the second
act. Previous to the loosing of Victoria the
stage carpenters went to work and built up a
substantial causeway of f out-Inch planks across
the footlights and the orchestra enclosure to
the left aisle of the parquet. Over the fonr
inch timbers a broader plank also four inches
thice was laid, and over this Victoria was
invited by ber attendant to de
scend. First of all she smelt,
if the word be allowable, the top of the incline.
Then very gingerly she tried the first section of
timber with one foot. The gangway did not
give appreciablr, and Victoria was persuaded
to place both of ber forefeet upon it. Her
keeper, with the little hooked goad used by
elephant tamers, preceded her, walking back
ward and guiding Victoria's feet so that tbey
fell fairly on the narrow way not more than a
yard or a yard and a half wide.
Probably two minutes were taken by the
great beast to bring her 4.600 pounds of solid
nesbfrom the stage to the floor of the parquet.
When she was midway on the bridge it creaked
ominously and palpably gave way an inch or
two. But the descent was made in safety, and
Victoria tramped up the aisle with the cheer
ful alacrity of humanity going ont to see a man.
The larger part of the company and Mr. Bolossy
Klralfy joined in the procession.
When Victoria appeared at tho.heaa of the
stairs leading down to Sixth street, the specta
tors in the lobby below could not but apprehend
a catastrophe. But the elephant pulled herself
together and came down stairs with wonderful
ease, considering her tremendous weight. She
narrowly missed colliding with a side cban.
deller, but came out all right by the ticket
office. There was an unmistakable air
of relief abont ber as she strode on
toward the street. At the storm-doors
she bad to go down on her knees to get through
and when the keeper reminded ber with the
goad of what was required of ber she bellowed
with a sudden ferocity that scared the actresses
who were following in her wake. But she
bowed to necessity and the doorway all the
same and gained the street without further in
cident. Victoria confesses to 42 years, but it is doubt
ful if she has ever had a more peculiar and
trying experience than ber nightly journey to
and from the Bijou stage. Even the carrying
of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, which she
is alleged to have done to the extent of many
hundred miles, can have been nothing beside
ber theatrical feats in Pittsburg,
THE GRANGERS AHEAD.
Anti-Corporationlsts Largely In the Majority
in the Jackson Convention.
Jackson, Miss., October 2L The report of
the Committee on Corporations was taken up
for consideration to-day by the Constitutional
Convention, and the discussion thereon and
the amendments thereto submitted and
adopted developed the fact that the anti-corporation
element of the convention is decidedly
in the preponderance.
By a large majority the anti-corporatioslsts
secured tho passage of amendments, the most
important of which provides that corporations
may be formed nnder general laws only; char
ters shall-be subject to alteration by the Legis
lature, and to be granted for no longer period
than OS years. The L-gislature may not remit
or amend a forfeited charter.
AUTUMN WOODS.
Who can portray; the glorious antmnn days.
Or paint tbe gorjteons coloring! tbe woods,
-When birch and maple light their signal flumes
And flssn tbclr messages from all the bills?
On npland slope the crimson sumach gleams;
In quiet dells the brakes have turned to gold;
IJy bank and stream the purple aster blooms,
And all the hedges teem with golden-rod.
"What message flashes from the changing hills,
And signals back from all tbe vales below?
"Well donel ye faithful; ye may enter in.
Tls choicest rlp'nlng brings the afterglow."
"We have but wrought the best for here and now
Sor thought of gain, nor what the world might
say:
Bending to breeze and rain, and mastering gale;
But ever keeping to the upward way."
OsoulormlBel take counsel of the woods.
Ye may not see, but autumn days shall show,
What's best for thee. Is highest good lor all.
'As Choicest rlp'nlng bring tbe afterglow." - ,'
BpringJtetd tiepuMcan,
k.,Y. ,A. .J&
BRIGHTVAND BREEZY.
mm ,
An Interesting Meeting of tho Woman's
Club Spain Summed Up in a Brilliant
Essay The Secretary Beslgns Piano and
Song Recital-Other Society Events.
A breezy, brilliant and consequently a very
delightful meeting of the Woman's Club was
held yesterday afternoon in tbe Teachers'
Library. The only routine business, of -any
consequence brought before the clnb'wastbe
selection of a suitable and appropriate motto
for tbe members, but as the discussion resulted
ip "harmonious discord" only, the matter was
tabled for tha present. The literary treat of
the afternoon was a paper by tbe president ot
the club, Mrs. C. L Wade ("Bessie Bramble"),
on Spain in general. In her own practical,
f orcein!, attractive style, Mrs. Wade summed
Spain up as a back number, a conntry that
from one of the most powerful countries, itnot
tbe most powerful country in Europe, bad
retrograded to the most insignificant politic
ally, morally, Intellectnally and commercially.
Ono would naturally suppose, said Mrs.
Wade, that in a country where State and
church are so c!oely allied, model citizens
would abound, but the reverse is the casein
Spain, as craft, cowardice, treachery and dis
honesty are prominent traits of the Spaniard,
and it will take centuries of free government
anu enlightenment to efface the latnentaoie
results. Mrs. Wade paid Queen Isabella some
very pretty compliments, bbo also said that if
Queen Isabella had not been pos
sessed ot an income of her own from
Castile, that America might yet be tbe home of
tbe red man, for her worthy Iiegelord drew bis
pursestrings very closely together, and said No
emphatically to tbe enterprise proposed by
Commons. With a significance so strong that
it might be transpoi ted easily to tbe sterner sex
at home. Mrs. Wade modernized the inci
dent. With a parting glance at "Cld." one of
Spain's greatest heroes, and a few words about
her most noted artists. Mrs. Wade concluded.
The discussion which followed the reading of
tbe paper was an animated one, and especially
interesting. Jnst before adjournment the Sec
retary, Mrs. Irvine Reynolds, surprised the
club greatly by tendering her resignation, ow
ing to an expected prolonged absence from tbe
city. The request that it be accepted imme
diately was complied with, aud a vote of thanks
tendered Mrs. Reynolds for faithful and effi
cient service. Mrs. Dr. Ramsey, who has al
ready served a number of jears as Secretary,
was unanimously elected to the vacancy.
EVENED TJP QUITE NICELY.
Pleasing; Entertainment at the Pittsburg
Club Theater Last Evening.
They averaged -well in avoirdupois Mrs.
Walter C. Wyman and Mr. Ethelbert Nevin
but not in music, though Mrs. Wyman was the
soloist and Mr. Nevin tne instrumentalist at
the piano and song recital given by them in tbe
Pittsburg Club Theater last evening, for it
must be confessed the honors were awarded
Mr. Nevin. whoso exquisite touch and delight
ful interpretation of the masters held tbe audi
ence spellbound during bis numbers, and elic
ited vigorous applause at their conclusion; but
in his own compositions was tbe genius of Mr.
Nevin especially marked. The "Valzer Gen
tile." "alumber Song," "Intermezzo" and "Song
of tbe Broon" fairly enraptured the listeners.
Mrs. Wyman was faultlessly attired, grace
ful for one of ber proportions, posed beauti
fully and was willing to be friendly witn the au
dience, but as an artist her reception was not
an enthusiastic one. In fact, all suggestion of
warmth wa absent in the applause given the
lady for her first numbers, but in her later
efforts ber listeners were awakened somewhat,
with tbe exception of a prominent musical
professor of tbe city, who. during ber rendition
of tho "Slumber Song," became oblivious to
his surroundings and opened his eyes with a
sudden snap wnen tbe applause disturbed his
slumber. The ball was comfortably filled with
such people as usually attend Mr. Ethelbert
Nevln's recitals, and aa a charming lady, Mrs.
Wyman was tendered quite a pleasing reception
at tbe close of the performance.
REPEATED HER TRIUMPH.
Miss Kittle Hamm Fast Becoming a Favor
ite Elocutionist.
Miss Kittle Hamm, the charming young lady
who, as an elocutionist, scored such a great
success at the reception given tbe delegates to
the engineers' convention in tbe Y. M. C. A.
building last week her first appearance, by tbe
way, before a Pittsburg audience repeated ber
triumph last evening at the entertainment
given in Curry Hall under the auspices of tbe
Y. P. M. A. of Christ Universallst Church.
The recitations given by Miss Hamm are
thoroughly enjoyable, whether pathetic or
comical, and her own personality insures her
the sympathy and attention of an audience.
An East End Church Reception.
The ladies ot tbe Point Breeze rresbyterlan
Church had a reception last night, and with
their usual success In arranging church enter
tainments. It was a very enjoyable affair. Mrs.
David Bell and Mrs. Charles Arbutbnot served
tbe coffee, while Mrs. H. L. Gebberr, assisted
by Mrs. Berger, Mrs. Frank Bell and a Host of
other ladles aided In tbe superintendence of
tbe supper room. There was music by Miss
Benbam, Miss Briggs and Mr. Pope.
Made a Good Impression.
"A lovely lady." was tbe opinion expressed
regarding Mrs. Edgar Wilson by the guests
who attended tbe reception given by Mrs. A.
E. Sailor yesterday afternoon, at which Mrs.
Wilson and her newly-made husband, tbe
Attorney General of Idaho, were tbe guests of
honor. Mr. Wilson is a cousin of Mrs. Sailor's,
and a distinguished, affable gentleman.
A Reception at Edgeworth.
Society in Edgeworth will be well repre
sented at a reception given by Mrs. Edwin H.
Stowe, October 29, at her beautiful home In the
charming suburb, and Pittsburg and Allegheny
will also be represented, as tbe cards, issued
yesterday, have been received in both cities.
Mrs. F. Semple and Jtrs. H. Rose will assist
Mrs. Stowe. Hours from 3 to 6.
Social Chatter.
AN early-morning wedding yesterday united
Miss Jennie Fetberston, daughter of Mrs. C.
Fetherston, of Watson street, to Mr. Charles
F. McBnde, a well-known young clerk in tbe
office of the Pennsylvania Company. Tbe cere
mony was performed in St. Paul's Cathedral, a
wedding breakfast followed and later tbe
young couple departed for a three weeks'
honeymoon trip.
The wedding of Miss Nellie Walton, the
daughter of tbe wealthy Western avenue Wal
ton family, will be celebrated with becoming
ceremonies on the 18th of November. Mr.
James Wood will be the happy man
THE Leetsdale Library building was formally
opened last evening with any amount of merri
ment and good cheer. The supper was served
by Kennedy.
The annual reception aud donation of the
First Allegheny Day Nursery will be held at
its parlors to-morrow from 3 to 10 P. M.
Mks. Max Beckeb and her daughter. Mrs.
Moore, of Washington, D. C, are visiting in
Cincinnati.
A lkctube and a musical will be given in
tbe Second Congregational Church to-night
A stippeb and social was given in the Point
Breeze Presbyterian Church last evening,
HINDOO MARRIAGES.
England's Attitude and Interest in Reform
ing the Hindoo Social Customs.
From the London Hpectator.l
What we are seeking is only an improvement
in tbe marriage system of Hindoos; ana to
break np the Hindoo ecclesiastical system for
that purpose, while we legalize and protect
Mussulman polygimv, seems to us doubtful
justice. If a widow who remarries, or a father
who keeps his daughter unbetrothed, needs
legal protection from external violence, let
them have it in the fullest measure the case,
we bellove, occurs, the widow forfeiting prop
erty she ought to keep but to prohibit eccle
siastical pressure, or ecclesiastical protection
of the temples against excoraiuunlcants, is out
side the legitimate function of any Govern,
nient.
It would be as bard to abolish Hlndooism as
to prohibit excommunication, and not a great
deal more just. An improvement of that kind
if it be an improvement, and for oar part we
believe caste to bo the antlseptio of Hindoo so
ciety most come from within when tbe time
Is ripe, not be forced upon a people from out
side. We should not feel very benevolent, or
very civilized either, if millions of Hindoos, de
claring that they could no longer protect their
Hindoo purity, elected to become Mohammed-ans-and
that has happened in India, though
on a smaller scale, before now.
Bigoted Bostonlans.
From tbe Bostoa Courier.
Bigotry could not go further than in the case
of the thousand residents of Boston who have
pro testedaratnst.tbo erection of a memorial to
John Bovle O'Relllv on the ground that he was
an enemy to our common schools. They have-
written themselves down as unworiny ox sua
age. and unworthy of the city which" haa the
misfortune to shelter them.
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CURIOUS COHDENSAT10H&
There is nearly a score of different
varieties of Pacific grapes in the New York
market. ' '
A one-legged 'cycler has Issued a chal
lenge to any other ooe-Iegzed 'cycler for a bi
cycle race, ji
A censusof fruit bearing trees Bat been
taken In Lai Angeles county. The total num
ber Is 10.365,37i f
A novelty ia bookbinding Is announced
in the employment in it ot metal as a substi
tute for cardboard.
A company with a capital stock of
$1,000 has been formed In Illinois to use. elec
tricity for blacking shoes.
Robert Cole, in Lbuisville, cut his
throat, and while dying received the news that
be had fallen beir to toO.OOO.
Parties retaining from Blakely to
Arlington, Ga Thursday saw a flight ot black
birds three miles long and a half mile wide.
A scheme is under consideration or
the construction of a railway up the Jungfrau,
in Switzerland, one of the loftiest of all the
Alpine peaks.
"Do you know," said a hotel clerk,
"that one of the heaviest drains upon tho
hotels Is tha request for DiDer and envelopes
from guestsT"
Chinese pheasants were introduced into
tbe vast forests of Oregon ten years ago.and now
it is estimated that there are 1,000,000 ot them
in the country.
Ingenious engineers suggest that the
artesian well may be developed by means ot
electrical appliances into a powerful and cheap
source of almost unlimited power.
Within five years, according to tha
opinion of a well-informed Seattle man, Wash
ington will not import a pound of fruit, except
what is grown in a tropical climate-
In collections centuries old, to be seen
in China and Japan, are specimens ot the most
remarkable drawings in the worM pictures of
all kinds drawn with tbe thumb nail.
Aiaedical journal declares that ahealthy
man will actually suffer more from the prick of
a pin than he would from the pains ot dis
solution In case be died a natural death.
It is enough to make a Nihilist
ashamed of his business to learn that the Czar
is getting so fat that he is at present engaged
in chopping down trees to reduce tbe surplus.
The Negus of Aby?sinia has just
ordered a new crown of pure gold, weighing
three pounds and containing S0O precious
stones. Why should not the Negus of Abyssinia
bo happy?
The largest dynamps so far constructed
are said to be two ot 10,000-horso power each,
which are soon to be set up at Deptford. Tha
most powerful dynamo in 1SS1 was the Edison
machine of 120-borse power.
The German builds his railroad cars
for men. He puts his cigar holders and match
receivers into 19 compartments out of 20. the
twentieth being nominally, not often aotually,
reserved for "non-smokers."
Mr. H". C. Angel, of Weatherford.Tex.,
was in good health last Sunday, but be told his
wife he would die Monday night. He made
his will, attended to business Monday as usual,
and that night lay down and died.
It is said that in many shops in Portugal
at the present time the sign "American Spoken
Here" has replaced tbe traditional "English
Spoken," which is put ont as a bait to foreign
ers. This Is because of the intense hostility to
tbe British nation.
One of tbe most magnificent private
collections of pictures and art objects in tbe
world will soon be sold. It was gathered and
owned by the lata Dom Fernando. King consort
of Portugal and grandfather of the present
ruler of that country. ,
President Lincoln appointed more Jus
tices of tbe Supreme Court than any other
Executive. They were: Swayne. Davis and
Miller in 1862; Field in 1S63, and Chase to suc
ceed Roger B. Taney in 1861. All ot these, ex
cept J udge Field, are dead.
lhere are 20,000,000 acres of unsur
veyed land in tbe State of Washington, and
much of that great extent of country is almost
Impenetrable, being covered with a magnificent
growth of the finest kind of timber. Surveyors
have literally to cut their way every foot, be
cause of the thick underbrush.
A bicyclist, whose identity concerns no
one, was riding his wheel through a portion of
France wben up came a storm ot nln. To a
storm struck him "just as he started to coast
down a nicely graded bill some five miles long.
He proceeded on hU journey and all the way
down that hilt it rained on his hind wheel,
while the front wheel ran along In the dry.
The report that the Swiss had become
tired of William Tell and his apple seems to
have been somewhat premature. The people
of the Canton Un have just resolved to erect
to his memory a bronze statue seven feet high
on the open sqnare bofore the City Hall in
Altorf. Tell will be represented as standing
alone "In bold, determined, defiant posture,"
with the crossbow in the hand.
An important innovation bas been in
troduced in tbe shape of a machine for prepar
ing molds for casting. The machine is designed
to prodnce a complete mold at one operation,
and thus to replace skilled hand labor in mak
ing molds from pattern plates. It Is claimed
that a lad can operate the machine with tbe
assistance of a laborer and is able to ram and
mold as many as 1. 000 boxes per day.
Judge John A. Van Derlip, of Dans
vllle, N. Y., Is TO years old. He bas four sisters,
all in good health Mrs. John McClaury, of
MacGregor. Iowa, who is 90: Mrs. Isaac Mer
rlam, of Boston. Mass., 67; Mrs. Willa.-d Trull,
nf Brooklyn. 85. and Mrs. Seth Billings, of Al
lentown. Pa.. 82: total, 414 years. Jmlge Van
Derlip's brother, tbe late Samuel A. Van Der
lip, died at the age oi S3. His death was the
result of ah accident.
The French Government bas given to
the New York Soclete Francaise da Bienfais
sance one of the famous Gobelin tapestries. It
reproduces the painting "Les Pestiferes de
Jaffa," by Gro. This valuable piece of handi
craft is Si feet in length and 17 feet In breadth,
and it took 12 years to make it. It is now in
Washington, but will probably be brought to
New York soon. Mr. Thoron dos not attempt
to estimate the valne of the gift, but says it
will be sold to cover tbe society's indebtedness,
which is about 510,000.
THE MEKKT-GO-ROIJND,
The Troy Press seems to have a grudge
against Joan of Arc, and insists that she was "a
crant." The more widely held view is that the
electric Maid was the original Arc light. FMa
delphia Ledger.
"Where do good humorists go when they
die?"
Don't know Chestnut Hill Cemetery, per
haps." A'mo iort Herald.
"I read in a scientific article to-day that
the coming man will have neither teeth nor
hair."
"Then the coming man is here: That describes
my baby exactly. "-Ato XorkSun.
It is reported that since the last fire thers
Colon has come to a fall stop. Aw York Prett.
Tommy Jndkins Papa, what do they
mean by selling a race? Is anything actually sold?
Jadklns-Yes. my son, and it U usually the pub
lic lVe' Sport.
A Boston child becoming impatient at its
mother's delay in bearing tU evening prayers, ex
claimed! "Come, mamma, Dod's a-waitla."
jjorcM Hail.
Cnmso What an offensively vain xaaa
Brown is.
Banks Dear me. I never thought him vain.
Cumso-But be is, though. Just notice how ex
cessively and persistently modest he is. bfnefn
natt aautte.
In respect to putting baby to sleep, I
forgot to say that after you have very carernlly
laid him down and crawled away from the cradle
ou your hands and knees so as not to awaken him,
yon are paralyzed by a loud and distinct "Yat yat
yI" and yon have to do It all over again. J. X.
Harbour, in -Detroit Free Press.
Chestnuts brown are in the market, but
none so brown as those tendered by the politician.
Chicago Times.
"You are as bad as a playful kitten ia
jumping at conclusions," remarked Keedlck to
his wife.
'Do kittens Jump at conclusions?" asked iltu
Keedlck.
"Certainly, have you never seen kittens chase
their tails?" CAlcojo inter OeeaiK
"I am in a dreadful pickle," remarked a
theatrical manager.
"What Is the trouble?"
"Why, you see my star has jnst had her dia
monds stolen."
"Same old"
That's Jnst It. I haven't nerve enough tore
port the matter to tho pollre.' Washington
rottr
Hudyard Kipling hrbeen compelled to
cease wort because of Illness. Only Howells is
lsrt now clinging to the coat-Utls of the world to
.restrain It from lapsing lata barbarism. Chicago
Time.
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