- -"W9 THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1890. Mje Bigyaitq. ESTABLISHED rEBRUARY 8, 1S40. VoL4 No 1 -Emend at I'iltsbnreFostuffiee, Joeaibcr 11. lfc. as sccnud-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfleld and Diamond Streets. Hews Hcorns and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street KAvTEl'.N UWClnlMVC; OtFIt'E. ROOM II, TRIBUNE BLllDIM.. FU OItk. where complete flies of THE IHbt'AlfH cin iIw-its be found. loreign advertisers app-cciate the con venience. HouieadertiMrs and frit ml of THE Dlsl'ATCIl. wlille lu Nc ork are also made welcome. TUB PISI'ATCU is rcgulaily on sale at MrenliHo's. 5 Union kqunre. AYir 3 ork, aid 17 Aie.de VOpeia, I'ans. France, iclicie anyone who lias been Uhapooinlid at a hotel ncus stand can ob am ft. tekms or Tin: djpatcil POSTAGE FKEE IN TIIL IMIEB ST VTES. "Daily Dispatch. One car . j s oo Dailt Dim-atch. Fer Quarter - W Daily Dispatch, ont-Month . 70 DaILI 1)ifvtch, including -unday, I yar. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, including bunJai, 3 m'tlis -5'J Daily Dispvtcu. Including bundai, lin'th 90 ITM)A1 DisrATCII One Icir 1 50 "Weekly DirATCir. One liar 1 So TheDauv Dispatch isdiliendliT carriers at 15 cents iter ii eck, or including unda edition, at SScentsperweek. PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY. OV. 5, 1S90. TliE STATE ELLCTION. In the course o. a long experience in the receipt of election returns, The Dispatch lias never known such remarkable features in the way iu which the news of a State election came in as those which appear up to this writing, at 2 A. M. Special tele grams from Republican leaders making claims early in the evening of 30,000 majority for Delamater, grad ually diminished until at one o'clock tfeer had got down to 15.000. and finally an admission from Senator Quay that it re quired 20,000 in Philadelphia and 5,000 in Allecheny to save the State. In the meantime reports from the smaller cities and the counties throughout the State continue to show a stream of gains ior Patti son, largely exceeding even the prior esti mates of Pattison's supporters. Concur rently with this was the singular, and what Democrats assert, is a sinister, absence of returns from Philadelphia far past the hour when in former years the result in that city has been practicallv known, and two hours beyond the time when nearly all the results m Pittsburg were reported. When the spars: returns from Philadelphia did come in, generally at a very late hour.they failed in most cases to show any such Republican Sain as will be sure to offset the sweeping gain for Pattison turoughout the other parts of the State. Still, so large a share of the Philadelphia vole is still wanting that any positive estimate of the result at this hour is hardly possible. The only figures given out mai the in ister of the Republican organi zation at Reaver is thai if Philadelphia gives Delamater 20,000 to 25,000 and Alle gheny county gives him 4.000 or 5,000 the hLUe is sale. Rut as Allecheny does not come to that standard and Philadelphia still reBKuns an unknown quantity, it appears ten from Senator Qua's standpoint that the State is in a parlous condition. Tbt tenor of the reports up to this hour ffitb the indications of a heavv reduction of the Republican majority in Allegheny, the general gains for Pattison in oil and coal districts and throughout the rural counties, and the absence of any compensa tory gains for Delamater so far as the defi cient Philadelphia returns show, mike one ctmclusion possible, even from the most cautious point of view. That is, either th.it Patuson is elected, or that he has made each a severe inroad on the large Repub lican majority which he had to overcome, as la make the result a practical protest azainst the features of Republican manage ment which prodneeu the Independent move Beat. The undoubted close result shows that a large clement of the Republican party are ready to disregard party lines for the sate of independent and clean administra tion. That so many people are ready to burst the bonds of party tor the State issues involved in the campaign is an indorse ment of the position which The Dispatch hai. taken ironi the first in support of Patti fcu and the principles he represents. Whether we have Pattison or Delamater in Use gubernatorial chair for the next four year the election will show that the su premacy o the Constitution and the public interest cannot be disregarded by any party, however strongly it may deem itself to be intrenched tehmd a lare majority on na tional issues. At least thee principles cannot be ignored without invoking disas ter or earn an approach to it as must answer tee same monitory purpose. From whatever standpoint it is viewed, aed whatever narrow margin the final figures may show, the result is an emphatic Vindication oi the Independent movement. A DOUBTFIL DlCOERY. Tie statement from Berlin that Dr Koch lias succeeded in discoiering a successful care for consumption would be great news for humanity, if it were not somewhat seriously deteriorated by the recollection that, a few years ao. Dr. Koch had de elaped a system ol succevsiul inoculation tor Asiatic cholera The ailure as well as 6access oi a new method of treatment, or the core or a fatal disease, olten requires years 14. demonstration; and it may not be quite certain that Koch's cholera inoculation was a loilure. But so little has been heard of it recently that its apparent demise will grratly shake faith in the new remedy lor consumption. The course of investigation taken by the German physician reproduces the recent ex iene:ice with other diseases. As in yellow lever, hydrophobia and tvphoid fever, the study of consumption developed the exist ence of the usual microbe or germ of disease which produces the damige in the luns. KocL's in estimations point to the conclusion tbit tuberculous disease is contagious rather than bereditarv, although no doubt, quali ties may be transmitted which render the child either susceptible to or proot against the ravages of the germ. Alter establish ing to his satisfaction the existence of the Kerrfl, Dr. Koch departed irom the usual conclusion of inoculation and sought rather the remedy which will kill the germs with out injuring the patient, leaving to nature the work of healing the damage already done. lie asserts that he does this by treat ment with a hmph bearing metallic salts in solution. But further details than this are carefully withheld from the public. It teems almost too much to hope that this great enemy ot hun.an life has been tenquered by science. There is no doubt that the medical discovery which can insure the cure of consumption would be one of the greatest benefits that could be conferred on humanity in higher temperate latitudes. Cures for cholera and yellow fever attract our attention on account of the sensation censed by those epidemics; but the deaths j from such violent, but intermittent attacks on human life are probably not half of those caused by the quiet, steady, but remorseless, progress of pulmonary diseases. The mind would gladly accept the truth ol the report that Koch has made tbe discovery; hut rea son will still make us incredulous as to any other means of getting rid of it than to stop its reproduction in future generations. THE BESULT IN OTHER STATES. The returns from the elections in other Stales, up to this writing, are not sufficient to warrant a complete estimate of the re sults; but so far as the reports afford any in die ition of the results they are in the direc tion of a decided back-set for the Repub lican cause. In Xe York State the result is decidedly Democratic, to which undoubtedly the cau ens fight in the city lent its nid. Grant (Taiumauj ) carries Ivew York city by a ma jority which is no especial triumph; but tbe most marked gain in that State is of four Congressmen, Lockwood having carried a strong Republican district in Buffalo, while Xew York City sends a nearly solid Demo cratic delcgatitf-j, and tne Democrats are even entertaining hopes of a Democratic Lejlature and the gain of a Senator. A clear Democratic victory in Massa chusetts is a very black eye for the Republican party, and the elec tion of two Democratic Congressmen from Rhode Island appears to partake of the generally adverse character. Ohio throws a ray of light into the Republican gloom by carrying the State ticket; but there are more important losses in Congressmen. JIcKmlej's gallant fight is reported to hac given him a gratifying victory by 900 majority. Cannon, in Illinois, is de feated by a majority of such size that it shows that that particular overset is due to his unfortunate outbreak in the House. Mis souri is reported to gain three Congressmen for the Democrats. From other "Western States the returns are meager, and from the South little is heard, although the result of the elections there can be taken as a fore gone conclusion. The result according to the indications, though by no means absolutely conclusive, to the effect that the Democrats have the next House by a fair working majority, is susceptible of a variety of explanations. Some lorce is no doubt due to Mr. Blaine's pre-election theory, that the causes which generally operate in the second election of any administration have worked unfavor ably to the Republicans this year. The bur den of patronage has lost votes instead of gained them. But beyond that the auto cratic attitude of the Republican leaders in the House, their determination to push the force bill, and their blind partisanship in unseating Democrats of whose election there was little doubt, has had the effect of repel ling popular support rather than gaining it. There is little doubt that if Republican management had carefully adhered to tbe lines of honesty and lair respect for the rights of the minority, a great many votes might have been saved to the Republican party that were cast against it yesterday. Tne election, if the current reports are cor rect, is a not undeserved reproof to the idea that party is above principle. It must also be recognized, if the results are as indicated, that they are partially due to popular prejudice against the tariff in s -ctions where that measure was not fully understood. This, of course, is to be re gretted, but it is not a fatal disaster. There is little doubt that, wheu the people come to see by actual experience that the effect of the new tariff is not what has been represented by its enemies, this unfavorable verdict will be reversed. There will be plenty of time to secure this result. A Democratic House cannot disturb the tariff against a Republican Senate and President The question whether the tariff is to stand or not will be fought in 1892; and before that time the measure can be fairly judsed by actual expenence. Ii the Republican leaders can understand that they will conciliate public opinion by showing a careful respect for honesty, and recognizing that fairness to their opponents is as much a part of the Republican system as defense of their own rights, will cut themselves clear from the spoils system, and will cease the effort to manufacture Re publican success by act of Congress, they can doubtless redeem in 1892 the backset of yesterday. But they must show themselves capable oi abjuring their past errors or tbe adversity of this year may prove the pre cursor of more overwhelming disaster in the Presidental vear. EI.ECTIOK NIGHT CROWDS. Again Pittsburg astonished herself with tremendous crowds last night. In the lower part of the city, as the evening wore away, every thorougfare was choked with a mass of good-natured, horn-blowing, shouting citizens. Politically this may have been an off-year election, but the crowds that turned out to hear the returns were worthy of a close Presidental contest. The street cars made as slow progress as plows through a frozen soil, and the furrows they made vanished instantaneously. Tbe densest con gregation of all occupied Smithfleld street in front of The Dispatch office, and watched the bulletins with entnusiastic in terest. It was remarkable, too, that the crowds were orderly in the main, and that intoxication irom an thing more potent than partisan elation was almost unknown. THEKEADLNG TOOL. The recent transfer of shares in the Read ing Railroad to the "Vanderbilts, which oc casioned some comment here, is partially explained at least by tbe New York Com mercial AdiertUcr as one of the workings ot a big pool in the Reading shares in Wall street. That journal, which is usually very well posted in Wall street matters, says that a pool has been in existence for more than a year among certain of the "Wall street magnates, which obtained enough of ihe stock last year to wrest the control of the road from Mr. Corbin. The intention is to await the expiration of the term of trns tees in 1892, when the members ot the pool will become directors. The difficulty of maintaining such a pool is one of the prom inent facts iu the history of Wall street; and it seems that the late transfer was due to the fact that one of tbe members in this case was forced to sell out and his holdings were taken up by the Vanderbilts to save the pool from going to pieces. It is somewhat disappointing to find that the transaction is based on a stock specu lating combination rather than on plans or legitimate railroad investment. Yet it isby no means certain that the former may not include the latter. A pool of capitalists controlling the majority of tbe stock in Reading and intending to take possession of the road can only booe to make their specu lation a success by permanently increasing the traffic ot the road. At present the stock of the Reading is little else than a certificate ot control; and the only way it can attain anything more than a speculative value is by so in creasing the traffic of the road that its over er- by. whelming load of debt can be diminished its earnings. This can only be attained by giving it a straight connection to the West; and the most practicable way to do that is to extend its line to this city. It is thus the natural sequence of the Reading pool that if it is to succeed it must build either the South Pen n or some other link to this city. A pool that is already a year old and is now being upheld by the Vanderbilts may possibly prove to be of the kind that attains its purpose by permanent improvements. ELOQUENT FIGURES. Crawford, Erie, McKean, Allegheny, Westmoreland, Clarion, Beaver, Venango and Butler counties exhibit in theit re turns tbe state of local feel'ng as between Pattison and Delamater. Like, as was gen erally and strikingly the case in all West ern counties, the gains for Pattison reached figures which are strongly instructive of the public state of mind as between the two candidates. How a public servant who serves the people is appreciated in the West is splendidly shown by these returns. FUIX OF SIGNIFICANCE. The vote of yesterday in Pennsvlvania is an assertion of the power of the voter who makes up bis mind for himself from the best data before him, in place of being swayed and determined absolutely by the force of partisin associations or by auto cratic dictum. It needs only a compirison of the vote of yesterday with that which was previously cast in Pennsylvania for thor oughly acceptable Republican party candi dates to show that party managers can no louger with impunity ignore and set aside the responsibility of giving to the rank and file both platform and candidates upon whom the party as a whole can heartily unite. What was a few months ago but a protest broke yesterday into the proportions of a storm. It will be well to remember that those who embark in a movement such as that which was expressed yesterday at the polls in Pennsylvania do not withdraw until conditions change. The Independent Republican vote or io terday, as significantly shown in the gr it Pattison gains, has a meaning ninth i n hardly fail to be instructive to the piny managers. The Russian Government li.i in It r inn slderation a plan for the regulation C ! mrs' fees, by dividing the patientsinto time t ii-sds. tbe poorest people to pay nothing ami the rn h est to pay high rates. This is thought by some to bo likely to increase sickness among the poor by enabling them to enjoy medical atten tion gratis, while stimulating health among the rich. But when we consider the amount of attention that doctors would be likely to givo the poor under this regulation, it I probable that the statistics would reveal a minimum of ailments in that class. A better plan is the Oriental one of paying the doctors in propor tion to the ratio of general health that they succeed in producing. The Silent Voter had not much to say be fore yesterday, but he is vociferous this morn ing in showing such gains for Pattison through the Western connties of the State as even the most sanguine supporters of the Democratic Independent Republican candidate, consider ing how strong party ties are, had hardly dared to hope for. The fact that England is strengthening her harbors and coaling stations in the West Indies is not to be taken as an indication oi hostile intentions to the United States. Eng land's possessions there would be just as much exposed to raids Irom European fleets in the case of war with continental powers as in a war with this nation. The fact is, probably, that the activity reported in the West Indies is simply a part ot the policy of naval arma ment that has been carried on by the English Government for years. That nation has not tbe kind of Government that can embark in war without giving plenty of notice by public dis cussion. The report that some of the Four Hun dred are refusing to recognize McAllister on account of tbe book be wrote, shows that there are some people In that charmed circle intelli gent enough to object to having it made known what big fools they are. The increase of pension just granted to the widow of a revolutionary soldier is a curi ous example of the survival of pensioners; and two similar cases discovered by the last Congress strengthen the singularity. On the presumption that tbe widows were anything near tbe age of their husbands they must be over 120 years old now, as the revolutionary war terminated 107 jears ago. Of course they were women born long after the war, who mar ried revolutionary veterans in their old ae, and tbe not unnatural idea that they married for the sake of tbe pensions is estopped in the case of two of them by the fact that they neve got the pensions nntil the last Congress. Senator Sherman's assertion that patronage is a source of weakness rather than strength is indorsed by tuo St, Loais Globe Democrat, but the politicians continue to hang on to the patronage like grim death, just the same. The action of the police authorities in ordering; the tin born nuisance to be stopped at 1 o'clock, last night, is deserving of praise. There is no reason why strenuous partisans should either express their jubilations or miti gate their sorrows by making night hideous. As a matter of fact the tin horn nuisance exists simph because license is offered to the small boy to turn election night into a saturnalia. Tbe action of the police In putting a check on unlimited noise is a good one, and it is to be hoped that it may set the precedent for more quiet and order on future election nights. The returns from Johnstown and Cambria county this morning show how the Republicans of that district regard the manner in which Hastings lost tbe delegates to the nominating convention, while the people were for him. The discovery of gold and silver in the hills belonging to the Chickasaw Nation in the Indian Territory is expected to produce an in fluence on the future of that tribe of Indians. Judging from previous experience with regard to tbe discovery of precious metals on Indian lands, it will result la tbe Cbickasawsbelng dis possessed of their property by the easiest way open to tbe hungry prospectors. If the mines prove rich enough to depreciate the prico of silver, it Is to be supposed that it will also re quire the United States Treasury to buy more silver. The report that Bismarck intends to start a brewery is taken in this country to mean that the old chancellor intends to get back into politics once more, with a strong backing. It is an interesting evidence of the way in which politicians regard attempts to falsify an honest election that is given by the statement that tbe second lot of arrests of assessors in Philadelphia for padding tbe election lists was made in retaliation for the farst arrests. Here is an allegation to the effect that to arrest men for filling up their lists with bogus names is an encroachment on one party which calls for re taliation on its part. Men who take such a view are obviously incapable of honest politics. Now that the election is over, a long suffering public will hope that they may be per mitted a fewweeks with a little less humidity In the atmosphere. Mr. Porter's census seems to go hack on the claim that "twent y-nin e years of protection' has increased our p ipulatlon from 31,000.000 to Co.OOO.OCU; and it is especially destructive of tnat view when it shows that the ratio of in crease for the last decade has been but a little more than two-thirds of tho ratio for the de cade from 1S50 to 1S50. To find Porter's figures going back on protectionist theories Is to turn them into a boomerang. Succi as a faster is several years behind Dr. Tanner and seems likely to contribute the same amount of information for too benefit of science. i Some very peculiar things will anpear from a study of the ward returns. One Dre clnct will show a heavy gain for Pattison; an other, adjacent to it, will give a Republican gain. It would naturally be supposed that the causes which affected the votes in one precinct would be felt in the neighboring one; bat the contrasts which appear in adjacent localities are so marked as to bo suggestive of fine work somewhere. TnE snow which ushered in yesterday morning was a chilly omen of what was in re servo for some of tho politicians later In the day. Tnn murder ol a Tarentum constable who was trying to arrest a couple of burglars hould put the police officials evervwbere on the alert to detect and punish not only these burglars, nut all criminals of that class. In the meantime, if the officers of the law cannot sup press murderous criminals it will be the duty of citizens everywhere to learn to be quick on the trigger, in defense of their homes. PEES0KAL MEHTI01T. Uaby Kino Alfonso, of Spain, has a pri vate income of 81,000,000 a year. John Morley is called the "grand young man" in England. He is only 51 years old. Grace Greenwood is quito out of health this autumn. Her trouble is ascribed to rheu matism. Her face is missed at the social gather ings to which hor keen mother wit and shrewd sense gave flavor and piquancy. Mrs. .Nicholson, of New Orleans, who owns and edits the J'teajune, and whi is the only womau in the country in such a position, is so quiet, low-voiced and retiring in manner that one would never suspect her of holding the place she fills. P. T. Barnuii has been enjoying himself in Denver like any young man of 21. In fact, tho Denventes won't believe that he is an octo genarian. He has just bought nearly J30u,000 worth of property in Denver, and expects to live long enough to see it quadruple in value. Fiw of New York's newspaper men are so ci editable to themselves as Henry Marquand, editor of the Commercial Advertiser. His life has been one long struggle with extreme afflu ence, jet, in spito of it, he has managed to re main a hard-working American gentleman, clean, cultured, unaffected, and the most mod est man alive. Jliss Lilian Everett, daughter or Mr. Sidney Everett and granddaughter of Edward rverett; Miss Constance Lodge, daughter of Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, with Miss Sybil l'aunrefotc, second daughter of tho British .Minister, are to be three of the prettiest debu tantes in Washington this winter. John Brisben Walker, tho Cosmopoli tan's proprietor, is several times a millionaire, and made all his money mining and ranching In Colorado. His wife Is a daughter of the artist David H. Strother, better known as Porte Crayon, They have seven sons and no daugh ter, and Iivo in a big place at Orange. K. J. Ex-Governor Lono. of Massachusetts, pos sesses the remarkable ability of recollecting what ho has written without reading it over even by himself. It is said that during his most animated speech be has in his mind's eye a vivid impression of his manuscript, so that be knows where every page and every line ends, and even where there are interlineations. Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Centui v, is thin and slight, with long gray hair, a piping reedy voice, delicate features and a manner of nervous modesty. Mr. Gilder's sanctum is the handsomest in New York in fact, altogether aesthetic. It has an open fire place, brass andirons, with rugs, hangings, draperies and pictures in the bigheit style of art. It is full of greens at Christmas, of flowem at Eaner. In it Mr. Gilder is altogether charming. Mup.at Halstead is a tall man, rather stoutly built, with iron gray hair, moustache and pointed beard more silvery, and with a smouldering fire in the dark, deep-set eyes. His voice is deep and pleasant, his enun ciation of words quite after tbe Kentucky pat tern, as becomes one who is neighbor to tbe blue grass region. Mr. Halstead's manner is even more distinguished tban bis appearance. He is an easy talker, not particularly brilliant, except on occasions. HTDSOH'S BAY COMPANY. Its Tribute of Usefulness and Its Komanco of History in tho For North. From the BrooKlj n Easle.l What a far away sound tbe Hudson's Bay Company has! I am afraid it will continue to sound further awav until it echoes only from the remote Mildness of Athabasca; what it lives by the fur bearing animals are disap pearing, private enterprise is cutting into its trade and the Indians are wearing trousers; so its future is full of gloom. It has been a factor in developing wealth for England, in gaining the friend-hip of native races for English peo ple. In extending knowledge of the country and in making possible the Canada of to-day. At present the revenues of tbe Hudson's Bay Com pany are' larger f n m land than from trade, for wheu its territory reverted to the Dominion, it received millions of acres as a solace and com pensation, tbe Canadian Pacific Railroad get ting 25.000,000 more. The Hudson's Bay Company has about 200 posts and It is represented by 200 shares, one half ot them owned in the old country, whore they are held in certain families, the other being used by Its commissioned officers during their service as temporary rewards. The Gov ernor lives in England; tbe commissioner's headquarters are in Winnipeg where, every three years, a council meot that is composed of the commissioner and the officers under him. The inspecting chief factor's hustnes is to go all over the country every year, visiting each post, learning its condition, its needs, if anv, hearing reports and giving orders, his travels taking him as far as Fort McPherson, on Peel river, within 75 miles of the Arctic Ocean. Until trails were mnrked i.nd the waterways were known it used to t ike seveny ears to make tbe circuit of all the forts in collecting pelts and sending around supplies. Think of waiting seven years for jour next potatoes! Now the posts are reached every year, save a few. THE PITY OF IT. A Sobbing Child Belabored With a Bawhlde by an Infuriated Father. Kate lilnney In Chicago Globc.2 I witnessed something so cowardly the other day that my blood has been boiling ever since. There are some people and some natures that are bey ond endurance. A great, strong, six foot brute of a man was holding a little 4-year-old mite of a girl out in one band and belabor ing her with a cowhide. The little one re strained herself as long as possible. Then, the tears swelling from her dark eyes, sbe sobbed: "flease, papa." This Infuriated him more than ever, and for five minutes he stood there whipping the little thing, when for some reason he desisted. Tho pity of itl What are w e com ing to? Can nothing be dono to tide over this low state of affairs? Only one thing could 1 do I stood there and wished heartily that I were a man so I could Knock hlni down and then pick him np and knock blm down again. Such folks ought not to be allowed to lire, but as they do live, something must be done to stop their outrages upon humanity. Where is the Man? From the Boston Courler.J Where is the man imaginative enough to give us the reflections of Bismarck In retirement last Monday while honors were being heaped upon Von Mo'.tke? The subject is one which offers great possibilities. Their Mission. From the Brooklyn btandard-Unlon.J Ihe mission of Messrs. O'Brien and Dillon is fully declared. It is not to raise a famine fund, but money for political purposes only. DEATHS OP A DAY. Christian A. Weaver. Christian A. "Weaver, aned 83. and a well-known and respected citizen of 'WllkinBburjr, died at 2:30 yesterday afternoon, 'ihe funeral service will be held at the fimlly rcsfdencc to-morrow at 21'. ii. Interment will bo at lluiucwood Ceme tery. Mrs. 31. E. Hough. Mrs. Maggie E. donah, wife of Kcv. a. Hough, or Marshall avenue, Allegheny, died yesterday. The body will be Interred at Smithton. to-morroir. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. People who are all the while borrowing never have anything to lend. The small boy of the land bas had an object lesson in practical politics this time, hasn't be? Especially plain and forcible, too, in this neck of tbe public domain. He has heard men whom he considered good, high and mighty criticised and dissected. Surely some of the drops from the dirty linen hung on tbe political clothes line have touched him. He hardly dodged them all. I listened to a group around a precinct bonfire early yesterday morning dis cussing the merits of the leading candidates. It was Pap savs this, and Pap says that. Mr. Soanso is an awful bad man and Mr. Otherfel low is "badder," they argued. And bow hot grew the infantile discussion, too. Tbe little Ph avers had evidently seen the characters of the s.'ekcrs after office laid on the dissecting table at homo and heard the knife of partisanship and the saw of conscience cut and rip them to bits. And there they were playing with the pieces under the shadow of tbe ballot bov. A trifle odd. wasn't it? But boys will be boys, you know. And bow tbe little chaps do pick up the crumbs we would sooner see them miss. Sharp, blight, shrewd, clever little fellows are they. If yon imagino that none of the stories or campaign lies have caromed on their young minds and scored, why you aro mistaken. As their father votes so-would they if they could; as he talks they talk; as he dissects they dis sect; as he judges they judge; as ho rensons they reason ears for all and mind and memory enough for present pur poses. So tho slime stains and tbe mud sticks only in small spots, of course, but they won't wash out. So much for hot practical politics at the family board or liieside idol shattering, character breaking, character making. And so it is, and so it over shall be, unless Pap and the grown up sons discuss politics beyond the reach of tbe sharp yonng ears. Tho little fel lows who have heard only the echoes of the fight which ended yesterday must have a very queer opinion of tho men who are called to rule in the halls where laws aro made and un made. Keep politics of this sort out of the nursery. It's not a good game to teach the children. It hardens their hearts instead of their muscles. The girl who marries a man with a title to a bouse and lot is better off than a good many countesses. Natural gas seems to be playing out after it passes through the pipes and serves its pur pose m the grates and ranges. The tailor is prepared for a snowfall. Ho bas a cutter, you know. W hen a woman who wants to appear before the public can't act she lectures, and gets t hero just the same. Perhaps the potatoes in Ireland have tuberculosis. Sailors watch tbe wind, but don't wind the watch. what it all means. Let all the bells in the city clang, Let all the guns in tbe city bang. Let all tbe flags in the city hanz, All voices shout together. Glorious this awful noise Which the city now enjoys, Made by men as well as boys Who use politics for toys In every sort of weather. For it tells us what's been done. Who is Pennsylvania's Son, Wno the battle royal won With the setting of the sun When the polls closed yesterday; Tells us who has been turned down. Tells us who has been done brown, Whose the face that wears a frown, Who has lost tbe Keystone crown In the game the voters play. Peace will reign here for awhile; No more oily tongues beguile, No more patriots will smile In the hypocntic stylo Which makes the people shiver. On the stream of life we'll float. Beyond the reach of jarring note Of bidders for the precious vote; For they will be aboard the boat That's sailing up Salt Rlverl Ir women were in politics a great many citi zens would have sat down to a cold supper last night. Hand-painted dress shirts for the New York dudes have been shipped from Paris. Every man can now be his own advertiser if be wants to. If you give a joke you should always be pre pared to take one. The stage machinists are now writing some drawing dratms. If they keep on deaf and dumb folk will be able to adopt the stage with some show for success. Judging from the reading matter in the political organs during the past few weeks, tbe worst people in the world are outside the peni tentiaries. You see everywhere living monuments to buried hopes. Wildly they shouted through tho street, bearing doves in sacred steeple: And in the ears of those they'd meet Loudly cried: "We I Are!! The ! ! I People ! ! 1 ! If all the clocks in the world stopped life would not be lengthened a second. KEEr on good terms with your nelehbors, but don't be at all inquisitive. When thev draw their blinds you shouldn't try to peep through the keyhole. Don't force yourself where you are not wanted. If you do, don't feel hurt if you hear some unpleasant remarks. There is no etiquette for the government of Intruders. TnERE seems to be a great many poor dog Trays in modern politics. When the secret ballot comes you won't have to dodge tho fellow yon voted against the day after election. Giuls who have a winning way cin safely throw their powder box out of the window. Did you win or lose? Or are you one of those sensible fellows who didn't bet? Yesterday you sat 'round tbe festive board Basking In the wine's red glow; To-day you're assisting the hungry horde Who are meekly eating crow. Ir the devil could be kept out of the homes we might be induced to let him have the earth. The telephone girl gets lots of ear rings, es pecially during a political compaign. It was cut and scratch all along the line yes terday. It will be a long time before snch a family jar will occur again in Pennsylvania. Some fond mothers are holding oft the christening until they hear the full returns, after which some baby boy will bear tho name of the winner. Another blundering boy operator has caused a switch to be misplaced. When children guide railway trains over tbe level but narrow rails death hovers In the ditches. To-day you will know how it feels to be the under dog in a light. You will not bear another tariff speech until 1KB. Little bits of tickets. Counted by tbe score Just inside tbe wickets, Made the Governor. You cannot gauge tho depth of a husband's love by the length of his wife's sealskin. The height of folly A tall theater bat. The guns carried by the desperate men who 0 burglaries In Tarentum always seem to be loaded. What Allegheny county needs is a terrible example at the end of a rope. You cannot read cross-eyed people's hearts by looking into their eyes. Piercing cries accompany operations on the ears to permit girls to wear diamonds there. s The barber cannot shave tbe mugs of bis customers, after all. Willie Winkle. CLEOPATEA'S COINS. Her Portraits on Them Tho Snake Bern hardt Uses. Paris Dispatch In London Truth. The snake chosen by Sarah Bernhardt to serve as her executioner is of tho "blind-worm" species, and is known in France as an orvet. It is a pretty creature, which may be olten found on the tops of old walls sunning itself. The back is dark green with metallic hues that are in certain lights iridescent. Sarah's snake is called by her Ins. Cleopatra being now a good deal before the public as a topic of theatrical interest, the Egyptian coins si ruck in her reign which are lu the numismatic department of the National Library are greatly run upon there. They show her when she was, respectlve'y, wife and when Queen Regnant. One sees her at all ages from her early teens to almost the close of her reign. Cleopatra, on these coins and medals, is far nearer to Sarah Bernhardt than to Mrs. Langtry. She is almost spare in figure when young, and at all times lithe. Tbe neck re mained yonng to the last. Had she lived to 80 she might have looked alittle like Prince Napo leon, the mouth and chin having a Mother Hub hard tendency to meet. The full, luscious lips, resembling those of a Somali woman's, do not mitigate, mncn the hardness of the physiog nomy. It is a strange countenance, and one easy to read. The forehead bulges out at the eyebrows. Its prominence hero gives it sin gular irregularity, producing tho effect almost of a smaller head growing up out of a larger one. Jove was represented by Greek scalptors with such afoiehead, but on a more massive scale. The eye is greatly in shadow, and almost sinister, it having the expression of a snake's when a bird is to be charmed. The aquiline curve of the nose is at once strong and delicate, and the nostril is well open and finely curved. Taken with the lips, it gives an impression of a woman prone to sensual joys, cynical, fond of a cruel joke, and contemptuous. Her firmly molded and advancing chin shows volition. Sbe was willful to tbe last dpgree,and not to be turned from any purpose. The hair is dressed in tbe Greek manner and twisted np in a small knot on the nape of the neck. She is bad and bewitching. All the men she fascinated saw through her. but were too intoxicated by her charms to break away from her. She wore a royal diadem, which is represented on some of the coins. CAES VERY SCARCE. aieager Facilities for Moling the Crops in tho Great Northwest. Chicago, November i "The big crops In Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho are likely to remain in warehouses several months before they can be hauled away," said James Albright, of Sprague, Wash., who bas just ar rived in this city. "What is tbe matter?" he was asKed. "A great scarcity of cars, rendering it impos sible to move tbe grain. There is not half enough cars on either of the two roads to haul oven a part of the big crops. The wheat yield this year has been immense, and especially so in Pelouse county, the Big Bend Empire, In dian Prairie andPotlach region. In tbe Pelouse Valley alone the yield is estimated at 10.000,000 Bushels. The combined output of these other localities will easilv aggreeate 7,000,000 bushels making a total of 17,000,000 bushels for tbat re gion alone, bnme of it, say one-fifth, will be consumed in Washington, and the remaining 13,000,000 bushels will be exported. Estimating that each car will hold on an average 39 000 pounds, upward of 27,000 cars will be needed to export this g'ain. A train will average 15 cars, so tbat at least 1,800 trains will be necessary to haul the grain produce alone out of the conn try to market. Now, both the Northern and Union Pacific Railroads arc already taxed to their utmost capacity. Calls are daily made from stations for more cars, which cannot be supplied. In Spokane the yards are almost bare ot empty cars, and tbe same Is true of other railroad centers. Many capitalists are building large elevators in consequence. A TIMELY RHYME In Which Readers of The Dispatch Should be Interested. A few verses in our esteemed cotemporary, the Saturday lieview, are of timely Importance: ''Falling loud on oar tympanam, fcarlul as the crack o' doom: Speeding westward, awful, thnnd'rlng; 'tis the Kudyard Kipling boom. Itudyard Kipling, gifted stripling, praise and glory to his name. Prosing, rhyming, bravely climbing to the pin nacle of Fame." This graceful recognition of a new develop ment in tbe literary world is especially inter esting owing to the fact that the biggest gun tbat Mr. Kipling ha! yet loaded will be heard in The Dispatch on November 9 through the beginning of bis first serial, "The Light that Failed." F0ETY MEMBERS STRONG. Tho Iron City Fishing Club Surprises Sir. Lee S. Smith. About id members of the Iron City Fishing Club surprised Sir. Lee S. Smith at his resi dence, on Marion avenue, Allegheny, last even ing. Rev. A. H. Norcross, of the Pittsburg Female College, presented Mr. Smith with a handsome chair as a token of the club's ap preciation of bis services as Secretary of tho club fortlie past nine years. The club members spent a most delightful evening and voted unanimously to follow up the surprise party with a reunion sometime during tbe winter. Among those present were Captain McGill, Mr. John McUill. Dr. Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. E.S. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Dangertield, Mr. and Mrs. Prof. William H. black, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Shep herd, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Riggs, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Charles W. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Will Price. Mr. and Mrs. Pollitt, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Norcross, Miss blacK, Miss Hays, Miss Moore. Mis3 Ford, Rev. J. W. Miles. Rev. T. R. Jones. A WOMAN'3 DAILY, Hacked by an Abundance of Money, Is Soon to he Started in New lork. New York, November i. Some wealthy ladies of this city have prepared a project for tbe starting of a great daily paper here. It is not to be an organ of woman's political en franchisement merely.butit is to be a champion of all ber rights as a dominating force in the community, and as an important factor in the social, busine-s, and industrial world. It is to print all the news and views that are of special interest in the development of fem ininity, and the expectation of its projectors is tbat it will be scanned every day by all tbe women of New York, if!not by all tbe men. An abundance of capital lor its support is at hand, and tbe world may be startled by its appear ance some day of next year. FASTING FOE FAME, Succl Says He Is Stronger When He Docs Not Eat Anything. New York, November 4. Signor Jean Succi, whose fasting feats have earned for him a wide celebrity throughout Europe, will on Saturday begin in this city a fast of 15 days, under tbe watch of a medical rommittee and of tbe students of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He says that his experiment differsfrom all others of the same kind iu tbat during his fast he continually gains strength Instead of losing it. He will take a big dinner and breakfast before the fast, and during tbe 45 days will continue bis fencing, riding, swimming, walking, etc. A LIBRARY FOB ANS0NIA, CONN., With a Handsome Building and Site, as a Gift From Miss Stokes. Ansonia, Conn., November 4. Tbe town has just received a gift from Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, of New York. valuable site has been purchased and presented to the town, and upon this Miss Stokes will erect a hand some building to be used as a public library. It is said that she wUl also place in tbe library a large number of books. Miss Stokes is a daugbter of James Stokes, who bad large interests in Ansonia. This is the first gift of tbe kind tbe town has ever received. Sacred and Secular Concert. A sacred and sccHlar concert for the benefit of the Lincoln avenue Sunday school will bo given under tne auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society in the Emory M. E. Church, East End, Thursday evening, November 6. at 8 o'clock. Tbe H. JU Ringwalt choir of 25 voices has been engaged. THE TOPICAL TALKER, Itetnrns by Grapevine. About 2 o'clock this morning Mary Ann heard a noise in tho lower part of the house and came downstairs to see what was the matter. She found the lady of the honse reading a paper upside down and nervously tapping her foot on the floor. "What are you doing, mum?" "Waiting for tbe returns, Mary." "For the returns, mum?" "Yes very full returns, Mary!" And sure enough he returned an hour later about as full as a man can get on election night, A Change for the Worse. "The night was coming down, and the brake man bad lit tbe lamps in tbe car. The train was bowling along high up above the valley where the pale gray sky was reflected in the river. The chill mountain air battled with the car stove for possession and bad a little the best of It, so that the stout drummer wrapped his overcoat about him a maneuver everyone imitated. The only really interesting couple in the car were a bride and groom; the former a very neat, fresh-faced little woman of less tban 30. and ber lord a man in the shadow of 50, with thin, grizzly beard and hair, a long, bard-looking mouth, ana tho general air of a prosperous vil lage storekeeper. Somebody who knew them had told the conductor that they were a newly married pair, and of course tbe news spread. If all the world loves a lover, it is equally true that everybody is deeply interested in new ad venturers on tbe sea of matrimony, and this pair became at once observed of all their fel low.travelor3. During the afternoon, which bad been sunny. the elderly husband had been very attentive to his yonng bride, and they talked, lunched and looked very fondly at each other till the bills began to grow black, and merge with the star lit sky. Then the old man appeared to be get ting sleepy and cold. Ho got out bis overcoat and a shawl and made himself very comfort able, indeed. In a few minutes he was asleep with bis head pillowed on his wife's shoulder. Sbe. poor thing, bad on a silk dress of a dark lavender shade, and no wrap of any kind ex cept a small black jacket, Thecondnctor passing through tbe car soon a' ter the bridegroom had begun to snore heav ily, stopped after he had passed them and looked at the pair for a minute. Then he said, in a gruff whisper to the drummer: "Guess, she'd better have stayed teachin' school, don't you?" Dominant Letters. iMy pencil will do nothing but write P's," said a newspaper man, who bad voted for Pattison, written for Pattison, and was pre paring to shout for Pattison last night. "You must mind your Q,'s as well as your P's," said a neighboring editor, reaching ont Mr. Quay's claim of 30,000 majority for Dela mater. Tobacco In Great Britain. ji'JMiE other day The Dispatch said that tobacco was not rai-cd in England be cause of climatic reasons," said an Englishman yesterday, "and tbat is a correct statement, so far as it goes. The culture of tobacco has never been seriously undertaken because all tbe conditions are unfavorable. But there are laws still on tbe statute book which prohibit the growth of tobacco within Greatl Britain. These laws were passed in tbe reign of Charles II. In order to encourage and protect the to bacco growing industry in tbe Virginian Col onies. When the American colonies rebelled tbe tobacco laws were not repealed, mainly, no doubt, because nobody took tbe trouble or thought it worth while to have them abrogated, and partly because it was supposed that the collection of an internal revenue tax upon to bacco would be very difficult. Tbe tax in ques tion would amount to about $3,000 per acre, which manifestly is prohibitive. "In Ireland in 1822 the duty on tobacco culti vation was repealed and to soma extent to bacco was successfully raised there, so tbat in 1830 when the tax was again imposed about 1,000 acres were under the crop. Tbat was tbe last attempt to raise tobacco in the United Kingdom until 1886, when a number of farmers in Kent, Norfolk and other parts of Southern England began to experiment with tobacco culture. Tho Government looked with a favor able eye upon these attempts to give tbe un fortunate English farmer a new source of rev enue, and expressly exempted the experiment- ers from the restrictive tax. Unhappily, how ever, so far as I have heard, tobacco did not take kindly to tbe variable climate of England, although in some instances crops of tobacco were successfully raised." Horns Are Not Ornamental. iiTf Pittsburg would blow her own horn on other occasions as sbe is doing to-night," said a Pittsbuiger as he struggled in the crowd on Smithfleld street last night, "she'd bo better knowa than sbe is," 'Horns are not pleasantly suggestive," said bis companion. "Ihe unicorn with one horn bas become extinct except as a heraldic hum bugand tbo gentleman with horns cannot be mentioned in polite society." THE USES OF ELECTRICITY And the Large Number of Patents to That End 'Wlilcli Are Issued. From the 2s ew York bun.l "I tell you," said the electrician, "that the greatest novelties of our age are to be seen in tbe uses of electricity for light and power. Look at this list of patents recently issued. Here are the rheostat and the electric de tonator and the double-pole snap switch and the electric soldering iron and the insulator bracket and the electric convener and tbe reciprocating snap switch and the electrolyte for batteries and tbe lightning arrester and tbe electric valve controller and the adjustable current reciprocating engine system and the electric power hammer and the grip mechan ism for cable railroads and the electric switch and the post electric and the secondary bat terv plate and tbe electrolyte for galvanic batteries and the pulsatingcurrent battery and the electrical traction apparatus and the cut out for electrical translating devices and the electric lgnal for railways, besides a score of other novelties in eiectncin. We havo new electricil discorerlei every week, ana the Pat ent Office is full of them. Here is the greatest wonder of the times, and few people have any idea of its greatnes. A HEW MAGAZINE In tho Interest of Education, and Ably Backed, About to be Published. New York, November i. A new monthly magazine to be devoted to educational affairs will be publisher in this city within a few months. It will contain signed articles upon various topics of permanent interest in the school world and also discus3 editorially the current questions of school management, not only of New York, but of Philadelphia, Bos ton, Chicago aud other cities. The contributors will include some of the best known educators of Europe, as well as those who have the high est standing in this country. There is no such periodical now, simolv because large capital is reauisite for the support of such a journal. Tbe new magazine has plenty of money back of it, and the intention of its promoters is to have their publication lie of as high standard as the Jonn; and the Sorlh American Jieiiew, though limited purely to school affairs. General Booth's Scheme. From the Boston Hc,-ald.l However socialistic his plans may seem, ho bas one great advantage over other workers among tho slum people, and this is in the fact that the Salvation Army is largely composed of men and women who have been in closo touch with those whom they now desire to reform and benefit. They are better able than pro fessed philanthropists, or any number of high class workers among the very poorest peoule, to reach and Improve the neglected masses, because they know better how to reach them. YOU'LL HAVE TO PAY. You may Jew and scrLW yourncighbor out or every cent he owns; You may fry the fat or life away, and leave him but tbe bones; You may kick tbe underpinning out from those who try to climb Up tothlngs that promise better; you may spend your leisure time Drawing interest from others till yonr purse Is fat and strong. Till your credit is cstiblishcd and yonr bank ac count Is lung: That's all trne; But mark you I Sometime or other, as snre as the day. Justice will come and you'll have to pay. Rural Heio Xorker, CURIOUS C0NDENSATI05S. There are 10,000 colored Catholics in Washington, D. C. Paris consumes 1,2000,000 kilogrammes, or about 2,500,000 pounds of bread per day. The latest fashion in tbe way of flower decoration is to emnloy only one kind of flower to orLament a table. It is the latest theory that the electric ity or thunder storms is due to the friction of water drops on ice. Experience in electrically welding pro jectiles shows that the metal Is strentghened at the point of welding. The Russian Government has decided that in the future all its railroad trains shall uu iiKQiea with electricity. Compressed paper is now used as a sub- 8ti'u.te f.or W01 in the manufacture of shuttles and their wheels for looms. The Hawaiian Government has applied to the Japanese Government for 5.000 more im migrants, and they will be sent. It is estimated that a man can go around the world in a trifle over 32 days when the new Russian railway is completed. A grain of musk will scent a room for 20 years, and at the end of that time will not show tbat it has diminished in the least, Liverpool, England, has 250 miles of tbe best paved streets in the world, and it costs less than $10,000 a year to keep them in perfect repair. A tnnnel to Prince Edward's Island across Northumberland straits, a distance of 6K miles, is tbe next great engineering feat talked of in Canada. Standard time has been fully accepted in Asia by not less than 40,000,000 people, in Europe by almost an eqnal number, and la America by more than 00,000.000. The dynamo i3 replacing the battery to such an extent in telegraphy tbat its use will, it is thought, be universal in a few years. It it both cheaper and more efficient. Electrical appliances which have been used to time horse races are nowbemg adapted to the timing of sprinting races, and are found to be of great use in close contests. A Connecticut Judge has decided that hotels conducted on tbe American plan hare the right to charge guests for meals as long as they occupy a room, whether the meals are eaten or not. The Austrian War Office has decided upon filling the mattresses and pillows of the soldiers in barracks with wood shavings. Ex periments with this material have already been made in some military districts. An electric light and power plant, soon to bo in running order at Ellsworth. Me., will be run chiefly by water power, and the com pany expects to be able to furnish power at $30 a year for each horse power. At Budapest a phonograph is now ex hibited from which the voice of Louis Kossuth can be heard on payment of an entrance fee. Tbe voice of tbe venerable revolutionist is de scribed as still sonorous in spite of his great age. A brown or black bear would soon he observed where the coyote makes its home, but the latter, lying in the sides of hills covered with dried and sunburnt vegetation, is almost perfectly safe from intrusion if it but remains quiet. A Biddeford,Me.,man offered to pay his barber 20 cents if the barber would shave him in less tban a minute, provided the barber would do it for nothing if the operation con sumed morn tban that time. The job wa3 done in 54 seconds. The receivable traditions of China go back to 3,000 years before Cbrist; and one of their sacred books, the Shu-king (treating of history and of tbe government ard laws of tbe ancient monarchs). begins with the Emperor Yao, 2,357 years B. C. The wood and iron model of the architect Brentano's design for the facade of Milan Cathedral is nearly completed. Tbe model will cost 20.000 francs, and will be one twentieth of the size of the contemplated facade, so tbat critics will be given every opportunity of mak ing suggestions. Popular Science Monthly alludes to the belief of some that as man in the savage state has. for the most part, been largely, if not whollv, carnivorous, be will, with the progress of civilization, become entirely vegetarian or nse only tbe products of animals, as eggs and milk, with vegetable food. An ingenious numismatic has devised an ingenious method ot exhibiting coins, which is now used in English museums. The polling of a lever rotates a frame containing cards in which tbo coins are inserted in such a manner that the obverse and reverse, with a full descrip tion of each coin, are suown at tbe will of the observer. A hunter in Wesley, Washington county, savs the Portland (lie.) Press, saw a deer dancing about in a clearing in the strang est fashion. The animal was jumping up and down in one place and manifesting the greatest interest in its own performance. The hunter was so amazed that he forgot to shoot. At last tbe deer saw tbe hunter and bounded away. The hunter, going to the spot, found a largo blacksnake completely trodden into the ground. It is proposed to introduce a bill in the) English Parliament, when ir. again assembles! providing for the pay of tbo members ot thrt) House of Commons. As is known by all famili lar with English Parliamentary affairs, mem bers of neitber the House of Lords northel Commons have ever received a salary, beats in tbe House of Lords are hereditary, descend ing with tbe title to the peerage, while those in the Commons are elective, neither member ship being salaried. A wood-carving machine which pos sesses many radical improvements bas been brought out. Tbe machine is designed specially for use in furniture factories and in car. organ and piano factories and other establishments where wood carving is done. It will carve four duplicate pieces any length at one operation if not over 7 inches wide, or it will make two duplicate pieces any length if not over 15 inches wide, and if a greater width is desired one piece can be carved of any length, and from 15 to 30 inches wide. The bits can be bandied conveniently and in any direction within an anglo of 30 degrees. FUN AND FANCY. Smith Do you believe in the doctrine of predestination' ... Jones (a luckv candidate) Yes: and in doctrine of election, too. She (after a lovers' quarrel) Ton may re turn my letters. He (cdltor)-Dld you inclose stamps? Harper's Bazar. Doctor I have the pleasure of informing you. Mr. Captious, that you are the father of twins. Mr C Excuse me. doctor, but as there have been so many discrepancies in the census lately I'll have to ask you to oblige me with a recount. Boston Courier . "Boo-hoo!" 'What's the matter, John?" "Got caught stealin' apples at Mr. Binx's." "Did he thrash yon"' "No: made me eat the apples. Boo-hoo-hoo." Harper's Xoung People. Little Girl Your papa has only got ons leg, hasn't he?" Veteran's Little Girl-Yes. Little Uirl Where's his other one? Veteran's Little Girl Hush, dear; it's in heaven. Babyltood. Tnvvet (speaking of a visitor to Chicago) The bluest ot blood runs through Miss Chest nut's veins. Dicer Not rani. You seem to forget that Mt. Chestnut Is a Fbiladelpblan. Chicago Jnttr Ocean. Florence is a little girl who is just learn ing to go to church. Last Sunday, when she came home ber mother asked ber what she thought of the sermon. "UglV was the Irreverent answer, 'to sltted an' sltted an' sltted, and got drefful tired, an' the p'eacher said an' said an' said an' keeped on sayln'." Washington Star. Little Mabel described graphically her sensation on striking a dimpled elbow on tbe bed carving. "Ob. myt" she sighed, "mamma, I've struck my arm Just where it makes stars in my lingers!" Babyhood. Mr. licks Adam was certainly in great luck. Miss Wleklet-How was that? Mr. Ticks Why. when he got a wife he had only to give up a rib: and now it takes all tbe backbone a man bas just to think of getting marrled.-lfoi-ton Courier. In conrting days 'twas deepest bliss. Upon tho lake to go: This loving pair then oft enjoved A most delight ul ronr In wedlock bonds they're linked for life This loving pair, and now The neighbors say they oft enjoy A most delightful row; Toronto QriPy
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