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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1890.
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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