THE PITTSBURG- XOBPATCH. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1890.
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THE GENERAL SHAKE-Cr.
The gentle Indian summer put iu its de
layed appearauce jesterday, just in time,
doubtless, to eootbe a good many of the
asperities growing out of the chilling elec
tion weather. The hilarity of the majority
who win, equally with the disappointment
of the minority who lose, soon gives place to
the -nfluence ot the thousand other events of
very-djy lile. By the time the Thanks
givicg turkey is served, Democrat and Re
publican, winner and loser, will Cud about
an equal appetite and mood to do justice to
the occasion.
There is, of course, lots of political nioral
zing just now on the late of parties and of
leaders; but much of this, also, shows too
perceptibly the diverse influences oi the in
tense sunshine or the intense shadow, as
may be, which, according to the point of
view, overspreads the immediate political
horizon.
"What is evident alike to all is that the
political kaleidoscope has been thoroughly
shaken up from one end of the country to the
other. Some distinguished figures have
Kone, with McGinty, to the bottom of the
sea; others have but temporarily disap
peared, and may "bob up serenely" later on;
new candidates for distinction have come to
the front; and the satisfactory knowledge
behind the whole grand transformation
scene is that it is the sovereign people who
arc the stage managers, and in their hands
always reposes the power to provide for en
trances and exits. When they don't like
the performance, it takes only twelve hours
ot a single autumn day to make all tbe
changes thev wish iu the cast.
CHANGES IN CONGRESS.
The precise proportions of the Democratic
tidal wave throughout the country are not
known ye, but enough returns are at hand
to make it certain that the Democratic
majority in the House of Representatives
will be not less than 110 quite sufficient for
business purposes! Some of the other as
sured results arc equally astonishing. In
Kansas the Republican State Committee
conceded last night that Mr. Ingalls will be
able to study the relations of the decalogue
and politics without interruption by a call
to the United States Senate. In other words
the Democrats and Farmers' Alliance of
Kansas control the State Legislature. It is
also certain that a similar trans. ormation
lias occurred in Illinois, and Senator
FarweH's place will fall to General
Palmer, who has conducted a red-hot cam
paign for that reward. The total gain of
the Democrats iu the United States Senate
Is five, a net gain of ten, and includes sena
lsrships in New Hampshire, New York, Il
linois, Wisconsin and Kansas. The mere
1 ctof such radical and general changes
in the complexion of Congress is astonish
ing enough, without considering the infinite
train of possibilities in consequence.
NEW YOUICS TORPID CITIZENS.
Ill Stiv York City over 30,000 oi those
registered failed to vote. It goes without
saying that by far tbe smallest proportion
of these abstainers was in the Tammany
Tanks. The late reform movement in that
city, to divorce municipal affairs from poli
tics, was too much split up to be effective
against tbe disciplined Tammany phalanx.
The New York Evening Post is very much
downcast, and says ot the situation: "There
is hardly a ray of comior in it political,
moral or economical. Our present
situation is a sight for Christendom. If we
bad a competitive show of municipalities,
we should take the prize against the whole
civilized world for corruption and igoorance
and audacity." It then predicts Tammany's
increasing corruption until there comes a
loud demand for a change in the city char
ter aDd a limiting of the Mayor's power of
appointment.
The "loud demand" often accomplishes
little, as tbe rost has learned. It is only
when tbe principle upon which is grounded
the demand has penetrated the rank and
file that the people back up their demands
with votes. There is, indeed, reason to be
lieve that the residents of New York City
are not to thoroughly alive to the best gov
ernment of that greac and misgoverned
municipality as their own best interest
should prompt them to be. To wrest victory
out of apparent defeat is peculiarly the
prerogative of people with strong convictions
and dauntless hearts.
IRISH LEADERS SHADOWED.
The Tory Government in England always
has plenty of money to spend on Ireland,
when it is to be paid out lor coercing the
peasantry or harrassing the Nationalist
leaders. Under the Balfour regime the
leaders of the Irish national movement have
been shadowed by detectives, not only in
Ireland, but when they were attending
Parliament in London, or seeking recrea
tion on the Continent. The victims have
been aware of this espionage all the time,
and have laughed at it. They have had no
difficulty in giving the sleuth bounds the
slip whenever it has been desirable, as was
recently shown by tbe escape of Messrs.
Dillon and O'Brien. Even in this country
detectives are said to be shadowing
Dillon and O'Brien wherever they go.
Of course the detectives will learn less than
the newspapers publish about our Irish
visitors, and the only satisfactory part of
the whole business is that the money Mr.'
Balfour gives his emissaries will find its
way into American pockets. But surely the
maintenance of an army of spies is not
worthy of a constitutional government, even
though it be of the Tory stripe. The En
glish people seem to be getting very tired of
the Tory would-be tyrants, anyhow, and
doubtless this spy department., with bead
quarters at Dublin Castle, will be exposed
aud abolished as boon as Mr. Gladstone re
turns to office; an event that cannot much
longer be delayed.
TWADDLE AGAINST THE TARIFF.
The comments of the London and Paris
papers upon the significance of Tuesday's
election in relation to the tariff are scarcely
more superficial and unintelligent than
some we are hearing nearer home. The
master mind of the London Times main
tains itself easily first in its grotesque mis
conception of American politics when it
points to the defeat of Delamater as evi
dence of a revulsion against the protection
policy among the voters of Pennsylvania.
But almost as absurd is the claim by some
Democratic papers that not only was the
tariff the main cause oi the general Repub
lican defeat in other States, but that this
verdict is to be taken as permanent "We
think a very slight consideration of essen
tial facts will prove the utterly deceptive
quality of this conclusion.
Ihe first and most vital fact which oper
ates against this argument is that the much
objurgated McKinley bill has actually not
yet been tested. True, it has been in oper
ation for srtout 30 days; but every sensible
man knows that its legitimate and ultimate
effect upon the industries of the country,
upon the markets and upon the pockets of
the people, cannot even have begun to be
felt within so brief a period. We may easily
concede that a factitious and temporary ef
fect has been produced by eagerness almost
amounting to rapacity on the part of many
merchants in various parts of the country to
anticipate high prices as a necessary inci
dent of the law. Advantage has been taken
right and left of the passage of the McKin
ley bill to extort as much as possible ont of
the purchasing public, on the pretext that
higher prices for everything must neces
sarily come. That this caused a widespread
irritation and immediate public prejudice
against the McKinley bill is undoubted;
and this irritation coming right upon tbe
eve of tbe Congressional elections no doubt
helped on rapidly tbc-Republican disasters.
But it is by its actual and full operation
that the McKinley bill must ultimately be
judged not by the factitious and ill-favored
incidents which happened to attend its in
troduction. It is an easier thing for stump orators and
street-corner critics, or, for that matter, for
the profound economists of the London or
the Paris press, to denounce in round set
measures a tariff law ot the thousands oi
whose details they practically know little or
nothing than to single out from these details
those which are going to retard tbe pros
perity of the country. If critics of the
protective system say that the United States
no longer wants that system they are talking
not only without warrant, but in the face of
decisions the other way. It is only two
years ago that the country recorded its ver
dict in favor of protection. The issue was
then squarely made. It they say it is the
McKinley bill which is finally condemned,
they will have to wait until that bill is
tested by actual operation before any judg
ment that can stand is rendered upon it.
Much of the prejudice against the bill is
notoriously based upon the extortions which
have been attempted in its name. Tn tbe
very nature pf things such extortions cannot
last long. The lorces of competition, always
active, will soon assert themselves, and tbe
real trial of the McKinley tariff law has to
come when these get into full operation.
Whether the McKinley bill is a failure
or a success will be shown only by its prac
tical workings. These workings, if favor
able, can upset any quantity of clap-traps
now, and puncture the bubbles of hasty con
clusion. The condemnation, which is
hasty and unintelligent, cannot stand unless
the facts chance a.'terward to warrant it.
But tbe facts in this case are simply not yet
known. Until they are, much that is writ
ten about the McKinley bill will be the
merest twaddle of empty assumption and
bald guess work.
WELCOME FOR A GRAND CAUSE.
The Irish members of Parliament who are
visiting this country with a view to explain
ing tbe political situation in Ireland to their
friends here and raising funds for use in the
cause of Home Rule, have not yet
been invited formally to Pittsburg.
A movement is now on foot to
extend such a formal invitation, and
from tbe interviews which we publish else
where it may be judged how general and
hearty is the desire to make Messrs. Dillon,
O'Brien. O'Connor and their companions
welcome to this city. Mayor Gourley very
properly has interested himvelf in the mat
ter, and it is pretty certain that Pittsburg
will have a chance at no distant date to ex
press her sympathy in cash and otherwise
with the cause Gladstone and Parnell are
fighting so splendidly for.
STANLEY AND HIS ASSAILANTS.
The Stauley-Barttelot controversy has
progressed to a point which enables the
public, if not to pass a full judgment, at
least to begin to form an opinion on its
merits. A dispassionate opinion will be
likely to tend to the conclusion that, while
there is room for criticism as to acts in con
nection with the expedition, the gravest
fault has been in permitting a controversy
to grow to its present bitterness simply from
the failure of tbe disputants to make a little
charitable allowance for each other.
It is quite probable that Stanley, in com
mand of an expedition in the interior of
Africa, may be imperative and peremptory
in urging forward the work he has in hand.
We may recognize that the suaviter in raoda
may be better, but at the same time it is a
very narrow view which fails to see that
without such impetuous energy it is not
likely that any man conld have accom
plished what Stanley has done. Living
stone's kindly and patient nature often
hampered his work under circumstances
which pethans the rougher policy of Bur
ton, Baker and Stanley would have con
quered. It is worth while to remember, too,
that, while the character of Stanley's expe
dition required an iron discipline, there is no
man in the world whose orders would be
more entitled to prompt and unquestioning
obedience, or whose judgments should have
more absolute weight than Stanley's in the
heart of Africa.
On the other hand, it is not only to be
recognized that to a man of such temper as
Barttelot seems to have been, Stanley's per
emptory orders would prove galling, and
would be likely to cause such evidences of
discontent as are found in his diary. It is
also .plain that the lieutenants whom Stanley
left at Yambuya found themselves after his
departure in a position of great difficulty.
That tbe difficulties would not have been
insuperable to Stanley is proved sot only
by his previous career, but by tbe fact that
when he got back to Yambuya and found
the camp he bad left there in ruin, and
Tippoo Tib faithless, he gathered up the
wreck and went back to the Equator and
thence to Zanzibar, without aid from Tippoo
Tib. But tbe men whom Stanley left there
were not Stanleys; they were troubled by
divided authority; and there is.no room for
doubt left that Stanley made an error in
placing auy reliance on Tippoo Tib, or, at
least in leaving his lieutenants to deal with
that wily and treacherous slave dealer.
While we can see that Stanley might have
done better.it should be remembered in favor
of the unfortunate Barttelot that he made a
sincere attempt to follow Stanley with his
part of the expedition and was only stopped
by death.
"Under these circumstances the contro
versy which has arisen might have "been
averted by a little mutual toleration. It is
no more than natural that Stanley should
express the disappointment which he felt at
finding the failure which was made of the
rear column. It is no more than natural
that Barttelot's brother should rush to the
rescue ef his brother's reputation, but it
would have been much wiser for him to
have stopped and investigated how far the
complaints in the dead man's diary were
borne out by the facts. It was natural that
Stanley should reply by reference to reports
assailing Major Barttelot's character that
had reached him.
As to the representations that Stanley
forced Emin Bey to go with hira to Zanzi
bar, they are rendered ridiculous by the
proof that before Stanley took the German
explorer away, Emin and Jephson had been
made prisoners by a mutiny of their own
men, and had narrowly escaped capture by
the Soudanese. Such an attempt to detract
from Stanley's cred it, paralleling those
that have followed each of his previous great
achievements, may excuse a great deal of
heat in the explorer's reply to all assaults.
But even with that excuse, we can see that
he is nnwise in letting such things make
him angry. His deeds are the best reply
to all such attacks.
EIGHT FOR JOHN BULL.
At various times and upon different sub
jects Americans have been of tbe opinion
that their English cousins needed more
light. Now it seems that John Bull him
self has decided that the traveling public in
their little island need more light But his
Lordship is thrilty and even crafty, and he
proposes to make the people pay extra for
it The ingenuity of natural gas companies
upon this side of tbe water is as nothing
when compared to John Bull's cunning in
financial matters. His disposition in this
respect has been dealt with too gently. He
needs no light upon such topics. His native
shrewdness, like that which he so gleefully
attributes to Uncle Sam, is of the dyed-in-the-wool
variety, or perhaps, as we should
say in his case, bred-in-tbe-bone.
The burden of the present charge against
tbe latest manifestation of his duplicity
relates to the advantage he has taken ot tbe
American invention of the nickel-in-the-slot
machine. He is converting it to a use
which it is safe to say the late deceased in
ventor never contemplated. By a perverted
application of tbe same to the electric light
ing system of the English trains, John Bull
will only consent to "turn on the light," so
that a man can read his paper when going
home, upon the condition that the sufferer
shall first drop a penny in the slot It is
stated that thereby tbe circuit is closed on
tbe lamp from a set of accumulators and a
good light is given for about a quarter of an
hour, when the circuit is interrupted, to be
renewed again, if desired, by the insertion
of another eoin. Truly that is a yery
domestic picture. John Bull squeezing
close up to the lamp in the cornerof his cross
grained railroad carriages, and dropping
English pennies into the slot of an American
machine in order to get light enough to see
to gratily his feverish interest in our pros
perity and tariff. Only the graphic genius
of a Nast or the facile pen of a Thackeray
could do justice to tbe scene.
A good deal of Republican money is
jingling in Democratic pockets, and a great
many men are convinced tor tbe nonce that
betting on elections is a very foolish business.
It would be well if tbe winners as well as the
losers were to understand what a thoroughly
vicious and disreputable practice much of this
betting is. The law nominally frowns upon it
but owing to a lax enforcement the custom of
wagering on tbe result of elections practically
carries no penalty. It has undoubtedly the ef
fect in many cases of downright bribery, and
some sterner check npon itougnt to be devised.
The defeat of Major McKinley is a mis
fortune to tbe nation, which Obio ought to
repair at tlio earliest possible opportunity by
calling him to high office in her service.
To the good citizens of Bradford who
resolved in mass meeting assembled last night
that they approved tbe course of this paper in
the interests of the people of tbe oil region.
The Dispatch desires to return thanks. It
is the aim of The Dispatch to serve the
people everywhere and always, and It is grati
fying to know that this is generally recog
nized. A very; prime article of silence is to be
found at tbe White House in these dark hours.
Tbe President is said to be giving it away in
large chunks.
THE Parisian poets are having a frightful
time trying to translate "Down went McKinley
to tho bottom ot the sea" Into French, but
their difficulties are nothing compared to those
which confront the English editorial writers
who are interpreting American election re
turns to suit their readers.
A change has come over Mr. Ingalls'
dream. It is not irridiscent; it is blue, deeply,
darkly, and anything but beautifully, blue.
A medical writer in the North. Amer
ican Review wants the word catarrh substi
tuted for the word cold as applied to diseases
of tbe throat and respiratory passages. Tbe
change may be made, but tbe sneezing, couch
ing and "cussing" will go on just the same
under any name.
The change from Erarts to Hill will be
somewhat astounding, but New York is not
easily frightened.
Stanley has turned on tbe light, and
the darkest chapter in his story of the Dark
Continent is wholesomely illuminated iu the
clear and interesting accounts of bis relations
with the Bear Guard.
It is said that the Democrats are dazed by
their victories, but they will awake in time to
enjoy the spoils.
David Bennett Hill in the United
States Senate will suit Mr. Cleveland nicely
enough. A good man; statesmen have found
that the Capitol is a long way from tbe White
House.
In Honor of Major Morrison.
A meeting of the members of the bar was
held yesterday afternoon in the rooms of tbe
Bar Association to take action on tbe death of
A. P. Morrison, Esq. Judge Over presided,
with D. W. Bell, Esq., as vice-president, W.
D. Moore, Esq., submitted resolutions eulogis
tic of tbe deceased, who was an old soldier and
a prominent member of tbe bar. Addresses
were made by Judge Kwing, J. McF. Carpen
ter. Esq.. D. W. Bell and 37 J. Mcllranie. pay
ing glowing tributes to the Qualities of Mr. 1
uurrifiira.
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
Smiles cost nothing and can be worn In all
sorts of weather.
Wx aregooa aattrred alter all, aren't wet
How we Co prance and rear, rip and tear, shout
and-fume during a political dispute and then
quietly take onr medicine settle down as If
nothing had transpired to mnie the bosom of
tbe Sea in which we swim. Wo go deliberately
at tbe work of turning and disturbing tbe cur
rent and while in tho whirl of excitement
claw each other unmercifully, but after the ma
jority shows us where -we were wrong we hum
bly bow to their superior strength -and shoulder
to shoulder plod on to the same old music. Yes
terday invective and argument to-day laugh
and chaff; yesterday list-shaking, to-day band
shaking: yesterday imaginary foes, to-day
real friends a complete reversal be
tween tbe sinking and the rising of
the sun. F-erhaps all of us do not
go to either extreme, to be sure, but a good
many do. Thu lookers on are plentiful at tbe
start, but they get in at tbe death, and all
mingle more tirless in the riot and rally right
royally when the pipe of peace is passed
around. Of coarse a tew fortunately a slim
minority canjr their bitterness beyond the
ballot box-andlook upon the citizen who dif
fered with thtm as a personal enemy. These
refuse to be co mf orted. They pout and sulk on
tbe outside ot the merry crowds made up to
day from the dashers of yesterday. Shallow,
weak mortals are they mere wandering
refugees in tte land of withered hopes and
blighted anticipations. But tbey are soon
brushed asida and lost in tbe foTett of
fellowship. So the good humor becomes uni
versal. A hoarse shout over there produces a
clear laugh over here. And how catching the
laugh is, to be sure. Thus we sink onr family
quarrels out at sight The snadow of the past
cannot shut out the sun of tbo present. We
are built to tajie part in a row or a dance to be
driven by a bully or Jed by a child. Nothing
sits long or heavily upon us. It is easier to
tickle than to torture us. So everything has
its humorous side, and that's the side that
seems ever turned toward us. And isn't it
better thus?
Ir you have a. bright idea don't hold It until
it rusts.
Returns I rc.m all the voting precincts show
that the bullet is no longer accompanying the
ballot to the polls. This is a good sign.
The best way to teach truth is to let the
world see what truth has done for you.
If you walk in slippery places you must ex
pect to fall.
This i3 not a good year for coons, is It?
The citizens' sly vote has sent
Some patriots to tbe rear;
No more this fascinating gent
On platform will appear.
Alone, '.mid friends who with him fell.
He seeks a quiet place
To scan the bulletins that tell
Just how lie lost the race.
No more heJll grasp you by the hand
And offer to stand treat;
Nor hear the blast of brassy band.
See banners in tbe street
His jig is up, his sun basset
His dream, of fame is o'er;
He'll take a quiet sneak, you bet,
Slide in, aud shut tbe door.
Don't try to iorrn a secret out of a fnend.
It is safe with him, but you might not know how
to handle it
Only shallow women like flattery, but a de
served complimnt is appreciated by the best
of them.
Some of the men who went overboard on
Tuesday may settle down and become useful
and honorable citizens.
Emery he
Is up in G,
All on account of X, Y, Z.
The people tok a hand in the great act of
unseating Congressmen on Tuesday. The con
tests didn't cost the taxpayers anything, either.
The gamble will not have as much faith as
tbey used to have in the figuring of the partisan
leaders.
Perhaps by this time the practical politi
cians realize that worms will turn.
Nature, too. seems to rejoice at the victory
of the people orer the politicians.
Speaker Reed failed to secure a quorum
last Tuesday.
The landslides in various sections have
buried a great many statesmen out of sight
The man who invented tbe tin born must
have been Satan's Adjutant General.
The country Is perfectly safe in the hands ot
the people.
SONS OF THE SUNBEAM.
I climb up tbe mountain high,
I dance on the village green;
I play where the reapers ply.
I glance where no eye hath seen.
I chafe the late stars away,
I ride on the darkest cloud;
I wrap tbe old ruin gray
In a golden-tinted shroud.
I peep thro' the lattice work,
I glide thro' my lady's bower;
I gleam thro' the dungeon mirk,
I smilo thro' tbe summer shower.
I sip from flowers tbe dew,
I watcb them with tender care;
From earth to the heavens blue
I climb on a golden stair.
I bathe in a silvery light
The palace, tbo cot, the grave,
I die in the depths of night
Tho shores of whose sea I lave.
I roam over land and sea,
I cheer wherever I gleam,
I ever and ever shall be
A dancing, a gay sunbeam.
Actions certainly speak louder than words
in a pantomime.
John Jarbett says he now proposes to
feather bis own nest and will not put his
money into business here. John evidently im
aeines that if politics don't go his way the
country will be ruined. John is old enough to
know better.
November is floating along on a summer
sea. Nice weather for this season, isn't it?
Will the O. O. P. make an assignment, or
will It survive the panic?
The country is full of ruined hopes, blasted
reputations, campaign wrecks and scratched
ballots but it still lives.
Suspicion is very often an index of charac
ter. What a man suspects in others he would
very probably do himself.
Winners are sizing up their gain,
But those who were taken in
Have no ears for the sad retrain
Of
"How
much
did
you
win?"
THE Kansas farmers seem to have taken
great interest in Ingalls' canvass, especially
since they were forced to pay his IS per cent
interest
l joy killed, the country would be full of
dead Democrats.
Tom Cooper says "discontent chases shining
marks." It also pursues tbe fellows who try
to use the people for playthings, Thomas.
A natural gas scare is a good thing after
all. It gives us more gas.
When coal goes down in big tows the spirits
of coal men go up. ,
KlLGOBC got there with both feet in Texas,
but Cannuu was fired ont in Illinois. The foot
is mightier than tbe mouth.
It takes money to educate the voter as well
as Christianize tbe heathen.
The stream of life is full of wrecks, but ujudden ih7
you navigate carefully you will not strike any
of them.
Placing a ballot in the bands of an illiter
ate man is like giving a gun to a crazy man.
Some people wear better than others, evan
if all are constructed out of the same material.
What's In a name? Letters, of course.
Ballots can be deposited faster than they
can be counted. Tbe agony should not be pro
longed unnecessarily. Willie Winkle.
THE STATE AND HATIOff.
Bupfalo Express (Ren.): The Republican
party can alwajs be trusted to discipline itselt
KeirYOBKPrra (Bep.): Pennsylvania is
very decidedly a Republican State, ana her
Republicans decide her elections, no matter
how they go.
New York Berate (Ind.); But the most
imposing spectacle Is presented by Pennsyl
vania. Tbe Democratic victory in that State Is
the impressive event of the canvass, and tbe
result is as startling as an unexpected bugle
blast.
Syracuse Herald (Rep.): During the next
two years the matter of tbe tariff and the prices
will be considerably cleared up, so that the
parties will decide tbe Presidents! election
with less prejudice and baste than tbey did the
less important elections yesterday.
New York Tribune (Rep.): When men find,
as they soon will, that the cost of living has
not been increased by that act, but that it has
vastly enlarged the demand for American
labor, multitudes who have been deceived this
year will turn angnly against those who have
deceived them.
Baltimore fferald (Rep.): It Is not to be
doubted that the Republican party will learn a
valuable lesson from the mistakes of tbe past
few months, justastheDemocratshaveleamed
wisdom from their own errors, and tbat the
same old fight between the same old parties
will be on again in '82.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette (Rep.): It
now seems tbat the Democrats will control the
House of Representatives in the next Congress.
In this regard tbat party tasty find a victory
worse than a defeat. Tbey will be called upon
to do something. Will they do anything ex
cept to obstruct and unsettle affairs?
Indianapolis Journal (Ren.): Long before
another election the people will see that they
have been gulled and the beneficial effects of
tbe McKinley law will be recognized and ad
mitted by all. except professional free trade
agitators. Had it eome a few months
be Tore the election the result might have been
different
New York Timet (Mugwump): Tbe result
of the election in Pennsylvania is more encour
aging for the future of American politics than
any other in tbe remarkable series of victories
that were won on Tuesday. Pennsylvania is
not only a trustworthy Republican State, but
it is especially and above any other common
wealth a protectionist State.
New York r ess (Rep.): The policy of the
Government eannot be changed. A Repub
lican President and a Republican Senate stand
iu the way of any measures of free trade which
tbe Democrats In their elation might bo
tempted to pass, and long before 1892 the Mc
Kinley bill will have proven its merits in
practical operation, so that the voters of the
country will look back in wonder at what they
did in 1S30.
New York Sun (Dem.): The Democrats
have got together. They must keep together.
If the Democrats in the Fifty-second Congress
only avoid dangerous experiments, and remem
ber tbat tbe Democracy is a great national
party which must use its power in accordance
with its established and essential principles,
and not a debating society, for the airing of
economic theories, the victory of 190 will be a
preparation for tbe greater vietory of 1S92.
Albany Evening Journal (Rep.): Tbe Mc
Kinley tariff law should have been enacted on
the first of July tbe date specified in the
measure as it was passed by the House early in
last May. Tbo failure of a Republican Senate
to rise to tbo needs of tbe hour permitted Dem
ocratic obstruction, the postponement of the
tariff legislation and tbe fatal loss of three
months of valuable time to tbe Republican
party. Tbe marked improvement in tbe gen
eral business and industry of the people during
the past few weeks, by reason of the new tariff
law, was too long delayed.
A TIMELY RHYME
In Which Readers of The Dispatch Should
be Interested.
A few verses in onr esteemed cotemporary,
tbe Saturday Heview, are of timely importance:
"tailing loud on our tympanum, fearful as the
crack o' doom:
Speeding westward, awful, thand'rlng; 'tis the
Eudyard Kipling boom.
Budyard Klpllnc sifted stripling, praise and
glory to his name,
l'roslng, rhyming, bravely climbing to tbe pin
nacle of Fame."
This graceful recognition of a new develop
ment in the literary world is especially inter
esting owing to the fact tbat the biggest gun
tbat Mr. Kipling has yet loaded will be heard
in The Dispatch on November 9 through the
beginning of his first serial, "The Light
that Failed."
PLEASA1TT SOCIAL EVEnTT.
A Bradford Young Man Wedded to a So
cial Leader of Lockport.
ISPZCIAL TXLXCBAM TO TJIJS DISPATCH.!
Lockport, &. Y November 6. A leading
society event here to-day was the marriage of
Kenton Saulnier, of Bradford, Pa to Miss Isa
dore L. Daniels, a prominent social leader of
this city and Buffalo, and daughter ot Mrs.
Willard J. Daniels, of "The Hill." The cere
monv was performed by the Rev. Charles W.
Camp, rector of Grace Episcopal Church.
There were guests present Ironi Chlcaeo, Mil
waukee, Toledo, Philadelphia, Buffalo and
Bradford. The groom's parents, of Philadel
phia, presented him with a handsome residence
at Bradford.
PLAYS TO COME.
Hartley Campbell's best effort, 'The
White Slave," will commence a week's engage
ment at tbe Bijou Theater next Monday night.
Tbe cast will include the charming and beauti
ful emotional actress. Miss Mary Newman; the
famous character actress, Miss Marie Bates,
and several otber3 of the original cast The
production will be under tbe able management
of Mr. Harry C. Kennedy. A strong company
will present it this season, and tbe scenery will
be new. The explosion of the vessel and the
rainstorm of real water are most realistic. Tbe
sale of seats commences this morning.
The Hanlon Brothers commence a week's
engagement at the Opera House next Monday
evening with tbeir Superba." This produc
tion represents the labor of years. Even while
"Fantasma" wascrowdingtbetbeaters in every
large city in the country,, the brothers were de
vising schemes which are now utilized with
good results. The regular Wednesday and Sat
nrday matinees will be given during tbeir en
gagement Strauss and his orchestra are here. They
are all ready for tbe two concerts to-day in
the afternoon at the Grand Opera House and
in the evening in Old City Hall. The advance
sale of seats has been immense, and there will
be two packed bouses.
DEATHS OP A DAT.
Mrs. Henrietta Louise Ralston SpronlL.
Mrs. Henrietta Louise Kalston Sproull died yes
terday at her borne at Arnold Station, on the
Allegheny Valley Railroad. Airs. Hproull lived In
the East End until four years ago, when she moved
to Arnold. She had a very large circle offrltnds.
wno will greatly regret the announcement oX her
death.
Slary Wlialen.
Mrs. Mary Whales, mother of James and N. B.
Wbalcnand mother-in-law or Edward O'Drien,
of the City Mall Department, died yesterday at
her borne on Oarrollion street The funeral will
take place Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Magdalena Eeddlnger.
Mrs. Magdalena Beddinger, aged 82 years, died
yesterday at her home In Shirpiburg, where she
was well and favorably known. She will be burled
on Saturday mormnir from ber son's residence in
Siiarpsburg. Uequlem matbat SU Alary'i H.C
Church.
Walter Frank.
;fPECIAL TELXGOAM To JHS DISFATCIt.1
B Wilxe; barbe, Aorember C Walter Frank,
Superintendent of tbe WUkesbarre public schools,
dropped dead In bis nfflce this afternoon. Apo
plexy Is supposed to nave bcea the cause of hU
SOCIAL SUNSHINE.
Brilliant Marriage of Miss Phillips and Mr.
Davis, at the Elegant Mansion of the
Bride's Father Other Weddings Bob
Burdctte Will Lecture.
All was joy and sunshine at tbe elegant
Phillips mansion, on McClure avenne, Atle
legheny, last night No, not quite an joy, lor
mixed with the pleasures and brilliance of tbe
occasion could be found a tinge of sorrow at
tbe loss ot a sister and daughter whose sunny
disposition has made ber almost indispensable
to the erand old place. Not lost forever, 'tis
true, but she has gone away and will brnrhten
another borne. In which she will be tbe reign
ing queen, called by tbat consecrated name
wife.
Beautiful as the old mansion always is, its
magnificence was more than doubled by tbe
decorative arts of the florists, and last night
when tbe ceremony was said that robbed the
home of one of its most ueantlful flowers the
reception and banquet halls presented a glor
ious picture. Chr)antbemums were the chief
among the decorations, but roses were scattered
about profusely and the fragrances ot bloom
inir plants filled the air.
The bride. Miss Ella Phillips, was costumed
in a heavy corded white silk, draped with a
profusion of beautiful old pnint lace. She wore
no jewels.but carried a bonqnet of bride's roses.
The maid of honor was Miss Kate Phillips, who
was attired In pure white crepe decbine, decol
lete, and instead of tbe usual bouquet ot roses
earned an ostrich fan. Tbe briuemaids, beautiful
young ladies costumed similarly to tbe maid of
honor, were Miss E. Belle Clark, of Buffalo, N.
Y.: Miss May L. Grouard, of Exeter. Mass.;
Miss A. Evadene Johnson, ot Buffalo, and Mb-s
Nellie Brown, of this cltv.
Tbe groom. Mr. John D. Davis, was attended
bv Messrs. R. M. Phillips and Joseph H.
Phillips, brothers of tbe bnde. Frank btewart
and Jason Davis, of Pbiladelohia.
At:30lbe wedding march was taken np, tbe
bride being preceded hy little pages, Robert
Lincoln Smithley and Earl A. Lcnkard, who
made her way a path of roses. Ihe ceremony
was performed by tbe Rev. J. R. Coster, of
Grace Reformed Church, standing In an alcove
decorated with roses.
After the wedding banquet Mr. and Mrs.
Davis left on a honeymoon trip where, tbey
alone know. Their residence will be on Dltb
ridge street. East End, and they will be at home
to their friends after December 8.
Y. M. C. A. ABNTAL MEETING.
Two Sections WU1 be Required to Accom
modate the People.
Tbe annual meeting of the Young Men's
Christian Association of Pittsburg will be held
Sabbath evening, November 9, at 7:30 o'clock.
In order to accommodate tho friends of the as
sociation, the meeting will be held in two sec
tions, as follows: At the First Presbyterian
Church, Wood street Pittsburg, to be ad
dressed by Rev. Henry C. Applegartb, Jr., pas
tor of tbe Fourth Avenue Bapti&t Church, and
Rev. George T. Purves, D. D., pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church. At the second
United Presbyterian Church, Stockton avenue,
Allegheny, to be addressed by Rev. John C.
White, D. D.. rector of St. Andrew's Protestant
Episcopal Church of Pittsburg, and Rev. Will
iam H. McMillan. D. D.. pastor of tbe Second
United Presbyterian Chnrch of Allegheny.
From A to 5 r. M. tbe same day. a meeting In
observance of the uay of prayer for Young
Men's Christian Associations. conducted by
Mr. Robert A. Orr, will be held in tho associa
tion budding, and from 12 to lz-20 noon, each
week day. a prayer meeting at the same place.
Tbe week of November 10 to 10. special meet
ings will be conducted every evening at 0
o'clock, continuing three-quarters of an hour.
SOCIAL ABB LITERAEY SOCIETY.
An Organization of Young Men Formed in
LawrenoevUle.
At S o'clock last evening over 50 young men
of Lawrenceville met at Floeekers Hall. But
ler street to organize themselves into a social
and literary society which should have as Its
motto "non-sectarian and non-political." E.
Creighte was elected temporary chairman,
William Berger temporary vice-president and
Frank Hawlv secretary. J. F. Sbaefer. W.
It Berger, Frank Limperr, D. J. Dmcoll
and F. P. Sowders were appointed to write a
constitution and by-laws and to report at the
next meeting, wbicb will be held Monday even
ing. The prospective organization of this society
is tbe outcome of the dlsbandmeut of St.
Augustine's Literary Society when Father
Gregory, of St. Augustine's German Catholic
Church, left that church about a month since.
His successor, it is said, took no Interest in St
Augustine's society, ana it was disbanded.
HAPPY LITTLE FOLK
Archie Denny and His Guests Haie a Gay
Frolic.
The birthday party of little Archie Denny
yesterday proved equally as successful as was
anticipated, and tbe little ones had a great
frolic in the parlors of tbe Denny mansion.
Among Archie's gnests were: Mary and
James Park, Louis Park, Bessie Hamilton,
Alston Morehead, Turner Morebead, Margaret
Phillips, Mary Phillips. Mary Fainter, Catha
rine Scott, Eleanor Gladys Painter, Emily
Phillips Jack Blair, William Blair, James
Blair, Jack Dilwortb, John Dilworth, More
head Holland, Raymond Holland, Elizabeth
Pierce, Dilworth Beggs, Lawrence Begzs, Du
Barry Cbildi. McLaiue Brown, Margery Brown,
Dalzell McKee, Epbemia Bakewell, Durbin
Home, Martha Chambers, Donald Thompson,
Nannie Marshall, Thomas Marshall, Sarah Mc
Cord, Warren Kay. Conrad Kay. Hester
Singer. Evylin Black. William Donald Bake
well. Harry Darllneton, Uphnr Morehead and
Lida and.Sarah McKnight.
A BALTIMORE GEHTLEMAN
Secures the Heart and Hand of a Well
Known Allegheny Lady.
At the Second U. P. Church, Allegheny, last
evening, occurred tbe brilliant wedding which
loses to tbe world Miss Madco Beeson, a popu
lar yonne society lady, and elves her friends
Mrs. Richard Walter Graham. The gentleman
whoso happily gained the hand and heart of
this accomplished lady hails from Baltimore,
where he is well known as a society man and
also as a business man. Tbe cburcb was neatlv
prepared for tbe ceremony last night and a
large number of the friends were in attendance.
After the ceremony was performed by Rev.
Dr. McMillen, tbe party repaired to tbe home
of the bride's sister, where a reception was
given and Luther served a sumptuous banquet
A Quiet Homo Wedding.
Miss Mame Lindsay, of Rebecca street, Alle
gheny, sister of tbe well-known politician, Mr.
R. H. Lindsay, and Mr. Ed. Mires, of Bocgs &
Buhl's, were married last evening at tbe resi
dence of tho bride's parents. Miss Nettle Mar
shell was bridesmaid and Dr. Hope was the
groomsman. The wedding was a quiet affair,
only a few friends neing present Tbe bridal
trip will be East
Burdette Will Try Again.
Bob Burdette will give tbe city a supply of bis
fnnnyisms on tbe evening of November 12. He
says bis agent did not Inform him of the last
date with tbe Third U. P. Chnrcb, and he gives
this date instead. His subject will be, "The
Pilgrimage of a Funny Man."
Pleasant Little Events.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Brainard yes
terday gave ibeir first at borne since tbeir mar
riage, at tbeir elegant lesidence on Denniston
avenue. Their parlors will doubtless be tbo
scene of many a pleasant reception during tbe
season.
A concert was given last evening in Emory
Church. East End, under tbe auspices of Mr.
H. P. Rmgwalt and his choir. Miss. Jennie
Gray and Mr. Richard Cannon, the soloists, ac
quitted themselves with their usual well-known
ability.
The pnplls of Curry University gave a popu
lar entertainment last evening in tbe rooms of
the railroad department of tbe Y. M. U. A. A
pamphlet containing interesting matteis for
railroad men was distributed.
Sergeant John Werlinq, of Company
H, Eighteenth Regiment, N. G. P., was mar
ried last evening to Miss Harriet Langford, a
well-known young lady of Penn township.
Messrs, John R. & A. Murdoch are mak
ing the decorations for a card party to be given
to-night by Mrs. James Chambers at her ele
gant borne on Ridge avenue, Allegheny.
TnE Women's Industrial Club of Soho. a
branch of the Helping Hand Society, gave a
successful entertainment last night at the
Bellefield Presbyterian Chnrcb.
Mrs. Arthur Cowles, of Fayette street
gave ber second at home yesterday, and It
proved even more successful than her first
glTen a short time ago.
The ladles of the Eighth U. P. Church will
give a sapper and social to-night at tbo resi
dence of Mrs. Fritz, on Bluffstreet.
Mlts. C. H. bPENCER entertained a number
of friends at dinner last evening at ber nleasan t
home on Aiuberson avenue.
THE Elizabeth Cotillon Club held its first
dance of the season last evening. It la needless
jto saj that it was a success,
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Wants a Permanent Organization.
To the Editor of Tbe Dispatch:
Now tbat the smoke of battle has cleared
away tbe results of Tuesday's conflict begin to
to show themselves in their full proportions,
and to the thoughtful voter furnish some in
teresting and instructive lessons. A few ot the
most prominent I construe to be;
First Tbat the defeat of Delamater and
the election of Pattison by a majority of
between 15,000 and 20.000 In a State having a nor
mal Republican majority of 80,000, shows that
this change of 100,000 votes was due to 60,000
independent Republicans, distribnted over the
entire State, and that the cause of this defec
tion must have been some real or fancied
grievance of no small proportions. The at
tempt on the part of local politicians to ascribe
the result to personal hostility of C. L. Magee
Is puerile. He was the smallest factor in tbe
fight and had little or no influence outside the
city of Pittsburg.
Second Tbat if these 60,000 Independent Re
publicans will form themselves into a permanent
organization, they can hold tbe balance of
power m this State and force the nomination
of cood men by both parties and tbe enactment
of lteneficial laws; and tbatunless tbey do form
such an organization tbey will speedily lose the
fruits of their bard-won victory.
Third That the people of Pennsylvania will
not submit to any real or fancied dictation in the
choice of their leading candidates, and that he
is tbe wisest politician who gives the people
what they want.
Fourth That tbe policy of prominent public
men of "taking refuse in silence." or pleading
generally "not guilty" when charged with public
offenses, -will not go down. The people demand
the facts, and will insnt on a rebuttal of the
charges by circumstantial disproof and tho
prosecution of tbe libelcr (it need be) in tbo
public courts.
Fifth Tbat the system of nominating mem
bers of Congress by the conferee, or delegate,
system is bad, and should be changed to one
which would nominate by popular vote at the
primaries (the Crawford county system). Penn
sylvania has lost four Republican congressmen
through the squabbles engendered bv this sys
tem. And, lastly.
Sixth Tbat when the people take bold of tbe
elections tbey can always accomplish their
wishes; and that the reason why we do not have
good government all tbe time is because peo
ple will not take tbe troubl to work for it.
Independent Republican.
Pittsburg, November B.
Mt. Washington's Wretched Roads.
To the Editor of The Dispatch.
What does Mr. Bigelow, chief, and Mr.
Fording, sub., and Mr. Shook, sub. sub., mean
by permitting the main road, and only road,
from Mt Washington to the lower portion of
the city to get into the condition in which it is?
If tbe supply of gas runs short, and there are
fair prospects of it. tho coal supply for that
portion of the hill districts must be hauled
orer this road, and it is now in an almost im
passable condition. Cbarity is said to begin at
home, and if The Dispatch would display as
much energy in criticising the roads and streets
of this city as it has tbe county roads, we might
have some reform.
Does Mr. Bigelow serve the interests of the
taxpayers by having utono broiten for the
public roads by the old method of stone ham
mers when every city of enterprise and every
private contractor uses steam crushers? If Mr.
Bigelow keeps an account ot tbe cost of broken
stone by bis old methods, and then advertises
for bids ot tbe ready prepared material, he will
find tbat 31 will go as far as S3 does by the pres
ent methods, and the steam crushed material
will make better roads. I will venture to say
tbat tbe famed Dispatch exploring expedi
tion never passed over worse roads than we
now have in this city, and if roads are to be im
proved by placing them in tbe charge of intelli
gent (?) road engineers, they will only grow
worse if the experience of Pittsburg is worth
anything. The middle of the road in many
places is fully two feet lower than the sides,
and every rain in making it worse. Tbe next
tnine will be a large landslide, and what was
once a good road will be utterly impassable
until tbe city expends a large amount of money
to restore it. Taxpayer.
PrrrsriUKO, November 6.
Tobacco Raising Practically Prohibited,
To the Editor or The Dlspatcnt
In The Dispatch of last Saturday I sub
mitted this question: "Why does Great Britain
prohibit the cultivation of tobacco under a
penalty of floe and imprisonment?'", and your
answer was: "She don't prohibit it Tbe only
reason why Great Britain does not cultivate
the tobacco plant is because it does not grow
there." Tbe question was asked to settle a
dispute, and when vonr answer was read be
fore tbe "meeting." a full bouse being present,
the laagh was on me, and my only alternative
was to "set 'em up." Not being satisfied, how
ever, I procured a volume of tbe "Brltannlca,"
and therein read tbe following:
"Since the time ot Charles 11. the growth of
tobacco in England has been practically pro
hibited, the original legislative enactment
to that effect having been passed with the view
of encouraging trade with tho young colony of
Virginia. When tbat motive ceased to bave
force, the supposed difficulties of collecting tbe
internal taxation still influenced the Legisla
ture to continue their prohibition, and conse
quently a penalty or prohibitive tax equal to
1.600 per acre is exigible on the cultivation of
tobacco in tbe United Kingdom."
Let's see: What is said of him who lauebs
last? M. E. X.
Bradford, November 5.
A Gravity Puzzle.
To the Editor of The DUoateli :
On account of tbe world being round, we are
told, explains why we can always see tbe top
masts of a ship first when the ship is coming
into port We are told water always finds its
level. Why, then, does tbe ocean not find its
level by rolling out level on the globe ?
Columbia.
Allegheny City. November 2.
In physics, we must regard the word "level"
as meaning that every part of the water's sur
face is equi-distant from the center ot the
earth, which is the center of gravity. Hence a
"level" in this sens? means not a geometrically
straight plane, but a curve conforming to the
circumference of the earth.
Four Hard Questions.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
(1) Can yon give statistics of immigration to
the United States for the last five years? (2)
What is the number of people emigrating from
tliis to other countries? (3) What is the per
centage of foreigners in the poorer classes of
New York Cltv? (i) What is the number of
Italians and English immigrants each year?
Bradford, November 5. J. C.
The census not being taken every year.no
data to answer these questions, except by ap
proximate gness work, is obtainable.
Pittsburg's Great Floods.
To the Kdltor of The Dispatch:
When did fittsburg experienco its greatest
flood? A. S.
Pittsburg, November 6.
JThe flood of 1S82. ovceedinc21 feet above
low water mark, was the greatest authentic
Tradition speaks of two greater ones in tho
eighteenth century.
TImo of Collection is Limited.
To the Editor of The Diana ten:
Is there a limited time for collecting wages
earned on a farm in 1SS0 and 1881? A Justice of
the Peace informs me that I cannot collect
Ever Constant Reader,
Avenue P. O., November 5.
England the Larger.
To the Editor ofrbe Dispatch:
To decide a bet, please state which has the
greater area England or Pennsylvania? X.
Pittsburg, November 6.
Area of England, S0.922 sauare miles; ot
Pennsylvania, about 43,000 square miles.
A Few Attempts Succeeded.
To the Editor ot The Dispatch:
Did any one ever attempt to go over Niagara
Falls, and if so, did he come out alive?
John u. McCraceen.
Maekle, PA., November 5.
No Law Against Patriotic Songs.
To the Editor orThe Dispatch:
To decide a bet: Are there any songs for-
bidden under the law, such as "The Boyne
Water V
Scottdale, November 1.
T. V. Curran.
Ask Your Family Physician.
To tbe Editor of Tho Dispatch:
Where can I get somo stuff sold for butter
analyzed ? CONSTANT READER.
Forestville, November 5.
A Knights Templar Reception.
Arrangements are being made for a Knights
Templar reception, to be given at the Monon
gabela House during the bolidajs. It will be a
large one, all the cummanderies of Western
Pennsylvania having been invited. Pittsburg
Comniandcry No. 1 has appointed the follow
ing committee to take charge of tbe affair:
Messrs. Herman Junker. J. Howard Sneer.
Joseph G.-Morrison, Bam J. Mofat and Harry
,W. Dunlftp,
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
It is estimated that 90,000 pianofortes
are manufactured every year in London.
It is now claimed that the first steam
boat was built by a Kentuckian named West
English naval officers have made a de
mand to be allowed to wear russet leather boots
at sea.
Thirty-three millions of people either
walked or were driven over tbe Brooklyn bridge
in the year ended October L
The largest room in the world under one
roof and unbroken by pillars, is at St. Peters
burg. It is 620 feet long by 120 in breadth.
A French scientist declares that the
domestic cats of tbe world carry at least 30 per
cent of tbe common contagious diseases from
house to house.
The incomes from the London daily
papers are thus put down: Daily Telegraph,
130,000; Times. 120,000: Standard. X70.0CO;
Morning Post. 13,000; Daily Chronicle, 10,000;
Daily Hews. 30,000.
It js stated that an hotel has been built
in Hamburg entirely ot compressed wood as
bard as iron, and rendered absolutely proof
against both fire and tbe attacks of insects by
subjection to certain chemical processes.
The reconstruction or the neglected for
tifications of Crete appears to have been de
cided upon.? Two large outer works are to be
built to tbe east and west of Canea. and smaller
works are being planned for Retimo and
Candia.
A Delaware cow didn't seem to feel well
for a month or two, but lived on until killed by
a bolt of lightning. Then she was post-mortemed
and two pounds of nails and glass found
in ber stomach, and a ten-penny nail bad also
imbedded itself in ber heart
A Montreal clothier recently stuck up a
monster sign 100 feet Ion and 60 feet from top
to bottom. It was a nine-days' wonder to tbe
passing crowd, but the proprietor of the build
ing had tbe sign removed. The clothing man is
now suing for 10,000 damages.
An illuminated cat is among the curios
ities of the Patent Office at Washington, D. C.
It is made of pasteboard or tin painted over
with phosphorus, and is intended to f nghten
away "rats and mice and such small deer," in
tbe darkness of cellars and garrets.
The oak tree is often struck by light
ning, tbo beech very seldom. A curious scien
tist discovers tbe reason of this to lie in the fact
tbat villous leaves, like those of the beech, seem
to prevent tbe accumulation of electricity.while
smooth leaves, like tbe oak's, do no:.
From San Francisco comes the news that
a Chinaman, Wong Cbing Wab, bas constructed
a telephone which is superior to any in exist
ence, and wbicb, moreover, avoids, so it is
asserted, any Infringement of the Bell patent
Details are not forthcoming at present
The weaving of "The Acts of the Apos
tles" occupied from three to four years. Tho
interpretation of tbe cartoons cost about 5150,
000. Tbe purchase of gold thread absorbed tbe
largest sbaro or this Mini. As for the designer.
Raphael, be received 10,000 for each cartoon.
A young lady artist whose summer
sketching tours in the country bave been con
siderably interferred with by the predatory in
cursions of ants and other Insects, finds that by
sprinkling a circle of cayenne pepper around
easel and camp-stool, she is left unmolested.
An excellent and inexpensive prepara
tion for cleaning soiled gloves and other deli
cate articles Is the following mixture: "One
quart of deodorized benzine, one drachm of
sulphuric ether, one drachm of chloroform,
two drachms ot alcohol and enough cologne to
make it pleasant
A luminous crayon has been invented
for tho purpose of enabling lecturers to draw on
the blackboard when the room is darkened for
the use of tbe lantern. Tbe invention is likely
to prove of value not only to the lecturers lw
use a lantern, but alo (in another form) to
those students who wis'i to take notes.
In view of the greatly augmented de
mand for camphor for the new uses found
for it in tbe arts, with consequent en
hancement of price, it is proposed to use naph
thalin as a substitute for it in anti-moth appli
cations. It is quite as effective as camphor, and
being a'so equally volatile, leaves "no more
permanent smell.
There is a man in St Louis, Mich.,
who. in order to overcome the opium habit, was
advised to smoke cloves with tobacco in his
pipe. It certainly did abolish the hankennir
after bom opium and tobacco, but it bas left
him a clove victim, and now he smokes only
cloves, a pound a day, and it is rapidly drying
up bis system.
A Michigan man who was going out to
hunt in tbe trackless forests bought a com
pass, but about tbe time he wanted to use it bn
remembered that be cunld not tell one letter of
tho alphabet from another, and tbat no ono
had ever told him whether tbe needle pointed
east, west north or south. He was lost for
four days as a consequence.
The present Russian Cbancelor is a
Swede; tbe late Persian Ambassador in London
was a Scotchman; an Irishman was three times
Prime Minister of Spain; and a Celt, Mac
Mabon, was President of France. Tbe Russian
Ambassador at Pans is a German; the French
Ambassador in London is an Englishuiin. and
tbe Italian Ambassador in Berlin is a French
man. The Chief Consulting Admiral of tho
Turkish fleet is an Englishman, as was also the
late Admiral of the fleer.
Tbe marriage ceremony practiced by
tbe people of Borneo is very short andsimplp.
Bride and groom are brought out before thp
assembled tribe with great solemnity, anil
seated side by side. A betel nut Is then cut in
two by tho medicine woman of tbe tribe, and
one half is civen to the bride and the other half i
to tbe groom. Tbey becin to chew the nut: '
and then tbe old woman, after some sort of in
cantatiun. knocks tbeir beads together and
they aro declared man and wife.
MERRY CTVTNKXERS.
The news at New Bedford from the Arctic
fleet Is that tbe whaling season is twice as heavy
as It was last year. There are those who think It
certainly was In thlsState. i'AifapWaX7r.
Professor Bumptious It has been truth
fully remarked that "a IlttI- learning Is a danger
ous thing.'
Snnhomore fsotto voce) Wonder if Professor
realizes tne peril he's Ini-Huston CourUr.
Maud What a dear, good chaperon you
are! But how did you manage to get my rival out
or the room Just at that critical moment?
Chaperon -1 whispered to ber, in a kind, con
fidential tone, that there was a rip in the back of
her silk waist. Itarprfe llratoer.
"I might remark," said the young man
who had met with persistent and repeated re
fusals, "that you are one of the wisest young wo
men lever met."
Why?"
"liecause you seem to no' everything."
Washington 1'ost.
Mr. Constant Squabler What kind of a
suit do you think I had better get for Sundays?
Mrs. Constant Squabler Well, if you want one
to match your usual Sunday disposition, you had
better get a pepper and salt suit Boston
Courier.
"Young man, you must take more pains
with your writing."
Tbe youth looked up and replied: 'Talu'tmy
fault: it's the pen."
Then get a new pen," replied the teacher
sharply.
"That won't do any good," the boy made
answer, "for the electricity in tbe street cars
throws all the temper out of tbe pen.
"It would be a good thing if It had a similar
effect on the children." said tbe teacher sotto
voce. Albany Journal.
"Johnny, you may give me the name of
some wild flower, " said the teacher In botany.
Jobnny thought awhile, and then said: "Welt
I reckun Injun meal comes as near belngwild
flour as anything 1 know of." Babyhood.
"I'm going fishing, wife; give me some
doughnuts."
"Uolng to use them for bait?"
"No, for 6lukers." Ashland Press.
"Didn't get elected?"
"No; thatspeecb you writ fer me ought ter'av
'ad more guff Inter It."
Begnardon, sir what's gulf?"
"Wby, what yer gets off to der payple 'boat
promises which dey know yer never mean ter
keep." Harper's Weekly.
Fred What! Fight a duel on account
ofa woman? No, sir! If t caught a man flirting
with my wife I'd invite him to come for a day's
shooting-Just as I've Invited you-and then if an
accident were to occur
John Heavens! I hope you don't suspect me?
Journal Amusant.
"I tell you," said one Congressman to
another, "the situation In that district Is some
thing to raise your hair when you contemplate
it."
"I think," said the listener, as be took off hi J
hat ana disclosed a bald bead, "that I'll go out
and take a look at It. " Washington fast.
"1 beg vnur pardou," said Mr. Wording
ton, "but did I understand you to refer to the
lady who has just passed as a stunner?"
"Yes, sir; I said It deliberately, and, I think,
judiciously. Toa must consider the fact that I
was struck by ber appearance. "Washington
Post,
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